You are 20-30 years old, no spouse or children, what did you do ?

Question

Road trip? Other things ? Please tell me if you can. I did things that were considered dangerous, no drugs.

Goldwing, I'm sorry your engine blew at 115, I have driven 100 in other cars , I guess that's tops unless its a sports car.

AmericanaPatriot, Thank you for your service to the Americans. I've never done anything that serious but my father once said to me," you are going to end up in the Chicago River. I think he was truly afraid for me. Very heart breaking . Enough info. thank you.

These are all wonderful answers. You choose.

Answer 1

married at 23, child by 24 (not me, my offspring). Before marriage, my road trips consisted of driving at breakneck speeds from Chicago to Southern Illinois to see my soon to be wife. Did you know that a 57 Ford Fairlane could go 115 mph? Did you know that driving a 57 Ford Fairlane at 115 cold blow an engine to shreds? I do now!

Answer 2

For me 20 - 23 before I succumbed to life as a wife, I worked for the telephone company back in the 1950s when you had to plug cords into circuits by hand for every long distance call connected by Ma Bell. There were little phone booths in the middle of nowhere called a 'Toll House'. Some people waited hours to get a long distance call through especially if it was in a disaster area. I made one of the recorded announcements: "The number you have reached is not in service at this time. Please be sure you have the right number in mind and have called or dialed it correctly." For fun we swam in the canals. I met my husband skinny dipping at Sandy Bottom. Never did tell the kids about that but it was love at first sight. I lived during the 'American Graffiti' era and oddly enough in the same location where it was filmed. We were dragging the Main on a regular basis with his candy apple blue Buick lowered and hot. We took it on the same back roads as the movie to drag race. We were almost afraid to see the movie when it came out.

Answer 3

Drank a lot of beer, spent time in the military, went to school, drank more beer, worked for a living, drank some more beer, got married, became a father before turning 30 and finally had to quit drinking all that beer.

Oh, I forgot - lots of road trips by cars, trains and planes, but the worst was those long trips on the Greyhound bus.

By the way Goldwing, is that a picture of you or big Paul Teutal of Orange Co. Choppers?

Answer 4

Traveled th states dragging babies along through about 1971. Settled down to riding dirt bikes, camping, boating, canoeing, going back to school when I sent the kids. Divorced and moved 450 miles away from all family with two young children. Helped build some old Chargers, Cutlass, Chevelles in the garage at night. Loved fast cars until I realized I was daring the devil to take me home early. Passed the reigns to the kids for motorcycles and cars. Traveled to Germany for a summer to feed the gypsy in me. At the time if I had taken the children I would have stayed.

Answer 5

Had my first, my son, when I was 28 - before that if I didnt almost die doing it it wasnt fun. I was an adrenalin junkie.

Aerobatic flying, pulled out of a double loop about 1000 feet above the ground once, racing cars, rolled my cheval super sport, hitting the fall line on the ski hill, also blew a binding and hit a tree, hill climbing with my motor bike, dumped it on top of me and got some really nice burns from the pipe across my leg, got bucked off of horses, fell of cliffs, almost drowned several times, and got lost on my first solo cross country because I plotted my course through an area that had some minerals that screwed up my ADF - so the sun went down while I was trying to get myself oriented without the ADF, kind of hard to do without the sun as a reference, I did my first night landing the same time I did my first x country solo.

Took a header while racing my ten speed, hit a dog, went over the handle bars and bounced down the pavement on my face, knocked out my front teeth, and even had scabs UNDER my nose and chin -- and that was a slow year -- had a few close encounters with bears while hiking, smoked some dope, did a little hash, some MDA - once - and scared myself half to death because I wanted to do more - a LOT MORE - figured ok thats an easy way to OD and do yourself in. Did a lot of dancing, clubbing, pubbing, Carpe diem.

I blew the motor in a Ford Maverick Goldwing 302 V8 it was my sisters car, and it could go pretty good -- :-) She was sleeping, I was driving, she doesnt know how fast I was going.

Had my kids, slowed down a little, took them hiking every weekend, skiing, etc then the roof fell on me and despite all those times I bounced back this time I went splat, didnt bounce, :-( I think God was tired of saving my a s s - and figured I should slow down some -

Since then I havent done that much, raised my kids, spent a few years in rehab learning how to walk, stand, sit, went to Sturgis motorcycle rally, went to China a few times, and thats about it ..

Answer 6

Oh at 20...1966...I was in Viet Nam counting the days to get back to THE WORLD. At 21, I was back stateside (spent my 21st birthday buying myself a b-day gift and going back to the base). I was seeing 4 women...Virginia, Maryland, Delaware (sister of the gal in Md), Ohio. Met my future wife and dumped the other 4...married at 22.
Other than being a guest in South Viet Nam, nothing 'dangerous' to report. I lived a pretty boring life....considering I was juggling 4 women in 4 different states...living in the barracks, not exploring s.e. Virginia like I have since coming back to the states in '76.
At 23, I was transferred to Japan (had a son, wife who followed me 3 months later)..24- 26. At 26 - 27 I was in Antarctica. Did a couple of dangerous things there. Climbed Mt. Erebus with a survey team, riding a fire fighting vehicle and the trailer fell into a crevass, with the cab on the top of the ice...got lost in a WHITEOUT with a bunch of other guys and just HAPPENED to see the lights of the air field...we were going in the wrong direction...and spent 4 days stuck in a hut several miles from base. My youngest was born while I was 'on the ice' and was almost 10 months old when I first saw him. No mail for over 6 months. I was a DJ on the local radio station (WASA FM100), had a country band (McMurdo Country Sound, the BEST band on the continent), ran the base weekly newspaper all by myself (reporter/typer/editor/publisher/printer/delivered every Sunday to the chow line before 7 a.m.), tailor for my division, worked part time in the library.
From 27 - 30 we were in Sardinia...lots of fun there. Ship went to a few liberty ports....Spain, France, Tunisia.

Answer 7

I got married in my late 30's became an instant mom to an 8 year old girl and loved it. She gave me my 3 grandsons.

Before that I worked in a hospital in the eastern part of NC. I had friends but lived a very quiet life. I would visit the family often, traveled some, nothing very exciting I'm afraid.lol

Answer 8

At age 21, I rode cross-country with two acquaintances to learn to stand on my own two feet and not be dependent on anyone else.

During that time, I never lived alone; I started with the two roommates, when they moved, another girl moved in, we were roommates for about 3 years and I switched roomies again.

At age 28, I returned to Virginia to retrieve my two children, because I had reached a point where I could not only support myself, but them as well. My mother had been their caretaker while I was learning to grow up.

Worst thing I learned to do was drink beer. I tried pot once and didn't like its effect on my motor skills. (I've always been dexterious, and this feeling of utter "thumbsyness" was not for me.)

So, it was a rather mundane self-imposed learning decade.

Answer 9

What??? This covers very
few of us. I was pregnant
and married at 16...Divorced
and single parent at 18...on
my way to California at 19.
Then came the High Life!

Answer 10

I joined the army