# Post your list of things you will never again do **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319 "2013-12-02T23:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/121 "2013-12-06T18:28:20Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > You sprinkle it on the sandwich before you place the bread on it. You also sprinkle it on cantaloupe, cottage cheese, baked potatoes, pea soup, pot roast, baked apples and any product where you can possibly sprinkle something on something. You then wonder why your kids prefer take out or at least the right to make their own meals with the dreaded germ vanquished to the furthest ends of the shelves. To this day I cannot abide the stuff. I have dreams of being drowned in a vat of it and crying for help where no one can hear me. Oh, we can hear you fine. The truth is that since you are now covered with wheat germ, we don’t want you anymore!😛 ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/122 "2013-12-06T18:39:55Z")
Work in a plastic hanger factory. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/123 "2013-12-06T19:06:08Z")
Take LSD. Use a regular bathroom stall. Live with a roommate. Drink and drive. Stay in the Bellagio Penthouse suite in Las Vegas. Drive a manual transmission car. Play soccer. Go trick or treating in the rain. Date a doctor. Get involved with a woman who is going through a divorce (or is newly divorced). ---
**Author:** ![Tikkimouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@Tikkimouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikkimouse)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/124 "2013-12-06T19:13:42Z")
Test how hot caramel melted in the microwave is by using my upper lip. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/125 "2013-12-06T20:47:46Z")
Be young (or younger) Take a cruise Visit a country that I can’t drive to. Take the white house tour. Drive what is considered a sports car. Drink Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort. Go clubbing & then head to an after hours club. Get up early to watch [Saturday Morning Cartoons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2ZsFBoZoY). Ride a bicycle everywhere I want to go for a solid week. Sit in detention. Take a pop-quiz. Go to a school dance. Hug my parents. Attend a full-family holiday dinner. Ride in the back of a Country Squire station wagon. Free-hand rock climb in the rain Saran-wrap a toilet bowl See my cousins Sleep in a trailer Ride in bumper-cars Fish for Blues, Weaks, or Mackerel Step inside what was my parent’s home. See any of the kids who used to live “down the street” where I grew up. Go sledding Camp on an over-night with the Scouts. Fix a car with duct-tape and a swiss army knife Brew a batch of beer. Wear a denim jacket. Visit Hawaii or even the West Coast. Ride on a Polar Express/Santa train ride with my kids. Walk across any of the NY bridges. Sleep in a dorm. Work in a skyscraper. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/126 "2013-12-07T00:04:49Z")
Take careers advice from anyone other than myself. Sit any sort of written exam - done enough, life’s too short. Accept a noisy or sleep-impossible hotel room. In a social setting, start presenting the ‘sceptical’ point of view on a subject. Try to debate with religious people. It’s not a fair fight because I’m constrained by the feeling I need to make sense. Buy cheap or ‘economy’ shoes. A false economy. Always. Visit the Postojna Caves, Slovenia, in the middle of winter. Never been so cold in my life. Genuinely wondered if I would survive. Be scared of spiders. Have anything to do with cigarettes or tobacco. Giving up was the hardest fight of my life. Not going back. Undertake freelance work not covered by a signed, legally binding contract. “Don’t worry, we’ll sort that out later” is not a good basis for a working relationship. Sit through ‘Don Giovanni’. Stay at the Arosfa hotel, Weston-super-Mare. In my personal opinion, the worst hotel or guest house to be found in the UK run by people who, quite literally, could not care less about any aspect of your stay. Try to sustain a long distance relationship. Not saying it can’t be done. Not saying I wasn’t good at it. Just saying I won’t do it again. Trust an estate agent. About anything. Try to make my own bread. When figuring out how long a flight will last, fail to take time zones into account. ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/127 "2013-12-07T00:57:42Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > . . . > > Accept a noisy or sleep-impossible hotel room. > > In a social setting, start presenting the ‘sceptical’ point of view on a subject. > > Try to debate with religious people. It’s not a fair fight because I’m constrained by the feeling I need to make sense. > > Buy cheap or ‘economy’ shoes. A false economy. Always. > > . . . Agree with the above completely. The only one your list I don’t agree with is “Try to make my own bread.” That one took me a long time to get close to right, but now that I did, I find it emotionally therapeutic and rewarding. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/128 "2013-12-09T00:02:52Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I probably won’t hike across the Grand Canyon again, but I wouldn’t rule it out entirely. The memory of the pain has faded considerably. I’ve hiked it down to Promontory Point and back, and I have flown the aircraft tour. I will never do either again. I’m too old and arthritic for the hike, and I have never been so airsick in my entire life as I was on that sightseeing flight. ---
**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/129 "2013-12-09T00:41:50Z")
Wax my balls. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/130 "2013-12-09T06:14:36Z")
Get married - I already have strike two Skydive - My back is barely hanging in there as it is Go to Cedar Point - Everything about it sucked ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/131 "2013-12-09T08:40:39Z")
Downhill skiing. Tried it. Several times. Supposedly was doing OK at it but could NOT hack getting any faster than about 2 inches per minute, would get out of control and have trouble stopping. It was a HUGE amount of work (getting to the slopes, getting the equipment, getting suited up, etc,) for a few brief minutes of minor enjoyment, then huge hassle to get everything put away. I have given it a fair shake, and just don’t enjoy it. Waterskiiing on the other hand, I’d love to try again. Been over 25 years, just no opportunities. Climbing (well, rappelling) down the outside of a fire tower. One of those “discover yourself” teambuilding days. All the other women had a blast and went back for a second go-round. I decided that yep, I did it, don’t need to prove anything. Two specific projects involving oddball work. One was back in the days of the bank failures of the early 90s - only time I’ve ever billed 24 hours in a single day. The other was working on a team rather haphazardly led by a very senior person (who was justifiably famous in her field, but just a bit batshit). Imagine writing, and completely rewriting, a client document every 24 hours, for 2 weeks. In both of these cases, I told the HR people “do that to me again and I will quit”. Ride a bike. Now, that one I miss. But every attempt for the past 20+ years has my knees clicking and ratcheting and bumping and just feeling _wrong_ inside, and then they hurt for the next month :(. (numerous attempts to help with physical therapy have given me great calf muscles and unrelenting pain). Own (be owned by) a cat. Very sad about that one. But I like breathing. Have children: I always thought I’d be sad when those days were over. I’m completely over that now! ---
**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:** [December 9, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/132 "2013-12-09T17:31:25Z")
I will never have another Doritos Locos Taco. (Tried one the other day; wasn’t impressed). I will never have another girlfriend from South Carolina. (Visiting her, the slurs came fast and furious down there. And I’m white. Not that anyone can control who they fall in love with). There are additional milestones related to that particular girlfriend that I’ll keep private. (Not so much doing them but in the way that they happened). ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/133 "2013-12-09T17:46:26Z")
I will never tack-weld again without a mask. For those not in the know: tack-welding is when you weld one part to another with a tiny, tiny weld, just a quick blast of electrical current. This is enough to lightly secure the parts in their proper position so you can free up both of your hands before you come back to lay in a proper load-bearing weld. Since the tack-weld is just a very quick thing, the traditional shade-tree technique involves getting everything in position, and then simply closing your eyes briefly (instead of lowering your mask, which requires the hand that’s already being used to steady the parts) while you do the tack weld. Tiny bit of UV light exposure to your face, no big deal. Several years ago I was making a small production run of parts, and I did 180 tack-welds in a row, no mask. The result was a hideous sunburn on my lower face and chin due to the sum-total of UV light from all those tiny, brief tack-welds. The next day I went to the welding store and bought an auto-dark helmet. Now I have absolutely no excuse not to have my mask down whenever I weld, even for tack-welds. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/134 "2013-12-14T15:31:30Z")
Get drunk. Not sure I even could. As I get older, I find that (on the rare occasion) that I approach 5-6 drinks/beers, I simply become tired. Too tired to drink more. Probably a good thing. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Depakote\_Chopra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@Depakote\_Chopra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Depakote_Chopra)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/135 "2013-12-14T17:49:40Z")
Two words : Jose Cuervo. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/136 "2013-12-19T18:20:03Z")
Oh, and on Twitter? I will never, ever again wish… … Steve Martin … _ **A Very Merry Christmas…!** _ …that man gets just plain _ **mean** _. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/137 "2013-12-19T19:50:38Z")
Allow IcyHot to come into contact with my balls, accidentally or otherwise. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/138 "2013-12-20T03:20:45Z")
Travel for fun Use a darkroom (anybody want some gear?) Go a day without _having_ to take meds remind me again how aging is actually better than the alternative? ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/139 "2013-12-20T06:56:09Z")
Live in Houston, Tx. Smoke cigs. Get stinking drunk. Stay in a sex-less relationship. Have an affair. Get married. Give birth. Own a Volvo - I wish it would just DIE already…so I can get something else. I can’t justify it till then. Gain too much weight. Stop drawing for more than a week. Go to church (have not been in 40 years). Downhill skiing. Not my thing. Oh, I can probably think of more…but who really cares. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-list-of-things-you-will-never-again-do/675319/140 "2013-12-20T07:12:13Z")
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