Meeting someone who should have just stayed a friend
Getting married ( both times )
Not emigrating in my 20's when I had the perfect opportunity
............take your pick!
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i'll start...
when i was in the army we had a rota for burning all the classified papers once a week. this included ariel photographs, memos etc. we had a furnace which was about 8 ft tall and 4ft by 4ft . it had a door to put the stuff in and a tray underneath for the ashes. oh and a chimney on top. burning the stuff would take a couple of hours as you had to feed it slowly or the fire would be smothered and go out.
so one week when i was on the rota with a mate. that friday a band were coming to play on the base (you know entertain the troops and all that. they were one of my favourite bands at the time. so i had A BRIGHT IDEA to make the stuff burn quicker. i walked down to the petrol pump on the base and filled a bucket with petrol. put all the papers in and covered them in the petrol. threw a match in...
the furnace exploded and took off like a space rocket... luckily the fireball shot out the top through the chimney as the thing went 20ft off the ground. it came back down and burned for a while melting the whole furnace.
on the explosion the whole base was sent in to high alert and everyone to their posts... by the time "the authorities" found out what had happened the gig had been cancelled and everyone was generally fucked off.
my mate and i were court marshalled and spent 2 weeks in the stockade (which basically meant we did gardening around the base for 2 weeks)...
didnt stop me going on to be a lieutenant before i left the army. although i was asked about the incident in the selection for officers course process (the army i served in does not have people going to officers course from day 1. you need to spend over a year in the ranks before selection).
how about you?
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Driving to work the other night wondering why everything was such a blur til I realised I'd forgotten to put my glasses on
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Driving to work the other night wondering why everything was such a blur til I realised I'd forgotten to put my glasses on
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One night, in the pub, chatting to a friend about someone who worked for me and not being that polite about them as, in truth, they were not very good.
My mobile phone picked up me speaking their name on "voice dial" and called them without my knowledge and the call lasted 20 minutes......
The next day they were a little unhappy and mentioned I called them from the pub. No idea what they heard....
Even today I do not use voice activated dialing for this reason, and if I need to talk about someone I still check phone isn't on..... And if meeting playmates the phone is fully off! lol!