‘What’s a decision you made in under 10 seconds that ended up affecting your life for years?’ – 22 dramatic spur of the moment choices
13.
‘Agreeing to help a friend move. Met half my current friend group there and somehow it became a whole new chapter of my life.’
–Puzzleheaded_End4236
14.
‘Swiping right. Now have a husband, a dog, house and and a baby.’
–23Tam56
15.
‘Had a place at uni to study Biology and another to study History and Religious Studies. Genuinely couldn’t decide (same uni, same effect on my immediate life as a mature student with kids), so tossed a coin. 15 years later, I do sometimes wonder how my life would have been if the coin landed the other way.
Did the same thing four years later to decide whether to do a primary or secondary PGCE, so apparently I don’t learn.’
–crazycatdiva
16.
‘I ride my bike to work; I like to mix my route up sometimes went down a little side road got towards the end of it and ended up getting hit by delivery driver bombing round the corner on the wrong side of the road.
He drove off without stopping I ended up with four broken teeth, broken ankle and needing a skin graft on my lower leg would of been way worse if I didn’t have my helmet on.’
–Ghostraider
17.
‘I chose my wife off a dating site with all the deliberation of Andy from Little Britain. I looked at profiles until her one came up, immediately thought, “I want that one”, wrote to her and only her, went to bed. Job done. We were living together two months later.’
–Jonseroo
18.
‘”Hello motorbike school. I’d like to book a CBT*.”
Currently marshalling at a motorbike rally as I post this. And I just wanted to try riding one of my uncle’s bikes a short distance on a farm track.
* Compulsory Basic Training. Not to be confused with other types of CBT.’
–mhoulden
19.
‘Years ago, on holiday in America. Waved a taxi down, stepped in and it stunk of shit. I said no thanks and got out. It pulled away and got flipped by a bus.’
–Specific_Pomelo_8281
20.
‘Took down the address of someone whose music taste I liked and written a letter to Teletext music page The Void before the page changed, became penpals, been married for 13 years and have 2 kids.’
–Headballet
21.
‘Deciding to try and to the monkey bars on some exposed oak beams at a house party, fell and broke my arm. A woman I just met 10 mins before was the only sober one there and drove me to hospital. We have been together 21 years now.’
–lukey666lukey
22.
‘My school let me pick a language to learn aged 6. I picked German on a whim, although my mum said French or Spanish would be more useful.
Ended up learning it through to bachelor degree level and moving to Berlin – where I met my fiancé!’
–Strict-Feeling5724
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