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what was the silliest thing you did when you were younger?

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bigmistake12345 · 05/01/2023 16:47

lighthearted thread!

what was the silliest, daftest or riskiest thing you did when you were a child, or even in the past when you were younger?

I was very, very young (junior school age, around 9, maybe younger) and watched an older sibling apply fake eyelashes and was really jealous- obviously I wasn't allowed access to them. I 'borrowed' a set from my sisters room, went onto youtube, watched how to apply them and decided to try and use my gluestick to apply them which unsurprisingly didnt stick them down so in my wisdom I moved onto the next most logical thing- superglue from my dads cupboard. I don't know why I didnt realise it would be dangerous, I just thought it would be a great idea and I would have lovely big eyelashes and I would be popular at school. I think I must have thought that superglue was the same as the glue people put their eyelashes on with. Unfortunately that didnt happen, and I rubbed superglue onto my eyelid and tried to stick the fake eyelashes onto it- only to find my eye was now glued shut. I was told at the hospital that I was very, very lucky that the glue was only on my eyelid and since it was sealed shut, hadn't gone on my eye-ball at all.

That was easily the stupidest thing, although I have heard stories of others doing it too so at least I wasn't the only daft child that wanted fake eyelashes!

I also used to play on ice as a child which we never thought of as being dangerous, and we climbed huge trees and had absolutely no fear of falling from so high! Now as an adult I hate heights and I feel queasy looking over the side of the escalator.

so, what silly, daft, embarrassing or frankly dangerous things did you do when you were younger? 🙂

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Lockheart · 05/01/2023 16:49

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Namechanger355 · 05/01/2023 16:50

Don’t see why pp thinks you are writing an article

silliest thing I did was shave my non existent moustache in a bid to copy my dad - needed a couple of stitches following that!

Catspyjamas17 · 05/01/2023 16:51

Ouch.

I shaved my eyebrows off when I was 13 and they took bloody ages to grow back. No idea why other than perhaps I'd been reading about people drawing on eyebrows. Not a great look.

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Splodgerbodgerbadger · 05/01/2023 16:51

We had an old bed frame in the garden that had waist high nettles growing in it. I used to walk round the frame until the day I fell in…

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Catspyjamas17 · 05/01/2023 16:51

Ouch.

I shaved my eyebrows off when I was 13 and they took bloody ages to grow back. No idea why other than perhaps I'd been reading about people drawing on eyebrows. Not a great look.

I did this too - not all the way off though. Tweezing them was taking forever so I tried to shave them into shape and ended up with a boxy square above each eye. Looked ridiculous.

TheGuv1982 · 05/01/2023 16:52

My dad was a policeman, and I thought I’d put his handcuffs on. I mean, he’d have the key, right???

Apparently policemen don’t walk around with the keys to the handcuffs, so we had to go down to the station to take them off.

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bigmistake12345 · 05/01/2023 16:54

bigmistake12345 · 05/01/2023 16:51

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bigmistake12345 · 05/01/2023 16:55

Catspyjamas17 · 05/01/2023 16:51

Ouch.

I shaved my eyebrows off when I was 13 and they took bloody ages to grow back. No idea why other than perhaps I'd been reading about people drawing on eyebrows. Not a great look.

I did the exact same thing! They never quite grew back the same!

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Jackie246 · 05/01/2023 16:56

secretly stole on of my big sister's at home wax strips and put it on my leg aged 10 and was then too scared to pull it off!! Took my mum three days to discover it and then she had to use swarfega and pick it off me bit by big!!

Rainbowbritestar · 05/01/2023 16:58

as a child I lived with my grandad
for some reason best known to 7 year old me,I put my bare foot down the toilet
that wouldn’t have been a problem,unless I got it stuck but my grandad suffered from ptsd and ocd (he’d lived through World War One and fought in the second and that would have taken a toll on anyone)
he convinced me that my foot would have fallen off and I’d become really Ill from the water

i was fine-we washed and dried my foot and nothing happened

as a teen I used sun-in
my mother thought I’d suit being a blonde-god knows why-and she insisted on having my hair permed twice a year,just before I used it
all that happened was my hair snapped off and what was left turned bright orange
I had a jay from the inbetweeners cut that took forever to grow out

forlornlorna1 · 05/01/2023 17:02

I used leg hair remover on my top lip, left it a bit too long and chemically burnt myself a perfect moustache. Took weeks to heal but thankfully didn't scar!.

GettingStuffed · 05/01/2023 17:04

I was a teen, probably 15 or 16 and I went cycling with my then boyfriend. As we came home there was a fairly steep hill which came out on the ,usually busy, main road. I freewheeled down the hill but obviously went faster than I thought as my brakes weren't powerful enough to stop me and I shot out onto the, miraculously empty, main road. That was the first time I nearly died as if the road was it's usual self I would have hit traffic, literally

stopbeeping · 05/01/2023 17:09

I cut off my eyelashes

Pooped behind the shed and got snitched on

Exfoliated my leg so hard that it bled

Accidentally veet my hair when I did my arm pits

Lots of stupid things

Keyansier · 05/01/2023 17:12

Purposely jumped on someone's arm and broke it Blush

PuttingDownRoots · 05/01/2023 17:12

My brother and I decided to race around the park on our bikes. I don't remember the crash. I do remember the annoyance of having my arm in the cast for 6 weeks. We didn't try that again.... (he didn't get a scratch!)

JanesSadLittleLife · 05/01/2023 17:22

Rolled down a steep hill on rollerskates without any plan as to how I would stop before the road at the bottom. I grabbed a lamppost, got whiplash and bruises but was lucky not to break anything.

Worse as a teenager though - aged 17 I took some drugs (amphetamine), topped it off with a bottle of wine, ended up at a house I didn't know on the lap of a man I didn't know, with a bloody nose for some reason. My friends had left me and I was hallucinating. The fella offered to take me to his home and I blindly followed.

Once indoors I collapsed onto a bed and Unknown Man got in behind me. He made some comment about having better things to do than sleep, and I just said, no thanks.

He said, fair enough, and went to sleep somewhere else. In the morning he handed me a crash helmet and gave me a lift to the bus station on his motorbike.

In the cold light of day I realised how stupid I'd been and how lucky I was. I never did it again, and to odd looking ginger man probably called Jon from Colchester who politely took no for an answer from the stupid girl with the pink mohawk...thank you.

BrendaLee · 05/01/2023 17:24

I used a kitchen knife to cut through the cable as my Dad was mowing the lawn. The machine stopped and the knife had a chunk missing but miraculously I was ok - not even a slight shock!

TimBoothseyes · 05/01/2023 18:04

So, so many. How I have lived to reach my late 50's god only knows.

I think the worst one was using an old car bonnet as a raft on a large pool of water that had collected at the old tip we had in the village. had I fallen in that, the water was so toxic I probably would have died in a microsecond. I was 12 at the time.

iklboo · 05/01/2023 18:10

Tested the razor blade my dad said was blunt by running my thumb down it. It wasn't that blunt.

TheDietStartsTomorrowOrMaybeTheDayAfter · 05/01/2023 18:20

When I was about 10 we’re were having our house rendered and there was scaffolding out the front. I had the great idea to climb the scaffolding and ride my skateboard along the top. I never actually got to ride my skateboard as my dad caught me on top of the scaffolding and got me in the house. TBH, I was shitting myself at that point. Who did I think I was…Bart Simpson?? 😆

Chickenkeev · 05/01/2023 19:05

Got a hairbrush stuck in my hair, young enough but not exactly sure what age. Rather than ask my mum to untangle it, i went and got a scissors and cut it out. It did NOT look good. For some months after.

Enidcat5 · 05/01/2023 19:27

Saw hob was on, it was one where there weren't any lights to show which ring. So I thought I'd rest with my finger. Ring 1, no, ring 2, no, ring 3, no. Even though it was obvious I still touched ring 4 and ended up at a&e with a horrific burn. I didn't have the excuse of being really young, I was about ten and pretty sensible normally!

Enidcat5 · 05/01/2023 19:27

Enidcat5 · 05/01/2023 19:27

Saw hob was on, it was one where there weren't any lights to show which ring. So I thought I'd rest with my finger. Ring 1, no, ring 2, no, ring 3, no. Even though it was obvious I still touched ring 4 and ended up at a&e with a horrific burn. I didn't have the excuse of being really young, I was about ten and pretty sensible normally!

Test. Not rest.

BorgQueen · 05/01/2023 19:52

Climbed a 50ft ladder up a sea wall above train tracks on holiday in Wales when I was 11, I got half way up and froze, ended up climbing back down with a train coming.