Dumbest thing you did upon becoming an adult at 18 or 21 ?

[steve2470]

That you can talk about publicly ? lol

I helped a guy get really drunk at my frat house (yea yea I know sigh). Thank god he survived his own (and our) stupidity.

Paul K., if you're reading, sorry dude !

[NYC_SKP]

1. It involved some rope, a tub of Crisco, and a 66 Malibu.

And that's all I'm sayin'

[steve2470]

2. ha ! nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. OMG!!!!!! You!?!?!?!?... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (call me)

[pinboy3niner]

4. You left out the tapir

[MiddleFingerMom]

22. Jerry?!?!?!? ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (call me call me call me)

[mysuzuki2]

5. I married Cathy.

[walkerbait41]

6. I got married

And to this day that's the dumbest thing I have ever done

[steve2470]

7. I can understand :) nt

[Turbineguy]

8. It was followed however by the smartest thing, or nearly so.

I was driving drunk and ran a red light. A policeman pulled me over.

Thinking quick, I told him I was trying to attract his attention. He told me I was successful. I then told him somebody in a white Ford tried to sell me heroin. He was off like a shot and I drove home without further incident.

It was a long time ago.

[steve2470]

11. I have to say, that's pretty ingenious nt

[HarveyDarkey]

9. Does that come right after joining the frat?

[steve2470]

12. shortly thereafter yes lol...I was 18, what can I say :/ nt

[lastlib]

10. Not fleeing to Paraguay and fighting extradition.....!

[valerief]

13. Married an asshole. nt

[mysuzuki2]

26. Cathy is that you?

[graywarrior]

14. Got shitfaced and got married

What a horror show.

[Xipe Totec]

15. Besides setting my moustache on fire with a Bic lighter? I... don't recall... nt

[steve2470]

16. ouch nt

[Throd]

17. Started smoking crack and snorting cocaine.

[olddots]

18. 4 of us in the band took belladonna

playing on Martha's Vineyard summer of 67 ----do not take belladonna !!!!!!!!

[steve2470]

19. really bad trip ? nt

[RebelOne]

20. Eloping to Georgia and getting married at 16 and having a baby when I was 18. n/t

[pipi_k]

21. Really

dumb...

got married to a guy I had only known five months so my son would have a dad.

He was a persistent liar (even when there was no reason to lie), had serious issues with his mom (ladies, if you want to know how a man will treat you, look at his relationship with his mom), and had a very bad temper.

Best thing that happened from that marriage was my daughter.

[antiquie]

24. !!!

You are telling my story.

[Dash87]

23. Cutting the red wire and not the blue one

[a la izquierda]

25. Started smoking cigarettes and dating abusive assholes...

instead of the guy who worshipped the ground I walked on.

I ended up marrying a wonderful human being, but I've struggled with my past quite a lot.

[benld74]

27. At 21, I took the Blue Pill and became blissfully ingnorant for 5 years,

until one night a long legged, short haired blonde gave me the Red Pill,,,,,,

Thank You Jane, wherever you may be!

[Still Blue in PDX]

28. Got engaged.

Married at 19.

Still married, but sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if I'd had a few adventures.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. Completely ruined my life, to the point that, I have never fully recovered.

[easttexaslefty]

30. Actually, younger.

Married at 17

[name not needed]

31. Got thrown off the train on my 21st birthday.

Apparently NJ Transit conductors don't appreciate it when you demand a free ride home on your birthday and follow it up by making fun of their hats.

[Arctic Dave]

32. Joined the military.

Did that at seventeen though.

Besides that, I tried to sell one of my shipmates to a guy in Oman for two chickens and a goat.

[steve2470]

33. did the guy in Oman take the chickens and goat ?

[Arctic Dave]

34. The deal was called off when he woke up.

Almost but no goat curry.

[shanti]

35. Got married

Bad decision, oh yeah.

[steve2470]

36. getting married or to the wrong person seems to be the front runner so far....

You all have my sympathy. I'm divorced too, but I waited till I was 31 the first time.

[struggle4progress]

37. I did most of my dumb stuff before I was old enough to vote

in a period of dissipated adolescence from which I recovered only gradually

[jmowreader]

38. Joining the Army instead of the Navy

I liked the Army, and it managed to plunk my skinny ass in Berlin so it'd be there the night the Wall came down. But the job would have been more interesting, and the Navy doesn't send ANYONE to Fort Hood, Texas.

[B Calm]

43. I joined the Navy in 1969. Vietnam War was raging

and I was about to be drafted. Traveled the world in 4 years and the French Rivera was much more safer than Vietnam.

[Locut0s]

39. The dumbest thing I've done is never doing any "dumb" shit at that age...

I put "dumb" in quotations here as I'm limiting what I regret not having done to the usual list of adolescent dumb shit, nothing truly stupid. Things might have been better for me had I had the courage to get out into the world as a younger guy.

[steve2470]

40. hmmm

I told my son the other day to get the really stupid stuff out of his system now before he's a legal adult. I hope he takes my advice. Really stupid stuff = misdemeanors level, no felonies please lol

[Locut0s]

41. Good advise so long as you/he is moderately careful...

I was raised by protective parents and had a life long history of problems with anxiety and depression. So I never really got "launched". Even now at 31 I live the life of a 16 year old in some respects though I'm trying my best to change that.

[steve2470]

42. best of luck to you

Start small with things. Easily recoverable stuff, if you will. I know, much easier said than done.

I think he will be fine. I've drilled legal/appropriate behavior into him for 17 years, but who knows, he might have a brain aneurysm. Meh. I've done all I can.