April 13, 2000    
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What is the craziest thing you have ever done?

Driving while asleep.

It felt like a long blink but I wasn't where I expected to be, thank god for guardian angles and straight roads. - Never again! I don't care how loud the radio is or how cold the open window gets when I get tired I pull over. -

Jami, 27
Lowell
, MA

Accepting a marriage proposal from a man I'd known for ten days. But it worked well for a number of years.

Jane, 60
West Linn,
OR

I killed and tore a bear asunder with my hands and climbed inside its skin. The bear's strength washed into me, like licking a light socket, except not so shocking and more "bear-y". I cannot explain it better.Then I went to K-Mart for tube socks and tried to eat a baby.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge,
LA

Besides nude mountain climbing? I performed a spoken-word piece called The Antichrist Acronym Bit on Ash Wednesday in a severe Irish-Catholic neighborhood.

Alias Irrelevante

In junior high I used to play strip poker with the other kids my age at the back of the school bus. I always won--I don't know if that's because I'm good or because they let me win. But I always wore more than one layer just in case. After a certain point the stripping part always became virtual anyway, because there was a BusCam on the bus.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames,
IA

"crazy" is a funny word. . ..probably the craziest thing I ever did was tell a psychiatrist exactly what I knew he was required to hear to put me into a full fledged mental institution. . . .this would seem to suggest a certain deep mental instability. . . .

the "craziest" thing/wildest/weirdest College Fraternity type stunt thing I ever did was let the woman I was in love with drive my parents car when she was very very messed up. . . .she didn't have a license and only had a limited amount of actual driving experience. . .

mothmc, 35
Pensacola
, FL

Once, many, many years ago I ignored some excellent advice from a black cocker spaniel.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg,
PA

I can't for the life of me remember one crazy thing I have done.  Stupid things yes. Adventurous yes. Pathetic yes. But wild & crazy type things . . .Hmmm . .. OK in the crazy / sorta stupid category, I climbed a very tall mountain too close to dark with a person who is at this time classified an ex-boyfriend. Needless to say, we didn't start heading down until there was way too little light and way too much fog. We lost the trail, almost killed ourselves on some craggy rocks, and were forced to sleep under an overhang until it became light again. Of course it rained and I have never been so cold. And as these things are, we were only about 10 feet from the trail. I  thought it was sorta fun, if uncomfortable, the boyfriend did not.

Felicia, 34
Somerville,
MA

I tried to think back since my teen years to all the crazy things I've done, there have been so many, wait, maybe I'm confusing stupid with crazy.

Pamela, 38
Sugar Hill
, GA

Depends on how you define crazy. I think it was indeed crazy to be masochistic, and I think it was crazy to date a complete loser. But if you mean "wild and crazy," then I'd have to say getting very drunk in the french quarter and roaming around with my friends. We were about 15 years old, and it was probably really stupid.

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge,
LA

Agree to marry a man that I really didn't know very well, after dating only a few months. Good thing it worked out.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

My girl friends (4) and I squashed cloths, a tent and sleeping bags and ourselves into a small rundown sub compact car and prodeed to drive from NJ to South Carolina for the Blue Grass Festival during Easter week. We couldn't have been over the age of 19 with no money. But drive we did and we had a blast!

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick,
NJ

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