# What's on YOUR fuckit list? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890 "2014-11-06T15:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/61 "2014-11-10T06:24:30Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > **A musician.** I’ve never even tried to learn to play a musical instrument, but to this day I still have fantasies of playing the guitar in a band. It’ll never happen, even though I actually do own a guitar: a cheap imitation Strat. Once in a while when I’m alone I’ll pick it up and pick at the strings for a few minutes, but any actual playing is not an option.\ I have this one. It might be a personal issue, or just not meeting the right people at the right time, but except for a brief stint 22 years ago when I played lead guitar in a rockabilly band I’ve never had a regular band situation. We weren’t very good, but I think if we hadn’t lost our lead singer we would have had great potential. About 12 and 13 years before that, I played in a couple of college talent shows–but back then the piano was my instrument. I played ragtime and early jazz solos, just instrumentals. I sometimes think I might have been able to pull off a Dr-John type rendition of some early Fats Domino songs, but the thought of singing never even crossed my mind. Oh yeah–in the second show I was in, there was one band that just about brought down Mandeville Auditorium with their performance of Johnny B. Goode. The audience stomped their feet and roared its approval for what seemed like several minutes. I did pretty well myself, that night, playing a Jelly Roll Morton tune. There weren’t any good scores available in those days, but I did the best I could by ear and it went down well. But today I could play circles around that guitar player. Damn! If they stamped the floor for that guy, they’d have blown the roof off for me _if_ I could have played guitar then the way I can play it _now_. But in 1979 I barely knew one end of a guitar from the other. Why couldn’t I have been a guitar player back then? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/62 "2014-11-10T06:37:41Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > But today I could play circles around that guitar player. Damn! If they stamped the floor for that guy, they’d have blown the roof off for me _if_ I could have played guitar then the way I can play it _now_. But in 1979 I barely knew one end of a guitar from the other. Why couldn’t I have been a guitar player back then? ETA: It’s not that I’m all that hot today, either, but thinking back on the episode, the bar wasn’t all that high. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/63 "2014-11-11T14:58:50Z")
I feel happy knowing I’ve done alot of things on my bucket list…but my list is too damn long. 1. Threesome / Foursome … etc 2. Astronaut 3. Have a family (I’m torn, I want two lives, one with a family and one without) 4. Filmmaker 5. Canoe/Kayak a mighty river…this may still happen. 6. Be a pro-jazz musician (I’m semi-pro…which is good) 7. Travel everywhere. 8. Maybe skydive? I’ve bungee jumped. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/64 "2014-11-11T15:00:06Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m 56. > > **Bungee Jumping** / **Sky Diving**. I was in line to Bungee Jump from a bridge (over the New River?) when I was forty something. Police came and shut down the part due to lack of permit/improper permit. I can’t imagine doing it today. > > Those of you bemoaning not getting to use/abuse drugs in your youth; don’t give up!! My first experience with mushrooms was in my late forties and I’m glad I partook. A friend of mine bungee jumped at roughly the same age. Go for it! I went and I honestly felt like a new man. Staring into the jaws of death and all that crap. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/65 "2014-11-12T02:35:14Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > **A musician.** I’ve never even tried to learn to play a musical instrument, but to this day I still have fantasies of playing the guitar in a band. It’ll never happen, even though I actually do own a guitar: a cheap imitation Strat. Once in a while when I’m alone I’ll pick it up and pick at the strings for a few minutes, but any actual playing is not an option. Take guitar lessons. The results may surprise you. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890/66 "2014-11-13T03:32:32Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > 🙂 > > That’s a sweet image. > > Life is still good for many of us even without all of our dreams. I, too, read all the science fiction novels I could get my hands on as a child. I knew the stars would probably never be mine but I had a small secret hope. Perhaps the next generation will get there? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-fuckit-list/703890.md?page=3)