Luke's Blog - A series of dumb things I've done. Part ONE

Jun. 5, 2008 - A series of dumb things I've done. Part ONE

This post was inspired by another blogger’s post (baptistgrits).
Please note. These are the funny and intertaing stories. Also note, the only mistake I've made twice was trying to reason with HANNAH PHILLIPS.

Like her, and most people, I am one who learns from my mistakes, and as often as I can (or preferably) other peoples. So in this post I’ll share a few of the many mistakes and dumb things I’ve done.

. When I was about four or five, my dad took my older brother and me to a petting zoo, at this particular petting so they had some little Gazelle in a pen, and the gist of the story is, my dad turned his back, and my brother and I went into the Gazelle pen, my brother preceded to lay hold of the Gazelle by the antlers as I hopped on its back. I then put a sturdy grip on its antlers, and my brother let loose! It was great! Unfortunately our enjoyment was abruptly ended by the shouts of other concerned parents and zoo employees. Some people just don’t take to kindly to rodeo prodigies like my brother and I. As you can imagine we were kicked out of the zoo, go figure?

On another occasion, when my family was stationed in Elpaso Texas, and I was five years old, there was some construction going on behind our house, and the construction workers had pilled a 20ft or so high pile of boulders and dirt. My friends, brothers and other neighborhood friends had constructed a slope, to ride bikes and other things down by clearing the rocks and sharp stuff from that side of the hill. And we would ride bikes and big wheels (for those of you who know what those are), down the hill. I’m sure you all can see where this is going……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Well you’re wrong, I climbed to the very peek of the hill, and fell face first down the non cleared and all rock side of the hill. Aside form some bruises, I had landed on a particularly sharp rock and cut my head right by my eye, I got 5 or 6 stitches and a few staples. Let me tell you, it left a pretty cool scar.

Alright, a few years later when I was eight, while stationed in Hawaii, my brother had gotten one of those giant magnifying glasses from my dad. Still have it to, but we would light fires, in a old ammo can, and burn bugs, leaves, everything but our house and the neighbors. One day, we had two of our friends over, and he had brought some gum with him, and while we were given him a demonstration on how to burn things with a magnifying glass, he asked if we could burn his gum. How could we resist, so he spat it out and we focused the lens right onto it. A few seconds later it was bubbling and popping. I had left and was not present at that time, but I came over and saw my broth and our friends crouched over something, I walked over to see what it was, and stepped right into the bubbling gum! I yelped and was jumping in the air and it was still stuck on my feet, as I was hopping on one foot I reached down and tried to wipe it off, and it just got on my hand, and I started madly shaking my hand and the gum just got stretched and wrapped around my arms and neck. Thankfully I was not the only one who had to endure this , for as the gum was stretching and wrapping al over me as it burnt me, it also got on my brother and his friends, and we were all screaming and jumping and trying to get this BURNING STUFF OFFF!!! The four of us must have looked so dumb, the wires of burning gum like a fishing net over us. Again, thankfully, it cooled fast.
Ok, on a les hot and burring occasion, my three brothers and I were staying at our grandfather’s house in Colorado; his house had a nice creek that got to be pretty deep in some places. It was winter and the creek had frozen over with 5-6inches of ice, I was 10 at when this happened, and we had decided to cut a big hole right in the middle of the deepest part of the creak,. (About 5ft deep). So a got my hatchet, and we cut a circle in the ice about 2feet wide. When we went inside for lunch my (older brother and I), my two younger brothers stayed out side, and played on the ice. My brother Isaac fell in when we were inside, and he came back SOAKED and frozen! LOL, he fell in be sliding on the ice like he was ice skating and fell in. that same day, the same exact thing happened to me! AHHH, that is exactly why I learn form other people mistakes! (Slipped my mind that time). What made this particular experience so memorable was the fact that I was wearing water proof boots, great things, don’t get me wrong, but the ting about keeping water out is, they also keep water IN. the hole that I fell in was a fair distance from the house. So I got to walk back and by the time I got there my jeans had frozen around my boots which were full of water, laterally like buckets of water on my feet, and they were very difficult to get off.
Oh did I mention it was SOOOO COLD.

I’m not going to have time to do the list of 13instanced like those above, right now, but maybe this will make for a good series of posts. None the less I have time for one more!
This is form a few months ago.

My family had gone raspberry picking at an old farm. At this far there was one restroom and it was right next to the old barn. His barn was built into a hill so one of the entrances where the restroom was at the same level as the roof of a building added onto the barn. As I waited for the restroom, which some one else was using, I notice the roof was made of steal, or aluminum. I thought “hey that’s pretty neat” and walked over to it and tapped very lightly on the metal roof, suddenly I was surrounded by a swarm of angry yellow jackets. I took of running for my life, while doing that I was stung four times twice on my knee and the other two times on my chest. Once I felt safe that I had lost the swarm of angry insects, I could not help but laugh at how dumb that was, and how much my knee was burning and swelling.

I really want to write the other stories right now, but that would take me all night.
I haven’t even gotten to electricity, and have only covered one instance out of MANY that had fire involved. So I will have to get to those.

Until then,
don’t bang on metal barn roofs, and God bless

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Jun. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Jordan

hehe I read the whole thing while talking to you. I think I only heard two of those stories...very interesting. I bet you'll get some funny comments on this one!

Looking forward to the next editions. Have a Fun Trip, no pressure on the song or anything just make it perfect:-)

Jordan