People Share The Worst Decisions They've Ever Witnessed (r/AskReddit | Reddit Stories)

what was the worst decision you saw someone else make i know a guy who was supposedly recruited to be part of vancouver symphony orchestra not even out of high school saw his girlfriend dance with another guy at graduation and in a fit of drunk and jealously punched a brick wall and shattered a dozen bones in his hand never played an instrument again a girl i dated for a few years broke up with me for a heroin addict dealer i told her this is going to ruin your life it's been almost 10 years and i think she's finally staying clean but she lost a decent job and had some run-ins with cops plus got pregnant between stints in rehab my dad left his wife of 27 years divorced her and abandoned four children for some older women who lives in the philippines who he met online who turned out was just using him for visa to australia and to get her two kids here as well he lost his house car retirement and investments so my fiancee's cousin was donating 50 to ton ton is a fundraiser held by penn state where they danced for hours and hours to raise money for causes like a running marathon but dancing he was donating to a friend and did it coins hot glue to a cardboard backing making a big penn state logo cool looking well his girlfriend decided it was so cool looking it should be framed she went to a frame shop and got a custom frame that ended costing over 600 dollars for something that was to be taken apart the dabs were small and he engineered it to come back apart easily shortly after it was given he was pissed and they couldn't even return it because it was a custom frame so they ended up keeping it as to not totally waste six hundred dollars and he wrote a check for fifty dollars for the donation now they have a silly framed 650 penn state logo on their wall and neither of them even went to penn state that guy's girlfriend is a f king idiot my cousin dropped a full ride baseball scholarship at a college in a town he grew up wanting to move to for a girl he started dating his senior year of high school she was two years younger than him he went to a state school instead that's 40 minutes from his hometown she cheated on him and they broke up not long after school started ouch i witnessed my friend kick a skunk in order to get it away from him bad decision some idiot i used to know was convinced pepper in the eye wasn't nearly as painful as people made it sound our english teacher told us about this incident that happened a few years ago he went to this beach with his family but it was high tide the warning flags were up and everything so they couldn't swim this lady comes along and lets her three kids go into the water he tries to stop them and tell her it was high tide but she wouldn't listen and the kids go into the water anyway of course the worst comes to pass and the kids are drowning my english teacher and a few other men swim out and save the kids while fighting against the tide when all the kids were saved he gave the woman a proper scolding he is a teacher after all he says it still terrifies him to think what would have happened if the tide had been any stronger while over at his house one of my best friends decided on a whim to snort cayenne pepper for science it went about as well as you could expect good buddy of mine got together with this girl he met off of an okay cupid shrap had three dates with her she lived about an hour south before she decided to quit her job and move in with him roughly three months later we're out having a few beers and he's complaining about her toxic personality says he's through with her and going to break up she gets pregnant buddy man's up and agrees to marry her i don't see my buddy much anymore but the last time that i did he had had a big fight with her and came over to my house to crash on my couch what was the fight over she had open palm slapped the kid in the face the kid is like one year old idiot friend badly shocked himself trying to light a cigarette with his taser electric arc stun gun when i was about seven years old i was in the car with my parents going across the bridge from niagara falls ontario to niagara falls and why the deadly niagara river is right below there was quite a weight due to traffic so we were pretty much stopped a bunch of teenagers were goofing around hopping out of their car and play fighting etc one guy hopped up on the railing of the bridge and did a handstand it was terrifying his friends yelled at him and he hopped down then he did it again and fell over the railing to his death friends sold their beautiful home for a huge loss because they were concerned about the way things were going with the local real estate market later that year gentrification took root and their house was worth almost three times what they sold it for saw someone else decide to cut off a bus as both were approaching a red light i was on the bus driver said hold on this guy's rf king idiot we slammed into the truck truck slammed into the light post across the intersection zero stroke 10 would not experience again i had a friend ask another friend to shoot him with a blow dart first the guy shot him in the leg but my friend thought that was too easy he was an overly confident marine reserve so he asked him to shoot him in the side the guy did and it punctured his lung though he wouldn't admit it then trying to play it cool he decided to go home when really he was going to the hospital we all followed him to his car trying to convince him to let one of us drive or call an ambulance but he just kept saying nothing was wrong he collapsed right as he unlocked his car and we had to call 911. he's fine aside from his injured ego and dim wits a girl married her boyfriend the summer after junior year of high school then they dropped out and then split up before they were even married a year i don't always judge people for marrying young but this was clearly a series of bad decisions a friend signed with a professional sports organization at 18yo for one dollar two million and spent 95 of it on junk without put any of it into an investment fund my 20 years old minimum wage heart is crying i slowed down from 100 kph to about 80 kph on a highway because i saw a large kangaroo at the side of the road up ahead young guy behind revved his car at me and drove really close and held his horn down obviously annoyed i had gently put the brakes on so couldn't understand what his problem was he just kept revving too i put the brakes on again when i saw the roof start taking off in front of me it would have safely passed in front of me until the idiot behind floored it around my car and absolutely decapitated the poor animal right in front of me it went up and over his bonnet rolled down the side of the car finishing under the back wheel i swear i saw it bend in half the wrong way he pulled over further ahead and i drove past him with tears in my eyes i'm shocked he had a really nice expensive looking car and the roof was large so i really hope it did some exceptional damage to that loser's car lest its death be a total waste my friend on why he proposed to his controlling angry girlfriend of five miserable years i did it so she would stop asking wedding is in three months dude you need to save this guy's life do what you can to break him out of it he needs to understand that this girl will make the rest of his life miserable outside a bar the bouncers offer to pay for a cab guy says no calls his girlfriend she won't pick him up because of the baby he says he won't drive walks off gets in his car as 80 miles per hour down a side road and gets busted for dui offered a free cab ride home effed up his life could have killed someone guy let's call him sean was young never been with a woman before starts seeing this married girl that was separated from her husband he gets laid and falls in love a few months later her and her husband decide to try to work it out for their kids sean can't stop thinking about her so he figures out a way to get her away from her husband he walks up to their living room window and shoots the husband in the head with a 22 rifle while he's playing with his four-year-old daughter a girl i know spent fifty dollars zero zero zero on a wedding for a marriage that lasted six months i was on tour when we played newcastle in england decently big gig for some smaller timers like us when discussing with the hosts they mentioned that we should go and give the opening act a confidence boost as it was their first ever gig went down and met them talked to them and they seemed absolutely confident as hell soon discovered they were an experimental band and that none of the guys actually played the instruments that's right they had decided to put a band together of non-musicians not rehearse and play on the night thinking it would make them seem creative and ambitious it was atrocious and cringy that's what it was two of my friends were at a party drinking friend one shows off his gun to friend too tells him it's not loaded points the gun at his head and pulls the trigger forget the years of jail time he has to live with killing his friend for the rest of his life [Music] saw a rookie drinker at a house party mix snapple with a half a glass of everclear thinking ever clear was a simple alcohol mixer 20 minutes later projectile vomit everywhere dart in a redeeming moment few hours later he drunkingly got up from his sleep and decided to haphazardly mop the kitchen and went back to sleep that's a green flag of a good friend party guest a guy i knew in the military made enough money during a deployment to pay off his student debt bought a car instead second-hand story but here we go colleague of a friend came into work excited about having bought a new house thought she'd got a great deal because they took like 50k off the original price why because they found out the place was completely infested with termites barely all she bought was a very expensive piece of land headed for clarity no she wasn't deceived or mislead by the previous owner she knowingly bought termite city in high school i watched a guy who didn't smoke like a cigarette and announced to a crowd of kids that he was going to smoke for one month and stop just to show smokers how easy it was to quit that was like 17 years ago he still smokes once in middle school while we were changing after gym class this one kid decided to steal my axe body spray out of my locker he was completely naked and ran away when i confronted him as he got to the other side of the locker bay he hopped up on the bench and as if to taunt me sprayed the axe body sprayed directly into the tip of his penis definitely did not seem pleasant he's just sharpening his axe watched someone quit their 20 per hour job blow through 25k of savings get ripped off trying to restore a honda from 80s that's where the 25k went lose all their friends default on all credit cards lose their luxury condo move in with their grandpa get kicked out by their grandpa move in with their dad and stepmom get new job for minimum wage at their dad's work why did all these things happen you might ask severe fear of growing up not speculation that's literally his reasoning edit a guy with his wife and kid was speeding on a moped and blew through a red light at a busy intersection at least 10 seconds after it was red the guy the driver was looking at his phone they were smashed by a large pickup truck everyone on the bike killed watched the whole thing play out and thought to myself that idiot is on his phone and he's gonna osh t then they got hit unfortunately i've seen too many similar accidents saw a guy eat roadkill as part of a dare hospitalized for three weeks for infection that led to vomiting that maxillin wouldn't work and that led to a hernia which led to sepsis was two grades under this girl that was graduating in less than a month she was brilliant and had amazing grades but she dropped out to become a manager at a hungry jax australia she ended up getting demoted after a few months because they transferred a new manager in that had 20 years experience she could have easily baked the cake and ate it as well but to this day i can't understand why she would just drop out like that her parents were pissed edit this was high school sorry i didn't realize i didn't add that in betting five thousand dollars on 17 on roulette dude that's monumentally stupid you always bet on 23. my dad watched his best friend for 35 years drink himself into an alcoholic essentially ruining his own life they were drinking buddies for a long time but my dad began to suspect he had a problem and tried shake him out of it and quit drinking himself to avoid encouraging him to drink his best friend's eventual duis and increasingly protective wife led to a strain on his relationship with my dad and anyone else he knew from high school and college now his wife won't let anybody talk to him ever again my dad misses him greatly and won't stop telling stories about the antics they used to get up to when they were kids always addressing him as uncle in the last few years we used to see each other they started out in the sandbox at age 2 and eventually broke loose in their 30s edit friend of ours spent you a cute 23.000 on a wedding dad bought a house he completely didn't want but his wife wanted so his wife is the bad decision a woman married my ex-husband after she witnessed him snapping my wrist like a twig carrying on an affair with him for a year of our marriage and knowing full well he was an addict it was like watching a train wreck i had to keep repeating to myself that it wasn't my problem that helps some advice one of my friends gave me was this don't set yourself on fire to keep other people warm saw a friend of mine drop out of high school is unemployed now probably regrets it i have a friend like that dropped out with a month to go to be a big man have a friend who got her boyfriend's initials tattooed on her wrists when they'd been dating for two months fast forward two-ish years he's dropped out of college broke her door down to get to her during a fight has basically one friend who's a kleptomaniac who stole her medicine out of the capsules and tried to steal her car she left him and got the tattoo removed not show up to a court exam so he could go to the next year there were just two exams for that course both were 50 for the total grade he got a 10 stroke 10 on the last one all he had to do was show up and get a one to get a passing grade of five five instead he didn't show up which is a zero this resulted in him not passing that one course and we had to pass all courses to go to the next year so he got stuck for a year i even considered just grabbing an exam paper writing his name on top of it and handing it and so the teacher at least thought he was there but i didn't want to risk it over someone else's stupid mistake saw a guy attempt to funnel a bottle of about 45 vodka he actually got down the fed income amount of it but then vomited and went to hospital kid from my high school graduated and got a full ride to my state's college and left two months in because they wouldn't let him play qb when they wanted him to bt at work i got called to a lady that had overdosed on heroin get there she's semi-conscious on the couch also drug addicted boyfriend tells us she's two months pregnant when we were asking the usual questions just reminded me of train spotting an old co-worker at a fast food place i used to work wanted time off work to the bone and knew he would never get it he decided the best way was to go for some compulsory sick leave dude bloody stuck his hand in the fryer only problem was when he claimed it as an accident they reviewed the camera footage which clearly shows it was 100 intentional lost his job and had a decent medical bill marry a drug dealer they are both in jail now probably going to prison i'm all about recreational drug use and the right to choose what you do with your own life but jesus really how did she think this would end they thought a husband and wife couldn't be tried for the same crime add trivia night at a tgi fridays one of the questions was which band originally wrote and sang while my guitar gently weeps i said it was the beatles but a friend said that it was prince cue a bunch of people saying wait you know i think you're right yeah he had that awesome live solo a few years ago i insisted it was the beatles so we put it to a vote i lost the vote and we lost that point fck you gavin fcku team edit you can't google or use smartphones in trivia ofck all of them it was a george harrison song which is why prince did that solo at his memorial hospice nurse here we had a medical power of attorney that was a flight attendant the patient was 103 years old and having one of the worst deaths i have seen moaning yelling thrashing in the bed we begged for the use of the comfort meds he said no she can't talk she's dying so there's no way she's in pain she can't say she's in pain so she's not he never even saw her two different md's called in this [ __ ] knew better than them the best we could do was have the pharmacist compound martyrin into a rectal suppository which is a horrible thing as it doesn't absorb well that way better than nothing to this day i hate that person there was no dignity in that death fck that dude [Music] you

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Published: Sun Jul 19 2020