When you were a teenager, what did you do to cause problems for other people?

Question

(my confession: We removed hub-caps from people's cars and put them on their neighbor's cars. Don't think that was small stuff. hub-caps were very important to people in those days. You were nothing unless you had "cool" hub-caps.)

When you were a teenager, what did you do to "raise hell" so to say?

Dear Barbara, ... It sounds like you were from a rich family living in an expensive neighborhood.

Dear "whataday" - Is your name Ronnie Destefano, and did I grow up with you in real life, in Vallejo California.

lol - I hope you are reading each others answers. -- Wow!

Answer 1

1) I would climb up on my curmudgeony neighbor's roof and steal or partially unscrew the light bulbs from his motion detector light setup. Did it about 20 times.
2) I would put thumb tacks in my brother's pillow case right about where he would put his head at rest for the night. It took a couple of times but it became an exact science. He still has puncture marks in his scalp to this day.
3) I would lie at the top of the stairs and wait for my dad to get home from his second shifter and scare the hades out of him. He fell down the steps one time and I got my rear whooped.

Answer 2

Silly little pranks never appealed to me: I was determined, I was driven, I was a teenager, yes, but I wasn't stupid. As a pre-teen and as a young teenager I was filled with a desire to act upon the stage, which I did, as an amateur, and, then, on the day I turned 17, I got the hell out of the Jim Crow South and its state-sanctioned hate: I rode the Dog is the island of Manhattan, where I would train as a professional actor under the best teachers, and so my life began. The only pointless 'hell' I ever raised was from Shakespeare.

Answer 3

I remember one time on the first day of fishing season when everyone was out at the lake I "raised hell."
I sat on a hill by the lake a safe distance from the fisherman. Got a pipe, and some bottle rockets. Waited for someone to go out in a boat, aimed the pipe at them, and launched some rockets at the boat when the person stood up.
This also worked to anger the fishermen at the shore by frightening the fish.

Funny as hell at the time.


I am not going to mention some of the truly evil pranks I pulled.

Answer 4

I had a very checkered teenage life.. I got caught a few times but most often got away with the pranks...

I broke into a classroom in my high school and rearranged the entire room 1/4 turn everything on the east wall was on the north and so on..

I stole a car and went joy riding then returned the car to the same mall but put in on the opposite side of the stores..

I dumped a bottle of dish soap into the fountain in the civic center (turns out 1 bottle of dish soap can fill the entire sunken seating area around the fountain with bubbles.... that one made the news)

Filled all the sprinkler heads on the h.s. football field with dishsoap.. (Yes they bubble nicely)

Used weed and grass killer to write explatives in the grass of the football field (Remember it take 2 days for the words to really show up nicely)

Made a stink/smoke bomb in chemistry lab that closed down the school for 2 days.. (This can get you suspended for a week.. and the principal says "She is way to smart for her own good.")

Dumped Rit Dye and dish soap into the fountain in front of the H. S. (I used purple dye, it was school spirit week..)

Broke into the main school office and used 2 part epoxy to glue the principals office door shut ( do your research and choose an epoxy that binds the material of the door jam and the material of the door)

I placed Paz egg dye tablets in all the showerhead in the gym showers.. Turns out football players are not amused when you dye them blue.. (Pulled this one a second time at summer camp turning a camp counselor blue she was not amused either..)

Also the more tame toiletpapering and such..

Thanks to me every door at my former H.S, is now equipped with an alarm, a guard over the strike plate area and the entire school is wired for motion detection.. I taught them about security

Answer 5

I didn't... I was a mix of a book-nerd, jock & gearhead (yes strange I know). I grew up in an area that was almost all summer only residences so there was no one else around except my younger brother.

Edit: No my parents were middle class... just grew up in a small cottage on a lake where the majority of other people had money and only spent time there in the summers. It's changed now, abt 90% of the homes now are full-time residences.

Answer 6

I put a nail under the siding of my neighbor's house. I tied a string to the nail, and stretched it across the lawn and tied it to a tree. I rubbed the string with a bar of resin (the kind used on violin bows). There house began to rumble, and groan, and moan as if it was haunted...

phew...I feel a lot better now. Public confession, and all that. I'm so glad kids today would never treat their neighbors to a psychic experience.

Answer 7

I didn't do much of anything. Kept to myself until my 20's when i sort of let it rip.

I had a really rough teenagehood Uncle Wayne. Not many friends - isolated, lonely, teased etc. I tended to think other kids who were doing stuff like that were living for pointless thrillls.... *sigh*

If we had had the electronics back then that we have now... I would have been a complete nerd.... as it was I read everything I could get my hands on//


blessings :)

Answer 8

We'd sneak out at night right before Christmas, and take out one bulb from a string of lights knocking out a portion of it from each house. Ooooo such bandits!

Other times, at night when everyone's asleep, I'd fill a bowl of water, take it to my younger brother's room, and dip his hand in the water, leave it there for a while. If you know physiology, you'd probably guess what happened! Ha ha, Sneaky! We'd also do this with shaving cream, place on his hand, tickle his nose, then ... {splat} ... oh my brother has yet to return the favor! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Answer 9

Is this a confession session? Hee hee.

This "new" guy sat in front of my friend and I in class. First of all he had a dorky name. He sounded dorky and wasn't not too bright. AND he had a real wide LONG neck. My friend and I used to WRITE on the back of his neck ALL the time (we had to do it REAL quick - like a mosquito bite speed). It was a challenge for us to make complete happy faces on his neck . . . fun game for us . . . but the poor dude was always pissed as h*** with us. He was a seriously pale guy - and when he got pissed, he'd get blood red in the face. It was a challenge for us to see how red we could make him too!!

Ahhhhh . . . I wonder what ever became of the poor dude? !

Answer 10

I was boring. I didn't.

Unless you count, doing showkicks down the streets, and singing at the top of my lungs, with 3 of my best girlfriends. By the way that was at 8pm at night, and on my street where my parents could hear and see me. I had to be home and in the house by 9pm every night, and I was 16!

My parents were strict.