Bad firsts...

[elsol]

(Go ahead an use sexual ones...)

My bad first is high car payments on my first car.

They absolutely RUINED me for cars.... even if I can afford the damn payments on a beamer, I can't bring myself to do it.

And forget putting down enough to get payments down to my idea of reasonable...

I see the dollar amount necessary for that and my mind says "Yeah... fuck you, I'm putting half the money of a down payment on a no-points mortgage for a car! The car doesn't even come in yellow!"

*AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH*

I'm doomed to economy cars for the rest of my life.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Bad first time alone in a bathroom with a girl. She followed me into the men's room at her dad's church, turned off the lights, and screamed "RAPE", at the top of her lungs. Hell of a thing to happen to a 14 year old. Still, makes for an interesting story, which I tell as often as it comes back to me. Right of any victim of such a prank to tell it, right?

Note: that was 15 years ago, but I can still remember it vividly. Hard not to.

 

[LadyJeanne]

First time I ever tried Chicken Kiev it was in a college cafeteria. It looked like a breaded rat that peed on my plate, and tasted worse. It was years before I could try it again.

 

[TheEarl]

Bad first time alone in a bathroom with a girl. She followed me into the men's room at her dad's church, turned off the lights, and screamed "RAPE", at the top of her lungs. Hell of a thing to happen to a 14 year old. Still, makes for an interesting story, which I tell as often as it comes back to me. Right of any victim of such a prank to tell it, right?

Note: that was 15 years ago, but I can still remember it vividly. Hard not to.

Jesus Christ Sev. What was the outcome?

Bad first drinking session. I was young, dumb and thoroughly delighted to find a bar that didn't care about ID. I had the afternoon off school, so I went there with a group fo friends and tried everything across the bar - lager, bitter, ale, cider, stout, alcopop, more cider.

Slightly drunk. Threw up on the schoolbus home. Nearly got expelled. I've had better pub trips.

The Earl

 

[neonlyte]

First trip Spain in '72, was locked in a cell overnight at the border, and kicked out the next day for be a 'political subversive' - I'd been invited to Barcelona University to deliver a talk entitled 'Social Responsibility and Politics of Housing'

 

[impressive]

First attempt at making gravy. I was in my early teens. It tasted fine but just didn't LOOK right ... so I attempted to fix it by adding food coloring. To this day, I am teased about my gray-vee.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Jesus Christ Sev. What was the outcome?

Bad first drinking session. I was young, dumb and thoroughly delighted to find a bar that didn't care about ID. I had the afternoon off school, so I went there with a group fo friends and tried everything across the bar - lager, bitter, ale, cider, stout, alcopop, more cider.

Slightly drunk. Threw up on the schoolbus home. Nearly got expelled. I've had better pub trips.

The Earl

Well, it was a church evening youth function, so there weren't many people around. I was 14. She was 16. I got a little scared, but in hindsight I should have known that they would see through her prank for what it was, a stupid stunt. She was the pastor's daughter, and the wild one of the family, it seems. She was also supposedly my girlfriend, but she had a funny way of showing it. Especially when I found out about her two-timing me with an older guy (he was 23). I couldn't compete with that.

That was one of my few attempts at monogamy. Didn't work out so well.

 

[ElizabethWest]

The first time I ever baked biscuits I used all-purpose flour instead of self-rising. I was maybe 12 or 13. I didn't know there was a difference. We had to salt our flat little biscuits just to make them palatable.