Dumb things you did as a kid. - From bodily harm to embarrassment or anything that stood out as exceptional

[CaseyTatumm]

I laid in my bed at night and picked my nose and wiped all the boogers on the wall by my bed. I did this for a while until my Dad found the boogers all over the wall and made me scrape them off.

My kid did this too

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

When I went to the bathroom as a kid, I would punch the shower curtain just in case there was a killer hiding behind it.

 

[Lucky Jim]

Wanted to write a mean, vulgar letter to Obama, but I thought the CIA might come after me so I toned it down so much that it became very courteous and encouraging

 

[Ass Sniffer]

Growing up, I climbed one of those rotating monkey-bar things at a playground despite being a bit old for it, the thing clearly was oddly made as it was slightly tilted so if you held onto it, it would rotate and use your body weight to move you as the pole it was on was bent.
(example of what I mean below)

Dumbass me asked a family member of mine to rotate me fast as I can, later on I began losing my grip and basically felt like I was holding onto a wind turbine propeller and fell face and chest first into woodchips.


Who ever saw the concept of woodchips and gravel as playground flooring, GTFO

 

[Mountain Gorilla]

Friend told me there were worms in McD hamburgers and I didn't eat hamburgers for almost a decade

 

[Realistic Elephant]

During the winter I'd suck on pieces of road salt. To be fair it was probably pretty clean of chemicals but still...what the hell.

 

[seri0us]

Friend told me there were worms in McD hamburgers and I didn't eat hamburgers for almost a decade

That's impossible. McDonald's doesn't use any organic ingredients.

 

[The Gifted Kid]

I used to put magnets on my family's old CRT tv because it made "rainbows".

 

[Muu]

So many dumb things...
I used to dress up like Max Payne wearing my dad's leather jacket and jump sideways onto the bed. I also layed on the sidewalk once for no reason and even a passing car stopped thinking I was dead untill I lifted my head (it was sunny so maybe looking at the sky).

Probably the most dumbest was things was going out on a frozen lake with a guy I knew. I remember photographers telling us to come back but I just thought they were mad we were ruining the shot not "hey, get back here or you'll drown and die".

If only the dumb things stopped when you grow up

 

[Frencel]

As a kid it was comforting to chew on my sleeves and suck the spit back out like an autist king

 

[seri0us]

As a kid it was comforting to chew on my sleeves and suck the spit back out like an autist king

I'd also bite myself as a kid for some reason. Never enough to cause bleeding or anything, but there would be a red mark that would fade away within an hour.

 

[CaseyTatumm]

Friend told me there were worms in McD hamburgers and I didn't eat hamburgers for almost a decade

My friend in high school whole heartedly believed this and still at them,

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Who ever saw the concept of woodchips and gravel as playground flooring, GTFO

Millenials like you are the reason why monkeybars on playgrounds are the same height as the child using them

 

[Pina Colada]

Actually spray perfume in my mouth like in older cartoons when they really used fancy bottles of breath fresheners. I couldn’t get the chemicals out of my mouth for about an hour; thankfully I only did this once.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I've read somewhere about a prank, when you crush a rosehip to obtain the trichomes from the seeds, and then you drop them down your enemy's collar.
It was the summer break and seeing my school bully again was a distant future. So I tested it on myself to see how well that works.
And that was a baaad idea, much worse than expected.
I did not use them on the guy after all, likely because I was afraid of the eventual punishment, as it could be done only on the school grounds.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I remember playing with what I'm sure was a poisonous spider as a toddler.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Dumb/horrifying but when I was around 5 or so, if I had a bad dream or got scared in the middle of the night, I’d leave my bedroom and silently go into my parents bedroom and just stare at them while they were sleeping until one of them woke up and either let me sleep in bed with them the rest of the night or take me back to my room and calm me down. My mom always loved to bring this up even when I’m well into my adulthood to embarrass me, telling me that I came so close so many times to getting my head caved in with a baseball bat because my dad thought an intruder was in the house instead of his creepy son.

 

[ckcc]

i remember throwing a chair at my then teacher when i was around 7 years of age.

 

[Dan Smith]

Ate a coin once, nothing happened.

 

[Day Walker]

Tried walking down a flight of stairs while wearing roller skates. Got about halfway down, I’m not sure how I managed to tick and roll but I remember laying at the bottom scared but mostly unhurt, thinking “I’m never doing that again”. I don’t think I ever told my parents.