So, how about the smartest thing you did as a teen?

[HEyHEY]

When I was 18 I took a train trip across Canada after I graduated. It was a very smart thing to do. I saw the country, expanded my mind a bit and realized how much more there was to this big ole' world.
Plus, it was my first experience talking with hip 20 something types. So I learned a bit about perspective.
You?

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. Went to Italy when I was 14.

My best friend and her father were going and asked if I wanted to go with them. My grandmother said she'd pay for it, and off I went. I spent three weeks traveling all over Italy and even went to Switzerland while we were there. :) With the exception of getting sick off the water late in the trip, I had a fantastic time. :woohoo:

[rug]

2. Turn 20.

[Joey Liberal]

3. Picked a beauty for my girlfriend

I was smart enough to date one the best looking and smartest girls in my high school. Not only that, she had a heart of gold. She helped me with my home work, gave me lot's of good advice, and it was because of her that I graduated. Thank you Donna!

[HEyHEY]

4. Hey!

I'm dating a girl like that now. Super smart, gorgeous and all about the giving.
It's a nice place to be isn't it?

[Joey Liberal]

5. Oh yes, I was a very lucky teenager

And it sounds like you are lucky too. Hold on to her, because women like that are hard to find.

[HEyHEY]

8. I know

We're doing long distance now. At first she was reluctant because she was concerned about being an obligation to me and thought I'd want to roam.
I was like, "Are you off you fucking nut? Like I'd have a chance finding a girl on par with you let alone better."
Only I said it in a romantic, charming way.

[Redstone]

6. Well, the time....no, maybe it was...or possibly....Ah, forget it.

Now that I think of it, I didn't actually do a goddamn thing as a teenager that was particularly smart.

Redstone

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. I had my HS principal convinced I was going to publish...

an unauthorized student publication. It was priceless.

I pretty much devoted my HS career to waging psychological warfare against that asshole.

[otherlander]

18. Details? *gets out notebook*

there's a certain freeper teacher who needs to learn a few things... :evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Haha...well, it was kind of weird circumstances leading up to it...

Anyway, our student handbook outlined the punishments that you'd get for pretty much anything you could do, except for "publishing an unauthorized student publication." For that, it merely said on page 53, that we had to obtain a copy of the policy from the principal's office. I had pretty much designed my senior year to allow as much wandering time as possible...ah Gifted & Talented independent studies...

So one day I was bored and this never bode well for Barry (the principal...who much to his chargrin, I insisted on being on a first name basis with), so I decided that I was going to find out what the policy was. I went into his office during my lunch break and asked if he had a couple minutes, and he started to form the usual sweat beads and said, "yes." So I sat down and said, "well, I was looking over the Morris Hills High School Student Handbook and it says on page 53, that if a student would like to obtain a copy of the policy regarding unauthorized student publications they may obtain one from your office. Well, I would like to obtain one."

"Uh...uh...why?"

"Oh no reason, I just thought it'd be a really good thing for me to know."

"Oh...uh...um...okay..." and he pulls out a copy of the student handbook and starts flipping through it.

"Well, um, yes...it appears you're right. It does say on page 53 that you may obtain a copy from my office. Hmm...well this might take awhile, so do you want me to write a pass back to class and I'll get back to you?"

"Oh you don't have to do that. I have my independent study, so I'm free for the rest of the day."

"Oh, okay then..."

He then begins flipping through the shelves of huge binders of school policy. No luck. At this point, he's throwing the binders. He eventually ends up on the phone with the board of ed for about half an hour getting switched back and forth between various people, only to find out...there is no school policy regarding unauthorized student publications. Apparently, they were banking on never encountering a student crazy enough to flat out walk into the principal's office and ask to know what their punishment would be if they broke that rule.

With this I was satisfied and I set off to find my philosophy teacher (who was there long enough & 'teacher of the year' enough that she often would try to incite her students into pulling stuff like this). She was very proud of me and the following year, she informed me via email that the school did indeed have a policy for that school year.

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That is just one of dozens of things I did to torture that poor close-minded little man.

[benny05]

9. Not have sex in high school

Plenty of pressure, but I saw other girls getting abortions or leaving school to have children. Didn't want to be compromised.

The other was to graduate early from high school and go to college.

[HEyHEY]

10. Yeah, it's good to wait

I know some girls that waited for that exact reason and who knows if they would have become pregnant or not... but at least they KNEW they wouldn't by not having sex.

[hunter]

11. I took night classes and summer school to graduate from high school early,

instead of dropping out.

I hated high school. Every day was some new kind of hell.

"Adult School," attended by people who hadn't made it through high school the first time, opened my eyes to a whole 'nother world.

[HEyHEY]

12. Wow, I took summer school for a DIFFERENT reason

Ever notice the people who want out of school often have to stay there the longest?

[hunter]

13. Of all my siblings, me and my little sister, who also hated high school...

... so much that she simply quit going and ran away from home ...

We're the only two with University degrees.

Go figure.

[Roon]

22. I dropped out and got my GED at 16

High school is hell, especially if you are gay.

[hunter]

26. They started GED after I graduated.

My little sister took the GED and went straight to college.

[Fuzz]

14. Stopped being influenced by my father's church

Assemblies of God church, where he was the minister. I had enough, and stopped going. Caused a lot of grief for a while there, but worked out in the long run.

[Generic Brad]

15. I got the hell out of Dodge

B-)

[Crabby Appleton]

16. I'm thinking --

don't think I did anything smart back then.

[kwassa]

17. I was smarter as a teen than as an adult.

What can I say?

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. Moved out on my own at 16

Spent a year in France and Finland when I was 19.

[Tikki]

21. Marry Mr. Tikki...........

Mrs. Tikki :-)

[radwriter0555]

23. Moved out at age 17, got a job, got an apartment and started my own life.

It's cool.

[swag]

24. Persuaded a devout Catholic girlfriend that blowjobs did not violate

the tenets of her faith.

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Firmly grasped that most people are idiots, most people in authority

are clueless assholes and their word isn't necessarily to be trusted or even obeyed, and that most of my life would be spent trying to fend myself in a sea of mediocrity, incompetence, false (and low) ideals, crass materialism, power trips by the unworthy, and general nincompoopery.

It made school, and dealing with the jocks and preps and bullies much easier, as well as made dealing with authority (from teachers to principals to deans to bosses to presidents) much easier. Or, I should say, gave me the courage to able to tell authority when to get bent because I don't fucking care about unjust or stupid rules, nor for pedagogy from the ignorant and clueless.

[Rowdyboy]

27. Found a flawless small college where I earned an education that allowed

me to be just as big an ass as I choose.

[Omphaloskepsis]

28. I threw my drivers license in the river one night.

I was drunk. I enjoy beer more then driving.. 12 years later and I still don't drive (And I still love beer). And I have never killed anyone while driving. I think we all win with that decision.

[shanti]

29. i chose the "right" friends

you know, the kind that keep you out of trouble.

[hickman]

30. Decided that I was never going to be cool

And let it go. My childhood best friend was beautiful and destine to be in the elite in high school. Unlike the movies she never abandon me, I left when she spent every night waiting by the phone for her boyfriend to call. I found a bunch of women who just wanted to have a good time. Some too fat, some too shy, and some just had boyfriends away at college. We all decided to stop trying to be cool, and had a slamgasted riot in our junior and senior year. Sometimes the elites rode along when their boyfriends were elsewhere. I gotta say, most of these women were boring. By senior year we started dodging when they wanted come along. I kind of feel bad about that.