To ask the most impulsive thing you’ve ever done

[Wellsbells]

And whether you regretted it?

Mine was when I was backpacking in South Africa in my twenties. It was so hot and humid that one day I suddenly decided to cut off my waist length hair to about an inch long all over with my nail scissors in my hostel room. It felt amazing and I had no regrets until a few months later when it was at the awkward in-between length.

Another was the time, following a breakup, I quit my job and moved to the other end of the country. Initially regretted it as the isolation from all my friends was hard but now I’m really happy here and glad I did it.

Would love to hear yours!

Got engaged after three months together, still together 23 years later.

Went for a job interview, didn't get it. Decided to have a baby instead. Though it took 7 months of trying we just went for it. Don't regret that one.

Hopefully buying an auction property this week we have only viewed today.

Decided to move back to my home town, found a house, gave notice on my then flat and finished with my now ex, all in the space of 48 hours. TBF I had been idley thinking about it for a while but I didn’t think I was going to do it, until I did.

I’ve been back here for 4 months now, me and DS have settled in and we’re a lot better off here. I’m still getting over my ex but the relationship was dead anyway, I just sometimes have to remind myself why I broke up with her.

Another one here just handed in my notice. No job to go to either

@DanFmDorking
Nooooooo afraid not lol.

@Millie2013 glad to know I'm not the only impulse horse purchased around😂

*purchaser!

On the day I finished university tossed a coin to decide whether we would stay in the UK for the summer or 'tails, move to Amsterdam tomorrow'. Of course it was tails and my then boyfriend and I moved to Amsterdam literally the next day. It was a hard slog and we never did manage to save the money we intended to travel the world (later I did travel) but it was an amazing experience looking back.

@namechange7438 - enjoy it anyway

Got married.

Sometimes regret it, sometimes not

(still married)

@amusedbush

I applied for an evening college course on a whim. I had crap school grades and I was 24 at the time, so thought it would boost my CV a little.

I started a week later and it totally changed the direction of my life! From there I got advanced entry to a part-time degree, then I did a Masters and now I’m doing a PhD with a view to becoming a lecturer. All because I said ‘fuck it, I’ll put in an application’ one bored evening

I guess my choice to start an access course was pretty impulsive too. It was fuelled by spite really because I hated my boss so much. I'm now doing a MA, thinking about doing a PhD next.

All because I hated my boss so damn much. I literally went home from work and applied. Got accepted quickly and never looked back.

Went to a job fair at Uni with my best friend. She saw an agency that would find you a job in Australia (we are Canadian) and asked if I wanted to go. I said not to Australia but if she wanted to go to the UK I would go. Surprised everyone as I’m quite the homebody but I went for the year, met some amazing people, did some travelling through Europe and got the work experience that led me to my current wonderful job. Probably one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Said yes to getting married after 4 weeks. My poor parents didn't even know I was seeing some one. Still together after 35 years and it was definitely the best decision I've ever made .

I've tried to do spontaneous things a few times but they just never seem to work out!

Spontaneously booked a holiday on a whim - cancelled because of covid

Decided to apply for a candian working holiday visa pretty much on the spot - never got pulled from the pool

Applied for a few jobs that would have been perfect for me in a city on the other side of the country after getting a job alert email - never heard anything back!

Said yes to going on a banner rally across Europe with a guy I'd met once through my car club (so by mutual friends I knew he wasn't an axe murderer at least!). It was extremely out of character at the time, was a bloody brilliant decision, and it gave me the confidence to do a bunch of other stuff including quitting my shit job when I got back. We ended up together for a couple of years which was very much not my intention 🤣 it also confused the fuck out of my friends and family as I'd been relatively sensible up to that point!

And my cats... I was all geared up to adopt dogs, went to the local cat rescue one November afternoon for reasons which have been lost in time and found myself driving back there the next day with a cat carrier, to collect the two fluffy loves of my life who have saved my life and sanity repeatedly in the seven years since 💙

Banger rally not banner! Bloody autocorrect!

I’m sitting next to him ...

First day at uni, met a second year student in the bar. He had no accommodation and was sleeping on a friend’s floor. 3 days later, besotted with him, I moved him into my room on an all female corridor in my hall of residence.
How did it work out? Reader, I married him...!
We had 16 wonderful years and two DC, before his sadly early death at 36, when the DC were babies. I still love and miss him.

I'm so impulsive I could write for days on this 😆 minor ones recently are things like...buying a caravan, waking up and deciding the living room HAD to be pink and painting the whole room after work, painting late into the night. Woke up the other morning and opened an online shop. I'm in the middle of sourcing stock at the moment. My DD thinks it's hilarious. Apparently I opened my eyes the other day and declared that I was going to get some turkeys to live in the garden. Thankfully I fell back asleep and thought better of it when I finally woke up. Biggest one is probably turning 30 and leaving my DH (I'm glad I did this!). I'm really quite good at following up on my impulses though. If I decide something, no matter how suddenly, if I'm committed I do see it through, and it usually works out!

My sister phoned me and offered me a 6 month job working in a residential home in UK. I lived in Denmark had done all my life. I was engaged and living with someone.

I took the job. Ended it with the fiance

30 years later I am still living in the UK and will be celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary with my very British dh in February.

2 years ago I was very unhappy at my work one day I said to dh. I would love to do a counselling course. He said just do it Enko this is something you have spoken of often. We can manage you hate your job.

So I booked myself on the course. Quit the job. I am now a level 4 student 2 more years and I will be a counsellor

No regrets

Decided to marry my then boyfriend after a few weeks together ,wedding arranged for a few months later , everyone thought we were crazy and that it wouldn't last etc ,however we celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary in August lots of ups and down ,s but we are still happy .

@QuestionableMouse

Spite fuels most my endeavours

I worked in a university for almost a decade (in an admin role) and my intention was to do my PhD part-time there while working, as my fees would have been waived. However, last November I was offered a long-awaited and well-deserved promotion, which a previous boss tanked with a terrible reference full of lies about me so the offer was withdrawn. A couple of weeks later I sat at my desk and watched all of my colleagues open letters announcing a £500 Christmas bonus but I didn't get one because I hadn't been there for a full year. They wouldn't even pro-rata it for me so I got nothing, even though it was an internal secondment and I'd been there for years. My boss knew I'd taken that secondment because I was so deeply unhappy in my previous team so it was a real kick in the nuts and just showed me how misplaced my loyalty was.

That same day I decided to look for funded full-time PhDs elsewhere and I was offered a place in January, which I started in July this year. I'm enjoying every minute of it, I absolutely love the university I'm studying at and I have no regrets.

Quit my job and moved to NZ within 8 weeks. No regrets

Had a crush on a guy in sixth form; a couple of years later we went on a date and he invited me on holiday. I went and realised I think the moment he met me at the airport that he wasn’t into me - at all. I guess he was drunk when he asked me to go? I then had an excruciating few days sharing a hotel room with someone who could not have wanted me to be there any less! It was very bruising and I absolutely regret going. I also regret not having the courage to get out of that hotel room and go explore the city on my own. I suppose if I’m looking for a positive, it put the lid on my ‘what if...?’ fantasy about him but it was a fairly humiliating way for it to happen. I am quite a fan of impulse decisions but my instincts don’t ALWAYS guide me in the right direction...