The Crap I used to do when I was a kid....

poshcouture

Makes me scared to have my own. I can't tell you how many times my brother and I almost died. The stories....

My brother - almost severing his finger completely off playing with my father's power saw, choking on a piece of rice because of the laughfest we were having at the kitchen table (My mom told us not to laugh with food in our mouths).

Me - completely oiling up my father's wallet and everything inside including his credit cards and money with an entire jar of Vaseline, climbing down the steepest side of a quarry on a dare and falling down the last 5 feet because of a loose piece of limestone, slapping contests (don't ask), the "I dare you to eat this..." game which never boded well for me.

CanadianThunder

I fell out of my second story window when trying to create a ladder out of sheets. I totally thought I'd be able to climb down, but right when I stepped on the first knot, it untied and down to the ground I went. To this day I still cannot get the other sheets untied. It was just that one knot.

JustJennie1

Back when skate boards first came out I remember walking up this fairly big hill, sitting down on the skate board and riding it to the bottom. In the middle of the street! Thankfully it wasn't a busy street. Then when I got brave I stood up and did it.

Sledding down a big hill that had a jump in the middle of it that you could catch serious air on. I remember flying down the hill one afternoon (it was icy) in one of those plastic toboggans, not being able to stop, slamming into a tree and sliding UP it. Man that hurt!

Going over to my grandmas house to ice skate on her pond in the winter and the hill that led down to the pond was a sheet of ice so we'd walk our way up the hill in our ice skates and zip down the hill and on to the pond.

I'm sure there's a lot more things that I did as a kid that I look back on now and think "WHY!?"

mminor77

Jumping off the 2 story garage with an umbrella
Riding my ATV over frozen lake and falling through
Jumping a ramp with a 10 speed bike- broke my arm on that one
Riding my radio-flyer wagon down steep hills
Letting bears and various other animals out of hunters traps
Brothers and I shooting each other with bb guns
chasing porcupines up trees

oh theres so much more... I could type all day.

SVCat

I grew up a little rough...I'd borrow a dollar bill from my dad. I'd go into the alley where all the drunks would hangout and would ask for change. They'd normally drop their own money when fishing for change...I'd snatch it up and pretend to be Forrest Gump. Never got caught, but I did get my *kitten* beat a couple of times by simply being in that area.

Fatal1ty2k5

Tried to parachute off the 2nd story of the house with a bed sheet onto the trampoline and just ripped thru the tramp and lawn darted into the ground breaking my arm lol

projectxreborn

My sister, who was 2 at the time, was bored while my mom was distracted with one of the other kids (there were five of us). So she
decided to get the butter and "decorate" Mom and Dad's brand new leather couch. Everywhere.

When I was about three or four, my sister had made a father's day gift at school - a small wooden board with a big rock and a small
jar glued on to it. The jar had matches in it. (What was the teacher thinking?! LOL) So I decided to check it out. I was so
proud of myself when I got the match lit but when it got down to my fingers I panicked and threw it to the floor near
my closet. I watched in horror as everything started to burn...my favorite doll (Raggedy Ann), my floor, my curtains
and my dresser was starting when I felt my mom grab me out of there and then try to put the fire out...she did put it
out...I think...I must have hid for weeks after that. LOL

dbanks80

Jumping off the 2 story garage with an umbrella

LMAO!!! Did you think you were Mary Poppins?!!! :laugh:

bennysammysofie

We would ride our bikes to midget league football practice (yea, it was really called that!) with all our equipment on and barrell through intersections without even thinking of looking. My buddy got CRUNCHED by a car doing that once...he mustve flown 15-20 through the air, got up, and started to freak out because his dad was gonna flip out that his bike was smashed.
Something I feel bad about is instead of egging houses we would egg the people in the houses. We would ring there doorbell and when they came to the door to look outside, we would pelt them with eggs and corn. Horrible I know
We would hit passing cars with crabapples on the street where we played 2 hand shove football. I like this thread.

mminor77

Jumping off the 2 story garage with an umbrella

LMAO!!! Did you think you were Mary Poppins?!!! :laugh:

I think my brothers and I saw it in a cartoon. Its never good to try to replicate what you seen in cartoons. LOL. My older brother tried it first and the umbrella broke, he didnt get hurt too bad so we decided the reason it didnt go well is because he wasnt wearing a cape. So then it was my turn, with a new umbrella and a cape. Worked fine for me. The cape obviously was the ticket. Im sure my success had nothing to do with me being smaller and having a larger umbrella. It was the cape all the way. :laugh:

dad106

Convinced my neighbor to try and climb the fence into our yard... and my mom looked out the widow, she got spooked, jumped down and broke her leg.

Climbing up onto the roof of our church building when I was a teenager.. and then getting yelled at by Pastor and the youth leaders to get down.

Had this high bar on our playground at school when I was younger... we'd stand up on it, and then try to reach it and swing down. well I got up, let go, wasn't able to grab on and fell flat on my back, knocking all the wind out of me.

Climbing on top of the monkey bars and doing front flips off by laying over the top, grabbing the underneath side of the bars and swinging down.

Swimming with my cousin onetime in a lake in Indiana.. We were playing and I told her I could stay underwater long enough to miss all my birthdays, all christmases, all halloweens and all easters. Realized now that I was talking about drowning myself, but at 4, you think anything is possible.

projectxreborn

Did you have any injuries? My son decided to do the same on a youth outing and was in the hospital
for three weeks with major injuries...and he didn't even get that far down the hill. Makes my hair gray to
even think of the things he could try to do next.

projectxreborn

Sledding down a big hill that had a jump in the middle of it that you could catch serious air on. I remember flying down the hill one afternoon (it was icy) in one of those plastic toboggans, not being able to stop, slamming into a tree and sliding UP it. Man that hurt!

This is the story I am asking about

MrsLeyva11

I had a boyfriend at the ripe age of 5. A middle school girl my mom used to babysit was flirting with him, so I threatened to shove her off the trampoline. She didn't believe me, and she kissed him on the cheek. So I shoved her right off the trampoline, she fell on the plastic stool we used to get onto the trampoline.. My mom saw the whole thing, got my tail tore up. But totally worth it. She left him alone from then on out.

Tony_Brewski

Jumped my bike off of a cliff and at the last minute let go of my bike and grabbed the ledge of the cliff to climb down.

All most got shot by a frient.

Stabbed myself in the thigh with a screw driver... dont ask... all most cut off a finger with a folding knife.. more than once.

Got dragged by a car and parked on.

Fists fights galore!

The list for me goes on and on and on.

Alex_is_Hawks

I went down three flights of stairs with my tricycle when I was three...split my head wide open...

I flushed my fathers wedding ring down the toilet (on purpose) when I was four...... (and the value of gold had doubled since they had been married)

Was trying to fix the whip string on the Weed Whacker when I was 8 and my brother decided to see what "that button - aka power button" did while my face was right up close and personal....

Ate a jar of moth balls, thinking they were really old, stale, scotch mints when I was 6...had to have my stomach pumped and as a result can still not drink apple juice to this day....

My best friends parents had a roomate living in their basement when I was 7 and this guy once convinced us to eat the candy he was giving us. They were pills, bright shiny blue pills and not very tasty...but the things I saw afterwards still make me cringe...

yeah.....sometimes I wonder how I made it out a live and what the HECK i was thinking having my daughter....

jenbit

My cousins and my siblings and I came up with this game when we were left alone to "watch" each other lol. I dont know if anyone else ever played it but its called blind chicken. You close your parents bedroom door(so know one goes in there) you blindfold one of the kids turn off allthe lights in the house spin the kid around and run. The blindfolded kid has to find another kid and guess who they are. .. Sounds safe enough right.. Not in my family we were hiding on the kitchen counter on top of the fridge ect. My sister actually sprained her ankle jumping off the fridge to get away and could let my mom know it had happened because we had been forbidden that game.

Also had a huge peanut butter fight inside the house with all my siblings one time while my mom was at work. The house looked like a peanut plant had exploded. Didn't get caught that time either cause we scrubbed the house before my mom got home

The only good thing about being a nutty kid is your kids cant get away with crud cause youve done it all and know how to catch them trying it lol.

PattieCakes23

Hmm. where to begin?!

I climbed A LOT of trees. Climbed up one and decided it'd be fun to jump down. It was probably a good 8ft, and somehow I landed. Fell out of one too, landed on my arm. Nice big bruise, but never broken.

Tried to ride a 'big girl' bike on my own. At the time it was about...a foot taller than me. Got on fine, but turned it wrong and slid off the sidewalk. Still have a scar on my knee from that.

In the apartments i lived in as a kid they were beginning a new buidling on the end and had dug a HUGE (and I mean HUGE) hole, but had to stop because it rained for about 3 days. It filled the hole up with nice, muddy, dirty water. Me and some friends decided to play in it. It was up to my neck in muddy water, but I LOVED IT!

I went fishing with my dad and would name each worm before I handed them to him to fish with..

I've also jumped off things with an umbrella hoping I could fly.

and I've jumped out of sings..and off jungle gyms. I was a jumper!

ricebarbiee

I had a boyfriend at the ripe age of 5. A middle school girl my mom used to babysit was flirting with him, so I threatened to shove her off the trampoline. She didn't believe me, and she kissed him on the cheek. So I shoved her right off the trampoline, she fell on the plastic stool we used to get onto the trampoline.. My mom saw the whole thing, got my tail tore up. But totally worth it. She left him alone from then on out.

lmao!

atsteele

Jumped my bike off of a cliff and at the last minute let go of my bike and grabbed the ledge of the cliff to climb down.

All most got shot by a frient.

Stabbed myself in the thigh with a screw driver... dont ask... all most cut off a finger with a folding knife.. more than once.

Got dragged by a car and parked on.

Fists fights galore!

The list for me goes on and on and on.

Isn't this normal?

Made homemade go-carts and rode them downhill... with no steering wheel. What was at the bottom of the hill? A HUGE ditch. Oh yeah. We flew!!

Made a huge pile of loose hay in the hay mow and took a rope and swung over and dropped into it... probably at least 20 feet in the air when we let go. Seemed about 100 feet when you're only 4 feet high in stature.

Rode our bikes without brakes. Wore out my sneaker soles stopping. You really had to plan ahead. Especially on the downhills.

Slid down the tin roof of a shed into a pile of snow. Ripped a lot of snowmobile suits this way. Mom was NOT happy.

My husband put a screwdriver right into his eye. Not sure how he still has sight in that eye but by some miracle he does.

Oh and we used to play gladiators with plastic bats and lids off trash cans as shields. No one is gonna get hurt doing that, right? Right.

I could go on... but won't.

BruteSquad

All I can say is I have done way way way worse stuff as an adult.

harleydall76

All I can say is I have done way way way worse stuff as an adult.

Agreed. I was pretty good as a child, but as an adult? Forget it!

jfrog123

My brother and I used to sled down the side of the hill to the railroad tracks at the bottom. We would make a game of chicken out of it and wait until we heard the train coming and head down. Whoever rolled to the side first was a chicken.

We used to walk along the highway breaking glass bottles in the road.

My brother shot me in the eye with a BB gun and I had to wear a patch for two months.

I tried to sneak out one night when I was about 11 and started climbing down the trellis on the side of the house. The trellis came loose and I fell backwards to the ground and blacked out.

BUT MY FAVORITE:

When I was very little I tried to make a milkshake but forgot to put the lid on the blender. HUGE MESS. Everyone else was outside, so I wanted to clean it up so I wouldn't get in trouble. The only part I couldn't get clean was the electrical outlet. I don't know if anyone remembers these, but it was like a power strip, but didn't have little individual ports for the plugs to go in, it was like a continuous track, and you could plug the cord in anywhere (and plug in as many cords as you could cram in to it). It was mounted to the front of the cabinet, just below the counter and milkshake had dripped all down in the grooves. I heard my mom coming toward the door from outside and in a panic I leaned down and slurped the milkshake out. ZZZAAAPPP! I was shocked, knocked back into the kitchen table, and fell to the floor. That one resulted in blue lips and a concussion. Ah, memories!