what was the shittiest thing you did as a teenager?

a girl i really liked in middle school dared me to flirt with another girl who was really shy and rarely spoke. it was clear this other girl liked me though, for some reason. so i went over and flirted with this other girl, just to impress the girl that i actually liked. i forget what i actually said, but i'm a decent actor and i really convinced her that i liked her, and then pulled the rug out from under her at some point. fucking terrible. and of course the girl who *i* liked thought it was funny but then went back to not giving a shit about me roughly 10 minutes later

I broke the arm on one of my friends in a soccer match during lunchbreak. I didn't mean to, and I don't think anything would have happened the schoolyard hadn't been covered in asphalt, and I definitely took my fair share of tumbles on the ground, but still, I felt pretty bad. We didn't really speak that much afterwards, which was kinda sad.

twas a haloween night ~1980, i was thirteen and my friends were ALL about the movie The Warriors. we started trick or treating like normal kids and then it turned into, for some ungodly reason, me busting out light bulbs of people's front yards. this went on for i guess a half hour before the pigs came 'round and instigated their fascist groove thang.....was let go but ended up washing police cars for 20 hours as a punishment. i've never been violent before or since but it was a night to remember.
now that i think about it the last time i got in trouble was for lifting a Michigan & Smiley cassette from oxford st. HMV a few years later, 1984, i believe. busted on the way out, a 15 year old taken to Marleybone station (London). i was visiting London with just my 15 year old best friend. in court they asked me how much money i had on me and i gave a honest answer. they took most of it and i was on my way. but, shite, i did some stupid things. this was the trip where i managed to transport a cigarette pack full of joints to London. saving a little herb and rolling joints all year for this trip. i had a connection that sometimes got Hawaiian, some even had hash oil on them. a 15 year old, in 1984! the cig pack was double shrinkwrapped for my protection at the record store i lived at in my hometown. THAT was a fun time

i was the manager at the local pool, responsible for managing all the lifeguards. i was way too lenient and would let lifeguards do stuff like eat on stand or talk to other lifeguards when they were on the stand. when there was a thunderstorm we would close the pool but then swim in it ourselves.

i snuck a can of pepsi into the library and spilled it on the carpet. this was senior year. i went back to visit a few years later and the carpet was still stained.

(spilling was unintentional, if that wasn't clear)

Treeship, is this self-parody?

should've been coke

mh,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLSCJmOIIJI

Some friends and I went down to these old, huge supposedly abandoned greenhouse nurseries not far from where we lived and spent the day gleefully smashing the place up, throwing bricks around, setting fire to things. We came across some caravans on the site and broke into them. I think a few of us did stuff like spread ketchup around the rooms and maybe some minor damage. I spent the next week lying awake and feeling guilty about it. I still do, I suppose even though it was well over half a lifetime ago.

drew's story still makes me O_O

The creepy crawls post above reminded me of just how mean I could be to people who were at worst pretty annoying.

There was a girl from my elementary school who annoyed me mostly by virtue of being popular, I guess? I remember she talked a lot during class and the teachers always had to ask her to stop talking. Anyway, not really a big deal to me now? But when I was 12 or 13, I took a condom, filed it with a mixture of sugar and milk (the combo of which I decided looked exactly like semen), knotted it up, and shoved it in her mailbox. In broad daylight! This was several years after we ceased going to the same school together or crossing paths at all. To add to the fucked-upness of it all, her parents ran a popular daycare service out of the home. Her dad was a big, smiling, friendly guy who led the little kids to school everyday like a row of ducklings and I put a fake used condom in his mailbox.

Probably the shittiest thing I've done, but there may be more.

just read the creepy crawls one !

There was another kid from my elementary school who I revisited as a preteen. We were friends in third grade, but he was much smarter than me. Excelled at math, good at computers. He had Lotus 1-2-3 and Print Shop and talked about them all the damn time and could be a bit of a jerk about things if he knew more than you did. We grew apart I guess. I got another friend who was more genial and into the same things I was and wasn't as cocky and stuck-up.

So several years later, probably around the time of my previous post, I snuck out of my house with a buddy who was sleeping over and I spraypainted "FUCK" on the smart kid's mom's minivan.

Soooooooo that was pretty shitty too. :(