Teenage Rebellion

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  1. Sir Walter Pasty

    Sir Walter Pasty Veteran Member
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    What was your worst act of teenage rebellion?

    Mine was probably getting a skinhead haircut at 14!
     
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  2. Nancy Hart

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    This is an easy one for me. None.:( I was well trained. ;)

    Only rebelled after I left home. Escaped just in the nick of time. LOL
     
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    Tattoos and smoking. I quit smoking but can't seem to get rid of the tattoos.
     
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    I was a right little rebel, so if I thought about it there would be a lot probably, but ..I ran away from home when I was 15.....
     
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    Too embarrassed to say what I did, but one of the things was changing a bad grade into a good grade, as in an F to an A or B. Step parents would congratulate me for the grade, sign the report card, give it back to me and I'd erase the lines I put to make the A or B and turn it in at school. Hey, my step-dad pretty much demanded that I take a drafting class, that I absolutely hated and got an F in. He wanted me to be as mathematically minded as he was...…….wasn't going to happen!

    I did take an Algebra class, but that also was beyond me. I was able to cheat on the semester exam by gazing to the side of me and copying from another student. Actually got an A on that exam. Another good thing, I didn't get caught "gazing".
     
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    I always flew under the radar, all of my rebellious vices went unnoticed or were perhaps ignored by my mother and stepfather.
     
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    I was too scared of my parents to rebel much. Not that they were strict disciplinarians; they were pretty lenient. I just believed when my dad said "do that and you'll be locked in the basement until you're 30, that I would be." It never occurred to me to just go ahead and do it anyway, as my younger sisters did.

    When I did do a few sneaky things, I suffered the agony of the damned fearing they'd find out.
     
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  8. Tim Burr

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    Being a middle child, I also flew under the radar.
    Not that I needed to be invisible, I'd learned early on
    the 'Carrot and stick' metaphor and it served me well.

    Seemed to me that if I 'toed the line' good things would happen
    and normally they did.

    My brothers would ask why 'Tim' got to do such and such and the
    reply was " He never gives us any problems, unlike you and your brother..."

    How to be trusted is one of the best things I learned from my Dad.

    This set me on my long, happy life of conformity.:)
     
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    Another question giving me food for thought, Sir Walter. Was I a bit of a rebel? I'm afraid not. On the one hand, I didn't know who/what to rebel against. My mother loved me and I loved her. And, on the other hand, I was too preoccupied with my illnesses and busy trying to find my feet in life that there was no energy and thoughts left for any rebellion.
     
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    If my dad hadn't died when I was 12 years old I would have been far less rebellious than I ended up being in my teen years. He was the strict one while my Mom just nurtured us and didn't seem to have a clue as to how to discipline any of her nine children. I'm to embarrassed to talk about my biggest rebellion also...but let's just say that after that rebellion I grew up a lot and started setting my own limits in my life.
     
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  11. Cody Fousnaugh

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    Oh, another rebellion thing I did, and not really embarrassed to tell it...……..in the later part my Senior year of high school, I was finally able to buy my first car. It was an old Chevy Bel Air. It was sitting in a corn field and I paid $75 for it. Got the car, but had no DL or insurance yet. I was told that I couldn't take the car out on the road until I had a DL and insurance. Well...…..there were times that my parents would go into 'Busco for groceries and I'd stay at home. After I could see the dust clear from the road they were on, and knew they were on the highway, I slipped into the car and drove it down the road and back home. It felt so cool to finally drive! One time, I just barely made it back home, before I could see them coming home.

    My parent (guardians) were very strict and all of the neighbor kids that I rode the school bus with knew it. They sure weren't the most popular parents in the neighborhood...…….to those kids.
     
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