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We were just talking about how we would sneak out when we were younger. My husband said he never got caught. I got caught by my grandmother, but don't really remember getting into a lot of trouble. I was young and, looking back, I don't remember do anything bad, BUT I would LOVE to hear everyones "sneaking out" stories!
OMG - I was about 14 - sneaking out everynight - not really doing anything - just walking around with friends until the week hours of the morning
well - one night - we actually went over to a friend's house whose parents were out had not been there but 15 min when my mom walked through the door - on top of the embarassment of that - I was in soooooo much trouble and grounded for the rest of the school year - they nailed my window shut - it was horrible. I never snuck out again
Post by inertiaticc on Apr 19, 2008 18:13:36 GMT -5
i never snuck out.. never felt the need to. besides, if i wanted to go out and wasn't allowed to, i'd find a way to sway my parents and find a compromise that worked for everyone. they say i should be a lawyer. my sister used to sneak out all the time though.. she got caught because the neighbor across the street mentioned something to my parents on the same day that my Titi Roxanne mentioned something. to this day, all the nieces and nephews know not to tell titi roxanne anything, or else everyone will find out.
Post by strumntheguitar on Apr 19, 2008 19:03:40 GMT -5
I had many o' fun nights climbing onto rooftops and leaping off 2 story buildings as a teenager. I mean let's be real... does anyone really expect me to obey an 11 pm curfew as a 17-19 year old? my parents are nazis
I was the 10th of 12 kids so my parents were worn out by the time I got to be a teen. I used to sneek out at the age of 12-13 and just hang out all night with my best friend. By the time I was 14, my parents didn't really care as long as the police didn't bring me home (never happened, though I was stopped and questioned by the police more than a few times.) My parents would even leave me alone while they went on vacation for a week or so.
I moved out on my 16th birthday and took my 15 year old brother with me. We obviously had the high school party place, even though it was a one room apt about 10x20. It's where everyone would stop by if they were out at 3am or had run away for a night.
We worked at a little greek restaurant for $40 a week (when we got paid) but that covered the low rent on the room so we were okay with it (since my bro was under age and couldn't work legally, we had to take what we could get. And we got to eat for free) The owner would actually lock us in the restaurant Friday night so we'd be there to open Sat and work all day. (sounds freakier than it was.)
I didn't sneak out but I wasn't entirely honest about where I was going. It sounds lame now but in 1976-1978 the UK papers were so full of the evils of punk rock that I wouldn't admit to going to see The Clash, Damned, Siouxsie etc., I'd find listings for much blander shows and/or plays and claim to be going there instead.
Sorry Mum, sorry Dad.
Kind of ironic as I took my kids to see My Chemical Romance last night and the language there was far worse than I ever heard back then on my own.
*i like coconuts, you can break them open they smell like ladies lyin in the sun** *Hell I don't even know where I am** *for now I must sit here and ponder the yonder: The herbivores did well cause their food didn't never run** *We listen, if it feels good We shake** *You made a big impression for a girl of your size, Now I can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.**
Post by gOdWesSaTan on Apr 19, 2008 20:48:42 GMT -5
i use to live with my grandma and the basement door lead to the garage so i'd wait till she went to sleep then i'd go to the basement from inside the house and sneek out the other way then i'd climb threw the dog door to leave the garage but i had one more obstacle the motion sensor light which i had to walk a certain path or it would go off. anyways i remember the second time i ever drank i was 12 and i meet up with these kids a little older then me and they gave me a 40 and when i wasnt drinking it fast enough they called me a little bitch so i basically downed it in less then 10 minutes so i was wasted walked with them to my buddies house about half a mile away stayed there for awhile then i zig zaged my way back home and snuck back in amazingly without getting caught. looking back i coulda got a MIP and public intox charge at 12 man was i dumb
Never was a problem for me. My parents were very laissez-faire. I was never grounded once in my life. I think I got sent to my room a grand total of two times. I can drink, smoke and swear around them. Hell, Dad's seen me enjoy corn. My younger sister once posted a "how strict are your parents?" quiz on her myspace and her result was 6%.
I was an honors student all through high school, and since my grades were always good I got to do pretty much whatever I damn well pleased. My bedroom was in the basement and there was a bathroom down there, so I could always just slip in the back door and go downstairs without disturbing anyone. Most of the time I was just sitting at the George Webb's diner drinking coffee all night and not harming anyone anyway. If Mom needed me, she'd just call their pay phone.
I got away with plenty of mischief, though. I think I did pretty well in the parental luck of the draw.
My sneak out stories and runaway stories are epic and legendary. Like strum my parents were also nazis, of course i was the first of four kids so I had to be the one to break them in. They realized pretty early that it was gonna be a "problem" , like around 4th grade, so by sixth grade we had a pretty hi- tech alarm system put in with motion sensors and all. That never stopped me of course. I had an upstairs loft for a bedroom that had dorm windows that opened up onto the roof, so i'd just climb out onto the roof, tie a rope to the chimney and repel down. That was all after i had rigged the window alarm by taping the two sensors together and shoving them down into the wall. After the rope was found and disposed of i just tied sheets together and done the same thing. They never found the rigged alarm system, in fact they sold the house recently and there is a hidden loophole in the now owners security system.
Post by kenglandroo on Apr 20, 2008 3:18:02 GMT -5
i loved the tape technique. i fixed that before i moved out though. i used to sneak out before they set the alarm to skateboard across town to hang out with the most beautiful amazing girl ever. then i got was stopped by the police at four in the morning by a f***ing jack in the box and my dad had to come pick me up. that was fun. it took a while til i got the guts to do it again. and again it was worth it. then they set the alarm.. so a few more months went by until summer/party time came around. due to my lack of discipline i had a twelve o'clock curfew so i went with it too keep the folks happy and i rigged the alarm on a door that went out of the laundry room by the driveway. my car was parked in the street so i have spent a lot of time sneaking out and driving under the influence (that caught up with me) good times.
this one time... when I was 15 I prepped the house just as it was getting dark, i put a ladder up to my window. After everybody crashed i simply climbed down. Then my 19 year old boyfriend (who was awesome) picked me up down the street. We drank champagne on the high school track all night. We waited until my dad and step-mom went to work (it was summer so they were used to me being asleep) and he took me home. The ladder was on the side of the house so no one noticed it.
this one time... when I was 15 I prepped the house just as it was getting dark, i put a ladder up to my window. After everybody crashed i simply climbed down. Then my 19 year old boyfriend (who was awesome) picked me up down the street. We drank champagne on the high school track all night. We waited until my dad and step-mom went to work (it was summer so they were used to me being asleep) and he took me home. The ladder was on the side of the house so no one noticed it.
good times.
Hmm, that sounds rather mild, I've got a feeling a lot wilder things happened in the three or four years after that, but that's probably the only one safe to tell on the interwebs.
this one time... when I was 15 I prepped the house just as it was getting dark, i put a ladder up to my window. After everybody crashed i simply climbed down. Then my 19 year old boyfriend (who was awesome) picked me up down the street. We drank champagne on the high school track all night. We waited until my dad and step-mom went to work (it was summer so they were used to me being asleep) and he took me home. The ladder was on the side of the house so no one noticed it.
good times.
Hmm, that sounds rather mild, I've got a feeling a lot wilder things happened in the three or four years after that, but that's probably the only one safe to tell on the interwebs.
I could write volumes on my escapades. That was one of the first times I snuck out. The first time I ran away was about two months later. That same boyfriend (who was awesome) stashed me in the crawlspace of his house when the cops came there to look for me...
My parents were always the most lenient of all the parents I think, so I never had a need to sneak out. I mean, if I couldn't go out to do what we were doing my friends definitely couldn't so I'd be flying solo.
i lived in a two story house and my bedroom was on the top floor...i would always crawl out my window onto this little "balcony" and jump to the ground...getting back in, i would have a ladder set-up to get back upstairs...i would also run out of the garage and jump at the last second on account of sensors making sure nothing was going to get crushed by the door...most of my sneaking out trips included crossing the border to go do some underage drinking...i was never caught leaving, while i was gone, or returning...those were the days
Post by jambandjohn on Apr 20, 2008 22:23:35 GMT -5
My 'rents were pretty good about my staying out to all hours (my mom was a hellion back in her day, getting thrown out of high school three times, where I only got pitched out twice). I do remember one time arriving home pretty bagged, trying to sneak quietly to my room. Someone had closed my door and I couldn't see it in the dark. I hit it so hard I thought I broke my nose and went over backwards with a crash on the floor. For a moment, dead silence, then I hear my parents bust out laughing...
Post by GratefulHippie on Apr 20, 2008 22:27:58 GMT -5
well, my mom has always slept like a log, and snored really loud in the process. because of this, my dad has always worn earplugs.
ergo, neither one of them could hear me leaving. the only time i got caught was the night someone called really late, and we had already snuck out. apparently the pillows under the cover trick doesn't fool anyone
Post by KathrynMary on Apr 21, 2008 2:44:43 GMT -5
My parents were very relaxed when it came to me. As long as I told them the truth about what I was doing, they didn't mind. (And the fact that I have my cell on me 24/7 and my mom is a texting fiend didn't hurt either). In fact, most of the parties we had in highschool ended up being in my basement with my parents upstairs. Their only condition was that everybody had to hand over their keys and my mom would put them out at 8am the next morning to make sure nobody drove home drunk.
The only real sneaking out story I have is when I was in 8th grade my two best friends and I were dating this other group of 3 best friends so us girls would have sleepovers and the boys would sneak out to my house and we would hang out on my trampoline. Well the one night they never showed up (and none of them had cell phones yet) and we couldn't figure out what happened and we all got really pissed off about it. Turns out the cops saw them walking across town and they all ran in different directions and were hiding in seperate places around town and only found each other back at the one kids house at about 4am.
I never snuck out. I think one reason was that I was scared shitless of what my parents would do if I got caught and they were really light sleepers. My mom is the "stay up till you get home" type, and she was ALWAYS awake when I came home. So, I never lied to my parents. They were actually really cool. I would be honest with them about where I was going, and I had a curfew, but if I called and told them where I was, they would let me stay out later. I think it really helped out relationship during my teen years, honestly.
The trick for me wasn't sneaking out... it was sneaking back in.
Once you hit the pathway from the driveway to the front door, you're in doggy alarm system territory... If she got to the front door before you got that key in she'd run to my dad and MAKE SURE she woke him up. Had to get the key in the door and get it open before she got there to investigate...
Post by Hipster Doofus on Apr 21, 2008 11:29:28 GMT -5
Ahh, the good old days!
I used to sneak out of the house quite a bit, just to hang out or sometimes go toilet papering. The best story was when I was about 13, I snuck out at about 1am and met up with about 5 or 6 other friends. I brought the supplies with me in a duffel bag (toilet paper, eggs, some smoke, and a lighter) but one of our friends was missing so I went a couple streets down from our meeting place to his house to see what was up. Right when I got there he was walking out so we were good, but at just that moment I saw a cop car turn onto the street. I quickly ducked behind a car, but my buddy was an idiot and ran from where he was right by his house over to the car where I was hiding. Knowing there was a good chance we were busted I stuck the smoke on top of the tire of the parked car and stuffed the duffel bag under the car.
Sure enough they got out of the car and busted us. After they questioned us and got our info they went back behind the car and found the bag. As they were gonig through it they saw the lighter and asked what that was for. I was pretty panicked because of the smoke that was nearby, but I came up with the story that we used the lighter to heat up the eggs before we threw them so they would stick to the houses better! I was completely talking out of my ass and figured they would bust me on it but they kind of just said "mm hmmm". Well, they called my parents and took me home...I was in biiig trouble of course, mostly because my mom had to get woken up by a call from the cops. But the best part was a couple weeks later when I was over at my buddy's house, his dad (who is a damn cool guy) said, "Yeah, when the cop brought John up to the house he told me about that new technique you guys have of heating up the eggs...said it's the newest thing you kids are doing....stupid ass cops (shakes head)". The fact that the cop bought that story totally made up for the trouble i got in!
Post by kaleidoscope kristen on Apr 21, 2008 12:28:55 GMT -5
I still have to sneak out sometimes, lol.
I'm the oldest of 3, and my parent's only daughter.
But, my time of being a teen is slowly winding down with my approaching birthday (I'll be 20 on June 21), so I'm trying to enjoy being a teenager while it lasts, because I will miss these years.
I never snuck out, because I was too scared. But I did a lot of "I'm at Susie's house, watching movies in my PJs!" when I was actually somewhere else.
Once, my mom said on the phone jokingly, "How do I know you're really at Susie's?" At the time I think I was in a parking lot on the other side of town about to enjoy some corn. So I just BSed, "Well, you can talk to her mom if you want..." That was a HUGE risk but thankfully she just laughed it off and said she trusted me. Which she shouldn't have. ;D
They figured that out when, like areyoukind, they discovered my MySpace. Things were WAY different after that!