Stupid shit you did as a kid

[Kitsa]

When I was about 7 there was this kid down the street who went through a daredevil phase on his bike. His parents had this long, downward-sloping driveway with a rail at the bottom end. I think it dropped off to a ravine or something on the other side. Anyway, they had like 7 or 8 metal trashcans lined up long the rail...no idea why so many...and he got it in his head that he could bowl himself at the trashcans and knock them all over.

Except, you know, there was this rail behind them and stuff, and if he went through them he'd probably go flying to his death.

He actually did it, and got stuck headfirst in one of the garbage cans and cried until his mom came out screaming for us all to go home and never come back again.

I rode a bike once when I wasn't supposed to (back when I didn't have a healthy appreciation for my limitations)...ended up knocking myself out and skidding several feet on my face, removing all the skin from my nose. A car almost hit me. One of many ambulance rides.