Biggest Disappointment/Let Down

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What are your biggest disappointments or let downs in life? First kiss, losing virginity, driving a car, passing your exams?

For me, it's shaving. I thought shaving would be cool but it's a right pain.

I couldn't find a similar topic, so I don't think this has been done before.
 
Losing virginity was far from a dissappointment...probably one of the most amazing things me n her have done together!:D

Biggest let down...erm...buses.
 
Shaving :lol:, how many kid's put thier dad's shaving foam on just to see what it would be like, then grew older and realised it was nothing to look forwards to :lol:.

Biggest dissapointment in my life that was my fault was probably not applying myself in school, skipping classes, ell I skipped almost the entire last two years, and made no effort to learn the subjects last minuet. I did go to college and get a couple of GNVQ's to make up for it later on, but looking back, I regret not applying myself at school.

Biggest dissapointment that was out of my control was the way my brother turned out, sad but true.

Oh and buses :lol:.
 
Leaving secondary school and sixth form aged 18. ITs a few years back now and like most others i wanted to just get out of the place. Well now i look back at it and remember my school days as some of the best in my life. I didnt have to pay bills, worry about rent, ironing, making my dinner etc etc.... I just went to school did some work and hang out with all my friends and had a pretty good time. I dont think there was one day at school where i didnt have fun.

After leaving and after the initial thoughts of laying in everyday and going about as i please i realised that i had to get a job, now i was getting up even earlyer, my wages are being taxed which is very dissapointing and i doing ironing is just the worst job in the world!

4 years on and i still wish it was all as easy as being back at school........

Spec....
 
Speaking of shaving... I hate it so much I decided I look good with a beard... hence, I left it and only shave once a week on the lower neck and such.

My biggest disappointment... I'd have to say high school. Back home (and I don't know if this applies everywhere) you're faced with a choice in 9th grade: Science or Humanities. If you go through Science, you take courses like Chemistry, Physics, Biology, advanced mathematics and similar stuff. If you go through Humanities, you have courses like Art History, Psychology, Philosophy and similar. I went through Humanities, and then realised my career choices were very limited compared to what I wanted to study.

Another disappointment, emigrating. You leave your home country because everything is going down the crapper and come to live somewhere else with the promise that it'll all be better... and in a way it is... but in another way it isn't. I've been working freelance for 2 years because the job market is slumped.

I also don't know if I should've spent so much time schooling myself. I went into college at 16, graduated at 20, worked for two years and then went back for a different career at 22, finished at 25. It sucks mroe when I realise I'm 30 and I have less than 5 years work experience.
 
My biggest dissapointment in life in general is that life is so damn screwed up once you leave school, much like Specialised said and as for bills, it's drepssing discussing them :lol:.
 
Becoming a transvestite. Shaving all your manly hair off is a crappy way to spend a friday night! :ouch:
 
My school buses going at 20 kph where you gan go 80 kph.
A huge huge huge fight with a friend
 
My biggest disappointment is happening right now in school. The way I've been slacking the last simester of my senior year has made me unhappy, but I can't seem to look on the bright side and work to my potential. I'm plaenty smart, or I'd like to think, and could do way better--I just don't want to. I didn't aspire to a fancy college or anything, just the local community college where I'll take the fairly simple program on industrial design. Seriously, I'd rather drive something than get good grades at the moment. I wish I had some motivation to do really well like most my friends. This is when I go "Oh well."
 
Getting a girlfriend.

I thought i would have to fight dragons, or beat up punks running around with baseball bats and knives, and then i would get the girl. But no, it was simply

"Hey, i hear you like me, at least thats what all your friends say, Wanna date?"

"Sure"

"... Ok, so now what do we do?"

It was really a dissapointment, no explosions, or doing stunts on a crotch rocket.
 
I wish I could get a better grade in math class. No matter how hard I try, I always seem to end up with a B. I can study for hours every night, or and hour every night, and I always end up with a B.
 
Biggest disappointment ever for me was graduating high school. I was led to believe that I would have "made it" once I was done...all I was led to was more schooling and the end to a free education. Graduating high school is retarded...let me just get the hell out of there and learn real things in college.

That and prom, prom was not the most magically night of my life.
 
Moving in with a girl. I thought it'd be sex sex sex with random threesomes and orgies with her friends thrown in. :dopey:

Unfortuantly, its nothing more than nag nag nag with random fights sprinkled in between. :grumpy:
 
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Moving in with a girl. I thought it'd be sex sex sex with random threesomes and orgies with her friends thrown in. :dopey:

Unfortuantly, its nothing more than nag nag nag with random fights sprinkled in between. :grumpy:
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Hell you should have asked your dad...he would have explained that to you. Hell any married man.
 
I've had too many disappointments/let downs to name. I can't even really pick just one, as they're all pretty crappy. After a while you get used to it. Hey, after all, pessimists are never disappointed... :)
 
So Jay, when did you become the time travelling sex machine? Or is that still a dream you can't escape? :lol:

Here's a disappointment: About a year ago I came up with the "pessimists are never disappointed" thing just to realize that it wasn't an original idea. ****!
 
keef
So Jay, when did you become the time travelling sex machine? Or is that still a dream you can't escape? :lol:
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About a year ago when I found my power ring and became Dr. Jay. Its an inside joke between me and my girlfriend, and i'd explain it, but I don't think the mods will allow me to post most of the stories. :lol:
 
Pre-Calculus. My loathing and utter misunderstanding of that class has caused me to think "aww **** it.." I have a C, and have had a C all year. My grades are dropping too- lack of motivation in that class, but I'm a bit more motivated in my others. :boggled:

Not being more outgoing when I was younger - I just kinda sat in the corner, as I'm a really shy person, and let stuff pass me by. I never was good at sports, and I was picked on, so I just was kinda existing, waiting to get home and play with friends who didn't go to my school. Even still I tend to avoid some of the people at my school.. I'm the class clown in mt AP english class, but I'm the kid who doesn't say a word in all my others.

Letting my dad loan my Lexus out to my friend's Dad - Sounds odd, but my friend's dad needed a car for a couple weeks, and my dad loaned it to him. When my Mom and I took it for a drive a few days after that, we found it in dad's office parking lot with the sunroof open, full of stains, the CD player broken, and the door panel trashed. :irked: Plus, the front bumper looked like it had been attacked with a cheese grater.


Keef- Sounds like you've got a bad case of senioritis! (Is there such a thing as Juinioritis? I want this damn year to be over with!!)
 
Looking back, High School was a massive disappointment. Long story short, I wasted what should have been four great years, whilst making my post high school life a lot more difficult.
 
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Pre-Calculus. My loathing and utter misunderstanding of that class has caused me to think "aww **** it.." I have a C, and have had a C all year. My grades are dropping too- lack of motivation in that class, but I'm a bit more motivated in my others. :boggled:

Not being more outgoing when I was younger - I just kinda sat in the corner, as I'm a really shy person, and let stuff pass me by. I never was good at sports, and I was picked on, so I just was kinda existing, waiting to get home and play with friends who didn't go to my school. Even still I tend to avoid some of the people at my school.. I'm the class clown in mt AP english class, but I'm the kid who doesn't say a word in all my others.

Letting my dad loan my Lexus out to my friend's Dad - Sounds odd, but my friend's dad needed a car for a couple weeks, and my dad loaned it to him. When my Mom and I took it for a drive a few days after that, we found it in dad's office parking lot with the sunroof open, full of stains, the CD player broken, and the door panel trashed. :irked: Plus, the front bumper looked like it had been attacked with a cheese grater.


Keef- Sounds like you've got a bad case of senioritis! (Is there such a thing as Juinioritis? I want this damn year to be over with!!)
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Gee, maybe there is sophomoritis too. I would like to have this year over with as well, but I still have to go to June 8.

Pre-Calculus Honors was the class I got a B in, no matter how hard I tried (well, I actually did in Geometry and Algebra II, too). Thank g_d it was only a semester (thanks, block scheduling), I don't have any math class this semester. Just waiting out to next year, when I have to take AP Calc. as a Junior (I am scared I will fail!), all year long, 90 minutes every day.
 
cardude2004
Just waiting out to next year, when I have to take AP Calc. as a Junior (I am scared I will fail!), all year long, 90 minutes every day.
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Calculus is no sweat. I found it to be really interesting, and not scary in the least. Pre-calculus is what sucks :)👍

Oh, that reminds of a disappointment. My high-school calculus teacher was amazing, and a good friend to me. I aced that class all year. Then, during my first year in college, he died suddenly in the spring. At the same time, I was failing differential equations, taught by a Russian nutjob. It was like the math gods were frowning on me, and that really sucked ass. To this day (3 years later), I hate math.
 
kylehnat
Calculus is no sweat. I found it to be really interesting, and not scary in the least. Pre-calculus is what sucks :)👍

Oh, that reminds of a disappointment. My high-school calculus teacher was amazing, and a good friend to me. I aced that class all year. Then, during my first year in college, he died suddenly in the spring. At the same time, I was failing differential equations, taught by a Russian nutjob. It was like the math gods were frowning on me, and that really sucked ass. To this day (3 years later), I hate math.
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Well, thanks for the words of encouragement. I will try. Hopefully I come up with something better than a B. Right now it is just like you dread math because you are dead-locked in one place and can't get out. It is pretty disappointing.
 
When i got invited to go to France in 2005 to represent Australia and play GT4 in the competition, only to find i couldnt pay for the trip.

Would have been great to travel and also have the opportunity to make money playing a video game. Would of loved to go this year, but due to the same problem i didnt even try to get in :indiff:
 
Biggest disappointment was the ending of a three year relationship with my "high-school sweetheart". It wasn't unexpected, in fact it was a joint decision, but was still a big disappointment. Thought for a very long time that we could keep the relationship running forever, but it just didn't work.
 
keef
My biggest disappointment is happening right now in school. The way I've been slacking the last simester of my senior year has made me unhappy, but I can't seem to look on the bright side and work to my potential. I'm plaenty smart, or I'd like to think, and could do way better--I just don't want to. I didn't aspire to a fancy college or anything, just the local community college where I'll take the fairly simple program on industrial design. Seriously, I'd rather drive something than get good grades at the moment. I wish I had some motivation to do really well like most my friends. This is when I go "Oh well."
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I'm afraid that this is me in a nut shell aswell :nervous:
 
Biggest disappointment? - that life doesn't get any easier when you leave school - in fact the worries that you had at school and thought were major at the time pale into insignificence compared with 'adult' life.

That and the fact that life as an adult, for men at least, doesn't mean that you really ever grow up from being the kid that you were. You just lose a little of your imaturity. Both my dad (62) and my grandad (92) say that they feel exactly as they did, effects of aging on the body excepted, when they were 24.

So there you go, men stop growing up mentally at 24 👍 Physically its down hill after that 👎
 
spock
Getting a girlfriend.

"Hey, i hear you like me, at least thats what all your friends say, Wanna date?"

"Sure"

"... Ok, so now what do we do?"
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When you figure that out, it won't seem like such a dissapointment. ;)
 
I started part time work and it was awesome, MONEY!

Now with fulltime work it's not so ... money in, money straight back out.

:(
 

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