What's something about you or that you've done that's different than anyone else here?
8It's time for one of those around-the-campfire get-to-know-you games.
I bet I'm the only mediocre member who hitchhiked around the US for 6 months. Back in 1995 I traveled down to Texas, over to Florida, up to Canada, over to Minnesota, and back down. I think I hit something like 24 states, though I'd have to count again to be sure.
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When I was 3 years old, we moved into a new house in a new area of town. The house trim on the next-door house was being painted pink. After the painters went home for the day, I found their 5 gallon bucket of paint that had not been sealed shut. I decided to take a bath in it. I was pink from head to toe. This was oil paint, not latex. Clean up was not fun.
Needless to say, pink is not and will never be my favorite color.
Ahh, fond memories.
I really hope someone says "nope, I bathed in pink paint as well."
pink, OIL paint
How did you get it off? It is hard to wash the paint brush.
@smilingjack: 1) Liberal use of paint thinner where feasible, and 2) waited for paint to wear off. 50 yrs. later, paint is now gone :)
Glad you're OK! That's how Auric Goldfinger snuffed Jill Masterson, after all.
@mattthew: Or how about Buddy Ebsen's near demise during The Wizard of Oz casting? Yikes!
I've rocketed down a carpeted hallway the length of a Boeing 747 riding a metal food tray hundreds of times during "touch and go's." (touch and go's are repetitive take off and landings performed in quick succession.)
I was walking to kindergarten one morning (they let us do that by ourselves back then) and only looked in one direction when I crossed a street. A Greyhound bus ran over the toes on my right foot. Some pretty impressive blood blisters was the only injury.
And a lifetime of free Greyhound bus tickets, I hope?!
had a quick daydream of how difficult (and stupid) a dare this would be to do "get toes run over by greyhound bus" scary!
Really? How did you keep this a secret all this time.
I used that other place's vol mod status as my job description when I went to jury duty. I delete dirty pictures
of UPS delivery girls.
I was the white cheerleader in high school.
I fell off of a ski lift
I also did this.
I did this as well, but as an act of heroism. My girlfriend fell off and I decided to follow. I thought about it for a second, however.
yes, I too have done this. Probably more than once. I believe margaritas were involved.
@Kdccrosby, Ha, fell off a ski lift is apparently not unique enough. I love that.
ran
Glad you clarified, this didn't seem particularly unique, though I don't know the demographics here for sure.
ran the New York Marathon
I was posterized by Lebron James in the 2011 finals (the last time the heat lost a playoff series!)
(full size)
(I'm under the backboard looking about as disgusted as Cuban)
Jason Kidd should have spilled a soda on the floor during that play
@dave, @taternuggets is an overachiever ;)
I was a fat thirteen year old kid and never went skiing again. lol. :)
In a span of 24 hours I stepped foot in four different time zones. I went from California to Minnesota to Nevada back to California and then Hawaii.
Well that sounds absolutely miserable. Apart from the Hawaii bit.
I'm prooooobably the only one to have been attacked by, battled, and escaped an enraged zombie whilst sneaking around a derelict palace in the dread dark of night [insert scary-impressive whoo noises from the audience here] on an island in the middle of Cairo.
Were you also the one who was sewing the curtains and then fell out of the attic? Now THAT was impressive.
@barnabee OH GODS I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR RESPONSE AND IT BURNS SO HARD.
@barnabee: No, that was me. I'm particularly talented at stuff like falling out of attics.
i backed into a police D.A.R.E. car...in an ambulance nonetheless.
I spoke to a drunk Kiefer Sutherland on the phone.
I was working graveyard shift at a towing company and he was drinking with friends at a local bar, when his luxury golf cart broke down. He wanted to have us tow it a few hours away, with no person to sign for it on either end, I had to tell him no, so he stayed and my lucky tow truck driver got to meet him and tow his golf cart.
I told Kiefer Sutherland "no," and he apologized to me, it was very weird.
Once in Milan, I punched a pregnant gypsy in the mouth as she tried to pickpocket my father. She and her 4 co-criminals had descended on him, and my mother and I dove into action and fended them off. We spent the rest of the day feeling like superheroes, hopped up on adrenaline, hoping somebody else would just try to attack us. Good times. I still have a tooth-scar on my knuckle from this.
You have the (tooth) mark of a gypsy. Are you cursed?
@chill, Thiiinnnnneeerrrr
@goldenthorn, Only took 12 hours of non-stop searching, but I found it! https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/did-anyone-else-have-issues-with-a-0-balance-on-the-giftcard-to-buy-the-lab-decorations
Nope, it's not you.
(I've got to get a life.)
I took my honeymoon in Havana, Cuba. (Unless you're a federal agent, in which case we had a great time in Branson.)
Ian MacKaye once called my house to tell his sister her dog had died. (Long story. I wasn't home anyway.)
I cut off a sliver of my fingertip in a mandoline slicer while making a video demonstrating how to use a mandoline slicer. (I have never been able to watch the video.)
Also, I was with Dave for three weeks of his hitchhiking odyssey. That was plenty for me. He's made of sterner stuff than I am.
I spent a few days with a friend in Tallinn, Estonia. Met a local girl named Mari and she actually had a car (complete rarity). She was awesome and drove us around town for a tour of the city.
Club Hollywood was pretty raucous. Here's what it looks like from the outside.
There's got to be someone else here who's been to Estonia......right?
Only in my worst nightmares
wow, harsh. it really was a cool city....as long as you stay away from the Soviet era projects
The image is small, but I'm pretty sure that's a poster for Miyazaki's Spirited Away hanging between the columns... is it?
I nearly started an international incident before leaving the US...
I was discussing the differences between the new and old styles of child leashes (with appropriate arm movements) and accidentally whacked a little Korean lady in the forehead at O'Hare. Turned out she was taking the same flight as us and was seated a few rows behind us.
FWIW, I was wearing my TSanta Claus shirt on the flights over to SK, greatly amusing the actual TSA agents.
Shenanigans. TSA agents don't have a sense of humor.
Well they didn't notice the shirt until after I'd successfully passed through security, but they did laugh.
I was at the top of a utility pole and my first step down my gaff (spike strapped to leg) hit what we call an elevator shaft (crevice running the length of the pole) and I rode it 20 feet to the ground, luckily only had a few splitters in my stomach and no broken bones.
@Ignorant, I really really really hope you mean on your belly and not in your stomach.
Correct :) though they were pretty deep.
I have a picture of Manet’s “Dead Toreador”
hanging in my kitchen. I’ve had it for over 45 years and it’s the only art work hung in every kitchen I’ve had during the course of my husband’s Air Force career. if there ain't a picture of a dead guy on the wall, it ain't my kitchen!
@Teripie, He looks like I felt after Thanksgiving.
Has any other mediocre member tried hang gliding? I went on my first tandem flight in Switzerland. Who knew running off a cliff would be so much fun?
@middlemanager, I had planned on hang gliding in Switzerland until my friends talked me into canyon jumping instead. You basically jump off a cliff attached to a rope, freefall until the rope catches, and then swing at through a narrow glacial gorge.
Here's a picture of the jumping point in Grindelwald, Switzerland. I have a video on youtube, but I don't think anyone wants to experience a full 30 seconds of hearing me scream.
This pic is amazing...so is the fact you jumped off a cliff.
@halesyeah, So.. you jumped off a cliff and I ran off a cliff. Awesome. Great picture. That looks like fun!
@halesyeah @middlemanager, It's going to be exciting to hear from the lab rat who fell off a cliff!
Two years ago, I was the third-best female Taekwondo fighter in the country (in my weight and age group, neither of which I will disclose at this time.)
I spent three weeks in Colorado doing on-site engineering design for the emergency response team after the floods. miles of roads fell off mountains at 7000-9000 ft elevation. We evacuated people and animals on zip lines. Some of the stories I heard would tear out your heart. We worked 120 hour weeks and witnessed rivers and creeks relocating themselves permanently.
the bridge didn't get washed out, the creek just moved out from under it.
one of best uses of panorama mode I've seen.
I road up lombard street on the back of a motorcycle. {for those who do not know, it's one way going down} I was young and foolish. It was in the middle of the night. I had fun.
The last time my wife and I visited California, we went down this... in a Corolla, surrounded my Italian sportscars. I felt so out of place.
Wow, that's a cool street. You were an idiot :)
I have appeared or have been mentioned on David Letterman's show six times. This year it happened twice.
First, Dave mentioned my blog that doesn't exist...
Which led to my friend making an amusing GIF...
And then later this year, Dave comments on my Internet Handle.
I play over 10 instruments! Take that! :)
Prince of the labrats. Now you need a cool symbol to go by
@denboy, and what would that be?
I've spent the last year doing drag (kinging) and burlesque.
pics?
here's the book of faces since I can't do pics from the phone. www.facebook.com/damienlurvslili
I thought you were joking. This is fantastic!
@thumperchick Gracias!
@luvche21 Prince used this one but I bet you can do better
@denboy, Maybe this? I'd have to come with a super dumbed down version though...
@luvche21 Nice, I like it. After you create the final version you'll have the opportunity to truly cement your Rat Prince persona with some well placed ink
Ooh! Is that from the Secret of Nimh or something?
@BillLehecka, Ok, can I get a little more story here? That's really interesting. Why is he fixated on you? You should start complaining that he's stalking you.
@dave, Well, I've been a fan of Dave since I was a kid. I always wanted to go to the show, and in 1997, I was able to fufill that wish.
Here's a montage of clips. These are the other 4 appearances and mentions:
I belonged to a newsgroup (Remember those?) of superfans, and every year for the past 15 years or so, we meet up and watch the show. The staff knows we come, and we get to hang around the studio after the show. Here's our last group pic:
Do you still have the tie?
In high school, I was musical director of a student run a cappella group. We made some crappy albums, landed a track on the Best of High School A Cappella 1997 compilation, and "opened" for REO Speedwagon once at the county fair.
Is this something you really want to confess to a lot of strangers?
I took a taco shell and filled it with the following:
It was the best taco I've ever had. Did I mention it was a soft tortilla stuck around a hard shell using more nacho cheese?
@11mattdbl, whoa! This is exactly what happened when I read that!
@11mattdbl how about getting a food truck going with this and more weirdly appealing creations
@denboy, Thanks! I now have a backup career path!
I do lampworking in my spare time. This involves a large blowtorch, molten glass, and heavy metals.
I interviewed one of the Apollo 18 astronauts for my college newspaper when he visited the campus. It was my first or second interview, so it was a case of someone with no idea what he was doing getting a chance to do it by interviewing someone supremely competent in what he was supposed to do, who didn't get to do it. You might say it was astronomically ironic.
it would be cool if journalists had something akin to astronaut training, but on principles of fair and balanced reporting!
@Herb, There's a lesson here along the lines of "don't bother with the training, just get to work." (Advice that works better for writers than astronauts.)
@snapster, with the difference being, instead of only the best of the trainees being shot into space, the worst would be.
@dave, wait, isn't a lesson a kind of training?