Dares

[KingAHolic]

Have you ever played truth or dare?
Or, has anyone just dared you to do something stupid, strange or dangerous?
If so, what? e.g. eat something inedible, jump from a high place, do something to embarrass yourself....

Me? My husband dared me to volunteer for a hula hoop contest after he got tired of hearing me brag about how good I was at it. I got 2nd but had to do it in front of over 200 people.

 

[blunthead]

Have you ever played truth or dare?
Or, has anyone just dared you to do something stupid, strange or dangerous?
If so, what? e.g. eat something inedible, jump from a high place, do something to embarrass yourself....

Me? My husband dared me to volunteer for a hula hoop contest after he got tired of hearing me brag about how good I was at it. I got 2nd but had to do it in front of over 200 people.

2nd out of two?

 

[PatInTheHat]

Oh gee whiz let me count the wayz, er, traumas
See I have what ya might call an impulsive nature, that and I don't seem to have a healthy fear of wayyy too many things, so yeah it ain't always a hard row to ho in talkin' my dumb azzz into all manner of goofy nonsense, but make no mistake, that is sooo not required...as I've gotten older I have thankfully tempered the process, probably a good bet why I've gotten older.
One of the tamer things, trying stand-up comedy (oh jeez, now that was scary), man did I ever suck', but what a rush.
Now on to insanity, maybe one of the nuttier things was my cuzzes down in the mountains talkin' me into "ridin' a Christmas tree", when I was justa mean lil' motor scooter.
Now the object of this act of monumental stupidity, well besides not gettin' yo' silly self kilt deader n' doornail, is you take a big ol' Ceder tree (the tops make nice Christmas trees), and climb as high as you can before it bows over (a nice biggin gets you up thirty feet or more).
Okay, so the fun part comes when some fun lovin' redneck, in my case my own blood, cuts the tree down and you ride it to the ground...yeah that's what I said, thus "ridin' Christmas trees..mm hmm, probably not the brainiest thang I ever did, but then again, probably far from the ding battiest
(oh yeah, the true object, it really ain't about a soft landing, nah it's more about not gettin' your knuckle headed self impaled somewhere along the line..stoopid stoopid stoopid)

 

[GNTLGNT]

...back in my ummm, "heavy imbibing days"...read that, in my late teens and early 20's when I could drink enough fermented concoctions to knock out a herd of husky oxen-I was dared to set a new Muskingum College drinking record...so many cups(Red Solo, what the hell else there Toby?)of "Hairy Buffalo" in 5 minutes....I Tarzan thumped my chest, and in my best Yosemite Sam growl said "shaddap and start pourin' ya long eared galoot!"...for those who aren't familiar, "Hairy Bufflao" is what we heathens called it, it has other names-but suffice it to say, it involves a large trash bag lined garbage can full of cut up fruit, lots of Kool_aid type juice and pert near any fermentous-delicious you wish to swirl in to this bitches brew....we leaned heavily on pure grain alcohol....I was then counseled that the previous record was five cups in the aforementioned 5 minutes.....I laughed like a man, and proceeded to launch a blitzkrieg on my liver of some Bakers Dozen in 3 minutes!!!.....once I regained consciousness the next day....everyone congratulated me on setting the standard for stupidity, because there never really had been a drinking record a'tall...this tale may explain my lingering brain damage...

 

[KingAHolic]

... these stories, so much more interesting than my hula hoop story... will have to come up with something better...

There IS the story about my brother hanging himself (almost) with a blow dryer... but that is his story, not mine!