The old regrets thread

[David]

No money for new instruments gotta work with what I've already got.

 

[Cajungal]

Shoebox + rubber bands = acoustic guitar! My students taught me that.

 

[Null]

Clothesline and a 2x4 = bass, according to Emmet Otter

But seriously, I think Seasick Steve uses a broomstick with like three strings screwed to it.

 

[SeraRelm]

I regret moving to West Virginia for a time, that's where I was homeless for a while.
I regret not being in Philly when someone who was very close and very important to me passed away (my "that girl".)
I regret spending so much time trying to build and maintain a bridge to my family before they disowned me
I regret answering the phone any time they called for about a year after that.
I regret not being able to explain why I wouldn't be able to see or speak with my niece and nephew.

I'll probably regret making this post.

 

[sixpackshaker]

At my age and single, there have been too many good women that got away. Two of those women told me years later that they liked me years before. But I never caught on, or was too tied up my little dramas to pay attention.

 

[Mathias]

Nick, I paid money for Alien: Resurrection, too.... *solemn hug*

 

[Vagabond]

I regret not graduating from high-school errday. Started my senior year without any motivation to finish. No amount of disappointment from anyone could convince me otherwise.

Wish I could show past me where I am now, and punch him square in the nards.

 

[Jay]

I would have liked to be able to see my grandfather one last time before he passed away. He was good to me and all he asked of me was to spend time with him doing things I already liked but being a selfish child at the time I didn't give him much of the time of day.

I remember a day vividly, a 14 year old who was annoyed that I had to be at a cold as fuck funeral while snow/rain chiclets fell on me, with only the thought of going back home and playing some SNES.

Imagine my face when I found out that the university I could go to a few years later, was already paid for due with the money he gave my tuition fund that was transferred to my name in his will after he died.



Makes me sad how much of a dipshit I was to him.

 

[Frank]

I would have liked to be able to see my grandfather one last time before he passed away. He was good to me and all he asked of me was to spend time with him doing things I already liked but being a selfish child at the time I didn't give him much of the time of day.

I remember a day vividly, a 14 year old who was annoyed that I had to be at a cold as fuck funeral while snow/rain chiclets fell on me, with only the thought of going back home and playing some SNES.

Imagine my face when I found out that the university I could go to a few years later, was already paid for due with the money he gave my tuition fund that was transferred to my name in his will after he died.



Makes me sad how much of a dipshit I was to him.

Yeah, this is much the same with my grandpa. He's still alive but he's got dementia so bad that if he recognizes me he thinks I'm still a child. When I was a teenager I would spend my summers on my grandpa's farm helping him chop wood, work in his shop, garden, etc. I resented it so bad at the time but now I realize how much I could have learned from him (seeing as he was a master mechanic to the point that the local mechanic shops in town often asked his advice on things) if I'd only been less of an obstinate little fuck.

You know what they say about wisdom and youth.

 

[Soliloquy]

I regret that when I used to visit my grandparents, I was more interested in going into their computer room and playing The Red Baron than I was interested in spending time with them.

My grandma, on her death bed, reached over to me and said "I want you to know... I never really minded at all." I have a feeling she was talking about that (I did show some guilt whenever I asked if I could go play it) but I still feel bad that I didn't spend more quality time with them.