Biggest regret light-hearted

[Bumface56]

Mine is never being able to afford a Concorde flight to New York.
What's yours?

Not learning to drive when I started working, I absolutely dont have the confidence now but back when I was 18 I would have had the confidence to try .

Renting throughout my twenties instead of buying a house when they were about £65k

Another one of mine is refusing to continue with piano lessons

Not sleeping with more Frenchmen.

Not kissing the guy back when we were stood in the bus shelter

Saying no to DS when he asked for a McDonald's after parents evening. I'm now exhausted cooking dinner and I don't fancy it at all. What I really fancy is a quarter pounder with cheese 🤣

Not continuing with a language (French) at A Level. Doing a PhD, it was a complete waste of time. When I should have been getting ahead in a career before having kids, instead I was farting about researching something no one (not even me) cared about, and which had no benefit to me career wise at all.

Buying a flat and not a house in 2008. They said it would be a starter home and we could move in a few years. It only took those few years for flats to stagnate in price and houses to rocket.

Selling my UK house when we moved abroad instead of renting it out. Now worth about 6X what I paid for it. It was only little but our first "family" home and I still miss it.

Worrying about my future too much and dropping out of the my alternative lifestyle.

Not getting my French nationality when I could have, because "brexit will never happen". Now I don't qualify.

Training to be a teacher.

Moving back to U.K. in 2016. Didn’t see the warning (Brexit) signs 🤷‍♀️

Not learning a language so I could work for the EU. I’d have moved abroad and never looked back!

Not doing French A Level. I was brilliant at it! Now I only know un petit peu.

So many of these...

Plus:
Not trying hard enough at a-levels
Not buying the YSL Belle du Jour clutch bag before the design changed.
Not getting a mortgage pre 2008 (I didn't until 2021).

I very nearly bought a knackered run down 3 bed chalet for bugger all just outside chamonix village when I was in my early 20s. By hook and by crook I had scraped together the finacing and had my offer agreed but I bottled it at the death as I did not even own a home in the UK and it would have taken me years to fix the place up. I went back to the UK and bought s small flat instead.

That chalet is now worth over a million euros.

Refusing to take German as a language option at school because I could only take two language options and not three: one I was already bilingual in (Gaelic), the other pretty good anyway (French), so would it have killed me on point of principle?

I do still think I was right, but I would have liked to have learned another language. I've picked up a bit as an adult, but miss having missed out on that 'learning window' as a young person.

Not wearing my brace aged 15

Moving back home after finishing university. I wish I'd moved to a city or abroad for a few years. I'm such a home bird but my dream career in the film industry lends itself to being city based, so I never managed to pursue it.

Not going to music college to piss my parents off because they were pushing me into it. I was/am really talented at my instrument, and I can't even think how good I'd be now if I'd gone to college to study it.

This.
I wish I had had more adventure in my 20s. Travel and sexual. Settled down very early.
Am lucky as have love of life but think I would be a better person for it.

My regret is going to music college. Should have kept music as a hobby but instead wasted 3 years .

Staying in my first marriage when I no longer lived h.

Not spending more time with my parents before they died

Going to uni.