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

In an early year of elementary school, a kid was constantly causing trouble, which means getting these little stickers that determine your punishment, and one day my teacher randomly said "I think you were part of it this time" and gave me a sticker.
To be clear, I wasn't and never did interact with this person, and wasn't even sitting particularly close to her

 

Here's one.

I don't remember how old I was, but it was before we moved to the US from Mexico, and I was six when we moved in September 1998, so somewhere between six and younger. Anyway, I was at a day care in Mexico and as I was running down these stairs, I bumped into another kid, making them fall.

I'm not sure if it was the running or the bumping into the kid, but I got into trouble and had to stand and face against a wall as punishment, which I think was ironically by the bathroom. I had to pee really bad, but they wouldn't let me. I don't remember what they're called, but I had these undergarments that weren't really a diaper, but not exactly underwear, either.

When my mom came to pick me up, even with my pants on (I think that's when she noticed), she could see that the undergarment was down to my ankles, and she was really pissed at the day care staff.

 

Choking.

To clarify, I eat my food waaay to quickly and don't always chew quickly. I can choke on anything. Water, rice, air, chicken, etc. It doesn't happen all the time though. Maybe once every two weeks, and I only cough for about thirty seconds max. Regardless, I've been doing it since I was little and will probably continue to do it until I die. But it scares the crap out of my mom and despite not being dead yet, she freaks out every time I do it.

Other fun adventures from my childhood include getting lost (so many times. It's a wonder she didn't put me on a leash), sticking keys into electric sockets (twice), falling down the stairs, bashing my head open on a coffee table, all of which I have gotten yelled at for. Mostly out of worry though I think.

 

i remember when I was younger in my high school days I would give in to peer pressure and skip school with my friends, skipping a few days turned into skipping a lot which turned into me getting in a lot of trouble.

 

When i was in 6th grade and i was 12 years old, we had a test and i cheated until my chinese teacher saw me. And everyone is looking at me and my face is all red! I almost got suspended good thing my parents didn't know that xD

 

There was this once, when I was in the first grade ( I was about six or seven ); during class, one of my classmates said that she would pay me $10 for playing a really good prank on a student of my choice during recess. I was like ''hey thats ten bucks i'll do it''.

So we got to recess and I was looking for a victim and there was this other kid playing soccer ( or was it football ), and we were friends, but recess couldn't last forever, so I ran over to him and stopped him from behind, and then because he wasn't wearing a belt, I yanked his pants down. He was wearing green boxers. They had a plaid pattern.

Needless to say, I got in a hella lot of trouble, but at the end of the day, I got my $10.

This probably isn't very silly, and is something like a case of bullying from me to another student, but I didn't mean any malicious intent, so I look back on it fondly.​

 

How interesting. I have one to tell. When I was in early middle school I was a goody goody quiet kid with an innocent face. I used to sit literally in the front of the classroom to get the teachers to like me or at least acknowledge me as a smart student. Some desks in my class had places to put your feet up or lean on and there was one boy who would always put his feet up onto the back of my seat. It wasn't a really big problem for me until he started to shake both his legs like some kind of thirteen year old vibrator. It drove me nuts! At one point I raised my hand during class to complain about my shaking seat and the teacher literally said, "If he keeps doing that you go ahead, turn around, and smack him in the face." Well... that's exactly what I did five minutes later when he started shaking and kicking my chair. I turned around smacked him on the cheek so hard he got himself a little red hand mark. Naturally I got in trouble because the teacher didn't think I would do it and meant it as a joke. He even went so far as to say that if I did it again he would call my parents in. So unfair.

 

Stupidest? I called a girl a goose in second grade. I had just moved and was constantly getting picked on for being the new kid. No one ever caught them doing it. But the one time I come up with a mediocre fireback, I get caught, missed out on like 10 minutes of gym class (in retrospect not so bad as it was dodgeball).

The kicker is afterward the girl came over and started talking to me. Almost 20 years later she is my oldest and best friend.

 

This thread is probably the cutest thing I've ever seen, hahah. So many good stories.

In my case, I was a pretty goofy child. I once asked my friend's mom if she was pregnant because it seemed like she gained weight...She wasn't. I got a scolding from my mom that day, me still not understanding what I had done.
I still facepalm about that every now and again.

Another time when I was like, 8 years old, I was playing with some friends in the dirt and we thought it'd be a good idea to move a lot of dirt to the road. Needless to say, the neighbours weren't happy about that at all.
But us, being ignorant children, were only given a scolding and didn't get in more trouble than that.

I've done some other silly things I'm sure, but I can't remember them now. I think I've locked them away deeeep in my memory.

 

Ohmigosh I forgot my favorite one.

I was four. I was in a private preschool at the time, a Catholic one (irrelevant but whatever).

We were given sailboats to color and decorate as we saw fit. I left my sail white. My reasoning when the teacher asked? "Sails are WHITE! They don't look like that! (pointing to someone else's design) It's WRONG!"

I was sent home with a note and the teacher called my mother at work to tell her about my refusal to color the sail. My mother said "Well, she's right. They are white."

 

When I was like 10-12, me and my cousin wanted to hang out with one of our mutual friends who lived right across the street from me. So we go over to his house to go and get him, but we see this note on the door left by our friend's mom and naturally we read it, thinking it could tell us where our friend is or when we could expect him to be back. I don't really remember what the note said, but I do know one of the neighbors a few houses down from me saw us on my friend's porch reading the note and she got really pissed off? She was a good friend of our friend's mom and she had kids of her own that our friend and I hung out with every now and then. But anyway, she saw us reading the note and yelled at us, saying it was none of our business and we shouldn't be reading it. She threatened to tell our friend's mom about it, and I just... I will never understand what the hell was going through her head. I don't think what we did was wrong in ANY way. The note was plainly taped onto the door for anyone to read, and all we wanted to do was get our friend. It's not like we went over there with the intention to read the note, we didn't even see it there until we were on our friend's porch.

Anyway, that's probably THE dumbest thing I've gotten in "trouble" for.

 

-rubs temples-

When I was in my second year of kindergarten I had to repeat a lot of classes and I became incredibly bored. There was a girl sitting next to me doing arts and crafts and she was complaining about her hair and she had this one little strand and she asked me to cut it off for her. I figured because she asked me to and it wasn't like I was cutting off all of her hair, so I did.

About an hour later I was in the school office waiting for my parents to show up to have a meeting because I cut off the girl's hair strand. She didn't even care... but I guess it is "hazardous to the learning environment"