# Do something crazy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902 "2008-02-01T20:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/21 "2008-02-02T05:53:45Z")
My sister says: Put random items into other people’s shopping carts at the grocery store. If they ask you what you’re doing, say “I thought you might need this.” Especially if it’s a really skinny person and you’re adding a box of doughnuts to the cart. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/22 "2008-02-02T05:57:03Z")
She just added another: Go shopping from other people’s carts, saying “I was looking for this.” Also: Barter with them. “I found the Froot Loops. I see you found Captain Crunch. Can I trade you?” ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/23 "2008-02-02T06:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] My sister says: Put random items into other people’s shopping carts at the grocery store. If they ask you what you’re doing, say “I thought you might need this.” Especially if it’s a really skinny person and you’re adding a box of doughnuts to the cart. [/QUOTE] More grocery fun: Rearrange the cereal aisle, moving all the crap sugar cereals to the top shelf, pushed way back from the edge, and all the healthy cereals at kid eye level. If anyone looks at you funny, tell them it’s Sanity in Marketing day and hand them a box of Shredded Wheat (without the frosting). ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/24 "2008-02-02T08:06:37Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Wear a chaffeur’s uniform. Go to the airport. Wait with the other drivers. Hold up a sign saying “Godot”. Get a megaphone. Stand on the street preaching that ‘Jesus really really likes you, but is not ready for a commitment.’ Wear a space suit to Bed, Bath And Beyond. Tell them you’re looking for “beyond”. [/QUOTE] Doc, I think I love you! ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/25 "2008-02-02T09:06:08Z")
When you get in the elevator, don’t turn around; stand facing the rear wall, with your back to the door. Men only: talk to other men in the bathroom. Especially strangers. Especially if you say “Hey, how’s it hangin’?” while you’re standing at the urinals. Apologize to all of your food before you eat it. Do not tell a single lie for a whole week. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/26 "2008-02-02T18:07:55Z")
Douse yourself in fake blood. Go to Home Depot. Calmly inquire as to which saw would best cut through bones. Ask about shovels too. Buy a six pack of Coors. Ask the cashier “This will kill a werewolf right?”. At a wedding, stand up and make the toast “I give it a year!” Do something nice to a masochist. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/27 "2008-02-02T18:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Do something nice to a masochist. [/QUOTE] The true Sadist is the guy who ties you up and _doesn’t_ beat you… Ask strangers if they would “like to smell my ears?” Stand in front of Wal-Mart with a buggy full of old stuffed animals and try to get people to adopt them – make sure you warn them the animals are “not house-broken.” Stop and have conversations with mannequins at the mall – ask their opinions of your purchases. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/28 "2008-02-02T20:21:32Z")
Run into a Starbucks out of breath and ask out loud: “What’s the date today! What’s the date!?” When someone responds “Febuary 2nd” look frustrated and ask loudly: “No the year! What year is it!?” and run back out in a panic. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/29 "2008-02-02T20:23:20Z")
the cake is a lie ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/30 "2008-02-02T20:24:41Z")
Speak only in anagrams or crossword clues. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/31 "2008-02-02T20:38:17Z")
Some of these things remind me of Robert Fulghum’s essay on [Players](http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/archives/2006/02/) ---
**Author:** ![haystack1989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/839c29/32.png) [@haystack1989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haystack1989)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/32 "2008-02-02T21:55:30Z")
On the hotest day of the summer. Put on golashes wrap yourself in plastic wrap. Put on your rain coat grab your umbrella. Then run around town and bable about how bad it’s raining. That should convince people that you are crazy ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/33 "2008-02-03T07:10:02Z")
˙spɐǝɥ s,ǝldoǝd ɥʇıʍ ʞɔnɟ ʎllɐǝɹ oʇ 'uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɔuǝpuodsǝɹɹoɔ ɹnoʎ llɐ ǝdʎʇ ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/34 "2008-02-03T08:17:28Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] ˙spɐǝɥ s,ǝldoǝd ɥʇıʍ ʞɔnɟ ʎllɐǝɹ oʇ 'uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɔuǝpuodsǝɹɹoɔ ɹnoʎ llɐ ǝdʎʇ [/QUOTE] I really, _really_ want to know how you did that. Because it would irritate the hell out of my cops if I entered all their calls this way. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/35 "2008-02-03T09:01:26Z")
If I sneeze whilst driving my car (with a passenger\*) I always turn on the windshield wipers. \*It’s not as much fun if you do it without a passenger. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/36 "2008-02-03T10:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] That was done as part of a TV show about herding mentality. Someone would stand and point at the side of a sky scraper. Before long there was a huge crowd of people standing and looking in that direction, trying to spot what everyone else was looking at. Humans :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] I’m not sure I understand this – odds are, if someone’s looking up toward the sky, there’s something up there that deserves to be looked at, ergo others to do. As such, I don’t see how this is a bad thing… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/37 "2008-02-03T13:52:20Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] I really, _really_ want to know how you did that. Because it would irritate the hell out of my cops if I entered all their calls this way. [/QUOTE] [¿ʇɐɥʍ op](http://www.revfad.com/flip.html) For good road fun, I lean my seat & headrest waaay back, close my left eye (while keeping my right eye open) and pretend I’m totally zonked in broad daylight. It helps to swerve the car in a lazy fashion too. The look on other drivers faces must be priceless. For bonus points, if you have a passenger, have him pretend to be totally out too. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/38 "2008-02-03T14:15:01Z")
1. Walk around with a hammer at work, point to a random spot in the drywall, and yell out incredulously, “Who the hell filled in this hole?!” Look around indignantly, then smash a big hole in the wall. (warning: this will be your _last_ day of work) 2. Go to a convenience store, and place a cup at the counter labeled, “Have $5? Give $5. Need $5? Take $5.” **Bonus: Prime it with a fiver.** 3. Traveling with a business partner you can’t stand? Cut out the shape of a gun, from aluminum foil, and put it in his travel-on luggage before you go through security.\* 4. Dress up like a cowboy and start trick-or-treating. In July. 5. Keep a dog whistle in your car. When you’re stopped behind someone on the road, say at a red light, and you see they have a dog as a passenger, roll down your windows, and start blowing like CrAzY! Hilarity ensues. 6. Write an email to someone, and say what you’re really thinking in parentheses. Example:\* Hey john (douche bag), Just got your email about going out friday (as if that’ll ever happen). I can’t make it, I have something else going on that night (like going out with people no where near as boring as you). Rain check? (fuck off). regards (eat me), -kev 1. Buy a six-pack of soda. Punch a discreet hole in the bottom, and drain out all the pop. Fill it up with milk, or maybe a distasteful fluid like olive oil, then caulk up the hole. Put in fridge at work, then sit back and see if anybody bites.\* \*Yes, I’m mean as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/39 "2008-02-04T00:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=Red Barchetta] I’m not sure I understand this – odds are, if someone’s looking up toward the sky, there’s something up there that deserves to be looked at, ergo others to do. As such, I don’t see how this is a bad thing… [/QUOTE] It’s not a bad thing as such. It was an experiment. Somebody was deliberately looking and pointing at nothing, to see if he could get other people doing it. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902/40 "2008-02-04T02:18:52Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] Speak only in anagrams or crossword clues. [/QUOTE] Yup. It’s love. With a highly honorable mention to cmyk and several all around. I just love Dopers! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-something-crazy/435902.md?page=3)