People share what happened after they decided to follow through with a 'bad' idea.

It's important to trust your instincts and gut reaction sometimes and choose not to do something even if it seems appealing, but most of us have at least one story where we succumbed to a particularly risky temptation...Weighing the consequences of every decision and balancing all possible outcomes is an important part of growing up, but every once in awhile a seemingly "bad" idea could end up being a funny story, or overall positive experience. It can be tricky to find the difference between courageously facing a fear and potentially putting yourself in danger, but most of us have been in a situation that we knew wasn't the smartest choice. Everyone makes mistakes, but there is something extra painful about regretting a choice you knew was a bad one to begin with.So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What's your best 'this is a bad idea...let's do it anyway' moment?" people were ready to share stories of when they decided to dive fully into a questionable decision.1. When I was in high school and had my own job to buy things with, I decided I would buy a 4L pail of ice cream, a 2L bottle of A&W root beer and make a giant root beer float. I then proceeded to eat/drink the entire thing over the course of a hockey game. I did not throw up but I definitely did not feel like eating supper that night. - ZurEnArrhBatman 2. Driving a car on a beach when I'd never done it before. Immediately got stuck right at the bottom of the ramp going to the beach. Luckily there was a nice guy with a jeep that went and bought a tow rope and pulled me out. Right after he pulled me out, another person did the same thing and got stuck in the same spot, so he pulled them out too. - likemong 3. Bought an abandoned mansion out of foreclosure that used to be a hoarder house. 4 years into a 2 year renovation plan and we're not quite half done. Gotta say though, if you need to spend a year at home this is the house to do it in. Plenty of space for every task and still have room to run laps. - Iwanttobealion-tamer 4. Wasn't me but my second older brother (he was 7 I think at the time) was trying to light a bush in our backyard on fire while my oldest brother (10 years old) stood next to him and watched while saying "I wouldn't do that if I were you". The best part was when my dad caught them and asked what my brother was doing he looked at my dad and said with a straight face "I'm trying to talk to God through the burning bush". My dad laughed so hard that he didn't get into trouble. - Angelic_Demonness 5. In high school my brother was having a birthday party at our house and we had a pool. We took an air compressor and duct taped a hose on it and used it to breathe under water. Then we started tying people to pool chairs and throwing them in the deep end with the hose to breathe with see how long it would take to escape. We progressively made more and more difficult restraints. Several times the hose would come out of someone’s mouth and we’d have to dive in and raise the persons head above water. How no one drowned that day I have no idea. - everyoneswaiting 6. In high school I had a science project that we had all year to complete. I kept finding reasons to put it off until I realized I had only a week to complete my project. Realizing I wouldn't get it done I decided to fake it. I was one of the first called to present my project. I presented my faked project on the white board by drawing pictures of what I had intended to do and making up numbers for how long a mouse could live without oxygen in a 5 gallon bottle compared to how long they could live with a plant sealed in with them. One of my classmates asked if I really killed mice and what I did with them. I said that i had and just fed them to my cats. In the end I ended up with a B for standing in front of the class and spouting a bunch of BS. - BlkScorp84 7. Got married after 2.5 months of knowing my now husband. Still married to him. 11 years and counting. - _FailedSuccessfully 8. I sorta spontaneously quit my job so I could drive around in a van for a year. - WarPotential7349 9. Me with my dad and my brother: let's play football today, we're 800km far away from our house and it's raining. Lol, I broke all bones of my left leg, I fainted several times of the pain during the 8 hours of travel to the hospital where I attend regularly (before I went to a little hospital in a village and They put a temporary plaster in my leg), when I arrived, a lot of curious people were watching how doctors and my parents were trying to take me out of the car and how I was crying bc of the pain, I've had a week in the hospital and five months in a wheelchair. - nazaberry 10. Some friends and I thought it'd be fun to make torches out of ripped clothes tied around sticks and pouring gasoline on them. Almost set his front door on fire. - SquigglyDoodlePerson 11. Fireworks wars...light and point fireworks at each other. - Pathologicguy 12. Jumping off a bridge in Austria. It was only about 5/6m high into deep water. Loads of my friends had done it including off the upper beam over 10 metres. I thought about it and thought about it, then jumped. Stayed pretty straight going down, don't think I messed up, but it still hurt - Bikeboy76 13. My best friend and I got wasted one night and drove 500 miles to Niagara Falls the next day. - Jarhead41235 14. Opened our local KFC after hours to have a party. (We all worked there). Had a lot of wine, (case of Boone's Farm Strawberry Fields), started up fryers for late night snack. Cleaned our mess so as not to be detected. No one ever knew. - GenieInABottle1985 15. Went on a little tourist “cruise” in the Baltic area (with 3 friends) that basically only existed so those onboard could buy duty-free food & liquor. We bought chocolates, cookies, & something else (not liquor) that I forget now, & ate all of it before we even docked. I was ill for hours—but it cured me of wanting any sweets for about 2 weeks. - SnooPickles3213 16. My third, no fourth, Vegas wedding - TaloneyeMan 17. Water skiing at night. Shallow water is closer than you think. - jackfishkim 18. We did a super high five. Arms fully extended. Using the full force of centrifuge as we swung our arms. It hurt. It really really really hurt. - AnakinSkydiver