The best decision you have ever made?

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Some Random Guy said:
Just curious, how were you backed into a corner? Feel free to tell me to fuck off if I'm prying.
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Long story long. This lad moved in with her within a month of us finishing but I took it on the chin as all she ever did was threaten me with not seeing the bairn. Everything was great for a year regular contact with the daughter minimal contact with the ex.
Then I met someone. Honest mate what nightmare. She asked me to go back, her fella threatened me with hard cases, got to the point where I would take my sister with me to pick the bairn up just so I didn’t have to converse with them. Then the bairn “didn’t want to come with me only when I was with the new girl though” the daughter was 18 month/2 year old everyone was topper in her eyes. This was after months of me bowing down to her. Months of receiving solicitors letters changing days and nights of contact with the daughter, this was a weekly occurrence at one point.
It came to a head when I was out with the bairn as arranged and she wanted to go to the pet shop to see the animals. The coppers rusged the place arrested me and took the daughter away. They said I’d kidnapped her!!! But got a letter 6 days later telling that contact was still okay.
 
Tom Bobbins said:
You might want to reconsider #5. As for #6, what happened there?
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I was machine shot blasting a massive 40 foot 20" diameter pipe which was on a boagey on a rail, like a small train.
Like A dickhead I stood on the lance runner to observe the shot was doing its job and stepped down to walk away but the axle caught my ankle and jammed it between the centre supports for the track. It dragged me down and would've had me if it wasn't for pulling my foot from the boot.
If I'd been wearing laced up boots I'd have been crushed.
 
Nukehasslefan said:
Best decisions I've ever made.
1. Our lass having our daughter.
2. Me marrying our lass.
3. Our lass having our eldest son.
4. Our lass having our youngest son.
5. Supporting Newcastle United.
6. Wearing rigger boots when I became trapped under the low axle of a railed machine and managing to escape being crushed to death due to the rigger boot allowing my foot to be freed before the inevitable death crush. :eek:

7. When skydiving I pulled my cord and my entire chute came out and pulled the entire back pack from me, leaving me chuteless.
I flapped about for a minute or so and saw the ground closing in fast, then I noticed something fairly long and fat in my trouser pocket. It was a can of red bull that I'd bought earlier. I managed to glide to safety after drinking some of it and throwing the can away, which ironically killed a Bull that wasn't red.

The best decision I made was to wear a nice adult nappy...and the can of red bull was a bonus too...because it gave me.........


Ok number 7 might be stretching the truth to breaking point.:D ;)
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How was 5 a decision - Did you have a choice? And more importantly, how was that a good decision? They’ve been largely shite for 50 years and won nothing. Surely there would have been many better choices of team to support?
 
Dropping out of uni at like 19/20. Was miserable in some shite student accommodation in the midlands studying a pointless degree. Fucked it off, came back home and shortly after met my wife and went back to uni up here :cool:
 
I'm sure, I've made a "best decison" though I can't think of one, off the top of my head.
I've made plenty of bad decisions, and lived to tell the tales. 😣
 
Going travelling on my own and spending a year in Oz in the nineties. Seems a lot more common now but back then I didn't know anyone who had done it, especially from Southwick. It showed that it was okay to stray from the norm and not stick to the nine to five life that was expected of me.
If I hadn't done that, I'm not sure I'd have had the confidence later in life to walk away from a good career to take a chance at being a writer.
Other things like overpaying my mortgage have been sensible decisions that have allowed me the freedom to 'chase my dreams' or at least do something different.
 
look out piano said:
Having my child, he was unexpected and conceived right at the beginning of a new relationship (which didn't last).
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Sometimes, for whatever reason, life doesn't always turn out, the way we hope it would, which is a shame, but from the sadness of a failed relationship, you gained a son, who's the light and love of your life. 👍
 
the boot said:
Tbf up here the knock them out like Greggs pasties so it’s rare to come across couples in their 30s without at least one of them having a jam eater.
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Assumed my mates back home would have loads by new (early to late thirties) and not all of them do.
 
Dave Herbal said:
Ah but a lot of people do it for career reasons despite the biological directive. I just find it a really odd decision to make.
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I find it odd that you find it odd. Not all women have the desire/need/want for kids. I certainly have never wanted to have any. One sister the same as me, one has kids. More than happy just being an Auntie. I wouldn't mind another cat, however.
 
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