it seemed like such a good idea at the time!

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DuchessAimee said:
I was at a bonfire a few years ago and there were various carbonated drinks there. I voiced my curiosity about what would happen if I put one of those drinks into the fire. So a friend of mine dropped one in. At first it seemed like nothing of importance was going to happen. But after about 20 minutes there was a loud bang, and the VERY hot liquid (along with embers and chunks of wood) exploded up and out of the fire. My ex, who was standing in front of me was coated and pelted, and I reached up and caught a piece of burning ember. He flipped out and various other people freaked out as well, wondering what happened.

I had a pretty bad burn from being completely idiotic, and my ex was upset because I somehow made my friend put the can in the fire. After I thought about it my knowledge of explosive things came back to me and I realized a carbonated can would boil and burst.


But I'm cute, so my stupidity is okay. :D






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Heh me and my friends did the pop can in the fire all the time lol. No one ever got hurt though so I guess that's not really too bad.

Though it does remind me of one of many campfire stories. So me and a couple friends were all sitting around on plastic lawn chairs (the seat and back were plastic mesh, with metal frames) around the fire. The fire was dying out. For some reason my friend Webster (nickname we call him that because he think he know everything, though in fairness he was quite smart) thought it be a good idea at the time to pour gasoline on the fire and I thought it seemed to be a good idea at the time because I knew the fire go right back up that gas stream and either scare him or catch him on fire.


So basically while he pours the gasoline the fire is going back up the stream of gas coming out the cannister, to which he freaks out and throws it. Luckily no one got hurt, but when he freaked out and threw the gas can the gas and fire did get on 2 of the lawn chairs and burn off the plastic leaving only the metal frames. I admit I still thought it was pretty funny until my pops found out. He was not too happy with me lol.

And sadly that's just one of the tamest stories that I am able to share on a Christian website. Sigh reminds me that I've done a lot of stupid crap when I was a teen.
 
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Gasoline and children never work out. As 10 year olds, we were very good at making hay forts. We could build them in an hour. We would take 2 cane breaks and stab them in the ground across from each other and tie the top ends together making an upside down U shape. We'd make a few of those in a row, then frame them in with more cane break and fill in the walls with straw till they looked like a half round army barrack. And while we might have been good builders, we were lousy entertainers. Several of us were sitting inside the hut and we filled a Vienna sausage can full of gas and lit it. It was the oddest thing when that fire went up. The flame seemed like it went straight up in a little funnel looking column all the way to the ceiling. We were all mesmerized I think and I even remembered thinking we probably should have left a hole up there for the smoke, but was just staring at it like an idiot when one of the guys broke our attention as he was crawling out of the hut underneath the wall! That's when we realized the hut was on fire.

We all scrambled out of there and I was on the other end further away from the door and left a little kenthomas27 shaped hole in wall getting out and this hut went up in FLAMES so fast and then caved in on itself with a WHOOMP sound and all us kids standing around it like we were roasting weenies or something. Completely oblivious to how close that all was.
Oh and we set the field on fire too, so there was that. It was a wild 15 minutes.

But, you know.....it seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
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A friend had us and many others over one fourth of july, we cooked out, visited,etc. When it got dark, he set off some fireworks. The kind that has a tall tube that shoots out balls that explode way up in the air. The dew set in, and as he lit one on the table it was sitting on, the fuse took quickly and as he slipped in the wet grass and fell down it tipped over towards all of us. He yelled "oh s***", it started firing those things at us. The first one came our way, just missing my girl and some other kids, and hit an older woman in the arm, she spun away freaking out and then it went off. He managed to redirect the tube while he was there. She said it felt like getting hit with a baseball. The ball changed colors while coming at us, but sure was quick and scary. He stopped the display right then (didn't blame him!)
 
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Getting Married.
 
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Jumping out of a tree fort

Attempting to retreat to cover during a paintball match with friends once - the hill was too steep and I couldn't ascend it fast enough to get to higher ground, I just got shot in the back - a lot. Also apparently my butt was in season that day or something.

Running in a parking lot in the rain - it's not as fun as it's made out to be, my shoes hydroplaned and I remember a ringing in my ears, the cold rain snapped me out of it pretty quickly though.

Trying to dislodge someone's beanie baby with a binder in middle school. You see, I was tossing it towards the ceiling fan in the classroom (high ceiling of about 14 feet) and it got caught on a hanging ceiling light. So I started tossing things at the light to try and shake it loose. I finally settled on my binder. I missed and hit the fan. Things went from bad to worse pretty quickly on that one. I pre-emptively fessed up to having done it so I didn't actually end up in trouble.

Using a mapp gas torch in an enclosed area (a car) to solder 4 gauge wire with inferior solder. Stuff just wouldn't flux the wire at all, so it wouldn't tin worth a darn. The jacket got hot enough that it melted, then caught on fire, then fell off. It was the only time I've ever gotten the opportunity to scream "my car is on fire." I put the fire right out and all was fine though.

Similar to Aimee's story, I've also done the beverage in the fire trick. I have video of it, it was New Years Eve 2013. I need to edit out the expletives though (they weren't mine). Totally worth it though. A column of ash shot up 15 feet in the air and scattered in a radius about as big. In retrospect, doing it in a confined space (between a 35 gallon drum and cinder blocks) probably was what did us in. The ash had no where to go but up, and there was a lot of ash, because we had packed that drum FULL of wood, and kept adding it throughout the night. But you know it's a good fire when it's hot enough to melt glass. Several of us were tossing our empties in the fire that night, I was the only sober one, so yay for me.


Not masking enough to protect against overspray - I've done this more than once.

Using the wrong tool for the job because the right one was too far away. I've done this a few times and half of them the end result looked like a botch. Good luck getting some of those things apart too.
 
Grace-Like-Rain

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Ice cream. It always seems like a good idea at the time. It's rarely worth it.
 
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Grace-Like-Rain said:
Ice cream. It always seems like a good idea at the time. It's rarely worth it.
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Oooohhhh, but, but... *feels sad.*

Sometimes ice cream is SO worth it. Ok, that and the extra hour of running one needs to burn it off.

*Really wants to take Grace out for ice cream now... and maybe a long walk.* :D
 
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Being born. It was a terrible idea.
Other then that if i have done anything worth regretting I didn't get caught, so was probably a great idea.
 
Grace-Like-Rain

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seoulsearch said:
Oooohhhh, but, but... *feels sad.*

Sometimes ice cream is SO worth it. Ok, that and the extra hour of running one needs to burn it off.

*Really wants to take Grace out for ice cream now... and maybe a long walk.* :D
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Awww, I would SO go on an ice-cream-work-off walk with you!

I'm lactose intolerant, so that's the main reason it's never a good idea. Makes me feel nauseous for about an hour afterward. Frozen yogurt though - that is a product I can get behind. :D
 
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Grace-Like-Rain said:
Awww, I would SO go on an ice-cream-work-off walk with you!

I'm lactose intolerant, so that's the main reason it's never a good idea. Makes me feel nauseous for about an hour afterward. Frozen yogurt though - that is a product I can get behind. :D
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Yeah...ice cream, pizza....they all seem like great ideas. They taste great, but 15 minutes later they sure don't feel great. It can give me a migraine. It also makes me bloated in my stomach so it's like I gained 5 or 10 pounds.

I should remember that the next time pizza calls my name. -.-
 
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Also...watching TV while cooking. Never a good idea. Cooking in the living room doesn't work. You STAY IN THE KITCHEN or else things get ruined. Or catch on fire. While that's never happened to me I sure have come close to it.
 
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lil_christian said:
Also...watching TV while cooking. Never a good idea. Cooking in the living room doesn't work. You STAY IN THE KITCHEN or else things get ruined. Or catch on fire. While that's never happened to me I sure have come close to it.
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The fire is like seasoning.

Think of it as mesquite flavor... indoors.
 
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lil_christian said:
Yeah...ice cream, pizza....they all seem like great ideas. They taste great, but 15 minutes later they sure don't feel great. It can give me a migraine. It also makes me bloated in my stomach so it's like I gained 5 or 10 pounds.

I should remember that the next time pizza calls my name. -.-
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Here's a pizza calling your name.....

hiya lil...

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Close the lid! If I get cold I'll die...




Then there's this......

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It's a light switch cover! You can get anything at this store.




Pipp and I went to church last Sunday and this is how she dressed me up...

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That doesn't have anything to do with anything but just happened to think of it then.





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that's just John Travolta. Always shocks me....
 
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Grace-Like-Rain said:
Ice cream. It always seems like a good idea at the time. It's rarely worth it.
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FALSE!! Ice cream is ALWAYS worth it. :)

I'm clearly a big fan of ice cream. I don't think there's ever been a time when I thought, "Ugh, that was too much ice cream" or "No, I'm not in the mood for ice cream." Pizza and Chinese, on the other hand...
 
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rachelsedge said:
FALSE!! Ice cream is ALWAYS worth it. :)

I'm clearly a big fan of ice cream. I don't think there's ever been a time when I thought, "Ugh, that was too much ice cream" or "No, I'm not in the mood for ice cream." Pizza and Chinese, on the other hand...
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But too much ice cream can make you feel like you've been hit by a truck. I've never had that problem with pizza.

Then again I guess pizza gets delivered in trucks too some times.
 
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When I was 4 and thought it would be ok to play with matches and caused a fire
#SMH
 
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ServantStrike said:
But too much ice cream can make you feel like you've been hit by a truck. I've never had that problem with pizza.

Then again I guess pizza gets delivered in trucks too some times.
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Ice Cream used to be king in my house! on hot summer days, I would come home from my very hot job, shower and sit in front of the fan with my daughter and watch the Wiggles. She thought they were the best! Good times for both of us! Oh yeah, we ate PLENTY of Ice Cream!! Two big bowls a piece, if not more.
 
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