Biggest regret and why.

Mine is when I was 19, my mum had bowel cancer and was ill in bed all day she, I went work came home and my dad said she was asleep upstairs, so I went out with my gf at the time for tea.

I came home and my dad went up to check on my mum and she was dead in bed, broke my heart that I never spoke to her that day and it will never leave me she was my world.
Saw my father walking into town one day. He was opposite side of road, we waved and I shouted we'll get a brew later. He collapsed with brain haemorrhage about 15 minutes later. Would give anything to rewind to that moment, cross road, hug him and tell him I loved him. My mum was going into hospital for her first chemo treatment on a Monday, I surprised her by flying home thinking can't let her start that alone. She passed away on the Wednesday from pneumonia. Spent her last 2 days with her and so pleased I made that decision
 
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At work mid 90's i got secunded to another department and ended up working for them for a couple of years on different sites.

Mass redundancies rolled around and i got selected based on the fact that i hadn't done any work for my old department during this time, and my boss thought it would force the hand of my current department to take me on their books (which turned out they couldn't).

My old boss then offered if that i worked my notice (13 weeks) he'd train me up on a fancy CAD system and at least he'd get a couple more months work out of me.

Couldn't be arsed commuting over to Knutsford (old department had relocated there from Trafford Park), plus i would of been taxed, NI'd on my earnings rather than getting it as a lump sum as redundancy.

Therefore told them to stick it.
Nowadays, agency rates for people proficient in that CAD package are £40-50ph locally and a hell of a lot more down south or up in Scotland, plus theres never a shortage of job offers around.
 
Not going to New York when we had free flights through buying a Hoover in the 90s..
went to Orlando instead and the weather was shit
Shit weather in Orlando?
If it was cold (or should I say a bit nippy) then it must have been Jan or early Feb, which means in New York it would have been -10 and freezing.
Even when the hurricanes turn up in Sept / October it is lovely weather the day before and day after it hits.
 
Saw my father walking into town one day. He was opposite side of road, we waved and I shouted we'll get a brew later. He collapsed with brain haemorrhage about 15 minutes later. Would give anything to rewind to that moment, cross road, hug him and tell him I loved him. My mum was going into hospital for her first chemo treatment on a Monday, I surprised her by flying home thinking can't let her start that alone. She passed away on the Wednesday from pneumonia. Spent her last 2 days with her and so pleased I made that decision

Sorry for your loss mate mums are irreplaceable, you made a great choice flying over bet she was made up to see you.
 
Shit weather in Orlando?
If it was cold (or should I say a bit nippy) then it must have been Jan or early Feb, which means in New York it would have been -10 and freezing.
Even when the hurricanes turn up in Sept / October it is lovely weather the day before and day after it hits.
It was raining & cold . That’s shit weather in my book . It was October Halloween was on . Regarding New York , you know it’s going to be cold in the winter.. don’t expect Orlando & Daytona to be cold .
 
It was raining & cold . That’s shit weather in my book . It was October Halloween was on . Regarding New York , you know it’s going to be cold in the winter.. don’t expect Orlando & Daytona to be cold .
Strange. We do get cold snaps in Jan and Feb but I've not known one around Halloween - then again Daytona is on the Atlantic side which is a little cooler (especially at night) than where I am on the Gulf of Mexico side.
 
Mine is when I was 19, my mum had bowel cancer and was ill in bed all day she, I went work came home and my dad said she was asleep upstairs, so I went out with my gf at the time for tea.

I came home and my dad went up to check on my mum and she was dead in bed, broke my heart that I never spoke to her that day and it will never leave me she was my world.
:-(
 

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