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La Tejana stole this from her blogging buddy, Vanilla. Here’s your chance to say “never.”
5 Things I Have Never Done
But before that: I received an email on Friday, the 13th. Really. “Roger, add interesting content to your feed. Here are a few recommendations to get started.
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Follow Jensen Huang |
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I declined.
1. I have never had a valid driver’s license. However, I have had SEVEN driver’s permits, six in New York State and one in North Carolina. I sort of explained this here. After my daughter received her driver’s license in 2025, she said she thought I would have learned to drive if my wife had taught me, as she had taught our daughter. Both my wife and daughter are very good drivers.
Antisocial?
2. I never really liked either coffee or beer. The complication here is that they are social drinks. When you’re at a college bar, and your compatriots are drinking a pitcher or two while I’m drinking wine or a mixed drink, it sets me apart at a point in life when I want to fit in. On the other hand, not drinking coffee has gotten me out of making coffee, sometimes at my insistence.
3. I’ve never jumped out of a plane, bungee jumped, or done anything that leaned into the laws of gravity.
4. I’ve never committed a crime. My arrest at an antiwar demonstration in 1972 was a violation – think parking ticket – not a crime.
5. I have never seen a James Bond film all the way through. Occasionally, as a kid, I would catch a scene or two of a Sean Connery film on television on a Saturday afternoon, and I found that I not only didn’t enjoy it, but I specifically disliked the violence and sexism. I know Bond has (presumably) evolved, but I think I’m okay with the loss. Sorry, Kelly.
Some songs:
Never My Love – The Association
Never Can Say Goodbye – Jackson Five
Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
and, I suppose, the obvious:
Never On Sunday – Melina Mercouri
No Bond!?? Oy Vey! I watch them without really watching or paying attention. I like the music though.
I won’t be jumping out or off things either and I don’t get the attraction to gravity defiance.