Things you only do once

[DedalusBloom]

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

Jump off a boat into Loch Ness.

Christ, it was cold.

Anal.

carrick a rede rope bridge

I'm scared of heights.
Got across one way on pride ("if you're not going a Ross love you need to come off cos I'm not rescuing you!) but half way back (after a sit down to let the adrenaline drop) the wing picked up (they'd kept opening and closing the bridge) and I felt it move and I stopped. You don't stop! Had an actual moment of imagining never moving again. My lovely friend sang the school song with me (we were in our 30s), to get me across

Ariel Adventure at Centre Parcs for me too! Hated it. Thought it would be a doddle.

Carried my child wearing flip flops :(

I was lucky and just broke a load of bones in my foot and took all but one toenail off when I fell, but I could've caused my baby irreversible harm: as it was, miraculously, she was unharmed. Fucking idiot. I still break into a cold sweat when I remember it.

@ComingtoKent

Skiing.

Same. Hated it and hurt my knees.

@NotRainingToday

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

😂 Mmm, refreshing...?

Any flight over 4 hours long unless I can afford business class. Longest was 13 hours and I absolutely hated it.
Also, calamari

Oysters - tried them in a fancy place in Edinburgh. Like snot in a shell.

Scuba diving - I have an inner ear problem and I couldn’t equalise the pressure so could only dive down about half a metre. Total waste of time.

Bought a church, in Shetland, without ever having been there. I pray it all works out.

Got married in Botswana, at 17.

Quad biking. Got on and absolutely hated it - the practise course was insanely hard and I just kept panicking.

@AutomaticMoon I wonder if it was I looked at 100’s of times online? And it’ll be great, the plan in my head worked out fine

Like others, white water rafting. Scary. As. Fek! Also, like others, coming down a very high and twisty flume at a water park. I was literally flung above the side of the flume wall at a corner, and though I was going to be catapulted over the side.....My family waiting in the pool at the bottom saw it happen, and couldn't stop laughing at my forcible ejection and then the whomping thump as I hit back down into the water. Never again... ever!

Climes that's the roof of York minster and nearly threw up because I was so unfit

Went to a religious healing retreat and saw things no person should see. Think scalpel and cataract surgery on a stage...

Not envy.

A sweep.

Never. Ever. Again

@WillowintheUK

Tried andouillette - one teensy mouthful. Truly awful. 🤮

Same…how can people?

Have a race down the stairs with me and my brother's shoe laces tied together...

Fortunately, the intervening 35 years make a repeat highly unlikely!

abseiling

Pontins camber sands

If I had to abseiling would win if there were ever a next time.

Childbirth. Once was enough for me.

Tell someone some very unwelcome news.

@Georgyporky your post reminded me of the old rhyme:
Never shake a ketchup bottle.
None’ll come - and then a lot’ll!

@theDudesmummy

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.

Abseiling here too.

I did go down eventually, having held everybody else up at the top for ages while I gathered my courage, but OMG I was terrified. I had to be helped out of the harness because I was shaking so much I couldn't stand. Never, ever again.

Put your hand on an electronic hob top to see if it's still hot.