name something you got in trouble for while you were growing up... - Page 2

greekchef · #16 08-23-2008, 08:35 AM

I got hold of a bag of Oreos, climbed up on the dningroom table at my grandmother's house and proceeded to lick the ceters out of all of them, put them back together and stuff them back in the bag. I got caught based on the cookie smear going from ear to ear and the super sugar hyper drive I went into. Also, my Uncle, laughing at me grabbed an Oreo and popped it in his mouth before he realized it had been thoroughly licked.

EtaPhiZTA · #17 08-23-2008, 08:39 AM

When I was eight years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and was hungry for something sweet. (Some things never change!

) I went downstairs to the kitchen and remembered that my mom had made fresh chocolate chip cookies that day. We had one of those very large ceramic "cookie jugs" and my mom kept it on top of the refrigerator. Of course I was too short to reach it, so I climbed on top of the countertop next to the refrigerator and tried to reach it. My arms were too short, so I opened the cabinet next to the refrigerator and while holding the cabinet's handle, I leaned over and was able to reach the cookie jug. Evidently those cabinet doors were not made to support a child's weight because the next thing I remember was being on the kitchen floor and having my parents standing over me while I was still clutching the cabinet door in my hand. The crazy thing about this was that I continued to deny that I was trying to get in the cookie jar. . . "I don't know how it happened, Mom and Dad."

Nothing like having this brought up at ever family gathering, even thirty years later

DSTRen13 · #18 08-23-2008, 08:43 AM

I wrote a note where I called my mom a b*tch (honestly meaning it in a good way!), and left it in pocket - my parents found it in the laundry

I got in a LOT of trouble for that ... I couldn't convince them that it was meant as a compliment to her.

AOII Angel · #19 08-23-2008, 10:15 AM

I got grounded for a month after my brother ratted me out for listening to New Kids on the Block....yes...NKOTB! My parents were big holy rollers, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music, watch the Smurfs or He-Man, amongst many other strange prohibitions!

phimu88 · #20 08-23-2008, 10:20 AM

When I was a freshman I started dating a guy who was a senior lol
my dad had a heart attack and did everything he could to keep us apart
even had him arrested once for contributing to the deliquency of a minor (I was 15 he was 18 and drinking age back the was 18)

we are married now! LOL
we all laugh about that!

chitownxo · #21 08-23-2008, 10:32 AM

I tried to throw one of my brothers out of our stationwagon, while my mom was driving in rush hour on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

In my defense, he totally deserved it (or so I thought back then). I was sitting in the front seat with my mom, and Tommy started teasing me. I told him to stop, or I'd come back there and throw him out of the window. He kept it up, so I stealthily jumped from the front seat to the middle, then from the middle to the way back. I had just lowered the back window and was boosting Tommy up and out of the window when my mom noticed what was going on. It really was worth being grounded from the phone for 3 weeks just to see the look of terror on his face.

We refer to this epsiode as the Throw Tommy From the Car meltdown, and someone trots it out every year at the holidays.

Scandia · #22 08-23-2008, 11:48 AM

In order for this to make sense, you need to remember that English is my SECOND language.

Saying a mild curse word in public. It starts with the letter s and ends with the letter t. I got very heavily reprimanded. I was 12 years old and the grown up claimed "I had watched enough movies in English to know what it meant" and that it was the "worst word in the English language". I checked with someone else- it was just as mild a curse word in English as it was in my native language. I was still reprimanded VERY harshly...but the person has OCPD and for this person spilling a glass of water will result in a reaction as if it were to result in the person's salvation being taken away.

A couple years later or so my brother said a heavy curse word that starts with the letter f and ends with the letter k. My father reprimanded him and told him it was the worst word in the English language- but since it had been said in the privacy of our own home, and he's male (keep in mind this society was not as progressive as the North American one), he did not get as harshly reprimanded as I was. The F-word being the worst word in English made MUCH more sense than the S-word being it.

In my senior year of HS, someone said the F-word in English class. When the teacher said she heard it and students asked what she meant, I said "the ugliest word in the English language". And the teacher then enlightened me about its not being so and spelled out the true recipient of this award.

It has been almost 20 years since the s-word incident. To this day, when the relative who held it against me asks me for definitions of words, I remind that person of this incident and why one should NEVER assume a person knows the true definition of a word- especially a 12 year old whom English is her second language. The discipline was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too harsh- talk about overreaction.

And no, I do not find it funny AT ALL.

Senusret I · #23 08-23-2008, 11:51 AM

Is the true worst English word the C word?

Jill1228 · #24 08-23-2008, 01:24 PM

I was 4 and we were in a store. I wanted some peanuts. Mom said, no. I opened the damn bag and started eating them.

My mother was wearing cheapie flip flops. She took one off and beat my ass in the middle of the store (those cheap flip flops hurt like a mutha!)

This woman who was like 5'1 on a tall day rolled up to my mom and tried to call her out for what she did.

My mom stood up to her full height (she was about 5'10) still wielding the shoe and said, "unless you want some of this too, you better back off lady!"

Needless to say, since I embarrassed the family name in public, I got more when we got home

Scandia · #25 08-23-2008, 01:45 PM

Senusret- that would be it!

Jill- wow, talk about an overreaction from your mother.

Benzgirl · #26 08-23-2008, 02:27 PM

My parents use to tell me that I was always into everything, opening things, taking items apart and putting them back together, and so forth. I don't remember this incident, but everyone in the family tells it from time to time.

One day when I was 3, I went shopping in a department store with my mother, my aunt and grandmother. They knew I loved to hide under the clothes racks, so they didn't have their eyes on me. Evidently, I scooted out and wandered over to the fuse box.

What you would expect, all of the lights in the ENTIRE STORE went out. My grandmother yelled out, "Benzgirl?". BUSTED!!! They knew it was me.

In my own defense, why would you place a fuse box low enough that an inquisitive three-year old could hit the breaker?

preciousjeni · #27 08-23-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jill1228

I was 4 and we were in a store. I wanted some peanuts. Mom said, no. I opened the damn bag and started eating them.

My mother was wearing cheapie flip flops. She took one off and beat my ass in the middle of the store (those cheap flip flops hurt like a mutha!)

This woman who was like 5'1 on a tall day rolled up to my mom and tried to call her out for what she did.

My mom stood up to her full height (she was about 5'10) still wielding the shoe and said, "unless you want some of this too, you better back off lady!"

Needless to say, since I embarrassed the family name in public, I got more when we got home

When I was 5 or 6 - and keep in mind that this was pre-ridiculous lawsuits for stupid things - my family was at the supermarket and I wanted some fruit Life Savers. She wouldn't get them for me so I STOLE them. Oh yes.

Once we got in the car, I took them out quietly and started eating them. I guess I crunched one because my mom heard me and caught me. In fact, I believe both my parents were there, but I only really remember my mom who flipped out.

She took me back to the store and marched me right up to the manager's "office." It was an elevated partitioned off area in the front of the store with that dark one-way glass. The manager came out and my mom explained what I had done. Then she made me apologize. The manager, playing along with my mom I guess, gave me a stern talking to.

But, here's the kicker, he started TAKING OFF HIS BELT and gave me some "if I EVER catch you stealing in my store again" speech but never actually hit me with it. Lawd, I cried.

phimu88 · #28 08-23-2008, 02:42 PM

I stuck my hand up inside one of those "penny candy" machines while my mom was checking out at the grocery store when I was around 5 years old. They had to call the fire department to take the machine apart and get my hand out! LOL

AlwaysSAI · #29 08-23-2008, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Scandia

In order for this to make sense, you need to remember that English is my SECOND language.

What is your first language, Scandia?

Leslie Anne · #30 08-23-2008, 03:57 PM

I was thinking I was such a good kid but now that I think about it....

When I was about 5 years old I had to have eye surgery (I had a "lazy" eye). Afterwards, for about 6 months I had to wear glasses with a line through them. I guess this was to train my eye. I hated those glasses so much! I kept deliberately "losing" them. After the third time, my parents really got angry with me. I didn't lose them again.

Once my family was at a restaurant and as we were getting up to leave I snatched a dollar off the pile of money my dad left as a tip. My dad gave me the look of death but waited until we left the restaurant to let me have it. That was probably the most angry my dad had ever been with me as a kid. Yikes! could he yell!!

That's pretty much it....until the teenage years.