What's the greatest thing you've ever done?

Gave birth to our daughter

Despite having anxiety from.a young age and not one for being out of my comfort zone, I applied, was accepted, drove all the way to Manchester and back and filmed a TV quiz show all by myself. Not a big thing in most people's minds but an absolutely gigantic thing for me. I was buzzing with myself for days after.
 
Gave birth to our daughter

Despite having anxiety from.a young age and not one for being out of my comfort zone, I applied, was accepted, drove all the way to Manchester and back and filmed a TV quiz show all by myself. Not a big thing in most people's minds but an absolutely gigantic thing for me. I was buzzing with myself for days after.
How did you do and have we seen it yet?
 
Dad to 2 daughters and 1 step-daughter and grandad to 3 young boys. Great relationships with them all and they're all healthy, happy and well-adjusted people. Dunno how I managed all that mind, with some of the paths I've trodden in my time, but somehow I did, and it definitely beats any other achievements.
 
Apart from a threesome involving an australian woman (probably the same one) the proudest (and scariest) thing I've done was being part of a human chain trying to drag a young lad back into and Inter-city train going at full pelt. It was one of the early models where you could roll down the window and the silly lad had climbed outside to avoid paying the fare, but the door had swung open and he was dangling outside. The real hero was the guy who was first to act who grabbed my hand and told me to grab the nearest bloke's hand and so on - we were all queuing at the bar. He was half hanging out of the train himself trying to grab the lad and even though it happened so quickly I had terrible flashes of what would happen if my hand slipped or if the door hit an obstruction and flew back into us. The guy definitely saved this kid's life and almost collapsed when we hauled the kid in. I felt good for playing a little part although my legs were like rubber when I walked back to where I'd left my daughter.
 
I'll always remember when I was in first year of secondary school, there was a massive snowball fight on the school field.

There was this big massive pr*ck who was just a bully. He made this girl who I quite fancied at the time cry. He'd pushed her in the snow or something, and she was crying her eyes out.

Me being miles shorter than him, there was nothing I could do, other than make the most perfect snowball throw from a pretty far distance and totally wipe the c*nt out. I've got an awful throwing arm, but this was an unreal throw.

I lobbed it at him and as it arced down towards him he looked up at it. Got him right in the face and he got all snow in his eyes. Was just about crying himself. He didn't know where it had came from either so I avoided him coming after me

Justice. Will never forget it.
 
Gave birth to our daughter

Despite having anxiety from.a young age and not one for being out of my comfort zone, I applied, was accepted, drove all the way to Manchester and back and filmed a TV quiz show all by myself. Not a big thing in most people's minds but an absolutely gigantic thing for me. I was buzzing with myself for days after.

How did you do and have we seen it yet?
If my wife was anything to go by probably maxed out on pethidine and gas and air and 'three sheets to the wind'. Referring to Legz daughter as 'it' is a bit much Norman.
 
After becoming disabled, being unemployed for ages, having to work Test and Trace calls for evil Tory scunners for a couple of weeks I interviewed yesterday for a job as Technical Manager for a small community theatre. Today they offered me the job. Maybe not quite the best thing I've ever done, but hopefully instilling confidence in kids in this environment might be.
 
As a long serving police officer I stood up as a whistleblower and took a stand about wrong doing in the police service.

The matter is still on going and has been for over a year now with a lot more twists and turns still to go. I have paid a heavy price in my personal and family life and it is very likely I am going to have to leave the service. I have lost a lot of long time friends in the job and the stress of it all has cost me my marriage. My health has deteriorated and am I financially worse off because of this. The whole process has taken a considerable toll on me but I know it was the right course to take and I can stand tall and look myself in the mirror.

I am not sure "greatest" is the right word to use but it is by far and away the most difficult, arduous but the morally and ethically the correct thing to do and if I am successful it should benefit the local communities.
 
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Having got through chemotherapy for my cancer. Before which I was told I would no longer be able to father a child. A week after a test at the hospital revealed that “somehow” things still work as they should down there, my wife showing me a positive pregnancy test.

Happy and perfect little boy since been born and I continue in remission.

Can’t wait til he’s old enough to go to the match. UTB!
 
Saved 3 lives when I was younger.
First was when I was 15. An old fella was trying to follow his son down a very face of a hill I was climbing up. It was really steep easier to go up than down and he fell. I don't know why but I jumped and grabbed him as he went past me. I managed to get an arm through some roots that were sticking out and hung on to him for 10 minutes until some older men got up and helped him down with a rope. I've still got a knife his son brought over to me as a thank you for grabbing him.
2nd I was 21 and dragged a mate out of a swimming pool on holiday. He thought it was the shallow end and jumped in. He couldn't swim and it was the deep end.
3rd I was 23 and a mate git pinned at the bottom of a waterfall trying to get through it. I could see him stuck and dived down and pulled him clear.
First time I've told anyone , even the Mrs and son don't know.
 
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