When I was younger and stupid.......The Confession Thread.

I hung out with these kids that thought it was a great idea to ask my 33 year old neighbor to buy alcohol for us so we could drink. I guess I should mention that he was the pastor's son as well. While I never thought my friends were brilliant, I realized at that moment how truly stupid they were. No party time for me!

I guess I should add I was about 14 at the time.

 

I decided to jump the ropes once at Keystone so that I could get some freshies. Yea, there was a reason that part of the slope was roped off, it ended up going in the opposite direction. I had to crawl on my hands and knees to get back to the groomers. My friends were about to call ski patrol, that would've been a huge bill.

Another time me and some friends got high on a hike and got completely lost. Lesson learned, don't take short cuts while you're high. We ended up on some random road and we weren't sure if we were going in the right direction. Somehow we found the dam keepers house and he was there and drove us back to our car. Fucking lucky.

 

As an addendum to the story above, I remembered that when my dad confronted me about it, I thought it was about something else and started talking about liquor and he says, "I thought you wanted beer?" I quickly backpedaled and said yeah, that's it. I guess I wasn't so brilliant myself.

This wasn't something I did, but something that was done to me that was mortifying. When I was a sophomore in high school, our lockers were centrally located in one area of the school. They were the kind that had the narrow part on the bottom and then a rectangle box on the top, so two parts to it. One day I'm walking to my locker and I realize someone had written something on it. Sigh, okay, it said "funball, I want to suck your tits and lick your ass (okay, fine, it said puss! Okay! Fine! Gah!). I was mortified and quickly looked around figuring it was friends playing a nasty joke on me as there were kids everywhere. Nothing. Of course I had to get to class so I tried to cover it with a piece of paper until I could take care of it. He had started at the top part of the locker and then drew this arrow to continue on down to the narrow part.

I got to class and asked to leave (no way I was telling them why). After much scrubbing, I found out the best way to get permanent marker off your locker is to scribble more permanent marker over it, which kind of rewets it and you can wipe it right off.

I know what you're thinking. Funball: 1; Vandal: 0. Except the bastard did it to me for about the next two weeks. I could not find out who it was. Every time I left that one class I walked toward my locker with this trepidation of will it be there? AND IT WAS! I started leaving that class early, hoping to catch the little shit. Nope. He was like, super stealthy. It got to the point where I had the cleaning supplies in my locker and was able to take care of it right away. He must have got bored since I was prepared and finally stopped doing it.

To this day I don't know who it was. I like to think he was sorry he did it. Bastard.

 

Why do you want him to feel bad for honesty?

 

Gee, I never though of it that way. I was thinking more of the humiliation of everyone watching me walk to my locker every damn day and seeing the love notes. This changes everything.

 

When I was younger and stupid... I used to turn take the "privacy please" signs at hotels and turn them around so that they asked for room service. I "learned my lesson" when I got caught on video camera at a hotel my cousin was staying at, but because he looks similar to me, the security guard grabbed him instead. I ran off laughing. He was staying at the hotel. Apparently if they caught "him" again his family would have been kicked out. We were staying in Maui at the time, and beach hotels ain't cheap.

When I was younger and stupid... I... took my time, slowing down for cops who might have wanted to pull me over and ask if I was going over the speed limit. I wasn't certain they were for sure following me though. But I knew that, just to be safe, I was probably better off taking the nearest driveway/exit/whatever and hiding the truck where ever I could, getting out, and hiding behind a tree. You know, just in case they were going to get involved in a high-speed chase with a car they were more likely after; I didn't want to get in their way or anything.

 

When I was about three hours younger than I am now, I dropped my pizza on the ground at the airport in Prague and then just ate it anyway.

 

Re: Re: When I was younger and stupid.......The Confession Threa

Got arrested in Windsor on purpose after my buddy got arrested, didn't want him to go to jail alone.

Showed up to a DWI class hungover and didn't realize they would breathalyzer everyone at the door, few more days in the pokey for me.

Pretty much everything I did from 16 to 27 was stupid in one form or another, I still do dumb shit but it's getting less and less likely to put me in the can as I get older.

 

Somehow I avoided the judicial system my entire life up til a year ago when I got a texting ticket, while sitting at a light. I dont know if Im getting less passive in my old age or im just tired of rolling over for cops.

The frustrating thing was the fact I wasnt texting, I was actually pulling up an address on my gps. Because of this, I decided to stand my ground and go to court to fight it.


Long story short, I went before the judge and got "smart" per his words. All I asked was why a law with such a broad scope isnt enforced more often. Technically I wasnt texting, and I was at a light. I didnt endanger anyone's safety and I cant count the number of cops Ive seen on their phones, while driving.

Anyways, the DA said I was lucky I wasnt found in contempt. Fuck that noise, if me asking questions is "contempt", the system truly is broken.