My Childhood Pranks - How I got Caught and Punished by @tmighty (set at 100% power up)

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INTRODUCTION

Hello Friends.
I am delighted to participate in this interesting contest. Childhood left me with beautiful memories nevertheless, I erred in so many ways and was punishment and most times flogged, or pranked. I was pranked by my parents, grandmothers, and elderly ones for things I did out of foolishness or ignorance. But you know what? They were there to put me on the right part with their pranks. The Word of God declared it in Proverbs;

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him. Proverbs 22:15 NKJV>

I thank God for those corrections I was able to take through pranks because they made me who I am today. In five highlights, I am briefly going to explain few of the things I did wrong in childhood, how I got caught and the punishment I served.

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MY ELDER BROTHER AND I EAT OUTSIDE

At this particular time, I was about 5 or 6 years old. I was staying with my grandmother because my mum was in school. My grandmother has warned us not to eat outside and she particularly warned us not to eat in a old woman's place in times past but on that faithful day, I and my half brother went and ate in her place. When we got home, she asked us where we went and we told her where we went and what we did there. She got furious and took us to the river. At that time I and my elder brother were still learning how to swim so we were still afraid of water but she took us to the middle of the river and threw us on the water and left. With fear and trembling, we both swarm to the bank of the river.

THE DAY I THREW KNIFE AT MY YOUNGER SISTER'S FOREHEAD

At that time, my two siblings and I were staying with my grandma still for the fact that mum was in school. There was a day my younger sister abused me and I got angry. I was with a knife and I was like if she abused me again, I would throw the knife at her, she did and I threw the knife. The knife went straight with the pointed part and hit her on the center of her forehead. Immediately she is a started crying because blood gushed out. Grandma was in the Kitchen so she came out and saw what I had done. She flogged me very well. When my dad came, my grandma told him and Dad also flogged me.

THE DAY I DAMAGED MY GRANDMA FISHING MATERIAL

As young as 6 or 7 years old, I helped my grandma prepare fishing materials. Little by little, I get large works done but mostly out of compulsion. That faithful day, I was making a particular fishing material when I got tired, I thought of what to do and what came to my mind was to end it there and caught off the part I have not done. I did that and dropped it. I though grandma won't know because it was already about to finish. She noticed it and after she had punished and flogged me, she reported me to my dad and he also dealt with me mercilessly.

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DISOBEYED MY MUM TO SEE A MOVIE IN A NEIGHBOUR'S PLACE.

When we newly relocated to Ore, we didn't have a television set, so I and my siblings do go to our neighbour's place to watch movies which mum had told us to stop. There was a day we went, my aunty came to visit but did not see anyone because my mum was also at work. Because theee was no GSM then, she went to the hospital to see if mum was there. When mum returned in the evening, she called all of us together and punished us and warned us strictly not to go to anybody's place to see any movie until we buy ours.

THE DAY I BROKE LOUVRES.

I and my brothers were playing football at the front of our house which my dad detests. He didn't like us playing at all, in fact he gets furious when he sees us playing football. So that day we decided to play penalty with the curved pillars at the front. Not too long, it was my turn, so I played they ball and it went straight to the window and broke one of it. It was a louvres to my parents window. We were afraid and decided to replace it with one from our room. We did and still did not have rest of mind because if they knew it, it would be another thing. When they came, we reorted ourselves. They were both angry, so dad told us to go and get a cane for each of us. We went and got it. We were flogged with the cane each of us brought.

CONCLUSION

Those were just few of the pranks I got while I was a child. I could have mentioned more but time is not by my side. Not only my parents did all my prankings in childhood. Elderly people of all categories did and I thank them for their corrections. I thank God for the corrections I got through those floggings and punishment. They made me who I am today. I really do not know what would have become of me without people helping me to have done the right things.