# Experiences you will never forget **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998 "2012-08-29T02:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/61 "2012-08-31T18:07:50Z")
> [@cwthree](#): > > My father slapping me in the face, over and over, for some imagined infraction on a family trip, then dumping my crying, humiliated ass in the family car while the rest of the family (and my friend who was with us) continued sight-seeing. > > My father slapping me in the face, over and over, for a different - but equally imagined infraction - on a different family trip. Your father was wrong, and should be very ashamed. Doesn’t matter why he did it, he shouldn’t have. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/62 "2012-08-31T19:45:32Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Your father was wrong… Word. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Were you eaten alive by mosquitoes? They’re worse in some areas than others. This was more elevated, rolling hills, not the lower, lake prone area so no, I really don’t remember that being much of an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/63 "2012-08-31T20:45:31Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Was going to come in here and post the same thing - south coast of Turkey, summer of 2007 on a near-moonless night. Incredible. Olentzero, I have wanted to see sea lights all my life, and _I"m going to the south coast of Turkey this october_. I thought I would have to travel to Puerto Rico to see it. I’ve just been googling for half an hour on bioluminescent and Turkey, can’t find anything. Can you tell me where you saw that? Any more info you can share? ::jumps up and down in chair:: ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/64 "2012-08-31T22:59:39Z")
Not my first time, but my first time with a girl I loved. Think of it often. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/65 "2012-08-31T23:21:38Z")
My very first San Francisco Giants game. Night game at Candlestick Park. I went with my grandmother and my favorite cousin who drove us. I was 10 yrs old. It was so cold. My grandmother let me drink coffee and my cousin’s Marlboro’s smelled good. It was 1979. We lost to the Atlanta Braves. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998/66 "2012-09-01T00:32:55Z")
Cruising along a finger of coral about 60ft under the clear Caribbean when I topped a slight rise and then, behold, there be the end of the earth. I had come up over the edge of a truly vertical undersea wall and it provided a perspective unlike any other. The flat dusty island that seemed so firm when our boat trip departed that morning was revealed for its true identity - a mere tip of a tremendous undersea mountain. Another diving moment was swimming through an undersea cavern, with sunbeam style rays of light providing the only illumination as they broke through crevices in the reef above. And in that cathedral-like space seeing light shimmer off the glint of thousands of silverside minnows as they swam in a bait ball - always just out of reach as I swam through their midst. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-you-will-never-forget/632998.md?page=3)