What did you do growing up that you look back on and say "What was I thinking?"

I'll start

I use to sneak out of my house after my parents went to bed and meet up with my friends and we would climb the fence at our community pool and go swimming. We were about 14 years old and NEVER got caught.

My parents would drop us off at the skating rink and we would leave and go to parties that older high school students would have....

That's a couple of things.....

Who's next?

Christine

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14/15 year old age range. Climb out the bedroom window and sneak back in, never got caught. Hitch hike (I still can't believe I did this). Started smoking (quit after 10 years). Got drunk for the first time (falling down, unable to walk drunk, not just a little tipsy). A few other things, that I won't mention since this is a "family type board" LOL.

One summer we took a vacation up in Minnesota and were camping next to Lake Superior. I would go off by myself and climb out on the rocks that formed the breakwater....huge dangerous rocks, jutting into the freezing, deep lake, alone. I told my parent about it last summer (over 30 years after the fact) and they both nearly fainted.

One thing my mom did that she can't believe she did was let me go to a sleepover at an older girl's house My mom didn't know these people from Adam but the girl was someone I hung out with. It was a horrible sleepover, but nothing bad happened.

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Well, the dumbest thing I ever did was surfing on top of a car. This was in the late 80's after "Teen Wolf" had come out. We deicded to give it a whirl. I went first, my friend Andrea was driving, and she didn't get very far before I fell off. I was a mess! I begged my friends not to take me to the hospital but I was so bagned up, they didn't have a choice. I remember trying to convince the doctor I had fallen off my bike. ha ha

I ended up breaking my left wrist, road rash all over my right arm, spraining my left ankle. All this 3 days before graduation.

Holly

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Standing up on top of my horse's back. LOL.

I was a real non-wild child. My parents were wild enough for all of us... cured me of ever wanting to use any drugs and/or alcohol and/or playing around with boys.

Used to sneak smokes out of my mothers' pack of Larks..I swear, she didn't know better=and once I turned 18, I lit up in front of her in the car (she was smoking already) and she just about slammed the car into a telephone poll. lol..

Oh yeah, I was a teenager in the 70's too, and ran with the gearheads. Can you picture a 16 yr. old driver in a hot rod Camaro loaded with teenagers screaming down a two lane highway at night running over 100 mph? And laughing our butts off.
When I think about it now and all the things that could have gone wrong,(blown tire,deer in the road,ect.) it gives me shivers. What WAS I thinking?

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Gee I lived a sheltered life it seems worst thing I did and look back on wishing I never did was getting my hair braided like Bo Deraks from "10" it gave me headaches !!

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The dumbest thing I did, sneaking a boy in late at night and then if that wasn't enough letting him sleep in my closet. LOL We also used to put funeral arrangements in our principal/vice principals yards.

Actually, probably the dumbest stuff was the drinking and experimenting with various things. STUPID!! Not to even mention the things that went on while drunk/high.

My best friend and I both "dated" on of the high school teachers while we were seniors. It went on for quite a while. She ended up marrying him. This was literally, what in the hell was I thinking.

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I was 17 and hung with a wild crowd as well.I remember getting drunk in my friends chevelle then getting in a cop chase.. we turned the lights of andd ended up at nelsons ledges (huge cliffs and rocky paths) and he and I hung over a huge cliff by our fingernails while the cop drove by. I still don't know how we didn't fall or how the cops didn't find us...

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way too many things to post here but the fun was in telling Mom and Dad about it years later. The best was coming in late. My Dad was a cop so he would do shift work so wasn't home at night when I was a teen. Mom would fall asleep on the couch and we just had to wake her up and let her know we were home. I would get home, change the clock to 15 minutes before curfew and then wake her up. Mom!!! I'm home! Wake up and go to bed. Mom-OK... looks at the clock goes back to sleep. Me: changes the clock back to real time. Wakes her up again. Mom everyones home go get in bed. Mom-looks at the clock ok and goes to bed. She really got mad at me when I told her I used to do that.

I also: snuck out the window to go to midnight movies, drank too much as a teen(no driving though) picked up on guys(was a still a good girl though) and all sorts of other bad stuff.

Went to a party at 14yrs old and got sooooo drunk that my brother had to drag me home and put me in bed. I spent most of my high school years drinking but still managed to make really good grades and be in the honor society. Looking back it really amzes me. At 11yrs old my neighbor and I used to sneak and smoke his parents cigarettes.

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I couldn't sneak out, we lived in a rural area and had several dogs that barked! But let's see, I did plenty of other stuff!

I did try to sneak out of a friends house once when I was sleeping over. The guys were waiting down the street with their lights off, but her dad busted us.

But, I did jumping jacks in front of an oncoming train.

Doing the speed limit it would take about 10 minutes to get home from where I usually was, I'd wait until about 3 minutes left and then drive like mad 100 mph to get home (usually after drinking).

Experimented with several drugs, was a week-end smoker and drank plenty.

Dated a 21 year old when I was 16 - mainly because my parents didn't want me to. As soon as they decided it was ok, I dumped him.

Got caught spray painting a car wash with friends, with tons of beer & whiskey in the car. The cops didn't get us in trouble, but confiscated the alcohol - probably went and drank it.

Always lied to my parents about where I was.

I'm sure there's plenty more I'll think of later.

Lisa

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I was a teen in the 1970s in San Francisco. The better question might be "what DIDN'T I do...? LOL

We snuck out, hitchhiked, did acid, made out with boys that were much older and that were strangers to us. We trusted strangers that was the worst. For a ride, for a party, for a drink, for fun, out of boredom, you name it.

Once I was about 14 and I was so naive I went with a friend to her older boyfriend's house and his friend had gotten out of prison that very day. He started making out with me I am sure looking back he thought he was getting some but I had no intention of that I was still "innocent" that way. But I was so ignorant and naive and I am just lucky I never got taken advantage of or even worse.

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Ooh ooh oohh... I have another one! One time I put a penny on the train tracks before the train came.

I was (and still am) so boring.

Forgot about playing chicken. Talking about ignorant!!

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Way too much to mention I apoligized to my mom for years until she passed away. and long ago she gave me "the curse" you know the one "I hope when you have kids they'll act JUST like you" ugh I have four sons and one a teen!


Forgot to add I thought it wasnt really "my" fault, My great great grandfather told my mother she "marked" me when she was still pregnant with me cause she went to a calf being born and I guess back then it was a no no. Mom didnt fall for it heheh

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when I was 13 I got drunk for the first time (in the woods by myself with older boys and boys only) then we went to the mall, I threw up in the middle of the food court and gave security the wrong number to get ahold of my parents, well my "wonderful" sister came to the rescue and gave them the right number and I had to get wheeled out in a wheel chair.
I had my own car that I would go onto the back roads and race the boys in. And then I wasnt able to drive my moms car (Lexus) but I would steal it anyway but i always liked to tell her when i got home (with it in one piece)
Of course I smoked the wacky tobacky and did lots of other stupid stuff.

Mine were pretty unwild, but stupid. When I was about 12, I'd go to a friends house. Her Mom was divorced and worked. So we had the house to ourselves. We'd climb out on the roof, climb to the peak, and slide down. We kept ourselves from falling off the roof by catching our heels in the gutter. It never occurred to use that the gutter could give way.

Once when I had a cast on my leg, I used one of those thingies that you hold on to and glide between two trees on a cable. This particular one went across a little stream. When I reached the other side, I jammed my heels into the bank and knocked the heel of my cast off. I went home and glued it back on with Elmer's glue, so my parents wouldn't find out!

Oh yeah, I never hitch-hiked, but a girlfriend and I picked up a male hitch-hiker once (we thought he was cute)! How stupid was that?! He was so weird!!! Duh!!!

We also used to flash our boobs to guys in other cars on the highway or walking along the road!

Lisa

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Man my life sucked. I was a good girl since my sister was the whore. The worst I did was TP the ex-girlfirend's house of my then boyfriend. . . . With a case and half of "donated" TP from the high school. It was the second time I did her house cause she liked the first time so much. 15 people (all fellow band members) and a case and half to toilet paper.

Ah the fond memories.

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