I can't believe I did that....

Yrs ago I was staying with my cousins at their place in Vermont.The youngest,Wayne who I always enjoyed being with, 'dared' me to drive one of their old cars on a back road .He knew that I had failed 3 times getting my drivers license,so I thought 'what the hell'
I drove the car for a couple minutes,he was impressed with my driving skills,but I didn't feel comfortable behind the wheel.I stopped the car,let him drive the rest of the way
 
There are a lot😂

The first time I went zip lining ...I’ve since gone numerous times, including on one of the longest lines in the world!

Aerial trekking which is sort of like an obstacle course except suspended 50 feet in the air.

White water rafting. Class 4 rapids. Looking forward to running a river with class 5 rapids.

Stand up paddle boarding.

Riding a wave runner through waves in the ocean

Dancing on stage, alone

Starting and successfully running a HomeSchool group back in the days when homeschooling was a frowned-upon fringe type Activity. Grew it to several hundred members with monthly meetings, kids graduation ceremonies, proms etc.

Traveling and seeing 3 different Continents by myself before I was 20.

And my proudest accomplishment, birthing my 5 children at home, without drugs, totally naturally.
 
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Ronni said:
There are a lot😂

The first time I went zip lining ...Ice since gone numerous times, including on one of the longest lines in the world!

Aerial trekking which is sort of like an obstacle course except suspended 50 feet in the air.

White water rafting. Class 4 rapids. Looking forward to running a river with class 5 rapids.

Stand up paddle boarding.

Riding a wave runner through waves in the ocean

Dancing on stage, alone

Starting and successfully running a HomeSchool group back in the days when homeschooling was a frowned-upon fringe type Activity. Grew it to several hundred members with monthly meetings, kids graduation ceremonies, proms etc.

Traveling and seeing 3 different Continents by myself before I was 20.

And my proudest accomplishment, birthing my 5 children at home, without drugs, totally naturally.
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Right. Reminds me of a game show on TV back in the day. It was called "Can You Top This?"😒
 
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GeorgiaXplant said:
Right. Reminds me of a game show on TV back in the day. It was called "Can You Top This?"
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It’s funny though...at any given moment as I was doing that stuff, i never considered it as dangerous or unusual, and the thought of “I can’t believe I’m doing this” never once entered my head. It was only later, sometimes decades later, that folks’ reactions to my adventures made me stop and think. 😳
 
win231 said:
No. I drove back home the next day without attending the wedding. It was an interesting & enlightening story.
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Boy, I'll bet it is an interesting and enlightening story.

Sounds like one my husband experienced back in his early 20's, when a friend asked him if he could drive 5 hours to another province to pick him up at the airport and bring him home, so dear husband agreed, and poor dear husband drove all the way there and then back home again with no friend, because his friend was too immature and inconsiderate to call ahead and advise dear husband that he missed the flight.

Needless to say, dear husband's friendship with said friend deteriorated after that.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Boy, I'll bet it is an interesting and enlightening story.

Sounds like one my husband experienced back in his early 20's, when a friend asked him if he could drive 5 hours to another province to pick him up at the airport and bring him home, so dear husband agreed, and poor dear husband drove all the way there and then back home again with no friend, because his friend was too immature and inconsiderate to call ahead and advise dear husband that he missed the flight.

Needless to say, dear husband's friendship with said friend deteriorated after that.
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It's interesting that while we're friends with someone, we overlook & try to forgive things we shouldn't. Then, when they do something that's the last straw, we think back on other times they've wronged us & ask ourselves, "Why did I overlook that - it was a big hint?"

In the weeks before I attended my former friend's wedding, he ran into some financial hardships - he needed a major repair on his truck & he couldn't afford to print his wedding invitations, so I bought a computer program & the cards & printed them. It took many hours.
He described how he would make sure I had a good time - they were getting the guest bedroom all fancy for me, new bed, etc.
When I got there (tired after 500 miles of driving), he had me drive him & his fiancee around to run errands, even though his other car was fine. Then, he had me go with him to pick out the "new" bed. We drove into a tool rental place & the store employee brought out a filthy cot that was covered with dead spiders & webs & grease stains (as well as other stains of unknown origin).
I asked my friend, "What's that for?"
He said, "That's your bed."
I said, "Uh.....I ain't sleeping on that."
He said, "It'll be OK; I'll put plastic over it."
I asked, "What about the bed in the guest room?"
He said, "That's for our other guests."

On top of that, I was debating whether or not to tell him his fiancee was making passes at me.....3 days before he was going to marry her........

That night, I slept on the lumpy living room sofa. The next day, I said I was going to find a hotel nearby, which was a lie. I drove all the way back home.
 
win231 said:
It's interesting that while we're friends with someone, we overlook & try to forgive things we shouldn't. Then, when they do something that's the last straw, we think back on other times they've wronged us & ask ourselves, "Why did I overlook that - it was a big hint?"

In the weeks before I attended my former friend's wedding, he ran into some financial hardships - he needed a major repair on his truck & he couldn't afford to print his wedding invitations, so I bought a computer program & the cards & printed them. It took many hours.
He described how he would make sure I had a good time - they were getting the guest bedroom all fancy for me, new bed, etc.
When I got there (tired after 500 miles of driving), he had me drive him & his fiancee around to run errands, even though his other car was fine. Then, he had me go with him to pick out the "new" bed. We drove into a tool rental place & the store employee brought out a filthy cot that was covered with dead spiders & webs & grease stains (as well as other stains of unknown origin).
I asked my friend, "What's that for?"
He said, "That's your bed."
I said, "Uh.....I ain't sleeping on that."
He said, "It'll be OK; I'll put plastic over it."
I asked, "What about the bed in the guest room?"
He said, "That's for our other guests."

On top of that, I was debating whether or not to tell him his fiancee was making passes at me.....3 days before he was going to marry her........

That night, I slept on the lumpy living room sofa. The next day, I said I was going to find a hotel nearby, which was a lie. I drove all the way back home.
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OMG, who needs that!

Good on you for pulling the pin and driving home the next day, I would have done the same. How terribly disrespectful of your friend to treat you that way.

In my husbands case, we were really broke back then, starting out and all, no extra money for anything, and as you mentioned, a few other things that had surfaced in the past, combined with the no-show at the airport, and dear husband was all but finished with his friendship with the guy.

Speaking of weddings, we had a wedding invitation sent to us by a cousin a handful of years ago. The drive in itself is 9 hours, pending traffic, highway construction, etc, etc, and instead of accommodating close family as we were, the invitation read with a name of a hotel that my cousin had selected as being favourable for stay (close to the wedding venue and so forth). I said to my husband, she has got to be off her rocker, a 2 day trip in the car, a wedding gift, 3-4 nights stay in a hotel, and all for a wedding, not a chance, and so I checked "no" as to attending, then mailed the reply back to her.

Guess she wasn't impressed, because I've never heard back from her again.
 
Ar age 72, while we were on a cruise to Australia, I saw that it was possible to climb the Sydney Harbor bridge, so I signed up for it.
I got there early enough that I could go on a previous climb that only had a group of 7 Climbers. We were able to touch the raw steel and rivets and experience this amazing structure up close. We wound above the harbor on catwalks, scaled the steel heart of the bridge and emerged to a unique summit experience via a mammoth staircase between the two arches of the Bridge.
Along the way, one of Bridge Climb’s professional Climb Leaders shared the Bridge's history. The summit is 134 meters (435 feet) above the water, where we were rewarded with amazing panoramic views of Sydney harbor. At the end of the Climb, we received a commemorative Climber Certificate and a photograph.
bridge2.jpgand a complimentary group photograph.
 

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