I got this topic idea from "The credit goes to the little things". Topic by " anonymous224" and I don't mean to take anything from it but I thought this could be a fun topic on it's own.

"Funny, silly things you did as a child."

When I was around 6 or so I found a praying mantis egg and I removed everything from my top dresser drawer, then put in the egg nestled in one of my socks.

One day I came home and it had hatched, all over my room.

Baby praying mantises (about an inch long each) in my drawers, under, on, and in my bed. On my curtains, etc. Me and my Mom spent a couple hours or so catching baby praying mantises in a couple a mason jars and taking them out to our garden. They were so cute.

I also remember my Dad flooding the front porch (in front of the house) one day. He wanted to kill the ants. I went out and sat on the porch with a spoon and scooped up ant's and put them in the flower bed so they wouldnt drown.

Good topic psychosis I remember a time when i made a ramp out in front of my house, me and my friends were jumping our bikes and we kept making it higher and higher there was a telephone pole right next to our ramp with a stabilizing cable and a bar to keep the cable from blocking the sidewalk, think of an "A" shape. we had to duck our heads under the cross beam so we didnt knock ourselves out HAHAHA now it just seems silly, and prolly a little dangerous, but it was a blast lol

Near where I lived there was a house that a decade earlier somebody had been shot in. My sister and I thought it was so totally thrilling (we lived in a very crime-free area) that we used to sneak around their garden/sit on the fence taking photos of each other at ......dun dun.... "THE MURDER HOUSE" on a little disposable camera.

I think we would even get dressed up for the event.

We were like five and ten. Ghouls from such a young age

Another time when i was a teen, i snuck out of the house once (well many times, but this is one where i got caught) everything was going good til i had to sneak back in. I carefully opened my window, and proceded to climb through, when i was almost all the way back in my mom flipped on the lightswitch and yelled "what in the hell do you think you're doin!!!!" i almost pissed myself, for real, and i immediately tried to go back out the window but failed miserably and wound up in a heap on the floor staring at my mom with what I'm sure was a pitiful look on my face HAHAHA. wow, so much trouble i got in for that, but the memory is priceless

This time I was like 6 or 7 and i was at my grandma's house and she was tending her garden. She was placing tin pie plates on the ground and pouring beer in them. ( i know, sounds kookie, but stay with me on this ) I asked her what she was doing and she explained to me that when slugs would come into her garden that the beer would attract them and they wouldn't go after her tomatoes and what-not. Yea, my grandma was an old school southern woman hehe. But then I asked her a question, and I'll never forget this.... I asked her how she kept grandpa out of her garden She laughed, but at the time I didn't really understand, but looking back it seems so funny to me now HAHAHA

sorry if it seems like i'm spamming but this could easily turn into one of my favorite threads

I caught a fish in the lake behind our house. It was the day before we went on a family vacation. I put the fish in the fish tank and about a half a loaf of bread because I didn't want it to go hungry. By the time we got back, everything in the tank was dead and the house smelled from top to bottom.

Poor little fishy.

I was about 15 and my brother 14 , we had staying the weekend our cousin who was about 10.

on our huge cherry tree in the back yard next to the house and over the patio hung a old tire on a rope. My cousin Bobby was swinging on it and wanted to be really swung. REALLY SWUNG hard.

so , on opposite sides we started to swing him until he started to swing in a circle horizontal to the ground at what seemed a break neck speed !!! literally his back was almost horizontal to the ground !! we were all laughing !!

then the rope broke...........

( I'm laughing as I'm writing this !)

He must have sailed a good 10 feet throught the air still sitting in that tire. lol

landing on the lawn on his back with the tire on top of him and his legs sticking out moaning. lol

yes he was fine.

When I was A child I have a distinct memory of shouting out at a pantomime, at the wrong time... I am embarrased to think about it these days...

HAHAHA i was laughing as i read it, nice post, funny

A friend of mine had a maple tree in his front yard, it was big. (funny how i seem to recall everything stupid i did, i did with my friends ) We would climb on his roof, jump out and grab a branch. The branches were limber enough that they would lower us to the ground like an elevator. Good innocent fun, right? but apperantly as we did this the branch got weaker. The last time my friend jumped the branch broke, and he let out a pitiful wail as he plummeted to the ground funniest sound I've ever heard HAHAHA i wish i had audio to post. He even made a thump when he hit the ground. I looked over the edge of the roof to see him trying to laugh, but he couldn't because he got the wind knocked out of him. We laugh about that to this day

This one is about my daughter She was only maybe 3 or 4 years old at the time. We were living in a 3rd story apartment in Everett WA, it was a sunny day, so my wife made ice cream cones for us and my daughter was giddy with excitement for some reason We went out on our balcony to enjoy our ice cream, and my daughter was next to me as i was leaning on the rail. She was jumping up and down, singing about her ice cream when the scoop of ice cream flew off her cone and went over the rail Her face froze somewhere in between laughter and terror, I'll never forget that hehe. I too was froze with what i can only assume was a stupid grin on my face as i waited for her reaction. Then we both heard the inevitable "splat!" she instantly started to cry, but i found the whole thing much too hilarious to hold it in, I couldn't stop laughing



and BTW, im not mean to my kids, we got her a new ice cream cone, and she promptly forgot about the first one

lmao I can hear that ' crack ' !

I was again about 15 and in a neighbors kitchen , having coffe with a view of the backyard . Where my sister and her friend that lived there, both about 10 . would climb up a swing set jungle jim , cross ontop of the ladder that one would normally hang from ( a spindle rail , at least 7 feet off the ground , grab a branch that hung within grabbing distance and both togeather would swing down like Tarzan. Over and over again they did this . Till again that familiar CRACK

LOL

both lay heaped togeather on the ground . Both still clutching the broken branch moaning. lmao.

No your not,
I like your stories. I would like more stories. I hope more people post.

Opened the door of a moving car one a highway because for some reason I thought the doors would act as wings and make the car fly.

i tried that once, we were going too fast for me to completely open the door, and my mom FREAKED! hehe we literally pulled over on the side of the highway and i got whooped.

There is an old railroad line running through our town, it wasnt used anymore, so they tore up the old railroad and it left a trail through the woods. after a while the trees grew to cover the trail like a canopy, and when the sun would set we would ride our bikes far down the trail.(again, i'm with my friends ) it would get dark quick, and really creepy. We used to try to stay as long as we could, but inevitably one of us would get spooked and take off on our bikes and we all rode as fast as possible down the trail and we'd swear the devil(or worse) was chasing us good memories hehe

EDIT: for some reason it posted what i wrote twice, so i erased it

Well considering i'm still a child...

Months ago, a couple of my mates and I jumped out of my bud Woodys window at like Two in the morning ( Eight or Nine for you Yanks ). We grabbed some Paint Ball guns and had an urban session, and ended up busting up some stuff including breaking car and house windows.

I don't remember this happening but my mom does: Once when I was little I was in the store with my mom and dad. I ran away from them in the store and went into a different aisle. So my mom went on one end of the aisle and my dad went to the other end, and I was in the middle of the aisle. I was running up and down the aisle saying, "Oh sh*t, oh sh*t." and there was some lady who worked in the store who heard me because she was in the aisle with us.

HAHAHA thats funny

My son once was trying to get dressed at his grandmother's(my mom) house and my mom is from down south and calls pants britches. My son caught on that thats what they were, and he went to look for his pants and started scratching his head and said "Grandma, I cant find my b****es anywhere." HAHAHA so funny

I love all these. Thanks everybody and please keep them coming!!!

When I was 5 I witnessed my neighbor, an old man in his 60s, get stabbed 17 times with a screwdriver by 2 strangers. I ran into my house yelling about what I'd just seen but nobody believed me. Finally my Gran went outside with me and she saw the old man lying on the ground. She called the police (there was no 911 back then) and the old guy was saved.

The 2 that attack him were eventually caught and went to prison, but because my Gran was so paranoid she told me not to tell anyone that I had witnessed the crime. So I kept my mouth shut.

Now that I think back on it I feel it was silly of me not to say anything because it would've been cool to go on the stand as a witness.

I had a sick childhood.

I must have been 4 or 5 (probably 4) and I STILL remember this stupid little question I asked my five cousins one afternoon.

We were all sitting around playing and I was excited because my Aunt Susan was coming to visit with my favorite uncle Gene and they were coming from Alaska on a plane (planes being endlessly fascinating). The odd part is that I have FOUR aunt Susans. In fact ALL my 1st Aunts are named Susan. So we were playing and I was chattering about my aunt and I finally sat up and asked my cousins "Hey, where does YOUR aunt Susan live?" They looked at me like I'd lost my marbles. And my their mother (another Aunt Susan) just about DIED with laughter.

I had four of them, I assumed ALL aunts were named Susan!

Here's another one of mine. I don't remember this one either but my mom does. I was at my grandma's house and there was this little boy there. He was either related to me or someone else there, I can really remember which. Anyway for some reason he was running around the house naked. (someone was trying to stop him I'm sure) I saw him naked and I asked my mom, "Mommy why does that little boy have a tail on his front?"

LOL

when my sister was 5-6 ( I was 10 -11 and my brothers each younger than I by a year ) we would pull pranks on each other. The funniest always happened to my sister. We'd play hide and seek in the house after school before my mother came home ( we were latchkey kids , not allowed to leave the house until she got home).

well my sister wanted me to hide her so I put her up on the shelf high in my mothers closet and shut the door - but we then went to watch tv and never looked for her. You could hear her faintly calling. lmao.


I don't know how this started but my sister , out of the bath ( and again we were all alone) , we drug her and threw her on the front porch and shut the door naked with only a dish towel . she'd frantically pound on the door and then suddenly she'd stop , look , and hide herself on the side of the house from on coming traffic. ( she was about 8 ) .

poor girl .always had a 'bald' patch on her head it seemed from my mom cutting gun out of her hair. lmao.

Me and my brother and one of his friends went camping one year in March, and around here thats right in between winter and spring. It was going pretty good, and the weather was nice the first day, the second day however turned out beautifully, nice and warm, so warm in fact that as we walked down the shore of the river we camped by, I was starting to work up a sweat. In case you don't know, I live in the Pacific Northwest and the rivers and streams in March are pretty much filled with snow-melt. For some reason I decided to take a dip, the sun was shining, I was sweating, it seemed like a good idea at the time. So I took off my shoes and socks etc. and found a good spot that was deep enough. My brother and his friend kept telling me i wouldn't do it, spurring me on in the way that only adolescent boys can so I worked up the nerve and jumped! I swear I ricocheted off the water It was so cold that i hardly had time to even get wet even though i fully submerged It wasn't until after i got out and caught my breath that i saw patches of snow on a hill across the river hehehe

^^^ lol thats so kool!

- When I was 5/6, I got sum liqor and matches and set the front garden stairs on FIRE.. which slowly crept over the whole house.. was 3 stories high..

- Same age - I was naked in the garden playing with sum kittens, hot summer afternoon... then a bee stung my penis.. mum had to rip it off with her kitchen gloves!

- when I was 4, having a bath with my bro, I got a toilet brush and scrubbed his back... sh** was floatin around everywhere lol..

- 10 yrs old - kicked a boy in the nuts! propper full on impact .. he was creaming and tumbling around like a headless chicken (funny .. but also seriously wrong!)..

list goes on really..

I used to pee in the ashtrays until I was seven trying to get dad to stop smoking. I got my hide sunburned a few times but oh well ... he quit.