Things you will never forget.

[onejayhawk]

The first time you hear "Incoming!" is a standard. I remember my first time. What else will you never forget?

Some of mine.

Flying with a flag draped coffin.
Pulling all the cards out of the bidding box.
Winning my first tournament.
Sliding on black ice.

J

 

[Glassfan]

Colleen in her parent's bed when we were sweet 16.

 

[Narz]

• Seeing my daughter be born.
• How beautiful trees look when you're tripping.
• When my best friend died.
• Finding out about the WTC collapse.
• The sound of a telephone jacked modem connecting.
• The intro music to Legend of Zelda.
• The smell of Shelter Island thru the window from when I was really little (less a concrete "memory" than something I know when it reoccurs.
• Various painful dramatic things.
• One time I was out on a kayak in summer camp (which I mostly hated) & feeling a few moments of tranquility.

 

[CavLancer]

Meeting my wife to be on the beach in Jagna.
Abby coming to our door with her father who was looking for someone to adopt her.
My parents arguments when I was a kid.
My mother's love and her death.
The 7.2 quake, it was so sudden. Everything changed in an instant.
Loading ammo in the tracks in the middle of the night in Germany, thought the war had started and we were never going to leave the ammo dump.

 

[Phrossack]

Getting stung in the ankle by a wasp when I was little. I have never forgiven wasps.

Playing army and toy soldiers with my best friend in grade school.

My dog. She's getting on in years and slowing down. Best dog there ever was.

Getting hit in the face with a golf club at the age of 6, and the pretty nice hospital stay that followed.

My grandparents. They keep appearing in my dreams. They're all dead, and I miss them.

Various mistakes and embarrassments.

2012, for various reasons. It was a big year for me.

Otherwise, I've had an uneventful and boring life.

 

[Old Hippy]

watching the late night news, just after the first plane hit the world trade center, only one channel bothered running late with the US feed, then the moment of the second plane hitting...
the world changed

 

[Bootstoots]

I have never forgotten where I ate my first McGriddle. It was at a (the?) McDonald's in North Adams, Massachusetts. I was something like 11 and we were on the way to see relatives in the Boston area. There is no good reason to remember this, but for some reason I do. If I could delete it and replace it with something more notable, I would.

 

[Quintillus]

Among others,

Seeing a power transformer blow up several dozen feet in front of me after it was struck by lightning.

Climbing a Norwegian mountain at midnight in June, and encountering a snowstorm.

Hearing that airplanes had hit the World Trade Center and (more meaningful to me at the time) the Pentagon, and the noticeable quietness in the skies that afternoon.

My grandfather's funeral, as it was the first time someone I had been close to died.

 

[Perfection]

I will forget everything eventually.

 

[Borachio]

Who am I?

And I've no idea where these yellowish stains came from?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

A lovely vacation in the mountains with my parents.
Eye trauma caused by a window.
Science shows on cable TV in my youth.
The Millennium celebrations.
Breaking my left ankle.
My research experiences.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

The funeral of JFK. My parents crying.
The manned landing on the moon.
The riots after MLK was killed.
The bells of my hometown ringing in the bicentennial of the US.
The first time someone shot at me. When I shot back.
The second time someone shot at me.
A night in the shower in Panama City Panama. Her warmth and her smell.
My second wedding.

 

[Wrymouth3]

A night in the shower in Panama City Panama. Her warmth and her smell.

If it was Panama City, Florida, you would never forget it for all the wrong and terrible reasons .

 

[The_J]

Finding out about the WTC collapse.

+1

- sliding with my car backwards + tilted on a snowy/icy road in direction of another snowy/icy road, which just happened to be before a hillside
- appendix irritation. Worst pain ever
- cramp in the calf while swimming. Second worst pain ever
- Confessing love + getting rejected. Worst mental pain ever
- First day in the Netherlands
- in the car, getting struck by a massive plate of ice falling from a truck
- the day my cat died (saw only 1 dying, had more pets)
- seeing my father cry (saw that once)
- nearly getting attacked on the main street during noon by a drunk nazi
- the "someone has declared war on you" trumpet from Civ4
- our classroom teacher in highschool, close to tears, telling us that one of our classmates suffered from a myocarditis and was in hospital (never recovered, was too long clinically dead)

 

[Narz]

Appendicitus is pretty bad, I had back spasms last year that override it painwise though.

I never did see my dad cry, would've been interesting to see it once.

I remember the first time I played Civ. Not sure I will remember it forever though.

 

[The_J]

That I don't remember though...only one of the first games, didn't understand trade at that time, wondered what the colossus did.


Other things:
- Last school day with sort of classes. Ended up being all about eating, talking, listening to music and 1.5 hours of Quake 3.
- Standing on the roof of my school in the early morning in summer (5 AM, or so), before the end of high school, after we sort of broke into the school the night before (stayed there for the end of year jokes...or however you call that), and seeing one of my fellow school mates walking drunk over the roof, slipping and nearly falling off it. Must have been one of my scariest experiences.
- Driving 30 km home in the deepest winter with a broken heating system -> driving ace ventura style (frozen front window) isn't nice if the wind is biting everywhere in your face
- first time buying...um..."services"...in Amsterdam
- first car crash. Not a big thing itself, but was less than one week after I got my license, and I hit the car of a class mate on the way to school, near the school, both cars were full...the topic at that day in school was clear...^^

 

[salty mud]

The first time you realise that the guys with the stealth suits are in there with you.

 

[Lillefix]

I will never forget that in the perm period there used to be volcanoes in what would become eastern norway.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

- As apparently everyone on this planet - the moment I come home from school and found my mom watching the 9/11 coverage and found out about it myself
- When I lay in bed in the late evening during a family vacation in Greece reading a middle-age-themed Mickey Mouse comic. Was very young then and thought the comic was absolutely brilliant, but that wasn't actually what ingrained this moment in my memory. Rather, after everything that happened before on this day or the vacation in general and finally in said evening - it somehow all climaxed to an utmost sensation of peace and tranquility and happiness. I do not even know what happened on this or in the evening or the vacation. Just know that I lay in a big wide bed - with my brothers I believe - read that comic and that I had this sensation at the time.
- The feeling of peace when I went to some kind of park / natural reservoir in Texas and suddenly everything was perfectly silent
- Then there is a kiss which feels like the arch-typical first kiss. It technically wasn't, not even with the girl involved. But it was the first really meaningful / powerful kiss I had. Felt totally blown away by the sensation. Just didn't see it coming. Especially since the evening which lead to it was mostly a screw-up. Got close to this girl in the club (some readers from other cultural backgrounds may find this strange, but I am used to hitting clubs since I am 15) and decided to expand on that the next day where I invited her to a party. And the evening went kind of horribly. I mean the party was alright, but I was insecure in what the hell I was doing and acted awkward and stuff ugh... just embarrassing. So at the end of it I brought her home and when we arrived at her place we kissed each other and BAM suddenly nothing mattered, not me messing up this date or anything. Just this moment. Was a real eye-opener. (the relationship still sucked though )
- Me and my farther almost drowning. The water wasn't deep. You could easily stand, touch the ground with your feet. But the waves were so powerful that suddenly we found ourselves sucked out by the current into the ocean and had to realize that we didn't stand a chance. if it hadn't been for a crew of construction-workers who worked nearby, connected each other with some rope and by that were able to withstand the waves and save us, I think we would have died.
- When at my first day at school my mom pressured me to sit in the front row of desks together with another guy I just thought seemed totally weird and very disagreeable. Went on to become close friends and he told me years later I seemed to him just as unlikeable in this moment.

Well there is more, but I leave it with that for now.

 

[Goodfella]

+1
- appendix irritation. Worst pain ever

I don't think it's quite as bad as the pain after it's taken out. Good thing for percocet.