at the ripe old age of 13, my girlfriend & I used her mum’s car each afternoon (she worked nights) to practice driving in a nearby paddock. one afternoon we were doing our usual track when we spotted a dirt mound, thinking that would be fun, so up we go… but not down again. perched. stuck on top of the mound. we did have to tell my friends very understanding dad.

when i was in kindy, i fell over and scraped my knee. i said someone pushed me... he didn't, i just fell over. but he was bully and would have pushed someone, so you know, take one for the team!

dear mum, it wasn't a random flat tire - i did a burnout to impress a boy.

Freshly 18 and on a night out decided to get matching tattoos with the guy I was seeing. Not brightest plan ever.

I spilt bright blue nail polish all over my cream carpet... definitely had to blame my 2 year old brother. sorry ollie!

I borrowed the car without asking, scratched it on a pole, then parked it perfectly and blamed it on a random at the shops.

One time my mother got into professional baking as a side hustle when I was 12 years old. She had so many cool ingredients in a large cupboard and I would routinely head over and eat the chocolate chips and white icing in the middle of the night when she was asleep. Yes, it made me sick, but I loved to live life dangerously hehe

When I was a teenager, I used to spend my summer holidays in a small seaside village where I knew most of the locals. My grandma was really strict and didn’t want to let me go out with my friends during the holidays. So I used to pretend I was going to bed early, wait a bit, then sneak out through the window, take the back garden gate, and meet up with my friends. I’d come back the same way, no matter what time it was. My mum knew about it and let me do it — but my grandma never found out.

Told my parents I was staying with my best friend for a Friday night during high school and then immediately drove 4.5 hrs to New Orleans to drink illegally in the French Quarter overnight. Slept it off in the car for a few hours in the morning and then took turns driving the 4.5 hrs home. Made it home in time for dinner. Cheers!

my sister began dating her boyfriend when she was 15, and I was just 13 years old. my mom, always concerned about keeping an eye on them, would insist that I accompany them wherever they went as a chaperone. little did she know that they would bribe me with cigarettes to make me disappear for a while. sorry mum!

it was games night, we heard something fall in the kitchen. brushed it off thinking it was my cats. 10 minutes later, we could smell smoke & fire. ran to the kitchen, to find the counter on fire. fun night, had a cough for days from fire extinguisher though.

I once left a zoom meeting, then realised I forgot to leave the call. They heard me sigh, open the fridge, and mutter "I need a new life."

my sister is planning on moving to queensland and not tell mum mum

mum told me if i ever got tattoos she would kick me off the health insurance policy... i have 12 tattoos and am still on the family policy. shh!!!

most weekends we would tell our mums that we were going to maccas, the cinema and having a sleepover. one time we drove from mildura to adelaide to try and get into 'heaven' underage with fake IDs. sadly they didn't let us in and we had to sleep in the car while all the other's had a ball. mum still doesn't know.

Hosting formal AP was not the best plan after someone projectile vomited in the spare room. Took me a while to host again.

when i was at boarding school man did mum not know anything. had our stash in the vents and definitely new how to sneak people in and out. how we didn't get caught is beyond me

I climbed out my window so many times in high school, I could do it without making a sound. My mum still thinks I just liked going to bed early.

I once broke a light globe in my bedroom, and told my mum it 'just exploded'. Little did they know that i actually broke it with my toy lightsaber pretending to be Obi Wan Kenobi.

Mum it was great your signature was so easy to copy as I used it so many times in school to say that I was sick when I was really wagging.

all of those friday nights in high school that i "stayed at eric's house," i was actually at my girlfriend's house.

we used to sneak girls through the back door at slumber parties!

I needed new shoes, ended up leaving with a rubber chicken and no shoes. No idea how that happened.

when i was in primary school my dad used to cut my brother and i's fringes. i cut a huge chunk out of my brother's fringe & told my mum that my dad did it. she believed me & he never cut our fringes again!

i left from france for australia and told my mum i was only going to stay 3 months but i'm planning on staying 3 years. oops! love u mum!

was so gone one night walked home from town which was in morphett vale. not sure how I made it but definitely wont be telling mum ever.

yeah, when mum and dad went away for week and said we could have a small bonfire, definitely ended up with us jumping over it and throwing empty deodorant cans in it. didn't learn our lesson for years later

still remember the first time sneaky a sip of alcohol, mum went to bed and there was still wine in her glass. tried to chug it, boy did i regret it.

When I was young I would go to the book store after school and sit down and read the Goosebump books. Some of them had collectable card inserts. I would take the inserts out and put the books back.

Drank my parents booze and refill the containers with water.

i broke the internet using limewire and the police actually showed up for stealing music

i threw a party while mum was out of town. someone at the party broke the glass on the front door and i told her someone randomly shattered it overnight...

not mum but I once told my friend I was allergic to avocado just so I wouldn’t have to explain why I’m too broke to afford guac on my burrito. now it’s a thing and any time I accidentally order guac in front of her i just have to pretend I forgot!

I sold a bunch of my parents CD's secondhand to buy cigarettes