The most trouble you ever got into as a kid?

[ohiosmith]

When I was 9, three buddies and I accidentally started a three alarm fire in a field next to where we lived. My brother ratted us out. My mother beat me, my father beat me, and for years whenever my relatives visited they beat me.

Worst of all, we started the fire the first day of summer vacation. The real punishment, I was grounded until the first day of the new school year. Not allowed out of my room except for meals and to go to Sunday School. No TV, games, comics, or visitors.

[calico1]

1. I once locked my grandmother out of our

aparmtent. She had gone out to get the mail or something and the door locked shut. So she knocked. I said "sorry but I can't open the door for anybody" and kept saying this to her. She pleaded with me. "But it's me! Your grandmother! I hae some beans on the stove!" to no avail. The downstairs neighbor ended up using a screwdriver or something to get the door open. My parents had always told us never to open the door, so I didn't. I was around 6 at the time. ;-)

[ohiosmith]

2. :

:rofl:

What happened to the beans?

[calico1]

18. Oh, the neighbor was able to open the door

in time! My poor grandmother. But I was just doing what I had been told! It was a family joke for many years. My Mom would always laugh when she remembered that.:rofl:

[TheBaldyMan]

3. I burned down my school ...

well, if truth be told, it wasn't me. A schoolfriend and I were putting out the fire, we got caught at the scene of the crime then we got saddled with the blame.

[Mojambo]

4. There was that time I skipped school for 3 months

I really got ripped for it, but 3 months of movies, air hockey and video arcades instead of school was totally worth it.

[Melynn]

5. Got caught smoking pot by parents

They didn't react well. They threaten to call the cops on me. So I stopped smoking pot.

Until I moved out of their house. :evilgrin:

[QMPMom]

6. On my 15th birthday

I told my PE teacher to fuck off. I wasn't the only one. One by one, she kicked 26 of us girls out that day. We all looked so cute lined up outside the Vice Principal's office in our gym suits.

I was scared shitless that my parents would ground me for life but, much to my surprise, they took my side! It was the best birthday!

It took the school administrators three days to talk to everyone. We were in trouble at school but they didn't really do anything to us.

[noonwitch]

7. I didn't get in trouble, but I told off middle school PE teachers

on a regular basis, usually over gymnastics and my lack of ability in that area.

6th grade "My body was not made to bend that way, on high bars, where I could break my leg falling to the ground."

7th grade "I refuse to do flips in the air on a trampoline. Yes, I have a bad attitude but I haven't broken my neck yet".

8th grade "You can give me an F in the gymnastics unit, I really don't care. I talked to my guidance counselor and she told me that my junior high gymn grade is not even going to be looked at by college admissions officers, so go ahead".

I always had a good attitude about team sports, swimming class, even tennis or sports like that, although I am a clutz and not good at any of it (except bowling, which really isn't a sport). In high school, all my gym classes were team sports-football in the fall, basketball in the early winter, volleyball in late winter and softball in the spring.

[Left Is Write]

20. For a second, I thought that said you were scared "shirtless."

That would be weird.

[SteppingRazor]

8. What do you consider "kid"?

I didn't get in much trouble in the preteen years. But from 13 to about 16 ... well, thank God they seal juvie records :evilgrin:

[ohiosmith]

10. 13 - 16 qualifies. Care to share?

[SteppingRazor]

15. Maybe someday I'll write my tell-all autobiography...

the chapters on these years, suffice to say, would include multiple arrests, running away from home in L.A. and making it as far as Blythe, CA, on the CA/AZ border, and various other incidents that I look back on today and wonder if that was even the same person. I have, thankfully, become more civilized since then.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. I climbed on a parked motorbike on the sidewalk

on my way to school, just because I wanted to "look cool." I was 7. When I jumped out, the bike fell over, making a HUGE noise!

I NEVER ran as fast before or after.

[idgiehkt]

11. usually for going off in the woods further than I was supposed to or

for longer. Back then we ran wild all over the neighborhood and no one worried. We rode our bikes for hours all over the place. But there were some places I wasn't supposed to go and that's where I usually wanted to and if they found out, I was sunk. I once got in trouble for climbing up on top of the neighbor's roof.

[Akoto]

12. Well, back when my parents owned their own floral shop ...

I vividly recall an important man coming to the shop to talk with my folks. I was really little at the time, but we had a spare room that I could hang out in to read books/do homework/play games.

While they were talking to the guy, I walked up to my dad and asked, "Dad, what's a bastard?" Apparently I'd heard the word somewhere. He scolded me, but I remember the way he laughed after the visitor was gone. :)

That's pretty dull, but I was a goody-two-shoes kid overall.

[RubyDuby in GA]

13. I had just turned 6 years old

I had a brand new baby brother and I was still pissed because I had specifically requested a sister. I was non-plused when he showed up. He was about 5 months old and my mom asked me to hold him and give him a bottle of juice while she took a very quick shower (now that I'm a mom with a 5 month old - I know exactly what she was going through and I would have reacted the same).

As I said, I was not happy with the new addition and I was trying to think of a way to send him back when it dawned on me. How do you send things back you don't want? You just mail them back. Yep. I had my baby brother outside, over my head, about to try to put him in the mailbox when my mom came from out of nowhere and snatched him out of my hands. I'll never forget that look on her face. She took him from me and told me I better not move one inch away from that mailbox until she got back.

Now this is the middle of summer and the street was crowded with kids and their moms were outside watching them all (late 70s - some moms went back to work, but all the moms around us stayed at home with the kiddies).

Like a dumbass, I stood there. When she got back, she whipped my ass from the mailbox all the way into the house. I then had to stand in the corner until my dad got home. Then I had to stay in my room for the rest of the summer.

It was the only spanking I ever got while I was growing up.

As I said, now that I have a 5 month old son and know what she was going through, I would have beat the living shit out of me too. I only found out two or three years ago that my dad laughed his ass off when he got home that day and she told him. It took him a long time to be able to come into my room to tell me that I had done a very bad thing. :)

[ohiosmith]

14. :

:rofl:

[QMPMom]

22. LOL LOL LOL!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That never occurred to me! I wish I had thought of it when they brought home my sister. I had requested a brother named Sam. :cry:

[Radio_Lady]

16. I stole a couple of boxes of "caps" for my Roy Rogers cap pistol. It was from a

local 5 & 10 cent store. The manager caught me and brought my parents in. I got a big lecture. Still remember the "tableau" with the manager behind his desk and my parents glaring at me.

I don't recall the punishment and was probably 8 to 10 years old.

[supernova]

17. Broke into Grandma's house

It was July and my birthday. I had my girlfriend over and we decided to go visit Grandma, who lived at the other end of the driveway.

When we got up to her house it was evident that she wasn't home. Which seemed odd to me at the time; she was always home. I wanted to leave her a note and tell her we stopped by. But I didn't have a piece of paper or a pen so... :dilemma:

She didn't have locks like now, this was a turn-of-the-century clapboard farmhouse. I was able to undo the hook on the screen door and walk in. I sat down, left a note and we left.

Of course, when Grandma got back, all hell broke loose. Deena, my friend was sent home, and I was spanked and not allowed visitors for the rest of the summer.

[Left Is Write]

19. I accidentally had a party at age 14.

It was about three weeks before school let out for the summer, and I was grounded for those three weeks.

[skygazer]

21. Forgery and grand theft (bank)

I was 17. Didn't even get anything out of it - it was sort of a dare. A friend needed 1000 bucks to buy a car, another friend volunteered her mother's bank account but chickened out of forging the withdrawal slip so I offered to do it. Just to see if I could get away with it. Which I did until her mom got the bank statement (that she was supposed to intercept). Mom went to bank, saw video, recognized moi and the shit hit the fan.

Lucky for me, there were extenuating circs - the mom, being a witch, told us she wouldn't press charges if we left town and never returned - nice, huh? My dad was buds with a high-falutin lawyer who pointed out to the lady that she was not squeaky clean here and made a deal. I never saw the inside of a courtroom.

Ah, youth!

[Haole Girl]

23. I missed 27 days of school my senior year of h.s....

...nobody even noticed until my father had to prove I was a full-time student to get reimbursed from his employer. He wasn't very pleased...1 more day off and I would have been considered part time. Then, I would have been in really big trouble! :scared:

[tigereye]

24. throwing gravel in the school parking lot

apparently cracked a neighbor's window. A few lunch detentions at the Cath. school.


Oddly, I never got in trouble for any of the things I did in high school - like taking the car and driving 30 miles to the city instead of where I said I was going - my parents were extremely tolerant. I can't even remember ever being grounded...