What's one thing you'll never do again that you wish you could?

[True Dough]

For me, it's to sit down at dinner with my folks, both deceased. I'd dearly love to have that privilege again.

[biophile]

1. Seeing loved ones who have passed will be high on everyone's list

Like mine ☺️

[highplainsdem]

11. Definitely.

[Redleg]

2. Run a sub 5-minute mile

Also see my mom again.

[viva la]

29. Well, at least you achieved that mile in your life.

That's very impressive.

As for late parents-- I've long thought religions invented "heaven" so that we can hope to see them again.

[pandr32]

3. Spend more time with my parents and grandparents.

[SheltieLover]

4. Ride a horse

[Bayard]

7. I can help you with that one

[SheltieLover]

12. Lol

Can't help old, rather weak bones. 😓

[Bayard]

16. I have the same affliction.....

[SheltieLover]

17. ...

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Return to Antarctica.

[Bayard]

6. The big xmas eve gathering,

With all of my family, alive and well. Close to 15 people crowded into my folks little house, and noisy as hell. It was wonderful.

I get depressed this time every year.

[SheltieLover]

13. ...

[Ritabert]

8. Downhill skiing in VT and NH

[bamagal62]

45. Same

Downhill skiing.

[surfered]

9. Seeing my parents again and down hill skiing. I quit at 72 and miss it

[lastlib]

10. Backpacking.

I used to throw on a 50-lb pack and be out in the woods for a week, hike 75 miles. Since I broke my leg, I can barely walk to the end of my driveway (100 yards) without pain.

[hlthe2b]

14. Yeah.. One last childhood Christmas in my Grandmother's living room with my parents, my aunts uncles, sister, cousins

She had an enormous (at least to all of the kids) historical brick house full of unusual semi-hidden passageways (from many prior add-ons), antiques, and an additional enclosed staircase that some of the cousins could escape to to avoid a few of the others..

Always Christmas dinner-buffet style (given the number of people) and drop-in visitors from the tiny town. Big natural Christmas tree full of packages (name draw for most of them). Nice memories.

[Auggie]

20. +1

[JoseBalow]

15. Feel my dog's head laying on my lap

gently snoring.

[Ziggysmom]

18. Vote for Bill Clinton!

[Shermann]

56. You can always write his name in! nt

[Ziggysmom]

59. That's true!

[Emile]

19. Eating grandma's homemade bread.

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. Have a conversation with my dad.

He passed on his 80th birthday, back in 2010.

[quaint]

22. High road: I need to spend another evening with my dad. Gone 23 years now.

Low road: I want to ride my dirt bike over the dunes.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Dunk A Basketball

And a round of golf with my parents.
Both impossible.
Well, I could still dunk on a 7 foot hoop!

[True Dough]

24. Would that be

a 360-degree between the legs dunk, Prof?

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Not Quite

I could do the two hands behind the head thing though.
I couldn't hammer it because my hands weren't big enough to palm the ball. I could do some McLeung type stuff with a volleyball though.
My leaping ability was the linchpin of my game.
In college, I had my standing vertical measured at 45&1/8th inches.
I was a mediocre shooter, but I could jump!
I had some fancy behind back or through the legs layups in my "show off" arsenal. I was in the air plenty long enough.
I played in competitive leagues until I was 38.
I quit before the inevitable knee injury occurred.

[True Dough]

42. How tall are you?

6'3"? 6'4"?

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Not Close

I'm 5'9". I could really jump, TD.
In college, my Standing Vertical was measured at 45&1/8th inches. I was about 5'8" then
The math is simple. At 68", my fingertips were at 84 or 85" when I raised my hand up..add 45" and we're at 129 or 130".
My hand is 7.5" from wrist to fingertips. So, my wrist is around 2" above the rim.
Give me a running start, and my entire hand is 6" above the rim.
Today, my vertical is about 12", maybe it's less. So that talent is long gone.

[True Dough]

48. Remarkable!

If the right talent scout had seen you in action, maybe you could have played alongside Muggsy Bogues.

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Too Soon

College scouts weren't looking for score first, rely on athleticism, point guards in the early 70s. My game was more like what we saw from a Westbrook much later. (Not that I had his physique. ) The guards job was to veing it up, call a play, and give it to a tall guy. Not how I plsyed.
That's why I left HS after my junior year for college. I knew I wasn't going anywhere big, for free, to play basketball.
Funny thing is, if I was 6'2" instead of 5'7", I probably would have gotten attention. Not sure getting 18 inches above the rim is that big an advantage over 10", but I'll never know for sure.

[underpants]

32. You could dunk?

[ProfessorGAC]

36. I Could

The first time I could touch the rim, I was 5'2" tall.
Don't know where it came from. My dad and my uncles were terribly athletic. (My dad could punt the heck out of a football though. That gene missed me.)
I could dunk a volleyball 90% of the time by the time is was 5'4".
By the time i was 5'7" I could dunk without a run-up.
Now for the downside: as I'm sure you know, dunking was against the rules in HS & college until 1976. Could never dunk in a game.
That's why I loved pickup games. No such rule.

[LogDog75]

25. Play volleyball

I learned the game in junior college and played every year of my AF career. At my first base, we won the base championship, played on the base team and won an inter-service tournament and won, our base team won a downtown league and represented the city in the state finals and won. I was best at setting, blocking, serving, and playing the back line. My weakness was spiking but as I got older a became good at spiking. At age 50, I was asked to join the base team for an all-AF tournament but I had to decline because of work.

I miss playing the game and regardless of whether we won or lost I had fun.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Having a 3 some.

Hell, I'd be happy with a 2 some now,

[LuckyCharms]

28. I thought I had a threesome once...

but it turns out that I just had too much to drink and was seeing double.

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. I'm pretty sure I had one.

But details are really fuzzy after 50 years.

[LuckyCharms]

34. I can barely make it through a onesome.

That's why I'm "lonesome".

[OAITW r.2.0]

35. I've given up on 1 somes.

Too much work.

[LuckyCharms]

37. .

EVERYTHING is too much work these days!

Oh well...

Sometimes people say I'm "handsome", so I got that going for me.

I guess.

[MichMan]

44. Will never forget an old friend years ago telling me he was getting divorced

Said his soon to be ex wife wanted a threesome. Problem was that he wasn't any of the three.

[applegrove]

30. Lasagna dinner with my parents. Skiing. A summer at the cottage with family and friends.

A job in a dynamic situation as a receptionist, preferably at a place that helps people. Tea with all my grandparents and great aunt. Holding my grandmother's hand while visiting her at her nursing home. A picnic of lobster sandwiches, vichyssoise soup, and strawberries and whipped cream with my Dad and siblings which we did quite a few times outside his nursing home. We even had a little white wine (well i didn't drink wine because I don't drink). I'd like to decorate the house for Christmas. Lots of things.

[duckworth969]

31. Ride my Honda 750 Gold Wing

Too much bike for me now 🫤

[Grim Chieftain]

38. To hold my blessed grandma's hand

and tell her I love her.

[surfered]

39. Play good golf

[Kali]

40. LSD

:hippy:

[Jeebo]

41. Visit England.

I regret not visiting Beatles places in the U.K. and never visiting Liverpool at all. Penny Lane, Abbey Road, Strawberry Fields, Eleanor Rigby's grave, etc. I'm too old and feeble to do that kind of traveling any more, but if I could visit that lovely country again now, those all would be among the first places I would visit. The last time I was in the U.K. was July 2002.

 — Ron

[Ferrets are Cool]

43. Well, the obvious one is sit down and spend time with someone you've lost, but I will add a very selfish one...

make love.

[3catwoman3]

46. Superficial - After 2 hip replacements, y clog dancing days are over.

Profound - see my younger brother (and only sibling). He died in 1978, at only 23, in a scuba diving adventure that went wrong.

[Dulcinea]

50. Water ski, and watch a Steeler game with my dad.

Bad knees preclude me from water skiing, and my dad, who taught me about football when I was a kid, departed this life in 2019. We spent fall & winter Sunday afternoons in the basement cheering for our beloved Steelers until I left for college. You can't grow up in Pittsburgh in the 70s & not be a Steelers fan!

[blm]

51. Quaaludes

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My joke answer. 😉

My serious answer: Dance

[walkingman]

54. "714"

[walkingman]

52. Know as many like-minded people as I did in the 70s - most have passed. Different world.

[enid602]

53. La Paz

Spend a few days in La Paz, Bolivia. Ride the Teleférica.

[Ilsa]

55. 1. Run a 10k.

Time isn't important. I'll just never pound those hip, knee, and ankle joints like that again.

2. Sail a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Not just because of the name change.

3. Smoke a joint. It's too strong. I might eat a small piece of a THC/ delta-8 gummy, though.

[Prairie_Seagull]

57. Dive or jump from heights into water.

Jumped off the top of a train trestle once, about 100ft or so. If I did something like this today I would be in for a 5000$ ambulance ride or a dirt nap.

[bif]

58. Snort heroin

I did it a couple times hitchhiking through Europe in my youth. I'd never trust what was in it these days. It was a beautiful buzz.