Well my parents didnt leave me home by myself as a child. They gave me a key to the house when I was 14 and then when I was 15 I startedg going straight home from school instead of to my grandmother's house.

However I do have a funny story that kinda fits into this catogory.

My parents and sister were driving to Virginia Beach for a funeral, but I couldn't go because of school. Now there are two ways to get into my house, the side door or the front door. The side door opens to a hallway with the door to the kitchen on one end and the stairs to the basement on the other.To make myself feel safer when home alone I locked that door to the kitchen from the inside. There is no key for the front door, that I have anyway, but if there is someone home to open the front door for me it doesnt matter.
So I leave out the front door, shopping cart and all and I come back with a bunch of food. But since it is basiclly impossible to ge the cart in though the door on the side I figured I would go into the house through the side door and come around and open the front. Except when I go to open the door leading into the kitchen it's locked and I don't have a key, the key that locks that door is in the door on the kitcken side. Nor do I have the key to the front door.

So here I am with no way to get into my house and my parents are literally miles away. LMAO. So in a true McGuyver moment after I stress for about five minutes the lightblulb goes off in my head. I go into the basement and get a hanger and I straighten it and poke it through the keyhole in the kitchen door to knock the key out. Then I make a hook and drag the key to me under the door and let myself in. LMAO. This happened five years ago so I would have been 20 and I just told my mom that story a couple of weeks ago. She just shook her head at me.