s/o Sneaking out

[circa1978]

What were your teen years like?

Don't read if it's going to freak you out, chchchia! 

[circa1978]

I'll start. I stole my parents' car when I was 14. I snuck out so much my parents moved me to a bedroom without a tree next to it. Let's not even discuss my school attendance.

My mother was once called by the police with an ambulance wailing in the background because my 16-year-old self took the brand new car they bought me downtown to visit my boyfriend, of whom they did not approve, during a time when I said I was going to the movies five minutes away with a "nice" boy, then flipped it over. It was my second crash in that car within a week. Other car crashes - for which I was present but not the driver - included my cousin accidentally hitting an 11-year-old kid who darted out in front of us (he was fine) and getting rear ended (after sneaking out) in a part of town we were very much not supposed to be in at the time.

I also didn't bother much to try to hide my birth control pills, prescribed to me at 15. I'm sure they wish they'd thought of removing my door. (See sneaking BF in for sex.) And more than once, accidentally set parts of the house on fire. But I still think I was a good kid!

No drugs! I graduated college! I'm FINE!

[Deleted]

Lol.

[madringal]

I had a door that went to the front yard in my bedroom and never snuck out. My dad would have killed me dead. No joke, I really beleived this. I don't know if that is a good or bad thing!

[verypunny]

I didn't sneak out but I got knocked up at 17. Prior to that I was perfect, went on mission trips for church, had a good group of friends, ect. I'm terrified of when my daughter is that age.

[agnes]

No sneaking necessary.

[Kristinmo]

I was a goody-goody. I never drank, smoked, snuck out, etc. I didn't even kiss a boy until I was 18.

[wambam]

I was a very good kid with a BSC mother. I was constantly in trouble/getting grounded, but it was mostly stuff my mom literally made up in her head.

[Deleted]

All of my deviousness was done online in high school. I waited til I was 18 to really go crazy IRL.

[lime]

My parents were extremely controlling and would punish me harshly for any slip up. Example - I skipped school one time for a classmate's funeral when I was 13 and they told me that they couldn't trust me anymore and I wouldn't be able to get my DL when I turned 16.

So, I only snuck out when they were OOT. My uncle would always babysit and he was such a bumblefuck so it wasn't hard to get passed him. LOL

I did drink a bit, but not nearly as much as others in my circle. Never did drugs.
My parents always went through my things and read notes from friends, so I got busted having sex and our relationship was probably damaged for a year or two. They referred to me as "tawdry" and I'm pretty sure my dad called me a bitch whenever I wasn't in the room.

I couldn't wait to go off to college.

[circa1978]

OMG, I was a terrible kid. Shit. Sorry again, mom!

[dowagercountess]

I didn't even bother sneaking out, I just never came home. I called my mom once my junior year and fixed my mouth to lie once about where I'd be spending the night and she was like, look, I don't know where you'll really be, but don't forget we have that appointment at 11am.
For me a job gave me responsibility, but more importantly, money and a good excuse to not be home.

[Deleted]

No, to be honest, I was a bit crazy. I mean, maybe I wouldn't have been if my mom actually tried to be a parent, but she didn't, so I did what I wanted. I was never home, drank, smoked pot, did other drugs. I remember hopping in cars with random strangers on the highway, walking around town all hours of the night, stuff like that. But! I turned out ok. I think.

[illgetthere]

I was good as far as boys are concerned, but I snuck out a few times. I always left a note saying we were hungry and just ran to taco bell. If the parents woke up and saw it, they'd call and I'd come home pretending I had just left. Drank my fair share starting around 15. Started drinking during class around 16/17. Grades started dropping. Got pregnant at 19. Still finished college and all but it took me long enough.

[agnes]

Really, though. I was a pretty good kid and my parents were fairly lax about rules. I mean, my now H practically moved in with us when I was 18 (and I swear we weren't even having sex at the time).

[chchchia]

Yeah this is why I am freaking out..lol, I never did anything like that and to my knowledge no one I knew at the time did either. I wasn't an angel, I did get caught drunk once but even then, I made sure I had a designated driver and made curfew and I still got caught. I couldn't even do bad right.
My husband is a lot breezier about all of this b/c I think he was a delinquent.

[So_Fetch]

Jul 25, 2014 12:43:38 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Never drank, never smoked, never did drugs, never snuck out, never had sex, never lied to my parents about where I was going to be... I sort of wish I could go back and have more fun, but at the same time, I hope my girls are just like I was. lol

the bolded. lol
I think I might have had some friends come to my window a few times (my room faced the front yard) so I'd open it and talk to them. I also tried to get someone buy us (me and the preacher's daughter) for NYE, but I didn't drink it.  and I tried to get someone to buy me a pack of cigarettes for a cute boy, but then the janitor of our school came up and was all WTF on me, so I went home. I'm pretty sure I told my mom about it. lol

[verypunny]

Wait I lied. I was 16 and had a friend in college, she would take me out to bars and I had ordered my sisters ID off the dmv website ( she's 6 years older than me). My mom knew I was going to a college friends house but somehow trusted we were just watching movies. She believed what she wanted.

[lime]

Jul 25, 2014 12:45:20 GMT -5 Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear said:

I snuck a boy in my bedroom window one night when my parents were in the living room watching TV.
The neighbor across the street saw him, thought it was a burgler and called the police. I hid him in the closet and swore up and down to the cops that there was nothing amiss.

OMG

Legit LOL 

No way would I have been able to pull that off. 

[dexteroni]

I hardly did anything. My older sister did probably 90% of the things on this list, and seeing how contentious her relationship with my parents was during her high school years - and how idiotic she and her friends were when they were drunk and stoned - put me off of that kind of thing entirely. One minor thing I did was stash two wine coolers in my closet, and my mom found them. lolol. I didn't even really get in trouble for that because I was so mortified when she talked to me about it.

[dexteroni]

Jul 25, 2014 12:46:29 GMT -5 agnes said:

Really, though. I was a pretty good kid and my parents were fairly lax about rules. I mean, my now H practically moved in with us when I was 18 (and I swear we weren't even having sex at the time).

This may be part of my good behavior too. For example, I didn't have a curfew, so there was no getting busted for that, and nothing to rebel against.

[circa1978]

Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear

LOL, I actually did something not quite as ballsy. I had a boy in my room while my mom was at work. He went into the kitchen to get some milk and was just leaving as my mom walked in from the garage. He booked it to my room and went out the window. I only recently admitted to her that that actually happened. By the time she got to my room behind him, he was gone and I was like, what? What do you mean you saw a boy? She knew I was lying but never got the truth out of me.

[circa1978]

Jul 25, 2014 12:51:00 GMT -5 squirrelymom said:

If I have to pay for what I did, it's going to be ugly. lol.

Right? 

[sequins]

I studied a lot. Parents still hated me. You can't win with these guys, I'm telling you. LOL.

[felicity]

I got great grades, had nice friends, and was active in church youth group.

My regular old high school friends were all so good and didn't want to experiment with anything. It was a couple of my youth group friends who were trouble. I would drink and smoke pot with them. I also went to parties and got drunk with a lot of early twenties people while I was 17/18 because I was working at restaurants and retail.

My parents were so oblivious. I guess the one plus side is I feel like I know what to look for, even if our kid is a good kid overall. Good kids can sometimes still want to experiment.

[chiclet]

Jul 25, 2014 12:43:15 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

I was a goody-goody. I never drank, smoked, snuck out, etc. I didn't even kiss a boy until I was 18.

Same here! Back then it felt like I was never going to be kissed!

[wannabe]

My mom was super oblivious. Never even realized what time I got home. Sometimes I'd get home after 2 and she never knew it.

But when I got a boyfriend she made sure I was home by 10. LOL.

I didn't drink or smoke or even consider drugs though. I was a total goody goody in that department.

[sequins]

Ok, I have something. When I was preparing for medical entrance exams, there was this boy, who was super into me and I was super into. We used to talk on phone all night after classes. It only lasted a couple of weeks but I didn't realise that my phone was in roaming. Such high phone bills I still feel so guilty about it. PDQ my lame story.

[lpcats]

Jul 25, 2014 12:43:15 GMT -5 Kristinmo said:

I was a goody-goody. I never drank, smoked, snuck out, etc. I didn't even kiss a boy until I was 18.

This is me. I will live vicariously through the rest of you.

[no0b]

Jul 25, 2014 12:43:25 GMT -5 wambam said:

I was a very good kid with a BSC mother. I was constantly in trouble/getting grounded, but it was mostly stuff my mom literally made up in her head.

Umm hi.  We have the same mom.


Well, she was justified once I did start acting out, sneaking out, and getting #turnedup.