Looking back at your youth, was there anything that you did that now you think, I can"t believe I

[debm55]

was that dumb, silly, or stupid to do that? I remember going to the Drive In and smoking op----- h--- and drove home on RT 30 with my friends. It was dumb and we were lucky. Rt 30 is a main hilly highway here. I was 18. I still cringe when I think of how stupid I was.
Or driving home from Pink Floyde's concert with a friend on LSD on the Parkway through the Tunnels in Pittsburgh in 1973. Dumb.
Cousin went through a drainage pipe, down to the river. She asked me to go with her. I was afraid of rats. So I met her at the river instead. Never regretted not going through. She also crossed a railroad bridge. I declined. Never was a drinker. Slid down huge slag piles on boxes.

What did you do then, that you would never do now? And looking back are glad you made it to your 21st birthday.

[Skittles]

1. siphoned gas in the middle of the night from a car parked at a gas station

during the gas crisis of 1973 ......... my dad found out when my bf and I were returning the gas cans to my dad's garage.....he gave us a severe lecture, but when my bf mentioned he had "five extra gallons", my dad said, "Put it in the (his) Impala)".....

[debm55]

3. OMG, skittles, I drove a 1965 Chevy Impala when I drove stoned. Your lucky that nothing happened

to you.

[Skittles]

6. it makes me cringe when I think about it

but my bf had a hospitalized family member he desperately wanted to visit....

[elleng]

2. I don't think so, as I tend to be 'conservative,' life-style wise, that is,

but I'll think about it.

[debm55]

5. elleng, you are lucky. But in my youth, I lived sort of on the edge in certain ways and conservative

in others. You know, I honestly don't remember thinking of the dangers involved. I guess that is the downfall of youth.

[True Dough]

10. You see "effeng" while I see

elleng. But to each their own, as they say.

Carry on!

[debm55]

15. OMG, I am so sorry, I took my meds, so I shouldn't be posting at all. I am so embarrassed.

[True Dough]

18. It's not that big a deal

I've messed up my share of usernames, demb65. Think nothing of it!

[debm55]

35. I see what you did You made me smile.

[Niagara]

31. LOL!

I always want to type "Siswan" for DU'er Siwsan.


It helps me to click on the names and copy and paste.



It happens to the best of us. Most of the time I accidently leave out words in a sentence so I sound extremely intelligent. I even proofread and still have missing words.

[debm55]

36. I do the same-I type Siswan then I look and change.

[Chainfire]

4. I plea the 5th.

The statutes of limitations have not yet run out.

[debm55]

8. Chain, in your youth-late teens, young adult. I like your answer though.

[Chainfire]

13. I did stupid things, the worst of which was drunk driving from the time I was 15 until I was about

20. I would drive holding one hand over an eye to keep from seeing double. I was damn lucky, and brought that kind of behavior to a screeching halt when I was driving home plastered and came upon a fatal wreck that was one of my buddies who most likely was doing the same thing. There was hair, teeth any eyeballs all over the road and it was a wakeup for me.

[debm55]

19. I'm so very sorry you had to see that Chainfire. Sometimes in our youth, we feel that we are

invisible and nothing will happen to us or those we love. And I 'm glad you changed your ways. My awakening was hitting a parked car. Never drove stoned again.

[Kali]

7. yes

[True Dough]

14. Here it is

The "Tight-Lipped Post of the Year Award."


Congrats, Kali!

[Kali]

17. I had a lotta fun

at least the parts I can remember

[Ohio Joe]

9. Oh yes...

Too many to recount.

[Laffy Kat]

11. Oh, so many things.

There was a period between 15- and 16-years-old that I was out of control. It is a miracle I didn't get killed or arrested. My parents were so wrapped up in their own lives that they really didn't have a clue about my risk-taking behaviors. Fortunately, I got it out of my system and ended up quite responsible, even working, going to school, and living on my own by the time I was 17. It could have gone either way.

[debm55]

21. Laffy Kat, almost the same home situation here. My parents thought they only had 2 kids, not 3. It

very abusive. Lucky, I put myself through college. Lived up in the Nittany Mountains and worked at a factory. Got a job. Can't say I got myself together as I am still on that journey to free myself from the sexual, physical and emotional abuse. But I have come a long way.

[Laffy Kat]

27. You are one of the strong ones.

It amazes me what some of us go through and come out the other side smarter and even more determined.

[likesmountains 52]

12. I lived in the Denver foothills, rural, naive..

I remember skipping school a few times, driving downtown to Denver City Park, meeting some strangers ( guys) who were stationed at Lowry AFB, and going with them to their housing unit and playing cards...we could have disappeared and no one would have had a clue what happened to us. Lucky girls we were. And another time , we met a couple of guys living in a run down motel on South Santa Fe ( The Titan Manor if you know old Denver) and went to their room with them...again..escaped unscathed.

[debm55]

22. You were very lucky. I used to thumb to college and work as I lived out of town. Nothing happened

but you were damn lucky. Can't see doing that today. I don't think we were dumb, just young and thinking it won't happen to us. We were lucky it didn't.

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Alot of drag racing my dad's 1966 Chevelle and driving narrow

2 lane county roads at 100MPH.

[debm55]

24. You were very lucky. My friend and his father were drag racing at a mall parking lot. Car overturned

Friend died. Dad was driving. RIP Mark

[Chipper Chat]

23. Riding downhill in supermarket shopping carts.

This was in SAN FRANCISCO!
very stupid and dangerous. One kid got a broken arm when the cart hit a telephone pole.

[debm55]

25. Wow, Chipper that was dangerous. You are lucky that nothing else happened.

[Chipper Chat]

26. Utter stupidly college behavior

Classes at University of San Francisco very boring.

[mbusby]

28. Knocked myself out jumping on a Slip and Slide in the front yard.

[Ocelot II]

29. Yes.

[Phoenix61]

30. I'm very lucky to have made it to adulthood without

injury or a police record. Too many friends did not.

[Niagara]

32. I use to do backward flips off the diving board as a teenager.

The last time I did it, I got too close to the diving board and the inside of my arm had a diving board rash from the elbow to the wrist. It hurt.


I'm lucky that I didn't hit my head, knock myself out and drown in our pool.

[lark]

33. I took a quaalude and went swimming.

I could barely hold on to the inner tube and didn't even really care. Luckily my sisters boyfriend is a strong swimmer and pulled me back to near the banks where I could get my feet.

[highplainsdem]

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