Bet you had friends like this when you were younger
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Lol. I’m young so never got to do much fun or crazy stuff haha. I did take my friends around the school parking lot in the back of my pickup truck and the principal came out side absolutely furious. I talked myself out of that one by using the excuse “boys will be boys” and I promise it won’t happen again. She thought about it for a minute and said ok this is your one and only warning. She didn’t make it out till we had all gotten out of the truck. When she asked who was driving all my friends ratted me out even though it was their idea lol. I’m just glad I talked my way out of it. Had my parents found out I probably would have been grounded for life lol. Never once did I get sent to the office though lol or get detention or anything else. Sometimes I did stupid stuff that I shouldn’t have gotten away with but I did lol. Nothing stupider than the truck ride haha.
I was a passenger in my cousin's Rambler whenever some kid jumped on the trunk so my cousin forward it and the kid fell off and landed on the back of his head and knocked him out cold, we stopped and went back and looked at him and didn't know whether he was dead or not for about a half a minute until he came around. But for that half a minute my cousin was wondering where the not he'd killed somebody. We were all high school age kids.
Most of the time nothing good happens after the expression "Watch This" is said.
I grew up in the 80's and 90's. We did a lot of dumb stuff. Had lots of fun. Still have some scars and some of the friends from back then too! I was just telling my kids the other day about how we stayed outside all day riding our bikes all over town with our friends. I don't tell them about all the trouble we got into back then. Times have certainly changed.
1989.
1982 volvo station wagon.
Burly surfboard racks on top
Passed out humans strapped to roof racks.
Dirt parking lot.
Donuts, powerslides, reverse J turns.
Lather rinse repeat. Laughing too loud to hear the screaming.
The burnt clutch was so worth it.
Good times.
1982 volvo station wagon.
Burly surfboard racks on top
Passed out humans strapped to roof racks.
Dirt parking lot.
Donuts, powerslides, reverse J turns.
Lather rinse repeat. Laughing too loud to hear the screaming.
The burnt clutch was so worth it.
Good times.
Oh man, some of the stuff we used to do.
In the wintertime(at night), we'd bumper ride on the backs of cars that passing by our house on our street.
We'd hide behind a snowbank and run out behind the car/truck and grab their steel bumper and take it as long as we could.
In the 60s, the snow would be so high that we could climb up the banks to the tops of the roof at our local grammar school(1 story high) and leap off the rood into the snow below. We'd land in the snow up to our chest.
In the wintertime(at night), we'd bumper ride on the backs of cars that passing by our house on our street.
We'd hide behind a snowbank and run out behind the car/truck and grab their steel bumper and take it as long as we could.
In the 60s, the snow would be so high that we could climb up the banks to the tops of the roof at our local grammar school(1 story high) and leap off the rood into the snow below. We'd land in the snow up to our chest.
Remember being a teenager in the middle late 80s and early 90s. When it used to snow a good amount in the small rural town I grew up in. We would hold on to a car or trucks bumper and have them pull us around a good bit. Sooo much fun as a kid --- would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Our analogous play was done on water....the mighty Hackensack.
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Pulling toboggans behind snowmobiles....fast. Wonder we lived.
Goodness! Thank you Gon. You just initiated a plethora of memories for this 67 year old child-at-heart. Problem is, I still do shenanigans like your photo.* To date, no broken bones and haven't been arrested..........yet.
* This past winter, on a ice packed workplace driveway, I used our backpack Stihl leaf blower to spin me around like helicopter blades (video exists somewhere).
* This past winter, on a ice packed workplace driveway, I used our backpack Stihl leaf blower to spin me around like helicopter blades (video exists somewhere).
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My buddy had an 80’s fox body mustang that we used to pull a GT snow racer around with. It’s a wonder I’m here typing on this keyboard!
I always tell my wife if our boy’s thought about half the
I did she’d never let them out of her sight. They are 22 & 20 now so hopefully we can relax some.
Just my $0.02
I always tell my wife if our boy’s thought about half the
I did she’d never let them out of her sight. They are 22 & 20 now so hopefully we can relax some. Just my $0.02
I was the typical dare-devil when I was a kid, and some of the stuff I did amazes me today. Heck I’m surprised I wasn’t killed a few times.
In the 1960s, I have a VW powered dune buggy. We would get an old car hood and tie it on at the end of a long rope, 100 feet or so and tie that to the DB. Perferably one of the old 1950s style hoods that when turned upside down looked like the prow of a ship. I would drive the DB all over the sand pits and clay pits and the other kids would ride on the car hood. It was always great fun to get going fast and drive towards a big water filled mud hole in the clay pit. I would swerve around it at the last second but I would WHIP the car hood and the others right through the middle of the mud hole at tremendous speed. Sort of like when a boat swerves and whips a water skier to the outside of the circle and their speed is probably twice the speed of the boat. They all came out the other side covered with water and that sticky red mud! We only did it a few times though, because even at that age we realized how easy it would be to get hurt. Besides all of the other kids soon got tired of getting red mud bathes and nobody trusted me to drive any longer.
How true that statement is; a whistleblower said that’s what Obama whispered to Big Mike while walking up to his inauguration!
I was riding in someone else's car in HS and we were driving though the HS parking lot at low speed when one our other buddies stepped out in front of him facing the car and holding his arms out to his side. The driver stopped right in front of him and the other one just flopped down on the hood and grabbed the cowling in front of the windshield and laid there. The driver took off suddenly and you could see a panicked look instantly appear on the passenger's face. The driver only went a few feet and then slammed hard on the brakes. The passenger went flying off the hood and skipped across the pavement like a stone skipping across a pond! There was no permanent damage done but he had several missing patches of skin! They funny thing is that our parents just never asked even though at least one of us would come back nearly everyday with our hair singed or a fresh set of burns or bruises or missing some missing hide.
Short version; I'm hear to tell you that is NOT like in the movies where you can just lay of the top of a car or or on the hood and hold while the driver drives wildly all over the road! Nope, that's NOT the way that it works!
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