What have you had to do for a dare or a bet?

I can do anything but striping in front of anyone. 1. If someone is going to ask me to jump from a building, I can do that too 2. If you will ask me to kiss a stranger, that also I can do 3. If you are asking me to be standing whole night, that I can do too but, I can not do stripping. That is the one thing which my friends used to do when they use to loose or win bets. Hence I never dared betting.

As kids we used to swim in The Yarra, something I would never do now. We swam under a railway bridge, and often a dare of one kind or another would come from someone. I remember my first jump off the bridge, which could have killed me, was the result of a dare. Another was to duck-dive without bathers, thus exposing a 'brown eye' to the train passengers. We were only kids, about 12 I guess.

The last bet I took was to go down a large water slide. I went down got off and swore I would never take another dare. That was 30 years ago and I haven't.

paula27661 you are clever enough to avoid taking up stupid dares or bets. In our locality no one used dare others or make bets. One reason was that no had enough pocket money to put it on a bet. This was when we were children and teenagers. Even now when most of us are employed no one makes dares or bets. I guess people have better things to do. There is one thing that I remember, when I was a teen. Friends had got into the spirit of body building and were chatting about it. One of the boy said that he is capable of 100 push ups. Most of us would just do around 10 push ups, so challenged him to proove himself. Surprisingly he did 100 push ups and shut up others who had challenged him.

I don´t like to do things for dares or bets and I never did. I am too conscious of what I really want to do and feel that daring someone to do something is a way of getting control over him.