Stuff you should have done, but didn't.

[Racing roadkill]

Having talked a lot, to various folk, about stuff and things, one subject keeps coming up. "Why did you never join the armed services". If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times. I never really fancied it, at the time, but on reflection, they probably have a fair point. So what's your 'missed calling'?

 

[Crackle]

juggling clown in a circus but I can't juggle and don't have big feet.

 

[numbnuts]

Joining the RAF - I chickened out at the last minute
Not going to a job in Darwin – I was talked out by someone who had never been there
Getting revenge on my ex wife – there's still time

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Do you want a list?

 

[ianrauk]

Joining the Navy. Sex and drugs and rock n roll led me astray.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Stayed travelling instead of coming home to appease my mum.

 

[slowmotion]

Caught the local bus from Bamyan to Band e Amir in 1973.

 

[TVC]

Put the safety catch back on the revolver.

 

[Diggs]

Accepted the (with hindsight obvious) advances of the mum of one of my fellow pupils that we ran into on the last holiday I went on with my parents.

 

[screenman]

Held on to the over 4,000 cars that I sold in the eighties. Borrowed as much as I could and brought a large house in Richmond in the seventies. I will not carry on as it is too upsetting.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Held on to the over 4,000 cars that I sold in the eighties. Borrowed as much as I could and brought a large house in Richmond in the seventies. I will not carry on as it is too upsetting.

Ouch.

 

[midlife]

Learn to fly........

Shaun

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

I was an aircraft engineer for 25 years in the RAF. Throughout my career I was tempted to remaster to Loadmaster on Air Sea Rescue helicopters. These are the guys who dangle on a cable pulling people off sinking ships in raging seas. The job is known somewhat tongue-in-cheek throughout the RAF as 'Dope on a rope'.

I really regret now that I never went for it. The amount of job satisfaction gained from saving lives on a daily basis must be phenomenal.

Anyway, I left the RAF 12 years ago and am now a software engineer. Really exciting...

Graham

 

[Dayvo]

Emigrating to Australia in the late 1980s cos I thought I had a 'future' with my best mate's sister in Norway.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Emigrating to Australia in the late 1980s cos I thought I had a 'future' with my best mate's sister in Norway.

Similar.

My cousin went to Oz on the Ten Pound Pom scheme in 1972, I was all set to go with him but changed my mind.