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What’s the one thing you have done that you never thought you would?

169 replies

DailyMailDontStealMyThread · 06/12/2018 22:06

Mine is quite lame but, I don’t like heights and had to attend one of those work get to know you days at it was at Centre parcs and I had to jump off of various far too high woodland obstacles.

I loved it! I’m old and can’t believe I left it so late to fling myself off high obstacles.

I now want to do a parachute jump. 30 year old me would never do it Grin

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April2020mom · 07/12/2018 13:48

I locked myself out of my apartment for one entire evening. In the end I had to call my partner for help. Even worse I left the key to the apartment in a locked drawer in my bedroom. Luckily my neighbor came to help. I had two big boxes of books as well.

DoYouLikeBasghetti · 07/12/2018 14:03

Terrified of needles, had to inject myself for a month after an operation. Felt totally badass after I'd done them though! Grin

NameChangeToAvoidBeingFound · 07/12/2018 14:04

Two years ago I decided to try roller coasters for the first time after a disastrous attempt when I was 8. Turns out the faster it goes, the higher it is or the more it spins and drops the more I like it.

Freaked my friends out the first time we went on holiday together to an amusement park after I'd discovered I like them. M was freaked out by my giggling the entire time, C thought it was funny and A was delighted there was another adrenaline junkie with him. We had a great time, M and C were rather ill and sat out some of the rides most days Grin

MillicentBeauchamp · 07/12/2018 14:07

I climbed up a ladder on the side of a mountain - sheer cliff. I am terrified of heights.

MillicentBeauchamp · 07/12/2018 14:07

I also did a leap of faith off a rock

CrookedMe · 07/12/2018 14:16

Wrote a book.

Fashionista101 · 07/12/2018 14:18

Gain 700k+ followers on insta Glitterball

happyclutterchucker · 07/12/2018 14:20

Be invited into the star dressing room of a major West End theatre.

margaritasbythesea · 07/12/2018 14:25

Learned to drive. Still can't believe it.

Lived in a non English speaking country (and learned the language).

Got a first from a top uni.

The other one I don't want to jinx by saying it but I'm mighty proud of it.

Can't quite get my head around how I was brought to adulthood not believing these things were possible for me, and after writing this am now thinking I should crack on and do a few more!

CloudPop · 07/12/2018 14:27

@Hidingtonothing sending strength and very best wishes.

margaritasbythesea · 07/12/2018 14:30

Here here, Cloudpop. Best wishes hidingtonothing.

QuestionableMouse · 07/12/2018 14:35

Go to uni and actually do okay! (Grades for the first year were all over 65% with the majority of them being closer to 70%.

I was really scared when I started!

gingajewel · 07/12/2018 14:41

Sooo many things!

1.) after multiple miscarriages became a mom
2.) passed my driving test
3.) returned to uni, whilst working and having a non sleeping one year old
4.) bought a house

WishfulSprouts · 07/12/2018 14:51

Met Prince William a few weeks ago.
Earlier this year I posted on style and beauty about whether a dress I had planned for a night out was ok given my recent weight which promptly ended up in Daily Fail- lovely comments included ‘attention seeker’ ‘someone needs to spend less time worrying about her dress choice and more time cleaning’ and rather charmingly a couple questioned whether I was in fact a man which boosted my ego no end 😒

Hidingtonothing · 07/12/2018 14:57

Thank you Flowers

Harleyisme · 07/12/2018 14:59

Own my own house.
Having 2 children with sen and only jy husband being able to work i honestly thought that owning our own house was never going to happen but this year we finally bought our own house and moved in to it in August.

stargazer101 · 07/12/2018 15:00

Did a Skydive for my 60th birthday......amazing!

OneStepMoreFun · 07/12/2018 15:04

Become an AI specialist. My DC are baffled as I can't even use my own phone properly. But in a niche area of AI I am a specialist and love it.

Mumtoboy123 · 07/12/2018 15:07

Give birth. I had chronic pain condition before pregnancy and avoided even thinking about birth. When it happened, i did it, i coped with the recovery of tearing etc and i love my son so much.

Im also proud i got over a chronic pain condition that apparently cannot be cured... i beg to differ, i feel a million bucks!

LucyMorningStar · 07/12/2018 15:23

This is horrible really and I'm really embarrassed about it now. I was studying to be a secretary in college and vouched I'll never sleep with a boss when I start working as one. I then was on placement in a firm and ended up having sex with my boss Blush in his car Blush whilst his wife was in the office, where all three of us worked Blush

Looking back at it now, he was a bit of a perv. He was in his 40s. He waited a day after I turned 18 and propositioned me, that's after grooming me for several months. I left the place shortly after.

ravenmum · 07/12/2018 15:30

Skinny dipping in broad daylight with a load of other people around.

OlennasWimple · 07/12/2018 15:34

Moved to the USA

delboysskinandblister · 07/12/2018 15:42

joined MN.

I don't even have kids and I doubt I'll ever meet Mr Right Grin but you lot are fun Smile

chumsnet · 07/12/2018 15:58

Posted on MN. I’ve been lurking since 2012 but have only just registered. It was a post about Asians living in the countryside and as there aren’t many of us I had to contribute. (More fool me, AIBU is a hotbed of halfwits looking for fights not advice).

Riotingbananas · 07/12/2018 16:02

Seen the Northern lights. It's been my dream forever, and this year it came true. Staggeringly wonderful.