re: Have you ever done anything epic and haven't told anyone?

my reparations joke when I sent 7th a check

My work colleagues know. But my family and friends don’t.

I was the first person ever to integrate diametrically different systems that are both very common in ERPs today. It had never been done before and nobody knew how to do it. Neither did I. But I figured it out after about a year of hell.

Since then (2019) many others have done that using my blueprint. I even wrote a chapter in a textbook about it and gotten published. Many have seen my blueprint and decided it was too complicated (it is) and went a different route.

No point in explaining this to my wife or friends. They wouldn’t understand. Ironically my wife is a gifted writer but I’m the one whose works were published first.

I m sure I have told others here, but I sat with a young paratrooper solder one night in military hospital ER at Womack Army Hospital talked to him and held his hand as he died after a really bad night jump into a thunderstorm at Ft. Bragg.

I pulled a kid out of a burning car at an accident beside the interstate in Ohio one afternoon.

Well I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you....

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Have you ever done anything epic and haven't told anyone

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yes...

I've done a few epic things, but I've told people.

There are a few mundane things I regularly do that I don't tell anyone about though.

I've stopped to change flats for women drivers on three occasions. I pulled an old lady's car out of a ditch with my truck.

I pick up trash all around our work campus any time I see some. Same for when walking in the neighborhood, wilderness, or when kayak fishing. I fricking HATE litterbugs.

Probably one of the coolest thing I have ever done was go to The Spire of The Empire State Building

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Have you ever done anything epic and haven't told anyone?

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Yes, but I can't tell you now can I?

I was driving on an interstate doing ~65-70mph and it was drizzling with wet roads. Car in the lane beside me didn't look and just merged into my lane. I had to get out of the way so quickly I fishtailed it and probably had the car at like a 60 degree angle at one point before correcting my steering and getting it back under control. Almost hit 90 degrees going down the interstate at 70mph when I was probably 19-20yrs old, so regaining control of the car was a highlight. Didn't panic or anything, just worked to solve the problem.

As for things I've told people about:

Solo skydiving on my first jump despite hating heights and planes.

Held an oxygen mask on a grown male lion in the back of an 80's Toyota pick up & helped herd a rhino that had escaped back into its enclosure. Also got charged by a gorilla (it was in its enclosure so it hit the bars, but it's still something to have an adult male gorilla literally charge you & slam itself again metal bars like a foot from you). Volunteering at a zoo can be interesting.

After getting shot in the chest I pushed my own intestines back in and held them there, while also having to walk downstairs and open my apartment door for the cops since my neighbors couldn't be bothered.

Once a mattress blew out of the back of a truck in front of me on the highway and I swerved sharply to make the wheels on my truck come off the ground and pass over the top of the mattress then land back safely on 4 tires and kept going without ever checking up. Friend of mine was with me and he looked at me in shock and said that was the best driving he’d ever seen.

Still no clue how I did it. It was instinct and a reaction and I probably just got lucky

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After getting shot in the chest I pushed my own intestines back in and held them there, while also having to walk downstairs and open my apartment door for the cops since my neighbors couldn't be bothered.

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Dude, you gotta elaborate on this story.

WTF?>