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Rainbow Serpent Woman ([personal profile] perzephone) wrote2008-01-31 05:23 pm
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10 Things I've Done - and You Probably Haven't

So Nyah. Of course, one thing I did that anyone else who does this will do is steal this meme from someone else.

1) I got paid to play with nuts for three days.

2) I've seen all 48 continental United States states before I was 10 years old.

3) Installed a 13-speed transmission in a semi using only help from my dad & a come-along. (For those who don't know, a come-along is a ratchet/pulley system used to pick up heavy things from the ground). I thought I was seriously going to die a painful crushing death. My dad also said he saw his life pass before his eyes.

4) Died 4 times in one morning.

5) Owned a butterscotch 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner as my first car.

6) Bungee jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge before the cops got there.

7) Hang-glided from the Columbia River Gorge cliffs before the cops got there.

8) Had a herd of wild dolphins save me from drowning after a harrowing experience with a rip tide off the coast of San Diego.

9) Been bitten by a rattlesnake, a ball python, a rat snake, a Florida kingsnake and a cobra. Not all on the same day.

10) Had to chase an alligator out of a hotel swimming pool.

[identity profile] moonvoice.livejournal.com 2008-02-02 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, thank you for sharing both of those stories. Just amazing. Holy crap!!!

Especially the one with the dolphins. That is so amazing.

[identity profile] perzephone.livejournal.com 2008-02-02 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Drowning is not a fun way to almost die. It mostly just made me feel like a big stupid dork because I was doing so many things wrong all at the same time. I obviously was in desperate need of a deus ex machina.

1) Who lives near the ocean almost all their life & doesn't know instinctively that big orange & red buoys offshore pose as a warning for something? Coulda been a bad current, coulda been an oilspill, toxic waste, sharks, who knows? Big orange & red buoys are the traffic-cones of the ocean.

2) Who goes swimming with a camera in a plastic baggy tied around their neck?

3) Who does not tell any of their relatives/friends they went to the beach with that they are going to swim way far out into the ocean?

4) When I felt the original cross-current, I was not tired yet and I know how to swim my way out of a rip-tide. I was too intent on reaching my goal to stop and swim back to the beach.

The Gods look after drunks and stupid people. At least if I'd been drunk I wouldn't have tried to go swimming.