Thread: stupid things you did when you were young

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Ya like letting a lot of good street cars go in the day. Watching Barret- Jackson makes me cry...........

A buddy of mine and myself were out drinking at about midnight. We were in a 69 firebird with a 455 4 speed. Waiting for a light to change, racked it up, dumped the clutch, did a huge burnout with a cop sitting right in a prking lot off the intersection, he saw the whole thing, we did not even see him until he flipped his lights on. He was very disspleased with our stupidity, and we were both 17 years old at the time. We both had to take defensive driving class, I guess because we were both laughing so hard during the crime.

New Years Eve some 30 years ago. Myself and 2 buddies decide to have our own party and cruise up to Cape Cod, "just because"... After to many hours and to much beer and blackberry brandy. We're going down some road and it just disappears into a lake! We freak out and figure some terrible tragedy had occured so we spin the car around and hustle back to this gas station we saw earlier. We pull in and ask the fella standing in there what happened to the road? He says "What Road?", we yell back, "the road that turns left down here and it's under water now"! He says, shaking his head, "THAT'S A BOAT RAMP YOU DUMBASSES"! "You boys better get your butts home, You've had enough!" We all stared at each other and realized he was right. Feeling about 2 inches tall we headed home. Once we got to 195 west we all settled in for the trip home and of course we all fell asleep! We awoke to the sounds of the car smacking off the guard rail on the right side. We pulled over and had to get out of the drivers door as the right side was trashed!

I'll just leave it at the next morning was pure hell. From our hangovers to our parents... It wasn't good. But we realized we're lucky to be alive!

34_40,

Sorry to laugh but that is one of the best stories I have read in some time. That was as bad as some of the stupid things I did when I was young. A friend of mine and I get together from time to time and talk about all the dumb things we did as kids and wonder how we are still alive. But I am still happy that I was a kid before the Govt. decided to take over and make everything safe for us.

Ron

I'll have to adopt Too Many 2 Count as my temporary alias, if he'll allow it; that fits me to a "T". A goodly part of them were related to pushing things a bit too far with my right foot, though. I could come up with things for days, and you'd all get bored, so I will jus leave it at that.

Originally Posted by Rrumbler

I'll have to adopt Too Many 2 Count as my temporary alias, if he'll allow it; that fits me to a "T".

Sureeeeeeeee, but then it seems most of us would be using that name if we spoke "TRUTHFULLY" ...joe

Don't know where to begin. Most had to do with cars and speed, but there were a few really dumb ones that had to do with boats, water and swimming. And one big one that had to do with a Cessna 182, a trip to Burlington NC with two friends, neither of which had pilot licenses. At times it was a both fun and scary, and I wouldn't do it again. That trip really brought home the saying that "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing".

Lucky to have lived as long as I have.