What could you try for the first time?
This is another prompt that is word-for-word what I answered on this day last year. I forgot about it and surprisingly, my answer today is absolutely not what it was a year ago. Last year I answered that I would like to try leaving the country. Because I’ve never been outside the U.S. I don’t even have a passport.
However, my first thought to this awkwardly worded question today is, everything. With my grandma’s words echoing in my ear, “Just try it”, I will gladly try anything once. She was talking about food, I’m talking about whatever else comes to mind. And honestly, I would try it just to say I did it.
Skydiving? In fact, read my post Did I Ever Tell You…? (Part 1). It’s about the one and only time I went skydiving. Spoiler alert, I threw up on the way down, sprained my knees in the landing, and will NEVER do it again. But I did it just to be able to say I did. And let me tell ya’…living in a military town means that when I do get to tell people I did it, nobody is impressed. Because they’ve done it too. Many, many times. In fact, my grumpy Vietnam War vet of a co-teacher did it so many times his eyes are basically ruined from it. Something about the air pressure from being up so high and descending so fast repeatedly detached his retinas or something and his doctor told him he had to basically never jump again or go blind if he did.
I’ve been like this for my whole life practically. I was a smoker early on in high school. But I was in school long after students stopped being able to smoke on campus. So during the last week of my senior year, I snuck a cigarette into the bathroom of one of the buildings I had a class in and smoked it. Just so I could say I smoked in the bathroom at school.
Going back to the idea of trying any food at least once, when my grandparents lived in Florida, there was a great little restaurant on their island that you could drive your boat up to, dock, and go in to eat. They were famous for their alligator tail appetizer. We all tried it once, just so we could say we’ve eaten alligator. And you know what? It was good! We ordered it every time we went back! Practically anything is good if you deep fry it and include a dipping sauce with it.
I may not be the most adventurous person, but I am definitely all about having bragging rights! And brag about it I will. So, yes, there are many things I “could try for the first time”. You name it, I’ll try it (for the most part).
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