Thrills you get that are utterly disproportionate to the risk/challenge involved

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

In Michigan (hell for all I know, everywhere) you can make a left turn on red if it's onto a one-way street. Goodgodalmighty, the thrill I get when I turn in front of that long row of cars facing me, stuck on the red.... whoo-hooooooo! I feel like I'm doing something wickedly illegal, even if it isn't, technically, a violation. It just feels like one.

And yourself?

[bourbonstew]

Sort of similar to your "I'm being bad" frisson (is that the right word ?) is the sheer joie-de-vivre experienced upon being the first to notice and take advantage of a newly opened register while in line at the supermarket.

Changing clothes without bothering to pull down the shades gives a little thrill, too.

[Eternal]

Kicking kittens, I guess.

[Creaky]

Flying around with the BF in a very old, rickety fabric and wood plane, circa 1961 (Piper Colt). There is no lock on the door, and said door has been known to pop open in mid-flight. We do have lap belts, though. Well, thank goodness for that.

Last time we went up the brakes went out. Whee!

(Actually, he's an awesome pilot. That plane listens to him, baby!)

[Grok]

Originally posted by Creaky
Flying around with the BF in a very old, rickety fabric and wood plane, circa 1961 (Piper Colt). There is no lock on the door, and said door has been known to pop open in mid-flight. We do have lap belts, though. Well, thank goodness for that.

Last time we went up the brakes went out. Whee!

(Actually, he's an awesome pilot. That plane listens to him, baby!)

That's right, it DOES listen to me. Why do you think the door popped open and scared you silly(er)? :)

[Podkayne]

I get inordinately smug when I dig up an obscure fact on the Web. Google is my bitch. *whipsnap*

[Manda JO]

If Google is your bitch, what the hell is it to DDG? She plays Google like most people play the acoustic skinflute.

I get a crazy thrill out of a really good parking spot. A really good parking spot will make my whole damn day.

[Guinastasia]

When surfing the net, looking for pictures, I find great new never-seen pictures of King Aleksandar. RRRRROWWWRRRR!!!!

[DMC]

"Flying" on the skycoaster (http://www.skycoaster.cc/info.htm). Phenomenal adrenaline rush with zero risk.

[Muffin]

Paddling a kayak off the Laniel dam on the Kipawa river in northern Quebec. The flow off the dam carves a hole in the pool below, so as you are shooting down into it, it seems like you will never find your way through. Once at the bottom the force of the water either propels you through the giant wave and back up to the surface, or holds you and gradually lifts you up along the frothing face of the wave back to the surface. Either way, both the flying off the dam on the river's flow, and the working back to the surface in the massive wave, provide for a tremendous adrenaline rush. I'm shaking just thinking about it. Think of the wildest part of the most exciting roller coaster ride you have ever had, and then realize that it is a snore by comparison to flying off the dam into the hole on the Kipawa.

Yet there is almost no risk. In many years of doing this myself and watching other do it, I have never once seen or even heard of someone being injured. A few have swallowed a bit of water to no ill effect, and one fellow ran the wrong sluiceway and broke his boat by missing the pond, but did not injure himself. Strange and wonderous things, often including injury, have happened to many people as they continue down the river, but as far as running the dam goes, there has never been an inury. Huge rush -- little if any risk.

[DarkWriter]

I saved $61 at the grocery store yesterday on the weekly bill. Made my entire day (my hubby's, too)! :D

Sheri

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

Originally posted by DarkWriter
I saved $61 at the grocery store yesterday on the weekly bill. Made my entire day (my hubby's, too)! :D


Yes, this could be on my list, too. I don't often use coupons, but when I do you'd think I was ripping off the store. I feel so deliciously naughty, like I've gotten away with something. Wow! $.25 off mandarin oranges! I am taking these guys TO THE MAT on price!

[GKW]

Just a few-

*Speaking french in France and being understood.
*Finding change in a soft drink machine.
*Hitting the ball in the fairway.
*Having my dog come when I call her.
*simultaneous orgasms.

I'm easily thrilled by many mundane things!

[Cougarfang]

whacking my kid sister (knowing that if she starts wailing ONE MORE TIME Dad will personally tear me limb by limb)
climbing trees
climbing walls
climbing just about anything
jumping from somewhere more than twice my height
going on the SDMB when i'm supposed to be doing homework

that's all i can think of for now...

[delphica]

When I need to make 67 copies of something, and I grab *exactly* 67 sheets of copy paper just by eyeballing it. In my head, I'm acting like I just won the lottery, but of course I appear cool as a cucumber. I am the Sublime Mistress of the Copy Room, oh yes.

It just about made my year when one of my work study students said "Gee, how do you do that?"

[TN*hippie]

When I complete the entire NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle without cheating.


I can't believe I'm admitting this.

[furt]

GKW inspired me to remember this one:

Being asked (in Taiwan), in Chinese, for directions.

Answering, in Chinese.

Saying "Oh, my God, he understood me."

[snermy]

Eating Oreos for breakfast. Heck, any meal consisting entirely of desert. Mmmmmm. Malnutrition :)


Driving barefoot. Somebody, somewhere told me it was illegal. So I'm on a long car trip, and sometimes, at a rest stop, I just slip it off and drive nakedfooted .
Aaaaah.


Okay, I had to look up the barefoot thing. This page says Not illegal per se but you might get ticketed (http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/driving.barefoot/driving_barefoot.html). Yay! I get to keep my pathetic thrill!

[Xerxes]

When I put petrol gas in the car - not looking at the price thingy on the pump - and it stops exactly on a pound dollar boundary.

I really can't believe I just admitted that.

On a similar vein, when I find I have exactly the right change in my pocket for whatever I'm buying, and I don't have to break a note.

[Ethilrist]

Originally posted by Manda JO She plays Google like most people play the acoustic skinflute.[/B]

[begin obscure music humor hijack]

She should learn flesh horn; then she could double.

[/end hijack]

Tossing something into the trash from across the room. Two points!

[Grim_Beaker]

Running the flag back to base in a game of Unreal Tournament CTF with a whole squad of the opposing team hot on your heels. Booyah!!!

Grim

[Jane D'oh!]

I believe I've mentioned this before, but when I find what I know to be the cheapest gas around, boy! The rush is almost too much to bear. (The giant oil companies are not getting even an extra cent out of me.)

Also, a new but really enjoyable experience was when I waited for a suit to go on sale. I waited like three months, and when I went to look for it, it was there, in my size. My sister was with me and she laughed because she had never seen me so hyper. After I bought said beautiful silk suit, I said to my sister that I have had sex that wasn't that enjoyable. Her reply, "We all have." :)

[Dinsdale]

Along the lines of delphica's copy paper mastery, I get a hardon when I'm looking for a particular page in a book - say a dictionary or a songbook - and I open the book TO THE EXACTLY CORRECT PAGE.

[Dinsdale]

Ooh ooh! I just remembered another one. We have 2 wind-up chiming clocks. It gives me a special thrill when they chime the half or the hour at exactly the same time.

(Slinks off to the thread asking how folk accumulate high post counts.)

[Gatopescado]

Originally posted by bourbonstew
...being the first to notice and take advantage of a newly opened register while in line at the supermarket.



this is the holy grail of cheap thrills for me! i hate my supermarket...........
....oh, and what Eternal said.

...and kicking the crap out of a wanna-be challenger in darts.

.....oh! one more! BEER SALE!

[Shirley Ujest]

Having my husband call me from the office and ask me how to spell something. [puffing chest out]I'm faster than the spell check. [/puffy]

[Shirley Ujest]

Thought of one more:

Having someone "get" one of my obsure references in something I say. As in, " Well, I have to go now. Time for my Flat Earth Society Meeting or even more vague references.

Makes me feel pretty damn good that there are few other like minded people out there like me.

[Balance]

Taking on a really tough fight in an IFGS game provides a huge thrill for absolutely no risk. Actually winning the fight is even better. The same goes for sneaking around successfully or doing something really clever (for an IFGS PC--we generally leave our brains at the check-in table) in game.

Last weekend I played my thief in a two hour game, sneaking around, picking locks, and scheming--all leading up to a really tough fight in which I pulled off a stunt that made everyone look at me like I had a "Bad Mother******" tattoo on my forehead.

The most severe risk involved was the chance that I would have to start the character over...and he would be more powerful if I did. I was still bouncing like a wind-up toy three hours later.

[Borborygmi]

When I find myself with a lot of dimes and nickels, I like to go to a particular soda machine at work, insert 75 cents, pull the change return lever, and get 3 quarters back. Sweeeeeet.

[PunditLisa]

When I click on a thread here at SDMB and it pops up instantaneously.

SWEETness.