Thread: stupid things you did when you were young

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im the poster child for "STUPIDITY" way to many to count and im not sure the statue of limitations has expired on a few of them!

well i have a couple of abused cars to my credit and somehow i survived being beatin to death by my parents
one night after an evening of fellowship with my brothers while on leave from the army, we were
out and about scouting for new members for our bible study class and where else
do you go to find new members ? we decided the local bars , strip joints and lola's
home for un-wed mothers would be the best places to try first (this is my story and im sticking to it)
after about 12 hours of this we decided it was time to go home as the hour was late about 2:00 am ,it had been raining most of the night and as i came to a stop sign i braked to slow down and started to skid , and skid we did all the way across the intersection and into a ditch on the other side of the road , we exited the vehicle to inspect our situation and seen that we were stuck partly on a railroad track with the front wheels touching the ground and the back wheels were about 3 feet off the ground ,
after disscussing our situation we decided we could put the car in reverse and rock it back and forth tetter totter fashion and when the rear wheels touch it would help back the car off the track , sounds good
so we started rocking the car back and forth and it did work , as the wheels touched the pavement the car started to move a little at a time and then finally the car started backing
off the track , you can just imagine our laughter as our master plan started to work
so as the car started backing off the track an onto the road i ran around to jump back into the car
and to my surprise the door "WAS LOCKED" with the window up! like i said it was raining out that night.
all we could do was watch the car back up the road about a hundred feet into a ditch on the other side of the road and flip over ..we had to walk home that night in the rain , about 6 miles and my two brothers decided (see story below)i was the one who had to tell mom where her 59 caddy was the next morning..

when i was 10 in 1969 we were living in san diego while the old man was on one of his tours of nam
my brothers were out in front of the house in his 55 gasser doing burnouts in front of the
house , my older brother then parked the car in the driveway because he said later one of the carbs
linkage was sticking , me i didnt know anything about anything other than the fact i wanted to
do a burnout myself , so i cranked up the car and backed it into the street , mashed the clutch
stomped my foot in the gas dumped the clutch , and then things got interesting , the car got sideways
and turned back up the driveway , i let off the gas but the car keep screaming and bounced of the side
of my moms pickup truck and went into the wall of the dining room of our house , my older brother actually
caught all the crap over that one for not keeping a better eye on me , yeah he kinda kicked my ass later
my brothers fixed the house and the car and i still dont know if the old man ever found out , and im not asking about it either..