Your younger, more retarded self

[katiuska]

So, it happens. We get older, we grow, and things that seemed like a good idea at the time decay into a mass of "What the fuck was I thinking?"

When I was in HS, I went through a phase that involved assorted pieces of leather clothing, some other "loud" things, and a pair of vinyl pants. That last one was sort of the end of that era--I wore them right after I bought them in August, which is the wrong time to wear vinyl pants, and never wore them again, for there is no right time. I bring this phase up because it's by far the funniest, at least given who I am now. I sometimes think of ways I could still make use of the stuff, including:

1) Flagging down cars and asking for directions for the nearest production of Rent.
2) Starting/joining a band as a nouveau Jim Morrison and come onstage totally wasted, yelling obscenities and pretentious poetry.
3) Throwing everything together in the most ridiculous fashion possible and cosplay as a Noruma-inspired character.

Actually, the vinyl pants have come in handy--they offered traction on the makeshift staircase I made when my cat could no longer jump on my bed.

One of my friends in middle school was intensely infatuated with Bryan White for a while. (If you're too young to know the name, he was a country-pop singer whose popularity was partly responsible for the genre's deeply shameful pretty boy teeny-bopper phase in the 1990s.) I'm sure she's disavowed that time in her life--I'm aware she started following anime and j-pop for a while with equal ridiculousness--but because that's when I knew her, she's forever the Bryan White obsesso to me.

What are some of the things you used to do or like that you've now outgrown?