There are so many interesting things that happened to me in my childhood. When you are a kid, the simplest thing can be a big happening, mainly if you are from a small town. It's just a question of imagination.
I remember that I used to be a sleepwalker. My mom has got a clothes' store, and I fell asleep in a small bedroom of the store. Minutes later, I got up and started sleepwalking. My dad told me I went out the store and walked around a little square in front of it for some minutes and came back still sleeping. When I tried to do it again, he didn't let me. He put his arm across so I couldn't pass.
Once I went to a friend's house to play video games with other friends of mine. But I forgot to tell mom and dad about this. Some hours later they arrived at my friend's house with a really worried face. I thought: "This cannot be good." After the spanking, I was made not to leave home, except for school, for a long time.
The worst thing, in my opinion, happened because I did something I was not allowed. My mom had a sewing machine and always told me not to play with it. What did I do? Exactly the opposite! Somehow I managed to stick the machine's needle into my finger's nail. The strange thing was that I didn't feel any pain at first, but when my mom saw it, she went crazy. Rapidly she took the needle off my finger and spilled alcohol on it to prevent infection, but causing a horrible pain. Oh, I cried so much...
Of course I've disobeyed my parents sometimes, and I always felt bad afterwards, but I think this has to be part of anyone's childhood. When you are older, these stories turn out to be very funny. =D
Pedro Mendonça