I want to go to my grave without ever having worn a tuxedo. I'm thinking I'm good odds to make it.

Triathlon.




Parenthood.

"Black Friday" at a mall.

Burning Man.

Raising a child.

Go to a baseball game. Ten minutes of excitement packed into nine innings.

> Burning Man.

Excellent choice!

Maybe I only agree because I was too old once it caught some inertia. Still....

(Seriously, I know a guy whose sex life was improved [at age 28] by Burning Man... That was where he figured out that not everything they tell you about pretty girls is the truth.)

Also, Black Friday, never tempted.

Been to 2 baseball games, walked back to my car before the third because the sunshine looked too intense... Was Manny Ramirez ever going to pay money to watch me do anything? That too was a free ticket, all of the were. Still....

(Amy's best-ever sports comment: Memorably, correctly snarky.)

Bungled link, I feel bad.

Can you sing? I have binoculars and earplugs, and I need to know what to bring!

Agree about the football game; although I like football, you get a better view of the game on television, and with football, it's kind of important to see what's going on. I go to one or two baseball games a year, though, as kind of a date with my eldest daughter. I find it kind of a relaxing way to spend an evening, since most of the time, nothing terribly intense is happening. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to get to Nationals Park, even if you drive. If it were hard to do, I probably wouldn't bother.

My Fucket list probably involves things that I never wanted to do, but will probably do because my wife and kids want to. I never felt any reason to go to New York City or Toronto, but wound up taking the family up there over the course of a year.

My Fucket List:

Black Friday (never have, never will)

Times Square on New Year's Eve (went once, totally overrated)

I'm sure there's more, I'll have to think on it...

"Times Square on New Year's Eve (went once, totally overrated)"

I always wondered about that, myself. It struck me as a bad place to be if I'd been drinking a lot of beer.

I went to Times Square on New Year’s Eve, once. Now it's on my "never the fuck again" list. It's cold, crowded, and you're pretty much SOL if you need to pee.

My fucket list is quite big:
1. Anything involving nature or outdoor activities of any kind. I don't 'do' nature.
I like heels and makeup and indoor plumbing. I was forced to go camping twice in my life and HATED it. Plus, not only am I so pale that I'm damn near translucent so I burn even when wearing sunblock, I live in South Florida. The average temperature is in the 80's (with humidity) on a cool day and the bugs are big enough to ride side saddle. Fuck. That. I'll get commune with nature by watching the Discovery channel. Probably with a glass of wine.

2. Black Friday. The idea of waking up at the ass-crack of dawn on one of my only days off work to risk injury fighting off hoards of entitled, batshit crazy people, and spending money on shit for people I don't even like that much has just never appealed to me.

3. Run a marathon. See #1 about being in South Florida. Plus, I don't run. Dance, yes. Run? Hell no.

4. Be wealthy. I realize this is odd but I simply have no desire for riches. I just want to be able to support myself and my future family, and have a little bit to put into savings. I've never had a lot of money and I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. Frankly, I don't want the problems that having more money brings. We struggle to get by sometimes but I prefer having "poor people" problems as hubby I refer to it.

5. Visit a ski lodge. Again... see #1. Also, I don't like to be cold. I lived in cold weather states my whole life. I’m over snow. Hubby and I moved away from New York to get away from the cold. Why the fuck would I ever take a "vacation" to somewhere that's cold?

6. Travel the world. I'd like to visit Paris one day but otherwise, I'm good.

7. On that note, I have no desire to ever make a coast to coast road trip and see the country.

I never want to make a bucket list.

Old RPM Daddy, first of all, it's freakin' cold. December, January, Northeast, right? COLD. Next, it's way too freakin' crowded. And I went before it was "fashionable" to bring your little kids with you. I still don't understand that idiocy. Bringing your kids with you to a street event on a cold winter evening in the middle of New York City?? What could you possibly be thinking? Of course, it's much more kid-friendly, now, I guess, what with all the cops and everything. Can't go walking around drinking and smoking anymore. Back in the day, we were walking around with beers and joints and no one even said "boo!" to us, not even the cops. There weren't as many cops back then, either, and the barricades didn't go as far downtown then as they do now. And the trains ran all night back then, not like now. I think the last one out of Grand Central is at 1:37 a.m. now. Used to be 4 something. Then the next trains started out at 5:33 or something similar. Man, I miss those days. We'd go to the city on the train, do a pub crawl, see some seriously awesome live music (I remember seeing James Cotton at the Chicago BLUES club, holy shit, what a great show! And Tommy Castro at the Bottom Line, Buster Poindexter [aka David Johanson] there, too!), get back on the train around 3 or 4 a.m. and be home in time to get our sorry asses to work, not even hung over yet! Too much change and nanny-ness going on for me anymore. (Either that, or I'm just too old to deal with all the crap. More than likely it's a combination thereof.)

We still take the train to the city to see Ian or someone else I fancy. We saw Neil Young at Radio City Music Hall a while back. Sometimes we'll go to Long Island. But the days of rocking a joint or two on the train before the show are long gone. Still can get a beer but I wonder how long before some asshole mommy takes offense because of her precious babies watching someone *gasp* drinking a beer on the train and pays some politician to get that banned?

(Don't mind me, I'm just getting cranky in my dotage!)

"Can you sing? I have binoculars and earplugs, and I need to know what to bring!"

I got twenty bucks.

I agree with golf,- playing it , or watching it,
same with watching people bowl or play poker
.
Going to Times Square on NY's Eve or any crowded place any time

Drinking Butter Tea or yak's milk

Appearing on a game show, especially when you have to jump up and down and clap.

Sing for ANYone except infants and toddlers.

Attend Black Friday events.

Lobster, funnily enough, my #8 got cut off but...

8. Make a bucket list.
Who the hell makes a list of things they want to do before they die? Just do them. If I don't get to do the things I want before I die, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be pondering over my regrets in my grave, anyway. I'm dead. I'm not pondering much of anything. (If I were, I'm a zombie and only pondering how to get some more brains. :p)
Besides, my list would be constantly changing as my life changes anyway and who's got time for that shit. I've got a life.

Old RPM Daddy, first of all, it's freakin' cold. December, January, Northeast, right? COLD. Next, it's way too freakin' crowded.
Posted by: Flynne at January 2, 2013 7:13 AM
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It wasn't THAT cold, this year. I didn't even really need long johns after walking almost 20 blocks. (And last year, in Boston, we hardly had winter at all, so we may have the same this time.)

But yes, I couldn't get any closer than 38th St. (the police had put up barricades as a buffer zone), so all I saw were some of the fireworks. I couldn't even hear the countdown. Apparently, even taking the subway wouldn't have helped much - you pretty much have to get there hours in advance.

Never go to a tanning bed and never dye my hair.

Natural (i.e., drug-free) childbirth. I'm GTFO-weeks pregnant with my second child, and I think people do this only for the same reason they run marathons: so they can say they did. I don't think you're brave. I think you're nuts (unless of course there wasn't time. This happened to my mom twice.)

While we're on the topic, eat a placenta. I'm not a damn cat.

Watch Toddlers & Tiaras or Dance Moms or any of those how-to-ruin-your-daughter shows.

Use a controlled substance. My mind is altered enough as it is and nobody I know has been able to make it sound fun.

My fucket list?

My no-go list includes Mardi Gras, Times Square New Year's, Australia, Mississippi, mainland China, most of Africa, and any middle-Eastern country.

My no-do list? I absolutely will not have a standard American funeral. Cremate me or I will haunt those responsible until they die, and then I'll haunt them in the afterlife.

Don't even THINK about making my friends and family look at my artificially-preserved corpse. I'm not Keith Richards. When I'm dead I should start to decay immediately, not be pumped full of chemicals.

Obama Inauguration

Fun! My partial list:

1. Attend any event that involves thousands of people in a public setting. This includes NYE at Times (Time's?) Square and sports games.

2. Sky dive or bungee jump. I will also avoid tiny aircraft and helicopters when feasible (and to date, I've never found a time when it wasn't feasible).

3. Have children. If some fucked up "miracle" happens and I end up with child, add natural childbirth, placenta eating, and dumb-ass baby names to the list.

*Sorry about the "Time's". I couldn't remember which was correct and I forgot to delete my note prior to submitting.

Travel to Africa, climb Mt Everest, run a marathon, see Any Band play live.

Shop on Black Friday

Change a diaper

@ Sosij, my boyfriend says 'Toddlers & Tiaras' is both the prequel AND the sequel to '16 and Pregnant.'

Esther I lightened my hair and suddenly it turned me into a white person.

(Sorry but I thought it was hilarious black people kept thinking I was a white girl, all cuz I bleached my hair).

Dunno why all the hate on Africa. I love S. Africa.

And bitches I once went black Friday shopping from 12 am to 10 am, but then again I only shopped for me.

Yeah I'm motherfucking hard core.

> And bitches I once went black Friday shopping
> from 12 am to 10 am, but then again I only
> shopped for me.

Do you have any bitter maiden aunts on the west coast I can date?

"Do you have any bitter maiden aunts on the west coast I can date?"

I have an aunt who looks EXACTLY like Sade.

If you want perpetual rants about how horrible black people are (despite looking black herself), a doctor who practices with a suspended license, someone who will scratch "Fuck You" all over your car and steal $30,000 I'm all game.

But she is smoking hot ex-doctor. Ok ok...so she is a little crazy.

Nobody's perfect, Purp.

(In a JAck Nicholson voice from Witches of Eastwick:)

That's, the woman, for me!

I just wish there was insurance for dating \ marrying crazy women. I'm 48. 32 years I've been driving with 1 fender bender, 32 years without a serious doctor visit, but crazy women have destroyed me over and over again.

Eric I never understood why you guys love 'em so much.

Sure I like that aunt actually. She lived in France and Spain for a number of years. Bakes with those plastic gloves doctors examine your inner parts with (so there is plastic shit stuck everywhere). And is a little petite Sade that will stab a motherfucker.

Men can not get enough of her.

I have other aunts that are more beautiful, but for the life of me this woman gets men like no other. Guys will give up everything just for her.

Oh, hell, I'll add: Eating kale.

There are plenty of delicious (and nutritious) greens available; we don't have to pretend this nasty thing more suited to be a decorative planting in office parks is something suitable for human consumption.

I should add: I will never watch the Bachelor or any of its variants, or any show featuring kiddie pageants, Honey Boo Boos, anybody called "The Situation", and breeding-factory families.

1)NYE in Times square or, for that matter, anywhere with other people than family.

2)drink my own pee

3) cheat on my husband

That may be it. I try to be open to new things-even if I hate them, they're experiences. I don't have to do them again.

@momof4
"2)drink my own pee"

Just for my own peace of mind, I'm going to go ahead and assume that would apply to any pee!

Fucket List...I love it.

On my list would be:

Go to an opera (or a rap/hip-hop or heavy metal concert.)

Visit Lagos, Nigeria or Branson, Missouri.

Drive (or ride a bus or truck) on the North Yungas Road

Eat at Guolizhuan, the Beijing Penis Restaurant.

Tupperware parties. I hate them. I'd rather chew broken glass. (And That pretty much goes for any make-up, spa, naughty toy, whatever party with a bunch of white upper middle-class gossipy suburban housewives with drinking problems). I have actually faked illnesses mid-party to leave these estrogen gatherings - and that included a very public (faked) episode of the dry heaves...which almost ended in the real deal.

Put me down also for labor without drugs and eating placentas. Once that thing is out, there ain't no way its going back in.

India. Never, ever.

NASCAR.

Downhill snow sports.

Swimming in open water.

If I'm lucky, I will never again be at a party (as opposed to a concert) where loud music drowns out all meaningful conversation.

With one exception that I want to forget, I have never gone clubbing. For the same reason.

This is probably somewhat generational. I read of a young woman who complained: "If I go to a gathering of strangers and there's no music, I'm embarrassed." Heaven forbid she or they should have to TALK to each other!

I definitely agree with New Year's Eve in Times Square. Getting a tattoo is also on my list or piercing any body part other than my ears.

> Swimming in open water.

Take it back.

I blame Spielberg.

http://tinyurl.com/bzfv7q7

"Sh-sh-sh-shhaarrkkkkkkk!"

I'll ditto and add open water swimming and piercing to my fucket list. Regarding eating unusual things: if eating or drinking something has appeared on a survival reality show, it's probably on my fucket list. The image of Bear Grylls squeezing elephant turd juice directly into his mouth can never be unseen.

My no-go list includes Mardi Gras, … -- Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at January 2, 2013 10:42 AM

I never want to do Mardi Gras in New Orleans. But I think it would be great to go to the places the French Quarter people go to when they rent out their places. I've heard those are reasonable parties.

:squints at various lists:
Yup, that'll do. All of it.

"Use a controlled substance. My mind is altered enough as it is and nobody I know has been able to make it sound fun.

Posted by: Sosij at January 2, 2013 10:05 AM"

You must be the only person to have never taken a prescription drug.

"A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use are regulated by a government. Controlled substances are substances that are the subject of legislative control. This may include illegal drugs and prescription medications."

Attend the World Cup, or the Olympics. Well, maybe if the Olympics was a free, all expense-paid trip with great seats......

But World Cup? Never.