RE: Dumb things you did as a kid.

Firstly, it must have been in summer 1997, I was with a friend down by a small stream. I was only 12 years old and I thought of myself as a rebel so we agreed that lighting small fires would be fun. Unfortunately, it had been a dry summer and so any plants surrounding the newspaper we lit started to burn too! Our reaction was to kick the burning paper into the river, not realising that as we done so, it caught loads of dried up plants on it’s way in and set them off too. A guy walking his dog gave us a telling off and the situation was soon under control.

Also, when we were moving house, we decided to hire a lorry ourself as we were only moving about 4 miles up the road, it seemed a far cheaper option. It was one of the lorries with a lift on the back and in order to activate the lift, you had to start the engine. I volunteered to get some empty boxes from the back of the lorry which required the key – I turn the key and the lorry just shot backwards into a concrete post holding a 6ft garden fence together. It smashed this to pieces and I went numb. What was left of the post was stopping the lorry from going back any further so I had to rush inside my house and break the news to my family. As my dad is in the army, it was an army house and is happened in a car park – we didn’t have drive ways or garages. The house which suffered was empty at the time and we were able to sort the fence out (a little) and continue moving house.