What Is The Biggest Risk You've Ever Taken?

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Ever quit a great paying job for doing what you love?

Break up with your partner and move across the country?

Swim with sharks?

What is the biggest risk you've ever taken?

[MadtownPacker]

You.

[]{ilr]3]

I ran drunk on the top rail of one of those old steel girder style bridges. It was about 12" wide, midnight, 100' long, about 60 feet above the creek and the water was really low.

I was a tree climber when I was 20 years old and I liked to impress my friends that I wasnt afraid of hieghts. I still slap my forhead and go "Doh!" like Homer Simpsons when ever i think about it.

[retailguy]

Re: What Is The Biggest Risk You've Ever Taken?

Ever quit a great paying job for doing what you love?

Break up with your partner and move across the country?

Swim with sharks?

What is the biggest risk you've ever taken?

Standing up for you last summer. :P

[Zool]

I jumped out of a second story window into a snow pile. Jaeger makes you do things you normally wouldnt.

[Patler]

Physically - several.

1. Going off a ski jump on one of those metal saucers.

2. Riding my motorcycle on the highway, with the forks locked, a "dead man's throttle" set at about 25 mph, and me standing upright on the seat. Essentially it was the same stunt that killed Indian Larry a year or two ago. I did it in the 1960s, but not at highway speeds as Larry sometimes did, and I wore a helmet.

Emotionally:

Getting married, quitting our dead end jobs and moving 800 miles away from out nearest relative on either side of the family for me to start graduate school toward a whole new profession. Neither my wife or I had ever lived away from a close family network before.

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Patler you're a badass!!

[billy_oliver880]

Biggest risk? I ride my motorcycle down some pretty shady backwater roads with no guardrails and shear cliffs. I have rock climbed a few times. Riding in rush hour traffic on the I-10 out here. I almost crashed 3 times last night on my way home. But I think the biggest risk I took was moving out to Arizona away from all my family.

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Biggest risk? I ride my motorcycle down some pretty shady backwater roads with no guardrails and shear cliffs. I have rock climbed a few times. Riding in rush hour traffic on the I-10 out here. I almost crashed 3 times last night on my way home. But I think the biggest risk I took was moving out to Arizona away from all my family.

How's it all going out in AZ? You wild guys and your motorcycles! Someday i'll get one for myself. They seem like a lot of fun to motor around on.

[oregonpackfan]

Physical: Running the Duke City Marathon in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The temperature at the start of the race was in the high 70's. By the end of the event, the temp had risen to to mid-80's.

I finished the race in just over 4 hours but was totally exhausted because of the heat. I physically "Hit the wall" the last 3 miles alternating between jogging and walking.

After crossing the finish line, I sat down on the curb and would not move. Seeing my fatigue, my wife said, "Dear, I found a parking spot just 2 blocks from here. Let's go home."

I responded with, "Get and car and bring it here."

Incredulous, my wife answered, "You mean to tell me you just ran 26 miles but you can't walk 2 blocks?"

To her question, I looked her in the eye and said, "Get the damn car NOW!"

Realizing I was out of my head, she fetched the car. I crawled in the back seat and laid down. Upon arrival at home, I spent the rest of the day reclining in bed moaning and groaning.

The most emotional risk was very similar to Patler's. My wife and I moved across the country and started new jobs. It was a risk I am glad we took.

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My biggest risks are lame. I have never packed up and moved across the country or anything interesting like that. My life in uninteresting.

[packinpatland]

[b]Getting married, quitting our dead end jobs and moving 800 miles away from out nearest relative on either side of the family for me to start graduate school toward a whole new profession. Neither my wife or I had ever lived away from a close family network before.[/b

Very similar. We graduated from college one week, got married the next, and on the 3rd week, moved across country, 1200 miles from family.

And never looked back!

The riskiest part was driving across the country in a Gremlin!

[Joemailman]

Switched from briefs to boxers.

[packinpatland]

Switched from briefs to boxers.

Wow, that's risky business! Was that after you saw Tom Cruise in his briefs?

[BEARMAN]

joining this cheese hole....