After just posting 50 uncommon things I had done in my life, I thought it might be time for the dumb things I have done. Not sure I can make 50, but here goes.
1. Jumped fences in Bel Aire (Think Beverly Hills on steroids) California to be chased by the dogs. (We were, and after about the the 5th house, when the Rottweiler nearly got us, we decided this activity was not really worth pursuing.)
2. Stole golf cart path marker plastic chain from every hole on an exclusive country club. Then we got a bit of conscience and threw it all back over the fence the next night, except for the little bit my friend kept to make a hippie door.
3. Cruising in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead California at 110 mph whilst riding on the trunk and holding onto the roll bar of a two-seater Datsun 2000 convertible.
4. At age 14 I had a summer job working at a YMCA camp at Big Bear Lake in California. It was a great job, but I quit half way through the summer because I was home sick.
5. At the summer camp, I stepped on a scorpion with my bare foot in the shower. Major mistake.
6. Lit a firecracker and held it in my hand whilst it exploded to see what it felt like.
7 Threw water balloons at passing buses with open windows while a missionary during carneval in Peru in 1972. Hit a lady with a baby. That was what got me thrown into the South American Jail, from which I escaped. (They were going to keep me in jail for 24 hours and then send me to the judge. After the shift changed, I told the guard that the arresting officer told me I could go home after 5 hours, so they let me go.
8. Ate food from street vendors everywhere I went while serving as a missionary in Peru. Only got sick once, when I found out that what I thought was barbecue beef heart was actually dog meat. And I found out it was dog meat the next day, so it was purely psychological that I got sick.
9. Fell asleep while driving the Mitsubishi Lancer and rear-ended a Mercedes. Not wise at all.
10. Played soccer barefoot on the beach whilst a missionary. Broke my big toe when I got a shin instead of the ball.
11. I guess the missionary experience yielded several dumb things. I was way overweight on the luggage coming home, so I threw out my journal I had faithfully kept for 2 years.
12. Not sure how I did this, but whilst carrying a potted plant past the pool out to the car to use as a visual aid for a Sunday School lesson, I suddenly ended up in the pool wearing my suit and tie. My children have regaled everyone they know telling that story.
13. Worked late and got my truck stolen for my troubles. (obviously age and experience do not preclude me from continuing to do dumb things.
14. While we were driving around the mountains in the Datsun at 110 miles per hour we stopped at every snowman made on the side of the road and picked them up and put them right in the middle of the road. There were about 30 of them.
15. After a relative got pulled into the Pacific ocean by a fish he had caught and lost an expensive fishing rig in the process, he got back into the boat dripping and sopping wet, my first question to him was, "Uncle Sy, is your watch waterproof?
16. Tripped one of the train robber actors at Knott's Berry Farm in California. It was a glorious fall, let me tell you. He got up and whacked me on the knee with the butt of his very real gun.
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You have done some crazy things, haven't you. I am glad to see that marrying me was not on your list. I also hope you don't get arrested now that you have publicly confessed to several things.
It's a wonder you didn't end up in jail more than you did. Though now us kids have to catch up...
Statute of limitations on misdemeanors expired a long time ago.
oh man, that is quite the list. the missionary journal just kills me though...and the pool story just makes me laugh reeeeally hard, although i'm farely certain i HAVE heard that one before.
I don't know that I would consider this a dumb thing but it was pretty goofy, if you recall, the first time I saw you you were dressed in a white toga and laurel leaf crown and waltzing about your brother's apartment throwing flower petals. Talk about lasting first impressions! Who knew it was a precursor to your illustrious acting career?????
OH wow!!! I laughed and laughed over this. You have done some pretty crazy things! I am glad you are still with us. :)
we also tell the story of you getting arrested on your mission. Maybe ill be sure to tell that story when I give my talk on fathers next week.
And why did you throw your journal out? That was dumb. And did that really make that weight difference?
some of his kids are catching up, liz
And what is that last comment supposed to mean, Cathy?
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