Once in a lifetime ...

[Bazzer]

Whilst diving, getting caught alone in fog of silt at 45m, deep inside a wreck, with no line to follow to get out and unable even to see gauges pressed close to my face. A huge challenge to remain calm and control breathing and air consumption whilst the silt settled.
Still gives me butterflies when I think about it.

 

[Colin_P]

A Cardiac arrest.

One should really only have once in their lifetime, at a ripe old age and peacefully in bed. They are painless and undoubtedly the best way to go.

I keep having them, which is quite tedious. The novelty soon wears off.

 

[Profpointy]

Whilst diving, getting caught alone in fog of silt at 45m, deep inside a wreck, with no line to follow to get out and unable even to see gauges pressed close to my face. A huge challenge to remain calm and control breathing and air consumption whilst the silt settled.
Still gives me butterflies when I think about it.

Gives me the heeby jeebies just thinking about that. I had a similar experience with the crucial difference I had a line. Two clowns in my diving club barged past doing whoosh woosh whoosh kicks with their flippers leaving me with (literally) two inches of visibiliy. Holding my torch and the line up to my eye I could just see it. Despite the line and hence being so say safe my breathing rate rocketted Had said idiots had to turn round they would not have made it back out. And had I not had the line I would not have got out either. One of them was the club's diving officer ffs.

 

[TheDoctor]

Swimming in the Bodensee. It was a bit colder than I expected.
I'm not used to freshwater swimming, so I was less buoyant.
And the floating thing I wanted to hang onto was slippery - I got a lungful of water, started coughing and set out for the shore while still out of breath.
I was still well out of my depth when I started panicking. Had someone not been there, I wouldn't be here.
I was a nervous swimmer beforehand. That really didn't help.
I tend to avoid open water swimming now. And I'm never going in a lake again.
It was even worse than the time I fell in a canal near Athy. Irish canals are very cold and surprisingly deep.
I needed a few pints of Guinness to sort myself out after that!

 

[ColinJ]

Riding a rollercoaster. I didn't want to, but was persuaded to give it a go. I'd have paid any amount of money to make it stop so I could get off. Never again.

My family spent a day trying to persuade me that I wanted to spoil my lovely holiday in the West Country by agreeing to be attached to a zipline and thrown into the void below ...



I told them that they could do what the hell they wanted there but I would NOT be joining them!

 

[ColinJ]

Perhaps you could sympathise with this family

Indeed!

I had an experience at Blackpool Pleasure Beach similar to the one described by TMN above. I was bullied into going on the Big Dipper and absolutely hated it.

 

[Salar]

I've just ordered a bag from Amazon, quite looking forward to trying them out.

Well,

They arrived.

I've had a couple, an acquired taste.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Surströmming

+1

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well,

They arrived.
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I've had a couple, an acquired taste.

I acquired it easily, though Fazer aren't my fave brand.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I hope I'll only once leave a job after 21 years without a clear idea of what I am going to do next.

Sit, wait, and see which doors the Universe opens for you

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Parasailing... I missed out on it when I was 13 due to chickening out at the last minute, and then regretted it for many years afterwards. Forward to when I was about 35, and I got another chance plus I finally had the bravery to give it a go.
I found it exhilarating but also mildly terrifying, and on balance I don't think I'd enjoy a second go, so I've no desire to do it again.

 

[Salar]

I acquired it easily, though Fazer aren't my fave brand.

Which ones should I try, from what I've read the ones I have are pretty tame, but you've got to start somewhere.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Which ones should I try, from what I've read the ones I have are pretty tame, but you've got to start somewhere.

Haganol is my fave. Laskrisal hits the spot. Tyrkisk peber must be your next step. Somewhere on here there's a "once in a lifetime" thread. My vote would go to Nogger Black, which you'll never get mail order. A salmiak choc ice. Who knew?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I wonder where that is then?

I was lost, but now I'm found.

 

[Oxo]

I was lost, but now I'm found.

All good things come to an end.