# Tell us about something you've done once - and only once - and will never do again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207 "2018-07-03T01:46:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/101 "2018-07-05T16:04:29Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Times Square on New Year’s Eve. [snip] > > So not worth the bother. Agree completely. Cold, surrounded by obnoxious drunks, nothing to do. We left before midnight. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/102 "2018-07-05T16:18:24Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I did the river raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. I did the option where you stop after 2-1/2 days, camp overnight at Ghost Ranch, and hike up the easy trail to the top the next day. I would do that again, but I’d have to lose 70 or 80 pounds to make it possible. What I wouldn’t do is the whole 7 days down to Lake Mead. They make you pee into the river – it was early in the season, and cold and windy. Once is enough for that part. Are you saying that you stayed in the raft for the full 2 1/2 days? And that, for the 7 day tour, you stay in the raft the whole time? Because that sounds unpleasant as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/103 "2018-07-05T16:30:20Z")
Mardi Gras in the French Quarter. Vomiting in the streets, the same tune (you know the one) blasted over and over, and people who never get tired of yelling “Show yer tits!” I love visiting New Orleans, but not that week or that place. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/104 "2018-07-05T16:38:42Z")
Go to the Rock of Gibraltar. An absolutely amazing but exhausting experience. I want to go back to Southern Spain again, but once was enough for that. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/105 "2018-07-05T16:50:30Z")
March-Of-Dimes Walkathon (are they still around?). F%#\*ed up my feet so badly, I couldn’t go to school for two days. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/106 "2018-07-05T17:01:57Z")
Go to the top of the Empire State Building. You see the whole skyline, but meh. Visit the Grand Canyon. I have severe acrophobia and could not look over the edge. I couldn’t even watch other people look over the edge. The view platform from the Empire State Building had a high railing. And I will die only once. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/107 "2018-07-05T18:25:00Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I blew the whistle on waste/fraud/abuse at work. I will never do that again. ☹ No kidding. No good deed goes unpunished. :rolleyes: > [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > And I will die only once. You hope. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/108 "2018-07-05T19:12:15Z")
Overloading a washing machine. Started emitting burnt odor; now nearly a month later, I’ve been trying to find a good replacement and haven’t found it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/109 "2018-07-05T19:34:34Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Overloading a washing machine. Started emitting burnt odor; now nearly a month later, I’ve been trying to find a good replacement and haven’t found it yet. I found you one [that can handle the largest loads without burning out](https://preparednessadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wash_board_and_tub..jpg), and it’s energy efficient to boot. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/110 "2018-07-05T19:59:02Z")
As a kid I shot and killed a bird with a BB gun just to see if I could. I immediately regretted it then and I feel bad thinking about it now. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/111 "2018-07-05T20:14:46Z")
Sailing in a small boat off the coast of North Carolina, getting blown east and over the horizon, and seriously wondering if I was gonna die out there. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/112 "2018-07-05T21:00:55Z")
Haggis. I mean, it wasn’t that bad, but, why? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/113 "2018-07-05T21:17:05Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > Haggis. I mean, it wasn’t that bad, but, why? It’s an excuse to drink more scotch. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/114 "2018-07-05T21:36:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Sailing in a small boat off the coast of North Carolina, getting blown east and over the horizon, and seriously wondering if I was gonna die out there. Never again. In my youth, I’d go out with my buddy on his hobiecat, sailing out from Hilton Head until we couldn’t see land. Drinking beer, rum, smoking weed and cheap cigars, and enjoying the occasional bump. Going over a few times; sometimes intentionally just to cool off. Laughing like fucking maniacs the whole time. I wouldn’t have had the sense to head for the setting sun if my friend got knocked out or had a coronary. I’m getting scared just remembering what we did. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/115 "2018-07-05T21:50:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Drink a fifth of ouzo in one night. > Assist in a llama castration. > Attempt to make a goose scotch egg. I would love to hear about the llama castration and your reasons for attending. And was the goose egg too big to be “scotched”? As for the fifth of ouzo, I think I understand that one. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/116 "2018-07-05T22:07:20Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Overloading a washing machine. Started emitting burnt odor; now nearly a month later, I’ve been trying to find a good replacement and haven’t found it yet. Oooh that reminds me: letting the laundry stay in the machine with the washing water after the washing machine has stopped working :smack:. When it had stopped working, I called the repair service of the place where I’d bought the machine about what to do with the laundry, and they said: “That’s no problem, you can keep it in with the water a few days”. Bullshit, I opened the door to the laundry room two days later, and the stench was overwhelming! I skimmed out the foul water, but the clothes had to be rewashed three times after the washing machine got repaired to get rid of the stench. I was short of throwing it all in the trash… ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/117 "2018-07-05T22:10:16Z")
Similar to Times Square New Year’s Eve - Camp out on the sidewalk in Pasadena to watch the Rose Parade. It’s cold, noisy, lots of drunks, you don’t get any rest so you’re bleary-eyed and out of it by the time the parade actually starts. And it’s not really that impressive in person. I had enough of parades in high school marching band - I don’t have any desire to watch them. Join the Mile High Club. Well, obviously I can’t join more than once, but I’m not gonna renew my membership. One of those things you do so you can say you did it, but not really worth doing at all. Airplane bathrooms are too small for their intended purposes, and definitely way too cramped for any other sort of activity. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/118 "2018-07-05T22:51:03Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Go to the top of the Empire State Building. You see the whole skyline, but meh. Huh. I did it expecting it to be meh, and I thought it was fantastic. Different strokes. For me, I will never again do [The Death Ride.](https://deathride.com) Not that I didn’t have a lot of fun doing it, and I was lucky in that the year I did it the weather was as perfect as it could possibly be. But it was brutal, and I made a promise to myself while climbing the 4th pass that I would never, ever, ever, EVER do it again. 🙂 I’ve been back a few times to do 3 of the passes, or an abridged ride, but I’ll not do the whole thing again. I still love to ride, but I’m not in good enough shape anymore for that kind of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/119 "2018-07-05T23:21:07Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I felt the same way about “Pulp Fiction”, except I also felt like I needed a Hazmat-grade shower as well. > > Did once, won’t again: Week-long canoe trip in the Boundary Waters. Wanted to do it, did it, no desire to do it again now that it was crossed off my bucket list. Plus, I was literally half the age I am now and nowhere near as fit, and 50 pounds heavier. :rolleyes: This was 1991, and when we came out of the forest, we asked the outfitters if Bush was still president. 😃 Allow me to clarify: I am NOW 50 pounds heavier and nowhere near as fit as when I took the Boundary Waters trip. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207/120 "2018-07-05T23:26:03Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Read _ **In Cold Blood** _. Once is enough. I’ll second that, and add _Helter Skelter_. I totally forgot the first time I posted to add **go to the Indy 500**. So freaking b-o-o-o-ring. It didn’t help that the temperature was in the 40s the time I went, and the race kept getting yellow-flagged because of the temperature of the track, something, something. Not to mention, I sat in the damn bleachers in 40 degree weather for what felt like 300,000 years. The truth was, the race lasted four and a half hours. It was the longest race since the 1930s. I live in Speedway, Indianapolis, and I can walk to the racetrack from my apartment, but I find an excuse to be elsewhere on race day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-something-youve-done-once-and-only-once-and-will-never-do-again/817207.md?page=7)