Things I still wonder why the hell I did that as a kid...

[TonytheFish]

20 years later, this still makes me wonder why I was such an odd child!

I was a bit shy granted, but still...

In 2nd year seniors, start of the new school year, new art class and teacher, everyone gets in and sits down at new desks, I was the last one in...and my spot at the table had no chair!

So, did I mention to the teacher that there was no chair! nope.

What I did, was sort of crouch down, into some fake sitting position and stay there for the entire double period! Pretending to sit! As if no one would notice...!

It is this sort of thing, that means I will never ever attend a school reunion!

me and my friend used to go round old peoples bungalows where we lived and play our clarinets for them. We could only play 'Stranger on the Shore' and because we hadn't learned how to 'do' vibrato in lessons we used to shake our instruments instead!

The death rate increased dramatically...

I was also in absolute love with my Drama teacher for 2 years. He would find me "randomly" sitting outside his room, reading on a windowsill after every single lesson. I thought I was making an impression on him so I'd always be on his mind. I probably was, but it can only have been "twat". I once wrote a letter to his home address telling him how wonderful he was. I used my left hand so he wouldn't know it was me. I also considered stealing his jumper from his room one day, but for once I actually engaged my brain.

We used to phone a teen sexual health line to get advice on stories we had made up. A particular favourite was saying we had used a tesco carrier bag instead of a condom and could we still get pregnant

same friend and I also had a crush on two boys in our class but they didn't want to know.
We wrote to them pretending to be our French cousins Yvette and Marie who were coming over for a visit, (writing in pidgeon Franglais).

Arranged to meet near the chip shop two weeks later and me and friend wore striped tops, blonde wigs (nicked off my auntie Mary who had loads of them) black berets and sunglasses!

Ended up us getting chased by them whilst having chips thrown at us

I wondered what would happen if you breathed in fizzy pop - really fizzy, just out of the can. Answer - it hurts like buggery

I once spent a maths lesson saying the word square as 'squeer' I was born in a different part of the country and have a slight accent but I say square normally. No idea why I decided I say it like that one day!

Oh, old grandad style hats were the fashion when I was about 14, you wore them backwards, and sort of on the back of your head. But did I buy a new one!? No, I stole my grandads actual proper old man grandad hat, and wore it backwards, thought I was cool!

And I read in a magazine, if you twisted your hair, and the hairs that stuck out, you cut, it was a good way to get rid of split ends! So I did this, got bored and just cut off the chunk of hair in my hands!!!! I was 13, and had this inch long, lock of hair right at my parting! I then spent months, in trying to hide this, using half a can of hair spray, only on the area where the 1 inch lock of hair was. So i had a super hair sprayed square of hair to the side of my parting, and the rest of my hair, was just normal!

Am not sure how I actually had friends!

Oh my, love the phoning gay sex lines just for a chat and asking about using a tesco carrier bag instead of a condom!

I used to make up a dance routine and check out my reflection in the window, so the lights would be on, curtains open and there was me, dancing away to Starship Trouper while the neighbours' whose houses overlooked my bedroom window must have had a chuckle.

I once turned one of the gas taps on in biology and put a lit bunsen burner in front of it to see what would happen .

FYI A huge flame thrower effect , It gives you the measure of the school I went to that this wasn't even reported to my parents . I think I had to stand outside for the rest of the lesson .

I thought of another one, that will totally out me to anyone who knows me, our common room was right outside the library, my 'gang' were the only ones to hang about there and the librarian hated us because we were noisy.

One day we all decided to write a note saying 'This library is under construction' and hang it on the door, but we didn't want our writing to be recognised so we all wrote a letter each and stuck it to the door and spent the whole lunch hour laughing as people walked up to the library door, read the note and walked off again and the librarian kept coming out wondering why there were no people in there, it was very funny, but pointless, and we left the note up after lunch time too.

We all ended up with a weeks worth of detention for that too.

Another time I faked being in pain to get out of PE and somehow ended up getting my appendix removed because of it. I wasn't sore at all.

I also used to follow boys that I fancied at lunch time and make a note of what they had for lunch, which is pretty creepy actually.

Tried to get into a 15 rated film aged 12 by wearing red lipstick, dangly earrings and an 'I am 15' badge.

It didn't work.

When I was older I used to sit in the local park with friends drinking diamond white cider with a soluble paracetamol in it as we thought that would make you drunk quicker.

gatekeeper dressing up as french girls...hilarious story

I once put the charger cable from my brother's Sega Game Gear onto the tip of my tongue whilst it was plugged into the socket. I'm pretty sure I knew it wasn't a good idea, so god knows why I did it! I got a pretty bad shock, but it could have been much worse!

Oh God... I honestly don't know how I survived to adulthood with any friends! I honestly was BONKERS as a child.

My friend had a massive crush on our drama teacher. She was convinced that she could get him to leave his fiancee and propose to her instead. I was determine to help her with this mission. We talked in code a lot about our plans. We had elaborate plans to find out where he lived and get the ball rolling. We had planned on putting a paint can under his car, with a small hole in the paint can so we could follow the trail to his house as he drove home. I was obsessed by the student history teacher at the same time, and wrote a 12 chapter (say, about 30 pages long!) story about a girl who falls in love with her teacher, but luckily he falls in love with her too. Which I then asked both the drama and student history teacher to read.

When I was much younger (junior school) I stole a crystal that hung in lines from a lamp my aunt used to have. I was convinced it was a diamond and worth loads of money. I put it across one of my nostrils and accidentally got the crystal lodged up my nose. I couldn't get it back out. I was obsessed that I would get told off for stealing so I never told anybody. It was months before it came out again during a violent sneeze. I ended up having my nose cauterized after that, and never fessed up about how my nose could have been damaged!

Used to walk through our local indoor market with a friend thinking we were IT with a huge 'portable' stereo sitting on one shoulder with music blaring out. Boy did we think we were something

I love this thread!

I'm sure I could think of weird things I did.

I had a massive crush on a lad who had left but came back to teach music (he was 4 year solder than me). I used to follow him around everywhere walk up and down outside his house etc.
A woman I went to a drama group with who was about 25 to my 15 advised to get him to like me I should make him think I wasn't bothered about him. So I marched up to him in a crowded room and spouted off about if he couldn't manage to be polite to me then he wasn't worthy of me or words to that effect then turned round and did a big drama filled walk off. He was just stood there looking at me like I was mad.

We used to phone sexual health advice line with made up questions as well!! A favourite was "when you give a low job, are you actually supposed to blow?!" Haha!!

I am Mermaid I was reading it again the other day for a laugh and just couldn't resist the name change!