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Posted: 9/27/2004 10:49:36 AM EDT

I will start off with two, first I had a chance to live on campus at a big state school. But I thought nah thats too much money. Blah Blah blah, I think everyday I cursed myself for not living in the dorms. All I saw was good times. I think my first year of college would have been really really great if I would have.

Second is breaking up with a nice girl I grew up with from my neighborhood and going after some dumb stuck up slut. Well I really burned my bridges on that one...

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:50:08 AM EDT

[#1]

Marrying my ex-wife.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:51:25 AM EDT

[#2]

The one I haven't made yet.

MT

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:51:33 AM EDT

[#3]

Should have joined the active Army right out of high school, instead of going straight to the Guard.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:51:38 AM EDT

[#4]

letting that girl think I was cheating on her, even though I wasn't.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:51:52 AM EDT

[#5]

Shoulda taken the red pill.

- BG

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:52:31 AM EDT

[#6]

I try and not focus on regret or what could have been, but if I had to pick one thing it would be getting out of the Army.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:53:42 AM EDT

[#7]

Learning to wipe back to front instead of front to back.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:56:09 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Learning to wipe back to front instead of front to back.

Damn... I was gonna say that.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:56:44 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Marrying my ex-wife.

You too Eh.? Man she got around.

For me it would be not going to UAF when my aunt offered to pay for it at 18 . I didn't want to leave Florida . Especually for Alaska . I ended up doing it anyway a few years later .

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:58:09 AM EDT

[#10]

Throwing the Ewok Village against the wall in a fit of rage.

Also when I peed on Spider-Man.

Posted: 9/27/2004 10:59:41 AM EDT

[#11]

Cheating on my ex-wife. I'll always be ashamed of that, because she didn't deserve for me to be like that. I was raised better. Okay, enough about my personal life...

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:00:11 AM EDT

[#12]

If your two biggest life's mistakes are not living in the dorms and breaking up with some chick, you are going to have a long life :)

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:00:25 AM EDT

[#13]

Not going into the USMC out of high school with all my friends.

1985, and I still regret it. Now I'm too old to go.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:03:10 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I try and not focus on regret or what could have been, but if I had to pick one thing it would be getting out of the Army.

+1

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:04:40 AM EDT

[#15]

getting married .... Im not against marriage, I just made some bad decisions concerning my marriage(s) ...

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:06:20 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Marrying my ex-wife.

+1, and not cheating on her while in college with all the beautiful womens

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:07:50 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Not going into the USMC out of high school with all my friends.

1985, and I still regret it. Now I'm too old to go.

I waited until I was 26 years old to join the Marines and serve in a Reserve unit. I was still in pretty good shape then. But alas, that was 10 years ago...

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:09:40 AM EDT

[#18]

1. Leaving back to Colorado to move back to Michigan.

2. Staying in Michigan.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:11:52 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Marrying my ex-wife.

+1

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:11:56 AM EDT

[#20]

Getting mad at her before she left and never getting to say goodbye...

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:13:33 AM EDT

[#21]

Joining the suck.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:14:10 AM EDT

[#22]

Lets just say that its been downhill since 4/12/1982

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:14:19 AM EDT

[#23]

Not running for President, and I think that's the same one most people make.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:17:13 AM EDT

[#24]

Credit cards at Earlier age

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:18:05 AM EDT

[#25]

Turning down an appointment at Annapolis. By far the biggest mistake I ever made and the only one I wish I could take back, though I would also say that if I had done so I would not have met my wife and had the kids I now have. So I guess, in retrospect, that I wouldn't go back and change it now but it was kind of a dumb thing to do at the time.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:19:35 AM EDT

[#26]

I'm gonna have to say not having been born twenty years earlier. Or maybe turning it down when a really hot chick offered to have me smoke up with her.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:21:28 AM EDT

[#27]

Smoking.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:26:25 AM EDT

[#28]

buying a ring and asking that chick to marry me

anybody know anything about selling diamonds?

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:30:45 AM EDT

[#29]

. Leaving back to Colorado to move back to Michigan.

2. Staying in Michigan

Ditto!

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:31:35 AM EDT

[#30]

1. That I did screw a older girl when I had the chance when I was 9yrs old(she wanted me)

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:39:47 AM EDT

[#31]

I screwed up my credit when I was 18. Still see hints of it some 15 years later.
CH

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:44:19 AM EDT

[#32]

Not going in the Navy (nuke program) after High School.

BUT........I do not regret anything because I would not be where I am today if I hadn't made some dumb mistakes and different life choices.

I would not be with my current wife.

I would not have my current children.

Just think of the "Butterfly Effect" and how different your life would be if just ONE incident in your life was changed.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:47:50 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
. Leaving back to Colorado to move back to Michigan.

2. Staying in Michigan

Ditto!

Leaving Colorado is never a good idea. What else could measure up?

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:48:21 AM EDT

[#34]

Commuting from home instead of moving out on my own during college.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:49:47 AM EDT

[#35]

Hmmm.........I would say getting out of flying in the early 90's!

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:51:22 AM EDT

[#36]

Made MANY mistakes.

Learned from them, too.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:57:01 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Throwing the Ewok Village against the wall in a fit of rage.

Also when I peed on Spider-Man.

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:57:36 AM EDT

[#38]

Going in the Corps instead of the Air Force

Posted: 9/27/2004 11:58:02 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Lets just say that its been downhill since 4/12/1982

That's the day I was first sworn into the Army, I was a High School Junior.....and talked Mom into signing.......

Mine in no particular order.......

Not going active when I graduated High School

Not staying in in 1990, and taking a drop that made me miss the Gulf War.

Not going 18B when I had the damned acceptance letter from the JFK Center-I ets'ed instead.

Letting myself get out of shape....gonna fix that one though..........

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:02:47 PM EDT

[#40]

I only get to pick one?

Well...lemme see.

No, that was a bad one, but not the worst.

No, that was pretty bad, but I made worse ones.

No, can't talk about those. At least not without a lawyer present.

I guess it would have to be not going in the Marine Corps when my buddy did and joining the Army six months later.

That's not the worst, but it'll have to do for now.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:02:48 PM EDT

[#41]

1. watching the tube for my main enjoyment....man if only I could go back...I'd use the tube as target practice instead.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:04:09 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Quoted:
. Leaving back to Colorado to move back to Michigan.

2. Staying in Michigan

Ditto!

Leaving Colorado is never a good idea. What else could measure up?

Anywhere.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:04:18 PM EDT

[#43]

Being born

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:04:57 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Marrying my ex-wife.

Same here.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:12:38 PM EDT

[#45]

.tag.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:14:05 PM EDT

[#46]

At Night Shift, a nudie bar outside of Baltimore I was forced into a JELLO WREASTLING MATCH when 20 of my fraternity brothers put up enough cash to win the the auction.

I did such a good job throwing, and spinning strippers in the air without hurting them that the manager thought I was a monster and offered me a job as a bouncer. I didnt take it because I had a crappy summer internship lined up back home at Smith Barney.

So basically, I gave up 3 months of partying, fighting, and probebly banging strippers for a 9-5 job wearing a tie, and I didnt even get paid.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:24:59 PM EDT

[#47]

Bailing early on a futures market trade when it first went against me. If I had stayed in, would have made $5 million.

Posted: 9/27/2004 12:26:57 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
At Night Shift, a nudie bar outside of Baltimore I was forced into a JELLO WREASTLING MATCH when 20 of my fraternity brothers put up enough cash to win the the auction. I did such a good job throwing, and spinning strippers in the air without hurting them that the manager thought I was a monster and offered me a job as a bouncer. I didnt take it because I had a crappy summer internship lined up back home at Smith Barney.

So basically, I gave up 3 months of partying, fighting, and probebly banging strippers for a 9-5 job wearing a tie, and I didnt even get paid.

Yep, that was a bad move!