A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

[davywavy]

I think I've mentioned my time at university before now - I took one of those dossy social-science degrees which had five hours of lectures a week, and spent most of my time in the cheesy rock clubs and fleshpots of Manchester. The net result of this, I later realised, was that I undoubtedly spent more time playing air guitar at university than I did actually being educated. I remain pleased with this.

Anyway; it's a cold and depressing December day, so here's a question to remind you of the good times. What's your "wasted youth" story? What did you do when you were younger that, really, you could have spent the time doing something much more productive, but which you remain inordinately pleased about?*

*^{The Cam doesn't count. Nobody should be proud of that.}

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[supermouse.livejournal.com]

I spent an entire unemployed winter doing nothing much except to draw dole, play roleplaying games and occasionally smoke dope. I didn't see daylight for six months, due to going to bed at dawn and getting up at or after sunset. A shocking waste of tax payer's money, except that I was *seriously* depressed and going nowhere at the beginning of that winter, and more or less sorted out and working in a brand new career[1] as a lab tech soon after.

[1] Well, it would have been if I hadn't ended up with a disabling chronic illness, but them's the breaks.