Things I Got Wrong

[911r]

Mr-B said:

I had some free Halifax shares as I was a saver with them and had never looked at the price, didn't think they would worth much, so looked it up, oh £12-ish, that's £2400 then, nice. This was around 2006/7. I'll keep those for when I really have to sell them! We all know what happened in 2008, company got absorbed in the melee by Lloyds. Still got them, fvck!

thats a pretty mild story compared to the rest indeed .

[crofty1984]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Ignored red flags because she had cracking norks, not once, not twice but three times.

Carrying on partying long after it was time to stop.

Partying with birds that had great norks

Essentially norks have been my downfall.

"Norks Have Been my Downfall" - a memoir by Sheets Tauber. Currently number two on the Times bestselling list.

[Sheets Tabuer]

If I die tomorrow can I have here lies Sheets Tabuer, he loved norks.

Ta.

[austinsmirk]

There is an epitaph on a Roman tomb which says something exactly like that.

Eg julius had a great life, but drank too much wine and wastes his life chasing girls and splendid norks. I’ll have to find the proper translation: Eg the archeologist would assume some boring , typical “ here lies etc”

But the whole tomb was full of funny stuff like this.


Personally I’ve blown a fortune on fairly stupid cars, especially when I was into modifying.

But I also think happy days and it’s what you do when yr young and will not listen to anyone.

As I get older I’m personally happy to be in good health, it’s academic being rich and utterly on deaths door.

[Mr-B]

911r said:

thats a pretty mild story compared to the rest indeed .

Oh yeah I know but I am a poverty stricken non company director not on 6 figs, so it was a bit gutting all the same. I'll get over it.

[Jcwjosh]

Shagging too early

Giving up sports in pursuit of the above

[talksthetorque]

crofty1984 said:

"Norks Have Been my Downfall" - a memoir by Sheets Tauber. Currently number two on the Times bestselling list.

Ironically, number one is Katie Price's latest book.

[K50 DEL]

Fluid said:

essexplumber said:

Selling my 1.9 GTi in 2006 for a monkey!!!

Mine went in 2003 for £600.

I've had 2, one sold in about 2003 for well under the £1k I'd paid for it a few months earlier and the other, a really nice example, I sold for £900 in 2007 and was pleased to get that much

We won't even talk about all the others that I had in the 90s and early 00s that were sold on for peanuts at the time:

XR3i
2 x XR2
Golf GTi MK1
Nova SR, GTe and GSi
Cav MK2 SRi
Astra Mk2 SRi and GTe
BX GTi
Rangie Classic

Makes me cry it does.

Edited by K50 DEL on Monday 27th June 16:14

[matchmaker]

Caddyshack said:

The “amazing norks” is a regular appearance in this thread. I met my wife when she was 24 and those would’ve most definitely have been the first thing I noticed…..many times I have considered how my life would have been different without the attraction to that lumpy jumper.

I met my wife when she was 17. Nice norks even then. We married when she was 18. 37th wedding anniversary tomorrow. The norks have only improved with age and children

[StevieBee]

I'm not certain many of the shares stories count as being wrong. Looking back, it's easy to say that may have been the case but at the time, we all make decisions that suit us at that time. In the late 90s I bought a load of BT shares and sold them a few years later making about £3k on the deal. If I still had them they'd be worth, what £30k or more?..... but at the time, we were buying a house and needed the money for a deposit. When I was 18 I was offered the chance to buy (not shares but something else the name of which eludes me) in what became Cisco Systems. I needed £5k to do this and today, that investment would have made me a millionaire - but at the time, I didn't have or have access to £5k. That's not really something I got wrong.

The one thing I did get wrong (and knew it at the time) was taking the advice of my then accountant (late 80s) who said I didn't need to establish a Ltd company.... sole trader was the best option. Two bad debts later totalling £55k followed by three years of bankruptcy.

[Nola25]

Here’s some of mine-

Selling a 1991 Oak Green Mk2 16v Golf GTI sold for £300 in 2005
Again, selling a 1990 964 in 2009 for £11k ( just after spending £3k on it)

Not buying a terraced house in 1991 for £6k cause at the age of 19, it would’ve meant not going out and getting pissed up most nights

Not buying some Next shares for pence in the 90’s, would’ve been set for life

Leaving a North Devon beach town fairly recently to live back in the Midlands, loosing money on the house I sold and paying a small fortune for one up here.

[Ouroboros]

A girl at school I "loved" for years, used to cry inside whilst she made her way through the class year above and her year.

Left school and went to NY party in a city. Got lost fell down a ditch and ended up back at where we were staying.

She was there with a friend, saying how tired her feet were. Whilst I massaged her feet they were making the "signs" and said, why don't you come and sleep next to us.

I just went, no I'm knackered and went to sleep. Still regret it 20 years later. ( In truth I had just lost my uncle and wasn't really in a great place, but damn)

Edited by Ouroboros on Wednesday 29th June 07:38

[jakesmith]

Got invited up to her room by a rep on a student ski holiday but mistakenly thought she was just trying to help me home as we were drunk

Not coming up with a way of keeping my London flat when we moved

Not getting my R8 inspected before buying has cost me an absolute fortune

Falling over when 17 in a nightclub, damaging 3 teeth that still cause issues and cost money now

Getting kicked out 2 schools although met the love of my life at uni and career is going fine

[Al Gorithum]

Oh yes, not taking up the offer of buying a beach-front house from a family member in Southwold (Chelsea-on Sea) 20 years ago for £165k even though I had the cash. Worth around £1.5m now.

[911r]

Ouroboros said:

A girl at school I "loved" for years, used to cry inside whilst she made her way through the class year above and her year.

Left school and went to NY party in a city. Got lost fell down a ditch and ended up back at where we were staying.

She was there with a friend, saying how tired her feet were. Whilst I massaged her feet they were making the "signs" and said, why don't you come and sleep next to us.

I just went, no I'm knackered and went to sleep. Still regret it 20 years later. ( In truth I had just lost my uncle and wasn't really in a great place, but damn)

Edited by Ouroboros on Wednesday 29th June 07:38

What do you mean cry inside ?

And yes that’s death bed regrets right there !

[Speed Badger]

I once nearly bought a Citroen.

[matchmaker]

Speed Badger said:

I once nearly bought a Citroen.

I once bought a Citroen.

[scouseVR6]

Saying yes to the crazed girl at school then spend 15 years with her until she went completely mental and got locked up, glad that ended and I got out

Selling a very low mileage 309 GTI for less than I should have

Selling a fairly Solid VW Corrado VR6 as I didn't have time to take it off road to refurb what was needed

Getting rid of a Clio Williams by same crazed girl because we didn't have space on the drive for 3 cars (we did)

[911r]

scouseVR6 said:

Saying yes to the crazed girl at school then spend 15 years with her until she went completely mental and got locked up, glad that ended and I got out

Selling a very low mileage 309 GTI for less than I should have

Selling a fairly Solid VW Corrado VR6 as I didn't have time to take it off road to refurb what was needed

Getting rid of a Clio Williams by same crazed girl because we didn't have space on the drive for 3 cars (we did)

Bet she was good in the sack though .

[PDP76]

Not so much wrong in that I just didn’t have the money to spare to buy offered Bitcoin back in the day.
Wrong in that kind of laughed it off as a waste of digital money idea anyway !
Before it crashed this year at its peak last year each coin worth around 54/55k
Waste of time indeed right ! Lol