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What are some normal things you will never do, or never do again?

Concerts (my last concert where I had some drunk woman waving an open lighter near me and drunkenly waving it near me stopped any idea of wanting to go to one again), children (I have no interest in them and there is no off button when they are being loud, they just give me anxiety in general.), sportings events (I find them dull and I have no interest in it at all) and sex (after hearing all my friends and cousins talking about it like they had just drank the best koolaide ever, STDs and pregnancy isn't on my high list of priorities, not to mention I wouldn't even trust my partner to tell the truth if he even had an STD or not).
 
Voltaic said:
Stuff like going to the club, going to a sports games. I have a few on my list, but am not going to list them, since I would leave none for you guys.
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probably date. It's too much. No one likes me for who I am and its too much pressure trying to be someone else.
 
Cinema - strangers around me munching their popcorn loudly, the sound system that is always too loud for me, everyone else laughing or gasps at some scenes but not me.

Last year I told my younger sister after we watched Thor Ragnarok, "Sorry, but this is the last time for me".
 
I might change my mind on this one, but I don't think I'll ever get married again. My husband was sweet, doting, and affectionate. Though, a little too affectionate for me to handle in the end. I'll probably never go to a nightclub again. I don't think I'll ever make new friends offline. The ones I got accept me for who I am, and I don't really like meeting new people. I don't think I'll go to a baseball game again. It was kinda nice going with my dad, because we were in the field and it wasn't noisy, but I learned there that sports really aren't my thing. (Photography is, though, so it was nice taking pictures when there was still enough light for action shots.) Especially once it gets cold. Maybe go to school for anything other than online.

Umm... I don't really like nevers much. "Sure" things get my expectations up, and cause me great anxiety and sometimes depression when they do or don't happen (depending on a never or "happening for sure" thing, respectively). So I've started sticking to probablies.
 
Gritches said:
Never again will I go somewhere on vacation. Pay tons of money to be somewhere other than home? No thank you, people have to pay ME for me to do that.
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I agree! Love this. There’s an alternative such as camping, if that is something you’d like to try.
 
I'll probably never go to Loew's again. Yes, the hardware / home improvement shop.

The last few times I was there, I noticed lots and lots of conversations being had over the PA system. They're very loud, crusty, and reverberate throughout the building.

Every time it happens, I feel a great deal of stress.

If it were something like, "Joe, line 8 on hold. Joe, line 8," then I might be able to deal with it. But they get into these long, drawn-out commands.

When they're not hollering at each other, there's someone else addressing the customers about the special deal near the cash registers, with instructions to stop by within the next 30 minutes, and a detailed description of the free gift that is involved.

It's just non-stop BLAH BLAH BLAH that echos in my head and hurts my ears.

I think the last straw for me was when someone was actually helping me to find something [this almost NEVER happens]. Every time I would try to tell them what I was looking for, the loud, abrasive, endless PA chatter would interrupt.

When this happened, I realized that I could never be as loud as the PA system. There was no way to compete.

This kind of goes hand-in-hand with a thread that I started about interruptions. I can't talk over others. I refuse to try. I will not get in a shouting match with the PA system. I cannot even hang onto my thoughts while the PA chatter is in progress.

It's just too stressful for me to be in that environment.
 
No large music concerts for me, and I went to many of them in my twenties, thirties. At David Bowie's people rushed the stage, and I was caught in the center, they hosed the crowd down as people were passing out. At Yes, people were throwing bottles from above, I saw a lit sparkler land in a guy's afro and burn it way's down and I couldn't warn him, he was too far down! At BTO's people were vomiting on others, at Cat Steven's people were crushed against the metal barriers. The outdoor concerts were better venues, more space, with bands like King Crimson, Pink Floyd, April Wine, the Allman's and many others. Glad I went to them, but I would never do it again.
 
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Parties, group lunches and after-work get-togethers, attending courses in person when there are viable, accredited distance-learning alternatives.
 
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