Once in a lifetime ...

[mr.conrad]

That'll be it, thanks.
2 years apart seems unusual but I'm no medic.

Same milkman ?

 

[Katherine]

Eating an oyster. Once was enough.

 

[Lonestar]

Potholing in Derbyshire when I was very much younger and knew no danger.

 

[Dayvo]

Probably like getting a hat trick across two overs....

Merv Hughes took a hat-trick across three overs and two innings! That was a once-in-a-lifetime!

Merv Hughes:

In the very next Test after Walsh's inaugural split-innings hat-trick, the rumbustious Hughes came up with an even more complicated one, which was actually spread over three overs. In the second Test against West Indies in Perth in 1988-89, he dismissed Curtly Ambrose with the last ball of his 36th over, then (after another wicket had fallen at the other end) polished off the innings by removing Patrick Patterson with the first ball of his next over, to finish with 5 for 130. Then, with the first ball of West Indies' second innings, Hughes trapped Gordon Greenidge plumb in front, and went on to take 8 for 87. Actually the hat-trick was so unusual that Hughes didn't immediately realise he'd taken one, and had to be told about it later.

 

[srw]

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

...although I was speaking to a colleague today who is 21 years older than me, and the person I employed two years ago who leaves next weeks, a couple of weeks before me, is also about 21 years older than me.

So it's not impossible I'm wrong.

 

[fossyant]

4 broken ribs and 2 vertebrae - never again - my did that hurt. The realisation, when on your back on the road, that you can't actually breath, that puts the wotsits up you.

 

[gbb]

That'll be it, thanks.
2 years apart seems unusual but I'm no medic.

My mum gave birth to twins...each one born in a different county !!!

 

[gbb]

Flew back from Cyprus in I suspect an Airbus A320 with around 170 seats perhaps....there MAY have been a total of 10 or 20 people on board.

Don't suppose I'll ever do that again. We all felt like kings

 

[srw]

Flew back from Cyprus in I suspect an Airbus A320 with around 170 seats perhaps....there MAY have been a total of 10 or 20 people on board.

Don't suppose I'll ever do that again. We all felt like kings

Dubai to Trivandrum in business class. 8 air stewards fighting to serve 2 of us.

 

[gbb]

Early season holiday?

Scheduled flight, either January or perhaps March...out of normal season.
I always sensed scheduled flights were used more by business and locals (Cypriots in this case) travelling to see family I expect....but not generally holidaymakers.

Never been on a charter flight that was anywhere near empty...rarely ever seen an empty seat let alone an empty aircraft

 

[raleighnut]

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.

So you don't fancy a go on this,


View: https://youtu.be/iqCkICXWdWI


BTW when he says 'no brakes' they are fitted, he just chose not to use them

 

[Illaveago]

Learning to ride a bike for the first time. It was an unforgettable moment which I can still remember to this day.

It was a summer evening and a group of my friends, neighbour's daughter and my older brother were playing on the dirt track outside my house. I was on my bike, a blue girls bike with a carrier on the back. I think it was a Gresham Flyer. Margaret my neighbour's daughter was pushing me whilst I steered. I remember calling out to Margaret to slow down to which she replied that she wasn't. Then it sunk in! Panic!
I suppose I must have jumped off or managed to stop somehow but I don't remember, nor do I remember any following attempts. It is as you said a once in a lifetime experience which can never be repeated.

 

[Illaveago]

I remember that moment too - when I realised there was no point in talking to my dad, because he wasn't there, having quietly let go of the back of the saddle fifty yards back.

It sticks in your memory doesn't it, but the following attempts and crashes don't.

 

[rich p]

My mum gave birth to twins...each one born in a different county !!!

Go on then?

 

[slowmotion]

Teenage bomb-making.

I think I won't be revisiting that one in a hurry.