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Friedchickenrocks · 2024-02-26T20:59:59+00:00

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.

BananaSpanner · 26/02/2024 21:38

When I was about 6, I was at the childminders. One of the other kids was a baby, about 1. I remember sitting next to it on a car journey and pinching it every so often so he would cry which would wind up the childminder who couldn’t work out was setting him off. Cos…funny to a 6 year old😳

I still feel guilty about it now and I promise that no babies have been pinched since.

MeMyCatsAndMyBooks · 26/02/2024 21:39

Oh gosh some of you were rotten kids. 😂

Not me, but my cousin when she was around 9 hung a pair of our grandads boxer shorts outside his window. He didn't notice for a week!

I have no idea why to this day she did it.

TheChosenTwo · 26/02/2024 21:40

2 very vivid memories spring out at me, both while staying with my grandparents for the full 6 weeks of the summer holidays:

stamping on ants 😳
hiding the key to their window at the top of the stairs - it used to live in a glass bowl with pot pourri and one day I hid it in the bathroom cupboard. I left it there for about 3 days, my grandma thought my grandad had put it in his pocket and lost it and vice versa, I said nothing. Then just put it back a few days later.

WHY???? I can only presume I must have been very bored as my brother and I were sent for the whole 6 weeks every summer until we were old enough to be left home alone. While my grandparents did do stuff with us, took us to the park and let us roam about their beautiful garden building dens etc there were no other dc and we didn’t have all our usual ‘stuff’, home comforts etc. I remember being very homesick for a large part of the holidays.

No excuse for the ant killing though.

WhimsicalMoth · 26/02/2024 21:40

@Hungrycaterpillarsmummy it was a bit of both. They did go splat .... but I remember slowly squeezing what looked like a long string out of them 😕

MeMyCatsAndMyBooks · 26/02/2024 21:43

TheChosenTwo · 26/02/2024 21:40

2 very vivid memories spring out at me, both while staying with my grandparents for the full 6 weeks of the summer holidays:

stamping on ants 😳
hiding the key to their window at the top of the stairs - it used to live in a glass bowl with pot pourri and one day I hid it in the bathroom cupboard. I left it there for about 3 days, my grandma thought my grandad had put it in his pocket and lost it and vice versa, I said nothing. Then just put it back a few days later.

WHY???? I can only presume I must have been very bored as my brother and I were sent for the whole 6 weeks every summer until we were old enough to be left home alone. While my grandparents did do stuff with us, took us to the park and let us roam about their beautiful garden building dens etc there were no other dc and we didn’t have all our usual ‘stuff’, home comforts etc. I remember being very homesick for a large part of the holidays.

No excuse for the ant killing though.

If it helps my brother used to set fire to ants with his magnifying glass as a kid.

resipsa · 26/02/2024 21:44

Lived in farming community. As kids we thought it was funny to ring quite late at night and wake people up (who had to get up at 4am). Little shits we were.

WhimsicalMoth · 26/02/2024 21:44

Oh I also remember putting together a word search for my poor nan complied of a load of rude words that I knew she would absolutely hate. She was none the wiser 😂

LunaNorth · 26/02/2024 21:44

Kicked my dad full in the knackers to see what would happen.

I’d seen it done on telly, and wondered if the dramatic reaction was true to life.

It was 😳

Notjustyousis · 26/02/2024 21:45

Put chewing gum in the nape of the neck of a long haired girl who kept waving her hair in my face at a concert. I was stood behind her, asked her to stop as it was so annoying, and I couldn't step back as it was heaving. She waved it even more after I asked. So she got the gum. She didn't feel me put it there, so she'd have gone home with a matted mass.

Stole 3 creme eggs from woolies aged about 5.

Killed my pet mouse by accidentally kneeling on it while trying to save it from the pet cat I didn't realise was still in the room.

Played catch with a breeze block I found on the school field. I got lots of people to play with me over about a fortnight. I was getting first aid one lunch time and the dinner staff were having a go at the lad who always was in trouble for starting the brick throwing game.

I could keep going with my stories, but I think it's best I stop there!

FunnysInLaJardin · 26/02/2024 21:45

when I was 5 me and my BF stole all our neighbours post for weeks as he had an end of lane type post box, hid in a tree and read it all. We got into terrible trouble

HelloDarlingWhatAreYouDoingHere · 26/02/2024 21:46

Leaving a note for the Milkman from the very sweet and elderly neighbour -

"No milk today, I'm sick of the crap."

LunaNorth · 26/02/2024 21:47

HelloDarlingWhatAreYouDoingHere · 26/02/2024 21:46

Leaving a note for the Milkman from the very sweet and elderly neighbour -

"No milk today, I'm sick of the crap."

SomethingDifferentt · 26/02/2024 21:47

When I was 13 I'd just got my first mobile. Big huge brick of a thing and a total novelty.

My mum was watching This Morning (or whatever day time TV equivalent was on at the time) and I knew she'd entered the phone in competition to win like £10k or something.

They were calling the winner live on air and just at the moment they dialled, I called our landline from my mobile. I thought it would be hilarious.

My mum screamed and jumped up towards the phone, shouted 'hello, hello!' full of excitement and I instantly realised I'd fucked up. She was so so angry at first and then she cried. Really cried her eyes out for ages, she looked totally broken.

We were very poor (no idea how they'd afforded a mobile for me tbh), always skint. And it was about a month before Christmas and I KNEW money was even tighter than normal. I should have known better...I still feel massive guilt when I think about it now, 25 years later.

Lelophants · 26/02/2024 21:48

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.

Noooooooooo!! Oh my 🙈

I once stole something from my friend’s house because it was a toy she never played with. I gave back in the end but she was looking for it for weeks.

Lelophants · 26/02/2024 21:48

SomethingDifferentt · 26/02/2024 21:47

When I was 13 I'd just got my first mobile. Big huge brick of a thing and a total novelty.

My mum was watching This Morning (or whatever day time TV equivalent was on at the time) and I knew she'd entered the phone in competition to win like £10k or something.

They were calling the winner live on air and just at the moment they dialled, I called our landline from my mobile. I thought it would be hilarious.

My mum screamed and jumped up towards the phone, shouted 'hello, hello!' full of excitement and I instantly realised I'd fucked up. She was so so angry at first and then she cried. Really cried her eyes out for ages, she looked totally broken.

We were very poor (no idea how they'd afforded a mobile for me tbh), always skint. And it was about a month before Christmas and I KNEW money was even tighter than normal. I should have known better...I still feel massive guilt when I think about it now, 25 years later.

This is awful but made me laugh too I’m so sorry 🙈🤣

WhamBamThankU · 26/02/2024 21:49

In nursery I painted the pretty satin headband -with puffy name writing on- of my friend brown. No idea why.

BeretRaspberry · 26/02/2024 21:50

I got a gorgeous, brand new red skirt for my 7th birthday. I decided to cut into the hem a few times. No idea why!!

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Friedchickenrocks · 26/02/2024 21:50

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?

I don't know. Was scared then I suppose with the longer it went on.

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ACLtd · 26/02/2024 21:51

I told my friend's little brother that Santa and God didn't exist in the same sentence. He was about 4. I was around 8. I was not a good influence on my friend after that.

CrikeyMajikey · 26/02/2024 21:51

It was my first job and I was 18. It was an office building with several companies over about 6 floors. One day I exited the toilet cubicle to see a lady from one of the other companies at the hand basin and with her skirt tucked into her large knickers. I laughed out loud, she asked me what was so funny, I said I had just remembered something funny that had happened. She bought my lie and I let her walk back in to her office with her butt showing.

Ilovemyshed · 26/02/2024 21:51

I used to sneak into the bathroom cabinet and sneak a swig of Calpol, or whatever it was then. Very pink and sugary. Somehow I survived.

WhimsicalMoth · 26/02/2024 21:52

SomethingDifferentt · 26/02/2024 21:47

When I was 13 I'd just got my first mobile. Big huge brick of a thing and a total novelty.

My mum was watching This Morning (or whatever day time TV equivalent was on at the time) and I knew she'd entered the phone in competition to win like £10k or something.

They were calling the winner live on air and just at the moment they dialled, I called our landline from my mobile. I thought it would be hilarious.

My mum screamed and jumped up towards the phone, shouted 'hello, hello!' full of excitement and I instantly realised I'd fucked up. She was so so angry at first and then she cried. Really cried her eyes out for ages, she looked totally broken.

We were very poor (no idea how they'd afforded a mobile for me tbh), always skint. And it was about a month before Christmas and I KNEW money was even tighter than normal. I should have known better...I still feel massive guilt when I think about it now, 25 years later.

That reminds me of the time my mom missed the radio call for a large sum of money she had entered to win because we were mid way through having an argument!! 🫣

Youkilledmyfatherpreparetodie · 26/02/2024 21:53

HelloDarlingWhatAreYouDoingHere · 26/02/2024 21:46

Leaving a note for the Milkman from the very sweet and elderly neighbour -

"No milk today, I'm sick of the crap."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

LaPalmaLlama · 26/02/2024 21:53

Made my sister lie in the road next to her bike, squirted ketchup on her and then told my mum she’d been run over and to come and look.

Ate my sister Easter eggs and blamed the dog. My mum still tells people that chocolate can’t be that toxic because her dog ate 3 Easter eggs and was fine.

Punctured my friends lolo ball with a nail because she didn’t take me on the McDonald’s kitchen tour at her bday party even though she promised me she would.

FleaDog · 26/02/2024 21:53

I coaxed my cousin into the garden shed and locked him in as I knew my auntie was about to bring us out a slice of treacle tart and, as I was a greedy little chuffer, I planned to eat both slices by pretending my cousin was busy.

She knew what I was up to, found him and let him out.😂