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.

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.

I was given tomato soup at a friends house and to me it was revolting as I didn't like soup at that age and I hated the smell of tomatoes! Her mother was lovely and I sat there slowly taking the tiniest bits off of the spoon not wishing to offend her.

I got a reprieve as my friends father turned up as a surprise. He had been away on business and was not due back yet but had decided to surprise his family by coming home early.

They all rushed to greet him and I seized my opportunity and called one of the dogs, a lovely Labrador and offered him my soup, which he greedily devoured.

Later we were sat in their living room and in walked the Labrador and he suddenly threw up in the middle of the room on their carpet. It looked like blood but there was no mistaking the smell of tomato soup!

During the resulting commotion I told my friend I had to go home and like a coward I fled and ran home!

Also, I shook a tub of Demerara sugar to loosen it, the lid shot off and it went ALL OVER the kitchen, literally everywhere. Then I was scared of being told off and managed to wet myself. My poor parents having to clean up a sticky sugary wee mess 🤢

Other worse wee stories available, not sure I dare tell 😂

No idea. Why do kids or adults even, do anything? He was a grumpy old man so suppose he'd wound me up over something. Think he picked me up from school and wouldn't buy us any sweets as mum always did.

That's awful 😢

When we were 6, we had to eat everything that had been put on our plates for our (disgusting) school lunches. One of my least favorites was chocolate rice pudding (aka mud and worms) and when my friend wasn't looking, I tipped my bowl of mud and worms into hers and then ran up to the teacher to show that my bowl was now beautifully empty. Amazingly, we were still really good friends afterwards.

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.

Name changed as both of these would be outing for anyone that knows me! Two things stand out

1. I got a smack on the arm (it was the 80s, it was acceptable, it had no lasting effects, I'm not traumatised etc etc) which barely left a mark and I spent 20 minutes smacking myself in the same place so I had a big red hand print and put a T-shirt on for maximum effect because I wanted mum to feel bad

2. we had lovely wooden doors at home, I carved my brothers name in big letters on his bedroom door with my penknife. He got in trouble and tried to tell my parents it was me, but why on earth would I carve my brother's name in his door? That makes no sense at all 😬

Tbf He got me back by running into my room and punching me, then bawling his eyes out so I (the eldest) got in trouble for making him cry. Ah the joy of siblings 🤣

This is actually upsetting to read. You were 6 FFS, and intentionally and repeatedly making a baby cry.

@XenoBitch this reminds me of the flats my grandparents lived in when I was young, the flats were in Stepney Green, the hours of waiting when the lifts didn’t work.

i remember one time visiting them, I had 2nd cousins around my age and some of my aunts & Uncls close to my age too. Anyway there was one 2nd cousin who was a bit of errmmm a bitch, I’m talking we were 8/9yo but my aunts (her 1st cousins) hated her, they knew if they went after her they’d get a hiding from my grandparents so they made me run up to her one day and kick her up the bum. She had a splinter that had gotten infected that the doctors were struggling to get out. I still remember the aunts screaming it wasn’t us Alice did it all herself as my Nan chased them round with her slipper 😂

I think I was evil too. I did tell my parents a week later... and it was because I thought seeing some wrinkly old folk's faces pressed up against a window was funny for some reason.

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My grandparents lived really far away but I would sometimes stay for a week now and then with my siblings in the school holidays. They always spoiled us with treats and home cooked food, lots of new toys etc. One day my grandad said no to something and it absolutely shocked me. When I was in the loo I had the great idea to poo on their bathroom floor instead of the loo as an act of revenge. I thought he would think it was one of my siblings.
At his funeral I realised he probably always knew. My poor grandpa said no to a toy after buying me toys earlier in the day and then had to clean up my poo. He took that secret to the grave with him as if my parents found out they would have gone through the roof with anger

@SomethingDifferentt that really made me laugh until I read to the end, sorry!

@MeMyCatsAndMyBooks i think that’s worse! That sounds like a calculated scientific experiment of torture, mine was at least more swift 🫣 All these poor ants - I do feel very guilty!

Me and my sister shared a room and at Christmas I would always wake up early, open my stocking, then open her stocking and take all the bits of hers I wanted for myself. I got in massive trouble but I'm pretty sure I did it the year after too.

I did this as a kid too. I don't even know why. I also still think about it from time to time and feel full of self loathing 🙄

I cut the cat's whiskers when I was about 5. Not enough to be obvious what had happened, but enough for my parents to say "is there something up with Sooty's whiskers? Do you think she's been in a fight?"

I used to cut up earth worms and observe the colours that came out of them. I used to swear blind that all individual worms had different coloured innards. I insisted on it well into my teens.
I also used to give "tattoos" to shield bugs with a magnifying class. Then "heal" them by covering them with the white stuff from dandelion stems.

Told my mum I needed 10p for something at school.
I spent the money on sweets.
I got in so much trouble.

I used to pretend I was running away from home to make my little brother sob and beg me to stay. Every time I was feeling bored/a bit unloved.

Stole a cool mini mouse skirt from my cousin

i was hateful to my mums puppy, I was about 5 and did it for a year or so. she was always horrible to me shouting and making me miss meals if I was ‘naughty’ (by her standards and she had ridiculous rules) but she got a puppy (new bf got it for her ) and she adored it and I was jealous so I used to do hateful things it was awful I was so ashamed when I was older but I recognise now I was an abused child who saw the puppy as a threat 😞

I cut our cats whiskers off when I was about 5 or 6. My mum was not impressed (neither was the cat tbh) 🤣🤣🤣

When visiting a very boring relative's house I was bored as you can imagine. I went to the toilet and had a rummage around in the cabinets and found some cream/ointment I'd not seen before. Out of curiosity or sheer weirdness I squeezed it all over the clothes in the laundry basket and left the bathroom. I thought as the washing was due to be washed anyway it wouldn't matter!

A few days later my DM had a phonecall from said relative. I could tell by my mums face that she had found out. I completely denied all knowledge. I must have been about 5/6 years old.

I'm still a weirdo now but I don't go smothering cream on dirty laundry anymore.

Kids do such mad shit without thinking what might happen next. I once opened the door of a taxi on the motorway. I distinctly remember thinking "I wonder what will happen if I open this door."

I mean... duh 🙄