Dumb things you did as a child

[Bighuey]

I did something similar. I was about 10 or 11 and some one hit the back of my parents car while we were in the store. The back bumper on one end was pushed up about 8 inches higher than the other end. I innocently said, "Boy, it really got knocked up." My parents started laughing, I didnt know why. My dad asked me if I knew what that meant but I didnt know. He said that means getting a woman pregnant. Oops.

[Skillian]

Awwww hahaha. Cute.


Now that some time has passed another time came to mind. Once I though I would run away. I was maybe seven. I had just seen some movie... I can't remember. But I thought it was a grand idea. I packed my backpack with clothes, toys, and a pack of hotdogs... because I would need food on the road. Anyway, I hung the backpack on the back of my door.. thinking I would wait for the moment to arise that afternoon. Then I later forgot I was running away. Aaaaaaaand weeks later (this was all during summer vacation so no school).... the smell.... was not pleasant. My poor... poor backpack and clothes. lol

[Bighuey]

I bet those hot dogs were pretty ripe.

Ive run away a few times, not because I was mad at anyone or wanted to leave home, but I would go somewhere and stay all day just fooling around and forget what time it was. A couple times my parents called the police and had the neighborhood out looking for me, but I wasnt lost. I knew where I was even if no one else did.

[Skillian]

haha

Yeah I've stayed at a friends house for longer than I should have without calling to check in enough... but they still knew where I was. But thats the closest I would say I've gotten to running away..... which is... not at all.

[Bighuey]

I remember once when I was 7 or 8 me and a couple other kids went to this junkyard near our place where they were scrapping out a bunch of WW2 war planes. I think we got in through a hole in the fence and were wandering around looking at the planes and I dont remember how it came about, but we climbed up on this platform about 15 or 20 feet high and for some reason or other we couldnt get down. After a while we got kind of scared and hollered until one of the workers got a ladder and we got down. I remember this guy really scared us. He said this was govt. property and we would go to prison for 20 years if we ever came back again. Never did go back.

[Skillian]

Oh man. I wouldn't have gone back either after that. haha. But how coooool. What a cool place to go poking around. I probably would have gone sneaking around in there too.

[Bighuey]

It was a neat place. There were some B-17's and some fighter planes. I remember we got into one of the 17's and pretended we were bombing the Nazis. Fun stuff.

[Skillian]

My husband's grandfather worked on planes during WWII so his house is filled with all kinds of cool stuff from his time there. The pictures alone are awesome.

[Bighuey]

Theres a war plane museum in Utah that has all those planes from WW1 on up. Its a cool place. When I was a kid we used to make toy planes from old boxes and whatever junk we could find and play at bombing Tokyo and have pretend dogfights, stuff like that. I dont suppose kids nowdays do that kind of stuff anymore.

[Skillian]

hahaha! I don't think so either. My nephew is all about video games, and super heroes. How times have changed...

[Bighuey]

Thats for sure. When I was a kid we made our own toys and games mostly.

[Himmelslicht]

Once I was in the junk room playing with my plushies and suddenly I felt sleepy. What did I do? I had the brilliant idea to get inside a box and use my toys as a blanket >_>
My mom got crazy the next 2 hours, she talked to the neighbours thinking I had been kidnapped because back in the day there was this suspicious van that epople thought they kidnapped children as slaves. Pretty scary stuff.
She looked for me everywhere and when she found me so got so pissed but at the same time didn't want to wake me up, aha.

[ALynnPowers]

Leaned some lumber against the roof of an old pickup truck, sat in a bucket, and used it as a slide. Needless to say, I crashed and injured myself.

[debbiebee]

I painted the shell of our very patient tortoise as I thought he must be tired of just being brown and grey. Luckily it did him no lasting damage, but I got the full 'more in sorrow than anger' lecture about respect for animals.

[Artiste8]

When I was a teenager, my friends would sleep over. After my parents would go to bed, we would sneak out and roam the neighbourhood. One night, we laid down in the middle of the street. When we'd see a car coming, we would get up and run. Then it was a police car coming and he saw us get up and run. He ran after us.
Another thing I did with my friends was write love letters and sign them your secret admirer and put them in people's mailboxes. One young girl got so scared, her parents called the police. They found out it was me, my parents were not impressed.
One time, my friend and I would took vodka to school in a thermos and drank it between classes. My friend forgot the mix so we had to drink it straight, Brought enough mouthwash so we wouldn't smell like alcohol.
We would call people at random through the phone book. This was before call display. We would pretend to be students from a university and doing a sex survey and ask to talk to guys around 20 and ask them personal questions.
These things were all for fun, I think I was bored a lot. But, they were good times.