Dumb things you did as a child

[Bighuey]

I just happened to think of something really stupid when I was about seven. I saw a picture in a book of someone throwing a boomarang and I thought I would make me one. I found a bent steel rod and I thought hey, this would make a great one. I threw it towards the house, and instead of coming back the way I thought it would, it went through the big window and shattered the glass. That was the first spanking I remember getting, I got it good with my mom's wooden spoon. That was the first of many spankings with that spoon. Ouch. What say you?

Spanking doesn't work then?
I remember my brother's trying to make a boomerang too but without any mishaps just two very annoyed boys when it wouldn't come back to them ... I blame Skippy

[Fran]

How did I add that to your post Bighuey .... gremlins

[Gannon]

I think the dumbest thing I have ever done as a child, well we were 17, was road surfing. One of my friends had a van and we would drive to this road just out of town and take turns surfing on top of the van. The winner was the one who could stay on the longest. The driver would slowly increase speed, if it got too fast you would tap out by banging the roof three times. Oh hang on this is probably even dumber, at night we would all lie on the road in a line. One of us would throw a rock into the air above us. If you covered your face or removed your hands and arms from your side you were out. The winner was the last one standing, or in this case lying. I cannot believe that none of us were really hurt very badly. I stopped playing when one of my mates was hit in the neck by the falling rock. He was just lucky that the rock was rounded like a river stone, it could have been very serious.

[Fran]

I think the dumbest thing I have ever done as a child, well we were 17, was road surfing. One of my friends had a van and we would drive to this road just out of town and take turns surfing on top of the van. The winner was the one who could stay on the longest. The driver would slowly increase speed, if it got too fast you would tap out by banging the roof three times. Oh hang on this is probably even dumber, at night we would all lie on the road in a line. One of us would throw a rock into the air above us. If you covered your face or removed your hands and arms from your side you were out. The winner was the last one standing, or in this case lying. I cannot believe that none of us were really hurt very badly. I stopped playing when one of my mates was hit in the neck by the falling rock. He was just lucky that the rock was rounded like a river stone, it could have been very serious.

Good Lord, Gannon, I really hope you are not sharing these stories of your exploits with your nephew .... a rounded rock now that would make such a difference wouldn't it? Men!

[Bighuey]

Holy Cow, Gannon. You must have been a gutsy little guy. I hope that new wife of yours takes some of the wind out of your sails.

@Fran, I saw that and was thinking, I didnt write that unless Im getting old and senile and forgetting things.

Another dumb thing I did when I was about 8 or 9 was to tell my dad to go to hell. Big mistake. After I picked myself off the floor I realised that was not cool.

[laci_baby]

Hahaha Gannon we use to lie in the middle of the road and not move until the very last second of a car coming just to see if we would get hit by a car. What an adrenaline rush...

I once tied myself to a picnic table and blamed my brother for tying me up when my grandma told us to come in when it started raining. Not only did she not believe me but seeing her cross the yard cussing with a knife in her hand made me positive I never wanted to cross her again.

When I was nine me and my cousin ran away and got lost. Eight hours of running around in the woods crying for our mommies and we found a delightful old man's house that luckily knew my grandpa and took us home. So very lucky we didn't come across a horrible person. So many things that could have happened..

On my sixteenth birthday me and two of my best friends got a little bored and ran down a road completely naked in the middle of the night. Freezing cold too. We saw a car coming and hid on the side of the road all hunched up beside eachother laughing and when the car went by we took off running in different directions when we realized the car was backing up hahaha we ran to my house without any clothes on whatsoever. The next day my grandpa told my grandma he thought he was going crazy because he thought he saw gargoyles on the side of the road the night before but when he went back to check they we're gone. Hahaha. Good times...

[Bighuey]

Lacy, Gannon, you guys must be from the suicidal generation. The things Ive done are pretty tame compared to that. The only thing like that I ever did was to catch rattlesnakes. No big deal then, but I shudder to think of it now.

[Gannon]

Hahaha Gannon we use to lie in the middle of the road and not move until the very last second of a car coming just to see if we would get hit by a car. What an adrenaline rush...

I once tied myself to a picnic table and blamed my brother for tying me up when my grandma told us to come in when it started raining. Not only did she not believe me but seeing her cross the yard cussing with a knife in her hand made me positive I never wanted to cross her again.

When I was nine me and my cousin ran away and got lost. Eight hours of running around in the woods crying for our mommies and we found a delightful old man's house that luckily knew my grandpa and took us home. So very lucky we didn't come across a horrible person. So many things that could have happened..

On my sixteenth birthday me and two of my best friends got a little bored and ran down a road completely naked in the middle of the night. Freezing cold too. We saw a car coming and hid on the side of the road all hunched up beside eachother laughing and when the car went by we took off running in different directions when we realized the car was backing up hahaha we ran to my house without any clothes on whatsoever. The next day my grandpa told my grandma he thought he was going crazy because he thought he saw gargoyles on the side of the road the night before but when he went back to check they we're gone. Hahaha. Good times...

OMG Laci, imagine what would have happened had we met when we were late teens. You would have fit right in to our little "Gang".
Another thing we used to do was wait until early morning when traffic was pretty light and we would seperate into two teams in one car each. Each team would buy cartons of eggs and we would drive around the streets hurling eggs at each other. The windows of the car had to be down. Ahhhh the things we did when we were young and stupid.
Your Grandpa thinking you were gargoyles, hahahahaha that's classic.

@Bighuey Wow, I can't imagine catching rattlesnakes, glad that you never got bitten BH.

[Bighuey]

Never got bit by one, we sold them to the junior college in our town for anti-venom.

Talking about cars, we played a game back in the 70's when CB radios were popular. One person would hide, and describe the place where he was and the others would try to find him from the description. My wife and I hid in an orchard one time, and went to move the truck and were stuck in the mud. We described everything in detail, the K-Mart sign that was near us, a Big O tire store, but it took them a couple hours to find us. They finally did, it took a bunch of us to push the truck out of the mud. For a while we thought we would have to spend the night there.

[laci_baby]

@ Gannon- haha oh the fun we would have had
Absolutely love the egg thing. I totally would have done that too

[Bighuey]

I remember one thing I did when I was in high school. A friend and I went to a junkyard and bought a car for 7 dollars. It was a 1937 DeSoto and barely ran. It didnt have a front seat, we sat on wooden boxes. We couldnt take it home, our parents would have a fit. So we took it to the woods and drove it around on the dirt roads and we would leave it there and walk home. We did that for a couple weeks or so, and this one time I was driving it and got it going as fast as it would go, about 40, and went over this rise in the road, the car went up, came down with a bang and one of the front wheels came off. We left it there and walked home. As far as I know, it could still be there. We never did go back.

[Gannon]

I remember one thing I did when I was in high school. A friend and I went to a junkyard and bought a car for 7 dollars. It was a 1937 DeSoto and barely ran. It didnt have a front seat, we sat on wooden boxes. We couldnt take it home, our parents would have a fit. So we took it to the woods and drove it around on the dirt roads and we would leave it there and walk home. We did that for a couple weeks or so, and this one time I was driving it and got it going as fast as it would go, about 40, and went over this rise in the road, the car went up, came down with a bang and one of the front wheels came off. We left it there and walked home. As far as I know, it could still be there. We never did go back.

Hahahaha BH, I can see a movie being made from this post, You just need to embellish it a little bit, say, throw in a road trip and a bank robbery and you have a blockbuster on your hands. Imagine driving away from the bank robbery at 40 mph, the police could be chasing you on foot.

[Bighuey]

Thats an idea, Gannon. I could call it The Three-Wheeled DeSoto That Got Away.

[qmdqwd]

Lacy, Gannon, you guys must be from the suicidal generation. The things Ive done are pretty tame compared to that. The only thing like that I ever did was to catch rattlesnakes. No big deal then, but I shudder to think of it now.

[Skillian]

One of the silliest little things... is the one my family wont let me live down. Apparently when I was a wee little girl I confused some words.. ONE TIME. lol. More specifically in regards to the fruit (that some people argue is a vegetable): squash. It was one Christmas season... not too different from now. Where my parents decided to cook a dish using squash. Apparently something went wrong, because the squash ended up in the trashcan.

Apparently, when I saw the poor discarded squash I exclaimed "There is a MASH in the TRASH." And the rest is history.