Rumour next time you feel stupid....

[Silent Alarm]

Footy clubs are full of dumb pricks and funny stories. People who don't believe this stuff are hero worshippers. If it could happen at a local footy club, it absolutely can at AFL level.

 

[Gralin]

I know someone who got to 20 without knowing that a bedside table was called that.

He found out in a furniture shop when he was moving out of home for the first time.

Turns out when he was a kid he'd asked his mum what they were called, she'd drawn a blank and made up a name which stuck until one fateful day when he was laughed at by my sister and the sales guy at captain snooze

 

[leorex]

i believe
seen some dumb things done by teenagers
this case its just innocent stupid
no one harmed

but having said that we oldies need teenagers to help us in the digital age of cloud and mobile devices

 

[flashmanvc]

I moved out of home at eighteen. On my first lone wolf excursion to the supermarket I got some salami from the deli and tried to pay for it right there.

Can see this being a true story tbh.

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[Gadzorks]

I can guarantee you it's 100% true.

My nephew has done the same - shown up at the airport without passport and needed mum to run him with it when he was 19. Also managed to leave it at his first hotel while on a 2 week 4 hotel overseas trip. Thanks to his cousins he'll never live it down.

 

[Proper Gander]

I moved out of home at eighteen. On my first lone wolf excursion to the supermarket I got some salami from the deli and tried to pay for it right there.

Can see this being a true story tbh.

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I moved out of home and overseas at 18. While I did know what a passport was (essential in the circumstances) I relate fully to your story. I think I lived on butter chicken takeaway and pints of Stella for 2 years. The tescos was too scarey for words.

 

[PepeSilvia]

So this is a little bit of a lighter one for this forum.

Before Christmas, a club was hosting an overseas training camp for its younger players.

They're all at the airport waiting to check in. The department head escorting said players on the flight is going around checking they all have their passports. He comes to one young lad who is confused as to what a passport is in and why he needs this thing to travel overseas.

After a quick discussion it is discovered that he actually does have a passport and he has previously been overseas but his mum hangs on to those sorts of things as he tends to lose them.

So he is sent home to retrieve the passport, goes home and asks his mum where it is. Goes and grabs what he thinks is his passport, only issue is it's his twin brothers passport. He looks at it and thinks oh well looks like me.

Gets back to the airport. Goes up to security. The name on the ticket doesn't match the passport. By this stage the club is less than pleased.

His mother is then forced to drive the passport to the airport and he ended up making the flight by about ten minutes.

How dumb can you be??

Durdin?

Edit: Having actually read past the OP, I'm probably wrong.

 

[Upgrayedd]

I believe Sharrod did this first year at the pies. Where he turned up not knowing you needed a passport to go to the USA. Did not have one

 

[DERO]

I believe Sharrod did this first year at the pies. Where he turned up not knowing you needed a passport to go to the USA. Did not have one

Naming a son/ daughter Sharrod suggests poor parenting skills.

 

[TJ Hendricks]

I'm thinking 80% of American 18/19 year olds wouldn't know you need a passport or visa. Realize there's a difference between the two but still a teenager is a teenager. I believe it.

 

[76woodenspooners]

I moved out of home at eighteen. On my first lone wolf excursion to the supermarket I got some salami from the deli and tried to pay for it right there.

Dude, everybody did that

 

[Benny78]

I remember first day I got my license I drove to Poland and bought myself a cheese Kranksy.

Ah memories

 

[Komrade_Tiger]

I remember first day I got my license I drove to Poland and bought myself a cheese Kranksy.

Ah memories

Sir_Loin

 

[Thuggee_Cult]

I'm thinking 80% of American 18/19 year olds wouldn't know you need a passport or visa. Realize there's a difference between the two but still a teenager is a teenager. I believe it.

Mexico and Canada aside, 80% of American kids probably couldn't name a country outside of the US

 

[Thuggee_Cult]

Having spoken to player welfare folks before, I totally believe this story would be true.

This is what happens when kids join an organisation that employs people to wipe their bottoms for them.

It's nothing new either. I've heard Dermie tell the story on radio many times that after he retired he had no idea how to renew his car rego with Vic Roads, every club he played for did this for him.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Having worked with young people before, and having a brother who is much younger than me and not particularly worldly, I have absolutely no trouble at all believing this story.

So I don't care if it's true, it's founded in enough reality for it to be funny

 

[HairyO]

Mexico and Canada aside, 80% of American kids probably couldn't name a country outside of the US

The ones who could only name Mexico and Canada would be 50/50 getting them around the wrong way on a map.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

I'm just about sick of these Chris and Brad Scott threads.

Early runner for POTY

 

[KissKiss]

It's nothing new either. I've heard Dermie tell the story on radio many times that after he retired he had no idea how to renew his car rego with Vic Roads, every club he played for did this for him.

Im pretty sure I've been told that Richmond used to have someone do this (and pay his bills) for Dusty

 

[Troystenvic]

I believe it. I worked for one of the Big 4 banks and almost weekly Id get customers of the other banks coming in asking if they can make withdrawls or change their PIN. When you tell them they need to go to their bank they would look at you blankly.

 

[Pugz89]

Whilst all the info would fit, aren't they from Warragul? If that's where his mother lives it would take a very long time for him and then his mum to make it there and back.

Bit over an hour and a half + traffic time. Not too bad.

 

[estibador]

Mexico and Canada aside, 80% of American kids probably couldn't name a country outside of the US

I think you underestimate them - a lot would be able to name Iraq ruled by their king Osama.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Similar story to the Footscray player back in the day who when told that he would need to get a visa to enter the USA on an end of season trip went straight down to the Commonwealth Bank.
Needless to say he didn't make the flight.

I always thought that to get around that situation he just changed into a uniform and walked straight on as Captain Groenowagon.

 

[javaguice]

On his on

 

[CrazyJoeFevola]

Im pretty sure I've been told that Richmond used to have someone do this (and pay his bills) for Dusty

Pretty sure Choco still wipes his arse for him