Page 19 | Tell us something awful you did as a kid.

Tamrastarr · 27/02/2024 16:40

My parents had a locked drinks cabinet in the garage, just a wooden sideboard thing. We couldn't pick the lock so I just pulled it away from the wall. The back was very flimsy chipboard, so I pulled it off at one corner and could stick my hand in and nick what ever I could reach. I wasn't fussy as a teen!
My daughter was also a junior tealeaf! I once caught her with a watch she had nicked from a friend's house, aged about 6, which she had stuck down her cycling shorts! It really was the worst outfit to go stealing in as it was skintight, but she got away with it!

Bananasatchristmas · 27/02/2024 16:40

I’m sure I’ve told this story before here, but when I was around 8/9 on holiday in the canaries I SPAT on a strangers head. He was looking out of the balcony below ours. I ran so fast back into the apartment. I can still see the back of his head and time standing still when I hit the bullseye 😳

Gruffalowe · 27/02/2024 17:03

I was actually a pretty good kid, but did do a few silly things….

Me & my friend used to ring random numbers and pretend we were various sales people. Crapped ourselves when someone took us up on the offer of having their house redesigned by our interior design service 🤭

Wilkos used to have those scented bath oils, like little balls full of oil. My sister and I used to find the ones that had fallen on the floor and keep them. Sometimes used to squeeze them out to make potions.

Gruffalowe · 27/02/2024 17:05

Oh , also did a really loud pump in the assembly at school and blamed the girl next to me.

Menomeno · 27/02/2024 17:07

Just remembered an annual one. Every year my mum would buy a load of Easter eggs for my cousins. My brother and I would carefully open them all and remove the little bags of sweets, and then reassemble them. We did it for years.

OneStripeySockAndOneSpottySock · 27/02/2024 17:08

I drove a Council digger around my estate
I was about 10, front door key on a string around my neck, me and my mates thought it'd be a good idea to see if they key fitted after being bashed about a bit with half a brick it did
And there I was chugging down the road with the rest of them hanging on for dear life
The fuzz were called and a police car pulled up slowly beside me and he was laughing his head off
We all got off and trotted back home and didn't say a word but eventually my Dad found out and gave me a good telling off

Ihatebuswankers · 27/02/2024 17:09

Friedchickenrocks · 26/02/2024 23:33

Ah but salting those big black slugs is better. Seeing them turn in to a gooey slimey dead mass in minutes was great. Kids these days don't seem to do it. Come on kids, damp night, get the Saxa out.

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Wow.

Your joke on your grandad was very mean, the raisins on the floor was nasty, and this is just plain worrying 😳

Needhelp101 · 27/02/2024 17:09

As usual, this type of thread goes two ways.
Bizarre but cute childish behaviour.
Psychopathy.

birdglasspen2 · 27/02/2024 17:10

I think it’s crazy how upset people are by what kids did in the past. (Hopefully still do or are they just glued to a screen and not bored enough to mess around). As a child I once pulled the wings off a fly. I wouldn’t hurt any living thing as an adult but children are children, they experiment and as we probably all know from school they can be cruel! My DS has stolen little things from school he really likes. I’ve made him return them. But I understand, I stole little things when I was younger but I’d never consider stealing now. My mum didn’t have a clue though whereas I know exactly what my DS owns and doesn’t! We were definitely left to our own devices more and mum had no idea what we did at school or at park. My DS doesn’t even go to park without me. Times are different, I wonder what our kids will write down the line. Probably bullying people online.

tolerable · 27/02/2024 17:25

when on long haul car journeys my big sis and i would write "help"and hold against the windows of our car as we passed by -or sat stuck in traffic. NOBODY ever rescued us.(thankfully)
My mum was a knitter. When passenger side of car.when tv...etc..click click click. i used to pull the needle so it all came off. NOBODY ever asked(so i think she musta thot was one of my sisters cos i got caught at EvERYTHING else,ever)

Ihatebuswankers · 27/02/2024 17:27

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.

Horrible or just grieving and then being bullied by 2 evil little kids…

LittlePrecious · 27/02/2024 17:34

DP confessed to me a while back that he used to wipe bogeys on his pyjamas bottoms. He'd start at the bottom and work his way up. He'd let them go crusty, then on Fridays after school he'd eat them, starting at the top with the least crispy (apparently least delicious) and work his way down to the ones that were fossilised (the tastiest apparently).

I now call him Professor Bogey Legs.

Fortunately he grew out of this revolting habit. He's actually a very sane, very clean, very respectable individual. Hence the "Professor" in Professor Bogey Legs.

WhimsicalMoth · 27/02/2024 17:35

@Ihatebuswankers you seem to be going through this thread actively trying to find things you disagree with.
I'd personally suggest that you just leave it and move on.
Yes we've all done some questionable, horrible (in hindsight) things as children. This was back in the times where we had to amuse ourselves outdoors..
as for the slug comment....... I don't know of anybody my age or older that hasn't done that at some point. It's a well known thing.

WhimsicalMoth · 27/02/2024 17:36

LittlePrecious · 27/02/2024 17:34

DP confessed to me a while back that he used to wipe bogeys on his pyjamas bottoms. He'd start at the bottom and work his way up. He'd let them go crusty, then on Fridays after school he'd eat them, starting at the top with the least crispy (apparently least delicious) and work his way down to the ones that were fossilised (the tastiest apparently).

I now call him Professor Bogey Legs.

Fortunately he grew out of this revolting habit. He's actually a very sane, very clean, very respectable individual. Hence the "Professor" in Professor Bogey Legs.

Oh my .. that made me gag. I can cope with a lot but NOT bogeys. Even from my kids 🤢 I did used to wipe them on the wall though when I was younger. That was fun for my parents to find next to my bed when we moved out !!

LovelyTheresa · 27/02/2024 17:43

Lorrymum · 27/02/2024 13:34

I fell in love with the tiny baby frogs produced from the frog spawn my fellow class mate had carefully collected. I desperately wanted one and quietly stole one in a jam jar. I smuggled it into my house and kept the poor little thing in a bathroom cupboard until he eventually died after being fed a constant diet of bread crusts. Can't believe I was so cruel although I must have only been 6 or 7.

This is unfortunate but not cruel IMO. You weren't to know that the poor little thing couldn't survive on crusts. If you didn't do anything like that again, I would let you off with that one.

ALongHardWinter · 27/02/2024 17:56

This incident happened with a friend of mine when we were about 11. It wasn't actually deliberate though. We would go everywhere on our bikes,and one day we were cycling along by a parade of shops near where we lived. There was a bakery shop on this parade and they were in the process of having a delivery. My friend had a habit of keep turning around to talk to me cycling behind her,and she did this just as the man who was unloading the delivery van was walking across the pavement to the shop,with a one of those bread basket things on his shoulder,loaded up with cakes. I could see what was going to happen but it was too late,my friend cycled straight into him,the basket went up in the air and cream cakes were thrown in all directions. The polite thing to do would have been to stop and apologise but my friend and I,now in hysterics,just cycled off as quickly as we could,with the bloke shouting after us. I still snigger about this now, nearly 50 years later.

IsitSummer24Yet · 27/02/2024 17:57

Friedchickenrocks · 26/02/2024 21:58

Also I went to my auntie's aged 3 whilst my mum was in hospital having my brother. She decided we'd make a fruit cake. I had other ideas. The currants went all over the floor. LOL.

Wow, if you’d have said you got a sister at 3, I’d have thought you were my brother 🤣🤣.

He did exactly the same when I was born (but maybe at our house not aunties!) - never has grown to like me!

He also hid our grandads glasses (but younger than 8, as GDad died when DB was ~7.).

ALongHardWinter · 27/02/2024 17:58

LittlePrecious · 27/02/2024 17:34

DP confessed to me a while back that he used to wipe bogeys on his pyjamas bottoms. He'd start at the bottom and work his way up. He'd let them go crusty, then on Fridays after school he'd eat them, starting at the top with the least crispy (apparently least delicious) and work his way down to the ones that were fossilised (the tastiest apparently).

I now call him Professor Bogey Legs.

Fortunately he grew out of this revolting habit. He's actually a very sane, very clean, very respectable individual. Hence the "Professor" in Professor Bogey Legs.

Omg this actually made me heave! 🤢🤢🤢

ALongHardWinter · 27/02/2024 18:00

OneStripeySockAndOneSpottySock · 27/02/2024 17:08

I drove a Council digger around my estate
I was about 10, front door key on a string around my neck, me and my mates thought it'd be a good idea to see if they key fitted after being bashed about a bit with half a brick it did
And there I was chugging down the road with the rest of them hanging on for dear life
The fuzz were called and a police car pulled up slowly beside me and he was laughing his head off
We all got off and trotted back home and didn't say a word but eventually my Dad found out and gave me a good telling off

This made me roar with laughter! 😂😂😂

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Friedchickenrocks · 27/02/2024 18:03

Menomeno · 27/02/2024 17:07

Just remembered an annual one. Every year my mum would buy a load of Easter eggs for my cousins. My brother and I would carefully open them all and remove the little bags of sweets, and then reassemble them. We did it for years.

Ingenious. Did they take them back to the shop and complain there were no sweets inside?

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Upallnight2 · 27/02/2024 18:10

I was annoyed at my mum on e when I was about 4 or 5 and said I was running away. Hid behind the sofa for ages while she was frantic 🤭

BlackFriYay · 27/02/2024 18:11

In my teens my friend and I would go for a carvery semi often and every time we did we would take our left overs 'home' and post it all through the letterbox of a boy we'd both dated.

(Waves to Beth) 👋🏼

FizzyStream · 27/02/2024 18:13

I was about 5 or 6 when my best friend and I fell out at school and I whacked her arm really hard with the edge of a wooden ruler. She had a massive red mark.

I can't remember what we fell out about but I vividly remember looking at the mark on her arm and thinking I'd be in massive trouble though I can't remember getting in trouble for it!

We obviously made up because we were friends right up until we went to different secondary schools.

Callipygion · 27/02/2024 18:20

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.

I wish I hadn’t taken a huge mouthful of my drink as I was reading that! 🤣

Someonescatmum · 27/02/2024 18:21

I was on a residential trip with school aged about 12.

There was this girl that everyone picked on constantly (including me apparently).

I put a massive spider in her sleeping bag and when she got in it that evening she started freaking out and making a fuss...
everyone came to look and I told them it crawled out of her fanny 😕