Real Life "Butterfly Effect" Stories | People Stories #3

redditors with real-life butterfly effect stories what happened and what was the series of events and outcomes my mother wore heels to work and slipped on the carpeted steps resulting in a broken high heel and a broken leg while she was home recovering she somehow developed allergies that led to her needing an inhaler the inhaler interfered with her birth control and now i have a brother 13 years younger than me mother confirmed that it was the penicillin that she was prescribed hate to tell you buddy but there are no contradictions there no inhaler would have affected her bc nearly every single friend i have in college is because one day in my gen ed health class we had to pick a seat that would become our seat for the semester when i came in there weren't many seats left and the people i sat next to ended up becoming my best friends and introduced me to all of my other friends in one way or another high school i didn't get into the ap history class wanted changed up my schedule including a different gym class without everyone i knew i was heartbroken i really wanted to teach and without an ap class senior year i was screwed made a new friend in gym class who was wearing a volunteer firefighter shirt he had just joined seemed interesting and he invited me to check it out they paid for me to get my emt fell in love with health care fast forward quite a while and i'm on a nurse and precepts students and new nurses teaching them how to survive in the air i also do public outreach and injury prevention and i love it glad i missed out on my class nice story but for anyone else don't get too worked up about missing out on an app class i tried really hard to get into an ap calculus class in high school and was told i wasn't good enough in math to make it i'm now a phd student in bio engineering after majoring in physics and minoring in math in my undergrad just because someone tells you no doesn't mean they're right so my then girlfriend now wife were planning on going away traveling for a very long time several years the night before we left i was just packing my things and at the last minute i decided to include some camera stuff i had an slr that i didn't really use too much i very nearly didn't bring it because it was big and space was at a premium while we were away one of the things we did was work in a wildlife rehab center at the time we were there is was very quiet very few baby kangaroos to look after but we had to be ready as it could change in an instant like in one day three could come in and boom full-time job i used the spare time to really get to grips with the camera and learn about photography in general now i'm a wildlife cameraman had i decided to leave the camera i never would be doing what i'm doing which is sitting in a freezing cold shed for hours at a time waiting for some animals to do something that they're not doing you really had me in the first half i was going out to grab pizza and a case of beer for me and my roommate but he texted me that he had a stomach thing so i walked to a restaurant and ordered dinner at the bar and met a girl there and now we are married and have two kids because my roommate had diarrhea i can totally see a child telling the short version of this story to someone that doesn't really care but the kid just hear it and repeats my dad married my mom because his roommate has diarrhea if my biological mom hadn't asked her parents to watch me for a couple hours and then left town i wouldn't have had the incredible and privileged life that i was given through adoption my younger half brothers were raised by our biological mom and they are a total freaking mess i'm more of a mom to them than their actual mom and i would have been an absolute wreck also if she'd kept me instead i was given an amazing private education all the sports and musical adventures and most important a healthy loving home with two parents who taught me that just because you share blood doesn't mean you love and just because you didn't give birth to a child doesn't mean you can't be their parent the wife and i were having dinner in hawaii one night on vacation as we were getting up to leave i noticed she hadn't finished her beer i told her she should finish the beer since we paid some ridiculous price for it fast forward 30 seconds and we leave the restaurant and are walking the three blocks back to the hotel about 50 feet in front of us as we're walking we're walking down the sidewalk on the left side of the road a car comes flying out of a side street from the right and crosses through the street hops the sidewalk in front of us and smashes into a wall if she didn't finish her beer we would have been smoked by the car and most likely squished between the car and the wall we always finish our beer now if you hadn't drank at all you could have had an action movie scene with a car crashing behind you as you casually walk down the street i was walking to school and got distracted by a hedgehog that ran in a bush next to me then a big bug tree branch fell in front of me would have crushed me if i didn't get distracted by a spiky little mouse scurrying in the bushes i gave him a dead cricket the next day he took it and ran off godspeed spikey mouse he took it and ran off go to go fast bro pregnant cousin usually takes the bus at around 5 10 p.m after work she was about to hop inside the bus but she needed to pee really badly and the commute is about an hour long so she decided to go to the restroom instead and just catch the next bus that 510 bus ended up falling from a cliff that baby knew what was up pushed on her bladder at the end of sixth grade my class took a field trip on a whale watch that night i saw a commercial for a documentary tv series on wales ever since that day i wanted to grow up and protect whales from being hunted today i work in the military specializing in marine preservation cool i didn't even know that the military worked at marine preservation tl dr i overdrafted and caused four marriages and five babies longer version i was just out of high school and new in town with no job i was living off what savings i had left and my account went below zero without me knowing i was over draft charge like 10 times and owed 300 plus i went down to the bank spoke with the teller and she ended up being a life saver she worked with me and got all the charges removed on top of getting the charges removed we got to talking about my situation and she said that her son worked at a local restaurant and she would help me get a job she was a woman of her word and by the end of the week i was working full time fast forward i meet a cool dude who worked there we became friends i introduced him to my sister they fell in love got married and had two kids his best friend came into town for the wedding and i introduced him to my roommate at the time they fell in love got married and had two babies i also got my best friend a job at the restaurant where he met a girl working there they feel in love got married and had a kid right before i left i got my roommate a job at the restaurant where he met a customer fell in love got married and had a kid as a bonus my best friend who i helped get the job repaid the favor and got me a job at a different restaurant where i met a girl fell in love and got married oh hey cupid how's it going received an incredibly high paying job offer to run our biggest competitors team told my boss even though i loved my job but it was more than double what i was making boss agreed to a reasonable raise still not near the offer i decided to stay because i genuinely loved my team co-workers and the money wasn't enough to leave that happy place in exchange i had to take up another account that meant a business trip i didn't have in the plans went on that trip and met my future husband couple of years later we went on our honeymoon at a new resort and saint lucia ran into someone i knew from homework turns out the team that i'd been given the job offer for had made so much money that they had booked the same resort to celebrate i sat there and went wow life is nuts would have ended up there either way okay this is sort of sobering along the lines of fate arrested for growing weed moved back home got first job i could at ikea after working there for over a year randomly decided to check craigslist for jobs and saw an opening at a cafe and they were hiring right then so instinctively went for it the cafe was connected and owned by one of the most popular brew pubs beer gardens in the area they hired me to host there quickly worked my way up the ranks to eventually bar manager met girl of my dreams we are now married with two amazing kids open two more restaurants with them and currently assistant director of operations overseeing three restaurants at three five and eight million a year in sales love my job love my family love my life no idea what i'd be doing if i never got arrested or never applied for the cafe job it goes to show that everything you want in life you get and you can't work for it it just comes to you mike scott getting my ears pierced the day after i graduated high school got me where i am today i worked at mcdonald's at the time and was scheduled to work that night before my shift my girlfriend at the time convinced me to get my ears pierced well when i showed up to my shift with these clear ear studs in my manager gave me an option either take them out or go home being only 17 and not taking anything seriously i went home on my way home i called that girlfriend's dad and asked if i could work with him laying tile he gave me a chance and i quit mcdonald's that day worked with him for about a year until the zero eight zero nine feet recession caused us to run out of work i got laid off four months later i land a job in a new hospital doing admitting in the emergency room did that for two years before i got my phlebotomy certification been doing that for a few years and now i'm in my final semester of nursing school i attribute everything i've done to that day my ex-girlfriend pressured me into getting my ears pierced who knows how long i would have stayed at mcdonald's one can only assume what would have happened if she got you to get your dong pierced instead idk if this counts but during the sri lankan civil war my dad and his family were chased out of their home and were forced to seek shelter at his cousin's house a couple towns over his cousins only had one neighbor and that neighbor was my mom and her family they used to meet up at the fence dividing their lawns and talk for months one of the pictures from their wedding was them at that fence that definitely counts that picture sounds so cute this happened two days ago it was early in the morning and as i'm about to leave for work when my mom reminded me that i forgot my water bottle on the table while i was walking out for whatever reason i decided to go leave my backpack in the car and then walk back into the house for the water bottle well that took about maybe 10 seconds total it started to rain heavily on my way to work and couldn't see very well but i noticed the brake lights of the cars ahead stopping suddenly and some moving off onto the shoulder and decided to slow down and put the hazard lights on for the people behind to slow down well turns out everyone was braking because a 4-5 car accident had just happened seconds before all the cars were scattered across the highway spread across the left right shoulders and another had hit the crash barrier basically a total bad mess the drivers were still in their cars i guess processing what had just happened after seeing it i immediately started to think that if i hadn't gone back for the water bottle there's a chance that i could have easily been in the accident or at least even closer to it it tripped me out for the rest of the day almost everything that has happened in my life for the past eight years is a direct result of me literally flipping a coin to decide between two colleges i play the sport i do have the friends i do and dating the person i am and very nearly every other aspect of my life is because a nickel landed on heads easy there harvey dent i procrastinated one day in high school by watching a foreign musical on youtube i ended up trying to learn the lyrics and eventually the language that led me to discovering the field of linguistics which i'm now majoring in i don't know what i'd be doing now had i actually started doing my homework that day instead i have a similar story i procrastinated one day in high school and that led to me being depressed just last month a friend of mine told me a story from his recent heartbreak he let's call him mickey had been with this girl minnie for almost four years when out of nowhere she told him she is leaving him and moving out he had no idea the relationship was in jeopardy but she dipped anyway a few weeks go by mickey is hanging out with a co-worker of his with who he had just recently met and ends up back at his place just to hang out on the fridge he sees a note in minnie's handwriting the note detailed several issues in mickey and minnie's relationship and so mickey asks his new friend where he found this note turns out this new buddy had gone to the same music festival as mickey and minnie a few months prior the friend had found the note on the ground of the parking lot and thought wow what a sad and angry note i'm going to keep this because it's so raw and interesting the next day minnie came over to pick up some of her things mickey produced the note and it led to a long tear-filled conversation about their relationship and what went wrong they didn't end up back together because despite the pseudonyms this is no disney story however the resulting discussion helps them both achieve closure in a meaningful way all because a random co-worker found and kept her discarded note in a festival parking lot everyone saying minnie was hooking up with the co-worker but i can assure you that was not the case mickey and minnie had never even met the co-worker as mickey and the co-worker both worked jobs for a massive company and had never crossed paths until well after many left mickey and him had just become friends days after the breakup as for why he kept the note he's just that kind of guy he was moved by the content of the note so he kept it they weren't having an affair or anything and if they were that'd be well over because many moved to another city the same week she left mickey don't be too cynical folks sometimes things just don't work out and for those thinking mickey is partly at fault for the relationship ending and being oblivious to the reasons for her sudden leaving of course he is and he recognizes this he recognizes his role in the situation and doesn't hate her or anything he just wants her to be happy and is heartbroken over both of their failures in making that happen he's a good guy and he's learning anyone saying i am in fact mickey i am not haha i'm happily married for one year and you could probably comb through my other comments to prove it if you really wanted but that would be boring however if you prefer the narrative that i am mickey far be it from me to dissuade you i didn't say she was crazy i said she was freaking goofy i suffered with ball pain for a week or so to save a life when i was a kid my family went from the uk to visit my auntie who worked as a nurse in germany being obsessed with lego at the time i was excited to be getting to go the original lego land in denmark on the friday of the week for the weekend q waking up to crippling pain in my groin early in the week after assuming it was just strain and weight in a few days on thursday i was given the choice of going to denmark the next day or heading to the hospital and staying i chose the hospital since i was in that much pain turns out there wasn't anything to do but take painkillers and chill when it got round to the saturday my aunt went out to get me some lego to cheer me up her and my brother stopped at a swimming pool for a while on the way back where she was throwing some of those weight toys that they got from the toy store into the pool for him to dive down and get some german teenagers were taking the toys so my auntie tried to shout at them in broken german so they left to a deserted part of the pool next minute they pull out a toddler from the pool completely unconscious the lifeguards apparently had no clue what they were doing and were trying to call an ambulance so my aunt stepped in and performed cpr until the kid got airlifted to a hospital a week or so later my pain had subsided so we headed back to the pool a woman came over to ask for some chairs in german and my mum said sorry we are english and the woman asked in english instead she turned back around and said you wouldn't by any chance no the english nurse that saved a little boy last week and she replied yes it's my sister the woman said it was all over the local news that this anonymous english nurse saved the boy's life and she wouldn't have even been in the country if we were in denmark at the time let alone be at the pool sending away the teens to find the kid and then saving him i still have never felt more glad to get a pain in my balls awesome story glad your balls are doing better if my former roommate wasn't an alcoholic going through withdrawal and had to be hospitalized we'd have had enough money for rent then i wouldn't have moved home if i hadn't decided well looking for a new job in my hometown that it would be nice to have insurance i'd have got another restaurant job instead of a manufacturing job if i hadn't started that manufacturing job i'd have never met a co-worker who was quitting for a much better job then i wouldn't have also applied for a job with that company that was still hiring i still work here eight years later and hope to retire from here it has its crappy days or weeks but the benefits are amazing and i'm making more than most college graduates had a surprise and rough breakup and decided to treat myself to a vacation somewhere i'd always wanted to go loved it more than i expected and six months later i emigrated there one day i was working at a surf shop and at the end of my shift at 6 pm i wanted to hang out for a bit to flirt with one of my co-workers which led to me witnessing a bad car accident 30 minutes later which led me to meeting an off duty emt on scene which led me to become an emt paramedic and now i love my career if i didn't decide to flirt with said co-worker i wouldn't be an emt in grad school i said frickit and submitted a conference proposal the night before the deadline long story short i basically have my job my city and my wife as a direct result of that decision damn you got a city i realize that i have come full circle in being a loser years ago i was a cashier in a walmart type store and lived in a trailer park in number 38 over a 25-year period i went to college twice two one-year programs bought a house got married got divorced sold a house been single mom had my own little retail business yet never really got anywhere i now work back as cashier in a serbies type store and live across the street in the same trailer park in number 48 it is incredibly disheartening to know that after all my efforts i have gone absolutely nowhere in life i wouldn't say nowhere i bet your kid kids might have some great things to say about you unless of course they're teenagers in which case they won't have great things to say about anything but it doesn't sounds like you're a quitter and they will see that in any case just keep cranking away things will change eventually you never know what's around the corner entering middle school i had to choose between foreign language or music i made my decision my mother came into my room later that night to make sure i was certain in my choice i chose music which led me to pilot training to radio to my ex-wife my kids massachusetts twice my new partner and a career in i.t i can't trace my entire adult life to a decision i made in fifth grade i was working a really dead end job and my car let me down on the way to work i was an agency worker so they can hit a drop of a hat terminate my employment they rang me up 30 minutes after i told them i was going to be late in at that point my car was recovered and i was on my way in to tell me not to bother as i no longer had a job there this made me go back to college and have a goal to go to university i graduated with honours from university and after a long time of applying and getting the knock i built up a portfolio good enough to land a graduate job which is doing something that i love that has progression and will give me financial stability one of my friends english male and i scottish female played world of warcraft this was during what lk i took a break due to uni work etc while i was away he had went up to this guy in orgrimmar and randomly called him a w his sense of humor they got talking and became friendly so my friend joined his guild when i came back after my break my friend asked if his pal could join the guild too the gm invited me not knowing if i was male or female all he knew was that my friend wanted his pal in two so just assumed i was also an english male we got talking on ventrilo and he was surprised i was a scottish female as he was currently living in dundee he's a serbian austrian native we talked for a while met up and now live in austria we have been married for seven years together for eight and have a son we'd both been playing well since vanilla playing the same faction on the same server yet had never crossed paths we always tell people we met because my friend called him a w i got fired from a company because i asked a co-worker if he was gay in order to set him up with my gay friend i was 21 at the time and really dumb i had some savings and unemployment money so i decided to try for a career in the movie industry i worked for free on a couple of movies and gained some set experience well the savings ran out and i needed to get a real job so i answered an ad on monster.com to be an assistant at a pretty large p company since they wanted someone with set experience and office experience i was the assistant to the head of production which meant i was doing most of his grunt work booking talent locations crew managing budget etc as well as handling distribution and fulfillment basically i became a pee producer i left that company which was straight p and went to work for a gay fetish wrestling p company where i met a guy who would introduce me to another guy who worked for digital domain he hired me as a day player on the italian job and in the past 16 years i've worked on 20 plus major hollywood movies including avatar suicide squad and aquaman so basically if i wasn't an idiot i wouldn't have the career i have today makes it really weird when kids ask me how i got into the movie biz i moved to new zealand to pursue my dream because my ex-fiance was playing music on a speaker in public and wouldn't stop when i asked that one incident cracked the relationship so badly it led to him breaking up then crawling back in those five hours i applied for the school i wasn't going to go to because of him i'm now with the love of my life and couldn't be happier back in the 80s my mom studied abroad in england a couple days before her flight back home to the us she got too homesick to wait any longer and spontaneously bought a ticket home early the flight she was originally supposed to take was pan am flight 103 where all 243 passengers and 16 crew died if not for her homesickness her and my dad would not have met and my brother and i would not have been in existence if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 24min 57sec (1497 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2020