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 used to go to a solarium every other day since I was 15. I didn't use any protection creams and didn't take a shower to cheat about the time and get as many minutes in as possible. Sometimes it would be up to 20 min! I'm a redhead. HORROR

Wore my school trousers over a pair of thick (orange!) jogging bottoms to bulk out my legs because I thought they were too skinny. Yes, even in summer.

I admit I still do a dress over trousers combo’ from time to time - only way to survive the heat!

How does that help?! You’re wearing twice as many clothes!

Wore 70s dresses from Oxfam with tons of necklaces, glittery brooches and stripey tights. With plimsolls. I wanted to look like Voice Of The Beehive. Had a goth boyfriend who wore an I Am The God Of Fuck T-shirt which upset the entire street. He wasn’t.

Wrote "NKOTB 4 Eva IDST" on my school desk in permanent marker

Oh I also printed out all my msn conversations with my teenage boyfriend and stuck them in a scrapbook together with badly written poems

I chucked it away a few years ago and kind of wish I hadn't now.

I went through an emo phase 🤦‍♀️ black hair with pink and blue flashes. A ridiculous about of heavy black eyeliner. Safety pins in all of my clothes. Ripped jeans.

I also never wore a coat I had a grey hoodie layered with a black hoodie on top and thought I looked amazing

Reading these through, I realise I was such a dweeb. I was born middle aged.

Depending on dates, I’d have been terrified of most of you, and had the rest of you in detention

Although I did fuck my hair up with Sun In.

Pierced my fingernails and wore earrings in them

Pierced my fingernails and wore earrings in them hmm

this one is best

MSN. & writing out lines from Song lyrics in that Small little writing as your status.

I too pierced my Finger nails!

Pin badges on my school tie & the more you had the better.

Scented Gel pens, to underline the date etc on your Work & to draw who you loved on the back of your hand.

I also had a Tshirt that had a Woman's breasts in a Bra printed on, looking like my top was being unzipped.
I had that about 11/12. I went to Oakwood park (theme park) with it on, and all my photos on the rides I'm wearing it . Oh the shame.

I skipped school to visit my mum in hospital in the nearest big city. I caught the bus but didn't know when to get off - I ended up missing my stop and getting off miles away, no idea where I was. I was upset about it and worried I wouldn't have enough money for the bus back, and a guy stopped in a car because he saw me crying and I accepted a lift back to the hospital. It was all fine, he was perfectly nice and dropped me off with no issues, but now I look back and think it was the stupidest thing I ever did in my life.

Oooooh nooooooo I forgot the pierced nails!! 🙈

I was about 15 at the time. Old enough to know better! He gave me his mobile phone to hold with 999 ready dialed on it, he said I could press call if I felt uncomfortable!

I made a Wham scrapbook and I've still got it !

MSN. & writing out lines from Song lyrics in that Small little writing as your status.

And your screen name had to be wRiTtEn LiKe ThIs

I actually remember mine at one point being:

(broken heart) i LoVeD yOu OnCe I lOvE yOu StIlL i AlWaYs HaVe I aLwAyS wIlL (broken heart) (name of crush)

I'd forgot so many of these!
I've also recalled those tracksuit bottoms with the poppers on the side, we had to wear them with the bottom couple of poppers undone.

I also dyed two strands of my fringe red (I wasn't allowed to do the whole lot) This was effective for the first couple of weeks until it washed out, whereupon it went white. To this day (I'm now in my 40's) it still goes white in the sun- I have no idea what I put on it

Hahahaha yes I pierced my finger nails with my compass and wore earrings in them too! My grandma also let me get a tooth gem at butlins #livingmybest90slife

Another Sun-In victim here.

In 1st year of high school my mum got me a Carlton shopping bag (think Roy Cropper off Corrie) as my school bag. Got the piss royally ripped out of me for that. By 5th year it was Benetton shoulder bags which mates would lovingly scrawl with graffiti.

Buying shoes a size too big because my size weren't available but I just HAD to have them.

Wearing glasses with plain glass in to look cool. 30 years later have to wear proper lenses for reading.

Like a PP has said, multiple pairs of socks to get the wrinkles right lol and daft moccasins in winter (late 80s)

Pod shoes with so many Pod tags on in different colours, progressed to Kickers and Kicker tags by 5th year.

My poor Mum had no clue at the time what a shit head i really was - when she got told she was not impressed

Riding motorbikes to school and walking in like i was the shit, while everyone asked me a million questions about motorbikes that i had no bloody clue of.

Had a light up belt that u could set your own message to flash my favourite was "Miss sexy" while walking down the fucking road.

Stupidly used to walk the train tracks to the next stop, Idiot.

Large group of us in school used to bunk off lesson but not actually hide, there were too many of us for the teachers to do anything so we just ran around the school while i shouted at everyone the next destination ffs. Poor parents and Poor teachers!

Would go through a list of boys that drove and call them to come pick us up and take us out. Was only 10 years ago and i think wtf was i thinking

Oh yes could only wear kickers or them god awful netted shoes with the butterflys on them.

No bag at all we used to ditch it in the field by the school, everyone jumping out of classroom windows once teacher had left or back was turnt, only the nerdy kids would be still seated.

We all wore ‘Spliffy’ jeans and thought we were the dogs nuts in them 😂
Massive long, thick, heavy black coat with fur collar to college in the middle of summer....
Platform boots you could hardly walk in (let alone ever dream of running to the bus in)
When you eventually got a boyfriend you’d wear his off white, damp smelling Reebok jumper with pride...
Buying a packet of Silk Cut ultra low fags between 10 of us and sitting down at the Rec smoking them (on the swings so none of the little kids could go on them)

We were all horrible little shits! The only saving grace was that we didn’t have mobiles, so nobody took pics of how shit we looked!!! (Apart from the few that would bring their mums camera and then you’d wait all year to get her to get them developed in boots!)

I made a Wham scrapbook and I've still got it !

Does not belong on this thread! That's excellent!

Careless whisper 35 years old - which I'm sure this poster knows