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I managed to get out of getting in trouble way too often for my own good. I was a little blonde girl with pigtails who could cry on cue. My poor parents. They did get really mad at me when I was 9 for trying to vacuum my sister with the vacuum cleaner. And they weren't thrilled when my friend and I opened my beanbag and covered my room with a million or so tiny little white balls. They had to get it out with the snow shovel.

I wasn't really that rebellious, that was my younger sister, who got annoyed with the fact that she had to go to gym in 6th grade and got suspended for flicking off the gym teacher. In high school though, there was this girl who would torture me mercilessly so I glued her locker shut with superglue. The school never found out it was me, but my mom did when she found the glue in my car. I thought I was going to get in major trouble, but my mom just gave me a really half-assed lecture about not vandalizing things. In retrospect, I realize she was trying really hard not to laugh.

There was the time where my mom had this neighbor lady she hated who would always come over unannounced and stay and be rude, and we could never get this B to leave. So one day she came over and rang the door bell, we didn't answer. She came around the back, found me and my mom on our porch, and started the old routine. I could see my mom getting annoyed with this lady, so I turned the hose on her. In my defense, I was 7. My parents had a really hard time not laughing when they grounded me, and I lost TV rights for a month, but at least that woman started distancing herself from us.

The best story isn't mine, it's a friend of mine's. He was the most adorable little kid but the biggest troublemaker, always getting in trouble for destroying things and trying to kiss girls. The story is about the time he decided that he really wanted a secret passage from his bedroom to his playroom, so he decided to build one. He drew out plans on paper with crayon and was in the midst of taking up his floorboards when his mom realized the house was suspiciously quiet and went up to check on him. She of course went ballistic as soon as she saw what he was doing, when he goes..."but mom, I'm making a secret passage to my playroom!" She yells at him about how he'll destroy the house pipe system, and he goes, "don't worry mom, I'll build around them. It's cool." Of course, he is now about to graduate from law school.