My fiancee had oral sex before her first kiss.
You’re not missing much. And should you ever go, make sure it is just a day trip. We stupidly went the first time and booked an overpriced hotel to spend the night. Let me tell ya, Catalina Island after dusk is about as exciting as watching canned goods in your pantry. They close everything at about 9:00 PM and fold up the sidewalks.
I would probably get less open mouthed gaps if I said I tortured animals than when I say I dont’ really listen to music.
Also, not watching reality shows is really bad if you plan on interacting with young people successfully.
This isn’t true anymore, but until I was about 25 years old I had never been to a wedding. I didn’t think this was unusual, but it shocked a lot of people. “Oh my God! How can you never have been to a wedding?” They thought I should have had friends from college who got married, or that at some point as a kid or teenager I should have been invited to weddings as part of my family for cousins or family friends or whomever. But, aside from two cousins who lived too far away for my family to attend their weddings, no one I knew had gotten married in my lifetime.
I have never left the continental USA. This is also not that unusual, but it shocks the upper-middle-class people I tend to associate with.
I forgot this one: I have never moved. I mean, if you don’t count the hospital nursery, I have lived here since the day I was born.
I’ve never tasted coffee or hot tea. Tasted iced tea once.
I’ve never been to college, which seems to shock many people.
When we got married, we eloped. I’ve never tried on even one wedding dress.
I’ve never tried on an evening gown, either, or gone to an event that required one. It’s a shame, with my magnificent rack gone to waste.
I’m always getting people being incredulous about movies I haven’t seen, too. But I have no actual reason I haven’t seen them…I just don’t really care to. I’ll watch a movie if someone wants to and I’m there, but never on my own and I’ll never seek them out.
Quite a few of my associates have been incredulous that I don’t smoke weed. They go to pass it to me and are confused when I decline.
I was going to say I’ve never seen Breakfast at Tiffanies, but we watched it last night. I’d like to revert to my former state of ignorance.
Nitpick:* Tiffany’s*
I’ve never seen the ending of Casablanca. I tried to get through the film a couple years ago, but found the acting so stilted that I just couldn’t get through it. I couldn’t work up the energy to care about the characters, and said lack-of-caring naturally led to not really being able to follow the plot. I watched it in chunks of about 30 minutes at a time, but by the time I got about 2/3rds of the way through, I was just so underwhelmed that it slipped my mind to go back to it to finish.
I know I’m “supposed” to love old movies, being an actor and all, but I just can’t get past how unnatural and unbelievable the acting style of the day was. It’s like watching a junior high school play. I realize that this style was the preferred, and was considered good, professional acting back then, but it still grates on me.
Ah, right. I knew it didn’t look right.
I was a virgin till 25, something that shocked the few women I bedded before finally shedding that title. I didn’t really try to do anything about it.
For one I just didn’t have the urge to and secondly, I wouldn’t have known how to go about seeking a one night stand and then made it work.
I’m 45 years old, and I have never seen E.T. Even worse, I have no desire to see it. People freak out over that one.
I also haven’t seen Cocoon. I tried to see it in the theatre, but we got into a wreck on the way to the theatre. I tried watching it on VHS, but the tape broke. I’m afraid to try again, because my DVD player might catch on fire or something. I just figure some things are not meant to be.
I hadn’t checked back in on this thread, sorry. Basically my folks were talking about how they’d ordered fried clams at some restaurant that they’d loved the first time. The second time they ordered some platter-type thing and the clams “had all this grit or something” in them. We were at the bar at the hotel we were staying at (their third trip to Boston–my only) and the bartender had been half chatting with us. When she heard that, she said the thing about the clam bellies. It made my folks think "Oh God! We’re total Texas rubes!!! <embarassed face>
The funny thing is—they’re from Kentucky.
None of us can figure out if we are going up or down on the white trash-o-meter!
If that’s not a porn title, it should be!
My contribution: When current TV show discussions (esp. reality shows) happen I’m usually way out of the loop. I do a fair bit of traveling and had some significant “gaps” in my TV-following (i.e., outside the country), and whenever I’m back and settled I’ve just never bothered to try to catch up again. And why pay good money for an idiot box to rot your brain? “The Hills? The hell is that?”
I pay around $40 for good cable internet. My NetFlix is around $20 a month (w00t insta-stream), and less than $20 at WalMart got me some cheap cables to hook my computer up to my TV. At fraction of the cable/phone/internet bundle racket Cox is running, I’m watching TV shows on the TV, and who’s the wiser?
And no commercials :).
An audio-visual lobotomy.
This is my plan for when I move in to my own apartment (I currently rent from a roommate. She’s very nice but it’s too far from where I work and I just ‘vant to be alone.’)
I’ve never eaten grits.
I’m an AA chick, living in Atlanta, GA and people seemed sincerely shocked that I haven’t ever even tried them.
“You’ll love them if you taste them” is the general statement.
Don’t want to.