[Talk Host]

Tell us some things you have done that no one else or at least a very few other people have done.

[Tom Hannon]

I had a collection of short stories published. Sold 308 copies. Sales suffered because having a business and working 75 hours a week, I didn't have the time to market the book properly. The book is no longer longer in print, but I intend to work on another collection and with me being retired, I should be able to have a better audience next time around.

[jdsl1998]

Climbed to the top of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park....tallest mountain in the Rocky Mountains.

[Boudicca]

Fed the monkeys on Rock of Gibralta

[Hawkwind]

In the hobby of ham radio talking to and getting a written confirmation that one has talked with every entity in the world as per the rules of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL for short). Currently there are 338 entities and by the rules this may include an uninhabited island off the Antarctica or a reef that me only be out of the water by a few feet or a country as large as Canada.

This DXCC award is known as #1 Honor Roll and I am currently one of only 1523 hams in the world to achieve this award.

[iandwk]

Survived a fire, staying at my post to switch power from a burning diesel generator to one that was away from the fire, in the engine room of a ship. I did this while scared out of my mind, though. I couldn't stand for a few minutes after it was over.

[Yoda]

Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane at over 15,000ft Just for the hell of it. Free fall for 13,000ft.

Better than sex!

Yoda

[faithfulfrank]

I've pulled a person out of her burning home.

I've done CPR many times on people, from very young to very old.

I've repelled down the outside of buildings.

The above three things were just part of the job.....not a big deal, but unique.

I've delivered all three of my boys. I started the project, I thought I'd finish it. The wife felt more comfortable with me "down there" then strangers.....

I designed and built my own home.

Frank

[graciegirl]

I was on a TV quiz show for kids.

[Ohiogirl]

I am almost at the end of my 4 day babysitting gig with 2 grandsons - 2 and 5 years old. How do people do this? How did we ever get thru it as young parents? How do grandparents manage to sometimes raise their own grandkids? Next time (assuming I recover) Ohioboy will be here to help, but alas, he's still working, so I came alone.

There's a reason little kids are cute . . .

[Army Guy]

-Gone down in a Research Sub 1200 ft off the coast of Grand Cayman.
-Crashed in a helicopter
-Been exposed to Nerve Agent GB
-Met and stayed overnight with a President (Bush Sr)

Army Guy

[brostholder]

I climbed the anchor chain of a beached freighter in Vung Tau, Viet Nam.
I performed CPR on two people.
I climbed a "friction pitch" in the white mountains.
I flew combat missions in an OV-1 Mohawk.
I ran a pharmaceutical repackaging plant.
I sold artificial hips and knees and was often in the OR for the operation in case my expertise was needed.
I transport rescued dogs.

[Talk Host]

Even though I started this thread, can I participate too?

I was the first journalist ever permitted to travel unescorted through the Soviet Union (1987)

I was the first American ever to speak live on Soviet National Television uncensored.

I was the first person to transmit a live broadcast to the United States from base camp Lukla on Mount Everest in Nepal.

The first person to broadcast live from the Eskimo village Egloolik in Nanavut near the arctic circle. (in November no less)

Boy it's tough to be a "has been."

[mikeandnancy1112]

I met my husband at a bar and two and a half weeks later we were married. We have been married for 26 years.

[salpal]

I stole a bottle of champagne from the restaurant back door on the Eiffel tower.