Tell us something awful you did as a kid.

[Friedchickenrocks]

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.

Not me but my uncle

For context,my grandparents had 3 kids,then 15 years later,my father

My uncle was at school,stood up,singing along

Unfortunately the girl in front of him had waist length,blonde hair in a plat

It keet getting in the way of his song book,so he took his penknife out,sliced her hair off,tapped her on the shoulder and handed it to her!

My granny and her mother went mental but the girl was very happy as she wanted shorter hair but her mother had been refusing!

we used to play knock-down ginger on the old lady at the end of our (small) road. I think I felt bad even then.
When I was about 11 (between primary and secondary) we got a cat and my friend and I thought she needed a bath 😆 the cat was not impressed (and nor was my mum).
My mum ruined one of my favourite tops in the wash so I chucked one of hers out the window 😆 I was a teen then.

My DD did a couple of things too which she’s owned up to in later years.
We were veggie but at after school club they were making pizza and she hid pepperoni under the cheese and ate it! When I turned up I was just pleased she’d eaten so I wouldn’t have to make dinner!!

when we were on holiday - she was about 7 - I thought she’d slept walked as she came into the living area of the flat in the morning but wasn’t responsive - I took her back to bed and when she got up normally I said ‘oh, you sleepwalked…’ prob because of not being at home (I did it once according to my mum, which is prob told her at some point). A few years later she was going away w school and I said maybe we should mention to your teacher that you might sleepwalk & she told me she faked it 😆 I was 😱

Her stories are much better than mine.

I'm actually crying with laughter at some of these, there are literal tears running down my face 🤣

I on more than one occasion used to turn the lights off in (windowless) public toilets when there were other people using them. One particular time that stood out was in toilets in Costco. They were absolutely humongous and the light switch was by the entrance door so if you were in the toilet it was a long walk back to daylight in the pitch black. It was before the days of decent mobile phones so that wasn't an option for a light source.

Properly laughing out loud. Poor Fred.

This has just reminded me of mine. I didn't think I had a story but I do. Wasn't intentional, but just a clueless child being left to my own devices!

I bathed my sister's guinea pig and then proceeded to let it 'dry' in its hutch in the garden. Of course it got too cold. Still to this day, it haunts me. My sister was on a school trip at the time. I went on to become a responsible guinea pig owner myself though! I learnt how to properly take care of guinea pigs and never repeated my mistake on my own piggies.

Can't remember how old I was but I put my friend in a suitcase and dragged him down the stairs.

Mum was so angry with me. And I'm pretty sure I'm the reason he has Claustrophobic 😬

You must have read "The story of Cruel Frederick" in that 19th century children's book Struwelpeter:
"He caught the flies, poor little things,
And then tore off their tiny wings.
He killed the birds, and broke the chairs,
and threw the kitten down the stairs."

I'm sure I've done loads but nothing is jumping to mind. I did a lot of really dangerous stuff that now gives me nightmares!

My grandparents were minding 2 of my other cousins, boys maybe 6 and 8 at the time. The 8 year old hid behind a bush and got the 6 year old to run screaming into the house that the 8 yr old had been hit by a car. Grandparents literally dropped what they were holding ran out couldn't see him and he jumped from behind a bush.

Grandparents did not see the funny side and the kids couldn't understand how they were in so much trouble.

This is not my story but my partner’s. When he was about 9 he was a member of the Boys Brigade which was held in a church.
Near the church lived an elderly couple who befriended him. They treated him like a dear grandson, giving him cakes, biscuits and other treats and living for his visits.
After a year or so my partner grew tired of visiting them so he got his friend to knock on their door and say he had died.
They were understandably completely distraught.
Several months later he decided he was missing his treats and turned up bold as brass at their door. They nearly had a heart attack.
My partner told them his friend had got it wrong and he had been very sick and on life support.😏

I also remember I accidentally killed my goldfish (that I won at the fair) by putting in half a toothbrush holder in the tank as something for it to ‘hide’ (which it turned out meant suffocate to death).

I used to feel sorry for the neighbours cat because his food stunk so I started feeding him. I used to make him sandwiches, crisps, chocolate, biscuits, pork pies and sausage rolls. He’d come every day for a beige plate off me. The neighbour mentioned in passing that someone was feeding their cat as he’d put on quite abit of weight but I never said anything. Went on for ages until they moved

That isn't awful, it is entrepreneurial!

OMG - I had no idea! We certainly had no idea as a kid. I suppose they just didn't explain and we just thought it was fun. Was in 1970s.

Other experiences of that holiday was seeing a rabbit shot and laid on kitchen table by the farmer where we stayed. But also seeing a mother pig with piglets too. Very cute. And ginormous spiders in bathroom.

In a holiday cottage, I told my brother that a wardrobe led to Narnia. As soon as he was inside, I locked him in.

Another time, I blindfolded him, and challenged him to find a toy in the room, which wasn't there. I strung him along for about half an hour before he got suspicious.

There was a time someone tried to prank me by locking me up (I was about 8), and I played with his head by pretending I didn't mind at all. At someone else's house, I climbed into a dog cage which was big enough for me to sit in, and a teenager saw me there, and locked me in, with a padlock. I was a bit scared, but I just sat there and smiled, thinking he'd let me out sooner or later. I stayed there for well over an hour; he occasionally checked on me, but he kept looking anxious while he did so.

I think half the animal ones you shouldn't feel too bad about. My DM when she was a child almost squeezed her 2 kittens badly out of love by cuddling them too tight and her grandmother (who brought her up) had to rescue them. Kids sometimes don't realise what they're up to and she was only 6.

My ex boyfriend told me that when he was about 10 or 11, he told his sister who would've been 6 at the time that she was adopted. But told her in such detail that she believed him and got very upset. I found that a bit unsettling.

We had an outside toilet when I was about five. Mum had just gone out to it, leaving me playing inside the house. I went to the back door and screeched "The house is on fire!!" (It wasn't! ) Poor mum came racing across the yard with her knickers round her knees. I was laughing my head off.

I used to tell my bro that I found him in the cabbage patch and begged his parents (same mum, different dad) to keep him

He believed me - I was in my 20s and he would have been 11/12?

Blimey. You walk amongst us.

Perhaps children were more wild and adventurous before screens! Found own ‘fun’ in the face of boredom.

obviously some of these are worse than others!

I broke my grandma’s shell necklace age about 5 or 6 to take one I found pretty and hid the necklace under her drawers at the bottom.

I still feel so bad about that. When I talk to her some 45 years later (she’s passed away many years ago) I still apologise now for it.

I also flushed just one of my sister’s Sindy boots down the toilet because I was jealous. Really not nice of me. She knew it was me too.

She did get me back throwing my Tiny Tears doll down the stairs and she lost an eye. I remember crying.

The doll lost an eye not my sister btw.

We are super close now and have each others back.

Omg 🤣 this better become a classics thread

I think I was about 10, filled my mum's handbag with sand at the beach. She was not pleased!

As I read this, I was struck by the memory of the Stardust tragedy. I hope your firesetting didn’t do too much damage. (Though admittedly, it was the fact that fire escape doors were chained which led to the disastrous consequences in the case of the Stardust fire.)

This is so spiteful even at 8yrs old, are you a psychopath?