re: We all did dumb things when we were younger

Really dumb. Caddo Lake was overflowing the dam. Walked out with some friends with the water flowing up our legs as we held onto the guardrails. Got to the spillway and we all let go to see who could swim all the way across to the other side.

None of us died, but we all probably should have. I was on the high school swim team and finally got back to land about a mile downstream and walked back through the forest. All the others had to be rescued, and were swept as far downstream as four miles. I reported it when I got back to a guy fishing on the bank. He drove me to a store and they called the sheriff's office. I was not sure if any of my friends were alive. A couple of rescue deputies in a boat were able to find them. We all were really stupid, and lucky.

Yes, there was some green leafy stuff involved beforehand.

Lied down in the middle of a very busy street before a football game like in The Program.

Dumb:
Threw marbles at passing cars and four of us had bottle rocket wars across the street. Luckily none of us ever lost an eye.

Crazy:
In high school, climbed the tower one night that used to stand on the Christian Life Academy property with a couple of Pollard Estates buddies. Don’t know for sure but I’m pretty sure it was a 500 footer. Alcohol had been consumed. I can attest though that I was stone-cold sober by a quarter of the way up.

We all three got to the top and touched the big-arse red light cover. Had a clear view of downtown and the bridge. The treetops were so damn far below us. One slip and you’re dead.

We all made it back down though. On the way down, at the halfway point, one of the three smaller red light covers had come loose from it’s bolt on one side. I finagled it off to where it was just attached by a small chain, which I snapped off with a good pull. Took the red light shell as a souvenir. Putting it over a light bulb in my room lit the whole room up red.

My son is 18 now and he has never heard that story. I was somewhat inspired by a similar story my older brother had told me. That will not be the case with my son.

55 gallon drum half full of oil. 5 gallons of gas. 1lb Tannerite hanging in drum. The resulting inferno was unlike anything I was expecting. by younger, that was last year.



Stupid things when I was a kid... Driving an atc 70 at top speed through a field of tall grass. Caught a single electric wire across my throat. Nearly killed me. Looked like I tried to hang myself for two months.

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Pooed on myself.

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I went to University Lab for one year in 3rd grade. At recess, they had a stupid "nobody is allowed in the building during recess" rule. I had to shite BAD. I begged the teacher to let me in, and the old bitch told me to wait. I looked her dead in the eye and shite in my pants. The pearl clutcher was horrified

Then I had to figure out how to get through the day without anybody else finding out

On the bus ride home from a football game someone dared a guy to throw a full 20 oz dr pepper out the window and hit a passing car on the interstate. He did it.

The car that got hit was driven by the wife of the principal of the school we just finished playing. Coach was less than pleased. I legit think he was trying to kill us with running, bear crawls etc.

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Let a stripper take me upstairs to the private room and then get slapped with a $500 bill when I came back down.

I was so drunk, I told her I wasn't going to pay and walked off. She started balling her eyes out with some sob story about her kids and my roommate paid up.

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If we’re going to include money wasted on women, then Chicken is going to need to increase the post character-limit for me.

As far as a harmless dumb thing was setting off a couple hundred firecrackers in an empty locker when I was in high school. I'd be considered a terrorist today... they never even figured out who did it.

Something that could've killed me was trying to "surf" in the back of a pickup driving down the highway.

Went swimming inside a city water tower.