phil says:
"Sneaking out -- did you listen to the This American Life feature about the girl who made up a family that she "babysat" for, so she could get out of the house?"
i'm interested in other people's teenaged sneaking-out experiences. i did it constantly my junior and senior years in high school. sometimes i'd just go for long walks by myself, though usually i had some social agenda. my friend marsh lived in what was meant to be a separate apartment attached to his father's house, so it was very easy to go in and out of his room as we pleased. his father also seemed to be deaf or a heavy sleeper, because we could have a dozen people in that room and music at close to normal volume and he never seemed to notice.
so tell me about yours-- how often? why? were you ever caught?
Posted by lisa at March 09, 2004 12:07 AM | TrackBacki snuck out a LOT in high school, esp. my junior year. usually it was to meet this boy i was sort of dating, but soemtimes it was to meet other boys i was friends w/, and we'd go get drunk in the park. sometimes i snuck out to go see--and later star in, as magenta--the rocky horror picture show. once i snuck out to have a snowball fight w/ a different group of friends. and once i snuck out and hung out w/ a bunch of yeshiva girls.
i was almost caught once, by my mother, when i accidentally stepped on the cat.
i think i was caught another time by my brother, since he had a friend sleeping over and obviously they figured out i wasn't home, and i had to stay outside till they fell asleep and i could come back in. i'm pretty sure he told my mom i was gone but no one ever confronted me about it!
sometimes i stayed home from school the next day with flu-like symptoms--i.e., very bad hangovers. but usually i crawled in and bragged about my exploits. :)
Sadly, I never snuck out. My parents were fairly strict and I was fairly compliant at home. But I did often spend the night with other friends with whom I'd party through the night.
Posted by: Phil on March 9, 2004 02:37 PMi actually didn't drink at all when i was in high school. i was afraid to. walking around raleigh by myself at night didn't scare me, but drinking did-- go figure :)
i didn't have to sneak out to go to rocky horror. it was the one thing i was allowed to stay out late and do. my mom said it was because she knew where i was and what i was doing.
Posted by: lisa on March 9, 2004 11:43 PM