What silly things did you do as a child?

AMKC · 08-11-2019 9:30pm #1

So what did you do?

When I was about 10 and staying my cousin we decided to go have a look at the back of a lorry tractor unit that would be parked nearby. We got destryed from all the grease on the hitch lol.
Another time when me and my sister were staying at my Anty we were out playing in the shed and there was a biscuit tin full of what I thought was water so I decided to was my face with it but ended up destroyed in oil lol.

beejee · 08-11-2019 9:34pm

I found an old sword once, out the back of a chipper. Not knowing what else to do, I held it aloft my head and then fabulous secret powers were revealed to me. It was gas altogether

Dial Hard · 08-11-2019 9:57pm

Thought the best place to hide in a game of hide and seek was standing on the outside sill of my (upstairs) bedroom window, with the curtains closed. I was about four. One of the neighbours spotted me and ran in to tell my mam. It took her a good five or ten minutes to coax me in and I remember being really annoyed at having my excellent spot ruined by the neighbour.

HeidiHeidi · 08-11-2019 10:03pm

Fell down every single flight of stairs in our house (there were a lot), interior and exterior, face/head first - winding up in hospital having my head stitched on one occasion, going to school with gouges all down one side of my face on another.

I still have problems going down stairs to this day.

EmmetSpiceland · 08-11-2019 10:03pm

I was going to say “eating chewing gum off the road” when I saw the title of the thread.

I see now that I might have a different idea about the word “silly”.

andekwarhola · 08-11-2019 10:04pm

Enjoyed cordial relations with my 'boomer' parents.

Borderfox · 08-11-2019 10:06pm

Drank bleach when I was 4

NewRed2 · 08-11-2019 10:07pm

Had aunt and uncle and cousins visiting us. So me and cousins got up early in the morning and started playing hide and seek while all the parents were in bed.
I hid in the upstairs bath tub.
So around 7am I'm lying down in the bath tub hiding. Suddenly I hear foot-steps coming running into the bathroom so I jumped up out of the bath tub thinking I had been found.
It turned out that it was my Aunt who had made the short dash across the landing from the spare room facing the bathroom. She was naked from the waist up!!!!!! Her baps were bouncing around as she ran into the bathroom. So as I jumped out of the bath tub she screamed and I screamed and then she went running back to the bedroom and I climbed out of the bath tub, slightly shook.
It was my first time seeing a woman's melons and unfortunately it is etched, ingrained, into my memory.
I never played hide and seek again after that day.
And I'd imagine she probably never ran topless across an upstairs landing again either.

HeidiHeidi · 08-11-2019 10:08pm

Borderfox wrote: »

Drank bleach when I was 4

Ooh, you've just reminded me, I was found at some tender age (too young to remember) scooping handfuls of washing powder into my gob, wound up in hospital that time as well, having my stomach pumped I believe......

amber2 · 08-11-2019 10:09pm

Not me, Brothers threw a match into a petrol tank of a car, ended up in the eye, ear and throat.

Seamai · 08-11-2019 10:16pm

Myself and my brother used to pour sugar all over the lino on the kitchen floor early on weekend mornings and go skating around in our socks, not sure where we got the idea but my poor mother would have a fit when she got up, the threat was always the same "there will be no Monkees for ye tonight". The funny thing is I can't remember anything about the TV programme so we must have been bold a lot.

corner of hells · 08-11-2019 10:22pm

beejee wrote: »

I found an old sword once, out the back of a chipper. Not knowing what else to do, I held it aloft my head and then fabulous secret powers were revealed to me. It was gas altogether

What were you doing round the back of a chipper?

milehip · 08-11-2019 10:22pm

Borderfox wrote: »

Drank bleach when I was 4

Snap, just replace bleach with dettol.

freshpopcorn · 08-11-2019 10:23pm

I called the teacher mam!

elperello · 08-11-2019 10:23pm

Grow up.

08-11-2019 10:25pm

Made a home-made banger which involved using sellotape - lit the banger but the sellotape stuck to my finger- BANG!!!

Sardonicat · 08-11-2019 10:26pm

Seamai wrote: »

Myself and my brother used to pour sugar all over the lino on the kitchen floor early on weekend mornings and go skating around in our socks, not sure where we got the idea but my poor mother would have a fit when she got up, the threat was always the same "there will be no Monkees for ye tonight". The funny thing is I can't remember anything about the TV programme so we must have been bold a lot.

You probably got the idea off The Monkees!

08-11-2019 10:27pm

I ate Lux soapflakes

HeidiHeidi · 08-11-2019 10:28pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I ate Lux soapflakes

Another one with good taste!

iamwhoiam · 08-11-2019 10:29pm

My brother convinced me if I jumped off the shed roof with an open umbrella I would gently float down

So I did , and I didn’t !

One eyed Jack · 08-11-2019 10:29pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I called the teacher mam!

I did that too, the teacher was my mam though and she wasn’t happy about it. The rest of the class thought it was hilarious when she clocked me across the head... fcukers :mad: :pac:

Honestly I’m not sure how I survived childhood with the amount of silly things I did. My brothers were just as bad though and it was like we’d turned endangering ourselves into a competitive sport :pac:

08-11-2019 10:30pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Another one with good taste!

very clean mouth after

thunderdog · 08-11-2019 10:31pm

Bee on a string. The steps were as follows:
1. Catch a bee in a glass jar
2. Once caught stick the bee in the freezer for 1 hour max. Just enough to knock the bee out but not overcook it.
3. Take bee out of freezer and tie a string around it’s body. Needed a steady hand for this.
4. Attach other end of string to your finger.
5. Once the bee woke up, hilarity would ensue as we brought the pet bee on a string for a walk

Good times

monkeysnapper · 08-11-2019 10:32pm

As a kid I once put these cool glass diamonds into my bag next to my bed only to find later someone had stollen them and poured water all over my bedside locker..

I remember going down stairs and shouting at my much older sisters and all they could do is laugh at me which made me even angrier.... i got more of these beauties and warned them not to touch these ones.....

Bitches did it again only poured even more water over my bedside locker......

I've never been let forget this heinous crime that took part that day....

Insect Overlord · 08-11-2019 10:32pm

Me and my brother took all our teddies and blankets (and maybe even the duvets off our beds) and put them at the bottom of the stairs. We used them as a crash-pad/landing-mat and jumped from the top steps. Couldn't have been much more than 6 or 7 at the time.

Lirange · 08-11-2019 10:35pm

Deciding to play intermediary between our cross neighbours and a group of slightly younger kids playing football in the street. My diplomacy didn’t go as well as hoped because as soon as the door opened I was immediately hosed down and doused with flour. Then had the door slammed in my face. Think I stood there in shock for a full minute.

HeidiHeidi · 08-11-2019 10:35pm

Deleted User wrote: »

very clean mouth after

I had a very clean entire digestive tract!!!

One more that comes to mind..... we lived in a very old house, there were defunct servants' bells in some rooms, I thought it would be a good idea to stick my finger into one (Lord knows why), there were live wires of some sort in there and I shot myself halfway back across the room and still have the scars on my thumb to this day.

Thinking back on it all, I wonder how I ever made it to adulthood at all.

Insect Overlord · 08-11-2019 10:37pm

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I did that too, the teacher was my mam though and she wasn’t happy about it. The rest of the class thought it was hilarious when she clocked me across the head... fcukers :mad: :pac:

One of my best friends when I was 12 was the son of our 5th/6th class teacher. I still remember the day he had to say "Dad!" when he couldn't get our teacher's attention saying "Sir".

08-11-2019 10:38pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I had a very clean entire digestive tract!!!

One more that comes to mind..... we lived in a very old house, there were defunct servants' bells in some rooms, I thought it would be a good idea to stick my finger into one (Lord knows why), there were live wires of some sort in there and I shot myself halfway back across the room and still have the scars on my thumb to this day.

Thinking back on it all, I wonder how I ever made it to adulthood at all.

Old style plug socket (2 pin)- decided to repeatedly insert and remove the plug from the socket in quick succession- no idea why i wished to do that (I was about 7 at the time)- like you, was propelled a good 8 foot across the living room.

corner of hells · 08-11-2019 10:47pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Old style plug socket (2 pin)- decided to repeatedly insert and remove the plug from the socket in quick succession- no idea why i wished to do that (I was about 7 at the time)- like you, was propelled a good 8 foot across the living room.

I decided to replace the fuse in my older sisters hairdryer when I was about 8 , I'm not even sure if the fuse was blown.
Anyway I'm famously lazy and decided to push the plug into the socket without putting the back on the plug .

I was also propelled about 8 foot across the room , 8 foot must be a unit electrical measurement for shocks.

retro:electro · 08-11-2019 10:49pm

My next door neighbour and best friend lived with her granny. We used to get up in the middle of the night and try on her false teeth

iamwhoiam · 08-11-2019 10:55pm

I watched a swan build a nest on the canal for a few weeks . She amazed me how she built a perfect cosy nest .She laid the eggs carefully and She and her buddy then sat on the eggs . I was so excited so decided to have a closer look . By now sure I thought we were great friends and I fed them bread daily .
So I boldy walked closer and closer to see the eggs . I saw a white flash and wings outstretched she launched at me with a hiss and snapped at my leg .
Jaysus it hurt for weeks

08-11-2019 10:56pm

My cousin had a Pog I really wanted and told me if I took a bite out of a white candle and ate it that he'd give it to me. I did, and he didn't.

Another time we set our Grans living room on fire arguing over who got to light a fancy candle with a pilfered lighter when we were supposed to be watching cartoons quietly on a Saturday morning. The curtains had gone up before we decided the situation was urgent enough to wake our Granddad, the poor man.

I gave the same cousin a 'haircut' that was a cross between a puddingbowl cut and a Monks tonsor when we were about seven.

corner of hells · 08-11-2019 10:56pm

retro:electro wrote: »

My next door neighbour and best friend lived with her granny. We used to get up in the middle of the night and try on her false teeth

That's enough of AH for me tonight , I'm out.

08-11-2019 11:01pm

Went to a very packed community hall in some nether region of Ireland where I watched a man with a projector show us a film reel of statues apparently moving in some egregiously nether region of Cork. It's not everybody who can claim to have been... caught up in the moving statues craze of 1985. An, em, very unique moment in time.

The conversation in that community hall was remarkably similar to 1:44 in the video below, 'Look at her head moving...'. It would have been great for the local economy if they could have made it into another Lourdes. The woman at 2:38 here is impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZjM83wZmWw

08-11-2019 11:05pm

corner of hells wrote: »

I decided to replace the fuse in my older sisters hairdryer when I was about 8 , I'm not even sure if the fuse was blown.
Anyway I'm famously lazy and decided to push the plug into the socket without putting the back on the plug .

I was also propelled about 8 foot across the room , 8 foot must be a unit electrical measurement for shocks.

:D:D:p

08-11-2019 11:09pm

I nearly had a wee laughing at Retro trying on the grannys false teeth

beejee · 08-11-2019 11:10pm

corner of hells wrote: »

What were you doing round the back of a chipper?

Becoming the most powerful man in the universe, that sort of craic

Aceandstuff · 08-11-2019 11:14pm

monkeysnapper wrote: »

As a kid I once put these cool glass diamonds into my bag next to my bed only to find later someone had stollen them and poured water all over my bedside locker..

I remember going down stairs and shouting at my much older sisters and all they could do is laugh at me which made me even angrier.... i got more of these beauties and warned them not to touch these ones.....

Bitches did it again only poured even more water over my bedside locker......

I've never been let forget this heinous crime that took part that day....

It was ice, wasn't it.

Jimmy Bottlehead · 08-11-2019 11:30pm

Tried to open sewer covers in our local town so I could go meet Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michaelangelo.

castletownman · 08-11-2019 11:39pm

Full-blown WWF matches with the brothers and cousins, with those biscuit tin lids used as steel chairs, and including death-defying moves like swanton bombs and frog splashes. Remembering letting one of the older cousins do a tombstone on me once too. Come the summer, the Royal Rumbles we had on the bales were epic

Another time, a cousin said he'd cut my hair for me, and ended up nipping my ear. Blood everywhere.

I had a really enjoyable childhood

dartboardio · 08-11-2019 11:42pm

I used to slide down the stairs on my belly (not head first) and thought it was great fun as a slide until I got reeeally bad carpet burn eventually all over my belly!

Me and my cousins first ever new years staying up, we were about seven and all staying at grannys house, as we still do

my auntie and mam let us both stay up really late and every year from then on wed put the ironing board up in the kitchen and all the Christmas sweets and toys on it and pretended it was our shop.

It was great fun and my cousin and I love eachother like brother and sister!

It was a ritual for my auntie and I to do the 'footloose' dance everytime we seen eachother, until I was about twelve.

Or dancing around the kitchen with my grandmother on Christmas eve.

With friends, we used to bring all our bratz dolls and toys out to the garden and do a toy swap every so often.

08-11-2019 11:44pm

dartboardio wrote: »

I used to slide down the stairs on my belly (not head first) and thought it was great fun as a slide until I got reeeally bad carpet burn eventually all over my belly!

Amateur. I used to do the same but I lay on a large flat wooden serving tray for the journey. I think I'd been watching Olympic bobsledding or something

dartboardio · 08-11-2019 11:47pm

Candie wrote: »

Amateur. I used to do the same but I lay on a large flat wooden serving tray for the journey. I think I'd been watching Olympic bobsledding or something

Brilliant idea. Think we may have eventually resorted to trying to drag a single mattress off my bed. Don't think that worked too well!

Potential-Monke · 09-11-2019 12:00am

I did quite a few stupid things in my youth. I used to love eating coal, briquettes, fire lights and the lead from pencils. I remember coal being quite tasty.

Another time, when I was 12, I got my 11 year old cousin to hold blocks while I tried to split them with an axe. Don't know how I didn't kill him! Another day, the same cousins father drove in and drove over a brush, breaking it. In my pre-teen mind I thought a good reply was to hop a plastic block off his young fellas forehead... I was a stupid kid.

ldy4mxonucwsq6 · 09-11-2019 12:00am

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I was going to say “eating chewing gum off the road” when I saw the title of the thread.

I see now that I might have a different idea about the word “silly”.

I've been there, stones still embedded for extra crunch. Lucky enough if you got a nice fresh bit.

Jaysus, gross when you think about it.

Mrcaramelchoc · 09-11-2019 12:03am

When i was very young i drank turpentine(white spirit) from under the kitchen sink thinking it was 7up.i was duly rushed to the hospital to have my stomach pumped.
I don't remember it at all but ive been told the story lots of times.

Sorry about that · 09-11-2019 12:04am

Age ten, sobbing in front of the telly while watching the video for "Take On Me" by Aha; such was the crush I had on Morten Harket.

Raconteuse · 09-11-2019 12:14am

Drank a load of bubble bath.

Sardonicat · 09-11-2019 12:35am

Went out to the back alley during a very heavy shower of rain, took my shoes off and stood in the middle of a puddle of water where my very angry mother found me with my head thrown back, eyes screwed shut and mouth wide open. Apparently, I wanted to know what it felt like to be a raindrop.

Walked around the kitchen backwards while holding a mirror. I was trying to travel back in time.

I could go on, but I'm getting embarrassed typing this. Let's just say there are many stair related anecdotes and one of them involves me hanging upside down when my clumpy 1970's shoe got trapped between the spindles when I climbed over the bannister. I was left dangling while my Mum chatted with the milkman at the front door...

09-11-2019 12:37am

Raconteuse wrote: »

Drank a load of bubble bath.

For a dare?

I'd say 80% of the stupid stuff I drank or ate were for dares. The rest was curiosity!

What silly things did you do as a child?

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