‘Cool’ things you have done!

[Chelsea26]

Today DP and I took our 4 kids up to London to the theatre.

After, we had a walk round a few sights and he flashed his warrant card and we were able to walk down and take a picture outside Number 10 Downing Street (not that I like anyone in there but still… quite cool)

We walked on a little further and went past the HoP, in my youth I was part of a film crew that went up ‘Big Ben’ and stayed up there for a few hours (also cool), and then, as I was the only woman on the crew, I got to wind the clock!

So as we were walking past today, I casually told the kids that I had wound that clock and I am probably one of very few people alive that have done so

and I was cool for about five minutes

What ‘cool’ things have you done?

I’ve been on Blue Peter twice as an adult.

I performed for the Queen of Spain twice. Doesn't sound that impressive unless I also mention I was 14 (then 15), part of a nerdy young talents programme full of teenagers who didn't know how to behave at the dinner table, let alone in front of royalty. Both times we got a 1 hour notice and had to be express-trained in what to do when she came backstage to meet us. Surprised us all that she spoke with an accent (which makes sense as an adult now, as she isn't Spanish-born).

I've also placed in the top 5 internationally in my individual discipline. I can now happily say it is my full-time job

I got the school bully expelled from DDs school in Y9.
I was a bloody legend at her school until she left in Y11

DS is at the same school but I am no longer a legend - DH is because DS told his mates he used to smoke weed (at uni and then not often) and was so off his face once he forgot where he lived.

NC as the two together could be outing 😆

I once went on a tour of the national archives and saw Henry VIII's will. I have also been part of police convoy escorting a VIP into London and then into Buckingham Palace. That was great fun!

That's awesome. I hope my DC have a teacher as quick thinking as you when they go to school. Well done!

To the poster who flew a Mig25, that’s is just so …………….. cool!

Steel works in the 1990's huge international company, we had 3 visiting Russians accompanied by our agent out there. They stayed a week.

I was asked to entertain them for an afternoon, they came to our department (finance) I gave them an overview of what we did. Still hours yet to kill so I asked them if they wanted to go to the melting shop, which was a whole lot more exciting than finance.

They asked me to take them to Toys R Us, so myself and 4 Russians spent the afternoon there. They loved it, bought loads of toys, trying on cowboy hats and police helmets and even bought his grandson a go cart, which we had to DHL out there and describe as a steel sample.

Mine is work related and sounds a bit corny, so apologies. I am a midwife and assist women to birth their babies and I find that incredibly cool. To be the 1st person to touch a human being. To watch the parents faces when I hand their baby to them. To be such a huge part of a families life at an important moment. It feels so weird this is my life (I was a mature student who only did this after I had my kids) I sometimes feel I have imposter syndrome. I feel incredibly lucky.

I love all the different variations on cool!
Has been an interesting read. Great thread. I work with older people and many of them have very cool stories. I love hearing them!

That’s lovely

I once held the Grand Depart trophy ~not even a cyclist~

These are so great! Some very cool people on here!

I’m impressed

When I was 14 I helped Nick Rhodes set up his photography exhibition in London. And recently I introduced my Dd to the photographer who did the photos for the Rio album, and whose camera you can hear clicking at the beginning of Girls on Film!

Before 9/11 I was invited by the pilot to sit in the jump seat in the cockpit for landing into JFK. That was pretty cool, just me and the pilots coming into land over NYC at dawn, something no ordinary punter will ever get to do again I should think!

Not as cool as most of these things- but I was considered 'cool' by my elder son's year 9 classmates for a while for 'taking down' one of their dads at karate.

Except I actually didn't.😁

We were sparring in class and I stepped in to sweep him. I think I might've done it too- but as he also stepped in he slipped on the underfoot part of his shin pad and went crashing down.

He was convinced I'd swept him though, and told his son, who in turn told ds1.

They still believe I'm a force to be reckoned with, apparently.

@00deed1988

It doesn't sound like imposter syndrome so much as an awareness of how absolutely special it is, what a privilege to share that moment, but that although you share the moment with them, it is not your moment it's there's. So you are in the middle of one of the most raw, natural, vulnerable emotional times for a family and baby, that although they are not your family and baby you are getting to share in it with them. I think to be a midwife must be terrifying and incredibly in equal measure. I am glad you have found your vocation, how wonderful

I have been in the star dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

DH and I have ridden Route 66 all the way from Chicago to Santa Monica on a Harley Davidson. He was 69 and I was 66 at the time. We have also ridden through Death Valley and across the Mojave desert. It was hot!

Love that

Maybe not as exciting as some of these.

My primary school growing up was near a TV studio so we were used for audiences for a kids' TV show in around 1990/91 I think it was. The band The Railway Children were on the episode I was there for and I was one of the kids picked to have a question to ask. The presenter didn't pick me, and the drummer who I was sitting beside was gesturing to try to get him to pick me.

It wasn't my last TV appearance. I was also on a quiz show almost 10 years ago and won over £10,000.

I met my now-ex (DC's dad) at a gig. My friend and I got to go backstage and hang out with the band. My ex waited on me the whole time. We decided to go off to a club and were outside trying to get the band to come with us, and they were trying to get me and my friend to hang out on the tour bus. I ended up going to the club with my ex and my friend went on the bus, where apparently all they did was play hangman and worry about me going off with someone I had only just met.

This is so cool...well done!

Loads (tv/entertainment wise) but they would out me to anyone who knows me and I’m already relaxed with my anonymity on here 😄 ahhh had such fun times. Always say yes to stuff! Have been dying to do something cool again lately but these things you can’t organise or plan you just have to say yes and put yourself forward when opportunities arise.

@00deed1988 - I meant this one. So cool! (realised that I didn't quote the message in my previous post. :)

Been a steward on a steam train pulled by the Mallard
Parasailed over a lagoon in Bali
Shared a footpath with a Komodo dragon on the island of Komodo
Taken a helicopter trip over San Francisco Bay

Those make my life seem more exciting than it is.