it seemed like such a good idea at the time!

[just_monicat]

i was flipping through my journal this weekend and i came across an entry about things that seem undeniably alluring or obviously so "right". and then afterward (or sometimes, right in the middle) i was thinking, how in the world did i think this was a good idea?

i want to hear about things that you've done, pursued or tried that were a dismal failure or simply didn't work out, but seemed like such a good idea at the time.

 

[jitterbug]

Jitterbug the Auto Mechanic Teacher..... Yeah this was one of my brilliant ideas. I went through the entire interview process, landed the job and was very excited to start. I found out very quickly that I did not have any patience with kids who were not there to learn. I realized quickly that i was going to end up losing my temper with them in a way that would not have been appropriate in modern day public school. So I resigned after just three weeks. Lesson learned for me lol.

 

[Searching4Truth]

Drinking in high school.

And biting a walnut.

 

[Nautilus]

Apparently most of my relationships up til now. Ive learned if they were as good of an idea as they seemed they would have gone further but I fell for some of the oldest tricks in the book.

 

[todo]

I decided to ride a Yak bull when i was 10 years old. And when i say "ride" i mean climb up a fence to get on like if i was riding my horse bareback. Thankfully he just stood there looking at me like an idiot. It was unexciting enough I decided bull riding wasn't for me.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I decided to ride a Yak bull when i was 10 years old. And when i say "ride" i mean climb up a fence to get on like if i was riding my horse bareback. Thankfully he just stood there looking at me like an idiot. It was unexciting enough I decided bull riding wasn't for me.

Do you guys have Yaks in Idaho?

Just joking...

 

[oldernotwiser]

i dont know about idaho but there are a lot of yaks in wisconsin. i have a friend from wisconsin whose name was yon, but he changed it to yak because too many people laughed when he said "my name is yon yonson and i com from wisconsin.."

 

[ww_21]

Trying Alcohol (it was just 9%) yuck.
Painting my room black
Cutting my long hair
Trusting certain people
Staying up late (almost every night till I have to wake up early at mornings *sigh*)

DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON?!! lol

 

[Arlene89]

That time I was 17 years old and I put laundry powder in someone's fountain.

 

[Fenner]

Most of mine involve sneaking out, one story in particular is pretty funny though. My friend and I were 16, climbed out her window, hung out with some boys. Crawled back in the window about 2 am, her waterbed was frozen, the heater broke. We didn't think anyone knew what we did. In the morning she told her mom about the waterbed and her Mom said, "That's what you get for sneaking out." woops.

 

[ww_21]

That time I was 17 years old and I put laundry powder in someone's fountain.

That made me laugh out loud.

 

[Donkeyfish07]

Me and my friends decided to hook up this old moped my little brother had (that was missing an engine) to an atv and cruise around when I was a teenager. My little brother went on first, we had to signal to hit the brakes with our hands because the guy on the moped had to know when to hit them, otherwise the chain would have no slack and it would rear end the atv. He was just put putting along but when I got on and we hit a straight stretch I remember saying "Wind this darn thing all the way out!!!! Whooooo!!!!!"".....

so we are going full speed at about 45 mph and there was a very small bend in the road that the driver had to gear down for. I hit the brakes to no avail. In slow motion I see the chain slowly gaining slack......then in even slower motion it starts to wrap around the front wheel. I remember thinking, welp I've either gotta jump off or see what fate awaits me on this thing. I jump off, mess my back up......get a gigantic gash in my hand and I'm gushing the blood out of it. Still have a scar from it actually, lol. Throughout the whole thing, nobody ever said "Ya know, maybe this isn't the brightest idea we ever had". We were all just thinking

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Jullianna]

When I was 9 I lived in a house with a very steep driveway. Two of my favorite things were my bike and my skateboard. I stood at the top of that driveway smiling to myself, thinking how cool it would be to have a fantastic ramp at the bottom of that driveway. Soooooo...with the help of the neighbor kids, we built one.

I tried it first with my skateboard. It was GREEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! I flew all the way across the street and landed in the grass in my neighbor's yard.

Next I tried it with my bike. When I found myself in my neighbor's yard with the pedal of my bike embedded in the calf of my leg, it was suddenly not so great. But it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

[NodMyHeadLikeYeah]

When i was 17 the first guy i went out with (for like 2 years) called me up one day and told me all the details about how him and this other girl were getting together.. if you know what i mean. I didn't want him to know i was upset so i got off the phone and went over my brothers house. I told him what happened, he hands me a bottle of Absolut (Vodka) and a cup. I didn't even bother with the cup, i just started drinking it out of the bottle.

The next thing i remember is my brother taking me home then laying on the bathroom floor. At some point i called the guy, i still have no idea what i said to him, but he must have called my parents because soon after my mom is home, my dad was pulled out of a pastors conference and there standing in the bathroom staring at me. They may have been talking, but i don't really know.
It was a good thing he did call my parents though because it ended up i had Alcohol poisoning.

My cousins and i dumping bottles of soda in the neighbors pool.

Running away

My friend and i pretending were an Olympic Gymnast on a balance beam.

Pretending were an Olympic Gymnast on a small trampoline next to a huge tree.

Sledding down a dirt hill next to a busy road

Getting drunk with guys i didn't know.

Dating that one guy with no neck.

Buying that pair of jeans

 

[kenthomas27]

Jullianna jarred loose a memory for me. I was going to make a swing on a tree branch and had a bit of rope and I don't exactly remember my age, but I wasn't big enough to throw the rope up over that branch as many times as I tried. The tree was too thick to climb and the one time I did make the throw accurate, the other end quickly slipped off. Tying the other end to my wrist (my first error)I understood that a rock would sail higher than the rope so I tied the other end to a rock (second error) and after a few failures the rock sailed perfectly over the branch and because the rope was also perfectly short, the rock swung back around and hit me right in the forehead and knocked me out cold. I woke up in the grass dreaming of the world series with ants all over me.

 

[Jullianna]

Hahaha kenthomas! Yours reminded me of another one.

I went exploring with neighbor kids and we came across an abandoned building site. There was a very old rope hanging from a tall tree (key word being "OLD") and we stood there trying to decide who was going to climb the rope first. As usual, the one with more guts than sense grabbed the rope. Yep...it was me.

Things went great for the first 2/3 of the way. Then that old rope snapped and I found myself flat on my back on the ground gasping for air. I was okay after about 5-10 minutes. Lesson learned.

 

[Fenner]

Even animals make bad choices sometimes.

 

[Misty77]

-Not getting a prenup.

-Getting married at 19.

-Dropping out of college.

-Turning down an offer of management training because X had just made management at work. (That lasted less than a month.)

-Not getting an attorney in my divorce proceedings.

-Online dating before I was healthy enough to be dating again.

-Not starting the book editing that I was given over a week ago. Now I am seriously behind on a lot of things.

-Scheduling a jewelry party with a multi-level marketing company. I was lured by the promise of sparkly jewelry in a pretty pink box. Now I have to invite people (ugh), scrub my house (ugh), and promote the event without grimacing (likely not possible). And the necklace in the box wasn't even that pretty.

 

[DuchessAimee]

I was at a bonfire a few years ago and there were various carbonated drinks there. I voiced my curiosity about what would happen if I put one of those drinks into the fire. So a friend of mine dropped one in. At first it seemed like nothing of importance was going to happen. But after about 20 minutes there was a loud bang, and the VERY hot liquid (along with embers and chunks of wood) exploded up and out of the fire. My ex, who was standing in front of me was coated and pelted, and I reached up and caught a piece of burning ember. He flipped out and various other people freaked out as well, wondering what happened.

I had a pretty bad burn from being completely idiotic, and my ex was upset because I somehow made my friend put the can in the fire. After I thought about it my knowledge of explosive things came back to me and I realized a carbonated can would boil and burst.


But I'm cute, so my stupidity is okay.






Right?

 

[rachelsedge]

In first grade, I thought it'd be a good idea to swing high on the swing set, jump out at the top, and land on my feet. I did not land on my feet and broke my left elbow.

In fifth grade, I thought it'd be a good idea to walk really fast backwards away from "It" while playing tag. I tripped and broke my right arm.

Maybe 4 weeks or so after I got THAT cast off, my Girl Scout troop went to a rollerskating rink. I saw all these people skating fast, falling down, but getting back up. So, I decided it was a good idea to be brave and skate faster, except when I fell down, I broke my other arm.

When your arm itches with a cast on, it's...miserable. So, I decided to get creative and I used a pen to go underneath the cast to scratch my arm. However, I pulled the pen out and realized that the pen cap had gotten stuck inside. I got it out and learned my lesson, and afterwards used a pencil. Upon removal of my cast, my arm was covered in pencil marks.