re: Worst thing you unknowingly did as a child?

As a toddler I loved to watch to garbage man pick up the trash. Would sit and wait for the truck and would celebrate when they showed up. All of our garbage men on that route in 1984 Baton Rouge were black. One day I was at the grocery store with my mom and happened upon a random black man and waved to him and said Hey Mr Garbage Man

My aunt used to baby sit myself and my brother when we were kids. I got in trouble for being mean to my cousin and my aunt wouldn't let me play outside with the other children. I told her I hated her. She died in a car crash that night and I am haunted to this day that those were my last words to her. It visibly shook her up to hear me say it. I was only a spoiled 7 year kid but I to this day can't find a way to forgive myself for it.

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Me and a friend laid our bikes down in a random neighbor's driveway while we played in the woods, when we came back they apparently had a new puppy on a chain in the driveway, and it was totally tangled up in our bikes so we bludgeoned it to death. The family moved.

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We had a stuffed squirrel we would tie fishing line to a jerk it across the road when cars would pass by. More than a few locked up their brakes.

I was ~6 years old and a buddy and me took the garden hose and shoved it up the tailpipe of his mom's car. We turned it on and let it run for about 5 minutes. She left the house to go get groceries and didn't make it to the stop sign.

Was at my grandparents church when I was 4 or 5. They left me in a child care room while my parents and grandparents went to the church service. My grandfather came to get me when church was over. He walked up and I got excited to see him and proceeded to bite the kid’s nose that was sitting beside me. I don’t have any idea to this day why I did it. Kid was bawling and my grandfather had this WTF look on his face.

Make my parents take me to Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza. I could win Poweball, buy them a new house and give them $4 million in cash and I might feel like I made up for it. Maybe.

Also used to put duct tape upside down in the street with empty cans at the ends. Would make a terrible noise and get all sorts of entangled in the cars that drove over them.

Once terrorized a family in the neighborhood. Would regularly TP their house, steal their lawn decorations, turn all their hoses on in the middle of the night. We had a group of about 9 of us that would sneak out at night and position ourselves around the outside of the house and slam our fists against the walls/doors until a light turned on. Eventually police got involved. Little did we know they were the absolutely only black family in the whole subdivision.

After watching a war movie with the Viet Cong booby-traps displayed, my cousin and I cut down several cane reed stalks and sharpened the ends. We then stuck 'em in a hole we dug in the woods then covered the hole with sticks and leaves. After antagonizing our older cousin enough for him to chase us we led him right to the trap. He did fall in, but fortunately for him, and us, he fell on the side of the pointed reeds. No harm- no foul, right? He beat the shite out of us afterwards.

I was 5 at the New Orleans Worlds Fair, right near the main entrance, my dad was getting a drink at a stand. I was thirsty and wanted a drink too, so I was pulling on my dads back pockets on some shorts he was wearing to try to get his attention and pulled his shorts and underwear down to his knees. He backhanded me before pulling his shorts back up. And 100s of people were laughing their asses off while I was crying from the hit. My cousins from NOLA still talk about that when I see them.