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<h2>Kids are notoriously mischievous, but sometimes their clever toy heists or cutting, hurtful comments go completely unnoticed by adults...</h2><p>Stealing something shiny from a store, teasing another kid because you were jealous of them, lying to your parents about who is actually responsible for spilling all that ketchup on the floor or clogging the toilet with Barbies until it overflowed--childhood can be winding journey of hard lessons in moral philosophy. While bullying should never be tolerated, looking back on being a kid can sometimes be a cringe-inducing game of &quot;should I apologize to my first grade teacher for asking her why she was so old and single?&quot; Does your little sister remember the day you told her that life was better before they brought her home, and does the dog forgive you for training him to jump on the bed even though he wasn&#39;t allowed?</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nq2ivd/what_is_the_worst_thing_you_did_as_a_kid_and/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What is the worst thing you did as a kid, and still feel guilty about?&quot; people were ready to share the little mistakes they made a children that occasionally still keep them up at night. Sorry about breaking that antique vase and blaming the cat, Aunt Linda!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I bought a car at 15 and when my parents were out, I&rsquo;d drive to a gas station nearby, get an energy drink, and drive back. I probably went on 20 or so joyrides over that year. They never found out and I never got pulled over, but I still wonder what would&rsquo;ve happened had I been caught. - vzsax</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Stole a quartz rock from my grandmother. I had one very similar and was convinced it was mine and that I had left it there. She told me it wasn&rsquo;t mine, gave me a hug and a kiss. And, as a six year old, I just fixated that it was mine. And I&rsquo;m 99% sure it wasn&rsquo;t. Nothing is ever 100% but yeah. My grandmother, who did nothing but love me and shower me with love, affection, and attention, did not deserve to get her knickknack stolen by me.</p> <p>By the time I was a teenager, it totally ate me up. I never confessed and I wished I had. After she died, I had a dream where she came back to see me and the first thing I did was cry and apologize. - RuyiJade</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend and I discovered that a lighter and spray paint creates a flame thrower.</p> <p>Anyway, I accidentally burned the side of my friend&rsquo;s face. He&rsquo;s recovered just fine but I&rsquo;ll never forget how loud my dad yelled at me when his mom came knocking on the door - mindseye1212</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once threw a rock at a pigeon. I didn&#39;t mean to hit him - I just wanted to see him fly off. He was pretty.</p> <p>I hit the pigeon. I still feel bad about that. - grombleduke</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I shot a bird when I was 5. My mom forced me to watch it die. That had a lasting impression and I became a huge animal lover. - BoilerBloodline</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I stole from a friend of mine.</p> <p>A while back Burger King had a line of toys with its meals and one of the &quot;toys&quot; was a wallet. I do not remember what the branding was, but I remember it being really really cool.</p> <p>So one day I&#39;m visiting a friend of mine and I see in his room that he has the wallet. I was insanely jealous so when he wasn&#39;t looking I took everything out of it, hid the contents around his room, and pocketed the wallet. I then spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing and at the end of the day left with my new prize. - Etlas</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>We used to play a ball game where you would throw a ball over a car that was driving along the street. I threw the ball but it went through the open back window and hit a baby in the face. I&#39;ve never run home so fast! - helen_nymph69</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>My siblings and I called the only other kid at our bus stop &quot;pickle head&quot; because he always wore a green beanie. We were relentless, too, and teased the fuck out of him. One day he tried wearing a different beanie (red one) and we ramped things up calling him &quot;tomato head&quot;.</p> <p>It&#39;s been almost 2 decades and I still don&#39;t know what the poor kid&#39;s actual name was. - BreannaMcAwesome</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once told a girl that she was adopted... in kindergarten. my mom knew she was and she told me and then I told her the next day - kimajin</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I didn&#39;t invite one of the other neighborhood girls to my birthday slumber party because... because she had just started wearing a bra and my stupid kid brain thought that would mean she wouldn&#39;t want to hang with me and the other 5 girls because we were all still flat chested. She was crushed and avoided us the rest of the summer and I still feel bad about it 50 years later. - Bleu_Rue</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>In middle school, my friends and I cut the heads off of a bouquet of roses that our Spanish teacher&#39;s husband had delivered for her. She had stepped out for a second before class and we just....destroyed the whole bouquet.</p> <p>She had an absolute breakdown over it.</p> <p>I&#39;m a teacher now...and, I&#39;d like to think, a better person. What we did was just stupid and mean. - Rocktopus_PhD</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once destroyed a toy my brother had because I was jealous. When I saw the toy online I bought it and gave it to him. He didn&#39;t know why I gave him the toy. He called me the next day and said he thinks he finally realized what happened to that toy. - Past-Ad-40</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>When we lived in Nairobi, I used to stuff these giant worms into a tiny hole in the concrete for fun. I must have stuffed dozens of them in there and to top it off, I&rsquo;d take stick and ram them in for good measure. It was brutal. I felt so guilty a few years later, I began dreaming about being stuck in small tunnels; I actually became claustrophobic for years after that to the point where showering was a massive panic-inducing activity. - mykneescrack</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was younger, about 10-11 I decided to take an onion and cover it in a nice, thick coat of peanut butter and put it on a skewing stick. (For context, my mother absolutely despises onions.) I gave it to my Mother, saying I made her a peanut butter covered apple. She took a massive bite of it, and instantly had the biggest face or disgust, while gagging.</p> <p>And yes, I was laughing very hard, not being able to breathe level of laughing. - Kenton_County_Sirens</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in fourth grade I was pretty socially awkward, so my teacher set me up to go trick or treating for Halloween with another socially awkward girl, but everyone always bullied her and I didn&rsquo;t want to be considered uncool, so the day before Halloween I made my dad cancel it. I cringe every time I remember this story! - TommyIsNotHere05</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Blamed a babysitter for our apartment getting broken into when it wasn&#39;t her fault. I was just upset and wanted to blame someone. I told my mom I saw her leave the door open and my younger brother agreed with me so my mom fired the sitter. I was under 10 years old. Idk the sitters name to apologize. - whistledixie</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>In daycare, I was probably 5 or six, I convinced a classmate to let me drop a pebble down his ear. He obliged. It was bad. They had to call emergency services and take him to the hospital to get it removed. I still think about this 20 years later. - Trippy__Ferret</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Wandered away from my dad at the grocery store, went down an aisle by myself, opened a jar of peanut butter, took a scoop with my finger, closed the jar, rejoined my dad like nothing happened. It was very out of character for me. I really think it was just an impulsive test to see if I could actually get away with it. For years I was terrified that I would somehow get found out by the store/cops/peanut butter gods - Sushimidnight</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share the worst things they did as children that still keep them up at night.

Kids are notoriously mischievous, but sometimes their clever toy heists or cutting, hurtful comments go completely unnoticed by adults...Stealing something shiny from a store, teasing another kid because you were jealous of them, lying to your parents about who is actually responsible for spilling all that ketchup on the floor or clogging the toilet with Barbies until it overflowed--childhood can be winding journey of hard lessons in moral philosophy. While bullying should never be tolerated, looking back on being a kid can sometimes be a cringe-inducing game of &quot;should I apologize to my first grade teacher for asking her why she was so old and single?&quot; Does your little sister remember the day you told her that life was better before they brought her home, and does the dog forgive you for training him to jump on the bed even though he wasn&#39;t allowed?So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What is the worst thing you did as a kid, and still feel guilty about?&quot; people were ready to share the little mistakes they made a children that occasionally still keep them up at night. Sorry about breaking that antique vase and blaming the cat, Aunt Linda!1. I bought a car at 15 and when my parents were out, I&rsquo;d drive to a gas station nearby, get an energy drink, and drive back. I probably went on 20 or so joyrides over that year. They never found out and I never got pulled over, but I still wonder what would&rsquo;ve happened had I been caught. - vzsax 2. Stole a quartz rock from my grandmother. I had one very similar and was convinced it was mine and that I had left it there. She told me it wasn&rsquo;t mine, gave me a hug and a kiss. And, as a six year old, I just fixated that it was mine. And I&rsquo;m 99% sure it wasn&rsquo;t. Nothing is ever 100% but yeah. My grandmother, who did nothing but love me and shower me with love, affection, and attention, did not deserve to get her knickknack stolen by me. By the time I was a teenager, it totally ate me up. I never confessed and I wished I had. After she died, I had a dream where she came back to see me and the first thing I did was cry and apologize. - RuyiJade 3. My friend and I discovered that a lighter and spray paint creates a flame thrower. Anyway, I accidentally burned the side of my friend&rsquo;s face. He&rsquo;s recovered just fine but I&rsquo;ll never forget how loud my dad yelled at me when his mom came knocking on the door - mindseye1212 4. I once threw a rock at a pigeon. I didn&#39;t mean to hit him - I just wanted to see him fly off. He was pretty. I hit the pigeon. I still feel bad about that. - grombleduke 5. I shot a bird when I was 5. My mom forced me to watch it die. That had a lasting impression and I became a huge animal lover. - BoilerBloodline 6. I stole from a friend of mine. A while back Burger King had a line of toys with its meals and one of the &quot;toys&quot; was a wallet. I do not remember what the branding was, but I remember it being really really cool. So one day I&#39;m visiting a friend of mine and I see in his room that he has the wallet. I was insanely jealous so when he wasn&#39;t looking I took everything out of it, hid the contents around his room, and pocketed the wallet. I then spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing and at the end of the day left with my new prize. - Etlas 7. We used to play a ball game where you would throw a ball over a car that was driving along the street. I threw the ball but it went through the open back window and hit a baby in the face. I&#39;ve never run home so fast! - helen_nymph69 8. My siblings and I called the only other kid at our bus stop &quot;pickle head&quot; because he always wore a green beanie. We were relentless, too, and teased the fuck out of him. One day he tried wearing a different beanie (red one) and we ramped things up calling him &quot;tomato head&quot;. It&#39;s been almost 2 decades and I still don&#39;t know what the poor kid&#39;s actual name was. - BreannaMcAwesome 9. I once told a girl that she was adopted... in kindergarten. my mom knew she was and she told me and then I told her the next day - kimajin 10. I didn&#39;t invite one of the other neighborhood girls to my birthday slumber party because... because she had just started wearing a bra and my stupid kid brain thought that would mean she wouldn&#39;t want to hang with me and the other 5 girls because we were all still flat chested. She was crushed and avoided us the rest of the summer and I still feel bad about it 50 years later. - Bleu_Rue 11. In middle school, my friends and I cut the heads off of a bouquet of roses that our Spanish teacher&#39;s husband had delivered for her. She had stepped out for a second before class and we just....destroyed the whole bouquet. She had an absolute breakdown over it. I&#39;m a teacher now...and, I&#39;d like to think, a better person. What we did was just stupid and mean. - Rocktopus_PhD 12. I once destroyed a toy my brother had because I was jealous. When I saw the toy online I bought it and gave it to him. He didn&#39;t know why I gave him the toy. He called me the next day and said he thinks he finally realized what happened to that toy. - Past-Ad-40 13. When we lived in Nairobi, I used to stuff these giant worms into a tiny hole in the concrete for fun. I must have stuffed dozens of them in there and to top it off, I&rsquo;d take stick and ram them in for good measure. It was brutal. I felt so guilty a few years later, I began dreaming about being stuck in small tunnels; I actually became claustrophobic for years after that to the point where showering was a massive panic-inducing activity. - mykneescrack 14. When I was younger, about 10-11 I decided to take an onion and cover it in a nice, thick coat of peanut butter and put it on a skewing stick. (For context, my mother absolutely despises onions.) I gave it to my Mother, saying I made her a peanut butter covered apple. She took a massive bite of it, and instantly had the biggest face or disgust, while gagging. And yes, I was laughing very hard, not being able to breathe level of laughing. - Kenton_County_Sirens 15. When I was in fourth grade I was pretty socially awkward, so my teacher set me up to go trick or treating for Halloween with another socially awkward girl, but everyone always bullied her and I didn&rsquo;t want to be considered uncool, so the day before Halloween I made my dad cancel it. I cringe every time I remember this story! - TommyIsNotHere05 16. Blamed a babysitter for our apartment getting broken into when it wasn&#39;t her fault. I was just upset and wanted to blame someone. I told my mom I saw her leave the door open and my younger brother agreed with me so my mom fired the sitter. I was under 10 years old. Idk the sitters name to apologize. - whistledixie 17. In daycare, I was probably 5 or six, I convinced a classmate to let me drop a pebble down his ear. He obliged. It was bad. They had to call emergency services and take him to the hospital to get it removed. I still think about this 20 years later. - Trippy__Ferret 18. Wandered away from my dad at the grocery store, went down an aisle by myself, opened a jar of peanut butter, took a scoop with my finger, closed the jar, rejoined my dad like nothing happened. It was very out of character for me. I really think it was just an impulsive test to see if I could actually get away with it. For years I was terrified that I would somehow get found out by the store/cops/peanut butter gods - Sushimidnight 

Kids are notoriously mischievous, but sometimes their clever toy heists or cutting, hurtful comments go completely unnoticed by adults...  Stealing something shiny from a store, teasing another kid because you were jealous of them, lying...