Stuff you did back in the day, that you shouldn't have done...

[DaubsNU1]

My parents shared a cabin on the Platte River here in Nebraska with my grandparents, aunt and uncle. We called it a cabin...Grandpa, Dad and Uncles built the "cabin" in the 1960's -- Two rooms:

• A community bedroom with four double beds, and hide-a-bed couch
• A kitchen/living room with a big table, and another hide-a-bed couch
• Did have a porch
• It all sat on cinder blocks stacked four high.
• Didn't have indoor plumbing until the mid 70's.
• Well water
• No windows...had shutters over screens.
• No AC, no heat, but we did have electricity...and in later years we actually got a land-phone line installed. 

 

Our Cabin was part of a private RV-like park next to the Platte River. Some home-made cabins, some trailers, some shacks. Rules were simple...no permanent residence (you cannot live there all year round). No ATV's. Fireworks were okay. 10 MPH speed limit on the rock road through the park. We fished the sandpit lake, put out set lines in the Platte and caught catfish, and rode our bikes on rock-roads. 

 

Grandpa was a auto maintenance may for "Ma Bell," his job was to drive around Nebraska to all the small Northwestern Bell garages and change oil, get the vehicles running right.It got dusty in the summers. Grandpa, Dad and Uncle would save used motor oil, storing in large 55 gallon drums at the Cabin.

 

Twice a year they would load an oil drum on a trailer, install a large drip pipe they custom built, and "oil the road, to keep dust down..." Worked well. We never thought anything about it.

 

The road ran was between the cabin (and our water well), and the Platte River(!). They did this for YEARS. Probably in to the 1990's. Eventually someone put a stop to the road oiling. As a kid we never thought anything about oiling the road. Crazy....

[A-Jay]

@DaubsNU1  Cool Story.

Sign of the times for sure.

My legal team called.

Since I was never read my rights,

I'll be recanting my previous statement

on the grounds that I am most likely incriminating myself, again. 

"Objection, Calls for speculation ! "

A-Jay

 

[J Francho]

I skateboarded last weekend. 

[TnRiver46]

@A-Jay, I never park near those things, I can visualize my keys down in there 

[Woody B]

Stuff I've done that I shouldn't have?   Why, what did you hear?  

 

When I was racing I had a motorhome I towed my race cars with.  When I first got it I emptied the sewage into storm drains a few times.   I decided that wasn't a good idea though.   

 

Oil on dusty dirt roads was common around here ~40 years ago.  I think the government actually done it.  I was dating a girl that lived on a dirt road.  I hated having my truck in the dust, but hated the oil too.  

[J Francho]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

@A-Jay, I never park near those things, I can visualize my keys down in there 

I am gripped with the same fear. I once dropped my keys through a storm grate. 

There's the Pennywise deal as well. 

[Tennessee Boy]

My dad was a heating and air man.  When I was a kid I aired up my footballs and basketballs with ozone destroying Freon.  That’s the gas they used in air conditioners before it was banned.

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, Tennessee Boy said:

My dad was a heating and air man.  When I was a kid I aired up my footballs and basketballs with ozone destroying Freon.  That’s the gas they used in air conditioners before it was banned.

I think that's what Tom Brady uses too ~

🤪

A-Jay

[12poundbass]

The statute of limitations is over so I guess I’m safe. 😂

 

There were plenty of dumb things I did as a kid. Thankfully I survived them all and I have no criminal record. I was probably 14 or 15 and my parents went away for the night and I decided it was a good idea to search for the keys to my stepmom’s keys to the Blazer. I found them and went for a joyride to my friends house about 5 miles away. A couple friends and I used to make Works bombs. Mailboxes and bird feeders are no match for a Works bomb. 
 

 

[padlin]

Things I’ll mention, oil down the storm drains, doing auto body with no masks, stripping my Dad’s snowblower for a go cart, stupid stuff.

 

Things I’ll not mention… many, embarrassing things.

[gim]

3 hours ago, J Francho said:

There's the Pennywise deal as well. 

[GaryH]

No comment whether out of embarrassment, fear or smart.. just a lot of what I’ve read sounds like a memory. 

[Bird]

We were MUCH more responsible and used extra virgin olive oil to treat the roads 😂

[RipzLipz]

@Woody B The RV story reminds me of the cousin Eddie scene in Christmas Vacation.

 

[PaulVE64]

 Got a bright yellow skateboard for my 12th Birthday and I took it to the top of a big hill with a newly paved road and down I went.

Near the bottom of the hill is where all the peagravel collected and that's where I learned what road rash was. 

[slonezp]

12 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

My dad was a heating and air man.  When I was a kid I aired up my footballs and basketballs with ozone destroying Freon.  That’s the gas they used in air conditioners before it was banned.

It's not banned. It's still available for a price.

[cheezyridr]

oh, the stories i could tell, about dumb stuff i've done...there are many.  if i told them all, most of you would not believe some of them.  in fact, i consider it proof of God that i survived them.  that said, i in no way claim that i deserved any of that grace. 

 

the one i will tell you without specifics, is the time i was lighting off fireworks on the 4th of july.  the very last firework i lit, blew over just before it went off.  it shot into a sea of bull reeds, and burned down miles of marshland. i'm not exaggerating.  it is to this day, more than 30 years later, the biggest fire i have ever seen. since then, i have only lit off a few small fireworks a couple times. even then i was extremely careful.  i'm still shamed and embarrassed by it. 

[JackstrawIII]

As a church kid in the 90s, we would fold the bulletins into paper airplanes, tape thumb tacks to the front, and throw them like darts into the walls. 
 

Shouldn’t have done that haha. 

[Captain Phil]

When we lived in South Florida, every house had a hole near the street with a water meter.  The meter reader would come by monthly to read your water use.  Being a hot rodder, I changed the oil in my cars often.  Disposing of the old oil was easy, just dump it down the meter hole!  Out of sight, out of mind.  One summer day we had 18 inches of rain in 24 hours.  All that oil floated to the top and killed a wide area of grass revealing my secret.  My neighbor, who was Jamaican, thought we struck oil!  😅

[volzfan59]

I've done so many stupid things I've lost count. Here's a one,

When a senior in high school (1978), I was heading out one of the school's exit doors at the back of the library. Saw the maintenance guys ladder leaning against an exterior wall, extending to the roof. A buddy and I took the ladder inside the library and left it. To this day I'm not sure how those guys got off the roof.

[Skunkmaster-k]

Me and the younger brother were throwing fireworks at each other and caught the empty lot on fire next to our house. We had a lot of splainin to do. 

[NavyToad]

@Skunkmaster-k Caught the front yard on fire - burned a good 30’X30’ patch. Somehow my Dad noticed. He didn’t think it was funny.

[Tackleholic]

In the 1940's my parents would give me a quarter to put in the collection plate in church.  I would drop the quarter in and take out a dime in change.  Don't believe I ever was caught.

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, volzfan59 said:

I've done so many stupid things I've lost count. Here's a one,

When a senior in high school (1978), I was heading out one of the school's exit doors at the back of the library. Saw the maintenance guys ladder leaning against an exterior wall, extending to the roof. A buddy and I took the ladder inside the library and left it. To this day I'm not sure how those guys got off the roof.

They are still up there 

[Captain Phil]

3 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

Me and the younger brother were throwing fireworks at each other and caught the empty lot on fire next to our house. We had a lot of splainin to do. 

 

We did that one too!  When the fire trucks showed up, we ran like Heck!