stupid fucking things you did as a teenager...

[Hairglitter]

Not as in sex/drugs/alcohol or whatever but just general ridiculousness. I used to:

• leave my straighteners ON every morning so they'd be on ALL DAY just so when I came in from school they would be hot enough to re-straighten my hair immediately. God forbid I go twenty seconds with unstraightened hair. When I think of the fire risk!!!!

• Refuse to wear my coat even in 3 degree weather because it wasn't cool to wear your coat

• Carry my PE kit to school in a JD sports bag because that was the done thing, despite having a perfectly good rucksack

• At one point, teeny tiny little Nike "just do it" backpacks were in but they weren't big enough to fit any of your stuff in. So I used to carry on e about (which just held my pencil case and my keys) and carry all my books seperately in my arms

I can't wait til my son is that age and starts doing equally daft things.

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Yes! I had loads of them in all different colours!

Also remember in a level chemistry when us girls used to scramble to get the small lab coat meaning that the top few buttons wouldnt do up so you could have this sexy lab tech look going on that would do absolutely nothing if anything ever got spilt!

Me and my sister had tooth gems put on at the dentist!

Hers only came off two years ago 😂😂

I still have the glue on my tooth! I can feel it when I run my tongue over my teeth!

I had a t shirt that said dirty then fcuk on the back also wore skin tight white pants with dark thong underneath. Make up way darker than my skin tone and plastered on. Used to go out in Newcastle in the snow in stilettos and a mini skirt. I got in loads of cars with strangers that parked up outside nightclubs and got lifts home. I was so stupid!

Myself and my BFF when we were about 12 used to reenact the scene from Stand by Me where they put their ears on train tracks then shout Train !! We did this on live train tacks. When I think about it now I think of all the things that could have happened to us.
When going up town at 16, used to take lifts home from random strangers as didn't have money to get a taxi home.
So many, many things. My poor wee guardian angel must have breathed a sigh of relief when I calmed down as I got older

there are so many....

But I remembered this one this morning and am laughing at myself.

when I was around 13 I couldn't find a matching lipstick for my eye shadow so put the eye shadow on my lips, Then went to meet my friend at her house, I sat in their lounge with the whole family whilst she got ready, when her little sister (probably 4 at the time) blurted out why have you got eye shadow on your lips?

Me looking down: "I haven't!"

Her: yes you have!

Me: no I really haven't!

Her: you do! Why?

Me: I don't! Why would I!

The rest of the family distracted her.
How they all kept straight faces I have no idea

I had the black slouchy socks over black tights and under school skirts rolled up as short as they’d go!
Coats weren’t cool, and if you did wear a coat it had to be those bomber type jackets and never ever done up.
Only nerds wore backpacks on both shoulders. And then from about year 9 everyone had those record bags.
(I tried religiously to do all of the above, and still never managed to be one of the cool kids.)
Spending my dinner money on fags and crap from the vending machine.
Starting smoking at 14 (due to the aforementioned desire to look cool). Took me until I was 30 to finally quit.

@Hairglitter

Owner of an unfortunate playboy tattoo from teenage years

I'm now a radical feminist so it doesn't quite go.

Plus it's very badly drawn and on my stomach so when I have DC is going to grow and morph into some monster

Decided the new school year of year 9 i was going to reinvent myself and become cool. The plan?

Simple. I was going to eat cheesey pasta from a take away tub for lunch rather than sandwiches and sit on the desk rather than the chair.

How I’m not cool now I will never know.

Dyed my hair orange and pink horizontal stripes, so from the roots down it was orange, pink, then orange.
Worn with layered silk spaghetti strap vintage nighties, bright blue 80s tights, a camel coloured duster coat, and Doc Marten boots.
What I thought I looked like I have no idea. One minute I was dressing like All Saints, next like I'd trolley dashed through a charity shop

Oh God, this thread is a blast from some fashion trends that should have stayed in the past.

Sorry, baby hit post.

Giant flared cords that dragged on the ground. Blue eye shadow palettes stolen borrowed from my mum that looked horrible with my colouring and were 80s AF (it was the 90s). Giant foam platform skecher sandals that stank. Hair mascara that never worked. My older sister's crimping iron.

We used to go to a local youth club at about 13 and I had a special, hip-swinging walk I only used there. Mercifully my friends took the piss out of me relentlessly when they noticed and I stopped. just outed myself massively if any of them are on here

Male here.

I'm another one who never wore coats in winter. I usually wore secondhand suits that I'd get tailored so that I could only just squeeze into them thereby showing off my 'Heroin Chic' physique (Trans: a 7 stone apology with pipe cleaner legs) . A coat would only have detracted from my skinnyness. I can remember walking the four miles or so home after the nightclub in the middle of winter and losing all feeling in my lower legs and feet from the cold.

I nearly burned down the house, twice, while cooking a mini pizza under the grill. The first time because I nodded off. The second time because I was not only cooking a pizza, I was also attempting some DIY dentistry by attacking a bad tooth with a fork and a pair of pliers. I ended up filling the kitchen with greasy smoke and breaking off the whole side of my upper molar, which had to be removed.

Quite regularly made use of the 'Joyrider Taxi' service whereby stolen cars would use the long straight road near our house for their kicks. I'd get a lift out from the city centre to the start of it, about five minutes walk from home while they got on with ragging the cars and trying to get the police to chase them. I figured, if I didn't actually ask them if they were driving a stolen car, it sort of made it okay, sort of.

I used to stay out all night and only arrive home about an hour or so before the rest of the house got up so I'd snatch an hour or two of sleep before having to get up and go about my day. If I could, I'd call round to a mate's house as his parents would be at work and catch up on my sleep on their couch. After doing this for a couple of years, I had a complete physical breakdown and spent my 20th birthday in intensive care. The toxicology report ran to three pages.

Thing is, I was considered the "Sensible" one in my circle of friends.

I had a tattoo of a Chinese sign that means spirit/soul (I really believed it was the height of spirituality!) when I showed my dad he said that it could mean anything!
It looked awful on my wedding day and really doesn’t match who I am now at all but it was a Spice Girls era and I was only 14.

Walk home alone at past midnight and respond to any bloke who talked to me. Accept free food and lifts from random strangers
Walk around in my PE skirt because it was stupidly short. Shave my hair of one side and leave the other side long. I thought I looked so cool 😂

AND the black Harrington jacket with red tartan lining with your name on the back in big white fuck off letters!!

@Chillijamntuna I have a Chinese symbol tattoo that I got in a Turkish nightclub after being on a pub crawl at about 4am 😩
I have no idea if it means what it was meant to 🤣
Woke up the next morning with a horrendous hangover and could barely remember getting it
Also didn't like it on my wedding day !

Yy to the Jane Norman bags for school!
Also wearing neon leg warmers over jeans with pumps
Not washing my makeup off before bed so I could just top it up in the morning no wonder my skin was terrible - and the fact I wore so much Urban Decay Glitter liquid eyeliner I had eye infections every other month!

I have an absolutely awful tattoo as well, that I got as a teenager - luckily it's a 'tramp stamp' so doesn't see the light of day much these days....

@ohcarriemathison looks like we’re not the only ones!
I can’t be bothered to get mine covered up so there it sits, all faded and retro!

Underage drinking in a pub about a mile from my house which I would then walk home alone from. I used to walk along the trim between the grass verge and the pavement to convince myself I was then walking in a straight line.

Smoking weed and then driving. What was I thinking??

Buying weed from some dodgy dealer in a car park in my local town. It involved driving alongside, my druggie boyfriend leaning into the dealers car and swapping money /drugs and driving off. I'm sure everyone would know what was going on and it really wouldn't have taken the police much to work it out.

Using an empty syringe to squirt neat vodka down my throat.

Wearing a mini skirt so short it skimmed my backside.

There are more but I'll spare myself the

The funny thing is I am the biggest square going now.

Yep had to have the latest thing to wear to school or it was social suicide.

I remember begging my mum to have this awful Naf Co multicoloured jacket which everyone at school had so of course I had to have it, luckily it was cheap and from the local market in town.

Then the next step up was the original Naff Naff bomber jacket which was about £100 which in the early 90's was very expensive, I begged for this jacket for Christmas and stupidly my mother got it.
I thought I was the bees knees walking round in that thing.

I also remember a trend for Cream club bomber jackets, thankfully for my mum I didn't want one of those.
Considering I lived in a very poor area the kids had to have the latest gear for fear of being ridiculed, god forbid your mum shopped at Neto that was just shameful. Of course my mum did but you lived in fear anyone found out 😂

I would happily walk round with a Netto bag nowadays and be suitably proud of myself for saving lots of money.

@imjustanerd Nettos must be the equivalent of farm foods now my sister hates going in there with me but where else can you get ten mars bars for a quid?

Did anyone else make fake cigarettes by rolling up paper and putting talcum powder down the middle and burning the tip? My friend and I thought we were so cool making them.

I remember my mum sniffing the air and asking "what is that burning smell"?