Moments were you've suprised yourself

[MrMastodonFarm]

Anyone have any moments where you've thought "geez, that was smart" or "I can't beleive I did this"

A quick one off the top of my head, I was playing the board game Scattagories with my lady friend, my brother and his fiance. The word R was rolled and one of the topics was crime. Trying to think out of the box the word Regicide popped into my head. The deliberate Killing of a Monarch.. I knew that.. suprised the hell out of me.

[Cube Inmate]

Those "I can't believe I did this" moments invariably go the other way for me.

[Reaper]

Hooray for the Simpsons! When you're on the air as long as that show has been eventually you're going to hit on every topic to some degree.

[Hemi-Cuda]

when i was still in High School and was throwing around some hackysack bags for fun and suddenly realized i could juggle. never practiced at it or even really attempted it before, but there i was juggling and blowing my mind at the same time. i wasn't and am still not really that good at it, but i can still manage it for a few tosses

[J pold]

Last semester in my Calc class we where learning related rates which I thought was impossible anyways some friends and I where studying…none could get any of the questions without help from the teacher including me, when it came test time I thought I had bombed for sure…when we got our mark back I got 19/20 the second highest mark among my friends was 11

EDIT: Edit and the only reason I didn’t get 20/20 was because I didn’t write down the derivative of a constant as 0! Ahh I just remembered that frustration!

[Dion]

I remember going on a class trip to England years ago. On the flight over some of the guys and teachers where playing nickel poker. They asked me if I wanted in and I said I didn't know how to play. So they gave me the basics of game and I joined. lol By the time were arrived I had cleaned everyone out. Needless to say the wouldn't let me play on the way home

[Ford Prefect]

I scored 100% on my math 30 final somehow. I don't have a clue how because I would have failed the course otherwise. It was a muliple choice test, so in theory I could have gone an incredibly luck guessging streak, because I sure didn't know all of the anwsers.

[Cowperson]

I'm surprised I haven't already used the moderator functions to change "were" in this thread title to "where."

Cowperson

[Blaster86]

I think it's funny that he used were as where and jpold used where as were. It tickles my insides.

Moments of I can't believe it? The last one was in retrospect. I was playing some floor hockey and I tore my calf, got up lifted someone stick and then rifled the ball top-shelf. In retrospect both me and the doctor are shocked that I did that and now I can't really believe I did it.

[prarieboy]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

I scored 100% on my math 30 final somehow. I don't have a clue how because I would have failed the course otherwise. It was a muliple choice test, so in theory I could have gone an incredibly luck guessging streak, because I sure didn't know all of the anwsers.

Well done. So did I and I'm still suprised.
I remember agruing in the cafeteria afterwards with one guy about the solution to a particular problem. Finding out later I was correct sure felt good.

[Prototype]

Grade 6... walking around Heritage Park with my Dad. Some kids were playing catch with a football, when one toss went off target. It was heading right for my Dad's stomach. A split second before it did, I reached over and snaged it with the tip tickling his bellybutton. I looked down and hadn't realized what I just did until I looked up at him...

I wish I had that feeling more often. My life is filled with so much mediocraty (sp?) that I don't experience that euphoria that often...

[STeeLy]

This is bad...

I was playing badminton and since the shuttle was high, I was going for a smash... I had no idea where my opponent was... did a small jump and smashed it right on his forehead...

[socalwingfan]

I was playing first base in softball and a girl had a base hit to right field so I stopped paying attention to the play. The RF decided to gun the ball into first and try to get her out, and somehow out of the corner of my eye I spotted the throw and made the catch just as the ball was going straight for her head. The look on her face is something I will never forget

[metallicat]

Throughout grade 12, I was scoring horribly on my English 30 essays. I was doing bad enough that getting into post secondary was in jeopardy. I worked my ass off trying to improve my writing, and I got 49/50 on the diploma exam, which pulled my mark up enough to get accepted when I finally went back to school. Still one of the proudest moments of my life for me.

[chris lindberg]

I stacked 40 pennies on my elbow and caught them all!

[Table 5]

I'm surprised how I can completely and utterly misread women beyond human comprehension.

Eg. Out of all the full and part time girls in this company (and there are only 2 guys on the entire floor, including me), guess who Table 5 goes and asks out yesterday?

That's right, the office lesbian.

Really sad thing? Not the first time this has happened...

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I was good enough to go to my first Taekwondo tourney as a yellow belt (which you aren't suppose to be able to participate until you're green belt). That's not the surprising thing. Surprising thing is I came away 3rd place. Beating guys 4 belts higher than me. That was the most surprising moment for me.

[doozwimp]

Changed schools this year. I had always liked to think that I did fairly well in sports but before this year I was the kid who tried "too hard" as oppossed to being considered a good athlete. Playing floor hockey I managed to deke past two guys (both lightweights) before being confronted by someone who plays competitive hockey. (I dont) I changed to back-hand (I shoot left), moved a couple steps, then quickly moved my stick fore-hand and shot top right and scored. From then on it is something I feel I am respected for. Unfortunately I am a loser in other areas at life.

[Dion]

While playng golf today at Nanton today I sunk a 70 foot putt for birdie. Guys joked that they'd buy me a few beers if I sunk the putt. Beer tasted great btw

[BlackArcher101]

I made it to work on time today. I'm still shocked.