Neil_D
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Re: Dumbest (most unsafe) thing you\'ve ever done?
After reading all the other posts, I guess I need to 'fess up and post mine. I can't believe we are all still alive to laugh at these. Here's my top ten (there are plenty more)
10. Hopping over the security fence at Watkins Glen racetrack during a brief period of no cars going by to retrieve empty beer cans (I was 13 and they were worth 5 cents apiece in NY)
9. At age 14 agreeing to drive 20 miles to pick up a buddy to bring back to the party because I was the "least drunk." Two years from the legal driving age and already intoxicated didn't stop me, neither did borrowing the car that belonged to my friend's parents who were out of state on vacation, and unaware we were having a party and using their car as a shuttle.
8.Forgetting to replace the oil cap after changing the oil in my first car. Do you know how heavy the hood on a Toyotal Tercel is with 3 quarts of oil soaked into the sound-proofing?
7.At age 22 thinking that going rollerblading through the quad at college after downing a 12 pack is a good idea.
6.At age 12 deciding that I will swing out on this vine, you wait for me to hit the oak tree and push off. When I do, you swing out on the other vine, we'll high five each other in the middle as we pass each other. Guess what? Instead of passing, we collided and both blacked out before we dropped about 15 feet to the gound. Lucky the ground was soft.
5. Around age 12 agreeing to be the one to light the 20 firecrackers we had fused together. Somehow 2 fuses together burn exponentially faster than 20 individual fuses. I couldn't hear out of my right ear or feel my fingertips in my right hand for quite some time.
4. Around age 13 bragging that I could clear the ditch with my bike. When the front tire hit the oppostite bank and stopped dead, my knee burined itself in the hex head bolt on the stem which left a perfect hex-shaped dent in my knee. It took a week to disappear. Still hurts sometimes.
3.Around age 15, got a speedometer fopr my 10 speed bike. Wanted to see how fast I could go, so went to the top of the hill on our road and started pedalling down. At 35 m.p.h. the neighbors dog ran me off the road, where I ran into a large rock that flipped me over the handlebars. Worst part was I had to push a bike with 2 flat tires and bent rims 2 miles home with a broken wrist.
2. Forgot to leave the parking brake on my future mother-in-law's Dodge Daytona Shelby Turbo Z at the after pary of our senior prom. Wrecked 4 cars although no one was in any of them. Ever have to call the father of your girlfriend at 4:00 a.m. to tell him you wrecked his wife's sports car and 3 others? Good times!
1.Decided not to take the job offer 20 minutes from Myrtle Beach to stay in Pennsylvania so I could be "closer to family." Do you think they plow my snow? Fat chance.
After reading all the other posts, I guess I need to 'fess up and post mine. I can't believe we are all still alive to laugh at these. Here's my top ten (there are plenty more)
10. Hopping over the security fence at Watkins Glen racetrack during a brief period of no cars going by to retrieve empty beer cans (I was 13 and they were worth 5 cents apiece in NY)
9. At age 14 agreeing to drive 20 miles to pick up a buddy to bring back to the party because I was the "least drunk." Two years from the legal driving age and already intoxicated didn't stop me, neither did borrowing the car that belonged to my friend's parents who were out of state on vacation, and unaware we were having a party and using their car as a shuttle.
8.Forgetting to replace the oil cap after changing the oil in my first car. Do you know how heavy the hood on a Toyotal Tercel is with 3 quarts of oil soaked into the sound-proofing?
7.At age 22 thinking that going rollerblading through the quad at college after downing a 12 pack is a good idea.
6.At age 12 deciding that I will swing out on this vine, you wait for me to hit the oak tree and push off. When I do, you swing out on the other vine, we'll high five each other in the middle as we pass each other. Guess what? Instead of passing, we collided and both blacked out before we dropped about 15 feet to the gound. Lucky the ground was soft.
5. Around age 12 agreeing to be the one to light the 20 firecrackers we had fused together. Somehow 2 fuses together burn exponentially faster than 20 individual fuses. I couldn't hear out of my right ear or feel my fingertips in my right hand for quite some time.
4. Around age 13 bragging that I could clear the ditch with my bike. When the front tire hit the oppostite bank and stopped dead, my knee burined itself in the hex head bolt on the stem which left a perfect hex-shaped dent in my knee. It took a week to disappear. Still hurts sometimes.
3.Around age 15, got a speedometer fopr my 10 speed bike. Wanted to see how fast I could go, so went to the top of the hill on our road and started pedalling down. At 35 m.p.h. the neighbors dog ran me off the road, where I ran into a large rock that flipped me over the handlebars. Worst part was I had to push a bike with 2 flat tires and bent rims 2 miles home with a broken wrist.
2. Forgot to leave the parking brake on my future mother-in-law's Dodge Daytona Shelby Turbo Z at the after pary of our senior prom. Wrecked 4 cars although no one was in any of them. Ever have to call the father of your girlfriend at 4:00 a.m. to tell him you wrecked his wife's sports car and 3 others? Good times!
1.Decided not to take the job offer 20 minutes from Myrtle Beach to stay in Pennsylvania so I could be "closer to family." Do you think they plow my snow? Fat chance.
