"Do NOT Put Chilli Peppers On Your Privates" – People Are Reliving The Silliest Things They Did As A Kid, And I Can Totally Relate

"Needless to say, it works and was very painful to get free."

Adolescence is a time of doing incredibly silly things – I guess it's how we learn not to make these mistakes when we're a bit older. But it's always fun to look back and have a bit of a laugh at ourselves.

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Well, in a recent post, that's exactly what we were doing – and the generous commenters supplied 14 more silly stories:

1. "When I was 11 or 12, I wanted to shave my legs soooo bad, but my mom said no."

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"So, while she was at work, I took her razor and tried to shave, straight on top of my shin bone... I took a nice thick layer of skin off all the way to my knee. Yea, mom loved that."

—luckyangel30

2. "My brother was about eight or nine and wanted to find out what would happen if he put hot pepper juices on his downstairs area."

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"I will never forget his screaming and watching my mom frantically trying to figure out how to help him. At that moment, she put him in the shower and threw flour on him (I have no idea about that one) and then doused him in freezing cold water. PSA: do NOT put chilli peppers on your privates!"

—unpopop247

3. "Spray deodorant and a lighter, need I say more."

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—donnellaw2

4. "My family would often tell me a story about the time my cousin shoved a small crayon up her nose. It got stuck, and she needed to go to the hospital to have it removed."

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"They told me this as a cautionary tale, obviously, but unfortunately it had the opposite effect. It made me so curious that I did the same thing myself with a bead, to see what would happen."

—emmak26

5. "In seventh grade (in 1980), I had a small fleet of plastic WW2 warships."

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"I placed them in our swimming pool with some lighter fluid and a firecracker or two and lit them up! My parents were NOT amused!"

—majorh

6. "My brother decided to shove popcorn kernels in both of his ears."

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"The next day we had to go to the hospital to get them out."

—missmargotmorris

7. "My four-year-old sister somehow found a wooden ruler and proceeded to jump up and down on her bed with it."

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"During the jumping, she managed to fall face-first onto the floor. When this happened, she also fell onto the ruler and it went down her throat.

My mom said she came rushing, saw a LOT of blood, and rushed her to the ER. Thankfully, she was okay. Somehow she acquired some candy at the hospital and the doctor told her she wasn’t allowed to eat them for a while, as the ruler had scraped the lining of her oesophagus."

—caitlind40037bfa6

8. "When I was in high school one of my friends built his own homemade taser."

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"Another friend of mine decided to tase himself because he wanted to see what it felt like. He then tased himself a second time around to see if it still hurt as much as the first time."

—padawanryan

9. "My cousin once talked me into laying my hand flat on a table so he could try this stabbing-between-fingers thing with a pencil."

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"The first stab landed on my index finger, which still has a tiny pencil scar. Not the last time I let him talk me into doing something stupid, though."

—prolix

10. "My mom once told me that when the stovetop is on, it's hot."

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"When I was alone, I tested this theory and it was, indeed hot. I turned the stove off but I still have the scars on my hand."

—sperkeles

11. "I was sevenish in school and my pencil broke."

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"Bored genius as I was, I decided to put the snapped-off lead in my ear. Earache followed, and I eventually confessed to my parents.  Two A&E trips followed – one that night, and another the next day to get it suctioned out in the theatre."

—funnybunny2907

12. "When I was about 11 I wanted to see if your tongue could really stick to the freezer, like in Dumb and Dumber with the lift pole."

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"Needless to say, it works and was very painful to get free."

—poisonivy1990

13. "We were on a school trip and we managed to source some booze. Naturally, things got quite over the top."

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"My friend fell asleep and I handily had a green permanent marker in my bag. I took it upon myself to colour his whole face and torso green. The next day we had to visit all the government buildings and meet some fairly important people – he was still entirely green. No regrets."

–casualgem30

14. "I couldn't stop eating the soaps in Lush."

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"Every time was my disappointment that they didn't taste as good as they looked, but six-year-old me had failed to learn the lesson."

–bendzialdowski

What's the silliest thing you did as a kid? Let us know in the comments below!