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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2005-02-25 10:57 am

The ten things thing, I think

Everybody seems to be doing this ten things thing (er..). I notice it started off as ten things I've done and you haven't, and then became just ten things I've done.

Never let it be said that Bryan couldn't be a sheep when he saw the opportunity to post in his LJ with comparatively little thought (actually, that's not right; when you have a memory like me, thinking of ten things you've actually done or had happen to you is quite hard…).

So. In no particular order:

1 Been mugged unsuccessfully at gun point. (I told him to fuck off).

2 Flown in an RAF Chipmunk training aircraft. Upside down, over Shropshire for nearly an hour.

3 Lobbed a brick into the Illinois River from the top of Starved Rock, a local beauty spot. The river was too far below to see the splash.

4 Wagered on somebody's inability to beat the system on the Aliens board game, and lost. Much to everybody's surprise and amusement.

5 Stood on the sky deck of the Sears Tower in Chicago, a quarter mile high above the street.

6 Shook hands with Buddy Guy (a moment of supreme fan-boying).

7 Thrown up so hard, a mushroom came out my nose.

8 Skinny dipped in Llyn Cau, the lake atop Cader Idris. I was 17, a great deal thinner, and the water was very, very cold.

9 Taken part in a piggy back race on Wolverhampton Ring Road at 2.30 am.

10 Missed a sure thing because I didn't realise what was going on even when the sure thing bit me. Literally. If naivety was a crime, I would be doing life off the back of that one incident. And no, I won't elaborate until I have had at least two bottles of merlot.

Tra-la. To work.

[identity profile] oldnick.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
If you're in the "and you haven't" mode I can match #5 (and did the Hancock centre the previous day), and will admit to having paddled (very fully dressed) in #8 in thick fog.

[identity profile] oldnick.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
...and I have a horrible feeling (no, blow it, I know) that I managed #10 while too busy chasing someone else.

[identity profile] pauln.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's a very rare person who hasn't done that at some point.

[identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Number 8! Dear Lord, that must have been more than a little erm, fresh : )

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
It was July 1976, in the middle of the Drought. It hadn't rained anywhere for five months, and everywhere was singed brown. The top of Cader was squelchy wet, and the lake full to over flowing. The water was icy cold, and shrinkage occurred.