" Climbing the tree at 36 years old , five beer in , and in summersault - floating-point operation wasnota good idea . "
Recently, I wrotean articlesharing the best, most entertaining ‘fucked around and found out’ stories I found online. You guys seemed to like that one, so much so that a lot of people even wrote in their own stories! They made me laugh and cringe so hard that naturally, I had to share. So, here are some of the best:
1.“I work in a library and will occasionally crop dust a section if no one is around. One time I had just let out a particularly SBD and turned around to find a guy from church walking towards me to ask a question. Not fantastic.”
2.“When I was 6, my big brother conned me into cleaning his room for 35 cents. I don’t remember feeling conned at the time, but I do remember going to my parents' bedroom to watch daytime TV afterward.”
3.“As a kid, we had a very climbable tree in our backyard that our parents asked us to please not climb. One day, my big sister climbed the tree, fell out, and broke her arm.”
“Naturally, as the fun uncle, I needed to show off…and I might’ve had a few too many beers. I told my sister’s kids she’d always been bad at outdoorsy stuff, but climbing that tree was never any problem for me! I then endeavored to prove my claim.”
4.“One cold, rainy, California December, I was home with the flu. We had a fireplace in our family room, but we rarely used it. I asked my dad if we could have a fireplace so I could stay warm.”
5.“Took my kid to an outdoor museum. The exit was tucked away in a quiet corner. The exit had turnstiles. Intrusive thoughts got me, and my 30-something 5'5” self thought that since no one else was around, it would be a good idea to jump the turnstile like in the movies."
6.“I was about 10 and my cousin was 9. We found a pack of firecrackers in her garage and thought we would light them up. Well, at the same time I lit the match, a cop car stopped us and wanted to know what we were doing.”
7.“I was probably about 7 or so and my older sisters were watching me for the day. I found a razor in the bathroom drawer and told my sister I couldn’t believe something that looks so simple could cut anything. She looked at me and said well, try it out. I ran my fingers across the blades and obviously got cut. Still surprises me to this day that she didn’t just take the razor away to save me from that.”
8.“When I was around 4, my grandma picked an eyelash off my cheek. She put it on her finger and told me to blow it off and make a wish. I asked her if the wish would come true, and she told me emphatically that it would.”
9.“Having lived in Southern Arizona my whole life, I am probably too comfortable with critters. It is not uncommon to find a snake in your house or a spider in your bed. We’ve had bobcats and coyotes in our backyard, and I’ve shooed more lizards out than I could count. So, when I went to brush my teeth one night and found a scorpion in my sink, I didn’t panic.”
10.“My grandparents' house was in a valley, and once after a big storm, the snowplows had created basically a huge jump (about 5 feet tall) at the bottom of a hill. I would take my snow tube, go down the hill, get some decent air, and land in the driveway.”
11.“OMG, I experienced that same feeling (the wind knocked out of me, fears my spine was broken) when I decided, at age 8, that a plastic kitchen garbage bag would certainly be a perfect parachute for jumping out of the tallest tree in my yard.”
12.“When I was very small, I was taking a bath and saw one of my mother’s razor refills in the trash. To me, it looked very similar to a mini harmonica that I had on a necklace, so I dug it out and ran it across my lips, trying to make it play. I didn’t understand why it hurt until I realized I was bleeding everywhere.”
13.“When I was in second grade, I accidentally put a pencil lead in my ear. I kept telling my mom, but she thought I was joking. Then she freaked when I said I was serious. We went to the doctor like two months later. No blood, but both my mom and the doctor yelled at me. :)”
14.“I used Nair to remove the hair on my hoo-hoo. Bad idea. Don’t do it! I was 47, so stupid ideas aren’t exclusive to kids.”
15.“When I was a kid in the ’80s, my friends and I set up a makeshift ramp using a plastic milk crate and a piece of plywood we found that was about two feet long and a foot wide. All of my friends went off the jump just fine. Then it was my turn.”
16.“I was 13 or so and had a great Columbia girls' 10-speed bike. One day, in front of my mom, I was preparing to take a bike ride with a friend in my sandals. Mom said, ‘If your foot slips off the pedal and you cut yourself I am going to stitch you up myself.’ I thought, ‘Whatever, that will never happen! I’ve been riding this bike for years.’ Well…”
17.“One time in high school, my best friend and I were both on the cheerleading team and had a big game coming up Friday that we’d been practicing for all week. During a break, my best friend and I were bored, and despite the warning from our cheer coach not to do anything stupid that would get any of us hurt — and the warning from my mom about not going into abandoned houses anymore — we went into an abandoned home for the thrill of it.”
18.And finally: “One Saturday, I was alone in the house while my wife and kids were out shopping. I decided to clean up a bit, starting with the dishwasher. Sadly, one steak knife was pointed up and lodged itself in my left thumb.”
“I stuck my right hand in to grab some silver and behold, the same knife found my right thumb in pretty much the same place it sliced my left thumb.”
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