Mean Things You Did As a Youngster

[Dibbons]

For me, I remember burning lizard bellies with magnifying glass. Don't remember if it was my idea or a friend's.

 

[T2R9]

We would catch suckers and put fire crackers in their mouths and light ‘em. I always had fun grabbing a small snake, putting it in my pocket and pulling it out chasing my sisters around the house.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I have prayed for forgiveness, and do not care to share any more details.

 

[Kern Dog]

There was this retarded kid in the neighborhood. People used to throw stuff at him and make him cry.
He grew up and bought a Charger. Nobody throws stuff at me anymore.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

There was this retarded kid in the neighborhood. People used to throw stuff at him and make him cry.
He grew up and bought a Charger. Nobody throws stuff at me anymore.

Most slow people drive Chevy's... You must have been really special....

 

[ksurfer2]

I used to step on the crack to try and break my mother's back.

 

[Ron H]

Used to get peeved when a certain group of kids would pick on the special ed kids. This came to wrestling contests and fists a few times. One time it was challenge after school in the rear of the adjacent church yard. Well chit, by the time my opponent and I got there, the rumors about a fight circulated and must a been at least 50 classmates waiting to watch the fight. We stared each other down circling about as the kids were screaming to get going with the fight. ******* barbarians hey.

My opponent was a bit bigger than me. Then a kid in the back of my opponent pushed him into me and the fists started flying. I took a good smack in my mouth drawing blood and I got pissed wanting to draw blood landing a fist on his nose seeing the blood drain from his nostrils. I took another hit on the lips and got him again on his nose. Lol, lips and nose thing. No body blows or wrestling. Weird how the fights can evolve, ya know tackling to the ground or kicking, etc. Ask me how I know. Well, by then several teachers came running to break it up. I sported a nice set of fat lips and his nose was broken.

Back then nothing more than detention. Don’t recall the teachers calling our folks. Not sure; don’t remember anything if it happened. My dad, always a man of few words, looked at me shaking his head and my elder brother called me a dumbass laughing at my lips.

 

[WileE]

Back on the streets in Brooklyn, one of my best friends was a black kid Melvin. He and I were very good ballplayers, we would play ball with older kids. Melvin had a younger retarded brother, who would walk and talk obviously displaying his disability. Some of the kids on the block started making fun of him, making derisive gestures and sounds emulating him. I went up to the bunch one day and told them, if I see any of you making fun of my friends brother, I would knock all the teeth outta their mouth. Mind you, I was not a big kid. No one tested me. That ended that.

 

[Ron H]

Back on the streets in Brooklyn, one of my best friends was a black kid Melvin. He and I were very good ballplayers, we would play ball with older kids. Melvin had a younger retarded brother, who would walk and talk obviously displaying his disability. Some of the kids on the block started making fun of him, making derisive gestures and sounds emulating him. I went up to the bunch one day and told them, if I see any of you making fun of my friends brother, I would knock all the teeth outta their mouth. Mind you, I was not a big kid. No one tested me. That ended that.

My older brother could be a bully sort, at least picking on me and kicking my ***, cuz he could. When I entered HS I got into weightlifting and gymnastics and gained a good 40lbs by my junior year. One morning I was leaving for school and saw me wearing one of his sweaters. Oly chit, he got pissed and da fight started. We wrestled around and his sweater was toasted pulling on it winging me around. I picked his *** up and tossed him a few feet across the room. He was surprised. I said I asked mom if I could wear the sweater since you were asleep; she bought it anyway. By then he was out of school a couple years, a mechanic at a dealership before he changed careers a few years later becoming a cop. But as I reflect on it, it was his sweater and should have asked him (think he would have said no, lol). Oh well, payback for the times he picked on me for his entertainment. Ahh, but we love each other.

 

[67440chrg]

Probably the one thing I remember the most was when I was about 12. My mother died and my dad did not know how to raise kids. several months after she died my day tried to spend time with me and bought a remote controlled boat and asked me to go to the pond and use it. I told him I was too old to play with toys. I was not old enough or smart enough to know he was really trying and I was a a$$ hole. That was over 45 years ago and he has passed long ago and I still feel like crap for not spending the time to do it.

 

[Ron H]

Probably the one thing I remember the most was when I was about 12. My mother died and my dad did not know how to raise kids. several months after she died my day tried to spend time with me and bought a remote controlled boat and asked me to go to the pond and use it. I told him I was too old to play with toys. I was not old enough or smart enough to know he was really trying and I was a a$$ hole. That was over 45 years ago and he has passed long ago and I still feel like crap for not spending the time to do it.

Well – if anyone hasn’t done something crappy they regret, I’d think it would be a short list. I have a number of occasions where I’d like a do-over saying something I shouldn’t have to my kids, spouse, and now departed folks. AND I was older than 12. Decades later, my dad said something to me as some payback; no doubt unintentional, but was glad he did as I could say I got my earned payback, lol.

 

[Kern Dog]

Anyone with a heart can sometimes feel sad over missed opportunities when a loved one passed on.
My parents are gone and frequently, I think of something I want to know that only they would know. When people pass on, we lose more than a person, we lose the knowledge they had too.

 

[JackR]

There are too many to tell. Well in High School we got to drinking and one of the guys passed out cold. So we took his pants and left him in the front seat of a neighbors unlocked car. Police took him home in his underwear.

 

[65satelliteman]

While in 8th grade there was this really old grouchy man that lived by one of my friends house. He lived on a one block long dead end street at the very edge of the city limits and all of the houses were on the right side of the road. The left side of the road was all woods and the four of us went running down the side of his house after dark and one of the guys was dragging a branch down the side of his house with all of us screaming at the top of our lungs. We were having a real hoot out of it until the old guy came out on his front porch and touched off his shotgun. The timing was spectacular, because as we were all entering the woods across the street the guy next to me caught his toe in and old fence laying on the ground and when the shotgun went off he dropped flat on his face. I thought for sure the old guy shot one of my buddies and if he actually knew how things went that night he would definitely be pleased, as it scared the chit out of all of us for awhile HA! HA! HA!.

 

[WileE]

Probably the one thing I remember the most was when I was about 12. My mother died and my dad did not know how to raise kids. several months after she died my day tried to spend time with me and bought a remote controlled boat and asked me to go to the pond and use it. I told him I was too old to play with toys. I was not old enough or smart enough to know he was really trying and I was a a$$ hole. That was over 45 years ago and he has passed long ago and I still feel like crap for not spending the time to do it.

Your Dad succeeded in what he was trying to do. He embedded a memory in your heart with him that lasted a lifetime. Sometimes the things we DON'T do, shape our lives as much as the things we do.

 

[khryslerkid]

We used to try and get this one kid to come out and play baseball with us. His mom would get really mad when we came knocking at their door.

"Come on Mrs Jones, can't Billy come out and play with us?"

Mrs Jones : "You boys know Billy doesn't have any arms or legs!"

"That's okay, we want to use him for home plate."

 

[67Charger]

My dad's good friend had a daughter that was graduating HS, and didn't have a date for her senior class trip to Disneyland. He'd been trying to set us up for a while. I was 17, had already graduated, didn't have a girlfriend, and she was actually quite pretty, cheerleader, etc, but I wasn't interested in her. I got vounTOLD to go, so I did. I remember having a relatively decent time, and she was good company, but for Lord know what reason, some other girl there just really caught my eye. I was enough of a prick that I literally said to her "Hang on, I am going to go ask that girl for her number..." Asked, didn't get it, then proceeded to go back to being her "date" for the rest of the trip. Just a crappy thing to do to a girl to make her feel inferior. I hope my boys don't do that to some girl. I'll beat the gentleman back into them.

 

[chtampa]

Told "Dead Baby Jokes".

 

[khryslerkid]

I was told, as a ten year old, that I put a cat in the neighbors mailbox. The next morning the neighbor was at the mailbox when the mailman pulled up. He opened the box and the cat ran right up his arm and into his jeep, running around trying to find a way out.

I don't remember doing this but my neighbor swore I did it.

 

[69a100]

In my younger days I used to go around neighborhoods and ask the smaller kids I would ask them if they knew what tits were? If they said no, I told them to go home and tell your Mother that she has nice, big, fat, round juicy tit's!