What do you do for money, honey?

[Capt Jack]

ok, inspired by this thread what is the (dumbest/craziest/worst/most noteworthy) thing you've ever done for a buck?

this could cover jobs, bets, dares, schemes etc. whatever...

if you did it for a buck and its a story worth telling.....c'mon...spill.

[Prudence]

I'm supposed to do those things for money?! Geeze, I've been going about this all wrong.

[Strangler Lewis]

I hit someone's boss in the face with a cream pie for a dollar.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I hit someone's boss in the face with a cream pie for a dollar.

Now my stupidest job that arguably passed as show biz was senior year in high school when I worked for a company that supplied cartoon characters to car dealerships in the southland to stand outside and wave at passing cars and occasionally play with kids on the lot. I typically dressed as Spider Man. Except of course, this guy didn't have the rights to any of his characters, so I was called "Web Man." A typical conversation would go:
Boss: "Hey, kids, come meet Web Man."
Kids: "Hi, Spiderman."
Boss: "No, no, kids. This is Web Man."
Kids: "Huh?"

The job was mostly lame, although I did get mooned and flashed a lot, and once I got to be Crazy Rabbit at the Special Olympics, which was cool except I nearly passed out in the costume.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I consider this one enterprising, not dumb, but I actually set up a mini mid-way in my backyard and charged neighborhood kids something like a nickle to get in. Ring toss, knock the bottles over, etc. For prizes, I had a box full of stickers and little plastic toys that I'd accumulated. Damn that was fun.

Other than that, I haven't done much. I've had friends who have done pleanty. One licked a microscope slide smeared with sea urchin sperm for a couple bucks in a high school bio class. In college, there was "Joe Joe the Idiot Circus boy" who on separate occasions ran full speed into a tree for something like $2.50 and slammed a fibreglass polevault pole onto his foot for another few bucks.

[Crystal]

hmmm......ah, what the hell, if I don't post it SacTown will.....

A few years back, SacTown dared me to go to Target,wearing my bra on the OUTSIDE of my shirt. So, I did. And it was freakin' hilarious! The look on the checker's face was priceless, and people were looking at SacTown like he was the crazy one, not me. He paid me 10 bucks, but I'd have done it for free just to see the public reaction.

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I consider this one enterprising, not dumb, but I actually set up a mini mid-way in my backyard and charged neighborhood kids something like a nickle to get in. Ring toss, knock the bottles over, etc. For prizes, I had a box full of stickers and little plastic toys that I'd accumulated. Damn that was fun.

Me too! Sorta... When I was 8 I put on a one-kid circus: I was the ringmaster, lion, clown, etc. and I charged the neighbor kids a nickel (that must be the going kid-rate) to see the show! And they paid! Fueled by my success, later that year I mounted my one-kid production of Brigadoon. No, I'm not kidding!

[Alex]

I once ate an entire (though smallish) apple in a single bite, getting the whole thing into my mouth whole. For a while there I was close to panic and afraid I'd have to go to the emergency room to get it cut out of me since I could chew at all and it was going to come back out. All told it probably took 20 minutes before I managed to get it down.

My high school was across the street from the local community college and I was one of the first three kids in our school district allowed to go take courses there during the day to supplement my high school work. The district was also very strict about not leaving campus at lunch. The CC had a cooking school and therefore had a cafeteria operated by that cooking school and in the cafeteria was a bakery. Every day I'd go to the bakery and buy up a bunch of items (individual pies, cakes, cream puffs, etc.) return to school with them and sell them at amazing profit to the kids trapped on campus for lunch.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

Fueled by my success, later that year I mounted my one-kid production of Brigadoon. No, I'm not kidding!

I did my performances pro bono. For family, mostly. They included an all-teddy-bear production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," a one-child "The New Moon" and, the perennial girl-child performance venue, "Annie."

Oh, and there was a two-child "The Little Mermaid" lip-synch production. My younger cousin and I were both theater bugs, and I cast it and directed it myself. I was always good at casting myself in the best role for me (instead of the role that I wanted.) I cast her-- cute little ingenue she always was-- as Ariel and the chef (because I was playing Sebastian. And Ursula; she was my favorite.) One must double-cast when two people are portraying an entire movie.

Later in my life I'd go in the opposite direction-- instead of one person playing two parts, it was two people playing the role of Hamlet. And after all of those years, my parents were still sitting through my dreck.

[lizziebith]

As an adult, the worst job I had was a brief stint at a nursing home. I had to do the bathing, and the old guys were completely perverted. I suppose I had my revenge, though, in that I always got to give them their last (and by last I mean posthumous) bath. I'd use the opportunity to tell them what I thought of them. Yes, I know my complaints were falling on deaf I mean dead ears, but that, in itself, was the revenge. I am going to hell.