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Post by kristalina on Jun 4, 2015 20:47:47 GMT
I cashed in my return ticket while on a vacation to Kauai and stayed 3 years.
Actually, getting there was pretty impulsive too - I went on the trip by myself after my friend cancelled at the last minute. Everyone expected me to cancel too but noooo.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 22:05:31 GMT
I lost my virginity on my break in a stairwell at work. Not the same place I work at now, thankfully!
I also went bungee jumping on a whim.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jun 4, 2015 22:32:03 GMT
Saw an ad in the newspaper for a free four year old Balinese/Siamese mix cat and took my kids to adopt her. Didn't consult (ex)dh about having a pet in the house. We lived on a farm and he grew up with the mindset that animals are great but they belong outside or in a barn. Thankfully, after a day or two of grousing, he was OK with her. It didn't hurt that the cat took an immediate liking to him (and went into heat!!!). We all loved that beautiful cat.
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 4, 2015 22:57:01 GMT
I've done so many things. One that comes to mind occurred when I was in Tucson Arizona and my boyfriend was in Las Vegas. After working all day I decided on a Friday night to beg my girlfriend to drive with me to Las Vegas for the weekend to surprise him.
We needed to get gas at one place before heading out across the desert and my friend, driving my stick shift, didn't know how to down shift and drive right past the place. No problem, there is a small gas station an hour down the road .... which was..... CLOSED by the time we drove past.
Totally sleepy and exhausted, with the gas light flashing bright enough to light the sky, we drove on fumes and a prayer by the time we hit Kingman, Arizona. I could actually hear the gas hitting the bottom of the tank when I filled it. To this day I have no idea how we got there.
Then we get to Vegas in the early morning hours, we have no place to stay, and of course we had to make the trip all the way back on Sunday. What the hell was I thinking?
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Post by chlerbie on Jun 4, 2015 23:02:56 GMT
I decided to meet a guy from a message board online in person. This was in the early days of the internet and it was really looked down upon. He lived 500 miles away and told me that his last name was Smith. (It is.) This was nearly 16 years ago and we're still together, so I guess it worked out OK. And, because of him, I quit my job and moved 500 miles without a job lined up and ended up starting my own business.
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Post by DEX on Jun 4, 2015 23:12:57 GMT
Gosh, I am 65 years old and nothing comes to mind. I am am sure there are oodles of scandalous deeds in my past. Too many to remember specifics. Yeah, that's it..... Well, that is my story and I am sticking to it.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Jun 4, 2015 23:29:27 GMT
Wow, nothing like the stories you provided!!!
I did make an overnight decision to take my kids on Spring Break last year. We usually go to the same place with family every year for Spring Break, but for whatever reasons last year I never planned for us to go. The night before everyone else was going, I told DH that I wanted to go and he talked me into getting up early and leaving the next day. It was a 14+ hour drive for me and the girls by myself and was the most spontaneous thing I had ever done (since having children, I'm sure). We made it safe and sound and had a great time. I still can't remember why we didn't just plan on us going in the first place, since it was something we've done every other year. But it did feel good once we got there, that I made such a spontaneous decision, and made the drive with both kids by myself! We planned better this year, but it was a much different trip (I got sick with the flu and bronchitis and was down for the majority of the trip, we even came home a day early!)
Other than that, I can't think of anything I've done on an impulse like that!
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Jun 4, 2015 23:37:02 GMT
I couldn't think of anything off the top of my head, so I thought I peruse the thread because someone else's story would trigger a memory, right? Nope.
While I've done some things not a lot of other people have done, none of them were impulsive or even spontaneous, lol. I guess I'm a lot more of a planner than I realized!
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Post by disneypal on Jun 4, 2015 23:58:11 GMT
my stepsister found evidence her husband was cheating late one night. she got up with him the next morning and didn't let on she knew. he went to work and she picked up a u-haul truck, loaded up everything that was hers from their home and moved out. she never spoke to him or saw again. (they are not married now) I have a friend that did that. She is from England and was living there with her husband, who apparently was an awful person. She said one day after work, she went home, got her dog and walked out with just her dog and her purse and nothing else. She never saw him again. I haven't done anything that dramatic but once I found myself with Friday and Monday off work (already off on weekends) and woke up Friday, spontaneously decided to packed a suitcase and I got in the car and just started driving. I had no idea where I was going and hadn't planned anything. When I reached the Florida border, I decided to go to St. Augustine. I found a nice inexpensive hotel on the beach and spent 4 days there. I had a great time!!
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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2015 0:04:12 GMT
I show up at my guy friend N's house one night to go bowling. Unbeknownst to me, one of my girlfriends was there, as well as this cute new guy I had met once before. He had this awesome Mullet. We all had a great time together and I had an especially good time getting to know the new guy.
So on the ride home my gf and I hatched a plot to get a group trip together to Six Flags. So I could spend more time with him. We nailed down all the details before parting that night. Two years later I married him. He felt We got together on false pretenses because I don't even ride amusement rides! LOL
Because I need to do this today I'll share the rest of the story. Read along if you'd like.
So I was volunteering at this summer camp. I got to know the guy friend and we would occasionally hang out. One night I met several people and the name Fred stuck with me. For the longest time I thought this other guy I met that night was named Fred but I was obviously mistaken. Anyway I would hear stories about N and Fred hanging out. He would plan for Fred to come out with us and it always fell through. We are talking multiple times. I came to the understandable conclusion that Fred doesn't really exist - he's a phantom.
One time I call N - from a pay phone! And his mom doesn't give the phone to N. Instead I hear, "it's the phantom." That evening they concocted this plan for a blind date, which was the bowling night. Good thing it was a surprise because I had just rejected someone else's offer for a fix up.
On the Great Adventue trip we had a car full of people. N won a gigantic stuffed bear that took up 2/3 of the front seat. So we drove home with me sitting on Fred's lap! He held my hand for the first time. For a 21 year old who had never had a boyfriend it was heady stuff! LOL
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Post by GiantsFan on Jun 5, 2015 0:04:20 GMT
Nothing. I'm very predictable, always do the safe thing, save for a rainy day, blah, blah, blah, boring.
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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2015 0:06:11 GMT
I am suddenly feeling like I cheated myself out of some great adventures. I was always way too nervous to be impulsive. I over think everything. One time when I was 19 I impulsively called my parents and told them I was coming home for a visit since I didn't have classes that week. I packed up a bag and got in the car and was home that night for a few days. Is that reckless? You probably made their day!
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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2015 0:10:13 GMT
I was in my early twenties and living on my own for the first time. It was the afternoon before Easter & I'd made plans to go to church the next day w/ a guy I had just started dating. Around 4pm, I had this overwhelming urge to go see my grandmother who lived about 100 miles away. I called the boy & told him I wouldn't be going to church w/ him & I hopped in my car & drove to my grandmother's farm. We sat and chatted for a few hours and had the best time together. I went to Easter services with her the next morning and then kissed her good bye and drove home. On Tuesday, my brother called & said my grandmother had suffered a massive stroke. She died shortly thereafter without regaining consciousness. I've always been so grateful for that last visit. I've never again had an impulse to do something like I did that afternoon so long ago. I will always believe that impulse I felt was God urging me to go see my grandmother one last time. Beautiful. I'm glad you had that time together.
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Post by Merge on Jun 5, 2015 0:10:31 GMT
I make most major life decisions impulsively. It's worked out pretty well for me so far.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 5, 2015 4:17:16 GMT
I'm not impulsive or spontaneous, I wish I was!!
I have a friend who is originally from London, and her 90yo mother still lives in London. Earlier this year, on Mothers Day (known as Mothering Sunday in the UK) my friend flew 22 hours to London to surprise her mum on Mothers Day. How cool is that!
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Jun 5, 2015 6:47:38 GMT
I moved to Alaska on a whim when I was 20. I had one friend here. She introduced me to my now husband. That was 29 years ago, so I think it was a pretty good decision!!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 5, 2015 8:23:15 GMT
I can think of a few. One, which was sort of planned and sort of spontaneous, was traveling around Europe on a Eurail Pass back in the days when it was really cheap. The planned part was buying the pass before I left the States. The spontaneous part was when I got there. lol. I made NO reservations anywhere, and didn't even have a real plan except for my round trip plane ticket from Heathrow, and my train pass. I had the book "Let's Go Europe", a backpack, and that's it. Oh, and I was by myself. If that were my dd today I'd be lol. I'm sure my parents were also, but they never discouraged me. And that was the day before internet and cell phones. And since I had no itinerary there was no way for them to ever get in touch with me if something had happened. On a trip filled with spontaneity one event stands out even more. Pope John Paul I had just been elected, and one day I heard on the news that the pope had died. My first thought was "why are they reporting old news?" Turns out, of course, that it was the death of John Paul I that they were reporting. John Paul II was elected very quickly, and so on the spur of the moment several of us from the hostel in Germany jumped on a train for Rome to go see his installation in St. Peter's Square. Of course there wasn't a single hotel room anywhere so we just curled up on the steps in the square and slept that way, along with a lot of other people. The police questioned us but let us stay when they heard we were there for "il papa". My return ticket was a standby one since I didn't know exactly when I'd be returning. So toward the end of my pass time (I think it was two months) I got ready to head back to England, taking the train to Calais and then the boat from there to England. Except -- everything in France was on strike! So I ended up taking the long way around to Belgium and then to England from there. Then I had to sleep at Heathrow for a day till something came up standby. So that whole trip was pretty much spontaneous. lol I had fun just reading your trip.
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Post by tduby1 on Jun 5, 2015 11:49:29 GMT
I think the most significant impulsive thing would have been when DH and I was dating about a year and one night I looked at him and blurted, "Let's get married!" We had never even talked marriage! He said, "when?" I said "in the spring". (6 months away). He said, "Don't you want a ring and a proposal?" I suggested we use the money we would have spent for a ring for a house. He said, "ok, let's get married!" And we did, 6 months later in the spring.
Yup, I proposed to him, on an impulse. For years it bothered him I didn't have an engagement ring so I suggested we wait for our 10th anniversary and he could upgrade my band to a set. He surprised me by doing it for our ninth.
we celebrated our 20th in April.
Before "proposing" I wouldn't even call him, he always called me because I had decided I had come across as "too forward" in a previous relationship by calling the guy all the time. Lol! So it was really out of character for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 11:59:12 GMT
Don't laugh, but I hit on a guy I had just met at work. It has to be THE most impulsive thing I have done and he is my SO, best friend, love of my life and the one I tell everything to. That was in April of 99 and while we will never get married, we know how much we care for one another and always will. (He will tell you the same thing).
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Post by Lindarina on Jun 5, 2015 12:45:50 GMT
I tend to be a bit impulsive. I buy cars and houses on a whim, and I quit my job and went back to college without planning it too much Sometimes I bungee jump or have an ice bath, or wake my kids in the middle of the night because the northern lights are so beautiful and they shouldn't miss them. But I'm not chaotic or unorganized. I've got a pretty good control over my life
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 5, 2015 15:13:04 GMT
I am super cautious. If I don't have plans B< C< D< E<F in mind, just in case, I can't move forward.
However, before the Spring college session started in 2014, I told my husband to go to the college and signed myself up. No advanced thought, just I am doing this now.
The first 2 semesters were to see if I could actually do it. Out of 3 classes, only one was for credit...Eng. 101.
Spring 2015 was my first full time semester. I ended that semester with a 4.0 and on the President's List.
Best thing I ever did!
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Post by sillyrabbit on Jun 5, 2015 17:10:27 GMT
I am queen of spur of the moment random road trips with friends. I've probably taken off sans planning with less than one day's notice on three trips. It's been a while since I've done that. Hmmmm...
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 5, 2015 17:55:55 GMT
I thought of another one. I had been living overseas with my now ex husband and it wasn't working out, so I came back to the states. My plane landed in Philadelphia so I called my grandmother and asked if I could spend the night. I took a cab over and the next day I took public transport up to Temple University to see about getting in the master's program. Turns out the program was going to start the next week so I begged them to let me in, they did for some reason even though most people had applied months earlier.
So I went home to my grandma's, asked if I could stay until I found a place and I started graduate school. My grandmother wasn't one to just open her home, so it was kind of a big deal that she agreed to let me stay for awhile.
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Post by corinne11 on Jun 6, 2015 11:42:02 GMT
When I was 21 my boyfriend moved interstate (a 3-4 hr flight away). I had been to visit him twice but always had to take the bus ( a 2 day trip!) as I was poor.
This was back in the day when communication was mainly through letters and the occasional phone call. One day, after an emotional phone call, I just decided to get on a plane and fly over to see him. I didn't tell him I was coming and planned it so that I would arrive at about 7pm on a Friday night, assuming he would be home. Of course my luggage got lost and by the time they found it, I had missed the shuttle bus. By the time I found a taxi, it was closer to 9:30pm when I arrived at his flat. I was all dressed up in a tight 80's dress and high heels and had to drag my suitcase up 3 flights of stairs. No sound, no lights on. I was just about to sit down on my suitcase and cry when he flung the door open. He was on his way out so if I had been 10 minutes later I would have been stuck outside till the early hours of the morning.
It was the most spontaneous thing I've ever done and I have no regrets. We spent the next two weeks together and he came home within a few months. Of course, life became a lot more complicated as I had started seeing one of his friends after he left, but hey... that's another story!!
Corinne
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Post by moosedogtoo on Jun 6, 2015 12:55:52 GMT
I invited a guy I barely knew to come to my company Christmas party with me. I was in NM, he was in VA and the party was in TX. LOL! We had a great time and we ended up getting married a little over s year later. I worked for a huge construction company, so I figured there were would be plenty of big guys who could take care of him if he decided to pull something funny.
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Post by jumperhop on Jun 6, 2015 14:36:08 GMT
Let my husband rent a Jeep when we were in Maui instead of the car I had reserved. I knew with that decision it was going to be a bad hair week, but I could have never projected how bad it would be. Jen
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Post by stormycat on Jun 6, 2015 15:14:14 GMT
I impulsively booked a flight from PA to FL on a whim. My son was 3 at the time and my Mom had never met him. I booked the flight and rental and arranged everything with her neighbor. Her neighbor called her and said come over I have some out of town guests I would like you to meet. So my Mom walked in, and my son came out from around the corner and said "Hi you must be my Mom Mom, I am Ryan" She cried for a good 20 minutes! We had a great time and it was one of the best things I ever did.
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Post by Florida Cindy on Jun 6, 2015 23:26:16 GMT
Marry my Husband after dating for 7 weeks. We've been married for 18 yrs.
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Post by PNWMom on Jun 7, 2015 1:38:21 GMT
Dropped out of college after one year (at a private 20K + year a school where I had a full ride scholarship, for a girl from a family well, well below the poverty line with zero means to assist financially in any way) because my boyfriend of ~3 months (first boyfriend ever) wasn't going to go back to that college the next year (he had no more money for school and we were both a little depressed with the general college atmosphere).
I Worked at Subway for a few months, then got into another university that offered me another full ride (state school, this time), and eventually got an AASN and BSN (nursing) after a total of 5 colleges.
And, I married that man.
Our 12th anniversary is next week.
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Post by luvnlifelady on Jun 7, 2015 1:53:49 GMT
Bought a car. I saw it online and immediately decided that was it. Had to go to Carmax to test-drive it. It was later in the evening and I didn't even check out other cars. DS was about 13 at the time and he suggested I keep looking. I was desperate for a car since my van was dying and I just ignored him. Turns out, I hate the car. DD mostly drives it since I have a work car now, but boy, do I wish I had taken my time on that.
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