YOU - AS A TEEN

[Duchess]

Did you as a teen do what you as an adult would now consider dumb shit? Would you share what it was you did with your kids?

This may not apply to Sally given she's been married since she got out of diapers.

There's a couple of things that I did that as an adult I know I'm lucky to have gotten out of alive.

[Duchess]

I sorta picture Ramsey as a goody two shoes who never even broke curfew.

[username]

Fuck yes. I know I'm lucky to be alive. I had no fear back then. Drunken driving (as the passenger or driver)? Sure!!! And why NOT go 90 in a 45 zone while we're at it? Pill? I'll try it! PCP? Okey-doke. Drive to the projects, by myself, and ask complete strangers for more? I'm your girl.

File false police reports, a little B&E...

The list goes on. Jesus. There's definitely a bit of a benefit to having a beautiful agoraphobic daughter.

[QueenBee]

I will admit to being a bit of a goody two shoes as a teen, like Ramsey. But it was in my 20's I started smoking the "evil weed" and even tried a couple stronger things too.
I do not have kids, but I could just see me advising them to be careful and if they DO do anything dumb, I am not posting bail.

[ramseycat]

I wasn't a bad kid but I wasn't a goody either. I'm the youngest though so my parents were good and broken in when I was in high school.

[F.U.]

Lets just say that I was not always the nice guy that I am now.

[sally]

My kids are goody two shoes, it would never cross their minds to do the kind of dumb shit I did. Even though I got married at 16 I was a rotten little bastard since 13. Sneaking out of my window to go party out in the woods with other bastard kids, taking LSD, skipping school and hanging out with guys in their 20's (which is really weird to me now that I'm old) cops bringing me home, smoking crack... My husband was no better either, he was denied citizenship on his first application because they said he was of bad moral character. We straightened up pretty good and started acting like adults when I got pregnant with my 1^st daughter though.

I didn't have to share any of that with my kids, my big mouth mom made sure to do it for me.

[FAHQTOO]

I sorta picture Ramsey as a goody two shoes who never even broke curfew.

Yoo-hoo...over here...that was me. Seriously.


ETA...minus the goody two shoe part.

[ramseycat]

F2 did all her sinning before curfew. Lol

[Maggot]

When I was 12 I swung from the cross members of a bridge caked with pigeon shit over a dam that had tons of rushing water from the spring thaw. You think you'll live forever at that age, and I can still remember how fast that water was going as it got sucked into the hole that spun the water turbines at the local mill. I can still hear the water and the noise it made and how scared I was when I was half way. I never did that again.

I also remember walking out to the very edge of the ice on the Merrimack by the power station in Bow during the winter trying to roll tires into the water, I was about 10 ft from the edge of the ice in the middle of the river and it was cracking everywhere. I think I was 9. When I look back at those things I feel like a ghost.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Way too many things to think about, Hoping trains to see where they went, B&E, sold pot, drag racing cops, some shit I think they are still looking for.
No, the kids and grandkids don't need to know about

[FAHQTOO]

F2 did all her sinning before curfew. Lol

True. I had to lie like a rug every time I went out. My mom was pretty strict and my dad was always on the road. My mom didn't take any shit and meant what she said, tiny little thing that she is.

I was the youngest too and had it all figured out by the time I was allowed to date and go out.

My two biggest rules were no rated R movies and no partys. WTF else is there for a teenager to do?

[Cutz]

"Let me tell you a story about my uncle's grocery store. I was holding my mother's hand... I was seven years old... And she went off to look for the children's appetite suppressant and on the shelf was a cookie, and I stole it, and I ate it."

[Midwest Spy]

I didn't get into too much trouble (or go looking for it). My dad was a strict SOB and I got the belt a few times at an early age, and watched him knock a couple guys out, so I didn't push it much.

However, in 9^th grade, my buddy and I had a couple of M80's that we used to blow up some mailboxes.

It sounded like a tank cannon had gone off. Then 5 seconds later or so, you could hear the metal falling to the concrete road. Funny and exhilarating.

Really glad we never got caught.

[HairOfTheDog]

"Let me tell you a story about my uncle's grocery store. I was holding my mother's hand... I was seven years old... And she went off to look for the children's appetite suppressant and on the shelf was a cookie, and I stole it, and I ate it."

So, Cutz, by the time you were 13, I take it your rebellious behavior had escalated.

When your mother took you to your uncle's grocery store...and she told you to stay put while she went off to look for junior laxatives...you browsed the aisles with reckless abandon, defiantly not giving a shit?

I was an angel then, same as now. ......There is no tangible evidence to contradict my claim. And, my sisters lie.

[IroningBroad]

Geez..I did plenty of crazy stuff when I was a teen.The few times I got caught my mom beat the shit outta me.Oh to be young again..

[Clang McFly]

I was a goody two shoes pretty much until my mid/late 20's. Then I started drinking and smoking weed and rebelling in other ways.

[Maggot]

WOW!.... That's stinkin like my finger from 3 months of being in a cast.............I better open a window sheeeeeeesh @ Chong.