18 Bad-Ass Things

Happy birthday to me.

I've entered the real world today! I don't feel any different...

So anyways, I've been working on this list for a while. It hit me one day that I get great pleasure out of talking like I'm hardcore, and being from Detroit (well, Berkley, same thing, right?) automatically established my "thug" status. But I realized I had never really lived up to my title, my calling. So I started to work on a list of every delinquent activity I had taken part in, and did a few more things to add on to it. So, here it is, the 18 bad-ass things I did before I turned 18:

1. Forged my Dad's signature

That's right. We went on a field trip, and I just felt like using my master skills to sign the slip as my dad. But don't worry, I told him where we were going and when we were getting back, didn't wanna take things too far...

2. Pierced myself.

That second hole on my earlobe that you see? Did it myself. Got infected...

3. Drove a car...

...at age 13. BAM.

4. Was told that all minors were required by law to wear a life jacket on a tubing adventure... didn't wear a life jacket.

5. Smoked a cigarette

So honestly, I think smoking is so gross. I did this one so that when I say "smoking is gross" people won't say "oh but you've never tried it" because I have!!! >:)

6. Drank Alcohol

At a Christmas party. Took the offer despite my mom's disapproving glares.

7. Drove with more than one passenger in the car within the first year of getting my license.

Is this only a Michigan law? I don't know. But I broke it.

8. Didn't ask parent's permission to play on Neopets.Com

The guilt has haunted me throughout the years, but don't tell my thug friends.

9. Stole a beanie baby

Don't worry, I got scared and put it back.

10. Skipped class

11. Cheated on a test

I could only use one sheet of paper for my cheat sheet and I had it written on two pieces of paper but it could all fit on one page, and my teacher caught me pulling out sheet #2. Didn't get punished, I must have intimidated her.

12. Got kicked out of Westborn

On a number of occasions.

13. Trespassed on The Homestead resort and skied down the hill

All Uncle Jim's idea

14. Took frogs home from the campsite when Grandma told me not to

15. Snuck out

When I was 10. We wanted to pretend to be witches in the dark, and the parental units wouldn't let us go outside. We went anyway.

16. Asked my teacher to go to the bathroom. Roamed the halls instead.

17. Went home for lunch as a Freshman in High School... WITHOUT A PASS

BHS wasn't all into off campus lunch for underclassmen.

18. Freeloaded on free samples at Westborn.

Yee. Thug life. I guess I should straighten out now that I'm an adult, though.