Childhood Mischief & Pranks - Fess Up

we were bad kids

will leave it at that

Mailbox baseball

Change grades on report cards. - Didn't have to, made A's

Rig the machines at the laundromat to save money. - Had a washer and dryer.

Steal a car stereo. - That's a step above stealing some paintballs from K-mart, but we did do that.

Follow the beer truck around to swipe a case of beer. - We just drove over the state line and bought it illegally from a bar in Tennessee out of the back like good kids.

Give the younger siblings of a girlfriend to keep a lookout to learn about the birds and bees. - No.

Throw rotten fruit at passing cars - I never fricked with people's cars. Except we did flour this one dude's, but he deserved it.

Let the air out of the school bus tires to avoid school. - We duct taped the back door handle and front handle to the steering wheel and climbed out the top emergency exit.

Have a Playboy / Penthouse stash - well yeah.

Replace vodka with water - Whiskey with tea.

Possess a bag of maraquana the size of a 55-gallon trash bag - No, I wasn't moving on a federal level.

- "rolled" houses of both enemies AND friends.
- Egged houses of enemies
- My friend (not me) would piss in the gas tank of his neighbors car because he had an ongoing feud with the kids.
- Stole BubbleYum and Bubblicious from the Cracker Barrel and sold it at school for 25 cents a piece
- cheated on a few tests

I cheated a couple of times in Heads Up , 7 up.

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Have a Playboy / Penthouse stash

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This is the only one we have in common. You were quite the little shite.

Oweo will be here shortly to write a novel

I'm not proud of any of what I share.

I grew up on the island of Key West and a few in the lower Keys.

We often collected glass bottles (beer and soda) and we'd throw em at road signs. The mile marker signs were worth the most points. These signs are small. Not much wider than the posts.

During my teen years, the bridges were all being replaced. Several friends rerouted the road construction barrels to direct traffic off the road onto the old road. No one was hurt, but wow, what a traffic back-up on an already two-lane US-1.

We often took lobster out of season or shorts.

I don't recall who claimed responsibility, but someone from my sister's class somehow got a VW Beetle up on the roof of KWHS.

In the late 70's / early 80's the vast majority of marijuana was smuggled through the Florida Keys. A friend and I found a bale of pot affectionately called a "Square Grouper" or "Floater." When unpacked, it swelled to the size of filing a 55-gallon trash can. Unfortunately, it had gotten somewhat wet and wasn't very potent.

The Miami Herald wrote an entire week-long series on the life of the Key West youth.

Did quite a bit of N-word (hard R) knocking