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.

cant Remember how old I was, but it’s one of my earliest memories - I pulled all the insulation off the inside of garage door and got caught as I picked the very last bit. My dad went mental mostly because I couldn’t answer why I had done it.
I don’t know why I did it really, think I just saw a loose bit and went with it. But it was pretty satisfying ….

Some of these are soooo bad, they make me feel really quite sick (the cruelty to animal ones). Trouble is some of the rest of them are sooooo funny, I'm having to read them all.
If I don't sleep tonight, I'm blaming you tadpole squashing/cat hurling/guinea-pig throwing/hamster on a turntable horrible lot!!

She was a little bitch, or worse!

@Collywobblewobbles that was also horrible, my list wasn’t definitive or in any order.

Aged about 8, I had a squabble with the school bully in the local swimming pool. I can't even remember what about. But I know I've always HATED bullies, so I probably caused the squabble. She was a year or two older than me, but growing up with older sisters, I wasn't phased.

Anyway, she was wearing a distinctive-looking pair of goggles... I got out before her and went into a cubicle to change. It was quite a small changing room, and I soon heard her voice, and that of her mums, in the showers.

I popped out of my cubicle, to retrieve my shoes from my locker, and there, hanging on the dial of one of the showers, was her goggles... But she was nowhere in sight. So I picked them up, and lobbed them over to the other side of the fairly-deep foot bath you had to wade through to get to the pool. Then fetched my shoes and returned to my cubicle.

I was just about done when I heard girl and her mum looking for said goggles. Mum is ranting and raving about how they were expensive, and "you'd better find them!!" And then she spots them the other side of the foot bath...
Then a series of ringing slaps sound out. "WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT BEING CARELESS?! TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF AND GO AND GET THEM!" Each word punctuated with a firm smack.

Looking back, it was a pretty nasty thing for me to do, but frankly, the little bitch deserved it.

This is bloody brilliant. Missed it the first time round so glad you posted it again.

I remember throwing pencils at a dinner lady during wet play when we were mainly unsupervised but dinner ladies would walk around the school and check the classrooms (this was the 80s). They would hit her on the head and she would never look in my direction as I was one of the Under the radar kids so got away with so much.

I also remember me and my friend wrote a rude note in messy handwriting that included the word 'fuck'and posted it to one of the mums on the estate. Her daughter and friends went round the next day with a clip board and got the other kids to write the word 'fuck' on it. They said they were looking to see who had the neatest handwriting 🫣. We never got found out and I have no idea why we did it either. Apart from being twats!

You evil psychos. I can't believe I'm sharing a website with you. 😜

Like a kid is supposed to know this?

I agree.

Well obviously you wouldn't know that but surely you would understand he was distressed? Did your parents not explain it to you /tell you not to bang? Maybe if they had explained , you would have understood more.

Or maybe they just didn't walk around torturing animals or playing cruel 'jokes' on elderly relatives?

Why don't you stop reading the post if you're so charged by it.

Again!

For some reason this made me chuckle- our Whippet found a pack of chewing gum and had it stuck to her fur- It came away easily thank goodness but some chewing gum ( sugar free) can be toxic to dogs.
She also stole an open packet of jelly babies and had those stuck to her fur as well - so much so her fleece blanket was stuck to her chest and I had to cut the blanket away and take her to the shower to soak off the bit that was glued to her chest.

Oh dear!

This sounds like the storyline of a brilliant tv drama I would have loved to have watched in the late 70s/early 80s

Just remembered something that my friend and I did many years ago. We must have been about 10 at the time. She lived in a flat above some shops and behind these shops was an entrance door to a meeting hall. My friend and I found a tube of some sort of putty sealant and thought it would be hilarious to seal up this door. We piped the sealant all around the door and in the keyhole in the morning,hopiing guessing that by the evening when the people who used the hall turned up,it would be set. At the time when we knew these people would be arriving,my friend and I got onto the flat roof of one of the shops so we could observe the proceedings. Sure enough it was set,and they couldn't get in. We were convulsed with silent laughter, barely 30 feet away from them. Eventually,one of them had to go and get a hammer and chisel to knock the sealant out. Now,50 years later,I look back with a mixture of horror and amusement. When I told my DD about it recently,she said 'I never realised that you were such a delinquent,mum!' 😂😂😂

Had a (deflating) helium balloon when I was about 9 or so, and my friend and I put a note on it saying that 'if you find this, you've won £1000', or some amount like that, and she decided it would be a good idea to put my phone number on it...so my poor grandmother who was minding us that week got a call from some bloke who lived about a mile away and was very excited about his win. i still feel guilty about that.

When I was about 11 and staying with my cousin, we must have been given a large bag of Pontefract Cakes (hard liquorice disks), which we took quite far from where she lived and sat on the edge of a disused railway bridge over a country road - legs dangling over the side about 30 feet above the road surface (gives me goosebumps to think of it). We would chew a sweet until soft and wait for a car to pass under and then spit it out aiming for the car. It didn't take us long to improve our aims and be able to hit the windscreens. We were well aware that none of the drivers would be able to stop and get to us. It was totally gross. I don't know why we did it or what planet we were on that day. Our parents would have had forty fits if they knew where we were and what we were doing.

I was 7,
I made my mother a glass ov orange juice but added salt, shampoo and maybe bleach I'm not certain about the last ingredient. Then watched her take a big mouthful...that was 43 years ago

That sounds like a chapter of George's Marvellous Medicine!

Honestly. I've never done anything awful as a child or adult. I would and never have intentionally done something to cause hurt/bother.
And it's quite weird how common it is. My brother used to steal money and blame it on me.
My mom apologised a few years back when my brother admitted the truth.

I agree with you on this. But it does seem we are in the minority.

Now it does looking back, but was the furthest thing from my mind in that moment....The famous 5 was my choice of books back then. Although I have read George's Marvellous Medicine to my daughter when she was little 100's of times😂😂

My mother loved me, but she was very strict. I never answered back and was very well behaved.....We had a great relation as adults and she was wonderfully supportive and loving but when I was a child, she could be fierce!

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣