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I was out to a team dinner for work once at a nice Sushi restaurant. There were 6 of us there, two women Ali and Angela and two men Mark and Shaun and my boss and me. Mark and Shaun were always goofing off and challenging one another but I tended to stay out of it, so did Ali and Angela.
For some reason, at dinner I decided to put a $20 bill on the table and say, "whoever eats this entire ball of wasabi can have this." The ball of wasabi was about the size of a golf ball.
If anyone, I fully expected Mark or Shaun to be the ones to do it, but instead Ali (a petite, mother of two from Minnesota-heart of an angel, super, super nice lady) grabbed the $20, put it in her purse and then grabbed the wasabi and downed it. She did this all so fast that none of us had time to talk her out of it. Within minutes she turned red, her eyes were extremely blood-shot and she couldn't talk. She was a mess. It took at least an hour before she returned to normal. The hardest earned $20 in history.
I felt horrible.
What about you? Any dares or pranks to speak of?
I handed a friend a green pepper (think pencil shaped/sized) on a stick in a nice middle class Indian cafe and said "eat this." We were the only two white guys in there and before any of the more sensible people with pepper reference could stop him - chomp, chomp, swallow.
Four of five mano lassies later he could talk. He said bad words.
Two years later at my going away party in a different place, with 100 of our team there, he handed me a similar pepper and everyone chorused "eat this." It was horrible.
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