Stupid things you did as a child...

bregalad5

I have a cousin who is 4 months older than me. My family had a pop-up trailer that was parked at my grandma's house (down the street from my house), and we were having a family gathering. My cousin and I decided it would be fun to take turns jumping off the top of this trailer. We were having such a good time that he decided we should hold hands and jump at the same time. He landed properly, I landed on my left arm and broke it. I remember being most upset about the fact that I couldn't take swimming lessons that summer :sad:

One of my brothers used to do stupid stuff. He once got his head shut in our van's sliding door. He also used to jump off things and get his head split open at least once a year. It was to the point where the hospital started to get suspicious of my mother...

ETA: I forgot to say that I was 3 when the broken arm incident took place

leslielt

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

that really made me laugh...i can picture his reaction...haha

trixylewis

bumping for later

k2quiere

Let's see...I was in elementary school, maybe Kindergarten or 1st grade and we were having career day. The teacher went around the room asking everyone what their parents did for a living. Well, she got to me...my response? My daddy smokes pot for a living. Yeah...that didn't go over to well.

looklikeaskeleton

when i was 7 or 8 we were having a birthday party at my house and i was riding my bike around my driveway while my cousin was riding on his skateboard, neither of us were paying attention and the skateboard ended up rolling in front of my bike. instead of riding around it i decided to ride over it, falling off my bike and ending up breaking my thumb. not a fun birthday.

looklikeaskeleton

Let's see...I was in elementary school, maybe Kindergarten or 1st grade and we were having career day. The teacher went around the room asking everyone what their parents did for a living. Well, she got to me...my response? My daddy smokes pot for a living. Yeah...that didn't go over to well.

:laugh: :laugh: that is hilarious!

arewethereyet

I threw a bat at my brother as he ran away from me. That bat hit him square in the middle of the head, big end up. Knocked him out cold. :frown:

We were 9 and 11. It cost me 200 hands of gin rummy.:embarassed:

arewethereyet

when i was 7 or 8 we were having a birthday party at my house and i was riding my bike around my driveway while my cousin was riding on his skateboard, neither of us were paying attention and the skateboard ended up rolling in front of my bike. instead of riding around it i decided to ride over it, falling off my bike and ending up breaking my thumb. not a fun birthday.

My eldest did something like this to me. I picked him up from school each day. His kidergarten class was rigtht up front, and I would park right there with my other 2 children.

As all the parents gathered to pick up their 5 year olds, DS screams "NO DRINKING AND DRIVING MOMMY........NO DRINKING AND DRIVING!!!!" He is crying (should have been me) loudly and screaming this.................all while I dump out my diet pepsi from the can!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

(I know most of those people to this day, and STILL get teased when I have a glass of wine out at dinner!)

jenny95662

well i def did some stupid things, one was putting my roller skates on standing on my monkey bars and jumping off of them onto a trampoline lets just say i was lucky all i hurt was my finger and it was just a sprain. Another was we would get rope and tie it from one thing to another and sit on it and use it as a swing and it broke a lot lol. So many dumb things we use to do and so many times we got hurt lol

jenny95662

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

that really made me laugh...i can picture his reaction...haha

made me laugh too lol

Leola2011

We had rat poison in the garage. I convinced all my neighborhood friends that it was cake mix and we all started playing with it. None of us noticed the red skull and crossbones on the top of the box!

My dad caught us before we mixed the contents into my sandbox to make mud pies. Everyone had to go home after that.

BecksgotBack

i think i've done more stupid things as an adult than as a child?
when i was about 6 our family went to African Lion Safari (my canadian/ontario friends will know) and i decided it would be fun to roll the window down while driving thru the baboon area. My dad freaked out on me and told me to roll the window up...well he's yelling, i panicked and the window got rolled down instead of up. my dad had to reach behind and roll the window up and got a baby baboon's fingers stuck in the window...it started screaming and the next thing we know there's probably 50 baboons attacking the car and jumping up and down. there was a lot of yelling at me.

then there was the the first time i got brought home by the cops....that was really stupid...but agains forum rules to talk about it.

Leola2011

Age 7: Then there was the time when I was racing this boy on our bikes. Except he had a 10 speed and I had the kind that stopped when you pushed the pedals backwards. He was coasting and making that cool noise with his pedals/wheels by pedaling backwards. **IMPORTANT NOTE: I was wearing shorts, a halter top, and flip flops**

In my pedal envy, I tried to spin my pedals backwards, forgetting that it would make me come to an abrupt halt. My bike screeched to a stop, hit the curb, and THREW me headlong into the rose bush of my next door neighbor!

I just wanted to stay there because getting out was going to be more painful.

Iwillshyne

I was 13. And was mad at my big bro for hanging up on a phone call I was desperately waiting for--of course it was a boy, duh??... So I pour a cap full of beach in a cup of milk he left unattended. He drank it and spit it out tho! He was fine! Whatever--DONT JUDGE ME!! This was actually the beginning of about 6 years of Big Bro vs. lil sis pranks! Ha!
Ps: He eventually won too!

Qarol

I would lie (badly) about eating breakfast. I didn't feel I should have to. So I'd try to get out of it. Once she asked me what I had for breakfast, and I said I had cereal. She asked where the dishes were. d'oh! So next time, I got a clean bowl from the cupboard, put it in the sink with water in it. When mom would ask, I'd say cereal and that I washed the bowl. She'd ask, "where's the spoon?"

*facepalm* Yea, I was never any good at lying.

idiocracy

I would lie (badly) about eating breakfast. I didn't feel I should have to. So I'd try to get out of it. Once she asked me what I had for breakfast, and I said I had cereal. She asked where the dishes were. d'oh! So next time, I got a clean bowl from the cupboard, put it in the sink with water in it. When mom would ask, I'd say cereal and that I washed the bowl. She'd ask, "where's the spoon?"

*facepalm* Yea, I was never any good at lying.

I was the same...about not washing hands....I would wet my hands to get them cold and wipe....and my mom "why is the soap dry?"....geez, all that trouble of lying, might as well just do it right!

I remembered another one, but this one is my dad's stupid thing, not mine ))) We were in the mountains, I was about 5 and i loved my little sled. My dad would drag me in the snow while my parents were walking around town, pretty cool. Anyway, dad decided to give me some excitement. So he ties the sled to the back of his car, trying to go slow, but still faster than running or walking. My mom decided to get on the sled with me for "protection', holding me. Well, imagine what happened when my dad started the car: the sled jerked from under our butts, me and my mom up in the air and then dropping with our butts in the snow. Same position, just without a sled. My dad kept on driving!!!!!

cabaray

Where to begin...between the ages of 5 & 7, I ate rat poison and drank my cousins face cleansing astringent.

I grew up in the country. When I was about 7, my older brothers were jumping out of the barn loft onto a pile of cushions. They were constantly messing with me, so while they were getting ready to get a running start, I grabbed as many cushions as I could and took them off the pile. My brother jumped and it totally knocked the wind out of him. I thought he was dead!

SkateboardFi

when i was really small, i had a doll where you could cut her hair, and by pulling down her right arm her hair would miraculously grow back. so using my logic, i thought i'd have the same results. i proceeded to grab a pair of crayola scissors, grabbed my ponytail and cut it off. to my horror, when i moved my right arm. my hair didn't grow back. i had to get a low cut fade and everyone thought i was a boy for a year.

another time, when my mom was deployed in iraq there was a birthday party my aunt took me to at chuck e cheeses. i thought it would be funny to hide in the ball pit and when people started looking for me i didn't respond, only chuckled to myself about how clever i was. welp, fast forward 10 minutes, they completely shut chuck e cheeses down, allowing no one to exit the building, and questioning everyone because they thought i'd been kidnapped. lo and behold my aunt saw my purple sock peeking up through the ball pit, pulled me out by my foot, and proceeded to beat me down lol

and THEN...there was the time my hair got set on fire...

2stepz

We went to visit my Grandfather once when I was about three. I was excited to see him and didn't want to wait for Mom to come open my door, so I tried to get from the passenger side seat of my mom's 5-speed Corolla out the drivers side door. I stepped on the e-break as I crossed the car, releasing it... as I stepped out the door, the car started rolling back, the door knocked me down, and the car ran over my thighs.

Mom hurdled me... ran after the car and JUST got it stopped before it went into the big ravine at the bottom of the hill.

Did I mention my newborn baby brother was strapped in the back seat?

I was pretty bruised, but nothing was broken. I was never very athletic after that tho.

bregalad5

when i was about 6 our family went to African Lion Safari (my canadian/ontario friends will know)

You just got that old jingle stuck in my head, haha. We got the commercials for all the southern Ontario stuff in Western NY.

Jennyisbusy

In first grade I wore my swimsuit under my clothes and then at recess I proceeded to strip down and lay out!!

I used to do very weird stuff as a teenager, like sneak out and put underwear in random peoples mail boxes. I cringe to think of the trouble I probably caused.

I had a friend that would play fight with me on the side of a highway just to get people to honk and yell. -hangs head-

russelljclarke

With hindsight, allowing myself to get sent to boarding school without kicking up a fuss. Absolutely-flippin'-hated-it!

TinaDay1114

OK, you guys are SCARING me!! :noway: I'm adding all this stuff to the list of things my 2 boys are "not allowed" to do!!

Here's stupidity for you...

I was about 12, and my friend and I found her dad's crutches in the bedroom upstairs. He was about 6' tall, so his crutches were pretty big. But I decided to try them out -- I'd never been on crutches before, but how hard could it be?? Then the doorbell rang.

My friend ran to the bottom of the stairs to answer it, and I decided to go down with her on the crutches. I put the crutches on the top step next to my feet, rocked forward on them and -- UM, where is the GROUND?? -- ended up catapulting myself head first down the stairs and slamming my head into the wall next to the front door. For the next week I kept telling my mom "Hey, I can hear a squeaking noise inside my head...I think something might be loose." YEAH, you think???