Unique Cases of Hide and Seek Going South
Most of the time, hide and seek is a fun and nostalgic game that most of us remember playing as a kid. However, in these stories the seemingly fun game turned into a nightmare for its participants. These real life stories show that fun and games isn’t always all fun and games.
An Awful Idea
My brother is small and very flexible and we even have a saying, “if he fits he sits” because he can basically fit himself anywhere, no matter how crowded.
One time when we were very young and playing hide and go seek, I realized that he was hiding in our clothes dryer machine with the door closed.
Being the classic older brother, I thought I would turn it on and give him a quick scare and turn it off right after. Unless you’ve used a dryer before, you don’t know that you turn it off by opening the door, and there’s no off button.
I, being like 9, had never used one and was expecting an off button.
You can guess what happened next. Around and around he went as I yelled for my parents to help and they yelled back to open the door while they ran over. Luckily he was completely unharmed despite being spun nearly 10 times.
A Very Bad Friend
My house has a deck on the second floor that you can use to get onto the roof which is REALLY STEEP. So one time I had my friends over. Jimmy decided it would be a good idea to climb up, even though I told everyone the roof was off-limits.
I was chosen to seek first and I hear a noise coming from the roof.
I climbed up, intending to yell at whoever was up there. I guess I spooked the heck out of him because he slipped and fell off of the freaking roof and broke his right arm and right leg. I swear the scream he let out could be heard a mile away.
I ran back to where he fell to be greeted by my dad, who was shocked. He called Jimmy’s parents. Here’s where the twist comes in. They decide it’s my fault he fell off the roof. So they TAKE US TO COURT. The judge dismissed the case and they got fined for “Wasting his time.” 100AngryBulls
Never Playing this Game Again
When I was a kid staying at my grandma’s house, I used to hide from her in the house and make her come find me. On one particular occasion I decided to hide in this closet in her back room. The closet was filled with junk she had collected/hoarded over the years.
Well, it was taking her a particularly long time to find me this time. So I started shifting around in there to get more comfortable. My movements jostled an upper shelf and caused what I thought was a Gremlin to fall on top of me.
It turns out it was a taxidermy baby alligator that I had never seen before. It scared the life out of me. I grabbed it and threw it off of me, but it was old and brittle and its leg crumbled off in my hands. I may have peed myself. I never played hide and seek again. Anywhere.
A Trip to the Hospital
My best friend and I played hide and seek a few years ago with some girls we knew from high school. We were at a park and it was getting dark so, as dumb high-schoolers do, we played hide and seek.
I got a good hiding spot up in a tree that had leaves around me, so the only way you could really see me was if you were under the tree. It was, in my opinion, a brilliant spot. Meanwhile, my friend hid inside some shed that was open. It was full of things like hoes, a garden hose, and a shovel.
While he was inside the shed, he said he felt something like paper. He didn’t realize the truth until it was too late. It was a hornet’s nest and he was stung about 175 times. He had to go to the hospital over night.