256. Ask for Happy
Go to a restaurant during Happy Hour, get a table and ask when is Happy show about to start. If they don’t fall for it, ask for a menu with an extra topping of Happy. If they send you to McDonalds to get a Happy Meal, tell them you have already been there to ask for a Sad Meal and they recommended the place you’re in right now.
257. Give someone a good scare
All people got a good scare once in their lifetime from some prankster. Pass the legacy!
258. Dance at the red light stop
Stop the car at the red light, get out of the car and… Oh, you already did it before? Never mind, do it again! Keep up the good job with not getting arrested.
259. Prepare for the zombie apocalypse
Go to the office with a backpack clearly stating on a label that it is a Zombie Apocalypse Survival Kit and an axe. Look suspicious to anybody trying to get the shovel or the backpack away from you.
260. Make funny sandwiches
Like the ones you see on the Internet and take them to the office. Tell everybody your mommy made them for you ’cause you were a good boy / girl. Share them with your colleagues, don’t act like a spoiled brat!
261. Get your friends over to see your man – eating plant
Spread some ketchup and some shreds of fur on and around one random house plant. Take your friends to see it. Upon entering the room scream in pain “Nooo, George, what have you done with Rex?!!”
262. Play Gollum for a whole day
Meet your colleagues with “Step right in my little Hobbitses and Goblinses” and from time to time whisper sinisterly during a meeting “Kill them…. kill them all…” then pretend you didn’t say or hear anything. Continue home with family or other friends without forgetting to ask for the ring or questioning them about the Precious. Don’t get … you know…
263. Play Frankenstein in the office
Open casually the office trash bin and all of a sudden scream It’s alive, it’s alive! Run out the door screaming. If you didn’t get fired by now, hold your breath…
264. Celebrate diversity
Dress up for Halloween as the Easter Bunny and sing Christmas carols.
265. Stare at someone’s food
You can do it in a fast food restaurant or any food court or diner. If they ask you why you’re staring, look at them in desperation and ask back “Can’t you see…it?” (emphasize on it). Lower your voice to a near-death whisper: Look at …it! Look… it stares at me… Leave before somebody calls the Police.
266. Wear colored eye contacts
Different from one another, like red and blue or yellow and green. Ask random people in the street what species are they.
267. Write a horror story
At night. In a cemetery. By the candlelight. If you survive your own fears, publish the story.
268. Haunt a place
If it’s not haunted yet. If it is, negotiate with the resident ghost. Scare people who come by, especially if the house has a certain reputation. It may be an old mansion, a bar, a theater, anything. Just make a good ghost.
269. Pick your person
Make a pact with the closest person to your heart that you will be each others’ “persons”. It may mean anything from emergencies to re-enacting the Hangover franchise together. Make a blood oath.
270. Play a Dalek all day
Randomly utter the famous “Exterminate, exterminate” phrase in the office while obsessively follow around some colleagues.
271. Get a plush ferret
Discretely place it in the office or around the house. Pretend to discover the creature then scream desperately “It’s gonna get us all!” Or you can get a real one, they make interesting pets.
272. Take skinny dipping to another level
If you and your friends are going to a beach club and you know you will eventually end up skinny dipping, well… re-enact some scenes from Jaws. It will scare the soul out of them and you will probably end up beaten up, but it’s worth the shot.
273. Film a viral video
Well it’s going to become viral if it’s good enough. Make a parody after a song, give a truthful speech or do something incredibly funny. Post it and promote it like crazy. Something like this maybe? Haters gonna hate, but look at the number of views since the day it was published.
274. Organize a food fight
You’ve seen the tomato fight, why not organize a pie fight with a bunch of friends and consider this being your Laurel and Hardy moment of a lifetime?
275. Organize a pillow fight
That is not something only kids will do. A good and fun pillow fight among friends is something to cherish for the rest of your lifetime. You can even set up a prize for the last one standing. Don’t cheat by filling the pillow with God knows what… *wink.
276. Pretend you found E.T.
Look inside from time to time and mutter “Are you alright in there? Do you have enough air? Do you want to phone home?“
277. Encourage the joggers
Get out with the car and follow slowly the joggers. Play ”Eye of the Tiger” really loud to encourage them in their efforts. Sing it like you mean it.
278. Photo bomb somebody
You have plenty of chances to get famous, even involuntarily. Well, maybe not famous, but at least you’ll have your fun.
279. Travel by shopping cart
If you’re thin enough to hold you, sit comfortably in a shopping cart and ask a friend to walk you around in it or through the parking lot. Reciprocate.
280. Play Matrix on a stranger
Go to somebody and tell them “You are the One! You have to come with me immediately!” Do some Matrix acrobatics too. Don’t… you know the drill…
281. Go to a frat party
That should be enough. However, pick some people, stare them deeply in the eyes, then tell them “I know what you did last summer.” Then ask where can you find their parents. Go dressed up as Marilyn Manson and you’ll have the memory of a lifetime.
282. Shop for a suitcase
Ask for a large one. Tell the seller you want to carry a dead body. Ask about the suitcase’s resistance to moisture. Don’t get arrested.
283. Play homeless
Hide a fresh sandwich in the cafeteria’s trash bin. When people gather for lunch, make them see you take the sandwich out of the trash and eat it. Tell them an emotional story on how you didn’t want let anybody know you live in the street and eat from trash cans. It won’t take long, the very first seconds are priceless. Don’t forget to wear your best business suit that day.
284. Spread a little panic, but no viruses
Ride a public transportation means at a busy hour, look sick, take a seat, pull out a recorder out of your pocket and record: “Day 10: the disease seems to be worse now. They think is airborne…” Don’t end up in some CDC laboratory.
285. Become an X – Files character
You can try it in the office bathroom or a small shop’s dressing room. Yell “This is not happening! It bleeds! And it’s green!”. It’s abit dangerous in large public places, who knows who might take you in for questioning?
286. Wish the best to your friends
On Mother’s Day, call your male friends and wish all the best to their woman side.
287. Pet a tarantula
Call it a silly name. When people ask you why you’d pet a spider, answer them you experiment on it to mutate so when it bites you, you become Spiderman.
288. Play Statler and Waldorf with friends
Sit on a bench with friends in a public place and comment about the people passing by and the events that take place in the street. Use your fantasy. Use sarcasm.
289. Nap in the bus in the Sleep Suit
Only for those having sleep issues and secretly wishing to just take a nap wherever, in a park, in the mall, at the office or in a pub. This concept suit is more of a futuristic contraption backed up by a lot of engineering. Seems to protect people from outdoor environmental risks while they Zzzzzzz in public. Worth a shot!
290. Be a tech geek for a day
Make a modded electronic cigarette out of anything you can think of and take it to the office. It doesn’t mater if you’re a vaper or not, the thing will look awesome anyway.
291. Play video games for charity
It’s no fun if you’re a gamer, but if you’re not, enter some gaming competition with money prizes and set your goal to win so you can donate the money to a worthy cause you believe in.
292. Have “brain stuffing” for the Thanksgiving turkey
Invite people for Thanksgiving dinner. Tell them the surprise will be brain stuffed turkey. Open the door wearing a turkey on your head (install a camera and record their reactions). Cook a different turkey.
293. Call your boys to a pole dancing night at your house
Show them this and then watch sports in compensation… You can try get rid of the horrific thing after the prank…
294. Dedicate the Ultimate “Fuck You” song to somebody that did something very bad to you. Usually used as a definitive break-up song.
Make sure you never see each other again. Like really sure. Don’t play with fire, after you break up with this song, there is no come back.
295. Make a sexy / kinky photo shooting and send the pictures to your partner
Surprise him / her with some hot pics (art not porn though, those are no fun) and make sure the business remains only between the two of you.
296. Go to a bar and try to pick up a complete stranger with the cheesiest line ever
See if it works.
297. Go to a student dorm and share free condoms
Advertise with “Cheaper than baby carriages and antibiotics.”
298. Offer to walk a dog’s friend
Come back without the dog but bringing instead a can of liver paste. Hand it to him / her and say “They promised it tastes like chicken…” Bring the dog back into the house in the next two minutes if you still want to live or have friends.
299. Do the Twerking in a mall
Don’t let the cameras see your face! You don’t want to get arrested or sent to people in white coats. But if you are to dance in a mall, be in the trends!
300. Write your own personal Bucket List of things to do once in a lifetime
Share it around! Include things you’ve done, things you’re likely to do and things that you wish you do. Inspire people!
Well, if you read up to here, congratulations! Hope you at least had some fun with our impossible, doable, less doable or downright crazy ideas of things to do once in a lifetime. So the question is, do you have your own bucket list? Do you even have a piece of paper displaying at least 10 things you’d love to do before you die? Many people do, but not so many people actually act on their desires. Do you dare act on yours?
Sammy says
I would say that is a list full of surprises. Who does not want to live his life without regrets? Too bad that we are stopped, usually by many things like money, family and sometimes even by ourselves and our own conceptions.