Thing you did as a kid that got you in the most trouble

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23. Near electrocuted myself while blowing out the power in our house

I was about 6 years old and had a cousing the same age sleeping over. This was about '68 or '69 and it was an old house even then. We were talking and mescheivieously messing around, as 6 year olds do, in my bedroom upstairs, which had this old unsused light fixture in the ceiling. A socket with no light bulb in it. We noticed the cutrain rods had a decorative bulb on each eand of them and we noted they were about the same diameter as the empty socket. For whatever reason we thought it would be neat to see what would happen if we pulled a curtain rod off and stuck the end in a light socket. We both moved a desk and put a chair on top of it so I could reach it. When I did, I was jolted as sparks flew and the rod knocked from my hand....and most of the lights in the house went out. Immediately we heard rapid thumping as my parents rushed up the stairs and saw what happened. I sure caught hell, and was blamed for it even though my cousin talked me in to it, though I never ratted on him. My mother shook and swatted me me as she admonished me that the electricity "could go down your arm right into your heart!".