Here we talk about things we did as a kid that we got in trouble for

[honeychile]

When I was about 3-4, I found some individually wrapped "balloons" in my daddy's nightstand. My parents were less than amused that I blew a bunch up and showed them to the neighbors, but I was already at an age where a "Don't you EVER!" worked.

[AlphaFrog]

My mom said when I was little and I had just started walking and talking I walked into the kitchen where my mom was sitting with her friend, threw my toy on the floor, said "oh, shit" then walked out.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

My mom said when I was little and I had just started walking and talking I walked into the kitchen where my mom was sitting with her friend, threw my toy on the floor, said "oh, shit" then walked out.

A few years ago, my mom told me the real story behind my first word. I always believed it was "Daddy" at 10 months. Apparently, I attempted to sit down on a plastic chair when I was about 6 months old. I slipped off onto the floor and said "Sh*t!" out of frustration. She said she wasn't sure if she should be shocked at the word itself or just the fact I said a discernable word at that age. Unfortunately, I didn't learn any more words until I was 10 months so they had to deal with 4-ish months of that being the only word I knew.

She said never told me because I was always so offended by curse words and might be embarrassed by that story. Once I was in my early 20s and a little looser with language, she thought it was safe to come clean.

[melindawarren]

Originally Posted by honeychile

When I was about 3-4, I found some individually wrapped "balloons" in my daddy's nightstand. My parents were less than amused that I blew a bunch up and showed them to the neighbors, but I was already at an age where a "Don't you EVER!" worked.

Oh LOL.

I always had a very sophisticated vocabulary, but I knew that my parents used these words I didn't know when they got angry on the road. So I'm on the swings, minding my own business, and I decide to try saying some of them. Of course, little MW didn't know exactly how to pronounce these words:

"Got Dammit!" "Shid!" "Crap!" (that's hard to mess up)

I definitely got a lecture on swear words after that.

My sister also did the "words that rhyme with duck" thing. We were at my grandpa's house! Awkward one. And I had that kind of incident in school. One of my classmates was referring to the f-bomb, but I thought he said, "funk," so I said that I said it all the time and it wasn't a bad word. This ended badly.