Lighthearted - is there anything that you did as a child that you feel guilty about to this day?

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Lighthearted post. Here are my things that have stuck with me:

Age 5 eating my brothers flake bar which he'd saved for days, then denying all knowledge

Age 12 (this is a bit outrageous), my best friend was coming for a sleepover. My mum told me she'd bought special snacks and rented a video because the next day my best friends mum was moving her to AUSTRALIA but she didn't know so I couldn't tell her. I didn't. We had a great sleepover but the whole time I was sad because I wouldn't see her again. She was telling me how her mum had booked for them to go to legoland the next day and she couldn't wait...the next day comes, she left, I got a phone call a few hours later saying her mum had lied about legoland and that they were at the airport to move to Australia :( she was sobbing and I had to act shocked.
I think about it all the time and wonder if I should have told her.

A girl in my class in primary school changed surname and went from the beginning of the line to the end. Looking back, I assume that her parents separated or her mother remarried, but we went on and on and on about it. With hindsight, I think we knew there was some issue, and we were curious rather than malicious, but we weren't as kind as we should have been

If you were in primary school in Nottingham, and this was you, then I am truly sorry

I love this one 🤣
Totally sympathise with the chewy rind (I would love it these days, tastes change) but I reckon your dog was totally on it 😎

Our school had an 'oldest teddy' competition. A classmate put a letter 'from' her teddy on it saying he was 80 years old. He bloody wasn't, mine was much older, so i put a letter on mine saying he was 90 (he was about 50 but still older than her Woolies offering). Mine won, but unfortunately my bloody siblings saw the letter and told my mum. I had already been shamed into giving her my prize of colouring pencils because she was crying (because she'd been outsmarted) and i then got a bollocking from my mum.

Guess this doesn't actually fit here because I don't feel I did anything wrong - she did - but the whole thing was awkward and embarrassing - i should have just let her have her win rather than being petty. But i was only 9.

I do feel guilty about all the prank calls me and my siblings and friends used to do from the local phone box...'is mr wall there (no), is mrs wall there (no), are there any walls there (no) THEN WHAT THE HELL IS HOLDING YOUR ROOF UP HAHAHAHAHA' Little shits we were.

So much bad stuff I cringe and really think I'm still a bad person. I stole $5 out of my dad's desk because I wanted to buy all my friends and the people I wanted to be friends with an ice cream at the tuckshop at school. In 1985 that was loads of money and the school got suspicious and my parents had to come to school to discuss my behaviour. And I scratched my sister's arms so much the scars are still there. And I stole sweets from a corner shop and did lookout for my sister who stole earrings from Myers. I was terrified and became really religious for a while. I'm going to hell aren't I!

@MostTacticalNameChange oh dear that made me laugh!!

A friend and I wanted to go see a new film around the age of 12. None of our parents would give us the money so we went round knocking doors pretending we were collecting for charity to get money for cinema tickets!

I was doing roly polys over the back of the sofa and I put my foot through my mum's glass coffee table (which was her pride and joy.) There was no way to hide the crime but I told her that I had been sitting on my leg, it had gone numb and when I stood up I had fallen onto the table. To this day, she still doesn't know how it really happened...

I nicked a jar full of tadpoles from my neighbours pond as I was desperate to have my own pond with frogs. As I climbed back over the fence I dropped the jar into the long grass. I cried for hours over the poor baby frogs. Still feel awful about it.

My friend and I would go to the phone box, dial a random number and when someone picked up would sing, 'Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger, put them up your bottom and they last a bit longer.' Then hang up... I wish I could sing you the tune!

Took my friends Guinea pigs for a swim in the cow trough - they swam really well (they didn’t want to drown!)

That made me laugh! Was very much needed. Thank you

I'm howling at dairylea of all the things you could use dairylea was not expected 😂

We used to sing that as kids too!

Took baby fish from a pond in a park. I put them in a stone sink in our garden and we went on holiday. I came back, it had rained and the sink overflowed. All the tiny fish were on the patio, dried out. I felt horrible.

When I was about six I was riding my bike and rode straight into a classmate's mum in the park. She was understandably annoyed with me but my family didn't notice because they were quite a bit ahead of me. I felt so embarrassed and scared that I never told them. I now live in another country and when I was visiting my parents this summer I saw the mum again and instantly felt horrid again. I'm 37 now😳

We were given money to buy something from the corner shop. We used the change to buy a Mars bar, which we split about 4-ways. We then cobbled together all our leftover pocket money to make up the change. I remember my dad commenting that it was odd we'd been given so many coins. I think I told him a few years ago and he just laughed at how guilty I felt.

I got locked in my room aged 5 or so. I said I needed a wee so I'd be let out but my dad was having none of it. So I squatted and pee'd on the floor. I still remember the puddle slowly spreading.
I'm not sure I even needed to go that badly, it was just a battle of wills that I was determined to win

@Longwhiskers your mother must have been terrifying :( your poor brother and your friends little brother probably didn’t even understand what he was being told off for

I kicked off the wall backwards in the local pool at my brother's say so right into a friend's mum's cleavage and she really told me off. I was about 8 and my brother held it above my head for about 5 years threatening to tell my parents until i realised it was a bloody mistake for a little kid and I'd hate my kids to have those worries.

Making a swerve on your bike as a tiny kid, buying a normal sweet and then being locked in your room are not things you should be ashamed of. Hugs.

I had a divan bed without storage, saw that my Nana had one with storage and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I cut a hole in the fabric to create storage space. Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t think I got into much trouble for it but I feel a bit guilty, now wondering whether they did the ‘not angry just disappointed’ thing

Laura is that you!!!

Oh God, I used to phone people saying that too. And asking who’s on the line before telling them that they’d better get off i5 quick because there’s a train coming.
And I’m afraid that more than once I’d phone teachers from school to tell them that an ambulance had been called and they would be taken to the local psychiatric unit later that day.

When I was in Junior 1, there was a boy in our class who also lived in our street. He was the type that, if you were describing your trip to the moon, he'd been there twice. He also had a very high pitched voice. Unfortunately one day when he interrupted again I him to 'shut up squeaking' and the name Squeaky stuck. Right through primary and into secondary school.

I stole barbie clothes from the after school club I went to..I prayed and prayed for forgiveness every night for years!!

My friends wouldn’t eat lunch in high school (?? :S ) and I would feel embarrassed doing so. My mum would wake up early in the morning to make my lunches and I would throw my sandwiches in the bin. Feel awful 😢.

Once we were on holiday and I wanted to see a show in a mall whilst my parents did not and wanted to shop instead. I told them I’m going to the toilets when I actually ventured to watch this show. As we had no phones they were waiting in the spot I left them whilst meanwhile I was enjoying this show. Eventually, I came back (was probably a good 45 minutes) and acted like I had gotten lost on my way back to them. It was too late to do shopping as the mall was going to close and we headed back to the hotel, my mum was quite disappointed. I feel so guilty to this date.

Midnight calligraphy in my best pjs one Christmas. I’d got the set but couldn’t wait to do it on Boxing Day so did it when everyone was asleep. I remember there was black green and red ink…… I spilt them all in the dark. I decided to hide the pjs under the bed but my hands were covered in ink I tried to deny it but it was very obvious the next day and I felt bad as it stained everything.

Also midnight bubble gum eating (it was banned) I hid that under my bed too which made a mess of the carpet

I feel the need to clarify my post: I didn't make a swerve, I went straight into her from behind. I think it is understandable she reacted in shock and probably said "why didn't you just use your brakes?!". I felt really stupid but I'm sure my parents wouldn't have been angry if they'd known. I was quite an anxious child so probably blew it completely out of proportion.

The sweet thing: my friend, sister and I were sent to the shop to get milk or similar. We then used some of the money to buy a Mars bar, which we wouldn't normally be allowed. So it felt naughty in two ways and we covered up by finding the money ourselves. Surely this is just a variation on the other stories on here?

The being locked in my room: I think it was more a case of my parents locking the door (it was a hook and eye mechanism, so I could still open it a little) to stop me getting out of bed. I know I was quite headstrong so I imagine they were at the end of their tether. I definitely pee'd on the floor to prove a point, not because I was so desperate.

I'm honestly fine, not traumatized by any of these events😊