What is the oddest thing you did as a kid?

John Doe1 · 02-08-2014 06:36PM #1

So I went to Mosney when i was like 8 and met a couple of other lads, we started playng football and doing typical 7yo boy stuff.
When they asked me where i was from I said Monaghan, I had no idea really where Monaghan was or what they sounded like so I put on a a sort of leprechaun accent.
I have no idea why I did this:o

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 02-08-2014 06:38PM

Sellotaped a torch to the handlebars of my bike and went around the estate at night pretending I was Street Hawk.

Banjo String · 02-08-2014 06:40PM

Sinead from across the road.

AlfaZen · 02-08-2014 06:43PM

I ate the curtains in my bedroom.

takamichinoku · 02-08-2014 06:44PM

Before starting school
There's a tape somewhere in the house, it's gone missing (I think my mam recorded over it actually, but she denies that), where there's recordings of me talking about dead animals I found and what I assumed happened them. It started when a bird killed itself flying into a window at home and I witnessed it. My mam just got a tape recorder thing and I insisted on recording the story to honour the bird, then it just became a bit of a fad for me to talk about dead animals around the place.

School
- I used to take down the death notifications being read out on the radio on the way to school and recite them at the beginning of the day to the classroom.

- Held an absolute ton of funerals for any dead animals found around the school and made everyone attend. That's probably not as odd.

- Made communion using eggcups, bread, water, the oven(/on a shovel over the fire)... always wanted to experiment with wafers but we didn't seem to have any ever.

Banjo String · 02-08-2014 06:44PM

AlfaZen wrote: »

I ate the curtains in my bedroom.

Ah here. Pull yourself together man FFS.

Rosie Rant · 02-08-2014 06:45PM

Became best friends with inanimate objects!

Duff · 02-08-2014 06:45PM

Put clumps of grass on electric fences and then reel in laughter when cows bit them and did the funky.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 02-08-2014 06:46PM

Rosie Rant wrote: »

Became best friends with inanimate objects!

And you don't still do that?

*Cough* Rampant Rabbit *Cough*.

Sir Arthur Daley · 02-08-2014 06:53PM

takamichinoku wrote: »

School
I used to take down the death notifications being read out on the radio on the way to school and recite them at the beginning of the day to the classroom.

Held an absolute ton of funerals for any dead animals found around the school and made everyone attend. That's probably not as odd.

Made communion using eggcups, bread, water, the oven(/on a shovel over the fire(... always wanted to experiment with wafers but we didn't seem to have any ever.

You sound like a fella i used know, he gave all his childhood playing priest, no interest in toy cars, toy tractors, sports or girls. It was mass after mass if he came round. He had all the dress up, he had stolen fancy jugs glasses as alter chalices. He used a tv stand as an alter. He made a cross out of 2 bits of 2x1, had a barbie nailed to it.
He used use white buttons as communion and ribena as wine. He is a priest now true story.

Tail Docker · 02-08-2014 06:58PM

Aged around 9, I tied string to the handlebars of my bike and used to imagine it was a horse and the string was the reins. I'd steer using the string. In my own little head, the Lone Ranger had nothing on me.

takamichinoku · 02-08-2014 07:00PM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

You sound like a fella i used know, he gave all his childhood playing priest, no interest in toy cars, toy tractors, sports or girls. It was mass after mass if he came round. He had all the dress up, he had stolen fancy jugs glasses as alter chalices. He used a tv stand as an alter. He made a cross out of 2 bits of 2x1, had a barbie nailed to it.
He used use white buttons as communion and ribena as wine. He is a priest now true story.

Ahhh, I was the other way around altogether. Took me until I was about 13 to realise that I was treating catholicism as some kind of fun game and didn't actually believe a bit of it at all at all!
Kept playing for a few years after that too.

Oh, thought of another one!
I had a collection of 2.5" tall religious statues

Bonedigger · 02-08-2014 07:03PM

My brother and I were reminiscing a couple of weeks ago about the things we got up to in childhood,and he said did I ever remember scraping up chewing gum which had been walked into the roads and footpaths and eating it!:eek:
My god,I can still feel the grit between my teeth just thinking about it!:o

ElleEm · 02-08-2014 07:07PM

Bonedigger wrote: »

My brother and I were reminiscing a couple of weeks ago about the things we got up to in childhood,and he said did I ever remember scraping up chewing gum which had been walked into the roads and footpaths and eating it!:eek:
My god,I can still feel the grit between my teeth just thinking about it!:o

I think most kids gave this a shot

I used to "collect" snails. I would keep them all in an upside down plant pot, then be surprised when they all died, then I would collect more and repeat the process. Poor snails!

_Whimsical_ · 02-08-2014 07:07PM

At around age 4 my friend and I had a game where we would cross our arms and nod 4 times and believe we had been magically rendered invisible to everyone but each other. Then we would follow strangers around,be completely heedless to anyone speaking to us and attempt assorted feats that we would not otherwise try.
Everything was much more fun when you are invisible.

At around 4 I also tried to sell my drawings and toys I didn't like to my adult neighbours. When they took pity on me and gave me money without taking anything off me I returned the next day to try and shake them down again.
Then my mum found out and suffice to say that income steam was cut off quicksmart much to my great annoyance.

takamichinoku · 02-08-2014 07:11PM

Ooooh, another one! When I was about 4, I wandered off with a man I never met before who had a mole on his face because I thought he was Mr Bean. According to my dad, the man wasn't remotely amused by this; my whole family still call the guy Mr Bean.

Paedophiles, that's how you lure children, a passing resemblance to Mr Bean.

KingOfFairview · 02-08-2014 07:12PM

Ate several dozen rubber bands (having chewed them over the course of a few nights) and a substantial proportion of an Adrian Mole book.

Bipolar Joe · 02-08-2014 07:21PM

When I discovered how to tie knots, I tied everything up. I "Wasted" lots of expensive yarn tying things up in the garden, it looked like a spiders nest in the gay pride parade. I also tied my Sister to the bed with a kite, and myself to the bath.

I became obsessed with super heroes, and wanted to be one, so I ordered a ninja outfit from a mail order magazine. Made some nunchuks and sneaked out of the house at night, waiting for crime. Dunno how the other super heroes find crime, it's actually really fucking hard.

Tail Docker · 02-08-2014 07:21PM

On the "church" front, at around 12 I got press-ganged into serving as one of the altar boys, I was highly not impressed. The job involved wearing a white, floor length robe which hid your feet, so I reckoned it would be great craic altogether to bob around and "float" across the back of the altar while priesty had his back turned to us and was talking to the congregation.

I got sacked as an altar boy after that first outing and got a flea in my ear from the teachers too. I reckoned it was worth it, all the kids at the mass were breaking their holes laughing under their hands.

Sulla Felix · 02-08-2014 07:25PM

Dropped trou and pissed on a checkers board that my brother and cousin were playing on because they wouldn't let me play. Age 5.

Maphisto · 02-08-2014 08:09PM

Pre school. My mum was friends with another mother. Me and her son locked ourselves in the bathroom, turned on all the taps full on and then unrolled all the toilet rolls and stuck them to the walls and floor.

Two mums going absolutely ape****

ComplyOrDie · 02-08-2014 08:16PM

Won the Jackpot at the races, I was 7 and just picked names i liked. My parents collected the £943 and gave me £43 to spend on whatever i wanted, the rest went to the bank.

cazzer22 · 02-08-2014 08:25PM

Banjo String wrote: »

Ah here. Pull yourself together man FFS.

Please don't tell me your name is Annette Curtain.

Pumpkinseeds · 02-08-2014 09:07PM

Got married to a neighbourhood kid while we cycled around on bikes, we were about 10 years old I think. NO idea why we did that, good job it wasn't legally binding

cazzer22 · 02-08-2014 09:11PM

When I was about seven, I told a good friend that I would teach her how to rollerskate. I made up all these tricks and moves with strange names and she thought she was the business, she showed her brothers and sisters the 'tricks' and made an arse of herself when they told her, the tricks weren't real haha. No idea why I did it.

Hotfail.com · 02-08-2014 09:25PM

Dressing up as Baby Bop from Barney in playschool and assaulting my brother.. The thought of it makes me chuckle

ArtyM · 02-08-2014 09:36PM

Bought a broom handle and some paints in local hardware store, painted Chinese style symbols on it and walked around thinking I was Monkey from the Water Margin Tv show. Taught myself Chinese too, my own unique version, which bore no similarities to the actual version.

Used to sleepwalk, they would find me the next morning under all the coats in the cupboard.

Used to like to drink Molasses and Water. The thought of this today makes me retch.

Used to stare at the Dog intensely and use my Telepathic powers to make him fart. Had a decent hit rate with that actually - though there is a chance that the Dog in question was just flatulent by nature and I didn't actually influence this in any way.

FizzleSticks · 02-08-2014 09:54PM

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Cienciano · 02-08-2014 10:13PM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Dropped trou and pissed on a checkers board that my brother and cousin were playing on because they wouldn't let me play. Age 25.

FYP

takamichinoku · 02-08-2014 10:34PM

Me and my younger brother were playing outside, about 7 and 5, I'd say. I see my dad arriving at the gate on his bike and, for no reason whatsoever, I abruptly decide to walk down to him really slowly with a serious face and say "[Younger brother] has a fierce bad smell off him, I think he's after ****ting himself". My dad immediately brings him into the house all serious and the brother hasn't a clue what's up.

10 minutes or so later, I head into the house and see my brother lying face on the bed down with no pants or trousers on, towel under him and some cleaning things around him. I ask him what's up and he says he thought he shat himself.

ringadingding · 02-08-2014 11:17PM

Once, aged 6, I decided that I wanted to keep the class gerbil, Hannah.
So I took action.
I put Hannah into my pocket, where I had already stashed some porridge oats.
This ill fated plan was flawed from the start, as I put her into her ' pocket nest' at 9:05.
By 9:10 my leg was scratched to fûck and I decided this was more hassle than it's worth.
So I slyly put Hannah into the corridor.
Hannah ran into the next classroom where to teacher nearly had a heart attack and ran for for the headmaster.
Who, and fair balls to him, he thought it was a rat, slid under the table and cornered the nibbly scratchy little fûck.
As he neared Hannah, she jumped, he jumped. He whacked his head off the top of the table.
Hannah ran and was never seen again.

I didn't even like gerbils

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