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What do you do that is crazy or crazier than "normal"?

Asked by Cruiser (40449points) May 19th, 2010

Doing things the same old way can lead to a boring and mundane life. Mixing in a bit of crazy now and then opens up a cornucopia of possibilities on everyday routine!

Do you climb up a lamppost and sing “Kiss me tender” in Yiddish? Do you hold your toothbrush with your toes? Wash your hair with jello? Sleep under your bed?

Do you wait till the house is empty, then go wild? Scream, grunt, squeal, run around like a horse, beat your chest like an ape in heat, be a cowboy, a spaceman, an alien invading your kitchen, rub yogurt all over your naked body and take a bath with vegetables in it??

I see some Jellies here march to a different drummer and was wondering just what special efforts you make to liven things up a bit?

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Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I think it’d be easier to ask about what I do that is sane. I walk around/hang around naked most of the time I’m at home. I don’t close the door when I’m in the bathroom, no matter what I’m doing. I touch trees to say hello to them on my way home. Sometimes I just stand in the middle of the street and stare at the sun or dance in place. I am actually both the strongest and vulnerable person you’ll ever know. I do no fear people in dark streets and I have no problem talking to homeless people. The rest about my gender identity, sexuality, veganism, activism, open relationship…you already know.

BoBo1946's avatar

have a few glass of wine, a great meal, get naked, and run through the woods and bark at the moon works for me!

Seriously, playing different golf courses works for me. Also, traveling and seeing other people’s worlds!

CMaz's avatar

I catch snakes then release them in my yard.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I don’t understand the question. Oh Chazmaz, are you using your tens unit at the moment? I also worship trees.

CMaz's avatar

I currently have no one available to use it on.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@ChazMaz We could put together a party, like the tupperware or sex toy parties.

CMaz's avatar

Have to add it to the Fluther convention things to do.

Silhouette's avatar

Every now and then I walk to my mailbox butt nekked, it keeps the neighbors guessing and it tickles my funny bone.

CMaz's avatar

@Silhouette – Is the house next to you for sale? ;-)

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I like nekked sunbathing, just don’t over do it. Skin cancer on the johnson can’t be too much fun.
(Skin Cancer on the Johnson would be a good name for a band)

Silhouette's avatar

@ChazMaz Constantly! HAHAHA!

deni's avatar

nothing i guess…i cant think of too much. i really derive a lot of pleasure from brushing my teeth in the shower. its very satisfying. thats not even weird though. i can make really good michael jackson noises at the perfect time in any given song of his. i’m boring?:(

CMaz's avatar

“i’m boring?:(”
Maybe… But I bet you have wonderful teeth. :-)

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I have a habit of honking at complete strangersIt makes me laugh without fail.Sometimes I use a horn;)

There’s alot more,but I don’t like jail.

Coloma's avatar

I play my drums and sing to my animals, my goose Marwyn loves it when I impose his name in the Shaggy rendition of Angel of the morning..rasta goose and the djembe! lol

He actually boinks the drum…when I ask him if he wants to ‘sing a little’.

Yeah, well, things bohemian chicks do when they live in the woods and wine country! lolol

I prefer to call it eccentric, but if someone wants to call me crazy, that’s okay too! ;-)

Cruiser's avatar

Gee @lucillelucillelucille that all sounds rather tame for our resident wild woman. I was expecting stuff from you along tazers and cattles prods while you grocery shop!

Cruiser's avatar

WTG @Coloma! A drumming goose gets you a gold star and +6 for your answer!!

deni's avatar

@ChazMaz i actually have the worst teeth of anyone i’ve ever met, aside from my mom, which explains a lot. its not that they dont look nice, but i eat one piece of candy and they hurt for an hour…half my teeth have fillings. :( softest stupid teeth ever.

MissAnthrope's avatar

I’m very “weird”. I don’t even know where to start.

Singing and dancing in front of pets (something about doing that as they stare at me totally unmoved makes me laugh). I like to let loose and dance however I feel moved when I’m alone in the house. I sing along to songs in funny voices for amusement. I also sometimes have an urge to honk at complete strangers and like @lucillelucillelucille, it cracks me up. I have figured out the most efficient way to do just about everything, so I could tell you the order in which I do just about anything. I chalk it up to my OCD, but I have a really weird thing about getting things on my hands, can’t stand them to be dirty, sticky, smelly, pruny, or anything like that and I always own at least one pair of dish gloves and usually a box of latex gloves to avoid any of the above hand conditions. I must have my keys in my hands when I lock the door or my car, even if I dropped them in my bag mere seconds before, because I have a major paranoia about locking myself out.

The craziest thing I’ve done lately was when my friend was visiting from WV. He dragged me out to the Castro and I promptly got really drunk because I’m a total lightweight. There was a girl party that night and three women were in wedding dresses for fun. We were in the smoking room, I’m wasted, this hot redheaded bride passes me, I said some compliment to her, and then, no idea where this came from, I leaned forward and kissed her. It was a good kiss, too.. hee. And then we pull back, she looks at me and says seriously, “Thank you.” Anyway, I surprised myself. That’s not something I usually would do in a million years. I’m pretty damn shy.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

Cruiser -I’ll never fess up to the good stuff.Ever.LOL!
But,bowling for geriatrics with soup cans at the grocery store is not a bad past time—heh heh heeeeee—
@MissAnthrope -The best honks are when someone is looking under the hood!LMAO! It’s also why I pack “heat” :) No good honks are without risk!:)

Berserker's avatar

I don’t make efforts for anything, being weird just happens.

Or not. I’m probably pretty normal, despite not really clicking with most of anybody’s general takes on what is. But I blame that on my schedule.

Sometimes in my place on my own I get bored though, and I start having conversations with myself, but by making different voices, each with a slightly different ’‘personality’’. It’s kinda stupid, there’s a gangster voice that talks in slang, a Victorian high status person who attempts to speak in ye old English, someone with a half assed Scottish accent and they all argue, there’s some more, too. Sometimes I’ll converse with myself in two different languages, which is kinda odd, asking myself what to do in French and then answering myself in English.
I don’t know if it’s exciting, but it works.
Say I’m playing video games, and am unsure on a course of action, I’ll start debating with myself using different voices, and then argue with myself and everything. It usually just ends up as a big slagfest in different voices and mock accents. Sometimes this can go on for ever, although eventually my mouth and cheeks start hurting from making differing voices.
Anyways I just hope the neighbours don’t hear, as I tend to do this when most of everyone is asleep.

Coloma's avatar

@Symbeline

I love talking in various accents too!

I am easily amused, no doubt, but that’s good, give the ol’ hyperbrain a rest in the silly zone once in a while. lol

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I get these strange inappropriate thoughts that go tearing thru my head as soon as I read or hear something. Lucilles geriatric bowling made me think“stringing fishline in the old folks home would be funny. The old bats can’t see and it would raise hell with their walkers”. I usually don’t act on them, but they always zinging around.

Coloma's avatar

My ex husband and his buddies pulled a practical joke as kids by tying fishing line to a purse and tossing it on the side of the road while hiding in the bushes.

People would pull over and just as they reached for the purse they would give the line a yank and scoot it out of grasp. lololol

Some really pissed off purse snatchers!

Cruiser's avatar

Another gold star goes to @Symbeline for talking to herself in assorted Jim Carry voices! <<golf clap>>

deni's avatar

i miss having a dog to talk to in various voices….one more reason to get a pet!

anartist's avatar

I once walked into my former museum building after 7pm when everyone had gone home to get some extra work done. I am a quiet somewhat timid person and can’t sing worth a damn, but I was alone in a 30-foot high, 500-foot long structure and just belted out “I can’t Get No Satisfaction” at the top of my lungs and was really doing my best Stones or Janis Joplin performance for myself when I heard a small clapping sound about 100 feet forward to my left. My Navy draftsman assistant had also returned to help with the work.
Boy was my face red.

@Adirondackwannabe definitely good band name! hahahaha

Cruiser's avatar

@anartist But you tried and you tried and you tried tried tried…GA

anartist's avatar

@Cruiser yah, lurve ya! lol

Vunessuh's avatar

I excessively talk to myself and I give names to inanimate objects.

Cruiser's avatar

@Vunessuh What do you call your spatula(s)?

anartist's avatar

Yes, odd names for familiar things or even actions “make a Laura” meant make a left on this road that is on the way to Laura’s, ex and I even named some of the pillows: “Lumpy” was the soba-filled one for putting hear backaches or covering headaches. “Blanche” was one with embroidery by my mother’s friend Blanche.

And I definitely talk to my cats/cat. I used to croon my baby boy’s name just to watch him wag or thump his tail in return. I conversed with them/converse with Jillycat all the time. Jilly makes every effort to respond and sometimes initiates conversations with inflected variations of a peep or meorp. She really does try. She knows my body language skills are limited.

Cruiser's avatar

@Vunessuh From the pictures they look much more menacing than a “Flappy”!?! Do you hold “Flappy” with a fur lined oven mitt?? “Here “Flappy” come to momma!” ;D

zenele's avatar

DON’T GET ME STARTED.

Cruiser's avatar

It’s OK @zenele you get a pass…I was looking for crazier than normal! ;)

YARNLADY's avatar

I hear voices in my head, and I believe numbers have personalities (numerology has a basis in fact). Other than that, it’s mostly what I don’t do – I don’t wear make-up, I don’t shave, I don’t listen to music, I have very little interest in sports, I have zero interest in popular fashions/celebrities, I only wear shoes when I have to and I rarely watch or pay attention to theater movies. I apparently also have a mild case of Prosopagnosia

Coloma's avatar

@Vunessuh

Hey, I call my geeses feet ‘flappys’ lol

Okay, okay, going waaay out on a limb here in sharing this, but…when my goose comes in the house and I carry him back down the stairs I tell him to ’ wait, I have to put my flappys on’
( sandles in garage )

Tell them they have happy flappys…oh god, somehow sharing this makes me FEEL crazy…lolol

Neizvestnaya's avatar

Ever since I was little then I’ve eaten my meals in order of protein first then starch then vegetable or salad last to help digest the rest.

perspicacious's avatar

I’m totally normal and do nothing considered crazy. Do you believe that?

zenele's avatar

@Cruiser I have so many examples it would be like hijacking your thread. Very little about me is normal.

Edit: @Neiz that’s actually smart.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

@zenele
Thanks, I try to convert people now and then.

anartist's avatar

It’s funny, the naming of things with a s/o. If/when you split, there is this bunch of words that are totally meaningless to anyone but yourself . . .

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