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66Mustang
66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,171 Championing
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Thanks to @janer1967 for this idea.

Here we share unusual things we have done - things that people wouldn't expect we have done or things that most people haven't done!

For example a couple from me:

I have been locked in a police prison cell.
I have driven around an F1 circuit.

I realise I am not very interesting and I've ran out of interesting things...I'm sure you can come up with more! :smiley:

Over to you!
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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    I have swum with dolphins 

    I have had all my hair shaved off for charity 

    I have rescued a child who was in trouble in sea drifting out 

    I have been on a cruise down the nile 

    I have lost over half my body weight (put some back on now) 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I have received  an award from the Queen

    I gave birth in a shopping center 

    I was married  to a famous person 

    I saved a lady's life by getting her out a burning building 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    edited May 2021
    I once saved the life of a hedgehog by gently rolling it across a busy road to the other side. (Well I wasn’t going to pick it up..they’re prickly! ?)
    This image has brightened up my evening @leeCal. Adorable!

    I'm also quite boring, and can't really think of anything right now...

    I've had a poem published in a book (it was in primary school and there wasn't much competition but we can gloss over that detail).

    Nice thread @66Mustang!
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Online Community Member Posts: 7,877 Championing
    I've held a snake, not a python but still...

    Yeah, i'm not exciting either :lol:
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,171 Championing
    Wow we have some seriously interesting people on here :o

  • adamskis
    adamskis Online Community Member Posts: 67 Empowering
    Ami2301 said:
    I've held a snake, not a python but still...

    Yeah, i'm not exciting either :lol:
    It’s highly overrated. 
    Exciting stuff is also, often, incredibly scary too.
    Telling a tale of being stuck on a mountain ridge as a gale force wind decided to come through, it was so strong it was pushing me over the edge, there was a couple lying down in the snow to wait it out she was clearly terrified, as was I. The only way down was a black run with all of the snow ripped off it, leaving just ice. Going over the top I knew that there would be a few crashes on the way down, so carefully planning which snow (I hoped, that could have been ice too) once moving my recent ice skiing lesson really paid off and I managed to hit the bottom without crashing once, which was a relief, as crashing on a run that steep can end very badly, as you won’t stop until you hit thick, soft snow, a tree, or the bottom !

    Really exciting to tell…Scary as heck to experience.
    it takes quite a lot to get my adrenaline running now!
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    @woodbine you haven't let anyone down it was hardly your choice to become disabled 
    Your support on here helps others and you no doubt wouldn't be here without your disability 
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,851 Championing
         I have played snooker with a very famous (now deceased) player... no surprise he won!!
         I have saved the life of a giant tortoise that didn't need saving as it was only going for a walk  (only in Turkey)
         The rest of my life is quite boring  :(
         
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,926 Championing
    I have stood on the glass floor at the top of the Blackpool tower... :o
  • adamskis
    adamskis Online Community Member Posts: 67 Empowering
    woodbine said:
    I have had brain surgery that lasted 4.5 hours 
    I have had kidney stones three times
    I have let my family down by becoming disabled.
    You have let nobody down.

    not just being polite, don’t think this way (although I suspect we all do) and keep facing forward!
  • Ayoung1979
    Ayoung1979 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor
    I have been to Dominican Republic 
    I have flown in a helicopter 
    I have been on the Dragons Wing at Six Flags
    I have been rafting and canoeing 
    I have graduated from High School & College
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    @Ayoung1979 I have been to dominican Republic too would love to go back 
  • Ayoung1979
    Ayoung1979 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor
    @woodbine
    You're not the only one who has let your family down, I have too. I went to Medical Assisting College and made it to graduation with a B. Worked at a Physicians office and failed. I no longer work in the Medical Field.  :(
  • adamskis
    adamskis Online Community Member Posts: 67 Empowering
    Ayoung1979 said:
    @woodbine
    You're not the only one who has let your family down, I have too. I went to Medical Assisting College and made it to graduation with a B. Worked at a Physicians office and failed. I no longer work in the Medical Field.  :(
    You have failed nobody.
    you are still being a success, in a different field.
    I went from high flying sales management position, earning fantastic money, to benefits of £100 a week…I felt I had failed, everybody, we had to sell cars, houses, all sorts of things I had become VERY attached to.
    I took a good year to finally accept what was happening, now I am feeling a success again, building guitars, and selling the wood to make them.
    (still skint though)

  • Ayoung1979
    Ayoung1979 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Contributor
    @janer1967
    I would love to go back also!!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Failure is an event, not a person, @Ayoung1979
    (Zig Ziglar)
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    edited May 2021
    Wow there's some interesting folk amongst us, who frankly put me in the shade. I don't consider any of you failures either - life's hard and messy and difficult sometimes, especially if you have an impairment.  So, consider all you've been through and yet you've still made it past all those worst days.  Give yourself a pat on the back for being so blimmin' resilient  <3 

    I have...
    • Graduated with a masters despite dropping out of college when young through ill-health
    • Been the first person ever to receive a new IBD treatment at my hospital (woo for being a guinea pig  :D)
    • Got pregnant after 10 years of infertility and treatment << my biggest achievement yet  <3
    • Met Will Young.. did I mention I love Will Young?  :D
    • Once accidentally stole a chair from a charity shop - that I hasten to add, I returned upon realising my error.. lordy! 
    I hope some of those made you smile!

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