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.

Yes, but she was old enough to know what she was doing and that it was potentially dangerous. I don't think there was malice there though.

I have remembered another one from when I was much younger. I had gone upstairs alone for some reason and found some sweets in my grandmother's bedroom one day and took them when nobody was looking. I don't they tasted very nice so only ate one. Only problem was they weren't sweets but sleeping pills. The doctor was called (1960s when they still came to the house) and there wasn't much he could do, but I was out of it for a couple of days! Luckily no serious harm was done but I was extra careful about locking pills away when I became a mother.

They’re right thought, you were being an arse.

Thank goodness you only took one @Gettingcolder !

A friend of my parent's gave her grandson kaolin and morphine when he was ill. Later he started acting odd and wasn't responding to them. She called her GP out and he asked to look at the bottle and it was three years out of date. The kaolin either degrades or separates so she'd given him mostly morphine! He was as high as a kite. The GP checked him over and said just let him sleep it off. She obviously felt awful. He's in his fifities now and often used to tease his Gran about her giving him hard drugs. She was a lovely lady who sadly is no longer with us.

My sister and brother and I were desperate for a pet but never allowed. We bought pet mice from a girl at school and attempted to keep them hidden but very quickly got caught out by our mum and told to take them back. We took them back to the girls house but they were out… so we posted them through the letter box and went home. None of us can remember if there were any repercussions!

A girl in the year above me in juniors dived in the shallow end of the small pool and smashed her head open. Ended up in hospital for 2 weeks. When she came back to school we welcomed her back in assembly. I just remember her not having much hair. But because of what happened to her I was scared of diving into pools and never jumped into a pool since or let my kids jump in.

Jumped on my brothers chest with both knees and he stopped breathing he was about 3 or 4 I'm 5 years older I thought I'd killed him I swear my mum didn't touch a single stair coming down when i screamed I'd killed him hysterically
Then a few years later I got him to get in a lift while abroad then prized the door open slightly so it stopped between levels ... he was a mess ! I still feel guilty now 20 odd years later

Slightly off topic. Well a lot off topic.

Working in cardiology. We had a little boy come in for an ECG.

He's been an in patient for a few days. Hs parents brought him to A and E because he was behaving oddly.

He spent two days amusing himself by singing songs, dancing, and generally behaving like a very drunk adult.

About day three he managed to get some sleep. Then he told his mum he'd eaten some mushrooms he found in the garden.

The blood tests were not looking for shrooms.

There must be quite a lot of children who have been drugged or drugged themselves by accident.

That's quite scary @sashh if you think how many truly poisonous mushrooms that there are. Sounds like he had a good time though! Maybe there should be a whole new thread - children who got accidentally stoned!

Tragically children die usually of accessing their parent's methadone.

I do wonder in the ''Mushroom'' case that @sashh mentioned if it was the parent/s themselves who had prepared mushrooms in a form that the child accessed.

Hallucinogenic fungi generally don't grow in gardens but specific areas out in the countryside -and are seasonal.

It would be far more likely for a child to have drunk or ingested some prepared ''mushroom tea'' that a panicked parent could then say ''oh he said he found mushrooms in the garden'' to absolve themselves of social services quite rightly coming around.

Edit.. Link

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/12/mushrooms-chocolate-psilocybin-psychedelics-children

@oakleaffy I don't think so.

I know that does happen, more often then we would like to think. But this was the child that said he had eaten them.

Something awful stupid I did as a kid was career down a hill wearing skates, crashed into a wall to stop myself before the road, and accepting help from a stranger
i mean turned out he was actually lovely and 100% genuinely kind and normal but …

my friend and I aged 13 (in the 80’s when we were way more free but also way more innocent) went into this man’s house with him. Followed him upstairs and went in his bathroom
i sat on the edge of the bath whilst he cleaned my knees and my friend sat next to me.
we then got in his car and he drove us to my house out in the countryside

when I tell you how quick I rang her when The Soham murder happened…
people question why those two precious girls followed and trusted him… we are just so naive and innocent and we were so lucky he didn’t have nefarious intentions

I find this really hard from the other angle -I was driving along and it suddenly started pouring- saw 2 teenage girls ( no coats obvs 🤣) walking to school getting absolutely soaked. I could tell what school from the uniform and was going to be driving past but I thought god maybe if I offer them a lift I’m encouraging them to think it’s fine to get in a strangers car so I didn’t but then I felt really bad about them sitting in wet clothes all day and it made me a bit sad that we kind of need to think like that.

Yes!
i do remember that we held hands as we got in the back of his car so he couldn’t drive off with just one of us - so we must have felt uncomfortable?
But yup. I do wonder when all the hysteria pops up on Facebook about a stranger approaching their child in a car, probably often innocently offering help like you wanted to

They had it coming.

Pulled wings off hoverflies and buried them.
Didn’t understand why a tadpole had a little clear bubble in it so tried to ‘help’ by squeezing it out. Gutted I did that, I’d rescued them from a rapidly drying up puddle in a field. 😢
My hamster used to regularly escape and during one of her adventures, she chewed up an Aran sweater my dad’s sister made for him. She had since died of cancer. I tried to sew it up, mum found out and rightly went mad at me.

My mum knitted me an intricate Fair isle/Scandinavian jumper when I was a small child around 4 or 5. I cut the reindeers out for Christmas decorations.

As I toddler, I used to fake headaches so that I could have Calpol just coz I liked the taste 😅

Tame/bog standard things yes, but seeing old people stuck in a lift and thinking it’s funny, making kids with disabilities sit on tacks, pinching babies, and hiding someone’s glasses for a week - fucking horrible.

I don’t think it was that terrible (especially compared with some of the really nasty stuff on this thread) - you were led (by her) to believe she could swim, which made a huge difference to what you did.

Family gathering years ago, and an auntie came, none of us kids liked her and she didn't like us! She disappeared to the toilet and was in there a while, and my three boy cousins stood outside the toilet door chanting "PerLOP! PerLOP!" over and over again till my grandma rushed up to them and pulled them away. Grandma was trying hard not to laugh.....

I'm amazed the glasses was what you chose to highlight as the worst examples instead of the cruelty to animals

Not one I actually did, but after the headmistress (whom I disliked) had a massive rant about chairs being scribbled on with a pencil, I thought about doing this just to spite her.

Agreed. Wish everyone would stop with the glasses example. The Grandad called her a little bitch! She was probably terrified give them back!

CherryRipe1 · Yesterday 17:11

My mum knitted me an intricate Fair isle/Scandinavian jumper when I was a small child around 4 or 5. I cut the reindeers out for Christmas decorations.

Oh dear! But it is funny!