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Betcha never had the customs officers at the JFK airport burst out in laughter as they X-ray your luggage.
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Betcha never broke your moms tailbone on the way out the baby chute.
Betcha never drank five 40s in one sitting (long time ago, bad idea)
Betcha never quoted HS Thompson's entire "You know a dope fiend when..." speech over the PA on a mission trip.
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Edit: To Rivka: Oh, no. Just my general wariness in posting the worst of the work horror stories. I've found most people don't like hearing them. I actually waited a whole day before posting at all because I wasn't sure.
I have also ridden an elephant. Twice at least.
Betcha you've never been hit in the face with a greased watermelon projectile.
Betcha never broke a toe while swimming.
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I've never ridden an elephant. Everybody else got to, but my Mum said that I can't because that'll make me feel queasy and throw up. (This was on the same zoo trip our car got pooed on by a giraffe.)
I'm still bitter.
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Rivka, itīs like on a rough sea crossing - you're all ill, but the first to hurl starts a chain reaction....
BTW - betcha never been stopped your own armed police roadblock while you were riding a pushbike...
Still no heffalumps though. Mind you, I'm off to London Zoo at the end of the month with the Toddling Tornado, I hope they still do rides. Note to self, must buy peanuts.
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The phrasing just struck me as odd, and immediately drew my mind into a place where any comment I might make would violate the TOS.
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Oh, gotcha. I was gonna say "Allison was a [female dog]" but didn't want to violate the TOS myself, so went with unreceptable sarcasm instead.
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Becha never, Done shots of Tuna eye juice, and eaten live shrimp. I would recommend following it up with a shot of something else. (evolves a trip to Korea)
Becha never, Gone to two Pearl Jam concerts with your 70+ year old Grand Mother. (also saw, Aerosmith, Toad the wet sprocket, Dave Mathews, Pink Floyd and others)
I never asked a cop for his license, but I did ask one for a table for four at IHOP one night, (Lots of drinks involved, fortunately he was in a good mood)
I didn't drive in a hurricane, but we did play football in Hurricane Hugo, Class 3. Punter had a -5 yard punt.
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I sympathize with her; that's heckuva headache!
My mom said my head looked like purple play-dough the first time she saw me and the doctor said "We've checked three times and we're pretty sure there's no brain damage." Reassuring, huh?
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SC- I passed a trouper sitting in his car with the window rolled down as I approached a convenience store.
I have poor impulse control. *shrugs* He was cute!
I think I really startled the guy, but he smiled at me, anyway. The things you can get away with when you're a 19 year old, relatively wholesome-looking girl.
Betcha never rode out an F5 tornado in a trailer park.
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Also, I think It wasn't a trailer park for me, either. I believe the mobile home was on a few acres of its own. Ginormous oak tree in the back yard (at least, before the tornado...)
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quote:Originally posted by vonk: I sympathize with her; that's heckuva headache!
My mom said my head looked like purple play-dough the first time she saw me and the doctor said "We've checked three times and we're pretty sure there's no brain damage." Reassuring, huh?
No, she was born so fast she didn't even have a normally-misshapen head. The nurses were all oohing over how beautiful she was the whole time we were there (I pushed three times, I think.)
Her sister is the one who was born with a black eye (she was lying sideways in the canal.)
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I was stuck in a holding pattern above Houston during that. Three and a half hours for a 45 minute flight. Then when I landed, I almost flodded my car trying to get to Sam Houston Tollway.
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My tornado was in the 70s in rural Oklahoma, but I don't actually know what it was rated. I was also too young to remember it.
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I've ridden out a few tornadoes. Many in a trailer. I hate those things (trailers and tornadoes).
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Most of the people I know make it about 200 or 300 then go off the road. I over corrected twice and somehow ended up going straight.
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quote:Betcha never arrived somewhere three hours before you left.
And this! When we came home from our honeymoon.
I've been trying to think of one of my own to post, and turns out I haven't done that many unique things outside of on my honeymoon (Oh dear, look the other way OOC fiends).
-Betcha you have never gotten a Thai massage on the beach of an island.
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I've also ridden an elephant - into Agra Fort (amazingly impressive).
Betcha never drove across the Nullaboor...
(... and scheduled the drive around oysters in Ceduna, wine in Clare, and resteraunts in Mildura. You gotta have fun!)
Betcha never flew from New Dehli, India to Lahore, Pakistan in the middle of a particularly nasty Kashmiri border skirmish.
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