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

[Ghostwind]

2. Swung from a balcony and down through a (closed, ouch) window to surprise my naked girlfriend while only wearing a Batman cape and cowl. (Don't ask)

Oh, come on... You know that we are all dying to ask...

5. Helped steal a T-72 Main Battle Tank and try to convince everyone it "just appeared" in the CO's parking spot.

Now this is a story begging to be told.

 

[Ghostwind]

Seems like the squirrel got the last laugh on you.

Actually, they were years apart and in different woods, although I suppose the squirrels could have passed the story down and had their cousins Vinny and Guido keeping an eye out for me.

 

[WayneLigon]

I find this thread fascinating. But I have to ask, how many of these things are unique? How many of them have NEVER been done by anyone else?

I've had loaded guns pointed at me, disarmed a knife-weilding person (twice), had dental work done sans pain relief, had numerous "interesting" encounters with members of the opposite sex, been an SCA Baronial Officer, made it through a very bad illness as a child, didn't have a drivers license until I was 36, communed with spirits, lived with ghosts, self injured, have the largest gaming and LED flashlight collections I've ever seen, etc.

That's why I said 'probably' For your list above, (save perhaps the 'interesting' part), I've never done any of those things or had any of them happen to me and further more don't personally know anyone those things have ever happened to. I've only seen a gun once in my life that wasn't on the hip of a law officer, never seen anyone with a knife that wasn't on a TV screen, etc. It's fascinating some of the things people have done that many of the rest of us only read about or see on TV.

 

[thalmin]

Let's see.
1. I was a substitute elementary school teacher that was requested back by teachers AND students.

2. I have run a successful game store for over 20 years.

3. I have never smoked (and I'm in my mid 50's).

4. I own a complete collection of Dragon, Dungeon, Strategic Review, Little Wars, and Imagine magazines.

5. I completed the wooden Labarynth game, forward and back, using my toes.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Let's see.
3. I have never smoked (and I'm in my mid 50's).

5. I completed the wooden Labarynth game, forward and back, using my toes.

I'm 41, and have never smoked. I completed Labyrinth using my hands but so smashed on imported Sambuca (sp?) I couldn't feel my fingers.

 

[Lobo Lurker]

I'm 41, and have never smoked. I completed Labyrinth using my hands but so smashed on imported Sambuca (sp?) I couldn't feel my fingers.

Me neither, though I'm only 26. You know, when I'm drunk I LOVE Sambuca, but when I'm sober I can't stand it.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

The liquor in the bottle we had was blue, and if you spilled it, it actually seemed to harden to a waxy consistency. Gads... and we were chuggin' that stuff.

 

[Mr. T]

1. Put an electrical tape pentagram on one of our school's marching drums. We told our band teacher that even thought it looked like an upside down pentagram (the Satanic kind) to the player it was a star to everyone else.

2. Run black powder for a War of 1812 war era replica 32 pound carronade. This was done blantantly violating NPS regualtions (this was at Put-in-Bay, a national park, and the guy who let me do this was the head ranger) because I was 13 at the time (I'm 14 now).

3. Seen where the chronometer on the U-505 is. It's in the house of a guy who goes to my church.

4. Pulled out a clump of grass from the White House lawn with security guards watching me and my class.

5. Read The Sum of All Fears in two school days.

 

[jeff37923]

1) Operated the throttles of the USS Nimitz unqualified while underway so that the Throttle Watch could go pee.
2) Built bomb-disposal robots (and God willing will do so again).
3) Necrotized 1/3 of my left lung from pneumonia.
4) Found and became Father to my Daughter who had been hidden from me for 12 years.
5) Played in a Minuteman missile silo as an infant (Dad used to build them, fun childhood).

I'm just another unique little snowflake....

 

[Roadkill101]

1. Swallowed a live cockroach, on purpose for no other reason than to just do so because it was there.
2. Grabbed a residential high voltage transmission line, while live.
3. Fallen 30 to the ground through a tree.
4. Burned human bodily wastes for hygiene/sanitation purposes.
5. Learned to drive a stick shift in an M16 halftrack (circa 1989, sans quad .50's).
6. Participated in the last REFORGER exercise.
7. Been Court Ordered to smile during own wedding ceremony by presiding judge.
8. Stood next to Kevin Dubrow (singer of Quiet Riot) and drank a beer (the band was playing a circuit club, and he came up to the bar where I was and had himself a beer, I didn't try talking to him having nothing to say).
9. Have an autographed American Flag themed rolling paper bearing Mac Fleetwood's signature (and the rest of his (then) band The Zoo as well, was in the same club as mentioned in 8 above on my birthday, a buddy of mine got the autographs for me).
10. Been to the Natioanl Air Force Museum more than twenty times (I grew up and still live in the Greator Dayton area, so it wasn't all that hard to accomplish).
11. I build my own computers (not that hard to do and I doubt iIm the only one here who does so).