What’s the strangest thing
you’ve ever done
for charity?
Today I’m playing dodgeball for charity. My company has an initiative where it donates a day of service from all of its employees to a cause of their choice. Last year I chaperoned a class of 10 year-olds on a tour of several local farms to help them learn about agriculture. It was fun, but it also meant getting cow poop on my shoes, so when the opportunity to play my favourite gym class game (which we called “King’s Court”) arose, I jumped at it.
I’m not usually much for charitable events that actually require I do something except donate money (that said, I do own three naked drawings of medical students I got at a couple of very memorable silent auctions), so this is as wild I’ve gotten doing-good-for-humanity wise. I suspect many of you have done things 10,000x more outrageous and now is the time to start bragging about them!
I’ve done my share of bike-a-thons and walk-a-thons and even a sail-a-thon. But the oddest charity event I ever did was a wing-a-thon to benefit cerebral palsy when I was eleven years old. I had to get sponsors to donate based on how many chicken wings I ate. As an eternally hungry pre-teen boy, that was a lot. A real lot.