Epic Fail on the Road to "Cool."

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:36 am

Face it. We were all young and insecure once. But we wanted to be "cool" or "sophisticated" and win the admiration of our peers.
Yesterday, I was in an restaurant where they were playing "All Tomorrow's Parties" over the stereo. And all I could think was "This is annoying." And: I used to own the album, what was I trying to prove?

Anything you've done trying to show off and now just laugh about?

Tell us, please.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:59 am

she said wrote:
Anything you've done trying to show off and now just laugh about?

Tell us, please.

Everything I currenly do is mostly to show off so we can all laugh about it.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:37 am

age 14....ran into a street pole while skateboarding....trying to impress a girl....broke my nose(1st of four times over the years)...knocked out...

there are just too many to mention i'm afraid.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:15 pm

Well, if the thread gets long enough, maybe we'll pull more out of you.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:37 pm

...I went to Burning Man.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:40 pm

C.f.M. wrote:...I went to Burning Man.

Oh darn. I did that too.

*crawls into corner and does her best fetal position*

Roberto Dobbisano · Post by **Roberto Dobbisano** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:59 pm

burning man sucks, don't go, i hear the dust will kill you, too.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:19 pm

dang.......I was going to go, but, I need the help of a playa angel to give me a ticket, buy my stuff, drive me there, and, provide gratuitous sex.......

now, I'm afraid.......

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:07 pm

ygmir wrote: provide gratuitous sex.......

now, I'm afraid.......

Why gratuitous?
As in free?
As in vs playa hookers?
Or as in spontaneous?

Look who I'm asking.
Do we want to know?

Once, on a whim, I spun a car over 360 and slotted into a single parking space backwards next to the most expensive car in the school, a new 440 Challenger.
It was something I had never tried before.
I pretty much drove that car sideways the entire time I had it.
I was very in touch with that car, but I still can't believe I nailed that.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:23 am

ygmir wrote:dang.......I was going to go, but, I need the help of a playa angel to give me a ticket, buy my stuff, drive me there, and, provide gratuitous sex.......

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:29 am

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Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:44 am

gyre wrote:

Once, on a whim, I spun a car over 360 and slotted into a single parking space backwards next to the most expensive car in the school, a new 440 Challenger.

a 540? NIIIICCCE

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:50 am

while doing a wonderful impromptu ballroom dance in revo-fucking-lution i spun and dipped barbie, and dropped her.

i blame the poisonous playa dust.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:05 am

Fire_Moose wrote:
gyre wrote:

Once, on a whim, I spun a car over 360 and slotted into a single parking space backwards next to the most expensive car in the school, a new 440 Challenger.

a 540? NIIIICCCE

Thinking about it, I think it was a Cuda, maybe with a hemi, maybe 440.
Shaker orange, all the decals.
You should have seen the owner's face, after the dust cleared.
He couldn't even talk.
I didn't even touch the curb with my tires.
If I had thought about it ahead of time, I'm sure I couldn't have done that so perfectly.
I know I wouldn't have tried, between two cars like that.

High school was interesting.

Da Mule · Post by **Da Mule** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:09 am

I once threw eggs into a church while they were having a service (possibly a funeral?), and then I broke a bunch more eggs into their mailbox and then knocked their mailbox off with a baseball bat. We didn't just single out the church though, we threw eggs at a bunch of houses and cars and stuff, but the church one particularly makes me feel silly now.

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:28 am

i once had the brilliant idea that it would look cool, and be lots of fun, to shoot imaginary rocks at passing cars with my big brother's uber-cool high-tech slingshot ...

until the guy in one car claimed that he was hit by one of my pretend projectiles ...

oooooops ...

Boijoy · Post by **Boijoy** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:29 pm

When I was a teenager in the 80's I wore a kewell sleeveless black t-shirt with a big red circle on it with a Japanese word on it.. had no idea what the word meant. It was during the U2 " Japan era".
The word was " Sushi "

ohh ohhh.. also when I was a kid I used to sing that commercial jingle from t.v. you know.. Veeee Deeeee is for Evveryyy Boodddyyyy,, not for just the fewwwwww....

( had no idea what that meant either ) I was a dumbass.

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:40 pm

I am proud that I didn't care for David Cassidy or Donny Osmond. I did go to the Osmond ranch with the neighbor girl because I was bored, but I coolly sat by while she dug through the garbage pit. They'd tossed and burned everything the fans had sent, rings, pictures, poems, all half-burned. It was sad.

I dated a guy who wore a black trench coat and carried a satanic bible in his pocket. Rumor had it he carried a gun to school too. I only went out with him because he was cute and seemed kinda bad-ass. It didn't last, he bored me. This was in the 70s, before black trench coats were significant.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:01 pm

AntiM wrote:I am proud that I didn't care for David Cassidy or Donny Osmond.

Me neither.

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:19 pm

Simon of the Playa wrote:age 14....ran into a street pole while skateboarding....trying to impress a girl....broke my nose(1st of four times over the years)...knocked out...

today, they do it on purpose and post it on youtube!

And the girls ARE impressed.

You were just ahead of your time!

AIIZ

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:46 am

gyre wrote:
Fire_Moose wrote:
gyre wrote:

Once, on a whim, I spun a car over 360 and slotted into a single parking space backwards next to the most expensive car in the school, a new 440 Challenger.

a 540? NIIIICCCE
Thinking about it, I think it was a Cuda, maybe with a hemi, maybe 440.
Shaker orange, all the decals.
You should have seen the owner's face, after the dust cleared.
He couldn't even talk.
I didn't even touch the curb with my tires.
If I had thought about it ahead of time, I'm sure I couldn't have done that so perfectly.
I know I wouldn't have tried, between two cars like that.

High school was interesting.

I would have simultaneously been extremely impressed and pissed enough to break your face into small painful pieces.

Epic Fail on the Road to "Cool."

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