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This should be alot of fun if we are perfectly honest with each other!
Promise we wont judge you on what you did 50 plus years ago. ;) |
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Believe it or not, my friend and I used to ride the subway, from the Bronx, all over the city. We were about 7 at the time. Our parents would have killed us! I was one of the few who was calmer as a teen than I was in grammar school!
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That is very cool Linda,Thankyou for starting! Yes, I agree if our parents knew half the things we did then we might not be alive to tell about it today! LOL
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Climbed Rattlesnake Mountain in my bare feet when I was around 13 years old?? That's the mountain (really a high hill) that is two inches from the right near the top below the higher mountains around Reno, Nevada in this picture. http://nevadamax.com/page16/rm.html
It is the hill with the very small cliff face near the bottom. I was smart enough though to go around the cliff. |
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ouch Tal!
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My was a continual thing. I wanted to fly so very, very bad. I tried everything -- umbrella, balloons, sheet for a parachute, gliding cause I was just an itty bitty thang .... I jumped from trees, barn lofts, barn roofs, third floors, small overhangs. I broke a few bones and it was a small miracle I didn't kill myself.
As a teen, my major bonehead move was hitchhiking from NJ to CA. Mom had been sick and I had to stay with some friends for the last half of my junior year. Oscar took me to the airport to fly home but couldn't stay. I cashed in the ticket and started hitching. Amazingly, not a bit of trouble the whole way -- some couples did offer me money to take a bus home and fed me, etc. When I hit AZ, I called my brother to come get me. Mom never knew what I had done (I'd called her and said I was staying with a friend for a couple of weeks before flying home and Oscar just assumed I'd told Mom I was on my way home). |
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Red, that is hysterical,(the flying thing) but dangerous, very dangerous! Glad your still here with us! ::)
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Tied ropes to an old overstuffed chair that someone had thrown out in the alley, put it on a small moving dolly and took each other on some wild and crazy rides thru the alleys of Chicago. We did have to be more creative when we were kids, dont ya think? 1rnfl
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Aw common, you couldnt have all been incredibly behaved little intellectual darlings could you??? :dontknow: aw |
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When I was about 5 my parents were having a big birthday party for us. :joke: The kids were all in the backyard when my mom said to all their friends, "look how cute, the kids are playing croquet". At that point my cute 3 yr. old sister got in my way and I cracked her head open with the mallet. Yes the ambulance was called. Several stitches needed. PARTY OVER!!! >:( after that I've been good as gold ;)
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Love this topic Nonie---
I was a big rule follower as a kid; however, as folks remind me, I met my husband, Jim, when I was very young (and immature), and eloped 6 weeks later. He was older, and I adored him. We were married over 30 years--very happy years too, and had two great kids--He was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and passed away 7 years ago. :( But I know if Jim were still here, he would LOVE TV as I do. Hope to see all the folks I met when I was down there(end of April) again soon---and meet the folks I haven't yet met, but feel I know from enjoying TOTV quite often. Thanks again, Nonie md blondie |
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Met four other girls in kindergarden and literally became best friends from day one. Went through grade school with them and high school and am still close with them now although we are scattered all over the country. Going to see one of them in Vegas in a couple of weeks. So that's the background. You can imagine in all of those years, we did many crazy things. Elyse, Maria, Kathy, Sandy and me!
Early on we would emulate movies or movie stars. I would be Katharine Hepburn and maybe Elyse would be Rita Hayworth, or Kathy would be Doris Day, etc. So we'd stay in character, even in classes. Drove everyone nuts! This was a grade school thing. Also if we loved a movie, that's what we were. Like the Nun's Story. We were all Nun's for quite some time with towels on our heads. Bell, Book and Candle was another favorite. We were all witches. That lasted a really long time. And I can't remember what movie prompted it but our teachers nicknamed us "The Gun Girls" we carried cap pistols. (Confiscated many times.) Even in freshman High School, we decided to be The Beatles for a while. Elyse was George, Maria was Ringo, Kathy was John and I was Paul. Sandy didn't participate because she was too busy getting pregnant! Hal-lo! So these friendships are over 50 years and we've been through it all together. From cutting out of lunch in grade school to swing upside down from the bars in the bathroom stalls to the Halloween egging of cars (police pulled us in and called our parents.) I was driving, Maria was shotgun, sneaking each other out of the windows of our houses to go into the city to Rush Street. All the way through marriages, divorces, pregnancies, more marriages, more divorces. (Elyse is attempting her 5th marriage!) These wonderful girls and I just clicked from day one. Just like Nonie, Barefoot and I. And the adventures will continue with my new friends, I hope, because there's one thing I know for sure. I don't ever want to be an adult. :joke: |
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Chels,
Thanks for the memories, that was sooo funny. We Chicago girls must have been a little bit nuts. My gradeschool friends and I used to stand out in the schoolyard at recess and sing pop songs to the whole school like we were famous performers. The kids used to watch us spellbound and we thought we were absolutely wonderful!!!!OMG Im embarrassed just hinking about it. :redface: Im embarassed thinking about it too! |
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When I was real little I put beans up my nose. They swelled and I couldn't get them out!!I don't remember what happened after that. :dontknow:
Nomie, I didn't know you were a Chicago girl. I was just there visiting mu daughter. :) |
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Nonie and I don't want to grow up either! And we both miss you. |
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MCelheny,
Mabe you passed out from lack of oxygen! LOL that would account for not remembering anything. Did you enjoy the windy city??? |
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When I was a little kid there were some interesting things that I did. One of the things that I remember the best was that I would go trick or treating, but you would think I would ask for candy right? Wrong...I would ask if i could use their vacuum cleaner. :2excited:
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Chels, you now have a bunch of new girlfriends...and we're NOT getting pregnant. :-*
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Sam, Well now, thats at least one good thing about getting old isnt it?
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I told my family I was running away. I hid up in the hay in the top of the barn. Nobody seemed to care and it got dark. I got scared and climbed out of the hay and went to the house. Guess that wasn't crazy-just stupid! ;D
I also hitched everyplace I went. One man showed me his private part. I didn't ride with him anymore. :o |
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Sam, Chels, Nonie, Bare, Mc, Red, Blondie, Tal, I love this thread. You are all hysterical!!! I was a very good girl after the croquet incident. ;) ;)
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I was too darn good (my mother scared the c r a p outta me with her fire and brimstone talks).
I am living vicariously through all of you. Keep the stories coming! |
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OK THE craziest thing I did was get married the day after I turned 18, 2 weeks after high school graduation. Pregnant? Nope. Puppy love? Nope! Ed and I have been very very happy for 34 years this month. ;D
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When I was a teenager, I used to hitchhike with a little paring knife in the pocket of my shorts for protection, although I never had to use it. It was probably dull anyway. Just one of those things I didn't tell my mother about. I forgot I ever did it until some guy reminded me at a high school reunion 40 years later. I can't believe I was ever that young and naive. ;D
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Bare, was that really the craziest thing you can remember?? You were a very good girl.
Well, My best friend and I called up everyone in the phone book with the last name of Byrd, and asked them if they were flying south for the winter!!! OMG, Would you call it clever and creative? or just bored out of our minds. 1rnfl |
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Ronda, hahahaha the croquet incident was enough! And Bare, you can't fool me, I know there are more stories there. ;)
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But ooooooo so much fun Bare, I wouldnt trade my crazy childhood for anything!
See, we knew you werent a perfect angel!!! LOL |
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The more I think about it...I could write a book about the craziest things i did as a kid. ;D As a matter of ;D I am not too normal yet!!
I was always horse crazy and we had no horse so I rode a pig name Herman! He ran right through the fence and all the pigs got out. Ever try to catch a pig?? :dontknow: So I moved up to riding cows but their bony backs are hard on your ass!!! |
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My friend and I went out when we were around 18 or 19 (legal drinking age at the time) and we both got a little drunk. We couldn't decide who was the most sober to drive the car, so we both drove. She sat on the right and did the gas pedal and I sat on the left and did the brake, and we both held the steering wheel. Can't believe we didn't get caught and managed to get home in one piece!
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Lol who did the horn?? |
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Walked home from a date in Queens to Manhattan (where I lived) over the 59th (Queensboro) Bridge, got about a quarter the way across, and decided to go the rest of the way by climbing up and down the girders of the bridge above the roadway and the East River. Not under the influence of anything, just plain crazy!!!
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Ok, ok...couldn't remember anything crazy but the more I thought about it, memories crept up so here goes...
I encouraged my boyfriend to drive his pickup truck part way into the lake...then I tried to row it across the lake with his guitar. I WAS under the influence... 1rnfl :beer3: 1rnfl :beer2: |
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YAAAAAAAAA!! Brightspot,
Im so glad you remembered ,and you may have one the booby prize for the craziest thing of all! :clap2: |
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Captain and I and our friend Peter drove from our home town of Lexington, Ma to Gloucester Ma. in 20 minutes. A trip that would take about 1 hour if you were driving the speed limit. Peter was driving his Mom Ford Esquire Station Wagon, I was in the middle and Captain in the passenger seat. I remeber how exciting it was flying down Rte 128, a new 4 lane highway. Now I cringe at what could have happened that night. Whew, teenagers are dumb and crazy. :realmad: |
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The craziest thing I did...and almost got caught...can't be posted...
I was a baaaaad girl.... Let your imagination run wild...you won't come close.... 1rnfl |
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