After being recently asked this question, I found I had to narrow it down to the top ten. Here’s one-
One day after riding bikes with a friend through the neighborhood, we stopped to check his mail (I was in middle school so this dates me).
Inside, we found a free sample of a new product- Keebler Soft Batch cookies. Of course we tried them and found them to be delicious. Then we an “AHA!” moment- If my friend got a free sample, then so did everybody in the neighborhood!
We raced through the neighborhood taking free samples out of everyone’s mailboxes and stuffing them into our backpacks. Then we went to soccer practice after eating them all and promptly puked an entire neighborhood’s worth of cookies everywhere making our coach wonder if we had been drinking or something.
I think the statute of limitations applies here even for the federal crime of tampering with mail so I think I’m safe. I hope.
i used to think chewing on wooden match sticks was cool. i think i saw it on teevee or something.
i would sometimes light them against a wall or something.
on day, i did that and it burnt my finger, so i instinctively threw it out of my hand…
onto a girl’s hair…
thank god i smacked it out really fast, and only had to deal with her wondering why i hit her in the head and walked away fast…
In 3rd grade we used to dare each other to pee on the electrical outlet in the boys bathroom. It would smolder and smoke, and sometimes, if we were lucky, it would actually spark.
I used to ride the bus to school, sneak out the back, walk home, wait till my parents left for work before coming out of the woods and spend all day watching t.v. and smoking their Winstons.
was struck on the backside 47 times by school employees during my 7th grade year ...
5 of those were awarded for
my friend and I started a rumor that a walkout was going to occur at lunchtime ... this was during some racial tensions in the town, so walkouts occasionally happened, but they were usually organized and schools were aware when they would occur ... not this time ... as my friend and I sat in the grass field after lunch half the school walked in our direction and left ... it took minutes for school officials to trace it back to me and my partner in crime ...
My friends and I would throw rocks at alligators in a canal. We would jump from a rope swing in to the same canal after we figured we had ‘scared’ them away. Had a couple close calls for sure.
I used to ride the bus to school, sneak out the back, walk home, wait till my parents left for work before coming out of the woods and spend all day watching t.v. and smoking their Winstons.
I used to ride the bus to school, sneak out the back, walk home, wait till my parents left for work before coming out of the woods and spend all day watching t.v. and smoking their Winstons.
I lived on a street that became one-way twice a day for commuters. We would jump in front of commuters just to hear their tires screech. Obviously, this was before you got extra points for hitting a kid.
Once when I was staying up past 10pm to watch TV, I told my parents I was watching “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” but I really turned the large dial over to watch the racier, “Love, American Style” instead.
I was watching an episode of “I Spy ” the old one..I was practicing my Karate pretending to be Robert Kulp..I kicked the wall and made a big hole..my foot hurt for a long time…to this day I will not do a Karate pose unless provoked..
