• You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community, you will have access to additional post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), view blogs, respond to polls, upload content, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so please join our community today! Just click here to register. You should turn your Ad Blocker off for this site or certain features may not work properly. If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us by clicking here.

[Other] Dumb stuff you did as a kid

Timeless

Playnerd
Joined
Sep 7, 2009
Messages
896
MBTI Type
ENTP
Enneagram
7
When I was 4 - 18 years old:

I made, and wired headlights and taillights on my skateboard.
I made a real bio-oxygen tank.
I caught lizards, spiders, bees, caterpillars, worms, beetles etc.
I tried reviving a dead fly with a battery charge.
I taped bottle rockets onto paper airplanes.
I made a miniature satellite dish (And I listened to people's phone conversations).
I was trying to make a go-kart with my brother, we had the wheels, but didn't have the frame!
I tested brake systems on a iron board strapped on skateboard; at the expense of my friend who got a lot of bruises... on a steep hill.
I made a device that lit a bulb (dear my door) when someone was coming near by.
I did a little "phreaking" back in the day.
I caught a snake, even a crawfish and brought 'em home.
I blew out the circuits in my house countless of times.
For those rocket-system toys, I made a little capsule inside the rocket and put a bunch of bugs in there just to see if they'll survive the intense g-force of liftoff.

That's all I remember for now... (I'll be back every now and then)

:)
 

KDude

New member
Joined
Jan 26, 2010
Messages
8,243
Your skateboarding story is completely different than mine, for sure :D

I could have been the same guy who would have gotten the bruises testing out your creations though


I remember pulling the fire alarm circa 4 yrs old at day care, and hiding, watching the evacuation, fire trucks, etc.. and laughing my ass off.
 

ayoitsStepho

Twerking & Lurking
Joined
Sep 20, 2009
Messages
4,838
MBTI Type
ISFP
Enneagram
4w3
Instinctual Variant
so/sx
I did it! I slapped the ass of some random guy today :D
My mom (ISFJ) and I were at wallmart and I told her that someday I should go up to some guy who's attractive and just slap his butt. She just laughed at me. So I spotted an attractive male over at the pharmacy counter and told my mom that I'd slap him. She kept telling me no, lol. So I told her when I yell 'run' to take off towards the toy section. Well, I snuck up to this dude and pulled my hand back and WHAM! slapped his ass and hauled it to the toy section with my mom and I laughing the whole way!! Oh man, it was awesome!!! :holy:
 

Jeffster

veteran attention whore
Joined
Jun 7, 2008
Messages
6,743
MBTI Type
ESFP
Enneagram
7w6
Instinctual Variant
sx
I did it! I slapped the ass of some random guy today :D
My mom (ISFJ) and I were at wallmart and I told her that someday I should go up to some guy who's attractive and just slap his butt. She just laughed at me. So I spotted an attractive male over at the pharmacy counter and told my mom that I'd slap him. She kept telling me no, lol. So I told her when I yell 'run' to take off towards the toy section. Well, I snuck up to this dude and pulled my hand back and WHAM! slapped his ass and hauled it to the toy section with my mom and I laughing the whole way!! Oh man, it was awesome!!! :holy:

:nice: but this topic is about when you were a kid. Feel free to start another topic called "Dumb stuff I did today." :newwink:
 

ayoitsStepho

Twerking & Lurking
Joined
Sep 20, 2009
Messages
4,838
MBTI Type
ISFP
Enneagram
4w3
Instinctual Variant
so/sx
:nice: but this topic is about when you were a kid. Feel free to start another topic called "Dumb stuff I did today." :newwink:

But I AM a kid, thats why it works :D
(well that was the logic behind my post...)
 

Jeffster

veteran attention whore
Joined
Jun 7, 2008
Messages
6,743
MBTI Type
ESFP
Enneagram
7w6
Instinctual Variant
sx
But I AM a kid, thats why it works :D
(well that was the logic behind my post...)

Ah, ok, in that case....mlah.

I just made that word up.

What's "logic?"
 

ayoitsStepho

Twerking & Lurking
Joined
Sep 20, 2009
Messages
4,838
MBTI Type
ISFP
Enneagram
4w3
Instinctual Variant
so/sx
Ah, ok, in that case....mlah.

I just made that word up.

What's "logic?"

Yay! Thank you :D

Er...I don't know what logic is. It just sounded good for the moment. ;)
 

1104

New member
Joined
Jan 17, 2010
Messages
67
MBTI Type
ENTP
age 7:

for creative writing our stories were our most bizarre thoughts strung haphazardly together. we just wanted to get the assignment done, we knew they were stupid.

during recess my friends and i would yell nonsense words to the cars passing by. whoever was kidnapped first was the winner. we'd also play "slaves", which was exactly as it sounds. we'd go around eating plants and making potions, were in perpetual pursuit of a made-up idol, spoke in code, and formed a club whose only characteristic was an extended hazing ritual that was impossible to complete.

in retrospect we really were like a cult.
 

DiscoBiscuit

Meat Tornado
Joined
Apr 13, 2009
Messages
14,794
Enneagram
8w9
Fell out of a 2 story fort before the age of 4.

Stuck a screwdriver in an outlet.

Hand on the stove (which was funny b/c when my mom went to stop me, my dad said, "no wait let him do it, or he'll never learn" :D).

Most of the really dumb shit I've done was in college though. :D
 

Julie1962

New member
Joined
Jun 1, 2009
Messages
138
MBTI Type
ISFP
Enneagram
5
Childhood: Ever see A Christmas Story? Sduck Sduck!!!

College years: Driving drunk. (stupid)

Young Adult years: Getting married young (23) before I even knew who I was. (very stupid)
 

JoSunshine

That's my name biotch!
Joined
Dec 17, 2009
Messages
659
MBTI Type
eNfj
Enneagram
2
I cut bangs in my hair. I have curly hair. They were only about 1" long. I looked like a jackass. My mother was mortified.
 

ChocolateMoose123

New member
Joined
Oct 4, 2008
Messages
5,278
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
Cut myself with a razor to see if it would hurt. Surprisingly, it didn't. Which caused me to go slower. That did hurt.

When I was around 12 my father dared me to shoot a squirrel running across the fence about 10 yards out. I didn't want to but I decided to shut him up. Got the squirrel right in the ear. I cried immediately.

Vandalizing the local dry cleaners place. Feel bad about that one.

Racing my bicycle down a hill and into traffic without stopping. I had a vague awareness that I would be okay but in hindsight, the cars could have hit me without me ever seeing them coming. Stooopid!

Oh yeah. I forgot. Before bar codes were mainstream I used to switch price tags to get my Barbie clothes for real cheap. :laugh:

Collected foreign coins and used them in gumball and soda machines.
 
Last edited:

McRumi

New member
Joined
Dec 5, 2009
Messages
276
MBTI Type
ISTP
Enneagram
3
Childhood is for exploring and learning from experience. Hence, there are no dumb acts in childhood. Only adults do dumb things.
 

Prototype

THREADKILLER
Joined
Apr 17, 2008
Messages
855
MBTI Type
Why?
Stole two cars, a steamroller, hot wired a back hoe, dropped TV's from the top of the local parking garage, flushed M80's down my high schools toilets... Too many to remember!
 

bcvcdc

Permabanned
Joined
Jul 11, 2009
Messages
215
MBTI Type
INTx
My favorite pass time. :devil:
Putting the cat in the dish washer, in the dryer...putting him on something swarming with bumble bee's and throw him into big puddles of water. I would even throw him at the big dogs....I can hear PETA calling any minute.
you know what would be really really funny? if i printed this post, put it in an envelope and actually sent it to PETA,maybe even the cops! ha
 

sticker

New member
Joined
Jan 16, 2010
Messages
135
MBTI Type
ISTJ
Enneagram
6w5
Getting angry that my friend broke my water balloon another friend gave me, then breaking the class' red dustpan that I was trying to use along with a broom to sweep the balloon bits up (obviously a bad idea).
Then I got scared and asked the red group leader to pass me red tape so that I could tape the red dustpan up before the teacher came in for lessons. I didn't make it in time and cried when she came in because I thought dustpans were expensive (a couple of hundred bucks?) to replace and that I'm going to have hell of a whipping from my mum when she knows about it.
My teacher ended up laughing in desperation at my naivety. And tried to comfort me while telling me that now she has to waste time and money replenishing the red tape.
lol
 

KDude

New member
Joined
Jan 26, 2010
Messages
8,243
Well, let see in elementary school I did some shoplifting, enjoyed scaring the crap out of my girlfriends by banging branches on their bedroom windows at night, or my kid sister by throwing spiders at her, I also stole money from her piggiebank on a regular basis to buy myself french fries, killed off my own piggiebank and a few of my friends (I talked them into it), played a lot of "tag" on building sites, climbing up and down scaffolding and running on ledges etc (amazing that I didn't break my neck), oh and yeah, used to steal fresh flowers from graves (I kid you not) and sell them in order to finance my candy habit. Oh...not to forget a rather devious plan to catch, tie up and undress a girl I didn't like and show her off to the neighbourhood boys for money. She managed run away, thank good.

When babysitting I would systematically go trough every drawer, closet, cupboard, to look for hidden things, porn mags, secrets etc, and also try on their clothes and make up, but be careful to put everything back in exactly the same spot. I broke off every door in my big sisters dollhose when I was mad at her (I was about 5) and I knew she would kick my ass for doing it but it was so worth it. Used to arrange competitions for my cousins (boys) in summer and threathen to beat up whoever lost, I wacked another cousin over the head with a tennis racket in order to "displin him", vomitted down my fathers neck while he was driving (suits you right for smoking in the car dad) and lots of other stuff.

All this by the age of 12.

Does any of this sound like ISTP behaviour? I am not 100% sure of my type

btw I am female


I can relate. I'm afraid of even getting into all of it.
 

ayoitsStepho

Twerking & Lurking
Joined
Sep 20, 2009
Messages
4,838
MBTI Type
ISFP
Enneagram
4w3
Instinctual Variant
so/sx
you know what would be really really funny? if i printed this post, put it in an envelope and actually sent it to PETA,maybe even the cops! ha

I didn't realize that cops could be called on a 7 year old for terrorizing the cat. :huh:

This is the 'dumb stuff you did as a kid' thread, as in, this is the dumb thing I did AS a kid. :doh:
 
Top