name something you got in trouble for while you were growing up...

[BellaBerlee]

-This thread is extremely hilarious! Espcially as an elementary school teacher thinking like the mindset of many teachers!-

Once, in fifth grade my teacher left the classroom. Thinking back - why would the teacher leave no idea. However, she left a male student in charge. After a while some of the kids in the classroom started to make fun of him. Two of the girls were my really good friends. So, I joined in. *Back sidenote* My father had just seen a picture of the kid (he was on the same soccer team as a family friend's son) and said "That's a boy, he looks like a girl with his long hair..."* So - what did I do? I repeated what my father said. "You know Scott, my dad thinks you look like a girl...." And that got the class rolling.
Needless to say, us three girls got in trouble and had detention.
To add to the story - we had to get a paper signed saying that our parents would be at school to pick us up on the day we got detention. I took my paper home to my mother - who thought and knew I could do NO wrong - for her to sign it. I told her - "Oh mom, this isn't really a detention, it's a slip because my teacher didn't get to finish a lesson so she wants the class to stay after school to finish the lesson - and she gave us all this for our parents to sign."
I don't know if my mother was just too "out there" to realize it was a lie, but it was never brought up and I was never in trouble besides the detention that I served at school - without my parents knowing...

A SECOND story - was when I had moved to Florida. My brother (who is 5 years older than me) used to torment me to no end. Often, I'd lock myself in the bathroom, crying, waiting for my dad to get home. Well one day he started really teasing me, so I called him a jerk-off. My father did NOT like that. And definitely had a lecture and a half about proper language and to the point of "I will wash your mouth out with soap if I ever hear that word again out of your mouth..."

To this day I'm afraid to say jerk-off around my father, even though it's not THAT bad of a word!