The worst "naughty" thing you did as a child?

Existing. Apparently everything I did was naughty and deserved to be punished

Sorry that should have been a herd of cows not crowns !!!

I was very naughty. When my sister was born, my gran polished our step ready for the doctor to visit, so I peed on it!

On a family picnic I did not want to go on, I rounded a herd of crowns up and drove them through the picnic!

I am of course a complete angel today ?

The only thing I remember is giving the cat, a sealpont Siamese named Chang, a 'haircut'. She had a tonsure and no whiskers for ages.

I blame my brother completely for this one..

It was around 1965. Our neighbour was out at work and had left their motorbike leaning up against the adjoining yard wall.
My older brother thought it would be a good idea to show me how to throw sparklers up in the air and see what would happen.
So, being a good sister, I obliged.
My sparkler landed on the seat of the motorbike and caught fire.
We ran upstairs to see what we had done and the seat was ablaze. It didn’t look good.
We told mum, who got other neighbours to join in with buckets of water to put out the, not insignificant, fire.
Dad came home, saw the skeleton of next doors bike and blamed my brother.
Dad had to pay next door neighbour £50.
A lot of money back then.
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I was an inquisitive child who loved looking through old boxes of family mementoes etc. We lived in an old house which had a staircase that turned at a right angle near the top. At a very strange angle near this turn was a ‘secret’ cupboard which I was forbidden to touch, presumably because to press the button to open it I would have to stretch on tip toes which could be very dangerous.

One day when everyone was occupied elsewhere I decided to chance my arm. I got the cupboard open and saw a number of bulging shopping bags. Having dragged each one out, I found they contained my Christmas presents, so on Christmas Day, there were no surprises, as I had put them back, and no one knew that I had been there………….or did they? It could have been a way to teach me to do as I was told - but regrettably to this day, that has proved unsuccessful!

I was cross with my big brother so I scribbled on his book. I waited for weeks to be found out but never was. Another time mum bought me a candlewick bedspread. I couldn't stop pulling the threads out. Mum blamed shoddy workmanship and I never confessed.

When I was about 7, so my brother was 3, a friend had a ‘trolly’ which was made of planks mounted on wheels. (You could ride it down the street if there was a bit of a slope). It was bonfire night time so we decided to dress my brother as the Guy and pull him round the neighbourhood asking for ‘penny for the Guy! I don’t think we got very far before someone told my mother and needless to say she was extremely cross. I had a very strict upbringing and didn’t usually get the chance to be naughty.

Not sure if it was 'naughty' but cruel. It was my best friend, her birthday was coming up and she gave out invitations. Then she decided she didn't want one particular friend to come. She told everyone her party was actually 24 hours early, and had her party. The next the girl (who didn't often get invited to parties) appeared. Her Mum had bought her a new dress and sent quite an expensive present (for early 70s). The girl opened the door and said the party was yesterday, snatched the present and slammed the door...very cruel. Folks, that girl is here today! Oh and Mum, it never felt any better...

I was younger than school age when I would pick a neighbours pretty flowers that were near the front wall, then knock on her door to see if she would like to buy them. She always did bless her. I thought she didn't know they were hers.

Not sure it was naughty … but my brother was off school with a broken leg and on crutches. He begged me to play hookie from school and we jumped on a bus to our local railway station and got on train to london( We were on main Euston line ) …. We were in London in half hour and bought a kids rover ticket for buses …and had whale of a time going to the sights.. …tagged onto a group of Americans going around the Houses of Parliament and did the tour ! And got home by 4 which is when my parents would expect me to be home from school. They never found out ….but did tell them when we were in our 20’s. My big brother was 12 at the time and I was 11.

My mum always bought the big 48 box Tunnocks teacakes for Xmas. One year my dad and I ate the bottom layer and replaced the gaps with scrunched up newspaper.
At Easter my sister and I used to climb up to the curtain pelmet where our mum put our choc eggs out of reach and we would of taken the sweets out of the inside of them and wrapped them all back up again. It wouldn't be as much fun now as the sweets are on the outside....

At my seventh Birthday Party I added Andrew's Liver Salts to my little friends orange squash and told them it was Orangeade. My parents were so cross!!

Ran my finger nail down every corner in a room where my lovely Dad had decorated to split the paper as I liked the patterns of the rips. Mum went bolistic. Dad improved his decorating skills and papered into the corners properly. He was suprisingly quite amused by it but made me his little decorating assistant when I wanted to play outside.

I grew up in Scotland and have never heard of Mischief Night. If only I had .......

I was a very quiet and shy child but went completely mad and rebellious as a young teenager - those damn hormones!! I wasn't wanted (an "accident" 6 years after the birth of the wanted son). I went out and partied at every opportunity. But frequently had stand up fights with my dad and had to run between the front door (that he was standing in front of to stop me going out) and the front room window that I would climb out of. I was brought up to tell the truth, so I always told them where I was going and when I'd be back. I was always home on time, but I realise how awful it must have been for my Mum in particular. I became a strict parent myself, but I did understand when my daughter became rebellious in her turn!

Aged 3, a little friend and I hid in a cupboard by the side of the chimney breast and listened to our mums chatting. When they realised we weren’t playing in the garden (and had heard all sorts of inappropriate gossip) they searched the house and surrounding area. It was only when we heard police mentioned that we emerged stiff and hot but much more informed

Aged 7, I told my 3 year old brother that he could fly. I made cardboard wings which I tied to his arms, made him climb the sycamore tree in our garden and pushed him off a top branch shouting “Flap your wings”. He crash landed in the nettles ( not badly hurt, luckily) and my mother spanked me. Happy days…..

At age 9 I was in a temper and knocked the cuckoo clock off the wall. Mum marched me upstairs and gave me a 'good hiding'. My older brother, who always bullied me shouted up to mum to stop. The only time he ever stood up for me.

My friend Smarties(Martin) and I had a den in an old chicken house. One day we played with some matches and managed to set it alight. Thankfully we escaped unharmed but they discovered who had burned it down. I was 8 at the time.

Mum had made me a pretty new dress, with coloured polka dots on white background. So I attempted to cut out the dots with my new child scissors, and succeeded with quite a few!

It was very unfortunate that fabric was rationed at the time.

I was very young, and had not yet appreciated the hard work and care involved in being a Mum!

My gran was a rather miserable woman , very unsmiling. One day she was minding me and my two little cousins, I was about nine. She opened the back door to let us play in the yard and said crossly " Don't make a noise, I've got a headache! " There was a big piece of corrugated iron lying under the window, so I ran up and down it with the two little ones following me, stamping as loudly as I could, and laughing gleefully at her grim face through the window!

I have never heard of Mischief Night and I live in Scotland. As has already been said Halloween was just dredssing up and doing a turn in exchange for sweets fruit and nuts. Our chidren were young when we lived in the far north of Scotland and it was lovely as the whole street of children visited each house and just got goodies never money. Moving further down Scotland we were bothered by children coming round before the 31st . expecting money. They got none from me until the right day .

Kate1949 ?

I meant to add, if I said I hadn't committed any sins the priest wouldn't have believed me.