I actually stole something off another person's desk when I was in 2nd grade.

My teacher caught me with the goods in my desk and made me write a letter to my parents. I used to get the mail for my parents, and recognized my handwriting on the envelope. I was shaking as I handed my parents the mail. I knew it was just a few moments before I was going to get a verbal lashing.

I apologized to my parents, the person I took it from and the teacher for having be involved.

Needless to say, I was still punished at home. However, I think the teacher's punishment was the most firmament. Has anyone else had such an experience?

Together with a classmate from elementary school, I climbed on the roof of a neighboring house where no one was present since it was only used as a vacation house (I grew up in a ski resort) and we tossed paper planes from the roof onto the street. Then I had the magnificent idea to light one of the planes on fire and send it down the chimney.

I did the same thing, but I was not caught. It was a shitty bazaar eraser with a picture or something like that. I don't know why I did it, but I remember keeping it as a trophy and watching it with a mixture of pride and guilt.

One time, I started digging an escape tunnel in our garden, inspired by what the Dalton brothers do all the time in the Lucky Luke comics. I didn't get very far before my mom stopped the project.

Here is a solution:

As soon as you leave your teacher. you quickly write two more letters.
Make sure all three arrive together.

Then at home.

Dad: "Hmmm... I just got this weird letter. It says you brought a pink elephant to school"
Mom: "And this second one says you slapped the Queen of England who was visiting"
You: "Hahaha. I wonder what kind of crap they invented in the third one..."

I once put a bowl of soup in my friend's desk in 2nd grade, and it was there an entire weekend. Needless to say, I got my playground privileges taken away for 2 weeks afterwards.

...and we wonder why the post office is going broke. :)

Maybe these days, you should send one by FedEx, the other by UPS and the real one by US mail. :) I used to play some really silly pranks on my co-workers. There was this one fellow who always ordered Chinese food with us, but never ponied up for a tip. I put a carton of white rice in his desk drawer and it remained unnoticed for over a year. When he finally found it, it turned into a brick. Had it been a smelly fish, he would have found it sooner. :) My parents used to have a house where the roof was quite accessible too. My brother and I used to climb onto the roof and jump off it into the pool, essentially turning it into a "high dive". If we landed the wrong way, we could have easily broken our necks or worse. I consider this to be one of those stupid things I did as a kid and lived to tell the tale.

Stupidest thing I did as a kid was grow up.

Now that's quite original. Amen brother.

Fight them tooth and nail!

Now that I'm grown-up, nobody can force me to 'grow up'.



My stupidest stuff involves being clueless when girls were showing interest. "Nah, she can't really want to be with me - I'm such a dork!" Apparently some girls like dorky guys. Who knew?

For many of us, you speak.

The first 40 years of childhood is always the hardest.

43 years