what is the craziest thing you've ever done - as an adult....

cameragirl21 wrote: ok, i don't mean crazy like getting drunk and then waking up in some strange place or something like that (even though i'm sure we all have stories like that to tell ) but rather what is the craziest stupid thing you've ever done, where you had to wonder afterward if your brain just took a vacation without you or something....
ok, here's mine--some years back when i was still in the beginnings of my photography business i had recently gotten my first really REALLY expensive camera. nowadays, i carry a huge camera bag with several cameras, flashes, batteries, lenses, etc but back then, i just had the camera and a single flash unit in a backpack that pretty much looked like an ordinary backpack on the outside but had compartments for the camera on the inside...i still occasionally use that backpack when i'm just using one camera for a simple job and don't need extras. anyway, i had the backpack and my purse and decided to go to Target. i put my purse in the cart and also took the backpack because i didn't want to leave my camera in the car for fear it would get stolen, even though like i said, the backpack looked ordinary enough that i really needn't have worried. anyway, i got a shopping cart in the parking lot, approach Target and realize that i don't need anything there, that i meant to go to the grocery store...that should have set off alarm bells that my brain wasn't working properly that day. so i grab my purse and leave the shopping cart with my camera in it and get in my car and drive away. as i'm driving and gabbing on my cell phone, i realize that i don't see my backpack. so i pull over and decide to look in the trunk but i realized something was wrong. i open the trunk and it's not there and realize i left it at TG. omg, i don't remember a time i was ever this hysterical...i feel sorry for my friend who was on the phone with me listening to me have a cow. so i hang up the phone and call TG all hysterical screaming that i left my very expensive camera there as if it was their fault that i was an idiot. luckily they said, "yeah, it's here, we have it." so i was driving like a bat out of h*ll because somehow i still feared someone would take it or they'd give it to someone else or whatever. so i get there and run into the place as if my pants were on fire and the customer service desk hands it to me, without asking any questions about it, etc, i mean, anyone could have claimed to have lost it, although i'm guessing no one else knew what it was. so i walk out of the store, all shaken and near tears because i was so relieved and there is this security guard lady sitting just outside TG and she sees me and says, "are you the one who left that fancy camera here?" and i said i was and it turns out she found it...saw it sitting there unclaimed in a shopping cart just outside the doors of TG and wondered what it was and who left it there, i guess maybe they worried it could have been a bomb or something that someone left. so she checked it out and turned it in. i hugged her, literally, and i could have kissed her i think, i was so relieved. so then she says, "how could have done that?!" and i was like, "i don't know!" and really, i had no idea how i managed that, i can be a bit spacey but not to that extreme! so then she said, "i wasn't going to touch it, but then i got curious, it's amazing no one else found it, it was sitting there for a while, it's a miracle!" and the thing is, she was clearly Latin American as she spoke with a Cuban style accent so when she said that it was a miracle, that was it for me, i decided to name the camera Milagro, which means miracle in Spanish....
ok, can anyone top that "crazy stupid" story?
ETA--i should mention that there was a reason i had my camera with me, i must have been shooting that day and decided to go to TG on my way home...i don't just carry my cameras around to go to the store or anything like that....
also--to this day, whenever i take any of my cameras with me anywhere, they MUST be in the front seat or somewhere within my sight and reach after that debacle....

gr33n3y3z replied: You dont want to know

CantWait replied:
Well now I do.

I've left my purse in a shopping buggy after returning to the cart rack, drove away at closing time, only to remember once I got home where my purse was. I drove back and checked every cart outside but it wasn't there. Luckily one of the employees saw it and brought it in.

I think that's as crazy as it gets.

ZandersMama replied: i refuse to reply on the grounds that I may be banned from the site and i like it here

Crystalina replied:


Mine was when I was a young adult about (25). First let it be known that I do not have physical altercations with people. I just don't find myself in those situations. Except this one time. We had an all night eating establishment here. Saturday nights when the bars closed this is where everyone in town went. It was the only place to go. We had left the bar, went there and I was with my sisters and some friends. A girl comes over to my youngest sister (who was only about 18, not old enough to drink but we picked her up afterwards so she can hang out with some friends). My sister was wearing a shirt that buttoned up the front but it wasn not buttoned and under that she was wearing a black tube top. A girl that apparently didn't like her walked over to our table...the two of them had words, my sister stood up and the girl then pulled my sisters tube top down in front of the whole town. To me that was dirty so I had to jump across the table. While me and this girl were "discussing", apparently other people in the place had some discussing of their own to do. The entire place broke out into a free-for-all. When it was done the place was wrecked. The cops were there. Well, the cops were there before because a few of them (off duty) were "discussing" with some folks. We were with one of the off duty cops so he pretty much told what happend. So that was my first and only fight. It was a doozy though and it was the only crazy thing I've done as an adult.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Well I'm only technically a few years into my adulthood since I'm only 25 (well in 2 months), but I've been on my own since 15... so...

the craziest thingthat I can remember right now I've ever done is get a free pair of contact lenses. I ordered some contacts from a company and paid for them, and I went about 2 weeks later to see if they'd come in yet. They did - so I went home with them. A day or two later, I get a phone call telling me that my contacts are ready for pick up. So I told them I'd be in the next day or the day after.... and so I went in...and they gave me another pair of contacts. I left with them too.

They probably realized their mistake... but oh well! Those darn things are 140$...i wasn't about to complain.

Yeah, real crazy, I know.

hawkshoe replied: One day I went to meet my dh for lunch. During lunch my cell phone rang and I answered it. It was my neighbor. Apparantly the kids had early dismissal that day and I didn't realize it. Thankfully my son had the presence of mind to go to her house. She laughed and offered to let him stay there until I could get home (I was 1/2 hour away). I think that one won my "mom of the year"...lol.

grapfruit replied:
That's a great story! It's like something out of a movie! I hope you kicked some booty!!!


I can't think of any crazy things I've done recently (I try and block those things out ) well, and I'm only 22 so I'm not THAT far into "adulthood". But one thing that stands out is when I was 17 I decided to come home at like 3am (curfew for my county is 12:30 if you're b/w 16-18). Well there was a sheriff's car in the drive way (we lived in the country). He was sitting at the dinning room table waiting for me (Eek!) I SO did not want to go inside. He was actually a guy my mom used to bowl w/. She was worried about me b/c I didn't call (I thought she was sleeping and never would know!) I got a huge LONG lecture from him, and he promised to arrest me next time. I'm sure he was bluffing (right?!?) Needless to say, I made curfew after that!

What ticks me off about that incident is that my brother stayed out later then that, my mom didn't know where he was and he was only 15!!!! And he didn't even get in trouble!!!!!!!!

stella6979 replied:
Ah, the lovely double standard eh? I never did understand why it's ok for sons to do whatever they please but daughters have so many restrictions.

hopefulmomtobe replied: A crazy thing I have done...well, maybe this would be more embarassing then crazy but my friend and I went to a car race in Atlanta and had to go down this road where a bunch of people were camping and partying before the race, I decided to moon the guys there and found out it was a dead end road and had to do the drive of shame back through all of them. YIKES!

punkeemunkee'smom replied: WOW! I am boring!

gr33n3y3z replied: I will go very mild here

I went shopping at the store with my GF Melissa and I know I told this story here before but hear it goes

We were in the store and I heard this person at the time yelling at someone and talking down to them so Me having to check things out it was a girl in high school yelling at her grandfather and trying to make him pick up a kleenex off the floor I guess he threw it there and being mean to him and yanking him here and there and cussing him and the poor man wasnt all there he had issues but still he shouldnt be talked to that way. So me and my big mouth we over to her and said dont you ever talk to him like that again and told her you should be ashamed of yourself and I told her to keep her hands off of him bc if I ever see you again and this happends again I will call the police and I WILL sign the papers. And then I told her to bend down and pick the kleenx up please and she did.
The mother came to me and said thank you and I just looked at her and walked away.
I prolly left some stuff out but thats the jest of it.

Another this will be fast
I play with drunks that pee in my yard thats all I'm gonna say

Crystalina replied:
You're just gonna stop it right there? What do you do electrify them? That would be funny as heck!

Calimama replied: One time DH was in the field doing training he was tired of eating MRE's so he asked me to bring him and the guys 6 pizza's. He could get in big trouble if he got caught so we had to make it so the command had NO CLUE who dropped them off. They wanted 7 pizzas so I went to 3 different pizza places so I wouldn't be suspicious. I had 3 different of my friends go in, each using a made up name and paying in cash. I called my cousins girlfriends brother to drop them off at 2am. It was A LOT of work. Ahhh, the things I do for the guy I love.