Everyday Canvas

Mischief

Prompt: What did you get in trouble for the most when you were younger?

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I mostly got in trouble for sassing and wisecracking my mother especially when she crossed me. This was probably during my earliest teen years.

Then, when my cousin and I were about 13 or so, we got into mischief together. The kind of mischief we got into wasn’t really harmful to ourselves or anyone else, but it was (supposedly!) humorous mischief, like changing the places of things. Once we had two sets of house guests in the house. When everyone else was in the living room talking, we sneaked upstairs and exchanged the guests’ bags. That is, in Guest A’s room we put Guest B’s bags and vice versa.

I didn’t necessarily get into such silly trouble on my own, but when my cousin and I were together, we cooked up a whole lot of things like that. All of them were ridiculous and unnecessary.

To this day, my cousin is my best friend, and surprise, surprise, we both ended up okay.