In your teens years, what is an example of “Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should?”

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  1. I brought a new motorcycle with no money down on 23% APR without a motorcycle license, and in an attempt to teach myself, I laid it down…twice. I also…did not have insurance.

  5. Could fill a book with random idiot stunts that gained me nothing. Doing monkey rolls out of our friends car, filling a super soaker with gasoline and shooting fire, once we found a big spool for electric lines and put our friend in the middle and shoved it down a hill. So many things that if we just got the least bit unlucky someone would have died. Thank god it worked out okay.

  6. I usually applied that logic to social events instead of risky behavior.

    I didn’t do reckless shit, I just wanted to be left alone and happy.

  9. My buddy and I would drive around to abandoned houses and go in to look around. Some we had to “find” a way in. Unfortunately we “found” our way into a house that looked abandoned but a family was living in it. So we got arrested for trespassing. Thankfully they didn’t press breaking and entering charges.

  11. does 18 count? Skipping class in college. I failed my entire freshman year because I had absolutely zero discipline to keep going to class.

    If not, then it’s being a smartass with a teacher. One time I showed up to class late when the teacher was angrily admonishing the class for consistent tardiness from multiple students. When I walked in he saw me and angrily mentioned “see look now I gotta repeat what I said again because people keep showing up late”. To which my reply was “yeah exactly you have to repeat what you just said, what did you say?”. The whole class just silently stared at me in shock and the teacher just left the room for a minute. My friend later told me what was going on and I later apologized to the teacher, who by then cooled down and forgave me.

  13. Flirting with every girl that got close to me and partying (never done it but found it silly to do)

  14. Do lots of drugs. They were pretty easy to come by. Watched lots of people get lost to them in high school.

  15. I stole a tuxedo… I’ve only worn it a few times and yeah that was one of the last things I stole

  22. I was way too young, way too bored, and far too sober the night I lassoed a 7 point buck from the bed of my buddies moving ford ranger.

    Friends told me I couldn’t do it. I could. I could also be torn from said bed by my left arm being yanked out of socket by the buck it was now attached to. I have never before nor since had the wind knocked out of me quite so hard and my shoulder still clicks when I military press…

    I was drug across 3 separate baseball fields by this thing before I got my hand untangled.

  27. Have sex. But saying you should never, but thing about it carefully. I ended up with a kid at 19.

  28. Kid I know pulled a knife on one of the neighbors to “see what his reaction would be”. He did it to a sweet old man who just came from church. The kid’s father got was mortified by this, it was a huge deal in that area.

    This kid later turned out to be a rapist, it came to light later that several neighborhood kids (his age) were all raped or molested by him. Most evil POS I’ve known. Before all that, he seemed innocent to everyone, and was so outgoing and respectful to the elders that all parents loved him and trusted him as a friend to their children. He was 13 at that time.

  32. I stole lots of candy and once at all the wasabi in a sushi container at once. Both terrible ideas.

  33. Do you know what happens if you drop a chlorine tablet into rubbing alcohol in a sealed container? I do.

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