I rejected Cambridge University. Twice.

[Archie_tect]

It rained heavily all the way on the cold wintery day in 1976 that I rode my motorbike up to Newcastle for an interview so I took one look at the dreary dark courtyard where the Architecture School was [is] and turned round and went home... mainly because I was soaked through and miserable, one of the cylinders kept cutting out in the freezing fog + the Cherry Blossom shoe polish that I'd mistakenly cleaned my leather gloves with the night before had stained my hands dark grey and it wouldn't come off no matter how hard I scrubbed them. Happy days.

 

[pplpilot]

The barstaff in my local used to know what I drank.

*edit: read it back, made no sense, just got back from the local you see, bit squiffy.

 

[Archie_tect]

So they should.... they poured it.

 

[vernon]

I rejected attending the Leeds start of last year's Tour de France to do a FNRttC instead.

 

[stephec]

If you turn down an invitation to join MI6 they have to kill you... unless you provide a note from your mum.

That's true, I know because I ended up killing the two agents they sent to my house.

Now they leave me alone.

 

[TVC]

I got an offer from Leicester Poly and accepted just 10 minutes before Bradford Poly called to make an offer. That was a close call, I could have ended up a Yorkshireman, and nobody wants that.

 

[vernon]

That's true, I know because I ended up killing the two agents they sent to my house.

One was from The Prudential the other was from Littlewoods Pools.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I rejected attending the Leeds start of last year's Tour de France to do a FNRttC instead.

You HERO!!

 

[stephec]

One was from The Prudential the other was from Littlewoods Pools.

So that's why they were talking about contracts.

 

[Cyclist33]

I had two open days at Oxford but detested the collegiate atmosphere and one of the tutors literally foamed at the mouth, which I foun strangely off putting.

I would never have got in anyway, to be fair. I was too good!

 

[vernon]

I rejected fame and fortune.

 

[slowmotion]

One was from The Prudential the other was from Littlewoods Pools.

Sounds like he got away with the Avon Lady under the patio.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

If you turn down an invitation to join MI6 they have to kill you... unless you provide a note from your mum.

Not in my experience, although of course I can't be 100% certain that the older gentleman who approached me in the college bar at the end of the my first year and asked me if I was interested in serving my country was really MI6 or making a rather different kind of proposition...

PS: I'm not claiming to be particularly special; they probably approached everyone who did the course I was studying (Chinese).

 

[Archie_tect]

One of their lesser known recruiting techniques: propositioning inebriated first years in student unions... it was probably Jimmy Saville.

 

[ColinJ]

I rejected attending the Leeds start of last year's Tour de France to do a FNRttC instead.

I had a bad cold that weekend so I rejected standing in a crowd of thousands of people up one of the local hills to watch the Tour de France peloton climb by.

I chose instead to stand at the roadside in my adopted town of Hebden Bridge and take photos of the peloton.

Unfortunately, some bright spark ran 10 special double-length trains full of spectators into Hebden Bridge station in the run-up to this memorable event. These spectators rushed to the roadside ahead of me and caused so much congestion that security wouldn't let me out of the park, where I had been watching the race so far on a big screen.

So, I chose instead to stand in the park and watch the peloton's passage through the town on the screen.

Unfortunately, the TV production team decided that it would be more interesting to tell us about the 2 churches in nearby hilltop Heptonstall village. The TV helicopter hovered up there taking pictures of a poxy old ruined church as the riders passed by barely 100 metres from me.

So, all I saw were the bikes on top of the team cars, visible above a sea of distant heads, and all I heard was a huge cheer from the people who did get to see events unfold.

I will make sure that I don't miss the TdF peloton the next time it happens to pass through my home town. That will probably mean me having to move to France!