Has anyone ever done anything really really stupid?

marisco_2

Never do the gardening in flip flops. Especially when in control of a very powerful strimmer. I have a nice scar across the top of my foot. Came so close to some diy amputation that day _pale_

marisco_2

aliasojo wrote: »

We did loads of incredibly stupid things as kids but my experiences have made me a pretty clued up parent so there's always a silver lining.

That is how I am seeing it too. It is a fine balance between letting kids learn from their experiences/mistakes and keeping them from putting themselves in potentially dangerous situations. My parents dont know half the stupid things I got up to. They still refer to me as their sensible one!!!! Couldn't be further from the truth.

aliasojo

marisco wrote: »

That is how I am seeing it to. It is a fine balance between letting kids learn from their experiences/mistakes and keeping them from putting themselves in potentially dangerous situations. My parents dont know half the stupid things I got up to. They still refer to me as their sensible one!!!! Couldn't be further from the truth.

Lol mine neither.:D

I often wondered if I was adopted as my Mum was a 'nice' (painfully nice sometimes) Church going woman who didn't have a streetwise bone in her body and it was easy to get things past her tbh.

I got chucked out of my first pub aged 14 too. Vodka and fresh orange and a ride home on the back of my then boyfriend's motorbike ensured I pukked as soon as I got home. I did a great line in acting in those days so she believed I was just ill.

I'm an incredibly sensible, responsible boring adult...I have no idea how. :rotfl:

WolfSong2000

I've done so many silly things its unreal...the one that's had the biggest impact on me to date was when I was about 16, and on a school trip to France/Belgium. It was at night, in Paris, and I'd gotten separated from the group I'd been with. Started with me asking an apparently harmless looking older Parisian gentleman for directions back to my hotel...ended with said Parisian sexually assaulting in in an alley *shudders*. Could have been a lot, lot worse, but it still had a big effect on me - if nothing else I'm nowhere near as naive and trusting as I used to be!

Having said that, I still have my moments...when I was 18, I was in USA for thee first time, travelling on my own. I was in Nashville in June, which is when they have their massive music festival, so all the central hotels were booked up, meaning I had gotten a motel 10 mins drive out of town in the middle of nowhere. After a great night out with friends, I got into a *licensed* taxi cab at around 2am. Got chatting to the driver, who was a musician himself, and put a CD of some of his music on. Everything was good, I explained that I was travelling round the USA, etc. Then things started to turn funny when he realised I was travelling on my own and started making advances, telling me he wasn't actually a licensed taxi driver - this was his friend's taxi, he was just driving it to get some extra money, and did I want him to escort me to my motel room?

I was panicking as I was literally in the middle of nowhere...considered jumping out the car, but it was going too fast. Anyhow, he got me to the motel and I stood and waited until he drove of to make sure he didn't know what room I was in. To be fair, though, not all Nashville Taxi drivers are awful. The first one I ever used in Nashville was a star, and when I had to stop off somewhere to collect something - an event which should have taken moments and ended up taking 20 minutes as the place couldn't find what I had come to collect - the taxi driver didn't charge me for the time he spent waiting.

greenorange

When I was 13, I had a 120cc mini dirtbike. With a friend on the back, I decided to ride it to a nearby field along a main road. We went around a corner, the bike slid out from underneath us and we both ended up sliding along the road with nothing more than jeans and a t-shirt on.

Both ended up in hospital and we both have the scars to remind us to this day. I cringe now, as that could have very easily been much worse.

My children will never be allowed motorbikes/quads. Silly parents I have!

aliasojo

greenorange wrote: »

When I was 13, I had a 120cc mini dirtbike. With a friend on the back, I decided to ride it to a nearby field along a main road. We went around a corner, the bike slid out from underneath us and we both ended up sliding along the road with nothing more than jeans and a t-shirt on.

Both ended up in hospital and we both have the scars to remind us to this day. I cringe now, as that could have very easily been much worse.

My children will never be allowed motorbikes/quads. Silly parents I have!

When we were 14 (same friend as above ) we 'borrowed' one of the lads that we hung out with, motorbikes. Friend drove it, I was pillion. We went to the ice cream shop and took a short cut back through the park. We pulled out onto the road just as a Police car was passing. Friend got charged and taken to court as she was driving but I never heard any more about it. :rotfl:

greenorange

aliasojo wrote: »

When we were 14 (same friend as above ) we 'borrowed' one of the lads that we hung out with, motorbikes. Friend drove it, I was pillion. We went to the ice cream shop and took a short cut back through the park. We pulled out onto the road just as a Police car was passing. Friend got charged and taken to court as she was driving but I never heard any more about it. :rotfl:

Your lucky, as was I. Your friend not so much.

I didn't get charged, but the bike was taken off me (thank god). I think the police realised we had learned our lesson when seeing us afterwards.

kat360

Two years ago, when I was living up north we had some really bad snow. I was 8 1/2 months pregnant and my OH was driving us back from a midwife appointment, when we came around a blind bend to find that two cars had broken down parallel to each other and there was no room on the road. My OH put his handbrake on and did a 360 degree skid!:eek: OH then hopped out and helped push both cars to safety, Needless to say a few days later I was induced because I had preeclemsia:o
It makes me glad he's a driver in the RAF and had done a course in defensive driving the month before!

Brallaqueen

I set the house on fire (really, properly on fire it took 6 months to rebuild) at the age of 4 (don't play with fire kids!)

At the age of 7 I fell out of the attic window and got wedged in the V where the rooves met. Dad had to climb out to rescue me

I've had about 4 close calls on my scooter in the last 10 months

I really should not be let loose

balletshoes

marisco wrote: »

That is how I am seeing it too. It is a fine balance between letting kids learn from their experiences/mistakes and keeping them from putting themselves in potentially dangerous situations. My parents dont know half the stupid things I got up to. They still refer to me as their sensible one!!!! Couldn't be further from the truth.

me too! And the last thing you want to do is tell your own kids the stuff you got up to as a teenager/young adult, because you don't want to be giving them ideas :rotfl:!