The Most Awesome/Stupid Thing You've Ever Done

[cychhosis]

After a football game in the '70s (when you could take two fifths & a pint into the game in a grocery bag of popcorn). We were walking back to my friend's girl friend's house on Beach. We see a tailgate cooler setting out behind someone's van. We didn't say a word, just looked at the cooler, looked at each other - grabbed the cooler and started to run. It was great, had plenty of beer and sandwiches to keep the party rolling. I think later that day I was wearing the tall white boots of one of the pom squad members. They tell me I looked pretty sharp!

[mj4cy]

Coolest thing I ever did:

Spent a summer working for a non profit ministry that fought povery in Appalahica by fixing up houses at no cost to the home owners.


Dumbest thing:

Dipped into the sauce a little too much at the wife's first coworker party. I'll spare the details.

[iccyfan]

Carver to Curtis is like across the sidewalk

I graduated in 1986, but I think it's:
"Carver to Beardshear is like across the sidewalk".

A Carver to Curtis run is still across campus...

[Flag Guy]

I graduated in 1986, but I think it's:
"Carver to Beardshear is like across the sidewalk".

A Carver to Curtis run is still across campus...

Damn, I scewed up correcting a screw up. Thats the worst kind of screw up

And yeah I know... clearly I wasn't paying much attention to my response

[GeronimusClone]

Her name was Tara.

[Cycloin]

Arrowhead stadium tailgating for the ISU-FSU game. On a dare from a friend, I spent like 6 hours introducing myself to people that walked by as Doug Gross, who, at the time, was running against Tom Vilsack. Doug while tall, is rather slight. I, too, am tall, but tip the scales at about 360. Almost everyone was cool with it, asking things like what policies do you support (pro-family, pro-education, and anti-Nebraska for the record). The lone exception were the folks tailgating next to us. They must have been Gross' relatives (or tired of the fat, drunk guy's shtick) and made it well known that I was offensive. I don't know if it was awesome or stupid, but aren't they often the same?

[GeronimusClone]

Arrowhead stadium tailgating for the ISU-FSU game. On a dare from a friend, I spent like 6 hours introducing myself to people that walked by as Doug Gross, who, at the time, was running against Tom Vilsack. Doug while tall, is rather slight. I, too, am tall, but tip the scales at about 360. Almost everyone was cool with it, asking things like what policies do you support (pro-family, pro-education, and anti-Nebraska for the record). The lone exception were the folks tailgating next to us. They must have been Gross' relatives (or tired of the fat, drunk guys shtick) and made it well known that I was offensive. I don't know if it was awesome or stupid, but aren't they often the same?

The line between awesome and stupid is fine. Alcohol just makes it harder to see.

[Cycloin]

The line between awesome and stupid is fine. Alcohol just makes it harder to see.

One of many times I've been blind to that line.

[cyhiphopp]

Came home to Friley from a band party one night drunk as hell. So drunk I cound't get up into my loft and ended up sleeping on the couch. A short while later I had to go to the restroom and puke. I spent a long while praying to the porcelin gods and semi-passed out on the bowl (nasty I know).
I got up a few hours later and went back to my room. Apparently while I was gone, my roomate had returned from his date with his girlfriend and they had then gone to her dorm room on the other side of Friley. They of course locked the door when they left. There I was, locked out of my room, at 3 am, in my boxer briefs and a t-shirt.
I ended up knocking on my riends door across the hall. He was nice enough to answer, even though his girlfriend from home was visiting that weekend. I crashed on his futon and was very embarassed the next morning.
That morning, Jimmy (my friend) and his girl were leaving and I was still locked out and pantsless. I ended up borrowing some shorts from another friend and running to the other end of Friley to get a key from my roomate.
Not my proudest moment. I got some flack from my floormates for that one.

[AmesCloneFan]

Just one of many, many more...

Had a kegger in the parking lot of our apartment on Hunt St (the night the riots started in '04 as a result of said party getting busted). Anyway, a good friend of mine who happened to live in the neighboring apartment was broke and had his electricity shut off due to late utility payments. I had to go, so after seeing a line of 5 girls to the bathroom in MY apartment, I decided to use his.

I blindly entered his empty apartment with no lights due to no electricity, and tried feeling my way to his bathroom. I eventually made it and could feel that I was in the right general area by feeling the toilet on my shins. I unleashed the beast, and could only hear splattering. I just figured I was hitting the rim so I kept the flow going and just tried to adjust my aim. After 45 seconds of drunken peeing while basically aiming at a 180 degree area, I was done, having never struck water. I reached down after the ordeal only to find the lid had been down the whole time.

I didn't tell a soul, and played dumb the next morning when my buddy came in yelling about somebody "peed all over my bathroom!!"

-Pay your electric bill, dude.

[MaxPower57]

I puked in the hall of my dorm in Freeman the night before the ISU-Iowa football game of 05. I was too drunk to clean it up that night, and of course their were things to do the next day so the puke sat out in the heat of the dorms for more than a day.

Last year after I was done with finals I proceeded to drink an entire case of Busch Light playing lawn games. Then we went to the bar, I got a Green Tree Frog, and stuff gets fuzzy from there. Apparently, a couple hours later when I deemed it appropriate to leave, I had to use the bar walls as a leaning post on my way down the sidewalk. I then had to take a wizz so I dropped my pants in some backyard yet forgetting to button them up or secure my belt. My pants then fell down as I walked. I guess I found this hilarious and continued to walk with them down and even winked the snake at some onlookers I passed. I somehow made it home and passed out only to be woken up by my girlfriend at 4AM who was worried about be since I hadn't returned her calls. I was lying in the bathroom completely naked and puke was everywhere. She was not happy haha.

I too, caught my leg on fire, but instead of stop drop and roll I deemed the best antidote to being on fire was to jump and flail around yelling. I got 2nd degree burns and the lower half of my leg was pretty much all goo instead of skin.

The Sunday before classes started my freshmen year, my friends and I went to Oak Elm for supper and proceeded to walk around campus to get acquainted with it a bit before classes started. I had grabbed an apple for the walk and as we went on we saw two raccoons eating some garbage about 20 yards away. Having an apple, and being a good samaritan, I thought the raccoons would enjoy eating that much more and my process of delivery would be to chuck it at them as hard as I could. Now this was from pretty far away and I'm no Greg Maddux so I thought the worst that would happen is that I scared them....but when I released the fruit time slowed down and am almost certain "Chariots of Fire" began to play. As the frozen rope was flying over, one of the raccoons looked over to see what was going on and was immediately hit in between the eyes with the projectile apple blowing the fruit to bits. The coon then started spazzing out and making a sound which is too hard to describe through type but it sounded like this, "aldks;dlkt34095fslkdjlkfj04-" it then stopped and died. We were in shock, none of us being cruel people, yet when someone said "Rocky Raccoon came out from his room, not expecting to be hit by an apple" we all bursted out laughing.

[IcSyU]

This is not a good thread to read during class...I'm trying so hard not to burst out laughing.

[farmerbrent]

Most awesome accomplishment:

Our dumpy house on Wood Street (right off Highland) was a regular stop of the drunk bus on Friday and Saturday nights after 10:00. Seemed awesome until finally got busted by the Ames PD. Had to visit the police station for that one. Two weeks later, the Ames paper ran an article about "party houses" that the police would regularly check the week of VIESHA and our place was on the top of the list. I still have a copy of that paper. They didn't lie either. A cop car slowly drove by about every two hours all week. Needless to say, we were not home much that week.

[San Francisco Cy]

Man, I only had one when I opened up this thread, but as I started reading others, I though, "hmm, yeah, I did that. Something close to that. Oh, yeah. That reminds me of that."

But, my funniest memory was from the end of my second year, second semester. It was the saturday before finals, and a group of about 6-7 of us had just finished off a pony key, and 4 of us were going back to Old RCA for one of the last times. I was in the mood for Mac & Cheese, but we didn't have butter. So, we stopped at the Kwik Trip on the way, and off we went.

Well, knowing that the semester was over in just a few days, and that we only had one box of Mac & Cheese left, I knew we wouldn't need all four sticks of butter. So, as we were walking, I decided it would be cool to see if I could hit a car driving down Lincoln Way. Not just throw it at it, but launch it.

At that time, I still had a pretty decent arm. I could throw a football 60 yards pretty consistently. So, while two of the guys with me stopped to pee in bushes, I took one of the sticks of butter out, and waited for my target. We were on the south side of the east bound lane of Lincoln Way, and there was a car traveling in the west bound lane. So, I reached back and threw that stick of butter as high as I could possibly throw it, and somehow, someway it ended up hitting the car right on the windshield and exploding into smitherines.

I fell down laughing and in disbelief and I never really got to see the reaction from the driver. But, I'm sure confusion was right up there.

[San Francisco Cy]

Other dumb dorm things:

There was a group of about 5 of us that were always pulling the same shenanigans...

1. One weekend, we all decided to pee in the den garbage can to see how full we could get it.

2. Quite often, we would have a 1am "fire drill", where we would go in and turn on all of the showers at full speed and flush all the toilets at once, causing massive flooding. Ironically, we were the only ones not to ever get our feet wet...

3. Took about 3 "Exit signs". It was much easier after I realized they twisted off. The first several tries on the first one resulted in a lot of pain, trying to swing on it.

I'm sure more will come to me, and probably won't post any of the really illegal things. ;-)