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? 🙂

Super glued my fingers together... hid them for the rest of the day in mittens! I was about 6.

At 4 I was scared of the school toilets (brother told me about bloody Mary) so I did a wee on the been bag in the quiet area.... from what I remember nobody realised 🫣🤔

A girl at school broke her leg and had a cast and crutches and I was jealous and wanted to break my leg too. I got my brother to ride his bike over my leg to try and break it! Didn't work thankfully, but what an idiot.

I went up north when I was 17 and met a man I had been speaking to off the phone chat rooms you had years ago. Luckily he was nice but how foolish I was and naive.

@Chickenkeev I did this too! But my poor grandad nearly had a heart attack trying to get out. My nan came home.and had to cut it out 🤣

When I was in year 6 or 5 I can't remember. I said oh bollocks. I didn't actually know what it meant. And thought it was a grown up word for oh bother! My friend heard who did know what it meant and kept threatening to tell the teacher. I was so upset as I was that kid who was too scared to do anything wrong. She teased me with it for weeks until she forgot.

When I was 18, I wad trying to wax my intimate area,
I didn't trim, didn't check which wax I needed, just slathered the same wax that I used for my eyebrows all over.
Then sat on the toilet to try and pull it off, seemed a reasonable place to sit that would allow me decent reach, except wax was everywhere. Truly everywhere, I ended up stuck to the toilet.
The wax was coming off in patches, stuck to me in patches that I couldn't seem to get off because it hadn't reached the hair close to the skin.

Less sexy, more red, patchy, mess with partial pieces of wax I couldn't get rid of, and the toilet seat took some scrubbing!

At about age 14 decided to have a cigarette while sitting on my bedroom windowsill (I thought I was so cool!). Windowsill was about 2m high off the ground with a wooden gate across the path beneath it. My mum came in, I freaked out, tried to leap out the window, fell onto the wooden fence one leg either side and ended up with a huge bruise on my inner thigh. If I had fallen slightly differently I'd probably not be able to bear children! Couldn't tell my mum, she couldn't work out how I'd ended up outside the house and had to hobble around in silence

I tried to iron my shirt whilst still wearing it. ... Still have the burn mark on my arm. Embarrassingly, I was 26

Aged about 12 me and my best friend used to spend part of the summer holidays camping by ourselves on a local forestry commission campsite (early 1970s, it was a very different world!) For some reason best known to ourselves we decided to climb a tree in the middle of the night. We got really high up the tree and then got stuck. There was no one around to rescue us and we didn't want to spend the rest of the night in the tree, so the only option was to fall out of it. No idea how we didn't break our necks!

I got high in Amsterdam from space cakes not realising how powerful they are when they kick in. I ate 2!

I was so off my face that I ended up in the lobby asking the receptionist to call a doctor. He gave me food and told me it'll wear off eventually. I ate the food so fast I ended up puking on the lobby floor.

My friend was just laughing at me the entire time.

I was 19.

In my late teens I used to swim straight out into the sea at night, alone, preferably when the sea was a bit rough. I swam out until I wasn't quite sure I'd be able to get back to shore again. It was exhilarating.

I've got a few stupid stories like this too and the men were all very accepting of it. I feel grateful, but hopefully it is actually the norm.

Also aged about 8, I took a game of "playing house" in our back yard a bit too far and did a poo in the bucket we had decided was the toilet. Was so smelly and horrible, then my dog ate it, and my friend blurted it all out in front of our mums when she was about to head home. Still so mortifying

When I was about 5 I walked the dog with my parents in a park near my house. There was a section of trees to the side of the field I used to like running through and my parents let me, but when I got to the end of that field I decided to run straight through the next one and up the alley by our house. My thought process was I would jump out at the top of the alley and say boo, not at all thinking my parents wouldn't leave the park without me and were having a meltdown thinking I'd been kidnapped. Didn't help that just a few miles away there had been a murder in a park in the previous weeks. My parents didn't know whether to hug me or kill me that day and my dad required a large straight whisky

I did the exact same thing! Plastic-handled knife too. There was an almighty bang, all the lights went out, and I withdrew the knife to find the end had melted.

I had a "widow's peak" at my hairline and decided I was going to shave it off as I didn't like it - cue months of hair regrowth sticking up at the front of my head. I was a teenager !

I ironed my hair as I didn’t have hair straighteners and my mom couldn’t buy me any, I burnt my neck so badly, it looked like I had had my throat slit. I was about 13 at the time 🤭

One summer I wrapped my younger brother up in a bed sheet and rolled him down our garden (we lived on a fairly steep road) he went so fast down the garden and into the pond, I thought I had killed him. I think I was about 9 at the time and he was 4

I used to use a knife to get my toast out of the toaster. Every single time. For years and years. Until my mum caught me and told me how dangerous it was. I just didn't know!

OMG yes I did this and got an electric shock.

I stood on my Mum's glass table to reach something and yes it cracked.
Used her pot - glass/you had to use a metal guard thing on cooker - without the guard and broke it.
Cut the curls off my baby brother when Mum was out.

Kicked my dad hard, full in the bollocks, to see if it would have the same dramatic effect as it did when people did it on telly.

It did.

😳

My cousins and I, aged around 9 and 7 thought it would be great fun to run as close as possible in front of cars coming down a main road road. Yes, we were very stupid

DuncanBiscuits sorry I shouldn't laugh but 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What age are you OP? Makeup tutorials didn't really kick off on YouTube until around 2010 if I remember correctly, which would put you at what, 19 now?

Also, I don't know any 9 year olds who would have known too much about YT and how to use it at that early stage.

Calm down Clouseau!

Decided to scrape the flamable material off a chinese sparkler into a potted candle. It exploded, shards of glass everywhere, kitchen table on fire...
Parents said nothing. They were that speechless...

I was 18