Things you did as a child...

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that were stupid or funny!!

I love hearing stories of stupid/funny things people did when they were kids.

Here's ONE of mine.

I was about 4 years old and I had watched a story about Benjamin Franklin on TV. They talked about the kite and the key and electricity. I thought I would do the same thing. I got a key from my dad's key ring, cut a piece of yarn off of my rocking horse and tied the yarn to the key. Next I pulled the plug protector out of the outlet and stuck the key directly into the AC outlet. I tripped the breaker (thank God) and got a little jolt. Scared my mother to death. :birgits_giggle:

I know I am not the only one who did stuff like this when they were little....Come on share yours!
 
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VolGal423 said:
that were stupid or funny!!

I love hearing stories of stupid/funny things people did when they were kids.

Here's ONE of mine.

I was about 4 years old and I had watched a story about Benjamin Franklin on TV. They talked about the kite and the key and electricity. I thought I would do the same thing. I got a key from my dad's key ring, cut a piece of yarn off of my rocking horse and tied the yarn to the key. Next I pulled the plug protector out of the outlet and stuck the key directly into the AC outlet. I tripped the breaker (thank God) and got a little jolt. Scared my mother to death. :birgits_giggle:

I know I am not the only one who did stuff like this when they were little....Come on share yours!
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I've been thinking of one for 15-20 minutes from the other thread. But, it's way too close to what you just wrote.
 
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Slydell said:
I've been thinking of one for 15-20 minutes from the other thread. But, it's way too close to what you just wrote.
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Sly...I'm beginning to think we are the same person. Maybe I really AM bipolar. Post it anyway!
 
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VolGal423 said:
Sly...I'm beginning to think we are the same person. Maybe I really AM bipolar. Post it anyway!
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I was probably around 5 years old, give or take. We lived in an old house way out in the country. It had an outside fuse box. The kind that you actually replaced the fuses in. If a fuse blew, Dad would screw it out, put a coin in (penny probably), screw it back in and it worked. Somehow I knew all this. So, one day, I pushed a wagon up to the box, climbed on, unscrewed the fuse and reached in. Next thing I knew, was some time later and Mom was kneeling over me.
 
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Well, you know you can melt chocolate in the microwave, right?

I thought I could soften up some fingernail polish in the microwave. The fingernail polish got all hard so I thought I could make it liquidy again by putting it in the microwave.

KABOOM!
 
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I wonder how many people have put something in a microwave that doesn't belong. Ya know, without thinking. I have.
 
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i was around 6, it was the night of my play at school and i was the lead character. my pap had just torn down the barn and it was after church on a Sunday, still had my dress on. i went down to swing on the swingset and my momma and daddy told me not to get around the wood, it still had nails in it. i walk over and find a big old rusty one sticking up and in all my brilliance decide i would be a ballerina. i step onto it and attempt to push off and spin around and after about a full turn it slid thru my church shoes and into the bottom of my foot. almost all the way thru to the top side.
 
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A friend of mine microwaved a pie pan...and this was just a couple of years ago.
 
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VolGal423 said:
I know I am not the only one who did stuff like this when they were little....Come on share yours!
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lol I did something similar. I was 10 and my grandfather had got me a toolbox with tools in it. Well I thought the volt meter was the coolest. I was sticking it to diff batteries and stuff seeing how big of a readin I could get. Well I was showin a buddy and thought the outlet will set it off real good. Stuck the testing rods in and POOF! Scared tha crap out of me. Just smoke and a real loud crack sound. Couldnt shock me cause they had rubber sleeves. Blew the wires off tha rods too
 
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We had an electrician, years ago, do a similar thing. He was fairly new and testing some 110 circuity on a piece of equipment. Got on some 440 and boom goes the dynamite.
 
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I was just a little guy still wearing my footie jammies, when I saw my older brother and father building a rabbit trap. "Lemme hep, lemme hep" I said. My older brother shooed me away and said "go way, me and Dad are doin' this". So I promptly picked up a claw hammer and knocked my older brother unconscious. I still remember my Dad chasing me up the stairs as I slid to safety behind my Moms legs. She asked Dad what happened and he screamed "he just killed Jody!" Mom retorted "well you can't kill him too!"
My brother survived and never effed with me again. hehe
 
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I watched my best friend use a cordless drill with a 3/4 inch wood bit, attempt to drill through a IBC rootbeer bottle while holding it barehanded.

We were 10, and it was awesome. He still has the scar.
 
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VOL_in_Florida said:
I was just a little guy still wearing my footie jammies, when I saw my older brother and father building a rabbit trap. "Lemme hep, lemme hep" I said. My older brother shooed me away and said "go way, me and Dad are doin' this". So I promptly picked up a claw hammer and knocked my older brother unconscious. I still remember my Dad chasing me up the stairs as I slid to safety behind my Moms legs. She asked Dad what happened and he screamed "he just killed Jody!" Mom retorted "well you can't kill him too!"
My brother survived and never effed with me again. hehe
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Bahahaha!
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have you ever tried to chop a vine on a tree with a double edged hatchet? that'll part your hair..:banghead2:
 
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Me and my cousin were probably 8 or 9, and trying to lower the rim on the basketball hoop...trouble being, we had no ladder, and in our wisdom decided to climb the nuts and bolt heads holding the post together to get up to the ubolts holding the backboard on.

It worked great until he lost his footing and rather than fall, tried to regain it.

Pretty impressive scar from ankle to knee.

Another was making my little cousin go out and moon cars passing by on the state road, under the condition that if he mooned 20 cars he'd get a candy bar. All went well? until car 18 or so happened to be my grandfather. I'm sore from that whooping 20 some years later.
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When my step father had just started dating my mother, he was watching my sister and I while she went out to get something. We were about 3 and were taking a bath. My step father had left his razor out and I decided I would pretend to shave. Somehow I shaved off my eyebrow and came out of the bathroom with blood pouring down my face, with a look of shock. My future step father freaked out and thought my mother would never speak to him again.
 
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The power went out in our house. I wanted to see if it had come back on so I stuck a screwdriver in the socket. Thankfully it was the negative side and rubber handle. My mom asked me why I didn't just flip a switch. Too easy I guess.
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We had a deck that was 12' off the ground. I thought if I held a sheet by all for corners it would open like a parachute. That doesn't work.
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tri_vol said:
We had a deck that was 12' off the ground. I thought if I held a sheet by all for corners it would open like a parachute. That doesn't work.
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That explains the limp. :lolabove:
 
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People do slip on banana peels. Conducted an experiment one day in the lunch room. Kinda felt bad for the girl who fell but it was really funny and she was a good sport about it.
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tri_vol said:
We had a deck that was 12' off the ground. I thought if I held a sheet by all for corners it would open like a parachute. That doesn't work.
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I tried that with a plastic grocery bag off the back of the couch. Does. Not. Work.
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Neither does blankets. We tried it off a neighbor's garage once. I have no idea how we got up there, but the trip down was very fast.
 
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When I was about 10, my little brother was 5 and constantly bugging the crap out of me and my friends. One time I locked me and my friend in my room only to have my brother use a small screwdriver to unlock it from the other side. After two or three times of this, I got smart. I super glued the lock on my side! :crazy:
 
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