What's the best decision you have ever made?

[carteater]

Leaving Labour.

ROAST ME.

 

[Your Mum]

ROAST ...

...your mum

 

[Cheshire Cat]

...your mum

It wasn't funny the first time, and still isn't.

 

[carteater]

It wasn't funny the first time, and still isn't.

.

 

[BrianWade4]

Marrying my wife.

Is also my answer.
(My own wife, I mean)

 

[SeagullofMalaysia]

...your mum

Come on, are you depressed?

 

[carteater]

It wasn't funny the first time, and still isn't.

.

 

[BrianWade4]

...your mum

Hilarious

 

[janee]

Scraping money together to buy a house. Something today's youngsters will probably not be able to do without help

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Yes I got in and I'm now a professor at Manchester university

*best mancunian accent*

Nice one our kid.

Small world, I have a friend that teaches film there.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

1988, my father had terminal lymphoma and was slowly shrinking and deteriorating. It was December and I'd flown back to Ireland to see him for the weekend.

Just before departing I popped up to his bedroom to say goodbye. He told me that he couldn't bear what he was putting my mum through watching him die slowly day by day and asked me to end it for him. I picked up a pillow and started to smother him, I pushed down more and more and could see him struggle with what little strength he had.

I then stopped, couldn't finish what I'd started and walked out of the bedroom with tears in my eyes. I never saw him again as mum had said they just wanted Christmas together. He died on January 3rd.

Part of me has always felt guilty that I didn't carry out his final request, and that I did it out of cowardice of fear of being arrested for murder rather than to relieve him of the pain and suffering that consumed him.

29 years later I realise I did the right thing, albeit for the wrong reason. Life is precious, but he and my mum did have a last few days together that still give her some solace.

Brutal story. Sometimes life really does deal you some shit hands. If it helps you did the right thing.

 

[looney]

1988, my father had terminal lymphoma and was slowly shrinking and deteriorating. It was December and I'd flown back to Ireland to see him for the weekend.

Just before departing I popped up to his bedroom to say goodbye. He told me that he couldn't bear what he was putting my mum through watching him die slowly day by day and asked me to end it for him. I picked up a pillow and started to smother him, I pushed down more and more and could see him struggle with what little strength he had.

I then stopped, couldn't finish what I'd started and walked out of the bedroom with tears in my eyes. I never saw him again as mum had said they just wanted Christmas together. He died on January 3rd.

Part of me has always felt guilty that I didn't carry out his final request, and that I did it out of cowardice of fear of being arrested for murder rather than to relieve him of the pain and suffering that consumed him.

29 years later I realise I did the right thing, albeit for the wrong reason. Life is precious, but he and my mum did have a last few days together that still give her some solace.

Its not cowardice to want to hang on to life, his and part of yours.

 

[essbee]

I think taking my Mum's advice back in March 1997 when she suggested I go and watch the Albion
at the Goldstone, since in her words, "they need every supporter they can get". I was at a loose end.

Oh how my life would have been so relatively empty if I hadn't gone that day.

 

[essbee]

Yes I got in and I'm now a professor at Manchester university

Scousefan - do you mean a full Prof. as opposed to the *******ised term used by the US academic system
for Lecturer and above?

 

[AgerBomb22]

To study at the university of Chichester where I met my girlfriend!

 

[BensGrandad]

it may sound cheesy but asking my wife to marry me i dread to think what would have happened without her

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

it may sound cheesy but asking my wife to marry me i dread to think what would have happened without her

You would have been greatest left back the world had ever seen.

 

[scousefan]

Scousefan - do you mean a full Prof. as opposed to the *******ised term used by the US academic system
for Lecturer and above?

Yes a full prof - but I prefer not to use the title - so I can't believe my putting it on here! I became a professor via promotion at Liverpool Uni in 2004 and then moved to work (but not live) at Manchester Uni in 2010

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yes a full prof - but I prefer not to use the title - so I can't believe my putting it on here! I became a professor via promotion at Liverpool Uni in 2004 and then moved to work (but not live) at Manchester Uni in 2010

A nice story. What are you a professor of?

 

[scousefan]

Biology