What's the dumbest thing you've done as a kid?

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Way back in the 70s when I was about 6 or 7 the was this british comedy that I liked to watch as I thought one of the blokes in it was rather cute.

I think the show started about 8:00pm, and one particular evening 
I was kind of impaitent and wanted the time to hurry up as there was still 20 mintues to go.

You know how 20 minutes can seem like two hours to a kid?
I somehow got it in my head that if I put the clock forward time would speed up and my show would start sooner.

So I dragged a kitchen chair over so I could reach the clock on the wall, and turned the knob on the back of the clock so the hands turned to 8:00.

Back then I remember thinking "Haha I'm so smart. This should work"
Of course it didn't and I was rather annoyed, and the next 20 minutes seemed to drag by.

That memory sometimes pops up, plus I still remember what show it was and the guy's name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflies_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Lyndhurst

Anyone else done anything as dumb as that?

xonlywishesx · Accepted Answer

When I was 4 my dad gave me a dollar. I tore it in half and thought that I doubled my money. I thought I was super smart too. lol

I♥Beatles · Answer

man where do i begin!...

one time i was playing in the garden and i decided to eat a plant to see what it tasted like... yeah not a good idea i almost died!... it was a poisonous plant haha

then this other time at school my friends and i decided to sneak into the classroom during lunch and put gum on the chair of this girl we didn't like... this was in third grade by the way... once there we got carried away and put gum on all the chairs (including the teacher's!) except our own haha that was pretty dumb cuz once everyone realized there was gum on their behinds the teacher was able to figure out it had been us cuz we were the only ones with no gum on our butts!

Anonymous · Answer

Lit the back porch on fire when I was a kid, with caps and a gas can lol. On accident of course. Although saying it now it doesn't sound like an accident.

Anonymous · Answer

I always spoke my mind as a kid. So I was about 3 or 4 and went up to my cousin who is about 4 or 500 pounds and told asked her why she was so fat. She still hasn't let me live it down and I'm almost 18...

Anonymous · Answer

I tacked a love note to a tree. Some other kids saw me putting it up & teased me about it. The girl I wrote it to was a year older than me (I was only 9). Her parents called my parents & the teasing didn't stop with just the kids from school. Embarrassing! ~;/>

NVM3 · Answer

i was bored and i was in my sisters bathroom, and i remember some show saying fire burned up, so i unrolled toliet paper and then i held the role with some hanging down.

i told my self that, it will burn up and nothing will be wrong. i set it on fire and burned the whole roll, because it burned up to the role.

my thinking was just so stupid.




and once i tried to set the tree in my backyard on fire. 


im sort of a pyro

Duke · Answer

Yes. 

I was dumb enough to yell for help when I was drowning in a swimming pool at age 12...

Nick.Blah · Answer

Uhmm, I fell off a horizontal log type thing and I just sacked myself in front of the entire playground...
IT HURT SO MUCH D:

Anonymous · Answer

When I was like 10, me and my friend broke into this persons house. We were both caught though.

Nathan M · Answer

i liked fire. so one day, i balled up a wad of toilet papr, doused it in hairspray, and while it was in my hands, i lit it on fire. i immidiately threw the fireball into the toilet, and with the amount of hairspray i had in it, my bathroom was on fire. so i turned around, closed the door, and told my mom

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What's the dumbest thing you've done as a kid?

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