Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not

[Ice man]

Have swum in the Peace and Wapiti rivers in northern Alberta (cold)

Told the biggest cop I've ever seen that he was in the wrong restaraunt because the doughnut shop was just down the street.

Won a dart tournament.

Had a hole in one with witnesses.

Experienced -48(celsius) temperature without having to leave my home town (really freakin' cold)

 

[megamania]

11. Concieved my first child within a tent as a family of french-canadains parked their car next to us with their headlights on the tent. Their kids were dancing and saying something french doing circles around our tent. I can only guess what they were saying

12. Walked across Lake Champlain (well- nearly- swam 20 feet of it since it was over my head then)

13. Met Michael J. Fox, Paul Newman, G Bush Senior and a famous oscar winning actress that I forget the name of now here in Arlington.

14. Role playing contests at Cons- I'm 3 for 3 victories currently

15. Out whined and out cried everyone here in the past week

16. Have four active storyhours running at the same time.

 

[Michael Tree]

1. Met and worked with dozens of people who have been tortured (it's my job)

2. Testified as an expert witness in Department of Homeland Security legal hearings

3. Had police officers draw their guns on me and order me to freeze (Friends and I were sparring with foam-and-pvc weapons, and the police thought we were attacking each other with baseball bats)

4. Most of the women I've dated have had the same name (My three girlsfriends I've had were Sarah, Tara, and Sarah, and I've dated a disproportionate number of Sarahs as well.)

5. Shook hands with B.B. King

 

[Jdvn1]

I was a waiter for a while in Dallas... when I was transferred to Houston, every waiter on the floor thanked me for being there to help them.

"Spilled" milk on a father and his kid... then again, didn't help that the kid reached up and grabbed the tray. I got blamed for it nonetheless.

Was camp counselor at a camp for kids with epilepsy.

Evaluated Kindergardeners to know what level they were at for in inner city school.

Gave a homily.

Played clarinet/flute duets with a friend in a park.

 

[LightPhoenix]

4. Most of the women I've dated have had the same name (My three girlsfriends I've had were Sarah, Tara, and Sarah, and I've dated a disproportionate number of Sarahs as well.)

I have kind of the same thing, but it's with girls named Katie.

Five things.

1) I came extremely close to dying in a blizzard. I was delirious and hallucinating, and I don't know how I broke into the nearby movie theaters to this day. I lost a big chunk of time.

2) I am allergic to McCormick blue food coloring, and have had strong reactions to it.

3) Had the entire SUNY Binghamton public safety force searching for me because I was sick with mono and threatened a nurse practicioner's life. She deserved it though, my tonsils were touching each other and she told me to eat something and they'd tell me if I had mono in "a few" days. A stat monospot test takes five minutes. I could barely swallow saliva, let alone eat.

4) I freely admit and talk about my father being a crack addict who sleeps around with requisite crack whores... just to make other people uncomfortable. I mean, he is, what else is there to say? It's unfortunate, but it's what happened. At least I get to watch people squirm.

5) Been trashed out of my gourd on vodka, with cute drunken theater girls screaming in the background, explaining to a friend how the citric acid cycle works the day before a test... and remembering every last detail. Tom hates me to this day, I think.

Because I felt like adding a sixth, about a famous person...

6) Had my ass grabbed by Hillary Clinton. It was an accident, I think. My gf at the time was the president of the College Democrats, and I got a picture taken with her (which I think my ex still has). She grabbed my ass instead of my waist by accident.

 

[Treebore]

1. Survived a medical complication that had a one percent chance of survival.
2. Several years later survived another medical complication that only 3 out of 10,000 have survived. ( I think that is a 0.0003% chance)
3. Survived being nailed by a 450 AMP electrical system, I was luckily thrown several feet instead of grabbed.
4. Like many submariners, I have spent several years of lifetime under water.
5. Found two old 1920's slot machines in an old limestone quarry in Ohio (under about 30 feet of water) that had coins in it valued at over $70,000.00 (old silver dollars) at the time. I got $500.00.

 

[Sejs]

1. Started what is now a yearly tradition amongst my circle of friends, of going on a camping trip solely to game in the wilderness.

2. Been homeless for nearly a year. During that time, living in such illustrious locales such as my volvo, various friends couches, and the boiler room of an unused strip mall's warehouse space.

3. Picked up my life and moved 500 miles away to be with the woman I loved but had never met, and would later marry.

4. Forgiven a grudge.

5. Shoved glue-soaked cotton balls up dead peoples' bottoms. Professionally.

 

[RangerWickett]

1. I flew on the KC-135 vomit comet, NASA's zero-gravity simulation plane. (And yes I got very sick.)

2. I faked three news reports on major upcoming D&D releases - Tome & Blood, Song & Silence, and Masters of the Wild. (This is what started my D&D-writing career).

3. I got pulled over for doing 90 in a 65 zone because I didn't want to be late to a tupperware party. (We were very late.)

4. I've played Strip Dance Dance Revolution. (I lost.)

5. I've been banished from a school. (I said some rude things over the morning announcements on the last day of school in 9th grade, as protest against a school all the students hated. I was not allowed to take my exams, and was never allowed back at the school again. The next year the school was changed into an elementary school, so it never existed again. And I passed with low Cs despite missing the finals, and still ended up being valedictorian when I graduated 3 years later.)

 

[Gunslinger]

-retired a flag (properly)
-fired a replica civil war-era mountain howitzer
-met both current senators from my state, and talked politics with the Rep from my district
-rappelled down a cliff
-started an irl relationship with a girl I met online, and this fall I am transferring to a university on the other side of the country to be with her.

 

[Turanil]

<...> after 16 years and loving that we still make love every day (not exaggerating, didnt realize this wasn't normal until it became a big joke amoung my married friends).<...>

Lucky man indeed!! A true achievement in the field of things nobody else do!!

Okay, I will remember you are most probably the only one to be able to do that, if I ever got to get married again in the future...