Silly things you did/thought when you were younger

[Saith]

I have a fire-standingy story too. :D

Basically, when I was sixish, we used to have bonfires at the bottom of the garden quite often. And, the next morning, me and my cousins/siblings/random kids who stayed the night would try to relight it. We, of course, had no idea how. So one time, we were down there staring at the ashes, when I noticed a bottle of gasoline. Chuffed, we built a mound of paper and grass and dry sticks and stuff, and I, standing in the middle, squirted the gasoline around me in a circle. We had a match and I set the gasoline on fire. And I was in the middle. I was also wearing sandles. I escaped due to the fact that I have bad organising skills, so the pile had already collapsed before I was in any danger. Stung like a bitch, though.

Also, found a can of rat poisen. Was dared to eat some. Didn't have my stomach pumped, surprisingly...

Painted myself green. All over. With soemthing that I don't think was paint... Took my father three hours to realise something was strange. Another two that it was me. He didn't do anything about it for a week, though. :D

Some teens (When I was eight) used to steal things from the shed, so me and my random assorted group (whoever happened to be there at the time) decided to build traps. They weren't too good. Mainly because the mud was thick, and we were using the small spades you find at the beach. So they were extremely small and shallow and didn't work.

 

[Dinru]

Oh, I just remembered a few:

I thought sex was incredibly painful for a woman, so I never knew why my parents kept calling me a "mistake" until I actually asked them about it. (My god, the look on my Mom's face when I asked her if sex was painful x3) (I was eight I think?)

I thought that if you learned all of the words to a song, you could never hear that song again for your whole life since you already knew it by heart. Therefore, until I was like 10 or 11, I made it a point not to listen to the choruses of songs I liked. x3

I thought I could make a "cloning device" that cloned cats out of paper and tape. However, someone decided to move the tape, and I cried because the "broke it". I feel bad for poor what's-his-name now; he was just trying to make it stick better, and he ended up making a little girl cry. :( (I think I was four)

I was too timid of a girl to get into any real bad accidents, but because a *lot* of my time when I was little was spent on a road, I didn't know cars posed any threats at all, and subsequently nearly got run over on several occasions. (Luckily I learned my lesson by like age 5)

I thought that death was just a really long sleep, and you'd wake up in a few hundred years or so... so I had no idea why we were mourning our bird when it died (I was like six ^^;)

 

[Felidire]

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.

That scar looks about the same size as the one on my hand, and that was my whole hand back then, so I can imagine how massive it must have been when you were like 5 or 6.
I'm gonna be straightforward, and say you make scars look pretty. ,xP

Omg, and you cooked me a mirror from twilight princess! :D

LawlIcookedyousoemdeku sticks

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

I used to chew the wires, really hard too! ..But only when I got game over. xP

 

[Dannichu]

I never knew why my parents kept calling me a "mistake" until I actually asked them about it.

...your parents kept calling you a mistake? Jesus o.o

That scar looks about the same size as the one on my hand, and that was my whole hand back then, so I can imagine how massive it must have been when you were like 5 or 6.
I'm gonna be straightforward, and say you make scars look pretty. ,xP

Omg, and you cooked me a mirror from twilight princess! :D

LawlIcookedyousoemdeku sticks

I used to chew the wires, really hard too! ..But only when I got game over. xP

:D

And those Deku Sticks are amazing XD

 

[Dinru]

...your parents kept calling you a mistake? Jesus o.o

It was just to tease, not as anything bad (or at least, I never took any offense to it x3). My parents did seriously want me as soon as Mom knew she was pregnant. I always thought of it as similar to when a parent calls their kid a shrimp; it's not the kid's fault that their smaller than the parent, but it's a fun way for the parent to tease the kid x3.

 

[Felidire]

lol I remember when I was in grade 2, me and a friend were standing outside the classroom, he was wearing a cap and he knelt down to tie up his shoe. I was standing there bored and so I started playing with my own spit, like making a loong tendril of saliva and then sucking it back into my mouth. Anyways, I made this reeally long one that I couldn't quite get back into my mouth, I was like *sluurp slrrp* "lolfuck." So it landed right on the tip of his cap and kinda just.. slowly began to hang there in front of his face. He yelled at me and ran and got the teacher. ,,xP

it probably doesn't sound funny but I can just imagine what it must have looked like from his perspective.

 

[HisGothicTwilightPrincess]

lolz some of these are really funny. I never did anything quite that awesome but-
When we were little my brother and I used to "sword" fight with sticks and I would end up beating the snot out of him and leaving bleeding welt all over him. He didn't even cry, though. Eventaully he refused to sword fight anymore. darn.

I used to think I was a witch and try to make potions (did EVERYONE try and make potions out of something? what's up with that?) out of dandelions, water, leaves that were apparently poisonus, and pretty orange and yellow flowers. It was pretty, but nothing happened.

After watching "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" my brother and I went outside and built a rocketship out of a gallon bucket. I was standing in the bucket. We tied a string around and and tried to light the string on fire using my mom's glasses and the sun. Nothing happened. (i'm not sure why we were lighting the string on fire. It wasn't a bottlerocket lolz)

My Dad used to chase me around with olives, trying to force them in my mouth, and tell my they were roaches. I still can't eat olives. XP My Dad also used to playfully threaten to suck my hair up in the vacuum cleaner, which led to my current phobia of vacuum cleaners.

 

[Bluberry Bat]

Oh my.. where to start..

First thing is the more permanent one I guess. =D When I was younger I had just an affinity for animals as I do nowadays. My family and I were at a dog show/training camp of sorts, and me being a 3 year old entranced by the pretty doggies, ran up to one of the training lines. I happened to choose the one easily spooked, and got a nice nip. Ended up with about 40 stitches and a scar on my cheek and above my left eye.
No fear of dogs in me though.. But to this day I worry about what happened to that dog. I was rushed off my face covered in blood, but a dog biting at a 3 year old can often be put down.. I really hope I didn't end up causing that. =/ I could never forgive myself.

However, I STILL have a certain spook in me about sleeping in the dark. Not BEING in the dark, but sleeping. I LOVE nighttime, taking talks at night, in the dark, etcetera, but I STILL sleep with a nightlight. I also usually have an MP3 player/my radio on, because the silence and darkness are very unnerving to me when trying to get to sleep. (I see and hear things often too.. ) I even have an easier time sleeping in the day time.
And I also for a long time had that under-the-bed fear. But I never believed in monsters under the bed or anything, strangely enough, but I always hopped fast into bed and didn't stand next to it, never looked under it, like I believed something would grab my feet and pull me under or something anyway. I also slept in the centre of the bed and stayed curled up to make sure my arms and legs didn't hang over.

I always believed others could read my thoughts.. I still get that nagging feeling sometimes, but as a kid I would get really held up controlling what I was thinking.

I used to LOVE throwing my Star Wars Lego starships at the wall =D Cause they would explode and I would pretend they like.. got shot down or something and create scenes from the rubble. Problem is, this left dents in the wall. And sometimes the pieces got lost, and revealed later. And anything who has stepped on a lego piece.. Well, you know what comes next.

Uuh.. Crud I'm blank for now.. xD;; Maybe more later

 

[Felidire]

(did EVERYONE try and make potions out of something? what's up with that?)

Lol, I know I did at some point.
..and my sister uses a hell of a lot of shampoo to brew her concoctions. xD

Kinda strange how we all tried to make them. =x

 

[Dannichu]

I did.

Still do, sometimes, now I think about it X3
My sister and I discovered that mixing together all the cleaning fluids we can find in the entire house is pretty good at getting burnt residue off the bottom of saucepans. And I burn things with an alarming frequency, so we bring out the carpet cleaner, toothpaste and antifreeze more than we probably should.

(God, I want to go read George's Marvellous Medicine now)

 

[spaekle]

Retarded Thoughts:
-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.

Hahaha, this reminds me of something my friends and I did. We somehow ended up with a whole lot of bricks and a wheelbarrow to carry them around in, so we decided to build a fort using "mud-crete" to hold the bricks together. Mud-crete was... mud. Just mud. It might have been made out of a certain kind of dirt or something, I dunno. We thought we had a really good idea, so we tried selling big buckets of mud by the side of the road and wondered why no one took up the offer.

At another point we came up with a three-step method of killing spiders that involved throwing sand on it, pouring a solution that consisted of dog shampoo and more sand onto it, and then picking it up with tongs and throwing it in a big bucket of soapy water. This was a lot more efficient than just stomping the damned thing. We tortured so many spiders. :(

Then at some point we were going door-to-door and doing the can-can for people. Or at least some butchered version of it. Then we did it to my parents and got in trouble.

We did more stupid shit; I'll post when I remember it. :D

 

[Dewgong]

I used to have something that my oldest cousin and I called "Sprinkle Surprise".

It was a mix of 7up, sprinkles, fudge, chalk dust, paper, and sprinkles. All in one, drinkable glass. We made fliers and everything, and drew advertisements and stuck them all over the 'hood.

Nobody liked it.

 

[Felidire]

And I burn things with an alarming frequency,

Lol glad i'm not the only one.

the only 'potions' I mix now are rum and cola. ,xP

Hahaha, this reminds me of something my friends and I did. We somehow ended up with a whole lot of bricks and a wheelbarrow to carry them around in, so we decided to build a fort using "mud-crete" to hold the bricks together. Mud-crete was... mud. Just mud. It might have been made out of a certain kind of dirt or something, I dunno. We thought we had a really good idea, so we tried selling big buckets of mud by the side of the road and wondered why no one took up the offer.

LOL that's classic. xD
I've been laughing for over 10 minutes.

I used to have something that my oldest cousin and I called "Sprinkle Surprise".

It was a mix of 7up, sprinkles, fudge, chalk dust, paper, and sprinkles. All in one, drinkable glass. We made fliers and everything, and drew advertisements and stuck them all over the 'hood.

Nobody liked it.

I could never read the label on those bloody bottles, I always thought it was called "ziup" pronounced {Zoop}
Took me at least six years before I realized it was in fact a 7.

come on.. you gotta admit, the red circle looks kind of like an i.
that or i'm just fuckin blind. xD

 

[Dannichu]

^OMG me too! O.O I called it "Zup" until I was about fourteen XD

(ssh I don't like fizzy drinks)

 

[Felidire]

How'd you figure out that it was a 7 and not a Z? I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car in the Drive-Thru for KFC, and the women at the window was asking what drinks we wanted.

She said "7up" and I was thinking "7up, wtf's that? does she mean the... ....fail."><;;

 

[Not Meowth]

(God, I want to go read George's Marvellous Medicine now)

I charge you with the duty of reading that book, mixing together the actual ingredients listed and seeing if it actually does what Mr Dahl claims. Then report back to us.

You're never too old for these kind of crazy fuck-ups x3

 

[Minish]

Oh wow, I have so many of these... I'm going to ask my mum to make a list of the ones she knows about so I can post them here tomorrow. :D (I might even beat Dannichu's record...!)

Here's just one:

Me and my dad were walking in the woods (I was probably about six or seven), and he warned me about mushrooms, not to eat any in the wild because I might die. And since I asked him about EVERYTHING in the world, I must have asked how long it would take for them to kill you, and he said about four days.

So when he wasn't looking, or we split up or something, I had the sudden desire to tear off a tiny tiny tiny piece from a mushroom and eat it. Or I might have just licked one, I don't know. Anyway, I actually counted down the days until I would die. XD I would lie in bed, thinking 'three days left...' and so on. I didn't tell anyone, I just counted down, seriously thinking I was going to die and nobody would have any idea why.

Then I... didn't die, and just got in with life as normal. o_0;

 

[voltianqueen]

Man, this thread made me laugh so hard. XD

When I was about 4, I guess, I thought that whatever language you spoke was your nationality. Everyone kept making comments about me a being a little American girl, and I was always like, "No, I'm English!!" I'm actually not sure when that thought went away...

I used to think "bastard" was just another word for "monster"... So once I was pretending to fight a dragon in my grandmother's living room, and I was like "Get back, you bastard!!" Well, I got in trouble. ><
Still wondering why I thought that.

There's way more than just that, but I'll post again when I can think of them. :)

 

[Not Meowth]

When I was about 4, I guess, I thought that whatever language you spoke was your nationality. Everyone kept making comments about me a being a little American girl, and I was always like, "No, I'm English!!" I'm actually not sure when that thought went away...

On a somewhat related matter I thought every single country had its very own language. I remember being amazed when I asked my teacher in Year 2 if she could speak American and she said yes. xD I also thought every language sounded like English to somebody who can speak it but turns into gobbledygook if you speak it to anyone who doesn't understand it. (Arguably, it does, but you know how I mean.)

I also went through something like Cirrus' eating-mushrooms-to-see-if-you-die thing. I wanted to know what it'd be like to be dead or something and didn't drink anything for a few days. Then I got thirsty, and that was the end of that.

 

[Dannichu]

How'd you figure out that it was a 7 and not a Z? I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car in the Drive-Thru for KFC, and the women at the window was asking what drinks we wanted.

She said "7up" and I was thinking "7up, wtf's that? does she mean the... ....fail."><;;

XDDD I think I saw it written on a drinks list on a menu or something, and because the font was non-stupid, it all suddenly made sense. I'd heard people mention "7-Up" before, but I'd never actually made the connection X3

I charge you with the duty of reading that book, mixing together the actual ingredients listed and seeing if it actually does what Mr Dahl claims. Then report back to us.

You're never too old for these kind of crazy fuck-ups x3

Oh my god, I so want to do that now. I haven't a clue where I'd find random crap like flea powder, but that'd be the best thing ever. :D