Not joining the reserves (USMCR) when I left active duty.

I bought 1/3 interest with 2 friends in an Ostrich farm in Michigan...long story short those bastages eat way more then their worth.

It all worked out, because I wouldn't have met my wife and gotten the jobs I did if it hadn't happened, BUT

running from the police and getting caught and thus getting booted out of college has to rank near the top of the list.

BUT - if not for changing schools - I wouldn't have the career and the family that I have now. So alls well.

My first marriage.

My folks weren't going to come out and tell me "bad idea"; but I should have picked up on their body language.

Hindsight....

To date this blonde I met my first year in college.

I don't know if they're bad decisions as such, but...

I regret not joining the military.

I regret my involvement with some of the women in my past. Including my daughter's mother, to whom I never was married.

All in all though, these decisions about the women have led me to where I am today. A Jesus follower, and husband to my one & only wife. Going on twenty-five years, now.

It all turned out for the good, but that military thing still bugs me to this day.

Isnt it interesting how often the female of the species figures into our worst decisions?

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Isnt it interesting how often the female of the species figures into our worst decisions?

Not that interesting. Show me a eunuch that makes stupid decisions. It doesn’t happen.

We make stupid decisions because we have a predisposition To do anything to get our bread wet.

Radical Prostatectomy.

To go motocross riding on a beautiful February day with a bunch of buddies. After being life flighted out of there I have been in pain since that day (27 years ago).

Best decision was getting married.

Putting off taking the LSAT and applying to law school until I was 58. It just wouldn't pencil out in recovering the cost at that point in my life.

Taking a year off after highschool. It turned into 21 years and now I will never go to school for what I wanted(electronics engineering). I lack the drive to pursue it now. Probably get a generic business degree over the next few years to progress where I am.

It's the one thing I will not allow my children to do. You want to take a summer off, fine, but they will learn a trade or get some useful education to build a career with.

Still sorting them out, I ran out of fingers and toes.

Tore down my perfectly good house to build a new bigger house. Next time move and buy an existing home. Now I just want a smaller simpler home

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Isnt it interesting how often the female of the species figures into our worst decisions?

Don't you have four of those poor decisions?

Taking a cigarette from my 'friend' when I was 14.

If I could only turn back time.

For a long time, the answer would have been meeting or marrying my ex wife.

Don’t get me wrong, she crushed my dreams, bankrupt me, swore that I was an unfit father, etc.

But without her I wouldn’t have 2 awesome kids, I probably would have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, I wouldn’t have taken my current job, or landed my current wife.

So in the end? Probably flunking out of VMI and not taking the classes I needed during summer school to keep my full scholarship and graduate. And not buying a Jeep shortly after as my first purchased vehicle. Both decisions indirectly leading me to the ex-wife.


Oh...and not becoming a fireman instead of a cop. All last week we sent cops to the fire stations to provide security during the riots.

While they slept.

I shit thee not.

I was an early (1979) Apple and Mac (1984) fanboy. Likewise an avid customer of Amazon from pretty early on.
Why didn’t I realize if they were so good for me I should invest in them?
Coulda woulda shoulda.
But that’s just money.

My wife and I have one real regret, and that is that we did not raise all our kids as Christians. We were non-churchgoers; later churchgoers but not serious; then about age 50 we both got serious about Christianity.

For the rest—wife, profession, our three kids, really interesting adventures in Africa and Russia, starting back to work at age 65–in Maui—I consider myself incredibly blessed.

I would have a very long list of bad decisions I didn’t make that would have foreclosed the possibility of living the life I have had.

I retired from the Army in 2000.

Our next step should have been via the jetway straight onto the next airplane to Ottawa. For one reason or other it never happened.

I rue it every day of my life.

Picking up my first drink/beer. Like the light switch of love and the scent of Satan. Worst thing I ever did... best thing was “ putting it down”......