Things you only do once

[DedalusBloom]

Mine was walking down stairs with my hands in my pockets. Didn't end well

Tried seitan.

Strikes me that "satan" would be a better spelling.

Tried ugali.

Pot holing. I got stuck for a little while. Never again.

@XenoBitch

Pot holing. I got stuck for a little while. Never again.

Oh gosh...how terrifying. There was a thread about potholing last week. Did you see it? I fell down an internet rabbit hole and watched lots of videos of people caving...absolutely hideous!

@XenoBitch

Pot holing. I got stuck for a little while. Never again.

Oh my god I am literally watching The Last Descent now

Can I ask what happened? How did you get out?

Leave the basket of clean washing in front of my bedroom cupboard overnight because I was too lazy to put it away then, and decided to leave it till the morning. On a dark moonless night, in the depths of the countryside. When the path from the bed to the loo goes past the cupboard...

(Shattered wrist and internal fixation anyone?)...

I always put the washing away immediately now!

Tried andouillette - one teensy mouthful. Truly awful. 🤮

Marry

@WillowintheUK

Tried andouillette - one teensy mouthful. Truly awful. 🤮

Is that the intestine sausage that tastes of actual shit?!

Put something expensive in the calendar under the wrong date.

£350 of wasted tickets 😫

Took motorbike riding lessons for a day. Three crashes later, I’m happy to remain a passenger now.

@minipie that’s almost an argument for not using a calendar because you have to keep checking the tickets rather than thinking you’ve dealt with it in a fail safe manner

Poor you!

A very high, very fast water slide. It was like a colonic irrigation!

@minipie I know someone who did that for the London 2012 Olympics, travelled up from Somerset on the day only to find their tickets had been for the day before. Awful!

Mine is go-karting, weird I know, but I felt like I was going to die I was so shaken and terrified. . Ridiculous.

Swimming the English Channel once was definitely enough!

Pony Trekking.

Go Ape

@minipie

Put something expensive in the calendar under the wrong date.

£350 of wasted tickets 😫

My ex did that for a £1,000 flight. Airline let him on with a free pass! Couldn't believe it!

Holiday in Bognor Regis

@Knitter99 with you on that. I tried a high ropes thing above an indoor trampoline park once - I had to have a mini bottle of wine from the cafe afterwards to calm my nerves. Can't imagine how scary it would be outside with the wind adding to the experience.

Pickled walnuts 😨

A half marathon. It wasn’t so much the event itself it’s that I had to run so much when training and didn’t have time for any other exercise! Much prefer exercise classes to running.

Forgot to double check my airline tickets when I was on a world trip in 2005 (back when you still got paper tickets for RTW jaunts).

Was packing for my onward journey from Sydney to Bangkok, missed it by a full day because I didn’t read the date properly. Thankfully able to get on next day flight for $150 but man that was shit.

Thinking I would try abseiling (was very young). I completely froze at the top, refused to move an inch up or down and had to be rescued by several people.

Buying a house in a town I didn't know (relocating to somewhere more convenient for work) without renting for a while first, or doing lots of research in to the area. And viewing once, in the dark.
My lovely, quaint cottage on the edge of a rural town turned out to be on a street notorious for drugs and problem tenants. Mentioning my address in polite company was usually met with a sharp intake of breath or a look of pity. The place was a nightmare to sell on too- as it's quirky layout meant it wasn't ideal for letting and no one else seemed to want to buy it to live in themselves.