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

[pink-o]

30. I ran away at age 12.

Left a super-dramatic note (as only tween girls can do) about how I knew my family didn't care about me and I was going to LA to make my fortune. I got a half-mile from home, found a really cool treehouse on the edge of the local country club, and hung out there for about 4 hours.

Then I got bored, and decided to go home after all.

When I came through the door, my mom had just read the note, and was so pissed at my 'tude she found the worst punishment: She ordered my dad to take the stereo from my room and lock it up for 2 weeks. I was crying and apologizing, but she wouldn't back down.

I went to bed sobbing...and woke up with the worst case of Poison Oak I'd ever gotten in my life!

I was swollen like the Michelin Man and in a lot of pain for about a week. Instant Karma, everyone figured. But Mom relented and gave me back my music.

This happened in 1967. And Mom told this story to all my friends, my boyfriends and my ex husband till she died 40 years later.

Wish she were still here to tell it again!