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!

[SuperScrimper]

I told all my friends my middle name was Chelsea and insisted on writing it on all my school work.

It was not Chelsea. In fact, I don't actually have a middle name

[Oen1]

In year 5 or 6 a few of us decided it would look really cool if we went around displaying several love bites (must have just watched Grease). we'd do these to ourselves by pinching the skin for ages.

Why??????

[BertieBottsJustGotMarried]

A craze went around my sister's school that if you grab the skin around your chin and twist it (DO NOT do this!) it makes a massive bruise, just not straight away. So, of course, everyone was like "yeah right!" and did it.

My favourite part was that one girl's mum said "Where on earth did you get that bruise from?" Girl told her, mum said "Why would you do something so silly?"

The next day the mum had the exact same bruise

[CheckpointCharlie]

Someone once dared me to phone my dad and ask him if liked Beavers.
I think he might have known it was me.

I only clicked about two years ago what I was actually asking him.

We used to put tiger balm under our eyes in chemistry and then claim there had been a chemical leak.

We also used to burn ovaltine on spoons because it makes a mini firework display. Our housemistress called the police because she thought we were taking heroin. Aged 13.

OMG I have so many of these but will totally out self if I carry on!!!

One last one, we used to make little polystyrene cubes, then stick double sided Sellotape to the bottom and stick a feather in the top, then drop them out the window onto people's heads. That was REALLY funny. But quite demented!!!

[PorkyMinch]

There was a tree in my school playground that split in two so you could walk through it. My best friend and I used to pretend it was a time portal.

We'd imagine we had been transported back to Victorian times, go up to other groups of children with astonished faces and say things like wow look at their far out clothes!

Or we'd do it the other way round and pretend it was us visiting from the past. We'd go around the playground clutching at each other in fear and screaming if any of the future people talked to us.

[DXBMermaid]

There was a family in our village whose last name was knife. I phoned them up and asked to speak to Mrs Spoon, then hung up. Next my friend phoned and asked to speak to Mr Fork...

I used to pretend I was 'forrin' and speak in a fake accent

My friends and I had massive crushes on these older boys so during break time we used to stand as close to them as we dared. We'd hide behind this pillar and take turns to look at them while. They must have thought we were mad!

[Sunshineonsea]

[BalloonSlayer]

Does anyone else really really want to see Hootloop's guillemot dance?

Best friend and I used to pretend to be "foreign" in the park, talking, no - shouting! unrestrained gibberish to each other and responding as if we understood and were having a conversation.

We used to get lots of funny looks, which we put down to Xenophobia, and not to NuttersInTheParkphobia.

[Trinpy]

I used to play a game with my best friend in primary school where we pretended that we were flatmates - one of us was a nun and the other was a daily mail stereotype of a single mum on benefits who was always out getting drunk. There was another one where we pretended that one of us was a patient in a psychiatric hospital, called Maureen and the other one would be Maureen's nurse. The other girls in our class all played 'mums and dads' at breaktime. No idea where we got these ideas from, though I do know I was terrified I might end up poor or 'mad' as an adult so maybe it was a way of making it less scary.

[penguinplease]

Roaring with laughter after a rubbish day. Thank you so much!

[keepthechangeufilthyanimal]

Balloon - my friend and I used to do the foreign thing too! Once we were wandering the estate, obviously bored, and we knocked on someone's door pretending to be French and asking for directions! They invited us in while they found a map
I had to keep quiet or else burst into laughter but my friend was v convincing and kept up the act for ages!

[ConfusedDotty]

I bragged and bragged about having the last BMX bike to my school friends, I didn't actually have one, it was some second hand shopper type bike and I pinched some foamy pipe lagging from my Dad's shed and put it on the frame and handle bars. We all met up at the park on weekend, I also went on and on about how good I was at BMXing, I performed some weak 'bunny hop' all the pipe lagging fell off revealing a Raleigh Cherry Blossom. I was mortified, it was never mentioned the next week at school.

[Trunchbull]

I used to copy characters out of books. I can't remember which book it was but it involved keeping a small child as a pet, so I got one of the younger children from our estate and convinced her it was a good idea to live in our bin cupboard.

I also went along my grandparents street picking flowers from the neighbours gardens then knocking on their doors and selling them bunches of them for 10p.

I used to eat privet leaves and the woodchips out of the wallpaper.

[Trunchbull]

I have also just remembered I used to tell anyone who would listen that I was a brilliant ice skater, that I had lessons every week (I'd never skated in my life) and that Robin Cousins was my cousin.

[ArrivedAtPanicStation]

I remember hating my recorder lessons. I used to just skip the lessons sometimes and promise to practice songs at home, I never did. But decided to tell everyone how amazing I was...

I was made to stand up in school assembly with 2 other girls and play a song. I just pretended to blow into the recorder and move my fingers, I honestly thought I may die of shame.


I used to cut my "my Little Ponys" hair off and hide it under my pillow, because obviously No-one would find it there

[Lozzapops]

I remembered another...

I found a lighter once, so when I got home, I rolled up a piece of paper of my mum's memo block next to the phone, lit it, blew it out and then smoked it like a cigarette! I was probably about 13, so really old enough to know better. I just remember it tasted disgusting, and my room stank! I also used to breathe in the smoke from incense sticks. Whyyyyy?!

[TonytheFish]

Am loving that I was not the only weird child!

This is the sort of thing, you did, then makes you wonder if you were a very odd child, or just a normal child!

nice to know I was normal, or surrounded by other weirdos!

[HappyHippyChick]

I have nominated this thread for classics as it has made me weep, the 'I am 15' badge, the French girls, 'I love Robson and Jerome' it's too brilliant to lose!

[TonytheFish]

Oh, as a teen, I was very vain! Hence refused to wear my glasses!

On a school trip to London, we visited the Tower of London, and from across the way I saw a queue so assumed it was somewhere interesting, told all my friends we should go see what it was. It was the ladies toilets! Not sure how I got all the joking for that one, they could bloody well see! Wore my glasses more often after that!

Me and my other friend, also used to do that, pretending to be foreign, when we were wandering around the street and came across some boys we didn't know, but fancied! kept it up for hours!

[Mandy2003]

Our school had a "tower block" (only 3 floors but who knew?!) and, knowing we would get a supply teacher, we made a boy give us his boots and held them upside down out the top floor classroom window pretending there was a kid suspended out there!!

Sitting in the back row of the class while the teacher read "Grandad With Snails" for the umpteenth time, sparked up a cigarette.

Having been given lines, 5 double pages torn from an exercise book to fill, went back the next day and said "Sir, you only gave us 3 pages..." That was to an RE teacher as well

[Beaverfeaver]

Piercing my nose in art class

[JupiterGentlefly]

I used a an emery board to file away blackheads under my eyes. I didn't know what blackheads were and got disturbed (there were about 20... the fun I could have had!!) they duly disappeared. The next morning I had two linear scabs underneath each eye...

[TonytheFish]

Oh god, I for some reason, aged 11 I trimmed my eyelashes, on one eye only!

I remain convinced to this day, they are still shorter and more stubby on that side! I still check often!