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What was the biggest mistake in your life

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 8 Feb 2014 23:40

Zzzz - any type - I think the electrics to my lights may need updating - they're still black & red :-(
As for your sister in law - you makes your bed and lies on it!!
Kuros and Barbs - one can only say, thank goodness things are slowly changing! xx

Wend

Wend Report 8 Feb 2014 20:57

Goodness Kuros and Barbs, my piano lessons were fraught enough for me when I was young, without any added distractions :-0 :-0 :-0

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 8 Feb 2014 18:00

Kuros, we must have had the same one :-0 :-0 :-0

Kuros

Kuros Report 8 Feb 2014 17:58

Not telling my mother what my piano teacher was up to all those years ago.

Annie

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 8 Feb 2014 17:28

Maggiewinchester, is that the "environmently friendly" sort? I hate them because I'm allergic to them and we needed to buy lamp shades which shielded them from me and move the lights which we couldn't shield :-|

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 8 Feb 2014 16:47

Very trivial - but at the moment - buying that bl**dy light for the bathroom all those years ago.
It's a ceiling light, which is a pain, as I need a stepladder to change the bulb.
Bulbs are normal size bayonet candles, but since 'ordinary' bulbs are difficult to obtain, I find lots don't fit :-(
I've tried 4 different makes of bulb - none fit properly.
ANY new bulb now lasts no time - I last changed the bulb about 2 months ago - when I managed to drop a candle down the loo.
New bulb blew last night.

Merlin

Merlin Report 8 Feb 2014 14:30

Getting Married, Should have stayed single, However ,I changed it,felt better ever since even though it cost me a Bomb.

~~ Jules in Wiltshire~~

~~ Jules in Wiltshire~~ Report 8 Feb 2014 14:22

Marrying my second husband!! Now going through divorce number 2....Never again....

Jules x

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 8 Feb 2014 13:20

as the saying goes - what goes round comes round :-D

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 8 Feb 2014 10:20

Letting my Sister in Law bully me years ago, she was a domineering b...h to everyone, however karma has caught up with her and she is alone and vulnerable now :-D :-D

JustJean

JustJean Report 7 Feb 2014 22:44

Mine are quite trivial , but one mistake was never carrying on learning to swim and not getting behind the wheel again after a minor accident with my driving, I do regret that and a few others too ;-) ;-) But no regrets at being married to my oh for 58 years

love Jean xx

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 7 Feb 2014 22:40

Mine is exactly the same as Wend's. My first husband was a brutal B*****d :-(. who gave me 13 years of hell before I had the courage to walk. Second is an absolute darling who I love so very much

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 7 Feb 2014 22:13

I have no regrets with my marriage or my wonderful oH. I wouldn't change anything there.

I do regret not having the courage to stand up to a bullying military officer boss who hated women. No longer with us, smoked non stop and died of cancer. He was nasty to all the females who worked for him and, because of the military ethic and me a junior civilian officer I was too scared to confront him. :-(

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 7 Feb 2014 21:46

IF! WE COULD DO THINGS DIFFERENT WE COULD
MISS THE IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE CHILDREN MAY NEVER EXCIST
GRANDKIDS ,
TO MUCH AT RISK TO CHANGE THE PAST

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 7 Feb 2014 21:38

I should have forged my father's signature.

In high school, teachers encouraged some of us to take home forms for our fathers to sign (mothers not acceptable in those days), so that we could apply for grants to attend university.

I had the grades/marks.

My father refused to sign, because I would take the uni position away from a boy.

Karen in the desert

Karen in the desert Report 7 Feb 2014 21:27


I hope the camels are ok without me Uzzi, I'm in the UK at the mo' - enjoying the rain, rain, rain, rain,............ :-0
x

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 7 Feb 2014 21:18

Karen I am with you on that, Hope those camels are doing well

Karen in the desert

Karen in the desert Report 7 Feb 2014 21:05


The biggest mistake/s in my life and would I change it?
Hmmmm.....
No, wouldn't change a thing because I believe in "it's meant to be" and whatever happens in your life shapes you and subsequently leads you to the life you have now, which, in my case, is great.
On the other hand I can't say I haven't met a few so 'n so's along the way whom I wish I'd had the guts (and strength) to batter to a pulp!! ;-)

Karen x

SheilaSomerset

SheilaSomerset Report 7 Feb 2014 21:04

Not telling someone what a complete a**e he was (an ex-boss) - I would change it and I would also have let down all the tyres on his beloved car and reported him to the police as a suspected terrorist (he had Irish number plates and this was in the 1980s) :-D

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 7 Feb 2014 20:57

Wend like you I regret a previous relationship but without it I may not have the wonderful relationship I have. I do regret though not smacking shite out of him when he belted me and I also regret not turning him into to the law,