Name an experience you've had few others have had.

[elperromagico]

I'm staying out of this. :D

[cags]

1. I saw God

[elperromagico]

3. Is He a good dresser?

[cags]

6. He/She's not a dresser

[elperromagico]

8. Umm, yeahhh. That's not gonna sell in the Red States.

Their God wears a business suit.

[Der Blaue Engel]

150. I made out with Jeanna Fine, the porn star

And I'm not trying to start anything, so don't get the thread locked please. But it's true. :D

[DS1]

235. Only made out? That's a shame, that girls got SKILLS!

:o

[Der Blaue Engel]

243. Well we were in the middle of a crowded dance floor

Not that I would have objected! :D

[Parche]

33. god

i saw gods parents!!! ha



I have been in the FAA flight data center, where every single flight
in America is on the board, it is restricted access

I have touched a Nukular Missile when I was in the Air Force,
that was also restricted access (Minuteman 3)


I have met Magic Johnson, Clyde Drexler, Martin Short,John Kerry,
And did travel arrangements for Ernie Els, and Kobe Bryant when I
was at Adidas Travel Dept

I was on the cover of an American Airlines magazine in 1989

[barb162]

108. I saw a UFO about 20 yrs ago

[norml]

133. Saw UFO 4/19/1999 at dusk from an island off the Texas Gulf Coast.

And no it couldn't have possibly been anything else.

[bobthedrummer]

158. I had a CE4 at age nine.

[norml]

169. I'm not familiar with the term CE4, but I got a reference to abductions

by aliens when I did a search on it. What is the significance of the term CE4? I was not abducted, and never felt any fear during my encounter. I assumed that they were tourists doing some unauthorized buzzing of that isolated beach.

[norml]

172. Oh I get it, Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.

So it's something like in the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, except that they just take you?

[barb162]

224. I saw "mine" on Interstate 80 in the mid 70s; this thing

followed the car for a few miles and then "vanished" in thin air as they say. It stayed about no more than 3 feet behind us for a few minutes. My husband and I were driving to CA and we were on the road alone, western Nebraska, east WY., I don't remember anymore, about 2:00 AM, nobody behind us, no headlights behind us. All of a sudden, there were these glowy neon different color lights right behind us and a dim structure behind the lights. Later when Close Encounters came out and they had these ships with those glowy neon lights, I thought, damn if that wasn't the way this thing was. There was no sound coming from it either, like when you hear a semi-tractor trailer near you roaring down the road. There were no access roads to the Interstate where we were driving so it couldn't have been a bunch of kids screwing off, it couldn't have been a helicopter because of the shape (and no noise). It literally couldn't have been anything earthly.

Oh, and let me tell you, we were both scared like hell!

[barb162]

225. what did it do, what did it look like

[norml]

232. It came into sight at a very high speed, reversed direction instantly,

then came to a dead stop overhead. It moved in strait lines, with sharp angles. It was glowing brightly with a white light, and it wasn't very large, a two to four seater I'd say. It hovered directly overhead for what must have seemed longer than it was, and then suddenly it shot up into space at the same very high rate of speed as it had come in.

[barb162]

236. did you hear any sound coming from it?

also was your reaction fear as it was with us? We were sort of stunned, but mostly really scared.

[norml]

261. I didn't hear any sound from it, but then again it was on a windy beach.

I was stunned, and speechless, but not scared. My reaction was, "Wow, a UFO!" though I didn't talk about it, or tell anyone for a few days afterwords.

[Dirk39]

151. And you're still in the USA instead of liberating

Iran.

Dissapointed, dissapointed once more in Germany,
Dirk

[Taxloss]

208. I saw God once too.

A really bad drugs trip. Took the form of a purple cloud. It wasn't a pleasant or productive meeting.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. I can't...

not without violating the new, stricter rules, anyway...

[elperromagico]

4. I'm not sure that's an entirely novel experience, anyway.

Could be wrong, of course.

[politicaholic]

5. I've jumped into a mosh pit naked.

Ahhh, the 80's.

[Kire]

116. nice

I'm impressed.

[Kire]

119. I chased William F. Buckley, Jr. off a stage

I was the leader of a protest to draw attention to the "Timber Salvage Rider" (the grandfather of the "Healthy Forest Initiative", in 1996) outside of the auditorium where he spoke at my college. I didn't really get in any good zingers when I went up to ask a question, but when he was done, and ran around in front of the stage all pissed off shouting "Run! Run!". It got some good press in the local papers.

[dolo amber]

7. Joey Ramone spilled a vodka tonic all over me

(it was mine) at last call in a dive bar in NYC in '87-ish at a private party for Guns 'n Roses. He spilled it on me because he was 49 feet tall and was ordering his own drink over my head and I was unaware he was even behind me. When I turned around I ran face-first into his stomach. :D

He was very polite and bought me a replacement. ;)

[ImpeachBush]

177. Similar experience with Evel Knievel ...

Only he THREW his beer on me ... I asked for his autograph at a bar in Idaho. Nice guy.

[GumboYaYa]

247. Too Cool...

Being covered in cocktail is an easy price to pay to get to meet Joey Ramone.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. I had the FBI at my front door once.

Or is that becoming average these days?

[elperromagico]

12. Had you by chance printed t-shirts with a map to the pot forest in Kansas?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

20. I didn't do anything, really!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :7

[MuseRider]

23. LOL

Kansas pot is horrible, grew up on it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

215. Amen to that

LOL

[fishwax]

229. Hey, I saw that movie!

What can I say, I'm a Thomas Hayden Church fan :shrug:

[Solly Mack]

36. I had the DOJ at mine

They were investigating a neighbor.(of which we knew "nothing about"/even if we did)

I looked at the man like he was a particularly ugly slug for a full minute after he showed me his ID. His next words were "I'm sorry" (for being there) and I said "Me, too" (same reason)

[MnFats]

10. I had a cop pull a gun on me.

It's kind of a long story. Here is the brief version:
I wasn't who he thought I was, which was a guy who had just robbed a convenience store.
the description of the guy's car was roughly like mine.
I was dumb enough -- this was a long time ago - to get out of my car with my hands in my jacket pockets.
"Get your hands on the car," he said. I complied, with haste.
"Who the hell are you? What the hell are you doing here?"
" I work here! I was just going home from work!"
which was the truth.
he got back in his squad car and didn't even write me a ticket for going down the alley the wrong way, which we all did late at night and what i thought he had stopped me for in the first place.

they say people who get robbed often can't give a very good description of their assailand because the victim's eyes tend to lock on the gun. oh, they can describe the gun all right but the guy who was holding it could have been Pee Wee Herman or Al Haig.

It's true. at least in my case, it was true. i couldn't tell you what that cop looked like.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Saw the Shuttle Enterprise Auto Land Test from Mission Control

I should have turned right to follow the rest of the contractors but accidentally turned left instead and ended up watching the Auto land test from the VIP area with astronaut families and military brass. Boy, did I ever get the stink eye!

[cags]

13. I got my little sister arrested for stealing $11

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. I got peed on by a pig.

That's the best I have. :cry:

[jpgray]

43. Nonsense. Lots of people have pissed themselves.

:D

[Robbien]

48. I peed on a toad

It was one of those get out of bed in the middle of the night calls of nature. I turn around to flush and a toad is looking up at me sitting in the yellow water.

[Xipe Totec]

50. Was he really pissed?

[Robbien]

80. Ha, Nope. But

the toilet paper landing on his head ticked him off a bit.

[pres2032]

15. i almost got kicked in the head by a blessid union of souls guitarist

was working security and had to stand between the stage and the crowd and at one point the one guitarist almost kicked me in the head.

[Kire]

112. the singer to Agnostic Front stepped on my lap, hard

he left marks up and down my thighs, of all places.

[Redneck Socialist]

146. I touched Steve Harris's shoe...

(Bass Player for Iron Maiden)

Front row baby! :smoke: :headbang: Good times!

[SarahB]

16. I labored for 3 days once.

nevermind the story

[cags]

21. 36 hrs of labor, wasn't fun

[yardwork]

129. Oh, I did that too. But it was worth it in the end!

Or at least, so far it's been worth it.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

37. Oh my goodness..

You poor thing!

[NewJeffCT]

230. you'd hate my wife then

planned c-section due to breech baby, no labor at all...

[DemoTex]

17. Night air combat missions on the Ho Chi Mihn Trail in Laos.

Exclusive enough?

[Xipe Totec]

45. Don't know about exclusive, but definitely impressive!

Have you thought about writing down your memoirs?

[DemoTex]

53. I've posted a couple of short stories here on DU in the past.

I am compiling the short-stories into a novel now.

[MisterP]

93. have you read "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"?

about the OTHER secret war in Indochina, heroin airlifts from Hmong lands in Laos's mountains, and the Hmong being left out to dry

[blue neen]

209. OMG! That book!

I literally could not put it down. That is definitely one of the best books I have EVER read. The stories about fleeing Laos, and especially the story of Lia.

[MockSwede]

187. Man.....

I'm volunteering for the 36 hours of labor pains alternative....

My hat's off to you and your buddies. Thanks.

[Quetzal]

18. Been on a red sand beach

n/t

[Floogeldy]

19. I'd tell you but then I would get banned

[Left Is Write]

22. I was rudely and graphically propositioned by a has-been

"rock star." It was gross. I'm not going to name him because I'm not fond of lawsuits.

Edited to take the "s word" out of my subject line.

[gardenista]

24. Yeah, but innuendos are ok! C'mon,

did he wear lots of makeup and is he a right-winger?

[Left Is Write]

26. No. He's the singer of a has been southern-rock/country-rock band.

I have no idea what his politics are, but his social skills are extremely lacking.

This happened almost 12 years ago, when I was working radio. I did a live show from the venue where they were performing, and I interviewed him before the performance. Afterward, he offered to sign some pictures and CDs for my listeners, and he invited me to sit in the tour bus and chat while he did so. The bus was not empty, and he'd been entirely professional up until then, so I didn't assume I was in any danger. I assumed wrong.

To make matters worse, I was dating the general sales manager of the radio station, who saw me get onto the bus with the not-to-be-named has been, and HE assumed *I* was up to no good, so he left without me.

When I told him what happened the next day, he didn't believe me at first (I think because he was a possessive kind of guy). Our program director wanted to go kick the guy's ass, and he chewed out my boyfriend for not believing me. It was altogether a very unpleasant experience.

[gardenista]

30. Man, that must have been awful.

At least your program director had it together.

Those guys lose touch with reality, don't they? Kinda like the Gropenator.

[Left Is Write]

34. Yeah, I think they do.

He seemed flabbergasted that I was unflattered and uninterested by his proposition. ("Come on, honey, don't you want to **** a rock star?")

[gardenista]

39. Eeeeeeeew. Wonder where he is now? (Don't answer that!)

I bet that line works less often than it used to, if ever.

[Misunderestimator]

250. I was rudely propositioned by one of those old has-been actors

that was in "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy. They filmed part of the movie during winter break at the college I attended. I didn't go home for Christmas so I ran into them while they were filming in the lobby (it was a tiny school). I won't mention his name either (but it was definitely NOT Don Ameche or Al Franken, and I think he's dead now). He must have been close to 80 at the time, and I was barely 20. I told him to buzz off.

[bowens43]

25. I wandered through the basement of the US Capital building

un-escorted.

I walked into the Ohio Governors office without being invited and had a conversation with the governor.

I was almost knocked into the reflecting pool on the mall in DC by Al Sharpton.

[Xipe Totec]

29. Cool!

How was the Gov. in person?

[bowens43]

32. it was Govenor Gilligan in 1974.

He seemed like a nice guy. He didn't throw me out.

[Xipe Totec]

42. Too bad moments like these will become rarer still

We are becoming ever more distant from the ruling elites.

[really-looney]

100. No more sex threads so........

Had S*x in the US Capitol

[ContraBass Black]

102. Accidentally, or intentionally?

[really-looney]

106. The s#x or the wandering?

[ContraBass Black]

118. Almost getting knocked into the pool by Sharpton

[Lone Pawn]

27. Got kicked out of a Chinese government-run

department store for putting on a form-fitting dress. Fit me better than it fit my girlfriend, actually—since Western girls have more in the chest and hips than Chinese ones do, I'm built more like the intended wearers than she was. The servicepeople there were horrified, and accused me of dishonoring their customs and culture, before physically shoving me in the changing room (I didn't even get out of the changing-room area) and demanding I get proper clothes on before telling me to get out of the store before they called Security on me.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. I got ran over.

I was 19. Car swerved into the sidewalk to avoid another car. I rolled over the car and fell behind it. Only a bruise in my leg where the car hit, and a few tiny scratches. The two people I was with were impressed of how well can I fall.

And I didn't see it coming. My first impression was being hit in the leg.

[DemoTex]

31. I got arrested at the Vietnam Embassy in London in 1989.

Several of us showed up there for a POW/MIA accounting. We were released without charges. It was not my first visit to that embassy. Nor my last.

[blondeatlast]

35. Coma; for three days at the age of 7. nt

[Xipe Totec]

64. Did you dream?

or is there just a three day gap in consciousness?

[blondeatlast]

78. I think I dreamed. I believe I saw God (I'm a believer in God) but it coul

have been a dream. Lots less information in 1967, when it happened, so it's hard to say. I was very close to death; undiagnosed (again, far less info then) diabetes; my blodd glucose was over 1000 when I arrived at the hospital!

All this is from family recollection; except for the "vision," I remember almost nothing about it.

[blue neen]

210. Wow, that had to be an extremely scary experience for you

and your family. What did it feel like when you came out of the coma?

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

38. Inside a volcano

Etna. You can basically drive to the top (with permits). Walked down the less active vent and saw lava between fissures two feet away. Later, after dark, went to the active side and saw firework lava plumes down below.

[Cadence]

40. I died. I was clinically dead for seven minutes

and came back. It wasn't my time.

[Schema Thing]

51. wow. that gives me chills.

welcome home :) glad you're still with us.

I think I'll just skip my silly little special story now, lol.

[Cadence]

54. You'll do no such thing! You will tell us that silly story

and you'll do it right now! If it wasn't for the silly....I wouldn't want to be here! :D

[Schema Thing]

61. er... ok

I was featured in a Discovery Channel show about the Kennedy assasination photo evidence (I was the "photo expert").


I know what you mean about the silly though. Life is much better with a strong sense of the ridiculous.

[Cadence]

67. Wow. That's not silly, that's cool!

I could use a photo expert, I wish you lived near me.

:thumbsup:

[fluffernutter]

68. that is really cool!

i'm glad you shared it after all :)

[Schema Thing]

75. Thanks guys

It was a fun experience. I'm a shy person by nature (and 5 years ago much more so), so it was both fun and frightening. I'm much more comfortable behind a camera than in front of it.

[DemoTex]

55. Welcome back!

Lucky 7?

[Cadence]

60. Huh? I never thought about that

being my lucky number.. maybe so. I always liked 11 for some reason. :shrug:

[loudestchick]

74. Down for 4.5 minutes following an almost sucessful suicide attempt

at age 14.

[yardwork]

130. I'm glad that you are ok. You must have been very sad to do that

[loudestchick]

163. Actually, I was on some medications for a seizure disorder and my dosage

was WAY off. I finished off both bottles. It was 22 yrs ago, I'm all grown up now.

[American Tragedy]

142. Glad to hear it failed. Don't do that ever again!

[loudestchick]

162. I wouldn't. It was 22 yrs ago.

[Lone Pawn]

76. Technically, I think most people have done that ;)

[Champ]

113. What was like that

That is crazy, glad you made it.

[REP]

159. Clinically Dead During Minor Surgery

No "near death" experience to report ,but I don't believe in that stuff.

[B Calm]

41. Out at sea for an entire month in the Artic Circle..

[Xipe Totec]

47. Nice!

Leisure, business, or military?

[B Calm]

56. US NAVY

[Xipe Totec]

59. That rocks! n/t

[psychopomp]

156. I lived thirty feet up in a tree for a summer

Guess what Uni I went to?

[deadparrot]

44. My cousin was shot at Columbine.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

107. So was my husband's...

At least, his cousin's daughter, which would make her a cousin of some kind.

His cousin, Dawn Anna, was apparently the subject of a movie recently. Her daughter Lauren was killed...

[MissB]

120. It is a Lifetime movie, isn't it? With Debra Winger?

I haven't watched it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

121. It is...

We haven't seen it either. In fact, my husband had no idea she had battled cancer until he saw the review for the movie. He hasn't seen her since she was about 4. He's got a lot of cousins, and they're geographically spread out all over the country; but stay in touch about important issues for the most part. He was pretty shocked to find out about it in the TV program!

[SheilaT]

161. His cousin's daughter

is his cousin once removed.

The cousin's daughter and your kids are second cousins.

I'm nerdy about knowing those kinds of things.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

190. Thanks for the info!

I get confused about all the removals and such! :hi:

[Roon]

46. I was stabbed once

in a grocery store of all places.

[Xipe Totec]

49. While working, or shopping?

[Roon]

52. I was shopping

My assailant was in a hurry,I was not..

[Xipe Totec]

57. Did the assailant get away?

And were you seriously hurt?

[Roon]

63. The police helicopter swooped in

and tracked him from the air and the cops on the ground caught him hiding under some bushes. I suffered a puncture wound but it looked worse than it really was. He spent 40 days in jail from the time of his arrest, was released until his trial. He ended up serving two year behind bars and about three years of probation.

[carolinayellowdog]

58. Arrested at an antiwar demonstration in 1969 n/t

[SarahB]

62. Victim of armed robbery.

It was at a place I worked years ago. Nothing terrible happened thankfully. Scary though.

[loudestchick]

73. When I was pregnant w/ my first child, a "kid" tried to rob me with a gun

while I was walking to the store in the middle of the day. I yelled at him "NO!" when he tried to grab my purse. I think he may have wet his pants...I am REALLY loud!

[SarahB]

65. Witnessed a boy my age get run over by a car when I was 4.

My mom is a nurse and she tried to save him (well, she kind of did), but he died on the way to the hospital in the ambulance. I can recall the event clearly to this day. Sticks with a person. :(

[MockSwede]

188. Bingo

Folks wonder on my street why I'm so buggers about speeders with 40+ kiddoes under 18 on the street...

Saw my friends younger brother get run down crossing street. Dead before he hit the ground. Fella that hit him (a kid, himself back then) hasn't been right ever since. Nothing he could have done, though. Robbie darted out between parked cars, as I remember.

[maveric]

66. Stood inside a missle launcher silo in a guided missle cruiser,CCG.

The USS Vincennes of all ships.

[LeftyMom]

69. I was almost kidnapped

I was a few car lengths ahead of my Dad in the grocery store and some guy grabbed me and threw me in the back of his pickup while the woman who was with him started backing the truck up. I don't remember real well what happened after that (I was really small) but I rememeber my dad picking me up, and then being in the car and promising not to tellmy mother, because she was pregnant and worrying could hurt the baby.

Nobody called the cops and my mother didn't even hear about it until I was grown.

[loudestchick]

72. wow...every parent's worst nightmare. How did this affect your dad?

[LeftyMom]

95. We don't talk about it

It was never mentioned again, but my father isn't the talkative sort so that's not that strange. Honestly, I don't think it was that big an issue. While he kept a close eye on us, my father surely wasn't the most overprotective parent in the neighborhood, by a long shot.

[loudestchick]

98. well, at least he didn't make you feel afraid all the time. That happens

more and more, parents passing along their fears almost like an allergic reaction to a stress situation.:shrug:

[loudestchick]

70. While touring the "Reagan" White House, I passed out due to an undiagnosed

medical condition. Normally when this happens to someone, they are cared for by naval nurses BUT there were no nurses available at the time and I was taken to the WH medical office and cared for by Reagan's personal physician.

[NoStinkinBadges]

86. Whatever you do

if it happens again at the Bush WH do not let them know you post here. They may just leave you on the floor.

[loudestchick]

90. I won't be visiting the WH while the liar-in-chief is still the Resident!

[Wcross]

71. Been bit on the forehead in a dogfight.........

About a month ago.

[distantearlywarning]

85. Several Things....

1) One summer the actor Ted Danson had my phone # and called me regularly for several months (there's a story there, but I'll leave you all guessing on that one for right now...)

2) I saw a skinwalker when I was 17 (or at least that's what a Navajo friend of mine said it was)

3) I witnessed a robbery/murder in 2000. The victim died in front of me while I was on the phone with 911.

4) I think I met the devil once (another story I don't care to go into right now)

[Redneck Socialist]

154. That's not fair!

You can't dangle teasers like that and just leave us hanging!

But I'll settle for the skinwalker story. I'm fascinated by that sort of thing.

[KamaAina]

257. I've got it! You must have been his rug technician.

'Hello, distant? It's Ted. I think it might be a little crooked or something. Could you come over right now? I've got a hot date tonight..." :-)

[Redneck Socialist]

147. I gotta ask...

why was your head at dog level? Or were they really big dogs?

[Wcross]

152. I was asleep in bed

Moe was sleeping on one side, Larry was on the other. I awoke to growling and got up just as Moe was taking a bite at larry. Moe has issues about sharing me with the other dogs.
BTW- I try to keep them off the bed now.

[Redneck Socialist]

153. OK that makes sense

I had vision of you down at dog level involved in a multi-dog melee and I'm thinking to myself, WTF!?

[Xithras]

77. Sat inside the Space Shuttle Columbia

July 4, 1982. It was the last space shuttle R&D flight and also the day that the Challenger was being delivered, so Reagan was giving a speech. Since my uncle worked for NASA at Edwards, he talked my mom into bringing me down for the day (I was eight at the time).

That day put a scene in my mind that I'll never forget. The Columbia, just landed, was sitting at the end of the runway. Reagan was standing at the dais singing God Bless America to the crowd with the shuttle Enterprise behind him, and suddenly this 747 cruises past with the shuttle Challenger on its back. Some of the details have fuzzed with time, but that image is almost surreal to me.

Later that day my uncle tried to get me a bit closer to the shuttle. The ground crew were reasonably nice once they found out that we weren't just public gawkers (my uncle worked there, and I'd already been accepted into Space Camp for the following summer) and one asked me if I wanted to sit inside the shuttle. I didn't go far in...I basically went up the stairs, through the hatch, and sat down facing out so that my uncle could get a picture of me "inside" the shuttle, but that was beyond cool anyway (they wouldn't let me any further in for obvious reasons).

A couple days after the Columbia burned up, someone posted a picture on the Net of that same hatch, burned and broken in a Texas forest. I have to admit that I cried for an hour after seeing it, both for the crew that was lost and for the fact that no others would ever pass through it.

[fluffernutter]

79. i have watched and assited in newborn heart surgery.

it is completely amazing to be right there watching it in person, those little hearts are the size of a walnut. they cool them down and stop the hearts from beating during the surgery. the sweet babies are so amazing, it's like watching a miracle in progress.

[ccinamon]

81. 1971 - 14 years old, stuck in an airplane in Vietnam

We were on our way to Bangkok where my dad was being stationed. We stopped to drop troops off in Vietnam; because of recent gunfire and "enemy activity in the area" most of the lights were off, the shades were down, and we were asked to be as quiet possible until takeoff.

We ended up staying on the ground an hour longer than we were supposed. It was freaky.

There were several infants and numerous toddlers onboard, and of course they didn't want to be quiet!

[qnr]

82. Been on all seven continents, Antarctica seven times, the Arctic five n/t

[pres2032]

109. military? or like to travel?

[qnr]

110. Military (like to travel, but I was poor) - This was all with the USCG,

except North America, of course.

[pres2032]

111. awsome!

and of course, thanks for serving! :yourock:

[Aristus]

83. I've seen the full moon over the Saudi desert.

Spectacular! :wow:

[American Tragedy]

84. I was mauled by a yellow lab when I was 12 - still have scar tissue

I've volunteered at an animal shelter for years, and I just love dogs. Despite what the owner believes to this day, I never did anything deliberately to provoke the animal. She and her son invited me to their house, and when I approached their yard, the dog cornered me, snarling, presumably incited by territorial instinct.

That is why people should not let their big dogs run free in a neighborhood with children. It is just too dangerous.

[yardwork]

131. I was mauled by a St. Bernard when I was eleven

Similar experience to yours. I was visiting a friend and when I tried to leave their yard, the dog repeatedly attacked me, knocking me down and biting my back. Fortunately I had on several layers of clothes so even though the bites broke the skin, they were relatively minor.

I still love dogs but I'm wary around big ones.

[Bhaisahab]

134. wow. almost like cujo

glad you escaped...

[American Tragedy]

139. That is really scary. Did you try to run?

I couldn't get away, since the dog dug its teeth in and shook me violently like a rag doll, crushing tissue, and wouldn't let go. I wouldn't have been able to outrun him anyway. Nobody came to help me, so I wrestled with the dog for several minutes, just trying to keep him away from my face, before he finally lost interest.

My family could've easily sued, but they're not the litigious kind. And of course, everybody kept saying "I can't believe that he would do that, he's such a sweet dog, labs are so friendly, blah blah blah."

What the hell is it with people getting these great big high-maintenance dogs, and then basically leaving them to their own devices? Dogs are social animals that need lots of attention, and a larger dog in particular needs special training.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on. It's just been on my mind recently, since I've started dealing with a deluge of suburban couples who want to adopt these behemoth dogs but don't have a big enough house or fenced yard in which to situate them.

[yardwork]

199. Your experience was much worse than mine, it sounds like

The dog that went for me was very young and poorly trained. I think they had tried to train it as a guard dog but they screwed up. Anyway, I kept getting up and running and the St. Bernard kept grabbing me and pulling me back down. Most of the damage happened to my clothes. I don't know if it was playing or serious. It was growling and barking the whole time.

Finally, a young person who was helping the family dig fence posts walked me home. Nobody in their family or mine helped me, even though about a dozen people witnessed it.

[SheilaT]

87. I was the gate agent on duty

when we oversold Ralph Nader. He was the third of three oversales on that flight, and it was the third time he'd been oversold that week. I know because the agents at the two other airlines called me within a couple of hours (news like that gets around at an airport) to share their amusement that it happened once again.

Ralph, unfortunately, wasn't amused, sued the airline, and that's why these days they solicit volunteers to be oversold.

I also once fell down the bag chute at the end of my shift. I wasn't hurt, which is amazing because sometimes the luggage didn't make it safely to the bottom. I was holding my cash drawer, and as I went the money and ticket coupons went everywhere.... A couple of ramp agents helped me pick up all the money and paper, and when I finally organized it all and cashed out, I was ten cents off, so I said, "Close enough." The next day a dime was found in the bag chute. True story.

[Karenina]

88. B.B. King

let me play Lucille.

[Schema Thing]

89. get out!

[Karenina]

97. He sho' did.

I played a few chords, he sang a verse.

[Left Is Write]

104. Now THAT'S an experience!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

91. The first thing I ever wrote sold to a major publisher

I got to see my first novel on display in bookstores. With my name in big letters on the cover. With my picture on the dust cover.

Then I saw people looking through it and buying it.

That's a rush, I tell ya.

[Left Is Write]

105. Say...can I touch your sleeve?

I'd like whatever it is you have!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

123. It's simple

A ton of luck, a smidgen of talent, a relentless agent, a publisher with heart.

So much of it is luck, though, when you're starting out.

And, I wish you that - good luck.

[DemBones DemBones]

92. Rabies shots. A collie bit me in the throat when I was 2.

Just a freaky thing. The dog knew me and was usually cool but we went to her house and when I went over to pet her, she jumped me. Since I was so small, they decided I should go ahead and have the rabies shots right away instead of waiting to see if the dog got sick. Rabies shots are given in the abdomen, you know, and said to be very painful.

Fortunately, I repressed all of it, though I was very afraid of needles (shots) for many years after that.

It didn't help being in an auto accident when I was 9 -- one minute I'm sitting in the front seat, reading, the next minute I'm flat on my back on an operating table with bright light shining in my eyes and people sticking needles in my face (novocaine so they could put in stitches.)

[RetroLounge]

94. Hmm, lets see.

Stage Diving at a Nirvana Concert.

Chicago Cop pulled and pointed his gun at me.

Riding in a train pulled by a Steam Locomotive.

RL

[jmowreader]

96. I went to TWO Ronald Reagan speeches

The first one was the infamous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" speech.

The second one was just before he left office. He came back to Berlin and spoke at the Kongresshalle, which is an extremely elegant and very modern venue.

[RagingInMiami]

99. I was shot at in a road rage incident 15 years ago

The bullet whizzed by my head and into the speedometer, bouncing around in the engine of my car. The guy sped off, leaving me and my friends checking ourselves for bullet wounds.
We all bought guns the next day.

[Rabrrrrrr]

101. I was run over by a semi, and in the 9-11 attacks in NYC

Semi busted me up nicely, but I came through darn near A-OK.

AND my office building was partially destroyed by terrorist action on September 11, 2001 (I worked in WFC 3, which the north tower fell into; one of my co-workers had his corner office entirely removed)

[bobbobbins]

103. I used to play in a band at one of the top bars in the country

i guess not many people have done that

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

114. I vomited at Clinton's first inauguration

[orleans]

135. i'm sure most of the country will be throwing up tomorrow!

[bo44]

115. Patrick Purdy killed five little kids and then killed himself near my

classroom door. I was a teacher's aide. January Seventeenth, 1989.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

117. I sang in both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center

with the Cornell University Chorus.

I spent 24 hours on a coastal ferry in China, going from Shanghai to Wenzhou. As the guidebook that I read later said, "This is not a pleasure cruise."

[bobweaver]

122. I'm the only white person in the world who has sat down in a Chinese...

...fireworks factory in China and made fireworks along with the Chinese workers.

[MockSwede]

189. so cool

As a pyro, I'm so jealous! Nothing better than fire(works).

[Kire]

124. Christopher Moltisanti whacked a guy and dumped his body near my HS

Hacklebarney Park is in my home town of Long Valley, NJ. It's actually further out west than where they usually choose as locations to film at.

[Champ]

125. I've had a rare experience that I don't anyone has ever had

[driver8]

126. I landed on, and flew off an aircraft carrier. n/t

[BikeWriter]

127. Ordered by my site Commander to stand "bear watch" over troops...

fighting a tundra fire in Alaska.

[Thor_MN]

128. Wow, I haven't done squat..... I'm going to bed..

[opiate69]

132. Umm...

Received fellatio while on my forklift at work....

[orleans]

136. saw a ghost

[American Tragedy]

140. I would guess there's more to the story than that.

:) If you don't wanna talk about it though, I understand.

[orleans]

143. my ghost story

i was about five years old
it was a great aunt who had died about a year before
scared me so much i looked like i'd seen a ghost
but she looked like she always did
wasn't transparent or misty or anything
she talked to me
i screamed hysterically
my mom thought someone was killing me
i ran upstairs
and told my mom and grandma who i had just seen

they believed me
turned out my grandma used to have "visions", see spirits, and stuff like that when she was younger.

i blocked it out of my memory for eight years.
and when i was 12 i was reading a book about people who claimed to have seen ghosts--and then it all came back to me. it was safe to remember.

thanks for asking

[AlienGirl]

137. Hemiglossectomy

It isn't pleasant.

Tucker

[fleabert]

138. A car nearly ran me over once, while I was working...indoors.

It was at a dry cleaners, I was a counter clerk, and it was in one of those nondescript strip centers. Big plate glass all along the front.
Lady got her foot stuck on the gas instead of the brake.

I ended up with about 6 stitches in my left hand, a burn mark on my elbow and torn jeans at the knee. If I had been standing about two inches to the left, she would have at least broken my leg, if not killed me. there were acceleration burn marks on the linoleum from her tires. I got the next day off (with pay), and a new pair of jeans out of it! I was about 17. It made the paper, but I had already left for the Dr. when they showed up.

[Tweed]

141. Male Cheerleader

Fun times

[Redneck Socialist]

144. Thru hiked the Appalachian Trail.

Not so exclusive, but only a couple of hundred folks a year do it.

My claim to fame, perseverance and tough feet.

[livetohike]

184. I am still dreaming of doing this!

I have lived two miles from where the trail crosses in upstate NY. Talked to several thru hikers there.

[SoCalDem]

145. I was bitten by a poisonous snake...and

Dorothy Lamour sang to me as I sat on her lap.. (I was 18 mo. old..Havana trip)..

I have almost been hit by a train THREE times :)

[Book Lover]

148. Cut my hand while cutting a punch

A punch is what you carve to set (or punch into) a matrix, which you then pour liquid tin and/or antimony into to make hot metal type. Never managed to burn myself, oddly enough, but I gouged out a long stretch of flesh with the graver...

[Seabiscuit]

149. Arthur Rubenstein shook my hand. So did Leonard Bernstein.

[whirlygigspin]

157. I survived

Oct.17,1989 7.1 earthquake in San Francisco (in college)then I decided to move back to Montreal.

Jan.20,1998 Ice Storm, 21 days without electricity in winter--worst natural disaster in Canadian history, estimated cost, 9billion dollars; had more than enough of winter then, so I moved to Taiwan the next summer.

Sept.21,1999 7.6 earthquake in Taiwan (the 9-21 quake)
(I would sit through 3 ice storms over one of these quakes, I was dizzy for 3 months after).

Sept.2002 decided to take a vacation in Bali (bombing Oct.12,2002)

This Christmas, we couldn't decide weather to go to Hong Kong or Phuket for the holidays...,lol

Thankfully,we chose Hong Kong...my luck is changing!

[Patiod]

173. wow!

We were housebound for 3 days in an ice-storm about 12 years ago, and we're still talking about it. 21 days????

Glad you weren't in Phuket.

[claudiajean]

155. I saw Nirvana play at a party in Olympia, WA, before they were famous.

It was at the dorms at Evergreen State, if any of y'all are from here.

[REP]

160. True Paradoxical Reaction to Versed

Not very exciting, but very rare. It puts most people out and gives them temporary amnesia, but it wakes me up and makes it impossible for me to sleep. This means I've undergone some *painful* procedures (like a kidney biopsy) wide-fucking-awake.

I was also hit on by that guy from Depeche Mode, but I have the feeling that's not so rare.

I got Taj Mahal high. Again, probably not so rare.

[Patiod]

174. can they use propofol on you?

Also, I'm thinking that #3 is a pretty common experience

[warrens]

164. Flew the Fuji blimp

Over the Statue of Liberty, then over my apartment in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, no one was home to be impressed.

[Worst Username Ever]

165. I was circled by an 8 ft Bull Shark

I was 12, getting my scuba ceritifcation, and the dive master is suddenly yanking me towards the surface, said the shark was circling closer and closer to me. Awesome.

[Freebird12004]

166. riding a Trike at 65 MPH

B-)

[lizzieforkerry]

167. When I was in HS some kids planted a bomb by the gym and

it was the first time an actual live bomb had ever been put in a school in the US.

[Texasgal]

168. I touched

Ann Richards hair when she was governer of Texas..... Does that count? :)

[rbnyc]

170. 1. Had morphine drip for wedding toast.

2. Got a postcard from Morrisey
3. HAd a prenatal out-of-body experience (so I guess I was out of 2 bodies.0
4. Nevermind...no sex threads!

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

171. I drove myself to the hospital while in labor

There was no one around to take me.

[msgadget]

175. I was escorted through the Waldorf by the Secret Service.

That's all you need to know.... ;)

[micrometer_50]

176. OK, here's a few

Met Edgar Bergen (Charlie McCarthy & Mortimer Snerd) in Montana
when he was visiting a steam powered farm in Montana (about 1962).
Won an award for a tuba solo at Univ. of Montana (Missoula)
at a summer fine arts camp.
Operated 65 ton ore truck in an open pit mine (SilverBell AZ)
Won the first draft lottery (#26)
Maintained nuclear-loaded B-52s.(USAF 1970-1974)
Was awarded a patent for one of my concepts (A surgical divice)

[ImpeachBush]

178. Won the John Philip Sousa award at my H.S. ...

Many moons ago. I played trumpet.

[Allenberg]

179. While

working at the gym while stationed at Ft Meade, a short, bald, beady-eyed older gentleman came up to my desk, and started grabbing towels and stuff without showing me his ID card. As per our guidelines, I asked him for his ID, and he showed me it.

Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, Director of the National Security Agency.

After a short conversation, I found out we were both from around the same area close to Pittsburgh, and were both big Steeler fans. Nice guy, especially when I was but an Airman First Class.

[ImpeachBush]

180. I fought forest fires with the U.S. Forest Service for three years.

[taught_me_patience]

181. I've gone three days in a row

without seeing a single person.

taught.

[XNASA]

182. I've verbally communicated with MIR, the Space Station.....

And all four of the Space Shuttle orbiters on live TV.

Not many people can say that.

[Xipe Totec]

205. No, not many.

Most capcoms are astronauts. Has that changed, or are you giving away too much information? :evilgrin:

[livetohike]

183. Lived and worked on an Old Order Amish farm

during harvest in 1975.

[ImpeachBush]

185. 2nd degree burns from an easy bake oven when I was 3 ....

The damned thing sparked when I plugged it in and caught my shirt on fire. I was afraid of wall outlets for many years afterward.

[MockSwede]

186. DIRT

Shoved my hands up underground burrow holes - right up to my armpits, and then some - to grab Leach's Storm petrels (nocturnal pelagic birds nesting on islands off the coast of Maine) and/or offspring in burrow. While they pecked and bit until my hands were bloody and then regurgitated on any part of me (in defense). For hours a day and seven days at a stretch. With no running water to clean up. All in the name of bird behavior research. (Yes, all the birds were returned to their nests - a little ruffled - but better off than I was!)

I can think of only four other people in the world who've done this. (Everyone else was MUCH smarter, not to.)

[ronnykmarshall]

191. I sang as a Supreme with Mary Wilson.

Just a few lines of "Keep Me Hangin' On".

[Merrick]

192. I slept for 12 hours straight once

- I ate a half of a large pizza in one sitting
- I watched an entire episode of According to Jim
- I put a lit firecracker into a mailbox
- I saw Scott Valentine (the guy who played Malerie's boyfriend on Family Ties) at Disneyland

[LanternWaste]

193. I was a crash-cart team member and saw one dozen people die

Worked at a Radiation Center in the early nineties and was bumped onto the crash-cart team administering O2. In the six years I worked there, 12 people died during the "MedCart Alert" activities ("MedCart Alert" was chosen over "Code Red" or "Crash-Cart" as it didn't sound frightening to the other patients).

My job was simply to hold the mask over the patients nose and mouth and make sure that the O2 flow was set to what the Dr. barked out. After that, I had a front row seat watching the patient die and seeing their eyes as it happened. Each time was a... singularly unique experience.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

200. Holy fucking shit. I could NEVER do such a job.

After seeing the third person die, I'd be talking with inanimate objects, banging my head on the walls, and drooling from the side of my mouth.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

194. Performed at Carnegie Hall, did aerobatics,

turned pages for Olivier Messaien at a piano concert, sat in the cockpit of a B-1 bomber.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

216. Turned pages for Olivier Messiaen?

Was he appearing in the Twin Cities at the time, or was this elsewhere? Piano or organ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

219. About 35 years ago, in Minneapolis.

Piano duet with Yvonne Loriod.

[eyepaddle]

195. Went skinny dipping 400 miles south of the Antarctic Circle

I took the Polar Plunge at McMurdo station!

[TroubleMan]

196. I had sex on a spinning stage with a stripper.

At a bar called "The Stage" in Okinawa I did that several times.....just don't look at the audience.

I've heard they've shut it down now....:(

[SOteric]

197. I been dead. Really and truly dead. Traveled to remote parts

of the globe, seen The Emerald Flash, climbed mountains and slid down glaciers for sport. And then there are some of my more treasured moments.... :)

[eyepaddle]

218. Emerald flash!

were you at the south pole? and the Dead thing..well that just can't pass without recognition.

Welcome back!

[Wcross]

198. Hit by lightning....

I was sitting on a picnic table bench with metal legs. My arse cheek was on a metal bolt attached to the legs, my shoe had blown out and my toe was in some water. Lightning hit a tree that was at my end of the table. It blew me off the table about 10 feet, all I remember is a bright flash and an instant boom. I got a burn on my arse and on on the toe. I ain't been right ever sense.

[Xipe Totec]

203. Did you feel the hair raising tingle before the strike?

or did it catch you by surprise?

I've had a close call, about 20 yards, but never a direct hit. I just remember my hair starting to raise before the flash and boom.

Glad you survived. :hi:

[Wcross]

227. No warning at all...

Light rain, a few rumbles of thunder off in the distance. I felt no hair rising, it came as a complete suprise.

[barackmyworld]

201. 3 Natural Disasters, 3 Months, 3 Countries

Earthquake--Japan
Flood--China
Tornado--Wisconsin

yeah, that's fun when you're 12 and scared to hell of everything related to weather.

[Hamlette]

202. I went to law school with Ted Bundy.

you kids won't remember

[Xipe Totec]

206. Oh, I remember alright

Freaky!

Did you have direct contact with him? Social events, or sharing power tools? :scared:

[Hamlette]

207. he was arrested after his 1st year, he was a celebrity

he came back to school before and during the trial (I attended every day of the trial like a groupie. Of course we thought he was innocent...at first.)

Several friends of mine knew him better than I did, went to parties with him and stuff. A very good friend shared a ride to Washington with him the summer before he was arrested.

Totally freakie guy. Luckily he killed strangers, not people he knew.

[claudiajean]

211. Serious Biz? Ann Rule used to be my neighbor!

[Hamlette]

228. as you might imagaine, I read her book too

she worked with Bundy before he was a suspect, if memory serves. One of my law partners represented him in his trial here and thought him innocent until the evidence of the Lake City Florida murder came out a couple of years later. It was inconsistent with any explanation except guilt (his fingerprint on the license plate of the truck the girls body was found in.)

I am adamantly against the death penalty, even for Bundy, but I didn't lose any sleep over his execution. Couldn't bring myself to.

[TexasSissy]

239. I remember (but I'm not a kid)

Do tell! Do you remember seeing him on campus?

[oppositionmember]

204. I once met the king of Belgium.

[nutsnberries]

212. i was "slain in the spirit"

by a healing priest.
(explanation: the priest was channeling the Holy Spirit and I was overcome?
some disregard it as hypnotism, but that doesn't sufficiently explain the physical healings of some people)

I was a very reluctant participant, and yet I didn't totally disbelieve that it could happen to others.
I was chosen out of a crowd by the priest, he prayed on me for 2 seconds before I fell onto the floor and was *away* for a short time.

I've have several other unusual experiences, but that stands out as particularly unusual to me.

[last_texas_dem]

213. Alright, I've led a sheltered and not particularly interesting life...

But here's a handful; about the best I can do.

1) When I was thirteen, I had nine teeth pulled (four wisdom teeth, 2 baby, 3 permanent). Nothing wrong, just overcrowding and getting ready for braces.

2) Before I went out with my (now ex-) girlfriend, I was stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Nothing beyond threat e-mails, stuff thrown in my yard, etc., but fun stuff all the same.

3) I flew from TX to help Kerry in the NH primary last year. A sizeable number of people were helping, but I don't think there are too many people who have stood for hours in front of voting precincts in negative temperatures holding campaign signs. I'm thinking population as a whole... (Perhaps more interesting is that I was an Edwards supporter at the time who ended up voting for Kucinich in the TX primary. haha)

[BamaGirl]

214. I stood in waist high flood waters "guarding" a military gate.

Not that anyone who didn't live on post wanted on lol.

[clovis29]

217. time travel. But I came back and nothing changed.

[Xipe Totec]

226. Things did change. I had to go back and fix the time-line

Don't do it again! :spank:

[thedailyshow]

220. I saw the blonde actor from the movie "Sideways" on my plane

[n2mark]

221. I lived in a

semi cloistered convent for 9 years, top that one my friends.

[SaintLucifer]

222. I held the U.S. Flag on the field at Super Bowl XXXII for national anthem.

Was the highlight of my military career.

[Susang]

223. I sang in a band that performed in the Korean DMZ for a week

We had to travel across a heavily mined, one lane bridge to get to and from the gig. If the North Koreans invaded, the bridge was the first thing the US blew up in order to slow them down.

We drank a lot that week and had a good time with those guys.

[AllegroRondo]

240. What band? What year?

I was at Camp La Guardia near the DMZ back in 96. The Army would hire bands to play at our little club on post about once a month. It was always a big deal and a great excuse for a party.

[NewJeffCT]

231. I got mistaken for a flasher once

I was in Middletown, CT and was in line on an early Saturday morning as a teenager in the mid 80s waiting in line for concert tickets...

Since I knew the area pretty well, I went behind some buildings through some back alleys and the like and was practically hopping with joy (and moving quickly) because I had gotten 9th row on the floor seats...well, my moving fast must have alerted a cop on the lookout for a flasher that had just flashed some women in a hair salon. (I didn't know that at the time)

But, he told me to stop, and I did, and I asked him what was wrong & he mumbled something I couldn't understand and asked me to go with him. Since I was painfully shy at that age, I did not ask him what he said.

he brought me over to the hair salon and all the women there shook their head "no" that I was not the flasher. Then, I finally got the gist of what was going on with the flasher.

[Kire]

248. I shook the hand of the guy with the biggest feet in the world.

Matthew McGrory, star of Big Fish, House of 1,000 Corpses and who has a recurring role on Carnivale, was a classmate of mine.


He got in the Guiness Book of World Records when he was 19 with size 23 shoes. They are size 29, now.

[DS1]

233. Connecting to a line dangling from the underbody of a CH53

and riding around over the coast of Hawaii. Good times, good times :D

[nytemare]

234. I was the first American female to play American football

in a Woman's tackle football league in Germany. Pads, helmets and all. That was fun.

[TexasSissy]

237. Wow. Cool.

[nytemare]

245. TY. The playbook was in English, so I did allright

One of the coaches spoke English, and about 5 of the players did. So, between the moderate amount of German I spoke, and them, I got through ok. :)

[TexasSissy]

238. I didn't seek it, but I was asked to enter several beauty contests.

I never sought it out...just going along minding my own business, when out of the blue, several times, I was asked to enter a beauty contest (one local, and two city contests). I didn't even think I was very attractive (my boyfriends and family sure didn't act like I was attractive). I entered the local one (I won), but could not afford to enter the two city ones. (yeah, I know, that's a shallow and superficial thing, a beauty contest...but I would've done it, anyway, if I had had the money.) Oh, and then there was one school beauty contest where a teacher inserted my name, and I didn't even know it! So that's four.

After I got older, I realized how unusual that is. Not many young women get asked that. I mean, I didn't even seek it out at all. I had such low self-esteem when I was younger, that it made me feel better about myself. Not a lot, but it helped.

(pssst....this is a secret. I NEVER tell anyone. I'm sure their reaction would be......"YOU?")

[Donkeyboy75]

241. Took some batting practice

against a now Hall of Fame baseball pitcher.

[Deep13]

242. Some stuff

1.Met the following people:
--Jim Lovell
--Alan Bean (4th man to walk on moon)
--Thought I saw Neil Armstrong leaving a Sarah Brightman concert.
--guy who built the space suits for Project Gemini (my grandfather)
--guy who supervised the engineering team that salvaged the Gemini 6 mission after a previous launch abort. (He lives in my town.)
--Ray Bradbury
--John Kerry
--Jimmy Carter
--Saw John Denver walking around Boston (no, not recently)
--Al Nagler (invented a kind of telescope)
--Hillary Clinton (Al Nagler had an audio copy of her biography in his car).
--Gov. Dukakis
--Justices Kennedy and Stevens

2.Saw each house of the British Parliament in session.

3.Was mistaken for the defendant by a British barrister when I was assigned to him as an intern.

4.Got sick after eating Chinese food in Vienna.

5.Got lost in Budapest. Found my way back by following the railroad tracks. Also, was saved from starvation (not really) by the discovery of a Hungarian Dunkin Donuts open on Sunday.

6.Watched transit of Venus.

7.Saw microquasar in amature telescope.

8.Climbed to 6700 ft. on Mt. Rainier. (Not exactly a mountaineering feat, but it was an accomplishment for me.)

9.Worked with secret service checking in people at an Akron Kerry rally.

10.Sent Mary Beth Cahill some suggestions for the campaign in 9/04, including the analogy that invading Iraq because of 9/11 ia like invading Mexico because of Pearl Harbor. During the 1st debate, Kerry used that same exact analogy.

[grace0418]

244. I talked to William Kennedy Smith and repeatedly said the word "rape"

without realizing what I was doing. It was one of my most embarassing moments ever. I was working at a frame shop around the corner from his house and became friendly with him. He came in quite often to frame things (even a few very cool things his aunt Jackie gave him) and was always extremely friendly and cool. He knew that we were all artists and he asked me if I could help him with a project that he was working on. It was a book of exercises to help arthritis (I think, I can't quite remember) he was doing for his patients and he needed help with illustrations. I went to his house to talk about the job. We had lunch and he asked if it was okay to chat while we walked his dog. I was fine with that and we set out.

It was a really hot summer that year and we started chatting about our pets and how they were coping with the heat. My two cats were kittens at the time and I chimed in with "Well, the heat doesn't keep them from raping each other all the time. I swear, every time I turn around Beans is raping Frank or Frank is raping Beans..."

I continued on in this vein for a few more repetitions of the word "rape" before it sunk into my thick skull what I was saying. Will, seeing by my expression that I had FINALLY realized what I said, smiled and said "Well, boys will be boys."

I wanted to crawl in a hole.

Incidently, I started the illustrations but was just too embarrassed to talk to him again, so I never showed them to him. He called me a couple of times but gave up after awhile. I had quit the frame shop around that time so I never saw him again. Looking back, I should've handled it differently. He was a really cool person and I'd actually like to know him now.

[trof]

246. Air-to-air refueling

I was the receiver.

[Amaya]

249. I gave birth at home standing up.

Another one: Went scuba diving with hammerhead sharks in Mexico

[MadHound]

251. Worked as a volunteer firefighter

Among other experiences while doing that, I've had one person die in my care, yet two others are alive because of my actions.

[Eyeball Kid]

252. Back in the mid-90's,

on a few occasions I walked past a certain guy while grocery shopping in South King County, WA. The first time, and every single time after that, whenever I saw his face, something inside me said, "He looks like a serial killer." He just looked mean. I was actually frightened of him. I think we only nodded to each other once, but whenever we were there at the same time, I'd walk the aisles continually looking over my shoulder making sure he wasn't following me. Totally creeped me out.

Then I moved to Seattle, and put it out of my mind. Then, in '01 or '02, can't remember which, I saw his face again.

On the local news.

It was Gary Ridgeway.

The Green River Killer.

[AlienGirl]

253. Was hugged by a self-confessed serial killer who wanted to kill me.

Got to watch him get arrested based on evidence I collected, and then wrote my own "victim's statement" afterward, made national news, and did NOT go on CNN when they called for an interview.

Tucker

[HeyManThatsCool]

254. My close friend in high school went into the adult biz

the day she turned 18. I was in 10th grade at the time (16)
and went with her several time to her agents office. (Trying to be supportive.. Lonnnnngggg story)

Her agent was Jim South. He basically does ALL the big stars. Anyway- very nice guy. Funny. He was Traci Lords manager when THE SCANDAL went down so he would tell stories about that. He wasn't a letch or gross or anything. Just told interesting stories about the old days of the biz.

[ScreamingMeemie]

255. My heart stopped beating in the ICU two weekends ago...

And I'm no worse for wear....i think.

[madamheidi84]

256. when I was in the 9th grade...

I kicked Jennifer Love Hewitt in the skins.

[KamaAina]

258. Swam with dolphins in the ocean

off Makaha, west O'ahu. They come close enough to shore that you can get out there in an Ocean Kayak and take the plunge.

Once I was about an arm's (or flipper's) length from a dolphin calf. Whoa!

[HEyHEY]

259. EEE..... I voted Bloc Quebecois once!

[webjamn]

260. A bear ripped open my car door and took my backpack

I was backpacking with a friend in Yosemite and my car was parked in the backpackers parking lot. We were sleeping about 75 yards away from my car because we were starting our trip in the morning. In the middle of the night I was awakened by scratching of metal which I assumed was a bear trying to get into the bear proof food container. When I went to my car in the morning, I discovered the window on the back door on the passenger side had been broken and the frame of the window had been peeled back like a sardine can. Both of our backpacks were gone but luckily rangers had recovered them from the bear when they scared it away. Moral of the story: Don't leave backpacks in view of critters in bear country.