**Top 5 list 02/15/06**

[TK]

Top 5 regrets/things you should've handled differently

5. I was like 10 or so, and I lived on a pond, in which I fished for bluegill quite a bit. For some reason, I decided to bring my fishing pole into the livingroom to tie a new hook on it, and when I was done I just let it lay there. My mom came in and watched some TV with me, and for some other reason, she happened to choose the floor to sit on. Commercial time, I got up to walk out of the room, stumbled over the pole, and subsequently drove my freshly knotted fishing hook into my mom's thumb. That was regrettable, but what was even more so was the fact that, when she screamed out in pain, the concern and apologetic part of my brain didn't switch on. What switched on instead was my :rolleyes: part. I immediately snapped at her although it was all completely my fault. My dad was nonplussed, to say the least. I don't know what the hell I was thinking or why I reacted that way, but had plenty of time in my room after that to reflect.

4. Not so much that I had a mullet when I was a teenager (almost every guy had one in that day and age), but why the hell I thought a body perm in it would make it look that much sweeter I will never know...

3. I should've paid more attention in high school and went to a good college. I have a good job now, but I could've probably held this same position 10 years ago had I gone to a good college.

2. In retrospect, daring my former boss to fire me probably wasn't the brightest of moves.

1. Bachelor party. I outright lied to my wife about it (told her I didn't go to the strip club when I actually did). Took me three months of self-imposed guilt to muster up the balls to confess it to her. When I did, it was :disappointed:

[OB]

I try not to dwell on regrets and just learn from them in a zen/Buddhist way, BUT...

1. Wish I had learned to speak more languages and play a least one intrument. I took Spanish in HS and can get by, but when I was in Europe I felt like a tool as people were speaking 3 or 4 different languages and I was like :probie:

2. I should have been better with my finances and credit in college. I got :probie: over a girl who went to a college 3 states away and spent $$ going to see her, taking her out, and buying her stuff. I focked my credit up in a big way, and it seriously delayed me owning a home and starting a real savings/investment portfolio.

3. When I was 17 I had a party at my parents house, got really drunk, angry and stupid. People were focking shit up and I kicked them out, then I proceeded to flip out on my own and went outside and kicked in the door of a kid's car who hadn't done a thing to me. :disappointed: I felt like an ass the next day, apologized and paid for repairs, but it's always stuck with me that I got that out of control and acted like a fool.

4. I wish i'd have travelled more when I had the chance.

5. I wish I didn't spend so much tme goofing off on the internet and actually had passion for my job. :(

[Orgazmo]

Many regrets! Though, I can't really remember the details, rest assured the end result of most had me beating off into a sock.

[dolfan06]

This top 5 list makes me sad. :unsure:

[TK]

This top 5 list makes me sad. :unsure:

Me too, especially considering it appears that I'm the only one who's gonna contribute!!@#

:wigglypea:


exceptOB

[S.D. Jones]

Me too, especially considering it appears that I'm the only one who's gonna contribute!!@#

:wigglypea:


exceptOB

I like the ones where you only have to write a few words. :dunno:

[dolfan06]

OK I'LL TOTALLY PARTICIPATE IN THIS NOT DEPRESSING AT ALL THREAD!@# :hyper:

5. When my future wife and I were broken up briefly in high school, there was another girl that we kind of liked each other and stuff but I was too fucking clueless to do anything about it. Not really a regret but I've always kind of wondered what if I wasn't such a clueless douchebag.

4. I wish I didn't spend so much time in high school watching my dad's porn and smoking his pot, only because it's kind of made it awkward dealing with him as an adult knowing what a perverted fuck he is. The porn was perfectly fine.

3. I would have done more with the year off I took between college and law school, like travelling or something instead of sitting around fucking depressed that I didn't have a life. That was way short-sighted of me.

2. In my last job I got busted for snooping and almost got fired. It turned out well because it inspired the search for my current job which is about a thousand times better, but I wish I didn't fuck things up for myself to the point where I'm kind of embarrassed to talk to people back there.

1. *freudian wish-i-stood-up-to-my-mother-more-earlier-in-life words*

Yeah thanks I feel a whole lot better now. :sadbanana:

[Steebo]

OK I'LL TOTALLY PARTICIPATE IN THIS NOT DEPRESSING AT ALL THREAD!@# :hyper:


4. I wish I didn't spend so much time in high school watching my dad's porn and smoking his pot, only because it's kind of made it awkward dealing with him as an adult knowing what a perverted fuck he is. The porn was perfectly fine.



I learned it by watching you!!!!!

[fricker66]

5. Wish I had worked a little bit harder in college.
4. I regret not banging the 17-year-old lifeguard when I was the 21-year-old lifeguard. I was too worried about what everyone would think.
3. Wish I had thanked my first "real" boss before he died of cancer.
2. Regret telling a girl that I had Lou Gehrig's Disease for pity sex.
1. Regret not making a bigger deal of my parents' 25th wedding anniversary.

[DITKANATE!@#$@#$@#$]

1. regret emilaing my boss a link to a gigantor fftoday thread.
2. regret not finishing school and becoming a cpa, though my jeorb has turned out well in the long run despite that.
3. getting butchered on the cruise
4. ummm....
5..... :unsure:

:dunno:

[iDot]

i regret being a giant cockbite i guess. :dunno:

[Unknown_Soldier]

5. There was this chick in college that was in my classes and we loved hanging out together. She was always dropping hints that she wanted to go out sometime, but she wanted to break up with her current boyfriend first (who was an ass). Well, she finally broke up with this guy and instead of me asking her out, I figured that I'd let it ride and have fun over the summer. When she got back from the summer break, she had met some great guy from her hometown that "she never would have met if she had been dating someone". I had her in every one of my classes for our remaining 3 years in college and we hung out every day. She ended up marrying that guy this past year. I still feel like a giant schmuck. :sadbanana:

4. I once turned down sex with a hot older woman so I could go smoke pot with some people that I was kinda friends with. I had a problem. I still remember her saying "really, are you SURE that you don't want to come in for a little bit? It's early and I'm not tired or anything" :screams:

3. Not focusing enough on my work while I was in a relationship with somebody post-college. I was expected to call this person like 5 times a day and drop everything if she broke a nail. I ended up getting laid off even though I knew I was better than most of the people that worked there - but I still deserved to be let go through my non-effort and distracted nature.

2. Not breaking off a former relationship when I realized we were sexually and mentally incompatible. Stayed with this person for 4 years in the 'prime of my life'... :wigglypea:

1. Not breaking off that former relationship before I was broke and badly in debt.