Stupidest thing you did as a teen?

[HEyHEY]

I'd have to say shooting the BB gun at my dad's minivan was right up there. I was aiming for the tire and shattered the rear window.
Teenagers should not be allowed on roofs with guns.
You?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. I'm only two years into it.

I've yet to do anything truly, outrageously stupid.

When I can drive, though--oh, how the stupid will roll!

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

3. Drive? Ha! I wrecked the car when I was 12 - you don't need to be 16

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. The only thing I've ever driven is a tractor.

I wasn't very good, either. :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. Don't worry I suck at driving tractors too.

I almost flipped the thing while towing a trailer once.

Oddly enough, I'm good at driving a car (even while towing a much bigger trailer) and I do fine with ATVs and motorcycles.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Pulled a fire alarm

Got caught and got in big trouble too.

[HEyHEY]

4. But, did it make you a legend?

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. For about a week

[Broken_Hero]

58. Same here

except I didn't get caught...but mine is probably getting caught stealing when i was 13...and yep, it was bubble gum...:( I was an idiot back then, but I've grown out of it :) Mostly....











:hide:

[Joey Liberal]

6. Punched a cop

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[HEyHEY]

7. Fuckin' eh Joey Liberal!

Sweet!

[Joey Liberal]

10. I was a wild one

It was a short but nasty scuffle.

[fleabert]

8. went to south padre at 16 or 17 without a hotel room during spring break-

got trashed in mexico, friend drove us back to SP drunk, went to bar after bar looking for friends that had a room (no vacancies), ended up crashing with a 40 something bar musician at his apartment that we met at last call.

He could have killed or raped us easily and not one soul would have known until they found the car in the parking lot... but nothing happened. he was really nice. didn't try to hook up with us, no drugs or alcohol offered, he made out the sleeper sofa, put out towels for us to take a shower, made us breakfast in the morning. If you are out there dude and remember me from spring break of either 89 or 90- thank you.

we were very lucky.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. We used to hitch hike all the time

Never had one bad experience. Miracle when I look back at it. But we didn't have cars and like to travel on the weekends.

This was when I was in college in the 70s. One holiday when I was home my dad clipped an article for me about Ted Bundy and told me to be careful, there are a lot of dangerous people out there. I never hitch hiked again. Freaked me out. I still wonder if somehow my dad found out how I spent my weekends.

[fleabert]

35. we are all lucky to be alive, really...

there's no rhyme or reason to it all- my mom used to drive me around in her 73 Vega hatchback- the back seat was turned into a pallet of blankets and she put pillows around my body so I wouldn't roll around when she turned a corner. I was born the same year she got the car (73) so you can imagine I was pretty tiny when this was going on. She even got in one accident- I wasn't hurt at all. Crazy.

[Neoma]

9. I can still do something pretty darn stupid.

[sweetheart]

11. he he

Well, being a teenager, and not one to consider risks or consequences, i had the objective
of removing the ball from inside a spraypaint container of yellow spraypaint. I was pretty
sure (teenager sure) that the gas was all sprayed out, and that when i plunged the rock
hammer in to the side of the spraypaint container, that i would be able to tear open the metal,
to get the little marble out.

To the unawareness of the teenager at the time, his father's catamaran was 2 feet away with
the sail laying out to dry.

Well, as you might have suspected, the teenager did not quite get all the gas out of that
spraycan, and when the hammer it it, it exploded in to a geiser of glossy yellow paint.

The fury of my father punctuated the incident at the time, putting an economic perspective
on the cost of a 'fucking marble'. :-)

[Redstone]

14. Rode the skid.

Redstone

[HEyHEY]

15. Nickname for your ex?

Or you didn't change your undies?

[Redstone]

17. As on a helicopter.

It's a dumb thing to do.

Redstone

[mitchum]

23. Man, that's just terrifying to even think about

[Redstone]

25. I only fell, I don't exactly remember, about ten feet. But it was enough.

I had about sixty pounds worth of pack and various other crap on my back.

Redstone

[Fuzz]

18. It involved an older woman, who had a husband, a large husband

with motorcycles and tattoos.

Yeah, that was stupid.

[kwassa]

27. That was in "Sideways", right?

[Fuzz]

29. No idea really

was it? If so, I think I need a royalty check or something. :)

[mitchum]

19. Creepy crawl people's houses after reading about the Manson family...

doing that.
It involves going in people's houses with no intention of theft, but to just look around. A few friends and I used to do this quite often. I am so lucky no one ever came home and shot me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Sneaked away from a Girl Scout trip to meet my boyfriend when I was 17...

:evilgrin: It was worth it, though.

[Fuzz]

21. Hey! I remember you!!!!

hehe

:D

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. Hmmmm... That was you???

:rofl: :hi:

[judaspriestess]

24. I went through this stupid shoplifting bit for about a month

finally got caught, thank goodness. Got sent to Juvi and was released. I have never stolen again.
Its wrong. I guess I was looking for attention and pushing the envelope to see how far I could take it.

[China_cat]

26. Got married at 16.

[kwassa]

28. stole a car to go to Woodstock.

but not nearly as stupid as my 21st birthday.

[true_notes]

30. It's a tie

I dumped 35 gallons of gasoline into the river below our favorite swimming hole, and threw a road flare into the river to watch the flames rise. We did it to scare the city slickers away from our beloved camping spot/swimming hole. It worked, but the fishing was bad there for about 5 years.

Blowing up a 1 gallon milk jug full of black powder.

[lost-in-nj]

32. ..

:wow:
I think you might win the prize!

:)


lost

[SlavesandBulldozers]

60. how'd it work against the city slickers?

did it work?

[lost-in-nj]

31. Ran away with my boyfriend

who is now my husband :)
It was ugly, ended up at the police station.
after I lost my nerve and went home, then I was beat up by my old boyfriend for running away with this one
I found out they stole a car and beached it in the sand down the shore.


:silly:

lost

[femmocrat]

33. So many things that I'm surprised I even survived my teens.

I was a "wild child"!

[mark414]

34. broke into a warehouse

that from the outside looked abandoned but on the inside was a recycling center and some sort of office...we stole and broke a lot of shit, and found the keys to a forklift that we were driving around and crashing into things with - and we'd pick up pallets of glass bottles or computer monitors and fly down the hallways and slam the brakes on and send them flying...

honestly it was a lot of fun at the time, i was 13, but then one of the kids got caught a few days later and ratted the rest of us out - if he wouldn't have moved i would've kicked his ass!

but i didn't have a record so i just got off with some fines and probation and i had to go to some counselor for awhile and a bunch of other shit...oh well, learned my lesson

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. Got into a car with this guy...

who got our car up to 100 on a straightaway on 2222.

Any Austinites like to chime in here on what a fucking moronic thing that is to do? (Winding steep hilly road). I'm still shaking my head that I'm still alive.

[momophile]

37. unprotected sex - what the HELL was I thinking?!!

all I've got to say is that I was damn lucky to escape my teenage years without a baby or a STD.
:spank:

[regnaD kciN]

52. Probably "ooh...that feels so good..."

:evilgrin:

But you're right -- you were lucky. As were many of us, teenagers or not.

[tigereye]

38. ok

frequently telling parents that I was going to the mall and then driving to the city 30 miles away to see my boyfriend. Luckily I never had an accident or anything.

I did many more stupid things in college than in high school, though.

[MiniMandaRuth]

39. Hmmm.... So many options.

I think about the stupidest thing I've done right now is go prancing around on the school roof doing the can-can with my best friends.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. Made a still.

Mixed chlorine bleach with muriatic acid.
Took off for Amsterdam all by myself.

How do so many people manage to live to be 21?

[bertha katzenengel]

41. Went to college. If I'd known who I was, I would've gone straight to

the mental hospital where I went five years later, for two months

Or if I'd known my options, I would've gone into the military

But no. I went "the way I've always heard it should be," wound up with a psychotic ex-lover who insisted on staying in my life, a male fiance, three years of student loan debt, a great Biblical education, JUST enough education in what would have been a GREAT vocation if I'd been able to pursue it, no useful skills, and no degree.

But I'm not bitter. :evilfrown:

Actually, I'm not bitter. I'm over this.

[Singular73]

56. oops

[idgiehkt]

66. thank you.

I was having a hard time with this one...

college definitely was the stupidest thing I attempted.

I should have just gone and gotten a bartending job, drank myself into advanced alcoholism, went to rehab, and then maybe have gone to community college and gotten a nursing degree or something.

but no.

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Didn't join the Air Force

[swag]

43. Mooned over girls.

[Karenca]

44. So many things.

I was a very wild teen.

Hitchhiking on the highgway
while wearing wooden clogs just in case I'de have
to bash them on the driver's head if he tried to touch me
...that with a constant lit cigarette---my other means of protection (I could poke him with my ciggie).
I'de do this every day.
(Stupid 5'1" 99 pound fifteen year old girl!)

Constantly getting so stoned --- tipping that danger limit.


Ran away from home....Left New York to go to Atlanta Georgia.


So much more --- I was nuts.

[hickman]

45. Probably climbing the water tower.

Or maybe the time I tried to water ski bare foot. Yup, thats the one. To this day I think it was the hand of God that yanked me off the bottom of the lake. The reason I know this is because of God's sense of humor. I was raised very conservative Catholic with extreme modesty. When my friend June(raised very conservative Lutheran with extreme modesty) circled the boat and I was stunned and ready to go down again, she yelled to me "your top!" I was close to drowning and we were concerned that top of my bathing suit was down around my waist(there were, after all, boys in the boat). June took the boat away and circled around a few minutes later. I fixed my suit, and am grateful to this day to her.

[Omphaloskepsis]

46. I started smoking..

unprotected sex
got in the car with a drunk driver one to many times

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

47. I got a job as a lightboard op at a professional theatre company.

There began my decline into the world of drugs and alcohol.

Who am I kidding? I'm still having fun with that!

[Placebo]

48. Paid cab fare for another boy to come to my house...

so we could have sex.

Yeah, that's right, I was a gay Gay GAY little 14 year old and so was he.

And I had access to two dangerous things:

1) Internet Freedom

2) Like $100 in cash

So we had been talking online for a while, and I was like "Well I'll just pay for you to come (< *clearsthroat*) over here!"

Needless to say we had great fun but he was an idiot and told his mother he was going over to a friend's house. And when she called the friend's house the friend was like, "Umm...no, ---- isn't here."

So when he got home his mother forced the truth out of him and called up my house while I was in the bathroom. So my parents answered it. And they had no fucking idea who this raving mad woman was or what the hell she was talking about.

She ended up threatening them with a lawsuit and then screaming at me calling me a faggot and saying if I ever talked to or came near her kid again or "made him gay" she'd kill me.

My parents weren't exactly 100% behind me either. They were pissed. I had to tell them why he came over, and that I was gay and so was he.

Talk about coming out in the worst possible way!

Ugh, it was such a perfect plan though. But as with all perfect plans, it turned into a disaster.

What an idiot I was.

OH YEAH, and I also ordered a gay porn video with my mother's credit card once. She would have never even known except that she found it while "cleaning" my room. Of course it just HAD TO BE in an oversized box with gay sex pictures all over it and with some horrible title that couldn't get any worse like ANAL FUCKERS 4 or something. Talk about scarring!

[The Magistrate]

49. There Is Neither Time Nor Space, Sir

Sufficient for an adequate listing of even the likely candidates for the title....

"And yet, here I am."

[lutefisk]

50. Great response. Same thing going through my mind.

My thoughts were just not as clearly articulated.

[Crabby Appleton]

62. That's kinda what I was thinkin' nt

[Heidi]

51. No details, but it involved a new Toyota, a tree and a cargo van.

:eyes:

[regnaD kciN]

53. The stupidest thing I did as a teen...

...was doing absolutely nothing stupid.

(I made up for it in later life, though...)

;-)

[jobycom]

54. Followed too much advice.

Should have stuck to my guns and become a rock star.

[texanwitch]

55. It was fun and stupid.

I lived across the street from a major railroad yard, and we jumped aboard one of the trains going to Galveston, Tx about 50 miles from Houston.

We knew which trains went where and had a good time but riding in the boxcar could have be dangerous. We rode the bus home and our parents never knew, good thing to.

[Singular73]

57. Slept with dozens of women

Oops..wrong thread :)

[Wetzelbill]

59. brought some Russian vodka back from a wrestling trip in Bulgaria...

I brought it to a party when I got back home. I was so effing drunk by about 7 at night I don't even know what happened after that. I lost my glasses, I don't even know how I got home. My mom told me she found me in the park with a local gay guy with my pants down. I was about to go in town and lay a beating on the guy until she told me she was kidding. Hell, I was so drunk I wouldn't have even known if that had happened if it really did. I must have been near death I drank so much. Ugh...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

61. that's hilarious

your mom has a sick sense of humor btw.

[Wetzelbill]

71. oh yeah she's bad like that

she basically let me think I was raped all morning, haha. She's always has had a sick sense of humor, that's probably where I get it from. :)

[Roon]

63. Me and my friends picked apples off the ground

and we drove around throwing them at houses and cars. I don't know why.

We got caught but the cops let us go after we promised not to do it again.

[RedCappedBandit]

64. Crashing into a fire hydrant

then getting stuck under a tree. Then letting the tow company pull it through the tree instead of the other way.

[ForrestGump]

65. Posted a picture of my bootay on DU

Oh...wait a minute...that was this morning... :blush:

[buddhamama]

67. difficult question

i've made some poor choices but i have no regrets.

hitch hiking was pretty stupid and jumping outta second or third story windows was stupid too.

[Mutley]

68. Started dating my ex.

A Lot of stuff went wrong because of that relationship.

[Radical Activist]

69. I didn't do enough fun and stupid things.

That was my biggest mistake as a teen.

[JVS]

70. Amen

I'm trying to make up for it now.

[xmas74]

72. Ran from the police.

The dumbest part was that my best friend and I ran from the officer. What makes it even dumber is that we were drunk and he knew us-he was her stepfather.

You're stupid if you run from someone you know.