What one great moment stands out in your life

[RNR]

I talking while it was happening you grasp it an realized it does not get any better than this. I have had several great moments but it always seemed it happened and later I realized how special it was.

[keg in kc]

Hmm. Haven't had one yet, I don't think.

[Buck]

Hmm. Haven't had one yet, I don't think.

This.

[RNR]

Hmm. Haven't had one yet, I don't think.

I have one but I am saving it. I just wanted to read some others first.

[JohninGpt]

Hell night was over and I was accepted by the Navy Chiefs community (Sep 16, 1999). It defined who and what I was for the next 9 years and shaped me for the rest of my life.

[Gadzooks]

2 girls 1 cup.

[Hammock Parties]

She said, "I wanna suck your cock."

[keg in kc]

Just being in Hawaii was about the closest for me. Living in the midwest, I didn't realize how flat and pastel it is here until I got out there. Everything is so vivid and beautiful. The whole week I was like "this is the best place I'll ever be". And...then I came home.

Cruise to Alaska was largely the same thing. Just amazingly beautiful scenery.

But as far as life-defining, meaningful moments, nothing yet.

[BigMeatballDave]

The birth of my son.

[CosmicPal]

She said, "I wanna suck your cock."

Too bad you didn't do anything about it.

[Gonzo]

My wedding was one moment that I really appreciated at the time. Recently though?
About two weeks ago I was just hanging with my 13 month old boy, he crawled up to me while I was laying on the floor and just sat there and looked at me for like 2 minutes. After that he smiled and layed right down next to me. Right then is when your child starts developing emotions other than balls out pissed and content. I'll never forget that for the rest of my life.
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[Hammock Parties]

Too bad you didn't do anything about it.

You better believe I let her.

[Gadzooks]

My wedding was one moment that I really appreciated at the time. Recently though?
About two weeks ago I was just hanging with my 13 month old boy, he crawled up to me while I was laying on the floor and just sat there and looked at me for like 2 minutes. After that he smiled and layed right down next to me. Right then is when your child starts developing emotions other than balls out pissed and content. I'll never forget that for the rest of my life.
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You'll have another moment next week. Damn kids will do that to you.

[RJ]

I have one but I am saving it. I just wanted to read some others first.


I look forward to hearing it.

And can't help picturing RNR as Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan.

[RNR]

I look forward to hearing it.

And can't help picturing RNR as Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan.

Nothing near that heroic LMAO

[FAX]

That time out there in the desert when me and Uncle Gerald held off 200 rampaging Apaches for three days with nothing but two Winchesters, 50 rounds of ammo, a pair of suspenders, and a pile of rocks.

Help arrived just in time. Without my suspenders, I was sunburning my ass pretty bad.

FAX

[RJ]

The starter specifically asks for a moment, so I have to say the moment I found out my daughter was a daughter. We had gone for several sonograms but she just hadn't been cooperative, kept crossing her little legs. We finally decided we weren't meant to know until she came and so we waited. Everyone knew I wanted a girl but no one knew just how bad. I already had two adult sons and I knew that if I didn't get a girl this time I never would.

When she finally came out I asked the nurse, "is it a girl or a boy?".

The nurse didn't answer, she just held her up for me to look. All I could see was a bunch of wrinkly skin and yucky stuff. So I repeated the question, but much louder for emphasis. The nurse finally said, "it's a girl", and I literally applauded and did fist pumps hopping around the delivery room.

I suppose I've had days or events to rival that, but for one single moment, one second in time, that was my happiest. I am such a lucky daddy.

[Taco John]

Three top ones:
1. Birth of my Son
2. Saying my vows
3. Walking the platform to claim my Bachelors diploma

Others:
Waking up at 4am on the top of a mountain that we were trapped on to see the clouds had settled in the valley, the sky was clear, the stars were bright, and the moon was full. That was a perfect moment.

Standing at the top of a peak between Mt. Rainier and the city of Seattle, watching the sun set into the city and the lights come alive while roasting smores over a camp stove.

I often like to go solo backpacking in the wilderness here in Washington - and there is a time, right at about 8'oclock PM (earlier in the winter) when I come to full realization that I'm not going to run into another soul for the rest of the night and that it's me, my dog, my campfire, and the dark for the duration. That's a perfect moment.

[RJ]

Nothing near that heroic LMAO


I'm thinking of the scene near the end where he's sharing some memories with Matt Damon. Matt Damon tells the story about the ugly girl.

[RNR]

That time out there in the desert when me and Uncle Gerald held off 200 rampaging Apaches for three days with nothing but two Winchesters, 50 rounds of ammo, a pair of suspenders, and a pile of rocks.

Help arrived just in time. Without my suspenders, I was sunburning my ass pretty bad.

FAX
There was a movie with Brian Keith and Charton (sp) Hesston (sp) years ago. Keith is telling a story while they are fighting about the time he was surounded by Indians trapped in a cannon with only one way out and that is where the Indians were. He had run out of ammo. A long pause and Hesston yells WHAT HAPPENED? He yells back well they killed me of course.

[Fairplay]

I remember when i was about 7 years old. I wanted a piece of candy from a store we were in. My mom said no you can't have it. I snuck the piece in my pocket when i thought she wasn't looking. A few minutes later she told me to pull out my pockets. I got a deserved slap on the wrist for it.

I felt bad because i let my mom down.

[Hammock Parties]

I often like to go solo backpacking in the wilderness here in Washington - and there is a time, right at about 8'oclock PM (earlier in the winter) when I come to full realization that I'm not going to run into another soul for the rest of the night and that it's me, my dog, my campfire, and the dark for the duration. That's a perfect moment.

And then a bear eats you.

[Bwana]

Three top ones:
1. Birth of my Son
2. Saying my vows
3. Walking the platform to claim my Bachelors diploma

Others:
Waking up at 4am on the top of a mountain that we were trapped on to see the clouds had settled in the valley, the sky was clear, the stars were bright, and the moon was full. That was a perfect moment.

Standing at the top of a peak between Mt. Rainier and the city of Seattle, watching the sun set into the city and the lights come alive while roasting smores over a camp stove.

I often like to go solo backpacking in the wilderness here in Washington - and there is a time, right at about 8'oclock PM (earlier in the winter) when I come to full realization that I'm not going to run into another soul for the rest of the night and that it's me, my dog, my campfire, and the dark for the duration. That's a perfect moment.

Heh, I can so relate to this post. Very cool.......

[KCChiefsMan]

I can think of some dark moments that changed my life, but nothing positive.

[Fairplay]

I don't know if discovering i am a Chiefs fan is a negative or a positive thing.

[JohninGpt]

I don't know if discovering i am a Chiefs fan is a negative or a positive thing.

I dunno, ask RNR how it felt when he did.:D

[DMAC]

I don't know if discovering i am a Chiefs fan is a negative or a positive thing.Negative. It's like discovering your gay when you like poon tang.

[JOhn]

I talking while it was happening you grasp it an realized it does not get any better than this. I have had several great moments but it always seemed it happened and later I realized how special it was.

Many good ones....

1 birth of my 1st daughter
2 birth of my 2nd daughter
3 birth of my 3rd daughter
4 birth of my 1st son
5 birth of my 2nd son

Most all the good times with my kids, graduations B-days etc....

Personal memories.... Getting my Paramedic License, my first call, my first clinical save and sadly my last call.

Lots of really special memories I've made here in Wyoming, almost all have been when I'm out in the mountains.

[JohninGpt]

Many good ones....

1 birth of my 1st daughter
2 birth of my 2nd daughter
3 birth of my 3rd daughter
4 birth of my 1st son
5 birth of my 2nd son


Um, you're kind of fertile huh?

Kidding aside, I've got two kids at home 8 and 13, and they wear my butt out, my hat is off to you raising five.

[RNR]

I'm thinking of the scene near the end where he's sharing some memories with Matt Damon. Matt Damon tells the story about the ugly girl.

My son talked me into flying out to see the Allstar challenge. We had fun the whole time we were there. As luck would have it our favorite driver won. We celebrated and as we walked to our car I looked at him. He was back on mid tour leave from his first tour. I saw a man and a son that I was so proud of. I felt safe in his presense.I flashed back to him as a child and I remembered dropping him off to go to boot camp.

I remembered thinking at the time how bad I wanted to tell to take the truck home and I would see him when this fight was over. I wanted to go for him and protect him. In that moment I was overcome with pride and was able to grasp that moment and enjoy it as it happened. I felt I past the torch that night and handed it to a better man.

[Gadzooks]

Um, you're kind of fertile huh?

Kidding aside, I've got two kids at home 8 and 13, and they wear my butt out, my hat is off to you raising five.

You don't know the half of it. John's a great Dad.

[JOhn]

Um, you're kind of fertile huh?

Kidding aside, I've got two kids at home 8 and 13, and they wear my butt out, my hat is off to you raising five.

Only raising 3 at the moment, 18y/o in college, 13 y/o lives in special needs home. but I got the 3 youngest on my own now:eek:

[RNR]

I dunno, ask RNR how it felt when he did.:D

LMAO Blow me!

[RJ]

My son talked me into flying out to see the Allstar challenge. We had fun the whole time we were there. As luck would have it our favorite driver won. We celebrated and as we walked to our car I looked at him. He was back on mid tour leave from his first tour. I saw a man and a son that I was so proud of. I felt safe in his presense.I flashed back to him as a child and I remembered dropping him off to go to boot camp.

I remembered thinking at the time how bad I wanted to tell to take the truck home and I would see him when this fight was over. I wanted to go for him and protect him. In that moment I was overcome with pride and was able to grasp that moment and enjoy it as it happened. I felt I past the torch that night and handed it to a better man.


RNR, that's a great. I can tell by your words that you can still feel what you felt at that moment.

[RNR]

RNR, that's a great. I can tell by your words that you can still feel what you felt at that moment.

Oh I might be a little proud...does it show?

[RJ]

Oh I might be a little proud...does it show?


Maybe just a little. But in a tough guy sort of way, of course. ;)

[ziggysocki]

The births of my 3 kids. -- You only know the feeling once you have been there.
Crossing the finish line after running my first marathon. -- The most physically challenging thing I have done, amazing sense of accomplishment.
Freefalling out of an airplane from 10k feet at 120mph - Just freaking WOW

Many more, but these are my top 3.

[Bearcat]

One that immediately comes to mind, from about 4 years ago.... I had just started my first 'real job' in IT, and right around that time, I started dating someone who was seriously out of my league. I was taking MBA classes and had just gotten through finals, hanging onto my 4.0, and was planning on buying my first new car. It was a tough semester and it was the most relieved I'd ever felt when it was over. We went to the Plaza one night and ended up seeing a movie and eating at Kona Grill.

While we were eating, I remember thinking that it was all too good to be true, because just a couple of months before, I was doing customer service/mailroom/courier stuff, driving a car that was in trouble, and well, not sleeping with someone I had no business dating.

She disappeared soon after and I lost my 4.0, but I still have the car, so that's cool. :D

[boogblaster]

Top 2 births of son then daughter .. after that lots of stuff couple just walking away from a couple firey crashes ...

[SenselessChiefsFan]

You better believe I let her.

Well, she was your mom afterall, you couldn't say no to mom.

[Pioli Zombie]

The dress Halle Berry is wearing on Jay Leno tonight.
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[Ralphy Boy]

Not to get all deep and sappy, but for me it was the day that I found out for sure that God was real. I don't typically tell people about myself, but I don't know any of you anyway so here you go. If someone told this to me, I wouldn't believe them, so take it for what it's worth.

My real dad killed himself when I was 5, my stepdad raised me and was a good man but he had 2 sons from his first marriage. My sister was the only girl in our family, so they had a pretty strong bond, but our relationship was different. He didn't really throw the ball around with me or take me fishing though when my brothers came to visit the 3 of them would go do something.
I grew up thinking that my real dad didn't love me enough to live for me and never felt like I had a father.
My mom has always been a strong christian and forced us to go to church & Sunday school and I grew up hearing "God our father..." all the time but never really put it into context.
When I was 21 my girlfriend and I got engaged and shortly thereafter she missed her period. We were way too young and had just signed a lease on a place to live. At this point we were both still living with our parents and in school. She hadn't taken a pregnancy test yet, and this wasn't our first "scare".
I was lying in bed, the night she told me she was late, and prayed the same "God please don't let her be pregnant..." prayer, that I had a couple of times before only this time, for the first time, he spoke back. I don't know if it was just a voice inside of me, but it simply said "It's too late, she is and everything will be alright."
As I already said, I wouldn't believe someone if the story was told to me, but in that moment the ceiling in my room dissappeared and I saw the night sky. I reached my arms to the sky and felt God hugging me back. In that moment, I knew that I had not grown up without a father, God had been there for me all along. It's been over 13 years ago now, but I could have sworn I heard him say "It'll be alright son."

[Molitoth]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[KCChiefsMan]

actually I can think of one thing. about 17 years old, a senior in high school. I wanted a job, so I got one at mcdonalds. Small town, not much to offer a high school kid, but that's the job I got. I did not once ever study in high school or ever once do any homework and I somehow graduated and had no plans for college. Well, at mcdonalds I met some people who I never would have met. These guys are still good friends today and it changed my life forever. They all were going to the University of Kansas and basically, I wanted to go with them, they were my best friends. Well, that fall my friend Troy moved up to Lawrence for college and I went and visited him and fell in love with the place and wanted to be apart of it. Of course I couldn't get in at first because my high school grades were crap, but I talked to them and they told me that if I go to a JUCO and basically get a 4.0 for 2 semesters they would let me in. DONE, did that and enrolled at KU. Graduated 4 years later.

I never would be here if I hadn't gotten that job at mcdonalds and met the good friends that I met, I probably never would have went to college at all, and who knows where the hell I'd be today. Life's a trip, enjoy the ride.

[RJ]

Good story, KCChiefsMan. And you said you didn't have one.

[Ralphy Boy]

Since I'm already sharing, I'll expand and tell another page from our family history.
My wife and I got married a few months after we found out she was pregnant and didn't tell anyone about the pregnancy until after we got back from the honeymoon. The pregnancy went fine and the night our son was born was amazing and sad all at once. He was born with two club feet and a heart defect (aortic stenosis). His club feet were of the worst severity, both feet pointing inward toward each other (see the attached picture) and the ankles were rolled so he would stand on the tops of his feet. We had to see a few specialists and he was in full leg casts from the time he was two weeks old.

A few weeks after he got home, he would spit up quite often after taking his bottle and could hardly keep his formula down. One day while I was at work I got a call to get to the emergency room. Apparently he had thrown up quite a bit and the formula wasn't the same color as when it went in, but rather almost a brown color.

Turns out he had another birth defect called Pyloric Stenosis that we didn't know about. Basically a valve inside his stomach was shutting down and not processing the food thru his system and he needed surgery. They gave him barium fluid and I held him in my arms while they did an xray and I could see the fluid backing up. They performed surgery and while everything with the surgery went okay regarding the pyloric stenosis, some of the barium backed up into his lungs and he could not breath on his own, so they had to put him on oxygen. It was a very touchy couple of days and I can still recall seeing him in the infanct ICU unit, strapped face down to a board with a respirator taped over his face and the casts on his legs. He made a full recovery and we were home in less than a week.

A couple of weeks later, my wife had a sudden and large amount of discharge. She had been spotting quite a bit after the baby was born and the doctors kind of blew her off, telling her it was natural, don't worry about it and so on. This time it was a large amount and I rushed her to the ER, they did some tests and we found out she had choriocarcinoma. Cancer from the placenta not having been fully delivered. She then had to get a port put in and undergo chemotherapy for the next few months and she did make a full recovery.
During the time that she was in chemo, we had to have the first surgery on our son's feet, what was called a "Partial tendon release". The doctor hoped it would be the only surgery he would need, but said it was likely that because of the severity, a second surgery would be needed and it was.
Somewhere during this time, I got fired and went unemployed for about 4 weeks before finding a new job.
When he was about 10 months old, he had a second surgery which basically consisted of breaking both feet and rebuilding them and inserting pins, followed by a new set of casts.

The second surgery was a success and fixed his feet. All told that year, in the first year of my sons life and first 16 months of our marriage, my son had 3 surgeries, my wife had 2 (installing & removing the port) along with however many rounds of chemo she had to have, lost all her hair and we both were unemployed and had a pile of medical bills.

A few days before my son's first birthday, my son got his casts off his feet and we could see how perfect his new feet were. The day after he got his casts off, I got a promotion at work and I had my wife and son meet me for lunch. It was early January and had been an ugly gray day outside, but as we sat inside the restaurant, in a booth by a window, the sun came out and the song playing on the restaurants muzak system was "I can see clearly now the rain is gone".
That was without a doubt a truly great moment in my life. The dark cloud that hung over us had lifted and with that song playing on the radio, I looked down at my sons beautiful little feet, hanging from the restaurant high chair, looked back at my beautiful wife, with her new hair now growing in thick, and smiled. Everything really was going to be alright.

[RJ]

Nice story, Ralphy. I hope everyone is well now.

[Ralphy Boy]

Nice story, Ralphy. I hope everyone is well now.

Thanks RJ. We've had two perfectly healthy children since and have been happily married for 13 years.

After the dust settled that year I volunteered to head up my employers Relay for Life team (to benefit the American Cancer Society). I volunteered on short notice and we raised quite a bit of money and had a pretty large turnout from our office. At the start of the event, they acknowledge cancer survivors by having a survivor walk, so my wife and I walked in it with our son.
They had a candle lit sign on the bleachers that read "HOPE" and as we walked, being there with the two of them, I knew how special the moment was.

[RJ]

Good for you and your family, Ralphy. We all get so much more out of life when we get involved with life. I believe volunteering helps ourselves just as much as it helps others.

[Ugly Duck]

Lost in the shipwreck of the Princess Kathleen in Alaskan waters. 90 feet down, 38 degree water, pitch black, running out of air. Had to find a way out totally blind. Thought I was a dead man. When I did find a way out, when I discovered that I was not going to die.... the great moment of my life. If I could bottle up that feeling & sell it - move over Bill Gates!

[Buehler445]

3. Walking the platform to claim my Bachelors diploma



Really? I thought mine (both times) was notably anticlimactic. I really felt done when I walked out of my last final. The ceremony was a formality.

I couldn't really tell you one defining moment of my life. There are a lot of things I'm proud of, a lot of things that made me feel good. I typically don't get worked up about the traditional events. Graduation, wedding, birthdays, moving out, etc. Typically life defines itself outside of those events. Most notably, my wedding was a HELL of a good time, and I appreciated all of my friends getting together and driving to BFE for my wedding, but the commitment to my wife happened long before we made it official.

The things that get me are the little things. Cuddling with your wife, achieving lawn domination, enjoying the company of truely good friends....Those are the things that make life great.

[luv]

Sometimes, it's not a single moment, but a series of moments, that lead you to where you are.

[KCChiefsMan]

Sometimes, it's not a single moment, but a series of moments, that lead you to where you are.

most of the time, I don't understand what you are saying, this is not one of those times

[Bearcat]

Sometimes, it's not a single moment, but a series of moments, that lead you to where you are.

Thanks Dr. Phil, care to share one of those single moments?


:p

[Bearcat]

A few days before my son's first birthday, my son got his casts off his feet and we could see how perfect his new feet were. The day after he got his casts off, I got a promotion at work and I had my wife and son meet me for lunch. It was early January and had been an ugly gray day outside, but as we sat inside the restaurant, in a booth by a window, the sun came out and the song playing on the restaurants muzak system was "I can see clearly now the rain is gone".
That was without a doubt a truly great moment in my life. The dark cloud that hung over us had lifted and with that song playing on the radio, I looked down at my sons beautiful little feet, hanging from the restaurant high chair, looked back at my beautiful wife, with her new hair now growing in thick, and smiled. Everything really was going to be alright.

Wow, that's a truly awesome story and moment, thanks for sharing.

[luv]

Thanks Dr. Phil, care to share one of those single moments?


:p

There are several. It's hard to choose just one. I could say getting hired on where I work now. When I got hired on, I was making $5.35/hour. Now, I'm able to support myself, and I've got a lot of different experiences under my belt along with tenure. I could say my first time visiting Arrowhead. I could say it was starting to post on this BB because of all of the cool people I've met and friendships I've devoloped. I could say it was figuring out how to solve a problem at work today with little input for the first time.

I don't know. To me, nothing major stands out. Not yet, anyway.

[tonyetony]

A few days before my son's first birthday, my son got his casts off his feet and we could see how perfect his new feet were. The day after he got his casts off, I got a promotion at work and I had my wife and son meet me for lunch. It was early January and had been an ugly gray day outside, but as we sat inside the restaurant, in a booth by a window, the sun came out and the song playing on the restaurants muzak system was "I can see clearly now the rain is gone".
That was without a doubt a truly great moment in my life. The dark cloud that hung over us had lifted and with that song playing on the radio, I looked down at my sons beautiful little feet, hanging from the restaurant high chair, looked back at my beautiful wife, with her new hair now growing in thick, and smiled. Everything really was going to be alright.

Ok ralph, I really don't feel like doing the things I need to do now. Someone you don't know should be thanking you.:doh!:

[Demonpenz]

a couple years ago I bought good seats for foo fighters. My best bud came up from springfield and we went bar hopping all day. Like shit ass bars like the vfw. We actually had our name up as an "Event" at the VFW because we told them about our pub crawl. We drank all night spend a zillion dollars at the foo fighters. got a cab ride up. I ate some steak and shrimp some where in there. It was a great day. Most of my friends haven't married total bitches and they let them hang with me. I am honestly most content just drinking on a friday night, listening to my favorite cd, playing my guitar and feeling fucking good. the days where I am not overwhelmed with stress, have a cold, have a stomach ache, eyes hurt, balls hurt always seems like something hurts most the time, but damn it feels good on a friday just enjoying what you have.

I had a couple walk off hits in baseball that were sweet some days that are the most proud are bittersweat though. Talking at funerals or being proud to be a pal bearer for my grandpa was a proud day although sad, it doesn't get better than the generation he was apart of, to hear stories about what the old boys were like building buildings and boats by hand.

[Mr. Kotter]

The day I married my wife. Seriously.

:shrug:

[Mr. Kotter]

The birth of each of my children. All four. Every one as special as the others.

Seriously.

:shrug:

[Mr. Kotter]

And, no, I won't surrender my "man" card. For real men, those are the things that matter. Really.

:shrug:

[Reaper16]

Listening to the Vintersorg song "Epilogue Metalogue - Sharpen Your Mind Tools" from the 2004 album The Focusing Blur for the first time.

First bite of L.C.'s burnt ends.

Pliny the Elder.

[wutamess]

hmmm... 2 immediately come to mind...

1. My mother found out I was selling weed (found my stash and all) and her tears about killed me.

2. Cuddling with my second youngest (2yo) daughter. Reminds me of the way my mother and I used to cuddle. That's the greatest feeling in the world. Even though I have 5 kids... She has me wrapped around her finger. She can do no wrong.

[Bugeater]

This.

http://huskerpedia.com/images/cory2.jpg

Cory Schlesinger rambling across the goal line with 2:46 left to go in the 1995 Orange Bowl to put Nebraska up 24-17. 20 years of disappointment and frustration...gone in an instant.

[CoMoChief]

Kansas winning the National Title in basketball 2 years ago. Mario hitting that shot.

I've never had any of my teams win shit (in my lifetime, not counting 85 royals because I was only 2 years old then)

That was one of the best National Title games ever....and I witnessed it. And cheered my ass off and bragged in a bar full of MU fans.

[Inspector]

For me it was that time when the jumbo jet I was on was hit by a missle requiring me to jump out the opening left in the fuselage and literally fly underneath it to prevent it from crashing and just as it was about to land nose first into a stadium full of people, I went around to the nose and stopped it about 5 feet before it plunged into the ground.

That was one of the greatest moments of my life.

Or....was that a movie? I get so confused sometimes.

[Inspector]

Also my wife, kids and grandkids.

There are some truly great stories in this thread.

[JOhn]

My latest one happen just this morning.

About 3 am my 4y/o son woke me up after having a bad dream and wanted dad. Son he climbed in bed with me and went back to sleep. When my alarm went off at 5am i sat up in bed and just watched him sleep. Was really neat as all my other kids are getting big, and he's the last. Made me remember how special these times are when they are so young and innocent

[BY1401]

In the middle of driving the Dragon's Tail at Deals Gap. Pouring it on in for all it's worth in what short distance I had in the straightaways. Downshifting for tight turn after tight turn. Adrenaline coursing through my body as the curves tried to rocket me off the edge of the cliff into oblivion. White Zombie blasting through the Bose system. The lady in my passenger seat screaming obscenities and moaning out of pure ecstasy.

It was sex in motion.

And then a bear ate us.

[hawkchief]

The moment the Dr. placed my firstborn into my arms. Aside from my marriage, nothing else is even close.

[kindra68]

The day I said “no” to my (now) ex husband and “yes” to me.
The weight that lifts off your shoulders and the relief that fills your soul is unimaginable.
I now realize HE was the weak one.

And the day I realized that I didn’t need a man in my life. I could do it by myself.

[blaise]

The birth of my sons. I also have sold a few pieces of writing that have been produced in front of live audiences. That's a pretty cool thing to see.

[jidar]

God.... I hate to say this, I hardly remember my kids being born.
Everything was so hectic and odd, I had a flood of worries and concerns and I was young. At the end of the day I was just glad it was over and we could get to the parenting part.

My kids are everything to me, so I don't think it makes me a bad dad, I think I'm pretty good actually. I just don't understand why everyone picks that moment out as some kind of near religious experience because it didn't feel that way to me. I wonder how unusual my experience is or if there are lots of others like me who never say anything.

Also, I have a really really hard time picking out a best moment. I've had a life full of great moments, but none stand out too highly.

I guess right now I would go with Chalmers hitting that 3 pointer.

[MOhillbilly]

First time i beat off. First time i stuck it in a woman.

[Frazod]

I beat the hell out of my arch enemy in front of all my friends and all his friends. The motherfucker was so humiliated that he left town. That rocked.

[Ralphy Boy]

The day I got out of the Navy. With my release papers in hand I walked out of my squadron hanger and headed to my 300Z in the parking lot. Took out the T-tops, stripped down to my boxers and t-shirt and left my uniform and boots lying in the parking lot. Cranked up my radio and drove for 17 hours straight home.

[Mr. Plow]

Not really a "great" moment, but one that I'll remember for a long time.

The KS State Fair is in town, with that comes rides, etc. They are offering helicopter rides and each day for the past 7 days these helicopters take off and fly directly above my house.

As I'm sitting on the porch with my 2 year old daughter & 3 year old son, one helicopter flew over the house....and then another. On their return trip to land, the flew over our neighborhood just south of my house. My 3 year proceeds to say (in his cute 3 year old voice) "I'm sick of the damn helitoppers".

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. It also showed me that I need to watch my own mouth around my kids.

[Frazod]

The day I got out of the Navy. With my release papers in hand I walked out of my squadron hanger and headed to my 300Z in the parking lot. Took out the T-tops, stripped down to my boxers and t-shirt and left my uniform and boots lying in the parking lot. Cranked up my radio and drove for 17 hours straight home.

Heh. I threw mine in the trash before I left the building. Ripped the shirt open - buttons flew everywhere.

I did put jeans on, though. :D

I scraped the base sticker off my car before I left, too. Yeah, that was a happy day.

[Over-Head]

3:22am Jan 22, 2006 the day my son was born

[Over-Head]

You better believe I let her.
So what did the rooster think about it?

[DJ's left nut]

I have no kids, so mine's somewhat shallow I suppose.

I had just got done building a new deck on the back of my first house with my dad about a week earlier so we had hauled all the cedar scrap into the garage. It was piled in the open bay between the camaro and my bike.

So I go into the garage to get the mower and hit the door button. First thing I notice is the smell of that cut wood mixed in with the faint motoroil smell coming from the car (afterall, what self-respecting '67 doesn't leak a little oil). So I kick some of the scraps out of the way to get the mower out and while I'm doing that, a nice breeze comes through and pushes the door to the house open. My labs go trotting out the door into the yard.

So I'm standing in my garage alongside the muscle car I've wanted since I was 8 and the bike I got so I can go on trips through Colorado with my dad, surrounded by the scent of grass, motor oil and cedar, watching my 2 goofy labradors (again, wanted since I was a kid but my mom wouldn't allow dogs) pad around the front yard that I'm getting ready to cut while my wife was inside baking stuff.

I guess you could consider it a 'master of the universe' moment. It's when the realities of adulthood set in and I realized that it's really not all that bad.

[38yrsfan]

Three top ones:
1. Birth of my Son
2. Saying my vows
3. Walking the platform to claim my Bachelors diploma

Others:
Waking up at 4am on the top of a mountain that we were trapped on to see the clouds had settled in the valley, the sky was clear, the stars were bright, and the moon was full. That was a perfect moment.

Standing at the top of a peak between Mt. Rainier and the city of Seattle, watching the sun set into the city and the lights come alive while roasting smores over a camp stove.

I often like to go solo backpacking in the wilderness here in Washington - and there is a time, right at about 8'oclock PM (earlier in the winter) when I come to full realization that I'm not going to run into another soul for the rest of the night and that it's me, my dog, my campfire, and the dark for the duration. That's a perfect moment.


The PNW has some really great country!

My sons and I spend LOTS of time just out and about, mostly N. Idaho and Montana but Eastern WA has some very interesting spots as well, just a very different kind of country.

[38yrsfan]

oh yeah, forgot, great stand out moment ..... actually falling to my knees on the tarmac and being thankful to be alive after an amazing landing in a C130 that lost almost all hydaulics and electrical and loaded with gear and 20 of us passengers coming back from a government sponsored, goodwill mission :). Life was much more "sincere" after that.

[ZepSinger]

The birth of my son.

This. Daughter in my case, tho.

[kczoo]

I talking while it was happening you grasp it an realized it does not get any better than this. I have had several great moments but it always seemed it happened and later I realized how special it was.

I actually married the girl every other guy wanted. didnt know all that time she wanted me too. hottest woman i have ever seen. heart of gold.
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[burt]

I beat the hell out of my arch enemy in front of all my friends and all his friends. The mother****er was so humiliated that he left town. That rocked.

Then you stuck it to a woman caped crusader on the pool table?.......

[Inspector]

I actually married the girl every other guy wanted. didnt know all that time she wanted me too. hottest woman i have ever seen. heart of gold.
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Wait...

You married my wife????

[1ChiefsDan]

16 years ago today I said I Do to my beautiful wife
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[HotRoute]

I knw this sounds retarded but one day in middle school I was in class and a pass came for me to go to the principal's office, almost always expecting the worst I slowly walked to his office thinking wth did I do, I walked in with only my dad standing there I began to really think something was wrong. . . .

As I walked through that door he said to me "get your stuff we have to leave." my mind is racing. but as we got to the car he said to me, "i dont want you to tell anybody this but we're going to a chiefs game tonight"

As we went to watch the Eagles beat us in a pretty close thurs night game i felt a bond with my dad that night, thinking man Icant wait to take my son to this stadium in the future so that he can experience the same thing I did at that very moment.

My dad may not have always been the best father but i can honestly say that night i felt something that i'll never forget, A connection with a man that always seemed distant, and disciplinary and sometimes seemed just flat out mean. But i finally understood why we watch this game, not for the wins or the loses or stats but for the comradary that comes with it, from then on we have always had something to talk about on mondays, The Chiefs . .

[Reaper16]

16 years ago today I said I Do to my beautiful wife
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Every Gorilla has its day in the sun.

[MVChiefFan]

Of course marrying my wonderful wife would be tops. But, I'll never forget the summer of '92, between my junior and senior years in high school. I won't bore you with all the details of how this came about, but I ended up being able run the radar gun for the Royals and A's ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game. It was crazy! I had dinner over at Arrowhead. I was briefed in an ESPN truck before the game. I was freakin' out. I don't know if you all remember before all the renovations there was an empty space right behind homeplate for the tv camera. Well, that's where I stood and ran the gun and reported it to the booth. I'll never forget standing there and just staring at Ricky Henderson in the on deck circle and he gave me a nod. I crapped my pants and then relized the producer was yelling at me over my headphones to, in his words, "get the hell out of the camera shot!". One of the best moments of my life.

[JuicesFlowing]

The birth of my son.

Probably this. On a more superficial note: Flying for the first time, Traveling to England, hitting my first home run, scoring my first goal (soccer), scoring my first woman, my first Chiefs game, first Royals game, first time I saw the ocean, the mountains (Colorado) ... I have a lot of these moments ... some are more important than others, but they are all worth remembering.

[RNR]

God.... I hate to say this, I hardly remember my kids being born.
Everything was so hectic and odd, I had a flood of worries and concerns and I was young. At the end of the day I was just glad it was over and we could get to the parenting part.

My kids are everything to me, so I don't think it makes me a bad dad, I think I'm pretty good actually. I just don't understand why everyone picks that moment out as some kind of near religious experience because it didn't feel that way to me. I wonder how unusual my experience is or if there are lots of others like me who never say anything.

Also, I have a really really hard time picking out a best moment. I've had a life full of great moments, but none stand out too highly.

I guess right now I would go with Chalmers hitting that 3 pointer.

The thread was not so much "the best moment" more along the lines of a moment captured. I have had countless great moments in my life, too often they passed and I found them special upon reflection. I guess it is along the lines of living in the moment. I often feel like life happened while I was busy.

[Reerun_KC]

Nothing tops my wedding day and the birth of Jordan or Cody...

[Lumpy]

The day I met my husband, our wedding, and the birth of our son.

Really great stories guys! :D

[JD10367]

The day I met my husband, our wedding, and the birth of our son.

I hope those weren't all the same day! :D

[stumppy]

Kinda hard to pick just one. There are several things that have happened through the years, some good some bad that I will remember always.

The births of Michelle, Matthew, and Sam (my children) is tops. There are moments from the past that will be forever frozen in time for me. I remember specific days of helping my boys practice for football, running plays, showing my oldest Matthew how use a swim move on the o-lineman to get in the back field (he had some talent on the defensive side). Going over the WR routes with Sam and showing how to juke someone taking an angle on him.

I remember taking them fishing the first time and realising I might as well leave my poles at home anytime I took them fishing again for a year or two. I was to busy helping them the entire time to do any fishing myself.

I'll never forget the first time I let my daughter handle the shopping for her school clothes. The boys were still to young to handle their own so I went with them and Michelle headed for the Jr. Miss. dept. A couple hours later we met by the cash registers and I was pleasantly suprised to see that my daughter had done a fine job of picking out her new school clothes and she even stayed under budget. That next weekend she had several girlfriends over for the night. Of course they all had to ck out and try on all of the new clothes, which was fine. Sunday evening I start to do the laundry and discovered that every item of clothing my daughter picked out was in the dirty clothes. I started to wash them and then....one by one.....as I read the labels I discovered every single piece of clothing she got was either hand wash only/lay flat to dry/don't use a hanger or dry clean only. About a month or so later I ended up having to get her a bunch more school clothes. By then the other stuff had gotten ruined one way or another. Just another one of those parenting things you learn as you go.

Never forget the 'tree on fire' incident. Was in the house and could smell wood burning somewhere. Ck'd the house, it's ok. Went outside and ck'd all over, mind you this was a huge yard, but couldn't find any fire, still smell the smokethough. Blew it off for awhile but the smoke smell got worse. Went back out and discovered one of the trees on the far side of the yard was the source. It was kind of rotten and was holled out about 3/4ths the way from the ground up to about 20 foot. That side faced away from the house so I didn't see it untill I walked around it. The entire holled out part of the tree was glowing with red coals. Top to bottom all of the inside of it. I grab the hose and start dousing it while I'm wondering how in the hell did the entire inside of this big ass tree turn into one huge glowing red hot ember. And then I seen it. 10 ft up there was a kind of nest area on a bit of a ledge with about 4 or 5 gross packages of bottle rockets. They had been lashed together to prevent flight and encourage death and destruction at the spot the were lit. The damndest thing about it was that apparently someone had got into our house, went to the boys room, got up in the top of their closet and taken all of their bottle rockets. Then they used the bottle rockets vandalize the tree. The boys were as shocked as I was about the bottle rockets and susequent torching of the tree. I'll never forget how well they played it, smooth as butter, just rolled with it and I'm sure were already scheming and plotting new ways to circumvent my authority. They got the deer in the headlight look at the dinner table that night when I calmly mentioned that I wasn't buying any of their BS and the punishment was going to be liberally handed out.

I'll never forget my first stock car race. I've always loved driving fast,pushing the car as far as you can, and even street racing as a teenager. Had a chance to buy a stock car , nothing fancy just one for the pure street stock division with a couple friends. We jumped on it. Each one of us would have the car for an entire weekend, could race either or both races in the area that week. Anyways I had taken the car out on the track a few times before the season started, maybe had 15 to 20 laps under my belt with usually 4 or 5 cars on the track at the same time. The came the first race of the season. The car was dialed in, our safety equipt. was all in working order, the car passed pre race inspection by the offcials.....Me and the car were ready. The notify our division to take your cars to the pre race staging spot I get up there and had been given the starting position of something like 14. Got in line, sitting there with the car idling and waiting. I was already pretty nervous then I noticed all the cars behind me. About 15 more. I'm doing the math and thinking, hmmm, only a 3/8ths mile track, this is basically the begginers division and the MF'in offcials are going to put over 30 fricking cars on the track for the first feature race of the season. My mind was playing in slow motion all of the different massive pile ups that was going to happen about 15 seconds after the green flag was dropped. I didn't think I was going to get killed but I figured sometime during the race I would get collected up and slam into something HARD resulting in severe pain. Waiting there for the race to start were the most happy,excited,exhilarating,frightening,adrenalin producing, scary, gotta man up and do this moments of my life. I think they had 3 restarts because of the several car pile ups that happened shortly after the green flag. I swapped paint a few times but finished somewhere in the middle of the pack. My winnings for that race was $15 and you couldn't have slapped the smile of my face after that race. It was the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on.


Damn.....I was going to write about a couple of other things until I realised how long this post was already.

[JD10367]

Me: 15.

Older girl.

Tied up on my lap.

Icecubes.

'Nuf said...

[Rain Man]

I've been fortunate to have a lot of triumphant moments in my life, and for the purposes of this question I'll eliminate the "standard" responses. Getting married is a moment/day I'll always remember vividly, as well as walking through my house for the first time after I bought it, my first night out of my parents' house, getting my first professional job offer for what seemed like a ton of money, and realizing that I was getting a full ride through college. But all of those, while great moments, were moments that were in my plans for life. I was working toward them, so they weren't so much a "life is grand" moment as much as a "yes, dawg, I'm pulling this off" moment.

When I think about individual moments where I felt like I was transcending Darwinian struggle, I would probably think about a couple of moments in 1989, and they're linked.

As background, I should point out that I come from a family of very nice people who embrace ruts as avidly as Keith Richards embraces the pharmaceutical industry. With them, change is bad, no matter what the change is, and they value miserable and stable over happy and dynamic every day of the week. As an example, when I got my aerospace engineering degree I was asked by my parents in all seriousness to not use it and get a job at the local lumber yard, just so I wouldn't leave town. I'm not joking, and I've got lots of similar examples.

So 1989 comes along, and I'm fighting 26 years of that culture and upbringing, and I'm working in St. Louis because that was as far as my mind could reach beyond that lumber yard, and I'm in a job that's not going well at all but I'm afraid to quit because, hey, a bad job with security is better than looking for something new, right? And I'm engaged to a total train wreck of a woman who was a pain in the neck even in good times and had just told me a few months beforehand that she was cheating on me with her married boss...and a coworker...and another coworker...and..., but hey, you don't walk away from a fiance, right? And I just had my life savings wiped out for the second time trying to keep a close relative out of prison, but you don't walk away from family, right? ('And by the way, just give me the money and don't tell anybody you helped me, okay? I don't want to look bad.')

And I saw a life ahead of me that was simply not what I wanted for myself, and was nothing more than a new rut in the family plowfield. All my life I had wanted to take a big step, and was always scared to do it. I made an excuse to go to the local college instead of leaving the state. I'd made an excuse to take the job in St. Louis instead of a similar job offer elsewhere. I'd always succumbed to the mantra of the family, which was to take the least innovative route at every fork in the road. I was just a rat on a treadmill, and it wasn't even in a psychology lab where some good research would come out of it. I was just a rat in a suburb.

So I had to get away, to do something to break the cycle.

I'd been talking with a good friend of mine about taking a vacation. He was my roomie, and like me, he had a lot of vacation days saved up, and some money. We'd been talking about going somewhere, and the talk kept ramping up and ramping up and eventually we said, "What's the most exotic place we can go to?" And we settled upon Nepal.

Now, keep in mind that my family never traveled, and was scared to death of anything unfamiliar. During my five years in St. Louis, they visited me once, because as they warned me when I took the job, "St. Louis is a jungle and people are getting killed there all the time." (They later had grave concerns about me visiting Disney World because people killed tourists there, and couldn't understand why I would take ever take a cruise with all those viruses.) So of course my parents were in a tizzy fit and I was dealing with the whorish ex-fiance, who by now had broken up with the married boss and the other johns and was thinking we should get back together, and my family member has called again and thought that if I could give him a little more money then he could get the prosecutor off his back...and WHOOOOOOOOOSH! The TWA jet takes off for Paris.

We spent four days in Paris, about three weeks traveling through India, and then another week or so in Nepal.

I have tons of vivid memories of that trip, and it's the best investment I've ever made. But two moments stand out.

In particular, I remember coming out of the Paris catacombs on our third or fourth day, hungry in some urban Paris street, and finding a bakery. My friend and I bought eclairs and sat down on the curb to eat them, and I remember breaking out into a big grin, thinking, "I'm sitting on a curb in Paris eating an eclair." It sounds stupid, but it was something so extraordinary in my mundane life, so out of character, so against everything that I'd been trained and raised and bred to do, that it was like a hood had been lifted from the outside of my bird cage. I was in f*****g PARIS! Eating a f*****g eclair on the curb!

Three weeks later, I was sitting on a restaurant patio in Kathmandu, on the last day of the trip, waiting to go to the airport on the trip home. The restaurant was on the side of a small mountain, and in front of us was a sunset I'll never forget. The sun was down in Kathmandu, but the big mountains - and I'm talking big - were still lit up in the sky because they were still above the horizon. It was one of the most amazing and splendid things I'd ever seen.

The trip had been the hardest thing I'd ever done. I can't even begin to describe it. The airlines had gone on strike so we had to drive halfway across India through mud hut villages and bandit territory. I'd spent more time with monks than I'd ever thought possible. I'd walked in the Taj Mahal. I'd listened to an Indian rock band impersonate the Beatles. I'd seen a dead body floating in the Ganges. I'd ridden an elephant in Nepal. I'd thrown up in Delhi. I'd been in cars where beggars banged on the windows and showed me their deformities. I'd sat around a campfire with Germans. GERMANS! I'd received instructions on what to do if I encountered a rhino near my tent.

And I sat there at that restaurant in Kathmandu and I was satisfied. The world wasn't a place of badness and evil and ruts and day after day of keeping my head down and avoiding risk. I'd run to the pool of life and jumped headfirst into the deep end, and I had come out just fine. Not just fine, but better than I'd been before.

It's funny, but I'd never really put all this together before. I felt it back then but didn't really realize why, and it actually makes me tear up a little bit to think about it now, and what that trip meant to me.

I ditched the fiance for good, and laid eyes on my wife on my first day back from that trip. (She had started work while I was on the trip - how's that for symbolic confirmation?) The family member went to prison. I lasted about a year more in that job and then drove out of Missouri for good, the only member of my family to ever do so. I still love to travel and will go anywhere, and maybe what I'm trying to do is recapture the magic of that first trip, or perhaps keep convincing myself that that I'm not just creating a new rut in a different field.

But whatever I do from here on out, I'll never forget that street in Paris or that sunset in Nepal.

[Lumpy]

I hope those weren't all the same day! :D

Well, it was the '90's and there wasn't much to do in small town KS...

Smart ass! :p

[Dark Horse]

I know this sounds selfish but for me it is probably walking on to the weigh in platform and hearing that I've just taken the lead for the first time in a Red Man bass tournament.

[Saccopoo]

I know this sounds selfish but for me it is probably walking on to the weigh in platform and hearing that I've just taken the lead for the first time in a Red Man bass tournament.

And here I was thinking that this was a lead in to a great "Biggest Loser" television moment...*sigh*

[Sully]

No way to narrow it to one.

When she said yes to "the question," carrot-stained top and all, and the table next to ours sent us a bottle of champagne to help us celebrate.

The morning of the wedding, sitting in my car, staring at the lake, and realizing not everyone gets cold feet.

The wedding, itself. Including our vows, and the message of the minister.

The birth of my daughter, 362 days ago. Hardest night of my life, followed by 25 minutes of rushing (that seemed to take 10 seconds), followed by the scariest 7 minutes of my life while they tried to get her to breath (that seemed to take hours) while I couldn't bring myself to answer my wife's questions of "Is she okay" and "Why isn't she crying?", followed by her body (and voice) coming to life, and taking her out to introduce to my parents and in-laws, and having that feeling... "Look what I've done." (Damn, just got dusty in here...)

I saw this thread, and am being Mr Mom tonight while my wife is out with the girls, and thought that once I got her to bed, I'd post these things. And as I read her stories to her before her bath, she was sitting in my lap, turned around, crawled up to my face and gave me a kiss for the first time (she's only ever kissed her mom)...and dammit if that little piece of sweet hasn't catapulted into the top 5.

[RJ]

It's funny, but I'd never really put all this together before. I felt it back then but didn't really realize why, and it actually makes me tear up a little bit to think about it now, and what that trip meant to me.



An excellent post, I'll single this part out.

[Redrum_69]

You better believe I let her.


Lets keep your hot sister out of this...

[Pioli Zombie]

The Pastors hot wife blowing me in the coffee bar during worship.
Ok I made that up.
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[jaa1025]

I'm not married, nor do I have kids so right now I'd have to say 2 moments that really stick out in my life.

1) When the back hatch opened up to our C5 after landing in Kuwait and the 100+ degree weather hit. I was scared shitless and didn't know if I'd make it back.

2) A year later when we landed back in the states. I just remember thinking I can't believe I made it and it felt amazing to serve my country. The welcome back from friends, family and the public was amazing. I still get all teary eyed when the National Anthem is played before Chiefs games.

[Pioli Zombie]

I'm not married, nor do I have kids so right now I'd have to say 2 moments that really stick out in my life.

1) When the back hatch opened up to our C5 after landing in Kuwait and the 100+ degree weather hit. I was scared shitless and didn't know if I'd make it back.

2) A year later when we landed back in the states. I just remember thinking I can't believe I made it and it felt amazing to serve my country. The welcome back from friends, family and the public was amazing. I still get all teary eyed when the National Anthem is played before Chiefs games.
That's awesome! Thank you for serving our country.
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[Hammock Parties]

I was in f*****g PARIS! Eating a f*****g eclair on the curb!

Has Rain Man ever used extreme profanity, censored or otherwise, in a post?

Must have been a good eclair.

[Hammock Parties]

By the way, Rain Man, I stood on Hadrian's Wall, so HAHAHAHAHAHA!

(too bad I was 8 and understood nothing about it)

[RNR]

I'm not married, nor do I have kids so right now I'd have to say 2 moments that really stick out in my life.

1) When the back hatch opened up to our C5 after landing in Kuwait and the 100+ degree weather hit. I was scared shitless and didn't know if I'd make it back.

2) A year later when we landed back in the states. I just remember thinking I can't believe I made it and it felt amazing to serve my country. The welcome back from friends, family and the public was amazing. I still get all teary eyed when the National Anthem is played before Chiefs games.

Glad you made it back safe...and thanks

[Jilly]

I guess my first, aside from Maddie being born and our wedding day, would be the day I got my call to ministry. I'll never forget it.

[JD10367]

<strike>I guess my first, aside from Maddie being born and our wedding day, would be the day I got my call to ministry. I'll never forget it.</strike> My great moment hasn't happened yet, it's that girl-on-girl lapdance JD is going to pay for so I can send him the pics and vids.

Fixed yer post. :)

[Lumpy]

Fixed yer post. :)

ROFL

[Jilly]

Fixed yer post. :)

True story. Just waiting for the money....

[JD10367]

True story. Just waiting for the money....

Told ya, I need a pic of you to decide how much I should invest. And I need to know the going rate. ;)