Nothing really.
Taking illegal steroids at 41 was likely the biggest risk I’ve taken in a long time.
I used to drink and drive a lot, many times had to look outside in the morning to see if my car was there.
Nothing else really amazing, normal shit we all do, like drive to fast (270 km racing against a AMG Mercedes in my Magnum SRT, 295 km, 1100cc Kawasaki)
Had a Monte Carlo SS I had reworked the suspension on so it cornered really well, ran 295/60’s summers all the way around, racing a mustang down a hill in Edmonton by the Kinsmen Pool. That road is really swervy, totally beat him, but gravel in my lane at the bottom of the road at the tightest turn so I flew over the curb. My brother and I are like, yeah we lived, my wife was punching me (girlfriend atvthe time) yelling at me saying I can’t kill her because she’s a mother.
Actually I think the most risky thing I have ever done was shutting down my business in Edmonton, packing all the equipment into a moving company’s 53’ trailer and starting over again in Kingston, without knowing anything about the place. I trusted my wife, she had lived there for 7 years before she moved to Edmonton. First time I saw Kingston was when we had already sold our house in Edmonton and came for a week to buy one here. Start of the month I pulled in on Montreal Street went thru downtown, all the welfare people hanging on the streets after payday (I was from Alberta, wtf is welfare?), I turned to my wife, “I guess we are doing a discount meat shop here instead of a high end one?”, she’s like, “It’s been 15 years, I know there is a good end”.
It was scary, we both worked at the shop, we had no income, $70,000 to get things started, had to live off that until the shop was built, I was used to living off a lot more. I walked around to businesses and handed out coupons to their staff for 2 free marinated ribeye steaks, no catch, gave away $40,000 in steak in the first 3 months, only person who got paid was the part time kid. Thank god hydro one was estimating my power bills to be like 200 a month not the 800 it really was, owed them 4000 at the end of the year. I was so stressed some days I couldn’t breathe, thought I was going to have a heart attack, I know nothing else, this is all I’ve done since I was 16. 36 years old and no experience at anything, it had to work, butchers working elsewhere don’t get paid shit, plus Kingston’s economy was nothing like Edmonton’s during the boom.
But it paid off, lots of 80+ hour weeks, kissing a lot of ass, did much better than I though I would in sales the first year. By end of year two I was as busy as the Edmonton store. I think the scariest part was thinking I wasn’t going to make it, that I’d be a failure, so I guess that was the riskiest thing I have ever done.