#1: Accepting a drunken challenge to eat a full packet of dry Cream Crackers without any liquids to drink. Half way into the pack my mouth was fully dessicated and it felt like I was chewing razor blades.

#2: Thinking having a maccie d's or a KFC would be a good idea.

#3: Buying a Leopard skin print waistcoat to wear at a friends wedding.

#4: Deciding to go camping in the autumn whilst being racked with flu.

#5: Giving The Postman the benefit of the doubt and watching it twice.

go......

#6: staying out at the beach without sunscreen.."as long as i'm in the water..i'll be fine"

#7- trusting a yonger grandchild when given specific instructions and they respond very sincerely "okay Mimi, I promise"..................'warning'-don't try this stunt at home! :=)

#8 - Walk into a new hair salon on a whim, not walk out when the posters all display radical models in their own roaring twenties, not walk out when my own hair stylist with extremely whacked-out hair herself greets me, and not walk out when she decides to give me a "new look".

(As an afternote, I am now boasting a "Fauxhawk". It has been described as the twenty-first century mullet. I look like some aggressive, impulsive youth, pitting his will against all forms of sanity and administration. I am honestly afraid of looking at pictures of myself in fifteen or twenty years. Communicating with adults has always been my strong point, but now I look as if I have an unshakable attitude.)

lol - hair stylists with bad cuts - best avoided at all costs - its a bit like going to get a tattoo and the guy sitting there with the needle gun having no visible tattoos of their own or some really bad ones.

You pass by the last roadside rest stop for the next 60 miles of open desert, sipping on a large cup of nice hot coffee. Some stomach rumbling by mile 35 doesn't bother, but you do idly begin to check convenient roadside vegetation with growing interest,. By mile 51 you think you might be able to fight it all the way through, only nine more miles -- "We're gonna make it, Thelma!" But your smile fades at mile 53 when you realize a major boo boo is brewing in your pants, time is no longer an ally, and now the confidence suddenly collapses into a panic-stricken search for the perfect underbrush.

Only after you find the bush and settle down to relieve the gurgling sensation in your lower stomach do you realize the thick, stringy branches of the bush are filled with hundreds of spiky thorns that rip at your exposed butt with exceptionally nasty tearing motions.

It gets worse when you learn the branches will also have to serve as your toilet paper.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't drink a large cuppa steamin' java just before starting out on a long road trip.

only Poison Oak could have made that story better

*Potential hijack right here* Btw, so if poison oak is mashed up and put in, lets say, coffee, will it:

A) Burn your skin
B) Make your skin itch
C) All of the above

I'm actually serious about this question...not that i want to try it...but just for, umm, future referance i guess.

Um...you mean if you drink it??
How about you be our guinea pig, and if you survive, come back to let us all know what the answer is.
You are joking right???

#10-- Going to the dentist for a troutine cleaning, and being told that there is a new dental assistant who will help (and not leaving the office asap). Soyou stay in that chair with said new assistant...bleeding profusely...as the gums get stabbed and jabbed and torn...all in an attempt at cleaning some plaque--which the dentist had said wasn't really bad at all!!!

#11 - Responding to my sister: "oh yeah! cleaning out mom and dad's backyard and clearing the weeds so we can have a bbq back there for dad's b'day will be a GREAT present for him"

#12 - Upon getting there and discovering the weeds have won the battle and most of them are tree high and some of them have actually become trees NOT saying: "You know what? There's a park 3 blocks away... let's just go do it there!"

3 hours of continuous weeding later... I.... am a good daughter. that's all i got to say about that.