I once dated a liberal girl. Spent the whole night listening to her deranged baby murderous whinings. The waste part, in addition to the time, was I actually ended up paying for the dinner. What a waste of $20 or whatever it was.
It was fun leaving her stranded, though. Wish I could have seen the look on her face.
After that every girl I dated until my wife I asked first if she was conserv. That was a real time saver.
Ghroublin wrote:
Dated my high school girlfriend long distance for most of college... oops.
This guy is the winner so far. I think we all had a guy like this in our dorm freshman year. Such a waste.
I gave away $650,000 after taxes lottery winning to charity. Found out the charity was a fraud.
Giving my number to a strange, skinny guy at a coffee shop.
deenouk wrote:
I gave away $650,000 after taxes lottery winning to charity. Found out the charity was a fraud.
Nice try but the guy who maintained his high school relationship long distance still wins.
deenouk wrote:
I gave away $650,000 after taxes lottery winning to charity. Found out the charity was a fraud.
Nice try but the guy who maintained his high school relationship long distance still wins.
Underwater Vic wrote:
Buying a home in the greater Phoenix area during the housing boom. It lost about 40% of its value after the market crashed.
Let me guess your second worse mistake. You sold for a 40% loss, and now the house has regained all it's value.
I once kissed a girl who really didn't want to be kissed by me. it was more complicated than that, and it only lasted a half second, but I will always regret that.
I apologized and she has probably forgotten it, but it sticks in my craw.
other than that, I have a pretty clean conscience.
eating a bean burrito before my last long run
Embarking on the PhD journey. I feel absolutely stuck.
Hooking up with the girl that I cheated with and left my wife for.
She turned out to be a worthless POS. Why didn't I see it coming.
whoops wrote:
I originally visited a podiatrist because I was suffering from chronic shin splints. He prescribed a set of custom-molded orthotics, which is a common recommendation for podiatrists to make. The problem was that the particualr orthotics he prescribed were drastically excessive and overbuit, the equivalent of huge, thick glasses for an only slightly nearsighted patient. They were the kind of orthotics that would normally be prescribed to an elderly person with real mobility problems, not an athletic young male suffering from a minor running injury. Wearing them was like walking around with my feet encased in slabs on concrete.
I wore these orthotics everywhere, both walking and running for five months before I wised up and realized that I wasn't getting better and that I was being led around by an idiot. At some point I became frustrated, tossed the orthotics away and tried running without them. Immediately after I resumed running "normally", I began experiencing crushing pain in the joints of my feet that didn't go away after I stopped. In the following weeks, I learned that this pain represented permanent damage to the cartialge in those joints and that I had caused permanently osteoarthritis in my feet.
As it turns out, the excessive support that the orthtoics provided had "shielded" the joints of my feet from the normal stress of ambulation, and as a consequence, the cartialge in those joints had atrophied, or become weak and vulnerable. Just as muscles become weak if you don't use them, joint cartilage becomes weak and soft when not exposed to the stress of normal weightbearing, and in this state, it is vulnerable to damaging stress. When I attempted to resume running noramlly, without the orthotics, the imposition of stress that had once been easily tolerable caused permanent damage to the weakened cartilage.
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Tinfoil hat wrote:
Underwater Vic wrote:Buying a home in the greater Phoenix area during the housing boom. It lost about 40% of its value after the market crashed.
Let me guess your second worse mistake. You sold for a 40% loss, and now the house has regained all it's value.
Something like that. It rose back a tiny bit before I sold and it's still at only about 80-85% of the price I paid (I check zillow religiously, that's probably my third biggest mistake. Need to let it go.)
Probably seems trite, but slacking off as an undergrad. I was one of those kids who started freshman year as a "premed," then proceeded to earn Bs and Cs in a bunch of science courses for a few semesters before switching majors and graduating with a degree in economics.
Years later, some life events have made me realize that medicine really is what I want to do with my life. I've returned to school to knock out the rest of my med school prerequs and to take some upper level science classes with the hope that a few semesters of 4.0 postbacc work will convince some med school to accept me despite a rather unimpressive overall GPA.
If I'd just buckled down and done the work when I was 18-19, I'd be finishing residency this year. Instead, I'm spending my late 20s doing the work that I should have done then. Ironic how slacking off tends to make life harder in the long run.
Googling "Hip Stress Fracture-runner" and landing on this site in 2007.
Married a stripper.
morris wrote:
deenouk wrote:I gave away $650,000 after taxes lottery winning to charity. Found out the charity was a fraud.
Nice try but the guy who maintained his high school relationship long distance still wins.
At the risk of revealing my identity, it gets worse: we only had sex twice. She was religious and thought that premarital sex would ruin her (just intercourse, God was fine with everything else). I want to travel back in time and smack some sense into my younger self.
Not doing more speed work during the off-season in high school. Dedication was there but did not get the results I wanted.
Ghroublin wrote:
morris wrote:Nice try but the guy who maintained his high school relationship long distance still wins.
At the risk of revealing my identity, it gets worse: we only had sex twice. She was religious and thought that premarital sex would ruin her (just intercourse, God was fine with everything else). I want to travel back in time and smack some sense into my younger self.
Sorry dude.
Almost everyone thinks high school relationships are the most important thing in the world while they are going on. For some lucky reason (because I usually have zero selfawareness) I could totally view HS relationships objectively and knew none of them were worth maintaining into college. One of the very few things in my life I'm proud of.
My dorm roommate kept his HS gf for several years of college, the first year it was long distance too. After freshman year she transferred to our school and that was actually even worse. He already had his school group of friends, she only had him since she missed out on the dorms and the freshman experience. By Junior year they were breaking up/getting back together every other week. Everyone else was thinking, "this sh!t should have ended in HS."
By senior year they broke up for good and she went on a massive fvck spree as he had been her first and only. He instantly jumped into another long term relationship (he married that one and I believe remains so ten plus years later).
Lesson to you HS kids out there: college is the more unique time in your life. You will never have the sheer volume and range of possibilities in regards to dating at any other point in your life. Do not waste it shackled to some "soulmate" that fate happened to put in the same HS as you.
you'll thank me someday.
Loot wrote:
I once dated a liberal girl. Spent the whole night listening to her deranged baby murderous whinings. The waste part, in addition to the time, was I actually ended up paying for the dinner. What a waste of $20 or whatever it was.
It was fun leaving her stranded, though. Wish I could have seen the look on her face.
After that every girl I dated until my wife I asked first if she was conserv. That was a real time saver.
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