What did you do when you were 14?

I didnt copy other peoples ideas and call them mine, thats for sure. 

My brother and I set a junkyard on fire when I was 14. We used to take the go kart out that dad specifically told us not to take out while he was at work. We would drive that thing all over the streets of our town. We used to break glass by the dumpster. We used to skateboard at the bar. 

In reply to Nugi :

Big man trash talking the 14 year old's science fair project over here. 

I think I did a science fair project on different types of catnip, with assessments of how high our family cats got on each of them.  This seems a lot more practical.

When I was 14 I did what I always did as a teenager.  My dad made me change tires and do mechanic work at the family tire store every Saturday and all summer.  I got paid just enough to cover the tuition at the private school I attended.

   I did learn a lot about working on vehicles and that saved me a lot of money over the years.  

In reply to oldeskewltoy :

I entered my first race. Circle track car 48 Buick straight 8 in hobby stock. Had to be 15, I lied. I hope the statue of limitations is up. 

I love the blind spot camera idea. Heck, the A-pillars on the CX-9 are like 10" wide?  I know they're there for my "safety," but damn!  I'm far more likely to get crunched by a car I can't see than I am to put the thing on its roof.

I miss safe cars you could actually see out of, like the Volvo 940 Turbo Wagon.

I was building and racing slot cars.  Somewhere I have a trophy for winning a 12 hr slot car race with dad.  I did 8 hrs of the racing myself.  We were probably an hour ahead of the other 7 teams.  They dismantled our car post race to find out it was 100% legal.  

Stuff I probably shouldn't talk about here. Also, super nintendo.

I worked in a gas station at 14 mostly cleaning the service bays and yucky jobs nobody else wanted to do because I couldn't get a work permit until I was 15. Don't think they even have work permits anymore. Probably doesn't matter because don't think many teenagers actually get jobs and work anymore.

Mndsm said:

Stuff I probably shouldn't talk about here. Also, super nintendo.

Playstation and something else that ends in -ation?

1988RedT2 said:

I love the blind spot camera idea. Heck, the A-pillars on the CX-9 are like 10" wide?  I know they're there for my "safety," but damn!  I'm far more likely to get crunched by a car I can't see than I am to put the thing on its roof.

I miss safe cars you could actually see out of, like the Volvo 940 Turbo Wagon.

I've had occasions when the A-pillar on my Focus has hidden entire cars for seconds at a time.  I'd love to have this device too.

14? I was riding my Yamaha Razz to town and getting groceries, mowing, riding dirt bikes with friends and marching band. 

now 15 was where it started to get interesting. 

Mixing Drano and aluminum foil in closed containers.

Lets see

Jarts

BB guns

Black powder

22's

Ya we had fun. . .

Farmed, went to school and hated the waste of time it seemed to be, spanked the monkey , dreamed of being an adult, turned red and stuttered around women...  Lots of fun stuff.

When I was 13, I bought a Lil Indian mini bike, that was a total basket case. Learned how to wrench on that bike.  The summer of my 14th year, I moved up to a "motorcycle". A 1965 Honda 90.  The love and fascination of bikes, and things mechanical have been with me since.  And that is a little north of a half century  ago :)

For reference:  Not my bike, it was never this nice.  All bought with paper route money, and bottle returns, and hustling doing lawns etc.

I think I was around that age when I built an FM transmitter for a science project admittedly, from somebody else's  plans. No idea why anybody was impressed by it at the time. I didn't even test anything.

Hmm...studied a lot, rebuilt an old evinrude motor, smoked weed behind the band room, played bass in a Tool cover band, got rejected by lots of girls 

Nothing as useful as that blind spot set up.

I learned how to weld when I was 14.  Also, I built my first potato cannon.

Won a diving championship because I wasn't 15 and play in my friends' class; bought $25-$50 cars for running around in the field.  First time rolling over; a 1952 Dodge something with Fluid Drive.

I was learning how to web design and photoshop when HTML was still hand jambed and PS was still in it's infancy. I remember being blown away by dreamweaver and PS2

I also did a science fair project on what kind of paints protect steel the best against saltwater (living close to the beach). The teacher said it was a dated test and my samples were tainted because my dad gave me scrap steel plate that had practiced some welding on. 

This is a great idea however I don't see a projector casting an image working well in certain parts of the day and almost being a distraction at night.  On the right track though. 

Mndsm said:

Stuff I probably shouldn't talk about here. Also, super nintendo.

Stuff I definitely shouldn't talk about here.  Also super nintendo.

By the way - do NOT look up F-Zero videos on YouTube.  It turns out I was playing it all wrong, I was actually driving the courses instead of jumping tracks.   That sounds kind of lame.

That's clever.  Instead of a projector screen me could use a curved gorilla glass lcd display.