Post Advice: Things you've done that one should NEVER do!

[RetroLounge]

Give an example of something stupid you've done (and survived) that you now think one should never, ever, ever try for themselves.

me: Spend a weekend drinking 1 part clear liquid codeine mixed with 2 parts jack daniels.

SERIOUSLY! DON'T DO THIS!

RL

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Drink 151-proof rum mixed with cherry Kool-Aid.

You end up callin' Ralph on the big white phone -- for hours.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Lyric]

70. I drink Bacardi 151 with Diet Coke

No problems so far ;)

[China_cat]

81. put the 151 proof rum in the mincemeat pies.

[taterguy]

2. Ride a bike drunk while wearing a toga

And for God's sake don't use a crown of thorns as a bike helmet

[YankeyMCC]

29. Damn beat me to it nt

[Akoto]

3. Drop out of school.

Biggest regret of my young life! I allowed anxiety disorder (which was just forming at the time) to rule me, and ran away from the world for a while.

Fortunately, I've begun to catch up, having earned my diploma earlier this year (at 22). Still years behind where I should be, but I'm getting there. Certainly wouldn't advise anyone else to try it. ;)

[auntAgonist]

4. congratulations to you on earning your diploma!!

you ARE getting there. Well done!

Merry Christmas.

aA

[Akoto]

5. Thanks!

I think it's the one worthwhile thing I did this year. ;)

[RetroLounge]

7. Congrats on the Diploma!

Never too late. I dropped out of College and didn't go back for my degree until 10 years after high school.

:hi:

RL

[Akoto]

12. Thanks! My next goal is a college degree.

I haven't quite decided my focus, but since I'm moving to a university town in the next couple of months, it seems like a good opportunity to go for it.

For the time being, I'd be happy to just work. I've had some lingering health issues which have prevented me from doing so. It's difficult explaining to a potential employer why you're getting your first job at my age. :)

[rug]

6. Opening any post with the words Carrot Top in the headline.

See?

[RetroLounge]

8. Bastid...

:hi:

RL

[Perry Logan]

17. Other than "Carrot Top is Dead."

[ProfessorGAC]

136. Quit Teasing Us!

The Professor

[_testify_]

9. Shrooms, acid, the Allman Brothers, and the Beacon Theater's acoustics.

They were so damn loud that when the show was over I had a major freakout because my hearing was obliterated. Thought I was gonna be the first person to go deaf by recreational drugs.

[otherlander]

74. So you mean

just don't do all of them at the same time, right? :yoiks:

[_testify_]

75. That was my first mistake, yes.

My second mistake was trusting my emotional well-being to a bunch of drug-addled hipsters. :)

[MonkeyFunk]

10. Oh a few

visit Las Vegas in August.

Enter a roundabout in Australia without knowing what the hell you're doing.

Leave your rented car in gear in Australia while you go in a store to ask directions (I came out and a very cheerful man was leaning against the back of my car, preventing it from rolling into the street. I gave him a puzzled look and he explained "she decided to go on walkabout, mate!)

During a college pub crawl, start the day with bloody mary's, then switch to guinness.

[derby378]

72. We actually have a roundabout in Fort Worth, TX

I don't know what the hell we're doing with one of those, but it's right in front of the German restaurant where ginbarn and I got engaged back in January of 2000.

[fudge stripe cookays]

96. So THAT'S why you guys like that place so much!

I'd forgotten about that roundabout. There's one up here I have to go through to get to work HQ. People up here seem to handle them a little better.

[derby378]

104. That and the chocolate candy cake that Berndt serves up...

I never told you that on the night we got engaged at Edelweiss, we celebrated by doing the Chicken Dance together. What better place for it?

Man, I envy you and Allan having Russ Feingold as a Senator. How far away is Swiss Colony from your home?

[fudge stripe cookays]

108. I have NO idea!

Do you mean New Glarus? I think I heard there's lots of Swiss folk there.

We're between Milwaukee and Wauwatosa. But only for a couple more months. We're just renting. When we can find a place of our own then we'll be moving next fall.

:hi: derb and gin!

[JCMach1]

123. British and Europeans should be shot for Roundabouts

We have roudabouts from hell in the UAE... Absolute insane bullshite...

[lost-in-nj]

11. never

jump into a mountain lake (that no one knows you and your friends are at) drunk and with your glasses on.... yeah they got lost.
the lake had boulders in it and years later we talked about how fucking lucky we were that the only thing we lost was my glasses.....
and I am BLIND without them


:hi:

lost

[nadine_mn]

13. never break up a dog fight by getting in the middle

2 of our dogs were fighting (not play fighting but not "I am going to kill you" either - it was a dominance/pack order thing that they do). Stupidly, I reached in to grab a collar and got a huge bite in the arm. Our dogs are 80 lb labs. They were more bark than bite, and would have been fine if I left them alone.

[lizziegrace]

14. Dropped out of school to get married

:eyes:

I was so stupid...

[RetroLounge]

24. Not stupid, my friend.

just young...

:hug:

RL

[lizziegrace]

26. Okay

I've got stupid for you. ;-)

Leaving Memphis at 11:00pm to see a drum crops show. Sleeping in the car all night because there was no room at the gym (I kid you not...) with the windows closed in the hot July Louisiana heat. It was that or the mosquitoes. Then stuck around for a second show and drove all night to get home. I was hallucinating while driving on the Ponchartrain bridge due to lack of sleep. I'm amazed we didn't all die that night.

[RetroLounge]

27. Okay, you win...

stoopid.

:rofl:

RL

[lizziegrace]

28. yep

stoopid

In a Plymouth Volare coupe no less. I lived on the edge more than I thought...

[Maine-ah]

92. bwahhaahaa my first car was a Volare! Puke green too!

my brother had it's sister, the Dodge Dart. They were given to us by our Great Grandmother, and her sister, they were too old to drive at that point. Neither one (the cars, lol) had 30k on them.

[unsavedtrash]

15. never do a back flip off a two story deck.

Stupid and not safe.
Especially when you are only wearing a motorcycle helmet.
It draws attention from the neighbors.
Combining LSD and Quaalude's was probably a stupid thing to do too.

[Heidi]

16. Never turn your back on a bull

in order to re-load your camera.

This tip brought to you by a journalist who has the ugly scar (and the memory of a very painful tetanus shot) to prove that turning one's back on a bull is never a good idea.

[Perry Logan]

18. I failed to kill a witness.

[Heidi]

19. Ya know, Perry Logan,

I believe that about you. :P

[RainDog]

20. Take a dare

I climbed out on the ledge of a former monastery turned ski lodge window and walked (with my back to the bldg) from that window to another.

:freak: I STILL wonder why I did that. Can I plead youthful stupidity?

[SPKrazy]

21. I would recommend against taking

phenobarbital and drinking heavily on top of it, then smoking a lot of pot.

Unless you just don't want to remember what you do before you pass out somewhere...

I can also suggest that you don't go canoing in a fiberglass canoe when the river is at flood stage.

A fiberglass canoe is like cardboard to a fast moving current.

Lest you end up in the middle of your float watching your once canoe being neatly folded in half and sucked underneath a "strainer" which is a bunch of branches and limbs that have collected and the water is going down underneath them.

Just a couple of suggestions.

:hi:

[Bullwinkle925]

22. 2 stoopid things i've TRIED without much success . . .

1. Tried to ride my bicycle with my legs crossed at the calves. Not a good
idea.

2. Lay on a bed and toss a baseball above one's face. Also not a good idea.


Thankfully, these things were tried at a very tender age.

Series - really do not try this!!:blush:

[RetroLounge]

23. I believe I've done the baseball thing...

ouch.

:hi:

RL

[Phentex]

25. hitchhike...

I didn't seek out a ride, but I was cold and it was raining and waiting for the bus didn't seem like the thing to do that late at night. College kid.

Guy gave me a ride and really that's all he did, but STILL!

[laylah]

30. Ride into Telluride, during Bluegrass,

bare-breasted and drunk as a sailor(ette)on Quervo while sitting on the top of the back seat of a convertible. It was the closest I ever came to getting arrested in my life!

[fizzgig]

31. you did something like that?!!!/!?!/111!

i am shocked! SHOCKED i tell you

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

32. A punch bowl with alcohol mixed with acid, luudes, and whatever else anyone threw into it.

I was up/down fucked up for a week.

[hippywife]

102. I see you've been

to one of my ex-boyfriend's Halloween parties. :crazy:

[Guava Jelly]

33. Photographed my Ass.

And Butt bombed DU..
Seriously folks...Don't do this!! :dunce:

[XemaSab]

34. Date EvilJohn

:eyes:

[Taverner]

35. Took LSD, pot, coke, meth, shrooms and Vodka all in one night

What's funny is I don't remember that night, but the next morning I had no hangover.

People told me I was running around ripping my clothes off and laughing.

[TrogL]

56. This thread is useless without pics

[XemaSab]

114. At least you had fun...

better than "People in the ER said I was running around ripping my clothes off and laughing, so they had to tie me down so they could do the MRI," or "The police report says I was running around ripping my clothes off and laughing, and yeah, prison was a good opportunity to sober up." :P

[Adsos Letter]

36. Go to a Golden Earring/Jethro Tull concert in Munich...

and agree to try the brown "cocaine"...after sampling the sugarcube...

:scared:

[laylah]

37. Need to know more! =)

[Vanje]

38. Dont put a live milipede in your mouth.

Even if its done in the earnest pursuit of knowledge.
Dont do it, even for the sake of science, Dont.
You will not be able to produce saliva for a couple of hours. You'll taste that millepede for days.

[RetroLounge]

67. Good Advice

:puke:

RL

[madeline_con]

39. Storing spray paint in the same room as the gas water heater.

Seriously, the ONE freak accident that should never occur did. A can fell off the shelf (the lid had been lost, naturally) and ignited, setting the utility room on fire, burning off my eyelashes, an inch of my hair, and scorching my arm and eyebrows.

It's a good thing we had aloe growing in the yard and the fire dept. is not far away!

[skygazer]

40. Don't stay up for 2 days smoking freebase

and then take a hit off your asthma inhaler. :wow:

Actually, just staying up for 2 days smoking freebase is a bad idea, in retrospect....

[MrSlayer]

41. Drive head on into interstate traffic in a stolen car.

Never a good idea.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. In my hippie days

more than I can count, but probably the most dangerous was traveling from a commune in southern Oregon to southern California in a U-Haul van carrying a bunch of hippies, some goats, some hay, 2 pounds of home grown and 800 hits of orange sunshine in the back. We got stopped by the police just south of the border because someone at the state line between Oregon and California thought they smelled marijuana smoke coming out of the back of the truck. Somehow we managed to talk our way out of that, otherwise I'd probably still be sitting in jail cell somewhere.

[noamnety]

43. enlisting. n/t

[Redstone]

44. Ride the skid.

Redstone

[RetroLounge]

68. Are you talking about a chopper?

:shrug:

RL

[Redstone]

76. Yup. ESPECIALLY don't ride the skid with one foot with the other one hanging

out in anticipation of the damn thing landing when you think it will, because it doesn't always do that.

Redstone

[RetroLounge]

77. Good advice...

RL

[Gonzo Gardener]

45. Jump off of a 45' cliff...

into an ice cold Canadian lake in April. OUCH and B-b-burrrrrrrr!

[flvegan]

46. Go into GD and ask why Al Gore doesn't promote vegetarianism.

Whooo!

[RetroLounge]

50. Dude!

That's Nutz!

:hi:

RL

[Inchworm]

47. Never skooch under a bridge over the inter-coastal and party on the top of the support colum

It may be somewhat of a challenge getting TO the ultimate party spot, but chances are you are going to swim back.

:blush:

[kedrys]

48. Dance with the wicked cocaine for a year and a half

That was almost 25 years ago, but still. :scared:

[RiffRandell]

49. Oh god that's nothing to what I want (or don't) to say.

It doesn't involve animals, tho.

[DarkTirade]

51. Date my last ex... :P

[RetroLounge]

66. Dated my ex-wife a few times 4 years after the divorce

:wtf:

I have no idea what I was thinking...

RL

[DarkTirade]

69. Yeah, I made the mistake of getting back together with her a few times.

Almost got married to her too. Boy am I glad I dodged THAT bullet.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

52. Let your gas tank go below 1/4 of a tank in the winter...

I was on I-81 between Hagerstown, MD and Chambersburg, PA. It was about 7pm on a snowy January evening. It was bloody cold. I used an old plug-in cellphone to call the State Police. As I sat waiting for help to arrive, I realized that I could freeze to death there. The tow truck got there just as I was beginning to shiver.

[Hardrada]

53. Get on I-35 via an off ramp!

Drink and smoke weed and leave the party for a lengthy city stroll in only jockey shorts. (Never got busted though!)
Try to escape to Canada (from the Draft) by taxi.
O I could go on....

[TrogL]

54. Driving with open container of gasoline and a smoker in the taxi

I was driving taxi one night when a fellow driver ran out of gas and asked me to run him some over. The only thing I had to put in was an open bucket, which I put in the front seat. As I was pulling away, I was basically car-jacked by a bunch of people who insisted on being driven somewhere or they were going to cause havoc. I told them about the gasoline in the front seat but one of them lit up anyway. I didn't want to slam on the brakes but I got the cab stopped as quickly as possible, shut off the cab and ran like hell, yelling at them to get out of the cab before it blew up.

The smoker spent five minutes yelling at me for stopping. I told him repeatedly about the gasoline 2 feet away from his lit cigarette and he just didn't get it at all.

:wtf:

[SeattleGirl]

55. Drove while drunk.

That was many, many years ago, and I've never done it since, but I still thank my lucky stars that I didn't injure or kill someone. :scared:

[BlueIris]

57. What she posted.

And on that note—my GOD, woman, what were you thinking?

[SeattleGirl]

59. I WASN'T thinking!

I was in total drunk idiot mode.

But as I said, I've never, ever done that again!

[BlueIris]

58. After my car broke down on I-5 South in Oregon, I got in the truck of a nice man who stopped to

offer me a ride. Yes, I did. AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHH. To this day, I still don't know WHAT I was thinking.

[fudge stripe cookays]

100. I did that once.

I broke down in Elm Mott, Texas, just north of Waco, and needed to get back to a phone.

I knew it would be dark before I could walk the whole way, and I had a can of mace with me on my keychain, so I felt bulletproof.

Both of our luck could have been much different! :scared:

[KitchenWitch]

60. Smoked a dimebag of weed laced with PCP in one afternoon

[BlueIris]

62. Ouch.

Scary.

[KitchenWitch]

63. I seriously lost a few days to that episode.

Unfortunately, it was not enough to get me to stop at that point.

[RetroLounge]

65. Yeah, did that once...

Ended up naked on a boat with someone I shouldn't have been either naked or on a boat with...

yikes...

RL

[KitchenWitch]

91. Seriously I have a day and a half that I cannot account for at all

:yoiks:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

61. Accidentally microwave a slice of pizza with ranch dressing already on it.

:puke:

[RetroLounge]

64. WTF?

What the hell is ranch dressing doing on pizza?

You sick f*ck... :D

RL

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. I put it on when it was cold, damnit!

:P

[hippywife]

103. Thank you!

I never in my life heard of such a thing until I moved down here to Oklahoma. Ugh!! I chalk it up to pizza that tastes like shit. Only kind they serve in this state.

[no name no slogan]

71. Trust whitey

[bikebloke]

73. Continue dating someone who keeps asking, "Do you think I'm weird?"

The vibes were screaming RUN AWAY!!!!. But I was polite. Then she decided he flat was haunted. So she painted her floor with a mixture of bay rum, brown sugar and her own urine. The ghosts and I piled up at the door trying to get out.

[fudge stripe cookays]

97. Oh. My.

That would tend to make one a bit skittish, now wouldn't it?

[Red State Rebel]

135. Sorry, but I LOL'd at that visual....

[OneGrassRoot]

142. Me, too. LOL.........

I swear, I read through these threads and chuckle and then, out of the blue, one of the posts makes me nearly piss myself!!!


:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

78. Go into the Bering Sea

in late November on a small, unseaworthy ship

[RetroLounge]

79. Got it...

I'll remember that one...

:hi:

RL

[Turbineguy]

80. Turbineguy....

"He taught me a lot that I later forgot."

[China_cat]

82. Piss off the guy who's throwing knives at you.

[zingaro]

83. Dance around the steps of the state capitol building at 2 am,

drunk and underage. Especially a bad thing when you had to drive half an hour just to get there.

Also, never drive through a drive-through in reverse. At 2 am, drunk and underage.

Perhaps the caveat was to be asleep by 2am if you were drunk, underage, and ME. Too bad I didn't know it then. :rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

84. Post all about my criminal and/or ne'er-do-well history on a public Web site read by thousands. n/t

[Pierre.Suave]

86. well, it involves some...

Gunpowder, Diesel fuel, a coffee can, and one very quick burning fuse..

LOL.

Just know this, do not put these items together and attempt to lite it...

[arbusto_baboso]

87. I once mixed vicodin and VERY strong Belgian beer while recovering from a vasectomy.

I spent the weekend on the couch believing that Mexican wrestling was the most fascinating thing in the world. I also tended to giggle at absolutely nothing.

DO NOT TRY THAT AT HOME!

[Generic Brad]

105. The vasectomy or the Mexican wrestling?

I am trying to figure out what I should not do at home. My money is on the vasectomy.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

88. As a kid I walked across a frozen river on the ice

A blizzard had passed through a few days before. Five of us, ages six to twelve, went down to the river to sled. The thick ice along the shore lured us. At the center, about 40 yards out, a shallow stream flowed from a narrow divide in the thin ice. We had to jump it to go on.

We told our mother all about it.

Ten years later.

Later, during a dry summer when the river was low, my brother and I walked halfway across and back. This despite knowing the placid surface hid strong undercurrents that claimed a life every couple years, usually some kid doing something dumb. We had dumb luck.

[Stoic]

89. I voted for Barry Commoner for President in 1980

Dumb, dumb, dumb. I have always voted for the Democrat after that.

Don't vote for third party candidates. Always vote Democratic.

[cloudbase]

90. Piss on the Alamo.

Ozzy Osbourne

[Mugu]

93. I once used my nose to determine

if my ozone generator was working. You notice that I said that I did it once, never again. I may be a slow learner, but not that slow.

Regards, Mugu

[qb]

94. Never set an aerosol can of butane near a lit candle in your basement shower room...

and shoot it with a BB gun. I came out of that one remarkable unscathed, but the shower room walls and basement rafters were a somewhat blackened.

[Maraya1969]

95. Never put oregano oil up your nose.

It burns like hell and doesn't help your sinuses.

[EnviroBat]

140. oregano oil burns anything you put it on.

never use it to prevent scars on a healing wound. Burns like hell.

[fudge stripe cookays]

98. Date this lying fucking prick...

[blue cat]

99. groveled

chased a guy that didn't want me.

[jpgray]

101. Drop a pat of butter into simmering balsamic vinegar from a great height

[ElizabethDC]

106. Drink grain alcohol.

I'm a college student, and at a party a few months ago, we had grain alcohol mixed with KoolAid (college students will drink anything). Well, I had two or three glasses, and didn't even get all that drunk. I also ate some pizza and drank some water and felt fine before I went to bed. But I woke up about 4 hours later feeling like I was going to die. I was shaking and everything was spinning and it took a while before I vomited. It was the worst hangover I've ever had, and not something I'd care to repeat.

[fortyfeetunder]

107. Milkshake followed by Everclear-infused fruit cocktail

I was in college when I did this...I was sick to the stomach.
I don't drink milkshakes much and definitely stay away from Everclear fruit cocktail....

[Madam Mossfern]

109. Take your four young children with you

for a "vacation" in England....in March no less!

Oh, and don't tell your boss that he's unethical-especially if he's a politician.
Not a good thing to do.

[MiniMandaRuth]

110. Drink 15 cups of coffee in one day

Then go to work.


Seriously, don't do it.

[LiberalEsto]

111. Give up your sanity for Lent

I did in 1971 and that's all I'm going to say about it.

[LeftyMom]

112. Marry my ex.

Seriously, that was beyond stupid. So that's my advice: don't marry crazy people.

[NewJeffCT]

128. good idea

maybe we can hook your ex up with mine...

[Rising Phoenix]

113. how bout this

bought pcp at a rave with counterfeit money and smoked in a parking lot then drove home dancing...literally.....am I kidding :shrug:

[DuaneBidoux]

115. As a college kid I stood up on roller coasters while drunk

Back in those days they didn't have all the restraints except for a bar loosely over your lap.

[chknltl]

116. I held the box of "special" munchies at a concert.

The year was 1970, the concert was Elton John. The cookies and brownies and etc and were all viscously loaded with hash...eventually everyone else was TOOOOO loaded to reach into the box for more...sadly that box was still on my lap. Funny thing about cannabis products is the inevitable cravings one gets when under the influence. Way too stoned to go seek safer munchies, I kept reaching into that box....and eventually discovered that there really is such a thing as over-dosing on THC! That poor guy sitting in front of me at that show is owed my sincerest apologies.

(On a positive note: I have never felt inclined to attend an Elton John concert since that day!)

[otherlander]

117. Take 4x more lithium than your doctor tells you to.

Seriously, don't do this.

[nomorenomore08]

118. Never...

1. Take half a Percocet (oxycodone + acetaminophen), then proceed to drink heavily. I puked my guts out after this one.

2. Drink 3 pints of Guinness, 3 Irish carbombs, and a few swigs of muscat, then give a friend a piggyback ride. This one cost me two teeth and about $5,000 in dental bills.

3. Hit a vaporizer continuously for 45 minutes while on two hits of primo acid. This one damn near cost me my sanity.

[krispos42]

119. When you weigh 285 pounds...

...don't wear the life vest rated for 165 pounds. If you wind up needing it, you're going to be in a shitload of trouble.

[TheMightyFavog]

120. Drink about 7/8 of a 1.5 liter bottle of Taylor Port wine in one sitting

Did it in college once. Oh, god. Never do this unless you like the idea of puking purple and passing out in a dorm bathroom.

[Adsos Letter]

121. Don't stay up half the night eating acid, drinking beer, and playing RISK...

expecting to be off the next day (Sunday) while stationed with an armored cavalry squadron assigned to a portion of the Czech border...especially when you begin tripping really hard...so you decide to go lie down on yer bunk...and about 10 minutes later the LT. slams open the door, flips on all the lights, and starts shouting that it's an alert, and you gotta' run up to the motor pool, get the jeep, load the radios, draw weapons, and "get back here asap!"...

And then you spend the next day or so sitting about 1 foot away from same LT...driving...monitoring and relaying fire commands on two radio nets...with both handsets bouncing up and down on spaghetti cord just within yer peripheral vision...and trying not to stare too long at any one spot...

...don't do that...

:scared:

[chknltl]

122. Hey Homie!

Turret Mech., First of the First Armored Cav. 72-73, Schwabach Germany :patriot:
Did my share of acid back then too....never had to soldior on while high though. I can not even imagine the nightmare you must have gone through!

[Adsos Letter]

125. Hey back at ya' homes...!

gun bunny on an M-109A1 and, later, FO/Driver; 3/2 ACR, Amberg (and Vilseck), 74-75. :patriot:

Yeah...I brought it on my stupid self...but it was just about the longest 24 hrs. I've ever experienced. Keeping it together next to that really strack lifer was a self-imposed nightmare. Fortunately, I had some sunglasses for when the day finally dawned, 'cause my pupils must have been the size of dinner plates...

The hardest part was trying to remember what I had just said, or if I had said what I thought I had just said, and keeping the two radio nets straight and fire missions straight; all those numbers and call signs (NO LIVE FIRE...THANK GOD...I would have had to come down with a sudden case of some kind of puking flu and get myself relieved had that been the case)...and those damn handsets...I had 'em looped over the tubular framework for the jeep canvas so that the hung down next to my head on those damned spaghetti cords, bouncing up and down like a couple of yo-yo's...and the LT (who was actually a pretty decent guy)had a somewhat natural facial resemblance to a rabbit (we used to call him "Thumper") which also complicated things... :D Fortunately, we were at Vilseck at the time, so all of our driving was on the tank trails to Graf. Still... :scared:

Funny thing was we had just come off of REFORGER a couple of days earlier and really didn't expect anything (the whole "alert" was just a drill). With all the wear and tear on the tracks, and just the overall wear and tear on the squadron after the REFORGER "adventure" we just figured it would be at least a month before we would be back in the field, but... :shrug:

ON EDIT: I see you are in Tacoma; I was stationed with the 9th Division at Ft. Lewis before my tour in Germany.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

124. Drink and drive

Especially, drink a LOT and drive. Steering with your nose is a bad idea, even without a suicide knob.



Really. Don't. Just... don't.

[Heidi]

126. Hell, I wouldn't do _that_ sober.

:scared:

One most frightening scenes in my life:
- Being a passenger in the car driven by my _very_ drunk ex-husband, who couldn't see a single thing wrong about attempting to drive all the away across Nebraska in a snowstorm. That told me how much he cared about me, for sure.

[NewJeffCT]

127. Marry my ex-wife

While we were married she refused to get anything more than a mediocre part-time job - yet did no housework while I was working a very demanding full-time job with a lot of hours. She also didn't even take care of her own dog - so, I was getting up at 4am to walk her dog, then would go into work around 5:30 or so and not get home until after 8pm at night many times. Of course, then I'd have to walk the dog again... then, I'd throw a load of clothes into the washer, and then put them in the dryer after I walked the dog the next morning.

Not to mention, she had no concept of living within a budget - even though she was pretty liberal politically, she lived by the Republican "borrow & spend" fiscal policy. If it was up to her, she'd go out to eat at an expensive restaurant 3-4 times per weeks.

So, don't do this.

[NewWaveChick1981]

129. Never mistakenly use toner for eye makeup remover.

:yoiks: :cry: I did this in a sleepy stupor one night before hitting the sack, and it was a real eye-opener. :P OMFG, it burned even though I had repeatedly flushed my eye with water immediately. My eye stayed red for two days. :(

Remember: keep your eye makeup remover in a totally separate location from your facial toner. :patriot:

[AllegroRondo]

130. Climb the Olympic ski jump at Lillehammer and piss off the top

the local dont take kindly to that type of behavior.

[RebelOne]

131. Don't jump out of planes.

I did it 6 times and decided to quit while I still had unbroken bones.

[datasuspect]

132. never advise DHS personnel of your constitutional rights at an international border crossing

while being detained pending confirmation of your identity and right to enter/remain in the US.

"right now you are a stateless person and we can detain you indefinitely" exact quote.

[meegbear]

133. Took speed and THC together on the first day of the 11th grade ...

I don't recall it, but I think I had fun.

[Wapsie B]

134. Drink Lime-aid and Vodka like it was water.

Feels funny to suddenly lose your ability to stand. Never did illegal drugs other than strong pot a few times.

[Z_I_Peevey]

137. Walk across a WPA-era stone dam in a windstorm.

Another thing you should never do: make a meal of stuffed jalepenos and White Russians.

[EnviroBat]

138. Never, I mean NEVER!

Screw around on the train tracks in a switching yard. I rounded the back of a string of stationary box cars and almost jumped in front of a moving train. It made no noise, and was wizzing by at about 40mph. I came inches from getting greased.

Really,,, fucking stupid...

[EnviroBat]

139. Oh, oh oh! I almost forgot this one.

Never lean over a running car engine with a box of Nerds candy in your pocket. The Nerds dumped into the fan blades and hit me in the face like buckshot. My friends laughed so hard, they had to be hospitalized...

[av8rdave]

141. Cut off a thumb (or any other digit). Really not a good idea, nor is it much fun

[SoxFan]

143. Run for Congress

At least not without giving it a LOT of thought.

Especially when Rahm Emanuel decides that you aren't his kind of guy...:grr:

[bluhoodie]

144. Broke into my old workplace on a Sat. after being fired

I guessed the new passcode (changed whenever anyone was let go), got in and walked around the offices (I was looking for a box of my stuff left behind). It was VERY creepy to be there. I thought I heard someone in an office down the hall. After I got out, I even talked to a new tenant moving into offices down the hall. How stupid was THAT?! - to create a witness when that was the last thing I needed! - Worked out okay though. It's not like I took anything; I just looked around. To this day (that was 13 yrs. ago) I still wonder what I would have said if anyone had discovered me there! Something nanchalant and innocuous, I always assumed.
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