What stupid things did you do as a teenager/young adult?

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That make you wonder how you survived?

I was really a very "good" young person. Never got into trouble at school or gave my parents any extreme worries. Even so, I do sometimes wonder how I made it through.

When I was about 18, I'd been to nightclub with a friend (she was driving, neither of us had much to drink). We met some lads and arranged to go to a graveyard with them after closing. No idea why that seemed like a good idea!. We drove separately to the graveyard, I think all parties were surprised that the other actually turned up. Spent a pleasant hour or two chatting among the graves and got home as it was getting light then went to work

It could have gone so differently, we got away with it and I sometimes wonder if that experience has helped my attitude towards others to be more "most people are basically decent" than "everyone's out to get you"

As far as I recall, we never saw them again so maybe the night didn't go as they'd hoped but we never felt threatened.

So many.

Snuck out of a camping sleepover at about 3am to go to the local woods. Was chased by a man there.

Went to a party hundreds of miles away with a boy I barely knew and ended up stranded and dossing at some student house with no toilet facilities (the shit was piled like a mountain in the loo as people kept using it)
Ended up sharing a bed with him after being caught in the rain. People kept barging in expecting us to be having sex :( luckily he was a gentleman.

Went to help an old man find his 'lost dog'. He kept insisting that I needed to go to his house with him first to get a lead incase we found him. I eventually ran away.

Went to the park with friends at night to get drunk.

Got in a taxi alone. Not relaly a stupid thing to do but the taxi driver was a weirdo and was going all round the houses for a short journey. Wouldn't talk to me and was just being so weird. Eventually let me out and charged normal fare even though he added a good 20 mins the journey whilst just staring at me in the rear view mirror.

There's probably more but that's as far as I wanna remember right now!

Getting in illegal minicabs.

14, taking cocaine with my parents.
15 years old, had run off with my cousin to Brighton, she hooked up with a guy so I wandered the streets alone all night until the trains started again.
Lots of drugs and underage drinking, parties, older guys... Terrible in hindsight but I thought I was having an amazing time!
So many other silly things that were really dangerous and I'd totally have a meltdown if my kids did them, especially at 15.

Where do I start?
Took drugs, wandered around at night with one other female friend after taking copious amounts of drugs on a regular basis.

Hitchhiked, went home with random boys, slept in train stations after gigs that my parents had no idea I was at....

It's all made me a better parent, I 'get' teenagers and I'm incredibly close to both of mine but not naive!
To this day my mum still talks about how well behaved I was, no bother, never came home drunk etc

hitchhiking from age 13/14 - hundreds of miles - to Scotland and London from middle of UK. Then sleeping in train stations and on park benches when I got there. Drinking and smoking from age 12. Going to the pub on school nights form age 14. Staying out all night at bikers' parties (also in housing without indoor loos as a PP has mentioned - wonder if they were the same parties.) The sort of things that would get social workers involved now but my parents knew about it all and didn't care. (We were a genteel middle class family so no one ever questioned my parents' non-existent parenting skills. )

I was very square about boys though. Didn't have a serious boyfriend until aged 17 - long after most of my friends. And the bikers at the all night raves were absolute gentlemen. I remember them looking wistful and saying, 'You're too young.' Some even gave me lifts home on their bikes or walked me miles and miles home to make sure i was safe.

Lots of things, I had a lively youth , staying at a club when my mates went home as I was having such a good time then spending the rest of the night sitting on the floor at Kings Cross station on my own in a teeny tiny outfit when it was snowing and I'd missed the last train home probably wasn't one of my better ideas.

I must say I've grown into a very sensible adult so my misspent youth didn't harm me

@Gammeldragz - cocaine with your parents? Jesus Christ!

Going back to randoms houses and a local campsite, getting in a car with a friend who had been drinking. Getting a tattoo at 15 that my parents only found out about at 18

Similar to all the above.

Drugs
Smoking
Sex with men I barely knew who were much older
Alcohol
Sneaking out of the house once everyone was asleep to do all of the above

Remembering it makes me shudder now I have two daughters approaching adolescence. Especially as I was groomed from age 12 by an 18yr old my family trusted. I think that’s what sparked my wild years.

@monkeyonthetable
Similar experience to me, I went to gigs from a very young age all over the country. The older men we encountered at these were always such gents, made sure we were safe at the end of the night, totally looked out for us, especially if we were at the front and getting squashed!
Now my dd talks about how 'normal' it is to be sexually assaulted at a busy gig. For men to deliberately push themselves up against women at the front (and worse)

I was pretty good until I wasn’t...
Used to mess around on train line with friends completely idiotic
Getting into strangers cars frequently if the taxi didn’t turn up
Going back to complete strangers houses for ons luckily they were ok but danger I didn’t need to put myself in
Got spiked one night luckily I managed to get home ok and avoid the person who had done it but could have been much worse

Got married at 18. Divorced before I was 20 (he was emotionally abusive, violent and had a string of affairs).

I once got incredibly drunk aged about 19 and was pushed down a hill in a trolley. In front of a cliff with a 30 foot drop. Almost too stupid for words, luckily the trolley 'derailed' halfway down the hill and sent me flying, I got quite bashed up but better than being dead.

Actually feel physically sick at the thought of my ds9 doing something like that one day.