Life List - Thanks but I'll pass

1. Go to England with less than $1000 in my pocket when the exchange rate was $1:33p.
2. Have Gastric Flu.  Coming out both ends.  TMI?  You bet.
3. Spend 6 months unemployed in the Midlands, UK, in the 1980's, where unemployment was running at 28%.
4. Borrow money from a parent.
5. Find out my new chap was married to a woman called Sharon who lived in NZ.
6. Learn shorthand.
7. Go skiing.
8. Rupture my ACL skiing, hence #7.
9. Wait 2 years for an ACL reconstruction because I didn't have private health insurance.
10. ACL reconstruction.
11. Second operation to fix something they missed in #10.
12. Get married.  Have a wedding** 
13. Put on 3 stone (19kg) after #12.
14. Watch the arches in my feet collapse after #13.
15. Have the police knock at my door to tell me a parent had died.
16. Work as a Secretary.
17. Start anything new in a year ending in -9.  
18. Lose a friend to Breast Cancer.
19. Lose a friend to Lymphoma.
20. Lose a grandparent to Emphysema.
21. Lose a friend to AIDS.
22. Lose a friend to Suicide.
23. Go to a funeral.  Any funeral.
24. Take Mr Golightly shopping.
25. Lose a beloved parent-in-law to Alzheimer's.
26. Fart in the office.
27. Have an accident of the menstrual kind in the office.
28. Almost have an affair with a married man, in the office.
29. Be sexually harrassed by a crazy ex-footballer.
30. Move house.  22 previous addresses (that I can think of) is plenty, thanks.
31. Do data entry for a living.
32. Leave my camera in a taxi and never see it again, Olympics pics and all.
33. Live in Leicester, UK.
34. Work in a library.  It really is like "The Librarians".
35. Let myself be bullied.
36. Convince a doctor I didn't want children.  No, I really don't.
37. Share a one-room flat with anybody.
38. Live in a one-room flat with outside toilet & shower.  Those winter mornings really bit.
39. Fall off a motorbike at speed.
40. Be a passenger in a car which rolls.  Still got the dodgy shoulder from that one.
41. Shoot a sitting duck.  Shame on me (I was 16, does that ameloriate it a little?).
42. Shoot anything.
43. Drink too much white wine from a flagon.
44. Vomit said white wine all over the bathroom floor.
45. Cleaning up #44.
46. Drink cider.
47. Spend 9 weeks on crutches, courtesy of #11.
48. Spend 2 weeks in a caravan on 'holidays'.
49. Share a house with 3 unrelated blokes.  Can you imagine the soap?
50. Take a dog to the vet and come home alone, knowing you'll never see the dog again.
51. Have a neighbour steal your dog when she left her husband and 6 fox terriers behind.
52. Be poor.
53. Live in a foreign country with no support network & no friends.
54. Algebra.
55. Statistics.
56. Wait until I'm newly married before discovering the one thing I want to really do in life requires me to go & live in another city 300km away.
57. Spend November and February in England.  Freezing cold.
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**Edit to clarify - Mr Golightly is perfectly safe, but I never want to go through all the stress, hassle & bad behaviour weddings seem to engender.