Posted on 04/12/2014 6:32:44 PM PDT by MNDude
Almost everyone has a story of something where did something so dumb and crazy as a kid that their parents ground them for a long time. Rode the family horse to town? Let a homeless guy sleep over in your parents bed while they were out of town? What is your story that you're lucky to be alive after your parents found out?
Detonated the backyard.
We detoured a national highway through a small rural town.
I need to get my friend Jeff on here... oh good GAWD does he have stories.
I was a good kid... that often suffered punishment because of something my younger brother did.
/johnny
Walked across the frozen Ohio River in 1977 with my kid brother in tow. Mom hit the rough.
My curfew time was always a bit of a point of contention between my parents and I. Now, this was back in the day when watches and clocks had dials and hands rather than digital displays...
I'm walking out the door for a date with my GF at the time. Referring to the clock my Mom asked "Where are the hands going to be tonight?" In a blistering case of stupidity and letting my mouth run off without engaging my mind/filter I replied "Anywhere I can get away with!" and ducked out the door.
Needless to say, that was my last date for a while.
Killed a hooker and hid her in the freezer.
I shot a man just to watch him die... in Reno. Grounded for three months.
I never got into much trouble. Not that I never did wrong.
I was just great at covering my tracks, and not getting caught.
My cousin and I DID get busted for smoking when we were around 11 years old, but it was his stupidity that led to our ‘capture’. He got the bright idea of taking the smokes from his father’s open pack.....BAD MOVE!
My father gave me what would probably be considered as “child abuse” today. Well, it was probably child abuse then too. lol
Did the same thing. Got rid of her with a wood chipper.
When I was five we lived in Panama City, FL. I was tagging along with my older brother as he and a gang of boys were out in an open field. they would start a fire then put it out. Repeat many times.
I decided that was fun so I did the same thing except I could not put it out. I ran to the house and got a bucket, filled it with water and went back to the fire which by this time was about 50 yards in diameter. I spilled most of the water running to the fire, then threw the little I had left on the fire.
By the time I got back to the house it was at least a hundred yards wide. By that time a swarm of teenage boys descended on the fire and managed to put it out just as a city fire truck arrived. I was convinced they were going to throw me in jail but they didn’t.
Too many to list.
/johnny
At 15 I drove my friends around in my brother’s car all night and stayed at a friends place overnight. My parent’s got word to me the next morning - “Bring the car home or we call the Police” - I had no doubt that they would so I took the car home!
Mel
Totally. Me too. It was my brother. ;)
Screwed with all the neighbors when the first cable tv remotes came out and everyone had the same one...
Caught a whoopin’ when I messed with dad’s tv time.
I never got grounded. My parents never found out.
But my kids don’t do squat compared to me and my wife.
I was a 20 something and there was a story about some aqua-cattle in a basement with a broken water line.
Alcohol was most definitely a factor.
“borrowed” the family car and took it for a spin to impress my new (I think it was my 2nd) girlfriend. Let’s just say when I got back I was not only grounded but dad did his own rendition of Devo’s “Whip it”.
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