Things you didn't do, but wonder about .....

[jefmcg]

I never saw Queen live. I had opportunities as a punter, but there was another missed moment.

For a short period in the 80s I was flipping burgers for Wendys. (A regular customer was Des from Neighbours, which I never watched so respected his privacy. Plus he was an international celebrity ordering takeaway burger and chips for one, so he didn't need to be hassled). One day a customer boasted to me "I'm working backstage for Queen" "Where's my backstage pass?" I joked.

Anyway, a day or two later he rolled up with .... a backstage pass! I turned it down dismissively, because I didn't want to sleep with him. Not sleeping with roadies for Queen in the 80s is one of the several reasons I never contracted HIV, but still, I do wonder if I made a mistake. I could have gone, and just said no. And being backstage at a Queen concert in the eighties would be an experience I would still be sharing. In fact maybe even dining out on, rather than posting to CC at 11.15 on a Saturday night.

What opportunities have others turned down, that they still wonder about?

 

[gbb]

At the same zoo a keeper was sadly killed by a tiger recently (Hamerton Zoo)...I got the chance to hand feed a cheetah. Our company at the time supplied the zoo free fruit for their many exotic birds and animals and they reciprocated with this offer one day.
I was up for it...my wife was dead against it but we were due out on holiday that day anyway so it never happened.

 

[TheDoctor]

This is one where I could really do with an anonymous account...
My first serious girlfriend. I was fifteen, she was maybe a year older.
We were together, off and on, for a couple of years.
We never slept together, but I always wished we had.
She now lives in another country. And is gay.
Perhaps it wouldn't have worked out all that well.

 

[Profpointy]

I regret not applying to go to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. Not to say I'd have got in, but three years away put me off, in part as I was worried about career gap, and no chance of a PhD out of it. The latter didn't matter as I'd buggered up my degree subsequently, and now 3 years doesn't seem so long. Ah well

 

[Welsh wheels]

I never ran through fields of wheat with my friends when I was younger. I often think about my missed opportunities, maybe I would have even got to be prime minister,

 

[MarkF]

Was working and driving around the USA 1989, met a woman in Omaha, stayed there, was as happy as Larry, everything 100% tickety boo. But I needed to return to the UK to sell my house, I had zero intentions of not going back. But I met another woman....................I regret not going back.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I never ran through fields of wheat with my friends when I was younger. I often think about my missed opportunities, maybe I would have even got to be prime minister, although I suspect it would have been a very short-term gig, anyway

EFA

 

[Levo-Lon]

At the same zoo a keeper was sadly killed by a tiger recently (Hamerton Zoo)...I got the chance to hand feed a cheetah. Our company at the time supplied the zoo free fruit for their many exotic birds and animals and they reciprocated with this offer one day.
I was up for it...my wife was dead against it but we were due out on holiday that day anyway so it never happened.

Awful tragedy, hope Hammerton keeps going despite this

 

[Globalti]

This is one where I could really do with an anonymous account...
My first serious girlfriend. I was fifteen, she was maybe a year older.
We were together, off and on, for a couple of years.
We never slept together, but I always wished we had.
She now lives in another country. And is gay.
Perhaps it wouldn't have worked out all that well.

When I was about 25 I dated a lovely girl from work, something I would never normally do. We ended up at my house for coffee and it could have led to the inevitable but somehow I thought it would be unseemly just to have sex with her so off she went, home. Next day I saw her and told her what a great evening I'd had, and "could we do it again some time?"

"Thank God!" she replied. "When you didn't pounce on me last night i thought you must be gay!"

You can't win, can you?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Had the chance to join a world tour of the Rocky Horror show in 89 (?). Starting in London then doing NY, San Francisco, Rio and a lot of places I've forgotten. Turned it down cos I had a new girlfriend at the time and the tour eventually went bust leaving everyone stranded in Cairo but it would have been a helluva experience.

 

[numbnuts]

Turning down a job with Mount Newman Mining, Port Hedland Western Australia.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

couple of white collar jobs I sort of regret not taking from a fantasy 'what if?' perspective
going on a world tour as part of the tech support crew for a major band
not applying for a job I was a cert for in Sydney a few years ago
apart from that very little.