What's something you've done that most people haven't?

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06 Jan 2023, 7:24 pm

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/\ I always hoped to see one when I lived near the Louisiana border but I never did.They are there , but not as many.
That was over thirty years ago, I think they are more plentiful now because we have opened a hunting season for them. :cry:

I always wanted a moat with a pet one.haha I will have to make do with my Iguana, she thinks she’s a gator at times.
Occasionally she gives me the stink eye and bites.

Sometimes we see and hear baby gators. They are amazing. They make little, almost bird-like chirps. When they're recently hatched, they flock together. Mom is not too far away and will guard them, so it pays to be a bit careful when bending down near the water to see them more closely.

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07 Jan 2023, 5:35 am

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Hitch-hiked across Europe.

I saw this then glanced at your age, and saw that you're almost the exact same age as I. It's probably not well known that hitchhiking alone across Europe was something young American women often did in the 70s, in fact they would not have traveled any other way. I would think the risk of rape was high. I talked to a woman in a rail station in Germany who had been raped while hitchhiking. I couldn't tell at the time how seriously traumatized she may have been. It wouldn't surprise me at all if some of those women saw consensual sex with a few of their rides to be an expected and welcome part of the experience, something to brag about with their posse over drinks, having come back from the trip. Although in those days there seemed to be a general understanding that European men were better in bed than American men. I don't think that's a thing anymore.

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12 Aug 2023, 10:14 pm

I feel like adding to this thread.

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12 Aug 2023, 10:35 pm

100 mile trip between two islands via hydrofoil!

Went to university and belonged to three honor societies!
Engineering, electrical engineering, and math.

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12 Aug 2023, 10:38 pm

Got sunburnt lying on silver metallic pads in the sun.
In Arizona.
As a redhead.

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12 Aug 2023, 11:04 pm

Ran an unlicensed FM radio station from my parents house.

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12 Aug 2023, 11:39 pm

Peed in a cup in a car in Boston.
Good thing I wasn't driving.

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13 Aug 2023, 11:58 am

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Peed in a cup in a car in Boston.
Good thing I wasn't driving.

You'd deserve a medal if you could do both at once.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:02 pm

^ That sounds like a challenge. :ninja:

Is it only applicable in Boston?

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13 Aug 2023, 12:13 pm

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^ That sounds like a challenge. :ninja:

Is it only applicable in Boston?

It seems like it would deserve a medal anywhere. :lol:

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13 Aug 2023, 12:15 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

TwilightPrincess wrote:

^ That sounds like a challenge. :ninja:

Is it only applicable in Boston?

It seems like it would deserve a medal anywhere. :lol:

That's a relief! Boston is pretty far away from me.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:20 pm

Hacked Red Vs Blues website in 2008.

Talk to someone all the way in England with a half watt walkie talkie.

Got lost in Amsterdam when really high.

Crap my pants in work after severe gastroenteritis.

Knowingly eaten poison hemlock but only a nibble.

Crashed a rental van and used Sharpie permanent marker to "fix" the damage.

Ran over my grandad with a motorbike.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:21 pm

^ Did your grandad have it coming or was it an accident?

No judgment either way.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:26 pm

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^ Did your grandad have it coming or was it an accident?

No judgment either way.

It was hard to tell as I was 7 years old at the time but I imagine he had it coming for whatever reason. It was Christmas and he probably didn't buy me what I wanted so clearly there was only one thing left to do.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:28 pm

Nades wrote:

TwilightPrincess wrote:

^ Did your grandad have it coming or was it an accident?

No judgment either way.

Yes, that sounds completely reasonable under the circumstances.

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13 Aug 2023, 12:28 pm

TwilightPrincess wrote:

Nades wrote:

TwilightPrincess wrote:

^ Did your grandad have it coming or was it an accident?

No judgment either way.

Yes, that sounds completely reasonable under the circumstances.

It certainly was. RIP grandad.

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