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.

Only geek wore the school blazer properly, we used to slide it on up-to the elbow, so it was like a skirt in front of us. Ridiculous!
Also went though the Jane Norman bag stage.
Foundation 5x darker than your skin tone.

Got taken home in a police car for drunk and disorderly for trying to tickle a cop.

Puked in mate's grandma's hair.

Shagged half of the first year boys at Uni.

Danced at a street party with no shoes on and had to go to hospital to have the glass dug out of my feet.

It wasn’t ‘cool’ to come to school fully prepared with well stocked pencil case. Pathetic looking back. Us supposedly cool kids might casually chuck a biro in our JD sports bag, but that was about it.

Little shits!

We never had blazers. It was only very posh kids who had blazers apparently.

Our secondary school was non uniform, which was common in n in those days, but seems to no longer exist. You can imagine the fashion parade that went on.

I wore a skin tight catsuit with no underwear or bra underneath for a lot of the fifth year (year 11). Jesus wept.

Makes me chuckle that kids are sensible these days and it is seen as perfectly normal to use a rucksack for school. In my day (80’s) no one would be seen dead with a rucksack. Everyone used carrier bags and there was a strict hierarchy of carrier bags! The best were bags from designer/posh shops, the worst was a Netto carrier bag - you’d never live it down if you used a Netto carrier bag!

Swam in rivers, got into cars with pissed people and worse of all, wore shell suits!

Skip lessons in school by hiding in the toilet because spending an hour in a toilet cubicle with four others was far more fun.....

Walked a mile to and from college in platform heels... so painful.
Ate a McDonald's hot apple pie and chocolate sundae for lunch every school day in year 11 when we were allowed off the premises.
There was a fashion at our school for tying the school tie wrong end up so the thin end hung down your front and the correct thick end was tucked away!

@Coniferhedge

Yes! If you can in with a Kwik Save bag it was an instant pariah job. In our day, Benetton and JD Sports were acceptable. Also a Head bag of you had to have a proper bag.

I cut my hair like T-Boz from TLC. Awful.

In the 6th form I wore the same pair of (originally dark bottle green) faded light green denim flares rotated with a (once dark) faded pale blue pair.
I thought they looked OK, saw a photo recently and only now realise I'd grown another inch or two since I bought them. They looked rubbish.

Excuse typos!

The fashion for one's school tie was an extremely fat knot and very small dangly bit.

I wrote a scathing message about how I felt about school on my shirt and used to leave it untucked so the teacher could read it. Double whammy because you weren't supposed to have your shirt untucked.

@Defender90 🤣

I had kiss curls glued to my face with gel and wire dollar sign earrings.

Channeling Neneh Cherry with a dash of Pepa from Salt N Pepa.

Cringe.

@notso what is it with the sandwiches thing? My 14 year old DD is the same, never eats them, but instead of throwing them away, either at school or in a bin on the way home, she leaves them rotting in the bottom of her school bag, or shoves them into her knicker drawer. By the time I find them, they're green and smelly!!

Why? Just WHY?!

Sticking tiny gems onto one of our front teeth with super glue coz it was the fashion.

I also used to have a very fetching t shirt that said "von bitch" instead of "von dutch"

Used a rucksack in school but it was social death to wear both straps. Everyone would be walking around with a rucksack full of files/books/pe kit with it hanging off the one shoulder. I had a constant bad back but would never have dreamed of using the two straps!

I used to constantly cut and dye my own hair, was absolutely awful.

@Hairglitter

Lol! I’d forgotten about Von Dutch and the ‘ironic’ bootlegs.

@BlondeLikeBoJo Yes! All the boys had Head bags. Our school was also non uniform and a fashion parade every day. My son goes to the same school I did and it is still non uniform but strangely it isn’t a thing these days. Kids wear what they want with no problem.

The bag thing still exists to some extent. I see a lot of 14-16 yr old school girls with a tote or shopper artfully (ie. uncomfortably) hanging off the wrist of one bent arm.