Did you do lots of silly things when you were a kid?
By arkaf61
@arkaf61 (10881)
Canada
February 28, 2008 11:07pm CST
Being a kid is fun, although I think it used to be more fun when I was a kid LOL
And the best part of it is that we sometimes were allowed to do something really silly and still have it discounted to the fact that we are kids.
I remember of once when coming from the girl scouts meeting and having discussed that one good deed a day thing we decided to do it our own way. WE picked an old lady that was carrying many bags. She had just gone to the market and looked like she could use some help.
So my best friend approached her and in her most innocent face asked if we could help her carry the bags. But when she gave us a bag with fruit to carry we ran away with it.
I remember her calling us brats and yelling at us that she was going to tell our parents before starting to walk again.
We didn't intend to steal the stuff, it was just a joke and we caught up with her on the next block and did help her carry her stuff all the way to her home.
She told us to come in - unheard of nowadays, unsafe too - and after giving us "the speech" - be good girls and don't be bad and all the regular stuff, actually gave us some of the fruit in the bag and made some juice for us, before sending us in our merry way, with a smile.
I know this wouldn't really adapt to the present. But at that time nobody would think anything of it.
ANyway did you do many silly things as a kid? :)
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
1 Mar 08
LOL I remember doing many silly things as a kid with my friends. Our intent was not to really harm anyone or anything and we always fixed the silly things we did.
The people.. well they were also different. They would yell at us while sometimes on our back they were laughing at our silliness. Things were different, all the adults in the neighborhood were also kind of our "extended" family. Not in reality but more because they all treated us like their own kids. If they saw us out at meal time they would call us to eat with them. If they saw us doing something really bad, they would call our parents. It it was just something silly they would talk to us as someone of our family would do. THey would play with us, they would gives advice when we needed, they would show us and teach incredible things - even if we didn't want to learn them like tricot or crochet LOL
They wouldn't not really be mad at us, because they knew us all, and knew all our families and knew that we weren't bad kids.
We were always safe and there was always someone watching over us making sure we were fine:)
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
Wasn't it great though?
I think about that time and then at now. WHen my kids were younger I was even afraid of letting them go around the block by themselves, and yet at their age we were walking around like there were no worries in the world and we were safe. Anyone that saw something that didn't look good would be calling us and come to help.
We would be playing outside all day and until late at night in some summer nights and our parents would pass by every once in awhile or someone else's parents.
I could never let my kids have the same freedom we had and it's a pity because it was wonderful.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
29 Feb 08
I got in to a lot of trouble for wandering all alone over the town and never thought of it being risky even though my mom's heart must have gone pitter patter all the time but now I realise how unsafe the world is and how I could have got in to trouble and never seen my mom again. Guess what I am to scared now to let my kids out of my sight but back then people were good and friendly may be.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
The thing is it was safer then. At least in my time. We were never alone and we would go and have these fun adventures but everyone would always know where we were:)
Unfortunately I wasn't able to allow my kids to experience that. Different times, different dangers.
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@harshlovzu (438)
• India
29 Feb 08
woow kool never thought of like that but i was very mischievous espcially with girls and i was very popular with them but now i am changed a lot and i remember those days those days were golden days !!!!!
have a nice day!!!!(*_*)
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
1 Mar 08
Wow I never did anything like that and would indeed be very upset if any of my children did that - my mother would have beat my behind.
One thing I did was my best friend and I would pack picnic lunches, get on our bikes and spend the entire day roaming the countryside - all day we would be gone with no adults at all, no one knowing where we were. We were 10 & 11 when we did this. My mom was upset when she found out what we did and I was grounded when I got home... but she wasn't too worried...
Now days I would have a total panic attach and be calling the police for fear someone had run off with my kids if they did something like that at that age.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
MIne would too if she knew we were really going to run away with that fruit :)
But everyone knew that we wouldn't do it so they all would pretend to be very mad but they really weren't although they would slap our butts if we ever stole something for real.
WE used to have picnics too. Great adventures. IN our case we could only bike to the next park which was not too far away but it was still and adventure :)
But you're right, nowadays things are so different, which is a pity for it's our kids that are loosing.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
29 Feb 08
Yes, I used to do lots of silly things when I was a kid. Rather everything which now I can think about, looks silly to me. I was jack of all trades but master of none. Had I been Master of some trade, my present would have been different.
Good Post!
@slavezero (833)
• Philippines
29 Feb 08
Yes I am a little bit naughty when i was a kid. I used to climb walls and then jump from it. One time I got hurt but it did not stop me from playing and doing that again and again.
One time I kissed my classmate and then when she told my teacher about it and I was punished because of that... I told that my classmates that she is bad breath.
Those are the memories of childhood that I will not forget,.
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
29 Feb 08
I guess all kids do silly things every now and then.
A too restricted childhood is not gonna make a kid happy.
But I am not half as bad as you, going around bully old ladies lol (j/k).:P
What comes to mind is perhaps putting chewing gum onto someone's hair. That wasn't too nasty, was it?^^
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
LOL at least my old lady got her oranges back. HOw did yours deal with the gum on the hair? hehehehehehehe
I so agree with you about a restricted childhood.
I remember when my kids were younger I had to restrict them so much more than what I was when I was their age. However times are different and some of the things wouldn't be safe now.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
29 Feb 08
You reminded me of one thing i did as a kid that was not very nice... but during that time... i actually thought it was funny...
I used to go to the third floor of a school building and spit down in the hopes that the spit will actually land on someone's head... lol... lol... i still think it is funny... but very very rude and irresponsible... i don't do it anymore... and good thing nobody ever became a victim of that very silly thing...
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
I sure had a great childhood :)
Yes it does sound wicked, but we would never go ahead with it, it was all part of the fun. THey knew us to well to know we wouldn't do it either, but they also pretended that they were really mad at us. It was all so like a game sometimes.
Like they would tell us the best way to climb the tree to get to their best peaches and then they would pretend to be all mad when we would climb it and get some. We would run with a handful of peaches and they would go to the neighbor and laugh their heads off about the way they scared us :)
@AICIRT81 (847)
• United States
29 Feb 08
Yes and sometime I stil do, but its completely harmless stuff. As a teen my group of friends would TP eachothers house... stuff like that. One time we shreaded a bunch of paper and stuffed our bras with it and went into a store like that with shreaded paper poking out of our shirts. This past spring, my sister, my cousin and a friend were in Los Vegas. There was a ramp going into the hotel/casino and we were doing log rolls down the ramp. It was too funny. Ahh Good times.
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@amusedmonkey (26)
• Jordan
29 Feb 08
When I was a fifth grader I had a disagreement with religion teacher, and he gave me a bad mark for not agreeing with his views on some issue, so next day I brought a potatoe and stuffed it in the part of his car where smoke comes out (don't know what it's called in english), I know it's evil but it's silly to get your car fixed only to find the reason it broke down was a potato!
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
29 Feb 08
yes i used to do silly things when i was a kid.i was a cute little kid and all the teenage girls used to keep running after me.in the church i used to sit back and make a lot of noise and when any one came i used to hide under the sofa seat.i used to shout a lot that my cousins used to get scared and they used to say if he shouts seems like the roof is falling down.
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@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
29 Feb 08
Yes, it was fun and totally different from what we see now with the the kids of today.
I remember every afternoon going out with friends, playing interactive games and we were all so thin and yet our spirits are high. There was even a time where we get to play in the rain, on mud and even on hays.
I could also recall the times where we used to fetch some water on deep-wells, we'll carry it up and down the way into our house. It thought me how to work hard on everything to earn and to be independent, since you won't get help on other people most of the times
It was fun and we enjoyed every moment, from the games we play and the lessons we learned.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Mar 08
Yes life was so different then. And although some things might be better now, others are not. My kids were never able to experience the same sense of freedom that I did.
THey never spend the whole summer day playing with their friends with me only checking on them every once in a while.
THey were never able to experiment having a neighbor call them him and let them try the new pie or the cake they made. I couldn't allow this in here and at this time.
But it's a pity, isn't it? they missed on so many wonderful things.
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