What was the biggest trouble you got into as a child?
Posted on Feb 3rd, 2008
by
Iza
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 03, 2008:
I must've been in preschool. There was a girl in class whose name I'll change (to protect the innocent) to Mary. Mary had the chicken pox, and when she came back to class, she had to go to the bathroom a lot. I was sitting next to this other girl, and I remember her whispering to me and giggling "Mary has to pee again!" or something like that. Then this other girl asked me where Mary was, and I said "In the bathroom again." Whether I said it meanly or not, I don't remember, but I do remember the strong sense of righteous indignation I felt when the teacher took me and the other two girls aside, one by one, to explain to us that we shouldn't make fun of Mary, because she was sick, and it was wrong.
I came home and somehow felt petrified enough of being 'found out' for my horrendous crime of seriously hurting another human being without intending to, and sobbed in my room until I confessed to my parents how horrible I'd been. They were stern with me but when I stated my innocence, that I hadn't meant to hurt anyone, they just hugged me a lot and told me it would be ok.
It's strange, but the horror of feeling guilty for something you didn't intend to do, for a mistake you didn't think you were making, still turns my stomach to think about experiencing. Somehow it feels like that's what "getting into trouble" is...messing up and getting caught before you knew you were messing up. The other stuff is just messing around and getting caught, maybe.

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