What odd thing have you done for fun?

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When I moved to Winnipeg, they were just starting construction of a new Art Gallery, so for a year a whole block of downtown was just blue plywood surrounding the excavation, with a big sign reading "Winnipeg Art Gallery." Bored one day, I dashed across the street to a department store, where I bought their cheapest plastic picture frame with a generic cute kitten on display. This I hung under the sign. It didn't last long, but I still consider it money well spent.

Another time, I was working in a garage in a busy residential neighbourhood, and a bored co-worker was wishing he could use some of our left-over epoxy mixes to glue a quarter to the sidewalk without putting kids in danger of touching the wet glue. I told him to just put it near a pole to protect it from walkers, and cover it with litter while it cured. He had a whole day of entertainment before someone came back with a chisel.

Hmmm...reminds me of...

Years ago I worked for a chain drugstore.

When taking breaks in the break room if I noticed that the break room waste basket was topped I would take the initiative to empty it into the bigger trash bin in the stockroom.

One day I wondered if "I am the ONLY person who ever empties the trash in here, or does it just seem that way?".

How do I test it scientifically ...I wondered?

I lifted the plastic liner out of the can and placed a shiny new quarter at the bottom of the trash can (on the assumption that if any other person ever emptied the trash they would...see the quarter and pocket it)!

Days went by. I would empty the trash, and the quarter was still there. Weeks went by.

Finally, after some months, I ended the experiment. Retrieved the quarter (now covered with sticky yucky garbage residue), washed it off in the sink, and put it back in my pocket. Proving that I was indeed the only person in the store who ever emptied the break room trash can.

Now I'm curious. Is "a quarter" understood around the world as referring to a coin worth 25 cents?

I can think of plenty odd things I did for fun.


I wanted to see what happens if I sleep in a very enclosed space; say, a box or in a closet. Just somewhere in a very limited spaces.
For at least 2 days where I sleep, eat and play.
Until I get too bored and too hot to do it.

I jumped from 2 stories high, just so I could confuse everyone in the living room who knew I was in the room upstairs that day.

Went out in urgent errands in a costume. It wasn't Halloween. Would do it again.

... I habitually pat certain people on the head. This isn't a norm by any means.

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I've used half a month's pay from my factory job back in the Spring of 1996 and ordered a bunch of Kinks merchandise. It was my reward for staying at that job for a year. Don't worry. I was living with my parents at the time, so it didn't affect any bills or rent.

Lots of rather "Odd" things to make me laugh.

Once a horse had come up our lane and left a "Present", so I went up and painted it with blue spray paint, which gave it an unusual colour, just for fun!

One time, as a late teenager, I took two friends and three kids about 12 years old who we had just men through a big tourist attraction. The kids did all the things we would have if not for the adults with us on previous visits, and we joined in.
And, just to broaden the thread, one epic happening that should not go unrecorded: Maybe in the 80s, a woman parked a big new Jaguar in front of a homeless shelter. Not wanting to stampede or alarm her, the porch people only dispatched one old lady to ask for any spare change. Instead, she got a furious reaction and complaint that her day was already bad enough, just having to be there without also seeing the old woman before stalking off around the corner. The old woman didn't react, she just went over to her shopping cart, and removed a big bag of stale bread crumbs, which she poured over the car's convertible top. Nothing happened for about half a minute, until a pigeon checked out the new thing, and took a peck. This caught the attention of a second pigeon, and within another minute, that top and windshield was a pecked-up, shat-upon mess.

Toss a cabbage head to the geese then watch the fight over it.

I record music for myself because no one else makes exactly what I want to listen to.

When I worked on the railway I had been working there for about three years when new staff had been employed to replace staff who were retiring.

It was valentines day and I knew this lady was married, and we had got to know each other in work, and I was bored and mischevious so I gave her a piece of wood and said "Carve yourself a lovespoon".

A few had a chuckle. Right before I left she said how she remembered that and found it funny. I was told I had a dry sense of humour whatever that means!

Does ripping a cap at a time off from rolls of caps and feeding them to my aunties chickens count as I was staying at their farm foe a week when I was younger count? There were feathers everywhere and I was even hearing "Peck peck bang!" When I was in bed hours after my cousin and I did it.(It was mid summer so was still light outside).

About three weeks later my Aunt came to visit and she was asking my Mum how to make her chickens lay as they seemed frightened and had not laid for two to three weeks.
I don't think I connected the two events at the time.

The Pound is actually worth about $1.35.

They did away with shillings in 1971.

I thought it was 20 shillings to the Pound before decimalization.

It turns out that there was 12 pence to the shilling....at least in England.