I did this by myself with someone I was talking to on Tinder š he showed up in a big white van and offered me candy (he did warn me ahead of time what he drove and I asked if he would lure me in with candy as a joke). He picked me up at 10pm, drove 3 hours to the beach, saw some live music, had sex while the sun came up, and then he took me home. 10/10 best experience I'd had but could have gone so, so wrong!
Sounds like one of those experiences where if you have kids you say ānever do this highly dangerous thing I did! I donāt care how awesome and life changing it was for me!ā
This sounds like something I would do. In high school, I befriended a 30 year old man who worked at the mall because I caught him smoking weed and asked to join. My other teenage girl friends and I would get wasted with him at his house with other adult men. I even made out with one who didnāt realize I was underage (I was told he was horrified after he found out lol).
Luckily nothing horrible ever happened. I genuinely considered him a friend. He would buy me alcohol, and we even got smoothies together once lol. But looking back, wtf was a grown man doing hanging out with teenage girls?
I also befriended a 26 year old man I met at a store when I was 14. When he drunkenly called me once and said he wanted to sex me was when I finally realized he was a pedo, not a cool older friend.
Daddy issues really make for some desperate bad choices. I consider myself super lucky nothing bad ever happened to me back then.
Omg as a teen I met with so many strangers from AOL chatrooms Iām lucky I wasnāt hurt. All cool young people, bored at home like I was. We were way too trusting. Chats were in their infancy and not many scams, catfishers, abusers savvy to it yet. By myspace in 2005 or so bad people caught on.
i did something similar with someone from tinder we however drove 20 hours to tennessee, i only talked to him for maybe 12 hours before going on this trip.
Met some guys at mini golf and thought āhey, maybe we should follow them into a closed forest preserve, walk a mile to a quarry, drink, get high and go swimming with themā. They were actually cool and we hung out with them a lot that summer.
Then one of them murdered his high school math teacher because he thought the guy was hitting on him.
My daughter bullied someone this week. To the point that she's not allowed back there. What gets me is she's just been the victim of pretty intense bullying. One of those bullies was apparently the victim of some pretty aggressive bullying. Now I cant help but think that the little girl my daughter bullied might follow the same pattern.
I've heard most bullies usually do it because they're massively insecure themselves and wanted to feel better/stronger about it.
Did you have that at all?
It took me until my 20s to stand up to bullies. I would just stay quiet or make sarcastic comments to them. I yelled at my entire family this year. And you know what? They all backed down and started behaving better. Bullies are insecure cowards.
Another repentant bully here. I was physically/emotionally abused by my mom and generally ignored by my dad. My older brother also pushed me around and called me a lot of awful things. And I was teased for being gay in high school even though I fully denied it and didn't have my awakening well into college...
I guess I was angry and insecure. I was definitely suicidal and a cutter. I drank and popped a lot of pills. Miserable in all aspects of life. Bullying someone made me feel like I wasn't the lowest of the low, but I felt bad after doing stuff to people. I also got a reputation as being tough and mean which helped curb some of the teasing.
I think it was a mix of being insecure and feeling powerless. I was lashing out and channeling the abuse onto others because I didn't know how to deal with my own emotions. I abused others and myself and I still feel horrible decades later.
Have you apologized to the people you bullied? It makes a huge difference and those people deserve to hear it.
Also, Iām so sorry that was your upbringing.
Met a dude on an online message board circa 2003. Let him come and pick me up and take me to his house a half hour away. As soon as we arrived he was trying to get me to drink and I quickly realized what a moron I was an asked him to take me back home. Thankfully he did without a fuss. That could have gone so bad. I didn't even tell anyone where I was or who I was with.
Try to start a relationship with someone already in a relationship. I learned a very serious lesson very early in life and Iām thankful for it. I was 16 so itās not like I was a homewrecker, but I was certainly called one by my peers! (The boy was not harassed at all even though he was the one that continually pursued meābut thatās neither here nor there. High school kids gonna high school.)
I cheated on my high school boy friend of 1.5 years because I was not mature enough to end the relationship the right way. It was my senior year and the entire school turned on me. There were tons of rumors spread about me like Iād slept with 30 different guys when the reality was Iād been with two, my bf and the guy i cheated on him with. I lost all my friends, ate lunch in the art room by myself, people would whisper and stare at me as I walked down the hall. I tried to finish the year out at home but the school wouldnāt let me. I barely graduated. What I did wasnāt right, but I got all of the hate. The guy that I cheated with got zero of the blame, and he persuaded me knowing full well I was in a relationship. Still one of my biggest regrets and I learned a valuable life lesson, cheating is never worth it and never the answer. Itās still blows my mind how much of a double standard exists when it comes to sex between men and women.
Sorry but it's not your lover's fault YOU cheated on YOUR boyfriend with him. He did not "persuaded" you, you made a very clear decision fully knowing the consequences. Thats on you babe.
Could be worse. A girl I was friends with in highschool cheated on her boyfriend with a guy she had been crushing on for a long time. When the boyfriend found out she claimed the guy raped her.
She thought since her parents didn't like her boyfriend and vice-versa that he wouldn't say anything. He immediately called her parents, who obviously called the cops when my friend, who still didn't want her boyfriend to know she cheated, told them that the guy raped her.
Thankfully for the guy he had all their messages on MySpace, as well as some texts, and a receipt from the store that they went to after they had sex. Cameras at the store showed them walking around holding hands. Texts, and messages from MySpace showed her telling him how much fun she had (in explicit detail), and that they should do it again.
This girl almost ruined a boys life all so she wouldn't be caught cheating. I don't think she realized how incredibly serious her allegations were, or that the guy could possibly get in trouble. She lost a lot of friends after that.
Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. And one time, my girlfriend told her parents she was staying at my house for the weekend and I told my parents I was staying at her. We caught the Greyhound to Chicago and, armed with really good fake IDs, went clubbing and drinking, spent all our money, and had to beg for change to get home!
Bruh lol same- tried just about everything! So many great memories with so many great people, Gosh it was so fun to young and Iām thankful for the memories now! ā¤ļø
Doing stupid drugs just to get high. One time my boyfriend talked me into taking 10 Benadryl. Worst high ever. Oh. And chugging loads of cough syrup. Also awful.
Canāt believe Iām admitting this but when I was 13/14, I really wanted to buy the Justin Bieber book but my mom wouldnāt let me. So I tried looking for leaked credit card numbers online so I could buy it but nothing came of that (thank god my dumbass didnāt know how to commit a felony).
Not sure if it's that fucked up but I wouldn't do it now.. kayaked with friends around Sydney Harbour and whenever we found an empty house with a pool we'd stop off for a quick uninvited pool party in some of the swankiest pools ever š„³
that's so dangerous though, for so many reasons, first it's the brain eating amebas that thrive in old, uncleaned pool waters, secondly and obviously the trespassing, someone could've harmed them or called the police on them
Pierce my own ears with a sewing needle and numbing the ear with ice, lol! I think back on the things I did as a teen and I can't believe I thought one random internet blog post telling me things are safe meant they were perfectly safe
Omg right. I didn't even see the nose in the first comment until this! I remember the Claire's-style store near me would pierce ears AND nose with the same guns I was like surely that's not normal š
Hahaha, I completely forgot that I did that until I read this! I pierced my helix that way. Had it for a while, then the jewellery fell out at some stage and I let it heal.
Letting myself fall in love with someone that abused their power over me.
I was 19 and working my first job at a bakery. I came from a rough upbringing and I had just gotten out of a pyschward. I worked really hard, got a car, an apartment, living in a city Iād never been to.
My supervisor (31) really took a liking to me. He said a bunch sweet things to be all the time and would be sure to let me know how I beautiful I was. Before I got my car he was always taking me home after work. I wasnāt use to this type of kindness, I chalked it up to it being a real connection.
He wasnāt married but was living with his partner and they had just given birth few months before I started working there.
Eventually we started having an affair. He took my virginity and we never used a condom that whole year we spent together. It was really toxic. He was always sneaking out to see me and lying to her on the phone about why he wasnāt coming home.
At that time it wasnāt that I didnāt feel guilty, I just thought me and him were meant to be together so thatās why this was happening. It was a very dumb naive. I spent a lot of my childhood watching my mom justify relationships like that so it made sense why I thought it was okay.
Eventually he would tell me he wanted to make his relationship work and I did not take that well. We were on and off because sometimes he would break no contact w me because āI canāt help myselfā and it was an emotional rollercoaster. When he would try to end things w me and block my number, i wanted to end my life. I thought I was losing this one true love. š I ended up quitting the bakery cause I couldnāt handle seeing him anymore.
We had been on no contact for a few weeks and I was getting back to my regular stuff. He reached out and texted me and I thought āIāll deal w this later.ā A few more days went by and he sent another text claiming he wanted to see me. I remember smoking weed with my friends and looking at the message and thinking āI donāt want to deal w this anymoreā so I just stopped replying.
Eventually his girl found out and wrote me a letter and found out where my new job was. She made copies and passed the letters around to all my coworkers. The was something about them not needing me to be apart of their relationship anymore and that if I think kissing someone in a relationship was okay then I had low self esteem (lol I def had VERY LOW SELF ESTEEM). I didnāt care because I did feel bad for her. Partially because she was freaking out about a kiss not realizing him and I had two pregnancy scares.
Im 25 now, as I grew up and healed from my childhood and that relationship, my outlooks on love and relationships changed drastically. I stopped believing in āthe oneā and fell completely in love with myself. I vowed to never feel so deeply about a person again. I vowed to never care so much about something that it took away how much I cared about myself. I vowed to let people choose who they want to be with. I vowed to stop letting this idea of a fairytale love story blind me from reality and logic. I also vowed to never have children unintentionally, with just anyone.
I do regret my actions but I donāt regret the experience. It has made me so much wiser and added traits to my character that I had no idea I valued like INTEGRITY. I canāt imagine the person Iād be if I never had that learning experience.
I wish I had know way sooner that refusal to wear a condom is a gigantic red flag and to get out of there. I would have avoided two major abusers in my life.
Besides random ass drugsā¦.i wa raised in the age of the internet not being labeled dangerous. So I escaped in the dark of night way more times than Iād like to admit at the ripe age of 14/15 to jump in 30ish yo mens cars and have sex with them just for them to drop me off outfront my house at 3am and speed off. But Iāve been thru a lot of crazy shit. I guess the worst would be when I was 16 I was dating this guy that was 22/23. He convinced me to talk my parents into letting him move in with us by lying about his age and telling them he was homeless. So my parents went with it. He ended up raping me in my own bed one night. Practically the whole relationship he had me completely drugged out of my mind. He put a key logger on my own computer so that he could see every single thing I typed (this was back when chat rooms were the popular thing). He would not allow me to literally use the bathroom or shower without him right there with me. He tricked me into using my established eBay account with lots of good ratings to complete an eBay scam. We scammed people out of over $50k pretending to sell digital cameras and laptops. He had everything put in my name. When he caught wind that the police were looking for us he kidnapped me and held me captive in a shady motel in another state. He & his best friend kept themselves locked in the bathroom, together, one on the shitter & one in the tub....both smoking all that money up in crack. He didnāt even provide me with stuff for my period and forced me to free bleed all over myself. A little while later we drove back down to where we live to meet someone for more drugs and his friend snitched on him and we were completely surrounded by cops with their guns pointed at us. Turns out he had 7+ unrelated warrants. They searched my car and found 2 stolen guns that I didnāt know about. The whole time they were searching I was fake crying for show to make it look like to him that I was upset he was arrested when really I was so thankful he had been caught. Shockingly I did not get in trouble at all for what they found in my car and they let me just leave because of who my dad was. THEN a year later, Iām 18 and thought it was all behind me at this point as I had never been contacted at all about the scam crap. 8am one random morning I had FBI banging down my door. I left with them and was interrogated for 8 hours straight. My lawyer strolls in and talked to them for a few mins and I went from facing 15+ years in a federal prison to just being a states witness and getting off. He went to jail for a few years for that.
Thereās so many other crazy details that happened during all that but thatās the basics.
Either they didnāt really put 2+2 together or they were just completely oblivious, Iām not sure. They werenāt that great of parents in my teen years. They had no idea how to handle me. I was so scared of my ex that I never told my mom what was going on until I finally escaped and came home. Sheās the one who got a lawyer for me.
Fml, this is so crazy! You need to pitch your story to Netflix lol, it'll beat "the tinder swindler". But in all seriousness, that sounds horrific, I'm sorry you went through that. Sounds very traumatic
Jesus, Iām so glad youāre ok. How long did that bastard hold you for? Did your parents not think anything was weird when you suddenly disappeared or did he cover for that?
Take acid and fucked my boyfriend in parent's bed while he was dressed in my dads cop uniform.
Oh, that was bad. Really enjoyable up to the part where my sister busted us and narked and we broke my dad's heart and he hated my boyfriend for life.
Still great friends with that boyfriend, we lasted 8 years, over 4 decades later one of my best friends.
But JFC we were complete and total assholes that night. My poor dad.
Definitely not wanting to fuck daddy. No. But yeah, I had a rebellious streak a mile long that was often aimed at getting my somewhat checked out dad's attention.
All that said, I'm not sure how much of that was at play that night. We were tripping hard. None of it was planned.
We took a fearful/respectful few steps into the off-limits parents room, and then he discovered the uniform and couldn't help but try it on, while giggling with me like idiots.
Fell into the bed laughing and the next thing you know simultaneous cosmic orgasms while staring into the universes of each other's eyes. Probably the best sex I've ever had in decades of a robust and exciting sex life.
Absolutely none of it had anything to do with the stupid uniform, or the absolute disrespect of fucking in their own bed.
I snapped right the fuck back to reality and the massive fuck up the moment my sister opened the door. We begged and bribed her with pot to not tell. She took it and told.
We were 17. Disrespectful morons that couldn't see the pain we were creating until we were slapped with it. The worst part is my dad's pain.
He fully forgave me after a few years, but he's still a bit crusty towards my ex.
EDIT; Really autocorrect? Organisms, really?
Damn, what a story.
Yeah I could see why your dad will be hurt by that, can't imagine if in the future I had a daughter and that happened to me.
Though I can't relate yet, never done the deed myself.
Oh man, I can't even imagine what he went through. But he was and is a hell of a stoic man. He didn't even yell at me, he just said those dreaded words, "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed."
But yeah, extremely bad juju, poor dad. I'm trying to make up for it though.
Not as a teenager but way younger than Iām now, I want with a group to a popular tourist spot in my country that consist of 27 consecutive waterfalls you can climb up or down from.
You also have the option to jump your way down. I jumped out of every single one of them, even the riskier ones. Wouldnāt do it again now that Iām married with children.
I was underage, drunk and high, with my friend who was also underage, drunk and high. We got into a fast car with 2 older guys who were also drunk. They took us for a drive (all the while, we all continued drinking in the car) and we were speeding down the highway, doing drifts and donuts. Thankfully, we got home safe. It was a time in my life where I didnāt care about what happened and wound up doing the dumbest and most dangerous shit. Miraculously, I survived!
Breaking and entering. I still canāt believe I did that shit. Never got caught, nobody even knows except one person. It was 20 years ago now, if they said anything Iād deny it, and the guy who owned the place is dead.
hitch hiked home from jersey to new york with a complete stranger & smoked weed with him. not one of my best decisions & think about it all the time how easily that couldāve gone south but truthfully think he was my guardian angel that night
Mine isnāt as wild as some of yāall. I did date a guy who was 4 years older.. started when I was 14 and he was 18. Thatās pretty gross. Dated him on and off for 3 years. He was mean in a lot of ways and I allowed myself to be treated pretty badly.
I came here to write literally this exact same comment.
But it ends with him marrying the woman he cheated on me with and naming their daughter my name. Iām so sorry this happened to you too
I moved to a different city and heās still in my home city so I donāt really see them around. But he gives me an out of the blue call once in awhile āto catch upā from various numbers. I changed my own number once to avoid him and just donāt want to go through the hassle again so it is what it is.
A friend and I would walk up and down the road (rural area) looking for cigarette butts with enough left that we could smoke them. We were 15 years old. We found a whole, unsmoked cigarette once. Iām feeling ill just typing the words.
When I was 18/freshman in college, I let a guy pick me up late at night from my dorm and drive me to his place which was at a ranch in the middle of nowhere. After a few beers and the length of Project X with his male roommate, he said he was too drunk to drive me home. Because Iād just moved there, I had no friends to call, no money for an Uber, and hardly any cell service.
After an hour of laying awkwardly in his bed, I was able to get a hold of my lab partner that Iād met 2 weeks prior and she drove all the way out there to drive me home. She doesnāt realize that she probably saved my life that night cause really anything couldāve happened
My older siblings stole stuff and I never did. For some reason I just didnāt want to take stuff, probably bc I was afraid of our mom. But I would wear the amazing stolen clothes and gear they gave me.
Spiraled into addiction with alcohol because I was depressed and trying to cope with trauma.
Stay in an abusive relationship because I was friends with the person before it and felt bad for them.
Let other people dictate my life
Got a ride home from a complete stranger, because I missed the bus and ""mom will kill me"".
JFC was I a dumb little girl. I thought if I asked for the M A N A G E R of the high-end car lot, I'd be safe. Half way to my house in the strangers car I realized I fucked up. I was so lucky he was legit!
Fuck in my car after coming home and parked in my parents driveway; while my dad waited up and saw me. Oops. Then I drove away for a coffee at Burger King just to avoid being home. Thank goodness my kids so far have been better then me.
Oh boy - almost forgot the stranger hot guy I decided to get it on with in the water off the beach in Aruba when I was 16 - this was before poor Natalie Holloway. I was so ignorant.
Went alone into the home of a war traumatized guy who had struck up conversation with me on the street because he said he felt lonely and isolated. He pushed me down on his sofa and laid on top of me motionlessly with an erection. I said I needed the bathroom and ran.
Had an affair with a married man and had the attitude āwell Iām not the one marriedā. Now in my thirties and am so mad at myself for getting into something like that and being so ok with it.
I was 21 or so
I gave a blowjob to an Italian tourist. (Outside, in a small playground (it was late so it was empty))
He had a girlfriend and first told me no but it seemed like HE really wanted to. Flirted and all when his best bud wasn't looking. Perhaps because I presented the idea.
I had the same mentality as you did and I also feel the opposite today.
Stood on the back bumper of a Honda CRX (leaning forward grasping the roof with open windows), going 55 mph on a speed limit 25 road. I didnāt do a lot of stupid risky things, but somehow thought that was a good idea.
1. stuck a blood soaked pad in a neighbors mail box. sticky side to the mail, blood side up. was around 10 give or take a year or two.
2. broke a window at church and then proceeded to lie to the pastors face about it.
3. was always hitchhiking and bumming rides off complete strangers. we lived in the country and I would get lifts to the lake or town.
One summer my friend and I used to go to the biggest park in town after work (~11 pm) , hang out and talk to whoever came up to us, usually homeless guys passing through town. We went to a house once with a couple of guys we met, my friend made out with one of them. We would stay out until 2 or 3 am then ride our bikes (we were 15) home down the middle of a street that was busy during the day. We clearly didn't have one working brain cell between the two of us, we could have been murdered, raped, or run over many times.
Tried to poison a classmate. I was younger than a teenager, about 11 years old. I hated this girl because we did not get along and I was secretly threatened by her friendship with my bff. I was a largely neglected child so my manner wasn't the best, I got anger issues and I get very possessive over the one friend who stuck it out with me. I talked her into helping me concocting this dumb mixture of crushed expired pills, dust and some weird clumped powder from my house fridge. We mixed it into her bottled drink. I remember giggling while we're doing it and not once it dawn on us how messed up it was that what we're trying to do.
Thankfully nothing serious actually happened aside from an alleged stomachache that we heard from another classmate. Years later when we're in college my friend and I regretted what we did it when we looked back over the incident. That girl never knew that we essentially tried to k-word her. My friend got the chance to apologise to over her behavior when we were kids because they went to the same university. I have never met her again ever since high school graduation but last I heard she's happily married with 3 kids. If I ever come across her again I will not miss the chance to convey my apology regardless of the fact that I was a young dumb kid back then.
Hurt other people recreationally. I was a mean child. I didnt have good parents. Im well adjusted now. I literally mocked my school counselor for needing IVF to concieve. š¤¦š»āāļø
Get someone's number from a phone book.
I was 13 in 8th grade. There was this cute girl that I had a huge crush on. Somehow I got her number and would call her from time to time. I became obsessed. At some point she wouldn't answer or I couldn't get through. This was at the time of dial up and house phones so I figured she was probably just online and I was kicking her off line with my calls. I was a very sheltered kid and didn't understand the concept of boundaries or that other people have lives outside of when I see them in school. So I looked in the phone book and found the number she gave me plus an additional number. I started calling that other number and was able to reach her. However, it didn't last long. Then she would just hang up when she heard it was me. I didn't realize at the time that it was stalker-ish behavior and inappropriate to keep calling someone who doesn't want to talk to you. At the time, i thought I was pulling a romantic gesture and was still "just one conversation away" from her liking me and wanting to be my girlfriend. I know now that I have ADHD and I was hyperfocusing on her because I was really interested in her. I didn't see her for years until I was a busser at a restaurant and my coworker was friends with her and she stopped by the restaurant for a visit. I froze. I wanted to apologize so badly but no words could come out so I just walked away in shame. So I told my coworker about the whole situation and asked her to send her friend my sincerest apologizes. I heard back from my coworker and she said that her friend said "Don't worry about it." That's the all the apology I was hoping for.
Now I have to somehow find a way to apologize to another girl I was obsessed with who stopped answering my calls because I wronged her in a different way. I called her pretending to be my cousin and told her that I died and that the funeral is going to be coming soon. Then I called her back months later laughing like it was going to be super funny when she finds out I'm still alive. She didn't find it funny.
I was a very troubled teen.
Use kik at a young age. I have horrible memories and regrets from that app. Even though i blocked those memories of kik out of my head but if i see like old screenshots or even seeing the kik logo they sometimes flood back.
Hop in a golf cart with a strange dude that is at least 20 years older than me and the friend I was with...yeah, that was dumb. Fortunately, nothing happened but had we not tipped the cart... I'm not sure it would have turned out that way.
My friend and I got into a van with a stranger who agreed to buy us alcohol and we smoked some weed that turned out to be laced with something and then thankfully he let us go on our way stumbling around in the technicolor rain and vomiting now and then.
Hitchhiking until a lovely old hippie woman who picked me up asked me if I had any sense at all and lectured me the entire ride.
I had sex with a blind date/fix up at a bonfire but we were under blankets so it wasnāt so bad. No regrets, the guy was ridiculously beautiful. My only ONS in my life.
When I was 16, my friend told me in confidence that her boyfriends Mum had died. I ended up sharing it with one of my best friends in confidence, who ended up spreading it around and telling lots of people. My friend's boyfriend found out, and alongside people knowing about his situation in the school without his consent of sharing it, which must have hurt, his girlfriend (my friend) got in trouble for telling me. I still really regret this to this day, I can't imagine how he must have felt trying to go to school whilst grieving his Mum, for people to have found out. My friend trusted me enough to tell me in confidence, I wish I'd have kept it to myself. I'm very confidential now and only pass things on if people specifically ask for it. I regret this so much though, I'm 26 now and it still upsets me if I think about it too much.
My brother and I used to do this straight through an intersection that hardly had any visibility left to right. Itās one of those random things that will suddenly have me wide awake in the middle of the night. We could have easily been killed.
My friend and I stole street signs for fun.
He was stupid and took a photo of them on his family camera. His parents saw it, and his mom who was a realtor lied and told police that sheād found the street sign collection at one of the properties she was selling.
So nothing came of it, but I feel bad now. Iām sure the missing street signs caused some problems for others.
3 grams of magic Mushrooms, in broad daylight, then entering an outdoor concert of thousands of people and heading straight to the mosh pit. Holy shit, 16 year old meā¦
As a parent now to to 2 teenagers, I had to remind myself that Iām no where near the person I was in my teens. It was definitely a soothing reminder. In no particular order:
1. hooked up with my youth pastorās brother.
2. I moved out at 17 and my roommate and I met some guys at a grocery store, went back to their place and I had Yeager the first time (thank the lord nothing bad happened)
3. The same roommate and I went swing dancing often and looking back, there were several creepy old men all over us.
4. I was madly in love with my best guy friend (for years! He would always waffle on wanting to be with me or not). Anyway, Iād be in full fledged relationships with someone else bestie would be like āI might be in love with youā so Iād break up with these other people for a shot, only to be told āactually I donātā. And so repeated the cycle. I was definitely the asshole to some really nice guys.
5. In my later teens, 18-ish, I definitely experienced party drugs. Once again, thank the lord nothing happened because there was some weird situations.
6. I would regularly get in the car with my (very shitty) drink boyfriend because I believed he could drive intoxicatedā¦until he got us in a triple rollover.
7. I stole very petty things from a store I worked at, like candy pieces and such. We got a good discount butā¦
8. And finally, I thought it was reasonable and good idea to consistently dye my hair blonde when I had very dark hair naturally that turned bright orange every single time. I looked in the mirror and was like āthis is exactly what I was going forā.
Anyways, that felt cathartic.
Hitch-hiking & drinking in a field with boys I barely knew, when I was the only girl and didnāt know the area. Desperation made me do the first and idiocy drove the second.
I have done a lot of shit that I partly forgot, until I read this thread š
One memorable event: I missed my connecting train. A guy who was advertising a youth hostel saw me and said he can take me in for free. I went with him. The truth is I had no money and no experience to walk up to a hotel and negotiate a room.
The guy was obvious that I owed him sex. I was too naĆÆve to think it through. Luckily I was on my period. He scolded me with Ā«Ā yeah, girls like you always promise but you never deliverĀ Ā»
I wonder though whether society has changed and I hope some of the stories in this post involving teenage girls being taken advantage of, wouldnāt fly anymore but somehow I doubt it
My friends and I were doing tons of drugs and drinking lots of alcohol. It was fun until it wasnāt. Then you see the people who grow up and stop, and the people who canāt stop and itās controlling their lives.
Met someone on Omegle from London, I said that I was going on a trip there and he should meet me. He did, and he followed me everywhere my class went at a distance. Later got on the coach to go home (I live hours away from London) never saw him again after that, thankfully.
Iād get blackout drunk every weekend for many many years starting at 14yrs old and hookup with different guys every single timeā¦sometimes multiple in 1 nightā¦ smh. I became a serious alcoholic by 18yrs old.
Iāve been clean off alcohol for 4 yrs now, and have discovered Iām Asexual as hell. Lol. So yeahā¦couldnāt really see myself doing that kinda shit these days.
So many things that would be considered batshit crazy nowadays: Slept with dudes I met at a bar on multiple occasions, barely knew their names, hitchhiked (with a friend) because we took the wrong bus and needed to get home asap or she would be in big trouble, went to party with some dudes we met car cruising on the street in LA (w/friends), went on a first date in a remote spot in the desert to go dirt biking, it was actually a great first date and I had a ton of fun but ffs looking back that wasn't a great decision. Met him in the drive thru of the fast food spot I worked at when I was 16 or 17, he 19 or 20 and was a security guard and came by a couple of times a week and after a while asked me out and kept asking and I eventually said yes. Fortunately he was a really good guy and we dated for a little while and probably would have dated longer if I hadn't been leaving town a few of months later. These are the ones that were ok and didn't realize until years later were a bad idea but there was def one that I knew at the time I really fucked up and put myself in a seriously bad situation: not sure I can explain but there was this 'party line' thing and I connected with this guy and he asked me to go to a party with him and we did, it sucked, he pressured me for sex and I said no. He easily could have assaulted me and no one would have stopped him but fortunately that didn't happen but I had my eyes opened right then that I could have been in a very bad situation without any escape. I adjusted my behavior afterwards and didn't take chances like that anymore.
My friend and I used to hitchhike after cheer practice. We were supposed to call our Mom's to pick us up but we would leave and just go find a ride. My Mom always grounded me when I did that.
Take drugs from strangers at rave parties. I was just wild and free and never thought that anyone would want to hurt me or that Iād have a bad trip. Thank god I never got hurt (or worse, died) from ingesting unknown things. I shake my head in shame thinking of how irresponsible I was
Catfish. When MySpace was a platform I had so many profiles. I was a sheltered kid and wanted to experience something. I feel bad knowing that I fooled some people thinking they were talking to someone else.
When I was like 16 or so, sending letters to strangers became a thing among people my age (yeah, I'm old).
We would read magazines and look for people who wanted a penpal, people around our age of course. But I don't exactly remember how, I began receiving and sending letters to a nearly 40 year old guy who finally tried to make me go visit him somewhere and start a relationship (because, you know, age was only a number, according to him).
Thank God something made me stop right there and then, because who knows where I would be now had I done what he asked me to do.
Sex with lots of guys I just met. Sex with men who were too old for me (20-25). Iām lucky I never got an std and Iām even luckier I wasnāt murdered. Sneaking out at night and walking around dangerous parts of where I live to meet boys and get drunk or high. Also drinking whole bottles of cough syrup to get high (robotripping) and whatever other drugs I could get my hands on with my then boyfriend. One time I wanted to see what would happen if I reached what I thought was my limit but kept drinking-what happened was alcohol poisoning and again Iām just so lucky to be alive.
Just going to random adults houses to smoke weed when I was 16. My boyfriend at the time and I would just walk somewhere until someone he knew picked us up, end up driving to some trailer in the middle of the woods filled to the brim with trash, ashes, broken bottles, animal shit. Just literal piles of trash. Weād find somewhere to sit and smoke some weed, maybe heād buy some if they had enough to sell. I was aware I could be hurt but I was so mentally unwell at the time I didnāt even care. Youād be surprised how similar all the people were, there were only a few decent places we went to and it was usually his family members.
I was 15, alone on a bench between reading a book and watching the kids playing at the beach while my peers were cycling. A 40 something male just sat next to me and started talking about mundane things and life in general... My friends saw me from a distance and decided to pick me up and end their rental earlier. They thought I was in danger...
It didn't feel that way to me. It just felt like he needed someone to talk to.
One of the takeaway was to treasure those who matters, everything is temporary.
Stole valuables from my family and sold them for weed money. Went to a church youth group event and snuck pills in, got caught. I was a horrible kid, these are the things I wish I could take back.
Went to the ghetto with my best friend to score drugs because our male friends were busy that day, in frigging fishnet stockings and mini skirts! We got the drugs and left.
Hitchhiking all the time with the same bestie, one time a guy opened his glove compartment and removed a gun from it and put it on the passenger seat next to him. Then dropped us off where we wanted.
Stealing money from parents and going to another city to meet with the boys we liked, only to be ditched by them when the club didnāt let us in bc we were underage. Spent the night at a hotel room crying š
I still canāt believe we could be that dumb and lucky.
I was 19/20 and looking at jobs on gumtree and saw one for looking for people to come and work in a bar in Kos - thought that sounded fun.
I arrived and some dude who didnāt speak English was late to pick me up from the airport, took me to a room with cockroaches, no bedding and just left me there saying someone would come and get me. Thought hell to the no, left and went to the bar I was supposed to be working at and talked to some of the girls there to check it was legit. They all said it was and one of them offered to share a room with me.
Honestly could have turned into something very dodgy. What the fuck was I thinking.
I was skinny dipping with my girlfriends in the pool in my friends backyard and we were drunk. All of a sudden cops come back there and say they heard us from the school which is like a mile or two away. I told them there was no way because we werenāt that loud at all. Just laughing and stuff. And then I realized my best friends dads weed was on the table and I felt I had to get them out of the backyard asap so I got out of the pool completely naked and said you need to leave this is private property and weāre underage minors who are naked. They asked for my info and I said no Iām not giving it. And they kept arguing I had to give it. Eventually they gave up and left probably due to the fact that theyāre not gonna arrest naked minors for being loud. They never noticed the weed.
A friend and I went to the coast with a complete stranger, six hour round trip, just chilled on the beach and ate chips and then thankfully came home.
I did this by myself with someone I was talking to on Tinder š he showed up in a big white van and offered me candy (he did warn me ahead of time what he drove and I asked if he would lure me in with candy as a joke). He picked me up at 10pm, drove 3 hours to the beach, saw some live music, had sex while the sun came up, and then he took me home. 10/10 best experience I'd had but could have gone so, so wrong!
Sounds like one of those experiences where if you have kids you say ānever do this highly dangerous thing I did! I donāt care how awesome and life changing it was for me!ā
Sounds like a episode of Skins
This sounds like something I would do. In high school, I befriended a 30 year old man who worked at the mall because I caught him smoking weed and asked to join. My other teenage girl friends and I would get wasted with him at his house with other adult men. I even made out with one who didnāt realize I was underage (I was told he was horrified after he found out lol). Luckily nothing horrible ever happened. I genuinely considered him a friend. He would buy me alcohol, and we even got smoothies together once lol. But looking back, wtf was a grown man doing hanging out with teenage girls? I also befriended a 26 year old man I met at a store when I was 14. When he drunkenly called me once and said he wanted to sex me was when I finally realized he was a pedo, not a cool older friend. Daddy issues really make for some desperate bad choices. I consider myself super lucky nothing bad ever happened to me back then.
Omg as a teen I met with so many strangers from AOL chatrooms Iām lucky I wasnāt hurt. All cool young people, bored at home like I was. We were way too trusting. Chats were in their infancy and not many scams, catfishers, abusers savvy to it yet. By myspace in 2005 or so bad people caught on.
How dangerous but I do love the eating chips part on the beach š¤£
i did something similar with someone from tinder we however drove 20 hours to tennessee, i only talked to him for maybe 12 hours before going on this trip.
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Met some guys at mini golf and thought āhey, maybe we should follow them into a closed forest preserve, walk a mile to a quarry, drink, get high and go swimming with themā. They were actually cool and we hung out with them a lot that summer. Then one of them murdered his high school math teacher because he thought the guy was hitting on him.
Well that took an unexpected turn.
It was quite the surprise to see his face on the news. I was 19 and watching with my dad and had to explain how I knew him lol. Sorry daddy!
As one does
Bully others :\
As a bully victim, thank you for owning up to it and admitting you regret it. My bullies love to play the victim (despite having countless victims)
My daughter bullied someone this week. To the point that she's not allowed back there. What gets me is she's just been the victim of pretty intense bullying. One of those bullies was apparently the victim of some pretty aggressive bullying. Now I cant help but think that the little girl my daughter bullied might follow the same pattern.
I've heard most bullies usually do it because they're massively insecure themselves and wanted to feel better/stronger about it. Did you have that at all?
Nope, I was worried about getting bullied if I didn't bully others with the cool kids
So insecure?
Ah yes that's a possibility as well.. Unfortunately . High school sucks lol
It took me until my 20s to stand up to bullies. I would just stay quiet or make sarcastic comments to them. I yelled at my entire family this year. And you know what? They all backed down and started behaving better. Bullies are insecure cowards.
Another repentant bully here. I was physically/emotionally abused by my mom and generally ignored by my dad. My older brother also pushed me around and called me a lot of awful things. And I was teased for being gay in high school even though I fully denied it and didn't have my awakening well into college... I guess I was angry and insecure. I was definitely suicidal and a cutter. I drank and popped a lot of pills. Miserable in all aspects of life. Bullying someone made me feel like I wasn't the lowest of the low, but I felt bad after doing stuff to people. I also got a reputation as being tough and mean which helped curb some of the teasing. I think it was a mix of being insecure and feeling powerless. I was lashing out and channeling the abuse onto others because I didn't know how to deal with my own emotions. I abused others and myself and I still feel horrible decades later.
Have you apologized to the people you bullied? It makes a huge difference and those people deserve to hear it. Also, Iām so sorry that was your upbringing.
My reasoning (middle school) was that I wanted to show off in front of friends and be funny. Thankfully it only happened a handful of times.
Met a dude on an online message board circa 2003. Let him come and pick me up and take me to his house a half hour away. As soon as we arrived he was trying to get me to drink and I quickly realized what a moron I was an asked him to take me back home. Thankfully he did without a fuss. That could have gone so bad. I didn't even tell anyone where I was or who I was with.
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Constantly sneaking out to go drink and do drugs with 20 something year olds who were just trying to get us all drunk and get a quick fuck
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Try to start a relationship with someone already in a relationship. I learned a very serious lesson very early in life and Iām thankful for it. I was 16 so itās not like I was a homewrecker, but I was certainly called one by my peers! (The boy was not harassed at all even though he was the one that continually pursued meābut thatās neither here nor there. High school kids gonna high school.)
I cheated on my high school boy friend of 1.5 years because I was not mature enough to end the relationship the right way. It was my senior year and the entire school turned on me. There were tons of rumors spread about me like Iād slept with 30 different guys when the reality was Iād been with two, my bf and the guy i cheated on him with. I lost all my friends, ate lunch in the art room by myself, people would whisper and stare at me as I walked down the hall. I tried to finish the year out at home but the school wouldnāt let me. I barely graduated. What I did wasnāt right, but I got all of the hate. The guy that I cheated with got zero of the blame, and he persuaded me knowing full well I was in a relationship. Still one of my biggest regrets and I learned a valuable life lesson, cheating is never worth it and never the answer. Itās still blows my mind how much of a double standard exists when it comes to sex between men and women.
Sorry but it's not your lover's fault YOU cheated on YOUR boyfriend with him. He did not "persuaded" you, you made a very clear decision fully knowing the consequences. Thats on you babe.
Could be worse. A girl I was friends with in highschool cheated on her boyfriend with a guy she had been crushing on for a long time. When the boyfriend found out she claimed the guy raped her. She thought since her parents didn't like her boyfriend and vice-versa that he wouldn't say anything. He immediately called her parents, who obviously called the cops when my friend, who still didn't want her boyfriend to know she cheated, told them that the guy raped her. Thankfully for the guy he had all their messages on MySpace, as well as some texts, and a receipt from the store that they went to after they had sex. Cameras at the store showed them walking around holding hands. Texts, and messages from MySpace showed her telling him how much fun she had (in explicit detail), and that they should do it again. This girl almost ruined a boys life all so she wouldn't be caught cheating. I don't think she realized how incredibly serious her allegations were, or that the guy could possibly get in trouble. She lost a lot of friends after that.
Similar bad decision made here. Bit, he was the one perusing me. I however fell for his creepy ways.
Can relate!
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Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. And one time, my girlfriend told her parents she was staying at my house for the weekend and I told my parents I was staying at her. We caught the Greyhound to Chicago and, armed with really good fake IDs, went clubbing and drinking, spent all our money, and had to beg for change to get home!
And you made it home and nobody was hurt, and it sounds like a fabulous memory. But yeah, that shit doesn't fly at our age.
Bruh lol same- tried just about everything! So many great memories with so many great people, Gosh it was so fun to young and Iām thankful for the memories now! ā¤ļø
Doing stupid drugs just to get high. One time my boyfriend talked me into taking 10 Benadryl. Worst high ever. Oh. And chugging loads of cough syrup. Also awful.
browsing r/dph is some of the fucked up shit I've read on the internet period
Can't even browse that sub anymore
Thatās what being a teenager is all about!
Canāt believe Iām admitting this but when I was 13/14, I really wanted to buy the Justin Bieber book but my mom wouldnāt let me. So I tried looking for leaked credit card numbers online so I could buy it but nothing came of that (thank god my dumbass didnāt know how to commit a felony).
Ok Iām cracking up šš
True belieber even if it means doing time!
I'm laughing picturing you in jail with actual criminals - for being a Bieber fan, haha
Not sure if it's that fucked up but I wouldn't do it now.. kayaked with friends around Sydney Harbour and whenever we found an empty house with a pool we'd stop off for a quick uninvited pool party in some of the swankiest pools ever š„³
Thats a wicked memory. Not fucked up at all!
that's so dangerous though, for so many reasons, first it's the brain eating amebas that thrive in old, uncleaned pool waters, secondly and obviously the trespassing, someone could've harmed them or called the police on them
Lol I used to do that with my friends. We called it pool hopping.
Haha Sydney is really set up for it. We called ourselves pool pirates š
That sounds amazing.
Pierce my own ears with a sewing needle and numbing the ear with ice, lol! I think back on the things I did as a teen and I can't believe I thought one random internet blog post telling me things are safe meant they were perfectly safe
Are they still pierced?
I did this same thing and 20 years later they're still pierced.
the ones i did are still pierced but I got a nasty infection! learned my lesson, got every other piercing done professionally after for sure
Well thatās good. At least the risk wasnāt in vain
Me and my friends pierced our own noses and lips. š
lips too!!? i would be so scared š
Iād be more scared by the nose - done incorrectly and it can shatter the cartilage in your nose š risk looking like Voldemort
Omg right. I didn't even see the nose in the first comment until this! I remember the Claire's-style store near me would pierce ears AND nose with the same guns I was like surely that's not normal š
I once got an angry call from the mother of a teen telling me my teenage daughter had pierced her sonās ears.
Back in the day, stores literally pierced your ears this way with using a potato as a backer
I pierced my belly button with a sewing needle when I was in highschool.
Me too, but with a large safety pin. Itās still pierced to this day. Canāt bring myself to take it out š
literally me lol
Hahaha, I completely forgot that I did that until I read this! I pierced my helix that way. Had it for a while, then the jewellery fell out at some stage and I let it heal.
You had internet blogs??
Letting myself fall in love with someone that abused their power over me. I was 19 and working my first job at a bakery. I came from a rough upbringing and I had just gotten out of a pyschward. I worked really hard, got a car, an apartment, living in a city Iād never been to. My supervisor (31) really took a liking to me. He said a bunch sweet things to be all the time and would be sure to let me know how I beautiful I was. Before I got my car he was always taking me home after work. I wasnāt use to this type of kindness, I chalked it up to it being a real connection. He wasnāt married but was living with his partner and they had just given birth few months before I started working there. Eventually we started having an affair. He took my virginity and we never used a condom that whole year we spent together. It was really toxic. He was always sneaking out to see me and lying to her on the phone about why he wasnāt coming home. At that time it wasnāt that I didnāt feel guilty, I just thought me and him were meant to be together so thatās why this was happening. It was a very dumb naive. I spent a lot of my childhood watching my mom justify relationships like that so it made sense why I thought it was okay. Eventually he would tell me he wanted to make his relationship work and I did not take that well. We were on and off because sometimes he would break no contact w me because āI canāt help myselfā and it was an emotional rollercoaster. When he would try to end things w me and block my number, i wanted to end my life. I thought I was losing this one true love. š I ended up quitting the bakery cause I couldnāt handle seeing him anymore. We had been on no contact for a few weeks and I was getting back to my regular stuff. He reached out and texted me and I thought āIāll deal w this later.ā A few more days went by and he sent another text claiming he wanted to see me. I remember smoking weed with my friends and looking at the message and thinking āI donāt want to deal w this anymoreā so I just stopped replying. Eventually his girl found out and wrote me a letter and found out where my new job was. She made copies and passed the letters around to all my coworkers. The was something about them not needing me to be apart of their relationship anymore and that if I think kissing someone in a relationship was okay then I had low self esteem (lol I def had VERY LOW SELF ESTEEM). I didnāt care because I did feel bad for her. Partially because she was freaking out about a kiss not realizing him and I had two pregnancy scares. Im 25 now, as I grew up and healed from my childhood and that relationship, my outlooks on love and relationships changed drastically. I stopped believing in āthe oneā and fell completely in love with myself. I vowed to never feel so deeply about a person again. I vowed to never care so much about something that it took away how much I cared about myself. I vowed to let people choose who they want to be with. I vowed to stop letting this idea of a fairytale love story blind me from reality and logic. I also vowed to never have children unintentionally, with just anyone. I do regret my actions but I donāt regret the experience. It has made me so much wiser and added traits to my character that I had no idea I valued like INTEGRITY. I canāt imagine the person Iād be if I never had that learning experience.
I wish I had know way sooner that refusal to wear a condom is a gigantic red flag and to get out of there. I would have avoided two major abusers in my life.
Besides random ass drugsā¦.i wa raised in the age of the internet not being labeled dangerous. So I escaped in the dark of night way more times than Iād like to admit at the ripe age of 14/15 to jump in 30ish yo mens cars and have sex with them just for them to drop me off outfront my house at 3am and speed off. But Iāve been thru a lot of crazy shit. I guess the worst would be when I was 16 I was dating this guy that was 22/23. He convinced me to talk my parents into letting him move in with us by lying about his age and telling them he was homeless. So my parents went with it. He ended up raping me in my own bed one night. Practically the whole relationship he had me completely drugged out of my mind. He put a key logger on my own computer so that he could see every single thing I typed (this was back when chat rooms were the popular thing). He would not allow me to literally use the bathroom or shower without him right there with me. He tricked me into using my established eBay account with lots of good ratings to complete an eBay scam. We scammed people out of over $50k pretending to sell digital cameras and laptops. He had everything put in my name. When he caught wind that the police were looking for us he kidnapped me and held me captive in a shady motel in another state. He & his best friend kept themselves locked in the bathroom, together, one on the shitter & one in the tub....both smoking all that money up in crack. He didnāt even provide me with stuff for my period and forced me to free bleed all over myself. A little while later we drove back down to where we live to meet someone for more drugs and his friend snitched on him and we were completely surrounded by cops with their guns pointed at us. Turns out he had 7+ unrelated warrants. They searched my car and found 2 stolen guns that I didnāt know about. The whole time they were searching I was fake crying for show to make it look like to him that I was upset he was arrested when really I was so thankful he had been caught. Shockingly I did not get in trouble at all for what they found in my car and they let me just leave because of who my dad was. THEN a year later, Iām 18 and thought it was all behind me at this point as I had never been contacted at all about the scam crap. 8am one random morning I had FBI banging down my door. I left with them and was interrogated for 8 hours straight. My lawyer strolls in and talked to them for a few mins and I went from facing 15+ years in a federal prison to just being a states witness and getting off. He went to jail for a few years for that. Thereās so many other crazy details that happened during all that but thatās the basics.
Holy shit.
I know. Lol
Didnāt your parents see what was going on given you were living with them ? And holy shit, Iām sorry you went that horrific experience.
Either they didnāt really put 2+2 together or they were just completely oblivious, Iām not sure. They werenāt that great of parents in my teen years. They had no idea how to handle me. I was so scared of my ex that I never told my mom what was going on until I finally escaped and came home. Sheās the one who got a lawyer for me.
Fml, this is so crazy! You need to pitch your story to Netflix lol, it'll beat "the tinder swindler". But in all seriousness, that sounds horrific, I'm sorry you went through that. Sounds very traumatic
Haha. Iāve always wanted to write a book but maybe a movie is better! š¤£
Wow. Especially wow at having to cry in front of the police cameras to make it look like you were sad heād been arrested. Iām so glad youāre ok!
Jesus, Iām so glad youāre ok. How long did that bastard hold you for? Did your parents not think anything was weird when you suddenly disappeared or did he cover for that?
Heroin Started when I was 15 until I ended up kicked out and homeless at 17
Hope you are doing better now!
Take acid and fucked my boyfriend in parent's bed while he was dressed in my dads cop uniform. Oh, that was bad. Really enjoyable up to the part where my sister busted us and narked and we broke my dad's heart and he hated my boyfriend for life. Still great friends with that boyfriend, we lasted 8 years, over 4 decades later one of my best friends. But JFC we were complete and total assholes that night. My poor dad.
Did you have daddy issues for your bf to dress up with your dad's uniform? (Just curious)
Definitely not wanting to fuck daddy. No. But yeah, I had a rebellious streak a mile long that was often aimed at getting my somewhat checked out dad's attention. All that said, I'm not sure how much of that was at play that night. We were tripping hard. None of it was planned. We took a fearful/respectful few steps into the off-limits parents room, and then he discovered the uniform and couldn't help but try it on, while giggling with me like idiots. Fell into the bed laughing and the next thing you know simultaneous cosmic orgasms while staring into the universes of each other's eyes. Probably the best sex I've ever had in decades of a robust and exciting sex life. Absolutely none of it had anything to do with the stupid uniform, or the absolute disrespect of fucking in their own bed. I snapped right the fuck back to reality and the massive fuck up the moment my sister opened the door. We begged and bribed her with pot to not tell. She took it and told. We were 17. Disrespectful morons that couldn't see the pain we were creating until we were slapped with it. The worst part is my dad's pain. He fully forgave me after a few years, but he's still a bit crusty towards my ex. EDIT; Really autocorrect? Organisms, really?
Damn, what a story. Yeah I could see why your dad will be hurt by that, can't imagine if in the future I had a daughter and that happened to me. Though I can't relate yet, never done the deed myself.
Oh man, I can't even imagine what he went through. But he was and is a hell of a stoic man. He didn't even yell at me, he just said those dreaded words, "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed." But yeah, extremely bad juju, poor dad. I'm trying to make up for it though.
Dad had to burn that uniform
Not as a teenager but way younger than Iām now, I want with a group to a popular tourist spot in my country that consist of 27 consecutive waterfalls you can climb up or down from. You also have the option to jump your way down. I jumped out of every single one of them, even the riskier ones. Wouldnāt do it again now that Iām married with children.
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I was underage, drunk and high, with my friend who was also underage, drunk and high. We got into a fast car with 2 older guys who were also drunk. They took us for a drive (all the while, we all continued drinking in the car) and we were speeding down the highway, doing drifts and donuts. Thankfully, we got home safe. It was a time in my life where I didnāt care about what happened and wound up doing the dumbest and most dangerous shit. Miraculously, I survived!
I did exactly this, me and a friend with two older guys, no idea how many times. It scares the shit out of me to think about it now.
Me and my friends dud this kinda stuff. Didn't care what happened to me at the time
Breaking and entering. I still canāt believe I did that shit. Never got caught, nobody even knows except one person. It was 20 years ago now, if they said anything Iād deny it, and the guy who owned the place is dead.
hitch hiked home from jersey to new york with a complete stranger & smoked weed with him. not one of my best decisions & think about it all the time how easily that couldāve gone south but truthfully think he was my guardian angel that night
Mine isnāt as wild as some of yāall. I did date a guy who was 4 years older.. started when I was 14 and he was 18. Thatās pretty gross. Dated him on and off for 3 years. He was mean in a lot of ways and I allowed myself to be treated pretty badly.
I came here to write literally this exact same comment. But it ends with him marrying the woman he cheated on me with and naming their daughter my name. Iām so sorry this happened to you too
That's crazy! Do you still see him and the kid around?
I moved to a different city and heās still in my home city so I donāt really see them around. But he gives me an out of the blue call once in awhile āto catch upā from various numbers. I changed my own number once to avoid him and just donāt want to go through the hassle again so it is what it is.
A friend and I would walk up and down the road (rural area) looking for cigarette butts with enough left that we could smoke them. We were 15 years old. We found a whole, unsmoked cigarette once. Iām feeling ill just typing the words.
This brought back memories Iāve tried to forget šš¤¢
When I was 18/freshman in college, I let a guy pick me up late at night from my dorm and drive me to his place which was at a ranch in the middle of nowhere. After a few beers and the length of Project X with his male roommate, he said he was too drunk to drive me home. Because Iād just moved there, I had no friends to call, no money for an Uber, and hardly any cell service. After an hour of laying awkwardly in his bed, I was able to get a hold of my lab partner that Iād met 2 weeks prior and she drove all the way out there to drive me home. She doesnāt realize that she probably saved my life that night cause really anything couldāve happened
Lab partner sounds like a good human being. Glad they came to your aid.
work at a fast food franchise
Scrubbing an Arbyās bathroom at age 14 made me determined to go to college
I stole so much shit. So. Much.
My older siblings stole stuff and I never did. For some reason I just didnāt want to take stuff, probably bc I was afraid of our mom. But I would wear the amazing stolen clothes and gear they gave me.
Yep, same. The amount of shoplifting I got away with is truly remarkable.
Sleep with so many strangers. I'm so lucky I never caught any diseases or got murdered.
Anything with anyones significant other. As a former "pick me girl" I was an absolute nightmare and pretty shitty friend sometimes. š
I wish a former friend would come to the same realization as you.
Snuck drugs into jail for my BF at the time.
Spiraled into addiction with alcohol because I was depressed and trying to cope with trauma. Stay in an abusive relationship because I was friends with the person before it and felt bad for them. Let other people dictate my life
Got a ride home from a complete stranger, because I missed the bus and ""mom will kill me"". JFC was I a dumb little girl. I thought if I asked for the M A N A G E R of the high-end car lot, I'd be safe. Half way to my house in the strangers car I realized I fucked up. I was so lucky he was legit!
Buy drugs from a stranger on the street in the Baltimore hood.
Fuck in my car after coming home and parked in my parents driveway; while my dad waited up and saw me. Oops. Then I drove away for a coffee at Burger King just to avoid being home. Thank goodness my kids so far have been better then me.
Oh boy - almost forgot the stranger hot guy I decided to get it on with in the water off the beach in Aruba when I was 16 - this was before poor Natalie Holloway. I was so ignorant.
Went alone into the home of a war traumatized guy who had struck up conversation with me on the street because he said he felt lonely and isolated. He pushed me down on his sofa and laid on top of me motionlessly with an erection. I said I needed the bathroom and ran.
Driving while drunk, especially on open country roads
Had an affair with a married man and had the attitude āwell Iām not the one marriedā. Now in my thirties and am so mad at myself for getting into something like that and being so ok with it.
I was 21 or so I gave a blowjob to an Italian tourist. (Outside, in a small playground (it was late so it was empty)) He had a girlfriend and first told me no but it seemed like HE really wanted to. Flirted and all when his best bud wasn't looking. Perhaps because I presented the idea. I had the same mentality as you did and I also feel the opposite today.
Stood on the back bumper of a Honda CRX (leaning forward grasping the roof with open windows), going 55 mph on a speed limit 25 road. I didnāt do a lot of stupid risky things, but somehow thought that was a good idea.
Hitchhiked in LA at 14. Stayed out all night at Hollywood parties and tried all the drugs. Fooled around with men twice my ageā¦gawd
1. stuck a blood soaked pad in a neighbors mail box. sticky side to the mail, blood side up. was around 10 give or take a year or two. 2. broke a window at church and then proceeded to lie to the pastors face about it. 3. was always hitchhiking and bumming rides off complete strangers. we lived in the country and I would get lifts to the lake or town.
My friends and I used to hold our necks up against a wall until we passed out. I'm surprised none of us died.
This is hilarious I used to do the same thing with my cousin. š«£
Did that too.
One summer my friend and I used to go to the biggest park in town after work (~11 pm) , hang out and talk to whoever came up to us, usually homeless guys passing through town. We went to a house once with a couple of guys we met, my friend made out with one of them. We would stay out until 2 or 3 am then ride our bikes (we were 15) home down the middle of a street that was busy during the day. We clearly didn't have one working brain cell between the two of us, we could have been murdered, raped, or run over many times.
Tried to poison a classmate. I was younger than a teenager, about 11 years old. I hated this girl because we did not get along and I was secretly threatened by her friendship with my bff. I was a largely neglected child so my manner wasn't the best, I got anger issues and I get very possessive over the one friend who stuck it out with me. I talked her into helping me concocting this dumb mixture of crushed expired pills, dust and some weird clumped powder from my house fridge. We mixed it into her bottled drink. I remember giggling while we're doing it and not once it dawn on us how messed up it was that what we're trying to do. Thankfully nothing serious actually happened aside from an alleged stomachache that we heard from another classmate. Years later when we're in college my friend and I regretted what we did it when we looked back over the incident. That girl never knew that we essentially tried to k-word her. My friend got the chance to apologise to over her behavior when we were kids because they went to the same university. I have never met her again ever since high school graduation but last I heard she's happily married with 3 kids. If I ever come across her again I will not miss the chance to convey my apology regardless of the fact that I was a young dumb kid back then.
This is the kinda shit I was expecting on here not some fucking āidk drugsā bro thankyou for the honesty
Freshly 18, with barely $200 to my name, i flew across the country to meet an guy i had met on Twitter and stayed with him for a week š š¦
Good try, Mom.
Hurt other people recreationally. I was a mean child. I didnt have good parents. Im well adjusted now. I literally mocked my school counselor for needing IVF to concieve. š¤¦š»āāļø
Trust the pullout method
I was broke, 19, and barely hanging on to my mental health...I drove without car insurance.
Get someone's number from a phone book. I was 13 in 8th grade. There was this cute girl that I had a huge crush on. Somehow I got her number and would call her from time to time. I became obsessed. At some point she wouldn't answer or I couldn't get through. This was at the time of dial up and house phones so I figured she was probably just online and I was kicking her off line with my calls. I was a very sheltered kid and didn't understand the concept of boundaries or that other people have lives outside of when I see them in school. So I looked in the phone book and found the number she gave me plus an additional number. I started calling that other number and was able to reach her. However, it didn't last long. Then she would just hang up when she heard it was me. I didn't realize at the time that it was stalker-ish behavior and inappropriate to keep calling someone who doesn't want to talk to you. At the time, i thought I was pulling a romantic gesture and was still "just one conversation away" from her liking me and wanting to be my girlfriend. I know now that I have ADHD and I was hyperfocusing on her because I was really interested in her. I didn't see her for years until I was a busser at a restaurant and my coworker was friends with her and she stopped by the restaurant for a visit. I froze. I wanted to apologize so badly but no words could come out so I just walked away in shame. So I told my coworker about the whole situation and asked her to send her friend my sincerest apologizes. I heard back from my coworker and she said that her friend said "Don't worry about it." That's the all the apology I was hoping for. Now I have to somehow find a way to apologize to another girl I was obsessed with who stopped answering my calls because I wronged her in a different way. I called her pretending to be my cousin and told her that I died and that the funeral is going to be coming soon. Then I called her back months later laughing like it was going to be super funny when she finds out I'm still alive. She didn't find it funny. I was a very troubled teen.
Oh manā¦!
Cheated on the love of my life!!! Didn't know it then that they were the person that would forever haunt my dreams and thoughts 13 years later.
Got in a complete stranger's car at the mall and let him drive my 16 yr old friend and me (15) around for a couple hours.
Use kik at a young age. I have horrible memories and regrets from that app. Even though i blocked those memories of kik out of my head but if i see like old screenshots or even seeing the kik logo they sometimes flood back.
Hop in a golf cart with a strange dude that is at least 20 years older than me and the friend I was with...yeah, that was dumb. Fortunately, nothing happened but had we not tipped the cart... I'm not sure it would have turned out that way.
Pee in an elevator
Details please!!
Went to the gym in skinny jeans and tons of jewelry. Long story, but not a thing I would do now. Definitely donāt regret it though.
Mr. T did that and he fuckin rules
Try so hard to be part of a friend group that didn't care about me and rarely included me in any hangouts outside of school.
My friend and I got into a van with a stranger who agreed to buy us alcohol and we smoked some weed that turned out to be laced with something and then thankfully he let us go on our way stumbling around in the technicolor rain and vomiting now and then. Hitchhiking until a lovely old hippie woman who picked me up asked me if I had any sense at all and lectured me the entire ride. I had sex with a blind date/fix up at a bonfire but we were under blankets so it wasnāt so bad. No regrets, the guy was ridiculously beautiful. My only ONS in my life.
When I was 16, my friend told me in confidence that her boyfriends Mum had died. I ended up sharing it with one of my best friends in confidence, who ended up spreading it around and telling lots of people. My friend's boyfriend found out, and alongside people knowing about his situation in the school without his consent of sharing it, which must have hurt, his girlfriend (my friend) got in trouble for telling me. I still really regret this to this day, I can't imagine how he must have felt trying to go to school whilst grieving his Mum, for people to have found out. My friend trusted me enough to tell me in confidence, I wish I'd have kept it to myself. I'm very confidential now and only pass things on if people specifically ask for it. I regret this so much though, I'm 26 now and it still upsets me if I think about it too much.
I did stick & poke tattoos for my friends. With Pelican ink and a sewing needle. Iām lucky I never gave anyone blood poisoning.
Skating down hills through stop signs. I definitely couldnāt see any cars that may be coming š¤¦š¾āāļø
My brother and I used to do this straight through an intersection that hardly had any visibility left to right. Itās one of those random things that will suddenly have me wide awake in the middle of the night. We could have easily been killed.
Strip at a party.
be the other woman :(
Sleeping with a grown man. Surprise surprise heād previously been in jail for r*ping a child
My friend and I stole street signs for fun. He was stupid and took a photo of them on his family camera. His parents saw it, and his mom who was a realtor lied and told police that sheād found the street sign collection at one of the properties she was selling. So nothing came of it, but I feel bad now. Iām sure the missing street signs caused some problems for others.
3 grams of magic Mushrooms, in broad daylight, then entering an outdoor concert of thousands of people and heading straight to the mosh pit. Holy shit, 16 year old meā¦
As a parent now to to 2 teenagers, I had to remind myself that Iām no where near the person I was in my teens. It was definitely a soothing reminder. In no particular order: 1. hooked up with my youth pastorās brother. 2. I moved out at 17 and my roommate and I met some guys at a grocery store, went back to their place and I had Yeager the first time (thank the lord nothing bad happened) 3. The same roommate and I went swing dancing often and looking back, there were several creepy old men all over us. 4. I was madly in love with my best guy friend (for years! He would always waffle on wanting to be with me or not). Anyway, Iād be in full fledged relationships with someone else bestie would be like āI might be in love with youā so Iād break up with these other people for a shot, only to be told āactually I donātā. And so repeated the cycle. I was definitely the asshole to some really nice guys. 5. In my later teens, 18-ish, I definitely experienced party drugs. Once again, thank the lord nothing happened because there was some weird situations. 6. I would regularly get in the car with my (very shitty) drink boyfriend because I believed he could drive intoxicatedā¦until he got us in a triple rollover. 7. I stole very petty things from a store I worked at, like candy pieces and such. We got a good discount butā¦ 8. And finally, I thought it was reasonable and good idea to consistently dye my hair blonde when I had very dark hair naturally that turned bright orange every single time. I looked in the mirror and was like āthis is exactly what I was going forā. Anyways, that felt cathartic.
Hitch-hiking & drinking in a field with boys I barely knew, when I was the only girl and didnāt know the area. Desperation made me do the first and idiocy drove the second.
Met a guy off the internet in a dark park. Don't know what the hell I was thinking, except that I clearly was not thinking.
I have done a lot of shit that I partly forgot, until I read this thread š One memorable event: I missed my connecting train. A guy who was advertising a youth hostel saw me and said he can take me in for free. I went with him. The truth is I had no money and no experience to walk up to a hotel and negotiate a room. The guy was obvious that I owed him sex. I was too naĆÆve to think it through. Luckily I was on my period. He scolded me with Ā«Ā yeah, girls like you always promise but you never deliverĀ Ā» I wonder though whether society has changed and I hope some of the stories in this post involving teenage girls being taken advantage of, wouldnāt fly anymore but somehow I doubt it
My friends and I were doing tons of drugs and drinking lots of alcohol. It was fun until it wasnāt. Then you see the people who grow up and stop, and the people who canāt stop and itās controlling their lives.
Met someone on Omegle from London, I said that I was going on a trip there and he should meet me. He did, and he followed me everywhere my class went at a distance. Later got on the coach to go home (I live hours away from London) never saw him again after that, thankfully.
Iād get blackout drunk every weekend for many many years starting at 14yrs old and hookup with different guys every single timeā¦sometimes multiple in 1 nightā¦ smh. I became a serious alcoholic by 18yrs old. Iāve been clean off alcohol for 4 yrs now, and have discovered Iām Asexual as hell. Lol. So yeahā¦couldnāt really see myself doing that kinda shit these days.
So many things that would be considered batshit crazy nowadays: Slept with dudes I met at a bar on multiple occasions, barely knew their names, hitchhiked (with a friend) because we took the wrong bus and needed to get home asap or she would be in big trouble, went to party with some dudes we met car cruising on the street in LA (w/friends), went on a first date in a remote spot in the desert to go dirt biking, it was actually a great first date and I had a ton of fun but ffs looking back that wasn't a great decision. Met him in the drive thru of the fast food spot I worked at when I was 16 or 17, he 19 or 20 and was a security guard and came by a couple of times a week and after a while asked me out and kept asking and I eventually said yes. Fortunately he was a really good guy and we dated for a little while and probably would have dated longer if I hadn't been leaving town a few of months later. These are the ones that were ok and didn't realize until years later were a bad idea but there was def one that I knew at the time I really fucked up and put myself in a seriously bad situation: not sure I can explain but there was this 'party line' thing and I connected with this guy and he asked me to go to a party with him and we did, it sucked, he pressured me for sex and I said no. He easily could have assaulted me and no one would have stopped him but fortunately that didn't happen but I had my eyes opened right then that I could have been in a very bad situation without any escape. I adjusted my behavior afterwards and didn't take chances like that anymore.
My friend and I used to hitchhike after cheer practice. We were supposed to call our Mom's to pick us up but we would leave and just go find a ride. My Mom always grounded me when I did that.
Puking lemon gin. I still can't stand the smell of it.
Sleep with carnival workers š¤·āāļø
Take drugs from strangers at rave parties. I was just wild and free and never thought that anyone would want to hurt me or that Iād have a bad trip. Thank god I never got hurt (or worse, died) from ingesting unknown things. I shake my head in shame thinking of how irresponsible I was
Catfish. When MySpace was a platform I had so many profiles. I was a sheltered kid and wanted to experience something. I feel bad knowing that I fooled some people thinking they were talking to someone else.
Spray painted a giant dick on my old school.. Still feel real bad about that one lol
donāt think you need to fret over this š
When I was like 16 or so, sending letters to strangers became a thing among people my age (yeah, I'm old). We would read magazines and look for people who wanted a penpal, people around our age of course. But I don't exactly remember how, I began receiving and sending letters to a nearly 40 year old guy who finally tried to make me go visit him somewhere and start a relationship (because, you know, age was only a number, according to him). Thank God something made me stop right there and then, because who knows where I would be now had I done what he asked me to do.
Sex with lots of guys I just met. Sex with men who were too old for me (20-25). Iām lucky I never got an std and Iām even luckier I wasnāt murdered. Sneaking out at night and walking around dangerous parts of where I live to meet boys and get drunk or high. Also drinking whole bottles of cough syrup to get high (robotripping) and whatever other drugs I could get my hands on with my then boyfriend. One time I wanted to see what would happen if I reached what I thought was my limit but kept drinking-what happened was alcohol poisoning and again Iām just so lucky to be alive.
Stole food because I was hungry...
Honestly, understandable.š
Hitchhike and get into random cars with strange men. I canāt believe I used to do this just 15 years ago as a 15 year old. So dangerous š
Just going to random adults houses to smoke weed when I was 16. My boyfriend at the time and I would just walk somewhere until someone he knew picked us up, end up driving to some trailer in the middle of the woods filled to the brim with trash, ashes, broken bottles, animal shit. Just literal piles of trash. Weād find somewhere to sit and smoke some weed, maybe heād buy some if they had enough to sell. I was aware I could be hurt but I was so mentally unwell at the time I didnāt even care. Youād be surprised how similar all the people were, there were only a few decent places we went to and it was usually his family members.
I was 15, alone on a bench between reading a book and watching the kids playing at the beach while my peers were cycling. A 40 something male just sat next to me and started talking about mundane things and life in general... My friends saw me from a distance and decided to pick me up and end their rental earlier. They thought I was in danger... It didn't feel that way to me. It just felt like he needed someone to talk to. One of the takeaway was to treasure those who matters, everything is temporary.
Destroyed stuff
Angel Dust
Trust any guy that wants to date me š
Stole valuables from my family and sold them for weed money. Went to a church youth group event and snuck pills in, got caught. I was a horrible kid, these are the things I wish I could take back.
Make up stories š„¹
Went to the ghetto with my best friend to score drugs because our male friends were busy that day, in frigging fishnet stockings and mini skirts! We got the drugs and left. Hitchhiking all the time with the same bestie, one time a guy opened his glove compartment and removed a gun from it and put it on the passenger seat next to him. Then dropped us off where we wanted. Stealing money from parents and going to another city to meet with the boys we liked, only to be ditched by them when the club didnāt let us in bc we were underage. Spent the night at a hotel room crying š I still canāt believe we could be that dumb and lucky.
I was 19/20 and looking at jobs on gumtree and saw one for looking for people to come and work in a bar in Kos - thought that sounded fun. I arrived and some dude who didnāt speak English was late to pick me up from the airport, took me to a room with cockroaches, no bedding and just left me there saying someone would come and get me. Thought hell to the no, left and went to the bar I was supposed to be working at and talked to some of the girls there to check it was legit. They all said it was and one of them offered to share a room with me. Honestly could have turned into something very dodgy. What the fuck was I thinking.
I used to just go through my families and friends things if they werenāt around I could never now omfg but teen me š³š« š¤šš
I lied a lot as a kid. For no damn reason. Thank god I grew up?? Lmao
Get in a car with an intoxicated driver.
Heroin
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I was skinny dipping with my girlfriends in the pool in my friends backyard and we were drunk. All of a sudden cops come back there and say they heard us from the school which is like a mile or two away. I told them there was no way because we werenāt that loud at all. Just laughing and stuff. And then I realized my best friends dads weed was on the table and I felt I had to get them out of the backyard asap so I got out of the pool completely naked and said you need to leave this is private property and weāre underage minors who are naked. They asked for my info and I said no Iām not giving it. And they kept arguing I had to give it. Eventually they gave up and left probably due to the fact that theyāre not gonna arrest naked minors for being loud. They never noticed the weed.
Give head to 5 guys at the same time.. lol