The anti-bucket list

As someone who's light-sensitive and suffers from insomnia, I don't think I'd want to visit The Land of the Midnight Sun.

starthrower said:

Going to a Super Bowl party.
Buying a juicing machine or any other overpriced gadget advertised on TV.
Going to a stadium for any kind of sporting event or overpriced pseudo musical experience.
Ending up in a nursing home if I live too long.

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I don't have an anti-nursing home feeling now that my Mum spent the last year of her life in a wonderful dementia-specialist care home. She was so much more content during that last year than she had been during the previous three or four years in her own home, even though I lived in the same street. It all depends on what's available.

I share your dislike of huge crowded expensive venues though - as soon as I'm in a crowd, I long to get away again and/or I feel depressed because the way I feel and behave seems to be so much out of the mainstream.

I think I'll add 'going to a fashion show' as one of my anti-bucket activities. I was born 'unfashionable', plus the extreme ideas you see in the newspapers - the latest a crinoline ball dress worn upside down - would just set me off giggling.

Body studs, especially those through the tongue, as my niece has. What a faff, just eating. It seems barbaric.
I don't like tattoos either. My Scottish grandfather had one - he lived in a seaport, and he was born before 1900, so it just seemed quaint & tacky to me. There's no way I can adjust to seeing a tattoo as sophisticated or chic.

Taggart loves tattie scones. We used to be able to get them easily when we lived in Durham, along with that other Taggart-love, 'Scotch pies', which are mutton pies. We could get tattie scones/potato farls in Norfolk too, but haven't really seen them about much now that we've moved north to Yorkshire.

I like tattie scones too, but I don't digest them very well, so never eat them now.

Merl said:

I looked through that garbage bucket list I perused last time and came to this bizarre one....

20. Be a tourist in your own city

As my home City is Manchester (England) I think I've seen enough of the City without having someone giving me a guided tour of it or just walking round it in a tourist capacity. Why would I possibly need or want to be a tourist in my home city? Of all the bucket list items I've seen up to now this has got to be the stupidest. Next up go for an Air BnB in your own house or do your own job for a day.

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My home city is York, so though I grew up visiting its old buildings and museums, there's probably more I could see. But the biggest tourist draw these days seems to be the Ghost Tour, which I think is a load of rubbish, so I don't think I'll bother.

I think I shall say, going on a cruise will be on my anti-bucket list.

I know several women who seem to enjoy them when they're older, but one of my friends has just come back with a debilitating viral infection and says she will go on no more. I am worried about her, and have read often enough of epidemics of sickness striking cruise ships.

But the other thing is, I don't like being 'trapped' with a load of people who are much more sociable than me (I'm shy!) & I'd rather not be confronted with delicious things to eat all the time. So no thank you.