When was the first time you remember doing something that you knew would upset the person(s) who raised you?

Not sure what the last sentence means, but I guess it was in high school.

I should clairify. Those terms were one’s that I heard when I ” pushed my luck ” as my parents would say! :) I pushed that luck a lot. I was the youngest- it was my job!
What did you do to ‘push your luck?’
Did you get caught?
Thanks for helping me to clarify!
Have some fun~ Take care!

A friend and I lied about which movie we were going to see. We told them “Norma Rae”, which is rated PG, and instead went to the drive-in to see “Eyes of Laura Mars”, which is rated R, and we were just underage. After we got in, we found out that the movie showing was “Midnight Express”, also rated R, and its content was not of the nature for which we were prepared.

Had the parents found out that we not only lied to them but saw an R rated movie while underage, we would have received a lecture and been grounded.

I was pretty good kid. My mom ws sick and my dad was barely keeping it together taking care of her and us. and the house mortgage and this job….

But! Waaaay back, waaay before the internet….. I used to get Popular Science magazine and read the ink off every page . There was an advertising section in the back (I think it was) called Science where all kinds of items were for sale. One place sold “100 Explosives and fireworks formulas” which I bought . It came in the mail and was a few pages of printed material in very small font. That told me how to do it but I needed supplies.

I told my parents I wanted to do an experiment I learned in school – how to make oxygen – and needed some adult to buy the chemicals. A friend of mine told his parent he was going to do an experiment and asked his his parent to buy the chemicals. When we got the stuff we both did the experiments as promised but only used about 1/10 of the materials. We then combined our remaining materials and supplies to make some truly spectacular things that, no doubt, showed up on some earthquake seismometer somewhere. (underground Russian testing?)

I became an engineer and my friend a nuclear physicist.

I did tons of stuff I knew my parents would be over the top pissed about, but I did them knowing I would not get caught and except for two times…I succeeded. The things they busted me for paled in comparison to the things I got away with.

@LuckyGuy Making the world safe for one and all. Laughs, I was just as bad. M-80s, rifles, setting off ammo in a fire, etc. It goes on pretty far. I can’t remember when I first started.

Like @Cruiser I did a lot of things that could have gotten me in big trouble but I was careful how and when I went about it. In fact, as I tried to explain to my son after catching him doing something wrong for the umpteenth time, this is not new to me; I did the same stuff you are doing, the difference is that I was better at planning and executing.

@rojo No offense but catching your own kids breaking bad is a clear failure of parenting on your behalf. Just saying. My 2 teenage sons are lily white and I have not ever caught them doing one thing bad which means they have learned the Ninja qualities of sneaking out late at night and raising hell I was famous for.

I was a pretty boring kid- you know, one of the brown nosers? My brother, on the other hand, more than made up for it. i wasn’t sure when he started doing things, I just know he did. The one that I remember is him partying with some alcohol and drugs (just kid stuff, nothing serious.) We grew up in a town in the country but I don’t know of anything worse than that.

I think I was around 7 or 8. I stole my father’s bottle of vodka and dumped it down the sink. Yes, I got caught and I hid under the bed until mom calmed him down.

@Adirondackwannabe We were making some pretty sophisticated stuff. It amazes me how carefully we handled ourselves – and the product.

@LuckyGuy It’s a good thing you were a junior engineer back then. If not parts of you would be scattered over several counties.