Kids Will Do the Stupidest Things

@singout (980)
United States
September 10, 2008 9:13pm CST
Kids tend to think they are invincible and sometimes will do some stupid things that can put them in danger. What are some things you did as a child or teenager which, upon looking back, you thought was pretty stupid? As for me, at the age of about 11 or 12, my friend and I found an old shallow,steel tub that was designed for mixing cement on a construction site. This was our secret boat. We actually hauled it to a nearby local canal and got in it and floated down this deep waterway for about a mile. What made this so dangerous was the fact the water level came within one inch from the top edge of the tub. Obviously we couldn't move around much. Our parents never found out. But later, after thinking about it we wondered why we did such a stupid thing.
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• India
11 Sep 08
It is also happend to me when i was in that nearly same age I did same like you i and my brothers we went to near lake and we three of us have taken a thermocol sheets made into bundle and went into water but later we think what we did
@singout (980)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Thanks for the response nareshreddy68. I'm not sure what thermocol sheets are but I know you thought you were having fun as we did. But in retrospect it was dangerous. Sometimes I wonder how I ever made it to adulthood.
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@mentalward (14690)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Wow! If I had been your mother... Man! I can't really think of too many things I did that were really stupid or dangerous. I think the worst I did was to play 'fort' with my friends in an old, abandoned, CONDEMNED barn. It was very structurally unstable, but it was the coolest place to play! One of my friends did actually go through the floor in one spot, at least one foot did. We also used to play around a stream that ran near our houses. I did not know that, in some spots, a very fine sand covered the water, making it look like it was solid ground. Walking along it one day, I took a step and was immediately waist-deep in water! It scared me so bad!!! I never told my mother about it, though. We went to one of my friend's houses and I changed clothes, then snuck into my house and got into my own clothes. Maybe the dangerous things are more of a 'guy' thing, though. My youngest son, whom I am STILL shaking my head about today, went missing one day when he was about 7 years old. I was frantically searching for him for hours when I finally saw him coming out of a friend's house, wet from the waist down. I took him home and grilled him on why he was wet. He told me he got into a swimming pool of his friend's. His friend didn't have a swimming pool. When I finally got the truth out of him, I wanted to both mangle him and hug him at the same time. He had been playing in a small river underneath a bridge near our house. The only problem with that was that a boy from his school... the same age as my son... had drowned in that very spot only one week earlier! The current can be very fast in that spot and the rocks are slippery. He got the spanking of his life that day! Oh, and he NEVER went near that river again (at least, not to my knowledge ).
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Oh, I should add that I had warned him previously to this that he was never to go near that river. After hearing about the other boy who drowned, I didn't want my son anywhere NEAR that spot. THAT'S why he got the spanking.
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@singout (980)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Great story. I guess you could say it's generally a "GUY" thing. I never really thought about it from that angle before. As I said in another post, I don't know how I made it to adulthood. Somebody wrote in a post to me once that being scared is for the realm of children. Generally, I think it's the other way around; it's the lack of fear(especially among boys)that gets us in to trouble. My skin crawls everytime I see those videos of street skate-boarders who try to do stupid stunts and end up breaking limbs and jaws and skinning themselves down to the bone. Then I wonder, was I ever that stupid? Considering what I mentioned, I guess I was. I could have drowned; and it wasn't as if we had a life jacket to cling to either. I always love to read your responses as well as your discussions, mentalward, you write very well. Thanks for the response.
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