Having a painter and decorator asking me where I’d got my cabinet doors spray painted and telling him that I did them myself with a roller. Disproportionately proud.
This reminds me – when at uni I did a foundation of engineering course before doing my degree (because I got a rubbish maths A-level). We had to do a drawing module on proper drawing boards with pencils and all that vintage stuff…. 😀
Our course tutor was marking our previous weeks work & another tutor wandered over, pointed to my drawing (that our tutor coincidentally happened to be marking) and said “oh, I didn’t think the foundation group did CAD?”.
Our tutor looked at him a bit confused and said “they don’t….that’s been drawn by hand”. The other tutor thought it was a print-out from AutoCAD it was so neat…..I was well chuffed. Our tutor gave me a look, marked an A on the page & carried onto the next drawing. I was sooooo pleased with myself, because I used to pride myself on my engineering drawings.
RE, the golf examples above I got quite into golf but was never very good at it. I was playing a round by myself early one morning on a crappy, simple course out on the edge of the fens.
I managed to get a birdie on a par 3 hole, approx. 180yds. My tee shot ended up about 5 yds from the edge of the green & I did a little chip & run with my pitching wedge onto the green that ran straight into the hole.
Cue me literally whooping & cheering while jumping up & down. I think I might have even thrown my club in celebration too…..
I looked around & there was absolutely no one around. Not a soul. No one to see my first ever birdie & revel in my joy….so I ate a 4 finger Kitkat by way of celebration & carried on….. 😆