This is my sister Joan's responses to a Facebook meme. I am preserving it here mainly for the comments from Joan, Beth and and my Mother. Who would have thought that my Mother had never milked a cow or picked cotton!
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Joan's post
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Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then tag your friends (including me).
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, do the list and tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.) If you don't see the Tag people in the upper right hand corner you are in the wrong place.)
** If you're reading this you're tagged **
Things you have done during your lifetime:
( x) Gone on a blind date
(x ) Donated Blood
( X) Had surgery
( ) Broken a bone
( ) Skipped school
( ) Watched someone die
(X ) Been to Canada
(X ) Been to Mexico
( X) Been to Florida
( ) Been to Hawaii
(x ) Been on a plane
(x ) Been on an airplane flying over an ocean
( ) Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost
(X ) Gone to Washington, DC
( ) Hugged a homeless person
(X) Swam in the ocean
( ) Swam on a swim team
(X ) Been sailing
( ) Performed in public on a musical instrument
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Recently colored with crayons
( ) Ran a marathon/or triathlon
( ) Sang Karaoke
(X ) Volunteered at a soup kitchen
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only
( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
( ) Seen the Northern Lights
( ) Been Para sailing
(x ) Been on TV
(X ) Been on the radio
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't do
(X) Made prank phone calls
( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
( ) Fed an elephant
(x ) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Fired a gun
( ) Shot with a bow and arrow
( ) Danced in public
(X ) Been to the Opera
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X ) Serenaded someone
(X ) Seen a U.S.President, King or Queen in person
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Watched the sunrise or sunset with someone
( ) Driven over 100 miles an hour
(x ) Been to a National Museum
( ) Been to a Wax Museum
( ) Eaten caviar or escargot
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
( ) Been deep sea fishing
( ) Driven across the United States
( ) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
( ) Gone snowmobiling
( ) Lived in more than one country
(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
(X) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
(X) Seen the Grand Canyon
(X ) Seen Mount Rushmore
( ) Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
( ) Gone to the top of the Eiffel Tower
( ) Been to the top of the Leaning Tower of Piza
(X) Been on a cruise or (large ship)
( ) been on a hovercraft or hydroplane boat
(X) Traveled by train
( ) Traveled by motorcycle
( ) Gone down hill skiing
(X) Been horse back riding
( ) Ridden on a San Francisco cable car
(X) Been to Disneyland OR Disney World
(x)Truly believed in the power of prayer
() Been in a redwood forest
( ) Seen whales in the ocean
(X ) Been to Niagara Falls
( ) Ridden on an elephant
( ) Ridden on a camel
( ) Swam with dolphins
(X) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Milked a cow
(X ) Been water-skiing
(X) Been roller-skating
( ) Been to Westminster Abbey
( ) Been to the Louvre
( ) Been to Tokyo, Japan
( ) Been to the Taj Mahal
(X ) Been to Rome, Italy
( ) Been to Las Vegas
(X) Swam in the Mediterranean
(X) Swam in the Caribbean
( x) Been to a Major League Baseball game
( ) Been to a National Football League game
(x ) Been to a NBA game
( ) Swam with sharks
(X) Gone canoeing down a river
( ) Gone kayaking
( ) Written a book or screen play
(X) Been in love
(X) Put a foot in the Oval office
( ) Hitchhiked
(x) Snorkeled
( x) Seen a car on fire
( ) Stood on both sides of the Prime Meridian
(X) Ridden the zip-line through the Costa Rican jungle
(x) Given birth
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Comments
Beth Shaw
Great list! I'm a little surprised you never milked a cow. Didn't y'all go to Mayfield Dairies for a field trip in school? We did and had to milk a cow. And we had someone whose house we went to that had a farm and had fresh milk (REALLY fresh) for breakfast! They thought it was hilarious to take us city people out to milk the cow for breakfast. I was totally grossed out - Mother and Daddy asked me where I thought our milk came from. I don't remember where we lived at the time.
Joan Shaw Turrentine
Interesting, Beth. I thought surely I had milked a cow too, but I racked my brain and am pretty sure I haven't. I do remember standing beside someone who was milking a cow at one time in very early childhood. Back in the dark ages when I was in elementary school we didn't take field trips!
Ruth Baird Shaw
I have never milked a cow and have never picked cotton. All mu siblings had done both, so like Beth, I was a spoiled rotten younger child. And, unlike Beth, i never went to dairy on a field trip.
Beth Shaw
You would remember it if you ever did - I was totally grossed out. AND, I distinctly remember that the milk we drank was WARM - I thought it was completely unnatural at the time and SO GROSS!!!!
@Mother - spoiled?? lol
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Just for the record, I have milked a cow. I did not find it gross. <smile>
The closest I've come to picking cotton is breaking off a stalk of cotton at the edge of a harvested field along US 27 in South Georgia. I wanted it to hang in my fourth grade class where I taught social studies and sometimes discussed cotton, slavery, the cotton gin and such.
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