" When approaching a rehabbing sea king of beasts from the front , you have to hold your breath until you may get to the side – their breather will knock you out . "
We all make mistakes, it’s part of being human. Sometimes, however we make such a major f*ck up that they stay with us for a long long time.
Well,u/FluffyDaMinecraftDogrecently askedr/AskReddit, “What was the worst mistake you ever made?” and we thought we’d share some of the best responses:
1.“Quitting college to take a management promotion at my fast food job.”
– u / emilyholt31
2.“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.”
– uracil / tastyNips
3.“I worked at a Marine Mammal Rescue Center in Alaska. It could be really fun and rewarding, but the work itself was anything but glamorous. During the training, we were told emphatically ‘when approaching a rehabbing sea lion from the front, you have to hold your breath until you can get to the side – their breath will knock you out.'”
" We laughed but the teacher said ' oh I ’m not kidding . ' Should have take it more seriously … My first hebdomad there , I approach a sea lion we ’re rehabbing and when I ’m about five feet away , it open up its mouth wide than my question and let out a four - secondly - long belch , as sea lions are know to do . I immediately fell to the ground puking . Could n’t think straight for two minute and feel nauseous most of the rest of the day , and had to go home betimes . "
– u / dry6f
4.“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. I failed the class and nearly failed out of college that semester, I was on academic probation after that.”
– u / rpm12390
5.“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! He started the company, he’s like…visionary! He’s gonna resurrect them!’. Riiiiiight.”
– u / sightlab
6.“Petsitting for a pet fox. I pet-sit for a living and came across an opportunity to get 10x the money one weekend by petsitting for a pet fox while the owners were on vacation. It was super cute, but now it’s a year later, and my car still smells like fox. No idea how that’s even possible, the fox was never in the car. I can’t take friends on rides anymore.”
– atomic number 92 / tyneri
7.“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.”
– uracil / jhgordy
8.“Talking to police without a lawyer. Don’t do that, kids…”
– u / hawkshaw - nipples
9.“Ironed a shirt that I was wearing and burned my nipples. Had to put plasters on them for weeks. Alcohol may have been involved.”
– u / BadgerOfDoom99
10.“I was free-balling and I 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.”
– atomic number 92 / ElonsTinyPenis
11.“I killed 38 chickens by pure mistake. I was 10 and wanted to let my parents know how many chickens we had. So I started placing them in a barrel as I counted them. At some point I noticed it was way quieter and dumped the barrel over to see what was going on.I didn’t understand at the time that stacking things in an enclosed space creates a breathing issue.”
" So now we had all these dead wimp including our dear birdzilla ( intersex I believe ) . After attempting crybaby cardiac resuscitation which obviously did n’t work , I came into my house bawl that I was a chicken murdered and require to go to jail . Once my parent fully understood what was going on they laugh so damn hard and suppose my punishment was to burry the chickens and I was punishing myself hard enough and my dad explain how O2 work on . "
– atomic number 92 / captconfusion
12.“Sold Microsoft stock to fix my septic system in 1991. Multimillion dollar drain field. I feel sick every time I look at my yard.”
– u / SoreTaint
13.“Listened to a teacher that said I wasn’t smart enough for Uni. Been questioning and doubting myself ever since.”
– u / Sifsmum
14.“Trying again with an ex.”
– u / adorkablysporktastic
H/T tou/FluffyDaMinecraftDogandr/AskRedditfor having the convo!
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