What have you done in your life that just might be totally unique??
dreher
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Something that might not be totally unique but a one in a million thing. Something really out there, that is ever so unusual. With this mix of, I'll be polite, interesting people I'll bet there are some wild and crazy things done by forum members!!
So for one of many unusual experiences I've had in my 74 years try this on for different.
Many years ago I was driving down the road and an Old Order Amish man flagged me down. I stopped and asked Eli what he wanted. Eli hemmed and hawed for about five minutes, he was obviously embarrassed about something. Finally he got to the point. Five or six of the wives had started to give their husbands SERIOUS grief about how poorly they were taking care of their nightly husbandly duties!! 😂😋😂
Long story short, Eli wanted me to go to the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Athens, Ohio and buy a couple of sex instruction manuals that him and his Amish buddies could read and figure out what to do to cause their wives to put a sock in it!!
So how many men in this entire country have ever want shopping for sex books for Old Order Amish men??😁
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I'm guessing you're the first and only to do that.
Yeah, I got nothing.
So let me get this straight dreher. You went to a book store to buy sex how-to books for a group of Amish guys that you just met on the road. That is totally believable to me. Come on man. 🤣
LOL! This ^^^^
They could have asked you to sire some children. Sometimes it's good to get some new blood into the order.
He is lucky it was just a book his wife found in the car.
Don
Brad Steele
well played, LS and D.
I hate to go back to the OP's intent, but...
To begin with, I am the only Rocky Raab on the planet. Nobody else has that name - anywhere.
I'm certainly the only guy who ever won the Grand American Handicap Sub-Junior, was a combat pilot, a NASA launch commentator, published author and gun writer. (An unfair claim, because nobody but me has lived that life.)
This one time at band camp
If I ever did anything totally unique it was by accident.
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Winner winner.......lol.
I ran a hole mile one time...........bearfoot.
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I have lived MY OWN LIFE
after a few beers on night I was abducted by what I thought was aliens, but they turned out to just be what I thought was time traveling bigfoots, well after a short break and a quick shave one walks back in and it turns out it was Hillary, never figured out who the other one was as I dove out the window and was just lucky enough to land in a pool in someones back yard, and awoke to Pam Anderson giving me mouth to mouth as I nearly drowned from the fall. Last time I drank Strohes............
This wasn't a random Amish man. Eli was one of my neighbors. Eli's line fence adjoined my line fence at the back of our properties. On hot summer nights Eli would hop the fence and sneak through the woods and knock on my back door. Eli was looking for a cold beer. He had to do this after dark so none of the elders would know what he was doing. If the elders would find out he was coming to my place for a few beers, the next Sunday he would be "front pewed", which means he would have to sit in the front pew because the sermon would be about him and his transgressions!! 😂
Eli would do the same thing on cold nights in the winter looking for a couple of shots of Jack or Jim!
Placer mining 15 miles south of Mt McKinley in a deep cold river, it took 2 weeks to get down 30 feet to bedrock and ran into a tangle of huge boulders sitting right on the bedrock. I used an iron pike to roll them around exposing the veins beneath them and sucked the black clay and nuggets out. By the end of the summer I was able to roll the last boulder and found a 3-1/2 ounce nugget in the crack beneath it. The rare part was finding a nugget that big with a placer dredge.
First female to join the forums (October 1999) and had my FFL at the time so I was selling firearms as well.
Use to eat lunch sitting in the gas chamber at 3 a.m. Not many get to do this.
I don't have anything as dramatic like some of you folks but I did have a hand in what could have been a big event. I was stationed at Ft. Monroe, VA in '64-'65 as a draftsman. Back then Ft. Monroe was the continental army headquarters. Aside fro MP's, I was one of just a few of enlisted men there. I mainly made for sale signs and notices for the officers and their wives. The one thing I did do was to draw a chart for the invasion plans of Cuba. Not the Bay of Pigs but the real one. It was never carried out as you know but it was a big deal at the time.
I was quite used to working around officers as there were around 20 in the office. My room was just outside of the main office and as I was finishing up my 30" x 40" chart for the presentation and here came two generals. As a lowly E-4, I knew how to talk to officers - I did it every day but not to a general. I did the best I could and they were both great guys but very professional. They wanted to know where I was from and where I went to college. They liked my work and simply said "carry on" when they left. I guess I passed the test and didn't face a firing squad.
As I said, not nearly as exciting as some of your stories.
I have lead a very common sort of life. Nothing special comes up even with much thought.
When I was around 12 or 13 years old, I noticed a car pull into our families closed for the season retail greenhouse driveway. I walked out to see what these people wanted and to tell them we were closed. A lady got out of the car and started asking me questions about where the local TV station 7&4 was located. As I was explaining directions, something about this woman seemed very familiar to me. She thanked me and gave me a big smile as she got back into the car and left.
As I was walking back into the house, it suddenly hit me like a brick! That lady was Vivian Vance from I Love Lucy!! 😮
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At least not twice!
I was once caught in the middle of a giraffe stampede, everyone thought I was dead until the dust settled and they could see me walking towards them.
I've sat an a horse that had a leg in three different states at the same time.
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In 1986, I spoke briefly to Richard Speck while touring the Statesville Correctional Institute. I was an instructor in the Criminal Justice department of a local community college and used to tour Statesville with my students every year. It was a little eerie to say the least...
I could tell you but I’d have to kill you.
While pitching in a Minor League game I gave up home runs to the first 2 batters I faced 🙄 then during the same game I hit 2 HR's myself. The next day my manager told me I got called up................Uncle Sam desired my service 😯
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Back in 1969 I was a newly minted aircraft electrician and flash lite holder assigned to an airbase in England. President Nixon was in town to meet the British Prime Minister. We got a call for a bad generator on Air Force One.
I was sent out with a seven level electrician to replace the generator. ...doing the work under the watchful eye of the Secret Service.
After we finished, I policed up all the bits and pieces,( safety wire) and went back to the shop. I had a handful of old lock nuts, and guys asked if they could buy one. I said yeah...a buck each. After they were all gone, I went to the bench stock drawers and got some more.
I sold about twenty--five, until a couple of the guys caught on.......I had to lay low for awhile🙂
I know of Rocky Rabb, Scooterdriver, Oldclolts and others on our boards who have done what I dream of of doing ( a combat aviator). I admit that I'm a coward. I could never get into an aircraft and perform the duties required of me. It takes a special man (or woman) who is willing to put his or her life on the line for our nation. I regret to say that I'm not one of them. This includes members like MontanaJoe who was a military policemen. I'm not in that group. Honestly, I 'm just along for the ride. I'm not proud of that, but it is reality.
I feel privileged to have been one of a crew of four that built a staircase in a virgin forest nature preserve.
Under hypnosis, I learned that in a previous life I was Napoleon Bonaparte.
The only thing that followed me into this current configuration is my constant desire to place my right hand into my lapel and the embarrassment endured when wearing a speedo into the pool! 🤣