It's a saturday. Release those stories.
I slept on my high school roof after a party. Woke up the next day and went to class.
I slept on my high school roof after a party. Woke up the next day and went to class.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
The most controversial yet brave thing you said/done?
- Thread starter subpar spatula
- Start date
Was what you did really controversial though? If nobody found out I wouldn't really call it controversial. For me, it might have been refusing to stand for the national anthem at my high school.
OP
OP
I played beer pong with 2 baseball players. The winners got to slap the losers. We didn't get one in and they had 2 left. They said they would not slap us. I whispered in his ear, "I am going to slap the shit outta you when I win". They dunked their next two. I got slapped so hard my braces cut up my mouth.
My friends and I (in highschool) drove around wealthy neighborhoods and stole Christmas decorations. We then redistributed the wealth to middle class / lower middle class neighborhoods. The guy who had a light up Santa statue on his doorstep must have been really confused after we rang his doorbell and peeled off.
My ankle got bruised when I hit it upon reentry to the van during an escape, so I was pretty brave. I was a bold, shitty Robinhood.
My ankle got bruised when I hit it upon reentry to the van during an escape, so I was pretty brave. I was a bold, shitty Robinhood.
I complained about the overuse of lazy one word responses that contain a word such as "yikes" or "gross"
I peed off the roof of my high school. Also on the last day of senior year of high school me and my friends threw 21 sandwiches onto the roof of the high school - a "21 sandwich salute"
Puked a huge puddle in my high school assembly area at night after drinking half a bottle of vodka. Sat for the next morning assembly and saw everyone painfully trying to avoid sitting in that spot.
Also vaguely remember running (rolling) away from the police that night.
Also vaguely remember running (rolling) away from the police that night.
I was working as a heel wrestler two years ago in a town in Tennessee when I came across a little girl with a very detailed sign rooting for my opponents. You could tell she worked super hard on it and it probably took days. I took the sign from her and tore it to pieces in front of her. Her mother cursed me out and hit me with whatever she had in her hands at the time. I looked back and this little girl was crying her eyes out and had the most red face ever. I got instant mega heat from the crowd and I had a few guys threating to stab me or swing at me. Was probably the biggest heat I had ever gotten in the business and people in that town still do not like me at all lol. It worked out in the end cause the babyfaces went over and pulled me into the ring at the end and let the girl hit me with a hulk fist thing, which I sold like it killed me lol.
Back in HS I got tired of people trying to drag me out the closet and there was this one guy who was fucking obsessed with throwing gay jokes/F word at me so one day I just calmly proclaimed in front of the class that I used to fuck his dad and that's why his parents got divorced (I didn't actually fuck his dad but they did get a divorce).
He wanted to beat my ass but everyone cheered and became a lot friendlier. We somehow went to the same college and he's one of my closest friends now lol.
He wanted to beat my ass but everyone cheered and became a lot friendlier. We somehow went to the same college and he's one of my closest friends now lol.
Told my friends I take cold showers because they're better than hot/warm ones. They've haven't looked at me the same way since but I had to do it.
I like Episode 3 more than 4 lol
During day camp between 5th and 6th grade, I bitch slapped a kid who kept talking shit to me in front of all his friends and the counselors.
The fact that I didn't get punished tells me he'd had it coming for a while. He kept his mouth shut around me for the rest of the summer.
The fact that I didn't get punished tells me he'd had it coming for a while. He kept his mouth shut around me for the rest of the summer.
It wasn't a recent naked drive there, just a recent dumb/brave thing I did :b
Went to a swinger party with a female acquaintance at the time. At the party I didn't want to actually do anything sexual, was just kinda hanging out and talking.
I then got propositioned by a slightly older woman and was going to decline but she then also mentioned she had some cocaine. I never cared about drugs but I thought this was my one chance to do something "stereotypical from a movie" so I told her I'd do it but only if I got to sniff the line off of her ass.
So that was the first and only time I used a drug
I then got propositioned by a slightly older woman and was going to decline but she then also mentioned she had some cocaine. I never cared about drugs but I thought this was my one chance to do something "stereotypical from a movie" so I told her I'd do it but only if I got to sniff the line off of her ass.
So that was the first and only time I used a drug
As far as brave, in high school, my art club did an art display where we hung 2d abstract self portraits of ourselves by the cafeteria. For whatever reason, some of the girls in art club wanted to "stick to the man" by attaching bras to theirs after the fact. The vice principal freaked out and pulled down ALL art installations in the school, not just that one. While fuming about it at lunch with some of the other art students, I got up, went across the hall and made an appointment with the principal. Luckily, the secretary scheduled it for after school, which gave me time to collect my thoughts. At the meeting, I was able to convince the principal to bring back the unrelated exhibits and he thanked me for my maturity at mediating the situation. The art teacher personally thanked me the next day as well. Easily the most triumphant moment of my high school life.
He took 10 double cheeses. That's as many patties as 10 2's. And that's terrible.
Stood up to a drunk, racist bully on a bus.
Guy was trying to steal another guy's backpack off him whilst saying a whole bunch of racist shit on the top deck so the victim tried to walk away with the guy following him. When they got downstairs (where I was sitting), I stood up, pushed myself between the two and told the racist to fuck off the bus. Yelled at the driver to "radio the police" and I think that, coupled with the fact I'm 6'5", got the guy to walk away. The poor bullied chap thanked me and sat in the seat in front of mine for the rest of his trip and I got a few cheers from other passengers but seeing as I'm quite a gentle giant who's not been in a fight since he was 11, my heart was racing the entire time. I hate bullies.
Guy was trying to steal another guy's backpack off him whilst saying a whole bunch of racist shit on the top deck so the victim tried to walk away with the guy following him. When they got downstairs (where I was sitting), I stood up, pushed myself between the two and told the racist to fuck off the bus. Yelled at the driver to "radio the police" and I think that, coupled with the fact I'm 6'5", got the guy to walk away. The poor bullied chap thanked me and sat in the seat in front of mine for the rest of his trip and I got a few cheers from other passengers but seeing as I'm quite a gentle giant who's not been in a fight since he was 11, my heart was racing the entire time. I hate bullies.
I told this guy at work his anger issues were affecting my job. I perform poorly under anxiety. He just got so explosive with everyone from anything going wrong from his computer not working or other petty reasons. I dreaded approaching someone like this. He did put in an effort after. Still got frustrated but would sigh or kinda rub his face or hair or curse.
It's not really brave, but considering I was shaking like a leaf and couldn't sleep for hours, I'm going to throw in "Called the cops after someone kept shouting that someone was trying to kill them while struggling with a person".
Scary as hell. Glad it seems like it wasn't as serious, but yeah
Scary as hell. Glad it seems like it wasn't as serious, but yeah
I estranged from my family of origin when I was 21. After college graduation I never went back home. An ex of mine from out of state was kind enough to offer me a place to stay until I could get a job, and so along with only the possessions I had in my dorm room at the time, I left everything I'd known behind and started over in a place I'd never been to before. My Dad had friends in law enforcement and was fond of saying he'd track me down if I ever left, so for a few years I changed my appearance regularly, used only cash, didn't put my name on any leases or accounts, and traveled mostly at night by foot or by bicycle. I even managed to get a night shift job without a social security card or a birth certificate. I was always scared, always looking over my shoulder, and I was very alone.
At one point I was homeless for almost two months in the middle of winter in northeastern Ohio -- the local homeless shelter would not allow me to keep my job if I stayed there, because they had strict curfews that conflicted with working night shift. I had to choose between maintaining employment or getting shelter from the elements, and I chose the former. One night there was a bad blizzard and I was caught outside with nowhere to go. The dumpster at my workplace was in a small fenced in area, so I went there, pulled cardboard boxes out of the garbage, and tried to make myself some protection against the wind and snow.
I didn't sleep that night because I was afraid I wouldn't wake up. I believed that it was quite possible, maybe even likely, that I was about to freeze to death. I had enough change on me that I could have called my parents from a pay phone to ask for help...but the more I tried to convince myself to do it, the more I had to face the realization that I would truly rather die than go back. Deep down I knew I'd already chosen my path, and if I lost my life in the process of pursuing it, well, that's a better way to go than most, I think.
I don't wish any of these circumstances on anyone, but I think this is the bravest set of choices I've pulled off thus far in life. As far as controversial, try telling people you haven't talked to your Mother since 2006 -- folks pull no punches in naively declaring "But that's your family, you're going to regret it." But I don't regret it at all. Through adversity, I became my own best ally, and my life has gradually improved ever since.
At one point I was homeless for almost two months in the middle of winter in northeastern Ohio -- the local homeless shelter would not allow me to keep my job if I stayed there, because they had strict curfews that conflicted with working night shift. I had to choose between maintaining employment or getting shelter from the elements, and I chose the former. One night there was a bad blizzard and I was caught outside with nowhere to go. The dumpster at my workplace was in a small fenced in area, so I went there, pulled cardboard boxes out of the garbage, and tried to make myself some protection against the wind and snow.
I didn't sleep that night because I was afraid I wouldn't wake up. I believed that it was quite possible, maybe even likely, that I was about to freeze to death. I had enough change on me that I could have called my parents from a pay phone to ask for help...but the more I tried to convince myself to do it, the more I had to face the realization that I would truly rather die than go back. Deep down I knew I'd already chosen my path, and if I lost my life in the process of pursuing it, well, that's a better way to go than most, I think.
I don't wish any of these circumstances on anyone, but I think this is the bravest set of choices I've pulled off thus far in life. As far as controversial, try telling people you haven't talked to your Mother since 2006 -- folks pull no punches in naively declaring "But that's your family, you're going to regret it." But I don't regret it at all. Through adversity, I became my own best ally, and my life has gradually improved ever since.
Last edited:
Tackled a depressed/suicidal guy from chugging cleaning chemicals at a university club meeting and held him down while waiting for campus security to arrive, doubt he was actually serious it seemed more like a cry for attention/help. Guy took a semester off to get his mind right and focused on studying and learning the material better. Comp Sci is stressful I guess.
Started a fight with three dudes harassing an interracial couple when I was in Chicago for work.
I took the 2nd worst of it among the four of us but never fell, and the two who could run booked it when some more guys ran over yelling so I counted it as a win lmao.
Dumb as fuck but I'd do it again.
Ended up with a broken thumb and some stitches on my shoulder. Weird part is I don't remember anyone having a weapon, or bumping into anything sharp. Was just like.....my arm is wet... I'm really bleeding weird.
I took the 2nd worst of it among the four of us but never fell, and the two who could run booked it when some more guys ran over yelling so I counted it as a win lmao.
Dumb as fuck but I'd do it again.
Ended up with a broken thumb and some stitches on my shoulder. Weird part is I don't remember anyone having a weapon, or bumping into anything sharp. Was just like.....my arm is wet... I'm really bleeding weird.
Last edited:
I got myself a lawyer and took my parents to court when I was 14 to get myself emancipated because they were being dickheads during their divorce and trying to stop me seeing the other parent.
The case ended up going to the High Court in London. Madness.
The case ended up going to the High Court in London. Madness.