Let your hair down, what bone headed things have you done?

[Tempus]

When I was in high school I used to go out egging. More often than not though we'd just take anything that happened to be around at home that was a) throwable and b) edible. I seem to recall using tubs of yoghurt, tomatoes, lemons and eggs. Anyway, one night there was scarcely anything to throw and we had a lot of houses left to do. I got the bright idea to fill the backpack I had with lemons from a nearby tree in the neighbourhood. It was a school-sized backpack and was totally full of the sour fruit. So we walked up to my other friend's place and were going down the main road when the police pulled up beside us. We're about 15 or 16 years old and it's midnight. They ask us what we're doing and we say (at least partially truthfully) that we're going to a friends place. Then they ask what's in the bag that's on my back. My friend looks at me nervously. I bluntly reply "lemons". The lady officer looks very doubtful that the entire bag is full of lemons, and I must admit that it sounded like a really bad lie (even though it wasn't!) So she get's me to open the bag and sure enough, it's chock full of lemons. Slightly taken aback, she says, "what are you doing with all those lemons?!" We said we were taking them to a friends place. I was amazed at how readily she believed that. Told us to stay off the streets and take care

Many of those nights were funny / stupid for their own reason. I remember one night my friend was pulling out little garden gnomes on someone's front lawn. The owner of the house came back when he was in the middle of their lawn. It was so dark they didn't see him and he lay prone on their front lawn until things went quiet again. What an idiot