# Something you always wanted to try, and were sorely disappointed with when you finally did **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419 "2025-12-05T04:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 384
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419/384 "2026-06-03T15:31:39Z")
You might be interested in this post I made about the pros and cons of various forms of amateur motorsports. It’s almost ten years old, but aside from the prices, which you’ll have to adjust, I think it’s still mostly accurate. > [@The BMW HPDE track thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bmw-hpde-track-thread/789698/37): > > I looked into several other forms of amateur motorsports after I started with HPDE, and tried a few. Here are a few thoughts about some of them: Drag racing (in street cars). I never participated, but went to a few. Relatively interesting as a spectator, depending on the level of cars running. As a participant, I imagine it would be exhilarating for the 20 seconds or so you’re doing it, and you get immediate feedback about your performance. But if there are a lot of cars there, you may not get … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-always-wanted-to-try-and-were-sorely-disappointed-with-when-you-finally-did/1025419)._