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Long story short, the place was flooded, I tried stopping the machine, but couldn't, I tried calling the number of the machine, no one answered.
I tried to clean it but didn't have anything to do it with so when the machine finished I took my clothes abd skedaddled out of there.
This selection of ours is based on this thread in the AskReddit community, where a couple of days ago the user u/deadend-decendant asked netizens: "What’s the worst f**k up you’ve had that you’ll admit on your death bed?"
Of course, some of the hundreds of stories told here (out of a total of 2.8K comments) were obviously made up, but most of those we picked seem 100% true. And over 9.5K upvotes in the original thread only emphasize its virality.
#4
It took me far too long to realize that if everyone smells like s**t, I should check my own shoes.
#5
I pushed him.
#6
Most of the stories presented in this collection really don't present the storytellers favorably, and some of them are simply embarrassing. In some of the situations described, people simply shifted their own blame onto others (and then, years and years later, wanted to apologize to them). In some - they simply created a huge mess - sometimes just funny.
But a separate category is made up of stories where a person, for one reason or another, caused pain and suffering to another one. For example, by leaving their significant others or treating them badly - for a completely insignificant reason or for no reason at all. But then, years and years later, people do regret it.
#7
Spent the next 2 hours updating my resume and sweating through my soul.
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Update - wow I'm totally blown away by the responses to this. To those who have, thank you.
Quick summary. I'm very happy in my current relationship and Cathy is and always will be my greatest f**k-up and regret til the day I die. She didn't deserve the way I treated her when we broke up.
To one commenter, yeah she probably doesn't want to see me ever again and maybe she doesn't want to be found. Honestly, I wouldn't blame her.
To Cathy. I don't have the words to express how sorry I am for how I treated you. I can't begin to imagine how you felt that day and I realized too late that nobody, especially you, should ever be treated like that. I wish you happiness.
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"What is good news is that people still realize their mistakes, even after a long time," says Maria Kryvosheeva, a psychologist and NLP coach, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. "And, as we all perhaps know, recognizing and accepting your own mistake is the first step to solving the problem. Even if it's just an anonymous online thread."
"After all, none of us are perfect, we all make mistakes. And what we may consider incredibly funny or completely harmless to other people quite possibly becomes the cause of serious trauma for them. So it is always worth thinking of the possible consequences of your actions."
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Anyway, I was 4 yrs old and set fire to some weeds near my grandparents house and almost burned the whole farm down. The fire fighters came and put everything out, took them awhile to combat the blaze. They put it out and absolutely no one asked me anything, cause I was 4, I guess. I wonder if my grandparents knew to an extent. Probably.
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"In addition, everyone has a completely different sense of humor - and what may seem funny and laughable to you, for others, may become a reason for emotional experience and suffering. Therefore, the 'first think, and then do or say,' rule is always relevant. And especially in many situations described here," Maria concludes.
Experts also believe that many thoughtless and irrational actions are caused by narratives that live inside us: for example, the fear of being called out or punished for doing (or not doing) something, the fear of being alone when leaving a toxic relationship, or the desire to get some attention, even if it's negative, from others.
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We then found out it messes with the monitors if you gloss over it real quick with the magnet.
We did this to the entire computer lab. Had no idea it broke the monitors and we never spoke about it again after that lmao.
Therefore, it's vitally important to be able to recognize such narratives in your life and distinguish them from rational patterns of behavior, but at the same time, to not succumb to excessive feelings of guilt.
"Hold yourself accountable for the decisions/actions you regret, but don’t beat yourself up. That doesn’t help anyone," Evan Shopper, LICSW, a therapist, writer, and parenting educator in Western Massachusetts, writes in his dedicated article on Psychology Today.
"Instead, be curious about yourself and explore what narratives are interfering with how and who you want to be in the world."
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Answered an ad on craigslist to pickup free kids wooden playhouse/swingset. Got the street right but must have gotten the house numbers mixed up. Pulled up to a house I thought was it, knocked on the door and no one answered, disassembled the playground and threw it in the trailer.
Several hours later I got an email from the Craigslist person b******g that I never showed up.
EDIT: no I never gave it back. I never responded to the email. Too much embarrassment. All i did was go back a couple weeks later and confirm my screw up. The house still had an empty mulch pit from their missing set. I do remember seeing a bunch of small kids toys in their yard and thought it strange they were getting rid of their playhouse. To this day my wife and kids have no idea they are playing on stolen goods. I’ve contemplated randomly putting it back in their yard a dozen years later to make it right.
My buddy who helped has since moved to another part of the country. Every 8 months or so I get a text saying “just told the story again - never gets old” .
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Except instead of a small dramatic flame, I accidentally roasted the entire huge front yard of a massive Soviet apartment block.
When I came back the next day, every blade of grass was crispy black, with the unexpected bonus of a thoroughly barbecued car sitting right in the middle.
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I knocked that thing over and it spilled everywhere. All over paperwork, the pen pot, files, the lot. P**s everywhere. I'm there trying to mop it up and a guy in a suit runs past me with a sample cup and narrowly misses bashing into me.
The nurse comes out maybe 30 seconds later and looks pissed off when she sees the mess. I blamed it on the guy that came out almost running into me.
However, some of the stories told in this collection are truly nothing but amusing - and although people are sincerely ashamed of how they behaved in the described situation, sometimes it's difficult to hold back a smile. Such a wide range of tales is another confirmation that our life is an incredibly complex and multifaceted thing. And that makes it even more exciting to live it...
So now, please feel free to scroll this list to the end, and maybe add some of your own stories in the comments below the post - in case you also have something related to say here.
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