Hey Pandas, What Is Something You Did As A Kid And Now Realize How Much Of A Dumb Child You Were?

Our family visited a ghost town in the mountains in Australia. There were a lot of old mines there. An old railway connecting 2 mountains - crossing a ravine. It had a hand car on it so I started pumping the thing trying to cross to the other side. What I did not realise was that halfway across, the railway had collapsed into the ravine... My parents were shouting to me to stop which (surprisingly) I did and I then came back over the same track. My parents were white as a sheet....(and too shocked to wallop me a good one).

1. made tea with gutter water, muddy cup, dirty mint leaves.
2. stood behind my sister when she was coming down from a handstand; got kicked in the eye
3. while making pasta dropped fork and impaled toe
4. ate flowers that were found outside, unwashed, probably not edible
5. thought that the saying "my pet peeve" meant you had a pet, preferable a black great dane named peeve, who really hated the thing you had a pet peeve about
6. got my foot stuck in the couch
7. got my head stuck in the couch
8. dropped a weight on my toe
9. tried to shoot my sister with a rubber band; shot myself with a rubber band
10. spontaneously decided it would be a good idea to fall off a bench backwards onto a wooden floor
11. rubbed my feet on a carpet and shocked myself
12. had a pokemon cards phase, thought one of my pokemon cards was lost in a library, freaked out and searched all over, clutching remaining cards in hand to make sure no more would be lost, missing pokemon card was found in hand
13. wanted a whole pear diced, not two halves of a pear diced, wailed for hours about it
14. ate sunflower seeds found on the ground in park
15. went down a slide headfirst, got hurt, promptly did it again

I took my hairpin with a Hello Kitty design on it and stuck it in an outlet because I thought that outlets had water in it. I ended up somehow shutting down the power for the entire house and didn’t get shocked. I was 4 at the time

I would pat ANY dog i came across - they could be barking and snarling but I would just go over and start patting. I was never bitten...maybe they realised I was just a dumb kid lol.

Busted open the glass thermometer and played with the mercury.

We would have roast beef for Sunday dinner. My slices of roast beef would have a hole in the middle of it, so I'd cut around that hole, because I assumed that's where 'the worm' was in the meat, and I didn't want to eat that part. I'd leave a little doughnut of meat on my plate every Sunday.
It took years for me to realize that's where the rotisserie spear went through the meat.
I was a dumb kid.

Growing up my small town had a store with blacked out windows. I asked my more worldly friend what kind of store it was and she said they sell “dirty underwear”.

Well I spent the next however many years thinking about this disgusting store that not only sold used underwear, but they didn’t even wash them first!

Fast forward to me being a teenager and a friend asked what that store was. I said, “Oh that store is super gross. They sell dirty underwear”. It hit me, dirty as in adult and not dirty as in unwashed.

I was about 5 and had done something that I knew was going to get me a spanking. I figured that if no one could get into my room, they couldn't spank me. So I slathered my bedroom door k**b with Vaseline and hid inside. My brilliant plan did not work.

I was a complete Pyromaniac. Would use nail polish, lysol, or whatever I could get my hands on.

I didn't know how to swim, and I (without any floats) jumped into the pool, thinking it would be like those movies where I jump intoo the waters a automatically learn how to swim. I almost died that day. But now I am a competitive swimmer. Soooo. I was three at that time, and somehow I'm not traumatized

When I was four we were roasting marshmallows in the fireplace. I was impatient so I stuck one on a plate in the microwave. It got massive, and I was like, omg, I've discovered not only how to make marshmallows cook faster, but they expand magically and it's gonna be amazing! Then I reached in and grabbed it with my bare hand.
That obviously didn't work out well for me.
But I started making marshmallows in the microwave after that and would just stick a fork in it and spin it until it was basically a marshmallow lolly. Though, I didn't try to work that method out until well after my burns had healed.

I was 6, and fascinated by the pilot light in our furnace... The basement was also my "playroom" and a friend and I were pretending to have an Olympic torch (twisted sheet of paper, lit on the end by that sweet, sweet pilot light). One of our torches got out of hand, and I panicked and threw it into the garbage... which was a cardboard box full of paper. I ran upstairs to ask my mom for a glass of water (no way was I telling her what we'd done LOL), but she handed me a little Dixie cup. I ran back downstairs to dump the few drops of water on the small fire, and ran back upstairs to ask for more, which of course alerted my mom that something was going on. Oof, what a grounding that was! The even dumber thing? It happened in the basement, which had a huge utility sink right next to the furnace LOL

I fell off The Weird Tree At The Back Of The School.
Six times.

I used to completely dry my hands after washing them before turning off light switches because I was convinced if I had a single drop of water on them while turning light switches on/off then I would get electrocuted... Kinda shameful to admit but I didn't stop doing that until like 2 years ago.

Wanted to see if I could x-ray my arm using a traditional edison lightbulb. This was in the early 1980s. I was small. It kinda worked. It also burnt me. Undeterrred, I decided to see what happened if I melted crayons on it. That worked. I then thought well, let me wash the crayon off with a wet cloth. Result: boom. Bulb popped and threw glass everywhere. Lucky didn't hit my eyes.

I stuck nails and sticks into the ground to make the earth stronger

When I was a little girl my brother's, and I played chase in an old cemetery. Now this cemetery was a really old one such that if you hit the grave just right the whole thing would collapse in. We thought it was funny when one fell in while we were running full speed across the place. I shake my head at this for several reasons not the least of which is the fact of how bad one of us kids could have got hurt pretty bad. This was in New Mexico, so the ground was really sandy. I think we kept our guardian angels pretty busy.

Until the age of 23, I truly believed rabbits only lived for a week or so. My Italian parents used to keep rabbits, which I foolishly believed were pets. One day I came home from school and noticed little Luigi (my favourite) was missing. My mom told me he died during the night of old age. Whilst I was shedding a tear or two into my delicious dinner I asked my mom what we were eating?
That’s luig…er I mean chicken she said. I miss Luigi.

Oh, there are so many. I'll try to narrow it to 2

When I was 3 my Mom was on the phone. I kept tugging her shirt until I got her attention, informed her I lost my teddy bear's eye. When asked where, I pointed to my ear. Dr visit to get it out. As Mom was waiting to pay I tugged on her shirt again. Told her I lost the other eye. Where? The other ear. Dr was nice enough not to charge for the 2nd extraction.

Age 4 Dad showed me a magic trick where he made a kleenex disappear. When I asked where it went, he said up his nose. You see where this is going. Dad was banned from showing me any more magic tricks after that.

When I was about 6 years old, I found out the hard way that riding in a little red wagon, tied to the back of a dirt bike, down a gravel road is not the smartest thing to do.

Worse yet, when the wagon hit a big rock and flipped over, I 'forgot' to let go and was dragged about 100 meters. Stripped all the skin off the inside of my right leg from the knee down to the foot. Still have the scars (faint).