So I Am 36 Years Old... And Have Never... Emptied a Mouse Trap.

[Theygaveutheirworst]

I bet ya'll have seen the movie though.

 

[Rissa77]

i saw the first one of twilight. didn't care for it. saw it cuz a friend begged me. won't watch it again, or any other series.

saw the first one of harry potter, just so i could honestly say i watched it and didn't like it, and i honestly didn't like it.

i also knew i wouldn't like lord of the rings, but i sat though a hour of the first one, and begged my excited friend to turn it off and watch something else. it's not my kind of movie. it was incredibly boring to me.

now gladiator, YES! i'll watch that over and over and over

 

[Theygaveutheirworst]

LOTR boring?! You would be the first to say such a thing.lol

 

[sportygirl]

A girl... who has not read a twilight book?...I can't believe it.

Lol, yes a girl thats never read twilight. I just never really wanted to I guess. And then the movies came out and I wanted to less. I did see the first one for free on campus, but thats it, and i didnt like it very much.

I never read it either. Or Harry Potter.

I have read Harry Potter, seen Harry Potter...And read and scene LOTR, but the movies are soooo LONG!!!! OO and gladiators was good, I also like Star Trek and Star Wars, haha!

 

[zeroturbulence]

Oh man, don't even get me started on rats...

In college, I had heard about the infamous "rat lab" I would have to take in my psychology program but nothing compared me for coming to face-to-face with an entire wall of cages filled with the little beasts on the very first day of class, especially as the TA (teacher's assistant) announced, "All right, go get your rat and get started!!"

I was literally paralyzed while everyone else eagerly ran forward to collect their evil little creature.

These rats were not only albino (bright white fur and pink eyes glaring), but also HUGE--when I put my rat on my forearm, his nose touched the crook of the inside of the elbow, his body was slightly past my wrist, and his tail hung several inches off my hand.

It took me about ten minutes of sheer terror before I could even walk to the front of the room... eventually I did pick up a rat and take him to my experiment box (Skinner box), but as I was carrying him across the room, he started to squeak repeatedly (I called him "Squeak" affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, the rest of the semester.) However, I realized that the reason he was squeaking is probably because I was holding him way too roughly and squeezing the life out of him in my nervousness!!! (I wonder what kind of penalty I would have met if I had accidentally squeezed my rat to death.)

After that, I brought rubber gloves to class and was fine for the rest of the semester (also handy for cleaning up the cage afterward if your rat left you any "gifts".)

At any rate... the rats were water-deprived for a day and we had to "train" them to perform various behaviors... the final project was to have your rat complete a string of 5 behaviors before getting a drink of water... some of the behaviors that Squeak completed before I gave him a drink of water were pulling a chain, waiting for a light to come on, turning in a circle, and pushing a lever (I can't remember what the fifth behavior was.)

People kept asking me how I got him to turn in a circle, but what happened is that I'd noticed in other sessions that for whatever reason, he would turn in circles naturally and I just "shaped" up the behavior by giving him a drink when he turned in a circle.

If you've been to places like SeaWorld (such as the pictures in my profile) or other parks with "trained' animals, this is exactly how they "teach" the animals to do their "acts"--they take natural behaviors and shape them up with food and other rewards.

For the class I was in, all the rats were gassed and put to sleep at the end of each semester... and it never failed that at least one student always tried to "rescue" and kidnap a rat... but they were considered university property.

I admit to being a little sad for Squeak on the last day, knowing his fate... but that has not been enough to convert me to even remotely liking his kind. (Yes, I can admit to having a prejudice towards rodents!)

You went through all that and you STILL dont like rodents??? (shaking my head in disbelief)

 

[seoulsearch]

Dread--I had to laugh over your comment about a fear of turning orange... I got over that when a friend, trying to be helpful, bought me a tube of sunless tanning lotion... nothing like a nice carrot-type color!!!


I have never read or seen any of the Harry Potter or Twilight series.

And Zero, much as I hate to disappoint you... I still think rodents are evil little minions!

 

[nanabean]

So I am 47 and have never

read any of the Twilight series, nor had any desire to
read any of the Harry Potter series, nor had any desire to
read any of the Lord of the Rings series, nor had any desire to
watched any of the Twilight movies, nor had any desire to
watched any of the Harry Potter movies, nor had any desire to
watched any of the Lord of the Rings movies, nor had any desire to
watched any of the Star Wars movies, nor had any desire to
watched any of the Star Trek series, nor had any desire too

I've just never seen any advertising that made me feel drawn to read or watch any of these.......quite the opposite in fact, all the advertising I've ever seen just makes me sure I wouldn't like them at all.

 

[jimmydiggs]

I'm 17, and I have never gone hunting, even though my grandparents held the "pheseant centurion" several times, it's where 100 hunters from the Air National Guard of Kansas go to my grandparents farm where I used to live and shoot pheasents. I've shot guns plenty enough, clay pidgeon, target, and just random shooting. Never shot an animal. Wouldn't mind trying it out some day, but my dad doesn't have the time, and mother dear isn't the most avid gun user if you know what I mean.

I also have never been to the moon. Working on that one though. Gunna take a class on space exploration in the last week of July. Gunna learn how to build rawkets.

 

[christiancollegegirl]

I've never met a pea I actually liked. They're like little green balls of grosseness.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I'm 25 years old and I've never had a IRL boyfriend

 

[christiancollegegirl]

I'm 23 and I"ve never had a girlfriend.

 

[Theygaveutheirworst]

I'm 23 and I"ve never had a girlfriend.

Lol. I knew someone was going to do that.

I'm 24 and I've never had an embarrassing moment.

 

[Jullianna]

I am 37 years old and I have never:

- been to Australia
- been on a cruise
- changed a flat tire
- been shot out of a cannon
- seen dolphins swimming in the ocean
- flown a jet

 

[Rissa77]

I am 37 years old and I have never:

- been to Australia
- been on a cruise
- changed a flat tire
- been shot out of a cannon
- seen dolphins swimming in the ocean
- flown a jet

me either! how bout we get a jet and go to australia? belgian_pilot can teach you how to fly it. then we will take a car on a really bad road and hit a lizard which will puncture a tire and we'll have to change it. then we'll cannon each other into a cruise ship, where we will see dolphins when we get thrown to the sharks. ^_^

sounds like a plan to me.

 

[Jullianna]

I am so liking this Rissa girl Sounds like a plan! lol

 

[Rissa77]

I am so liking this Julliana girl cuz she goes along with my stetchy and possibly dangerous plans

 

[AHeartThatServes]

I'm 39 and I haven't married George Clooney.....yet!!!

 

[Sharp]

I'm 24 and I've never fought an animal larger than myself.

 

[NodMyHeadLikeYeah]

I'm 24 and I've never fought an animal larger than myself.

your still only 24. Werent you 24 like two years ago when i first met you. Do you ever age!!


Im 27 and i have never said CRICKEY when looking at a large reptile

 

[christiancollegegirl]

I'm 23 and I've never shaved my head.