The Funny Things You Did As A Child.

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Oh no...! Haha!

Also when I was embarrassingly old, I went to the toilet at B&Q.

Doesn't sound so bad right?

Except I used one of the show toilets. To see what would happen. The member of staff found me and directed me to the actual toilets

Not as a child but as a young adult, I was on a Princes' Trust course which lasted for six months. Part of this was two weeks spent in Southport looking after dissabled people while they and their carers went on holiday.
We were shown the building and in the centre of the building were groups of large toilets which also contained baths and hoists etc., but for most of the time they were used as toilets.
One day I needed to use the loo and we would try one of the first two first... Someone in them... Turns out on this occasion I had to use one of the back two of the eight toilets.
I remember being told that there was something different about them, but I needed to go so I went to use one. I was puzzled at first and then it came to me what was different about these loos as I flushed while I was sitting on it. Uhmm. Well these loos were certainly different in that they are designed to clean ones undercarriage. A strong jet of water shot straight up! It was quite a shock even though I had just remembered what was different about them! I did not realize how powerful this water jet was! I felt sorry for those who had to use them.

I too have been called a mad scientist since I was very little.

In grade school, my classmates called me the “master of poisons” because I was always reading information about toxic substances. I could tell them many stories of why something can be helpful in one quantity, yet toxic in another. It often spooked my teachers because my reading comprehension was at a high enough level that I understood what information the books hid in them. They assumed that I would either go into science, toxicology or become a super villain as an adult.

When I was an elementary-school student, and while researching non-chlorinated cleaning enhancers, I accidentally stumbled upon a recipe for generating copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas.

By sheer coincidence, the principal had to evacuate four classrooms the very next day because of a "sewer leak", and everyone at that school got a free five-day weekend while the custodians, the local Sewer Commission, and a bunch of plumbing contractors sought the source of the leak.

They never found it.

By the way, setting off a "Stink Bomb" as a minor in a school building these days would very likely result in permanent suspension, arrest, legal fees, fines, and an extended stay at a State-run juvenile detention facility.

I used to extract poison ivy and poison oak for their natural oils for use in my squirt guns. It was a great defense against bullies at the swimming pool. All I had to do is to get their towels with the stuff and be patient. It worked every time, but was dangerous to use if someone was highly allergic to the stuff. I had plans of creating an aerosol version for use with rockets. Good thing my parents stopped me when they did or I might have been charged if I got caught using it. That was not my only chemical defense that I tried while in school, but the most effective overall. It really works well when a roll of toilet paper is soaked in it and allowed to dry. I was kicked out and banned from a summer camp for that one, as I put it in an outhouse used by my bullies. They were sore for quite a while.

Fixed broken electrical toys, saved up nothing but quarters because I thought they were the prettiest coins, Kept balls of tin foil for my dolls so that they could have a vault of silver and be rich, made believe that clothes pins and my mom's roach clips were alligator creatures, made a railway system for my toys that went from one room to the other...

I also collected rocks and carried them around in my bookbag when I was in 2nd grade until my teacher found out and made me dump them out in front of the whole class. Quite traumatizing.