[prohornblower]

I used to do so much dumb stuff as a kid it's not even funny.

I once held a firecracker in my winter-gloved hand and let it explode. It ripped the hell out of the glove and burnt my hand a bit.

I used to crawl through SEWERS with my friend to "explore". We'd pop out of the manhole in other neighborhoods, then walk back home. We probably did this like 20 times. How we never came across a rat or snake is beyond me.

We used to have bottlerocket wars. Running at people, shooting bottle rockets at them. I got hit in the back of the head with a roman candle shot and it burnt some of my hair.

We used to roll tires down the street HOPING that they'd hit oncoming cars. That all stopped when my brother rolled one, and it went through the window of our house, shattering glass and almost landing on our month-old brother who was sitting on the couch. (Split level home).

We used to go through the neighborhood on Friday night at like 2am and collect all the "For Sale" signs in the neighborhood and stick them all in this one guy's front yard. He had like 40 signs in his front yard. We'd take people's firelogs from their backyard and put them in front of their garage door so that when they tried to leave in the morning, they'd back into the logs.

A lot of other stuff as well...swinging from a vine in the creek. THat all ended when a girl was on the vine and it snapped and she fell onto a rock and had a concussion.

Playing homerun derby and hitting tennis balls up against people's house.

My older brother did a lot of worse stuff. Him and his buddy littered the front of this old guy's house with tomatoes. He came out and threatened to kill my brother and his friend. They were about 12. My brother's friend actually was just murdered 2 years ago at age 26. Not by the same guy.

My brother stuck a gardening hose into the ground up against this guy's foundation and turned the water on full blast. Hours later they got home and their basement was flooded from capillary action through the cracks.

My brother pushed his friend out of a treehouse once and jumped down to fight him and his friend hit him in the back of the head with the claw side of a hammer.

I could go on and on but I don't want this to get "tl;dr".

I'm dreading having kids because I know they will do some stuff like this and I don't want to have to deal with it!