Crazy past experiences are memories that last a lifetime, and lifetime memories always make a good story. Along with those memories, many people also learn valuable lessons that are carried throughout life.

Junior Mabel Wall said she got lost in the Arches National Park at the age of eight. Wall said her family wanted to visit a variety of different national parks over their Thanksgiving break trip in Utah.

“My family took the trek up to see that famous lone standing arch, and on our way down, I decided to very quickly run down and parkour it,” Wall said. “And then when I got to the bottom, I realized my family was nowhere in sight.”

After Wall became aware her family was not with her, she decided to make her way back up to the lone standing arch, before realizing her family had disappeared.

“When I finally came back down, I went to my parents’ truck, and I was sitting there, and my dad came back telling me that my mom was crying, and had called the park rangers,” Wall said.

Her family was reunited and left in a hurry. When asked if she would relive this again, Wall said she would like to because running down the trail was extremely enjoyable until she got lost.

“Kids, don’t leave your parents’ sides,” Wall said.

Another insane incident that freshman Daisy Bradshaw experienced was an unsettling night in her neighborhood. Bradshaw was on her way to a neighborhood park with a friend close to 9:30 p.m., when they were 13 and 14 years old.

“There was this white car that was like following us, and then we hid behind this fence,” Bradshaw said.

After they thought the car was gone, they kept walking. Suddenly, the car sped down the road and stopped next to Bradshaw and her friend. The car’s interior lights turned on, signaling the driver had opened the door, so the girls ran off and around the neighborhood for a while and then eventually made their way back to Bradshaw’s house. After they arrived at her house, the car was there, but they eventually drove away.

“It was very scary, and we learned not to walk late,” Bradshaw said.

Sophomore Jesse Britton also learned a lesson from messing around with animals on his grandparents’ farm when he was eight years old. Britton climbed into a pen full of sheep with his older brother and was antagonizing them, thinking nothing would happen.

“We thought we were bigger and badder than the sheep until we got bucked [off],” Britton said.

Britton said he would prefer not to relive the situation again. Especially because being bucked off a sheep hurts, and Britton was much smaller at the time.

“Yes, I would probably not go in the pen because it hurt,” Britton said.