Something you've done that 99.9% of TW members have not

He was Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones. We installed carpet in his house. He was a really cool dude.

 

. . . and a millionare. his kin folk said "jed move away from there!" they said california is the place you ought to beeee! so they loaded up the truck and they moved to beverleeee. . .hills that is . . .

ok i'll stop.

 

Almost cut my toes completely off...
Almost bit my tongue completely off...

 

Wow 2 things almost completely off at the same time?

 

Nope. Tongue I was 5-6 and it involved a pool and a sick spinning move while jumping off the side into the pool.

Toes I was 9-10 and it involved running across the lawn with bare feet and lawn edging. Notice how new lawn edging has rounded edges?

 

i got one of those!!!

 

DAMN

 

It seemed to fit into the thread.

I also crashed my mustang at 115 mph on public streets and walked away unscratched.


My statement is in no way bragging or condoning such stupid actions. When on the street, don't drive like a fucktard. Learn from my mistakes and don't end up in jail yourself.

 

A possum literally ate my bumper on a backroad in Kentucky. He stood up and bared his teeth right before I took his head off. It was priceless.

While riding in a Camaro at high speeds on another backroad in Kentucky we hit half a flock of Geese walking across the road (not intentionally). Helped pull the feathers out of the license plate holder afterwards. We only killed one for sure but there were feathers flying all over the place.

While in the Philippines did the Marine's rope course. Here's a pic of it.


An idea of how high I was without any safety nets.

It was a badass time though.

 

Have donated more than 10 gallons of blood/plasma/ platelets at the Indiana Blood Center (in the last 10 years).

 

I've done the same thing but with semen. They get really pissed at the blood center when you do that though, It's like wtf is their problem, you know?

 

First let me say since I don't know y'all that well yet, being new and all, many of you may have done these things. I'm happy to say at 46, I've lived a damned good life and hopefully, I'm not half way done.

Was a professional Ballroom dance instructor part time for over a year, while serving in the Marine Corps.
Had my chest Xray-d on the same machine as Reagan, within hours of him being there at Bethesda MD hospital
Banged a girl on the top bunk while her roomie was trying to sleep on bottom bunk……ok I'm guessing this isn't so unique but, it was fun!
Set at a table with Al Gore in the early 80's for breakfast before I knew anything about politics….which explains why he doesn't wear an eye patch to this day…
Stood perimeter guard around Pres Clinton's AF1 at O'hare, then shook his slimy, limp wrested hand, still gives me shivers…
While in the Caymans on military business, riding a moped after drinking too much, spotted a big crab crossing the road and stopped to demonstrate how to properly pick up a live crab without being pinched. My mistake, this was Gumby the crab and he won, ouch!

Got ocean qualified in HI to sail 27' Catalinas, learned to sail back to the sandbar in pitch black, no lights and no motor while completely snookered, because I put the heavy anchor at the stern and the light one at the bow, twice in the same night….

Surfed: Pipeline, got drilled, multiple times in one session; got barreled on a rare left at Sunset, shoulda drowned countless times on the North Shore…

Rode my Mtn Bike around Oahu, about 137 miles, two years in a row

Flew Hanggliders for over 100 hours and no broken bones! Oh yeah, published an article with pics in USHGA mag, woo hoo. On a similar note, emergency landed on a 30 degree cow pasture/slope while the large bulls nearby stared me down….

Joined National Ski Patrol but, as a snowBoarder, aka, BoarderPatrol, still active...

Uggh, it's sounding like a brag list instead of a bucket list so I'll stop but it's fun to recount, relive and appreciate how great life has been.

This thread does give me an idea to write "some" of this down, before I forget it all together….

 

wow!

Have you ever seen the episode of King of the Hill where Hank meets President Bush and his handshake is weak. Funny stuff, I can't imagine how bad Clinton's must have been.

 

That's awesome! I don't know how much I've given but they always take 2 units of my -O since I first gave about 3 years ago. Now I go every 16 weeks. Got hooked up to the machine for the first time a few weeks ago.

 

I actually have never given blood......unless it was requested

 

Somewhere I have the "Shaddup and Steer!" one...traded my VQ-1 "Fuck the Team" Det Misawa patch for it.

 

Got offered a full ride scholarship to the naval academy for track & field after running for track for only one year in high school

 

I have stuck a chick in the jugular vein w/ an 18 gauge IV catheter on an OD call.

I have done CPR 4 times

I have stuck a tube down someones throat at 4am, in an ambulance doing 65mph.

 

Keep trying...