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

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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? 🙂

Playing hide and seek on the beach. Found a hollow rock. Great hiding place. Got stuck... with tide coming in..

Looking back, I'm sure there's a reason my father had grey hair... (and why my parents consider my DDs great karma!)

Spent my entire 30th birthday in A&E after losing the tip of an earbud in my right ear. Waited hours to be seen, and it was wedged so far up the nurse couldn’t retrieve it so I was sent up to a very unamused ENT consultant who had to use all kinds of special equipment whilst mumbling under his breath.

Good god these are awful, but hilarious!

I think I must’ve been quite a sensible child - but grew into a very silly teen/young woman! my daft stuff usually involved drinking/doing drugs/going back to random houses for parties or wandering around the city centre alone trying to flag a taxi coz I’d lost my friends. I once drank so much I fainted in the toilet of a club and hit my head on the seat, leaving a huge bruise. Thankfully a lovely young girl who was a trainee nurse helped me, brought me a pint of water then ordered me to throw up and also went and found my boyfriend. Thank god she was there. Yes, I was a very silly young woman.

Thought I was Wonder Woman and broke my arm turning around.
fell off stage at nativity with school and broke my ankle .
swallowed a marble and had to go to A+E
thought at 33 I would have a go on a skateboard and ended up with 4 stitches in my chin.

Got stuck on a spiked gate at the youth club. Managed to get down thinking I'd just ripped my pocket. Got home to find a huge L-shaped rip that was not only m'y jeans, but also my knickersthe teacher that taught me joined up writing, who lived in the next road, told my mother she'd never seen anything so funny as me trying to hold my knickers together going home for lunch.
We'd been there breaking up old pianos for firewood and someone locked the gate, not realising there were 2 of us still inside.

When I was eight, I tried to copy Mary Poppins by leaping out of my bedroom window with my dad's opened golf brolly.
When I hit the grass, I realised that.....
A. Umbrellas don't make you fly.
B. Grass doesn't stop your ankles breaking when leaping from heights.

Put a 10p in my mouth, no idea why. But I was just sort of sucking on it, well I swolled it and had to go to a&e as it was stuck in my throat. Had an xray and was told to get a mcdonalds to push it down. Luckily it worked and i was told it would just pass through me 😆

Couldn't crack into an Easter egg one year so used my dads cuff bracelet that I found on the kitchen side to bash it. It was solid metal and had really intricate engravings, my dad wore it every day. After getting into my egg I noticed that there was chocolate stuck in all the engravings and rather than wash it, I decided to hide it in a dark corner of a kitchen cupboard. My dad was really upset that he'd lost it and mentioned it loads, I miraculously "found" it again for him about 3 years later and he still doesn't know the truth. Just really stupid of me considering I was about 10 so old enough to know better !

Put hair removal cream in between my eyebrows and ended up with a bald spot of course, I didn't realise those tiny hairs actually made your face look normal!

sat on a random pony in a field near my house.. ended up with my leg broken In 2 places. I knew my leg was broken because I heard it break when I hit the ground but didn’t want to admit how it happened because I knew I’d get in trouble. My friend ran to get my mum and we told her I’d tripped over. My mum didn’t believe my leg could be broken from a trip so didn’t take me to hospital for over 24 hours. I was in again but I refused to tell her the truth about what happened! She still doesn’t know the truth 🤣

Agony, not again 🤦‍♀️

In secondary school I did ALOT of stupid stuff, but in the interest of lightheartedness, I will share this one.
There was an old external light attached to the side of a building, and a small group of us discovered that if you stuck a finger in it in the rain it would give you a shock. So we did.
And we got frazzled. Took turns! Idiots.

Jumped from the top of a flight of 13 stairs in our house.
My brother and I had put pillows at the bottom. I don’t know how I managed to jump out far enough to clear the lower stairs as the landing I jumped from was very small 😂
I must have been about 7 or 8.
I can remember doing it and I didn’t hurt myself.

Cut a big triangle out of my fringe when I was about 4. I can remember deciding to do it 😂

Went out on a frozen loch with my brother when I was 12. I remember feeling very scared when I couldn’t get back in as I kept slipping and sliding. As you do. I was out quite far, as well! The thought of it terrifies me now!

Brings back memories. I rolled a brush up to the roots. Stuck. Cut and ended up with a punk rocker type haircut right ontop of my head. My mum really panicked and I had to wear hair gel and clips. My 7 yo self thought I was a fucking legend. I cringe now looking back because it really stressed mum out.

Fell out of a tree in a graveyard aged 10. Don't know how I walked home (90s when you roamed dangerous places sans adults).

Old fashioned plug connector. Pulled it apart when ON. Got electrocuted and don't know how I didn't die, ended up on floor (unable to move for ages) the force flew me away which broke contact and saved me.

Also had A+E trip to remove stuff I put up my nose (aged 5).

Dry shaved one leg aged 6. Had a massive shaving burn/rash. Wondering how I got hold of the razor.

Cycled into a wall full pelt. Over handle bars I went and winded self.

Living to tell the tale 😎

I attempted to eat a glass bauble from the Christmas tree when I was very young. Ouch.

Placed my hand on an electric cooker ring to see if it was heating up. It was. Ouch.

Stuck a knitting needle in my ear, hard. Also ouch.

Tried to copy Eddie the Eagle ski jumping from the top of my Grans concrete stairs outside her house to the bottom when I was about 9. Broke my ankle in two places but was so scared of getting told off (my Gran was actually lovely and not at all scary but still!) I hobbled all the way back up the steps and took myself off to my room and it was only when my Gran came up and took one look at my then black n blue ankle she thought we’d better go to A and E!

These are hilarious 😂
keep em coming!

Tried to copy my dad and shaved my face when left alone in the bath briefly. I was three, I think. I've a scar in the crease between my lip and my chin. Weirdly my husband has the same scar in the same place, from the same accident. Although he was in his teens when he did it!

I’m really curious how old (read, young) you are that YouTube existed when you were nine 🤯

Having said that, im not sure if this even makes a difference but ive seen others say it- I DO NOT give the press or anyone else permission to share my post to anything)

I think you've already ceded copyright of your post to Mumsnet so the permission - were it possible to do so - is not yours to give.

Another one in my very early teens, I was desperate not to get spots and in my head spots were like cuts so I decided to have a dettol bath. Then for some stupid reason I decided to rub neat dettol into my face. Omg it burned. Didn't get spots until I turned 23 though so.... 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Oh so many - crossed a live train track drunk so I wouldn't miss the train by adding the extra couple of minutes it would have taken to cross the bridge.

• came home drunk from a night out and put on a lasagne in the oven, fell asleep, woke up with flat filled with smoke.

• took copious amounts of drugs and not in a safe and responsible way, just literally took what I could get my hands on without doing any research.

• went home with lots of men I'd just met at the club/bar/online.

The list goes on

Tried to shave my eyebrows aged 13ish with my dad's cheapo BIC razor! Didnt end well 🙃

I had a really bad habit of putting random things in my mouth and chewing them. The last thing I ever chewed was a pencil sharpener. Wtf was I thinking? The blade sliced my tongue and there was so much blood. Even worse - mum was entertaining friends downstairs and I was scared to interrupt- plus I knew I'd get a right telling off for chewing a pencil sharpener, so I sat in the bathroom spitting blood for a couple of hours until it stopped.

My friends and I decided to build a tree house from some bricks we found. One slipped out of friends hand and squashed my finger when it landed on my hand on the floor. Still have a scar.

Played in a canal and sliced my toe open, rinsed it in the canal water, still have the scar and thankfully my foot is not diseased, that water was bad!

My Dd shaved off half her eyebrows when she was 10. She tried to deny it for days. It was hilarious!