To not have have seized the moment (light-hearted)

[AngryBananaSund]

You have to tell me I did the right thing in my moment of temptation. I know we should all strive to turn towards the light, but the possibilities will forever haunt me.

It all started this afternoon with a knock on the door. When I opened the door I saw a people-carrier in our drive and a guy on my doorstep leaning on a washing machine. The washing machine wasn’t wrapped and I think it was second-hand.

The guy looks at me and says "Hello mate, got your washing machine here."

Except I wasn’t expecting a washing machine.

But there it was, my moment of temptation! Time went very slow as I saw the possibilities unfold. I could accept the delivery, sell a second-hand washing machine on the black market and buy a ticket on the night train to Marrakech and spend the rest of life lazing on a beach sipping Piña Colada (Can you take the train to Marrakech? Does Marrakech even have a beach? Details, just details.)

I felt the tension between the light and the dark, the right and the wrong before I said he'd got the wrong address and he went away, but that moment will forever be the path I never took

(Also, he'd got the wrong postcode in his sat-nav)

😂😂😂 OP! You made me laugh! 😂😂😂

Unless the washing machine was made of gold I don’t think you’d got enough money on the black market for it to cover even a week’s worth of Piña Colada. (Excellent choice of drink btw!)

I walked into the office the other day and there was a £20 note on the floor...it might have got me to Cardiff I suppose, with enough for a coffee when I got there...

I once had a cleaner knock on my door very grumpy and very early for a Saturday morning. Perhaps I’d kept her waiting. For a moment I thought about letting her in and feigning stupidity, clearly she had been booked online via a big company if she’d never been the right address before. I thought what would she do when she found out, make it all messy again? Risk I was willing to take. But then I saw the light and sent her to the right house. Was kicking myself for a week (well at least until I got though cleaning the kitchen)