things you did when a child that your parents would have gone spare at. had they known

[hatwoman]

that thread about the things our parents did got me thinking about the things I did.

I used to play on a building site. we used to make dens in these huge mounds of soil and rubble. we'd find bits of ply or wood and make tunnels and roofs .

Play in the totally derelict eaves above the virtually derelict milking shed in the farm next door, daylight seeping through every crack and hole in the floor. rats and mice all over the place

clamber over and play on the rusty abandoned tractors in same farm. not so bad but not great either

harass our neighbours by "spying" on them. sneaking into their overgrown garden and prying through their windows before running away giggling and screaming

[TigersEnglandChick]

I can think of several but the one that came to mind first was when DB and I used to make 'George's Marvellous Medicine' typ concoctions. We'd make one out of 'edible' stuff then dare each other to try it (peppercorns, milk powder, baking soda, food dye etc) and we'd make a non-edible one.(bleach, bubble bath, pledge etc) It's a miracle we never gassed ourselves!!

Off to read what the rest of you got up to now ...

[Tamarto]

I'd forgotten about random picture of naked women flying about on a windy day, that is long gone, along with white dog poop.

[piratecat]

nick booze from the G Plan drinks cabinet, pour it in to an army flask and go over the fields and drink it?

yep that would have irked my mother!!!

[mrsmaidamess]

See, kids these days don't know they're born.

[MaryAnnSingleton]

climbed on garage roofs
stuck apples on the end of bamboo poles and chucked them through people's windows
and crossed railways lines - the last two activities we were encouraged and bullied to do by my much older cousin

[piratecat]

mrsmaidamess rofl, it is TRUE. we lived on an estate inthe 70's and the workman's hut was papered with cut outs from porno mags!!!

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Went to a nearby farm which had a very large lake with very steep sides. We used to go and frogspawn from the lake.

Also rode the ponies in the fields bareback and no bridles. Not our ponies either.

[mrsmaidamess]

One particular image I saw whilst sitting on a pile of mud reading Razzle aged 6 is still burned onto my retinas.

[georgimama]

When my cousin and I were about 11 we were allegedly going to holiday club thing for the afternoon.

We actually caught tube (she lived in Greater London) into central London.

No one ever found out.

What else ....

(getting progresively older here)

Smoking.

Smoking pot.

Having sex at 14.

I was quite naughty.

[NormaSnorks]

Lied about staying at a friend's house and then went to all-night parties at houses where the parents were away...

Just lots of being untruthful about where I was most of the time actually

[mrsmaidamess]

Norma I did that alot. My Mum never rang to check whether the parents were at this house I was staying at . They weren't. But older boys from the pub were....

[VoodooTheOriginal]

when we were on a family holiday to a campsite in France, I'd be @ 14...there was a small stables on-site, and I was completely horse mad. After hanging round there 24/7 the two French guys who ran it asked me to go with them and a German girl to go and collect another couple of horses and walk them back. She and I hopped into their van and we all drove off!
Luckilly they were for real, and I walked back through some gorgeous French farmland leading a beautiful chestnut horse.
As a very careful kid, I still can't believe to this day I did that...neither could my mum at the time.

[Jux]

Our house was always full of other people - itinerant relatives or friends and their families, living there for months, sometimes a year or two. One chap had two sons; I remember me, my little bro and the younger son stark naked, being 'dogs' ie sniffing each others' bums while crawling round in a circle! or should I

[VoodooTheOriginal]

oh yeah, had wild parties when they were away, smoked, smoked pot in their lounge, gave dh (then dp) a bj behind my dad's fave armchair..
my sister smoked while she was in the bath!! she was much more daring.

[hatwoman]

it's tough. but I think the marigold and collie have it. there are some real blinders here.

one - slightly older (about 14) near misdemeanour of mine was to hang around a particular venue the day of a Motley Crue concert to see if we could chat up some roadies and get ourselves a back stage pass. we got invited into a caravan for "coffee". after about 5 minutes it was made abundantly clear how much those back stage passes were going to cost. so I made my excuses and left. my friend stayed .

[morningsun]

we used to go into a tunnel ? a culvert with water running thru it which went into the hillside and dare each other who could go in the most flags 17,18 ...

do gymnastics over the pipe across the canal[ee eck like]

army games on the building site

making poison potions

ouijay boards [home made]

[Geepers]

I used to wee on the carpet behind the television when I couldn't be bothered to upstairs to the loo

[fryalot]

My bro and I used to dare each other to run around the block.

In the middle of the night.

During a thunderstorm.

In our nightclothes.

We moved when I was 7 and we no longer had a block so we had to stop.

Look at the porno mags that my brother and his mates had nicked and hidden in their den that they thought us girls didn't know about.

Told dad about porno magazines and the den that the boys thought we didn't know about.

Wagged off school once, saw my mum in town and hid behind the christmas tree. I must have looked a total loon, but she never noticed me!

[HensMum]

Steal coins out of my mum's purse and sneak to the corner shop to buy sweets.
I still feel ashamed about that

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Broke up hale bays and jumped around in them

Played in a long empty house up the road, we used to giggle at the condoms on the floor (god knows what else was in there!?)

Let our neighbours dog out all the time. I feel awful for this too, she was an elderly widow and got so panicked.

At my Grans we would play on the coal slurry pits and amongst all the old mining machinery.

[Friendlypizzaeater]

Played frogger on the M1 - twas a lot less cars but none the less .....

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

qod we did that too in the local electricity exchange. The fences were covered in black tar (to stop people I guess) so we'd wash of using my friends hose before going home.

[beanieb]

TheDevilWearsPrimark - Me too with teh Hay bales! We used to go into the landlord's barn (He was farmer/horse breeder) and jump from the highest point into the haybales at teh bottom. I'm pretty sure they must have hated us!

HensMum I too used to take the odd 10p from my mum's purse I always remember the dog looking at me and feeling really guilty!

[ShowOfHands]

My brother used to put a bucket on my head, make me stand at one end of the garden and threw garden implements at me. Somehow, he not only convinced me to do it but also convinced me not to tell my parents.

Also used to play on the building site near our house.

Tame in comparison.

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

'hale bays' pmsl.

We were really norty. It was the big round ones in the fields, we'd roll them and jump on them, all the while being thrilled by older kids stories of people getting crushed under them.

Me and my brother once took coppers from my grandads copper jar. He caught us and I've never felt so sad and ashamed in my life.