Brainstorming, for my own reference, some potential NTKOGs. You guys, these are so things I just wouldn’t do.
- Ask for a discount in a store for no reason better than sheer ballsiness;
- Vegan raw-food diet for a day (or a few);
- Place a phone call from a public restroom;
- Dye my (virgin) hair an insane color;
- Try sushi for the first time (gag);
- Eat dinner alone in a fancy restaurant;
- Throw a temper tantrum in a store or other public area;
- Spend a day extremely over-dressed while engaging in mundane activities;
- Get a Brazilian (eek!);
- Build a piece of friggin’ furniture (Ikea need not apply);
- Flirt with a much older man;
- Invest in some pay-it-forward style good karma by paying for the items of the person behind me in line;
- Ask a stranger out, totally out of the blue;
- Hitchhike?! (more hitch; less hike);
- Hug an absolute stranger upon being introduced;
- Order a dumb, disgusting shot with a juvenile name;
- Ask someone I don’t know well way too many personal questions;
- Go an entire weekend without spending any money;
- Cook some insanely complicated dish I’ve never tasted before;
- Go a full day without lying — not even for sport;
- Give up my seat to someone on the T;
- Finally make good on my threat of performing stand-up in public;
- Hit on a homeless dude;
- Join Mensa;
- Be the only sober person in my group o’ drinking buddies;
- Awkwardly take someone up on an insincere “we should hang out” invitation;
- Wear a way too revealing outfit. Like, in public;
- Make other people feel bad by waxing on about an ethical stance;
- Try my hand at stalking (which Twitter makes really almost too easy);
- Spit in the drink of some bastard who has it coming;
- Think before I speak — think every. single. time.;
- Call someone I don’t know well out for being rude to me;
- Pay an impromptu visit to someone;
- Spend an entire day working without any leisure;
- Refuse someone’s request for a reasonable favor;
- Tell a stranger they have something in their teeth;
- Actually get into a debate with someone;
- Live a day on just natural lighting;
- Write a thank-you letter to someone I haven’t spoken to in a decade;
- Sit awkwardly close to someone on the T when there are other seats available;
- Go a day without thinking any negative thoughts;
- Go a day without cursing (ha!);
- Listen to music for 24 straight hours (at as much as socially acceptable);
- Call a company to give a compliment;
- Submit a story to a journal way out of my league (the New Yorker, anyone?);
- Fake cry my way out of something (or cry trying);
- Be a total name-dropper;
- “Don’t get on the plane;”
- Tell a stranger, with no context, that I think they’re attractive;
- Introduce myself to a neighbor;
- Give myself a pep-talk;
- Get thrown out of a bar.
Do these things sound … mundane? Well, that’s life, champ.
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dude, you’ve so totally been hitchhiking before.
Dude, point taken. But I’ve also egged a house (er, driveway…) before, and you’d hardly say I’m the kind of girl who does that as a matter of course, right?
Although, I’ve got to admit, it seems unlikely I could dredge up the courage to “hitchhike” again. I was much ballsier back in the day than I am now!
so true. especially in boston.
also, i posted this before i read the disclaimer of, ‘i may have already done these things but would i do them again?’ heh.
I love this.
I like this idea. Gee I need to come up with a things I wouldn’t do list. Likely just because I might just do some of them.
Someone told me a few days ago about a “bucket list” which is a list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket.
I actually made a list way back when I was a teenager, and to my knowledge I only really have 4 to go. One or two might be near impossible though. As a teenager it seemed way more likely that I would end up buying a castle.
One thing that Foolsfitness will never do is… um… Well I just really did eat chips with an experation date of 2007 on them just now. But the bag was sealed so that is ok right??? -Alan
I love your list!
Overly dressed up for mundane tasks
“we should hang out together”
Two I’ve always wanted to do:
Wear an extremely bad fitting toupee maybe with tape showing and “dare” people to say something.
Ask a first time acquaintance if we could be best friends and hang together-similar to yours I guess.
Glad you’re writing fiction you are fun to read
haha, I LOVE the toupee idea!! I wish I hadn’t thrown out my extensive wig collection before I left California — I totally could have done something like that! (Although, maybe with Halloween coming up, I could pick up a new wig at a decent price…)
Well, I can help you out with the “get a Brazilian”, since I know a lot of Brazilian guys (including myself, lol). What I really wanted to know is: why you “eek” the Brazilian at all??? 🙂
Good luck with this challenge and a happy 2010!
Cheers!
I hope Marcelo’s comment was genuine, because, damn… that’s just precious.
Definitely genuine! 😉
Awesome. Just, awesome.