50 things to do before you're 30 - which have you done?

[elfkin477]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit (broke a small window and cut my wrist open. slipped with cutting something held in my right hand…while using a box cutter. ouch)
2. Shoot something (only if BB guns count)
3. Make a pointless modification to your house (several things, but painting a gas tank to look like the yellow submarine was the most pointless :))
4. Refill an inkjet cartridge
5. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself (pool, swing set, several armoires etc)
6. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis (I lived in an all girls dorm, this happened on a monthly basis)
7. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
8. Dial 911 (this isn’t something to aspire to! But do I get extra points for first having done it as a toddler during an actual emergency?)
9. Read a 500 page book in one sitting
10. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.

I have no idea what 12, 13 or 27 mean. Or what “mains” means in 32. And 36 isn’t imported into the US, so…

[NinjaChick]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
2. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
3. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget
4. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day
5. Buy a samurai sword
6. Break a sledgehammer
7. Tip a waiter with something other than money
8. Light a fire with petrol
9. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
10. Get drunk on Absinthe
11. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis
12. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
13. Set off a fire extinguisher
14. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads
15. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting
16. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again
17. Make a bet you couldn’t afford to lose
18. Read a 500 page book in one sitting
19. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket. (Uh, it would have been a speeding/reckless driving ticket. Amazing how tears from a cute little 17-year-old girl can influence a cop).

Not bad considering I’m not yet 20.

[ITR_champion]

I am male, currently 23, and apparently I have a long way to go.

3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home - I think I max out at 700 miles, but I should get bonus points for driving their rather than flying. I was in Claremont, and I went hiking in northern California.
4. Boot Linux on your home PC - Yup.
5. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language - I got lost when my family was in Italy. I was nine years old at the time.
6. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives - Yes, but I had a good excuse. My apartment burned down. I forgot to notify the electric company, so they continued trying to bill me for the monthly fee. It took a while for the bill to reach me at my new address.
7. Destroy a speed camera - not on purpose.
8. Say something obscene on national television - I’ve never been on TV. I’ve said many obscene things to security cameras.
9. Make a bomb - no, but a close friend did so.
10. Live abroad. - In France, Germany, Italy, Wales and Alaska. (Alaska isn’t abroad, but it should be.)
11. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis - not an experience that I’d like to repeat. It was a girl I didn’t know, but she decided to break up with her boyfriend outside my window.
12. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours - Does my college’s computer lab count as “the office”?
13. Set off a fire extinguisher - I’ve been in a kitchen when the automatic sprinklers were triggered by excessive smoke. Twice.
14. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads - possibly. (Wales has a lot of two lane roads).
15. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting - No, but I did watch about twelve episodes of Flying Circus once.
16. Read a 500 page book in one sitting - probably.
17. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket. - I plead the fifth.

[FairyChatMom]

I’m 52, and I haven’t done a single thing on the list. Guess I’m more boring than I thought…

[Jayn_Newell]

2. Shoot something–Targets of numerous types. When your father, all his friends and most boys you know shoot, you shoot a few things yourself. I would’ve shot a partridge once (bow), but my aim isn’t that good.

3. Buy a samurai sword–Not yet, but I still have time. I have a thing for sharp metal objects so I probably will at some point.

4. Dial 911–an old woman had a diabetic seisure in front of me and my roommate while we were heading to a movie. She fell over in the crosswalk.

[AngelicGemma]

These are the one’s I’ve done -

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit - Fell down the stairs while showing off.
2. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language - Did this in France.
3. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget - Once or twice.
4. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives - Britannia Music. They such ass.
5. Refill an inkjet cartridge
6. Park inside a motorway service station
7. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining - Many cinema tickets, after the ink from a cup went al over my top.
8. Get drunk on Absinthe - I found it no different then getting drunk on other drinks.
9. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis.

I’m 20. I think it’s a good start. i need to learn to drive, so I can bump up the numbers.

[GorillaMan]

I’ve done: 1 2 4 5 6 8 15 24 25 27 31 32 33 37 38 41 46 49

[Fionn]

I’ve stayed up all night listening to a girl in an emotional crisis and bought a samurai sword, but those are it for me.

[tomndebb]

Before 30 I managed to do the following, although it seems filled with rather silly stuff:
(How the heck was I supposed to boot up Linux when it had not even been written before I was well past 30?)

*1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
2. Shoot something
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home

15. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives

16. Refill an inkjet cartridge

17. Light a fire with petrol

18. Live abroad.

19. Give yourself a mains electric shock.

20. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself

21. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours

22. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads

23. Read a 500 page book in one sitting*

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The next two are close:
5. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language
(I suffer an inability to get lost, but I have wandered around a few European towns without a map.)
*43. Hotwire a car *
(We used to routinely hotwire one of the backhoes on a site wherre I worked, but I’ve never tried it on a car.)

[Jammer]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit.
2. Shoot something
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
4. Boot Linux on your home PC
5. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language
6. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
7. Do a J turn in order to beat somebody to a parking space
8. Break a sledgehammer
9. Make a bomb (for our FBI overloads, I was 10 and it was only a small one)
10. Smash a CRT
11. Light a fire with petrol
12. Drive at more than 140mph.
13. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining
14. Give yourself a mains electric shock.
15. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself
16. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
17. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis
18. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
19. Take part in motorsport (only if go kart racing counts)
20. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours
21. Set off a fire extinguisher
22. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads
23. Read a 500 page book in one sitting
24. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.

[bizzwire]

@FairyChatMom

I’m 52, and I haven’t done a single thing on the list. Guess I’m more boring than I thought…

Don’t fret; Some of these thing we couldn’t have done before thirty anyway (Boot Linux on your computer) Others, I have no desire to, and the remainder are, as has been noted, more apropos to frat boys than, ahem, people of substance.

[TheLoadedDog]

2. Shoot something
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
4. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language
5. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
6. Do a J turn in order to beat somebody to a parking space
7. Make a bomb
8. Light a fire with petrol
9. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining
10. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
11. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis
12. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
13. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads
14. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting
15. Shag an ex-girlfriend by mistake
16. Dial 999
17. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again
18. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.

Yair, pretty average, mine.

[Governor_Quinn]

17. Refill an inkjet cartridge
18. Give yourself a mains electric shock.
19. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself
20. Read a 500 page book in one sitting

I’ve lived a boring life.

[percypercy]

I’ve done:

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
2. Shoot something
3. Boot Linux on your home PC (although this didn’t go well)
4. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language (Paris with a school group)
5. Write off a car(car vs. telephone pole, telephone pole won)
6. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.
   -Lil

[Scylla]

[QUOTE=Priceguy]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
2. Shoot something
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
4. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget
5. Break a really large plate glass window
6. Make a parachute jump on a hangover
7. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day
8. Make a pointless modification to your house
9. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
10. Break a sledgehammer
11. Smash a CRT
12. Light a fire with petrol
13. Own a convertible.
14. Drive at more than 140mph.
15. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself
16. Write off a car
17. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
18. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis
19. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
20. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours
21. Set off a fire extinguisher
22. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads
23. Shag an ex-girlfriend by mistake
24. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again
25. Make a bet you couldn’t afford to lose
26. Read a 500 page book in one sitting

[Mississippienne]

Some of these things sound pretty dumb to me. Kidnapping someone? Booting Linux? Bomb-making?! Please! I certainly hope to avoid most of this list. That being said…

2. Shoot something

I’ve fired a rifle. Hit the dirt. That count?

3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home

New Orleans, Montreal, ah how I miss you both.

And one I’m going to accomplish soon:

29. Live abroad.

Istanbul, here I come!

[wolfman]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit

2. Shoot something

3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home

4. Boot Linux on your home PC

5. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget

6. Post bail for a friend

7. Break a really large plate glass window

8. Use a whole roll of gaffer’s tape in one day (of course I was actually gaffing at the time, so it might not count)

9. Make a pointless modification to your house

10. Buy a samurai sword

11. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives

12. Destroy a speed camera

13. Refill an inkjet cartridge

14. Do a J turn in order to beat somebody to a parking space

15. Break a sledgehammer

16. Make a bomb

17. Smash a CRT

18. Tip a waiter with something other than money

19. Light a fire with petrol

20. Park inside a motorway service station

21. Own a convertible.

22. Drive at more than 140mph.

23. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining

24. Give yourself a mains electric shock.

25. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself

26. Write off a car

27. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn

28. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis

29. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery

30. Take part in motorsport

31. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours

32. Set off a fire extinguisher

33. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads

34. Hotwire a car

35. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting

36. Dial 999 (is that the same as 911)?

37. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again

38. Make a bet you couldn’t afford to lose

39. Read a 500 page book in one sitting

40. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.

40 out of 50 before 30; not bad or is it not good. (assuming I translated the intention correctly)

[jasonh300]

Things I have not done…

4. Boot Linux on your home PC
   But I’ve booted Knoppix…does that count?

5. Get lost in a country where you don’t speak the language
   The only countries I’ve been to where they speak another language are Canada and Mexico. In Ontario Canada, most people understand English. I have been lost in Ontario, but it was in a car. Cozumel Mexico, most people also understand English, but I didn’t get lost there.

6. Post bail for a friend
   I went to do this one morning, but they were releasing him on good faith when I got there.

7. Break a really large plate glass window
   I’ve broken a few small windows, but not any large plate glass.

8. Make a parachute jump on a hangover
   Never made a parachute jump.

9. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day
   Duct tape, maybe…what the hell is gaffa tape?

10. Neck a pint of peppermint oil
    Neck??

11. Pull a shemale by mistake (but realise in time…)
    Uhh…no.

12. Buy a samurai sword
    Nope.

13. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
    I never pay bills late.

14. Destroy a speed camera
    I’ve never encountered a speed camera although I’d probably destroy one if I was ever threatened by one.

15. Refill an inkjet cartridge
    I’ve filled 50,000+ laser toner cartridges in the past 15 years, but never an inkjet cartridge.

16. Say something obscene on national television
    If I’d stayed in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina, I might’ve been able to draw enough attention to get on CNN, but I didn’t.

17. Break a sledgehammer
    Broke the handle of one once. Does that count?

18. Require medical treatment as a consequence of kinky sex gone wrong (STDs don’t count.)
    I didn’t seek medical treatment.

19. Kidnap someone
    No

20. Live abroad.
    I’ve lived with a broad before.

21. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
    I rarely get sunburned.

22. Get drunk on Absinthe
    Never wanted to.

23. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting
    Never wanted to.

24. Shag an ex-girlfriend by mistake
    Someone else’s ex-girlfriend…by mistake.

[biometricks]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit

2. Shoot something

3. Boot Linux on your home PC

4. Break a really large plate glass window

5. Make a pointless modification to your house

6. Smash a CRT

7. Light a fire with petrol

8. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining

9. Give yourself a mains electric shock.

10. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself

11. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn

12. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again

13. Make a bet you couldn’t afford to lose

14. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours (I was very close to accomplishing this)

15. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket. (never a parking ticket, but several moving violations)
    I’m only 26 so I still have some time to work on the rest of the list.

[Burrido]

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit
   Broke my arm sliding into first base.
2. Shoot something
   Use to deer hunt.
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
   Went to wyoming last fall.
4. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
   Once had a parking ticket that turned into liscence revokcation.
5. Tip a waiter with something other than money
   Pack of cigarettes.
6. Light a fire with petrol
   Oh yeah.
7. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining
   Free month from comcast after bitching about it everyday for 5 days.
8. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
   As a kid.
9. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours
   Nearly 24 hours, think it was more like 22 and some change.