Silly Things You've Gotten in Trouble for, Especially as a Young Person

What are some silly things you've gotten trouble as a young person? By which I mean in the age range of when you start school to the time you finish it.

When I went I was in Mt. Stuart Elementary -- and I don't remember the grade -- I was outside with friends during recess one day spelling the word hero in different ways (that obviously weren't real words) and pronounced the different spelling. One of the spellings included h-o-r-e, which was going to be pronounced as ho-reh, but before I got a chance to pronounce it, the kids told the teacher on me because they thought I was saying that bad word, which isn't even spelled like that nor is it pronounced how I was going to pronounce it.

The teacher pulled me into the classroom and then outside of the classroom and into the hallway to talk to me. She asked me something like why I did it, and, of course, being a kid that never even heard of the word and didn't really know what was going on, I didn't tell her that I just was spelling the word hero different ways.

 

I was about four, getting ready to brave the snowstorm that morning for preschool. My mom had noticed I had a tear on the middle finger of my right glove. I looked down, confused, then only raised that finger while asking "This one?". She started laughing pretty hard then told me not to do it again because it was pretty bad.

basically preschool me accidentally flipped off mom

 

when i was 5 years old and in Kindergarten, i walked home by myself. my parents usually picked me up and and i noticed they weren't there, so i decided to just walk home. apparently, my parents arrived a few minutes later and panicked when i wasn't at the school. the teachers and my parents were panicking because they thought something bad happened to me. some hours later, my parents came home and yelled at me for not waiting for them, lol

 

A pretty similar thing happened to me, haha.

I was in kindergarten and cut my middle finger on the playground. Nobody noticed -- or they pretended not to notice because everyone at that school had always treated me like shit -- and I put the finger up hoping that they'd see it. One of the other kids told on me to a teacher, and I just told her I scraped it on some mulch. To be honest though, the kid that tattled deserved a flip for being an ass.

 

idk if this is in the spirit of the thread, but I once got in trouble for having my own lunch money in my own desk at school.

Context: in middle school here, we didn't have lockers or anything like that - the only way to store our things was to put them in this type of desk in our home rooms.

So, picture me, a 10-11 year old kid, coming back to my home room and the first thing I see is my little kid purse sitting on my teacher's desk. Before I can think "hey that looks like mine", the teacher pulls me aside and yells at me in front of the class for having what must have amounted to like, £1. Apparently there had been some complaints leading up to that of people having their lunch money stolen out of their desks, so students had been told look in OTHER PEOPLE'S DESKS for any money lying around so that those ~terribly irresponsible~ children (me) could be made examples of. Talk about victim blaming amirite

I am probably more annoyed about this than I should be but gfdi i did not deserve that public humilation ****in hated that teacher man

 

As a child I had a really, really active imagination. I used to get in trouble all the time because i'd be late to class. Main reason I was late to class was because there was always a monster or two blocking my way that I had to defeat, so I'd always get there about five or ten minutes late. This was when I was about seven years old.

 

Getting inn trouble as a kid? Now this is an interesting idea. Well for me I think the best example was when I was about seven. One of the teachers had a wooden fake leg and I had just been told of pirates by my older brother Who was inn that teacher's class. He told me that teacher was a pirate so I got scared of her and when she saw me runnin away from her she tried to catch me but I was cornered and shouted "Stay away from me evil pirate lady!" I then grabbed the near by fire extinguisher and used it on her. Her fake leg was damaged and I got in a lot of trouble for it.

 

The stupidest thing I've ever got in trouble for ...

Well, I once told these kids that I shared a name with a character from the Harry Potter series. They told the teacher I was lying because children are evil little mongrels, sorry if you're a kid. She called me up and said something or other. I said that, referring to the whole situation, was stupid. I get sent to the office for saying stupid.

Did that teach me to not say stupid? No, that would be stupid. Was I lying about sharing a name with a character from the Harry Potter series? No. Lee Jordan, look it up.

I realize this was supposed to be the silliest thing, however I've only ever been in trouble over serious matters besides this. I was a little criminal growing up (not really). My motto was go big or get busted. Not a good motto. You usually get busted when you go big.

 

I've had the same kind of thing happen to me. One time when I was in First grade, at Van Gorder Elementary School, all of the class was sitting down for something; I don't remember what it was, all of us were just grouped together. Then me and another student were talking about something, which I also can't remember, and we did a pinky promise. And for some reason I thought it'd be cool if we did each finger, so we did the ring finger and when I put up my middle finger the kid just stayed silent. I kept pushing it to him for him to put his up as well, and then the teacher yelled at me and made me feel horrible the rest of the day. I still remember this because I was only like 5 or 6 years old, and a teacher is yelling at me for doing something wrong; and I didn't even realize I had done anything wrong at the time. It just seemed perfectly normal to me at the time. It still took me years to figure out about what flipping people off really was.

And another time, which I'm not entirely sure counts, but I find it silly when I look back, I had gotten into a fight with another student on the playground, and when she ended up making me mad, I grabbed her arm and bit it. And when I say that, I mean I bit it as hard as I could. Got called to the principle's office for it, was given one of those red cards or whatever they had parent's sign when you do something wrong, and I had ears as red as cherries for a good while, because I hated the kids looking at me because I'd done something wrong. I hated standing out then just as much as I do now.

 

I was about 10 when I went to the teacher's room, almost in tears, because a rusty nail had stabbed me in the foot.

Spoiler

I did it on purpose to impress a girl I had a crush on.

I don't remember how my mom found out but she went mental when she did.

I didn't get into trouble all that often but I remember many instances where I did. Taking a shortcut through strangers' backyards (multiple times), throwing freshly picked grapes at people, dumping washing powder in the town square fountain at night (which wasn't all that long ago...), various April Fool's jokes, chucking dirt in my friend's neighbor's jacuzzi, several experiments involving small firecrackers, comparing the lunch lady to Hitler, getting up early to play video games and basically whenever my younger cousins did something because I was supposed to be the "responsible one". Some of the scoldings I received were fully deserved, but some not so.

 

I remember when I was in 1st grade I got in trouble because my pencil kept rolling down my desk. I was getting something from under my desk and my pencil wouldn't stay still and the teacher yelled at me. I'm assuming it was a misunderstanding of some kind because even now I have no idea why she yelled at me because my pencil wouldn't stay still. ridiculous

 

It should come as no surprise that little me was just as spacey and absent-minded as current me currently is. That said, once I yawned aloud in religion class (Catholic school lal) without thinking about it. Made a bit of a production of it, too. I continued to not realize what I had done even as I was sent outside for five minutes.

That and I was once sent to the principal's office because, while trashing a Capri-Sun, I held it up to my crotch, squeezed, and went 'Ahhhh.' The class was in hysterics, and even the principal laughed when she heard it.

 

There was this rap song that I wanted to know the lyrics to in 6th grade, so I went on the computer and looked up the lyrics. I was caught reading them and got 2 days in school suspension. Most ridiculous thing I've ever gotten punished for.

 

Did the lyrics contain profanity or something?

 

what made you think that would impress a girl? because that's a pretty weird way of of doing so, even for a 10 year old. also, did it work?

 

I remember this one well in the 3rd grade I got in trouble for asking to get my pencil back. Here's how stupid, and racist my teacher is and this is something you're most likely not gonna think to be possible.

You know those custom pencils your parents got you when you were younger with your name on it? I kept going through so many of those since mine were getting lost and I come to find out this girl was stealing them when I wasn't looking. I told the teacher that she had been taking them and I got in trouble for lying. I looked at her as if she were an idiot and said that's stupid because my name is on the pencil she stole my pencils why am I getting in trouble? I got them back, but had to sit on the wall for recces for like 10-15minuets I couldn't believe it. I get home and my parents got a call from the teacher making me get in even more trouble since I had to sit on the wall for lunch not the fact someone stole my pencils. So I proved to them I wasn't lying yet I get grounded because I wanted to get my pencil back yea wow =.=

 

Because she was into tough guys and nothing says "I'm badass" that being impaled by a nail and not being fazed by it. The "not being fazed" part was harder than expected though. She was really worried in fact, I thought it was sweet (and not at all like her usual tomboy self). We didn't hook up, but I got to see another side of her. It was worth it. But yeah, I was as clueless about women back then as I am now.

 

In school, reading during lectures. Daydreaming, the usual. Outside of class...

There was an occasion wherein I accidentally insulted my mother's boss' teenage child. I inquired as to why she was so fat. The question itself was direct as could be, albeit the extremely negative reaction it garnered was certainly not intentional; it was not a part of my intent to bully her, it was genuine curiosity. She was my babysitter. I was an oblivious six year old kid. When she began to cry, I begun to cry as well. Oops. You'd have thought my mother'd have had my hide or gibbeted me for that bumbling act of stupidity, but I don't recall having received any sort of punishment whatsoever. If you have any embarrassing baby stories that are up to par, please do tell.

 

I was eight and my grandma made me ramen noodle, it looked like alot when she served me so like a normal ****ing kid I said, "I'm filthy rich!" And so my grandma got angry, took my noodles away, and she told me to go back to my room.

 

In year 8 I got in trouble for hiccuping in RE class.

First of all, the teacher was a strict old woman who hated all children, I was never particularly misbehaved but I do get really weird hiccups. When I do get them, I tend to get one off random hiccups that I really loud and tend to get a lot of laughs when I am around people. So it was a tuesday, last period and I got one during class, I started laughing and so did my friends and I expected the teacher to smile at it but she glared at me and then was like "Excuse me? DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT IN THIS CLASSROOM!" or something to that effect.

I'm still not 100% sure why she yelled at me but my guess is she thought I burped xD