The strangest thing you've done?

[AsheSkyler]

Many moons ago I learned I was a tidbit different than other people (many moons before I learned I was autistic). People are often shy, timid little things easily frightened, who also seem to think the only purpose of feet is to walk on them. No problem, I've toned down on the zaniness around them and when left to my own devices I am one happy, quite weird, little critter. And I have FUN! Well, I was out in the yard today (barefoot, of course) enjoying the chilly air, warm sun, dying grass, and dodging dropped pecans from the nearby tree as I hung out my laundry. I picked one of the little nuts up, admiring it's black streaks and tan body, noting the faint line around it longways that must be how the nut parts after it's in the ground and starts to grow a tree, and thinking back to how barely a month ago I had been maniacally gathering every one I could find on some strange notion I'd actually lack the procrastination enough to get them shelled and put into cookies. (Which are cracked, shelled, and chopped, I just have to actually bake cookies now.) Before I knew it I had put the little bugger between my teeth bit it in two! WHAT THE HECK!? Was my inner squirrel informing me of a vitamin deficiency or was my not-so-inner redneck informing me I had too many teeth? I don't even like pecans, they're chalky and bitter, and if you think they taste bad as is try halving the shell in your mouth! Bleh! I shrugged, finished shelling it, and ate it anyway. And then ate three more the same way. They're high in protein and the fat is good for those of us who are a bag-of-bones anyway.

I would say that the next strangest thing I've ever put in my mouth was a little cookie sandwich consisting of two Nilla wafers and a sliced dill pickle. That's a flavor I haven't forgotten or yet found a match to.

So what's one of the strangest things you've ever done?
What's one of the strangest things you've done that's surprised even you?

 

[clg114]

Last night my wife and I went to our daughters house for dinner with her & her family. When we left I went through all of my pockets looking for my keys, until our daughter pointed out that I hade them in my hand. I don't know if this a result of being a Aspie or being old. Or both.

 

[Spiller]

When I was married we moved to a small village in the sticks. Lovely place, but terribly intermittent phone signal, so two choices right?
1.Walk up and down the street trying to find a signal.
2.Sit up on the roof apex and yep, there's the ellusive signal.
It was such a nice view and so peaceful, I spent most evenings sitting up there enjoying the view. Oddly, I always seemed to be the only body in sight, despite a gorgeous view of the sunset over the river. Even more oddly, all the neighbours thought I was odd!
Odd, eh?

 

[Graelwyn]

When I lived with my ex (also on the spectrum), we one night decided to go to a local monastery on the island where we lived (Isle Of Wight, Uk) and they had this sort of spinning watering device going on the garden in front of the building, and we started jumping through it... this must have been 10 or 11pm at night, and a few monks came out to see what on earth we were doing. We sort of left then, I don't think they called the police or anything.


Another incident was where I bought a fake, but very realistic turd and placed it on the floor in the DVD aisles of Asda, which is the Uk store owned by Walmart, and quickly moved away to see what would happen.
It took some time, with people simply stepping over it before a manager turned up with a walkie talkie, and soon after a cleaning team came along with a cart, and proceeded to put disinfectant on it and try to clear it up before realising it was not real. I was almost peeing myself with laughter, and they looked to be amused as well. I did confess later as I had spoken to one of the cleaners before anyway and he was slightly shocked as I guess I did not seem the type.

 

[alien girl]

in the elevator, i point at the automatic doors and then pull my hands apart, as if opening the door. i cant look at the clock at work. every time i get a new job, i worry will there be a clock. i sit in front of the computer at work and put a piece of paper to hide the bottom where it tells time. when looking at my digital watch, i hide the minutes so i can only tell the hour.
and i like rubbing my nose against dogs' noses and kiss their furry heads.

 

[Suiseiseki]

In order to motivate this girl I worked with to work harder, I had found she loved the movie A Clockwork Orange, so I told her about another Malcom McDowell movie called Caligula.
One of my many more cruel things...

 

[Flinty]

Rode the Greyhound to San Francisco and back. Yes, really. Have I mentioned that I have difficulty sleeping on a moving vehicle?

 

[sakirkist]

I had a boyfriend in college and when I left school he stayed. I was talking to him one night and heard another woman in the background. I argued with him, hung up, gassed up my car and drove info the middle of the night for hours, across a time zone to go beat her up. It's strange because I'm not the aggressive type, period. I fought her, told him I was going to sleep. I took a nap, drove back home, and went to work that evening as if nothing happened!