When playing the sims, part if what makes it fun are all of the weird things that happen.
My brother was playing the first sims game and had a basketball hoop fenced in on his lot. One day the neighbors come over to play basketball and end up getting stuck inside the court and connot get out. This was before we knew any cheats like move_objects on/off so he could not remove fencing so that they could get out. So they died. But when the sims would die, a tomb stone would appear where the sim was when they died, so now there was a basketball court that your sims couldn't get into with two tomb stones in the center that are impossible to delete (to our knowledge at the time). Oh and there were two ghosts haunting the lot from then on.
When the sims 2 came out it was the first game to have wants, and so our characters were the "hopeless romantic" personality type do there first want was to "woohoo." So we bought a bed and they "woohooed." Then the next want they had was the "public woohoo" wish. And since we were just starting the game we didn't really know about the community lots yet so my brother went into house mode and moved the bed outside on the front lawn to woohoo.

These are random things that we did instead of the game glitching, but just respond with any stories you think are worth posting.