‘What’s something you did as a kid that terrified your parents?’ – 17 childhood fails that put our folks through the wringer
10.
‘Used to set fire to stuff indoors’
-incredibubblez
11.
‘Hid in a locker at a swimming pool, must have been about 5. As far as I remember I wasn’t even trying to hide I just enjoyed confined spaces like that, and ended up falling asleep.
‘My dad had gotten most of the staff and a good number of regular people trying to find me and had just called the police when they found me. Had no idea about the commotion I’d caused until my dad reminded me about it years later.’
-RedWeasel2000
12.
‘Hid from my mum in M&S and they had to shut down Brent Cross shopping center’
-Creative_Plane2477
13.
‘I told my very aspirational middle class parents that when I grew up I wanted to work in McDonald’s.’
-NekoFever
14.
‘Hide and seek in a 4th story flat when I was about 5. I popped myself over the balcony and stood on a tiny ledge while holding the rail, it took my dad ages to spot my fingertips. I won fair and square but they started locking the balcony after that…’
-naffarama
15.
‘Fell over while ice skating and went sliding full-speed and head-first into the barrier. I was a very experienced skater and very rarely fell at all so my dad thought I was dead. I remember mainly just being a bit shocked.’
-chuckiestealady
16.
‘We used to jump from the cliffs into the sea. Some of the climbs back up were very sketchy and one dodgy landing could’ve been very serious.
‘Some of the jumps were close to 50 foot and we’d jump in when it was very rough sometimes. We were about 13-15 in age. Mum must have been terrified’
-Commercial_Level_615
17.
‘One of my first memories so I must’ve been 3 at the oldest- sneaking out the house with my baby doll to go through a little snicket into a field area behind our houses. (looking at Google that snicket was ten doors down from our house.)’
-bookishnatasha89
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