Never, ever throw away an opportunity. That was brought home to me when I was 14, and my
parents wouldn't let me go on a school trip to Switzerland simply because they said I
would 'appreciate' it more the following year when I was older. Unlike my brother the
previous year, I accepted this and didn't kick up a stink. Inevitably, the following year
the school stopped doing foreign trips
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It wasn't me!
(Well, actually, it probably was)