OK, another attempt at thread epic-dom. I'm over 40, so I picked that as my target. If you're over 40 (all 5 of us), and want to share some of your "hafta-do's," post up your thoughts.

RULE #1 - You can ONLY post up things YOU have done. Not schitt you heard about. Not schitt you saw on TV or RedTube. Stuff YOU have DONE!
Rule #1a - You are allowed to call BS on anything anyone posts as "diddit," and they HAFTA defend their claim.
Rule #2 - ANYone attempting to DO one of these hasta let us know prior to the attempt, and the results.
Rule #3 - No one cares about rule #2.

Here's my first installment:

Break 100mph
Break 150mph
Break 175mph

Qualify with a handgun
Qualify with a rifle
Qualify with a machinegun (good luck on THAT w/o being in the military)

visit Italy
visit Germany
visit Switzerland
visit Austria
visit France
visit Greece
visit Turkey
visit any of the former eastern-bloc countries (I did Lithuania & Bulgaria)

Drive a bus

drive backwards through a fastfood drive thru and have your passenger order

swim in the Atlantic
swim in the Pacific
swim in the Mediterranean

These are some of the noteworthy things I did before I was 40. I'll post more, if the thread takes off.

Anyone want to start a "...before 30," or a "...before 20" thread?

 

I still got 15 years to add to this list, but here's a few things I have done so far.

Break 100 mph
Break 130 mph

visit New York (NYC)
visit California (San Diego, LA)
visit New Orleans (French Quarters)
visit Alaska
visit Great Britain
visit Germany
visit Amsterdamn
visit France (Paris)
vist Italy (Rome/Vatican City, Naples, Venice)
visit Greece (Athens/Acropolis, Santorini, Delos,...)
visit Turkey
visit Croatia

swim in Atlantic
swim in Pacific
swim in Mediterranean
swim in Aegen

trade beer for free food with total stranger at fast food drive thru

shoot par or better at a decent golf course

own an Audi (I've owned 5!)

marry my sweetheart

...work in progress.

 

sounds like a thread to brag about the **** you've done and how worldly you are. no offense, but no thanks.

 

Well, I've done a lotta ****, a lotta different place. All around America, and, the world, too. But, only a few (some of the places I been) involve things outside of America.

How about:

Drive across country (America, in my case... Well, OK, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and France, too! But that isn't my point, damnit!)
110mph down the Grapevine (you Cali boys know where I'm talkin bout)
Cruise PCH on a Sunday morning, just as the sun comes over the mountain-tops
Outrun an approaching hurricane, up I-95, from FL

This actually about sharing FUN, or, interesting stuff you've done, that you think others might git a kick outta. notice I didn't list getting arrested/felony-stops in my Audi/getting robbed & beaten & left to die in a pool of my own blood/divorced/slamming your bare-foot in a car door...

hope you dont mind if I mentally refer to you as yessssss4buzzkill, for a week, or so.

 

LOL, buzzkill works. I think I'd rather hear about the "getting arrested/felony-stops in my Audi/getting robbed & beaten & left to die in a pool of my own blood/divorced/slamming your bare-foot in a car door" though. So the name fits.

 

I like this game, not because I get to brag but because it's fun to remember past exploits. I'm 38.
Over 100. This morning
Over 130. Yes
Over 150. Once. Scary.
Over 175. Not yet, maybe not ever, I'd need a safe road and a really fast car.

Qualified with a pistol. Yes, .22 through .445 supermag
Qualified with a rifle. Yes, .22 through .45-70
Qualified with a machine-gun. Yes, M-60, M-2, and once a M-3 "Grease Gun"

Visited St. Kitts
Visited Barbados
Visited Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait
Visited Honduras
Visited Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Ottowa)
Visited NYC (top of the WTC back in the day)
Visited St. Louis (top of the arch)

Swam in the Caribbean
Swam in the Atlantic
Swam in the Persian Gulf

Father children

Save a life
Try to save a life (and fail)
Hang glide
Scuba dive
Jump out of a perfectly good plane
Break a bone (4)
Sail a boat
Ride a motorcycle (owned 2)

 

Before I turn 20:

Break 240 km/h

Visit
France
England
U.S.A.
Mexico
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Turks and Caicos
Bahamas
Jamaica
Costa Rica

Own Audi

Swim in Pacific
Swim in Arctic (More like dip)
Swim in Atlantic
Swim in Mediterranean
Swim in Caribbean

Flip on a wakeboard

Drive for 19 hours stopping only for gas
Sail a sailboat
Ride a motorcycle
Break a bone (2)
Acceptance to University bachelor of commerce program
Scuba Dive
Play the piano
Play the trumpet
Play the trombone

 

Just for Senor BuzzKill... Things NOT to do, EVER, if it can at all be avoided:

Get arrested for shoplifting @ 18 y/o (went to the sto for milk & bread, saw a Hot Rod, or maybe it was a Car Craft magazine that I wanted, but cudn't afford mags & food. tried to, anyway. got caught. learned that I have a sixth-sense for when I am being watched, which I dint know about until I ignored it)

When I bought my Audi I got it from Luxury Motors in Chi. IL has a different process for temporary tags than here in the Metro DC area... A tiny l'il piece of paper taped to the rear window apparently suffices, in IL. Not so much in DC. An apparently "Black Man" (true enuff, in you adhere to conventional/traditional understandings of such things, which I never have) driving a umpty-some-odd-thousand-dollar car, with NO TAGS?!??!? Yeah. FELONY STOPS! 3 of them, before MD issued me my actual tags. Lesson learned? NEVER buy a car from out of town, over the Christmas Holidays. Christians are suspiciously lackadaisical about doing their jobs during these times.

My "I got my a$$ beat" thread may still be around (with pics, no less), maybe not, but, briefly... 3 guys (teen-agers, actually) jumped me in my apratment stairwell, back in aught-5, I believe it was. They got my dummy wallet (note to self: get another dummy wallet), and my cell phone. Pr. Geo. County police SUCK!!! 1st cop on-scene told me they would have actually had a chance of solving the crime if I had bled out, instead of crawling into my house and dialing 911.

Divorced... A bargain at TWICE the price! 'Nuff said.

When I was around 6-ish, leavin Grandmas' house one Christmas night (fat with TOYS!!!!!), my bone-headed uncle went to close the car-door before I was completely IN! This, back when car doors weighed about as much as a Prius does today. Minor diversion to the local emergency room for x-rays, and to sew the skin back onto my toes.

I will leave it up to someone else to start a "Bad schitt that has happened to me" thread. BK? You up for that?

 

Things I want to do before I turn 40...


Well, be in a 0 gravity enviroment
Completely design and build an electronic circuit by myself
Hitch a ride in an F-22
Get round the Nurgburg ring


I can't think of anything else right now...

 

Just a quick few...

Drive Highway 129 (Tail of the Dragon) and the Foothills Parkway in one day.
Backpack in the Rockies.
Swim in a Mayan sacrifice well.
Visit Chichen Itza.
Backpack in the Appalachians.
Go skydiving.