Curiosity-Get the better of you/get you in trouble?

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I was at my weight-lifting class yesterday when I noticed this metal ring lying near one of those big barbells.
As I squatted down beside it my mind thought, "Hmmm, that ring looks like it could fit the end of the barbell. Maybe it was made for it?", and before I realized what I was doing, I slipped the ring onto the end of the bar.

After I realized what I had done, I tried to take it off... I didn't know how and it wouldn't budge!
I looked over one of my shoulders and saw the coach looking at me like, "Jeez you dumb-ass, what were you thinking? Now how ya' gonna get it off? ".

I turned back and figured out it was some sort of spring-loaded collar and tried to figure out how it worked all-the-while thinking how stupid I was and how this was NOT coming off and no one would be able to use the barbell now.

The coach piped up then saying, "I don't like those collars because they're so hard to get off!".
He was actually nice about it and I finally figured out how to pull the two parts apart enough to disengage the holding mechanism.

Anyway... s**t!... I'm 47 and STILL doing this kind of stuff!

I almost got into a whole host of trouble in the Army once when I walked by one of those red fire alarm boxes on the wall in the barracks. I noticed the little 'lock' holding the door closed had two little holes (to be opened with a spanner wrench) which would fit the little upturned tabs on my fingernail clippers EXACTLY!
I had one in my pocket, whipped it out and before realizing how the whole alarm mechanism worked, opened the little door and set off the alarm.
In retrospect, I now realize that the glass holds the activator in place and by breaking the glass you release the activator.
By lifting the door, I, in effect, removed the glass and released the activator.

Again... my curiosity took over and got me in trouble.

Luckily I haven't caused any false alarms for the past 29 years!

I have done this all my life, but as an adult it just isn't as funny (most of the time ) as when I was much younger.
It certainly isn't as excusable as being 4 y.o. and just being 'cute' to people because of it.

Anyone else have trouble with being impulsive and curious?

Oh, I also remembered the other day at work I volunteered to wear a Holter Monitor.
It's a 3-lead EKG unit a patient wears for a prescribed number of hours to record heart activity.
Our cardiology dept. got a new set of them in and they were training on them.

So, I get hooked up at work and almost immediately I start fiddling with the buttons like I saw the tech do.
Although she finds me a bit humorous, she warned me NOT TO PLAY WITH THE BUTTONS!, and also... NOT TO OPEN THE UNIT!
She then proceeded to tell me how much this one unit would cost if I broke it.
I'm not sure how, but she seemed to have a good sense of my little curiosity issues... I guess.
It's not like I've ever taken anything apart at the hospital... anything important that is... and I've never NOT been able to put it back together... whatever it is that I've not taken apart, I mean

Although my tracings were normal, I guess I must have rustled the wires a bit... she accused me of sleeping naked which means, I guess, that without a place to hook the unit, I would have rolled all over it all night? I did wear sweat pants!
Anyway... TMI!

Wow, did you get in trouble?


I tried to get into an abandoned hospital to see the morgue and that, but there was a security guard at the entrance who asked what I was doing; I lied and said I had been told to come to the Lachine hospital to see someone and that I thought this one was it; he directed me to the hospital that was now the main Lachine hospital... after saying, in response to my story, "It's possible."


I guessed people's passwords on another board so that I could read the private mod forums and stuff they said about me and friends of mine... I also read their PMs about me. Then I was so curious about how they would react if I went to their convention that I went!! I think they were paranoid from beginning to end, thinking something was going to happen. You have to have a reputation for being a prankster to pull this off; they then expected me to do something at the convention and then I did NOTHING!


There were many other times I almost got in trouble due to my curiosity.


Once I just regret being curious; I was curious when I opened a book called "In The Camps" with pictures taken of Nazi concentration camps, and saw a bunch of pictures I wish to this day I hadn't seen.

Curiousity...yes, this is how I got my head stuck in the back of a kitchen chair when I was five.

I'm still very curious, but for the most part I try to keep the impulsive in check, which is a good thing...I could have blown up a few things by now I'm sure if I didn't.

My dad has a very loud sterio and he told me not to put it on max. Curiosity got the better of me. Nearly burst my eardrums.

In relation to Anna's reply...

I used to be a BIG TIME SNOOP!

Whenever I was in someone's house I would always find places to secretly go off to and snoop... in drawers, closets, cabinets, etc.

I even used to look for secret hiding places.

I never took things from them or used what I found out to harm anyone.
It was just an insatiable curiosity I have had all my life.
This is one area I am pretty much able to control now-a-days.

Show me a door, pass-through opening, cover, etc, and I'll probably be trying to get it open to see what's behind it.

I straighten things up for people, unlock the toilet paper dispenser to fix it or replace the empty rolls (I have a key for those with a certain kind of lock), or to check out the mechanism of a new one I haven't seen before.

Show me and instrument I've never played before and I'll be trying it out.

Those back hallways at the malls... I LOVE THEM! Although some malls lock the doors now.

I don't have a story to share right now. I simply can't recall one at 4:30 in the morning.
I just want to say that my curiosity is going to kill me.

I got animal farm the movie on video. It end up being being for Orwell version.

when we were doing a project on WW2 in grade 10 history...I was assigned the USSR, all I knew about Russia then was it had vodka, those jewel eggs and those chechnian terrorists...

I watched the movie Reds, got many books...
sorta grew into an obsession-but like no other one it was the first time I actually was totally open about something I beleived in...
and I tried to replace it with other things but nothing quite worked
curiosity in this instance...really did something good and I decided to get it back-it did something good for me so logically it can again lol