Oh to be 17 again... - Page 2

afterburn 549 · 05-07-2015, 03:09 PM

Yup to be 18 again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57__OyMCfI

ckelly78z · 05-07-2015, 04:04 PM

Now you may have something if I could go back to 1982 when I was 17 knowing what I know now. I would invest in known commodities, not be shy around the pretty young girls, take better care of myself and eat right, work out, be a young business man, and help out the less fortunate and share my good fortune.

5String43 · 05-07-2015, 04:30 PM

Good god, I'd have paid more attention in school, played less music and studied harder.

911dean · 911dean's Garage

I'd only wish to go back in time. I'd party less and would have started 911 ownership then. Who knows where that would have taken me. Otherwise I would have been serious about education. I'm supposedly intelligent.

Crowbob · 05-07-2015, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Oh Haha

If I were 17 today, I would be packing my gear for California!! In 30 years I would be looking back at the awesome career in music that I had achieved.

Sadly, I did graduate 30 years ago and I have NOT lived out my dream of being a professional drummer.

At 17 I was a professional drummer doing wedding, graduation and garden party gigs all summer. Easy listening, smooth jazz and top 40. All winter I taught and sold percussion equipment at a music store.

'Money for nuthin' and the chicks are free.'

At 18 I was in college 'cause that's what everybody else was doing.

'Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.'

cabmandone · cabmandone's Garage

I'd probably turn the volume of my stereo WAY down so I wouldn't have this blasted ringing in my ears. Other than that, I wouldn't change much.

Hugh R · 05-07-2015, 07:09 PM

I was 17 in 1971 and joined the USMC after my Junior year in HS. It straightened me out, a lot. Not sure if I'd do it again.

nota · 05-07-2015, 07:52 PM

17 in 67 what a wonderful terrible time

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

Half of you guys would be in jail. Technology makes it a lot harder to get away with some of the stories you guys have told.

Nostril Cheese · 05-07-2015, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by peteremsley

Are you just old and bitter? So many of your posts wreak of it. My 16 year old son is one of the most emotionally intelligent people you could meet. Many of his friends are wired similarly. They all have iPhones. I don't understand why you detest youth.

Well, things WERE different when Herbert Hoover was president. you had to be a LOT tougher in those days. Much like post war Britain.

DonDavis · DonDavis's Garage

Good Lord, no. I'm good. I see what I've done compared to what my children do and I'm fine.

Times are different, yo. Apples and oranges.

Over the last few months, my 15 yr old son is really getting into Classic Rock, 60s, 70s, 80s stuff and he really digs it. He's throwing discus and it's the music they work out to. Then at night he cranks up the tunes of my youth...and he sings along!

onewhippedpuppy · 05-08-2015, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by porsche4life

Half of you guys would be in jail. Technology makes it a lot harder to get away with some of the stories you guys have told.

Cops no longer have a common sense filter either. A few decades ago if they caught a teen doing something stupid, they would take them home to let the parents deal with it. Today you'll end up in jail with charges that could alter the course of your entire life.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 05-08-2015, 04:46 AM

At 17 I was working 40 hour weeks as a senior in HS, interning at the local hospital while restoring a 73 240Z and driving a 63 VW pick-up. I want the energy I had back then.

I would tell myself to work less, sell my cars and take a year off between HS and college to travel Europe.

Where would I be in 30 years? No idea. In my current version of life, I've had so many different careers reinventing myself every few years, I'm not sure that would change. It's who I am. Now if a certain doctor didn't want a blow-job in exchange for med school recommendations, I would probably be a surgeon today.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

The old dream of going back in time and giving your younger self advice is a wish many of us have.

The draft ended 10 days before I was to be drafted. I regret never having served in the military. I would urge my younger self to change that.

Of course the advice about buying stocks of Microsoft or Apple would be high on the list.

Overall since I can't go back and give myself advise I think I figured out a decent path. I have never even once had handcuffs on, never arrested, no jail time.

I have wonderful lovely wife, zero debt, a nice safe home with a three car garage and my garage is a dream garage with a scissor lift, heat, ac, a fridge, space to do an engine swap on a car and most important an bathroom in the garage. The house even has a kitchen and a bedroom. The wife insisted on that.

Seahawk · 05-08-2015, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Cops no longer have a common sense filter either. A few decades ago if they caught a teen doing something stupid, they would take them home to let the parents deal with it. Today you'll end up in jail with charges that could alter the course of your entire life.

So true.

My friends and I got caught doing something stupid when we were sixteen. We didn't get caught in the act, rather someone witnessed our stupidity, recognized one of my friends and called the police.

The police called my friends father. Mr. Carlsen asked them if they wouldn't mind if he and the other father's took care of the incident.

The police agreed.

I really wish they hadn't. Father's in those days didn't have restrictor plates when it came to right and wrong.

EMJ · 05-08-2015, 06:59 AM

Great responses so far. My son is 17 and about to graduate from high school. He'll be going away to college in the fall and he, my wife, and I wrapped up our college tours a few weeks ago. It's interesting to see how times have changed but at the same time, have stayed the same. Brings back a sense of nostalgia.

My wife and I joke about how good kids have it today. But then we realize we wouldn't want it any other way.

Norm K · 05-08-2015, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I will say that technology seems to have made it much easier to get laid. So there's that....

I dunno, sex was pretty easy to come by when I was seventeen, and eighteen, and nineteen, and twenty, and twenty-one, and twenty-two, and twenty-three, and twenty four, and so on and so on, right up until about thirty when I'd been married for about five years and had a couple of kids ...

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

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Originally Posted by nkowi

I dunno, sex was pretty easy to come by when I was seventeen, and eighteen, and nineteen, and twenty, and twenty-one, and twenty-two, and twenty-three, and twenty four, and so on and so on, right up until about thirty when I'd been married for about five years and had a couple of kids ...

Yea, it was nice to grow up in the era before AIDS, HIV, Hepatitis, Genital Warts and other deadly sexual diseases.

Shaun @ Tru6 · 05-08-2015, 07:17 AM

This song always makes feel sorry for today's kids, notably :39 to :59.

onewhippedpuppy · 05-08-2015, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by nkowi

I dunno, sex was pretty easy to come by when I was seventeen, and eighteen, and nineteen, and twenty, and twenty-one, and twenty-two, and twenty-three, and twenty four, and so on and so on, right up until about thirty when I'd been married for about five years and had a couple of kids ...

Today you just swipe your finger on a smart phone!