Stupid things you did as a child...

idiocracy

...or that your children did. Just looking for a good laugh.
Here's my example, not so funny, but it's all I've got: I was very stubborn as a child (now I'm very stubborn as an adult). So when my parents told me NOT to do something, I would always ask WHY. I needed the reasoning behind it and "because I said so" meant nothing to me, so I did it anyway to get my "why" answer. So my parents were frustrated and in many occasions wanted to ...aham...spank me . In Europe, where I grew up, that was common, so lots of kids knew it and just "took one for the team" and then they were back to their games. With that said, I deserved my spanking many times. But every time my mom tried to spank me, I started yelling, screaming, running around the house, that my mom would just give up, saying "i haven't even touched you and the neighbors already think i'm trying to kill you"....that and she couldn't catch me ))))) Until one time when I went to play with my friends in an area my mom told me not to go. I see my mom - who never walks out of the house with her makeup and hair done - wearing hair rollers and a bathrobe in the middle of the street looking for me. I knew I couldn't run away from this one. So that was my one and only spanking, which consisted of her slapping my butt a couple of times.
Now share your stories!

AliDarling

dont touch that, its hot. guess what i did? 2nd degree burn on my index finger.

TinaDay1114

When I was about 5, my mom left me with our next door neighbor, whose daughter was my best buddy, and just a year older. I was dressed up to go to Grandma's and she told me "DO NOT get in that kiddie pool. You'd better be DRY and CLEAN when I get back."

Well, it was summer. What's a girl to do???
My buddy and I came up with the idea of putting a lawn chair in the middle of the kiddie pool so I could play "LifeGuard" and still stay dry like Mom said. Welllllllll, I ended up wet anyway -- I think secretly we were hoping that would happen.

I changed into my friend's clothes, hoping my mom would NEVER notice. Well, she kinda did. And she was NOT HAPPY.

bzmom

I believe I was 3 or 4yrs old may be 5 my brother is 3 years younger than me and I was the first born so I was babied A LOT when he was born it kinda changed and I was not happy one day my mom told me to help her with my brother to get him a shower as she walked away to start the bath I undressed him and left him completely nakid. It was the middle of winter and we lived in a house that did not keep the cold out......... My mom came back to a shivering baby in the bed and both of us staring at her.

I tried "helping" my mom wash clothes.... I threw them in the toilet:happy:

There are more but Im at work I was EVIL:devil:

One more back when VHS was the $hitznay my dad use to have many tapes to record movies etc. well the all came with blank labels and sticker for the tape, me and my brother use to take the labels and play with them one day I had the big square that goes in the middle of the VHS tape on my forehead and my brother had all kinds of letter stickers on his face he was chasing me around (we were playing) I tripped and busted my forehead I got about 5 stiches <----yeah I guess payback is a bi$% LOL!!

leynak

Once when I was probably about 8 I was in my grandmother car being amazed by the automatic windows (we didn't have them in our car) I decided it would be fun to stick my arm out & roll up the window. When my arm got to the top (I didn't stop pushing the button) it got stuck I panicked & couldn't figure out how to get it out (duh, roll it down)...So I yanked it out- I had a pretty good sized bruise on my arm for a while after that..& I never did that again

I wasn't really a bad kid most of moments were more like der..What was I thinking... :laugh:

ladybug1620

I used to love the taste of Dimetapp, which is a children's cold medicine (not sure if it's still around). So I'd climb on the counter and drink it whenever my parents weren't watching. I guess that's more of a stupid thing my parents did, because they didn't keep it secure.

Biancalee76

I did way too many stupid things as a child. The one that really sticks out is somersaulting off the playhouse roof (6 ft tall) into the snow. I could have broke my neck. Jumping off the trampoline from the woodpile (8-9 feet tall) to see how high of a bounce we could get wasn't smart either. Neither was sledding/skiing behind the 4-wheeler....I ended up with 2 black eyes, a chipped tooth, and a large portion of skin from my face scraped off from that one.

Deathwithab

i rrememeber cuting my leg when my mom told me not to play shave with her razors

ive zapped myself putting a butter knife in the toaster

bridge jumping lol tho no one ever got hurt we still did it every summer even tho there are big signs saying not to

idiocracy

Oh, i remembered another one. I had a neighbor, 4 years older. I was about 2 or 3, she was 6-7. We go to her room to play, while the adults were enjoying the evening. We decide to play "hairdresser"...so she cut my hair, probably leaving some bald spots here and there, and hid it in the closet. I went to my mom with that "princess" grin on my face "Mommy, look how pretty"....Even if I was that young, I will never forget the look on my mom's face!!!!!!!!

CorrieV1976

I stuck my tongue out on the metal in the freezer..... because i didnt believe it would get stuck.....it did and my mom made me rip it off instead of helping me .....It hurt lol....

zenchild

I leapt, spinning, off the end of the couch after watching the figure skaters on TV. I was pretty little at the time and it didn't occur to me the the friction of foot on carpet might be a bit different from skate on ice. I got a pretty bad sprain from that. My ankle still swells and hurts from time to time because of that old injury.

moushtie

I remember trying to set light to my hair to see how it would burn. I had very long hair.. so it didn't occur to me that the flame would travel all the way up the hair in a split second... turns out hair burns really quickly!

Thankfully I got away with only a small burn on my forehead - I had enough sense to smother the flame pretty quickly. I told my mum I banged my head on the grill - not sure if she actually believed me!

Bigtime078

I can rmember being about 12-13 years old and deciding it would be really funny if I spray painted my hand black to scare my sisters. I hid in a closet, reached my hand out, and they looked at it as if to say "What is that." They weren't afraid at all. So the joke failed, time to wash my hand. Ummmmm, spray paint does not just wash off. Now the jokes on me becasue I could not get that paint off.....

idiocracy

Lol, reading all these remind me of stupid things I did as an adult!!!!! I have plenty of those! Like my bf and I were in the car on I-95 and I was "cool"...with my hand out the window, resting with my fingers on the top of the car. Pretty comfy position. Until my bf rolled the window up without looking. Caught my fingers and all I could say was "aw! aw! aw! aw! aw! aw!", wasn't able to tell him to roll the window down or anything, just lots of "awwwwww!!!!". HE didn't know what was going on until he saw my fingers and released them.Then pulled over and told me to NEVER EVER do that again. Needless to say I did do it again a few weeks later!!!!!

mermx

I was mega into horses when I was between 8 nd 18...when I was around 11 to 12 I used to go to a stables and the guy that ran them sexually assaulted me...he made out it was a fun thing to do....I`ve never forgot it...everything else in my childhood was fun...you always get one person that spoils things.

sarah_ep

I was 4 or 5 and I took a rock and scratched my name into my mom's car about five times in various places.

I also wrote my S's backwards then.

I wanted to be like the politicians campaigning with ads on cars.

ABetterBalance

Two stories, one from me, and one about my daughter.

When I was about four my mom was unloading kids and groceries into the car and I was climbing around, playing with cart. She says she was trying to buckle my younger brother into his carseat when I yelled out "MOM! The cart is rolling away!"

Distracted, she replied, "well, go stop it then" and I called back "I can't- I'm sitting in it!"
:laugh:

My daughter got sent to the principals office in the first week of kindergarten (yeah, I've got *that* kid) because she kept leaving PE and walking back to her classroom without permission. The principal sat her down and asked her why she wouldn't stay and play dodge ball with the other kids, and my smart-mouthed five-year-old replied "Because throwing things at people is mean, and our class rules say we have to be nice to everyone"

The principal told me that afternoon that it took a lot of willpower not to laugh, and that she really was at a loss for how to handle the situation. She finally convinced my daughter that she wouldn't have to play dodgeball if she would stop wandering off.

Carl01

I was supposed to stop doing stupid things after I grew up? :embarassed:

shawnscott5

I was wearing my roller skates and riding my 12 speed boys bike at the same time. (After I was told not to of course). We lived on a slight hill, I didn't know how to use the hand brakes since I had just gotten the bike. Needless to say, I crashed, sprang all my fingers, skinned up everything and hit the bar with my woohoo so hard, I had to go to the hospital. Woohoo was in need of some stitches, fingers all bandaged up, and my parents made me take all my berry picking money to pay for the bill. Yep you guessed it, I never did that again. I think it took me about 3 summers of working in the fields to pay that one off!!

HeatherShrinking

When I was 5 or 6 I told the neighbor kids that my family was in the CIA Witness Protection program, because we were originally acrobats and we witnessed a murder. Each member of my family was specially trained in ninja ways, we had a pit in the back yard to catch people trying to kill us, and we kept them in the cellar in the basement. :devil: The neighbors believed me and called my parents to see about safety hazards in the backyard.

Other than that, when my mom was mad at me for something I’d call my grandma and tell on my mom. By the time they’d be off the phone my mom would have forgotten what she was mad at me for.

Genem30

Oh man, where to start:

- Right before XMas one year, me and my cousin found this really tall, mostly rotten tree, except the top looked like it would make a great XMas tree (from the ground...and we were 11), so I tried to climb up it. Got about 12 feet up when the bottom part gave out. (broken leg, 2 fractured ribs)

- I burned down 40 acres of woodland across the road from my grandmother's house playing with matches (no personal injuries except for my dad whipping the crap out of me)

- Got bitten by a pretty sizable snake in my grandmother's front yard that I could have easily walked around, but decided it would be cool to poke it with a stick (ambulance trip to the emergency room obviously, almost died I guess)

- Fell about 20 feet into a creek me and my dad used to go fishing at by our home when I leaned over the bridge too far (twisted ankle, lost glasses)

- Was pulling the tail of my grandparent's bulldog mix. He got tired of it, took a nice, sizable chunk of meat out of my left cheek right next to my mouth (emergency room, 17 stitches)

There also a race around my babysitter's house that ended up with me losing 5 baby teeth way earlier than I should have and a pitchfork through the back of the hand digging for bait with my cousin.

beccyleigh

When I was about 3 I unscrewed all the bolts on the back of the washing machine, my mum came in the room just as I had them in my hand, panicked & told me to put them down but I apparently looked straight at her & put them in my mouth & swallowed.

Visit to the doctor & the wait for nature for take it's course.

Around the same time my mum went out shopping, my dad was supposed to be watching me but he got stoned & fell asleep (this was the 70's) so bored I found a bottle of bleach & a roll of toilet paper & decorated the bathroom upstairs. Mum came home to a child with bleach burns, toddler foot prints all over the new carpets & a bathroom covered in bleach soaked toilet roll bombs all over the walls & ceiling.

I was expelled from pre school aged 4 - I was being punished so they locked me in the kitchen, instead of being upset I found a stool, climbed up the the cupboards & ate all the biscuits (cookies) they had to give the kids at snack time. My mum arrived & when then opened the door I was sitting happily stuffing my face.

I was a devil child but looked like an angel all rosy cheeks & platinum blonde ringlets, my mum says she never had a grey hair till I was born :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

JennS19

My daughter got sent to the principals office in the first week of kindergarten (yeah, I've got *that* kid) because she kept leaving PE and walking back to her classroom without permission. The principal sat her down and asked her why she wouldn't stay and play dodge ball with the other kids, and my smart-mouthed five-year-old replied "Because throwing things at people is mean, and our class rules say we have to be nice to everyone"

The principal told me that afternoon that it took a lot of willpower not to laugh, and that she really was at a loss for how to handle the situation. She finally convinced my daughter that she wouldn't have to play dodgeball if she would stop wandering off.

Bwahahahaha That is high-larious!!! :laugh:

cdstadt

I didn't do anything cool.

I liked sticking paper hole reinforcers over the eyes of every picture in every photo album I could find, though.


My boyfriend got his head stuck in a lot of things though. Mostly rails.

I_give_it_2_u_str8

I hit my uncle with a meat cleaver in the face while he was sleeping.
He still holds it against me. I was 5

Deathwithab

oh i remembered some more after reading other peoples lol

we had a pool when i was 6 and my mom didnt want to come out and watch me and my brothers at that momment and told us to wait so angerly i carved i want to go in the pool on the front door lol its still on the door to this day

all the kids from my block all in the winter would sled down 2 allys seperated by a road and would make a huge jump to fly over it, alot of kids would knock the wind out of themself landing wrong or almost get hit by a car lol

StaceyL76

I did many stupid things as a child but I think one of the toppers is lighting a pretzel stick and smokin - it had trouble staying lit so I only got a few drags off it before I gave up - Thankfully! I was imitating my mother who is still a heavy smoker.

The other thing was racing my dad on a go-kart after he had been drinking... I was 5 years old and he ran me into the wall and the go kart flpped upside down on me.. I was not hurt though.. just shook up.

beccyleigh

When I was about 9 a group of us kids thought it would be a good idea to hog tie my friends older brother & roll him down a hill. (he was in agreement we didn't jut force him) He banged into every fence & post on the way down the alley between 2 tower blocks & then crashed into a fence at the bottom. He was pretty banged up & his mum came out & went mental on us all.

My uncle had a bow & arrow & once when we were all playing in my nans back garden he was firing it into a tree & shot me in the ear. It was a perfect shot straight into the ear hole & to this day I am slightly deaf in one ear.

sandrinamsilva

Lol, reading all these remind me of stupid things I did as an adult!!!!! I have plenty of those! Like my bf and I were in the car on I-95 and I was "cool"...with my hand out the window, resting with my fingers on the top of the car. Pretty comfy position. Until my bf rolled the window up without looking. Caught my fingers and all I could say was "aw! aw! aw! aw! aw! aw!", wasn't able to tell him to roll the window down or anything, just lots of "awwwwww!!!!". HE didn't know what was going on until he saw my fingers and released them.Then pulled over and told me to NEVER EVER do that again. Needless to say I did do it again a few weeks later!!!!!

LMAO- I can picture that

Iwillshyne

Guys I am lol'ing at all your stories. Mines is more of a scare than funny. I was too young to remember but this is an on-going story my mom loves to tell me whenever I start complaining about my kids being busy-bees.
When I was about 3 years old and my mom put me down for a nap and while (she thought) I was sleeping she decided to go down stairs and do some laundry and other chores. Meanwhile, I got out of the bed, crawled under the bed and somehow my hair (braids) got stuck on some of the hardware on the railings. When she finally came back up to check on me she coudn't find me (guess I had wore myself out trying to get my hair a loose and fell asleep under the bed). My mom paniced and started searching the entire house looking for me. She searched every room and outside too. She finally called my dad to come home and called 911. By the time everyone arrived I had woke up and started to cry . Everyone, including the cops ran up stairs. And after figuring out where I was, they flipped the matress and boxspring up and TADAAAAAH there I was, braids still tangled up on the railing!!

How scary was that? I would go crazy if my kids did that....

ABetterBalance

My favorite one: I was one of six kids, and there were always Mardi Gras parties at school so, over the years, we accumulated a LOT of beads. Anyway...

One day, when I was about 8, we decided to tie the babysitter to the chair using the beads. He sat still and let us, thinking that little plastic beads break easy, so it was no big deal. We wrapped a *ton* of them around his arms and legs, and he was a little shocked to discover that he couldn't break free! :noway:

My brother (10) had the brilliant idea that we would call someone for ransom. So we called our sitter's best friend and told him that if he didn't come over to our house and bring two pepperoni pizzas with him, he would never see his friend again.

He came, with pizza! :laugh:

The sitter is the older brother of my best friend, and the pizza-ransomer is my husband's best friend. No one has EVER let me live that one down.