BusynMember
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I realize Old Hand, my buddy here, has better, funner (???) Threads than me, but thought I'd try one. This can be more than one in both categories. Funny stories encouraged!!!
Apple. Count me in as being another happy traveller when I get to enjoy the passenger version of car travel. No babies, no little ones, just a quiet relaxing toot down the highway.One thing off the top of my head: I never want to drive across country again, as the only adult in the vehicle.
I’ve done it many times, once I even ran out of gas!
It didn’t deter me, though.
I really enjoy being a passenger on long trips, though. Hubby always does all the driving (his choice) and I sit and relax, read books, we listen to books on CDs (mostly history), lots of conversation, not worrying about laundry or meals or cleaning.
But, it’s been a couple of years since I have driven any really long distance by myself with just my daughter, and I find that I have no desire to do it again. I fly, now.
I used to be fearless and feel free, but now, it just feels like work.
I did it several times with young kids in the car, though, and it’s not always fun!
Believe it or not, and I'm sure I'll have plenty of support on this from all of you, but giving birth.
Wanted to do it, did it, wouldn't want to do it again! LOL!
I love little ones, too, but was happy when it was all over (giving birth and being in the hospital).If I were younger, I would love to have another child! Or two! I had easy pregnancies (even the twins) and c-sections. Recovery was tough after surgery, but I love the little ones.
Apple. Count me in as being another happy traveller when I get to enjoy the passenger version of car travel. No babies, no little ones, just a quiet relaxing toot down the highway.
The trip we made that I was talking about worked out to be roughly 13 hours (first day), then another 3-4 hours on day two. What a sucker for punishment I was. LOL!
Love it, Lil! No helicopter rides for me. Hate heights, and have a phobia of not being planted firmly on my own two feet.I had to read this twice - I originally thought it was stuff you HAVE done that you DID want to...had to erase and start over!
Things I've never done I always wanted to do?
Travel without a plan. I've always wanted to literally just sell all my stuff, take all the money, not pay a single darn bill (okay-that part is a fantasy that would in real life get me sued) and just buy a camper and GO. Drive until I'm out of money and out of gas and start over!
Okay...that was my fantasy pre-Jabber. Now it would be more sedate and responsible and I'd want him along, but I'd still love to just bum around the country.
There are two events I'd like to go that I likely won't ever: Mardi Gras and Burning Man - no, I don't know why I'd want to go to either one of those things.
I'd like to have a real talent - can you learn talent? LOL I'd like to take artsy classes until I find one I can actually do well! (Guess SWOT and I have a couple things in common.)
I'd like to hang-glide. Not up high, mind you! But you know how they learn by just kind of running downhill and catching the wind? Like that.
Be on a boat on the ocean. Little boat or big boat, either way.
Things I've done I never want to do again?
Ride on a motorcycle. TERRIFIED me.
Ride in a helicopter. It was small and crowded and loud and scary. Didn't like it AT ALL!
Amusement park rides.
(I see a trend developing here.)
Raise a child! My kid better be a good dad when the time comes, because this is one eventual Grandma that isn't taking over!
I'll probably think of more later.
Now that's scary. Either falling asleep at the wheel or hallucinating through lack of sleep.My X and I used to travel when my olders were little, too. Several times, we would drive nearly twenty-four hours without stopping overnight, because it was easier driving when they were asleep. It was miserable.
We stopped doing that when one morning about 3-4 am, my X said, “why were trying to pass the car in front of us?” I said, “I wasn’t.” Then I realized I probably had fallen asleep momentarily, and was drifting.
I will never drive over night again!
If I were younger, I would love to have another child! Or two! I had easy pregnancies (even the twins) and c-sections. Recovery was tough after surgery, but I love the little ones.
Awww... but you lived and learned. That's what counts.No. No, no, no, no, NO!
I do not like kids. Not even my own all that much.
Okay, that's not 100% true. I like cuddling babies. Other peoples that I can then hand back when they start to cry.
I was sick for 9 months, in a terrible marriage and then when I had him, I took him in my arms and there was this moment of pure JOY. The most wonderful and beautiful moment of my entire life.
I was a single mom 6 months later.
I wasn't an awesome mom. I had never been around babies or little kids. I really didn't understand how to play cars with him, for instance. I loved him to pieces and still do, but I wasn't good at anything but feeding and cuddling.
And I SURE wouldn't go thru years 2 to 6 and 15 to 23 again.
When us kids were little, mom and dad used to take us to the drive-in and we'd sleep through the entire movie. Even as babies they took
ROFLMAO! Horror and scary movies are not my thing. Can't watch them to this day. Have total nightmares if I do.I might like to go to a drive-in movie again.
I saw my first zombie movie at the drive-in. Scared me to death. I remember thinking that I was glad we lived in a split-level at the time, because I didn’t see any zombies ever climbing steps.