Stuff you should have done, but didn't.

[ayceejay]

Is Alan Bennet dead? Surely there is still time if not.

My biggest shoulda is thinking in general. Thinking is the biggest obstacle to doing.
Then when you get old you have a choice, you either regret your mistakes that can be
entertaining or you can look back with nostalgia and do it all again which is better than
regretting

 

[jhawk]

[QUOTE 4292676, member: 76"]I bet we all have one of those [/QUOTE]

Certainly. Now, she's half-way across the country, just starting out at University, is (AFAIK) still single, and I don't know how I feel - whether I still feel something for her more than friendship, or whether I should just let her go and move on.

 

[slowmotion]

Certainly. Now, she's half-way across the country, just starting out at University, is (AFAIK) still single, and I don't know how I feel - whether I still feel something for her more than friendship, or whether I should just let her go and move on.

You are twenty something. That's far too young to have regrets. Just pick up the phone and call her. What have you got to lose?

Brought to you by AASM

{agony aunt slowmotion}

 

[jhawk]

You are twenty something. That's far too young to have regrets. Just pick up the phone and call her. What have you got to lose?

Brought to you by AASM

{agony aunt slowmotion}

You're right. Cheers AASM. Watch this space.

 

[Dayvo]

That wasn't Alan Bennett, it was John Betjeman.

Well, he's definitely brown bread.

 

[byegad]

I regret several things over a longish life. The main ones are.

1. Sticking to a job I grew to hate, 'because it had a good pension'.
2. Never telling a reasonably large group of people (Now thankfully all dead.) what utter twunts they were.
3. Not being more self centred, instead of caring what 'everyone' would think.

 

[KEEF]

Joining that band

 

[slowmotion]

That wasn't Alan Bennett, it was John Betjeman.

I think you may be mistaken, but no matter. Maybe he had the same regrets. I'm a big fan of John Betjeman anyway.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh5YmyH3EGI
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[Freds Dad]

Not going to live in America when I had the chance in the mid 80's.

Don't get me wrong but I've had a great life but my friend who lives in LA and I was going with seems to be doing alright.

 

[slowmotion]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1yCEPwLH8

Thank you. I apologise. Bennett had similar thoughts. Here's an article in The Guardian in which he is quite amusing about it..

His aversion to pigeon-holing was highlighted in 1993 when Bennett announced he was in a relationship with his housekeeper, Anne Davis. At an AIDS Benefit he was directly confronted by Sir Ian McKellen, who asked him if he was homo or heterosexual. He replied that was akin to asking a person crawling over the Sahara whether they would rather have Perrier or Evian water. In a previous radio interview he had said he had “something of both in my life” but “not enough of either.”

http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/ameri...british-says-leading-playwright-alan-bennett/

 

[TheDoctor]

I never told my Dad I loved him. And now I can't.

 

[speccy1]

Had a wife, 2.4 kids and kept my mother quiet, but I didn`t

At 39 I am still my own boss and enjoy my freedom. Anybody who objects, go to hell........

 

[Hill Wimp]

I never told my Dad I loved him. And now I can't.

He would have known

 

[RoubaixCube]

When i was 16 and left school, I had no idea what i wanted to be - so i thought id go join the army and try to make something of myself...Needless to say I pussied out.

Come 18 I was at a crossroads again with my life and i still wanted to make something of it so I decided to go join the army again... but i just didnt have the courage to sign my life away like that. Though I look at where i am today and where i was back then and the army would of been so much better.

 

[Drago]

I should've moved to the private sector after I left the Army and earned some real moolah. Security contractor in the 'stans or Iraq, working security for Al Fayed, maritime security for shipping off the horn of Africa. 24 years of that at 150-200k a year, tax free, would've set me up pretty, and I know people who did and are.

instead i joined the Dibble, earned sod all in comparison, was hated by every 2nd person simply for the job I did, and now im spending my retirement telling people why the pension really is quite poor compensation for what I passed by to wear the uniform for the Queen agsin, to be treated like crap and earn a relative pittance.

im very glass half empty at the moment.