Adventures With Tempting Fate...or Pushing Your Luck.

[68Charger]

Too many to choose from... first ones that come to mind:
Building a luge style run down the steep drive of my Grandma's house on Campbell lake... icy winter that year in Anchorage. With "flexible flyer" runner sleds on our bellies, my father calculated we were just under 60mph when we reached the lake (based on distance covered over a known height drop)... I was 10, and it was my idea to bank the turns using packed snow and water brought out in buckets to make it solid ice so it would hold.

I was 12 when I bought a fifth of Southern Comfort... and stayed out until 3 or 4 am (it was light out, since it was summer in Anchorage)

A friend and I took out Dad's '76 Buick Electra when none of us had a license.

Took scuba diving C-card course in Whittier, AK at the age of 16... in FEBURARY. Water was 34 degrees. Air was -14 with wind chill One of the other students was manager of Miller distributor in Anchorage, and brought cases of MGD bottles as a 'promotion'... new product at that time. All went well until I tore a wrist seal at about 30 ft. 2nd stage hypothermia... fell in love with sodium-acetate heat packs that day.

After I did get my license, and bought (big suprise) a '68 Charger 383 4bbl 4spd... got into street racing- highlights (or lowlights) were 110 in a 35mph zone racing a 69 Firebird (saw a cop running for his car as I shifted into 4th, that's how I knew it was 110), and also doing close to 140 on the Seward highway racing an '86 vette (after the new owner going thru a mid-life crisis was peeved some 17yo punk in a 20yo "stock" car just blew his doors off from a stoplight on Northern Lights blvd. I was running green AV gas, and LOTS of ignition timing lead... but otherwise was pretty much stock.

Driving without license or insurance in College because the price of insurance was more than tuition.

Got married at 19 while in college, despite warmings from parents and others... still married after 28 years.