I was an 8 year old evil genius

[Captain Wes]

Remember when you were younger and you thought you were so clever but now looking back maybe you weren't? That's what this thread is about.

As long as I can remember I've hated peanut butter, the smell of it makes me want to gag but in theory I could eat it without any i'll effect. However when I was young I went to the YMCA after school (my parent both work) and they would give us peanut butter and jelly sammiches, I thought I was so clever because I told them I was allergic to peanuts so they had to start offering cheese ammiches too.

Do you have any moments you remember that as a kid made you feel so smart and so much more brilliant than everyone else but now it just seems kind of lame?

 

[Cherry Cola]

A thing my younger brother once did springs to mind.

He had hurt his eye by getting some gravel in it. Remembering a shampoo commercial that said "Will not hurt your eyes", he put 1 and 1 together and got the brilliant idea that the shampoo would cure him!

It didn't

 

[ZeroDotZero]

I remember selling stuff with my friend at a car boot sale, and we sold something like £30 worth of goods. We thought we were top salesmen in the making.

In hindsight, we were probably considered cute by the adults.

 

[mikecoulter]

When I worked out that to get my PS1 to stop over heating I had to put it upside down. I was awesome.

 

[MustaineV]

Mandatory school dentist appointments. Hated dentists, so I forged a letter from mom saying we had our own dental plan and didn't want another doctor. I actually did forge her signature, her real one and it looked close enough. Hardest part was making my handwriting seem mature enough, I was 12 but I knew it didn't look like my mom can write it. It worked..!

Oh the hours I spent studying her handwriting, thank god she was writing a column for a newspaper.

That made me quite proud of myself . Thanks dude!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Being a (non-practcicing) Catholic I had to do an entrance exam to get into the secondary school I wanted.

150 people in the exam, I was one of 20 who got in. I felt smart.

 

[reg42]

I thought I was really smart. I wasn't. I want to slap young me.

 

[Proteus214]

Elementary school science fair projects...

Yeah...mine were embarrassingly stupid looking back now (even though I thought they were awesome at the time).

 

[Plurralbles]

I thought I was really smart. I wasn't. I want to slap young me.

me too.

 

[Meggiepants]

I was the only one I knew of who could talk to trees. Oh yes, my theory on viruses in outer space got me chosen to go to a science camp thing. I got to dissect a brain and watch a surgeon cut up a bunch of organs. That was interesting. He took such glee at finding a vein and showing it to a bunch of ten year olds. I think he may have been a little off. Seeing what cancer looked like on a real organ was really neat actually.

 

[WhamBamSam]

I was an evil little twat in my youth. This story is less that I wasn't as clever as I thought, and more that I was just a much bigger douchebag than I'd realized at the time.

Beanie babies were kind of the big thing back then (for those that don't know, they were little bean bag animals that were a rather large fad of a collector's item), and some other kid was in possession of some that I decided I wanted. During an inside recess, I told the student teacher that they were mine, and used my overwhelming nerd powers to convince her to help me build a 'shelter' for the animals. Safely tucked away in said shelter, the beanie babies in question were not found by the other kid, and I was able to make off with them at the days end.

I made the mistake later on of trying to feed my mom some contrived lie about how the things had come into my possession. I realize in retrospect that she probably wouldn't have even noticed or cared about the new additions to my collection, but she heard my story, put two and two together, and made me realize what a jackass I'd been, thank God.

Fortunately I've since grown out of childish Greed, and moved onto the vices of real men; Lust, Pride, and Wrath.