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Biggest Lie/Event you got away with as a teenager
Watching the Cosby show inspired this question-
When you were growing up what was the biggest lie/event you got away with when you were a teenager? As I'm sure some of the new parents on this board get nervous thinking about their little ones as teenager, driving, etc?
I had parties every weekend when I was a senior in hs as my parents went away skiing, and I stayed home b/c I was a cheerleader and had games on Friday nights, and I worked a job on Saturdays. At these parties their was alcohol and friends would stay over if necessary. The house was always cleaner when they came home on Sunday, and nothing was ever broken. I was responsible enough not to have people I didn't know there. I did leave one of the parties for an hour or so to go get my friend one night. Not smart...
We also drank all the vodka in the house, and filled the bottle back up with water, my parents weren't big vodka drinkers had it on hand for parties/guests. Yeah that was discovered when I was in college and a friend wanted a vodka tonic...
The way life should be-
Re: Biggest Lie/Event you got away with as a teenager
I honestly can't think of anything. I may or may not be a goody-goody.
My sister on the other hand could tell more than a few. haha.
I was a pretty good kid so this is hard. I got all As, didn't drink, do drugs, smoke, or hang out with people who did so I wasn't usually in the situation to "get away with" something. The biggest thing I ever got away with was coming home at 2:00am every weekend when my curfew was 11:00pm or midnight. I'm sure my parents knew, but just never said anything.
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Yep, me too. I was a really good kid, and couldn't even get away with coming home late since my parents were total night owls.
However....once I went away to college and would come home, I did a lot of drinking, smoking, partying but my mom never said anything. I would say that was my post-parents divorce rebellion:) I know she smelled the cigarette smoke and could tell I was drunk, but truthfully, I didn't care at that point and I think my mom figured as long as I had a sober ride she didn't need to say anything.
My parents were ok with us drinking if they knew exactly where we were and knew that we would not be driving, and as long as it was not a frequent occurance. So, I can't say I "got away" with drinking/occasionally partying. Although I did get way drunk one night at a party I wasn't planning to even go to, so my friend had to drive me to his house, and then call my mom and tell her what was up. That went over...well. "Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. She's....very drunk, ma'am"
I think the biggest thing I got away with was spending the night at my boyfriend's houses and telling my parents I was staying with girlfriends. I finally fessed up about a year after I moved out, and my mom said she figured that the whole time.
We were good kids too, really didn't try to get away with much. There were a few times my sister's bf would come over really late, after our parents went to bed. But she would just go outside and talk to him, maybe he came into our basement once. I really don't know how my parents wouldn't have known, my mom is such a light sleeper.
My parents actually left us home alone for almost 1 month near the end of our senior year. They had to go away for work (military stuff) and clearly they trusted us. We had friends over late, and our friends drank, but neither of us did.
Um, then there was the prom after party in the middle of nowhere. Big bonfire, lots of drinking by our friends. I have no idea where we told our parents we were.
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