# I have... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410 "2012-01-13T18:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/1 "2012-01-13T18:19:37Z")
Converse of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635271). What things have you done or seen that you suspect nobody else has? And if someone has seen what you’ve seen they can feel free to chime in. 🆒 Seen a partial solar eclipse on the Indian Ocean Had my 5 y/o niece (she’s now 13) start talking to me about my soulmate, completely out of the blue Seen a mother wren apparently mourning her babies after some blue jays got them Had 3 close encounters with peregrine falcons Gone on a 4 day sailing ship cruise along the Maine coast (last year) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/2 "2012-01-13T18:27:09Z")
Visited (but not actually flown on) Air Force One. And yes, Mr. Reagan was on board, so it _was_ at the time. Spray painted a car purple. Watched three performances from the presidential box at the Kennedy Center. Endured a “challenge” polygraph. Turned down 12 marriage proposals. Earned a six-figure salary without a college degree. Argued before a Congressional Hearing. Scraped a barnacle off of a navy ship (pretty sure it was an aircraft carrier - bloody huge for sure.) Stood before a massive EMP blast. Sung an \*actual \*Irish lullaby to my baby. (As Gaeilge) Run up the down side of the world’s longest escalator. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/3 "2012-01-13T18:36:32Z")
I have voted as a juror to convict a man of felony murder. I have been underneath the Arctic icepack. I have been accosted by Burmese secret police. I have landed an airplane at night with no lights on (neither airplane or runway). I have traveled around the world in two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/4 "2012-01-13T18:48:52Z")
Left a load of laundry drying on the porch for the duration of a war. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/5 "2012-01-13T18:51:48Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Run up the down side of the world’s longest escalator. Which is? According to the interwebs, that’s either in Tokyo or Hong Kong. Unless you mean “longest freestanding escalator” then it may be in GA. As for me, I’ve designed, built, and flown my own Tricopter. Though, I could probably just say “heard of a tricopter” which would be enough. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/6 "2012-01-13T19:00:11Z")
Played ‘tickle toes’ with an adult tiger. Spent a Thanksgiving evening watching a horse have convulsions (something I don’t _ever_ want to do again) Stood underneath the prop car Greased Lightning in the Broadway play ‘Grease’ (it was hoisted to the ceiling for storage) Been pee’d on by a tiger ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/7 "2012-01-13T19:02:57Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Earned a six-figure salary without a college degree. I’ve done that. You got me on the others, though. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/8 "2012-01-13T19:22:05Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Turned down 12 marriage proposals. All from the same \*person? \* ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/9 "2012-01-13T19:27:50Z")
I have run in (what felt like) slow motion across an entire beach to get a towel for a classmate who started having a miscarriage while swimming in Lake Michigan on a band trip. I have been sexually abused while watching an animated MadTV skit (Spy vs. Spy). I ingested half a bottle of liquid B-vitamins and thought I was dying, when it was just a B-flush. I was watching Garfield with my little sister after school (our parents were both at work). I told my sister I loved her, and closed my eyes. I seriously thought I was going to die, but I didn’t want to freak her out so I didn’t say anything. Then I woke up after a nap and felt fine. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/10 "2012-01-13T20:29:22Z")
Stared down a brown bear. Talked with Rob Halford on the phone. Met Janet Napalitano. Drag raced Ari Lyundyke. Borrowed Alice Cooper’s ice chest. Had heat exhaustion and been hospitalized for it. Found a human skull. Rebuilt an automatic transmission. Earned Eagle Scout. Seen a very weird UFO. Invented a word that was later re-broadcast as a real word on the evening news (“Techno-peasants”). Done radio commercials, television commercials, and was a hand puppet in a science fiction movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/11 "2012-01-13T20:46:45Z")
- Worked as a character performer at Walt Disney World - Was born in an elevator - Killed a seagull with a kayak paddle - Solved a Rubik’s Cube with my feet - Written 5 Featured Articles on Wikipedia - Eaten ostrich meat ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/12 "2012-01-13T20:49:07Z")
…been to 47 of the continental United States. …rafted down the Colorado River the length of the Grand Canyon. …snuggled a skunk. …gotten my ass kicked by Harry Blackstone. …stolen beer from Great White. …walked through a crowd of 250,000 people wearing nothing but sneakers and a strategically-placed fanny pack. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/13 "2012-01-13T20:56:47Z")
Cracked open a safe at the DIA. Been in a SCIF. Bought light bulbs for J-Lo. Driven Valerie Bertinelli. (Unknowingly) had dinner with Faith Hill and her kids. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/14 "2012-01-13T20:58:02Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > - Worked as a character performer at Walt Disney World > - Was born in an elevator > - Killed a seagull with a kayak paddle > - Solved a Rubik’s Cube with my feet > - Written 5 Featured Articles on Wikipedia > - Eaten ostrich meat That is really weird, because I once killed a character performer at Walt Disney World with a kayak paddle, using my feet! ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/15 "2012-01-13T21:06:12Z")
I sang and danced on stage for the President of Brazil and 3500 other folks. I courted and married the top female judoist in America. I invented a track and trace system currently used by several pharmaceutal firms. I wrote several rather witty posts on an obscure website called ‘The Straight Dope Message Board’. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/16 "2012-01-13T21:45:05Z")
I have: crossed out of Iraq on foot, twice, once into Kuwait, once into Turkey; hitched a ride on a snow plow in Siberia above the article circle in December; wrecked an armored car in Greece. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/17 "2012-01-13T22:14:57Z")
Watched a night launch of the Space Shuttle from the deck of a cruise ship, approx. 30 miles offshore. Made a naked parachute jump in front of 5,000 people (they weren’t all looking). Played High-Velocity Spud Bowling (10 bowling pins + a potato cannon + alcohol = hours of fun). ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/18 "2012-01-13T22:24:46Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > Which is? > > According to the interwebs, that’s either in Tokyo or Hong Kong. Unless you mean “longest freestanding escalator” then it may be in GA. > . . . It’s not the longest anymore: [Wheaton station (Washington Metro) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_(WMATA_station)) > [@Eve](#): > > All from the same \*person? \* Nope, actually 14 from different people. Said “Yes” twice, wised up both times. > [@DCnDC](#): > > Been in a SCIF. There’s quite a few of us on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/19 "2012-01-13T22:33:50Z")
[ul] [li]Competed in a rodeo in between chemotherapy treatments[/li][li]Been bitten by a mountain lion (it was a cub – I’m fine)[/li][li]Got a U.S. patent[/li][li]Been inside a BBC control room during a newscast[/li][li]Been treed by a wild bull elk[/li][li]Watched wolves hunting[/li][li]Been interviewed live on the radio for 1/2 hour[/li][li]Been attacked by hummingbirds while rock climbing (they had a nest in a little tree growing out of a crack in the rock)[/li][li]Wrote one of the entries in the World Book Encyclopedia[/li][li]Ridden an elephant[/li][li]Wrote part of a standards document (and chaired the committee that produced it) which was adopted by the FCC[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410/20 "2012-01-13T22:36:09Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Nope, actually 14 from different people. Said “Yes” twice, wised up both times. What are you, like the 2nd Coming of Aphrodite herself or something? :eek: Or just a serial heartbreaker? 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have/609410.md?page=2)