I just exploded a plate. While waiting for the computer to warm up I decided to grill some toast and cheese for lunch. I turned the grill on (so I thought) and put bread under the grill to toast. I then went back to the computer and got on the internet. 10 minutes later - BANG. I had turned a hotplate on not the grill. Someone had left a plate on the hotplate and the plate had exploded into about 10 pieces. Luckily no one was in the kitchen. If they had been I guess it wouldn't have happened though... At least the bread didn't burn...whoops..

I pretty sure my driving in general is the most dangerous thing I do with my ADHD, I just get lost in my own little world and forget there are other cars on the road....haha. Fortunately I've been around a lot of safe drivers =]

I set my kitchen alight while making pop tarts :eek:

I set my kitchen alight while making pop tarts :eek:How did you manage this? inflammable pop tarts for brekky -beats toast anyday.

Yeah....driving

Driving while drunk....never seemed to affect me the way it did my friends....drunk or sober they would be happy to hop into the car with me after an evenings drinking and I would drive home sedately.

It's something I'm quite embarassed about now.

Now when I'm sober.....sedate is not the word I'd use. Fast and very very impatient with slower drivers....how I've managed to avoid rear ending some pensioner in a Nissan Micra I've no idea.

Thats something I'm still embarrassed about.

To give you an idea how stressed I get when driving.....I used to drive a Vauxhall (General Motors) Astra......and hit the dashboard when impatient.....broke up the dashboard AND the pounding messed up the radio beneath. Admittedly that was in Northern Ireland where there are few dual carriageways and the speed limit could be 40 and most of the population wouldn't notice.

kilt

Left the room with greenbeans cooking on the stove.. just happened to wander back in MUCH later, having totally forgotten about the greenbeans, and wound up tossing the pan since the water had all boiled out and turned the beans and the pot black.. =(


Also, zoning out while driving.. I won't notice until I "wake up" and realize I'm 3 exits past where I was trying to go..

How did you manage this? inflammable pop tarts for brekky -beats toast anyday.
Well somehow I managed to break the toaster timer and I got the lever thing that flips up caught on the coffee machine and then I forgot I was making pop tarts. Then I came into the kithen and the toaster was in flames!

Oh several.

- Left the BBQ gas on for 3 days, ("What's that funny smell?").

- Managed to step on a two inch nail that went through my boot, and my foot.... twice.... in the span of 10 minutes.

- Burned down our family oak tree.

- Nearly..... very nearly... cut my fingers off with a circular saw... When I went to feel where the blade was up to.

- Nearly killed myself several times; jumping off the roof with an umbrella, hangind on to a pair of jeans on the clothes line, falling off and smashing my head on a pot.

- Nearly cut my thumb off by trying to open a window - you don't push really hard on the window.

- Nearly ran over someone, whilst in the car - I really really want to forget that one.

- Many others I can't remember at the moment.

Driving really fast, physical road rage incidents (i.e. fights, slamming on the brakes when tailgated, car accidents that weren't accidents), shopping and spending money, arguing over nothing, speaking my mind, without consideration, telling rather inappropriate jokes at the wrong times, kitchen fires, making torches out of hairspray and a lighter and using it on a hornets nest.

I would probably say driving, in general. I mean the other day I had to take my hubby to work cause his car was broken and apperently I almost hit some kids that were walking to school...:eyebrow: I didnt even notice, or see them untill I looked back after he freaked out.
Plus one of his friends rates me the worst driver ever. His list goes like this:
1.ME
2.Another friend
3.Drunk drivers
4.Other under the influence drivers
5. normal people

other then that its cooking and then forgetting about it untill hubby says something or the smoke alarm goes off.

Threw a piano bench on my older brother (~age 8). Slashed him in the back real hard with a hockey stick (~age 12). After age 12 I completely ceased to be violent, which is a really good thing. I also only ever retaliated on people older or bigger than me.

i dont drive yet - thank God! But ive almost got run over 5 or 6 times, mostly because I hate waiting at crossings for the green walking light to go off so i just dash across the road when I think its safe. On some occasions I forget to look both ways..

I got really angry when I was young and threw the computer at my mom, when she was trying to wake me up for school...I dont remember it as being intentional though.., as far as dangerous intentionally I would do highly dangerous things for entertainment, roof surfing(superman) on the car... fast driving, standing out of the sunroof on the interstate... bridge-jumping, and all types of motorsports like jetskis boating, dirt bikes, golf carts, and ATV's but it was only fun so long as we were doing something reckless like jumping off the boats while moving running the golf carts into trees and eachother, or racing the off roaders in the woods... not to much other than that while younger. I guess now the most dangerous thing I do is drinking, or partying to hard or too late.. not too bad I guess.

WOW. I thought I was bad. You all leave me for dead. Hope the police never read these forums or all our drivers licences will be taken off us. I wonder if ADDers live longer than other people. If we do its probably just because we've managed to kill everyone else 'unintentionally' along the way. (Sorry mum, I thought the computer was a pillow are you ok..mum?? mum?? talk to me..) I'm having second thoughts about living in an exclusive ADD zone. I once thought it would be cool. But after reading these posts I think it would be dangerous.

Threw a piano bench on my older brother (~age 8). Slashed him in the back real hard with a hockey stick (~age 12). After age 12 I completely ceased to be violent, which is a really good thing. I also only ever retaliated on people older or bigger than me.
..And you look like butter would't melt in your mouth. Take those glasses off..so we can see the real you.
Glad to see you were totally in control and rational and didn't pick on the weak and sick.

I set the microwave on fire when I set the timer on a frozen breakfast for 10 minutes instead of 1 minute and then went and got in the shower.

..And you look like butter would't melt in your mouth. Take those glasses off..so we can see the real you.
Glad to see you were totally in control and rational and didn't pick on the weak and sick.
Meh, I never picked on other kids. I retaliated when I got picked on :)

btw, I don't understand "you look like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth." I think I understand what it means by context (that I look like a softy), but I don't get the metaphor.

Well once I put a thermos in the school microwave while heating up some soup. Ahh I can still hear the chaos.

*Everybody stares at the microwave*
*Flame comes out of the thermos*
"Man down man down!!!"
*thermos EXPLODES*
*I watch in horror and shock*
*The principal shakes his head behind me*
o__________o

Metaphor? Now you're testing me...this is a bit like work..not that you look like a softy, rather that you don't look meanish.

It is not a metaphor. It is an idiom.



id·i·om (d-m)
n.
1. A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in keep tabs on.



So you can understand it in context only.

thinking marriage was a good idea!!! ha ha ha!

Following on from gonefishin.......

While under the influence of alcohol impulsively admitting to having had an impulsive roll in the hay with a buxom young woman while under the influence of alcohol

Fortunately there were no sharp implements within my partners reach.

:-)

kilt

So I proved my point today when I turned LEFT on RED. Oh yes, left on red, you can't even always turn left on green! Haha I totally thought to myself that the red light was really a stop sign. So I stopped and then went like you would at a 4-way stop. I got so mad when someone went "out of turn" until my friend freaked out and told me I had just turned left on red...hahaha.

As a child
Hung out of a third floor window with my trousers round my ankles with only my ADD brother to hold onto them (he lost grip on the ankles but luckily managed to keep hold of the trousers !!)
Climbed cliffs and building sites, schools with no measure of safety
Ran across a 30 ft ladder placed horizontally between 2 storey scaffolding, and then fell onto the rungs, balls first, ouch !!
Jumped off swings at full height, one time landing on a washing line and hanging myself
Let my other ADD brother shower fireworks on my head
Had a fascination with placing objects including fingers in electric sockets
Have my ADD brother throw darts (although not by choice) while I'm still taking darts out of the board! (amazingly only one just grazed my hand!)
Diving off high boards at swimming pools at a very young age (under the age limit) without a moments hesitation
Dropped a bin bag full of everything you would find in the kitchen onto slow moving cars going under the local bridge (not to mention a whole farms worth of eggs at other targets)
Made pen knives as a child out of double edged razor blades a nail and block of wood and wondered why I kept cutting myself, I still have a scar 30 years on
Hung onto car bonnets whilst they were being driven by a neighbour
Took a very small boat into very high winds/waves and had the coast guard give us a very severe telling off not to mention an enormous blowing of his horn
Etc, etc, sometimes wonder why I’m still alive

As a late teenager
Dangerous driving
Hung onto a speed boat lying on its bonnet at maximum speed (the driver didn’t stop until I let go !)
One episode of drunk driving - never again! (didn’t crash)!
Vastly inappropriate public liaisons with girlfriends. Too embarrassing to mention

As an adult
Not much as I have a supportive partner although I’ve had to get rid of the fast car. Buying a vac that cleans up carpet fluid spills really helped as I knock over at least one cup of coffee/juice a week !!
Now, just trying to take it steady. I am a doctor (hope that doesn’t scare people-I don’t forget what to do with patients!!) and as long as I can do my job well and have a stable family life then that is enough

Wow, that stinks! I haven't done anything like that yet...but give me time...

At the time they all seemed like a good idea so I don't always look back unfavourably !! At the very least it gives me good stories to tell although I don't always choose the right company to tell them !!

I had a really old oven in my new apartment that had to be lit with a match after turning on the gas. I turned on the oven to preheat and forgot to light the gas. Twenty minutes later, I saw the mozzarella sticks on the counter waiting for the oven to preheat, I opened the oven, forgot I had turned on the gas already and lit it. I smelled the gas at about the same time I was pressing the button on the lighter. Too late. So as you can imagine, quite a huge fireball exploded out of the oven. Luckily, it was just a flash burn, something similar to what happens often with gas grills. I lost most of my eyebrows and eyelashes, had abbrasions on my eyes, and looked like a horror for a while. This was all prior to having been diagnosed with inattentive ADD. I only told a select few people what really happened, as far as the firemen, ambulance and doctors knew, the oven just exploded in my face, I have no idea why, most be a problem with the gas line. I felt very embarressed.
In case anyone every wondered:
Eyebrows grow back in a month.
Eyelashes too, but one year later still not as long as they were.
If you get abbrasions on both your eyes, you don't have to wear a patch!
Many women pay thousands of dollars for a facial peel, I received the same result from a flash burn. - "ER burn doctor" (don't try this at home!)

Most dangerous (that i can actually remember):

Driving:

Driving while drunk, high, or some combination thereof. Occasionally i actually would hallucinate and think there was a person in the road and stop suddenly in the middle of the road.

Driving completely sober (hopping curbs and having people on the sidewalk run in terror, wrong way up a highway ramp, ect.)

Deciding while driving way above speed limit to let the cops just chase me and hope they'll give up after a while since i didn't have insurance. . .

Crashing into a poll b/c i was laughing so hard i forgot to turn on my own street, then veering over at the last minute. (I haven't driven since this last one)

Fire: I'm not even going to get into that. let's just say I think I may have given myself some kind of fire PTSD and I can't even deal with tiny indoor candles now.

Damn, we are really some dangerous people. Maybe there should be a new crime "Driving while ADHD" haha.

I used to have a thing for jumping of high things into water... I thought I would break the record and jumped from the top of the local bridge into about 10 ft of water. It was pretty high. I remember from the raod part of the bridge it was 25 meters. I had climbed to the top of the cage thing above the bridge itself so about 30-35 meters. If my scanner was working I would paste the picture. I had a sore bum for a week and it tore my swimmers from me. I didnt break the water before I jumped and I its been a long time since I done science but I would guess that I would doing about 120kms when I hit the water.

got a RECKLESS DRIVING.

i used to joke with my friends that while i am driving, it is best to stand directly in front of me so you dont get hit.

anyway, driving for sure. had a major problem with speeding tickets, once an unreasonable speeding. I have calmed down my speeding, but now i tend to zone out while driving... thank you whoever invented rumble strips.

Okay, funny/pathetic story from when I was a young kid (middle school). I was not diagnosed, but had lots of behavioural issues (to say the least). I "fell in with the wrong crowd" my teachers used to say. Actually, it might have been the other way around! I took a lot of halucinagenic drugs (mostly LSD and mescaline) which in itself probably qualifies for the topic. Anyway, I had bought a small bag of 12 "hits" to share with 4 friends (3 each). Over the course of the morning, I lost track of how many I had taken/left and ended up taking 6 instead of three. Ended up in an ambulance (bad trip, not OD) and at the hospital they had to give me an injection of a secobarbitol to bring me down. I also had some angry friends.

Aside from that, I also do anything I can to get my brain to wake up - SCUBA (not really dangerous, but I have had a few close calls); skydiving; driving (I think of it as a sport!)

OK, another I just thought of. I nearly cut my fingers off with a circular saw one day. I was cutting some timber to make something, (can't remember what it was now), and I wanted to check to see if the blade height adjustment was set right so that it was cutting right through the timber. Of course, I went to feel where the blade was up to and whether it was poking out of the timber on the other side.

I caught myself just in time!

I actually think it must have been the combo of my ADHD & bipolar that made me do the stupidest thing in my life, course I did not think about how dumb it was until my much later..but:

Since I can't drive and there were times when my ex's car didnt work, he lived 40 miles away, but when I wanted to see him, all that time just acting without thinking on impulse, I half way took the bus but the other half hitchhiked the rest of the way, to and fro, not even thinking of the possible danger of getting attacked by someone or having a freak accident & being severly hurt.

I must have a guardian angel looking out for me because I never was attacked or hurt, but there was a few times I was stranded and lucky for me I met nice people who helped me.

Now I bet none of ya'll can top my der dee deeness LOL! :p

Getting pulled over for speeding.... at least 20 times because I forgot I was speeding or didn't notice that there was a cop behing me, for 2 or 3 miles because I was lost in my own world

Jumping off the roof of a garage into a swimming pool

Eploding a glass baking dish into a 1000 pieces when i accidentally turned on the stove top instead of the oven, and left it on for 2 hours when I FORGOT that I was even going to cook food to begin with.

Leaving various appliances on all day while I am at work, iron, stove, curling irons etc

My favorite, although, not dangerous.... getting lost in my own thoughts so much so that I drove all the way to work and when I got there, realized, I my 2 year old son was still in the back seat beacuse I forgot to take him to the sitter BEFORE going to work.

Forgetting EVERYTHING my fiance tells me, again not dangerous physically, but it certainly annoys the crap out of him.

heaps.
calng the biggest guy at school a fukwit..got a smashd head in 4 dat...he was my 2nd cousin 2.
got caught drvng 2 time ova the alchohol limit from da cops on my restrictd license. got dat takn from me and comunty service.
i laughed afta my dad lost his rugbby game 2 his face...my bum hurt 4 dayz aftr dat one..saw arm 2.
im gud at rugby and gud enuf to make reps team but evry time the selectrs are there, i either get sent off or mak a fool of myself.
i usd to be in a gang dat stole and did drugs and al that crap. that was dangerous.
talkng to my aunty wen it her time off da month is always dangerous...one word wrong and its smack smack smack.
daz all i can fink of but probly more.

So I proved my point today when I turned LEFT on RED. Oh yes, left on red, you can't even always turn left on green! Haha I totally thought to myself that the red light was really a stop sign. So I stopped and then went like you would at a 4-way stop. I got so mad when someone went "out of turn" until my friend freaked out and told me I had just turned left on red...hahaha.
Hilarious... I've done this twice: my first "left on red" happened to be turning into oncoming traffic on a one-way street downtown. Amazingly, no one was in the far left lane, so I just continued driving until I could turn left into a parking garage. My second "left on red" was pointed out to me by a friend sitting in the passenger seat of my car. He's no longer willing to ride in the car when I'm driving... woops.

Driving in general. Pretty much all of my driving is in the city, so there's always turns I miss, or lights and stop signs I almost miss. Hell, I failed my driver's test for almost running a red. I've actually never gotten a ticket for speeding or reckless driving (got a warning for forgetting to turn my headlights on, though) but I have been in an accident. I was backing up my car, and of course, my mind was racing with a million thoughts. Before I knew it, I backed into a Corvette.

When I was a kid, I head butted our conservatory window, the window slid down afterwards like a guillotine. Well that would have sorted my head out....

I exited a roundabout once thinking the road was one way, I over took another car, I nearly had a head on collision, it was actually two way. I sometimes fail to see roadsigns or just get confused.

The most dangerous, and stupid, impulsive "ADD" thing I've ever done would be jumping out of a moving car that was going over 50 mph. I guess I did it to try to impress my friends. I remember hitting my head on the pavement pretty hard, which probably screwed me up even more, now that I think about it. When I jumped, I hit the street with both feet and the car was moving so fast that it knocked me out of my shoes and I flipped backwards and hit my head.:o

Fortunately I was able to put out the fire in the nick of time. My neighbor never asked me why all the grass in my back yard and part of his was burnt up.
As far as the wreck off the shoulder on the interstate, I am glad that tree was there to stop my car before it went over the drainage culvert.

My brother and I decided that casually scaling cliffs 100 feet above the Strait of Juan De Fuca would be an awesome. If only Mom knew...

If she knew she might die of a heart attck!? :(

Some things are best left unknown for Moms.. Trust me, I could kill my own with knowledge of my brother and my 'exploits'.. Well, maybe not anymore, actually... She might write it off as BS.. Or maybe not? :p

-Getting in the car with other ADDers :p

or riding with intoxicated individuals - because although I knew I was too intoxicated to drive I was too intoxicated to realize how intoxicated they were. . . . :faint:


The stove is a very dangerous appliance - so is testing various substances to see if they are good at putting out fires - many common household substances should not be used for this purpose because they are flammable.:eek:


I do know to never use flour to put out a fire because it can go BOOM ! Never ever throw water on a grease or candle wax fire because that only spreads the flames - salt is good as is putting the matching lid on a pan IF it can be found before the entire house burns down. :rolleyes:


Working on appliances and forgetting to unplug them - well the electrical shock normally reminds me eventually:o

Meh, I never picked on other kids. I retaliated when I got picked on :)

btw, I don't understand "you look like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth." I think I understand what it means by context (that I look like a softy), but I don't get the metaphor.

Actually the idiom is "you look like butter WOULD melt in your mouth", and it means you are warm and fuzzy, as opposed to cold hearted or mean.

Flaking out while driving has certainly been dangerous for me...and probably others.

Getting caught up in a t.v. show rather than the bacon on the stove. Smoke billowing out and telling my aunt "oh. It's not done yet."

The most dangerous thing would be right after highschool...I attempted to give a cute guy my (and my friend's) phone number...while hanging out of our car going about 65 mph on the interstate. He wasn't worth it.

wow, lost of oven accidents huh? i just had one yesterday: i put two buns in my combi grill and hitmicrowave in stead of grill. When it started smelling bad i took them out, but the room stil smells like smoke :rolleyes: You guys never forget to turn out the gas?

This was hardly dangerous though. Most dangerous would be my driving. Just daydreaming along, humming to the music and...OOOPS missed the exit, turn (whereever) becase i wont be able to find my way if i lose track.... etc.

i once heard the parachutist routine to jump, those people have a three page manual checklist memorized, I swear.....
i guess it's no wonder we don't have any parachutists on this forum.

I pretty sure my driving in general is the most dangerous thing I do with my ADHD, I just get lost in my own little world and forget there are other cars on the road....haha. Fortunately I've been around a lot of safe drivers =]

Oh :o
I crashed last week

I've done a lot of dangerous things because...I just have fun :)
Well, actually almost everything that happens to me is completely accidental and happens because of stupid stuff I do (or I don't), but in the end I laugh about almost everything. Oh...like last's year new year eve when I was running with my ADD friend in downtown being chased by the med school students armed with paintball markers for no apparent reason until we figured we had taken the wrong notebook and they thought we had stolen THE notebook...it was a long long story.
It was so stupid, lol, but it was extreme. The police started chasing everyone and they catched some darkie guys since they didn't even know who we were.

A lot of fun and dangerous related to fire stuff has happened to me. Yeah...fire... (gasoline, stoves, lighters...Supersoakers... :D (try the flamelauncher under your own risk) ).

Have you tried playing whatever on the roofs? It's great!!! (and dangerous, don't do it, I won't do it again), and don't jump. It'll hurt at least.
Having a hundred accidents as a child counts? (I never broke a bone since I have calcium excess and it caused me severs).
Driving accidents too. My first week driving a bus crashed me by the side and messed up the right side of my poor car. I crashed last week in a stupid and slow way. I've done a lot of stupid stuff on any car. I've had fun, I can't complain but when I think about it it scares me.

A friend told me that when I was in middle high I was an insane psychopathic and when I think about it I think I was. Does fighting with my teachers and have no apparent respect to authority counts as dangerous? I am way too impulsive. I don't offend them or anything (often) but I don't like them feeling superior to us. In spanish the you (formal) is "usted" and the difference between confidence and not is pretty obvious. I've always called my teachers with the "friend you" (tu) and it has been quite a problem since I simply don't think of calling them in a formal way. In the end they understand that that's me and we end up being friends. Once my band teacher (for civic honors) threw me a Drum stick because I was in the twinlight zone (weird...isn't it :P) but I reacted and got out of the way. I was so upset that I took it and threw it forward...and hit him hard (hell yeah!). I couldn't control myself, threw away my cornet and went away. He was so upset that he never mentioned that again. Everyone told me I was insane for doing that but I realized what I had done until some minutes later. Oh...now I start rememberring so many thinks...man I'm insane...

Getting addicted to gbl

- nearly setting the house on fire by curiously holding a newspaper against an open electric radiator when I was age 2
- hitting parked cars while riding my bike
- doing chemistry experiments ("the young chemist: one hundred funny experiments")
- trying to build a 220 volt arc light
- building rockets that did not perform according to specs
- totally zoning out while driving

I never do any of the impulsive stuff that others above mention, I am actually quite hesitant and careful and reluctant to get into trouble. I have wished I was more courageous sometimes. But inattention can be dangerous too - QED

* I would climb up the sides of OTHER people's houses (as a kid). You know the little corner bricks that stick out?
* I would "tightrope walk" around the railing of our sundeck (20 feet above the ground)

The best is jumping off the roof of our house with a golf umbrella:
1. Open umbrella
2. Jump
3. Watch umbrella immediately turn inside out
4. ouch :eek:

I can't even begin to list all the crazy dangerous things I have done. After all the fires, trips to the emergency room, encounters in juvenile, speeding tickets, etc... at about 16 I scared myself enough to finally quit stimulating myself through danger and now I'm just a big scaredy cat thats way too cautious about everything.

* I would climb up the sides of OTHER people's houses (as a kid). You know the little corner bricks that stick out?
* I would "tightrope walk" around the railing of our sundeck (20 feet above the ground)

The best is jumping off the roof of our house with a golf umbrella:
1. Open umbrella
2. Jump
3. Watch umbrella immediately turn inside out
4. ouch :eek:

I did the umbrella jump! It was fun for like...0.01 sec I think.

Most dangerous ADHD thing I've ever done? Driven while not on my medication! I've nearly killed myself and others on more than one occasion, the combination of delayed mental reaction and low impulse control causes me to make decisions too quickly and I'm slow to react when I realize I'm in danger, not good!

Oh, one more, one time when I was a kid I burned myself pretty badly grabbing the heater element of a dishwasher because my sister had just accidentally burnt herself on it. For some reason I couldn't stop myself from grabbing it out of curiousity!

That was scary. That was probably the first time I realized there was something not right with me!

I will follow the driving/microwave themes:

Microwaving a book for 60 minutes on high (only because the timer would go no higher). It's rather an ADD story from beginning to end: The book was wet because I forgot to roll up my car window. I put it in the mcrowave, forgot all about it, and left. When I came back, the house smelled like burned book, which is a very special type of smoke. it was charred around the edges zand totally unreadable because of its stench.

Regularly running red lights when the left-turn arrow goes green. As the lane to my left starts moving, I drive forward, through oncoming traffic, through the red light. It's been years since I've done it, but I *tried* to do it a few weeks ago...

Let's see. When I was in college one of my friends and I lit firecrackers in a number of trash bins across campus (small college) because we were bored and wanted to do something out of the ordinary. We had the campus security guard try to track us down and he couldn't get a hold of us. One other time we put a fake message on one of our friend's answering machines as a joke and got him in trouble with his mom when she heard the message.

Starting to daydream on my motorcycle while 70km/h, which is way over the limit of 45km/h. Thank god there wasn't any traffic at those moments. I did get involved in an accident (breaking my neck was just a matter of a few inches), but it wasn't my fault.

as a kid: jumping my bike off a 20 foot drop off, jumping off a second story roof into the snow bank, jumping off a bridge into the lake.
As a teen: running into the barnyard and getting between a fully mad bull and my very pregnant aunt who had gone to get a cow in. sitting out the window cleaning snow off the back window while the driver was doing over 70.
as an adult: going into a locked suclusion room with a very deranged man who was much bigger than I alone to hold him back so the nurse could come in and give him a shot.

Driving... I guess. I am absentminded sometimes when driving, good thing I have great reflexes! And am aware at the right moment's! But I am lost in my own little world.
I comb my hair while driving, put on lipstick, and talk on the phone, all dangerous things while behind a wheel of a vehicle.Not all of these at once, though!
I just do it and don't think about it!

* I would climb up the sides of OTHER people's houses (as a kid). You know the little corner bricks that stick out?
* I would "tightrope walk" around the railing of our sundeck (20 feet above the ground)

The best is jumping off the roof of our house with a golf umbrella:
1. Open umbrella
2. Jump
3. Watch umbrella immediately turn inside out
4. ouch :eek:


I so have done this on more than one occasion... especially after I discovered reinforced golf-umbrellas with the gussets that don't turn inside out. What was even better (or worse depending on your perspective) was going outside during a tornado warning with a golf umbrella or large delta kite and thinking it would be fun to be whisked away.

When I lived in Oklahoma the wind gusts could easily exceed 50-60 miles per hour. To a 10 or 12 year old boy that translates to "a kick-ar$e" good time." I was absolutely beside myself that I could jump straight up and land/crash more than 10 feet away...

Other fun times I had as a kid:

1. mud fights/mud slides during the occasional torrential summertime downpour
2. rolling down large hills in moving boxes
3. swinging from vines growing in the woods, often over small ravines
4. staircase sledding with the plastic disc sleds or tobagons
5. banister sliding ...(fun until I broke the banister and fell)
6. building forts & tree houses
7. "street louging" - laying supine on a skateboard and just going down a steeply sloped street (in the middle of the street, no less)
8. cycling/roller blading down large hills just to test how much momentum I could accumulate and how fast I could possibly go without falling.

Wow, I really miss being a kid... when I think back about all the stuff I did as a kid, it really is a miracle I'm still alive...

Let's see... As an undiagnosed child, I drank a lot of alcohol way too young... Drove a 32 foot 7 ton boat all over Peugot Sound from 6 to 12 years old when dad was too drunk...not that I was sober... Experments involving gasoline, fireworks, and matches... Later, more experments involving houseold electircity... (How did that big black burn mark get on the wall? What caused that fuse to blow?) As a teenager, using the restroom alone in the new school I was attending... Got beat up by nine girls I didn't know...Lots of drug/alcohol abuse throughout HS, lots of drunk driving....
Now days I'm a little better. I don't drive drunk anymore, or do recreational drugs, or drive boats. Using our (really old) gas stove is exiting enough without anything extra. Ditto with the electrical system in our ghetto house. I stay away from dark places and public restrooms that don't appear safe. I am pretty much fearless about all these things, but the meds help me to be a bit more rational about them than I have been in the past.

Jacinta WTF ... did you forget your meds today? Why would you make comments about pedalpounder like that? RUDE! UNCALLED FOR!

It was 3 or so days ago actually.

I was slightly late somewhere (as usual!) but i could have walked and made it on time but idk im impulsive
so i got on my skateboard and did not bother changing into skate shoes (stupid choice :( they didnt fit my new skinny jeans)
so i'm in my slipon's .. and i try to go really fast and i fall on my face..

i broke half a tooth and had a small concussion.. yep i had to live on painkillers all weekend
i look awful lol but im getting the tooth fixed and everything soon ..

Driving. LOL almost drove me and my grandfather off the freeway because I tuned out for a couple of seconds. I played it off though and told him I was just switching lanes. Thank God there was noone in that lane. Many more just can't think of them right now.



I just exploded a plate. While waiting for the computer to warm up I decided to grill some toast and cheese for lunch. I turned the grill on (so I thought) and put bread under the grill to toast. I then went back to the computer and got on the internet. 10 minutes later - BANG. I had turned a hotplate on not the grill. Someone had left a plate on the hotplate and the plate had exploded into about 10 pieces. Luckily no one was in the kitchen. If they had been I guess it wouldn't have happened though... At least the bread didn't burn...whoops..