Things that weren't such a good idea, in retrospect:

[LaraMN]

Dyeing my hair black
Putting tanning oil on my pasty white legs and sunning myself for hours.
Being "amorous" with the driver, in a moving vehicle.
Buying a Gin Blossoms CD
Maternity overalls.

Your wisdom?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Adding jello to the pool water.

Didn't work out the way I thought it would. :evilgrin:

[LaraMN]

2. And you can clean up the ants, too!

:spank:

[GirlinContempt]

3. Trying to see if my eyebrow hair was long enough to cut with scissors

(it was. Just not long enough to not show)

Spending a day answering everything with 'balls'. I've still never been fired, but hoo boy.

That last dorito.

[LaraMN]

4. No! You can't mess with your eyebrows!

I became sadistically overzealous with my plucking, during my first pregnancy. Now I look at pictures from then and think "what the HELL was I thinking?!"

[GirlinContempt]

6. I was in the 4th grade.

math class.

My division skills got a boost.

[Mutley]

5. The Italian cold cut I had for lunch.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Accepting a job here

and moving.

x(

[swimboy]

8. My best friend Peter said, "I'm Captain America, throw rocks at me."

My brother and I did. Bleeding from the head and crying for fear I had killed my best friend ensued. Punishment (along with much rolling of eyes and shaking of head) from our mothers.

Still stands as one of the stupidest things to say, ever. Ask my brother, he'll agree.

:loveya:

[ulysses]

9. that

is funny as hell. :D

[Taverner]

10. Throwing that lithium battery into the public swimming pool

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. How could that do anything?

[malta blue]

11. so many things

Worst, climbing the chapel at Carleton College and proclaiming myself ruler of all I purveyed, and yes, there were drugs involved...

:wtf:

[otherlander]

12. Making a windmill-powered fan.

It doesn't do anything. :cry:

[ZombieNixon]

13. Chugging a coffee mug full of straight vodka in five seconds flat.

:hangover:

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Dumb, dumb, dumb

Age 6: Trying to drop from a chin up bar upside down believing I, too, could land like a cat, and landed flat on my back. (knocked self out for a minute or two...bad headache and backache...never told anyone because was afraid would be yelled at for being stupid...my parents were like that)

Age 15: One night holding face about 2-3 inches away from a sun lamp for three minutes thinking I would get a fast and great tan on my face. Woke up next morning with face so blistered that in my groggy morning state of mind, paused at the mirror and thought I had just slept wrong, absently tried to push skin back into shape, went pee, and then HORROR! Looked in mirror again and saw I had skin that was bubbles of blisters. Mom made me go to school. I used vaseline on my skin all day, went to my usual 2-hour ballet class after school, and thanks to the vaseline and sweating through dance, I had a new and very pink skin layer exposed on my face...all the blistered skin had sloughed off.

Getting married for the wrong reasons. No explanations here...just suffice it to say have lived and learned.

Using a screwdriver to pry the plastic disk off the foot of a table leg. Screwdriver slipped and stabbed self in hand almost all the way through.

Years later, used a sharp knife to remove the pit form an avocado. Knife slipped, stabbed self in hand.

Apparently, it took two times of stabbing self in hand to learn what tools not to use, and if using those tools, their appropriate usage. :banghead:

[txwhitedove]

39. Hence, the Whoa_Nelly!! Be careful, be safe.

:rofl:

[Whoa_Nelly]

42. Hardy Har Har LOL

Received a ha ha funny email the other day, and one line really stood out for me...

If you're always cutting yourself while slicing up the veggies, have a friend hold them so you can just chop away!


Yup...no longer allowed to use sharp instruments any more...am back to cutting things with Kindergarten scissors... :silly:

[miss_american_pie]

15. Truth or dare

You think I'd have learned the first time. ;)

Jeans that required pliers to zipper.

Goldschlager.

And your first three. :hi:

[ThomCat]

24. Truth or Dare was always boring.

There was no truth I wouldn't tell, and no dare I wouldn't do. The people I played with were too boring and concervative.

[miss_american_pie]

46. Well if I hadn't sworn it off

I would take that as a challenge. ;)

I had lots of secrets and friends who were always trying to get me to drink things that would make me vomit.

[Generic Brad]

16. Cutting my own hair

When you have little money, you try to cut corners. Apparently I missed a few of them on my head because it did not turn out as I planned.

[bigwillq]

19. I cut my own hair all the time.

I shave my head though using clippers with no attachment. If I mess up, it'll just grow back.
I started doing this years ago. It's much cheaper.

:hi:

BTW, Congrats on 400 posts! :toast:

[Generic Brad]

26. I can't pull off a shaved head

I have a naturally bumpy head like Linus in "Peanuts".

And thanks for the congrats. I always thought the recognition for 400 posts would first come from newyawker99. I never expected it to come from bigwillq.

[bigwillq]

33. Yeah some can't do a shaved head

nothing wrong with that.
I'm lucky that I can b/c I hate "doing" my hair and I hate going to the barber.

[Deja Q]

17. 'Being "amorous" with the driver, in a moving vehicle.'

Now you made me think of a lot of nice things! :cry:

[Catch22Dem]

20. How DARE you?

The Gin Blossoms rock! :evilgrin: In all truthfulness, I do kinda dig them. Always did.

[mduffy31]

21. Depends...

Which Gin Blossoms CD?

[last_texas_dem]

35. Yeah, cause if it's the first one...

I say any CD with "Hey Jealousy", "Found Out About You", and "Until I Fall Away", is definitely above average. Just IMHO, of course... I've heard the second one, and it's not on the same level, but nothing to put on an all-time regrets list!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. Hmm...

The first two times I did mushrooms (obviously, I didn't learn my lesson ever)
Trying to cut that "wooden" lime
Being "amorous" with the driver, in a moving vehicle
Dating a boss
Cocaine while getting tattooed

Oddly enough, aside from the lime, nothing harmful really came out of any of those things.

[yvr girl]

23. Sitting behind the lilac bush, cutting my hair with manicure scissors

when I was a kid.

Cookies made out of Nestle Strawberry Quick.

I made the baby oil mistake too.

Just climbing a little higher to get a better view of the lake - I ended up stuck on top of a mountain, and I had to get rescued, as I couldn't get down.

Todd

Jodhpurs

[RetroLounge]

25. Jodhpurs

:rofl:

RL

[yvr girl]

31. I was young

I'm sure you made your share of fashion blunders as a young teen.

[swimboy]

44. RL???

Oh, yeah. He sure did. :rofl:

(We were victims of the times.)

[skygazer]

27. Taking acid before a plane ride

THAT was a mistake.

That bottle of Jagermeister. Ohhhhh..... :puke:

My second husband....

[sendero]

28. Number 3 ....

... might have seemed a bad idea from your standpoint, but I'm sure the driver feels otherwise.

And personally, I think maternity overalls are a reasonable solution to a temporary but difficult problem :)

[reyd reid reed]

29. Leg warmers

Striped maternity dresses
Poodle hair
Going to a tanning booth in an effort to eliminate tan lines (would've been okay, 'cept the timer on the booth was broken)
Generally anything having to do with alcohol...

[RetroLounge]

30. Things that weren't such a good idea

Buying those 2 1958 Oldsmobiles.
Buying that 1969 Camaro without the engine.
Getting my brother's air rifle for an aquaintance, who proceeded to shoot the windows out of some girl's house.
Beth.
Southern Comfort, Gin, Vodka, Tequila, etc.
Voting independent in 1980.
Throwing a punch at my 6'2" 200 pound younger brother when I was 5'9" and 120 lbs. Ouch.
The blond who said she was 19 (I was 23) and left me with crabs.
First time taking Mushrooms and a dance floor with strobe lights. It got ugly.
Jennifer.
Being the driver while passenger was "amorous" with the driver, in a moving vehicle with the top down (1969 Skylark).
Judy.
Playing chicken in the backyard with Jarts.
That perm I got when I was 19. The one existing photo will NEVER see the light of day.
Cocaine. Codeine. Valium. Quaaludes. etc.
Speed.
Oh, and riding my bicycle with no hands wearing only a pair of cut-offs on a gravel road at high speed. Dumb.

RL

[Radio_Lady]

34. Oh, RetroLounge! You have quite a list -- let me try and top it. RL

I'll try to do this in some kind of chronological order.

Being the wrong egg from Mom's ovary that met Dad's sperm. Both contained genes for depression, I'm afraid.
Not ever having a brother or sister to be close to -- I feel this was my fault because I was a "difficult" child.
Having a rather large skull with two bumps on either side and a very flat middle. I'm glad I'm not bald (yet).
Throwing a tantrum at Zecher's Department Store in Pittsburgh, PA, an escapade my parents talked about all the time as I grew up.
Walking right into the ocean in my yellow pinafore dress the first time I saw a Florida beach. A man saved me from drowning. My parents might have been busy or arguing at the time.
Hardly ever getting the check mark in "self control" in my elementary school report cards.
Falling in love with Margaret Johnson, my science teacher, who had two little boys she called "bratlings" and a drunken husband. I wanted her to be my mother.
Falling in love with Ernest Montgomery, my drama teacher, who was a gay man but who taught me that I was talented and a good performer. I copied his handwriting. He committed suicide in my senior year of high school.
Lying to my parents about where I went and with whom from about 14 years old until I was well into my thirties.
Falling in love with a married man and trying my best to get him to leave his wife and marry me. It never happened.
Marrying too young at 19 years of age to husband #1. I've apologized to him for getting pregnant and having a stillborn baby.
Letting my mother keep my 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air rather than keeping it when I went to Los Angeles.
Marrying just the image of husband #2 without considering he was another only child with deep developmental problems (my viewpoint, not his)
Giving "sexual favors" to my libidinous father when I desperately needed money to feed my children. I never forgave him for that.
Realizing that my mother would never believe me that the above incident even happened -- and that was after he died.
Taking on the family of widower with three children who had lost their mother at critical ages and who I believe are emotionally crippled even today.
Not doing more drugs than I have. Aside from very little Mary Jane, some Miltown, and prescribed antidepressants, I haven't done much in the altered reality department. I hate to be out of control. RL, you beat me by a mile.
As far as the bicycle thing, I rode my bike from six years old through 16 years old. I did it in bathing suits with no helmet and no protection of any kind for feet, ankles, elbows and head. I'm just lucky that I survived all of this.

Thanks for listening. I don't have to visit my psychoanalyst this week! Hooray!

[dolo amber]

32. Going down a big hill on my bike

Losing control, sticking my foot in the front wheel to stop myself... x(

Yeah, that's gotta make the top 10. :D

[begin_within]

36. NAFTA

[NNadir]

37. Not working harder for Al Gore in 2000.

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. I have a few:

Cutting my own hair. (It's been a long time since I did this, but I remember the stupidity...)

Also getting amorous with the driver in a moving vehicle. It took forever to untangle my hair. :P

Putting chewing gum in my sister's hair when I was 5 and she was 3.

Edited to add: hey....all of those have to do with my hair... :shrug:

[tuvor]

40. Forcing a fart.

That's the kind of thing you do only once in life--unsuccessfully.

Okay. Only twice.

[MrScorpio]

41. Not moving to Atlanta

[RFKHumphreyObama]

43. Three immediate things come to mind

Being ambivalent toward George W Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and not encouraging my American friends to go and vote for Gore
Believing so much of the MSM's garbage and puerile crap that it spewed about Al Gore and his "fabrications" and how much of a "compassionate conservative" GWB was during the 2000 US presidential election. Thank goodness I was not able to vote in that election
Lost touch with so many good friends

[querelle]

45. Lemon Gin

Need I say more?

Q

[cobalt1999]

47. my top three

1) Taking that "shortcut" through the swamp along unmarked trails with no map or compass.
2) Punching that 6'3" 250lb plus guy during a particularly emotional football game.
3) The "2 sisters" incident.

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Sideburns, polyester jump suits, professional sports, afros, bell bottoms,

loud print clothing, loud print clothing made from polyester, in fact let's just say polyester period, disposable diapers, disposable pens, disposable razors, straws, disposable lighters, disposable fast food containers, disposable cups, disposable silverware, disposable plates, well let's just say dispoable anything (except toilet paper and tampons and medical supplies) period, meals-in-a-box or any other kind of non-natural foodstuffs filled with chemicals and shit that just make America fat and unhealthy and ignorant, French's Mustard, industrial non-artisanal cheese making, pop music, the invention of TV, hairspray and other crap that we don't need and only serves to pollute the world because we're fucking vainglorious selfish assholes, electric hair curlers, big hair, ugly bridesmaid dresses, and the concept that a wedding day is the bride's "special happiest day of her life".

Fuck that - if she wants her wedding day to be the happiest day of her life, then she can go fuck herself, because she's clearly gonna spend the rest of her life living in the past like a selfish godbitch bridezilla diva *#@(&%#(&$.