stupidly innocent things you did as a kid

Frank Black · 08-08-2011 08:49AM

Myself and a friend found a cat who had just had a litter of kittens in one of the fields behind our house. We were only 7 or 8 I’d say. We took one of the kittens and kept it in my shed, never told anyone. A few days later we went off on a week’s holidays. I remember I left a bowl of milk and some sugar puffs on a plate for the kitten before we left.
Came back – obviously the kitten had died – probably a horrible death.
I still feel very guilty but I honestly didn’t do it out of malice.
Buried the kitten and never said anything to anyone about it.

PTO · 08-08-2011 08:49AM

I remember 2 things about my first trip to the Sugarloaf mountain. My delight to find that there was lots of Malteasers scattered on the ground everywhere up there and my parents disgust as I approached them with a mouth full of rabbit shít!!

deman · 08-08-2011 09:04AM

I used to grab a dessert spoon out of the kitchen, go out to the animal feed house in my dad's farm and start feeding myself on Golden Maverick calf milk powder. I remember being totally addicted to it.

CardBordWindow · 08-08-2011 09:07AM

When I was 7/8, I remember our teacher was on about nettle soup. The class were all saying 'But Miss, you can't eat nettles, you'll get stung!', but the teacher informed us that once they were cooked, they don't sting you.

The next weekend, off I go picking nettles, getting badly stung in the process. I throw the nettles into a pot of water and put it up on the cooker. I didn't know about the isolator switch at the time, so I left the pot up on a cold cooker for about 2 hours.
I tucked into my nettle soup which was basically just wet nettles, and stung the mouth off meself!

deman · 08-08-2011 09:13AM

MrsD007 wrote: »

In the weeks running up to Christmas my mam used to store bottles of whiskey, brandy, chocolates and boxes of sweets at the bottom of her wardrobe.

My brother and I found a large box of Lemon's sweets (the ones with the picture of Santa on the box) and we opened the box from underneath. Every night we would steal a few sweets from the box but the box looked perfectly intact. When we had eaten more than half the contents of the box we decided we needed to do something to make up for the lost weight, so we gathered pea gravel from the garden and started wrapping up the stones and putting them into the box.

My mother gave away that box of sweets stones as a present, I often wondered who received it :pac: :pac: :pac:

Thank you for making me lol in a public place. Now people are looking strangely at me.

Ms. Chanandler Bong · 08-08-2011 09:17AM

I devoured an entire jar of beetroot when I was about 3 or 4. Needless to say, it didn't agree with my insides & I had pinky-purple-y stuff coming out of both ends a short while later. My mother was convinced it was due to an ice-pop I had eaten & forbade me eat them ever again (since I quite obviously had some sort of allergy to them!:rolleyes:) I've never told her the truth...

sunflower27 · 08-08-2011 09:22AM

In primary school I never knew what kids meant when the talked about skidmarks or skiddies. I was convinced I was the only kid that didn't understand it so I never asked anyone. One time when someone made a joke about someone leaving skiddies in the boy's bathroom, I made a point of sneaking in for a look

Well worth it :rolleyes::p

TonyStark · 08-08-2011 09:24AM

When I was about 4/5 I saw my dad shave with the razor... decided to copy him and slash my face with a few strokes of the razor... I remember their horrified look.. luckily no scars...

TangyZizzle · 08-08-2011 02:58PM

Remember those little cadet fizzy drinks? I tried to neck one of them one day as my granddad slept and it turned out to be some chemical my Mam was going to use to clean the drainpipes at home - not really my fault though was it?

Bit the top off an orange crayon in junior infants - didn't try that again.

Apparently I was a fiend for looking up nurses skirts while visiting my Gran in hospital - 3 yrs old at the time

Teyla Emmagan · 08-08-2011 03:06PM

I gave myself a tonsure before my own holy communion. My Mam had to give me a comb over and pin the veil to the front of my fringe to cover it.

I did it so I could pick the scab on my head better that I got from climbing through a hedge.

That was about 2 weeks after I'd cut off all my eyelashes.

It was just a phase, I'm over it now. Not sure if she is though.

Oh yeah, and I ended up in A&E having a horse shoe cut off my neck as well at one stage.

I was a stupid child.

Malari · 08-08-2011 03:19PM

When I was about 3 or 4 I used to eat coal. I'd sneak off down to the coal bunker behind the shed and chew away on a hunk of it.

Then I'd come back into the kitchen and my mom would ask "Malari...were you eating coal again?"

"No mom" I'd say, convinced I'd got away with it, although I looked like a minstrel with my entire face covered in coal dust...:rolleyes:

My mom blames her craving for burned toast while she was pregnant on this one.

Mr. Manager · 08-08-2011 03:27PM

I used to snap all my parents cigarettes and flush them down the toilet in the hopes they would quit smoking.

I then took up smoking some years later and did not see the funny side.

Naomi00 · 08-08-2011 03:27PM

When I was about 3 I poured a whole box of Readybrek all over the couch and mixed it all in..

pancuronium · 08-08-2011 03:31PM

black francis wrote: »

Myself and a friend found a cat who had just had a litter of kittens in one of the fields behind our house. We were only 7 or 8 I’d say. We took one of the kittens and kept it in my shed, never told anyone. A few days later we went off on a week’s holidays. I remember I left a bowl of milk and some sugar puffs on a plate for the kitten before we left.
Came back – obviously the kitten had died – probably a horrible death.
I still feel very guilty but I honestly didn’t do it out of malice.
Buried the kitten and never said anything to anyone about it.

LOL have a similar story myself!! there was a cat out in out garden that I felt sorry for & decided to start to feed him! A few days later I noticed the shed door was open & decided to close it didn't go in there for mabe 2 weeks...........What a sight poor thing.............. SAD THING IS I'M IN MY 30's & THIS ONLY HAPPENED ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO SHOULD HAVE SEEN MY WIFES FACE WE NEARLY HAD TO HAVE A MASS FOR THAT DAMB CAT LOL

antodeco · 08-08-2011 03:35PM

Karona wrote: »

Eeewwww, what did they taste like?:eek:

I'm going to take a wild guess here, a d assume snails?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 08-08-2011 04:01PM

When I was about eight I was snooping through my dad's tobacco packet looking for the rolling papers because I liked to play with them (paper! and you can make it stick to stuff! I was easily amused). Found some "chocolate", thought to myself aha he thinks he can hide the chocolate from me, I'll show him. Tasted like ****e, nothing happened to me (apart from getting roared at) but I'd say I cost my dad a fair bit of money that day.

My sister also managed to get into a bottle of whiskey when she was about six. She said she thought it was apple juice, after one gulp thought "this is the worst apple juice in the world" but kept going for another couple of slugs on principle. She was found completely locked and throwing up under the Christmas tree as I remember.

My brother is the youngest and so got talked over a lot in family conversations, as a result he had a habit of talking really loudly all the time. He and I were in hospital after a car crash when he was seven or so, an Indian doctor was attending to us and poor wee culchie had never seen someone who looked like that up close before. Just as the doctor was leaving my brother turned to me and roared "THE STRANGE THING ABOUT INDIANS IS THEY'RE BLACK BUT THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS ARE WHITE"

Paddy Samurai · 08-08-2011 04:15PM

When I was seven I played Fireman in the front garden,set fire to the hedge and pissed on it till it when out.
This worked the first couple of times.Unfortunately I ran out of urine and the hedge caught fire big time.Smoke billowing everywhere,neighbours with basins of water.
Real Firemen arrived and I got the sh!t scared out of me.The landlord was'nt too happy either.

Ps:If your going to play fireman,drink loads before hand.

x_Ellie_x · 08-08-2011 04:22PM

When I was 4, I decide to help my mam and wheel my sister's pram for her while she was talking to her friend. Mam didn't notice until I knocked the pram over on its side when I tried to wheel it over a curb on the footpath. My sister screamed for a little while but she was alright. My mam nearly ****in' killed me.

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When I was 10, Freddie Mercury had just died and my teacher was trying to explain AIDs to the class. She said something about scientists thinking that AID's first came from monkeys in Africa.

I was shocked and I said "So people got AID's from having sex with monkeys? The dirty bastards!"

All the girls were in bits laughing and the teacher was getting really red faced and flustered. "No Ellie!!! They most likely got it from killing and eating the monkeys as food."

Me: "Oh!"

A couple of girls in the class started crying hysterically when she said this because of the "poor monkeys". The teacher grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the class and down to the principal's office, phoned my mam, gave me lines, etc. That bitch hated me.

CrazyRabbit · 08-08-2011 04:23PM

Note to self : Lock all 'safety' razors away in safe when I get home.

eirn · 08-08-2011 04:33PM

Decided to spruce up my hair before my confirmation, cut a lump out of the front so I'd have a fringe. I have wavy hair, but once it was shorter, it just became a mass of curls, which I didn't care for, so I shaved it off, but I kept enough to give myself a comb-over.
I managed to get away with it too, until my mother forced me to go to the hair-dresser to get it styled for the big day. The hairdresser literally screamed once she saw the state of me, my mother just went red (half embarrassment/half anger) and I just kind of mumbled something like ' ah, it just fell out'

Shane-KornSpace · 08-08-2011 04:45PM

I was walking home from Nutgrove shopping centre with my ma when I was about 8.
I tried to run across the road through the gap in the traffic.
I got half way across and my ma called my name in terror. I looked to my right and there was a speeding ambulance coming right towards me.
But instead of running the whole way across the road, I ran back, just narrowly avoiding the ambulance.

Cherry Blossom Girl · 08-08-2011 05:03PM

pancuronium wrote: »

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LOL have a similar story myself!! there was a cat out in out garden that I felt sorry for & decided to start to feed him! A few days later I noticed the shed door was open & decided to close it didn't go in there for mabe 2 weeks...........What a sight poor thing.............. SAD THING IS I'M IN MY 30's & THIS ONLY HAPPENED ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO SHOULD HAVE SEEN MY WIFES FACE WE NEARLY HAD TO HAVE A MASS FOR THAT DAMB CAT LOL

Seriously? You're 30+ years old and You locked a random cat on your garden shed for two weeks? :eek:
Did you not hear it trying desperately to escape???

buswankers · 08-08-2011 05:17PM

Remember in the old cars back in the day the childlock switch was actually inside the car in between the driver & passenger seats rather than on the actual door of the car which couldnt be access unless the door was open - extremely dangerous when ya think about it.

Anyway, one day going heading out somewhere with my Mam, think I was about 5 & my sister was about 3 I decided it would be hilarious to play a trick on my sister...told her to try & open the car door - the switch was on at the time so she did & obviously the door didnt open. Then on the sly i flicked up the switch & told her to go again...que door opening & the little 3 year old falls out of the car. Talk about backfiring!! Thankfully we were literally at the end of our road in a quiet estate turning a corner at the time so the car was moving very slowly - but all i can remember is seeing my sister face down on all fours nappy in the air....i still have visions of that nappy!! I had my first encounter of many with the wooden spoon that day!
I still cringe when thinking about it today - what the hell was I thinking :eek:

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rainbowdrop · 08-08-2011 05:53PM

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

When travelling with my family through the North during the Troubles we were waiting in line at a British Army checkpoint. As the soldier finished at the car ahead and started walking towards our car I decided to start to sing "The Men Behind The Wire" which I had learned off by heart.

When I was at play-school in England (aged 3-4) we were asked to stand up, one by one, and sing a nursery rhyme. All the other kids were standing up singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' etc. I stood up and sang 'The Men Behind The Wire':o. Not good, as this play-school was run by the Church of England. In fairness, I heard it so often at home that I must have though it WAS a nursery rhyme!

Also asked the pakistani guy who owned the local shop why his hands were so dirty "Does your Mammy not give you a bath? Is that why your hands are so black? My Mammy ALWAYS gives me a bath"

Kids, eh?:rolleyes:

TouchingVirus · 08-08-2011 05:59PM

When I was about 5 or 6 and alone in the sitting room I used to take off my clothes, climb the book case and dive onto the couch pretending I was an Olympic Diver. I never closed the curtains either

LenaClaire · 08-08-2011 06:04PM

When I was about 8 or 9 my best friend and I decided that we should make perfume from the frangipani flowers in her front garden.

We figured that all you needed was some boiling hot water to get the smell out and then let it sit for a while, so we used the sink in her back bathroom and ran off to play while the perfume "cooked".

When we got back her mom nearly killed us as there was this rank smelling, foul looking mass of blackened flowers and nasty water in her bathroom and it took a good week for the smell to go away.

ringadingding · 08-08-2011 07:01PM

I used to climb trees and jump out of them using a carrier bag as a 'parachute', my shins still ache 25 years later.

We once collected about ( and no lie) about 200 frogs from the duck pond from the next estate, and put them all in a paddling poolin the garden, obviously they escaped and there was a street meeting about getting rid of the pest that had inhabited it, we never told Anyone it was us.

I was always a terror for scraping up chewing gum n eating it, I shudder now

smurfy89 · 08-08-2011 07:56PM

When I was 3 I decided to give myself a haircut with the hedge clippers left out in the front garden :eek:
Somehow I managed not to injure myself, but ended up with a stump for a fringe when I started primary school a couple of weeks later

deman · 08-08-2011 08:01PM

buswankers wrote: »

Remember in the old cars back in the day the childlock switch was actually inside the car in between the driver & passenger seats rather than on the actual door of the car which couldnt be access unless the door was open - extremely dangerous when ya think about it.

Anyway, one day going heading out somewhere with my Mam, think I was about 5 & my sister was about 3 I decided it would be hilarious to play a trick on my sister...told her to try & open the car door - the switch was on at the time so she did & obviously the door didnt open. Then on the sly i flicked up the switch & told her to go again...que door opening & the little 3 year old falls out of the car. Talk about backfiring!! Thankfully we were literally at the end of our road in a quiet estate turning a corner at the time so the car was moving very slowly - but all i can remember is seeing my sister face down on all fours nappy in the air....i still have visions of that nappy!! I had my first encounter of many with the wooden spoon that day!
I still cringe when thinking about it today - what the hell was I thinking :eek: !

Three years old and wearing a nappy?

madmammy · 08-08-2011 08:12PM

my brother had a pet caterpiller when he was about 9 one of those fluffy looking ones...he had to go somewhere and asked myself and my sister who were about 4 and 5 at the time to mind it
when he came back there wasn't much hair left on the thing, my little sister pulled them out she thought he got all the fluff on it walking on the ground and wanted to clean it
he nearly kilt us

stupidly innocent things you did as a kid

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