What was the most daring thing you did as a child?

[binny]

Im stuck in child hood issues today lol

I was a daredevil of a child!

My youngest brother and I ( he's 6 years older than I am ) would climb to the top of this Pine tree ( I was 7 or 8 ) this tree must have been 2 1/2 3 stories tall, we would climb as high as we could get without the tree swaying.... and LET GO!

It was GREAT!!!


It was a PERFECT tree with so many branches that we would just slide all the way down and by the time we hit the bottom we would gently bounce off the ground because we had been slowed down so much by the branches.





We finally told my mom a few years ago and she said " THANK YOU for not telling me when you were younger!"

LOL


I think we would have been grounded for life!

So what was the most daring you did as a child?

 

[peg2001]

Let's see, play on the roof of a friends house on a daily basis, and ride in a moving station wagon standing up through the tailgate window and holding onto the luggage rack.

I also attempted to "patch up" my younger brother one time when he had a bad bicycle accident because he didn't want to admit to our mom that he had been riding in an area she had forbidden (dangerous traffic). Blood was everwhere. It felt very daring to try to keep it hidden.

Peggy

 

[tmli]

We used to do something called "Hooking Bumpers". In the dead of winter in our small town we would get behind cars stopped at stop signs. Hold onto the bumper, crouch down and get a free ride to school along the snow filled roads.

This one time i hit a bump and stumbled forward -- honest this is a true story -- my tonque stuck to the metal bumper and I couldn't get it off. When we came to the next stop my friend went running to the drivers window yelling "Mister!Mister! my friends face is stuck to your bumper!!" Before he came around the back of the car I got free and we both went running. That was my last time "Hooking"!

I was only 6 or 7 and all these years later my parents still don't know. Although I let it slip to my dh and he keeps threatening to spill the beans--I'm sure one day he will!

Even worse he'll probably tell my son.

 

[DoeWDW]

I've led such a boring life....honest!! I really can't think of anything!

I'm going to spend the next couple days racking my brain for anything that seems daring so I can post it!! Until then, I'll have to live vicariously through all your stories!!!!

 

[grinningghost]

I'm not sure "daring" is the correct word for some of the things I did - "stupid" comes to mind first. The one that jumped into my brain right away was when a group of kids (myself included) broke into some old guy's breezeway and played Truth or Dare in there. We saw the old guy pulling into his driveway and we ran. But I'm sure he saw us, he just couldn't catch us.

I also remember walking across railroad bridges (some really high ones) as a teenager. One had no sides at all, and BIG gaps between each railroad tie. I think about it now and get sick.

 

[MICKEY88]

boy do I have a great story ....oh wait that was as an adult, wrong thread...LOL

 

[poohandwendy]

Jumped off a 50 ft bridge. What can I say? My friends did it...LOL

I can tell you it took me hours, sitting up there, before I had the guts...climbing down looked scarier....

 

[MICKEY88]

Originally posted by poohandwendy
Jumped off a 50 ft bridge. What can I say? My friends did it...LOL

I can tell you it took me hours, sitting up there, before I had the guts...climbing down looked scarier....

so what did you say when your parents used the ole' "if your friends jumped of a bridge, would you"...Line

 

[julie_yet]

[color=3300ff]I wasn't a daredevil but my brother and friends would jump off the roof and from trees onto our trampoline.[/color]

 

[poohandwendy]

so what did you say when your parents used the ole' "if your friends jumped of a bridge, would you"...Line

Errrrr..Ummmm....well, I didn't tell them until I was married with a few kids. My mother was really unhappy with me, even years after the fact. It was really stupid, if I would have been hurt, there would have been no good excuse...

God, I hope my kids are smarter!!!!!

 

[FOJMO]

Well, when my brother and I were about 6 or 7, we lived on a farm. We played "doctor" with the two neighbor boys.

My brother and I ended up with poison ivy on our private parts and we were leaving to visit relatives in CT the next day.

Boy, did we ever suffer -- physically from the itching and from embarrassment when my parents relayed the story to EVERYONE!

 

[MICKEY88]

as a teenager I had a bad habit of walking out in front of cars if I wanted to talk to the girl driving, fortunately they always stopped..however I tried it once to a friend of mine, he was driving a ford pickup truck, I decided to play chicken...he thought I'd move..I didn't ...at the last minute he locked up the brakes..I jumped up...put my hands on the hood and went for a ride down the street as he slid to a stop, I jumped off ...he quickly drove around the corner and parked the truck, people up and down the block came out to see what was going on..there were tire marks about 20-30 feet long..one of the guys that came out was a town cop, we told him a sports car had smoked the tires and took off...

 

[MICKEY88]

Originally posted by poohandwendy
Errrrr..Ummmm....well, I didn't tell them until I was married with a few kids. My mother was really unhappy with me, even years after the fact. It was really stupid, if I would have been hurt, there would have been no good excuse...

God, I hope my kids are smarter!!!!!

being the smart a** I was I would have said yep, if my parents had asked the bridge question...

 

[poohandwendy]

LOL, I don't remember if it ever was asked (I was 16)...but it sure does cross my mind everytime I hear that phrase...btw..I NEVER ask my kids that question...seems a bit too hypocritical to me.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I have twin 15yo sons who are daredevils who scare me to death. There have already been the requisite stitches and broken bones.
We rode in the back of a pick-up truck standing up holding onto a roll bar.
Hithed rides in snow, on the back of cars.
Jumped of the roof of a shed into a 4ft above ground pool.
Jumped off bridges into the river.
Walked an abandoned railroad tressel that was missing sections and had no railing (the scariest thing to me).

How in the world do most kids make it to 21. I hear some of the stories of things my boys friends have done, and figure my boys have done some of the same things. I know they have bridge jumped.

 

[MosMom]

We lived near a rock quarry and it was split along two sides...down the middle was an area of about 18 inches wide and we would ride our bikes across it. The drop was HUGE on either side. I look back at that now and cringe. I wouldn't cross that thing crawling on my hands and knees now! Crazy!

 

[Disney Ella]

I lived out in the middle of nowhere, nothing to do and nowhere to go. When I was 9 or 10, my younger sister and I and one of our friends used to climb over the fence between our yard and the field next to it. There were usually cows in the field and we would jump up and down and yell and act like idiots in front of the bull until he got so annoyed that he started to chase us. The fun was in getting back over the fence before he could reach us.

 

[WilmaBud]

I was quite young, and I laid along the railing of our second floor deck. My sister, who was 5 years older, put me up to it. My grandmother saw me, came running out, and spanked the crap out of me. Other than that, I never really did anything daring - I was generally afraid of my own shadow. I'm still no daredevil - I'm always saying "This time, I'm going to try 'Splash Mountain.'" But then I get there, take a look at it, and I can't get myself to do it.

 

[catsrule]

I cannot post it, it is bad!

 

[MosMom]

Come on Cats, I promise I won't tell your mommy!