The DUMBEST thing you've ever done?? (that you'll admit to, lol)

[Kaitie09]

When I was about 10, I was at the gas station with my mom and brother. They had both gone in to pay and my mom told me to stay in the car. I ended up getting out and locking the keys and everything in it. We had no spare key, and the gas station attendant was furious because we were going to have to walk home and block off half of his pumps. I was in one of those "artsy" phases and was in a black long sleeve turtleneck, black pants, and black boots. We had to walk back to the house (5min by car, 45 by foot), my brother had to break a window to get into the house, and my mom then had to take a bike back to the gas station.

Oh yea, I didn't mention it was summer and about 100 degrees outside. My mom had to spend $20 on water for us (which was a lot then to a newly single parent). Since then, I have never gotten gas without having my window down.

 

[Nicole01]

The biggest regret ever was marrying my ex husband. He is such a jerk that he shut his lovely daughter out of his life and refuses to let her talk with her siblings. Just because he is jealous of me and my well lived life. Marrying him was the dumbest thing ever!

 

[Jane Jill Jack]

Leaving gum in my pants, and handing them to my mom to wash them in the laundry machine. Everything got sticky.

 

[SunnyDawn]

This thread is a hoot!

Really dumb things I've done? Wow, way too many to list them all and... yea... one I could get in huge legal trouble over, that happened when I was 16, so I'll skip that story.
But when I was 7 I tried to climb up the laundry chute and although I was a great climber (climbed up the walls of the staircase all the time instead of using the stairs like normal people), the 2 and 1/2 stories, straight up, proved too much for me. I only made it 3/4 of the way before my little arms gave out on me. I started crying and calling for my Mom and she went crazy combing the whole house trying to find me with my Aunt in tow (we had relatives visiting from out of town). I heard her passing in the hall just above the place where I was stuck so I cried out again and she responded with "On my God! She's stuck in the wall!".

Another time (I was 17 and it was the 70's, you fill in the blanks) I decided it was too much work to climb back down a steep hill that a friend and I had climbed up an hour earlier so I decided I would just sit down and slide all the way down. Well it seemed perfectly logical to me at the time! Well I couldn't avoid the super sharp rock that I sped over (at an alarming speed), which sliced my buttocks wide open, which bled like a son-of-a-gun and which I refused to go to the hospital for because I was too embarrassed. My Uncle and my friend spent an hour picking debris out of the cut which got horribly infected. That would have been bad enough but I refused to tell anyone about what happened so when my other friends wanted to know why I was walking so funny and I refused to tell them one of the guys decided to force me to fess up to the location of my obvious injury by slapping me on the tush as hard as he could! I've had two kids and would rather go through labor any day!!!

You'd think I would have learned but I repeated the "I'm not going to the hospital" routine when I smashed a finger in a truck door and it swelled up so big that it was as smooth and shiney as a cue ball. When I passed out 10 days later from the pain (right after trying the hot paper clip trick) they carried me to the hospital where the Doctor informed me that I had blood poisoning running up my left arm and that I was a few short hours away from never being able to make a stupid decision again.

OK, there are lot's more but three stories are enough humiliation for now.

 

[epignosisjs]

Thanks for sharing! (Just wondering, how early did your mom start turning gray? Lol)

 

[SunnyDawn]

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That's just one of the many things she blames me for! Gray hair.

My oldest daughter is just as bad as I was and my Mom is forever saying that she is my payback for all the grief I gave her.

 

[epignosisjs]

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That's just one of the many things she blames me for! Gray hair.

My oldest daughter is just as bad as I was and my Mom is forever saying that she is my payback for all the grief I gave her.

My mom once told my oldest "They say you don't pay for your upbringing until you have kids of your own. Your momma never put me through the heck you've caused her!"
I love Mom, rest her soul. I guess I was just better at getting away with it than I thought! Or maybe she was just more tolerant in her younger years, lol.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Probably a little of both. Our memories are often kinder after some time has passed.
I laugh about my daughter's shenanigans now but it wasn't so funny back then.

I'm sure my Mom wasn't laughing at the time either.
To give you an idea of what I went through with my oldest (the other 3 were downright calm), one time I couldn't get ahold of her and had left several messages for her to call me as I was starting to get worried! I was used to her ignoring my calls for a week or two but after 3+ weeks I was frantic! I left her a message saying that if she didn't call in 24 hours I was going to call the police and report her as a missing person! She called the next morning saying "Mom I was trying to wait to call you until I got back cause I knew you wouldn't be happy about where I was", "Where are you?", I asked. "We are getting ready to leave port now" she replied. It took more questions to find out that she and a friend decided to sail around the world in a 28' boat by themselves but decided to come back when the seas got too rough as they were headed to Australia!

She's calmer these days but that's only because she now has 1 of her own that she needs to stick around for.

 

[epignosisjs]

Wow! My oldest is almost 30, now, but she pulled a stunt when she was 14. She was spending the night with her bff, also 14. The next morning at 6am we got a call from the parents, the girls were gone, along with their older daughter's car. The boyfriend of the other girl was 15 and a habitual runaway (he was living at a children's home for runaways). The 3 of them left from central Florida and headed north. They ditched the car in South Carolina the next day. Five days went by before we heard from them. They had been traveling along on the Phish tour. They were in Maryland! And ready to come home.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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OMG she started young! LOL My daughter waited til she was an adult anyway. Sounds like she was heavily influenced by the other kids in that group for sure! But hey, when they learn a valuable lesson and they come back unharmed it's all for the best.

I bet she laughs about it now!