What is the craziest most absurd thing you have ever done ?

[glasgowchick]

Originally Posted by michel

What is the craziest most absurd thing you have ever done ? (or one of them if you are a frequently crazy person )

We live in a cul de sac that joins a very busy main road. There are no traffic lights near to where we join the road, and sometimes we can wait for ages and ages and ages before someone might have the decency to let us out.

One day ( I guess I must have been a bit stressed), Marie was driving, waiting patiently for someone to let us out. No one did. I am sure we were there for at least five minutes, constatly trying to edge out onto the road, and then reversing rather quickly as cars were apparently not going to stop, to let us out.

I got out of the front passenger side (one of our sons was in the back), closed the door, walked straight out in the middle of the road, and put up a hand to stop the traffic.

Every car stopped, I calmly waved Marie out onto the main road, and the traffic resumed it's busy pace. I think my ears are still ringing from the admonishments I got when I got back in the car..... I think the word 'lunatic' was repeated a few times.....

LOL!!!!!!!!! The things we do Huh, I remember one time when I lived over in the states, My hubby got me a new car, it was an automatic and believe me, it took me ages to get the hang of driving without the clutch, anyway this one day I decided to take my son swimming, after we got done, I had to reverse the car to get out when suddenly "bang" I didn't know what I had done so I got out the car and saw I had reversed into a big rubbish skip, I looked at the back end of my car but couldn't see anything and thought "pheew" no damage..I drove home and forgot all about it, a few days later I was on my way out, The sun was shining on the top of the car and to my Horror there was a big dent on the roof of my car, since it was a new car I was afraid to tell my hubby that I banged into a skip so I calmly said to him in a supprise voice, " Oh look at that, someones bounced a ball on the top of my car.." He believed me and just kind of shook his head..I guess whatever way I hit the skip, the roof of the car took the impact, I don't know, but thats my story...

[Majikthise]

Originally Posted by Saw11_2000

I dressed up and acted like Michael Jackson once.

I did that too, back in the 80s, at a halloween party.

[Melody]

Buzzed all my hair off. It was half way down my back, the temp was in the 90's with humidity around 90%. It was my husband's fault. He encouraged me.

No, I would not do it again.

[Zephyr]

Lets see here...

One time I tried to incite a revolution... in my english class. It didn't work.

Another time I started playing my bass... in my spanish class. In my defense, I was playing Mies Del Dolor by Blind Guardian, so it was spanish.

I also used to be a fire eater.

I'm pretty sure there has been crazier stuff, but it's probably been knocked out of my head.

[The Black Whirlwind]

i'm GOING to throw rotten eggs and possible baloons full of black paint on my math teachers car. does that count?

[Melody]

Originally Posted by md_88

i'm GOING to throw rotten eggs and possible baloons full of black paint on my math teachers car. does that count?

There's a difference between "crazy and absurd" and "stupid and illegal."

Both of the above can get you charged with vandalism. The teacher *might* laugh at the rotten eggs. I guarantee he/she won't at the paint.

My son's friends toilet papered our yard, threw eggs at our house and saran wrapped my husband's truck while we were away for a Thanksgiving weekend. I laughed at the saran wrapped truck. Was a little p.o.'d at the toilet paper and furious at the eggs all over my house and stuck in my screens.

Fortunately (or unfortunately from the perspective of the kids who did it) one of their group had a big mouth and we found out who was involved. At that point we called the local police and told them that our first preference was to make the kids come over on Saturday and wash the egg off the house and out of the screens and clean up the toilet paper....but if they or their parents balked, we wanted to have the option of pressing charges. A sword over their head, if you will.

The night before they were to come clean up the mess, we were egged and t'p'd again and I told my husband that I knew they were the same kids and they weren't going to show up. I was right. So at 8:30 a.m. we were on the phone to their parents. Within 30 minutes, we had our little work crew (looking extremely tired from their middle of the night vandalism) out working in the yard and scrubbing the house.

If they had thrown paint at my car or house, charges would've been filed. Period.

[Scuba Pete]

In high School during senior year, I took four science courses. Honors Bio II and Honors Physics were two of them. My physics teacher was my Honors Chemistry teacher (the year before) and it was a "love/hate" relationship. In Bio II we were doing genetic studies of drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies). So one day after being castigated by my teacher, I "hatched my plan". I took one of the jars of agar and got it FILLED with eggs. I mean filled! I then put the unopened jar high up on top of one of the shelves in the office area for the physics lab. I calculated the "DOH" (Day of Hatching), and was absent on that day.

Pandemonium ensued.

The next day was intense. I met my future father in law in his office. Of course, he had no concept that "just because I was absent" did not mean I was not guilty. It was only one of two times I found myself in his office (assistant principle) and the next time was less than a week later (and I was truly not responsible for that prank).

The other fun prank that year was in my Computer Science class. We had these two Wang programmable calculators. We had to converse on a machine level using binary. We had two bits that we could work with. Our largest number was 1111 1111 (15, 15) and this was drummed into our heads from day one.

So near the end of the course (1/2 year) we were given the task of writing a program that would reverse a number. IE 1234 would come out 4321. It was a relatively simple routine to write, but many in the class were having great difficulty with it. So someone asked, and I said you had to invoke "16, 16" in order to do it. "Whaaaaaa?" was the response, and Chucky Green immediately agreed with me and mentioned a special "four step encoding" to be able to program the Wangs. We had a substitute that day, and the substitute teacher asked us to put it on the board. So we did. If Mr Wright had been there, this prank would NEVER have worked.

Half of the class submitted our spoof program as the solution. The funny part was that this bogus program was left up on the side board, and the OTHER Computer Science class saw it. They got no explanation on how to put in the "16, 16" argument but still only a couple did not submit it as their solution. Bwahahaha!

Mr Wright, was both appalled and bemused at the same time. Apalled that most of his class STILL didn't understand the limits of binary, but amused that Chucky and I were able to hoodwink so many. He put us both at the front of the class and he made the point that accepting any "help" from us was probably not smart. We were also given different problems and a much harder final problem than the rest.

BTW, Chucky was the only one (I think) who knew the origin of the fruit flies as well. I sure miss him!

[Scuba Pete]

You know,

after reading my last post, I can't believe how dorky I must have been back then. I sure hope that I have changed since then!

[Watcher]

Originally Posted by NetDoc

You know,

after reading my last post, I can't believe how dorky I must have been back then. I sure hope that I have changed since then!

You? Change? After reading that I have to say no, absolutly not

[Scuba Pete]

Uh, thanks a bunch Watcher! You remind me of my daughter!