What did you do to torment/try your parents?

[yvr girl]

I had a tendency to wonder off. Had I been born 30 years later, I'm sure they would 'freaked' on many occasions.

I was out till after midnight when I was 7. For years afterward, I would meet people, and they would tell me that they had looked for me when I was missing.

How did you give your parents gray hair?

[da_chimperor]

1. Facial piercings. Mom doesn't know about number two yet.

She can be thankful my hair is it's natural color. :evilgrin:

[DIKB]

2. I was a pain.

I took apart anything I could to figure out how it worked. After they made me stop doing it at home, and doing it to OUR stuff. . . I did it at school with other people's property. I'm supposed to have a chapter in a book on teaching devoted solely to me, one my 1st grade teacher planned on writing, I have to look into that.

[Goathead]

3. Drinking and partying a whole lot.

We used to get up extra special early to congregate with medicinals before going to school. I just remembered, we used to call them "sessions", we would say let's go "sesh", which was code for getting really baked.

[Zuni]

9. Sounds familiar

We left school early often to ride around, and (this is really stupid) do bong hits in a car

[Goathead]

11. Yeah, we did too.

I can't believe some of the shit we did. I remember once, riding down the interstate and blatantly doing bong hits in the car. We pulled up next to this guy and tempted him with the bong. He looked over shook his head, reached in his pocket and whipped out a fat sac of tender nugs. Everyone one in the car cracked up and he was cracking up too. Classic moment. I didn't really realize how much my High school experience resembled Fast Times at Ridgemont High until now. Wasn't everybody's high school experience like that?

[RetroLounge]

4. Rampant Alcoholism and Drug Usage

and I dated slutty girls and brought them home.

Oh, wait, that was the torment for my ex-wife.

Uhmm, I stayed out late on school night?

RL

[Zuni]

5. drugs, booze, loose women, mouthing off, getting arrested

I was not the best teenager. Man, if I have a kid that acted like me, I can only hope I have the patience my mom did

[MissB]

6. Nothing I did phased my dad

or my stepmom, for that matter. I didn't live with them until my teenaged years, but let's just say that rebelling was pointless.

They loved me, but they just didn't care what I did at night.

[imenja]

7. nothing,they tormented me

but I did torture my brother and sister. Actually I ordered them around. I think back on myself as a little Hitler. Thankfully, they don't remember it in quite as starkly negative terms.

[DBoon]

8. Listened to Jimi Hendrix

To my right wing, white-flight suburban parents, this represented everything wrong about America in the 1960s.

[bywho4who]

10. Pretended To Care

[nytemare]

12. Wore shoes my mom hated, poked out my shoulder blades

made a squeaky noise by itching my ears with my finger. That kind of stuff.

[mac56]

13. Grew my hair long.

Really, that was about it. That and a car accident or two.

I was a pretty mild mannered kid.

[mark414]

14. tattoos, traffic tickets, and a few calls from the police

:shrug:

i'm a good kid now i swear

[solinvictus]

15. Joined the Army at age 17..

and threatened my mom to sign the papers.

[welshTerrier2]

16. great Mark Twain quote

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

[Solly Mack]

17. told'em the truth about my wherabouts and exactly what I would be doing

and I mean the truth...good and bad...My mom finally decided "I just don't want to know"...especially the things she felt were bad. By 16 it was, "Have a good time?" "Yes"..."That's nice.Pass the peas, please"

She was always there though when my mistakes were legion...and legend.