Blast From the Past...

Alright, so I was talking to an old friend and it came up "dumb ideas" that I have had... and here is the list of what I think are the best "dumb ideas" I’ve ever had...

ME DOING LAUNDRY- I tried it once... went to the washer... we have some options... like, "small, med, large" so I’m like, well I’m about 5'8" so I guess I’m a "medium"... selected it........then I got to the I guess the "water temp" and it’s like, Cold, Cold, Warm Cold, Warm, Warm Warm, Hot, Burning Hot... so I’m like, warm cold seems to be the "center" so I hit it too.....now it’s like, pile everything in it... add a cup or 3 of soap, throw in a fabric sheet because I figured what the heck, and turn it on and let it go. Some stuff shrunk, some stuff faded, and some was just... not the same as I put in. Again, not a good idea...

THE TIME WE TRIED TO VACUUM UP SMOKE- we have a woodstove and when the weather is right outside, the smoke won’t go up the stack *something to do with the pressure or something don’t ask I don't know lol* and it was like pouring smoke out the glass *because it’s not 100% airtight* and me and mom are like, OMG WHATS HAPPENING, and we got the Kirby sweeper out, and got the hose attachment and were vacuuming up smoke... you could see it going in the vacuumed cleaner.. But little did we see it blowing out everywhere else after we did that. So, it didn’t work either...

MY KICKER RAMP WITH THE DR100- *kicker ramp I used with the drz400, launch you like 15 feet straight upwards not far in length just straight up* I had the idea id jump it like 5 feet in the air. (no suspension LOL) and the throttle stuck when I went to jump it and it went WIDE OPEN when it left the ground, so the bike goes straight in the air and I fall off and the bike keeps going, lands, and does 3 flips and then wrecks itself. ended up digging 6 inches of mud out of the exhaust after it got slammed in the ground and caked it in there... not fun... it backfired for a while after that....

360s ON A MOTORCYLE WHILE SITTING STILL ON GRASS- it only has 2 wheels... imagine this... me being able to keep a bike upright, while going round in circles... well I did 1.5, when I got to 2 the force got bad and I was thrown off it. Ended up busting 2 turn signals and a mirror, not a good idea...

WHEELIE PAST A COP- that time I pulled right out in front of the cop in New Martinsville and then PULLED UP A WHEELIE! On my motorcycle right in front of him... he is literally in the cruiser, behind me, while I’m driving down the turn lane, riding a wheelie. That was a VERY BAD IDEA! That cop... Was pissed.

SCALING THE WALL- we were at Ellis’s house... and his dad told us to go get a gas line out of the woods... and we are like... alright... so we go, and we get there and realize it’s probably 500 feet long. It is strung down off this vertical ledge of rocks... well, Ellis and I decide we will scale the wall and get up there to get the line. Well, Chris decides that he will use the line to hold himself horizontal while scaling the wall. So we all make it to the top and it’s like 50 ft or higher up there and we realize the line is cut at the top and there is nothing but the weight of the line holding it up there... thus holding Chris horizontal 50 feet up. Chris gets up there and is like, "that, could have been ugly" LOL

SNOW PILE! - a few winters back when we got all that snow, I decided I would take the aspire *little gas getter I had, not worth 500$ lol* and I would take it up to the old Ames parking lot in New Martinsville and do some donuts, well, the snowplow had plowed up some of the snow and made snow banks in the middle of the parking lot. Of course I was like, oh man, if we hit those hard enough we can bust right through!!! haha ya right...I was out with Becca, one of our first dates. I hit the bank, and the car gets halfway through and stops...I have to get out through my window, and shovel it out, with an ice scraper for 30 minutes. Again, bad idea lol.

RAILROAD TRACKS- Ellis and I were going to wvncc one day, and we had the great idea that we could jump the railroad tracks in this car...we did, cars are not made for flying... the car goes like, straight up for 5 inches and then straight down. 1995 ford aspires do not fly, they have a hard time hopping, let a alone flying. We ended up throwing it out of alignment.

Those are some of my funniest, yet dumbest memories ever. Tell me what you think... If you have one, post it too...