Ten Things to Aviod

I was just pondering some things, that really, I wish I had avoided in my younger days. This is certainly NOT a comprehensive list...

1 - do not get mad at your older brother and sit on his favorite toy and break it, a sea plane - because apparently they NEVER made anymore of the crazy things because it was absolutely impossible to replace, I have not been able to find another one ever!!
(and the tendrils of guilt still linger...many years later)

2 - do not shave your eyebrows
(but come to think of it now, I did that WAY before 'The Wall" by Pink Floyd...Awesome-I am a trend-setter!...ok, maybe not...)

3 - do not try to curl your three-feet of hair with your mother's spiky-hot rollers
(which will leave you with only 6" of hair and much weeping)

4 - do not sit down and eat the entire contents of your Halloween basket within one hour of getting back from trick-or-treating
(you don't want to know - trust me)

5 - do not ride your bike under the clothes line beside the very prickly holly bush - forgetting that you are shorter when you are just running under the clothes line, than you are when you are on the bike...and then being swept off your bike and falling backwards into the afore mentioned prickly holly bush.

6 - do not talk your older brother into running away from home, with no clothes, no food, and worst of all...no teddy bear!

7 - do not step on a lizard's tail while in the process of trying to catch him, because it means being traumatized by his tail popping off and only the front half of him running away!

8 - do not slide down the stairs on:
a large piece of cardboard
your sled (no matter how well you wax the blades...really, take my word for it)
the vacuum cleaner (ok, that one was purely accidental)

9 - do not forget to put the straps to your bathing suit back on before playing in the particularly rough surf of NC - only to have the whole thing fall off as you are stepping onto the beach and get slammed by a wave - in front of the very cute boy that you are trying to impress...yeah you really do not want to do that...

10 - do not make the mistake of thinking that you are going to be able to do all of the awesome things that your older brother gets to do in boy scouts...if...you join the girl scouts...

seriously - cookies!!! my brother never had to sell cookies!! (ok, the coconut ones rock! but still!!)
and can someone please tell me what the hell the point of macrame is!?!