32 of the Worst Mistakes People Have Ever Made

‘Quitting college to take a management promotion at my fast food job’
32 of the Worst Mistakes People Have Ever Made

Mistakes are often the type of memory that never takes much time to recall. That blend of embarrassment and pain makes a pretty lasting impression. Enough that they’ll often pop into your head even when you’ve neither needed nor desired it.

So, when a Redditor asked for the biggest mistakes that people have ever made, I doubt it took any trips through scrapbooks for contributors to come up with something. Read on, feel secondhand remorse, and learn that you don’t want to try most drugs even once.

emilyholt31 . 1y ago Quitting college to take a management promotion at my fast food job.
tastyNips . 1y ago Got stuck on my balcony before work one morning. Door latched as I shut it. Was approximately 6 feet off ground, so I decided to jump off. Landed on my feet. Grass was wet, feet slipped... Fractured three vertebrae, spent nine months in a hospital bed.
AnybodySeeMyKeys . 1y ago Bring on a sleazy business partner whose shenanigans put me under. Even twenty-five years later, if he stepped in front of my car, I wouldn't even think of tapping the brakes.
rpm12390 e 1y ago I skipped a class for organic chemistry in college before finals. Didn't get the memo that final exams would be given in a different room. Showed up 45 minutes late and my professor wouldn't let me in. | failed the class and nearly failed out of college that semester, I was on academic probation after that.
sightlab . . 1y ago Dorky guy in our graphics lab at school was trying to convince us to buy Apple stock as we struggled with our POS PowerPC 6300s. No man, they're rehiring the CEO they fired! Не started the company, he's like... ..visionary! He's gonna resurrect them!. Riiiiiight.
Guy_Fawkz 1y ago Not watching a movie with my dad before he died from cancer. My dad was months into his chemo treatments at this point, and he just asked me one day if I wanted to watch some old movies with him for a bit. I declined and said I needed to work on school stuff. I was living at home at the time, and I was taking about 15 hours of classes, so I was generally busy, but not then. It tore me apart to see my dad that way. The drugs had been rough on him, and
ObscureObjekt . 1y ago Meth, just once, for about 10 years straight.
 . 1y ago Got offered an internal promotion for double salary job as a javascript developer (I was PHP mainly at time) at UK FTSE 100 company and declined because I was humble about my skills/didn't want to cause issues. Now I'm 8 years wiser and realise no one knows what they're doing and I would've been fine with 20 hours on udemy.
dick-nipples . 1y ago Talking to police without a lawyer. Don't do that, kids...
HornetParticular6625 . 1y ago Leaving the Coast Guard after four years. I'd be retired with a full pension and still have been able to have another career.
Legitimate_Dare6684 1y ago When I was a kid we used to ride our bikes to the top of a hill and peddle as fast as we could down to the beginning of a sidewalk that was pushed up by tree roots and we would hit super sick jumps off them. No helmet. My bikes front wheel and handle bars became loose from the abuse and when I landed my handles were straight but the wheel sent me right into a tree. Went over the handle bars head first and hit the tree. Knocked out cold. From what people tell me
VolvolnDetroit . 1y ago Believing my teachers, professors and, family that | was just naturally bad at math. Turns out I just needed the right teacher to explain the reasoning behind it. Once I understood the why, math got a lot easier for me.
BrilliantEgg2933 1y ago Oh, that's easy-trying to microwave a metal bowl. Spoiler alert: it does not end well.
TrixieLurker . 1y ago I let go someone who was really good for me because of chronic depression and insecurities and now here I am, alone because of it.
BadgerOfDoom99 . 1y ago Ironed a shirt that I was wearing and burned my nipples. Had to put plasters on them for weeks. Alcohol may have been involved.
adorkablysporktastic . 1y ago Trying again with an ex.
agarrabrant . 1y ago . Edited 1y ago Trying heroin. Spent 6 years chasing that dragon. I'm now 5 years clean though!
Children_of_the_Goat . 1y ago Toss-up here. Either the first drink I ever took in secret or the drink I took this morning in secret. Hard to decide
Gotprick . 1y ago Sold 83 bitcoins in 2013......
Sifsmum . 1y ago Listened to a teacher that said I wasn't smart enough for Uni. Been questioning and doubting myself ever since.
 . 1y ago Giving all my best in my last company, had almost no much social life, I was a workaholic, I was like the best developer, thinking it would all result to sth eventually got laid off
 . 1y ago Sold Microsoft stock to fix my septic system in 1991. Multimillion dollar drain field. I feel sick every time I look at my yard.
ElonsTinyPenis 1y ago . Edited 1y ago I was free-balling and | put on a pair of pants right after I took them out of the dryer. Burnt the tip of my dick on the hot zipper. It hurt like hell.
 . 1y ago Not using sunscreen
calicoskiies 1y ago Move into a house my mil owns. It's been a fucking nightmare & we are stuck here bc we can't afford to move out. And she won't fucking fix anything most of the time.
Magnifnik0 1y ago Edited 1y ago Took an antibiotic for a possible infection I never had to begin with that the doctor gave me. Didn't realize the medication was banned in certain countries and has a black box warning. Doc called a week later after I had taken it for 6 days and says I actually didn't have an infection. Antibiotics were never necessary. I now am disabled and have full body small fiber neuropathy from it among other things at 25 years old. It affects my vision, bladder, muscles, walking, etc. nerve damage all over. Had this for 2
Winter_Figure_5190 . 1y ago Disregarding a red flag early on in dating, using flawed logic of give people a chance or you might not be right every time , then marrying the person. Twice Lesson: you teach people how to treat you.
imsatanclaus . 1y ago . Edited 1y ago believing my relatives and everyone else I met in life when they said they were sorry and they won't do it again.
Freakofiel . 1y ago Got addicted to gambling. (Lost my years of saving, my girlfriend, my job and the roof above my head becoming homeless)
teastaindnotes 1y ago I worked in child care and suspected abuse. I went to the director of the childcare center and asked if I should call CPS, and she said no. I didn't call CPS. The little girl died about a month later. She was 2.5. I will never forgive myself for trusting someone else over my own gut judgement. Worst mistake I ever made
Detroitm4a1 . 1y ago Took оху and ruined 5 years of my life.
lieutenant_spooner . 1y ago buying a used bmw

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