Todays question Saturday 11-24-07 (free, house, best, street)

[Karla with a K]

Good morning everyone
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend

Here is todays question:

Have you ever done or tried something that makes folks say
"Are you nuts"

I think mine would have to be diving with sharks



Today in history November 24, 1874 Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire

Todays "word of the day"

somniferous \som-NIF-uhr-uhs\, adjective:
Causing or inducing sleep.

[katie45]

Originally Posted by Karla with a K

Have you ever done or tried something that makes folks say
"Are you nuts"

Yes, when I married my husband!! Seriously, I was forewarned but didn't have sufficient self-esteem, self-confidence and/or self-respect to heed their warnings. Thankfully I am free of that living nightmare and think much better of myself!

[Rcm58]

Yes, I have had motorcycles since I was 11 so my family was used to that but when I started drag racing streetbikes I was already 43, I caught most of the flack from my dad that mentioned I might want to see my kids graduate. Pretty funny really!

[115db]

I do it all the time. Dont 'dare' me because I have been known to do 'nutty' things. One, of many, would be working on a live meter panel, doing a service call, standing outside in the rain on muddy ground. (Though we put cardboard down, it was still wet). Yes, the house was live, and service to the house was hot, but this was a call that needed to be resolved. Though I didnt go to the job alone, (we always went to service calls in pairs) and people have asked me "are you crazy?!" No, Im Suzanne.
Another was at the mall with my friend Missy several years ago. She dared me to go up to a guy and ask him if he had a really hairy chest or of he had just a few chest hairs (hairy chests scare the heck outta me!). A couple of times, the guy would lift up his shirt and show us. (Nice!! )But then, at least I didnt ask him if he was a boxer or brief type of guy, like she did!!

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Karla with a K

Good morning everyone
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend

Here is todays question:

Have you ever done or tried something that makes folks say
"Are you nuts"

...

Heck, I think I hear that enough times everyday just by saying "Good morning"!

Okay, seriously - In February of 1996, I was living outside of Portland, Oregon, and my best friend went up there to visit me. It was around 8:00 PM, and it was probably about 15 degrees outside with a slight windchill. My friend is an Arizona desert native also (like me) and he was talking about how cold it was outside, and I kept telling him it wasn't that cold! So I made a dare with him and I told him that I'll stand outside with no shirt on for 10 minutes to prove to him that it wasn't that cold, and of course his response was "Are you nuts?". So I followed through on the dare, and to this day he still can't believe that I stood outside in 15-degree weather with no shirt on, and didn't feel cold, and I keep telling him, it's mind over matter.

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Power Surge

...Another was at the mall with my friend Missy several years ago. She dared me to go up to a guy and ask him if he had a really hairy chest or of he had just a few chest hairs (hairy chests scare the heck outta me!). A couple of times, the guy would lift up his shirt and show us. (Nice!! )But then, at least I didnt ask him if he was a boxer or brief type of guy, like she did!!

I asked a woman the same question one time, and I ended up in the hospital instead... no she didn't beat me up, she proved it to me and I almost had a heart attack.. (just kidding)

[Rcm58]

Working with customers on a daily basis you meet a few unfriendlies now and then. One day this 60-70 year old women was in my face screaming at the top of her lungs over a broken skate board her grand son was claiming happened when he stood on it, I know better, he either landed it wrong or broke it on purpose so he could get a new one. I tried invain to calm her down and finally just looked her in the eyes and said "I think I can take you" They all think i'm nuts at times but it worked.

[Racelady88]

Yep. When I told my husband we were moving to SC.

[Pixie Dust]

Yep, when I told my family I had met someone and was moving from Chicago to Miami. They thought I was crazy, its going on almost eight years. Married for five now. Regrets?? Yep. I wish I had thought it through. If I would have had a moment of sanity I would have never done it. Can anyone say time machine?? To say the least I wish I had never done it.

[Pikantari]

Yep, when I told some people I was going to have to leave my husband... they didn't say are you nuts, but questioned me, and all I could do is tell them why, and as the days and weeks unravelled, they saw why, when before, they thought that maybe I just wasn't trying hard enough, and that if I left, I wouldn't be able to make it.

I am making it, don't know what having to get a new vehicle is going to do to my situation, can't help it, but it happened for a reason.

After my testimony of what my husband and his mother did to me....the question was then posed...are they nuts?