What is the cruelest joke played on you as a child?

[Blue_Roses]

I had one played on me when I was 15 and when I asked why he singled me out, he said, "guess you were just the ugliest one we could find." :wtf:
He later went on to kill himself.

Looking back, I was so naive' and wish I knew then what I know now. It's so sad to see how cruel kids can be in order to feel like they fit in.

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I was a little too young at the time,

but when my brothers were 5 and 4, JFK was killed. My mother told them Santa Claus had been shot.

[datasuspect]

2. when my mom told me that my dad drinks because i cry.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

3. When I was around 9 or 10,

my parents decided to do a clean out of the house and that included my room. After I had put a bunch of stuffed animals and dolls in a box, my brother thought it would be funny to tell me that they were all crying in there and suffocating. He then started to make wimpering sounds and saying don't you hear them? Their saying "save me mommy!" "don't leave me!". So I just started crying and took all of them out & put them back up on the shelves. I still have most of them to this day.:eyes:

[Maine-ah]

5. I prolly shouldn't laugh at that....

but, I just can't help it. I'm sorry....

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

6. I laugh about it now,

but back then it was extremely traumatic... He was also always taking my dolls & giving them tattoos & hanging them from a noose in the stairwell... gotta love that brother!

[jpgray]

4. I don't have a good one, but my dad was lured to a barn by two boys who said they found a turtle

He loved animals even way back then, so of course it worked. Then they beat him up and made fun of him.

:rofl:

Granted you have to know my dad to know why that's so funny, but it always cracked my brother and me up when he told the tale.

[Lars39]

7. This one happened to my dad when he was 4 or 5...

His grandpa had a bunch of fainting goats. Nobody told him about them, and they all fainted the first time he was around them. He thought he'd done something to kill them all. :D

[skygazer]

8. Youngest of six - I can't remember them all

:eyes:

Let's see, my sister suckered me into trying Crisco once when I was about six. "Mmm, look, doesn't it look good? Looks like ice cream! Here, try a big spoonful..." :puke:

She did the same thing with vanilla extract around the same time - yeah, I wasn't too bright and besides, I'd do about anything for one of my siblings to take an interest in me.

Then when I was about 8, they got the bright idea of playing "slave." I'd be their slave and do anything they asked. Of course, they made it sound like a fun game and of course, I was so starved for attention I readily agreed.

I was their slave for about the next 3 years. :eyes:

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. My dad put a stocking over his head and scared the crap out of my friends...

and I during a slumber party by rapping on the window to my bedroom while we were telling ghost stories. Not much of a story, but I'm reasonably sure a couple of us wet ourselves.