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Tell us something awful you did as a kid.

726 replies

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.

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mum2monkeys88 · 28/02/2024 18:16

Ran away from home at 8years old well made to by my sister 12 and our friends 10 and 13. We threw our bags out of the top window my dad was 'supposed' to be watching us, told him we were going in the garden to play and off we went ran all the way to the train station we went to Oxford and we were gone until around 4 am when I believe we rang home because we were scared, and the police came and got us! When my dad realised we were missing he rang my mum at work and asked if we were with her and she was like ermm no lol I didn't get in any trouble as I was the youngest. And also the only thing I packed was loo roll lol 😆

Friedchickenrocks · 28/02/2024 18:25

Louisetopaz21 · 28/02/2024 18:04

Me and my sisters when we were preteens were stopping at my nans house. It was scary upstairs where the only toilet was and we were sleeping downstairs on the sofas. We were all busting for a wee but did not dare go upstairs so we tried to have a wee in the kitchen sink but couldn't quite managed. Out of desperation we moved one of the sofas and took a pee and then moved the sofa back. Not sure if it was discovered as it was never mentioned.

I had a wee in the kitchen sink...tomorrow I think I'll take the pots out first....

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PerkySnail · 28/02/2024 18:30

When I was 7 years old, I found a needle and decided to poke my sisters butt with it! 😬 It felt exhilarating for a few seconds afterwards and then i got a walloping which wasn't so great 😆 Don't ask me why I did it. Something came over me!

restingbitchface30 · 28/02/2024 18:35

I used to steal from my friends houses at age 6ish. I had no toys growing up and going to my friends was amazing. They had all these cool toys. I used to steal little things I didn’t think they’d miss. I remember thinking how much I wanted toys at home. Sad really but yeah a bit naughty!

Evan456 · 28/02/2024 18:41

My grandma had visitors and I switched the sugar for salt and hid under the table giggling my head off while they were really upset

Deadringer · 28/02/2024 18:44

I persuaded my younger sister (aged about 6) to climb out our (first floor) window on a rope made of sheets. I told her I would do it too, but I didn't. She fell the last few feet, but she was fine. 😂

Dominoeffecter · 28/02/2024 18:46

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?

Any adult that would call a child a little bitch deserves it 😂

Heyhoitsme · 28/02/2024 18:46

Mum had baked a loaf and left it to cool. I pulled a chunk off and ate it. Later mum went mad as she thought we had a mouse. The loaf was thrown away and the whole kitchen was cleaned. I couldn't admit I was the mouse! I never told her.

SaraJaneb · 28/02/2024 18:49

When I was 14 our friend who was in a wheelchair had this bag on the back of it, a new boy had grabbed the bag, tipping the wheelchair over then still yanked harder, dragging our friend along. I lost my temper, chased the boy out of the school, we fought. I could of handled it better, told a teacher but I let my temper run things. He died when we were all 18 from drug use. I realised we never knew why he was so messed up,never even asked. He was wrong, but I didn't have to fight him, I regret that. I guess as an adult we see clearer.

wizzbitt · 28/02/2024 18:52

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."

Possibly my favourite 😂😂😂

Anon39 · 28/02/2024 18:56

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 😳

I am crying laughing this is the best thing I’ve ever read 😂😂😂

Louisetopaz21 · 28/02/2024 18:57

My mum would make us sit at the table until we finished our meals including vegetables which use to make me gip. When mum use to leave the dining room I would shove the uneaten vegetables up my sleeve and go into the garden and wang over in next doors garden. A few months later a knock on the door to say there was a rat problem whoops 🤭

moaningmyrtr · 28/02/2024 18:58

I was on a seaside holiday with my parents. Another child there had a fishing net that I wanted. My parents wouldn’t get me one so I took the other child’s and threw it over the cliff. 40 years on I still think about it. Awful little sod!

aSpanielintheworks · 28/02/2024 19:03

I etched my favourite girls name onto a large picture on the wall with a pin when I was about 7.

pineapplecrushed · 28/02/2024 19:12

girljulian · 26/02/2024 22:42

I was a Machiavellian little bitch. I hated other children as a child because they were so (to me) boring and stupid and I wanted to be left alone to read my book, so whenever "playtime" was insisted upon, I'd be awful, but everyone thought I was so calm and solemn and clever that I couldn't possibly be the troublemaker.

  1. Was forced to have my mother's friend's daughter in my room to "play". I hated having anyone in my room. I tore bits off the frieze and said she'd done it, and cut the straps of her dungarees then told her mother she'd done both things herself. They believed me.
  2. The woman who came to our house to cut my mother's hair once brought her two children with her. They messed up my meticulously organised toys so when they went outside into the garden, I locked the door and they were outside shouting for about an hour while my mother was getting her hair cut. I tidied the toys back up and ignored them.
  3. Was tasked with "looking after" a poor boy in my class who clearly had special needs. We were supposed to unpin things from a board in the classroom. I dropped the drawing pins all over the carpet because I couldn't be bothered to put them back in the box; he sat down on them and started to cry. I told the teacher he must have been the one who'd dropped them there.
  4. There was a girl at nursery school with me (we were three) who had the same name as me, which I resented. She thought it made us friends; I thought she was thick and annoying so I scribbled all over her name tag thing that hung on the peg for her coat, and then told the teacher she'd done it herself because she didn't understand tracing (they often made us trace our names as a task)

...starting to wonder if I was a genuine psychopath now

you sound like one tbh

pineapplecrushed · 28/02/2024 19:14

Needhelp101 · 27/02/2024 17:09

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

yep, some of these go beyond awful. Psychopaths.

Blueink · 28/02/2024 19:30

CheerfulBardo · 26/02/2024 21:54

This thread is so illuminating as to the mysterious disappearances and subsequent reappearances of small objects that are so often viewed as evidence of supernatural activity on here.

yes just fallen foul of evil mini future mumsnetters

JustMeAndTheFish · 28/02/2024 19:34

I was obviously put out by the arrival of my baby brother and when he was about six weeks old I told my mum that I’d bitten his finger off 🤣 Obviously I hadn’t but I was spot on, he was a little shit to me all through our childhood and treated my parents very badly nearly 25 years ago. Mum died last year after not having seen or heard from him since 1998.

Mymothersfavouritegirl · 28/02/2024 19:34

I was born in the mid sixties. Here’s a few things I am now ashamed of.
I threatened a boy if he didn’t show me his Willy I’d beat him up after school.
I cut the long awaited rose flowers off my neighbours flowers to make rose perfume.
I was bullied by a girl and in a fight I didn’t want I bit her arm until my teeth were almost together.
Showing off I told the midwife who came to visit my mum that my new brother was illegitimate, I had meant to say illiterate 😂

OftenCurious · 28/02/2024 19:42

Not me - done to me. A 'friend' made me a drink of orange squash. We were about 7. I drank it all down thirstily. And gagged as if I was going to die. She had added a generous amount of fairy liquid. I did some reprehensible things in my youth, but that was on another level. I often wonder what she's doing now. Time?

Ramalangadingdong · 28/02/2024 19:56

StarlightLime · 28/02/2024 17:57

Why would you post that? Ffs.

Presumably because they’ve done it.

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peakygold · 28/02/2024 19:58

I was about 12 and I used to go to the phone box at the end of the road, and call my school friend's home number, but never put any money in. All her mum heard was beep beep beep. Sometimes the Operator would come on and start shouting. I did it so much and so often, they changed their number. She told me all about it, and couldn't fathom it was her best mate at school. I have absolutely no idea why I did it.

ghds · 28/02/2024 20:02

when I was around 9 years old we had my cousin living with us who was in his late teens at the time. Cousin was bringing his new girlfriend round and my mum had had a wardrobe clear out. I had a root through mum's old clothing bag and found an old bra and put it along with other items of womens clothes in cousins bedroom so it looked like he'd had another women round. cousin wasn't best pleased!
Another time he was running the bath and went to answer the landline phone and I swirted half a bottle of washing up liquid into his running bath!
I was a little bugger. but we did laugh about it years later.

girljulian · 28/02/2024 20:05

pineapplecrushed · 28/02/2024 19:12

you sound like one tbh

Thank you 😂

Pigwig10 · 28/02/2024 20:18

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 26/02/2024 21:37

A slow squeeze?! Or a splat?

🤣🤣🤣