Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: littleminnie on August 06, 2022, 12:36:25 PM
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Driving Test
Going in a helicopter
Going up the Eiffel Tower
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I'll agree
Driving test
Leaving my ex and moving to England from Scotland
Going on a plane to Paris for my OHs 50th (I dont fly)
I was only brave enough to stand at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower LM ;D
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Driving Test
Any job interviews
Watching 3 octopus at Oban Sea World tanks
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Helicopter ride 😳
Singing in a band for the first ever gig 🎶💩
Final interview for police (they showed me the door when they realised I just wanted a German Shepherd in the dog branch!) ;D
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Giving evidence in court
Completing the course at Go Ape (I’m scared of heights)
Giving birth
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Drove a car home before I passed my driving test. The boy whose mini it was had drunk too much. At 17 I didn’t have much commonsense or sense of danger and it was after midnight.
When I was about 10 someone dared me to hang off some monkey bars by my ankles. Of course it was never going to work and I fell straight on to concrete. It’s a wonder I didn’t break my skull but I very nearly bit through my tongue. I still have a big ridge across it.
Can’t recall a third.
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Coming down a kamikaze slide on holiday. It was high and vertical. Almost lost my bikini bottoms at the end. 😱 Never again!
Job interview.
Going out on a boat for the day dolphin watching. ( I don’t do boats and the sea) 😱
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PF - I know someone who did that, her Dad was less than impressed. "Why didn't you ring for a taxi or home, I would have collected you!"
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I now have a lovely image of you on that slide Jill ;D
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Omg, what I didn’t say was, when I’d nearly lost my bikini bottoms after I’d hit the water at the bottom, who was standing there watching? …………OHs dad! 😱🤣😂
Cringe or what! 🫣
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That happened to me when I was about 11 - a friend of Dad's had a large swimming pool, I dived in and they were standing chatting. 'Do that again'. Can't. I tried to get Dad to take his friend elsewhere, can't remember the outcome ::)
I can add learning to dive - I simply wasn't able to take feet off the edge! Did eventually ......... whoops that's 4 :D
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Flying. I'm not a happy traveller but I force myself because I don't want to miss out on seeing the destinations.
Ferry rides, long story, but again I do them for the end result.
Kayaking, cos I can't swim.
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Drove ds and dd to Philadelphia, PA for a Comic Con and arrived in the city 10 hours later.. at rush hour...on a Friday :o :o
Driver's exam
Went up the CN Tower in Toronto, back when it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world
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Traveling through an underground tunnel half full of water, in a narrow boat just missing the side walls, in the dark with my head just missing the cave roof.
First scuba dive over 30 meters, the coming up bit.
Getting caught by a tornado in our boat.
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Oh suziq99 I went on a boat through underground caves,then to show you how dark it was the guy doing the tour shut off the lights,omg,nearly had a meltdown ;D
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.... and the complete dark is black - 1 can touch the air. They do that down the Blue John Cave :o and advise not to move because touching someone will make them shriek :D
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My many driving tests! My ‘delightful’ mother had insisted I was an accident waiting to happen and refused to pay for lessons, having paid for my sister to learn. Learning to drive was no problem, when I had left home, but her voice criticising was in my head as I took each test. Apart from having an argument with some railings when parking, I haven’t had an accident. So there, mother!
Coming down a mountain on a ski lift when a pea souper of a fog descended and the lift was stopped for what seemed hours. I was suspended on my own in the middle of nothing. Horrible. I was terrified. I’m not very brave about physical things.
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I'd love to know if anyone ever enjoyed a driving test?? They seem to be the scariest things ever. My parents wouldn't let me take my test until I'd had a year of lessons and practice because several friends did the week long intensive courses, or had a month of daily lessons then took their tests. Once they passed they had a load of accidents because they'd only learnt to pass the test, and not how to drive in all conditions. I was taken out at night, in rain, snow, fog, etc. and still totally terrified when it came to the test.
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300 miles off Portsmouth, shipping forecast says 'severe gale force 9 imminent.... have a peaceful night'. Yeah, right. Look outside and the waves are higher than the rop of the mast. First time I thought I might not make it home and years before I could listen to the shipping forecast without my heart beating faster.
I am frightened of heights. Middle of the S Atlantic and someone (not me) let go of the halyard (rope that goes through the top of the mast to hold the sail up) so of course it ended up in the deck and had to go back up the mast. So with the boat rolling in the swell I was hoisted up in the bisun's chair which is just a sling. So terrified I thought I was going to pass out and let go of the mast.
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300 miles off Portsmouth, shipping forecast says 'severe gale force 9 imminent.... have a peaceful night'. Yeah, right. Look outside and the waves are higher than the rop of the mast. First time I thought I might not make it home and years before I could listen to the shipping forecast without my heart beating faster.
I am frightened of heights. Middle of the S Atlantic and someone (not me) let go of the halyard (rope that goes through the top of the mast to hold the sail up) so of course it ended up in the deck and had to go back up the mast. So with the boat rolling in the swell I was hoisted up in the bisun's chair which is just a sling. So terrified I thought I was going to pass out and let go of the mast.
:medal: :medal:
I'd never even go on a boating lake after those experiences ;D
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:o :o :o. so not 8)
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300 miles off Portsmouth, shipping forecast says 'severe gale force 9 imminent.... have a peaceful night'. Yeah, right. Look outside and the waves are higher than the rop of the mast. First time I thought I might not make it home and years before I could listen to the shipping forecast without my heart beating faster.
I am frightened of heights. Middle of the S Atlantic and someone (not me) let go of the halyard (rope that goes through the top of the mast to hold the sail up) so of course it ended up in the deck and had to go back up the mast. So with the boat rolling in the swell I was hoisted up in the bisun's chair which is just a sling. So terrified I thought I was going to pass out and let go of the mast.
Ooh that was nasty going up the mast like that, bad enough when the boat is tied up.
They should have made the culprit do it.
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Agreed. Unfortunately the culprit was heavier and stronger than me (only 2 of us) so was better on the winch.
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Agreed. Unfortunately the culprit was heavier and stronger than me (only 2 of us) so was better on the winch.
Arh, know what you’re saying. Hope you got your own back 😉
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I'd love to know if anyone ever enjoyed a driving test?? They seem to be the scariest things ever. My parents wouldn't let me take my test until I'd had a year of lessons and practice because several friends did the week long intensive courses, or had a month of daily lessons then took their tests. Once they passed they had a load of accidents because they'd only learnt to pass the test, and not how to drive in all conditions. I was taken out at night, in rain, snow, fog, etc. and still totally terrified when it came to the test.
It’s like people who say they enjoyed giving birth. Who can enjoy all that pain!