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

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My goodness.

Developed and operated a rapid procedure for cooking omelette and cheese on toast for 2 people and hot tea for one in about 7 minutes including cleaning all the utensils used. They were good meals too, nothing undercooked or overcooked, nothing gone cold. Worked every time.

Enraged and envious, Satan* forced me to move to a new place that doesn't have a proper cooker on its own high-current circuit, making it rather a tricky problem to simultaneously operate my new Farberware double hotplate and my electric kettle without tripping a breaker which only the landlord's slow maintenance man is authorised to reset. I've solved that by operating the kettle from the washbasin socket via an extension cable which is on a separate circuit. I've laid the cable such that nobody can trip over it. And I have cunning plans for whittling my labour time from its current 20 minutes down to the original impressive time. I love sticking it to Satan.*

*I haven't gone all superstitious. I use the term "Satan" to symbolise rotten luck. No offense to Satanists intended.

He's telling the truth. I heard the results and was thoroughly impressed. I'm quite good at enhancing sound recordings myself, but his aptitude far exceeds mine.

Wrote a calculus proof on the blackboard of classroom with an audience!

Touched live venomous snakes as well (worked at a Scout camp and was the designated snake catcher)

Run a pirate radio station also (Weird Radio 87.9 - random shuffle of just about every kind of music)

Accidently slept in a cemetery (was backpacking and didn't realize it was an old cemetery until after dark with a flashlight)

Was on the national news (in the background during an Associated Press interview. Didn't realize it till I saw myself. Had not noticed interview going on)

Was struck by lightning.

I own 3 wolf-hybrids descended from one of the wolves used in the movie "Dances with Wolves"


Skydived 1000+ times, 50 of them being naked jumps.

Slept on the steps in front of the main train station in Venice, Italy.

Got sneezed on by a Llama.

Wrote and published 5 books

Does playing hockey count? I sometimes forget most people aren't Canadian.

I've tasted another person's blood when I was 9. An 8 year old girl that my mum babysat told me that blood tasted like ladybugs which was my favourite thing at the time. She squeezed a little bit of blood out of one of her newly pierced ears and I tasted it. I was sent to my room for a half an hour.

Survived 2 heart attacks.  Many people do not survive the first.

Well, that’s good.

When my dad had a serious heart attack around August 2021 and landed in the hospital for a month, they told him he’d had several/many heart attacks over the years and he just didn’t know it. Chances are there are a lot of people that survive multiple heart attacks, especially when they’re so minor they don’t even realize it nor seek medical attention.

Here’s a new one for me: Lost my kiteboard in the ocean on a gusty day & got rescued by a seadoo… then ~5 weeks later got the board returned as someone found it washed up near some train tracks and it had my contact info on it. The new one I bought is light years better, but still, nice to get things returned when they’re lost in the ocean - doesn’t happen to too many people! (But it has happened to other kiters.. and other boards just disappear; like my first one.)

My whole life has been weird. One thing though, I owned my own house before I could (legally) buy myself some wine to drink to celebrate the purchase of that house. That's not common. I think.

I watched my friend give birth.

Held and iguana

Helped take care of three dying people at home: boyfriend and parents. They died in 2015, 2018, and 2021 and I'm still not over it.

{{{ Hugs }}}


I've done the same for my dad, and for a friend who passed in March.

I'm sorry for your losses.

I went to see one of The Kinks in person in 1997. Ray Davies The Storyteller. How many people can say that they did that?

I made it through all 12 pages...an impressive thread.
I have a few in common with others.
Sleeping in a mausoleum because it was the driest place I could find.
Learned to fly
Hitched across Europe/UK

Have sheared hundreds of alpacas
Have made hundreds of rockets
Have run through Brazilian rainforest shooting a bow and arrow (world nature games)
Done a speaker stack stage dive.
Flew a paper aeroplanes (rings) from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Empire State and forwards on a 747 (blow dart, for speed record)
Trapezed on a Hobie cat with a shark fin next to my head.
Stood next to a tank firing it's main gun.
Watched artillery remove the top six feet of a mountain.
Escaped a serial killer
Was a Grand Master Bowman for a year.
Got out of the pool halfway through a race, jumped back in and still got to the other end first (disqualified)
Have 53 platinum coils and a nickel titanium stent in my brain
Have 4 feet of plastic aorta/iliac/femoral arteries.
Watched Ross from the Cosmic Psychos swinging a full beer can from his Prince Albert on stage.(Funniest gig EVER)
Hugged Joey Ramone
Fell off a cliff holding a torch, landed holding a battery.
Had all my hair stand on end when lightning vaporised my 20m dipole over the water tank.
(Behind which a ghost often walked into the old milking shed)
Rescue microbats from cobwebs.
Relocate Red-bellied blacks (snakes)
Do not relocate King Browns
Own a train carriage (and the farm it sits on)
Seem to host the National Raven Jamboree every other year
Know how disturbing it is to see the rear end of a mother antechinus
Patted dolphins while tied to a bowsprit
Lost my trunks riding the boom net off the Keppel island ferry.
Couldn't catch a fish at a trout farm.
Have blown an ostrich egg by mouth (not recommended)
Had my thumb squashed in a cabin door at 1 yo migrating downunder.
Swam 2 km in an aquaduct
Climbed every damned statue and landmark I could (until one of the Nullarbor whales defeated me) The Wall St Bull took the best picture

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