Was there ever a time you got into mischief or trouble as a child? Edited to add, what did you do? Me I had a 5 year

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67. I was a pyromaniac.

In kindergarten I started a "campfire" in the school sandbox using a magnifying glass, some paper and empty milk cartons. My teacher was impressed but it still got me into a lot of trouble.

When I was four or five years old I remember finding a box of "light anywhere" wooden matches in my grandma's kitchen. They were the best thing ever! I stole about half of them, figuring my grandma wouldn't notice, and she didn't, but my parents caught me in the backyard experimenting with them about a week later.

By fifth grade my parents tried to steer me in a positive direction and introduced me to Estes model rocketry. That only led to much more dangerous rocketry experiments later. There's not much difference between rockets and things that explode.

I've been called a danger to myself and others a few times in my life but that was probably the only time I was actually a danger to others. I was always careful never to do anything that might burn down a house or start a wildfire. I wasn't so careful about my own safety and well-being. I quit that sort of research and experimentation after an especially bad accident.