Things you always wanted

always wanted a swimming pool, when the weather got hot. Never did get it, no money. I do not think it made any difference in my life.
 
I've wanted Sofia Vergara for several years now but still haven't gotten her.

Other than that I've gotten pretty much everything I could reasonably want, at one time or another.
 

When I was a young girl I always wanted to have children, I hated playing with dolls or anything girly though! I hadn't worked out that in order to have kids one had to acquire a bloke somewhere along the way.:rolleyes: I eventually figured it out though, and fortunately got the romance bit out of the way at 15, when I met the man I was to marry four years later. We had three birth daughters and adopted two boys with learning disabilities. I can't think of anything else I particularly wanted.
 
I thought I wanted to own a condo or something. I ended up buying a house. 7 horrible years. Hated that place.
 
We had a pool until 6 years ago and the kids and Grandchildren all but stopped using it. My wife and I did more sitting around the pool than we did in the pool. It really became an expense which I found no longer to be acceptable. To have a pool maintenance company come to our house once a week to clean and regulate the water chemicals is quite expensive, not to mention the cost of running the heater. I did not have it back-filled, which my neighbor suggested, so I would stop paying taxes on it, but I did have it empties and covered.

Also, my wife's last car was a Lexus, which she kept for 19 months before getting rid of it. We had so many recalls and other issues with it that we did get it covered under the lemon law. So, having those things was nice, but we don't miss them. The kids and Grandchildren still come around just to visit and that part is even better now because we have more time to just visit and not swim or hear them yell at their kids to stop running around the pool or stop doing cannon balls and so on. Just a much more relaxed visit now.
 
After my divorce, wanted to meet a nice, loving, caring Christian lady that we would have common interests. It only took me 21 years to find that "Mrs. Right", but I did. Life for me was definitely BETTER after meeting her! I got so sick of being single and looking.
 
Always wanted an electric train growing up but the family couldn't afford one. In middle age I finally got one, in fact many: 027, HO's even some N gauge...
 
Being an only child, I always wanted a sibling. Never got one, but I do have three wonderful children and six even more wonderful grandchildren, so in a way I did get a lot in exchange for the sibling I never had.
 
Wanted to go to Europe & back on an SST. never occurred to me they would stop running them . Always thought there would be next month, next year. Sort of a lesson in that, eh?
 
oldman,
thanks for telling us about your pool; I don't feel so bad now, that I never had one. The reality seems so different than what we imagine.
 
While growing up one of my sisters dug a big hole in the back yard and filled it up with the hose. The "pool" turned into a mud hole and dashed her dream, and mine...
 
I did want a brother when I was a kid, having three younger sisters. I thought I would assist in the process, and knowing that my father kept his condoms in the drawer of his cabinet by his bed I put a darning needle through each one. It didn't work, I had no more siblings of either sex. I suspect my mother had pulled up the drawbridge by then, anyway!
 
Janessa said:
You're lucky, you could have gotten another sister!! Punishment for doing what you did with the condoms....might have made you believe in a God! Justkidding, Justme!
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Fortunately for me they didn't find out otherwise I would have been thrashed within an inch of my life. When I was 10 they discovered me kicking around a live grenade like a football; I didn't know what it was. The Germans had left it in the attic when they left our island. I was born five years after the war ended, and was forbidden to go in the attic, which hadn't been emptied for 100 years, but I wasn't good at doing what I was told. My bottom still tingles from the thrashing I received on that occasion!
 
re:Things you always wanted .

Mines kinda backwards.

I never wanted this and hated the thought of it,now that I got it and I'm stuck with it.
I can now say Ive always wanted this BUT never expected this.(so confused)

Guardian for the last 4 years of a 16 year old female.
 
I always wanted an education. The one I have is very sketchy, I received the 1st., 3rd., 5th. in a small rural school, and the 2nd., and 4th. while in hospitals. Then nothing until I was 35. For the next 19 years I took 3 to 5 courses per semester. That depends on how much cash I had gathered, as I paid as I went each semester. I study academic as well as any subjects I found interesting. I never acquired a degree. I felt like that would mean I was through.
 
When I was a young girl, 10 or 12 years old, I wanted very much to take piano lessons, but we
lived far from town where there was a music teacher and my mother didn't drive so no one to take me.
Also in those days there was no money for extras. I still regret not being able to play piano but I guess
we always want what we can't have and maybe I wouldn't have had enough musical talent to learn anyway.
:)
 
I always wanted to play drums in a big band. Like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and the likes. Did play in the High Schoolband, went in the Army, got married and the drums were just not in the picture.
Another passion was to become a writer of mysteries. Started a couple but had brain freeze and couldn't finish.
 
I always wanted a red scooter but never got one in any colour... I'm 64 ans still mourn not getting one. When I was in school in the 1950's, little girls were expected to follow the stereotype in jobs: hairdressers etc. When the teacher was going around the class asking us what we wanted to do when we grew up and I said 'bricklayer' she gave me a very funny look. Years later, I nursed her when she was admitted to my ward and she reminded me of my ambition.
 
Toots said:
I always wanted a red scooter but never got one in any colour... I'm 64 ans still mourn not getting one. When I was in school in the 1950's, little girls were expected to follow the stereotype in jobs: hairdressers etc. When the teacher was going around the class asking us what we wanted to do when we grew up and I said 'bricklayer' she gave me a very funny look. Years later, I nursed her when she was admitted to my ward and she reminded me of my ambition.
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Ya know Toots, it's not to late for you to run out and buy yourself a red scooter. Even if it sat in the hall, it would be fun to look at. :)
 

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