Have you ever done something once but never want to do it again?

For me it was a helicopter ride over Toronto. I’m glad I did it but I definitely don’t feel the need to go on a helicopter ever again.

I was persuaded to get on to the bare back of the village elephant when we were taken by a Thai friend to a Karen village in the forest on the Thai/Myanmar border 50+ years ago. The homes were wooden huts on stilts and I clambered on to the back of her head from the raised floor level. I remember that she was surprisingly bristly and had the longest eyelashes but it felt like being on top of a swaying slide and I was truly terrified.

showground rides, i hate them, was going to try the big wheel but decided against it, stupid thing is i don't have a problem with heights, my other one just started when i had to wear a mask during covid, for weeks everytime i put a mask on i got so stressed that i had an epileptic seizure...stems back to nasty dentist and the black gas mask.

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Kevincharley
I have no idea what possessed me to agree to it. My husband was the driver and he had to reverse round a bend near a passing place to allow some vehicles to pass. I had to get out whilst he did it.
Going through the Southern Alps on South Island New Zealand was another hair raising ride. Arthur's Pass and the aptly named Death Corner. ?

fiorentna51 Arthur's Pass was ok but The Firgotten World Highway on North Island was a different kettle of fish! Mainly unpaved and right near the top half the road had caved in and all they'd done was put a few cones and hazard tape up. Typical New Zealand, so casual about safety!

A ride on a ferris wheel in the dark, sitting at the top of it with the wind rocking it about.

Going on the London Eye. I couldn’t enjoy the views as I just don’t have a head for heights. I shut my eyes most of the time.

On the whole I just don’t do scary things, but then I remembered the very steep high steps at Saxstead Green windmill in Suffolk. I took one look and said “I’m not going up there”, but I did. I survived, but never again. I don’t know what possessed me.

Scuba diving on holiday in Crete. I usually swim with my head above the water and hate even being splashed so I was proud that I managed to snorkel in the morning and go for a short dive with all the equipment in the afternoon and see all the fish. Won't do it again though.

A roller coaster ride - thankfully one that didn't go upside down. I thought I was going on a ghost train.

White water rafting. The river was low and not particularly scary but I was with my students from college on an outward bound course and it was apparently traditional to throw lecturers in the water. The icy water felt like a steel band round my ribs and I had to be dragged out by one of the rafting instructors. Never again.

LadyGracie, must be the same salt mine I went down, I was terrified on the slide thing, never again.

Skiing a black run one and only time.

Camelotclub

A gastroscopy without sedation. Horrible!

Oh dear god, yes! Horrendous experience! I've also had a sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy without sedation and while not exactly pleasant, they were a breeze compared to the gastroscopy!

Going on holiday with friends - never again. Just did not work out.

Cable car ride at a holiday camp, roller coaster at theme park, driving up the Trudos mountains in Cyprus, sleeping on an air bed in a tent. I'm a caravan person I guess and I don't like heights

I went down a salt mine in Austria, horrific experience, never again.

I once let the hairdresser have her way and put 'products' on my hair, finishing off with a large flourish of hairspray.

Got home and DH, who didn't know where I had been and rarely notices anything, said 'You look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards!'
He cuts my hair now!

Just read Marmight's post. I once tried actual Marmite. Not tempted...

Watching an American football match.

Horse riding! On a family holiday in Ireland years ago. DDs loved it but once was enough for me. Stupid really, but I just hadn't expected to feel so high up and out of control. Of course when you tense up, the bruising next day is worse; nobody else felt any ill effect at all!

Happysexagenarian I did that too! What a waste but I couldn't face walking along the street with all that gunk on my face. Mind you, no one would've recognised me! I would've walked straight past myself!

For eight months I pestered every NHS practitioner I came across to get an MRI scan for my agonising back and sciatic pain. Eventually, I wore one down and was assigned to a mobile unit with a very narrow and dark tube.

I was utterly and completely terrified for forty whole minutes with claustrophobia and fear of the noise. I thought, ‘Never again!’

It did get me the operation which fixed the condition but, when I had to have another MRI scan I had a hissy fit and cried. The hospital machine however, was wider, lighter and better supervised and was a different experience altogether.

Beware of what you wish for.

I ate a mussel. I won't do it again. Same applies to the one snail I ate.

Yes. But I really couldn't say on here!!!

A cruise! Has no appeal to me. I did not like the confined space, the regimented approach to everything even though the food was incredible and the staff were lovely.
I would much prefer a city break and take time to know the place rather than to be looking to see what the time was, terrified the ship would leave without me. No thank you, never again.

Going down hundreds of metres of the spiral staircase into the Padirac Chasm in the Dordogne. I froze halfway and got a lot of French people swearing at me. Then at the bottom, there was a boat trip. I was asked to move away from DH for balance and said no and got another load of superlatives. DH's arm was black and blue from me gripping so hard.
We came up by a lift thank goodness. Everyone pointed out it had been me who wanted to see the stalagmites and stalactites I was so b...scared I never saw them and then I cried.

Flumes for me too, ugh!

And paragliding behind a boat, did it in Greece, nearly passed out. NEVER again