What is the most daring thing you've ever done?

I guess it wasn't terribly daring, because I knew it was safe, but I petted a huge boa constrictor a zoo keeper brought to a summer camp for the children to see. I couldn't let them think their music teacher was a wimp! It felt like a basketball.

By the way, Rhea (Bodlover) has bought a young one! Ohhhhh! Maybe I won't be visiting England for a while.....

Hmm, I think it was going to Gettysburg by myself as a graduation present to myself. I went mainly to take a candlelight ghost tour

That sounds like fun! Of course, it's better yet when you have a boyfriend with you. Then you can play "poor fightened little me." They seem to like that! (Oh, how dishonest we women can be.)

Petting a tiger. I've gotten to do it, three times!

How recent does it have to be? I'm not a very shy person, so I've got a bunch of stories. Some of the best ones are from when I was younger, though. Here's a couple more recent ones:

I held a tarantula . . . that was pretty creepy. I've held snakes, too, but I kinda like them, so it wasn't bad.

Umm, I've driven two states over to have a Fourth of July celebration with a large group of friends that I met while vacationing in Hawaii. Yup, I knew these people for about a week in Hawaii, and before we all went home, we planned to get together for July 4.

I bought (and wore) a coconut top in Hawaii.

Well, those are a couple. I don't know what would be the worst one.

Graduated from college and the next day packed up my car and moved to another state to do 2 internships. I only knew my uncle at the time. I ended up never moving back home.

I rode across country from California to Florida then back to Georgia in a semi-truck with a truck driver who worked for a company I had been employed with for 4 years. He was 61 years old, and I had just divorced, had some vacation time and wanted to see my sister in Georgia. The trip was quite interesting, and to this day, I do not know how people can travel that way and make a living. Even with air seats the trip was lumpy bumpy!

I don't count creepy crawlies daring for me - I used to hang out at a store called "Snake and Spider" and got to play with the tarantullas and snakes whenever I was there.

I did however go white water rafting. The reason it was daring for me is because I am a poor swimmer. It was scary and fun all at the same time.

I went rock climbing in the middle of winter. Quite a bit of ice. We used ice picks to get our foot hold. We were roped, but if you fell you might have take someone out with you. When we got to the top we camped out.

As I now have rheumatoid arthritis, I can't climb anymore. It completely changes your life. Even shopping can be hard on a bad day.

Don't worry, Nora. You'll do other things that are just as exciting. I had polio and couldn't run anymore. But I could bat and have a pinch runner, and shoot hoops from the foul line. Besides, I can fly in my dreams, and I used to be able to run, but I guess my mind has "forgotten" how to run. I sort of bounce, the way the guys did on the moon. (In my dreams, I mean.) You'll do everything in your dreams. And you can learn loads of other skills. If you had the courage to go ice climbing, I know you can do almost anything you want that doesn't require running around! I raised four children and did all my own work. I'm sure you're still daring! Swimming is great when you have arthritis. Learn to play the piano!

Wow Jeanie, you dont let anything stop you do you? You are an inspiration!
Im not much of a daredevil, I cant remember anything that daring, I used to climb house roofs when I was a kid. Tackling the highest slope in my first skiing season.
SOme may call eating haggis daring

Thanks Jeanie for your kind post. I also dream of running. I'm still daring. I live on Lake Superior and I go sailing. I exercise all I can. I taught myself how to ride a bike again. However, my Dr. only lets me ride on flat land. I will never let it get the best of me. If you do, you might as well order the wheel chair.

Haggis, Kellye? Haggis? My mother was from Glasgow, and I've never had that kind of courage!! I don't think we can top that. Skiing the highest slope? Holy cow! But haggis takes the prize! Steak and kidney pie is great, though.

I'm not to brave

dh and I went off roading in his sports car (mustang gt) that was really fun and scary.

Hmm i reached my hand in snowwhites crate and petted a kitten...that really scared me

I think going to New Zealand for a year as an exchange student when I was 17 was the most daring thing I've done. And when I was there, I did some things I didn't think I'd do, because I'm not a very daring person. I went caving (small caves below ground, with pools of water and crawling through tunnels...), white water rafting (we made our own rafts from the inner tyres of tractors), bush walking (okay, pretty tame but for me, an exciting experience as it also involved climbing, canoes etc). Oh and the worst of all, gave a speech in front of my whole school there AND performed a few maori songs/dances in front of a bunch of host families and friends! For a person like me that does not like to perform at all, that was extremely daring. lol

Which year? Dyed my brown hair red
Went to a water park and rode a ride that had a 20 foot drop into water!And I can not swim!It came back out,like a roller coster.Screamming the whole way!
Flew to Gremany with 2 kids under 3 by my self,Ted was allready over there,8 hour flight!

Originally posted by Eeva
I think going to New Zealand for a year as an exchange student when I was 17 was the most daring thing I've done. And when I was there, I did some things I didn't think I'd do, because I'm not a very daring person. I went caving (small caves below ground, with pools of water and crawling through tunnels...), white water rafting (we made our own rafts from the inner tyres of tractors), bush walking (okay, pretty tame but for me, an exciting experience as it also involved climbing, canoes etc). Oh and the worst of all, gave a speech in front of my whole school there AND performed a few maori songs/dances in front of a bunch of host families and friends! For a person like me that does not like to perform at all, that was extremely daring. lol

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When did you go to NZ?????? Which part of NZ? I am from Christchurch!

Well, Kiwideus, I wasn't very far from there. I was in Invercargill, for the year 1996. Went to Christchurch a few times (I think the competition in Maori song/dance -sorry can't remember what it's officially called- was there that year, I went there with a group from Invercargill), although for some reason I never got to see a whole lot of the town even though the airport I *really* got to know since all my flights went from there lol. Shame really, since what I saw of it I really liked.

On the grand life change end of things, when I was laid off two years ago this month, I decided to start my own business in a totally different field in which I had no formal training, or any training in running a business for that matter.

On the overcoming phobias front, I appeared on live TV doing a demonstration to promote my new business - me, the person who failed public speaking in high school because I preferred to take the F rather than speak in front of people I had known for years, that's how shy I used to be.

Personal appearance-wise, I cut about a foot off my hair (halfway down my back to nearly pixie) before I went off to university, and my hair has been just about every shade imaginable except pitch black.

Things still on my to-do list: a polar bear dip, petting a big cat (a tiger or lion, not my roly poly Winnie , learning to play the violin (I'm in my thirties, and will probably be in a class with 7-year-olds)...

Traveling down the Grand Canyon on mules with my parents. That was scary!

Traveling to Costa Rica on my own for college. I lived there for 9 months. While I was there, I traveled to Nicaragua (4 years after Samoza was overthrown). That was some crazy stuff...

I traveled to India on my own (1984/1985). I didn't know it before it happened, but I went through Bophal the day before the accident.

While I was there I let a Cobra be put around my neck.

If I'd known then what I know now, I never would have done this, but I continued to travel even after Indira Gandhi was assassinated and the country was having problems with riots.

I lived in Spanish Harlem in New York City in 1982. I used to travel home at all hours of the morning on the subway and walk home from the Subway. My apartment was robbed twice. That's not daring - it's just stupid.

I'll probably think of more....