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Tell us something awful you did as a kid.

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Friedchickenrocks · 26/02/2024 20:59

Aged about 8 our grandad was staying with us and I hid his glasses. Nobody thought it was me but he knew. He was literally almost blind for a week and even went poking with his walking stick down the loo. "I know it's her. I just know it, little bitch" Eventually they magically re-appeared on the sideboard. I never did own up and my mum never thought it could possibly be her blue eyed girl.

OP posts:
EarringsandLipstick · 26/02/2024 21:06

Why on earth did you do that for a week? Bloody hell.

Could you not have put them back sooner?

losthj · 26/02/2024 21:08
Confused
coxesorangepippin · 26/02/2024 21:09

I'd be about six years old

Friend had those t-bar shoes

I cut the T with a pair of scissors

They were new shoes too.

Not sure how/why I didn't get in trouble really.

Charlingspont · 26/02/2024 21:09

Aged about 7, I took a pair of scissors and went over the road, into the garden of some people who I knew were away on holiday and cut the heads off all their roses.

Never was asked about it, never said anything. Don't know why I did it, except I was bored, and I could.

Can't remember if I did it alone, or with a sibling or friend.

supermamio · 26/02/2024 21:10

We moved when i was 7, our bathroom had a mirrorer cabinet which locked with a little key. I used to put the tooth paste in the cabinet, lock it and hide the key in my brothers room. After doing this at least once a week for about 3 months i stopped 😂 i dont know if my parents knew it was me or thought it was him. But i think back now and laugh at how much of an inconvenience it must of been when it came to finding the key.

coxesorangepippin · 26/02/2024 21:10

Oh the faux horror for the OP

Bloody hell

😱😱🤣

scrivette · 26/02/2024 21:10

I was arguing with my little brother at my Grandparents house and making a cup of tea. I was about 10 and I put the hot teabag in my brothers hand. Sometimes when I am making a cup of tea 30 years later I feel guilty! It hurt him but luckily didn't burn him.

ThisHonestQuail · 26/02/2024 21:12

scrivette · 26/02/2024 21:10

I was arguing with my little brother at my Grandparents house and making a cup of tea. I was about 10 and I put the hot teabag in my brothers hand. Sometimes when I am making a cup of tea 30 years later I feel guilty! It hurt him but luckily didn't burn him.

Oh no this has brought back an awful memory of me making my younger brother put his finger in an un-lit but still hot tea light 😭 Poor boy!

honestguvnor · 26/02/2024 21:16

Me and some friends picked flowers out of gardens and put them in planting pots added some mud and sold them to the neighbours. We also got hold of some clear plastic bottles and filled them with shampoo/conditioner/bubble bath out of our parents bathrooms. We sold them to other kids at school.

TotteringByRosie · 26/02/2024 21:20

I dared the annoying boy from next door to go into our creepy dark eaves attic cupboard. As soon as he went in I locked the door and went outside to play. Poor boy spent a good couple of hours in there, he was absolutely terrified.

MoonWoman69 · 26/02/2024 21:22

I was about 7, at primary school and I pushed the prettiest, most popular girl, face down into a muddy puddle that was a constant feature on the corner of the school building. Thought she was ok until she stood up and turned round! The front of her was drenched in mud. When I got home, the phone rang and my heart sunk. It was a wall phone, mum answered, slowly turned round and said "Ohhh, did she now?" I was in so much trouble over that!

StarlightLime · 26/02/2024 21:23

Friedchickenrocks · 26/02/2024 20:59

Aged about 8 our grandad was staying with us and I hid his glasses. Nobody thought it was me but he knew. He was literally almost blind for a week and even went poking with his walking stick down the loo. "I know it's her. I just know it, little bitch" Eventually they magically re-appeared on the sideboard. I never did own up and my mum never thought it could possibly be her blue eyed girl.

Why? Confused

thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 21:23

My parents were friends with a family where the parents and kids were visually impaired. They were minding my sister and I for the day and were taking us out for pizza but it had been a long time since lunch (we were used to more snacks at home i think ) anyway it was December and one of the kids had an advent calendar with sweets in on his bedroom wall. I whispered to my sister to take one as he couldn't see us (God forgive me! ) anyway it escalated and somehow between us we ended up snaffling the lot..

Of course several days later my parents received a phone call, my mum was absolutely mortified and we were made to give our pocket money to him to replace the advent calendar and to apologise!

thecrispfiend · 26/02/2024 21:25

I must say the boy got his own back on me at some point as I remember during a game of hide and seek when we were hiding together in the kitchen cupboard he handed me some biscuits which I ate and then he told me they were dog biscuits Grin

Firstclassfart · 26/02/2024 21:26

Nothing majorly awful, just punching another kid in the face for no reason in nursery. Egging the wallpaper in the front room, again for no reason. Stealing some jewellery from the dressing up corner in year 1 and also stealing a fiver, staggered over weeks, to be less noticeable, from my parents change bowl so I could go buy myself a toy. I turned out ok despite the dodgy start.

XenoBitch · 26/02/2024 21:31

When I was little, we would visit my grandparents who lived in a block of flats.
Once time, on the way out, we took the stairs as the lift was not arriving at our floor for some reason.
On the way down, I saw the lift was stuck half way between floors, and there was an elderly couple on the floor of the lift, tapping on the window and calling for help.
I was the only one that saw them, and I said nothing.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:32

Me and my brother and our neighbour cut nettles and shoved them through our other neighbours letterbox. We also posted a note through her door pretending we were her dead husband.

She was a horrible woman but yeh....still plays on my mind that we did that.

StarlightLime · 26/02/2024 21:32

Jesus, some of these...

JustMaggie · 26/02/2024 21:32

After watching Jungle Book I tried to convince my little brother to eat ants.

WhimsicalMoth · 26/02/2024 21:34

I squeezed not one but 2 tadpoles flat. I don't know why. I was about 6. I still think about it

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:34

StarlightLime · 26/02/2024 21:32

Jesus, some of these...

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StarlightLime · 26/02/2024 21:35

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:34

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:36

Well, it seemed like you are surprised some of the stories are awful. :)

sectionquestion · 26/02/2024 21:36

XenoBitch · 26/02/2024 21:31

When I was little, we would visit my grandparents who lived in a block of flats.
Once time, on the way out, we took the stairs as the lift was not arriving at our floor for some reason.
On the way down, I saw the lift was stuck half way between floors, and there was an elderly couple on the floor of the lift, tapping on the window and calling for help.
I was the only one that saw them, and I said nothing.

I must be evil because this cracked me up 😳

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:37

WhimsicalMoth · 26/02/2024 21:34

I squeezed not one but 2 tadpoles flat. I don't know why. I was about 6. I still think about it

A slow squeeze?! Or a splat?

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