Hm...maybe it was a night of many, many drinks, kissing a girl and then meeting a guy and talking and kissing him all night, then telling him to meet me the next week so we could go on vacation together. We both showed up the next week at the appointed time, and then went on our first date, which ended up taking place about six hours away and lasted for five days. I knew that it might be really, really stupid to take off with a guy I didn't know (yet) but it ended up being a VERY good thing. ;)

Or it could involve an arrest and subsequent conviction (just a misdemeanor, though).

It's funny (but not funny ha ha) to look back on the things I did when I was in college, many of which were not legal. I am so lucky that I only got in trouble the once, because I tell you, it could have been much worse. Fun times, true, but you really have to be careful!

Mine involves Beer, A canoe with flames painted on the side, a drained canal lock next to Canada's Parliment buildings, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

It involves me and a bunch of my girlfriends......drinking......a picture of my ex bf wearing a black bra of mine and a hat w/ his schools mascot.....the frat house he was pledging at the time........the mail box.....his truck........and duct tape

CanadianTeke-Mine involves Beer, A canoe with flames painted on the side, a drained canal lock next to Canada's Parliment buildings, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
That just strikes me as pretty darn funny-I think it's the "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" part.:D Were they on horses? LOL!

Delt Alum-What's scary to me is that it could have been one of our young GC'ers mother with me that night. Where did the time go?
I know what you mean. I can remember all (well...almost all) of it as though it happened a year ago. Like valkyrie said-
Fun times, true, but you really have to be careful!

When I think of some of the RISKS I took and the STUPIDITY of some of my actions, I swear to the heavens above, I'm lucky to be alive. I actually PRAY that my kids have more sense than I did.

Unfortunetly they were not mounted, or wearing their scarlets for that matter. Just regular cops in a car wearing a blue uniform. The first thing the officer said to us however was "nice night for a paddle boys"---we were at the bottem of the lock (about 45-50feet down) there was only about 3 inches of water, it's all on video.

A very sober wet T-shirt contest in Wichita Falls, TX. what scares me is that I did that sober, what do I do when I am drunk????

Amen!

Naaah, I have more faith in you than that, Justamom!

If your kids are very risk aversive or extremely socially conservative it means you have actually done a [i]bad[/b] job.

Because that usually means that the kid is operating from a core of insecurity or fear, in other words you would have killed their spirit.

Its funny, but I know some parents that were actually taken aback as their kids got older, because they had driven their kids so hard and made them so uptight that the kids didn't take any social risks at all. And their definition of risk was really broad.

I remember one friend of mine that was like that (graduated first in his class) his father begged him to go out one night with us . . . and he wouldn't go.

Kind of sad really because the parents made him that way when they were younger lol.

The most prescious gift and the prime duty of a parent is to give their child so much internal security that they have an unrealistic sense of their own immortality.

Beach week, half a bottle of goldschalager, and getting up on the stage of a club with some sisters...doing so wild and crazy unmentionables! or A night downtown with 5 of my sisters, we ran up well over 300$ on our bill, but only paid 20.....the rest was paid for randomly, we lock our keys in the car, and take more shots at the bar waiting for AAA, and the one of us passes out in the middle of King St. downtown.....or any of our family nights or theta chi mixers:p hell, there's too many wild nights to remember....

Mine is the night that I decided to participate in a thong contest (thanks so much cysco for the Thong Song)! I walked into organic chemistry the next morning only to hear 5 of my guy classmates burst into "Let me see that thoooooooong!!!!!" Let's just say they were there, judging my assets!!! Guess I should've known that someone I knew would be there too!!

College life was fun!!! :eek:

Hmm...one incident involved a banana peeling contest at the bar...which led to a backseat, a flashlight, and one of Honolulu's finest almost arresting us!

Two New Years Eves ago I took part in drunken midnight kayak races. It sounded kinda dangerous, but I felt comfortable doing it because I had 20 or so rescue swimmers from the US Coast Guard surrounding me. Shotgun a beer, kayak out to the glowing buoy and back...but the currents were so strong that it knocked me over a few times...I was so drunk that I didn't notice the coral reefs...and that landed me in the hospital because I needed stitches on my feet. Yep, it was a happy new year.

An M80 and the Sig Ep House!

And I would like to echo what these "slightly older GCers have said:


:D :D :D

When I said "Amen," I was thinking more of physical danger than stunting my kid's social growth.

I hope my kids have/had as much fun as I had, but are either much smarter -- or just as lucky as I was.

An example: One night a couple friends and I were drinking on Ohio State's campus. The three of us were riding in a '59 MGA roadster, so two of us had seats, and the other was sitting on the transmission hump between the seats.

We got shot down by a couple of girls and decided to go drive a road which winds along a river, with lots of neat hills (we did that a lot late at night starting in high school) and sharp curves. Well, I got kinda of PO'd on the way, and decided to go back and get my car and went and picked up an old girlfriend.

My two friends, went to the road in question, and proceeded to roll the MG at 85 MPH. They nearly ended up in a river upside down, but niether was badly hurt. If I had been along, the other guy -- riding on the transmission hump with no seat belt -- would very likely have been killed.

That's what I mean by luck. It's also what I mean by being stupid.

Social risks are one thing, physical danger is something else. I'm not sure which kind JAM was addressing, but I suspect the latter.

I am a pretty boring person so for me the most wild thing I've ever done would have to be.....

The time I hooked up with a FIJI on the air conditioner unit in their parking lot at 4:30 am. It was so embarassing, my friend Sam and her guy Bobby came outside and saw us, me wearing a bra and black pants making out with this kid. :o I have never been so embarassed in my entire life!!!

Jeez, now I sound like a skank....yikes!!! :eek:

You go girl!!! :D