Mundane Items on Your Bucket List

In My Humble Opinion
1

I have a friend who has a three-item bucket list.

I can’t remember two of them but the one I find odd is that she wants to milk a cow.

I always counter with, “So do it for god’s sake. How hard could it be to check that one off?” But she’s weird like that.

Mine?

I want to play piano at someone’s wedding.

I’m a decent amateur musician but I’ve never played and am probably not good enough to work an actual gig. (Then again, I dunno. I certainly wouldn’t embarrass myself.)

Anyway I’m sure I could pull it off. Wouldn’t charge a nickel and well, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do.

Next?

2

Someday I’d like to watch the sunrise from the local mountain. Sounds simple, but it would involve either staying up all night or getting up really early, and I don’t know how early they allow people on the mountain, or if there are any creepers who hang out around there.

3

Stay employed.

Really, everything else is just gravy.

4

I’ve always wanted to fire a gun. I have never even held one. There are plenty of ranges around here, but I can never get anyone to go with me. :frowning:

5

That’s not odd, it requires a bucket. :smiley:

6

Most ranges have guns they rent for target shooting, and most ranges have knowledgeable people there who can instruct you how to hold and fire one. You don’t necessarily need someone to go with you to check this one off. Call up the local range and tell them you are thinking about personal defense but have never held or fired a gun before and ask if they have a class, or someone who would give some one on one instruction for an hour.

7

I have also always wanted to milk a cow, but I don’t know how I would go about such an adventure.

I want to be able to run a 10-minute mile. I am a new runner and still fat, so my miles are about 14:30 right now.

I want to ride a unicycle. I actually bought one last year. It is not easy.

8

Kick addiction…Kick depression…be somewhat happy.

short list

9

I want to see a total solar eclipse, and that may not be as hard as it sounds. This will happen in the U.S. on August 17, 2017 and April 8, 2024; the 2017 eclipse will achieve totality in southern Illinois, and the 2024 eclipse in southern Missouri, and both are just a day’s drive from where I live now.

I experience a 60% eclipse in 1994, and THAT was weird enough! :cool:

10

I want to *tip *a cow (however, my shoes don’t wanna go walking in the cow pasture at night).

11

Juggle torches
Get hit in the face with a pie

(Not at the same time, obviously.)

12

Take a tour of Boyden Cavern. I have 3 failed attempts at visiting the cavern, but I vow to return someday and take that tour.

13

Try acupuncture.

14

Skydive, multi-day multi-state motorcycle trip, visit Europe (or the UK, at the very least).
I could probably think of a few more, but those are the ones at the ‘top of the list’. :wink:

15

Visit Wisconsin. It is very close to Chicago, yet I haven’t gone north of Illinois.

16

By about 35 I completed all but one item on my unofficial “bucket list” and had to draw up a new one.

The new one includes “learn to juggle”. I really should get on that.

17

If a trip to Vermont is ever in your/your friend’s cards (or it could be put it there), a trip to Liberty Hill Farmwould help cross that one off the list. It’s an awesome B&B (run by my aunt and uncle – for full disclosure) and a working dairy farm. I know they used to hand-milking demos for guests who wanted to see/try it, and I’m sure they’d still be happy to do that for someone who wants the experience.