Life vomits on your eiderdown

[bobmac]

Do you have any major disappointments in your life so far? (golfing or otherwise)
My 2 are......not getting picked to go to the States with the RAF Golf team.... 1994. Some Wing Commander went in my place :angry:
And secondly, while watching the royal wedding with Kate and Wills , I was gutted when I discovered I wasn't the only guy who was thinking 'actually, I quite like the sister

 

[Beezerk]

Lying to the music teacher in the 2nd year of comp when he asked if I'd intentionally written the melody in piece of sheet music I'd composed. I didn't want to look a nerd in front of the class so I said I'd just randomly made it up. Probably wouldn't have made much of a difference but I may have taken up music as a lesson rather than seeing it as an easy hour of messing with instruments.

 

[Adi2Dassler]

And secondly, while watching the royal wedding with Kate and Wills , I was gutted when I discovered I wasn't the only guy who was thinking 'actually, I quite like the sister

I thought the same watching SPOTY when Jessica Ennis wore that red dress.There I was thinking she was really lovely and all mine, next morning, the entire nation wanted my Jess.

 

[bladeplayer]

Loads .. not for a golf forum tho...

 

[Fyldewhite]

Junior football.....was reserve keeper (aged 10) for school team and got picked for the first team in a cup match against a school we had drawn 1-1 with in the league the week before. My big chance to make an impression and proceeded to let in 4 in the first 20 minutes and ended up on the end of a 6-1 defeat. Team game and all that but guess who took the rap. Gutted.

Bob, I can vouch for you not being the "only guy"

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Pippa knocks around with the Duke of Northumberlands kids, same social circle. One of them got married a few years ago, in Alnwick, and she came up. The whole party walked through the town at one point. I know a lot of blokes who went to see Pippa's backside and they gave a universal thumbs up. If there was a queue I'm afraid it is a very long one and unless your bank balance is substantial then don't even bother lining up.

 

[richart]

Going to my first Reading match in 1970. All the pain over the last 45 years. Why did I go and support my local team, when I could have supported Man Utd, Liverpool or Arsenal.

 

[alexbrownmp]

Spending about 90% of my income on the fairer sex, alcohol and gambling, the rest I frittered away

 

[JustOne]

Not having sex with Jenny Williams.

My mate then did and she was with him for 10yrs :angry:

 

[Piece]

Had a school football trial as kid. I thought I played very well but didn't get the call. Weeks later I was asked why I hadn't turned up to the final selection squad at <local big football club>...turns out the school coach forgot to tell me I'd made the squad

 

[virtuocity]

Loads!

1. Quitting tenor horn in primary 7 because my mates had quit their instruments
2. My choice of uni degree and not having the guts to quit early doors. 3 years wasted
3. Sticking by a poor driving instructor through THREE failed tests. Passed with ease a few weeks later with a new teacher.
4. Trying (and failing) to be 'cool' at school.
5. Golf related: learning the 10 finger grip

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Tbh I have no disappointments in life - can't complain how it's all gone

Only thing I do wonder is how I would have got on if I started playing golf earlier instead of 6 years ago

 

[MadAdey]

Golfing wise it was being 17 and thinking I had won a big board comp at Stoke Rochford. 77-11-66 on a wet windy day when not many people broke par, to then see a nett 63 from a well known bandit pop up on the computer.....:angry:

 

[Imurg]

Not getting picked for the school cricket team, even though in was a better bowler than the rest put together, because I didn't come from one of the posh villages/towns that supplied the school with pupils. I was virtually the only local kid there.
Not starting golf until I was 30 - big mistake!

 

[SocketRocket]

Regrets iv'e had a few, but then again; to few to mention!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

#10

.....Aldershot?

 

[ManinBlack]

Being invite to play at Muirfield with my firm against our clients, Barratt Developments. Sir Lawrie Barratt decided foursomes was a "more social" game than singles so I had to partner a 25 handicapper who wasn't playing too well. I saw some interesting parts of the course but got no idea of what it was like to play. A massive disappointment, I still carry the scars.

 

[Hobbit]

Only one.

Returning from Uni for a brief visit home, in a far and distant land, I bumped into a girl I'd got friendly with, but never asked out, from 6th form. The where we bumped into each other has a history for being a romantic place to meet. We chatted for a couple of hours, just like we had a number of times before we went off to our respective Uni's. Our conversation was like we'd last seen each other yesterday, not over a year previously. She even apologised for having to take her siblings home from the last party we'd been to, rather than me walk her home... and at the end of the conversation I didn't even ask her for her phone number or a date.

My parents moved back to England not long after, and I didn't return to that far flung land for over 20yrs.... I sometimes wonder...

 

[SocketRocket]

Only one.

Returning from Uni for a brief visit home, in a far and distant land, I bumped into a girl I'd got friendly with, but never asked out, from 6th form. The where we bumped into each other has a history for being a romantic place to meet. We chatted for a couple of hours, just like we had a number of times before we went off to our respective Uni's. Our conversation was like we'd last seen each other yesterday, not over a year previously. She even apologised for having to take her siblings home from the last party we'd been to, rather than me walk her home... and at the end of the conversation I didn't even ask her for her phone number or a date.

My parents moved back to England not long after, and I didn't return to that far flung land for over 20yrs.... I sometimes wonder...

Lovely story. I could almost smell the train smoke! (If you know what I mean)

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Having to turn down the chance to play on the last day of The Open as a marker.
Missing watching Howler and Tiger play in the Walker Cup.
Minor points really.

Nae Regrets
Enjoyed my life so far. Married well [45 years], no illness or unhappiness.