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?

Nooooo, I love Tahoe!!

Chelsea Flower Show, eye wateringly expensive but I always wanted to go, it looks so serene and beautiful on TV.

In reality it is so crowded you are forced to trudge along paths shoulder to shoulder with twats in blazers and Panama hats. Forget looking at the exhibits - they are six deep with people gawping and if you do manage fight your way through you’re looking at a tiny patch of ornamental grasses and purple flowers. Every show garden seems to consist of purple flowers and possibly a water feature and a gnarled tree stump. I’ve seen better displays at garden centres.

You can’t navigate your way round as the only map is inside the programme that costs about £28.

The rest of it is just food trucks where people in Panama hats queue for ice creams at £10 and endless pop up shops where people in Panama hats are buying wind chimes.

There were huge groups of people who seemed to be there just to get pissed on Pimms, shrieking and falling over like it was a day at the races.

And when we finally left you couldn’t get anywhere near the tube station as crowds were queuing outside and being let in single file.

Never, ever again.

"Swimming" in the Dead Sea. Hard to stand up again and I am wildly allergic and came out in the most horrendous itchy rash.

Being driven over mountain passes with no guardrails. I genuinely thought I was going to die of fright.

Concerts in Hyde Park - totally pointless, can't hear a thing and these days I'm too old to stand up for hours on end for no good reason.

Or a certain former Tory MP. Sex with him was described as “as having a very large wardrobe with a very small key falling of top of you”.

Music festivals. Technically I tried them twice (Sonisphere at Knebworth in 2010 and 2011.) But me and my ex husband lived close enough to get the train there and back every day, so we could go home to shower and sleep in a decent bed. I don't fancy ever going to a music festival again though.

Wowsers, sounds like I did get off lightly 😱. And we did it in our bikinis- no bras at all. I was 22 & and absolute slip of a thing with v little boobage, but still...

Me too. I was hopeless. The instructor had to rope me to him and practically drag me up the mountain. One of the other women in our group also struggled, but not as much as me. I'd put it down to being short as the rungs were quite far apart, but there was another short woman who managed to zoom up there.

Agreed re Hamilton, but I just listened to some of the music so have no interest in seeing it. It would feel like someone shouting at me for two hours. I do like some rap but in small doses.

Oh my god, I've just looked at Via Ferrata photos online and it looks absolutely horrific. Putting yourself through that if you're scared of heights is sheer insanity.

Right! There’s facing your fears then there’s punishing yourself.

I'm with you on skiing, as a child a good friend if mine booked her birthday party at the local ski slope. It's the worst birthday party i have ever been to as well as not enjoying the activity I was violently ill from the food, I was handed a cheese burger and when I tried to tell them i was lactose I tolerant they just assumed I was being fussy and got told to 'just eat it'.
My husband booked scuba-diving for our honeymoon, I chickened out but would like the opportunity to try again.

Well I enjoy views and also pushing my comfort zone levels, so I've learnt to enjoy things like ski lifts, and zip lines and other things at a height but I feel like I've got a natural height defense mechanism that kicks in so it's hard for me to move if I'm terrified. I once did a zip line across a canyon in Peru and had to go with the guide on that one as I couldn't handle going alone since you had to control the speed at the end yourself and it was just so high.

I feel scared on most flights tbh and I travel frequently. I don't let the fear stop me as I love travelling 😊.

The via ferrata I did wasn't so high as it was just by the sea. But it was the terrified guy in front which made it scary.

You’re braver than me, I didn’t even want to look at the picture for too long!

Via Farratas are great fun, i loved doing an Abseil and really enjoyed pot holing at Cheddar but ice skating, roller blading, Segways.... never, i hated them all.

Odd really as highly unlikely to die unlike things i've really enjoyede

I honestly thought about putting that but decided against it.
I agree with PPs who said caving. I did it once with school and honestly cried most of the way round, I had a lovely boy friend who held my hand all the way through and hugged me when we got out. My husband used to LOVE caving. Kayaking is also out. In fact pretty much anything I did in year 6 at the Weymouth Outdoor Education Centre. Best bit of that was winning the sandcastle competition.

Not really measuring up to a lot of these, but: being initiated into developing prints in a darkroom.
Thought I would be fascinated by it and really be impatient to get well into it.
Came out thinking there is a reason that Boots do it well, so you don't have to.

Thank you so much for your brilliant post. I've always wanted to go, or rather, had FOMO about not going. I don't any more!

You’re welcome! It’s so much better on TV.

Oh and I thought my late mother's tales of being made to drink gallons of Mackeson milk stout after a birth to keep iron levels up and encourage breast milk sounded yuk!

Snorkeling/scuba diving, never again!

I need to confess that this happened to me, too, when I was a student, crossing the park with a friend as a shortcut home after a night out. Crossed the park successfully but, as I was trying to clamber over the top of the gate, the spikes pierced my jeans and held me pinioned in place, with a long drop below. My friend had to recruit a tall passer-by to assist in lifting me up and off the spikes. Happily, he obliged. Jeans bore the scars.

Roller coasters.

Boat trips. Was 4 months pregnant, and we were off the coast of Wales in horribly choppy water... it took 90 minutes and I think I vomited for 60 of them. I honestly thought I was dying and felt ill for days afterwards. DH had thought it would be a nice treat

Yup, totally agree re ski-ing, absolutely don’t see the attraction.

Watching the curling, had to turn off because of the endless shouting.

Rollercoasters: hate them, they scare me, I don’t see the point.

I feel this is the same for any country show or fair. It’s just expensive stalls, food trucks and crowds.

I’m exactly the same. I can’t bear watching graphic violence on TV or films. I imagine it happening to someone in my family and I feel depressed for ages afterwards. I can’t understand how people watch it for entertainment. I was talked/pushed into watching Hostel at university, it can still ruin my day now if images from certain scenes slip into my mind. I’m so wary of the content of anything I watch now and have no issue saying I won’t like it.