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[gilda]

Wow, this is making me feel positively worldly.  I think I've done everything mentioned so far except visiting the Grand Canyon and Spain.

1) I've never seen Casablanca.
2) I've never tried an illegal drug.
3) I've never been pre-med.

[magistra]

I have never taken a course in anthropology, archeology, art, or geography.

I'm your opposite -- I got rid of my science classes with anthro, archaeology, and in one memorable instance, art.  Still no math.

I've never learned to swim or ride a bicycle.

You'd love it too!  Learn when the little one learns.

[kissmytiara]

I have only played this at bachelorette parties, so I am having a hard time coming up with items that are appropriate for the fora.

Let's see.

I have never worked full-time for longer than six months at a stretch. (Mostly by choice.)
I have never fixed anything on a car.
I have never owned an iPod or any other sort of similar digital music device.

[john_proctor]

I know Russian lit is a huge hole, but there it is.  And I hate long books because when I'm really in to something, I can't put it down, which is bad when it's 4am and you're only half way through.

Best read over winter break when you're socked in from snow and outside it's so cold the air tastes like sheet metal and oil.

Fall into one for about five straight days.

For the rest of your life, you'll pray for Nor'easters in early January that leave you housebound.

Never actually cooked with gas (though, of course, the expression "Now you're cookin with gas" is a major part of my vocabulary).

[antiphon1]

I have never been a bridesmaid.

Here.  Get in the car and drive to Mrs. ______'s house.  Watch the bride open 140 boxes of Lenox china and Rosepoint silver which she and her groom will eat macaroni and cheese off of for the next 10 years.  Now.  Take this buttugly, zipper sticking, make you look as broad as a barn, teal, off the shoulder, sequin and ruffle encumbered number and put the sorry excuse for a garment on your body.  Have your picture taken while standing in the dyed to match toe pinching pumps.  Said photo will be memorialized for all time in your hometown newspaper.  Repeat that process about 20 times.  

You haven't missed a thing.

I have not:
1. been skydiving.
2. sailed the Nile.
3. slept in a tent.

[polly_mer]

I've never learned to swim or ride a bicycle.

You'd love it too!  Learn when the little one learns.

Ah, I didn't say I'd never had lessons.  I said I never learned.

I'm not putting my face in the water because I can barely stand washing my face.  The last swimming lessons I had were pretty strict on the "Thou shalt put thy face in the water and open thy eyes".  If I have to put my face in the water, the deal is off.

I might get a big tricycle.  I was pretty good at that as a kid.  The whole "two-wheel so you need good balance thing" wasn't happening as a kid.  I doubt it's gotten better in the past twenty-five years.

[concordancia]

Umm, how many people have been skydiving or sailed the Nile?

[galactic_hedgehog]

I might get a big tricycle.  I was pretty good at that as a kid.  The whole "two-wheel so you need good balance thing" wasn't happening as a kid.  I doubt it's gotten better in the past twenty-five years.

Oh, c'mon!  It's as easy as riding a bike!

[octoprof]

I have not:
1. been skydiving.
2. sailed the Nile.
3. slept in a tent.

I've done number 2 and number 3 (not simultaneously).

But never ever skydiving. Do normal people really do that?  Jump out of planes that aren't crashing?

[magistra]

Glad I missed the bridesmaid thing.  Wish I'd missed the tent thing.


JP, your words they are full of wisdom, and remind me of childhood days spent immersed in the comfy chair and a book, a cup of hot chocolate by my side, the wind biting safely outdoors, and a delicious glow of warmth and freedom inside that can only be brought about by a morning spent sledding on a snow day.

I now live in Alabama.

But the BBQ's good.

[geonerd]

1. I have never smoked a cigarette.
2. I have never seen "The Crying Game."
3. I have never operated a lawn mower.

I have sailed on the Nile. It was fun, and we did play "Death on the Nile."

[polly_mer]

I might get a big tricycle.  I was pretty good at that as a kid.  The whole "two-wheel so you need good balance thing" wasn't happening as a kid.  I doubt it's gotten better in the past twenty-five years.

Oh, c'mon!  It's as easy as riding a bike!

As a child at summer camp, I got to ride in the camp director's car to the picnic spot because I couldn't ride a bike.  Do you think I'm going to give up that special treatment now?

[john_proctor]

Glad I missed the bridesmaid thing.  Wish I'd missed the tent thing.


JP, your words they are full of wisdom, and remind me of childhood days spent immersed in the comfy chair and a book, a cup of hot chocolate by my side, the wind biting safely outdoors, and a delicious glow of warmth and freedom inside that can only be brought about by a morning spent sledding on a snow day.

I now live in Alabama.

But the BBQ's good.

For some reason, that ending made me giggle uncontrollably.

Clearly, you need to be reading Crews.

[dept_geek]

Glad I missed the bridesmaid thing.  Wish I'd missed the tent thing.

I've done both. Given a choice, I prefer the tent. In the winter. Above the Mason-Dixon line.

[magistra]

OK, now I really feel like a loser.  There's a "Death on the Nile" game?  Do you kill off your fellow passengers?

And who's Crews?