What's the CRAZIEST thing you've ever done?

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

The craziest thing I think I've done was moving to the Virgin Islands! In 2004 I decided to quit my job, sell my car, and bought a 1 way ticket to St. Thomas! I lived literally in the jungle in a small hut with no running water, toilet, or electricity for 4 months by myself! I got a job doing snorkeling/kayaking tours, and worked as a waitress at a restaurant on the beach. It was the most life-changing experience and I really had a chance to get to know myself. After 4 months I decided to come back to the States and start my life again in Colorado. ;) I thought it might be fun to exchange stories or moments of the craziest thing you've ever done? :upsidown:

[WBandMe]

Wow, that really is crazy! I've never really done anything too outlandish, but sometimes I'd like to!

[ChibiAiChan]

mine isn't too crazy, i just got a tattoo lol woo living it up =) *dorkdorkdork* gotta have sean take a pic later

[mitch]

I dunno about Crazy. But i must have been insane to Marry My Ex-Husband. :rofl:

Craziest thing was jumping into the unknown with a Guy i'd met only two times beforehand. Him moving 300 Mile to be with Me. And setting up home together.

Six Years Together, Four Months Married.

Maybe i'm not so Crazy after all. :winktongue:

[Jacklynn]

hmm I've never done anything that crazy. I guess packing up and moving 1100 miles away from all of our friends and family is a little crazy.... or plenty sane depending on how you look at it ;)

[tk93]

These probably fall under the "stupidest" category, not so much the "craziest", but here goes..

Freshman year of college, I decided to get my naval pierced. I went down to a reputable piercing place in the city and they refused to do it because they couldn't grab enough skin around the belly button to pierce it correctly. I probably should've left it at that, but I'm very stubborn once I make up my mind about something and I was determined to get a cute little belly ring. So, the next day, I took a cab into the ghetto and into a shady hole-in-the-wall piercing place and got my belly button pierced! ... it was infected for pretty much the whole six months I had it. A few months later, while abroad in Korea, I decided I wanted to get it piereced again, so I walked into another shady hole-in-the-wall piercing booth and got it repierced.

Junior year of college, while on spring break to Acapulco with a group of friends, we decided after a week of nonstop drinking that it would be brilliant to take a trip out to a local piercing place. Everybody in the group got a different body part pierced (it was actually an insanely ridiculous scene as we're all a bunch of yuppies and here we are drunk and getting piercings in the middle of a Mexican mall), and this is how I returned to school with a tongue ring. I took it out a month later.

Looking back on it, I have a lot of memories of shady piercing experiences in developing countries.. probably not the best conditions to have a hole punched through me, but I survived!

[WebLady]

I don't know if I have any crazy life changing stories ... I got married at 18 and divorced at 24 ... I went through some crazy times drinking and partying after my divorce and put myself in a number of situations that could have gotten me in trouble or even killed (I thank God everyday that nothing bad happened) ... I have 11'ish tattoos and 8 piercings ... I have bright red hair ... several years ago I quit my day job and took a risk and started my own business, then got tired of it (burned out and stressed) and quit and started up a new business that never really got anywhere and quit that too. Then I started yet another business that I still have, but it has yet to provide anything over a very little PT income. Some people tell me I am crazy and should get a "real job" but my husband is ok with what I am doing and we are happy :)

[Docsgirl]

Oh geez.....hahaha!

I think the one that may take the cake is after a night of a little *too* much drinking, me and some of my friends scaled an apartment complex fence to swim in the pool at 3 a.m. Doesn't seem so bad, right? Well...it was a "co-ed" group and we all stripped down before jumping in so we wouldn't get any of our clothes wet. And proceeded to get caught by the apartment manager and since none of us lived there.....What did we do? Grabbed our clothes and scaled back over the fence buttnaked and ran. I lost a shoe that night. :rofl:

[ChristineLS]

Oh geez.....hahaha!

I think the one that may take the cake is after a night of a little *too* much drinking, me and some of my friends scaled an apartment complex fence to swim in the pool at 3 a.m. Doesn't seem so bad, right? Well...it was a "co-ed" group and we all stripped down before jumping in so we wouldn't get any of our clothes wet. And proceeded to get caught by the apartment manager and since none of us lived there.....What did we do? Grabbed our clothes and scaled back over the fence buttnaked and ran. I lost a shoe that night. :rofl:

I laughed at that story!

Craziest thing I'd ever done... let me get back to you on that ;)

[Jacobs_Girl]

craziest? eloping to Vegas about 3 weeks after he purposed to me.... or swim with sharks willingly lol

[gwenshack]

I got in the car and drove around the country for 3 months. I left my apartment with a friend, quit my job, and just bailed out. Best thing I've ever done - helped me decide to move back to California - I had move back to DC for like a year and a half. I was stuck in a rut and had to reevalute.

Would never have met FH had I not blown off life for a while!

[Ninedays9]

Well, this is more like the stupidest thing I've ever done... I fell in "love" with a guy from another state... then met him a few months later, when I was in that state, visiting a friend. I experienced some firsts that day, then got myself incredibly hurt when he didn't return the feelings I had for him. Michelle Branch's Hotel Paper album was my soundtrack for a couple of months.

It is unfortunate that I've got those memories permanently engraved by a very sharp utensil in my mind. However... I don't regret it. It was a stupid mistake. Looking back, it's a lot easier to see just how crazy it all was and how much of a jerk he was. And I can at least say I've done one thing that was very uncharacteristic of me.

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

I LOVE your stories ladies!!! I really think that the "crazy" things you do in life (depending on what you interpret crazy to be) can be some of the most life shaping experiences. No matter how "little" or "big" they seem. I mean running from a pool naked will be something you NEVER forget, and will probably laugh about the rest of your life. And doing the "stupid" things that you know you shouldn't, and even though they may be "stupid" that's how you LEARN! The peircings, the tatts, the ex boyfriends, spontaneous trips. Keep the stories rollin' :bblol:

[WBandMe]

Oh, I thought of one. I cannot believe what an idiot I was to do this: the very beginning of freshman year of college my roommate and I didn't know anything about the campus or surrounding area but we managed to figure out the bus schedule enough to get out to the shopping area. Once we were done we waited and waited for the bus and it didn't stop, and we saw one stop across the street so we moved there and waited for the next one. It never came and eventually this guy in a ghetto looking minivan saw us and turned around, I still remember his name was Pepe and he turned on Britney Spears because he thought we'd like it better than whatever he was listening to... we let him drive us back to campus even though had something happened we would have had no clue where we were. We at least thought to have him drop us off several blocks away from where we lived. Anyway, fortunately he didn't do anything but what he said he'd do, and we never saw him again. Scary to think of how that could have turned out though.

[Whitewater]

Well . . .

there was the time in high school that the farmer caught us tipping his cows and pursued us with a shotgun (at least, that's what I think it was, that's what it sounded like) as we fled . . .

Or maybe the time when I agreed to TP the house of the girl that the whole school hated -- my friends asked me to do this with them. When the police came I had slithered under the father's car so as not to get caught . . .

Or perhaps I ought to talk about taking a Greyhound bus from Minneapolis to NYC in order to see Hugh Jackman performing live. 34 hours one way. I left on Thursday and was home by Monday noon. By myself.

Then there was the time when I spent three months in New York City, living with the (male) friend of a friend (neither of whom I'd ever met), rather than admit my failure with what was supposed to be a summer gig in Podunk Maine (which is a story all by itself), and come home in humiliation.

I've done some crazy things in my life :)


Whitewater

[Dani]

hmmm, I met Doug online, he drove from Illinois to Michigan to meet me. I moved in with him 9 months later. :)

[mitch]

Well . . .

there was the time in high school that the farmer caught us tipping his cows and pursued us with a shotgun (at least, that's what I think it was, that's what it sounded like) as we fled . . .

Whitewater


Thick Brit here. What is "Tipping A Cow"?

I've got visions of You sneaking up behind them and pushing them over. :rofl:

[Dani]

Thick Brit here. What is "Tipping A Cow"?

I've got visions of You sneaking up behind them and pushing them over. :rofl:

I believe that is what it is! lol

[Ninedays9]

Thick Brit here. What is "Tipping A Cow"?

I've got visions of You sneaking up behind them and pushing them over. :rofl:

I think it's an urban legend type thing... where when a cow is sleeping, you go up and push them over. You could probably find info on it on Snopes. It's a very midwestern US concept.... though even I didn't hear of it til I was probably 17.

[uhmanduh728]

I think it's an urban legend type thing... where when a cow is sleeping, you go up and push them over. You could probably find info on it on Snopes. It's a very midwestern US concept.... though even I didn't hear of it til I was probably 17.

it's def. midwestern. ha ha my family is from alabama and i knew what cow tipping was before i was out of diapers. The truth is you can't do it. It's a Joke. You get a whole bunch of people together to go "tip" a cow. lead them to the stable then you tell them to wait while you go get something or what ever and leave them stranded there. It's supposed to be funny. They do that with snipe hunting too :)

[Whitewater]

Well, in my case I learned it from a bunch of Southern California teenagers :) Surfers, mostly. And this was back when SoCal (around the outskirts of San Diego) had land to farm.

There was a cattle ranch and it was at night. We'd heard that if you can catch the cow sleeping and push it over, that it wouldn't get up again until it woke up. For a bunch of ignorant city-bred teenagers, we had no idea that this would be dangerous for the cows!!!

Now of course, I'm appalled at the very idea. Anyway. So there we were, piled into a 4 door sedan and really squished, because there were about a half dozen of us. We got out, and were messing around in the field when out of nowhere there was this roar and a blaze of light (what I now know is a tractor, but had no clue about back then) and the farmer, shouting threats and yelling as his tractor was bearing down on us.

It was like something out of a movie! We scrambled, and how the farmer managed to not hurt somebody with his shotgun I don't know, because we were all in the tractor's headlights and easily visible. Our Fearless Leader kept shouting that if we could all get to the car and take off, that we'd be ok because the car would be faster than the tractor.

I was the last person in (even then, I didn't run fast!) and my friends had to grab me and hold me in because the driver of our car took off and peeled out for the gate with the farmer in hot pursuit as soon as he saw me sit down -- but my side's door was still open!

As we got back onto the road I managed to slam the door shut and then *I* started screaming. Hysterics, mostly, but from then on I didn't get invited to another kid-type event, whether it was a beach party or a slumber party or whatever. I guess I ruined their fun. I don't even remember what I screamed, but I do remember not calming down for hours.

Crazy, yes. Fun . . . maybe not so much.

This is one of those things I remember when I talk about being young and stupid, but not so stupid that you make life-altering/life-threatening mistakes!

So yeah, you *can* tip cows. I wouldn't recommend it, though.


Whitewater

[uhmanduh728]

Well, in my case I learned it from a bunch of Southern California teenagers :) Surfers, mostly. And this was back when SoCal (around the outskirts of San Diego) had land to farm.

There was a cattle ranch and it was at night. We'd heard that if you can catch the cow sleeping and push it over, that it wouldn't get up again until it woke up. For a bunch of ignorant city-bred teenagers, we had no idea that this would be dangerous for the cows!!!

Now of course, I'm appalled at the very idea. Anyway. So there we were, piled into a 4 door sedan and really squished, because there were about a half dozen of us. We got out, and were messing around in the field when out of nowhere there was this roar and a blaze of light (what I now know is a tractor, but had no clue about back then) and the farmer, shouting threats and yelling as his tractor was bearing down on us.

It was like something out of a movie! We scrambled, and how the farmer managed to not hurt somebody with his shotgun I don't know, because we were all in the tractor's headlights and easily visible. Our Fearless Leader kept shouting that if we could all get to the car and take off, that we'd be ok because the car would be faster than the tractor.

I was the last person in (even then, I didn't run fast!) and my friends had to grab me and hold me in because the driver of our car took off and peeled out for the gate with the farmer in hot pursuit as soon as he saw me sit down -- but my side's door was still open!

As we got back onto the road I managed to slam the door shut and then *I* started screaming. Hysterics, mostly, but from then on I didn't get invited to another kid-type event, whether it was a beach party or a slumber party or whatever. I guess I ruined their fun. I don't even remember what I screamed, but I do remember not calming down for hours.

Crazy, yes. Fun . . . maybe not so much.

This is one of those things I remember when I talk about being young and stupid, but not so stupid that you make life-altering/life-threatening mistakes!

So yeah, you *can* tip cows. I wouldn't recommend it, though.


Whitewater


ha ha i would have been screaming too.


I honestly don't think I have done anything "crazy" i thought that I had but after reading somethings on here (not that you guys are crazy) but mine don't really count i guess

[RevMatty]

Craziest thing I've ever done? I have way to many to list, and I dont thing the servers at OneWed could handle that much information. Poor techies would be recovering for months.

[FutureKelley]

The most crazy thing I've ever done was also the stupidest... I got pissed off at my aunt and uncle when I was 18 and packed all of my stuff up (well, we had moved two days earlier, so most of it was already packed! lol) and left. I didn't tell anyone I was leaving or where I was going. I dropped out of school two months before graduation. Then, I ran up to Missouri where my now ex lives and lived in a motel for two weeks.

My family was so upset. It only took them a day to find on where I was and after my step-dad threatened to call the police on me and caused a huge mess, they gave up. I can't believe that I would do something to hurt my family so much. I would take it back in a second if I could. The guy wasn't worth it either, we moved in together a few months after that and he started abusing me. It took me almost a year to get myself out of that mess.

The only smart thing that came out of that was I did enroll back in school when I got back, graduated, and got a job. Of course, I ended up living with my grandparents until I moved out since I couldn't face my aunt and uncle after what I did. :(

[Nekochanpurr]

Um.. Well, we listened to my sisters host sister in Japan and got on the wrong bullet train.. Got stuck in Nagoya with no trains running. Left the train station to see a HUGE pee puddle and tons of homeless guys sleeping neatly (with their shoes next to the box) on smooshed boxes. We only saw one hotel and it was too expensive for us. Luckily, the dude there was AWESOME and walked us to a shady, creepy hotel. We took turns staying up all night to DS light. XD Better than what my friend (penpal) told us to do when we called her.. She told us to get a love hotel!!!! LOL
Um.. I'll try and think of more. We were pretty stupid teenagers, so.. XD

Oh! When we were in jr high, my best friend and i (at the time) found makeup in the garbage and decided to put it on this drunk guy in the libary. I guess she knew him, but.. o.o;

[RosieAngel]

Hmm... I think the craziest thing I did was participate in a hot air balloon race on a whim! There was an ad in the paper, and it was during the weekend, so I thought why not? I was supposed to be in the chase car, but I got to ride in the balloon because I only weighed 90 lbs at the time! 90 lbs... so long ago...

[Ashleyerin2]

I don't really have many crazy things. Stupid yes, crazy not so much.

I guess one of my biggest things that could be considered crazy would be the night that I drank way to much (underage) and then my friend and I took off for a walk to the Elementary school around the block (I lived in a bad neighborhood at the time, so this was really really stupid on our part) so we could go play on the equipment. We got up there, played around for about an hour and then hid in the top of the slide because we were so paranoid we freaked ourselves out and wouldnt leave until I called my Fiance to come get us.

[MrsDM]

FH and I did this 2 summers ago: http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll63/FutureMrsDM/?action=view&current=Movie.flv

Such an adrenaline rush!

[Ninedays9]

FH and I did this 2 summers ago: http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll63/FutureMrsDM/?action=view&current=Movie.flv

Such an adrenaline rush!

Ahhh! That made me feel queasy just looking at it...haha.

[MrsDM]

Ahhh! That made me feel queasy just looking at it...haha.

LOL! When we were waiting to be launched, I was laughing uncontrollably because I was so nervous!!! Trust me, I definitely felt queasy too!!