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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsEdit -----Share with us a time you got in mischief as a child or teen. Mine was sliding down a very high slag hill by
the mill on old boxes we found.

CanonRay
(15,325 posts)where we'd sneak off and mess around. We got chased and shot at (salt shot) by Railroad cops.My friend got a few salt pellets in his butt.
debm55
(45,472 posts)chased away. Never got shot at
2MuchNoise
(167 posts)debm55
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Picaro
(2,021 posts)More than a few times.
debm55
(45,472 posts)
AllaN01Bear
(25,502 posts)1: get your hand out of that cookie jar.. ( iwas being as stealthy as possible . our house was shaped like an l, and moms br was on the other side of the lliving room and next to the garage , so how did she hear me that far a distance.
2: quit jumping on the bed .
debm55
(45,472 posts)
Freddie
(9,860 posts)Oct 30 - back in the day us little kids would do pretty harmless things like ringing doorbells and drawing on windows with soap. One night a police officer put the pack of us in his car and accused us of doing a lot worse (ripping out rose bushes). The oldest of us persuaded him we were innocent and he let us go. I ran home, shut myself in my room and cried for hours (I was 7). My parents never found out.
debm55
(45,472 posts)
Basso8vb
(1,079 posts)Fooled just about everyone because those band kids can't be up to no good.
College band was even crazier.
Too much to recall.
debm55
(45,472 posts)
MiHale
(11,751 posts)Im lucky to be alive.
debm55
(45,472 posts)
WhiteTara
(30,797 posts)And while playing with the burn barrel, it jumped out and burned the field next to some large company. The employees had to run out and extinguish the flames before they reached the building.
I didnt get in trouble and I dont think there was a fine.
I now pray to Agni to contain my fires.
debm55
(45,472 posts)
WhiteTara
(30,797 posts)wcmagumba
(4,045 posts)I'm sure I did this as I was always a smart alec kid. Unfortunately, I didn't know what "mocking" meant and no one told me....
debm55
(45,472 posts)the meaning either. but I was 6 and had a knew word. so I went into my house, filled with aunts and said " I learned a new word---and it is __uck and it means__________. Got a slap across the face. I thought I was sharing a good thing
milestogo
(20,771 posts)I still remember her coming at me with a bar of soap to wash out my mouth (yes, some moms actually did that). My defense was - "there's nothing bad about it - it rhymes with shucks".
debm55
(45,472 posts)
milestogo
(20,771 posts)Yeah, I don't know how you're supposed to know. The punishment is to make sure you don't forget it.
2MuchNoise
(167 posts)I was in elementary school and decided it would be a good idea to write it on the bathroom stall.
I was in Catholic school. Let's just say, it didn't go ever very well.
Behind the Aegis
(55,411 posts)That said...I started smoking at 16 (11 years since I quit). I shoplifted a Playgirl as it wasn't easy for a young gay boy to find pics of naked men. I lived near DC when I was in my last two years of HS and would frequently sneak into the city and clubs. I was cute, so I was able to get into clubs that I shouldn't have.
I developed a system of cheating to help a friend of mine who was Iranian and trying to pass HS to make it easier to get citizenship. She did! I used to "drop food" at a few of the places I worked in order to give away food to some people who I knew needed it. For prom, I got high as a kite on the grounds of the Washington Monument.