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!

Oh dear!

Weeing on a rug in my bedroom (for some reason it felt nice) and lying about it, claiming I was asleep - aged about 4

Opening all the gates in front of houses along our road on the way to the shops, then closing them on the way back - aged about 5

Shoplifted pencils, rubbers, polos - aged about 13

Also spoke to a friend in made up language in the local park - aged about 13

Used a metal nail file to scrape away at dry skin on my legs - aged about 15

Pushed a friend around the town square at midnight in an abandoned shopping trolley we'd found - aged about 17

I'm sure there's more...

I remember it being funny not to cut the price tag off a new top and have it hanging out, if someone told you it was even funnier.
Wearing tights and leaves on my head (with encouragement from friends) and asking people for the time, also hysterically funny.
Kids are weird! I love all the replies, especially the striped wigged French one!

That reminds me, I wasn't allowed to get my eyebrows waxed, so I shaved them, I cut myself about 20 times and made a total mess, so I cut a fringe in to try and cover them up and made things about a million times worse, one side was really short and the other side really long, and I started it too far back. I had to make a flick like the blonde girl has in my hair with nearly a whole can of hairspray every day to try and hide my fringe and draw my eyebrows in with a light brown felt tip pen.

I guess I would have looked really cool if I went to secondry school in the 80s....

Oh! I also once stuck the sticker from an apple on the middle of my forehead. My mum allowed me to walk to the shop round the corner on my own, but only agreed it verbally from the top of the stairs whilst I was downstairs. So I walked to the shop with the sticker stuck on my head. Doh!

I remember putting animal dominoes into the wee in my potty, and watching as the layers of cardboard peeled away from each other.

I was distraught when my mum threw them away, I thought they could be fixed :(

Crazyoldcatlady - I did the stapler thing but I was 17 and in my first job and vair vair bored!

Oh and I've been trying my best to forget but haven't found enough brain bleach yet. I got roped into a charity evening, with a friend we sung a song about being small. I am an appalling singer and aged 13 was 5'7. I had never had the urge to run away from something like I did that night. I would be scared if I was famous that there might be a tape of it somewhere!

I also had a pet stone (or rather Done as I couldn't say the S). I dearly loved my stone and one day my Dad dropped it and broke it in 2, I was so upset he ended up buying superglue (money was really tight and could of done without the expense of superglue, I should add it wasn't like we were so poor I didn't have toys, I was just attached to a random stone). I was happy when my Done was stuck back together!

I shaved my chin or legs can't recall which with stepdad's razor, must have been 9 or 10 wanted to either see what it felt like or to shave what minuscule amounts of hair there was there.

I bled. awkward!

Had the made-up language with friends.

I also for some strange reason if friends came round sometimes I wouldn't play/speak to them (not falling out) and went off to read. (was a bookworm). My mum was really pissed off with me for that!

I couldn't see what was wrong (me going off to read).

I moved a lot as a kid. At one school I decided the way to make new friends was to impress them with my standing on one leg talent. I really was very good and could soon spend the whole break stood one one leg. For some bizarre reason it didnt seem to attract friends. Can't think why....

I wrote a love letter to my great love (aged about 9). I wanted it to smell "sexy" (although I had no idea what this meant) so I rubbed my mum's best soap around the edge.

I love these :) I was holding it together until I got to the walking the Labrador pretending to be blind and the leaping onto the dining room chair at school, I laughed out loud

I used to read books on the toilet as a child, not because I needed a wee but because i was comfy there. I'd just sit on the toilet until I'd finished the whole book.

And when I was about 13 my friend and I got a can of deodorant and a lighter and made massive flames by spraying the lit lighter with deo. In my parents garage!! Idiots.

This is a great thread.
It seems to me that if you are going to go into teaching you have to accept that you will be a focus of a lot of weird behaviour. Dealing with weird behaviour must be a massive part of teacher training.

TEACHER TRAINING SYLLABUS

MODULE 4: the crank phone call (crush-related)
MODULE 5: the crank phone call (funny name related)
MODULE 6: the fantasist (believes is foreign; believes is blind; believes is an animal)

I knocked on a random persons door to ask Ou est la gare? Me and my friend thought it was funny, not sure the woman did.

Made up a dance to a medley of Erasure songs (which would totally out me if the friend I did it with is a mnetter). Made up a medley of North and South songs with same friend. (Some shit band from some shit TV show).

Used to phone the free sex line from phone boxes to ask them question s, we though we were funny but its what the line was for so they would have been used to it. Used to phone the operator a lot as well and ask stupid things. Got a boys number out of the phone book that we fancied and phoned him to tell him that two girls fancied him. Years later my friend saw him out and told him who it was.

Does anyone else want to twist their chin?

I used to eat...

rubbers
paper
scabs

I have no idea why.

This is my 7th year mnetting & I can honestly say this is the best thread I've ever read.

That's it ! I've now bust the again (ribs) probably.

I used to see how much loo paper I could fit up my nose. It's amazing how it just vanishes. I do wonder if its still there clogging up my sinuses.

I have to concede of all the hilarious, the classics.. this is the best. I just know that some pearl of wisdom is going to interrupt my beauty sleep tonight!

Where I went to school we used to go to an old chapel once a month. The floors had knot holes in them and we used to drop polos on the heads of the people below.

Before that I used to virtually live my life on old fashioned 1970's rollerskates. We were intent on doing a trick which involved me hanging off the back of a bike and going down a kerb and up a kerb across a driveway through the pavement. Every time I fell off, hurt my knee and eventually got Impetigo.

One of our neighbours used to wash her hair in a barrel in the garden (this was the 1970's). This (to my shame) caused us to sing through the holes in fence "she's just a devil woman, with evil looks in her eyes" - a Cliff Richard classic to those who weren't around at that time.

We also used to play "Sainsbury's" in the shed where we had a till and would make complaints about the service.

We once made a special mission to discover what was in the big pile of bags in the wood. It was mililtary. We planned it with great detail. They contained dog poo.

Its not really unique this one (been racking my brain cell) but did other 40+ ring 100 and ask for Busby?

nova.. blech!

Oh god, crying at singing devil woman to your poor neighbour washing her hair nova! I'll think of that and start laughing to myself when I'm out in public I'm sure