To ask what’s the most mischievous thing you did as a kid?

[susansherry]

Do you mind sharing your story?

I was a naughty child, and I have quite a few stories I know look back and cringe at, this is one of them. Looking back I can’t believe how stupid I was.

My friend and I were in middle school, both outcasts, we were the “nerds” of the class and we were being bullied.

At the time, my school had a very active Facebook group where students shared what teacher they got, asked about home-work, made memes, etc etc… there was quite a few alumni on there too.

Now, I had a huge crush on my science teacher, let’s call him Mr. Blue.
Mr. Blue wasn’t on the FB group and he didn’t even have Facebook.

It was the winter holidays and my friend and I thought it would be funny if we joined the FB group as a teacher. So we created a FB account and named it after Mr. Blue.
We didn’t have any picture of him to put on his profile so we looked up old pictures of kids on google to pretend that it was a childhood picture of him. We picked an old sepia one that turned out to be a picture of young Marcel Proust (mind you, the teacher was only in his early forties lol).
We then started to post a few posts trying to emulate the interests of a middle aged man as best as 13-year-old selves could.
“Lovely day at the park with my wife and kids”
“Nothing better than a bit of poetry after a long day at work”

And then we joined the Facebook group and announced that as a newcomer, Mr.Blue would proceed to look for every post that talks about him.
The post got super popular, hundreds and hundreds of likes and comments.
We just went bad-a** under the acclaims of the public, who were enthusiastically cheering us (mr. Blue) on.

After that, we contacted every single one of our bullies and gave them 2-week worth of homework, last minute presentations, etc etc…

The day we went back to school one of our classmate showed up with a huge rolled up A3 presentation on the reproduction of aquatic plants.

Things went out of hand and escalated really quickly. Everyone heard about the story of Mr.Blue, even the teachers.

They started looking for who it was, other teachers threatened the students of the potential consequences if someone was planning on doing that to them.

Mr. Blue had whole classes investigating during class on the classroom computers.

It was the subject of gossip in the teachers room for a couple of weeks.

One day, my friend and I decided to go even further and write a note on a piece of paper “there’s two of us on your Facebook account. Mr and Ms. Turtle (or whatever nickname we used). Ps: Ms. Turtle loves you, you little pig 😍” before folding the letter into a paper airplane, open his classroom door, flying it in and running down the stairs laughing our heads off, before … sitting down the stairs a few staircases down. (Don’t ask me why).
Guess who opened the door and looked down? Guess who got caught?

That was probably of the most embarrassing moments of my teenage years.

Love the Christmas tree one :)

Not nearly as funny, but my parents friends were having a party and they had daughters our age. I remember hiding a lump of Edam cheese in their underwear drawer shortly before leaving. I thought it was hilarious (maybe 7 or 8?)

I once locked all of the school toilets from the inside by scooting under the gap between each stall. Teachers were annoyed and confused as they didn't think a child could fit under there!

Omg, all your stories are brilliant !! 🤣🤣

@GreenNewDealNow

I once locked all of the school toilets from the inside by scooting under the gap between each stall. Teachers were annoyed and confused as they didn't think a child could fit under there!

Bloody hell! That’s clever 😂😂 We put cling film on the toilet seats once but no one fell for it

@LakieLady

I cut the cat's whiskers off.

They were very long, and I decided they looked silly, so I trimmed them - very short.

I was 5 or 6 and had no idea that they perform a sensory function. I still feel bad about it 60 years later.

I did this too and felt terrible!

I think loads of kids do that! My cousin did it because she thought the cat would look cuter. She felt super guilty

Had my bedroom decorated, wallpaper with little fairies sat on swings, very pretty.
The day it was done I drew cowboy hats on them all in green felt tip. Got a right smacked arse for it too.

We told our probationary year teacher (we were year 11 so she'd have not been significantly older than us!) that it was 'Freedom for Feet' day and we had to do all lessons barefoot... science lab lessons.

I have no idea why but she believed us.. then the fire alarm went off and we all trooped outside with no shoes and socks on which raised questions with the other teachers and she realised she'd been had..

Fair play to her.. she wasn't a nob about it and we didn't take the piss after that as she was a good sport and had a sense of humour.

I once caused a huge (probably not in hindsight) fireball to roll down the corridor to the changing rooms in our sports hall.. A friend and I were waiting for others to change and messing with his cig lighter.. turning the pressure up and up by lifting the metal top off...

...until the pressure was too high and the thing exploded and the draught in the corridor plus us flinging it away in terror, sent it rolling along the floor for a horrifying few seconds, right in front of a PE teacher.

As you can imagine, PE teacher was not happy at apparently having a fire ball thrown at his feet and we were soundly bollocked and given some menial task that took ages to do as punishment.

I was very well behaved as a child so nothing to report. Ds, now an adult, recently confessed that the Sky remote control that was once lost without trace, was lost in the garden of a nearby bungalow where he and his mates would go along the row turning over the tv's to the porn channels. He had dropped it after a man saw them and came out to chase them off.

Our teacher used to reach in for the lightswitches without looking, if the classroom was in darkness. I kicked the front of the lightswitch off so he’d hopefully reach into the exposed contacts and get electrocuted.

I also pushed a paperclip over the live & neutral pins of the OHP plug so it popped when he plugged it in.

Oh and I once drew a huge life sized caricature of the teacher on flip chart paper and taped it to the outside of the window then shut the curtains. When he walked in the first thing he did was rag open the curtains only to be faced with his own cruel image.

Poured every liquid I could find into the bathroom sink to make a potion. I was left with this grey goo so of course I needed something bright. I got some purple paint from the shed but couldn't open it so I threw it out the window onto the patio hoping that would open it. It did.

Your stories have made my night lol

@WiddlinDiddlin

We told our probationary year teacher (we were year 11 so she'd have not been significantly older than us!) that it was 'Freedom for Feet' day and we had to do all lessons barefoot... science lab lessons.

I have no idea why but she believed us.. then the fire alarm went off and we all trooped outside with no shoes and socks on which raised questions with the other teachers and she realised she'd been had..

Fair play to her.. she wasn't a nob about it and we didn't take the piss after that as she was a good sport and had a sense of humour.

I once caused a huge (probably not in hindsight) fireball to roll down the corridor to the changing rooms in our sports hall.. A friend and I were waiting for others to change and messing with his cig lighter.. turning the pressure up and up by lifting the metal top off...

...until the pressure was too high and the thing exploded and the draught in the corridor plus us flinging it away in terror, sent it rolling along the floor for a horrifying few seconds, right in front of a PE teacher.

As you can imagine, PE teacher was not happy at apparently having a fire ball thrown at his feet and we were soundly bollocked and given some menial task that took ages to do as punishment.

😂😂 At least the first teacher was a good sport! (No pun intended)

The only time I remember we did something cheeky as a class was in 9th grade I believe.
We found out that one of teachers had a public account on social media, under a username (let’s say Salad Mayo) where he posted pictures of him sleeping with naked barbie dolls and toys (a stuffed pink panther, action figures and some other things) as well as kitchen appliances placed in sexual positions.

There was this boy in the class who didn’t know about the story, someone dared him to shout his username in the middle of class and he did. Everyone was mortified and the teacher tried to play it cool.
He had him in his radar for the rest of the year and didn’t like him very much after that

On April Fools one year, I got a kid in a year below to know on the classroom door during lesson and tell the teacher another teacher at the other side of the school needed her, while she was gone i put an open bag of flour on top of the door. I got excluded for that one, the letter sent home to my parents said ‘Miss X was very upset by the unexpected missile that hit hurt’

When we went on a Ski trip at 15ish, we bought loads of alcohol from the shops, we got away with it for the first few nights and then one day we came back to find it all confiscated from our room. One evening when we were meant to be taking part in an activity, we snuck back to the hotel where all the room keys hung behind the desk in entry. Took the keys to the year 11’s room and the teachers rooms to see if we could find it. Still can’t believe to this day we had the guts to go through the teachers rooms. A little worrying though that none of the teachers had any clue that we had snuck off from the activity.

Trip the following year, me & friend went off and skied alone a few times. We were kind of between the intermediate and advanced ski groups, so we would swap between them based on the runs they were doing. By mid week we were telling intermediate we were joining advanced and advanced that we were with intermediate and just going off. Scary stuff if either of us had got injured.

Got taken home from the school disco at a local night club for being totally pissed. Managed to convince the head the next day that we weren’t drunk and the alcohol smell was the new airwaves chewing gum that was sooooo strong it smelt like alcohol. Offered to chew some there and then to ‘prove’ it. He gave up and sent us all back to class.

Got out of class in primary school (on a toilet pretext) and chalked huge letters on the playground.
I didn't get caught for it either, because I chalked the initials of the two class "naughty boys" and put the chalks in their jacket pockets before going back to class.
Nobody believed the boys' protestations of innocence as the evidence against them was damning.
They still don't know it was me.

Our Spanish teacher who was from Spain asked us to write our names on badges so she could get to know our names. We all wrote old lady and old man names. So I was Eunice. Despite the register stating other names she called many of us by our old lady / old man names for the rest of the year and we answered to them.

My two friends and I recorded animal noises over the German oral exam cassette. We made sure we did it about 5 minutes in and according to friends in that class it caused uproar.

I miss school days and the mischievous things we did

I was a pony mad tomboy with adhd and crap parents so it's hard to narrow it down.

I was determined to do a particular jump, and although I wouldn't have cared about whether I was experienced enough I did accept it was too big for my pony. So I used to do it on my dad's massive Hunter in the early hours of the morning when nobody was around. He was too big to get the saddle on so I did without.
In my defence I regularly rode without a saddle anyway, and didn't really understand why jumping large horses over large hedges was any different to jumping a small pony over small objects. Risk assessment wasn't really my thing.

Bf and I once went galloping around a golf course, it was just too tempting to pass by. Luckily for us we often rode for miles so we were far enough from home to avoid being recognised.

I was inspired, probably by Tom Browns schooldays to suggest my bf and I hide on the windowsill behind the hall curtains and make stupid noises/ throw Lego during a tedious primary singing lesson. The hall windowsill being approximately 2 storey height and only accessible via gym equipment and climbing the curtains. Unfortunately the enthusiastic but boring and talentless parent volunteer that took the singing lesson noticed the direction of the disturbance and our absence and went off, returning with the head and a caretaker with a ladder, but of course we'd climbed down by then and denied everything. Nobody gave us away because even those that enjoyed singing hated that particular lesson, and the head didn't believe we could have possibly climbed up there and back down.

@Cheeko69

Took speed on the school sponsored walk.

Put an empty envelope in the cash machine deposit box but told the machine it had £200 in it to fake my balance long enough for my Mum to see I had been saving (I had actually been spending it on fruit machines). Got caught and hauled in with Mum to talk to bank manager.

I'd be surprised if your balance showed the £200, a few months ago I deposited £700 but when I got home I realised there was a £20 note still in my bag and my account only showed £680.

I pretended to go missing after Madeline McCann To teach my parents a lesson

And it worked

Was playing up in the car on the way home from sports club, my mum did her typical 'if you can't behave we will pull over and you can walk home' - she never used to follow through so of course I carried on

This time she actually did make me walk home, it was only 5 min walk and I was 8, had done it before on the way back from school so no actual danger

But I was pissed she had actually done it. So i remembered how she and my dad had mentioned how awful Madeline's parents must feel, this inspired me to then camp out for 6 hours in our garden shed.

They called the police

Had a neighbourhood search party formed

I then made my way into a local park through the back garden - knowing I'd be found by a member of the search party

Put on an Oscar winning performance of getting lost and confused, parents fell for it hook line and sinker, felt terrible, cried, never punished me like that again

To this day they don't know I manipulated the entire thing

@Thisisit2022 When you say 'flamboyant', do you really mean 'rumoured to be an old perv'? Ad Metam Contendo!

Got teachers phone numbers out of the telephone directory (80s) and made prank calls on them with friends!

[quote RobertaFirmino]@Thisisit2022 When you say 'flamboyant', do you really mean 'rumoured to be an old perv'? Ad Metam Contendo![/quote]
Oh indeed!

And I give you greetings, oh my daughter, you whose race has just begun!