It's a toss up between bungee jumping illegally off a bridge two times in a row and losing my scuba diving partner and ending up at 125 feet by myself on our first solo dive sans instructor (we were supposed to stay above 60 feet). I panicked and could have died if I came up too quickly but luckily eventually found my partner and calmed down and came up slowly.
I loved taking risks but can't do those things anymore now that I have kids!
What about you?
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
get pregnant! is that crazy? haha.
I was really scared about finances, giving my life over to this little thing, and how much would change - but we went for it!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Jumped off a giant rock into the lake. I was about 70 feet up. The adults always did it every summer when we camped at the lake. I begged my mom to let me do it and she would say no every year. So when I was 18 I finally got to do it. It wasn't that great!
pomegranate / 3244 posts
I've taken a lot of sketchy rides on sketchy roads. Not, like, in a dangerous area or anything, but I'd just hop in the back of a pick-up truck and we would travel on these extremely high mountain roads and at least once a week one of these trucks would go over the side of the road down a cliff and everyone would die. Whoops. That's feeling young and invincible for you!
watermelon / 14206 posts
I'm such a wimp. I never do anything considered risky. I've just never had that daredevil feeling.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
I am not risk averse at all, so I don't think I've done anything truly scary!
grapefruit / 4120 posts
I flew in an acrobatic plane -- we did barrel rolls, hammerhead stalls and the whole nine yards.
pomelo / 5678 posts
I fell off a cliff naked while partying 
not funny, but makes me laugh now because it is just so .... out there I guess. Phew, those days are done! (10+ years ago.)
I dangled from a 2000 ft cliff once while following someone who didn't know where they were going 
coconut / 8430 posts
A couple of times I've had to snowboard down a really foggy mountain path and that has been terrifying. It is so foggy you can't even see the tip of your snowboard very well. I always worry I'm going to fall off the path and down the side of the mountain. 
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I've jumped off bridges into lakes/rivers & when we were in HS and young and stupid we used to go car surfing (aka lay on top of car when friend drove down a gravel road.) I used to love a good adrenaline rush even if risky and was fearless...not so much anymore.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Skydiving, but the only adrenaline rush was jumping out of the plane and trying to level out. Once I leveled out, it was the most peaceful thing ever as we "floated" down back to earth.
Jumping off a cliff in Negril, Jamaica.
Having a gigilo (aka drug dealer) walk with us for a couple miles in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We wanted to try authentic jamaican patties, and walked out of the resort (which was highly advised against).
Parachuting in Thailand. They ghetto rigged everything, but it was the most awesome parachuting trip ever!
Learning to scuba dive. I wear contacts and can't see jack squat without em. Part of the test was to pretend we lost our goggles and had to put them back on. With so much water in my mask, I was afraid I would lose my contacts and can't see once I blew the water out of my mask. Or that the salt would damage my contacts.
eggplant / 11716 posts
Traveled solo in India. As a female (obviously. but that's what made it scary.) 
nectarine / 2272 posts
Snorkeling in Anguilla while a storm was rolling in. Doesnt sound scary but the water was super choppy and i had to suck in my stomach to keep from scraping on the coral.
I thought ziplining in costa rica was fairly frightening as well. Nothing looked super-stable and you had to brake yourself which was overwhelming, at least for me. I would do it again though.
I've probably been in several dangerous neighborhoods/unsafe type of situations but as a NYer it would not phase me as much.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
I used to love doing risky things too - went bungee jumping off a 100 ft bridge 4 times in my life... but post-kids, no way am I willing to take risks like that. I never thought I'd be this way!
I've also been sky diving, but that was boring to me after experiencing bungee jumping.
That scuba diving story sounds terrifying!! Very glad you're still alive, Mrs. Bee!
honeydew / 7504 posts
I'm not a huge risk-taker, so backpacking around Europe by myself is probably the scariest thing I've done.
pomelo / 5509 posts
Nothing too crazy that I can think of. In high school I went cliff jumping in an area that was NOT safe for cliff jumping, and it was into a rushing river. The current carried me past the rope you were supposed to use to pull yourself out of the water so someone else had to jump in and grab me. That was stupid.
I have no interest in skydiving or bungee jumping or anything like that though!
cherry / 224 posts
I moved halfway around the world away from my family and friends for a job. It was terrifying and liberating. Thankfully DH (before he was DH) kept me sane even though we were 7000 miles apart
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
Moving to NYC by myself at 19 years old to live with a family I had never met!
It was also the best year/best experience of my life by far.
coconut / 8498 posts
I'm an incredibly cautious person. Like, I have to pep talk myself to ride a bike if it's been too long since my last ride.
I'd say walking around Barcelona streets by myself in the middle of the night is probably the scariest thing I've done. I wasn't scared then, but I would freak out if I knew LO was doing that.
pomegranate / 3759 posts
Travelled to england on my own when i was 19. I also rode in a hot air balloon!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Getting on a plane and starting a new life across the country from everything and everyone I'd ever known with pretty much no more than a duffle bag that contained what was left of my possessions.
I've also (very, very, very drunkenly) gone swimming in the Mississippi River in NOLA at 2 am (BAD idea!), and have gone (small) cliff diving. I'd really, really love to go skydiving for my 30th birthday.
coconut / 8234 posts
I'm afraid of heights...so the scariest thing was rappelling down two waterfall/mountains in Costa Rica. An 150ft drop and a 200ft drop. I cried like a big old baby on the platform but I did it. And ziplining in Costa Rica. And white water rafting in a grade 4 as a beginner.
And traveling to a country illegally. I kept on waiting for some US officials to come grab me and arrest me or give me a fine. For a year after my trip I was expecting a letter from the government, haha.
grapefruit / 4441 posts
Hmm... that's a fun question. Well, I don't know how actually dangerous these things were, but I remember feeling most scared/brave:
-traveling from Switzerland to France by myself (via train, bus, etc.)
-spending a week in northern Spain by myself
-doing a Discover Scuba diving dive in Cozumel with a guide who turned out to be a little wreckless... it was a drift dive and we went way too deep (90-100m) IMO for beginners, among other issues
-going snorkeling alone with my husband in a remote spot in Curacao, known for having lots of baraccudas (I know they're not supposed to be actually very dangerous, but they freak me out).
-getting caught in a rip tide while swimming by myself on an island off of Thailand... my friend was on the beach, but talking with a native and not paying attention.
-hosting a live radio talk show in Spain (in Spanish... when my Spanish wasn't very good and I was terrified of public speaking)
-competing in an open water swim (part of a triathlon) when the ocean was extremely rough due to a hurricane off-shore... the buoys broke free and we all got disoriented and swam into the breaker zone and were getting pummeled. Most of the people had to be pulled out by lifeguards and the organizers admitted they should have cancelled the swim.
-surfing in big (to me) waves
pineapple / 12566 posts
Scuba diving. It makes me so claustrophobic.
@mamimami: gah! I would puke!
grapefruit / 4120 posts
@lamariniere: I almost did puke. I had to lie down for like 2 hours afterwards. I was totally pressured into it otherwise I never would have gone through with it!
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