People Share The Stupidest Thing They’ve Ever Done To Prove A Point

“In 2001, my sister got me a Sony phone, a tiny little thing with a flip-down front. She worked in a phone shop and got a discount. The box said the phone was waterproof, and there were tiny rubber seals in places. I believed them.

“At the pub where I worked, this aspect came up in conversation. Some guy said the phone couldn’t be waterproof and that shower proof was probably more accurate. Remembering the box, I argued the point . . . And dropped my phone into a pint of beer to prove it. I was wrong. Brutal but a well-earned life lesson.” ⏤Queen-of-Beans

No matter how much something electrical protests to be “waterproof” on the box, I never have the faith required to get it wet due to stories like this.

“I used to work at a movie theatre. As it gets to midnight, all the employees hang out behind the concessions counter, chat, and eat the popcorn before we have to throw it out, etc. One of them dared someone to do a butter shot. But like, the liquid butter for popcorn is way closer to straight oil. Such an oil shot.

“I’m always a fiend for attention, so I said pass it to me, and I downed it without letting myself think about the consequences. It tasted like liquid plastic, and I hated it, but everyone was howling and incredulous, and I felt relaxed for a whole minute.

“Pooped my brains out the next morning. Worth it.” ⏤MasterOfOne

I mean, it doesn’t sound like it was worth it if you ask me! I don’t think that anything that makes you poop yourself is really worth doing!

“In grade school, maybe age 11 or 12, I had these cheap jeans. I figured out that I could flex my belly and pop the button open, I found this funny, and my guy friends in the class laughed too. One of them turns to a girl, ‘hey, check out what [brother_meowzone] can do.’ I flexed my belly and let out a huge fart while the button popped open. She turned away, my buddy laughed, and I never did this trick again.” ⏤brother_meowzone

Soft, I can feel the embarrassment in this one. It’s making my whole body tense up! I can see why they wouldn’t risk it again!

“Walked through the brush of our treeline to get a football to prove it wasn’t poison ivy. I did it. I got the football.

“It was poison ivy.” ⏤Hellboy32607

Until now, I have never been stung by poison ivy, and I feel that now I have said that I will fall through a cataclysmic amount of poison ivy over the next few days!

“I can do a standing backflip. The best time to prove this isn’t when your seven drinks deep wearing a short bridesmaids dress and underwear made for speed, not comfort.

“Yep, brides grandma got to see my ass, but I landed it perfectly.” ⏤littleredhoodlum

I tried to prove that I could do a handstand once while incredibly drunk at a wedding. I cannot do one even when sober… It’s a miracle I didn’t break my skull when my arms buckled and I cracked my head on the concrete outside the venue. Thank goodness no one recorded it.

“I (at an age like 9-10) wanted a cookie that my friend had. Said friend proceeded to lick the entire cookie thoroughly. Still, want it? He said, holding it out. Dumbass me proceeded to grab it and eat it in one bite.

“Total power move looking back on it.” ⏤benx101

I had a friend who did something similar with a piece of chewing gum that someone else had been eating, and the thought of it still makes me retch to this day!

“I let a black widow spider bite me to prove that they were venomous but not deadly. I also won a $150 bet.” ⏤Pogo1974

Nope, there’s no way that I would be doing this for any amount of money! This person went on to say, “It did inject venom. The spot was red, a little swollen, and somewhat sensitive to touch for a few days. The bet wasn’t that nothing would happen, just that it would not be life-threatening.”

“I told my 6th-grade friends I could [jump] off a two-story roof and not get hurt. Guess who only got a scraped knee that day? Not me. I broke my leg…” ⏤DemiDork231

“As a kid, I told my friends I could hold my breath for a long time, long enough to pass out. And that’s exactly what I proceeded to do.” ⏤hellbentforleisure

I don’t know why kids are always competitive about who can hold their breath for the longest, but they are! We used to do it by seeing how long you could hold your breath underwater, which was incredibly dangerous looking back!

“Not me, but one of my former co-workers told us about the time he ate a tub of butter on a dare. He made it about halfway through and had to throw up. He said what came out was neon yellow. For the next month, the smell of butter made him gag, and when he sweated, he could still smell it.

“You’d think he’d learn, but he attempted the butter tub challenge a second time. This time, he paced himself and finished the whole thing! He said the problem, though, was eating it before having to catch a train. While he was waiting, his heart was racing, and he felt so excited, he did pushups and jumping jacks at Penn Station.” ⏤YounomsayinMawfk

“I was about four years old, and my grandfather was making something with buttermilk. I saw it in his hand, and I cried and screamed and begged to have some. He kept saying, ‘No, you won’t like it!’, but I persisted. He finally poured me an entire glass. I took one swig, and I’m sure he could see the disgust on my face because he looked like he had won. I stared at him right in his eyeballs as I chugged the entire glass.” ⏤steffinator117

I remember doing something similar when I first begged my mum to buy me a cheese string despite her protests that I wouldn’t like it. Sure enough, she was right, and I had to eat the whole plasticky thing.

“Parents put a curfew on the computer when I was ~12 during summer break. No gaming from 10 pm-6 am. A reasonable person would go to bed at 10-10:30 and wake up at 7 to play, right? 12 year old me just…stayed up until 6 am, woke up my parents, and played until noon. Then died until dinner.

“Rinse and repeat for a few days until my parents got sick of waking up at 6 am. Then I went back to gaming until like 2 am.” ⏤Hailene2092

Part of growing up is playing video games until ridiculous hours of the morning. That’s just a straight-up fact! Don’t take your kid’s childhood away from them like this!

“A buddy bet I couldn’t finish the spiciest chicken sandwich at this joint known for insanely spicy chicken in under 30 minutes. I knew I messed up when they gave me gloves to eat the sandwich so the sauce couldn’t touch my skin and made me sign a waiver.

“Won the bet, but really I lost in the end.” ⏤mixedwithmonet

I’m not too bad at eating challenges when quantity is the main goal, but the spiciness is a no-go for me!

“When I was 6, I stapled my fingers because I had convinced all of my friends that I had iron hands.” ⏤ShelikeMykicks

I bet that this quickly showed everyone that they very much didn’t have “iron hands” as they so believed! The giveaway was probably when the blood came pouring out!