Regrets, I have a few...

[wiggydiggy]

A lad I was in the army with deserted and joined the Foreign Legion. He wasn't very impressed with them. He got out during the Falklands War. Apparently they have a rule that says if your country is at war you can leave to go and fight. He got a year in Colchester and soldier on. last I heard of him (late 80's) he went special forces and got a Queens Gallantry Medal in Ireland. He was a bit of a psychopath to be honest.

Its was just a fancy I had for a few months, work was being a bit shoot and I was looking for something different. I think it was around the time I saw a news article somwhere in New Zealand was advertising a job for an 'outdoor caretaker' type, can't find the link anymore but I was just searching around after seeing that for what other different stuff I could do. Work improved at home and I never took it further.

 

[PeteXXX]

Heck! I'd love to live in that house and drive that car Pete!! 😍
@Drago!!! 'Yes lord Accy'. My slippers please.🧐 😉.

The house even had a built in hall-stand where you could have hung your Fedora & stood your collection of walking canes. 🎩

The car had a valve wireless that took so long to warm up, I was frequently where I was going to before the Light Programme was playing 😂

 

[Kingfisher101]

Its pointless looking to the past I think.
I'm sure most people did the best they could at the time with the resources that were available to them.
I think I should have told certain people and employers to jog on a lot earlier than I did. I also think I should have worked a lot less. I've never been very interested in money and despite having a lot at various times I couldn't care less.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

A lad I was in the army with deserted and joined the Foreign Legion. He wasn't very impressed with them. He got out during the Falklands War. Apparently they have a rule that says if your country is at war you can leave to go and fight. He got a year in Colchester and soldier on. last I heard of him (late 80's) he went special forces and got a Queens Gallantry Medal in Ireland. He was a bit of a psychopath to be honest.

The most effective soldiers generally are.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A bit like when I fell off a cliff in Germany! 🤦‍♂️🤣🚑🤕

Was it Cliff Rih-khard?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Joining this forum is a bit of a regret sometimes, I won't deny! 🤣

In a parallel universe, you instead joined the ironing chat forum, and right now are regretting that decision.

 

[Baldy]

The most effective soldiers generally are.

Only if you can control them. This guy was a very loose canon.

 

[steveindenmark]

Not visiting Denmark in the 80s when I was stationed in Germany. I would have moved here much sooner.

But that may have changed all the other good things that have happened.

 

[Moon bunny]

I regret working in the NHS. Hardly a day went by when I didn’t get the urge to give on of my colleagues a good hard elbow-lift punch in the neck, for a pile of reasons, from spotting someone had made a mistake and being told “wait until the patient complains then I’ll correct it, it’s easier that way” the lazy little madam, to hearing two discussing whose turn it was to be off sick for the half term holiday the skiving little so-and-sos. It was a good thing I got out when I did, I might have made national headlines, with a first paragraph ending “….before turning the gun on herself. “ And breathe.

 

[Hover Fly]

The most effective soldiers generally are.

During the last year or two of my service, a group of us were reminiscing about folk we had known, it dawned on us that all the Staff(etc) sergeants and WO2/1 sergeant majors we had ever known had some sort of minor mark on their records, such as “borrowing“ a boat to telling a junior officer what exactly he was and why, to in one case, and I can still remember the charge sheet, “ Contrary to good order and discipline, rode a bicycle at excessive speed …causing a group of officers to rapidly disperse. “

 

[Webbo2]

I regret working in the NHS. Hardly a day went by when I didn’t get the urge to give on of my colleagues a good hard elbow-lift punch in the neck, for a pile of reasons, from spotting someone had made a mistake and being told “wait until the patient complains then I’ll correct it, it’s easier that way” the lazy little madam, to hearing two discussing whose turn it was to be off sick for the half term holiday the skiving little so-and-sos. It was a good thing I got out when I did, I might have made national headlines, with a first paragraph ending “….before turning the gun on herself. “ And breathe.

Where as getting a career in the NHS turned my life around. Yes I experienced all the above but I showed up all of the time expect when I was really ill or had broken myself falling off my bike.
Somethings I wouldn’t have missed for anything.

 

[All uphill]

I have a new regret now my cycling is (temporarily I hope) limited to a couple of miles on an ebike.

I regret every warm sunny day when I thought there were better things to do than go out for a tootle on the bike.

 

[postman]

I regret picking up the telephone and making just one call,that started the whole shoot off.I should have put my coat on and gone for a walk.There again i was near mentally broken from working constant twelve hour shifts,trying to keep our heads above water.I might have finished up in an asylum,broken.

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

• First marriage. How could I not see that she was a selfish, lazy, deceitful person who was willing to do absolutely anything to get her own way.
• Taking far too long to realise a lot of people are only friends when you can offer them something of value.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

• First marriage. How could I not see that she was a selfish, lazy, deceitful person who was willing to do absolutely anything to get her own way.

Funny, that's exactly what my first wife said about me.