Totally out of character Telephone Box Vandalism.
As a young teen living in the middle of nowhere I was more interested in my ZX spectrum than any teenage tomfoolery.

That was until I got myself a Black Widow catapult and my dad gave me a big sack of ballbearings. I busied myself with smashing milk bottles and whatnot in a nearby quarry until the day that one of my more uncouth schoolfriends came up to my house to play.

Not normally being one to submit to peer pressure (In my 40 years I've never smoked or done drugs, for example) on this occasion my normal sensibilities lapsed and was persuaded to set to the local Traditional red telephone box with my Powerful catapult.

By the time we'd finished the toughened glass 'Telephone' sign merely read 'elpon' Our work was done.

The next day my mother observed that those 'bloody deviant kids from the local pub' had smashed up the Telephone box. Knowing that the local kids were indeed deviants I was happy for them to take the fall.

It never occurred to me that our mothers actually spoke to eachother and that we'd been witnessed carrying out our foul deed by one of the pub scrote kids as their living room directly overlooked said telephone box. Never occurred to me that we would get dobbed in, despite seeing said scrotey kid watching our reign of destruction. Or that we may have also been potentially watched by my mother as the kitchen sink window looked directly out over the telephone box too.

A few days later I got a royal bollocking and my catapult was confiscated.

Fortunately due to my otherwise faultless behaviour it was put down to the influence of my townie friend and I got off lightly.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 8 Oct 2010, 12:18, 1 reply)

Peer pressure
"Not normally being one to submit to peer pressure (In my 40 years I've never smoked or done drugs, for example)"


Just looked at the statistics for uk drug use
www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_FactResearchGuide_DrugUsageLevels.htm
2008-09 only 21% of 16-24 year olds and 12% of 25-59 year olds used any illegal drug. The vast majority of that is cannabis. Therefore by not using the more dangerous class A drugs you have succumbed entirely to peer pressure. You should immediately go and ingest these substances to prove what a rugged individualist you are-Q.E.D

Of course it's possible that all those rugged individualists ended up that way because their peers wanted to know one
(unclestinky, Sun 10 Oct 2010, 9:35, closed)