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

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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?

I've got to go back to work in a very important meeting in a minute and I just can't stop laughing at these 🤣

It's definitely on my list! 😖Although, tbf, it doesn't really qualify as I didn't properly try - it was so damn painful I stopped him before we'd even got started.

Since then I've learned that 'preparation is key', so to speak, but I don't care - not interested in trying again. That was with a previous partner, and thankfully DH isn't into it anyway.

White water rafting. Our boat overturned in the biggest rapid, all of us in the water. Rescue fold going a bit crazy. I then got stuck under another boat and couldn't get up. Honestly thought it was the end. The 'trip photos' show all the other boats coming through the final point cheering and high-fiving. Our boat: everyone pale and shaking.

Pot holing as a kid. Why would you do this to a child?

Eating sea-urchin. It was rank (and I'm an adventurous eater). Ditto duck tongue from the Asian supermarket. F'king gristle.

Inside a car is the safest place to be, as the car body itself acts as a Faraday cage, which protects you even if the car is stuck by lightning.

I do not, however, advise driving round the M25 during a hailstorm.

Scuba diving for me too. Panic attack on the sea bed was no fun.

Back in the 1970s my 'friends' persuaded me to go to a Chippendales type show. Naively I didn't realise audience participation was expected. I cringed so hard for the poor women who were hauled up on to the stage and subjected to what would now be considered (quite rightly!) sexual humiliation. To this day I can't understand how so many women thought it hilariously funny.

So that, LSD and squid 😂

DH told me that when I got home but I didn't know at the time and was terrified.

Me too! And the spire climb in The Stone Book gives me vertigo.

Segway... fricking awful thing, i hated it, made worse because everyone else loved it, even the instructor at the end of it told me "Segway is not for you!"

I tried grass track racing once, I was determined I was going to be good at it and beat everyone. I went over a big bump on the first lap and almost broke my neck, the race was then stopped due to safety issues. I never attempted it again.

I attempted scuba but in a pool and I wasn’t impressed so never tried it again, I do love to snorkel though. Much rather be near the surface without being weighted down.

Fun times! 😁

Yes, I tried Acid once in the nineties, started off ok, everything was intense and awesome, then I got paranoid about everything and it took ages to wear off, I thought the world was made of cardboard and everything was pointless 😅
I had a high dose of Pethadine once in hospital, when it kicked in it was amazing, I can see how people get hooked on stronger drugs

A few more of mine:
Camping (one night was enough, I like my creature comforts)
'Thrill rides', I've done a few but not in a long time. I'm not sure the 'thrill' component is supposed to feel as though one is courting impending death, and even if it is, I'm done paying good money to be that scared. Kind of ironic as I grew up near an amusement park.
Shellfish. A friend once summed up eating shellfish as 'like chewing a condom that's been in the sea', that pretty much sums it up for me.

Sorry but this made me laugh!! Only because I was the same. Step was the worst experience of my life. I don’t have much rhythm at the best of times (although I do figure skate to a reasonable level and I was always fine in aqua aerobics classes!) but the one and only step class I went to made me cry. Awful experience. Fortunately I can laugh about it now but it’s not something I’d be looking to repeat 😂😂

At the same time ??

Edit: I see several people beat me to it. Great minds think alike?

That reminds me of the stairs at the Giants Causeway. Ds is dyspraic and got far to close to the top of the cliff. The he was like a whippet down those horrible steps. I was swearing so much

Canyoning.
'You want me to jump off here?'
Gallic shrug, outrageous French accent: 'Many persons ave jermped erf ere.'
'Yeah, but not me!'

Survived it, but fucking hell, never again.

I tried acid in the late 70s - Red Star the little tablets were called. It was way too intense. The walls started breathing; I couldn't stop laughing; someone brought a giant ragged cabbage in from the garden which sat in the middle of the room and terrified me and then, to my later dismay, I took all my clothes off. It was awful.

Wont even try it 🤢

Waxing.

Water parks - well I would go again but only if it was guaranteed uncrowded. Not hours of queueing in a wet cozzie.

A specific “mouse tail” type of rollercoaster designed to make you feel like it’s badly made and coming off the rails any minute. Who the fuck designed that??

Car travel at night in India.

What does it do to you?

Zumba, circuit training, going on a boat ride with a glass bottom (the boat’s bottom, not mine), going on holiday with a friend (we never spoke again when we got home), cigars, oysters, music festivals, CAMPING!!!

Boxersise class. It was actually full of lean boxers completing 100 skips per minute on the jump rope ( you know you cant see the rope swing its so fast and their feet look like they are levitating). I was a slightly overweight and mega unfit, uncoordinated 20 something. It was excruciatingly embarrassing trying to get to the end of the class.

Poppers. Tried it at university. Was like having an orgasm and dying at the same time...

Dinghy sailing.

I'm perfectly ok with bigger boats, with keels, but found sailing a 14' dinghy on Ullswater on a breezy day utterly terrifying.

It felt like going to sea in a washing up bowl by comparison.