the unwisdom of a child

[analogZero]

Now I've done some rather stupid things as a child, and in hindsight they make me laugh. While they may be moments where you learn from your mistakes, it begs the question, why would you make that mistake in the first place. I hope I'm not the only one, and that somebody else will share in the blissful and excusable idiocy that is childhood.

first post (starting off small): I though it would be more efficient to butter my toast before I toast it. So whilst applying english sized portions of butter to my bread my mother happened to notice me. She didn't ask what I was doing until I had the bread hovering over the toasted I was about to set aflame (quite potentially other things in the kitchen as well). I learned that toast buttering has it's order for a reason.

to be continued...

[Yessy89]

Hmm I always butter my toast before toasting it and nothing ever gets burned!

Well when I was five I always thought that saying something straight was okay! But when my mom went to a funeral I accedentally asked why was he in that horrible "bed" and why where people crying when he was only sleeping. My mother totally got read and hit my hand! Told me to sit down and not talk..I was a little confused and all but yeah I've learned to speak when asked and all that!

[Neriko]

O. o I didn't know bread would burn if you put butter on it and then stick it in the toaster ... I always though the butter would melt off into the toaster ... that's why I've never tried it before >__>

[blaariffic]

Hmm...
Well there was that time I thought ti was a good idea to stick a 3 volt motor into the outlet (which I said on the ' Something scary' thread...)

The logic was 3V motor spins faster when attached to a 9V motor....so plug it into the outlet and it will spin really fast!...
Well....sparks flew... motor died (with blueish scars on it) and wires charred but I left with no injuries...luckily the carpet didnt set ablaze

Then there was this time I was playing with fire...in the same said carpeted room..
But this time I was 'smart' and used a metal lunchbox....tossing in various household stuff to see what was burnt the coolest....

So after a bit of that I decide ok thats enough....and close the box so to smother it right.....wait a couple seconds....and decide ok..move the lunchbox out of the way...
So I pick it up...however 3 things I didnt check for became immediately apparent which were:
1. There was still a fair amount of liquids still in there.....
2. This liquid was on fire....
3. The hinge of the lunchbox isnt water proof and leaks...
Leaks?..Yes leaks....
And so it was dripping flammable liquid that was on fire ..landing on the carpet...again....
Worse is my reaction...which isnt to lay the box flat so it cant leak out ..instead I just try to hold it higher from the carpet in hopes the flammable liquid burns out before hitting the floor....

Luckily our house still stands to this day...havnt burnt it down yet...

[Yessy89]

Hmm...
Well there was that time I thought ti was a good idea to stick a 3 volt motor into the outlet (which I said on the ' Something scary' thread...)

The logic was 3V motor spins faster when attached to a 9V motor....so plug it into the outlet and it will spin really fast!...
Well....sparks flew... motor died (with blueish scars on it) and wires charred but I left with no injuries...luckily the carpet didnt set ablaze

Then there was this time I was playing with fire...in the same said carpeted room..
But this time I was 'smart' and used a metal lunchbox....tossing in various household stuff to see what was burnt the coolest....

So after a bit of that I decide ok thats enough....and close the box so to smother it right.....wait a couple seconds....and decide ok..move the lunchbox out of the way...
So I pick it up...however 3 things I didnt check for became immediately apparent which were:
1. There was still a fair amount of liquids still in there.....
2. This liquid was on fire....
3. The hinge of the lunchbox isnt water proof and leaks...
Leaks?..Yes leaks....
And so it was dripping flammable liquid that was on fire ..landing on the carpet...again....
Worse is my reaction...which isnt to lay the box flat so it cant leak out ..instead I just try to hold it higher from the carpet in hopes the flammable liquid burns out before hitting the floor....

Luckily our house still stands to this day...havnt burnt it down yet...

>_> Oh wow! U are lucky!

[Koopaking]

Well when I was a kid we would get a real Christmas tree each year. One year we had this great big one right in the middle of the living room. I noticed that our cat started climbing up into the tree, and I thought that was so neat. If the cat climbed up the tree, so could I. I got about 6 inches off the ground before the tree toppled over and fell to the floor with a crash, right on top of me. I landed on a coffee table and broke it, and all the water in the tree base got all over the carpet and some of the presents. And, like the good kid I was, I didn't tell my mother. I got up, took a look around, and ran up into my room. About five minutes later I heard my mom scream My Christmas Tree!!! What the hell happened to the Living Room?!?

[analogZero]

Hmm I always butter my toast before toasting it and nothing ever gets burned!

Well when I was five I always thought that saying something straight was okay! But when my mom went to a funeral I accedentally asked why was he in that horrible "bed" and why where people crying when he was only sleeping. My mother totally got read and hit my hand! Told me to sit down and not talk..I was a little confused and all but yeah I've learned to speak when asked and all that!

do you have a toaster oven? or a toaster. toaster over + prebuttered bread is amazing. toaster + prebuttered bread = fire hazard. butter melt to bottom, butter burn. cheese does the same thing. (y)


and blaariffic, I too have many a fire story from my childhood. my favorite is starting a campfire with my friend in his garage only to be caught by the babysitter whilst feeding the fire with random flamable items we could find. good show.

[quietchat]

I can think of tons. Could it be while scrubbing a pool that I dragged an electrical cord through water? No wait, that was when I was 16. Let's see... setting broom straws on fire in the basement, finding out my grandfather was keeping adult only stuff all over the house, crashing into my grandfathers truck on a wagon when I was 7, what should I go with?

[analogZero]

my introduction to scissors left no memory, but I have a rather sizeable scar across the top of my left foot to prove what happened.
my brother beat me out for funnest scar though, when he dove head first into the laudry hamper.
few years later we would be riding blankets down wooden stairs into a wall made of stone together.

[Raven]

My first experience with my fathers pocket knife, I managed to pull it open about 90º and decided to push it the rest of the way open. Emergency room and stitches on my thumb.
My brother was practicing for t-ball with his fancy new metal bat and didn't notice me step inside his swinging radius. Emergency room stitches on my face. But hey, now I have an artificial dimple when I smile.

[Corwin]

Well let's see, there was the time I learned to play w/ matches, burned myself and dropped a lit match into our trashcan for paper stuff, needless to say, it went up in a fairly impressive manner, lucky the house didn't follow it. A couple of times I decided I should plug things in while touching the prongs, took me a little while to figure out that wasn't a good idea. Then there was the time I played w/ the metal top of a can after opening it w/ the can opener, luckily my parents came home as I was laying on the living room floor with my fingers bleeding out on to the carpet. Jumped off the roof of our second story house a few times. Did the carpet, cardboard box, mattress and pillow rides down a flight of stairs at a stone wall. Rollerblading in the middle of traffic on a 55mph highway a lot. I used to read a book while I rode my bike, don't ask me how but I survived that w/o a scratch, did it a number of times and actually got a decent chunk of the book read that way, and no it wasn't a tricycle or anything that would balance itself. I'm sure there are a few more assorted stupidities in my childhood that by all rights should have helped me to leave this earth long ago, but I don't remember at the moment.

[Sir Skitzo]

During my 8th year of life, we were on vacation in Florida staying in a Hotel that had about 10 floors(we were on 3). My parents were lugin luggage up the stairs when I noticed that the pool was just(in my perspective) below the window. Well, I climbed out onto the balcony, and jumped. My parents walked in and I can still hear my mom screaming (and I bet that it still echos in Florida) I missed the pool, but was lucky enuff that I hit the canvas awning of the poolhouse and only broke an arm. From there I did slide/roll into the pool. Altho it wasn't as much fun with a sore sholder and a broken forarm.

[blaariffic]

Oooh the prongs+finger+outlet thing ..I did that alot before I learn to stop...

Hmm..I remember this time I didnt take my own advise....
I was making chocolate milk and split some on the floor....so I go get a mop and mop it up....run to the others in those and tell them where I mopped the floor
Then I run back ...only to slip on the very spot and slam my full weight into floor via my head...I got such a huge lump on my head from that.....I forget the age..but it was still before I hit double digits..
Actually..did I ever drink that chocolate milk?

Then that time I jumped at my sister from behind the couch...as most 4-5 years old would.....and so like most older sisters would...she ducked...
I flew over her head and landed squarely on the top of my head on the concrete floor...
Ive been told it was heard all throughout the house..
Worse is my reaction...I was about to cry when my sister started laughing at me ..so..I laughed.....hysterically...
Isnt head trauma the best ::D:...

[Sir Skitzo]

I wuz at a C-store just a few minutes ago, saw a kid standing in line, his Mom walked out of line to go grab somthing, and this Lil' boy reached behind him to grab his mothers hand and Grabbed the hand of a grummpy, gnarrly, 80 year old man. He realized his mistake as the ol' man yanked his hand back and growled thru his beard covered, toothless, mouth. That wuz priceless. lol.

[strike7785]

When I was working at Lowes on a cherry picker or and Ord picker whatever you want to call it, I was loading alliances on top of a 16foot shellf. Being as dump as I was back then when I was having trouble with a heavy piece I stuck my hand to try to measure between the machine and the beam on the roof to see how high I can go, then I moved the picker up some more and squashed my hand. I felt Like and idiot but to keep from emabarrasing myself I blamed it on an error of the machine.

[Shadow-San]

well lets see....-walks down memory lane- there are soooo many, here. when i was about 4 or 5 i used to run full tilt through our apartments. now, our apartments were shaped in a connected 3rd floor square. i got the idea from my sister to run with my eyes closed. it was the coolest thing!!!! well until i ran full tilt into the corner wall and busted open my right side of my forehead. got stitches went home, and, she told me if i went the other way it wouldnt happen. needless to say, i got more stitches and my forehead looked as if horns were coming out, you can see it till this day!! lmfao!!
and, seein as how my sister gave me a few stories, heres one my brother gave to her.
my sister broke her tail bone and her hip an arm and a leg. when she was 11 my brother put a matress outside our window and told her if she jumped and landed on it, she wouldnt get hurt. remember we lived on the third floor. she jumped.......

[sleeper101]

i remeber when i was 9 i was chasing my sister and there was a low self. She ducked and I didn't. Forgot about the shelf and I had to get stiches but my dad had to tell me the stroy I hit it hard enough and forgot how it happend.

[spirit]

ok. When I was a little kid.. I did something terribly stupid.
I was maybe 4 or 5 and I... washed....
my cat....
in some washing powder (!!!)
well, it was all an accident... 'cause I didn't really mean to use it... I just accidentally pushed the box... and the powder mixed with the water in a bathtub -_-"
The good thing is that the cat survived... lol

[analogZero]

I have two favorite electricity stories. first, I believe I mentioned around here somewhere but out of sheer curiosity I stuck my tongue in an electrical socket. nuff said.
second was in a science class as kids, for some reason we had these electrical outlets on the tables we sat at that stretched across the room in rows. I shared one with a rather dim witted friend and he dared me to put a paper clip in the socket. I told him I'm not an idiot and that he should do it (I learned from my mistake and wanted others to learn the way I did, you see). seconds later while teacher was writing on the blackboard a rather loud pop was heard and a small cloud of smoke rose up. He had a burn in the shape of a paper clip on his thumb and forefinger and everyone noticed. Save the teacher, despite my histerical laughter at his outstanding display of retardation.

[strike7785]

ok. When I was a little kid.. I did something terribly stupid.
I was maybe 4 or 5 and I... washed....
my cat....
in some washing powder (!!!)
well, it was all an accident... 'cause I didn't really mean to use it... I just accidentally pushed the box... and the powder mixed with the water in a bathtub -_-"
The good thing is that the cat survived... lol

thats funny did your cat come back out like a puff ball after that

[Rincewind]

LOL, i wrecked the paint of a card as a kid , thought the colour was ugly so took a white stone and scratched the whole car ,i was 5 years :S

[Azure]

Flammable bug spray + Match = bad juju is one that i can remember >.> took weeks for my eyebrows to look normal again.