Have You Ever? Why I've Never!

Joining in with our hostess, Bev, and the rest of the cool kids for Sunday Stealing.

1. Have you ever had chicken pox?  No. The only one of the childhood "diseases" (do they still call them that?) I've ever had is the mumps. Both of our kids had chicken pox...our daughter even had them twice as it turns out you can get them again if you don't get a full-blown case the first time...and I STILL didn't get them!

2. Have you ever shopped in Home Depot?  Of course! My husband has always worked in the construction trades so I've been there many times with him. I'll also have to admit I love to decorate and redecorate and I am always thinking up new projects for the house or yard so we go to Home Depot and Lowe's a LOT.

3. Have you ever spied on your neighbors?  Spied on them? No, but I do live in one of those old neighborhoods where most people have been here all of their adult lives and a lot of us "kids" have either remained or moved back to raise our families. Everybody knows everyone and keeps an eye out for trouble. When I was growing up the families were so close all of us kids called the adults "Aunt" and "Uncle" because we knew them too well to call them Mr. or Mrs. and back then kids did not call adults by their first names.

4. Have you ever ridden in a limo?  No and I can't say I feel deprived.

5. Have you ever had a pet fish?  We had three aquariums when I was growing up and I had one large aquarium for the first several years we were married.

6. Have you ever lied about your age?  No. When I was young I never got carded so I never had to lie and now that I'm older than 39 I just don't care so I don't lie about it.

7. Have you ever fired a gun? Many times. I own several of my own.

8. Have you ever been ice skating? Not since I was a kid. I wasn't good at it. My ankles were too weak and I didn't enjoy wibbling and wobbling all over the place or falling down.

9. Have you ever played golf? A little. I took a few lessons as a kid and in college I took it as a gym class and my teacher thought I was good enough to play competitively, but I never did.

10. Have you ever hidden on Halloween because you had no candy for trick or treaters?  No, but one year I had been out of town and arrived home just a little bit before trick or treat was over. I was literally in the driveway lifting my suitcase out of the trunk and a whole herd of kids ran up yelling trick or treat. I had to point out the obvious (which you'd have thought the adults with them would have picked up on) that I'd been away and just that moment arrived home and didn't have candy.

 
11. Have you ever made a prank call? Moi? Never! Okay....maybe once. Or twice. Or too many times to remember.

12. Have you ever gotten a tattoo? Just one on my ankle. I'd been wanting one and on my 45th birthday I was feeling like it was "now or never" and my husband encouraged me to get one.

13. Have you ever had a massage? Not one that I've paid for. I have a friend who is a massage therapist and she's done a little bit on me, but never a full blown massage. She's offered, but I don't want to take advantage.

14. Have you ever locked your keys in the car? A couple of times. Always such a pain in the rump, not to mention terribly embarrassing.

15. Have you ever ridden a horse? Sure. I was a horsey girl when I was growing up. I couldn't read enough about horses, collect enough horsey stuff, or ride enough. I took lessons and though I didn't have my own horse I rode every chance I got.

16. Have you ever been to the circus? Several times and I've taken my kids a few times, too. The Shriner Circus has always been big in our area, but Barnum and some others have been around, too.  The last time I went was for our daughter's 12th(?) birthday. We took her and three of her friends to dinner and then to the circus.

17. Have you ever been to Europe? No, I've never been across the pond.

18. Have you ever built a fire? Oh yes, many times, both inside in the fireplace and outside in the fire pit and on camping trips.

19. Have you ever been skydiving? No, and I will never, ever be able to answer yes to that!

20. Have you ever bought something at a garage sale? All the time. I love garage sales, flea markets, auctions, and the like!

21. Have you ever walked in on someone having sex? Yes, in college. 

22. Have you ever faked an injury to get out of something? No.

23. Have you ever been to a nude beach?  No and I don't expect that I ever will go to one.

24. Have you ever received a speeding ticket?  No. I've probably deserved one a few times in the past, but since getting my CDL I'm pretty well behaved on the road.

25. Have you ever run a marathon? Oh, good grief, no!