What kind of devilment did you do as a kid?

NorthernLight said:
Oh, okay, I remembered a couple. I might have stolen a peach when passing by an orchard. Also crossing the highway without looking both ways.

We weren't allowed to play at the lake, but we did. My sister was a blabbermouth. That night I woke her up repeatedly, to remind her not to tell our mother.
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We certainly ran in different circles.
 

Alligatorob said:
It would be a long list, nothing too destructive or very illegal, no felonies anyway (maybe), here is what I can think of:
  • Tormenting mean neighbors, anyone who didn't like kids had to beware. Managed to get one man to chase us several blocks, when we hid in some bushes he thought we had gone into a house, he ran in screaming really surprised the innocent inhabitants. Today he'd have probably gotten shot.
  • Catching baby alligators and putting them places they didn't belong, neighbors swimming pools were a favorite. Snakes too.
  • Setting off fire crackers everywhere, at that time they were illegal in Florida, but not Louisiana smuggled a lot in. Mailboxes were a favorite target. Cherry bombs and M80s were even better, but harder to get. Policeman caught us a couple of times, confiscated the fireworks, then I had to buy them back from his son...
  • Soaping windows and the like on Halloween, my favorite holiday.
  • Only time I ever shoplifted was on the one Boy Scout camp trip I went on. After only adult, the scout master, passed out drunk we went to a 7/11 to shoplift beer and cigarettes... the older boys showed me how. Don't think I got a merit badge for that one.
  • Oh, and I remember once gluing the art teacher's desk drawers shut, but she deserved it. Or I thought so at the time anyway.
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YIKES!!!
 
I was a good kid almost always. Never had a curfew as I was in by 11 pm always, no sneaking around, either. I told my dad where and what I was going to be doing, and he trusted my judgment. I just never really saw or felt a need to stir up mischief.

I did skip a whole day of school once in 12th grade. I called a boy in the neighborhood, he drove over, picked me up, and we spent the day at Clearwater beach. But then.....we drove back to the school to pick up his girlfriend afterwards when school let out. Sort of silly, huh?
 
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What kind of devilment did you do as a kid?​


It would be more appropriate to say, 'what kind of devilment didn't you do as a kid'?

I was always full of mischief and regularly got punished. šŸ˜Š

Gran smacked my backside.
Mam smacked my backside
Dad smacked my backside
Caning my backside at school became a hobby for most teachers.

However....

When I became a bit older, when a young lady smacked my backside.... cor... I didn't half enjoy that. šŸ˜Š
 
Wow, there was so much. I was very bored in school and got bad conduct grades, even though my academic grades were good.

When we were young kids, my cousin and I were at a "fish camp" (seafood restaurant) in NC. We were eating onion rings and decided to put one on a paper plate, hit the plate and chuck it into the next booth. My father quickly took off his belt and took me to the bathroom. That was the end of that.

I had a friend when I was 14 who was a latchkey kid. His mother worked at a restaurant during the day. We used to take some of her Marlboros that she left in the house and smoke them. We also once played hooky at a 7/11 all day and just got bored so we went back to school the next day. We used to listen to DOA by Bloodrock at his house (it is dark). I grew up somewhat privileged and was glad to hang with the "bad kids" from the other neighborhoods. There were older guys in my upper middle-class neighborhood that were also latchkey kids and used to steal cars for fun, so I was a saint compared to them.

My friends and I in junior high used to hang out under a tree during lunch hour and smoke pot. We would also occasionally jump the chain link fence and go to McDonald's. Little did I know that my "helicopter" mom was parked along the road and watched it all. She made sure to let me know.

There were a few other incidents, but that was about the extent of it. I got in a couple of fights in junior high, but I settled down in high school and got more serious about life.
 
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Feelslikefar said:
Being 'invisible' growing up, whatever I did got blamed on one of my brothers.
Blessing of being the middle kid.
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My partner is a middle kid and he is the funniest and most entertaining of the three siblings. He was determined not to be "invisible". They were all good kids growing up, so he never needed to hide but he did feel the need to be recognized. I get it.
 
When I say, invisible, it wasn't I was trying to hide, more like sometimes felt forgotten.

5 years differences between each of us.

So while my older brother was finding himself in high school and my younger brother was still playing with toys,
I just moved around the edges.

Know my parents didn't treat us any differently, just felt like it to me.

Sorry, back to the thread.
 
Feelslikefar said:
When I say, invisible, it wasn't I was trying to hide, more like sometimes felt forgotten.

5 years differences between each of us.

So while my older brother was finding himself in high school and my younger brother was still playing with toys,
I just moved around the edges.

Know my parents didn't treat us any differently, just felt like it to me.
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Yup
Yup
And yup

Seeing the angst my big sis an little brother went thru, I think it was a good thing

As far as favorites

Reminds me of a couple old posters of mine;

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