# 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:** 44
**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 6, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/864 "2019-01-06T14:25:20Z")
Yes, about eight or ten IIRC. Once I was drafted at the last minute when one of the assigned pallbearers(a grandson of the deceased) got cold feet. Why do so many churches have such steep steps? HYE attended a funeral for someone you never met in person? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/865 "2019-01-06T19:55:17Z")
Yes, a few times, for the parents of friends. Not often, though. HYE decided it’s better to have a closed casket, no matter how skilled the funeral director’s staff is? ---
**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 7, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/866 "2019-01-07T03:25:52Z")
Never had to make that choice but I’ve certainly questioned the wisdom of the open casket choice at a friend’s funeral. I’m sure the staff were skilled and dedicated but there are limits. HWE known anyone who wanted to attend a funeral but was too emotionally upset/drained to face it? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/867 "2019-01-07T06:31:12Z")
Yes. My baby sister would/could not attend Daddy’s funeral. We had a doctor give her an injection of courage ( valium, I guess) but it knocked her out. She slept 18 hours. Later in the week i would’ve given my first born for one of those shots. I hadn’t slept in days and I was just done with family and friends needing stuff from me. Horrific time. HYE felt a human level of grief for a pet? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/868 "2019-01-08T16:42:53Z")
Yes, I was really sad when my poor old dog died; it’s 8 years ago now and I still tear up a little remembering her. HYE heard someone at a wake or funeral make a comment that was stupid, thoughtless, mean or otherwise out of place? ---
**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 8, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/869 "2019-01-08T16:50:28Z")
At a funeral for a post-op transsexual friend, the priest talked about how God would fully restore the damage “he” did to “his” body. HYE put the lime in the coconut and drank it all up? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/870 "2019-01-08T17:00:00Z")
Yep, when in the Caribbean I always buy rum, limes, coconut, bananas, etc. And we drink it all up! One of my rasta friends in St Martin will hack open a coconut for me right on the beach. HYE had a boilermaker? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/871 "2019-01-08T20:53:17Z")
Nope, nor have I been tempted. HYE been to Franklin, Tenn.? ---
**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 10, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/872 "2019-01-10T05:56:56Z")
Not as far as I can remember, though I’ve been to Tennessee. I do, however, live within 10 minutes or so of Franklin, Virginia. It’s a fairly small town centered around a Walmart and a bunch of restaurants, including a _fantastic_ Mexican restaurant named El Ranchero. I always get the “Three Amigos” dish there. Every bite is pure awesomeness, especially when I ask for them to add broccoli. Can’t say I think much of the hospital there, though. They don’t even have sheets of paper to write on; they have to use paper towels. I am not making this up. Have you ever been to Africa? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/873 "2019-01-10T06:40:55Z")
Yes, I spent a couple of days in Senegal and also went through the Suez canal by boat. Re. boilermakers, I haven’t had one myself but was with someone who drank it too quickly and fell down drunk. HYE felt sleepy after eating turkey? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/874 "2019-01-10T07:04:14Z")
Yes, yes I have. I think it was psychosomatic. Plus I over ate. HYE fell asleep at an odd time and awoke and thought it was the next day? ---
**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 10, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/875 "2019-01-10T07:07:37Z")
Oh, yes. I woke up at 7 o’clock at night and thought it was 7 o’clock in the morning. I freaked out: “Why didn’t you wake me up for school?” Have you ever read a Sherlock Holmes story? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/876 "2019-01-10T07:31:30Z")
Yes. Many, many times. I’ve read them all. HYE attempted to write a mystery? ---
**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 10, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/877 "2019-01-10T13:41:53Z")
Not as an adult, but as a youngster i used to draw my own ‘Mystery Comics’ Have you ever fallen asleep while attending a church service? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/878 "2019-01-10T14:48:51Z")
I’ve felt my eyelids get a bit heavy, but don’t think I’ve ever actually fallen asleep. HYE fallen asleep during a very loud concert? ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/879 "2019-01-10T15:39:17Z")
Yes, I fell asleep at a Blondie concert at the Ontario Theater in Washington, DC in 1978(9?). A friend got free second-row tickets from the record store where he worked. It was a weeknight and I had been burning the candle at both ends for a while. I remember finding our seats and then being elbowed in the ribs at the end of the concert - nothing in between. HYE seen a bird of prey make a kill and eat it? ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/880 "2019-01-10T15:43:27Z")
Yes-a squirrel was crossing the street in front of me at work when a red tailed hawk swooped down and grabbed it, the landed on a nearby building and ate lunch. HYE been in a submarine? ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/881 "2019-01-10T15:51:38Z")
Yes, and I bet a lot of [other Midwest Dopers near Chicago have too](https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/). HYE experienced a wardrobe malfunction in public? ---
**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 10, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/882 "2019-01-10T17:52:24Z")
Yeah, with a pair of ill-fitting pants. I also once had someone in my high school gym class pull down my shorts (but not my underwear) in front of everyone. I called him an asshole to his face, and then _he_ tried to get _me_ in trouble for saying that. (Didn’t work. The teacher felt it was justified.) Have you ever competed on a cross-country team in school? ---
**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:** [January 10, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941/883 "2019-01-10T18:37:55Z")
No, but both my dad and my eldest son did (many years apart). HYE met David McCullough or another famous historian? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever/807941.md?page=45)