The most stupid thing as a teenager, was never doing anything stupid as a teenager, lol!

I was one of those sickeningly responsible kids and the peacemaker in my family, so I was constantly stressing myself out over this or that and doing the dreaded “right thing” all the time. It was incredibly stupid because I didn’t allow myself to just be a kid – I did that when I was around 30 actually… and man! I made up for it with bells on, trust me! 😂

I started smoking, thinking that it would help me lose weight. I wasn’t able to quit until I was in my 40s.

Recently a video tape surfaced of my friends and I tazing each other for fun.

Yes, I lived in bumfuck Florida at the time.

Edit: typo

I was 11, and handled the ‘samples’ at a BNFL booth (at an airshow) where a geiger counter was set up, it wasn’t til the demonstration guy returned and demonstrated to someone else how the coin-sized samples set off the counter that I realised it wasn’t a ‘self service’ type demonstration. The samples were labelled with their atomic symbol, and the most reactive samples were labelled as uranium (about 20mm diameter) and plutonium (about 5mm diameter). At the time I told myself they were likely fake, since leaving a plutonium sample lying around wouldn’t be very likely.

I’ve not died of radiation poisoning or cancer yet, but it’s only been 41 years.

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So many, many choices.

I think my all-time dumbest came when I was about 22, so it doesn’t fit here. In my teens…probably driving drunk at speeds up to 100mph on the mountain roads up above Pasadena with the headlights off at night.