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.

I was also a Skirt Criminal. Used to wear some sort of ankle-length cotton petticoat with at least two gypsy skirts layered over the top of it. I think I was aiming for a 'peasant' look. No peasant every owned that many skirts. I used to accidentally shut them in doors when I was slamming them and flouncing off. Ridiculous.

Also many Sun-In incidents from which I never learned a damn thing.

Split my hair into a middle parting, straighten it within an inch of its life and then use half a bottle of hairspray to make to perfect strands down each side of my face. Chavtastic!!!

Rucksacks did require two straps at my school but with the straps as long as possible.
Skirt rolled up
4/5 pairs of 60 denier black tights so your legs were perfect shiny black
Super fat/thick tie
Too small blazer with sleeves rolled up

Out of school; socks over tracksuit bottoms
Or bootleg black trousers with an over the head sports jacket

Walked home from a night out in town in very little clothing, pissed up, at 4 in the morning through parks and fields. How stupid.

At school it was Head bags but mum wouldn't get me one so I had a shit pink and blue Puma one. De Gammo coats were a thing, they were pull on with a half zip and they had a globe thing printed on the back. Mine was blue and green but I always wanted my friends grey and white one...they were fooking awful looking back

Pure mosh style - massive jeans or cords from Quiggins in Liverpool, which did slurp up all the puddles
Never do my trainer laces up - always tucked in behind the tongue which allowed the trainer to shred my heels to bits
I did wear my backpack on both shoulders as a deliberate snub to the cool kids who didn't
Over plucked eyebrows
Wore so many friendship bands and little plastic bracelets that I had to cut them off. Also wore them in the shower or to swimming so I basically had permanently damp lower arms.

Also many Sun-In incidents from which I never learned a damn thing.

 yes! My hair is very dark and sun in made it have a ginger haze. I used to also put it on my arm hairs as my Mum refused to let me shave them and a boy once called me ape arms!
I didn't even have the decency to buy the Sun-In, I just used to spray it on liberally in the back of Boots and put it back on the shelf.

@Malibucyprus Honestly I don't know! I remember feeling general embarrassment and repulsion at packed lunches, all my friends had them so no reason for it.
Why I didn't just throw them away and why my poor Mum didn't just refuse to make them is a mystery.
At least you know your DC will appreciate how frustrating her ways when she's older!

Good work, Notso!

So many but one that stands out is wide leg jeans/trousers that water seeped halfway up my legs. Cold and heavy not to mention so stupid looking

Just a remembered another one ! Spraying your face with hairspray so make up would stay on all day bonkers

In the late 90s : bootleg jeans, crop tops, pinafore dresses

In the early noughties: wide wide leg jeans (Petes place in Plymouth) and little T-shirt’s

@AbbyNormal do you think that was your mums opinion of you though? 😀

Sun in was always a disaster but never learned either.

Kickers and POD shoes that we couldn't walk in.

Order a gravy chip delivered from the Chinese so they would also deliver bottles of hooch while we were underage.

Sneak out the back door and hide in the chippy during games.

On a night out when I was 14 I wore fake tan, body glitter, lace-up knee high boots and a fake silver arm bracelet. I drank a lot of MD 20/20 and danced to Whigfield. I came home and fell into bed.
When I woke up in the morning I looked like a lump that slime that kids play with now. My tan and glitter had merged together. My arm bracelet had nearly cut off the circulation in my arm and was a funny colour. It also had a greenish tinge to it from the fake metal.
My legs were also swollen and much to my distress my mum had to cut the laces off my boots to get them off.
It was pretty foolish but I never learnt. A few weeks later I nearly burnt the house down cooked a fried egg because I was distracted as I was trying to pierce my own nose. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyone remember when massive furry boots were the fashion?? I. White scraggly fake fur like bloody yeti feet?

One arm fell off my glasses so I wore them one armed and wonky for ages. Then the other arm fell off so I sellotaped them to the sides of my head. Eventually my mum made me get new ones, god she was so embarrassing

Regularly bunked school to go and smoke fags in the local Tesco cafe. Why I thought that was more interesting than learning I don't know.

Roller skating down really steep hills with just shorts and t shirts on, still have the scars!
Ate copious amounts of sweets and luminous coloured drinks with god knows how many E numbers in them?
Hot brushing my fringe until it sizzled and then adding a whole can of hairspray to hold the style (hair had already been sun-in’d to an inch of its life)
Sun bathing/frying with factor 4 Hawaiian Tropic.
Going to night clubs at 16 with my mate, basically dressed like street whores and getting lifts home at 3am with any old Tom, Dick or Harry.

Driving a moped wearing shorts and a sleeveless top.

Hanging out at a service station c.1990, waiting on the convoy to an illegal rave. Getting into a car with anyone who had space (they were always Ford Escorts) and then off to some field in the middle of nowhere !

Didn't want to be seen walking to the shower with a razor on a school trip, so shaved my legs in my room with sun cream.

Reader, it did not end well.

And post rave, if you couldn't find your mates you just wandered around saying 'is anyone going to x' and someone would give you a lift. Madness

@Fluffycloudland77 well we are NC now so... probably

Me and my friend used to send each other loving texts then change our names on our phones to some boys names and show off in the class that we had boyfriends 😁 boyfriends didn't show up until the uni. I wonder why? 😂

anyone remember those skirt over trousers thing.. i was never allowed a pair

Yes! I had a black skirt/pedal pushers combo with a silver reflective strip on the side.