Dumbest Decision In High School - Page 2

**Arturo2nd** · September 15th, 2016, 12:06 PM

Forget the girls. The dumbest thing I did was start smoking. Damn, it was hard to quit, and quit, and quit again. It took years to get unhooked.

**Baresfan** · September 15th, 2016, 03:09 PM

I have long been intrigued by the claim, attributed to Socrates, that the "...unexamined life is not worth living." Good to look back on the choices we all made but I am sure we had good reasons or rationalizations at the time.

**Arturo2nd** · September 16th, 2016, 03:58 AM

I long ago reached the conclusion that given who I am and where I came from, I really did do the best that I could. In my better moments I also accept that everyone else is trying their best. Experience and wisdom come from fucking up repeatedly. (Or maybe it's from repeatedly fucking psycho bitches. Your life turns into a mess, but at least the sex was intense.)

**Jake Gittes** · September 16th, 2016, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by welderman

The dumbest decision i made was to go to school, When I think of all those years i missed in the shipyard..

Who needs an education when you're a master welder..

I am in the same boat there.

I would've dropped out my senior year and joined the U.S. Navy.

It's good to know things and see life from another's perspective, but sometimes you have to just do, if that makes any sense.

I had a lot of great teachers and coaches and appreciate their contributions to my life. But I felt my time could've been best utilized elsewhere.

I know war and the service isn't wine and roses, but at least I would've built a resume and got some real-life experience.

To each, his/her own!

**KissArmy** · September 17th, 2016, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jake Gittes

I am in the same boat there.

I would've dropped out my senior year and joined the U.S. Navy.

It's good to know things and see life from another's perspective, but sometimes you have to just do, if that makes any sense.

I had a lot of great teachers and coaches and appreciate their contributions to my life. But I felt my time could've been best utilized elsewhere.

I know war and the service isn't wine and roses, but at least I would've built a resume and got some real-life experience.

To each, his/her own!

My family knows a young lady kind of like you? Yeah, she should have gone straight into the Navy. She made the decision to party in high school, barely graduated, then took her partying habits to college, where she flunked out the fall of her first year. But she saw what the partying lifestyle was doing to her and joined the Navy to get some real life experience and discipline. She did great and the Navy kept its end of the deal to her. She used her GI Bill once she finished her enlistment and is now in nursing school. She's going to do great in life. All of us love her like we always have, and all of us are proud of her too now. Sometimes the dumb decisions set up the great ones!

**Welderman** · September 17th, 2016, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian249x

Forget the girls. The dumbest thing I did was start smoking. Damn, it was hard to quit, and quit, and quit again. It took years to get unhooked.

I've got you a beer mate, are you coming outside for a smoke.??

There's lots of girls out here, so you can play catchup...

**tygrkhat40** · September 18th, 2016, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by KissArmy

Sometimes the dumb decisions set up the great ones!

Good judgment comes from bad experience which comes from bad judgment.

September 15th, 2016, 03:09 PM	#12
Baresfan Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,060 Thanks: 2,313 Thanked 14,183 Times in 1,013 Posts	I have long been intrigued by the claim, attributed to Socrates, that the "...unexamined life is not worth living." Good to look back on the choices we all made but I am sure we had good reasons or rationalizations at the time. Last edited by Baresfan; September 16th, 2016 at 01:52 AM..

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Arturo2nd Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Oakland, California, United States. I have a beautful view of the BART tracks and I-980 Posts: 8,955 Thanks: 103,061 Thanked 151,471 Times in 8,946 Posts	Forget the girls. The dumbest thing I did was start smoking. Damn, it was hard to quit, and quit, and quit again. It took years to get unhooked.

September 16th, 2016, 03:58 AM	#13
Arturo2nd Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Oakland, California, United States. I have a beautful view of the BART tracks and I-980 Posts: 8,955 Thanks: 103,061 Thanked 151,471 Times in 8,946 Posts	I long ago reached the conclusion that given who I am and where I came from, I really did do the best that I could. In my better moments I also accept that everyone else is trying their best. Experience and wisdom come from fucking up repeatedly. (Or maybe it's from repeatedly fucking psycho bitches. Your life turns into a mess, but at least the sex was intense.)