Stupid things...

For many of us, our stupid acts are only preserved in our memories. These days, the stupid things that folks do now are forever immortalized in living color on the internet.

This is so true. If they had cameras everywhere in the 70's like they do today all my buddies and myself would have not gotten away with all the stupid things we did.

My dumbest move in the wild was wading in the Green river to trout fish. My wife was on the shore making sandwiches and I was in the river realizing I was in way over my head. No pun intended. I made it back to shore and silently ate my sandwich. When we left and drove downstream there was a rapid I would not have survived had I fallen and gotten swept away. I was the typical easterner who had never dealt with fast moving western waters. Learned a lesson that day.

Many other near death experiences including cars, motorcycles / dirt bikes and airplanes.

I am living proof that only the good die young!
 
I was maybe 8 or 9. My grandparents had just moved to San Juan Island in Washington. The very first time we visited, we pulled into the driveway and were hugging and saying hello, when we noticed a doe and a fawn about 30 yards away. I wanted to see them so I went over there. I got about 10 yards from them and they weren't scared. I was watching them and my grandfather came up and gave me a few carrots. The fawn came over and began eating the carrot out of my hand. Soon the doe was, too. The rest of the family was just standing quietly in the driveway, watching. Spent about 5 minutes feeding them, until I ran out of carrots. It was a beautiful experience. I didn't find out until years later that my dad had gotten his .38 from the car and put it in his waistband, just in case. It wasn't necessary as we found out the deer were pretty tame and the people in the neighborhood, mostly retirees, fed them regularly.
 
In 1980 at the urging of my wife I took out a loan on a house at 12%, the going rate at the time. By 1984 I was divorced and she got the house and I was still on the mortgage. My ex moved in with her new husband. He was an Iron worker and they could easily afford the house payments. He smashed his leg on the job and ultimately lost his job because he couldn't go back to work. The house went into foreclosure, and somehow I escaped the loan repayment, but my credit was screwed for 10yrs.
 
Several years ago a momma Raccoon left her kits in our backyard, I always feed critters. Kits were about 1 and half months old and were not afraid of me. I got within a foot of them putting cat food for them to eat. I also " talked to them" in Coonese and they seemed to understand. Had 2 Raccoons as pets when a kid and would Love to have another.BTW,I would Never get within 20 feet of a wild Raccoon.C3BC977F-A652-4CF6-B923-DC969EA2FDF9.jpg
 
On the day my deeds are read aloud from the "Book of Stupid" the amassed throngs will need an intermission.

They won't have an intermission for me..there will be commas periodically with covered dates of stupid in between. There will be the fast cars period...then there will be the drinking and everything decade.. Then the fast women,,,especially Red Heads 1/2 decade...then the 1st wife period a short 5 1/2 month timeframe(took me that long to realize the difference tween lust and love)...Airplanes and motorcycle period...and then fire dept and all the rest. My last wife kept her eyes on me pretty well Tween 10 and 25 I was truly a danger to myself
 
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