Me personally: strong coffee before long-distance running in p.e.
smoking
But I look so much cooler when I smoke
No you do not tbh most people (that don't smoke) look at smokers like "why would you do that"
I was joking but it is really romanticised by hollywood. I do smoke but not bc it looks cool. I smoke bc addiction
Oh ok. Yeah that makes sense and it is romanticized there
Nah it’s definitely cool. I don’t know why but it is. I say this as a former smoker who can’t stand the things.
im a former smoker and when i watch carrie smoke on sex and the city my thoughts usually are “ahh i miss cigarettes, such nostalgia, she looks so cool… her apartment most definitely smells like ass tho”
I also think it looks pretty cool as a former smoker who would never go back. You realize it's definitely not cool when you consider and feel all of the side effects, which take very little time to appear. In films, the people smoking almost always look youthful and otherwise physically attractive with no other signs that appear when people smoke. I always found that funny, because anyone who smokes, even if it's just for 1-3 years, starts developing noticeable signs of aging that their peers generally don't have. And then there's the shortness of breath, stench, death-like breath and aftertaste, that comes with smoking very early on. It just gets worse from there. Edit: typos
As a non maker with relatives/friends who smoke: it is not cool, it smells horrible, is so bad for you, and the coughing is actually disgusting. And don’t get me started on the raspy voice that comes from literally burning your throat and lungs
I thought I had done this when I was 13/14. Got off the school bus with other kids at the stop and one of them had a cigarette. We all took a few puffs. Didn’t like it so I thought that was that. At 22 I started smoking and didn’t kick the habit until I was 33.
Now I do, but back in the days, it gave me an excuse to socialize. Now that everyone quit, i'm back to being antisocial. LOL.
I called the suicide hotline. They made things so much worse. Sent police to my house and tipped off my abuser that I had dared to talk to someone.
Holy shit! That's so fucked up. I thought it was supposed to be safe and completely anonymous.
That’s a lie. Anytime I see that fucking number shared, I warn people. The person I spoke to wasn’t even helpful at all. Very cold, clinical, clearly reading a script, no advice relevant to my specific situation and pretty much spoke only in clichés. After the police left, I gave her the only bad review I’ve ever left and it was scathing.
Wow. I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope you're doing better now. I know I'm just an internet stranger, but since you're here and posting on Reddit. I'm glad you didn't go through with it. I wish you the best.
Thank you so much and me too. It’s funny but when the police asked why I changed my mind, I told them I finally got my medication and was feeling more stable. Internally, I was thinking, “because if I say that I haven’t and am just waiting for my boyfriend to leave, you’ll throw me in grippy sock jail with sadistic nurses, where I’ll lose money from missing work and then you’ll send me the ridiculously high bill for it.” Do they really expect honesty from people?
Jeezus, this is truly fucked up
It really is. They don’t even ask for your address. They just track your phone and show up.
holy shit. Im so sorry but honestly i am kinda glad that im not the only one. I experienced the same exact thing. I lost my job. My friends. My landlord knew. It was terrible. I was not fed. I was hit. i was beat it was awful. I still am not ok over it and it was 3 years ago. It was awful im so sorry
I hate that you’ve been through that too. You’re supposed to be able to trust these people.
I've heard cops complain about how many people lie to them but with the power to ruin a life on a whim, why WOULDN'T people lie to them?
Exactly. I swear, they think civilians are idiots with no human feelings.
They're literally taught that anyone not in uniform is a potential threat, and they're surprised when people reciprocate
Lol. I remember being 17 and realizing that I accidentally left a jacket on the church lawn the evening before. I went back to get it and a cop stopped me for “acting suspiciously” and accused me of wanting to break in to steal or vandalize the place. I gave my I.D. as requested. He insisted it was fake because I “look like trouble but have no record.” I’m a criminal because I’m not a criminal. I laughed so hard. I couldn’t even help myself. He asked why I was so unfriendly and I basically told him that most people don’t trust or like the guy who picks first-class tattle-tale for an occupation. He didn’t like that. 😂
Inviting the government or its agents is very rarely/never a positive experience, cops included
Cops especially. They’ve never been helpful to me. Just harmful.
ACAB
It’s a depressing truth that most suicide hotlines are more about efficiency than effectiveness.
I also had a horrible experience with the suicide hotline. I called back in 2019 when my bf at the time of 4 yrs who was struggling with addiction relapsed and ODd (he was narcaned and survived luckily). It caused me major stress and depression. I didn’t know what to do, so I called them due to people recommending me to do so.
The guy who answered the phone invalidated me and had no empathy for addicts whatsoever. He called my bf a “loser” and said that I shouldn’t be with him because he’s not worth being with due to his addiction. The guy said that my bf didn’t love or care about me because he “wouldn’t have relapsed if he actually loved me.” And he also said that it is “silly” for me to be upset over my bf ODing.
The guy had zero education/understanding about addiction, had zero therapeutic communication skills, and no empathy whatsoever. It was a horrible experience and I will never recommend the suicide hotline to anyone.
I am so sorry that you went through that. That actually makes me angry.
I called once and was reported for harassment. I literally have no idea why. All I did was talk about a situation I had with friends that made me want to kill myself. I know that doesn't make me seem stable but I was trying to be polite and explain the situation
THIS> i did same. They thru me in the lockup for 72 hours. I lost my job. I lost my privacy. Guys touched me. It was awful. Never again. I was not fed and i was hit and beat
I’m so sorry. The psych ward is a nightmare. I try not to think about that place.
It’s not that bad but I made the mistake of telling my primary that I was having trouble sleeping. Next thing I knew there was another doctor in the room and they were tagteaming me with questions about my mental health and flat out accusing me of being suicidal. If my insurance wasn’t so shitty I’m pretty sure I would have been sent for an eval. I just wanted like a sleeping pill or at least some advice.
Christ. So much can rapidly go downhill just because you get help from the wrong people. I’m sorry.
Suicide hotline is a joke now. It used to be okay almost ten years ago, but the last couple of times I’ve had to call were pitiful. I could hear a TV in the background and the girl answering sounded so uncomfortable and awkward, sounded like I called one of my cousins basically. Then she told me to journal. When I hung up, sure, I wasn’t suicidal anymore, but I was just laughing, flabbergasted by the entire situation.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I actually had a really good experience, but the person I was talking to clearly knew what she was doing and was very empathetic. I guess I was also clear that I wasn't in immediate danger and had just been considering it, not currently planning on carrying it out.
Still, she gave some great advice that I still think about.
Ouch. For me, it was pulling an all-nighter then going boating/tubing the next day.
Haha I did that the night before going on holiday. Sat on the plane with a monster hangover for 5 hours
Haha. At a previous workplace, we once had a huge employee appreciation party (unlimited drinks at a beach side hotel, with paid rooms), because we hit some major goals. Very early the next morning, they had scheduled a whale watching tour for everyone. It was very choppy seas, and I've never seen so many people simultaneously vomiting. The seagulls were going crazy for it, which just added to the chaos. Some of us that weren't puking did actually see quite a few whales, though. Luckily for me, I don't get hangovers or seasickness.
Haha hilarious and gross
Lol. I'm a recovering alcoholic and I used to do stuff like that twice a week for decades... so you're pretty smart! 
Take an edible then sleep the entire first class flight to Hawaii
I did that- flew the next day and was dry heaving on the plane on the way home. Not my finest moment
Forgave a cheater and tried to reconcile. Biggest mistake ever.
Samesies. She begged and pleaded for forgiveness and the opportunity to earn my trust back. But when we got together, I had told her if she ever cheats, we're done. I wound up getting hurt twice and humiliated. Fuck that noise. But so glad I didn't marry her!
My ex also gave me the "never do it again" story. In the back of my mind, I knew it was going to happen again. So I trusted, but verified. Took the time to get my ducks in a row, just in case. Found out about time #2. No muss, no fuss. Moved out. Closed accounts, took her off of others. Gave her half the checking and savings and told her good luck. Divorce papers in a week. Divorced in 6 mos.
Good for you. You left with your dignity intact. I didn't, which is why it's such a regret.
I had 0 respect for myself in the beginning. It took some time.
I understand completely.
Don’t feel humiliated. Her inability to stick to any one person, or tell the truth about it, or control dumb impulses, is what is humiliating. To her.
That's a hit and miss. I know one couple where cheating became and issue at year 2 and they're still happily together at year 15.
Overestimating my agility.
I was hanging a blind in the bathroom, and couldn’t quite reach the top of the window.
So I climbed onto the tiled shelf behind the bathtub.
I forgot that the tub is built up, so it’s a lot higher on the outside than the tub is deep (if that makes sense.)
I misjudged my hop down. Broke my fibula, tore my ACL, and dislocated my shoulder.
No one else was home, so I just kind of lay on the bathroom floor and cried for a bit before dragging myself off to find my phone to call someone and going to the ED.
I haven’t even been in the tub since it happened. I don’t think I ever will again lol it gives me the willies just looking at it.
Omygod that is terrible.
It hurt so much. I’ve never felt pain like it before, I almost passed out.
Basically when I fell I caught my arm on the vanity, and landed on my knee on the tiles.
This was in February and since then it’s been X-rays and MRIs, pain medication, surgery, physio, doctors, specialists, more X-rays and MRIs…
I’m always thankful that where I live, we’ve got socialised health care.
currently writing from my spot for the last two months; my couch with my bum leg due to an ACL tear from skiing. i had surgery one month and 7 days ago and just started “walking”. i’m told to use one crutch on my good side but i’ve been walking with no crutches just short distances around the house. where are you in your recovery process?
Dropping out of college to raise kids with the woman I knocked up. (Only one of the kids were mine she cheated the rest.)
Damn bro. Did you go back to school?
Yes. Social working and recovery based studies.
Good luck!
How many kids did you think you had lol
Waiting around hoping he’ll see I’m perfect for him
100% - absolutely not
I did this for 2.5 years and he refused to put a label on it so he could sleep around. He was shocked and actually started trying to be a good “boyfriend” when I started talking to my now husband.
Thinking co-workers, no matter how close they seem, are friends. I’ve had a couple who remained friends after we left that job, but most were just co-workers.
Giving myself a bikini wax. What nightmare and painful sticky mess. Never again!
Lmao the first time was HORRIBLE but I kept practicing and got better because Ill be DAMNED if Im gonna pay $40 to show my coochie to an absolute stranger lol
Where are you getting bikini waxes for that cheap?
Well I do them myself so that's why I have no idea what they cost in a salon lmao. All I know is it's cheaper and less awkward to do it myself at home lol.
Tried to wax my own armpits with hot wax once. I wax my own legs and bikini line on my own so I assumed it was the same. When I went to pull it just didnt come off…It wasnt even completely hard but would not budge even when I gave up and just tried to rip it off as hard as I can despite the extreme pain. It did not peel. I cried twice and was dialing 911 before I had a panic attack and just lied down with cold wax stuck on my armpit. Thank god I was doing one at a time. I ended up using a hair dryer on hot to soften it up and just cut it off inch by inch and I slowly peeled and cut the hair as I went. There was blood and everytime my own arm touched my armpit for the next couple of weeks it burned…never again
This is my answer lol. Biggest mistake of my life. I couldn't even finish it 🤦♀️
Staying in a toxic relationship for any reason.
I learned once, and hard. When people show their colors, it’s not a one off incident that won’t happen again. It will happen more and more as they get more comfortable.
“I’ll change” just means that they’ll try to act a bit better until you forgive them, then they start acting toxic again
The level of trust I put in people.
I feel you but being in a place where you can’t trust anyone ever under any circumstance sucks in a different kind of way. Not saying that’s where you are just an observation of my own.
Getting back into a relationship for a second time.
Got together at 16. Her family was racist toward me, threatened me, scapegoated me, she began to emotionally abuse and manipulate me, cheated, and was hot and cold from one minute to the next.
At 17. She broke up with me because of my skin color.
I knew better, but didn’t do better.
18 I went back again. Things only got worse.
Broke up again at 19.
Never again.
Relationships are like steak fries. Great, but don't try to reheat the leftovers.
im sorry you went through that. you didn't deserve that.
Getting back together with an Ex
It's like trying to put the poo back in your butt. It might feel good for a second but you're just gonna make a mess.
Love this analogy! I’m still cleaning up the shit 10 years later!
Reporting being bullied and harassed to HR. I'm the one that got fired.
Really?! How did that spin that on you? Were they buddy buddy with HR?
This was at a university. There was an interim dean when I got hired. They hired a new dean for my department about six months into my position there. I first went to him with the complaints. And they weren't petty. An example: this faculty member hated the way I ran my office so he made a "satisfaction survey" about my work and asked his students to complete it, hoping to dig up dirt to get me fired. Students all really liked me and the changes I made to the office I was in charge of so that backfired on him. When I brought this to the dean, how he was involving students at this point, the dean told me "For a professional like him, it will make him feel bad about himself if I have to mediate between you two."
Eventually there was an investigation with the Title IX office. They found it wasn't gender based discrimination but it was bullying. Dean chose to approach the bully first to see what he wanted to do instead of ask me. Bully of course said he wanted to "just move forward." Dean said that's what we would do, move forward. No repercussions for this chump. I got upset about it and walked out of the meeting. They wrote me up for it. It was like being in a backwards world. So I complained to HR about the dean. They wouldn't touch it. So I complained to the provost. Radio silence.
Eventually the bullying escalated, which is what happens when it's not addressed. I was physically chased and threatened by the bully. No one did shit. So I filed a police complaint.
They forced me go to counseling or lose my job. The bullies (there were two, protecting eachother) got zero consequences.
The dean fired me anyway.
Six months later, he quietly resigned with a job at another university they helped him secure.
Firing him would have meant admitting they made a hiring mistake. Firing me was the easy option. Squeaky wheel.
I still talk to some people in that department and surprise surprise, things have only gotten worse. Like way worse.
That’s the protocol. They have it down to a Science. HR is for the for the company and the brown noser’s.
I hate bullies
One rule to learn from this: HR works for the Company, not the Employees.
HR's sole goal is to prevent the company from being sued, not help employees with problems. Every single piece of information you give them will be used for that purpose.
HR isn’t your friend. They will always act in the best interest of the company.
Fucking HR
It was a real wake up call for me. I was naive to think that a Jesuit university might be ethical.
Companies aren't so kind as to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an HR department just to benefit their employees. HR isn't there to protect employees but to protect the company that hires them. If you bring up complaints to HR that could potentially get the company sued, you'll be fired very quickly. That is why it is always a rule of thumb to consult a lawyer before reporting anything to HR. And if you do decide to report to HR, you have to be prepare to quit that job. Cause sadly, going to HR is not about keeping your job or making things better. It's about getting back at the people who wronged you.
Number one rule of thumb: HR isn't there to protect you. They work for and protect the company.
Union rep all the way. HR is literally the place they try to placate the humans they are resourcing.
Must be America :\
Trusting people and expecting support from people who never gave it in the first place.
Lend my car out
Goodness. My condolences. I recently brought a new pickup truck. I actually disabled the seat and the mirror adjustment in case I was ever tempted to let someone else drive it.
I bought a condo with an HOA..
Had I only listened.
Buying any kind of housing with ANY kind of association these days seems like a terrible idea.
It's predicated on people behaving reasonably, which many don't.
$21K assessment this year. Stupid Florida
I’ve never heard good things about HOAs. You won’t tell me what to do with the house I PAY FOR
Currently in this situation. I hate it so much
Swung a door open really fast without looking where my foot was. Went right over my big toe and ripped the nail off.
OMG! Ouch!
Yeah once I wasn't paying attention and someone swung the door one my foot, it got stuck and I was pulling my leg, my mom was screaming and I didn't feel any pain but I thought it was dead idk I was a kid. Finally got free and luckily it was just toes scraped up a lot and nothing else. Still I always was careful from then
I cut the tip of my finger off. Which is great cause now that it's gone I can never cut that particular tip off again.
Way to look on the bright side!
WASABI.
I had to capitalize it due to the severity of my mistake with that shit.
My son thought it was guacamole and ate a tablespoon amount in one bite. Cleaned him out good.
Believing someone when they say they would change. The best thing you can do is believe in real, current actions.
Trusting and being vulnerable with someone who clearly has no love and respect for themselves, let alone anyone else. Ignoring the red flags, like how she's always telling people everyone is business, no matter how personal it is.
Smoked weed, then started to wonder if I was high. So I took more. As it turns out, I was high. Then I was way too high.
ah yes everyone greens out at least twice in their life
The pre long run coffee is vital. Also equally vital is giving yourself enough time before the run for the coffee to work its magic.
But to answer your question myself, marriage. I was younger, we both rushed into it for stability/financial reasons, and realized it was not a relationship that was going to last after the state was already involved. By the time the divorce was finalized, I lost a huge chunk of my savings and it took me several months to get my life back on track again. Incredibly grateful that we didn't have kids. My current partner has also been married before and we've both decided that there's really no reason to ever do it again. There's too much financial risk and very little reward.
Lied at work. Said I’d done something when I hadn’t and got caught out 😳
Being in an argument and saying hurtful things then leaving angry. I didn't know that was the last time I would see them alive. I never got and will never get the chance to say I'm sorry. My last words to them will forever haunt me. Never leave family/ loved ones with words you may regret. Even if you need to leave to cool off stop and tell them "I need to go cool off but just want you to know that I love you." Don't live life wishing you could have one more chance to say I'm sorry.
Ignoring my instincts. Any little alarm bell starts ringing and I'm off. Like a slightly paranoid Rincewind, any little thing and BAM taters, I'm gone.
As I tell everyone now, whenever I can: "Listen to your instincts, they've been here longer than you."
(I ignored them a few times and now I don't even risk it, ever.)
I worked in a production facility. HR decided to work with us one day to see what the conditions were really like. They lasted 15 minutes. Nothing changed.
Cheated on a person I actually loved taking it for granted
Took a position at a tech start-up, devoted my life to it and played a huge role in getting it profitable within 10 months. Had a profit share that kicked in at 12 months, and as soon as I got the company stable/profitable, the co-founders fired me with no real reason other than greed. 90 second phone call and two-sentence email, treated me like a stranger that hadn't become friends with the founders and literally worked face to face with them every day, met their families, etc.
My profit share kicked in in 30 days. They got out of me what they wanted, and all I had to show for it was nearly an entire year of working 60-70 hour weeks including weekends, missing family events, not going on trips with my wife, etc. Sure I had a decent salary, but considering the time spent, it wasn't amazing. The company recently sold for eight figures, and would have been a complete mess in the early days if it weren't for me (not an exaggeration.)
I will never, ever allow a job to supercede living my life again, no matter how good the pay is. I'll also never take another job with a delayed profit share. It ain't worth it folks, look out for yourselves.
Since this happened I have been in management positions where I have to let people go, and I always go out of my way to explain why it's happening, what resources are available, I give them the opportunity to ask as many questions as they want for as long as they want, and always bend over backwards to treat people as good as I can...there's no reason to treat people poorly in a work environment, period.
I too was fired and not given an explanation. I’ve pieced together clues and thoughts over the last year. I’m still not 100% positive but I think I’m in the ball park.
No “offense” I committed was really a fireable one, and certainly nothing that other people weren’t doing one way or another (and the company was fully aware).
I landed on my feet but I’m still bothered greatly by the no explanation firing. Especially when I was the leading sales person and pretty well liked by my peers.
Using credit.
When I was 18 I ran up a few thousand dollars that was very difficult for me to pay off. I've never had a credit card or any kind of credit other than a mortgage and occasionally a car payment though normally I drive a car that I paid cash for and is paid off. I have a big house and we're selling it soon but really downsizing so I'll buy a place that I can pay off with the equity I get out of the bigger one.
I can tell you though that after paying a mortgage payment for decades without ever having a late payment but don't have a credit card get's you a credit score in the high 600s. This BS credit rating system only works for you the more you consume - the more shit you buy that you don't need. Save up for stuff before you buy and you are less likely to make expensive impulse sales you regret later.
Had an opportunity in the military to work with a US Ambassador. In Quebec. But I turned it down because I didn’t want to learn French. Military liaison.
Seriously. Choice duty assignment. I Said French? No thank you, I’m good. Went to Germany with an armored cavalry regiment and stood in the freezing rain with 4,000 other stinky guys.
I don’t know what I was thinking. Ok. I wasn’t thinking.
Not taking a photo of where I parked. I made that mistake once at Disneyland thinking I’d remember where I parked, and ended up forgetting once I got back hours later. It was hell trying to find my car.
Drugs
Marriage. Never wed before 30! Ever.
Being born
Ah, but do we get a say in the matter? If so, I have no interest in coming back to Earth any time soon...
Touch the circuit board on a Kodak disposable camera with a charged flash.
Bonus points for originality.
Trusting a fart
After chopping up some habaneros to make a hot sauce I washed my hands and took out my contact lenses. Apparently I didn't wash my hands well enough because the first eyeball I touched felt like I had just looked into the Ark of the Covenant and my eye was going to melt out of my skull and run down my face.
I’m crying for you. The worst I’ve done was jalapeños and that made me cry for fast death
Getting married young, blaming him for everything, divorcing him, then getting into a shity relationship. Started talking to the ex-husband again, and I realized I was a lot of the problem... I screwed that one up pretty bad. Obviously him and I no longer speak. Now I have kids with the sweetest guy ever, and I feel like I don't deserve it sometimes. My lesson was to take a look in the mirror and not always jump to your own conclusion, listen to your partner, trust their answer, and divorce sucks. Don't do that again.
Marrying the wrong person
Sitting on the hood of a car to try and look cool. I was trying to impress this girl in middle school by how nonchalant and cool I was. So I hopped up on the hood of a car in a parking lot my little 75 lb body, I was on the wrestling team so I know that was my weight during that time, dented the hood of the car.
What made it worse is that it turned out it was the wrestling coach's car. No one would believe the truth so eventually I had to lie and say I was mad at him. I've never hopped up onto the hood of a car since.
Like seriously they were convinced I'd known exactly whose car it was.
None. No I make every mistake repeatedly to be sure I'm REALLY good at them.
I will never date that bitch Jennifer again
Every Jenn Jenny Jennifer or any derivative name of it, is hereby declared spawn of Satan.
Yes, even Jenn Aniston and her fine ass.
Staying in a relationship I know isn’t good
I wore a skirt to the park when I was a kid. I was climbing one of those rope tower things and accidentally stepped on the bottom of my skirt (it was ankle length) and yanked it down, flashing my underwear to everyone else there.
The memory of it now is still humiliating 🙈
Trust someone
I married a beater, a cheater, a defeater, oh, and a depleter, and that's only one person. That was my first spouse. I didn't make that mistake a second time.
Ignoring red flags of a person
Getting married
Getting married! Lol
I once did a major report the night before because I usually finish them asap. I don't see why people wait and stay up all night. It's hell.
online relationships - genuinely so unfulfilling and it's VERY hard to fully trust the person you're dating
Going roller skating after the age of 35, it was good until it wasn’t. My ankle will never be the same.
Marry an abuser.
Jumping into the wrong car. I was so scared. That will never happen again!
Not being fearful enough of 12-foot waves at Zuma Beach.
Being married, nothing wrong with it for some but for me it does not work. I don't cheat or anything like that just don't like living with people and it's hard to do that while married.
"He's just a friend"
Marriage
Twice but drunk driving. Idek why ppl do it bc Uber is available and drunk driving is hard bc you can’t focus on all the things you need too whilst driving
Strong coffee in general for me. Turns out I'm caffeine-sensitive and started overheating, my heart racing like I'd been DOING long-distance running in PE, and lost the ability to interpret visual input (technically I could 'see' but I couldn't tell what I was seeing well enough to walk a straight line). My sister had to walk me to the car like I was drunk, get me cold water, and drive me home.
Marriage and smoking cigarettes, but not weed
Going to school high
Putting an egg in the microwave
Making friends with influencers
i signed a new lease with one of my friends but I didn't end my old lease in time (i needed to give 3 months notice). the way laws are/were at the time, I got stuck paying both for an entire year. With help from my mom, I was able to sublet it for 2/3rds the price but it cost me a lot.
next time I rented in that location, I terminated my lease as soon as I knew I wasn't going to live there after a year. moved provinces and thankfully, ontario laws are different.
Leaving college Staying married Getting into debt Not taking care of my health
So Many Mistakes
Drinking on Xanax.
Tequila. I only drank it one time and then tried to go start a physical fight with the cashier at my local convenience store who always gave me dirty looks. I'm a tree-hugging peaceful type, I cannot express enough how out of character it was for me to go try to "fight someone".
Then, on the ride home I had to throw up so suddenly that my friend didn't have time to pull over, so he just slowed down slightly while I opened the door and vomited into the street as he drove along through the city.
Never touched it again.
All i can think about is my very first childhood memory. I stole some cookies and my grandma made me regret it by telling me that thats greedy and my sisters would also like some.
Always keep toilet paper in the truck.
I've had to walk out of the forest, without socks, twice. Never again.
I have 9 fingers now.
Mistaking Contest Deadline Timezone. After spending dozens of hours on a creative skilled based contest that needed every second possible right up to the deadline. I miscalculated how much time I’d had left and I missed the deadline. It was GMT 0 I think and I’m EST…. FML
Failed to thoroughly wash some hot sauce off my fingers shortly before taking a leak. It... doesn't take much to cause discomfort.
Date a woman with a children.
Drinking and driving
Having my finger on the plug as I put it in the socket. Didn't hurt; had a full body buzz and tasted the electricity. It could have been way worse, tbh.
Getting married.. again...
Five hits of acid
Hanging with the guys when I was in my late teens at work. (Walmart with a McDonald's in the entryway) was talking about how one of the McDonald's girls was hot, dude laughs and says that's my sister. Everyone laughs and he was cool about it but taught me to keep my mouth shut because it could have been bad. My thoughts have mostly stayed with me the past 20 years since then. (Well 16 years whatever)
Racking up debt on credit cards. At one point, I was $26k in debt and could barely pay it. I almost had to declare bankruptcy in my early 20s.
Trusting a fisherman. Shattered my heart, I've never been the same. Fucking ended our relationship over text. Absolutely no closure for me. Fucking wuss!
Driving after drinking. I had had a few beers, and then a couple hours wait before I felt food enough to drive. I started driving home, and halfway there I heard and saw a cop turn on its lights behind me. I started seeing my life flash before my eyes, thinking that this was going to ruin my life with lost driving privileges, fines and other costs, and an arrest record.
Thankfully the cop passed me and sped to some other emergency. I vowed never to drive again after any amount of drink, even if I had had even a tiny tipple.
To this day I thank that anonymous cop, who unknowingly scared me straight.
Going into an investment with a family member.
Mad dog 20/20.
Marriage
Loved someone more that I loved myself:)
Trusted the medical system
Moved overseas for a relationship. It ruined my life.
Before my vasectomy I was told I needed to shave, very thoroughly, down there. It was $80 to have them do it or I could do it myself.
$80 seems excessive, I told myself. So I did it. It was awkward and painful and messy. The crick in my neck lasted a year. Hurt so bad and so chronically that it changed my personality. Jacked a disc.
Cost me ten times that in orthopedics and cortisol shots. Should have just paid a relaxing $80 and had someone else do it.
Bringing garbage to the dumpster behind my apartment building at night. Long story short, got chased by a fucked up raccoon who had been chillin under the dumpster unbeknownst to me. He was fast. And mean. And made a beeline for me. I only take garbage out in daylight now.
Fall in love
Getting married.
Got married.
Getting married
Smoking X1000. I just got out of the hospital after a lobectomy because of lung cancer. I paid dearly for smoking. If you’re still smoking of vaping just fucking stop because you will eventually no matter what.
Got married.
Trying to have a good heart. People with actual good hearts get fucked over.
Trusting people who should have been trustworthy but who were definitely not.
Existence. Man, won't do that again.
Trusting someone
Meaningless sex, it truly does not feel good in any way when it's over. I fantasize more about building a relationship and being in deep love rather than satisfying animalistic desires.
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