# Have You Ever...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941 "2018-02-01T08:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/824 "2018-12-28T16:22:16Z")
Not really, but there have been some family arguments, and disputes at work, where I might’ve weighed in with my opinion but instead kept my mouth shut so as to help restore peace. HYE been called upon to adjudicate a dispute, and the parties accepted your decision? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/825 "2018-12-28T16:43:11Z")
A couple I know stopped to pick up a six-pack on their way home to sit down and work out their divorce. I was drunk/high, sitting at the bar, and they sat down to talk with me. I don’t remember a word I said, but they credit me with saving their marriage. HYE rented equipment? ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/826 "2018-12-28T16:45:56Z")
Not personally, but when I worked for a landscaping company, my company did fairly often. HYE changed religions? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/827 "2018-12-28T16:59:55Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/828 "2018-12-28T17:01:22Z")
A reposting of the OP: > [@Spoons](#): > > The premise of this game is simple. If you can do something that the previous post suggests, post it, with an explanation as necessary. Then you post another “have you ever…?” suggestion. > > Example: > > Q: Have you ever… gone to a theme park? > > A&Q: Yes, I was at Disney World in 1989. Have you ever… driven a Chevy pickup truck? > > A&Q: Yes, I owned a Chevy pickup back in the 90s. Have you ever… [something]? > > All answers should be “yes,” followed by the next question. Let’s try to avoid game-killers, such as, “Have you ever walked on the Moon?” and keep it to normal things that everyday people might have done. Might I humbly request that people with “Yes” or “Sort Of Yes” type answers be given a chance to respond? Yes answers may give us interesting stories that I(for one) read these threads to see. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/829 "2018-12-28T17:58:25Z")
> [@EscAlaMike](#): > > …HYE changed religions? No, I was born and raised an Episcopalian, and - like George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Duke Ellington and Humphrey Bogart - have always been happy to remain one: [Episcopal Church (United States) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)) HYE had a glass of sherry with an Episcopalian? ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/830 "2018-12-29T00:09:33Z")
No. HYE bought a homeless person a drink? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/831 "2018-12-29T00:22:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A reposting of the OP: > Might I humbly request that people with “Yes” or “Sort Of Yes” type answers be given a chance to respond? Yes answers may give us interesting stories that I(for one) read these threads to see. I agree. Yes or sort of Yes answers make a better story. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/832 "2018-12-29T00:43:38Z")
Yes but only because this person happened to be my cousin. HYE seen the northern lights? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/833 "2018-12-29T06:18:59Z")
Only in pictures - I’d love to see the real thing someday. HYE seen a bald eagle in flight? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/834 "2018-12-29T07:48:22Z")
Yes. I’ve been on a float on a lake where they do some nesting. Happened to catch it on a good year. They are magnificent. HYE drank water you weren’t very sure of? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/835 "2018-12-29T09:28:04Z")
Yes. I had no idea what might have happened upstream, but I was on a hiking trail in the Canadian Rockies, and was thirsty, and had gone through all the water I had brought with me. I was also pretty sure the the mountain stream by the trail was safe to drink from. I had a drink from the stream, and nothing untoward happened. The water tasted pretty good, actually. Have you ever flown across an ocean? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/836 "2018-12-29T12:53:32Z")
Yes, from Southern California to Guam back when I was in the U.S.A.F. HYE picked out a live creature that was later served to you for dinner? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/837 "2018-12-29T13:03:14Z")
Yep, Caribbean lobsters (no claws). They give you a glove and you reach into the cage and grab the one you want. I like them sliced in half and grilled. HYE paddled an ocean (sit on top) kayak? ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/838 "2019-01-01T16:39:26Z")
Yes, I own one. It’s not used very often, but when I have someone else with me at the beach I sometimes paddle it past the breakers to fish, and a few times used it to drop off large baits and return to the beach and wait for a shark to bite. But I’m never really comfortable with it and prefer fishing smooth bay waters with my sit-in 'yak. \*HYE fed a live fish to a heron? \*I know you’re not supposed to but they are such persistent beggars that people _do_ give in. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/839 "2019-01-01T16:45:33Z")
Yes, on the car deck of the Bremerton-to-Seattle ferry many years ago. HYE had a particularly striking hallucination? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/840 "2019-01-01T16:50:30Z")
Oh, yes. Last time I was in the hospital, I hallucinated that I saw several professional wrestlers, including The Shield and Zack Ryder. (They didn’t frighten me, though-- I felt they were there, protecting me.) Have you ever done any online roleplaying? ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/841 "2019-01-01T17:00:50Z")
With the understanding that “online roleplaying” includes a wide variety of subjects and goals,…the answer is yes. I’ll say no more regarding that. HYE built and painted a plastic model kit of some kind? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/842 "2019-01-02T08:04:08Z")
Yes, way back when I was a kid, I built an aircraft carrier. I think it was given to me as a gift. HYE kissed a relative on the lips? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/843 "2019-01-02T13:48:46Z")
I can’t recall any such instance HYE chosen clothing style clearly over comfort? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941.md?page=43)