SPOILER ALERT: There is none.
Have you ever had those days where a really random thought or instinct just appears into your head from out of nowhere? Okay... everyone has, but what I'm really wondering is how many of you have acted on it? And no, I'm not talking about the life-changing decisions where Granddad decides to spend his retirement savings on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I'm just talking about the useless, random, curious impulses you get every now and then.
For example, I'm standing at the edge of this cliff/building/something tall, like a bridge. I suddenly feel the urge to kick this rock off and watch it fall.
OR
Hm. That person didn't hear me come into the room. Maybe I should scream at the top of my lungs...
OR
There's a bottle of hot sauce in front of me. It's just sitting there. Begging for something to happen to it. I wonder what would happen if I just took a little, tiny shot of that...
Alright, now I understand these impulses are normally seen in teenagers, which is the main reasoning behind why the stereotypical teen will do plenty of really stupid things surrounded by his or her peers. But you have to admit there is some... appeal to doing something stupid or pointless just for the sake of being stupid or pointless. Certainly, I'm not the only immature one here, am I?
So here is a situation that occurred today. I had just finished my lunch, and I wanted something to drink. I looked in the fridge and found water, kool-aid, and the last of the milk in a small half gallon. I decided to finish off the milk. Now- don't ask me why- but I didn't feel like putting it in a cup. My eyes skimmed around the dish cabinet until they landed on the perfect one. The gravy boat. What would happen if I drank my milk from the gravy boat? It was fine at first- I was just sipping my milk casually out of the indention of the boat. As expected, it tasted the exact same as milk out of a cup. But then I wondered even further- what would happen if I poured it into my mouth like pouring a real gravy boat, only with milk?
Okay- typing it out... It does seem a lot more gross and stupid. But at the time I realized it couldn't hurt anyone, and I'm all alone anyway. So I did. Nothing happened, obviously. I tried it again. Still nothing. The third time I did it, I poured it with a little too much oomph. I choked into the sink and tried to wipe away the milk streaming down my face into my shirt.
Ohhhhh, so that's why people don't do stupid things...