General Discussion

I was simultaneously geeky and punk/goth. I had the highest SAT scores in my school's history but failed all sorts of classes because I simply refuse to do any assignment that wasn't a test. I felt that if I could ace the test I deserved an A, and couldn't reconcile myself to the fact that shit just didn't work that way. In that respect I wasn't "good" but in my own way I don't think I was "bad" either. I was learning!

All my goth friends got into drugs in a big way but I've been straightedge my whole life; never drank or used drugs. And all my punk friends got into stealing and shoplifting shit and vandalizing everything in sight -- I was too "moral" (and too scared shitless) to steal or destroy anything.

The worst thing I ever did was make little black powder explosives from film canisters or used CO2 cartridges with my D&D friends -- we used to set them off at a disused quarry to avoid damaging anything or setting a fire. Even when we were bad we were careful, but that shit would probably put me on a federal watch list now.