11 random regrets
1. Making cruel homophobic jokes about a kid in junior high. We ended up going to different high schools, and I didn't see him for like three years. Then senior year he randomly showed up at a musical theater performance at my high school, with his biker girlfriend in tow. I tried to avoid eye contact, but was unable to. My next move was to try to be polite and say hi. Like,"My how we've all grown up, how are you doing, old friend?" The first thing he said to me was (nodding towards his girlfriend), "You still think I'm gay?" It seems that maybe he showed up just to say that to me.
2. Paying around $350 for a low-end, tape-based video camera like two years ago.
3. Drunkenly making fun of a rentacop at Taco Bell in like 1991. He shrugged it off and later came to my defense when a townie tried to steal my hat. I would like to expand this short fable into a post of its own at some point, but for now I'll just let it stand for the 966 times I opened my mouth drunk and said the wrong thing.
4. Buying and wearing white linen pants and a white Panama hat in 1987. The accompanying Hawaiian shirt didn't help.
5. Throwing a case of beer off of a bridge in 1991 when some people in the river below started yelling stuff at my friends and me. It took the case like four seconds to hit the water, and it easily could have killed someone. On the bright side, as soon as they heard the splash, the dudes below stopped yelling stuff at us.
6. Failing to ask for anything in 90% of my year-end reviews, including this year's.
7. Generally pussing out countless times in all types of situations.
8. Failing to recognize the greatness of The Replacements until they were gone.
9. Not working hard enough on my leaping ability (jumpsoles, etc.) to dunk. I still want to dunk. I actually have dreams about it sometimes. They are incredible dreams. So real.
10. My second cup of iced coffee today, the one that is still keeping me awake 12 hours after drinking it.
11. Some stupid thing I'll do tomorrow.
Share some of your random regrets if you like.
2. Paying around $350 for a low-end, tape-based video camera like two years ago.
3. Drunkenly making fun of a rentacop at Taco Bell in like 1991. He shrugged it off and later came to my defense when a townie tried to steal my hat. I would like to expand this short fable into a post of its own at some point, but for now I'll just let it stand for the 966 times I opened my mouth drunk and said the wrong thing.
4. Buying and wearing white linen pants and a white Panama hat in 1987. The accompanying Hawaiian shirt didn't help.
5. Throwing a case of beer off of a bridge in 1991 when some people in the river below started yelling stuff at my friends and me. It took the case like four seconds to hit the water, and it easily could have killed someone. On the bright side, as soon as they heard the splash, the dudes below stopped yelling stuff at us.
6. Failing to ask for anything in 90% of my year-end reviews, including this year's.
7. Generally pussing out countless times in all types of situations.
8. Failing to recognize the greatness of The Replacements until they were gone.
9. Not working hard enough on my leaping ability (jumpsoles, etc.) to dunk. I still want to dunk. I actually have dreams about it sometimes. They are incredible dreams. So real.
10. My second cup of iced coffee today, the one that is still keeping me awake 12 hours after drinking it.
11. Some stupid thing I'll do tomorrow.
Share some of your random regrets if you like.
Labels: regrets
posted by hans q. bungle at 02:39
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