If you could change 1 thing this year

Reds6 · #1 12-14-2001, 02:37 PM

I'm sure we would can the WTC/Pentagon tragedies, but If you could change something that happened to you this year or that you did, what would it be?

IowaHawkeye · #2 12-14-2001, 02:47 PM

my baby sister (well, she's 17!) was hit by a drunk driver over thanksgiving night (she's ok) on her way to pick up a movie from blockbuster for us to watch! she's so scared to drive now and i just wish she never had to go through any of this

i wish i would have gone with her, b/c then maybe we would have taken a different route or something...

justamom · #3 12-14-2001, 03:31 PM

OH IowaHawkeye! I am so sorry. I hope they throw away the keys on that driver!

I wouldn't have let my daughter take the car to N.O. It was a total loss. She was OK, but it was the second one in a matter of months. Now, they dropped our family car insurance so we have to pay out the_____ to another company! Plus, try replacing 2 cars while paying off another!

amycat412 · #4 12-14-2001, 03:40 PM

One of my best friends, aka Mr. Big, confessed to me 2 weeks ago that he's in love with me and that his recent marriage was a big mistake, that it was ME he should have married.

So, what I would have changed is, I would have said something to him about my feelings (as I love him also) before his wedding in May, rather than taking the stance that he needed to do what he was going to do to figure it all out--even though all our friends knew he was making a mistake.

Now its just a big mess and who knows when the end will be in sight...

dzrose93 · #5 12-14-2001, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by IowaHawkeye
my baby sister (well, she's 17!) was hit by a drunk driver over thanksgiving night (she's ok) on her way to pick up a movie from blockbuster for us to watch! she's so scared to drive now and i just wish she never had to go through any of this i wish i would have gone with her, b/c then maybe we would have taken a different route or something...

How's this for a parallel? My baby brother (he's 19) wrecked his car on Thanksgiving night (he's ok) on his way to pick up a movie from Blockbuster! He was swerving to miss a deer and ended up in a ditch on the side of the road. It's funny/strange that 2 DZ sisters have such similar stories!

maggieaxid · #6 12-14-2001, 05:44 PM

I wish i hadn't moved in with this smelly girl last year! she ended up moving out when noone was home, not paying her rent or bills and left me stuck with everything! And when my family confroted her parents about it, they hid behind religion stating that i didn't conduct myself christian enough for their daughter----when she was the one having a***l and lesbian sex, and doing massive amounts of marajuana!!!!!

hocnsoc81 · #7 12-14-2001, 06:41 PM

Sorry, I misunderstood the original question.
If I could change one thing besides 9/11/01, I would have not partied so much within the last year. That put a BIG toll on my grades. Ohter than that, this year went by smooth.

KSigkid · #8 12-14-2001, 06:56 PM

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Originally posted by IowaHawkeye
my baby sister (well, she's 17!) was hit by a drunk driver over thanksgiving night (she's ok) on her way to pick up a movie from blockbuster for us to watch! she's so scared to drive now and i just wish she never had to go through any of this i wish i would have gone with her, b/c then maybe we would have taken a different route or something...

I hear ya - my little sister (also 17) got in a bad car accident. SHe's ok, but she totaled her car, which she had saved up to buy for two years. I really wish that hadn't happened.

There's lots of other stuff, but too much to list....

volgirl2376 · #9 12-14-2001, 07:02 PM

If I could change 2 things about this year:

I would change the way I acted after my ex and I broke up. I would have gone out more...I would have made myself get out of bed and stop hiding from the world. I wouldnt have wasted tears on someone who didnt deserve my heart.

I wish I had known the right thing to do about my now ex-best friend. She dated a guy Travis for 5 years, and was very dependent on him because her mom died our freshman yr of high school, her dad died our senior yr of college and her brother died last year. He was all she had. But he took advantage of that and completely slept around with at least 14 other girls I know of for sure. I wanted to prevent her from getting more serious with him, and I showed her my proof...she acknowledged it, but decided to side with him, and ended our friendship. Now she is married, and we havent spoken in quite a few years. I just wish I had kept my mouth shut now, because I miss her.

damasa · #10 12-14-2001, 07:04 PM

If I could change 1 thing that happened this year outside of the WTC attack:
I would change the beginning of events from early Sunday morning. One of my brothers and his girlfriend were killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. This then contributed to another one of my brothers ( his lil/ and a brother really close to him) to take his own life.

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Reds6 · #11 12-17-2001, 01:37 PM

i would change telling one of my best friends that her man was trying to sleep with another one of my friends. It almost ended our friendship.

#12 12-17-2001, 02:46 PM

I'd like to change many things:

-I would change the way I select my flavors of the month. Too many scandalous weekends...it's getting kinda lame.

-I woulda taken away my friend's motorcycle keys so he wouldn't have gotten into that bad accident on the Big Island. They had to medevac him to Oahu and he was in a coma for a few days. He's conscious now, but he has two broken legs and a broken pelvic bone and he's in a full body cast.

-I wish that I could've spent more time with my uncle and my grandpa before they passed away this year.

AlphaChiGirl · #13 12-17-2001, 03:21 PM

I wouldn't have moved in with one of my really good friends. I didn't realize how immature she and her boyfriend would be, and it really strained our friendship. Things seem better now, but I'm sure there's a loss of trust or respect on both ends.

Otherwise, with 9/11 excepted, I wouldn't change a thing. This was actually a pretty decent year for me.

Beef · #14 12-17-2001, 03:24 PM

I would have actually opened this years college catalog and looked for my program(which ws dropped prior to this semester) instead of assuming the website would be correct and updated

So now most of the classes i took this semester are worthless to my new major!!

Eirene_DGP · #15 12-17-2001, 04:05 PM

If I could change anything, I would change my fall 2001 grades. Now I have to work my butt off next semester to pull my GPA back up before I graduate december 2002.