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Regrets

WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Let's here them! What are your regrets in life? What would you do differently if you had a "do over"?

Mine? I regret not serving in the military.
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    How many times have you sold a gun, only to wish you still had it back. I had a nice 1958 Colt Frontier Scout a couple of years ago that I pick up for a song and sold it with several other guns I was collecting to pay for my daughter's wedding. I wanted to kick myself for selling it. I told myself if I ever got the chance to buy another one I would. Well about ten minutes ago I did just that and it looks just like the one I sold. I just have to brake the news to my wife.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,365 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I really regret not being born as one of Bill Gates Kid's [:(!]

    I have thought some as most every one . but any changes made early on would have effected the out come of having the wonderful wife and two sons I have , so really I guess none
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  • NOAHNOAH Member Posts: 9,690
    edited November -1
    no regrets here ,would not change a thing[;)]
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I regret nothing I did in my life.

    I only regret the things I didn't do.
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NOAH
    no regrets here ,would not change a thing[;)]


    Everyone would change at least one aspect of their life. Even if it is only out of curiosity.
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by babun
    I regret nothing I did in my life.

    I only regret the things I didn't do.


    So, what do you regret that you didn't do?
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,365 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ok
    I have two , one like yours maybe should have went into the military
    the top one I should have continued on in school after high school in place of just wanting to be free of any schools and got a good head start on a career . I got lucky and landed a job with a growing company so I did managed to provide a good life for my family not the best but did ok . and now I am retired
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wrangler
    quote:Originally posted by babun
    I regret nothing I did in my life.

    I only regret the things I didn't do.


    So, what do you regret that you didn't do?


    I'll give you one....

    Not Smacking the ever living shxxxt out of my 7th grade Spanish teacher.
    He gave me a balling out for being late to his class.{He thought he was the most important thing in the school}.
    My older brother was leaving to go to Viet Nam, And me and family were at the airport seeing him off.
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That I didn't finish college.
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  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    I regret not knowing what a bunch of A-holes a lot of people were when I took them for being decent folks- that subsequently stabbed me in the back.
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    a job I had in 1984 I was making 10.50 an hour, company sold out , union screwed us , I was offered 7.65 an hour {min wage was 3.20} too proud and stupid to take the offer, I would be retired now at 2,500 a month when I was 47



    but then again I would not have met my wife and half our kids and life we have now


    I tried the military, but they where laying off at that time
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by babun
    quote:Originally posted by Wrangler
    quote:Originally posted by babun
    I regret nothing I did in my life.

    I only regret the things I didn't do.


    So, what do you regret that you didn't do?


    I'll give you one....

    Not Smacking the ever living shxxxt out of my 7th grade Spanish teacher.
    He gave me a balling out for being late to his class.{He thought he was the most important thing in the school}.
    My older brother was leaving to go to Viet Nam, And me and family were at the airport seeing him off.


    Huh, how bout that... A Spanish teacher you say?

    A curious thing. I got my 12th grade Spanish teacher fired. Booted off the school grounds on the spot. Walked out to her car and given the heave ho while the entire class was back in the room wondering what in the heck was going on. It's a very long story, I'll not bore anyone with it. Must say though it was rather satisfying.

    Sooo.... not a regret really.

    Don't tend to share those.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    not beating up a whole bunch of people that really deserved it.

    not trying out for more chicks. (too afraid)

    listening to hundreds of fools I shouldn't have.

    not listening to a few wise old farts I should have.

    not seeing it through with that one girlfriend.

    in that order I suppose.
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not investing heavily in Microsoft back in the early 80's, and not being one of the initial heavy investors in Amazon and Yahoo. A few buck then and I would be sittin' pretty today.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Disrespecting some people in my past. As I get older, I realize how much of an * I was to some people back in HS.

    Biggest regret was not running for a political position in my state as I love politics. That dream is still available, but it is running out of time here in NJ as I will be moving soon. Oakie
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  • legearlegear Member Posts: 6,716
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wrangler
    Let's here them! What are your regrets in life? What would you do differently if you had a "do over"?

    Mine? I regret not serving in the military.


    Same.

    It was the 90s. I wanted to join the Marines so I went to the building that housed all branches. I had a GED and never took the ASVAB.
    The Marines recruiting said we are not having trouble finding people, so we are holding out for HS diplomas.
    He walked me over to the Navy, the Navy guy wanted me to sign the paperwork then. I said let me think about it cause I was set on the Marines. He said just come back at 3am tonight and we will do some testing.
    I didn't show up, he was fixing to toss my butt on the bus.

    And two years later 9/11 happened. I always wish I joined but I had a high paying job and high debt.
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  • EhlerDaveEhlerDave Member Posts: 5,158 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Testing that electric wire with my finger.....
    Just smile and say nothing, let them guess how much you know.
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  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention..... [;)]
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Starting Smoking.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Smoking and not hitting the Lotto for 2 $Million.
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    none that I'd care to discuss here [8D]
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  • Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
    edited November -1
    quote:Ray B
    I regret not knowing what a bunch of A-holes a lot of people were when I took them for being decent folks- that subsequently stabbed me in the back.

    Yes--some of the biggest regrets in my life time. One cost me a ton of money
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  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by EhlerDave
    Testing that electric wire with my finger.....


    Accidentally peeing on one will make your "finger" hurt even worse [B)] A friend of mine was at a kegger out at a farm and staggered off to the bushes to take a leak and hit the lower wire in a goat pen. Said he saw red, was suddenly sober for a second, and fell over [:p]
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  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I regret moving to AZ, getting married, and pretty much every job I've had in my life prior to starting my business. Indirectly I regret having not gone in the USMC back when I was 20, was what I wanted to do but when you're in college and sign up for reserve duty so that you can finish school and find out a few days before you're supposed to be on the bus that the recruiter changed it to full time instead and wouldn't change it.....kinda hard to sign off on that. I'd be past my 20yr mark by now [B)]
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All those guns I could still have if I had been wiser.[:(]
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A woman.
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  • rossowmnrossowmn Member Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like some others, I am saddened by not getting into the military. I tried to enlist during the Vietnam era (in 1969, to be exact), but when I physicaled, the doc said my blood pressure fluctuated and told me to come back in the morning. I did and BP still did, so the doc sent me home to see my local doc six times for a check. Sent the results. Got a notice to come back in two months to re-physical. I did. Same song, same verse: Check, recheck in a.m., six more local checks. Sent results. Got a note to come back in three months for a third try. Not wanting to keep my life on hold any longer, I instead went back to school to work on my master's degree and never tried to physical again. At the time, I thought it was the right decision, but today, when I look at how Vietnam colored my entire generation and think of the friends and classmates who died there, I regret more and more as the years go by that I didn't get to enlist. Survivor's guilt, perhaps.[:(]
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  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
    Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention..... [;)]
    I bet you did what you had to do, and saw it through without exemption, though.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Since we are on the subject...came back from a three year tour overseas with the Air Force. They first offered me another stripe and a seven hundred dollar reup bonus. I told them I was " flattered " but no.

    They then came back and offered me a Federal job as an aircraft electrician at an Air Guard base that flew C-130's to Greenland and Antarctica. The job paid something like $14,500 a year,( in 1972). I said well....maybe, sounded good

    Then they said I had to join the Air Guard and they would give me another stripe. Being a wise guy, with all the answers, I told them to pound salt.

    I could have retired from the Air Guard twenty-five years ago, and the Fed Tech job three years ago.

    Not me , I'm too smart for them fellers[:o)]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    always wondered if i had turned right to Trinidad gunsmith school instead of left to Drury College....and left * flats after hs graduation
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  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Regret not becoming the plastic surgeon doing breast enlargements.
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,194 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There was this long legged roommate of my buddies girlfriend. O Joanna.
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Being in the "older" generation, contacting old friends & school mates that with todays technology is an easy task. Some have passed and it sorta bothers me that I didn't make the effort.
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