Jazzy mentioned this in another thread, thought it would be fun. Narrowing my choices down, will post some soon! Meanwhile, ya'll go ahead......
Dumb things I did as a kid!
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I never got in any trouble when I was a kid until I got into college. Remember the movie Animal House? To me that movie was like Dragnet; the names were changed to protect the innocent. I knew all of those people, and I was half of them.
That more than qualifies, you may win an award!!
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So interesting that this thread comes up today. I was thinking this would be a great topic. I have to think about this.
I was naive and trusted people for their word. It took me many years to realize that people are not always honest. Many are manipulative and say what they will because it can get them what they want.
I was naive and trusted people for their word. It took me many years to realize that people are not always honest. Many are manipulative and say what they will because it can get them what they want.
There is not enough internet bandwidth for me to list all of mine. Thank goodness it was before social media.
okay, here is simply one of them. I was probably in 10th or 11th grade. I come home one Friday night during a fall snow and had an extra 12 pack of beer. I somehow came up with the plan to hide it in the back yard by burying it under a snow pile I made. My dad woke me up the next morning and pointed at a mostly melted snow and a 12 pack of beer clearly sitting in the middle of the back yard.
He probably enjoyed that beer.
He probably enjoyed that beer.
I see things that my friends post about their kids and grandkids and I'm always thankful my folks didn't have social media
! Bad enough my mom took A LOT of pictures!
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Ben1
Ride a bike along the edge of a retaining wall.
Sprained wrist
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Ben
Ride a bike along the edge of a retaining wall.
Sprained wrist
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Ben
I got the nickname Ellie after Ellie Mae Clampet because I always brought critters home. When I was about 7 or 8 I brought a baby skunk in the house. Thought putting it in the bathtub until my dad made it coop was a great idea! It wasn't, couldn't believe dad made it go live in the woods
I think this is a good time to exercise my 5th amendment right 
My lawyer would advise me to remain silent.
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Created slide by putting cardboard on the steps. But too fast the bottom and no way to stop.
Solution
Tie rope to top of banister on the right and tie other end to my left wrist.
Rope burn across my neck
Ben
Created slide by putting cardboard on the steps. But too fast the bottom and no way to stop.
Solution
Tie rope to top of banister on the right and tie other end to my left wrist.
Rope burn across my neck
Ben
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My lawyer would advise me to remain silent.
Oh come on even the statute of limitations on a fellony is 7 years.
Statute of limitations don't apply to some things...
I have so many to choose from, it's hard to pick just a few.
The one that got my butt tore up the most gets high marks.
My job every week was to run water into the stock water tanks (this was before float-valves were discovered) so the cows would have water to drink.
It would take over an hour fill a tank.
Kid's minds wander.
They follow them.
And they forget what they were doing.
The next day when there was no running water in the house because the pump had cavitated and lost it's prime, my dad would drag me out to the pasture and show me the huge lake I had created, before taking the belt to me.
If the pump runs long enough after losing it's prime and having no water to pump, it will burn out the shaft seal.
When that happens, we would have no water for over a week.... and guess who's fault that was?
The one that got my butt tore up the most gets high marks.
My job every week was to run water into the stock water tanks (this was before float-valves were discovered) so the cows would have water to drink.
It would take over an hour fill a tank.
Kid's minds wander.
They follow them.
And they forget what they were doing.
The next day when there was no running water in the house because the pump had cavitated and lost it's prime, my dad would drag me out to the pasture and show me the huge lake I had created, before taking the belt to me.
If the pump runs long enough after losing it's prime and having no water to pump, it will burn out the shaft seal.
When that happens, we would have no water for over a week.... and guess who's fault that was?
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...If the pump runs long enough after losing it's prime and having no water to pump, it will burn out the shaft seal.
When that happens, we would have no water for over a week.... and guess who's fault that was?
Trump’s?
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From the ages of 18 to 28, you could fill a book with the dumb stuff I did. Actually it was me and my buddies Jim Beam, Miller, and Jose. We were real tight in those days.
One night when I was about 25 I drove into town to go to the bar. Somehow I ended up in a shot contest. I don't remember if I won, but I damn sure got a participation trophy! Anyway I don't recall anything after that. I woke up on my sofa in the morning with my head on fire and my guts doing somersaults. Couldn't find my wallet so I went to the car, only to find it parked in the front yard with cornstalks hanging from the suspension underneath. To this day I have no idea whose field I drove through, or how I didn't get stuck driving through a cornfield with a Chevy Impala...
One night when I was about 25 I drove into town to go to the bar. Somehow I ended up in a shot contest. I don't remember if I won, but I damn sure got a participation trophy! Anyway I don't recall anything after that. I woke up on my sofa in the morning with my head on fire and my guts doing somersaults. Couldn't find my wallet so I went to the car, only to find it parked in the front yard with cornstalks hanging from the suspension underneath. To this day I have no idea whose field I drove through, or how I didn't get stuck driving through a cornfield with a Chevy Impala...
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I was a passenger in my buddy's car as he drove through a corn field. I can still hear the sound...
Plop plop plop......
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I had seen monkeys jump from tree to tree had to learn myself I wasn't a monkey. Fell from the tree face first into the edge of a retaining wall.
My beard still does not grow well in the scar tissue.
Ben
I had seen monkeys jump from tree to tree had to learn myself I wasn't a monkey. Fell from the tree face first into the edge of a retaining wall.
My beard still does not grow well in the scar tissue.
Ben
Good choice of cars
Ok everyone, Neb/Ben is going all out here!! We need stories
I grew up on a horse farm but I did have some exciting bicycle wrecks! Those little boys just thought they were daredevils, nah! I was the only one (8yrs old by the way) who would stand on their bike frame, trying to still hold the handlebars while going down a rather steep hill. DID NOT FALL, until I hit a pick up truck coming around the bend! We didn't wear helmets back then, could have used one
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You sound like you were a monkey like me, Ben. I would climb a tree right by the sidewalk that I knew a creepy boy would come by. Would smash snails, roll the gunk in big leaves and bomb him with them. I was always hopping fences, wood ones. This didn't go well with wearing shorts and climbing over a 6 ft tall old wood fence. Legs full of splinters.
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My mother was trying to break my baby sister's attachment to a teddy bear so I tried to help by putting it out on the ledge above the stairs where couldn't get at it. She crawled out there fell and...
I caught he77
Ben
My mother was trying to break my baby sister's attachment to a teddy bear so I tried to help by putting it out on the ledge above the stairs where couldn't get at it. She crawled out there fell and...
I caught he77
Ben
As for the horse farm, lots of ponies in the house stories! What I learned was if you have to push the pony through the door, it DOES NOT want to be in the house. I learned new "adult" words that day!!
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My buddy and I found a hole where water had carved out the ground under the sidewalk of the church parking lot. We expanded the hole and dug a tunnel under the walk.
Caught he77 for that.
Ben
My buddy and I found a hole where water had carved out the ground under the sidewalk of the church parking lot. We expanded the hole and dug a tunnel under the walk.
Caught he77 for that.
Ben
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My mother's uncle took me and my brother to his uncle's farm for the day. They let us explore the barn. My brother played in the mud puddle in the rut of the combine. I played on the combine and figured out how to release the brakes. It rilled out of the barn and would have run over my brother if not for my uncle.
Caught he77 for that
Ben
My mother's uncle took me and my brother to his uncle's farm for the day. They let us explore the barn. My brother played in the mud puddle in the rut of the combine. I played on the combine and figured out how to release the brakes. It rilled out of the barn and would have run over my brother if not for my uncle.
Caught he77 for that
Ben
