Most exhilarating thing you've ever done?

[SnowLabrador]

For me, it would be parachuting off of a mountain on skis. How about you guys?

[PSOL]

Ziplining. The ride down while the wind blows, in especially such a lush environment, is exciting.

[Orwell]

rappelling

[Mr. Smith]

Cap-sized a kayak in the middle of a deep lake.

[Mike Thick]

Hmm. Tie:
 - Gave a speech at a rally I organized, with roughly 2,000 people in attendance, including most of my local elected officials and my Congresswoman.
 - Ripped my shirt from my body onstage during my last improv troupe show of senior year.

I had a diverse set of interests in high school

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

- Ripped my shirt from my body onstage during my last improv troupe show of senior year.

I had a diverse set of interests in high school

How did this go?

[Boobs]

Helped my dental hygienist fake her suicide and create a new identity so she could escape her abusive husband.

[PSOL]

Helped my dental hygienist fake her suicide and create a new identity so she could escape her abusive husband.

That...that definitely takes the cake

[Mike Thick]

- Ripped my shirt from my body onstage during my last improv troupe show of senior year.

I had a diverse set of interests in high school

How did this go?

I mean, people laughed and I didn’t get in trouble, so I’d call it a win

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

The thing I have done that made the most people laugh is definitely either playing Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew or playing Mr. Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor in high school.

Although in faith I should say that the most exhilarant character I played in some sense was the soothsayer from Julius Caesar, because I scared the hell out of people with my deep, possessed voice and that was so funny hahaha.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I don’t do fun things, so probably like...driving too fast on my way to the beach?

[Santander]

Hit the Pick 6 at Aqueduct in 2014. Unfortunately, 4 favorites and 2 second favorites won, and I realized the payout was only like $2000 instead of the more usual 5-figure sum. Still, it's awesome to be able to say I did it, and the win was thrilling.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Hit the Pick 6 at Aqueduct in 2014. Unfortunately, 4 favorites and 2 second favorites won, and I realized the payout was only like $2000 instead of the more usual 5-figure sum. Still, it's awesome to be able to say I did it, and the win was thrilling.

That's pretty neat! Lower payout, but I hit two superfectas on my 18th birthday. My friends who were largely at the track for the first time were just dumbfounded with "show me how to do that" pleas because of how confidently I placed the bet and then calmly yet smugly collected on the first race minutes later from the bet taker who had just asked "are you sure you're old enough to do this". Not sure I've ever hit a pick 4 or larger though. Naturally three years later my first legal sports bet nailed a 30:1 futures pick. Ah - first memories of a degenerate gambler.

I don't know if those experiences are 'exhilarating' but it was certainly a fond old time.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at WDW a couple years ago. I had neck pains that day, but for some reason doing loop-de-loops and going upside down helped a little?

[Santander]

Hit the Pick 6 at Aqueduct in 2014. Unfortunately, 4 favorites and 2 second favorites won, and I realized the payout was only like $2000 instead of the more usual 5-figure sum. Still, it's awesome to be able to say I did it, and the win was thrilling.

That's pretty neat! Lower payout, but I hit two superfectas on my 18th birthday. My friends who were largely at the track for the first time were just dumbfounded with "show me how to do that" pleas because of how confidently I placed the bet and then calmly yet smugly collected on the first race minutes later from the bet taker who had just asked "are you sure you're old enough to do this". Not sure I've ever hit a pick 4 or larger though. Naturally three years later my first legal sports bet nailed a 30:1 futures pick. Ah - first memories of a degenerate gambler.

I don't know if those experiences are 'exhilarating' but it was certainly a fond old time.

Nice! I can't recall hitting a super, but it's not a bet I've ever really played. I've hit several Pick 4s, but none of them were juicy, sadly. They're nice because bet minimums are low, so you can buy a lot of combinations for a small investment. In 2014, NYRA tracks were still on the traditional $2 Pick 6, so it was really a rich man and syndicate's game. I dumped many an afternoon's winnings into the Santa Anita Pick 6 back in the day. I don't bet the Pick 6 anymore now that most tracks have moved to the $0.20 Gulfstream-style Pick 6. Pick 3s and Exactas are my main exotic bets now.

[Hammy]

Two, both involving some 'light' hurricane chasing:

The first was driving through what was left of Charley's eyewall in 2004 on the east coast of Florida, in roughly 80 mph winds and managing not to get blown off the road or hit anything especially as the power went out.

The second was during Wilma, there was a hilly road next to the Indian River on the eastern side, I got stuck in one spot that was covered in 2-3 feet of surge and nowhere to turn around, so I had to drive up hill, in reverse, on a narrow two lane road with a sheer drop on the passenger side and no mirror (1993 Saturn and all) for about a half mile--in 50+ mph winds and blinding rain.

[dead0man]

probably flying solo cross country

(to be clear, I did NOT mean I flew a plane from one coast to the other)

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Uhh...not voluntarily, but my dad, myself, and park ranger getting stalked by a tiger in Ranthambore National Park was certainly exhilarating. 

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Streaked in my (gated) backyard a few times.

[TDAS04]

Probably when I went up in a hot air balloon at age 11.

[HillGoose]

a certain substance that i'm not going to name.

it wasn't exhilarating in a good way either.

[Torrain]

Get thrown 5 feet by a speeding car - cracking the windscreen, denting the bodywork and scraping my hip across the tarmac. Thought I was going to die, but limped away without any lasting damage - aside form a little psychological scarring, and the mother of all adrenaline rushes.

(First thing I did after getting up was deliriously apologise to the speeding driver for giving him a fright and an insurance bill, which tells you just exactly how British I really am)

[The Free North]

Living.

It's pretty awesome

[Crumpets]

Hmmm... probably being at a camp that had the brilliant idea of letting me go sailing in this kind of boat:



in this kind of weather

[The Dowager Mod]

Pushing a 9 pound baby out of my nether regions was pretty exhilarating.