On the 4th of November, was this a thing in your area as a kid/teenager, and if so what kind of stuff did you get up to? In our naivety we actually used to believe the myth passed down that the police turned a blind eye on that night  |
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At the top of road there was always a big bonfire and the 4th of November was the night we turned up to light it.
I don't know why they never saw it coming. |
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We used to go round smearing lard, flour and eggs all over door handles, car windscreens and house windows, garden gates were lifted and hidden, fireworks let off, knock and run played on every house in the village and various other pranks, little shits that we were! It was a tradition inherited from previous generations though |
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"To be fair, where I grew up, every night was mischief night.
Rebel.  "
Rebel without a clue.
In all honesty; coming from a family which unleashed a fraudster, a couple of armed robbers, one murderer and something else that I won't mention because it will be giving too much away, I was actually a it of a let down.
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"To be fair, where I grew up, every night was mischief night.
Rebel.
Rebel without a clue.
In all honesty; coming from a family which unleashed a fraudster, a couple of armed robbers, one murderer and something else that I won't mention because it will be giving too much away, I was actually a it of a let down.
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Shall we just talk about social housing then?  |
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"To be fair, where I grew up, every night was mischief night.
Rebel.
Rebel without a clue.
In all honesty; coming from a family which unleashed a fraudster, a couple of armed robbers, one murderer and something else that I won't mention because it will be giving too much away, I was actually a it of a let down.
Shall we just talk about social housing then? "
Speaking as a landlord, I let my agent handle all that kind of stuff.  |
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"To be fair, where I grew up, every night was mischief night.
Rebel.
Rebel without a clue.
In all honesty; coming from a family which unleashed a fraudster, a couple of armed robbers, one murderer and something else that I won't mention because it will be giving too much away, I was actually a it of a let down.
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At a family dinner my mum told everyone she was such a rebel growing up that she was dreading me becoming a teenager. But I got into a committed relationship at fourteen and she said me being a teenager was boring, and she was expecting at least SOME excitement 
To be fair I didn’t have many boundaries to push as my parents were really laid back.
And OP no, 4th of November wasn’t mischief night for anyone I knew growing up my mums birthday is the 5th and we usually went to the big fireworks display so on the 4th we’d all spend together for her birthday |
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"I was brought up to respect people. I would not have dared to mess about and annoy neighbours  "
This is the thing, I was brought up to respect people too and for the other 364 days of the year I did mostly, but "Mickey night" as it was known was a juvenile custom/rite of passage that every teenage lad and some girls in the county knew about and took part in, some took it too far, but most just did mischief as mentioned with lard, flour, eggs, prank calls etc. |
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"I was brought up to respect people. I would not have dared to mess about and annoy neighbours
This is the thing, I was brought up to respect people too and for the other 364 days of the year I did mostly, but "Mickey night" as it was known was a juvenile custom/rite of passage that every teenage lad and some girls in the county knew about and took part in, some took it too far, but most just did mischief as mentioned with lard, flour, eggs, prank calls etc. "
I get that completely but honestly with the father I had (a stickler for manners and no messing about) I really dared not do anything bad to people’s property. |
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I’m glad someone else remembers mischief night... btilliant. It’s kind of gone a bit now. Still live roughly where I grew up. I remember the police coming into school to talk about it... in the days when the local seargent knew everyone’s dad too so anything you did get up to (harmless mischief) would get back somehow. |
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"On the 4th of November, was this a thing in your area as a kid/teenager, and if so what kind of stuff did you get up to? In our naivety we actually used to believe the myth passed down that the police turned a blind eye on that night "
Yep and we often went down to the loccal reck and try and burn their bonfire down a day early. The rozzers never turned a blind eye our way though. |
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"I’m glad someone else remembers mischief night... btilliant. It’s kind of gone a bit now. Still live roughly where I grew up. I remember the police coming into school to talk about it... in the days when the local seargent knew everyone’s dad too so anything you did get up to (harmless mischief) would get back somehow. "
When I catch up with old mates from where I grew up some of our best memories and funniest stories are from the stuff we used to get up to on mischief night and the chases we used to get from grown ups |
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