Piloted a side wheeler down the Wanganui river in New Zealand

Took gondola ride up to the top of Mt Pilatus in Switzerland

In 1965, marched with Dr Martin Luther King in Chicago

2. Shot a gun

3. Gambled in Las Vegas

4. Been married for 57 years

5. Taught handicapped children

6. Helped in Paliative Care

7. Caught a 250lb halibut on a rod & reel.

8. Talked someone out of commiting suicide

9. Was Lifeguard in Highschool

10.Had ruptured appendix and came close to death when I was 10 years old

Talked a guy with a gun out of shooting himself. Sort of a hostage situation. People didn't call 911 back then. I was a teen. Never occurred to me not to help.

Driven in a demolition derby.

Never ever bottle fed my children anything.

Was a competitive roller skater.

Watched puppies being born.
Watched someone pass on.
Have had many hugs and lovely conversations with Alzheimers patients.
Married my High School sweetheart. 33 years now!
Coloured my hair and had to wear a hat the next day until I could get it fixed!

Changed many a flat tire on my cars.

Rode a motorcycle, DH and I, both, had motorcycles early in our marriage.

Prepared deceased bodies for the morgue.

When working for the local health dept., went on an inspection tour of a Rainbow gathering camped out here in the Ozarks. We wanted to make sure that the water supply wasn't contaminated by their toilet facilites.

Rollerskated in several skating shows.

Caravaned from CA. to Mo. DH was already in MO. I drove our RV, with 2 DDs and 6 mo. old GD, pulling DIL's car loaded full of items. DIL,baby's mom, drove DS's car, also packed full and DS, 18 and just graduated from High School drove my pickup pulling a fully loaded trailer.

Drove a straight stick grain truck hauling grain from the fields to the elevators in town. This included pulling onto the scales, then dumping and pulling back on the scales. Shortest trip was 8 miles round trip, furthest trip was about 30 miles. Did this for several years until I got a REAL job.

Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a troop ship in 10 days with 2 children.

Married 57 years.

Attended college at age 44.

Rode a camel alongside a riverbank while on African safari
Sunrise hot air balloon ride while on the above
Skinny dipping in Lake Tuscaloosa with .......
Attended LBJ's Presidential Inaguration and ball
Married twice and THAT was enough
Rode with partner on motorcycle for 500 miles

Snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef (shortly before Steve Irwin was killed there--yikes).

This is all so interesting!

- Driven a dog sled in Alaska

- Walked with penguins in Antarctica

- Danced with a world-class Tango instructor (works with many celebrities for film)

- Sang at weddings

- Assembled and shipped the very first hand-held calculator (the HP-35)

- Married the boy next door 37 years ago

- Participated in high speed chases, skid pads and decision courses at a place where police and firefighters train

- Stayed at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC for a week (entirely paid for by a client of mine)

- Grew up in a boxing ring (father was a pro boxer)

- Witness and videotaped three childbirths

- Observed an autopsy at the morgue

- Visited five fresh water eel farms in Japan in two days (I was traveling with a Japanese man in the business)

- Booked a doomed flight to Mexico City but canceled at the last minute

I'm sure there's more but can't think of anything else right now

Jodi-

Spent a month camping in Hawaii.

Mastered a unicycle.

Made 3 parachute jumps.

Fell through the ice on a lake, got myself out, and didn't tell Mom about it until 30 years later.

Ron

Sang in a band.
Moved across the country, knowing not a soul.
Graduated high school at 16.
Got drivers license at 14.
Travelled across Europe at 13.
Hosted three exchange students.
Adopted two children.

Camped on and swam in the Amazon

Climbed the Great Wall of China

Was among the first group of westerners in China when the Bamboo Curtain came down.

Saw sunrise at Machu Picchu

Rode an elephant in Thailand

Rode a camel in Egypt

Attended the healing Mass in Lourdes

Met First Lady Laura Bush

Helped plan and execute the memorial services for those killed on United flight 97 Sept. 11

Monica - marched with MLK - cool!

I've got nothing that interesting. Can it be dumb things you did? If so...

1.) stuck a tweezer in an electrical outlet and survived with absolutely no injuries.
2.) I was a pedestrian and got hit by a car going 30 miles an hour. Again no injuries - I was knocked out though.
3.) stuck a wire hanger under my tongue which got lodged and came out my chin. This one left injuries but nothing long lasting.

I was 8 when the above 3 things happened. I can't imagine being my mother that year. Things calmed down after that.

OMG Scissors...I did almost the same thing. Except the hanger went into and through my jaw/cheek! lol

Won a hoola-hoop contest at the Alabama State Fair
Married on my 19th birthday
Fixed 2 neighbors hair...at the funeral home...AFTER they died.
Had a gun pointed at me.
Carried life and death..and given birth to both.

That was suppose to be..Married on my 18th birthday!!

Everyone is very interesting. some things that come to mind.

~Watched portugues man o war (jelly fish) invade the water we were swimming in. Later found one on shore. Nature is awesome.
~Learned to Hula with poi balls and preformed in a show.
~Road horses for most of my life. love barrels and running events.
~On my 15th birthday I soloed in a cesana 150. Quit flying only hours away from getting all my time in just before my 16th birthday.
~hold a cosmotology, nursing and teaching certificate. Let the nursing expire a couple years ago. Don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
~Had 3 cesareans, not so uncommon I suppose.
~Sat in my basement as a tornado went over us. It was a mess outside after it passed, it lifted a few exceptionally heavy items over fences. I was so scared!
~Saved my puppy with mouth to mouth after she choked last year.
~Assisted with emergency surgery on a dog with gut problems. Took out all the intestines and put them back afterwards. Very interesting. The dog lived happily ever after.

-went into full labour on an airplane, lucky for me the plane was able to land and had an ambulance waiting for me to take me to hospital.
-gone to a broadway show
-gambled in Vegas
-drove across Canada
-did stand-up comedy in a club on open mike night and came in first

Went into a Navajo medicine man's hogan

Put my feet into a Navajo sweat box (I was afraid to lie down)

Drove my car over 500 miles into Mexico alone

Learned how to bribe officials in Mexico

Visited a Mexican jail (no I was not a prisoner)

Visited a Mexican army base

Gave CPR to a dying lady at church

Watched an autopsy

Built a deck, bridge, and fence

left husband after 29 years of marriage

got a job in a town I'd never seen (interviewed in a different town)

moved from Ne to Ca into an apt I chose off the internet

moved from Ca to UK and married my (now) British dh

I should have also mentioned that I was an occular procurement technician. (Harvested eyes for research and transplants from donors.)

Ron

* Helped DH rebuild an engine. Married 32 years. Monday is our anniversary.
* Rode an elephant in Bali.
* Went to a Shark feeding in Australia.
* Swam with dolphins in Bonaire.
* Went inside a pyramid in Chichen Itza.
* Went to Raymond Burrs orchid gardens in Fiji.
* Went to zoo Harrison Ford founded in Belize.
* Chartered a small plane to fly over an active volcano in Hawaii.
*Chartered a helicopter in Las Vegas to fly over lake Mead.
*Took a sky diving lesson indoors, where you jump over a caged jet engine.

Cool thread! I'm going to read all the posts as soon as I write this one:

Wrote a poem that Bob Barker read on The Price is Right.

Wrote a cartoon caption (and was paid for it) that was published in The New Yorker.

Developed 30+ tofu recipes for Rodale Press.

Gave tofu cooking demonstrations for groups.

Started the first La Leche League in our county.

Did a call-in radio show on breastfeeding.

Spent a good part of 1995 helping hundreds of WWII vets locate their military buddies.

At a previous home I hand-tamed most of the wild birds at the feeder, including a flock of Evening Grosbeaks and a flock of migrating Redpolls.

Performed stand-up comedy just to see if I could do it.

Sang and played the piano once a month at a nursing home for a couple of years.

Photographed a friend's home birth.

Gave birth to my son with my little daughters peering over my knee.

Wow, this is all so interesting!

Let's see, here are some for me:

- Gave a closing argument on a case of attempted murder with an empty chair next to me (the defendant had taken off and was found six months later)

- Sang at weddings

- Took a cable car from near the top of Mont Blanc in France into Italy (and met a French couple, he was a prison guard and she a forensic psychologist, and discussed our countries' court systems in French, which was so exciting for me)

- Had a date arrested from my car, during our date

- Got a Q-tip stuck in my ear and had to have it removed by a doctor

- Went hiking in the Rockies while I had diarrhea and used some big leaves as TP, only to find out that they were poison oak

- Installed a toilet

got to see frank, dean, sammy, at the old sands hotel..they would peform while shooting the movie...

rode on a elevator platform with no walls...

missed a plane that crshed in the grand canyon...

went to hollywood hs (class of 1964)

Danced with and got kissed by Harrison Ford at my cousin's wedding in 1999.
Kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland.
Drove from Wash. D. C. to CA alone in 1971, when I was in my 20s.
Did all my own oil changes on my car for several years.
Saw the sunrise at Haleakala volcano on Maui.
Moved from CA to Ames, Iowa when I did not know anyone in this city.
Spent a week in Appalachia helping restore housing.
Spent 2 weeks in Nicaragua helping build schools in rural areas.
Did a one week Outward Bound river rafting trip for people over 50 and during this trip we rock climbed and rappelled down the rock.

Rappelled into a virgin cave.
Built my own kitchen cabinets

On a warm summer night I did ritual in my backyard sky clad ..that is naked. Sure surprised my dh who was sitting there tending the bonfire.

I have not had too exciting a life but a few things:
Jumped off a cliff into the St. Croix River
Walked across the Mississippi at Lake Itasca, the head waters of the Mississippi.
Backpacked for 1 week Grand Tetons, Wyoming
Lived in Texas for 7 years.
Went to Disney World!

Flew in a auto-gyro when I was about 12. My dad had one, pulled behind a car. I found a video of what it is

Here is a link that might be useful: auto-gyro

WOW! I agree you are all so interesting! I thought I really was hot stuff when I walked across the Capilano Bridge when it was icy-frosted over in the early winter. HA! I looked at the site, they are opening a even more "adventurous" thing this Spring. I'll pass!

Here is a link that might be useful: The Bridge

Went whitewater rafting.... going again soon.

Assisted with a toe amputation

Serenaded a group of poor children in the Bahamas.

Went skinny dipping at midnight at a local swimming pool.

What an adenturous bunch we are. Kitchen Table sounds too mild for the title of our forum.

I drive a 65 Ranchero, live in a house that was build in 65, and my DH graduated from high school in 65.

Did the party for my parents' 65 anniversary. They are working on 66 and a half now.

Got married on my 30th birthday

Rode a camel in Morocco

Got inspired by the book To Kill a Mockingbird and learned to twirl the baton

Saw Slim Pickens the old western star in Dallas.

Saw Sam Donaldson at the airport in Dallas.

1. Made love (with my husband to be) on an ocean beach under a blanket at night. There were other couples doing the same.I guess we were breaking a law . A sign said "Beach Closes At Dusk."
2. Saw a dead body in a hospital. He was lying on a gurney in a hallway with just a sheet over him. Could tell it was a man by the shoes.

A few more for me ...

- Was a club DJ during the disco era.

- Backpacked for a month through Europe when I was 24.

- Traveled through Japan for a month when I was 30 and again when I was 45.

- Did six police ride-alongs for a 12.5 hour shift.

- Did one entire shift ride-along with one of our city's fire station.

- Went white river rafting in the Kern River.

- Worked in a dude ranch as a guide when I was 16.

- Have seen two Mountain Lions in the wild. Once while driving. Once while on horseback. The lion was in a tree right above where I had stopped my horse. The horses ears went back signaling me that something was wrong. I looked up, and there was the Mountain Lion (Cougar) about 10 feet above me. Yikes. We moved out of there in a hurry!

Jodi-

-foster parented for two years

-helped my parents build their home when I was 13

-swam in the river and watched bald eagles dive for fish (not *in* the river, but in what we call the back-wash)

-fired a shotgun

not much else that I can think of. I lead a very boring life..........

Got more:

Climbed the Great Wall of China
Saw the Terracotta figures in Xian
Did the hokey pockey in front of 1500 students in China
Was a dj on local radio for a very short time
Acted in local Little Theater
Marched in University of Alabama Million Dollar band
Took a class in white water canoeing
Ate in the famous Carnivore Grill, Nairobi
Helped DS reel in a boat windshield off a fishing bridge in Tampa, while many watched, thinking it was a HUGE fish

Hmm, lots of very interesting things!!

I raised, trained, and ran a 3 dog team of Alaskan Malamutes for about 8 years. I ran 2 sled dog races, 3 dog team/3 miles, came in 3rd one year and in the middle of the pack the next year. It was a local race I helped sponsor.

I raised and trained a colt I traded for one of my Malamute puppies and rode in a 30 mile horse endurance ride. Came in last and got the red lantern award the first year. Rode again the next year to beat my time and finished in the middle of the pack.

I raised two guide dog puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. They both went on to become working guides. I got to meet one of the recipients, but couldn't make the ceremonies for the second dog. I was brought to my knees by the gratitude of the people receiving the dogs. The impact on their lives will stay with me forever.

More here, too.

Did the "urban cowboy" - Rode the bull at Gilly's club in Pasadena,TX

Sat in the Peanut gallery on the "Howdy Doody" show in NYC

Danced on American Bandstand during the 1962-63 school year

Gambled at the main casino in Monte Carlo.

Rode the Eurostar train, under the chunnel, from London to Paris and back, just for the day.

Learned to drive in Model A Ford.

Drove a tractor for a farmer for 2 years.

Worked my way through college gaining an engineering degree.

Certified Class 1E electrical controls to Seismic levels (earthquake) for nuclear power plants. [Class 1E controls are the ones that keep a nuclear power plant in a safe condition during and after an earthquake.]

Developed aging tests to artifically age electrical controls to 40 years for qualification purposes. Replacement schedules were developed for parts that were judged to become not safe before 40 years.

Had a 4 year engagement before marriage. We waited for me to graduate from college. The wait was tough. It took me 6 years to get a 4 yr degree because I had to earn the money along the way and could not attend college full time.

We recently held a pirate wedding reception for DD. All the guests dressed as pirates.

I was once "held" by some people who wanted me out of the way for a bit. Wasn't mistreated but wasn't free to leave either.

Walked into a nudie bar when I was 15 looking for a guy I knew.

Rarely like almost never had to pay for concerts in the 60s. There were lots of outdoor venues and I was always mostly backstage. (no I wasn't a groupie LOL)

Participated in Free Speech rallies at Berkeley.

Was a weekend hippie.

Was served alcohol in a gay leather bar in the Castro when I was 14/15. I was so naive I didn't know it was gay. LOL

Had a gun pointed at me more than once.

Helped "babysit" a heroin addict through withdrawal.

DD and I unknowingly swam in an Australian rock pool that was swarming with deadly blue ringed octopus.

Twice I've found passed out people laying in the road who appeared to be dead. They weren't but still...what are the odds?

Was once reading an online court document with statements from the FBI of an investigation they were doing undercover with surveillance. To my surprised I recognized myself in it. I was an unknown female who approached.......blah blah blah. LOL

Boy these are good!
I have had kind of a dull life too. Well maybe.

I had a lesbian best friend (neighbor) when I was a teen. It was news to me later because at the time boys were falling all over her and she was dating them. She came out long after our friendship was over. She was a wonderful fun friend and I still miss her.

I went to a local bar (before dh) and a lady approached me and tried to pick me up by saying I looked like Sissy Spacek -sp? (I wish)

Lost and gained a lot of weight several times and am back on the losing side again.

Have lived with mom's having many cancers the last 5 years. Horrible, blessed time and each day is precious because the cancer might win this time.

In my late 20's I kicked a bodybuilder out of my car who wouldn't get out was trying to talk me into his place. I had nicely given him a ride when a friend said he was OK. For a minute I was scared and then I got mad as h and told him if he didn't get out of my car I would drive him to my mom's and SHE would. This was before everyone had cell phones. I was very lucky..

Walked across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge several times on the bridge walk. They quit having them because of security issues - sniff.

Rode across the SF Golden Gate bridge on a fire truck (professional tour that was great).

Went fishing in a white water raft on the Snake River in Wyoming.

Heard ghosts several times. One in an old hotel at night - shudder.

Had 2 visits by people in dreams that had passed on. The one dream, I didn't know the man had died. He came to tell me he had and that he was OK. I read about his death the next night in the newspaper.

Raised my orphan foal from 5 weeks on after his mother died.

Went swimming in a river where we saw big ole alligators upstream.

Slept in a Toyota van on a ranch (with dh) and watched the cows get rounded up the next day.

Took a motorhome as far as Utah from PA and same mh to FLA. Wouldn't want to put gas in that thing now.

Went to Oregon last year and hubby salmon fished (none). We camped along a river where the Oregon trail crossed. When we travel, we camp a day or two and then stay at a hotel so we don't kill each other *G*. Saw a juvenile whale in the ocean on the same trip.

Started traveling on planes when I was 50. Now I love flying! If you are afraid - go to the airport and look around. You will be the only one who is scared there.

Graduated College at 19 years old. Nursing degree.

Been in Hitlers bunkers in Germany. Amazing!

delivered a 2.2lb baby and a 3.3lb baby

Dated hubby 5 months before we married 26 years ago!

Nearly died as a newborn due to pyloric stenosis; have ugly 'thermometer scar' from that surgery. (No anesthesia for infants in those days.)

Had an hour's ride in the Goodyear blimp over Miami when I was about ten.

Had mumps in all six glands in my throat on the same trip to Miami.

Was spoiled for life after crossing the Atlantic in first class on the "Ile de France" when I was 14. Toured the "John Knox" house in Edinburgh on the same trip. (Years later genealogy showed the house had been built by an ancestor who was executed for his support of Mary, Queen of Scots.)

Met my DH when we were four and seven -- forgotten until we dated as young adults. His family were friends with that of my first best friend, who lived across the street from me.

As a volunteer in the ER, I solved the mystery of the patient who came in with a possible broken leg and yelling, "Jack kicked me!" (He'd been changing a tire.)

Got lost alone on horseback in Estes Park, Colorado when I was about 12; remembered to let the horse take me 'home'.

DH and I have been guests on "Oprah", championing open records for adult adoptees.

Lots of things, camped in the African bush with pit latrines and bucket showers, went on a walking safari with a Masai warrior, hot air balloon in the masai mara over the great migration, swam in the Amazon River, flew in a helicopter over Victoria Falls, fished for piranha and ate my catch, it goes on and on. It's hard to believe I've been there done that.

I forgot..

I almost died of pneumonia when I was a baby. Mom said she could hear me coughing outside.

Some of you have had wonderful adventures!

During the 1940s, my mother and I milked 6 cows by hand each morning and night.

I was one of the adult leaders who camped out with the Boy Scouts for their Polar Bear badge. The temperature sank to minus 12 F that night. It was no fun.

I have taken a dip in the spoil pit by an oil well. [Oil is pumped into settling tanks and after the oil and brine has separated, the "pumper" drains off the brine into a holding "spoil" pit. The brine is nasty, but will rid your body of chiggers and chigger eggs.]

Have driven a car in all states except for Hawaii, Alaska, and Florida.

Have driven a car at night at highway speed when a wheel came off.

Eaten zebra and elephant

Sat in Ben Franklin's chair in Independent Hall in Philadelphia.

Shot a man.

Installed the plumbing in an entire house by myself during a renovation, and passed the mechanical inspection.

Rolled a tractor into a creek when the bridge I was driving across collapsed and didn't get hurt.

Have a beautiful picture of my recent visit to the Taj Mahal in India, of myself, hubbie and two children. The glorious building is in the background.

Pricelss, the best trip ever.

Grew up on a dairy farm in ohio and learned to dive a team of belgian draft horses (1 ton each)when i was 6yrs old.

Served two enlistments in the U.S.A.F. from 1966 till 1973(Viet Nam Era).

Stood on a guard detail in front of the Loraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn the morning after MLK was assasinated.

Was on a detail that rode an Air Force C-130 for four days, continually flying west around the world twice and every time they stopped for fuel it was breakfast time...LOL..finally returned to where we started and to this day none of us know what that was about.

Got spit on by hippie protesters in both Cleveland and Chicago while traveling from one base to another.

Did two tours in Viet Nam (during my second tour i was pulled out early because my mother protested through the Red Cross. It seems i was combat exempt because I was the sole surviving son of a combat veteran).

Spent four years in Germany and travelled throughout Europe.

Was a Scoutmaster for military dependant boys in Germany and lead an 8 day 50 mile hike from Bitburg, Germany to Bastogne, Belium.

Took up photography as a hobby while in Germany and later got into it professionally for a couple years with a newspaper. Now I do it as a retirement hobby.

Drove an 18 wheeler that had two transmissions, one behind the other with two gear shifts and a total of 24 gears.

Hauled a 162ft bridge beam from Elyria, Ohio to lower Manhattan in New York City.

After truck driving I worked in construction and attended night school. Got certified to Journeyman level in 5 different building trades.

Spent 54 days in pretrial confinement awaiting trial on a misdemeanor offence that has a maximum penalty of 10days, and i was found not guilty at trial.

Back in my truck driving days in the mid 70's I was living in Massachusetts and I rented a room from Jan & Ken. Jan was working civil service at the base where I finally discharged and she had just been assigned to work in the area where I had worked. I spent months sitting at the kitchen table helping her with her paperwork and teaching her the job. About a year later I moved away and we were out of touch until three years ago. I found out that she retired with 36yrs service on the base.

I was living in Ohio and Jan and I talked on the phone a couple times a week for over a year, until last August when I moved to Mass and she and I are now together and havig a blast.