# Everyone should \_\_\_\_\_ at least once in their life. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747 "2005-04-23T12:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![huk24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f0a364/32.png) [@huk24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/huk24)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/1 "2005-04-23T12:20:17Z")
Teach a class. Now you fill in the blank. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/2 "2005-04-23T12:42:37Z")
Skydive. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/3 "2005-04-23T12:43:26Z")
Get arrested. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/4 "2005-04-23T12:58:23Z")
Wait tables. Work retail. Learn how to cook a fabulous meal. Hold an sick person’s hand as they die. Witness a birth. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/5 "2005-04-23T13:10:13Z")
Get laid. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/6 "2005-04-23T13:10:16Z")
Jump on a trampoline. Snorkel or scuba dive in a gorgeous reef. Travel to a developing country. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/7 "2005-04-23T13:25:16Z")
Save money, everthing else really can wait. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/8 "2005-04-23T13:31:37Z")
> [@Burnt Sugar](#): > > Jump on a trampoline. I’ll second that. I’ll add (for us poor land-locked folks): See the ocean. Also: Drive through one of the Redwood Forests in Northern California. Experience true heartbreak, and then true love. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/9 "2005-04-23T18:07:35Z")
Fail horribly at something in front of your peers ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/10 "2005-04-23T18:20:36Z")
Be poor (for at least a year, longer if possible). Some people just don’t seem to understand what it’s like because they’ve never been there. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/11 "2005-04-23T18:41:42Z")
Crank up your car radio really loud, then get out and dance in the parking lot at your favorite grocery store. With your friends dancing really geeky right next to you. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/12 "2005-04-23T18:51:15Z")
Have a threesome ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/13 "2005-04-23T20:39:32Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Save money, everthing else really can wait. Allow me to emphatically and whole-heartedly disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/14 "2005-04-23T20:43:17Z")
Skinny dip Go on a cross-country road trip ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/15 "2005-04-23T21:10:00Z")
Work in a restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/16 "2005-04-23T21:15:02Z")
Engage in hand to hand combat. Float down the west branch of the Delaware River during a Green Drake spinner fall. Yell as loud as he/she can into the night (preferably out in the wilderness somewhere). ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/17 "2005-04-23T22:05:05Z")
Go fishing. Rip a real stinky fart in public and smile about it. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/18 "2005-04-23T22:16:01Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > Allow me to emphatically and whole-heartedly disagree. But the ‘Get arrested’ suggestion you do agree with? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/19 "2005-04-23T22:16:28Z")
experience an alternative religion to their own visit a foreign country live on the street for a night or two pass a civics class peer through a telescope deep into space learn an instrument (or to sing) stand on a mountaintop be there on K Street to watch the money drive the process ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747/20 "2005-04-23T22:20:10Z")
Have sex with someone not of their normal orientation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-should-_____-at-least-once-in-their-life/300747.md?page=2)