Silly things you did/thought when you were younger

[Jolty]

When I was 1, I climbed on the table and shouted "FUCK ELMO"

my dad says it was hilarious

 

[Mad MOAI]

I also touched a glass fronted furnace. I was 8. It burned :]

 

[Felidire]

Retarded Thoughts:
-At a young age I was told that the lake adjascent to our house would "Grab me, and pull me in, and no one would be able to find me." if I got too close to it. So I assumed the lake was some sort of evil entity that sucked in little children. (age 3)
-Thought me and a friend could make money by cutting up small pieces of paper, stapling them together, and making crude-quality books with a 50c label in the corner. Then made my friend sit on the handlebars shouting "Minibooks! come get your minibooks!" while I rode my bike around. (age 6-7) and I still have them in my room, I should scan them lmfao.


Incidents/Accidents:
-Decided it would be awesome to stack random objects up so I could reach the top of a steel fencepost twice my height. Succeeded in doing so, but jumped off before removing my hand causing the whole thing to rip open. (age 3)
-Went into the shed down the back with my dad and got told "don't touch the compressor, it'll burn you." Waited for him to leave and I literally remember going: :D "Now's my chance!" and ran up and touched it. Screamed for about 2 hours with my hand in the sink. (age 3)
-Pumped up a wheelbarrow-tyre too much with an air compressor and had it blow up in my face. (age 6)
-Went to visit my mum in hospital who was really stressed out, decided to race my sister around pretending to be dogs, went head first into the corner of a brick pillar and split my head open. (age 9-10)
-Stepped right next to a coiled up snake without realizing, literally, any closer and i'd have stepped on it. Backed away a little and then it uncoiled and slithered away. (age 12) Not so much an incident but I thought it was awesome. xD
-Found a 200m long barb-wire-fence, like so. Decided it would be smart to unearth one of the pickets, twist it 180º so it's upside down, let go of it, and then stand within close proximity gazing at it, wondering why it wasn't moving. It came down, hit me in the face, almost took out my eye and forced me to walk a mile back home with my hand and the left half of my face covered in blood. xP (age 13)
-Was listening to music while eating in the dark, and randomly started tapping a can of softdrink with a fork, accidentally put a hole in the side and it started spraying it's passionfruit flavoured contents all over my computer. The initial shock was hilarious. (age 15)


I know there's loads i've forgotten, so i'll just fill them in later.
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I walked on a bonfire and stood there till my shoes melted

That one just cracks me up. xD

 

[Coloursfall]

I jumped off a computer when I was 4-5 thinking I could fly like peter Pan. C: And I thought dinosaurs would come in my window and eat me at night, or the ones I had that were toys would come to life and eat me, so my mom gave me a flashlight that she called an 'anti-dinosaur-ray'. And at about 7 I stuffed cotton ball between my buttcheeks and hopped around nude pretending I was a rabbit. I was an... odd child.

 

[Rotomize]

I use to eat dog biscuits.

I cut my hair off coz i didnt like my curls (today i just embrace them coz curly hair is just awesome) and had to get the rest shaved off. People thought i had cancer

When i was in grade 3, i was in the car with my mum, brother and sister, and on the radio they were talking about the band t.A.T.u and how they were lesbians. So when i got out of the car, i shouted 'I'm a lesbian!' coz i didn't know what it meant. My mum got angry at me.

 

[nothing to see here]

Wow... reading through other people's lists is making me remember some stuff that I forgot about when making my own post. XD

• Fell off of a dresser when I was 2 years old and got cut right across the eyebrow on the edge of something, giving me a scar that's freakishly similar to Harry Potter's (except that it's not lightning-bolt shaped, of course.)
• Ate dog biscuits a few times when I was 4 or maybe 5.
• Saw a bug hole in the ground when I was 4 or maybe 5, and tried to stick my finger in it. Got bit by the centipede that just happened to be inside, and have been scared of centipedes ever since.
• Screamed "Get your grubby paws off of me!" at the school principal once when I was 5, when he was dragging me out of class for some reason.
• Not quite a year later, I kicked a teacher when she was dragging me off to the principal's office again (which seems to have happened a lot when I was 5-7 years old...); at the time I thought this was okay, since I had said "Let go of me or I'll kick your butt!" a little while before I actually kicked her.
• Slipped on the gym floor--twice in the same year--when I was in 5th or maybe 6th grade, thanks to my old shoes which didn't have any traction on the bottom anymore. Both times I went crashing head-first into the bleachers and ended up lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, the first time because hitting the bleachers had sliced part of my ear open and the second time from a nasty gash on my head. Refused to go to the hospital or get stitches for either of them (though my mom said the second one probably needed them), but still recovered without any problems.

 

[Jetx]

I used to think that if someone took the plug out while I was still in the bath, I would get sucked down the plughole with the water and die. My parents did it sometimes and I would flee as far away from it as possible and cling onto the sides of the bath, waiting for all the water to go.

and many other stupid things, like wondering why songs had to end

 

[Felidire]

Saw a bug hole in the ground when I was 4 or maybe 5, and tried to stick my finger in it. Got bit by the centipede that just happened to be inside, and have been scared of centipedes ever since.

Lol reminds me of the time I was sitting in the garden and a giant bull ant crawled on my leg, I started crying and was too scared to flick it away, so I was trying to smoosh it into my leg with a random icecream container. xD

oo.. I also got stabbed in the stomach with a lolsparkler when I was 9, burned a hole through my shirt and left a burnmark near mah belleh button~ <3

and there's a scar just below my left knee, from when I ran through the garden and hit my leg on a broken garden ornament thing.

I also have a more.. "personal" scar, located somewhere between the navel-scar and the knee-scar, which i'm not gonna go into details about. xP

There's also a large assortment of scars on my hands from art class, lino cutting ftw.

Ah, (yeah they just keep piling up ><;), when I was 4 or 5 I tripped and hit my mouth on the wooden corner of my mum's bed, so there's a scar under my lip from where the tooth went through. I forget it's there and then remember every time I shave.

aand in pre-school I was playing tag and ran into a head-height, horizontal-metal-bridge-thing and chipped a bunch of teeth.

 

[Dannichu]

That one just cracks me up. xD

Funnily enough, the story behind that is more or less exactly the same as yours with the compressor. Everyone told me to stay away, so the second nobody was looking, onto the fire I went. Obviously it had died down a lot, but the embers were very, very hot.

Remembered a couple of incidents with animals:

I had a ton of my my hair eaten by a goat - I bent down to pick some grass to feed it and it went for my hair. I had a bald patch for a while and oh my god it hurt.

I was bitten on the shoulder by a horse when I was about 5. I was at one of those petting farm-thingies and was standing outside the stables, when a horse just poked its head out of its stall and, aprops of nothing, bit me. What its teeth lacked in sharpness, it more than made up for in causing pain and bruising.

While at this crazy donkey derby thing when I was 7ish (a very Cornish thing that probably broke a million different laws, from allowing kids to bet money on races to the donkeys you can ride not having saddles or anything) and I was on a donkey, it bolted, I fell off and was then pretty much trampled by a whole herd of the things.

I'm gonna mention the dog attack again because it bears repeating; check out those scars and that's eighteen years later. Imagine what I looked like aged 5.

 

[see ya]

When I was very young, I would go over to a nearby cattle field and say, "I want to ride the cows!", and I would always try to sneak under the fence to get to them (I was never successful) I also kept pointing up to the sky and saying "I want to ride the moon!"

And I keep hearing stories from my grandma that I once snuck up onto the counter and ate an entire banana pie when I was about three years old. Just reaching my hand down and shoveling it in. That must have been awesome.

 

[Butterfree]

The first thing that comes to mind on seeing this thread's title, it took me embarrassingly long to first hear of the existence of orgasms, and before that, I found the idea that you could accidentally get pregnant quite puzzling. While I knew approximately how you got pregnant, I saw no reason to assume that people would ever do it deliberately when not wanting to get pregnant, so the image in my head was that it could just sort of happen in your sleep if you were sleeping with someone (in the literal sense). But that begged the question of why in the world they didn't just wear underwear while they slept, and at one point I actually asked the sex ed teacher that. Except I didn't actually include the full thought process behind it, instead just asking "How can you even get pregnant by accident? Why don't you just wear underwear?" which, in hindsight, must have sounded quite odd.

 

[see ya]

Wow, I actually did the same thing, Butterfree. I had a little book about how babies are made that of course mentioned nothing about sex and only showed a picture of a man and woman hugging and said something like "When a man and a woman REAAAALLY love each other...", so I was under the impression that the sperm basically phased through the man's stomach into the woman's. I was very confused for a long time, because I was a pretty dumb kid.

 

[Lupine Volt]

Alright. Here's mine. When I was younger, my brother and I decided to make a Pokemon zoo. We had all the little toys in habitats...and then we came to the water types. Being a little kid, I assumed we could just fill up a cardboard box with water from the bathroom and drag it back to our room. So, we spent about an hour shoveling water into the box, before my younger brother asks why we're not making any progress. Obviously, we sprung a leak. To clean it up, we took all of the towels in the bathroom and coated the entire floor...when our babysitting cousin walked in.

"...I'm so fired."

 

[blazheirio889]

Wow, I can only remember one stupid thing I did when I was little, and it pales in comparison to what you guys did.
I've loved to watch my older brother play video games, ever since I was little. So one day, when I was about three, four-ish? I was watching him play something on the N64 and I suddenly felt hungry. So I took a controller and chewed up the wire.

Yeah. That's it. Just in case you were wondering, the controller did go haywire. xD

 

[Noctowl]

I jumped off my dad's car, thinking I could fly. I ended up hurting my ankle.

 

[ignore_this_acct]

I thought there was a monster in the corner of my bedroom named "black-o" now that I think of it it sounds racist...

 

[Worst Username Ever]

I thought that you got worms in your mouth if you swore. Don't ask, it was something my mum told me.

Also, my brother thought there was a vampire/monster living under his bed, and if he hadn't fallen asleep at 24.00, it would bite him and give him nightmares.

 

[Rwr4539]

I used to think babies came out of the ass, mainly because I never thought of any other place for them to come out.
Ah the wonders of sex ed.
And porn. :D

 

[Flora]

^ My couin was under the impression that a "man-cell" flew out of the man's bottom. XP

One time I fell off a toy washer that I was standing on. Yowch.

 

[Thanks for All the Fish]

Ohhoho.
Once, when I was five, I made some stew out of...clean toilet paper, glue, and water, I belive, and proceeded to feed it to my three and a half year old brother.
The conversation went something like this:
Me:Here. Eat this.
Him:Fwat is it?*Yeah..he had a bit of a lisp*
Me: It's gruel!
Him:Ok!*omnom*
Three hours later in hospital...
Apparently a ggiant wad of stickish "gruel" had gotten stuck in his stomach or something and he was throwing up a lot.
After figuring out what is was, I remembering being taken in for what I considered back then,"the great Questioning."
I was like; but that's how you make gruel! Grampa said that's how Mommy's gruel tasted!