"I Was Sitting On A Table And Tying My Hands To My Legs With A Skipping Rope" – 24 Things Kids Have Done That Are Making Me Question Having One

"Thankfully she arrived on the scene before anything blew up."

We all do some very silly things when we're kids/teens, it's part of growing up! If we can't look back and laugh at ourselves, what can we do?

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So, I asked the BuzzFeed Community what were the silliest things they did when they were younger, and here are some of the best responses:

1. "I was about 14 and making cakes when I decided to do a 'scientific experiment' to see if I could hold onto the electric whisk blades and switch it on."

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"I held them still at the lowest setting and then turned up the speed. Just as I was thinking 'what am I doing?' my thumb was drawn into the whisk blades and removed most of the skin. I also broke the whisk. My dad was wildly annoyed and I still have the scar!"

—heleno5

2. "I used to be afraid of the toilet flush, so I built a stick long enough to flush it at night from the corridor so I had enough time to run away."

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–adaenechi

3. "I wanted to be a vending machine so bad I made one out of cardboard boxes and sat inside most weekends with a stack of plastic cups and a jug of orange juice. No one came by."

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—aseverson

4. "I was fascinated by the microwave as a kid. The light and the spinning were almost hypnotic."

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"When my mum got a new mobile phone I also liked the flashing lights on there so my little brain thought it would be incredible to put the phone in the microwave. TBF, I was right, it was incredible – but I can now see why Mum was so angry... Thankfully she arrived on the scene before anything blew up."

–casualgem30

5. "I only ate white foods for about a year, and used chopsticks for everything."

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—aseverson

6. "I covered both myself and my dog (black Labrador) in Sudocrem."

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"My mum had to use fairy liquid to get it out of my hair and she had to chase the dog round the garden with a hose to get it off him, he was grey for a few weeks..."

—morgeno

7. "I was a young teen and my friends and I were making a bonfire."

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"I was chopping wood with an axe and didn't realise the base I was using had a crack in it. On one downward swoop, the block wobbled and the axe came down slicing my inner thumb/palm open. 

I was surprisingly calm and decided it would be a good idea to walk to the hospital with my bleeding hand in the air. Once I got to A&E, I went and sat down. It was a few hours before I realised that I was supposed to sign in first..."

–bendzialdowski

8. "I broke the dishwasher door because I thought if I jumped on it from the counter, it would spring me up into the air like a diving board. It did not."

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"A few months later I broke it again by walking backwards across the kitchen and falling over onto it while my mum was unloading dishes."

—ej16

9. "So, I had a tendency to play with fire when I got the opportunity."

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"This meant all the matches were kept out of my reach and we had those long candle firelighters that (for obvious reasons) are really tricky for child-size hands to light. 

On one determined day, I decided to power through with the firelighter but I couldn’t get it lit, so I used my teeth. I then proceeded to burn off all my eyelashes on one eye."

–hanifahrahman

10. "When I was wee, I tried to make breakfast for my mom on Mother's Day."

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"The method: shoving a bunch of her favourite foods in the microwave because I had been told that the microwave was a machine that made food. So in went eggs, bread, apples, a jar of coffee, and cucumbers. Needless to say, the food exploding inside the microwave did not make for a good breakfast or a good morning..."

—ravenbard

11. "I was sitting on a table and tying my hands to my legs with a skipping rope."

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"I'd seen a movie where someone was kidnapped and I didn't think escaping from being tied up could be THAT difficult. I lost my balance, fell off the table and landed directly on my head. That was the only time my parents had to take me to A&E and I threw up in the car on the way home."

—ej16

12. "I was bored and staring out the window."

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"My cat had those crunchy cat cereal things and I proceeded to stuff lots of them up my nose. It got to a point where I had so many up there, | realised what I was doing and panicked. I blew my nose frantically to get them out and one got stuck near my sinus. 

My mum came in and asked what the hell I was doing, and I blew so hard the last cat cereal crunchie came out my nose, she was so confused. I think it's why I have difficulty breathing through my nose now."

—acowann9

13. "I was at my grandmother's house and noticed a container of Silly Putty on a shelf."

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"I wondered if it would get stuck in my hair like gum, so I flattened it out into a palm-sized disk and smacked it right on the top of my head. 

Yes, it does get stuck in hair. I was so embarrassed and worried that I'd get in trouble that I made it worse by cutting the entire chunk of hair on top of my head down to the skin and throwing the whole mess in the trash."

—momofkatie2259

14. "I was obsessed with being 'special' as a kid, so I once pretended to a family friend that I could Irish dance."

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"She called my bluff and made me perform for her, so I did. (Badly). I ended up kicking over a glass table, causing it to crack down the middle!"

–sam_cleal

15. "I used to run into walls head-on."

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—bonhoevi

16. "My twin sister and I were five years old and had just gotten dressed in our new beautifully laced white gowns for our First Communion (raised Catholic)."

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"When mom wasn't looking, we took all the eggs out of the fridge, cracked them on the kitchen floor, and made ‘snow’ angels with the yolks! I'm not sure what we ended up wearing after that but it definitely wasn’t the egg-stained dresses!"

—lexieisele

17. "My parents said I couldn't get my ears pierced before I was 13, so at age six I put bubble gum on my earlobes and then slept in it."

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"The ensuing haircut was a disaster."

—embroideredcupcake

18. "When I was a kid, anytime my family went anywhere, I would bring my parents a (clean) 'sample' of the toilet paper and paper towels from the bathroom. Malls, zoos, amusement parks, restaurants, whatever."

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—amberinthetardis

19. "I used to pour salt into my bath water in the hope I'd get fins like Madison in Splash."

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—kirstyrowland11

20. "I would pick off the sesame seeds on hamburger buns and plant them in the yard."

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"My mom caught me one day and asked what I was doing, and I said I was planting a hamburger tree."

—morgan_le_slay

21. "When I was five, we had chickens and I knew chicks came from eggs that had been kept 'warm'."

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"I took an egg from the fridge, put it inside a sock and stuffed it in my sock drawer to keep warm. After a few weeks, no chick had hatched, so I gave up and put the egg back in the fridge. The egg exploded on contact when my mom went to crack it, and green, foul-smelling slime covered her and the kitchen."

—rohonhonhon

22. "I was at a dinner party at church with my parents."

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"All the rooms and the foyer have speakers in them so if people don't want to sit in the crowded hall, they can hear the sermons from elsewhere in the building.

I snuck into the main hall and figured out how to get into the sound system, then spoke into the mic in a deep, scary voice. All over the church, you could hear me saying stuff through the speakers like 'you're all gonna die' and 'this is the devil.'"

—weindrasi

23. "I went through a phase of tearing off single pieces of toilet paper, making different coloured dots on them with felt-tip pens, and giving them to family members as gifts."

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—vix_da_vixen

24. "My mum was about to pick up my dad from work, so I thought it would be funny to hide in the boot of the car."

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"She was driving around the whole neighbourhood panicking while trying to find me, like on the verge of tears, but I kept quiet til after she'd picked my dad up and got home again. I then just popped up like nothing happened. My poor mum was practically crying but I thought I was being funny. Never did that again."

—puss_pastry

What's the silliest thing you've ever done? Let us know in the comments below!

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