Reddit, What is the dumbest thing YOU have done as a teenager?

Story time

  • I started drinking heavily at 16 to fit in with other kids and let it go too far. Went from top 5% of my class to...well, don't know the percentage but I dropped in rank by over 60 places in less than a year. Ended up with a DWI by 19...I could have seriously hurt someone...stupidest life decision ever, had lasting effects. Turned it around, but took me years to really get it under control. I have to be really careful when I consume now, usually only buy enough to have one drink at home and then I'm done. If I drink while I'm out somewhere, if I have money and time then I'll just keep ordering drinks. I love drinking, but it scares the hell out of me because I know all too well what kind of a person I become when I don't keep it in check.

Less serious stuff

  • We got the bright idea to play Frisbee tortillas while driving. Did you know you can throw tortillas like a Frisbee? We discovered by accident...friend 'A' threw something at me after we were leaving a restaurant one night and I had uneaten tortillas in one hand. So I threw one at him like you would a Frisbee (not knowing how far it would go) and it just kept going and going...got a good laugh out of that. We promptly had a light bulb turning on moment, went to the store and bought two packs of 30 count tortillas, drove around town with the windows down and Frisbee'd tortillas at passing cars.

  • Friend 'B' had a house to himself...literally...we had no idea where his mom and dad took off to, so he had the house to himself always and I guess somebody paid the bills. Bunch of stoners frequented this house, at the time I was one of them. I really had a thing for fire at the time, just loved lighting small things on fire. They'd all be off doing their thing, and then walk in on me setting newspaper on fire in the living room. I don't remember what happened, but one night "B" had had enough of my setting things on fire shit and told me to get out. Good times in that house. Other friend "C" in same house late one night made a makeshift coke bomb out of things around the house (don't ask for the recipe, I don't remember and...just use the Internet if you want to look stuff up like that). He put all the stuff in the 2 liter coke bottle, put the cap on, shook it up, threw it outside....nothing happened....we were all just like "guess it's a dud...." then BOOOOOOOOOOOM at around 2 am. We promptly turned all the lights off and went to bed. Another time, same house, friend "D" threw a baseball at "B"'s mirror and broke it. We all convinced "B", because "B" was so stoned out of his mind, that a ghost broke the mirror...and he somehow thought it was plausible (to be fair, the house was a really old house and made noises all the time).

  • High school parking lot, school lets out...I get in my truck and speed towards the exit, then pull an emergency brake check / slide...almost hit a kid. I see him the next day, I pretend like I don't know what he's talking about (awwwwwkward).

  • Went out binge drinking the night before ACT test...didn't do too well on that one...too embarrassed to list the actual score here...just stupid on my part

  • Sold my entire Magic the Gathering set...played mainly black and had a lot of valuable stuff in multiple colors...for a mere 200 bucks to friend "D" because I was broke. This was around the time that Revised, Antiquities, and Legends were in circulation to give you an estimate of time frame. I had plenty of rares, at least one Beta...friend "D" at the time had a Black Lotus (don't remember if it was Alpha or Beta). I'm pretty sure the set I had would be worth a few thousand today at least.

  • Continued a relationship over long distance when my (then) girlfriend moved to another city...ugh...wish I could get that year of my life back.

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