What was the worst mistake you ever made in your whole born days?

Question

Arkansas jargon

Answer 1

The Air Traffic Control Strike of 1981. Eventually went back (16 yrs. later). I took the ethically correct stand but it cost me
then and it'll cost me in retirement. It still hurts but we accept life on life's terms and sometimes she really collects the interest!

Answer 2

Probably not the worst mistake I made, but certainly the most memorable. It was the middle of the night and there was a bug on the kitchen cabinet when I got up to get a drink of water. Half awake I grabbed what I thought was a can of Raid to spray it. Well, I didn't realize how much the can of Raid and the can of red spray paint looked alike until I had blotches of red paint all over the cabinet!

Answer 3

Thanks for the add-on, I was looking at the question and was wondering what my un-born days were? Biggest mistake I ever made was when I found the girl of my dreams was marrying another guy. Told that guy something crass that has stuck with me for over 40 years. I still wonder, because of the times, if she ever married that guy. I regret it all the time but it was like being punched in the stomach. I had just come home after 13 months overseas and was not ready to hear something like that.

Answer 4

How much time do you have? That's a joke. I've made so many mistakes in my life, I'd be hard pressed to pick only one. OK. I made a mistake taking the first job that was offered to me because I had to give up my place in a town I loved very much. If I had waited a little while, I would have been able to get another job closer to home. I regret that to this day.

Answer 5

My worst mistake in my whole born days was wasting time, the one thing you can never get back.
edit: WV jargon too! lol

Answer 6

My worst mistake was not getting up the nerve to go to university. or a community college. I have a thirst for knowledge that I never had in my youth.The internet came to live in my house last July and I have been staying up later and later . I don't know if this is a good thing or not but I sure am having fun.

Answer 7

Being an obedient daughter and doing what my parents told me too. Even when it went against everything I beleived. Of course I was 15 at the time. I did find my son 36 years later.

Answer 8

Not finishing college and getting my degree. That was the worst mistake I ever made. The oppurtunity never presented itself again.

Answer 9

It's probably something stupid I did in Japan to try and impress my wife. We had arrived in Japan in connection with my military orders. Before I met her my wife attended Saint Sofia's University in Tokyo. So, she knew more Japanese than me even though I had done a year in Japan some years earlier. Just prior to our arrival in Japan, some crazed person had murdered four taxi drivers in widely separate cities in Japan. There was a nationwide manhunt for the "taxi killer" by the police.
My wife's stepmother had sent us a telegram giving us her new address in Yokohama. My wife and I climbed into a taxi and the driver asked us (in Japanese) where we were going. Pulling the telegram from my pocket I told him (in Japanese) what I thought was the lady's address. Unfortunately it had been garbled in transmission. So, what I really said (in Japanese) was: "You're dead!". The driver sped to the nearest police box, jumped from the taxi and yelled to the cops that he had the taxi killer in his cab.
Fortunately our passports' entry stamps showed we could not have committed these murders.

Answer 10

Getting married just to get out of the house!