Ever revisit a "blast from the past" and say "what was I thinking"?

[Iniquitous Bunny]

A few years back, I had a class with a man (both in our 30's- returning students) that I was hopelessly, completely attracted too in every animal sense of the word. He made no secret he felt the same way. I was married (very unhappily) and he was single. I did nothing about it. He never even know I was tormented about it or the level to which I internally struggled. What it did do was start the ball rolling in series of events that ultimately lead to divorce and a huge shake-up in my life.

Anyway, Tuesday I walk into this math course I have to take (almost done with that damn degree) and who should I see? That guy. He looked me up and down in that same sleazy way and smiled, but it did nothing at all but make me think, "Yeah, I could have had that. Thankfully, I didn't."

Not only would he have not have deserved me or even have begun to understand me, but he just wasn't all that. I was just so, so happy I just didn't go there. I'm far from perfect and I've done my fair share of stupid things. but at least that wasn't one of them.

[GalleryGod]

1. My girlfriend from 9th grade...married Larry Fischer

The CEO of Time Warner Cablenet.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

7. I don't know what my 9th grade boyfriend is doing.

As for yours, a good guy (IMHO) is more important than money, so I hope he treats her well.

[Zomby Woof]

2. Proof of growth

:thumbsup:

[Iniquitous Bunny]

5. Thank God, Goddess, or insert deity here.

:D

[ThomCat]

3. I'm a very cautious person in my personal life for exactly

that reason. I want to be able to take a long term perspective before I make any really serious decision.

It's great that you seem to have risen to a better place and a better understanding of yourself. :)

[Iniquitous Bunny]

4. Evolving: it's my hobby.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

Well, we definitely know you're not a fundie then.

That would be a very funny thing to announce in a religion thread.:rofl:

[dolo amber]

6. Oh yeah

I call it my 20s and 30s.

:D

[Iniquitous Bunny]

8. I have that moment every time I pick up my kids.

And see my ex-husband in an Hawaiian shirt, sweatpants, and his red and gray Chuck Taylors.
Oy! :eyes:

[Debi]

19. we're we married to the same man?

Nah, mine wears his damn Cowboys baseball hat backwards and his Reebok hightops outside his jeans....:puke:

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Hey!

You're still in your 30s!

x(

[Taverner]

9. I dunno...but I miss girls in Dolfin Shorts

Just sayin

[Iniquitous Bunny]

10. What's Dolfin shorts?

[Taverner]

11. Shorts from the 80's

The seam ended about 1-1 1/2 inch from the derriere, two toned with one leg being one color and the other leg the other, reversed on back.

No pics that I can find on the net, unfortunately

[patcox2]

21. Dolfin shorts in class at UF; they were running shorts

And all the girls wore them; when the weather was warm, dolphin shorts and a t-shirt over a bikini, the classrooms smelled like suntan lotion.

[Throd]

12. When I was 25 a girlfriend left me...

...and I was totally heartbroken. How can I go on? This was a love woven into the fabric of time, meant to dance amidst the cosmos for all eternity blah blah blah.

Well, after months of brooding and a few hundred beers I moved on.

Now at 39, we still talk on occasion because we became friends about a decade after the break-up. She is a good woman, but is also one who is neurotic, depressive, and always unsatisfied. I think we would just be marinating in misery together had we married.


(I just realized that I said "all eternity" earlier. WTF? Is there partial eternity?)

[hfojvt]

14. yes there are lots of partial eternities

that hour you spend in the dentist's chair - that's an eternity

the hour and a half until lunch, that is like 3 eternities

the 45 minutes you spend in a university physics class - another eternity

It's a little bit like the mystery of the infinite number of real numbers that exist between the whole numbers of 1 and 2 (or X and X + 1).

[Throd]

15. I gotcha, like being stuck in traffic when ya gotta pee really bad.

[hfojvt]

13. nope and I have never had the 2nd thought either

"Yeah, I could have had that."

Although there was one kinda crazy young girl who wanted to marry me, and after I broke up with her, she (will I get in trouble for saying this?) started to wear her hair the way I suggested. And I thought "wow, she looks good. Why did I break up with her again?" but then I would talk to her for a little bit and remember "oh yeah" but the further away it gets, the more I question my own judgement. Particularly since I have had nothing since.

[LeftyMom]

16. I bumped into my high school boyfriend a few years back

That was a real :wtf: experience. I mean, I knew I had shitty taste in the past, but Jesus, I didn't need a reminder how bad it was.

[Debi]

17. Just saw my high school sweetheart at our 20-year class reunion

He still calls my folks 'Mom and Dad' and introduces them as his 'almost' in-laws.

My husband says he has no fears of us spending time alone together (after about 30 minutes or so we start bickering x()

I will always always love him and he me, but there was a reason it didn't work twenty years ago and those reasons never change. *sigh*


:loveya:

He's still as good looking as ever and will make some young woman a lucky young woman - and I'm sure I'll like his choice of bride - then she and my husband can roll their eyes as the two of us re-visit some argument we had in the ninth grade.

[Jamastiene]

20. Yeah, my senior year in high school, I had my hair spiked

ala Sid Vicious. I let my mother talk me into using hair gel to make it stand up like that whole 80's thing instead of my normal Vaseline Hand Lotion for my senior picture. Seriously, the Vaseline makes it look so much better. The hair gel made it look so hideously ...well...80's-ish. I hate that picture. I hate I let her talk me into looking "respectable." That sucks. I've had thoughts of taking a picture of my hair when it was spiked the right way and PhotoImpacting it. I don't have photoshop. That still won't erase all the yearbooks with my senior picture looking so hideous. :blush: