Life List - Nosireebob, never again...

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.  
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.
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