Steven Taylor tries his hand at a so-called "fun meme," originally suggested by Stephen Bainbridge: "10 Things I Wouldn’t Do Again If I Could Go Back in Time." In other words, things I wish I'd never done -- because I don't think we're supposed to take account of time travel perplexities. Who knows? If Taylor hadn't bought that Dodge Caravan, maybe all sorts of terrible things would have happened -- things more terrible than having a Dodge Caravan.
But I'm not doing this meme, because if I start listing things I regret, it will just get ugly. I'm not going to put all the things I'm ashamed of in one spot, for easy reference.
I had been thinking -- a propos of my earlier list of things I've never done -- of listing things I happen to have done once. This list might include things I did and regretted doing or hated doing or just things I happened only to do once, like riding a motorcycle. So let's see if I can come up with 10 Things I've Only Done Once:
1. Ridden a motorcycle.
2. Not kept cash that I found lying abandoned on the ground.
3. Broken a bone.
4. Ridden on the tailgate of a station wagon with my legs dangling over the edge.
5. Attempted to make myself vomit after overeating. (Couldn't do it.)
6. Talked about dieting with a Supreme Court Justice.
7. Set a man's hair on fire. (An accident! It flared up and burned out without him noticing.)
8. Not acted entirely submissive in an encounter with the police. (I was 18.)
9. Gotten robbed.
10. Gotten married.
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hmmm..."Gotten Robbed" and "Gotten Married" seem awfully close together...were they so close in your thoughts when you wrote this, Ann?
There are innumerable questions raised by this list. You, Ron, have discovered one of them.
Ah yes, does #5 go with #6 and does #7 go with #8?
Steve: Maybe each set of two is a pair!
I can see #3 and #4 together but #1 and #2(?)
My marriage was less like getting robbed and more like Stalingrad!
Ann: You doth vex us all with your permutated conundrum of a list...
I like it!
My husband wasn't trying to do a meme, but he did Ten Things I Have Done, and Hope Never to do Again when I asked him to post any 10 things about himself after I did the Things I've Never Done meme. :)
Now, Ann--have you been tagged for the eye meme yet? Let's see you do that one.
I once attempted to make myself vomit when I got a horrible stomachache from eating a particular food. I couldn't do it either. Of course, I didn't try very hard. My distaste for vomiting probably overrode my physical discomfort.
It was Scalia.
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