I do it all the time! For me it's more along the lines of "Christ, it's a friggin miracle that I am still alive" When I look back at all the stupid things I did, I could or should have very easily been dead. Someone must have thought otherwise though :)

Having a child makes you reflect upon that fact every single day.

not a week goes by that some idiotic thing I did to someone, somewhere pops up into my conscious mind and I cringe . . . so as people do idiotic things to me these days I just repeat to myself: take a deep breath and let it go because paybacks are a bitch . . .

PS - please do post the info about where to send funds etc. for your friend Anne. I'd like to post the info on my site . . .

WAS?

It's a miracle my sister still speaks to me. Well, she does and every so often reminds me of the things I said.

Wasn't everyone?? What's amazing is that we don't die of embarassment, remembering those days!

Oh good god yes!

Every time I remember something stupid or dumb that I did to my parents, I call and apologize. Course, I still haven't mentioned that whole scrapping-the-entire-side-of-my-car-and-letting-my-father-believe-it-was-a-hit-and-run-thing to my parents. Pretty sure I never will - that was too good to be true!

It's a rite of passage, Jimbo, prerequisite. One must be an ass if they're ever going to get into the accelerated learning program they call the "School of Hard Knocks".

Think about it; haven't you run into a few grownup asses who must not have been qualified for SOHK and are still asses now because they missed that program?

I like to think I graduated from SOHK with honors. Hope like hell I'm not qualified to return for a Masters...