What spontaneous thing have you done that had a big impact on your life?

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The day my divorce came through, I went on POF just to see what was out there. Never been one a dating site before. I clicked on one profile, thought hmm he sounds nice, sent a message and 2 days later we met up. We've been together 3 years and just had our second child together.

Matched with someone on Tinder, found out he was over from Canada visiting family in the UK. 3 weeks later flew to Canada for 10 days. 4 weeks after that moved to Canada. 9 months later still here and residency application went in in February!

Moved in with a man I met on POF after a month. 6 years later and we're married and head over heels in love.

When I was on maternity leave with my first, I was a young recent graduate and on a fixed term (traineeship) contract so no job to go back to (unplanned pregnancy, part way through starting out in a niche career). I bumped into a very young mum/friend in the supermarket who had a baby the same age, she told me she had just gotten a job and I felt really envious, if she could work so could I! I went on the council's job website that day and sure enough the only job in my related field in a good 60-80 mile radius had come up in my home town because the previous incumbant had retired (dead man's shoes type job), I went for it, got it and have had a very successful career since. I've often wondered what would have happened to me if I hadn't logged on that day.

Love this thread! Although it is making me sad to realise I'm early 30's and haven't done anything spontaneous (yet!) to have a credible impact on my life nice to read what others have done though!

Gave up smoking. Was at a smoke shelter at work. Looked around and just decided there and then it isn't for me.

Told my selfish, self centred, abusive STBXH I didn’t want to be married to him.

Had been brewing but totally unplanned until he asked me what was wrong.

I am now a much poorer single parent trying to juggle money, working, and life with small children (and a dog) on my own. Couldn’t be happier

Had put up with a job that made me miserable for months until I bumped into a school friend who told me of a job opening working with her. I decided to submit an application that day as I thought it’d be fun to work with her whilst I applied for other jobs.

Got the job and started the same day as chap who’d also applied on a whim. Not long after starting I joined their graduate programme and returned to uni to do a couple of postgrad degrees.

I’m now in a career I never thought was possible and married to the chap I met on the first day.

Went into a coffee shop because it had started to rain. Read the paper as I was drinking my coffee and in the property pages was a converted church for sale. Went home, packed in my job, let out my flat and had moved from urban London to living in the middle of nowhere in a church within three months.

Moving abroad to be with DH.

I had been working for a company who told me they would keep me close to home, they didn't. I came back from a holiday in January and I was told by a colleague that the company were going to keep me in an office 2 to 2.5 hours drive from home for the next two years. I rang my boss that evening and told him I was emailing him my letter of resignation. I didn't even have an other job lined up. Luckily I was contacted by a recruitment agent who had a job 15mins drive from my house, I have been here over a year and I am so happy! If I hadn't quit I would never have even replied to the recruiters message!

Decided to apply to do a degree on a whim my friend was doing because it looked quite interesting despite really wanting to join the police force

I got in, she didn't and 3 decades later I am still doing it very successfully and still loving it

I often wonder what different direction my life would have taken

Long story short.

Spoke to my colleague who is now my DH and we have been together for thirty years.

I like these threads.

I poked (not a euphemism ) a random man in a pub to tell him he looked grumpy. We are still together a couple of decades later. He still looks grumpy

Shame I didn't know the MN expression "resting bitch face" then as it may have been opener and we never would have got married

I love this thread, it's amazing what charges have impacts.

Mine isn't as big as some as it would have happened eventually anyway. But I bought a house to get my dog.

He arrived at the rescue me and dp volunteered at in the July, I said I wanted him, LL said no when we asked if they could make an exception. We got our keys to our first home in the October. 4 years later, we're adding a baby to the mix.

I didn't go to university after school, I was just desperate to get out and earn some money but when I was 24 I applied to an evening college course on a whim. I completed it, went on to a part time BA, I'm now halfway through a part time Masters and I'm writing a research proposal for PhD funding.

I work in university administration and after 7 years of trying to wrangle coordinate academics, I never thought I'd try to be one!

Got our extra cat.
He was in the paper after being found in a horrible old state, and I was very upset at the time at the thought of people being so cruel to this poor old cat.
Donated money, blah, not expecting anything to come of it. Kept in touch with the shelter, he wasn't expected to survive, didn't expect anything to come of it.
We adopted him in January. Sometimes I look at him lying in the garden in the sun and barrelling about the garden chasing butterflies in an absolute joy, and I am so glad we made that decision.

@VetOnCall wondered what happened to you. Lovely update!

Kissed a willing stranger in a bar!! Never had a night apart in nearly 7 years!! Married with a dc!!

Oh what lovely stories!

Just like @managedmis, I moved abroad to live with and marry my boyfriend.

Got very drunk one evening at a work night out, took one guy back home 😮 rang in sick the next two days so that I could spend that time in bed with him!

Moved him in with me within a month and we’ve now been together for 17 years, 12 of which we’ve been married.

In those first few days I thought that I had lost my mind and was being crazy!

I think this is my favourite ever thread.

But weirdly I can't think of anything I've done that's spontaneous. Mmmmm.

We did a leaflet drop round houses we hoped to buy as there was nothing on the market we liked. We had one response from a house we liked but wasnt perfect but would have bought it as a compromise as we needed somewhere.

My wife asked me if I had any more responses and told me to check my junk mail in case. Turned out we had another person email but it was filtered out...
2 months on and we get the keys to our dream home on Monday.

We often wonder if we didnt have that conversation that night and check my junk mail then we would be going to a very different house!

Kissed my best friend when drunk just as a laugh and then again sober to see if it really had felt that good. It did and after a brief affair left my husband of 16 years to be with her. 5 and half years later we are still together and been married 18 months.
Had no idea I wasn't straight until then and it was a very messy confusing time but very glad I kissed her.