Have you had a Sliding Doors moment in your life?

I think that's the butterfly effect.

Not sure if it counts, but...met my OH when we both gatecrashed the same all-day barbecue, through entirely different sets of barely-acquaintances under totally odd circumstances. We made at least 10 different completely random and highly unlikely out-of-character choices between us on the same day that led to us both being there at the same time and actually talking, and neither of us can convincingly explain why we made any of them.

25 years later, still together. If either of us had made a single more in-character choice that day, both of our lives would've been wildly different.

Exactly!! 1,000,000 threads on ‘I’m in a sexless marriage’ ‘should I report this GP/Teacher/HV?’ Child free weddings, splitting bills when the OP only had a lettuce leaf and a glass of water, worried about DH and his female colleague….they've ALL been done to death! There is nothing new under the sun on MN!!!

As a foster carer, I made a phone call about someone I was concerned about (with their permission), to social services. After speaking about that issue, the sw asked whether I could take a baby which had just been born. She had been about to to phone someone else, but said if I could take the baby as an emergency, it would save her a job.

Twenty four years later, that ‘baby’ is still with us, and is our beloved child.

Nobody, i was trying to answer Op and failed.. I said I "thought" as I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong. Nowhere did i claim to be the queen of definitions! 😂

Who made you the queen of sliding door definitions….

Yes. My teenage on/off crush asked me home with him in a pub in 2002. I said no, and I know now that he was in his ready to settle down era. He met his now wife a month later (after asking her home, from a club 😂).

For ages I regretted not saying yes as we had potential - but now I am VERY pleased I didn’t and thank my 21 year old self for her guidance!!!

These aren't sliding doors moments though are they? I thought it was when one random happening infiuenced something else usually bigger.

Yea this is the one from the other week.... good read

Rude witch is a compliment in my book!

What is your 'Sliding Doors' moment? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/5099688-what-is-your-sliding-doors-moment

Haha notme76 you are bang on.

Hindsight is a weird one. I could track back every decision that has led to my current life status quo, to the death of my father. As in, his death led to a decision to move house, to change job, which then meant I joined a gym round the corner from the new job, which is where I met my current DP and father of my child. If he hadn't died, my life might be completely different now.

I think the key to a happy life is really to just not wallow in bad situations - say yes to opportunities, seek out change and growth, aim to surround yourself with like minded people, and eventually you find yourself in a happy situation and you realise that none of it would have happened were it not for the dark times.

Looking at the thread it doesn't look like that was for you but for funinthesun. Plus it's more likely she meant witch with a b.

I'm still laughing at being called ' rude witch'. I'm adopting this saying, it's classic . It's Like it's meant to be offensive but just isn't and I don't know why!

Perhaps this is my sliding doors moment ...

Met DW because she missed a flight and got put on mine instead. We lived on 2 separate continents but were going to the same European city the same weekend.
If she had made it on her original flight, we’d never have meet. 20 years and 2 kids later…

Yep me too

My husband decided to call an ambulance one morning when I felt an bit odd, the same feeling I’d had numerous times before but GPs could not work out what it was and had suggested I took antacids. Not really sure why we agreed to call that morning, there was no real reason other than a desire for someone to listen to me telling them something wasn’t right. Turns out I was having a massive heart attack and I had my life saved. I would not have survived had we not called 999, I often think back and wonder what the sequence of events would have been that day!

So? I haven’t seen either… and look at the number of threads that come up on the same topic daily! Can you imagine if someone responded to a thread about cheating spouse with … there was a thread on this yesterday 😅

Yea we had a post near identical to this only a week ago 😂😂😂

On whim bored one afternoon emailed an ex colleague to she how she was. She mentioned her company was recruiting for a position I was qualified in and to send my cv in. I got the job. Often wonder what I'd be doing now if I hadn't emailed her that afternoon.

Has this not been done to death?

Yes, when I was young, I was offered a job with full training & accommodation in an industry that I did some PT work in.(this was PT work on top of my existing FT job)

I decided to stay in my original FT job & industry, which turned out well.

I was only saying to someone the other day, I wonder how my life would have turned out, if I had chosen the other option.

@blastedtea I expect your post will be deleted but I must say I love the expression rude witch which made me laugh. I know I shouldn't because it is so offensively female but there's something funny about it. It maybe that rude is so minor and witch so offensive so together they are comedy.