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.

@LubaLuca

"We hid our sleeping baby cousin in the sideboard."

That is hilarious!

...sorry, I meant to say you were Very, Very Naughty, you wicked children.

@InMySpareTime

The science lab at school had a Christmas tree, and the teacher threw it out in the alley by school in January. We found it and put it back in the lab early the next morning with a label "A tree is for life, not just for Christmas". Then it escalated. The teacher kept throwing it out, we kept finding it and putting it back. Eventually, in about March, the teacher took the wizened remnants of the ghost of Christmas trees past and snapped the trunk, then threw it in the back of their tiny car and drove it away. That's not the worst prank we pulled, but it's the funniest.

That is REALLY funny!

We were due to have a guest speaker to our Awards Evening, a woman who had very publically criticised young people for not knowing the National Anthem, this was the late 60s. We, the prefects, got three verses printed, with the help of a couple of teachers I think, and circulafted them with 'learn this by Thursday'. After the organist led us through verse 1 and stopped the whole school kept on singing, acapella, the Head was purple with rage but the guest speaker looked very amused and at the end she stood up and said 'Touchee' and insisted on no repercussions.

@JudgeJ

We were due to have a guest speaker to our Awards Evening, a woman who had very publically criticised young people for not knowing the National Anthem, this was the late 60s. We, the prefects, got three verses printed, with the help of a couple of teachers I think, and circulafted them with 'learn this by Thursday'. After the organist led us through verse 1 and stopped the whole school kept on singing, acapella, the Head was purple with rage but the guest speaker looked very amused and at the end she stood up and said 'Touchee' and insisted on no repercussions.

That is genius. I applaud

Lots of things, but I always managed to make sure my little brother got the blame ...

When I was about 9, my best friend got some new felt tips pens and brought them to school. I'm not sure why, but they were really special, and thought they needed to be used so everyone could see the lovely colours. At break time we sat on the grass round one side of the school building, for some reason there was only the two of us there, so we decided to write on the wall with the pens. We both took 2 neon colours each, she wrote S, I wrote E, she wrote X and I wrote !. Or it might have been the other way round. We then went to play in the rest of the playground. Later that day our whole class got walked round to the side of the building by the teacher and we were all told how bad it is to graffiti and asked if any of us had anything to confess. My friend and I kept quiet and I doubt we were ever suspected as we were 'good' girls.

When I was about 10, I went to a party with my parents at their friends' house. I made friends with another child there, we took turns stealing drinks the adults had left on the sideboard/table/kitchen counter/etc and bringing them to the bottom of the garden behind the shed to try. The adults were all pissed at didn't notice, we only had little sips as we didn't really like the taste of any of them but we had a great time.

A friend reminded me of another one - aged 13 ish , old school year 3 ( in the 80's) .
We had a student science teacher on placement, she was very young and over compensated by being particularly strict. She took an almost instant dislike to one pupil, "Bob"
Now if Bob had been in school a few years later he would have definitely been labelled as having SEN.
Most of this class had also been in primary with Bob and we felt protective towards him.
Student teacher one day screeched at Bob that he was an idiot.
So , we all, without discussion, started the humming game.
So for those not familiar with the humming game, you need a large ish classroom and willing hummers. One or two start humming, teacher tries to find out who it is, goes towards them, they stop as someone the other side of the classroom takes over.
We kept it up for a full double lesson 😁