Tried it once ...... never again!!

[NagathaCrispy]

Just caught a bit of the Winter Olympics on TV and was reminded of the one and only time I tried skiing. It was one of the worst and most terrifying experiences of my life and I will definitely not, never, ever be doing it again!!

Ditto, my only experience of scuba diving .... still having nightmares years later!!!!!

Both these activities are on my "Tried it once but never again" list. Anyone else got a Never Again experience?

Rollercoaster in the dark i.e. Space Mountain. I'm not afraid of many things, but this absolutely terrified me. Being catapulted around and not being able to see where I was. Just...No.

Not sure what they are called but those slides that are practically vertical. I really hurt my neck. I wasnt popular with the children either because I wouldnt let them go on it after that.

When asked by a staff member if I had completed the course, and therefore would require a certificate, I told him that I had only managed to complete a third (or quarter?) of it, so I couldn’t get one. . But I could tell from his response that he was very proud of me for completing that much. 😁🤭. I’ll take that!

I’m sure it was a standard response he gives everyone, but we won’t dwell on that 😊.

Snorkeling. Did it in Mexico. Was a nice experience seeing the turtles and a tiger shark but never again. The glasses kept slipping off, I kept swallowing water and ended up with some stomach bug due to it. My group also left me behind because I was struggling with my glasses, and I was further out than I was comfortable with. So yeah, never again

I found the in the dark rollercoasters much more bearable than the normal ones

Just remember, next time you go camping to take a vase with you - it’ll make all the difference!

Please tell me about Snowden. That's actually 1 thing i did manage. Dont tell me you got taken on Crib Goch route....

Late DM once asked the air around her "What does oral sex mean?" during the Lewinski scandal. When she worked it out she followed up with "Tried it once, didn't like it". TMI, DM.

I feel your pain. I get nausea just looking at those rides!

Glastonbury for me. Went a very long time ago in my 20s, was one of the very wet muddy years - I had an awful period together with awful period pain. Ended up losing my friends for a bit in the evening (was pre mobile phones). Couldn’t get near enough to any stages to see any acts and basically just a lot of pushing, shoving and feeling cold, wet and miserable. Just no.

Coffee

Marriage, no doubt!

Oysters. Skiing.

I’m with you on the first two, but Dungeness is fantastic. There’s nothing quite as lovely, on a sticky hot summer evening, as sitting in the pub garden of the Pilot, with a glass of something very cold and a plate of cod smothered in their tartare sauce, while the breeze cools you right down until you feel human again.

When I was much younger I put horse riding, spicy food, water slides and bike riding into those categories. I’m pretty good at seeing something now and knowing instantly that it’s not for me, so any activity where I’m not on stable ground, or water might go up my nose, or I have to wear some kind of ppe, is on my no thanks list.

Gliding.
IT WAS HELL IN THE SKY. I have never ever felt so nauseous in my life. I thought my brain would fall out of my ears and i would vomit myself inside out.

I regret to disagree! I’d forgotten how much fun I had gliding, the complete silence with only the wind humming through the wings like a celestial harp. The feeling of slight weightlessness when you put the stuck forward, and the world turning slowly as you climbed a thermal

id try it again now, but they might have to winch me into the cockpit

Those bloody water slides with the bowl at the end, like a plug hole for humans. You shoot down the slide at 100 miles an hour then you get flung into the bowl where you have absolutely no control of your body, then you get forced round & round until you plop out the bottom into deep water & you're so disoriented you have no idea where you're supposed to go or how to get out of this sheer hell. Managed to really whack my head as I came out of the slide part. The member of staff watching on the screen at the top of the slide actually heard the sound of my head smacking against the side & came down to check I was ok. Probably gives onlookers a laugh though as there is no dignified way to get round it

We went up there on a 6th-form school trip in the 1970's - about a dozen of us. The wimps other group went on another, much shorter walk. The fog came down and we couldn't see a thing, and we took absolutely hours and hours to find our way back down. It was mid summer and getting dark by the time we returned. Our other group and the teachers were having absolute kittens when we finally reappeared at our accommodation. Turned out that we hadn't been the only group up on Striding Edge that day, and several from another school had fallen - one of them was killed. Our school had called Mountain Rescue when we didn't return, and they'd gone up and found the other lot first.😥

Pickleball. Not terrifying or anything and I regularly play other racquet sports. It was noisy, playing over the court lines annoyed me and it traumatised my elbows. Can't believe it's so popular

We did that at Legoland many years ago. For some reason we sat right on the end & as it was starting to swing it would make a clicking sound as it got higher each time. That bloody clicking sound haunted my dreams for years after! My dd was crying & I kept saying "it's ok, it will all be over soon!" A few years later my 2 dds wanted to go on another one & we sat in the middle & it was ok. We then slowly over another few years progressed to the end & it really wasn't so bad after all. I just think that first time we were totally unprepared for what we thought was a little kids' ride

Please tell me about Snowden. That's actually 1 thing i did manage. Dont tell me you got taken on Crib Goch route....

Just coming on here to say the Crib Goch ridge is my ‘never again’! I completed the Snowden Horseshoe, but did that part mostly on all fours. I still have nightmares about it.

Nether regions definitely take a beating, but they do get used to it. It helps to do 3 sessions a week 🙃great fat burner if you're into that sort of exercise and less damaging on the joints than running.

with an adrenaline junky DH like mine who does most of the awful things on this thread (deep sea diving, sky diving mainly), you'd think I'd have used to it, but I feel sick thinking about what he does!

oysters, most defiantly oysters, sick for days!!

Meat curry in St Kitts I don't know what is 'was' but I lost a stone in weight and struggled to keep anything down and in for best part of 2 weeks!! not great when your one of three crew on a yacht charter

😂😂

Riding a camel in the desert and having a Thai massage. Each equally painful in their own special ways.

Smoking. Tried it, loved it, realised I’d want to keep doing it.

Meditation. Could NOT do it and finished the session feeling inadequate and v stressed

A perm.

Rollercoasters.

I felt like that about snorkelling! Made a right idiot of myself tearing the mask off dramatically and getting out the water.