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Hey Pandas, What Is Something You Did As A Kid That You Would Never Do As An Adult? (Closed)
We were all young and dumb at some point, and we all look back at those moments and say, "Why did I do that?" Type your answer below!
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#1
Wishing that I were an adult
Final score:
39points
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I love being an adult—I was so happy to leave my hideous abusive stepfather. Also, being an adult is fun!
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Avery Melton 3 years ago
when u r a kid u want to be older but when u r older u want to be young
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#2
Buy stuff to impress some one. No one cares.
Final score:
34points
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
Yeah. I wouldn't say "kid" but in my 20's I bought lots of fashion brand names. Just cleaning out my closets and sell most of them for soooo much less and I just think about all the money wasted. I both bought way to many clothes and also believed I would like them more because of the brand (many are not my style, not even back then).
#3
I felt pretty invincible in my 20s, now in my 50s I am far more careful with my health.
Final score:
26points
Paola Martz 3 years ago
I'm reverse again here. When I was in my 20's, poor eating habits, alcohol an tobacco wreak my health terribly. I ended up with an ulcer at the age of 25!. Now I'm in my mid 30s and take care of myself much more. Now I feel even younger than 10-15 Yeats ago!
#4
Refuse to take nap
Final score:
24points
MoJo1979 3 years ago
Wish this was at the top. I keep trying to convince my 10 year old niece that naps are the best invention ever created. She doesn't believe me.
Mochi 3 years ago
Wait till she hits her teens. Sleepy teens isn't a stereotype for no reason.
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#5
Blindly trusting anybody. Taking education for granted (goofing around).
Final score:
23points
henry weston 3 years ago
ah yes, not the best thing to do... but i cant talk. i do that right now so...
#6
Put up with physical and mental abuse for the sake of the family name.
Final score:
22points
#7
Listen to any of the b******t that came out of my parents’ mouths
Final score:
21points
#8
When I was much younger I wrote a "bucket list" and on it I also included a skydive. I've ticked off many things on the list but now as an adult I don't have the courage for the skydive. The tattoo and getting to meet an elephant got ticked off though!
Final score:
21points
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
I went skydiving for the first time when I was 17 and military chutes and radios were used to help guide you down. Because of injuries suffered in a head-on collision, I can no longer jump. I loved it. Go for it!! It is so peaceful up there.
Wren Kaiser 3 years ago
The vast!!! (No one here will understand but humph)
Load More Replies... Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
My life’s dream was to live abroad, which I did the year I turned 50. I had always assumed it would be England (I live in the U.S.), but it ended being Bangkok, and I really enjoyed it, but ended up moving back to the U.S. a couple of years later.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I always had skydiving on my bucket list, ever since I was told at age 7 my eyes were more prone to retinal detachment so I shouldn't bungee jump.
#9
When Disney aired "Davy Crockett" on television, I was so impressed by the show that I wore a coonskin cap for days on end. I'd never wear a coonskin cap now but I do wear a Stetson; the cap I wore when I was a kid wasn't even a "real" coonskin as I found out later! But the Stetson is a real Stetson.
Final score:
20points
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My uncle has a Stetson that fit me really well and I have wanted one since then, but I could never justify the cost!
Allan Miller 3 years ago
I wore a coonskin cap when I was little. It made my head hot and sweaty.
#10
Say: "I'm gowing to have 12 kids when I gwow up!!!!!"
Final score:
19points
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I also have none, which had always been my plan
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Jump off a 12ft cliff into a lake at the quarry
Final score:
19points
#12
Run through the yard barefoot!! Sad but very true for many reasons.
Final score:
18points
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I got my only ever bee-sting walking barefooted through some clover.
#13
Ride down a hill on a sled, standing up.
Final score:
18points
Jackie Lulu (Submission author) 3 years ago
I thought it would look really cool.
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*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
Sounds like fun! Honestly I'm gonna put that on my wishlist! Lol.
#14
Take family for granted. As a kid, I thought that everyone lived forever.. having buried my aunt, all my grandparents, my mother...lost my brother to alcoholism (I haven’t seen him in years). I hold my little ones tight and think there is never enough time..
Final score:
14points
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
Find your brother if he IS still alive. Let him know you still love him and want to help him. Maybe if you reach out to him and give him that love it may help him turn his life around. I may be over simplifying the situation and looking for a Hallmark movie ending but you never know, it might work. Where there's life there's hope and everyone deserves a second chance.
#15
Procrastinate taking a shower when told to
Final score:
13points
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I have taken baths that could be entered into the fictitious “Best Baths Hall of Fame”
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Susan Williams 3 years ago
Just procrastinate for the sake of procrastination....because I can.
#16
There's so many things that we did as kids, that when I look back on the crap that we did I wonder how we made it out alive.
Final score:
13points
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Lighting fires in the wetlands! We thought we were smart and safe enough but really weren't! Also, going into the storm water drain, despite the waning mum gave us of flash flooding and a girl she knew who died there. Kids think they are invincible!
#17
Take anything for granted. Also to speak up, I hate being "the quiet one". I literally force myself to speak to others. I will go talk to people to try to impress. I hates talking to strangers for information, things, or advice. But I force myself to do it because I want to be relied on as a person. Not in a overly way, but as in a respected, mature, brave way.
Final score:
13points
#18
Run around naked.
Final score:
12points
#19
"I want to be (insert every job in the world here) when i grow up". Never again. You can never be sure what's waiting for you.
Final score:
11points
New Everywhere 3 years ago
I hate that question for kids especially younger ones. Probably because I felt pressure or kinda stupid because I didn't have an honest answer, so I made up a generic answer every time. The question should be more like, what do you like to do? And if they are older, what are your plans for the next couple years? FYI: my interests are all over the place and I landed in HR
#20
fight the wall
Final score:
10points
best turtle (Submission author) 3 years ago
the wall won most of the battles
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My teachers abused me and everyone would’ve known had we not been so young. It was so easy for those teachers to manipulate 3-6 year olds who have never had any knowledge about topics like abuse, harassment, assault. We didn’t talk to our parents because that was normal. Then in the 3rd grade my teacher hit me, and emotionally abused me. I would never let that happen again, I swore I would but it’s happening again. My English teacher abuses her power and abuses our emotions. I tried to make it stop but I had an SM attack and was silenced. I don’t know if I will ever escape from abusive people. I did so much to try and make the pain go away, and I’ll never do any of it in the future, and certainly not as an adult. AND DO NOT ASK FOR DETAILS PLEASE! this is my worst trauma, and I’m trying to normalize it so nobody will go through what I went through,
Final score:
10points
#22
Shove Bangers (explosive little fireworks that were 'the thing' when I was a 70s kid growing up) down the open end of the handlebar of your friend's bike...
Final score:
9points
GenericPanda09 3 years ago
I think we had the same thing, but we called them spanish bangers (cause i think people brought them back off their holidays from there). Tiny things with very inconsistent fuse timings.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Anything to do with fireworks my dad has said he would never approve of now, but back when they were legal and celebrated bonfire night they all did. I don't know how more people weren't killed!
#23
Wonder what it felt like when someone kissed you.
Final score:
9points
*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
I still wonder, but I don't plan on having my first till WAYYYYY later!
#24
Walk up to someone I don’t know and ask if I can play with them
Final score:
9points
#25
not enjoy school
Final score:
8points
henry weston 3 years ago
you dont need to enjoy it, just learn. but yes, enjoying it is better than nothing.
#26
Jump off the roof of a house. Make a flame thrower with a lighter and a can of gold spray paint—in the garage. Ride my bike like a crazy person, weaving in and out of traffic without a helmet (who the hell wore bike helmets in the 80s?). Pester the hell out of the girl that I liked that clearly didn’t like me (I’m sorry, Rocio). Listen to Bon Jovi. Mouth off to my teachers for no good reason. Drink Jolt Cola.
Final score:
7points
#27
Everyone has done this, but turn the lights off in the basement, and run up the stairs so that the dark doesn’t swallow me up.
Final score:
7points
#28
bed wetting
Final score:
6points
#29
Wear a bikini
Final score:
6points
*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
I hate them. They are two. . . Reveling. I will always feel uncomfortable in them. :(
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
I have never felt comfortable in a one piece let alone a bikini. Revealing doesn't begin to describe it. It may as well be body paint for all it leaves to the imagination. Shorts and a top thank you. If I could find an old fashioned bathing suit made of modern materials, I'd wear it.
#30
I used to pour soda in the mailbox on the corner of my street. If I didn’t do that I would drop the can of soda in the mailbox. Thank god cameras weren’t invented in the 80s.
Final score:
6points
#31
I ate a packet of instant coffee I found in the playground.
Final score:
6points
#32
Stand on a horse bareback to pick cherries.
Final score:
6points
#33
Allowing myself to become dependent on someone else.
Final score:
6points
#34
I would runaround the house naked after a shower even if the windows were open, sadly cant do that anymore
Final score:
6points
#35
Pour salsa in three peoples hair
Final score:
5points
#36
Go into the woods without tick spray.
Final score:
5points
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Do you ever end up in the woods when it hasn’t been part of your original plan?
Smarty Panda (Submission author) 3 years ago
Yep! That's how I ended up in a tick nest and then almost dying from Lyme Disease! If there's even a chance I bring it 👌if not roll your socks up over your pants & do tick checks after & go to the doctor if you get a rash or any off symptoms. ✌️
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🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸cartwheels, handstands, piggy backs, playground girls hand clapping game.... OMG British bulldogs 🤣🤣 42 yes old and just loved the freedom of being able play safely with my friends. Feel sorry for today's kids 😔
Final score:
5points
#38
Get married. Never again. Was with the guy for five years then we got married when I was 21. Nope. Freedom forever.
Final score:
5points
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
Did it once. Didn't work out too well but we had 7 pretty ok years and 2 kids. Said never ever again. Did it again anyway and sort of regret it. Got one more kid though so not all bad but... marriage and children (maybe even more so than marriage) changes relationships so much. They are just not the same after. Like all love and lust run out for a few years and then it's hard to repair that. If I turn out divorced again I won't be having anymore kids though, so if I find love after that maybe it has better odds.
#39
Not realizing lying, stealing and cheating are so rampant.
Final score:
5points
Susan Williams 3 years ago
I am 84. I have a brother 14 years younger than me. He steals from me.
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Gone abroad for post secondary education
Final score:
4points
#41
I'd not listen to sweet words from dubious sources.
Final score:
4points
#42
Carnival rides at church festivals or county fairs. 1) motion sickness, 2) safety
Final score:
3points
Project2501 3 years ago
In the parking lot they had a huge one that would spin so fast you'd be stuck to the wall. Never again
#43
Once Stu k right hand into open wall socket (only got a small stinging feeling before I pulled out) hand was numb for the day
Final score:
3points
Susan Williams 3 years ago
Once had a botched cardioversion before I was fully sedated. It shock enlarged one of my heart chambers permanently.
#44
Want to fake sick to stay home from school (never went through with it)
Final score:
3points
Susan Williams 3 years ago
Never entered my head to do this while still in school Did it about once a month when I was working as an adult.
#46
- trust people - rely on friends
Final score:
2points
#50
Cutting open shotgun shells for the powder and stuffing them in a piece of pipe and using a firecracker as a fuse. Stuffing was just tight enough to make a big noise.
Final score:
2points
#51
Play with dolls ig
Final score:
1point
#52
shoplift
Final score:
1point
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