TT - Stupid things I did as a child

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Week # 61, my 15 TT Get the T13 code or view other Thursday Thirteens :)

1. One - When I was a baby I hauled the poo out of my diaper and smeared it on my crib and the wall. I was creative from an early age.
2. Two - When I was 2 1/2 I followed my sister and climbed up something at a grocery store and fell down had to go to hospital with a goose egg sized bump on my forehead. That is when my nickname started, "Debbie Down", that and my predisposition for climbing up things.
3. Three - When I was 4, I dragged a chair over to the broom closet so I could reach into the top cabinet where my Mum kept the medicines. I took a bunch of "baby" (children's) aspirins. This was before child proof caps. My Mum came into the room while I was pushing the chair back she confronted me. She had her suspicions and asked me if I had taken some baby aspirins which I denied. Years later as a teen I fessed up that I had. She recalled that I slept well in my nap that afternoon.
4. Four - When I was 5 I fell off the jungle gym in the playground at school. It was winter and my chin landed on a patch of ice and I bit through my lip. I was bleeding quite a bit and there was chunks of skin floating around in my mouth. I didn't know what to do with it so I swallowed it. To this day I don't like applesauce for this reason as it has the texture of what the stuff felt like in my mouth. My teacher and principal bundled me up in my snowsuit and sent me home after calling my Mum. I was five years old people and lived over 1 mile from school! My Mum didn't drive but managed to get her neighbour and good friend to drive her with all their kids (they were both SAHM's) to meet me. They managed to catch me on one of the streets about 1/3 of the way home. I was in a daze. When I heard the car honking at me I thought it was honking at me to get out of the way. It was my Mum's friend trying to get my attention. I ended up needing stitches. My Mum was so mad that the principal didn't drive me home. When the story was retold in future years she would say "Remember when you fell off the jungle gym and the principal wouldn't drive you home?"
5. Five - When I was 6 I jumped on my parents bed so hard with my sisters that we broke it. My Mum didn't want us to get in trouble from my Dad when he got home so she lied and said that she broke it. He said "How'd you do that?" to which she replied "I sat on it." I was upset with my Mum because she told a lie to my Dad, even if it meant that otherwise I was going to get into trouble. I was very confused because I knew we weren't supposed to lie but here my Mum was lying to my Dad. I was and still am a very much Black and White girl!
6. Six - When I was 7 I sprayed hairspray in my own eye by accident and told my Mum that my sister did it as I was crying in pain. I wonder why? Reread point 5.
7. Seven - When I was 8 I was lured by an older boy to an out of the way place and was molested. I was so gullible and naive. I had learned not to trust family (lol) but I still trusted strangers.
8. Eight - When I was 9 I went to a rock quarry with my friend and some other neighbourhood friends (the bad kids) to catch frogs and got back way late for lunch. My friends Dad had to come looking for us on his lunch hour. We were in big trouble because it was a dangerous place for kids to go because there was deep water. My Mum had made homemade popsicles that morning and I wasn't allowed to have one as punishment.
9. Nine - When I was 10 my friend and I walked down to the bottom of our street where there were train tracks and started walking along the tracks. We got yelled at by a truck driver. He said "You kids get off those tracks or I'm going to call the police!" We were so scared. We ran and hid in the culvert under the tracks. Finally when we thought it was safe to come out because the truck driver was gone we came out and ran all the way up the road home. We weren't afraid of the trains but we were afraid of the police. Luckily the truck driver knew better for our sakes!
10. Ten - When I was 11 I double rided my younger sister on my bicycle and she got her feet caught in the spokes and hurt herself. A neighbour from a few streets over found us and yelled at me and said "How could I be so stupid?" He carried my sister home and told my Mum. I was so ashamed even though everyone double-rided back then. The important thing is you need to be sure your passenger knows how to do it. I guess it was payback time for the hairspray incident.
11. Eleven - When I was 13 I was going downstairs with an armful of books after babysitting into the wee hours. My bedroom was in the basement but the light switch to turn off the light to the hall was at the top of the stairs. I was so tired that I didn't want to have to go back up and turn it off so I tried to go downstairs in the dark. Bad move. I wiped out with the books and hit both of my shins on the wooden stairs. My shinbones swelled up immediately. I almost passed out in the bathroom. My Mum heard me rummaging through the freezer looking for ice and got out of bed to see what was going on. The next day my Dad installed a double ended light switch, one you could turn off from either switch.
12. Twelve - When I was 15 I told a high school teacher that he was a male chauvinist pig and got sent to the principals office. Well he was but he was also a French teacher who used to spent 80% of the class talking English about different topics including why the smart people sit on the left side of the room and the stupid people sit on the right. Of course me and my friends sat on the right so a debate ensued (we were outraged) and the term male chauvinist pig just rolled off my tongue. He immediately turned all red and told the whole class to put their heads on their desks. He said Miss Church Lady, you will go to see the principal after class. My parents said my mistake is that I should have stopped at male chauvinist. i.e. leave out the 'pig'. They thought he was a jerk too, but I doubt it would have mattered. After my detention after school I went to the football game and I could swear people were chattering and pointing at me saying "That's the girl that told Mr. Dipshit he was a male chauvinist pig!" Hey, it was the 70's and all.
13. Thirteen - When I was 17 I had too much beer at a party and came home and puked my guts out. My aunt was sleeping in the bed with my sisters next to my room downstairs and she heard me. She asked me if I had too much pizza at the party? I said "Yeah". To this day I do not know if she was on to me or really thought I had eaten too much pizza. It's something I wish I had asked her when she was alive. lmao

Hope you enjoyed my stupid things I've done as a child. Stay tuned for stupid things I've done as an adult coming to theatres near you soon! I'm currently auditioning actresses.