The New York Times asks its readers to consider their Reverse Bucket List, by which they mean things in NYC that you hope never to do before you die. Let’s make this a game we can all play. For your personal Reverse Bucket List, itemize things that many people would put on their own Bucket List, but that you never would. Here are a few of mine:

1. Sky-dive.

2. Go to Disneyworld. A Drehery dystopia!

3. Go to sub-Saharan Africa. I don’t want to go so far to look at wild animals, many of which could eat me, and would if they had a chance. Besides, it’s hot.

4. Go to Australia. Fantastic people, but that’s a long way to go for sharks and big spiders, and no castles, medieval cathedrals, or ruins, which is what I like to look at.

5. Go to Las Vegas. As if you doubted.

6. Scuba dive. 

7. Go camping anywhere in the world. I hate camping. I do not want to rough it, thank you very much.

8. Climb Mount Everest. What’s the point? Assuming it was pleasurable freezing your butt off and exerting yourself to the maximum, once you got to the top, there would be not a damn thing to eat there, probably just some Sherpa with a Thermos of yak butter tea or some other disgusting thing.

9. Read “Ulysses” or “Finnegans Wake.”

10. Go on a cruise. Unless it is a river cruise in Europe — preferably a barge rented with a group of friends — or a smallish boat sailing up and down the Adriatic. I do not want to be trapped on a floating hotel with other people who are cheerful, gregarious, and won’t leave me alone.