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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:29:50 PM EDT
[#1]
I'd have to say getting emotionally and then physically involved with an already involved woman whom I thought I could be a knight in shining armor to. Her boyfriend was/isn’t the greatest (cheated on her, is a pot head, can’t manage money despite having a well paying job, has deppression issues), and I thought she could do better. She wound up breaking my heart and going back to him after breaking up with him for a chance to be with me, despite having said she spent the best weekend of her life with me. I guess after 5 years with the guy she just couldn’t be without him. Oh well.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:30:00 PM EDT
[#2]
1. Not buying a Vector Uzi when they were NIB for $2900 a couple of years ago.
2. Listening to high school/college guidance counselors. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:30:15 PM EDT
[#3]
Turning down Kiana Tom on a date a couple of years ago.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:40:27 PM EDT
[#4]
not joining the military at 17
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:49:54 PM EDT
[#5]
Not following God's will for my life every minute of every day.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:50:17 PM EDT
[#6]
Having to go to the "big bad University of Florida" for my first two years of collage - driving past a good community collage to do so.
I beat my brains out! and not saveing as much money as I could have when I was younger. Later, Badredfish |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:51:29 PM EDT
[#7]
What these guys said. Other than that, I really wouldn't change a thing. I have made alot of what people call "mistakes" and I might be even better off had I not made them, but I'm pretty goddamn happy right now and wouldn't be here or be doing as well if I didn't have the background I do. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:53:38 PM EDT
[#8]
Going into the restaurant business after graduating from college instead of holding out for anything
even closely related to what a business major should do. Although the unemploymet rate was sky high in 1982. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:54:53 PM EDT
[#9]
Hell, as good as things are right now, I haven't made any really bad mistakesin my life that I can think of.
Watch. Now I'll get cancer. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 12:54:55 PM EDT
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+1 and as a young 2LT listening to the O-4 battalion S3 that talked me out of going to helo school.  wganz ¶ |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:01:28 PM EDT
[#11]
Paying any attention to what my parents said.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:03:46 PM EDT
[#12]
I dont think the statute of limitations on prosecution is up, ask in 4 yrs ok?
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:04:05 PM EDT
[#13]
Well, at least I did that. $2570. I smile every time I think about it. 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:05:15 PM EDT
[#14]
I turned down an appointment to West Point - and have wondered for years where I would be if I hadn't, but like you, I would have never met my wife nor had my daughter. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:09:26 PM EDT
[#15]
Letting her go.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:10:13 PM EDT
[#16]
Worse thing I ever did was stumble across this website. Now every spare penny I have goes to guns and ammo.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:12:33 PM EDT
[#17]
wow....
I could sink myself on this thread! My walk-in closet of skeletons will stay right where I put them thank you! |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:19:14 PM EDT
[#18]
LMAO. Me too! But coming here has saved me a shitload of money on what I've bought 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:29:28 PM EDT
[#19]
WGAF? The question should be, what have you accomplished in spite of bad decisions??
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:31:06 PM EDT
[#20]
I've learned from most of mine so don't really regret them.
-Not marrying a certain perceived to be wonderful lady.... Flipside? maybe she would have turned out "not so wonderful" -Not having invested in more real estate when I was younger.... yeah, that was a definite fuck-up --RR |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:38:47 PM EDT
[#21]
It'd be about an 18 way tie for me.
Too many "I shoulda's". |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:38:58 PM EDT
[#22]
bachelor's degree in architecture, master's in construction management, promoted to project manager after 2 years in the industry, over $20k in raises within 2 years of entering the industry, now in charge of $16 mil worth of new school additions at 6 different schools. All are currently on time and under budget and should make my company well over $1mil actual profit by the time we're done in March. All of this from an ex-skinhead, ex-punk rocker, ex drug user, ex thief, still tattooed, redneck who has faced felony charges (no convictions) a car accident that nearly killed me, and collapsed lungs on 3 different occasions (not the car accident), not to mention the number of times I've had death threats both verbal and actual guns & knives pointed at me or brandished in my direction. I didn't do a single homework assignment in high school, and still managed to get into college by the skin of my teeth with a 1270 on the SAT (before they added the current free 200 points). People have said I should talk to young kids about getting motivated, I say I'm a poster child for mispent youth! |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:50:05 PM EDT
[#23]
ooof...
collapsed lungs.... I unfortunately know what that's all about. Sucks doesn't it? |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:56:05 PM EDT
[#24]
Not saving more money when I was a single E-5 so I could buy more guns.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 1:57:08 PM EDT
[#25]
lol |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:00:35 PM EDT
[#26]
Screwing up in college, and getting fat while I was there. O well, I can fix them. Thankfully, none of my bad decisions so far have fucked me too hard.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:00:48 PM EDT
[#27]
Yup. But I have to say that it's one of those things where the treatment hurts even worse. 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:12:19 PM EDT
[#28]
Deciding back in '95 that my 16-year-old son was mature enough to go to college. I was tired of dealing with him and I decided someone else could do a better job of raising him. I buried him in '97. Nothing else even comes close. His suicide broke my heart. Jesus healed my heart. Now I try real hard to share my healing with others. But, it's a pain that never really goes away.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:17:39 PM EDT
[#29]
Going with a crapy degree... Not taking advantage of an intern... I mean an internship. Now I am stuck making less money than I did right out of Highschool!
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:26:36 PM EDT
[#30]
ha...you didnt miss much! |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:43:07 PM EDT
[#31]
biggest regret, not buying all the nfa weapons i could have afforded in 1986,
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:43:41 PM EDT
[#32]
Two big mistakes - both involve relationships I should not have gotten into. But I learned from them; I don't have emotions anymore.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:55:16 PM EDT
[#33]
ya first on the boat, last to leave, I'm glad I lessoned to by cousin, and went Nav ET. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 2:56:50 PM EDT
[#34]
Don't let 'em take your humanity away. It is one of a woman's greatest assets. And choose carefully. We're not all bums!
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Posted: 9/27/2004 3:02:19 PM EDT
[#35]
Married the current wife ... this marriage isn't long for this world at this point - and I should have paid attention to the signs 20 years ago before hand
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Posted: 9/27/2004 3:04:51 PM EDT
[#36]
Letting that hot chinese chick take that last swig of whiskey.
She and her friend were ready to go. Then she puked. Oh well, a bird in hand... |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 3:15:36 PM EDT
[#37]
Not being able to calm down and relax enough while my husband was in the military. I didn't allow myself to enjoy the small stuff. Time with him, days at the park with my daughter. Putting up holiday trimming with my family, and ect. Those four years of my life I cannot get back.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 3:31:50 PM EDT
[#38]
Wow. I was going to share mine but I can't now. All my mistakes, and there are many, seem so trivial when I read things like this. I truly feel for your loss and pray that God continues to heal. Thanks for putting things in perspective for me. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 4:35:36 PM EDT
[#39]
Well selling no but I can tell you retail at a Jewlery shop is 300% markup
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Posted: 9/27/2004 4:36:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Buying that damn Mach 1 last year
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Posted: 9/27/2004 4:38:54 PM EDT
[#41]
I can think of somethings that might be called mistakes, but all in all these mistakes have made me who I am today.
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Posted: 9/27/2004 5:15:42 PM EDT
[#42]
+1 |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 5:43:55 PM EDT
[#43]
Oh, admit it - you're learning more from that car than you've ever learned with all that fancy schoolin' of yours! 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 5:53:30 PM EDT
[#44]
+3 (Three different females.) Also, doing better in high school and being able to go to a 4 year college. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 5:54:41 PM EDT
[#45]
Working for a company that does not have a portable pension plan.
357mag |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 6:00:42 PM EDT
[#46]
Getting addicted to guns. Aside from the financial issue, they have hindered my mobility (can't leave them for long periods of time and have had to pass up on great offers to get out of CT because it meant giving up my firearms), socially they have been bad to me (had to pass up numerous parties/semi illegal fun times because of my CCW) and have also done damage to my love life (A few relationships have been ruined because of the gun issue, even my most serious relationship ever).
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Posted: 9/27/2004 6:02:28 PM EDT
[#47]
Going on that fishing trip and losing all my guns !!! 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 6:13:54 PM EDT
[#48]
I should've married my wife earlier. I just waited too long.
Bought that NIB HK94 with 5 factory mags for $750 in 1989. $HIT! That gun is now worth $4,000! Buying GE stock in 1988 after my friend told me to buy it, I chickened out, I would be worth something like $2million today. |
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Posted: 9/27/2004 7:39:30 PM EDT
[#49]
What I'm mostly learning is what a collosal idiot I am. I mean, I SORTA knew it already, in a theoretical sense, but now I really understand it in a practical sense! 
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Posted: 9/27/2004 8:01:01 PM EDT
[#50]
Same here. However, I will say marrying my wife. If I had known how much freedom I would lose, I wouldn't have. If I had known how much freedom I gave her in practically running my life, I wouldn't have. I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking. If I could walk out now I would and never look back. But I can't. The only good thing that came out of this were my children. They're the only reason I stay home. |
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