Crazy kids

[Shea]

Inspired by Em's medicine story in the food thread, I wanted to start one about the strange things we did as toddlers.

One of my story's:

When I was two, I had a habit of not only getting up in the middle of the night, but also of imitating people. One night, I decided I was going to imitate my Dad shaving. So I went into the bathroom, got down the razor and shaving cream, put the plug in the sink and turned on the water. Then I decided that I was too sleepy and I went back to bed. My mom woke up the next morning to the sound of running water and when she swung her feet over the bed and stepped in ankle deep water! Our carpets had an enjoyable day in the sun!

Like I said that's just one. I used to get into so much trouble that our ****atiel (our bird, for the censor) learned how to say my name!

[verybaddmom]

what a great idea for a thread. expect many posts: i was an idiot when i was a kid, and did tons of stupid things. and I have a child now..who is just like me, so there are tons of dumb things that he does too...its great. anyhow right now, no time. crazy kids later....ooh.

[emily655321]

Oh, I should have read this before I posted on the food thread again. :D I'm sure I have plenty more. I'll have to ask my mom.

[Lolita]

I ate a ladybird.

[emily655321]

I have a million "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" moments. (Oddly enough, many of which occur at church.)

When I was two my great uncle got married. It had been a bit of a family scandal because he was at least 50 and I believe she was still in her 20's. Before the wedding my mother was explaining that the father of the bride walks her up the aisle. Only, it turned out that my uncle and the bride had decided to walk up together. When they got to the altar and everything was silent in the church (I believe it was even a big echo-y cathedral) -- you could have heard a pin drop -- all of a sudden I said very loudly, "Is she his daughter?"

:eek: :D

[amuse]

oh HELP!!!!!!!
ROFLMAO :D

[Shea]

Ok, this one is actually about my cousin, but I remember it. I was three and she had just turned four. We had all gone to the annual Dade Battlefield reenactment, and my cousin's dad was one of the soldiers. (all the soldiers, but one, die) Well, the gunfire all stopped and everthing got rather quiet, and my cousin was very enthralled in it all because her dad was laying dead on the ground. Suddenly she yelled (and she has a very loud voice), "He's not dead! I see him breathing!" The entire audience laughed, and many dead soldiers convulsed!:D

[papayahed]

When I was around four or five my mom and I got into a car accident. Apparantly I was fine but my mom was a little worried because I was quieter than usual, but I was checked out and i had no injuries so we went to my grandmas house. My grandma asks me if I'm ok and what happened. The first thing out of my mouth was: Momma said "****". Apparantly that was what I was worried about rather than the accident that totaled our car. Anyways, my grandma hit the roof and gave my mom all kinds of hell for swearing infront of me.

[amuse]

i four, and visiting family in boston. and being a curious child, wanted to know and absorb the various uses of a bobby pin i found. (true wisdom, aye ;)) so what did i do? stuck it in an electric outlet - with both prongs.
:eek:! :eek:!

[emily655321]

Oooh. No. Poor baby Az :( We had those little plastic things you cover bare outlets with. I didn't know why we had them, but I would crawl around the house finding them and covering up the bare outlets like an OCD baby. :D

[verybaddmom]

my son once pointed out a lady in walmart as having "a moustache just like my dad!"
she was unimpressed, but i couldnt stop laughing. some people's kids, eh?
*shrugs*
(and no offense meant to any women here with testosterone issues)

[ravana]

I have a million "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" moments. (Oddly enough, many of which occur at church.)

When I was two my great uncle got married. It had been a bit of a family scandal because he was at least 50 and I believe she was still in her 20's. Before the wedding my mother was explaining that the father of the bride walks her up the aisle. Only, it turned out that my uncle and the bride had decided to walk up together. When they got to the altar and everything was silent in the church (I believe it was even a big echo-y cathedral) -- you could have heard a pin drop -- all of a sudden I said very loudly, "Is she his daughter?"

:eek: :D

Lol
em, sorry for curiosity. Are they still together?
(I always wonder the end of such marriages)

[emily655321]

Yeah, they're still happily together, interestingly enough. They have a daughter in high school. I guess that sort of thing just works out for some people. I remembered another story like that, actually... :rolleyes:

I seemed to have a pension for yelling things out in church when I was little. :p Of course Mass is excruciatingly boring for a toddler, so I'd routinely do things like walk out in front of the pews and dance during the hymns. :rolleyes: One time during the blessing of the gifts, when the priest said, "When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim your death..." etc. etc., I turned to my mother and -- again, quite loudly enough to be heard throughout the church -- I said incredulously, "You can't drink a cup!"

[Isagel]

My dad told me that when I was 3 years old I screamed until I fainted because I wanted to have a hot bath and he said no.

Strangely, I actually have a memory of that incident, but only a positive one. I remember being in the bathtub fully dressed which was really funny. I sang and washed socks, filled with innocent joy at this strange thing.

Apparently my father poured the bath at put me in it to wake me up. He told my fiance this story as a warning. I´m nice now! Promise!

[emily655321]

LMAO :D

Once when I was a baby I put my hand on the hot stove, but my parents couldn't get me to keep my hand in cold water. So my dad filled the bathroom sink and put grapes in it, so that I would keep reaching my hand into the cold water to get them. :p

[Isagel]

Clever daddy! And poor little emily!

I turned feminist at an early age. When I was 9 we got this paper with different jobs one it and where supposed to write if we thought it was a job for a man or a woman. (it must have been some kind of project about equality) My teacher and I got into a huge fight because I had written "both" on evry single job including mine-worker. He said I had to realise that some things just fitted men better. I refuse to change my writing. He tried to talk me out of it in front of the whole classroom. For almost half an hour. If he had known about the bathtub incident he might just known it wasn´t worth it. And I would still write "both".

[emily655321]

Hehe :D Whoo! Go Isagel.

[Shea]

ha ha!! I forgot about this thread!

Here's another one, when I was a kid I LOVED bananas. I used to raid them in the middle of the night. My mom used to wake up and find peels all over the house. (That's actually how she knew it was me that flooded the house, becuase I had left a half-eaten banana floating in the toilet.) They started putting them on top of the refridgerator, so I woke up my sister and she helped me to crawl up there.(She says that's her first memory) I guess she got tired and went back to bed, because I couldn't get down, so I woke up the whole house crying. Maybe that's why I'm scared of heights?

[emily655321]

LOL Oh no! It's funny to remember how scary simple things used to be, but when you consider that and all the trouble kids get into, they're pretty brave. Which is to say, stupid. :p

[Pensive]

I was hardly five, when I cut my brother's hair with scissors.

And another is the time, when I took the pagri out from the [/Maulvi Sahab's[/I] head. Maulvi Sahab was an old person who used to come at our house to teach my brother Holy Quran. I saw him scolding my brother on something, and I got out of control.....and I took a stick and with the help of it, I reached Maulvi Sahab's head and took pagri (a kind of hat which shows a Maulvi Sahab's respect.) off from it, threw it away. He sweared at me that he will show me the right path when he would teach me...but I went away jumping...And guess what! I was really proud of my crazy little adventure. :p

[shinigami]

Ooh.... this is nice... I was a crazy kid....

Um.. there was this one when I like broke the TV by pulling on the cord... and this other time when I took a pencil and stabbed my brother above his eye, which srill has a scar... And I used to like, catch cockroaches, and peel their wings off and watch them go round and around the toilet... And I punched this kid because he ate my crayon...

Hhahaa [ I wrote like that coz if anyone knows the show "Totally Kyle" of the Amanda Show... You'd know there's a particular accent to it..]

[RobinHood3000]

i four, and visiting family in boston. and being a curious child, wanted to know and absorb the various uses of a bobby pin i found. (true wisdom, aye ;)) so what did i do? stuck it in an electric outlet - with both prongs.
:eek:! :eek:!We are Uncle Fester wannabes.

When I was about 6 or 7 (I suspect) I took an AC wall adapter, plugged one end into the wall...



...and licked the other end. :eek2: :idea:

And then I did it again. :D

[shinigami]

Robin dear.. that's priceless!!! hahahaha

[kilted exile]

I was 6 during the Seoul Olympics in 1988. We lived in this house at the time which had a staircase leading down to the glass front door. Me and my older brother had just watched the 100m and decided to have our own race down the stairs. I tripped and went flying through the front door and into the street.

Somehow, I did not even get a scratch.

[shinigami]

I used to eat soysauce and rice for days on end because the maid wouldn't cook me bacon and eggs....

[Idril]

I've got some great stories about my kids but they would kill me if they knew I posted any of those so I'll just stick with stories about my own childhood...

Pretty much all my crazy, embarrassing childhood stories star me and my best friend, Marchelle, she and I were inseperable and always getting into some kind of trouble. The first thing that comes to mind is a time when we were about 5 or 6, my neighbors had moved to a new house, leaving their house empty for awhile. Marchelle and I decided we wanted to take one last look at it before the new people moved in so we walked into the porch, I had noticed that there was no doorknob on the inside of the door so I told her not to close the door but of course that was the first thing she did because that girl never listened to me :rolleyes:. Of course the main door to the house was locked so we were trapped in this little porch. To get out I decided I would just break the window which I did with my wrists which was incredibly stupid and now with me bleeding profusely from my wrists, I told her I broke the window so it was only fair she crawl out and opened the door, especially considering she shut it in the first place but no, as I said, she never listened to me so I had to climb out the broken window and open the door so the princess could walk out of there unscathed. :p I was bleeding from head to toe but she didn't have a scratch. We went to her house and had her sister clean me up, she was much older and a nursing student at the time and we begged for her silence because we didn't want to get into trouble for the broken window and despite being covered in cuts, my parents didn't find out about it until I was 15. My mom didn't believe me at first, that I could be hurt so badly and she wouldn't have noticed it but I showed her my many scars, especialily the big one on my wrist and she felt so horrible. I'm sure I lied to her though, I'm sure I told her some story about where the cuts came from so she wouldn't ask any questions...it was the perfect crime. :D

[SleepyWitch]

when my brother was around two or three mum walked him to kindergarten every day.
They passed a molehill on the way and my brother trampled on it threatening "Just you wait, mole, I'll show you!"
Then he took mums hand again and they walked on. My mum noticed he'd gone very quite after he trampled on the molehill. After a couple of minutes he asked "Mum, are moles strong?" (i.e. could the mole attack him :) )

[Helga]

right now I don't remember any of me, but my boyfriends mom once told me about the time he was three....
They were living in a very small town in Iceland (small means about 4-500 people) and she was working. He sneaked out of the kindergarden and stole a trycicle, he was almost out of the town and on to the highway when the cops found him and brought him back to his mom, who was shocked to see her 3 year old son arriving with cops.

[Shannanigan]

We are Uncle Fester wannabes.

When I was about 6 or 7 (I suspect) I took an AC wall adapter, plugged one end into the wall...



...and licked the other end. :eek2: :idea:

And then I did it again. :D

lmao! omg...somehow, that suits you :p

Hmmm...my mother has a memory of walking into my little bedroom one day when I was like 2 or 3, and I was sitting in the middle of the floor with the baby powder open in my hands, covered in powder as was the entire room, heeee...

My sister and I used to spend every day in the summer alone in the house with just a housekeeper/babysitter...who would clean and watch TV. We would draw huge maps of the house, pin it up to a wall, and plot ways to sneak around her and get into the kitchen unseen so we could steal chocolate muffins...

I don't remember any really crazy stories, I'll have to ask my mom :D

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Brilliant thread! :thumbs_up I have been laughing my way through it, and now it's my turn. I have a lovely daughter, but she has provided me with a few gray hairs (and she's not even a teenager yet :brow: ).

Once, when she was ~10 months old, I turned my back for a few seconds (silly me), and she vanished. Uh, oh... How a 10 month old could muster the dexterity needed to climb up there is beyond me, but after a frantic search I found her... Standing in the bathroom sink, rummaging through the cabinet above it!!! She must have climbed the toilet to get there in no time at all... Dear me...

A few years later, aged three or four, we overheard her and the neighbours lad having a bit of a disagreement. It ended with her saying: -We'll do it my way or I won't marry you! After a few moments of silence the lad answered: -Oh, all right then... :lol:

/Claes

[Virgil]

A few years later, aged three or four, we overheard her and the neighbours lad having a bit of a disagreement. It ended with her saying: -We'll do it my way or I won't marry you! After a few moments of silence the lad answered: -Oh, all right then... :lol:

/Claes

:lol: :lol: That is too much!! They are both getting practice for when they grow up. :D They already know what marriage is all about. :p

[Nightshade]

:lol:

Ive got a few who am I gong to marry stories but their mostly not mine to tell. And virg, Youd be suprised how deadly serious a 3 year old can be about which of her friends shes going to marry and why.
but my story.
When I was I think just coming up for or just turned 2 I think my mum was pregnant with my little sister...my dad was away for a couple of weeks and he left my mum some money, anyway my mum was cleaning the bathroom and I decide Im going to cook so I toddle off , pull out the bigest saucepan from the cupboard get out the bottle of oil ( and I think the salt) get a chair pull it to the stove get everything on top ofthe cooker poured the oil into the pan got the right ring on and was sitting there watchong my oil'cook' when my mum comes running in ( this has all been less than 10 minutes) to find the oil boiling and smoking and me grinning and saying look Im cooking.

She marched out that day and bought a toy kitchen with all the money my dad had left got it home and did this whole thing about this is my kitchen this is your kitchen. I rember getting the kitchen and feeling proud becaue now I could cook just like mummy, I dont rember anything else.

[thevintagepiper]

Whenever our family had guests, I'd ALWAYS end up being found in a corner with their purses, my face covered in lipstick...
I also used to insist I was Cinderella:

"Caitlyn! God clean your room."
"I'm not Caitlyn; I'm Cinderella."
"Alright Cinderella, go clean your room."
"Cinderella doesn't have to clean her room."
"Oh, yes she does...."

...and so on.

Once when I was about five, were were at a friend's house and all of us kids decided we wanted to slide. We went into the bathroom, took all of our clothes off, and tuned the water on. Then we started taking turns, sliding in the tub until one of the parents came in...we all got in sooo much trouble!!

[shinigami]

Hmm.. I was basically a smart kid and I was the ONLY girl in 2 families so I had to be the perfect little monkey, but that in itself has it's perks... I had a 24 hour unlimited chocolate access. ( someone would always buy chocololates and even though my cousins would be punished for eating said chocolates, I wouldn't) and whatever I wanted, I usually got it by either being a suck up or just being ultra sweet... I'd get a new toy, food, ballpens, books but I was always denied the pleasure of playing games with my cousins because they played basketball and PS2, so I'd be stuck reading a book and playing pretend in the veranda by myself... Thing is, I see weird things there, I was young so I thought the dogs were dancing and I asked mom how to dance like the dogs.. She just gave me 50 php and told me to run along..
[ dancing here meaning having sex.. they were dancing coz they were moving.... now that I think of it... it is kinda gross..]

[OZEED]

I once asked this four old a question, I was curious

I said, "Jessica, who is Jesus?"
with out waiting two seconds Jessica replied "Pastor Barney" (the pastor of our church).

[Madhuri]

Well, this happened not long back, and as I am no kid, I am not sure if this will count.

It happened a few years back. It was my first job, and I had to work in a shift system in that company. My shift started at 6:00 AM and ended at 2:00 PM, which meant that I had to get up really early, as I HAD TO BE AT WORK by 6. It was winters then and I not being an early riser forced myself out of my bed, I was all sleepy and somehow with great effort got myself ready. Everyone else at home was sleeping, then. I was so full of sleep that when I went out of the main door, by some involuntary action I locked it from outside, :D I have no memory that I did this, it meant that noone could go out unless someone un-locked it from outside. :D My parents had to go to work too, and they were wondering what to do, luckily by 9 our maid came and she unlocked.

When my parents came back in the evening, they were sooo angry and I was like..Really?? Did I do it??? I dont remember a thing...:D and then I burst out laughing :lol: my parents got even more angry..:p

[Idril]

I once asked this four old a question, I was curious

I said, "Jessica, who is Jesus?"
with out waiting two seconds Jessica replied "Pastor Barney" (the pastor of our church).

You'd be surprised at what a common misconception that is. ;) My dad is a pastor and a good number of my friends actually thought he was Jesus when we were really little. I had one friend tell me I was so lucky to have Jesus for a dad. :lol: :lol:

[Shannanigan]

My mom used to take my siblings and me to the Toys R' Us across the street from our apartment once in awhile. Her rule was that we could pick one thing, just one thing, and she would get it for us and we weren't to ask for any more toys until the next visit. Well, one night we went, and in the second aisle there was this wonderful "WhizKidz" Vtech computer (brand meant nothing to me at the time, I just wanted a computer like mommy's :)) and I grabbed it. My mom says her heart stopped, because it was really expensive and she couldn't get it. She says we were walking aisle through aisle and my sis and bro picked up a toy each and I wouldn't put mine down. She said on the second to last aisle she was praying to God not to have to explain to me why I couldn't have the computer (she didn't ever want us to worry about money) and feeling so bad just thinking about it...

as we rounded the turn to go into the next aisle, there was a bunch of hula-hoops hanging on the side of the toy shelves. I apparently smiled, set the expensive computer down on a nearby shelf, and grabbed myself a yellow $2 hula-hoop. She said it was one of my favorite toys, and I actually remember the hula-hoop, so I belive her, lol.