What The Hell Was I Thinking?

What The Hell Was I Thinking?

It was the seventies and there was an oil crisis. I had a great job and made more money than I ever thought I would make. I was tired of driving my old gas guzzler car up and down the freeway to get some gas every odd day of the weak. Sooo, I started looking for a new car.

A diesel engine car got much more MPG than a conventual engine (there were only six and eight-cylinder engines at that time and no electric or hybrid engines or turbo four-cylinder engines). Sooo, I decided to get a diesel car.

I drove a Mercedes 240 diesel and it was a problem getting up a high hill. It was also not that great looking (that was important to the wife). Then I drove a beautiful fast Cadillac Eldorado Berlitz diesel. I bought it that day - "What The Hell Was I Thinking?"

To make a long story shorter, that beautiful car broke down every week. Once the engine froze on the freeway. I could tell you why that car sucked so much, but the bottom line was GM took a standard eight-cylinder engine and made it into a diesel - "What The Hell Were They Thinking?"

Also, during the oil crisis, I bought into a partnership to grow Jojoba beans - What The Hell Was I Thinking? The government thought they could replace oil and gave us a tax deduction to grow them. The problem was they took five years to grow. Three years later the government changed their mind and no longer gave the tax deduction. To make matters worse, they charged each of us $15,000 for the previous tax deduction (that was a lot of money back then) - UGH!

At around the same time, my accountant convinced me to buy land in Lancaster California - 

"What The Hell Was I Thinking?" There were rumors that the LAX airport was considering to put a second airport in Lancaster because LAX was getting over crowded. That never happened. Worse, I went to see my land in Lancaster and couldn't find it on the Lancaster map because it didn't exist. That's another $5,000 down the drain. BTW, the account was never locked up and my first wife kept him as her accountant - UGH. 

I married my second wife because she was the direct opposite of my first wife - "What The Hell Was I Thinking?" As you know from my blogs, that didn't work out and I lost all my money for a second time - double UGH!

Enough about me. What about you. How many "What The Hell Was I Thinking" moments have you had? They can be as simple as buying a Hawaiian shirt while visiting Hawaii only to realize that you looked stupid going out in that shirt in Philadelphia - UGH!

I still keep making "What The Hell Was I Thinking" mistakes, but I survived all of them and each one was and is a learning experience. Sooo, before you act on something try to not put yourself in position to say:

What The Hell Was I Thinking?