Name one thing that is on your bucket list since you were young you haven't done yet?

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I would love to learn to swim. Took swimming lessons when the kids were little at a college. The college instructor took us out one by one and jerked the float out from under us and said "swim". The next thing I knew I was being pulled to the edge of the pool on his float. I had passed out. I wasn't scared, even aware of what happened. My last thought was "I am never going to come to the top of the water." It wasn't panic, I felt like I was going toward the top. I never went back to that class. I tried once after that and the instructor said I would be good if I would learn to stop fighting the water." Could be a hangover from the first time?
 

I've wanted (supposedly) to publish something...anything. I say "supposedly" because I guess if I had really wanted to...I would have. It may be one of those "If I don't try, I can't fail" sort of things but that would be against my nature. I think it's probably more along the lines of keeping a low public profile in an ever more prying world.


Once, while intoxicated, I jumped into the middle of a solar cover for a pool. It wrapped around me like a shroud and I would have drowned if I'd succumbed to panic. I had begun, instinctively, to fight the bubble wrap but it just tightened more around me. Fortunately; I regained control, relaxed, and gently spread my arms to allow the water in and me...out. I love water and I respect it's power. If you're not comfortable in the element...avoid it. Your instructor was way too abrupt in his teaching style.
 
I never had a bucket list, I just got on with living and being me.
 

Just plain me said:
I would love to learn to swim. Took swimming lessons when the kids were little at a college. The college instructor took us out one by one and jerked the float out from under us and said "swim". The next thing I knew I was being pulled to the edge of the pool on his float. I had passed out. I wasn't scared, even aware of what happened. My last thought was "I am never going to come to the top of the water." It wasn't panic, I felt like I was going toward the top. I never went back to that class. I tried once after that and the instructor said I would be good if I would learn to stop fighting the water." Could be a hangover from the first time?
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You may want to try the YWCA. My sister went there when she was 58 years old and learned. They are very patient and if you are fearful of the water like she was, they will really work with you one on one. At least for her they did. Today, she can swim OK.
 
Yeah, my ****et list has expanded with time. What's that saying?..."The definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over with no effect but continuing to expect a different result". That applies to thoughts and questionable goals as well. I'm pleased to find humour alive and well here.
 
When I was in the fourth grade, we had to write an essay on somewhere we were going to go when we grew up. I had seen a picture of the Dalai Lama's palace and for some reason had a burning desire to see it some day. I wrote my essay on that and the teacher (who was a sadistic old hag whose only purpose in life was to stamp any spark of individuality out of her students) handed it back and said, "Don't be ridiculous. You aren't ever going there. Write about something more reasonable." So I wrote about going to Disney Land.

OK, granted, I haven't been yet and probably won't at this point. But I COULD have gone and, who knows, I still MIGHT and if I ever DO, I'm going to stand on the top step and yell "YOO-HOO! MRS. HELDERMAN! LOOK WHO'S HERE!!!" and hope she's listening.
 
IDENTICAL TWINS: The Final Frontier!

(I was going to go to Twinsburg, Ohio, for the annual event there, but then I found out it's mostly about twins doing twins, and I'm a solo act, unfortunately. Oh well - - - -)
 
treeguy64 said:
IDENTICAL TWINS: The Final Frontier!

(I was going to go to Twinsburg, Ohio, for the annual event there, but then I found out it's mostly about twins doing twins, and I'm a solo act, unfortunately. Oh well - - - -)
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You could buy that doll you were considering and crash the party.
 
I want to be able to sew really well. I'm in the process of learning now with my new sewing machine. I would like to add that last year I was able to knock a big one off the list. I hiked on the Appalachian trail with my daughter and that had been on my bucket list since I was a teen when I read a book about the trail.
 
That's part of my problem, I don't know what I want to do now, it just seems like I'm waiting for death, I loved the place I grew up in outside of Mobile, Alabama, but my uncles asked me to sign papers, we sold the old home place a couple of years ago, the people I would like to hang out with are dead now, my wife went to disneyland with the daughter, and grandchildren, a couple months ago, I didn't want to go . I have a lot of research to do, just don't feel like doing it. Just wish I could go back in time.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Blacktop-Ends-John-Mizell/dp/0615867464
 
I'd like to see moonlight in Vermont. I hope to wing walk on my 90th birthday (10 years).

i've walked down Unter den Linden, that took me fifty years to achieve.
 
I didn't know what a bucket list was until the movie that used the phrase came out. The one thing I'd like to do is go through one of those drive through safaris. It'll never happen , but it's nice to think about !
 

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