We Were All Pretty Dumb When We Were Kids, That's How It Works – Here Are 18 Stories To Prove It

"I once put my hand flat on an iron because I wanted to see if it was still hot."

Look, we all do some stupid things when we're little – it's part of growing up! In a recent post about people's childhood mishaps, everyone was adding more of their own stupid stories, because sharing is caring.

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So, here are 18 more silly things we did when we were young...

1. "When my son was about 14, he had a friend over and I had to yell at them for playing dodgeball. On the roof."

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—kittenheel

2. "I jumped into a briar patch because I wanted to pretend to be a rabbit... Very dumb."

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—barelyhere11

3. "I was laying on the floor acting silly with a quarter in my hand dangling it above my face."

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"I opened my mouth at the exact time I accidentally let go of the quarter. It went straight down my throat, past the point of swallowing/choking. Another time I had a dime in my mouth and accidentally swallowed it. I think I finally learned my lesson after that."

—renloveslemmy

4. "When I was like six or seven, I was lying in my mom's bed at night because I was afraid to sleep alone."

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"I saw a button sitting on the nightstand and for some reason, I picked it up and put the button in my ear. It got pushed way far into the canal and I couldn't get it out. I woke my mom up crying and she couldn't get it out either. She had to take me to the ER at four in the morning for them to remove this tiny button from my ear."

—nymphykat

5. "My cousin and I went on lots of fishing trips with our dads and uncles growing up."

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"We were nine or so, on the fishing boat, and cousin caught a fish. He took the fish off the hook, kissed it on the mouth, and dared me to kiss it. I didn't want to seem like a wuss, so I copied him. For the rest of the trip, the adults had to keep us from 'making out' with fish every time we caught one."

—weindrasi

6. "When I was a kid I used to own a horse that I boarded at a farm near my school."

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"One day, after school, I decided I wanted to impress this boy I had a crush on as he was at football practice in the school's football field which backed up to the farm.

We were always told not to ride back there due to it being overgrown with hanging thorny vines. I was riding my horse bareback thinking how cool I would look as we were galloping by the players. I wasn't paying attention to where my horse was going (I was making sure my crush saw me) – until she stopped short of the thorny vines.

I, however, kept going flying up over her head into the vines. Lucky for me they were thick enough to cushion my fall, but unlucky for me they were full of thorns. I sure got noticed by my crush that day but not for the reason I planned."

—lunallee212

7. "My daughter, who is eight, broke her arm twice this year... Once jumping out of a window and the other falling on ice four months after the other break. Poor girl."

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—okimsick13

8. "I set off a bunch of fireworks that were not properly stable. I was also way too close to my dad's shed."

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"A Roman candle shot through the open door of the shed, set the curtains on fire and exploded it." 

–bendzialdowski

9. "When I was in middle school, I had a friend whose dad managed a small movie theatre. Occasionally we'd hang out there after school before it opened to the public."

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"The theatre had aisles on either side of the rows of chairs, like normal. One time, we were playing manhunt in a pitch black theatre. I was running down a row of chairs with my hand on the back so I could turn when I felt the last chair. 

The only thing was, I'd forgotten that we were in the one theatre that only had an aisle down the middle and I ran directly into the wall, breaking my glasses and giving myself a black eye."

—katieeighty

10. "I once put my hand flat on an iron because I wanted to see if it was still hot."

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"To make matters worse, I got second-degree burns because I didn't pull it off when I hurt myself, I just kept it on the iron and screamed. My mom had to pull my hand off."

—ladypalutena

11. "I shoved candies up my nose and had to go to the doctor to get them out."

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—ladypalutena

12. "I recall, around pre-teen age, I thought part of 'becoming a woman' was to always make sure you smell good 'down there.'"

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"So I proceeded to spray some of my mom's perfume directly to my nether regions – at close range. Needless to say it burned like fire. I learned a valuable lesson that day."

—mizztina

13. "When I was little, all my friends were boys and at sleepovers, we would play a game called 'madhouse' where it was like a fight to the death."

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"One time, we were in the parent's bedroom and someone got slammed against a mirror and it broke."

—tiger24___

14. "At a party one, we were playing with a sword and someone dropped it on a boy's foot..."

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—tiger24___

15. "I was 12 and my mom had broken her ankle. I was playing with her crutches around the house."

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"My mom told me to go get my dad for dinner from his office space in the basement. I thought it was a genius idea to try to CRUTCH DOWN THE STAIRS. Needless to say, I got all of two steps before being rocketed to the bottom of the (cement) steps and completely shattering my wrist."

—slad619

16. "I shoved a peanut up my nose so far that a doctor had to remove it."

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"When I got back home my sister asked what happened, so I showed her... Using the same peanut."

—aseverson2

17. "My mom was getting married to my stepdad. They were at the altar and the officiant was about to marry them."

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"That's when five-year-old me went up and punched the officiant in the sensitive parts – my mum would have been annoyed if she wasn't laughing so much."

–casualgem30

18. "My brother lied to me when I asked him what haircut to get at the barber (it was my first time). He said, 'just ask for a number one all over.'"

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"That's how my lovely luscious locks turned into my first-ever buzzcut. Sadly, it was time for my passport photo the next day."

–casualgem30

What's the silliest thing you or someone you know did when you were young? Let us know in the comments below!