Dumb things I did as a kid!

[Weedygarden]

*SIGH* Get the popcorn..
Around age ten I found three sticks of dynamite that were left behind at the strip mine and blew a crater in the driveway.

At age fifteen I conducted my first napalm strike in the "rat pit" using burning garbage, a milk jug full of gasoline and a 22 magnum.

Around the same time I made a home made shotgun that used M-80s for power, still have a scar.

Blew the windshield glass out of the family car with a model rocket.

Mixed chemicals in the bathroom sink, turned the ceramic black and destroyed the plumbing.

Bought a copy of Kurt Saxon's poor man's James Bond, use your imagination.

Burned the top out of a three hundred year old pine tree with a home brewed rocket launcher.

Blew a ten foot divot out of the yard by lighting some high octane down a yellow jacket hole.

Decided rolling down a huge hill in a D-9 tire was a good idea.

Shot a vulture that was overhead with a 308. OMG the smell!

Nearly killed myself working two jobs getting ready for Y2K.

Had a one night stand with my son's mother. gods help the boy, he's not only crazier than me, he thinks he might be a transgaynongender WTFever it changes weekly.

Have fun, I got more.

You had access to stuff that many others didn't. That made the difference. No dynamite around where my brothers were, or I'm sure my older brother would have had my younger brother hold some while he lit it.

 

[SheepDog]

I'm trying very hard NOT to enter into this mass confession...

 

[Terri9630]

I'm trying very hard NOT to enter into this mass confession...

I've only admitted to what I did while in the possession of my grandparents who are both gone and have the whole scoop from God by now. I keep waiting for a Gibbs slap from heaven.

 

[Neb]

I'm trying very hard NOT to enter into this mass confession...

come on man!

I suspect your stories would be a good read.

Ben

 

[Magus]

Go big or or go home!! Felt bad for Neb's folks but man, your poor parents, you were expensive

Dear old dad said I could wreck a Patton tank with a rubber mallet in an hour.

 

[Haertig]

Things are different for kids now. The exciting things we used to do are unheard of these days. Playing with explosives, poking venomous snakes with a stick, jumping off the roof holding the four corners of a bed sheet as a parachute - all pretty much normal and expected kid behavior back then.

Reminds me of this meme, which makes me laugh every time I see it:

 

[rice paddy daddy]

i sold my 56 Chevy two door Bel Air, V-8, 4 barrel carb, 3 speed w/overdrive for $100 when I got my orders for Vietnam.
When I hit my “second childhood “ I thought about getting another.
The only thing in my price range was one in primer, with glass, but no engine, no transmission, no interior, for $5,000.

 

[joel]

In middle school:
A girl who like me, want me to walk her home after school.
I did not because I would miss my bus.

 

[Pearl]

In middle school:
A girl who like me, want me to walk her home after school.
I did not because I would miss my bus.

That was dumb!!!