# Stuff you wish you could do... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 1999, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544 "1999-11-27T00:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/1 "1999-11-27T00:23:00Z")
Play a musical instrument (esp. piano and/or bass) Write (novels, that is) ---
**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/2 "1999-11-27T00:38:00Z")
_Always_ wished I’d picked up a bass in the fifth grade. I like playing mallets (xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, etc.) fine, it was a lot of fun, but I wish I could play some of the music I listen to. I keep trying to write, but the skill of writing fiction hasn’t really kicked in yet (if it ever will). ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/3 "1999-11-27T03:38:00Z")
Kick someone’s ass, if needed. I haven’t been in a fight since high school, and my record thus far is 0-6 (not including beating up my little brothers). I’m pretty non-violent as a rule, but it would be nice to know that I could, if I had to. (Luckily, I’m 6’2" and weigh 250 lbs. I don’t get picked on very much.) * * * Mr. K’s Link of the Month: [Punch Bill Gates](http://www.well.com/user/vanya/bill.html) ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/4 "1999-11-27T03:57:00Z")
develop a professional life… anyone have a carrier for me? anyone? anyone? ---
**Author:** ![GuyShyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@GuyShyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyShyGirl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/5 "1999-11-27T06:03:00Z")
I wish I could have the guts to talk to the guy I like. And to one day have a conversation at work that goes like this, “Do you work here?” “No, MORON, I fold sweaters as a hobby.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/6 "1999-11-27T06:20:00Z")
Dance. Not foxtrot/tango/hustle/macarena. I’m talking about sky-leaping, gravity-defying, soul-carrying DANCE. Nuryev stuff. Astaire’s dreams. Grace, beauty and freedom that carries it’s own music and needs no accompaniment. The dance that inspires > [@](#): > > Without the point, the still point, there is no dance. > And there is only the dance. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/7 "1999-11-27T06:29:00Z")
Well, a few out of the millions of things I wish I could do: Play this guitar that’s sitting next to me like Eddie Van Halen. Sing. Write better. Invest better. Get my stereo output to CD R/W input interface to not have so much buzz. Bag a buck(deer) next season. Oh yeah, and take back all the bad things I’ve done in this life? Etc… * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching ---
**Author:** ![David\_God\_of\_Frogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@David\_God\_of\_Frogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_God_of_Frogs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/8 "1999-11-27T06:44:00Z")
I want to completely lose my sense of tact and bitch someone out for no reason. And skydive. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/9 "1999-11-27T07:29:00Z")
Find true love that lasts forever. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![hardcore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hardcore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardcore)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/10 "1999-11-27T10:50:00Z")
figure this out [\“Rhodesian](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/kabwe.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![hardcore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hardcore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardcore)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/11 "1999-11-27T10:54:00Z")
maybe it should be thus… [![](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/kabwe_small.gif) ](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/kabwe_small.gif) ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/12 "1999-11-27T13:34:00Z")
- - - What -n- hell are you doing with Heather’s X-rays? - - - - - I wanna ride one of those rail-handcars; like the ones in the Three Stooges films. You know, where you and a friend pump the handle up and down to move along. I decided a few years back that if I _ever_ see one, I’m going for it. - MC ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/13 "1999-11-27T13:46:00Z")
Own a lear jet so I can zip back and forth to visit. * * * I am me… accept it or not. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/14 "1999-11-27T15:16:00Z")
I wish I could stop playing golf. It’s a moronic, idiotic, mindless game. Yet there I am, practically every Sunday morning during the summer, hacking at a stupid little white ball with my three so-called friends who take my money and laugh at me. I hope they die some day. * * * This space for rent. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/15 "1999-11-27T15:27:00Z")
Sing on key. Once it would be nice to sing Happy Birthday to someone without it being a bad thing. =) * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/16 "1999-11-27T15:30:00Z")
Rethink yesterday’s beer consumption… ---
**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 1999, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/17 "1999-11-28T06:54:00Z")
I wish I could write mundane, pointless messages, as average joes do, but I am too brilliant. Hey, wait a minute, I got my wish! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/18 "1999-11-27T20:35:00Z")
Play guitar. Not rock guitar, not strumming campfire guitar, but intricate classical guitar type stuff… * * * – O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/19 "1999-11-27T20:35:00Z")
Play guitar. Not rock guitar, not strumming campfire guitar, but intricate classical guitar type stuff… * * * – O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Konrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544/20 "1999-11-27T22:34:00Z")
Kill people instantly with super-powerful lasers that come out of my eyes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-wish-you-could-do/11544.md?page=2)