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?

Getting in a boat to go ‘dolphin watching’ in 6C and grey skies near Cromarty.
We rugged up, we wore layers etc but nothing else since has come close to the cold and misery. The trip seemed to go on for hours. No signs of life in the water. Just grey sky, grey water, feeling of never leaving the boat.
I still remember the little cup of hot chocolate they gave out midway and how pathetically grateful I was to hold it.

This is perfectly put. Was it Martin Amis who wrote that he wanted a cigarette whilst actually smoking a cigarette?

LSD, four hours of psychosis.

Was that all in the same night?!

😂
I'd end up being sectioned if I had to deal with all of those in one night...

Pot holing/caving , didn't even make it down the hole in the ground once what was expected of me was explained, that included crawling through gaps in rock that were also under water. To be fair some of the underground caverns sounded amazing, but to get to them would have induced a panic attack of epic proportions !

I wanted to like yoga. I’m pretty flexible but I felt so nauseous and, yes, a cold sweat. I thought it was just me. Anyone got any idea why?

Yeah, DH refused point-blank to go caving when on a team-building exercise with the police in the 80s.

He was in armed response task force at the time. That man knows his limits 😀

Dungeons and Dragons 🙃

Rock climbing. Did well for the first few weeks of my course, then froze halfway up a chimney climb, and had to be physically removed by the instructor. Mortifying, and now am more afraid of heights then before.

Not my im-never-doing-this-again but my aunts

Wed gone to butterfly world in Leeds when i was about 11/12) and this was a big day out as my mother didnt drive (they'd hired a minivan to fit us all in)

We where having a lovely day until we walked into this massive room that was boiling hot and butterflies flapping about

My aunt had dyed her hair a copper colour the day before and this massive (size of my hand) black butterfly took a shine to her (we think it was her hair colour and it thought it was food)

It kept flapping into her hair and face-this went on for about 15 minutes

She kept freaking out (it was like watching hyacinth bucket as she likes to think shes posh but shes really not) and in the end she made a break for the door,butterfly still trying to get to her and her screaming 'make the black bastard leave me alone!' to my mother (who was bent double and pissing herself laughing)

It went down as family legend and we never let her forget it

We did offer to arrange to go back the following year-I wont repeat what she said as there was a lot of swear words but it boiled down to 'no!'

I did go back many years later with dp but sadly,there where no massive black butterflies to be seen

Horse riding. Can't understand the love for it and all the hard work involved in owning a horse.
White knuckle rides. I did the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland in Anaheim and absolutely hated it. Then, I was daft enough to go on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden journey ride at Universal. I felt sick.

I have no idea why people queue for hours for these kind of rides.

Last year I went to watch a Boxing Match with my Dad in Ipswich (Portman Road Football Stadium). It was really unusual for such an event to happen here so we thought we'd give it a go.

Paid a fortune for the tickets and could see nothing. Our seats were also on the pitch with no cover and the thunderstorms started as soon as we got there at 6pm and continued until it ended at midnight. I've never seen rain like it.

Everyone around us was also coked out of their brains - never again!

I also made the "signing up for caving in Freshers Week" mistake at Southampton University in 1998. A trip to Swildon's Hole in the Mendips. Never again!

My one and done is marriage. I'm a widow and I like the freedom of doing as I please!

Go Ape, went on a work team building day as I was young and naive and didn’t realise I could just say no. Didn’t even make it up the first ladder. TBF walking round the forest watching everyone else do it was quite nice and it doesn’t seem to have hurt my career prospects as I still work at the same place.

Are you me??? I had exactly the same experience at New Grange except my ex stayed in (with my mother) while I scrambled over/through the people behind me in my panic to get out. Never so happy to see the sky!

Cold water swimming.

Coffee.

I was visiting a friend and her very new baby in hospital, back in the days when you were kept in for a week, she pointed to the couple opposite, the young mother encouraging her husband to hold their baby, he looking terrified and shaking like a leaf. 'You wouldn't believe he's in bomb disposal would you' my friend told me. Another knowing his limits!

You’d have been superwoman!

Anyone tried kissing the Blarney stone? You lay on your back, shuffle into open space, only supported by a bored student and put your lips on a piece of rock that 67 billionty people have snogged already that day. No fucking chance.

Also magic mushrooms. Did them once and it was hilarious chasing my errant toes around the disco as they tried to escape from my jesus sandals. Until it wasn't...

Horse riding. I signed up for adult classes as my kids were learning. I was awful. Rising trot! Couldn’t get it at all. Fell off when trying to dismount and left after two lessons.

Camping.

A wise Mumsnetter once told me that it’s: holidaying in conditions you wouldn’t tolerate at home.

I had an ex whose mother was born in a third world country and she used to laugh so hard about us "white people" going camping - she thought it was hilarious we do it for fun.

A vertical slide at an aqua park in Spain. That horrendous fall is still my worse fear even though I did it and survived. 🤮

I bloody love morphine! I actually looked forward to my second c section as I knew I would be getting the Oromorph. Well actually they tried to give me something else. I held a sit in and was like no fucking way! I am not leaving without it 😂

I 100% could be a opioid addict. Completely agrees with me. But no I do think it’s bloody ridiculous that’s a reason not to give it. Where on earth do they think a postpartum mother who’s had a C-section is going to abscond to in order to acquire more of said morphine. Utter fantasy.

All these horrible experiences with drugs.
I think I have something wrong with me because nothing really has much effect on me.
I wouldn't do any of them again as they're a pointless waste of time and money.