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People Admit What Didn’t Bother Them as Kids but Scares Them as Adults

When you’re young, you really don’t think a whole lot about your safety and things that might potentially harm you.

And I have a pretty embarrassing example of something that I’m super cautious about now that I wouldn’t have given a second thought to when I was younger: driving at night.

I used to not even consider what could be around the next bend in the road when I was 18 or so, but now that I’m older, I find myself driving like a 90-year-old when I have to venture out after dusk. What happened to me?!?!

AskReddit users admitted what scares them as adults that didn’t bother them when they were young.

1. Old bones.

“I miss feeling like a human rubber band when I do active things.

I’m still pretty athletic and I stay in good shape, but after one or two sports knee injuries in high school I could no longer fall on my body any way I wanted.”

2. What’s gonna go wrong today?

“Owning a home.

I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that I wake up every day fully expecting some new and expensive catastrophe to unfold.”

3. The deep.

“Deep water.

I learnt to swim in it by essentially jumping into a pool on holiday as all the other kids were in the pool and didn’t want to be left out.

Now for some reason, if I’m in water and it reaches my chest I’m struck by an absolute rising sense of dread, my breathing gets shallow and I feel so uneasy and upset I have to get into shallower water to be calm again.”

4. Time flies by.

“The reality of how fleeting life is.

And I don’t mean in the cliché “live life to the fullest!”

I mean in the way that life really does pass quickly. I’m 3 years into college and I still feel like I graduated high school last year. Every now and then someone will mention the new class graduating and I have no idea who they are. Or when people I graduated with come into my work and it hits me: I haven’t seen them in three years.

When I was younger, I couldn’t wait to grow up, to live on my own, travel, see the world, have a bunch of friends, have a real job.

Now life is real. And it’s passing quick. And realities are starting to set in that in order to do all the things I want to do while I’m young, I better have an excellent paying job. Because time is passing and it isn’t waiting for me.”

5. Very true.

“The older I get the more I realize that very few people have a clue of how to actually do their job, raise a family, or simply being a good member of society.

I’m in my mid twenties, almost done with medical school, and I don’t think I will be mentally or finanically ready to raise kids until I’m in my thirties. My parents had us when they just turned 20. Like wtf, they had no idea how to raise kids, they probably just winged that sh*t and I’m just thankful they didn’t irreversibly f*ck me up.

Or the George Carlin quote about thinking how stupid the average person is. And then realizing that half of the population is even dumber than that. How it’s baffling that our unemployment rate is <5% and that somehow almost all of those people have jobs and that someone somewhere thought “yeah, I’ll hire this person, they seem like they’re more qualified than everyone else.”

The implication being that more than half of the workforce isn’t as good at their job as they could be, and that a huge portion of the world is ran by complete idiots.

Not to mention how uneducated the average person is when it comes to civic duties like voting. Compared to the average joe, I think I probably read way more news articles, history books, and discuss things with my best friend who is a US politics professor; and I still feel like I’m uneducated when it comes to voting for the right candidate.”

6. Frayed nerves.

“Performance anxiety!

I was in theatre as a kid/teen, was in sports tournaments, enjoyed class presentations, and even did some public speaking, and never had any issue getting up in front of people. Even when I would mess up occasionally in front of an audience it didn’t bother me.

Then in college a switch flipped. I did a handful of variety shows in college, and used to perform the national anthem in college at our university sports games. I still remember the first time I ever experienced performance anxiety–I was about 21, and going to perform the national anthem at a volleyball game and I felt it, but it didn’t impact my performance.

Later that year, I was singing a solo tune in a variety show and my music cut out and it flipped me out so bad that I had to stop the performance, which was a gamechanger–I’d never had an issue adhering to “the show must go on” even when things go wrong.

And for the first time in my life, my final presentation of university racked my nerves so bad that it impacted my ability to speak and concentrate so bad that I thought I’d fail the presentation, especially because that professor had seen successful presentations from me before.

Nowadays I get flipped out even giving casual presentations in front of my (small) company. I’d do variety show performance again though!”

7. Bad drivers everywhere.

“Driving.

Each time I go out onto the road I get more and more scared to go back. I’m only 19. How is 90% of this species so reckless that they can manage to scare a 19 year old off the road?

The reason I pay so much extra for insurance is because I’m supposed to be the one doing that, but all middle aged-senior citizens that think they own every inch of the road are beating me to it.”

8. Losing it.

“Losing my mind.

My grandfather had dementia and my grandmother had Alzheimers, they both went through their respective illnesses at the exact same time and to watch them slowly lose themselves was so depressing.

I’m not too worried about what happens to my body, I just dont want to lose my mind, I dont want to forget.”

9. Way up high.

“Heights.

When I was a kid I could run along the edges of tall wharfs and the sides of cliffs without a second thought. Even when I was in my early twenties my friends and I used to hang out on the roof of a 30 story building and pretend push each other off for laughs.

Now even thinking about it gives me anxiety. Even worse thinking that my kid might do the same.”

10. Twisters.

“Tornadoes.

I got stuck driving in a tornadic storm in 1996 (I think it was later determined to be a… down draft maybe it’s called?) in New Hampshire of all places.

Started a thunderstorm phobia that was getting better until I was 22 and ran into (in a car again) what was called the Worst Thunderstorm in New Brunswick History. 2 am outside a closed gas station on an open highway, in a small ford escort which rumbled and shook as lightning was striking right beside us.”

11. A scary thought.

“Home invasions.

It’s my worst nightmare… as a Brit I respect all you Americans who don’t f*ck about when it comes to protecting your families if anyone dares step foot in your house.”

12. No more bills!

“Mail.

As a kid it was always pleasant, a comic, a letter from grandma, you get the idea.

Now everything in the mail is either a bill or taxes.”

13. You’re not alone on that one.

“Clowns.

They’re my absolute worst fear and I didn’t used to be scared of them, but when I got to be a teenager suddenly I was TERRIFIED of them.

It’s so bad sometimes that I physically cannot go places if I know a clown will be there.”

14. Beware of the deep.

“The ocean!

I LOVED swimming in the beach, jumping off big boats into the unknown and just water overall but now that I know what could be lurking in the water I’m terrified!”

How about you?

What are you scared of now that didn’t bother you when you were a kid?

Talk to us in the comments. We’d love to hear from you!

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What’s Your Favorite Paradox? Here’s What People Said.

It’s a funny thing how often paradoxes seem to pop up in our lives, don’t you think?

The universe works in very mysterious ways, my friends…and we’re about to see a bunch of examples of exactly what I’m talking about.

AskReddit users talked about their favorite paradoxes.

Let’s dig into their responses!

1. A good one.

“Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

Tom Robbins”

2. Caught by surprise.

“The surprise hanging – a prisoner was sentenced to death by hanging, but as an additional punishment he was told he’d be hung sometime in the next week, but he’d not be told until the morning of.

He reasons that it can’t be friday, because that’s the last possible day, and so it wouldn’t be a surprise, which means it also can’t be thursday, because it can’t be friday and so if he’s alive by thursday then he needs to hang that day, apply same reasoning to the other days of the week…

He died wednesday, caught by surprise.”

3. Open your mind.

“The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.

Every time you gain a greater understanding about something, it creates even more questions than it answers.”

4. Fun with numbers.

“Statistical paradoxes are cool. For example, Simpson’s Paradox where a statistical trend is reversed when the population is partitioned into groups:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by 61% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans. However, both Southern and Northern Democrats were more likely to support the Act than their Republican colleagues.

White murderers in Florida are more likely to receive the death penalty than African-Americans. However, African-Americans whose victims were white are more likely to be executed than whites, as are African-Americans whose victims were black.

Median wages in the US rose by 1% between 2000 and 2013, yet wages of every educational subgroup (school dropouts, school graduates, college graduates and higher degrees) fell during the same period.

The overall survival rates for third class passengers on the Titanic were higher than those for the crew, yet those for both men and women were lower.

The batting averages of baseball player David Justice were higher than those of Derek Jeter in both 1995 and 1996, but not in the two years combined.”

5. I’m still holding out hope.

“If time travel was invented in the future, we would have it now.”

6. Ponder this.

“Pilots can get out of combat duty if they are psychologically unfit, but anyone who tries to get out of combat duty proves he is sane.”

7. So true.

“The paradox of being a parent: the days & nights are long & hard, yet the years fly by.”

8. You’ve heard this before.

“I don’t like that place.

No one goes there anymore because it’s always too crowded.”

9. Sad, but true.

“You need job experience to get a job, but to have the experience you must get a job.”

10. Motion.

“Zeno’s paradox of motion.

If you shoot an arrow at a target, at some point it’s halfway there, then halfway of the remaining half, etc.

Since no remaining distance cut in half can ever equal zero, the arrow never reaches the target.”

11. The wormhole.

“Polchinski’s Paradox.

Polchinski raised a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time.

In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole in the past at just the right angle to collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.”

12. We’re living in one.

“The one we are currently living in; where the ‘Information Age’ has somehow ushered in the ‘Age of Morons’

If you would have told me 25 years ago that giving people near limitless access to almost any data from almost anywhere on the planet in the palm of their hands would make people dumber than they already were I would have called bullsh*t till I was blue in the face.”

13. The poison well.

“The poison well paradox

A town is worried that their well is poisoned by chemical X, so they hire three scientists to test it. They ask each scientist two questions “is chemical X above level Y in our water?” and “if chemical X is above level Y, should we stop using our water supply”, the answers were as follows:

Scientist 1 answered yes to both questions.

Scientist 2 answered yes to the first and no to the second

Scientist 3 answered no to the first and yes to the second

The paradox: If you take each scientist’s final conclusion, you’ll have a majority of scientists saying that you don’t need to close the well; but if you combine all the scientists responses to individual questions, you’ll have a majority of responses telling you to close the well.”

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about YOUR favorite paradox.

Please and thank you!

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When Did You See a Person’s Sanity Slowly Deteriorate? People Shared Sad Stories.

It’s always terribly sad when you hear about a person suffering from any form of mental illness that impacts their life in a major way.

And it’s even worse when it actually happens to someone you are close to.

But, unfortunately, sometimes these things happen to our loved ones…and it can even be the people we thought were the most put-together and on top of things.

Here are some interesting stories from AskReddit users who witnessed people slowly losing their grip on sanity.

1. Dementia.

“I’m a CNA at a nursing facility.

One of my residents used to crochet little pot holders and give them out to the workers. She really loved her crocheting, it was her outlet. I was a unit aide when I was starting out there at 17 and I would sit and talk to her while she crocheted.

She’s genuinely one of the the sweetest and most kind hearted women I’ve ever met in my life. Over the next few years, she became like a grandmother to me.

As her dementia progressed, her little pot holders started to get messy looking and crooked. After that, the time she used to spend crocheting was replaced by her fumbling with the yarn for hours. She didn’t want help with it, it kept her busy.

Eventually, she stopped asking us to go fetch her yarn and crocheting supplies all together. Her speech became fragmented and illegible. Her heart and her love for everybody is still incredibly strong- that’s just who she is, but she’s very confused and doesn’t know where she is or what is going on. Currently, she has covid and is fighting for her life like most of my other residents.”

2. My sister.

“My sister passed away earlier this year and she was sick for a long time.

During the last few months you could tell that it was becoming harder for her to think and respond. Paradoxically it actually made her a lot nicer to me. We had never had a great relationship and I always believed she hated me but during those last few months she said very few unkind things to me.

It was hard to know that the only time we ever really got along was right before she passed away.”

3. New reality.

“A long-time friend of mine started talking to me about some metaphysical theories he had.

We used to smoke weed and talk about philosophy when we were younger, so it wasn’t a shock to me. Then he wrote a paper that was dozens of pages long on his new theory of reality

He sent it to me and when I said it gave me a headache to try and read it, he assumed that meant I was understanding it. Every time I saw him after that his behavior was more and more manic. I don’t know if everyone gets these feelings, but one can tell when talking to some people that they’re just slightly… off?

Anyhow, he was apparently harassing some of his old flames and acting strangely enough that his family had him taken to the hospital, where he had visited a few times in the past few weeks. The hospital held him overnight and released him because he wasn’t a threat.

A few days later he started acting out in his mother’s house and broke a window. She called the cops, and they arrested him. The window was worth more than the amount required to make it a felony and he went to jail for six months. Two days inside jail and he’s back to normal. Why?!

Well, he has a degenerative disease that puts him in CONSTANT pain. He couldn’t afford his pain meds and when he went to the hospital, they refused to give him any because they assumed he was a junkie. (He had prior drug issues, if you can imagine.)

He had lost his job, was living in a cold, damp apartment without electricity and couldn’t get the meds he needed; so he descended over the course of a month into someone that LITERALLY thought Neil Degrasse Tyson was talking to him personally through the internet.

Once he had his meds again (again, pain meds not anti-psychotics) he leveled out and spent 6 mos trying to piece together what the f*ck had happened to him.

Super nice guy. He’s been fine for a couple years. Had to make some very elaborate apologies.

It was… uncomfortable to watch.”

4. Started getting odd.

“I was friends with a guy in middle school and from seventh and eighth grade, he was pretty cool. Very much a sports bro and a goofball, but functional.

In high school he started getting a little odd. Like he was there physically but always kind of lagging behind in the moment. He’d get distracted or trail off of a conversation and just go quiet. There were times when he’d get aggressive toward his family but never toward me.

After high school I moved away for college but returned home after my first year and he’d gotten worse. I was in contact with him pretty regularly until I showed up to his house one day and it was like he didn’t remember who I was.

I saw him every now and then after that until about five years later. I was in a Walmart parking lot when he pulled up beside me and got out of his car and started talking to me like nothing had changed.

We exchanged information and he texted me a few times and sent me some weird emails about his religion but I haven’t seen or heard from him in going on four years…”

5. My brother…

“My brother has schizophrenia as well as bipolar and aspergers. He was always a bit aggressive in his teenage years, but he calmed down for a bit in his adult years.

He has problems with relationships and money, but he always made ends meet for the most part, and he wasn’t homeless. But it all went downhill in the summer when he had a schizophrenic break, and was sent to a hospital. He called my mom saying things that were far from the truth.

He said that he didn’t see me for years and that my parents abused him and my grandpa was in the Mafia. Ruined the rest of the vacation. Our grandma and his bunny died later and hes had more than 10 episodes, with 4-5 violent ones that resulted in him going back to the hospital. He went from a person who was generally a good person, to someone who we could barely recognize.

He always loved dieting and being tip-top health, but now he gave that up and chain smokes. It’s sad because I don’t think he will ever be normal again, or at least back to his old self. One of his biggest episodes was ony birthday at 3 A.M he barged into my parents room accusing them of not letting him sleep, saying that he was going to kill them.

We had a katana that he bought years before and he tried to get that, but my dad stopped it. He took a kitchen knife and went up to his room and that’s when cops eventually detained him. I got to stay home on my birthday though. He just switched though.

He was always a healthy person and I saw him slowly decline physically and mentally from all of his disorders. It’s really sad and I hope it dossnt end in death.”

6. A terrible disease.

“My best friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia when we were 23. He was in the top 10 of our high school class, got his bachelor’s with honors in chemistry, and was in grad school.

The degree to which he outshined me was stunning until the day he pulled me aside and told me that a foreign government was going to come get him for his “expertise”.

It was hard. All of his social skills went out the window, he would call his friends up to buy him smokes or go on drives at weird hours until I was the only one who will even pick up the phone.

He reverted to behaving like we were 15 again, trying to get me to do sleepovers and spend my Saturdays killing nazi zombies. Even the way he eats changed. There were a lot of dark nights spent talking through anxiety attacks and reasoning through delusions, and it’s still not over.

I understand why everyone else has removed themselves from the picture, I’ve come pretty close myself. I guess I just choose to believe the old guy is still in there somewhere. It’s such a terrible disease.”

7. Alzheimer’s.

“Watched my grandfather slowly sink into Alzheimer’s. By the end he didn’t know my name or his own. He was sad and angry and confused. I watched every week as he forgot a little more.

Got a little more belligerent. A little more lost. Until one day I walked in and he started screaming that someone was there to rob him. It was the saddest f*cking thing I’ve ever seen.

I have such vivid memories of watching him and my uncles have such animated debates about politics and movies and sports. They used to play Risk until the sun came up listening to Sinatra. He would sit and explain every single play in a baseball game to me as a kid.

He was sharp and the saddest and hardest part was watching the struggle on his face to remember. The frustration he felt. Like he was letting us down. I miss him a lot.”

8. Obsession.

“I was in high school and my best friend went from a normal guy who we would smoke weed occasionally, listen to music and have fun. It went to this obsession with a girl that clearly has no interest in him.

He would literally stalk her, try to win her over. At the same time, he wasn’t keeping up with hygiene and went from a decent student to a poor performer.

One day, he mentioned that he wanted to commit suicide so I told my parents everything that was going on. His parents were extremely well educated but weren’t doing anything about his behaviors.

My parents talked to his and they took it serious after hearing about the thoughts of suicide. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Nearly 40 years later, he still doesn’t look the same. Really sad situation. I still miss him.”

9. Very sad.

“I watched my ex wife slowly spiral down and I didn’t even realize it. She was never really “stable” and had a family history of mental illness.

Apparently she started cheating on me and never had the strength to tell me or get a divorce and the constant lying and being on edge that I would find out at any minute really got to her(this was over the course of a year). Towards the end she would “rock” every time she sat and bit her nails till they bled.

Currently she is maxed out on a host of meds and it takes everything she has to got to work as a janitor and come home. Her father is her “guardian” and helps her pay bills and stuff. She often denies past events or alters them if they were unpleasant(she is very adamant that they are real).

Her father broke down and told me this a month ago and actually recommend that I not encourage our kids to visit her(I would never prevent them from seeing their mother).

So in the course of a of 5 years she went from a fit dental hygienist with a promising career and host of friends to an overweight janitor with no friends who can’t even pay her own rent or buy groceries. I do admire her for going to work every day and trying.”

10. They need help.

“My (ex) best friend over the course of this past year has gone from a normal – well adjusted woman who held down a full time job and a VERY nice apartment to constantly being online and talking about how humans are just slaves to an alien race that lives on mars and how reality doesn’t exist and If she died none of it would matter because reality doesn’t exist…

I don’t talk to her anymore because if I said anything in opposition, she would lose her sh*t on me… very different from the kind, compassionate woman I was best friends with for 4 years. I miss her every day.

Disclaimer: I know she’s doing well, she has a great familial support system and other friends that agree with her beliefs, I just couldn’t be one of them anymore.

We can’t force someone into help if they don’t want to be helped.”

11. Conspiracy theories.

“My mom started going to online blogs and web-radio shows about ghosts, aliens, conspiracies and took it all at face value. I saw my normal mom turn into a complete, gullible ignoramus in a matter of months.

Nobody could talk to her without her bringing up FEMA death camps, potential economic collapse, aliens, antivax or Obama signing more executive orders than any president in history. Her friends thought she might have a brain tumor. she didn’t. She did have cancer she was hiding/ignoring that ended up killing her bc she thought cancer wasn’t real.

This is what happens to lonely people that are looking for a connection…they’ll believe anything just to feel that they are a part of something. It was very sad that she was so unbearable the last couple years of her life.”

12. Sad.

“My grandmother was brilliant and so dedicated to educating herself. She had a library of probably a thousand books, but regularly circulated and bought new ones, and sold ones she didn’t need any more.

She read the paper every day, and when a topic interested her, she would cut out the article and summarize what caught her attention. Then she would file it in one of her enormous filing cabinets with other articles about it, and make notes of how the new article related to what was already there.

She lived in a college town for decades and was friends with many of the professors. They would often come to discuss things of interest to her or them. Including music, art and history professors.

Every month she would create a mini-museum exhibition on her dining room table. “Wood Carvings from around the world” or “Different things made from Lead” with little catalog cards for every item.

I have a 3 page discussion she researched and wrote about the proper times to used “baptised” and “baptized”.

The first sign was that we were watching a documentary about Apollo 13 and she didn’t remember it happening. She didn’t know that it happened at all. There is zero chance that she didn’t follow it as it was happening in her life, (not only was she well informed, but had a collection of LIFE magazines about the space program) and zero chance that she didn’t hear about it afterward. She just didn’t remember it at all.

A little later, she was trying to play with Lego Duplo blocks with my daughter and couldn’t figure out how they worked. She tried putting the same colors together, the same sizes, sliding the smooth sides against each other, putting the pegs against each other. She was so methodical in her trial and error and just couldn’t get it.

In her later years, she just sat in bed, measuring her sheets with her arms, trying to decide if there was enough fabric to make a dress, or an apron.

At the end she remembered that reading was a good thing, even though she couldn’t, and didn’t have the attention to listen.

And she hated my dad, (her son-in-law) she never forgot that. Forgot my mom, but not how much she hated my dad.”

Have you ever seen someone close to you go through something like this?

If so, please share your stories with us in the comments.

Thanks in advance.

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People Talk About the Strange Features They’d Include in Their Dream Houses

Call me young at heart, but I like to daydream about the things that I’d do if I had unlimited funds to build my dream house.

Bowling alley? Check.

Amazing pool with waterfalls and slides? Yes.

Ice skating rink for pick-up hockey games? You know it!

Ahhhh, it’s fun to dream, right?

AskReddit users talked about the strange features and rooms they’d have in their dream houses if they had all that cold, hard cash. Let’s see what they came up with.

1. S0unds nice.

“An indoor swimming pool in the underground floor with a synced screen on all four sides and normal + underwater sound system.

I love swimming. I love watching movies and series.”

2. Stargazing.

“I’d definitely install an observatory on top of a spire.

My house would be located far away, in a dark sky region.

Have all of the lights in the house be smart lights, so I can turn them all off with a single click.”

3. That’ll work!

“A sensory deprivation room, with built in float tank, steam shower, cool rain shower… yeahhh.

The best naps I’ve ever had were in a float tank. Being able to do that at home would be amazing.”

4. I’m feeling this one.

“A moat. No one has a moat anymore.

Do you not want to talk to people? Pull up the draw bridge!!!!

And in the winter you have your own personal skating rink!!”

5. Tropical oasis.

“I really want one of those natural bathrooms, that looks like you just walked into a jungle, everything is stone and steam and plants and sounds of a water fall.

Or one of those open stair cases where the back wall is completely glass and there’s a leafy garden under the stairs.

Basically just a tropical oasis for plants.”

6. Only for me.

“Absolutely a secret beautiful bathroom just for me.

I don’t know what it is but I just really value bathroom time and the luxury of getting washed and relaxing and getting ready in a big beautiful marble bathroom.

But nobody else can use it. Like the secret bathroom in B99.”

7. Lazy rivers are amazing.

“An indoor swimming pool – with a lazy river.

I LOVE swimming but I hate public pools.

I have a recurring dream where I have a house with a lazy river in it. I love those dreams.”

8. Let’s get comfortable.

“Definitely one of those huge showers with the water coming from all directions and a bench for a steamroom situation.

Add some good speakers in there for blasting tunes. And then a jacuzzi tub for comfortable baths.

And to top it off, a state of the art Japanese toilet with all the bells and whistles.”

9. Can I get a little space?

“I’m 6’4″ so a custom part of a kitchen counter that can be raised and lowered so I can cut things without feeling like I’m turning into the Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

10. LEGO fanatic.

“I would like a LEGO room with display shelves all along the sides for previously assembled projects and a giant table in the middle with enough space to assemble the biggest sets, lots of little cup-holder type spots to hold the legos as I sort them.

Always wanted that growing up…still want that now.”

11. Going back in time.

“A replica of a Blockbuster. Maybe a pizza oven in the back wall. And the largest assortment of VHS tapes.

I’d call it Mockbuster and give family and friends rental cards so they could check out movies and games.”

12. Can I come over?!?!

“I want an outdoor area dedicated to taco night.

It’s gonna have a meat smoker, and a tequila bar, and pepper plants, and a huge grill and an awesome speaker system and it will be fiesta themed and amazing!”

13. Movie night.

“I want a massive theater room with all of the concessions. Popcorn, nachos, candies, if it’s at a movie theater or ball game for food, I want it.

Bonus points if each seat is one of those crazy massager chairs.”

14. Nerd alert!

“A hidden door that leads to the ultimate nerd room.

Gotta have a place to showcase merch and play D&D with the boys.”

15. Taking care of the animals.

“Special rooms and spaces for all the pets.

A cat room that has a sliding door opening into a well fenced-off outside area (and a cat door too).

A bunny room with lots of tunnels , digging boxes, and, actually, also a specialised outside area.

A super big tank for the gold fish. And one for the axolotl, too.

An aviary. Dont have birds right now, but I’d look for some older parrots who need a home.

Okay, now we want to hear from you!

What weird stuff would you put in your dream house?

Tell us all about it in the comments. Thanks!

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What Unrealistic Things in Movies Drive You Crazy? Here’s What People Had to Say.

The couple ends up together in the end. The bad guy gets it eventually. The underdog always wins.

The things listed above are all examples of things that happen all the time in movies and are totally unrealistic.

You know it’s true!

And some of these unrealistic Hollywood conventions really drive people crazy. Let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about this!

1. This is fun!

“Sprinklers going off indoors.

When this happens in the movies, people are super excited, laughing, jumping around and playing in the water like it is raining.

In reality, the water in those pipes is absolutely disgusting, dirty, smelly, black water that would make most people run like hell to get away from.

Source: I used to install sprinklers in buildings during my high school summers as a part time job.”

2. Doesn’t happen.

“I am 76 years old and have been buying things in stores since I was five.

I have never ever seen someone toss some money on a counter and say keep the change and then dash out with the purchase.”

3. Eyes on the road!

“I hate when someone is driving and they’re talking to the passenger without looking at the road for like 10 seconds at a time.”

4. Plain Jane?

“Everybody acting like the heroine is plain.

She’s wearing glasses and a baggy sweater and a ponytail, but her face is perfect, her teeth are perfect, her skin is perfect and she hasn’t got an ounce of fat anywhere.”

5. Totally unrealistic.

“Most fight scenes.

Bar fight, guy gets hit with six broken chairs, several bottles broken over his head, still gets up fine and fights off like twenty other guys.

Real fighting is the most physically exhausting thing you can do. Your average person would barely last a minute. Most street fights are one of two punches before they get winded. Athletes have to do insane amount of endurance training and conditioning to be able to fight. Three minutes in the ring will feel like a lifetime.

Beyond that, many such injuries will completely knock you out or be fatal. Again on the street if you punch someone, knock them out, and their head hits pavement, there is a fair chance you just killed them. Even then, most head injuries you just don’t get up and keep fighting from.

But because of Hollywood, every jack*ss thinks they can take on twenty guys at once or would do awesome in a fight.”

6. In the lab.

“I always enjoy watching lab scenes. People looking into microscopes that aren’t even turned on or plugged in.

No one has gloves on or their hair pulled back…. unrelated formulas scrolled on whiteboards.

And always, I mean all f*cking ways, if they are in a lab, be it a biology lab, physics, what have you…. there will be chemistry glassware too.”

7. Wrong!

“As a guy who works with computers, pretty much any computer scene – especially hacking scenes.

“If I bypass the firewall using a SQL protocol, I can load the XML into the CSS stack and update the database to cross the JavaScript and SVG streams… And I’m in!”

Much of that is legitimate terminology, but used in a very wrong manner.”

8. The miracle of life.

“Childbirth.

Water breaks, you go immediately to the hospital, it’s time to push, she pushes three times and immediately reverts to her prepregnancy state. Also, her hair and makeup are immaculate.

A bonus in unbelievability for surprise twins, a sudden marriage proposal, or a “newborn” who is clearly 6 months or older.”

9. Still lookin’ good.

“Women in bed with makeup still on.

I know actors gotta be wearing some because it looks better on camera. I mean more like those scenes where a couple is going to bed and the woman still has the same full face of makeup on she was wearing during the day.

Just tone it down a bit, you know?”

10. That doesn’t look right…

“The stereotypical scene where the protagonist flies to a new city/country and they have a shot of a plane landing at sunset. The plane and airport almost never match the flight they actually took.

It’s pretty often for someone to fly to Cleveland but the shot they show is a 747 landing in LA. Most people wouldn’t notice but it bugs me every time I see it.”

11. Hahaha. Yes!

“Tiny American towns in Christmas movies made after 2005 where everyone is attractive and employed.”

12. Not accurate.

“It’s very clear which movies/shows don’t do their research when it comes to representing the military.

It’s not a movie, but I made a post about the show Virgin River and how ignorantly they portray a community of veterans.

In case you’re unaware, anyone who has ever worn a uniform is basically a more virtuous version of Captain America.”

13. Nice digs.

“I’m sure this has been said but it still bugs me.

When a character is a secretary or they work in the mail room and somehow they live in a gorgeous downtown apartment with no roommates.”

14. Brilliant!

“A white guy running through Spanish Harlem in the middle of the night, screaming “Maria!” at the top of his lungs and only one woman pokes her head out the window.”

Okay, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about the unrealistic things that happen in movies that really drive you nuts.

Please and thank you!

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People Who Spent Time in Prison Talk About the Worst Things They Saw Behind Bars

We’ve all seen so many movies and TV shows about prison that we think we have a little bit of an idea about what it might be like…

But I think that unless you’ve actually been behind bars, none of really have a clue.

Well, it’s time to find out what goes on inside those walls, because AskReddit users that have done time all talked about the worst thing they witnessed while they did time.

Let’s take a look at what they had to say.

1. Yikes.

“Saw someone break a small branch off a tree in the yard, dry it out in the sun, sharpen it down to a point on the concrete and then stab a guy in the back with it 4 times, he had to be airlifted to hospital because it punctured his lung.”

2. Fighting cousins.

“I saw a guy get in a fight with his cousin over a 50 cent bowl… this escalated more and more until they starting fighting.

We all kinda watched out the corner of our eyes bc it was in the cell while the doors were open. Well the guy that was p*ssed about the bowl grabbed the dude by the hair and bite a huge hunk of his cousin’s eyebrow off… like about half of it.

If that wasn’t bad enough me and my cell mate moved into the cell bc it was further away from the TV. So we are cleaning up the cell and my cell mate goes ” holy f*ck look at this!” he lifts up what I thought was a dead hairy bug… nope, furry *ss eyebrow and skin.

Doesn’t haunt me, just crazy to think a guy lost half an eyebrow over a f*cking 50 cent bowl”

3. OH MY GOD.

“We had an offender with a colostomy bag.

Every time he would shower, the most terrible smell would fill the unit. We asked him multiple times to not burp his colostomy bag in the shower but he swore he wasn’t.

Eventually, after developing an infection, his doctor found out he was charging other inmates to have s*x with his colostomy hole.”

4. Terrible.

“The term “getting the sh*t beat out of you” is real. You get beat so fast and hard the adrenaline kicks in and you sh*t yourself.

It’s like some primal defense mechanism. Saw many guys crawl away because if they walked away all the sh*t would dirty the pod which would make everyone more angry.”

5. Turning on each other.

“I remember people kinda turned on each other out of boredom.

I mean, you made friends and all, but you had it hanging over you that you were a bad guy, and some people took to being *ssholes and provoked others seemingly out of boredom.

It was an unpleasant situation to be on the other side, because you wanted to stay out of trouble too, but at the same time had to stand up for yourself. Maybe not the absolute worst I saw, but something I remember.”

6. Kettle-ing.

“Kettle-ing was horrible and i saw it at least 10 times. People would lose an argument, fight or just get embarrassed by someone and go back to their cell, fill a kettle up with water mixed with sugar, boil it and then throw it in the perpetrator’s face.

The sugar made the water like napalm and it would stick to them. I saw 4 people hang themselves, one person slit his wrists and fall through the cell door when it opened in a massive pool of blood. Many, many people cut themselves with razors as a way to get things they want. And one person in the segregation block, smear sh*t all over his cell then cut himself all over and smear the sh*t into his cuts. Also people throwing buckets full of p*ss and sh*t over others.

I saw a pool ball thrown at a guys face and break his nose and jaw. I was a prison “buddy” which is a information giver/counsellor. This was all in 3 years and im grateful everyday i wake up that I’m not still in there”

7. Wow…

“Saw a dude get his face turned to hamburger over a card game. Dude lost so he sucker punches the guy scross from him a minute later, gets in top of him, and probably get about 10 hits in by the time the CO broke it up.

Blood everywhere I was like holy f*ck….it was like my first month there and it made me kinda not wana leave the cell.

My bunkie was a blood and jacked he’s like dude nobody will f*ck with you I’m like ok I hope not…I’m pretty sure he smashed his eye socket in.”

8. For traffic tickets…

“Not prison, but county jail.

I was doing 90 days and a woman who was very pregnant went into labor. They refused to take her to the hospital until her contractions were 2 mins apart. When they finally did, they shackled her to the bed.

They refused to unlock the shackles even when the baby was in danger. She lost the baby and almost bled out. She was in jail for traffic tickets…”

9. Random violence.

“I was in a prison that was split. One side was a level 4 facility (just under max) and the other was for mentally ill inmates.

One day they decided to move some of their more stable mentally ill patients to our side, the level 4 side. There was this really huge dude who, as soon as he got to our prison, just started screaming that he wanted to go back.

He turned and found the person closest to him (I was down the hallway from him) and he proceeds to beat the hell out of this random dude. Dude went into a coma and died two days later. It was horrifying to watch this blatant display of random violence that ended with someone dead. I won’t ever forget it.”

10. Gotta watch your step.

“A guy get his face beat in by a dude with a cast on his arm because guy took dude’s ketchup pack off his plate on hot dog day.”

11. The guards.

“Saw a lot of bad things, like the usual fights, couple people dying and such.

One of the most f*cked up things I saw was what the guards did to this one inmate. I was in maximum security, and then there is a supermax segment of that which is all tiny single cells to hold the murderers, high profile cases, and complete nut jobs that are too dangerous for general population.

So I was a trustee doing my rounds handing out lunch to the single cells. This one guy demands an extra sandwich from me…I tell him it’s not happening bc I don’t have extra, and he starts throwing stuff including who knows what liquid on me. Well the guard sees this, and I was cool with them bc I never acted up or anything.

Then he gets on his radio, and calls for their “special response team”. Maybe 1-2 minutes max, 12 dudes in full riot gear coming walked down the hall marching and banging their clubs on their shields like something out of a movie. They let me stand there for some reason, all 12 of them somehow fit into the 6×10 cell, and just beat the living sh*t out of this guy. The guard tells me he will handle the rest of handing out lunch.

I get back to my cell near the indoor guard office, and about 5 minutes later they bring this battered dude down. They have what’s called a restraining chair, which straps your ankles, legs, waist, wrists, head and neck all down.

The guy gets promptly put into it, and then rolled outside to the yard about 50 feet away. Promptly gets maced. It was 36 degrees that night, but they apparently have a rule that they can keep you out there as long as it doesn’t hit freezing. They left this guy out there for a solid 12 hours with no food/water and barely any clothes.

I saw him again 4-5 days later after he got out of the hospital/medical, one eye swollen shut, the other barely opened, and beaten beyond recognition. He called me over to his cell and apologized. Appreciate the guards looking out for me, but I felt a bit bad for what they did to him.”

12. Over a fruit cup…

“I watched a woman stab another woman in the neck with a plastic spork, over a d*mn fruit cup.”

13. Orange County.

“When I was in Orange County Jail (CA) I saw a whole bunch of wild sh*t.

So when people “roll” into a cell or a dorm (cell = 8 man or less, dorm is 128 men in one open room divided into two inaccessible floors, so 64 on top and 64 on bottom) they usually roll in super late at night, like around midnight cuz i guess it has something to do with funding.

So anyways a guy rolls in at the like 12 am, and I am on the top floor of this dorm. Now, when you look out of the dorm main exit there is a few hundred feet of reflective glass with a catwalk behind it. The cops walk back and forth on this catwalk but most inmates use this glass to communicate with the other floor since its basically a giant mirror that spans the whole giant room.

So its late and I watch this guy come in the bottom dorm and immediately start talking sh*t to the white guy leader of the downstairs. Now I only talked to this guy one time to borrow cards but he was a nazi named “Cyclone” that literally nobody f*cked with. So new guy is spouting off at Cyclone about how he will be the new head of the woods (white people), and it just goes back and forth to the point where everyone on both floors are watching.

There are 3 words you DO NOT say to someone in OCJ, even in jest it will get you f*cked up. Calling someone a “punk”, “b*tch” or “lame” are IMMEDIATE fight words and if someone calls you any of those and you dont fight them, well thats how you get picked on. I was told that even if you’re 100% sure you will lose the fight its better to jump and get your *ss beat than be known as someone who doesn’t react.

So new guy called Cyclone one of those 3 names and in like the same breath Cyclone braces his body between two beds like he’s doing dips and lifts himself up and heel kicks the dude straight in the mouth. Well new guy is just lights out. He falls backwards limp and smacks his head on the bars. Cyclone only hit him once, and the guy was done.

One minute later everyone downstairs is screaming about something and it turns out new guy sh*t himself like a LOOOT, and if you know anything about heroin addicts that first week in jail after a bender is typically spent exclusively on the toilet and in the showers because obvious reasons. Everyone’s gagging downstairs to the point where they hit the emergency button and TOLD ON THEMSELVES. Not exactly, nobody said it was Cyclone but someone told the cops “he was mouthing off and then he sh*t himself, we need a mop.”

So cops come with medics, check the dude and stretcher him out and check everyones knuckles through the bars and of course nobody had any knuckle marks. The guy was covered in blood and sh*t and I remember watching all of this from the upstairs reflection saying to myself “holy f*ck” the whole time. I have so many other wild stories from in there this one is just the freshest in my head.”

Okay, now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about any stories you have from either being arrested or spending any time behind bars.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share What They Think All Teenagers Should Definitely Avoid

If there’s one thing I definitely remember about being a teenager, it’s that I didn’t really listen to the adults in my life who tried to give me good advice.

I guess that’s what all teenagers, do, right?

You know that’s the truth!

But I guess those of us that have been there still need to try to do our best and give these young folks advice and just hope that they listen to us…because we’ve been there and we’ve done that.

AskReddit users talked about what they think all teenagers should avoid. Let’s take a look.

1. All of this stuff.

“Don’t practice unsafe s*x. Condoms and pills are cheaper than having to raise an unplanned child.

Tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. No, they don’t make you cool.

They are very addictive, and you can’t easily shake off the habit.”

2. A deep, dark hole.

“If you haven’t been financially educated, credit cards.

It’s far too easy to get into debt with them and can really destroy your future for years.”

3. You have to open up.

“Emotions were discouraged in my household. Well, positive emotions were fine. But if I didn’t look happy my parents would get angry and yell at me.

Now I’m trying to fix it by teaching myself what my parents didn’t. But to be fair to them they were raised like that too and didn’t know any different.

So to anyone who’s going to have children or already has them, one of the biggest favors you can do your child is work through your own sh*t. Because it will follow them and you’ll realize it way too late.”

4. Totally creepy.

“Older men.

Teenagers often think that they’re cool for hooking up with dudes who are far older than them, but the people who hook up with teenagers as older adults are not the cream of the crop.

Everyone wants to think they’re mature enough to date an older person, but most of the time there’s going to be a power imbalance.”

5. Don’t ignore them!

“When you are little, it’s sweets which rot the teeth.

As we get older, the issue is different and you should be more concerned with bacteria on the gum line- cavities are still a thing, but so is inflamed, retracting gums.

Brushing before bed helps a lot. A lot. And flossing is also good. Take care of your gums.”

6. Avoid them.

“Toxic friends.

Seriously, if your friends only ever get you in trouble and treat you like a burden, they’re not your friends.

By all means the prospect of leaving a social group to find another social group can be pretty scary. Facing that fear is better than being around sh*tty people.”

7. Go easy on those things.

“I’m honestly surprised I dont see this mentioned yet, but energy drinks (at least not in moderation).

Especially the newer ones like Bang, that have a ton of caffeine. I was drinking upwards of 3-4 Monsters a day as a teenager and wondered why I had “insomnia”.

I’m pretty sure I dont have a heart problem, but even 1 cup of coffee makes my chest hurt a little now. Take care of your bodies, kids.”

8. You don’t need all that stuff.

“Aside from pregnancies and drugs, I’d say going into debt for stuff that’s not actually necessary to survive, like buying the newest phone, or car, or whatever.

Where I live it’s still pretty common that younger people take up loans or enter subscriptions/contracts (think phone, internet etc) to have the newest gadgets, only to realize they cannot afford after a while, then the late fees pile up etc, it can end badly.”

9. A really dumb move.

“Shoplifting.

One of my school friends did this years ago. This doesn’t make you cool, he now has a criminal record, prevented him from getting jobs when he was 16.”

10. Good advice.

“Not picking up a creative and/or athletic skill.

One of the problems people face today is obsolesence: the skills you learned in your youth become useless because something new over the horizon will replace it. Kids today look up to influencers and are amazing at making tiktoks, but honestly, that’s not gonna last.

An athletic skill will give you a strong and healthy body for your entire life. A sport develops a competitive and goal orientated mindset that translates easily into any job. A creative skill develops sensibilities that will shape your worldview. Displaying your creativity gives you the opportunity to express and share yourself.

Not to mention that both develop responsability, time management, and a love of practicing to perfect those skills. In the long run, any of these skills is worth more than any amount of likes.”

11. Be your own person.

“Letting other people make your decisions.

I let religion, family, friends society etc. dictate my behavior. It’s comfortable because you tell yourself they know what they’re talking about… They don’t.

Sure, you’ll make bad choices, but at least they’ll be yours and you can learn from them. There’s a special kind of regret you feel when the bad choices you make are a result of other people living your life.

Trust yourself enough you fail. Think, make a choice, and actually live.”

12. Plug up those ears!

“Loud concerts without ear protection.

Seriously. You get a decent set of earplugs and in 10 minutes you don’t even realize you’re wearing them and your ears are better for it in the long run.”

13. You’re going to change.

“A hard set beliefs of any type.

People change as they get older and their beliefs change with more information and experience.

Brains in humans do not fully develop until about 25.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, please share some good life advice that you think teens should hear.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share “Let That Sink In” Facts That Are Hard to Believe

Do you want to know ALL the info there is out there?

Well, that’s impossible, but today we’ve got 14 crazy facts to wrap your head around.

Let’s take a look!

1. Kaboom #2!

It took humanity approximately 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.

2. Eat mur ckcn!

There are more chickens in America than people on the planet.

3. Oh, is that all?

To be in the top 1% of Americans in terms of income, you need to rake in about $400,000 a year.

Round it off to $1,000 a day.

4. Unluckiest nurse ever.

The Titanic had two sister ships, the Britannic and the Olympic. There was a woman called Violet Jessop, a nurse and a cruise liner stewardess that worked on all three.

The Olympic crashed into a warship whilst leaving harbor but was able to make it back.

She was on the Titanic as it sank and is referenced in the Titanic film, a stewardess that was told to set an example to the non english speaking passengers as the ship sank. She looked after a baby on lifeboat 16 until being rescued by the Carpathia the next day.

It’s not known what exactly caused the sinking of the Britannic but the lifeboats hit the water too early. As the ship sank, the rear listed up and a number of the lifeboats were sucked into the propellers. Violet had to jump out of the lifeboat she was in and sustained a serious head injury, but survived.

She was on board for all three incidents in the space of 5 years.

She went back to continue to work at sea for another thirty years before retiring in 1950. She died of Heart failure in 71.

5. Now THAT is big… and small… and big.

If the sun were scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way galaxy would be the size of the continental United States.

The vastness of space is mind boggling.

6. Wait… how many?!

The US dropped 26,172 bombs [in 2016].

That’s almost 72 per day.

That’s about 3 bombs an hour. Every hour. For the entire year.

In 2017, the US had already dropped more bombs than that by September.

7. Feel old now?

Macaulay Culkin is now older than Catherine O’Hara was when she played his mom in Home Alone.

8. Savage!

France was still using the guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

9. Kaboom!

Next to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.

10. What the what?!?

The first electric car was invented at the end of the nineteenth century and it went 65 mph.

11. Lot of concrete!

China used more concrete in 3 years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century.

12. Weird orbit

The Moon orbits us from the west to the east, but we see it move across the sky east to west because of the rate of the Earths rotation.

Our observation is like being in a faster car watching a slower car (heading in the same absolute direction) fall further and further behind us.

13. F**king Texas…

There are more tigers privately owned in Texas than tigers in the wild.

14. Yes, the Air Force is #1.

The US navy has the second largest air force in the world.

Mind blowing, right? Who would have thought that a nurse could be THAT unlucky. Wow!

Have a fact that you’d like to share with us? Do that in the comments!

Thanks, fam!

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What Could You Do Easily as a Kid but Can’t Do Now? People Shared Their Thoughts.

When you’re young (and dumb), you can do all kinds of crazy things and not even think twice about it.

Sports, exercises, falling down on the street: you could just pop right up again and not think twice about it.

But, as you get older, those old bones start creaking and you hurt a lot more…sometimes just from even getting up in the morning…

AskReddit users talked about what they could do easily as kids but not as adults. Let’s see what they had to say.

1. The dreaded monkey bars.

“My last job we had an event where we went to a big field. There was a park right next to it. There were monkey bars there.

I have not tried monkey bars since I was a kid, so I gave it a go. I could not do anything, it hurt so bad just trying to pull my own weight up.

It really took my by surprise.”

2. Time to get flexible…again.

“I was in gymnastics for awhile as a kid and I was very comfortable doing all kinds of tumbling, but I thought about cartwheels the other day and realized that I wouldn’t even know where to start now.

I’m still fairly fit, but the thought of just launching myself forward and upside down seems completely impossible and it was something that seemed so natural when I was younger. And then I started thinking of all the other things I used to do and the freedom of it all and I got wistful and sad.

As of yesterday I’m recovering from lower abdominal surgery, but as soon as I’m able, I’m starting a flexibility program and installing a pull up bar. Maybe by this time next year it’ll feel a little less impossible.”

3. Digestion issues.

“People always talk about your back and knees hurting when you age. Hardly anyone mentions the f*cked up sh*t that goes down with your digestive tract.

I get the worrrrrst indigestion and gas pains now if I eat gluten, dairy, or anything mildly acidic.”

4. Gotta stay busy.

“Do nothing.

If I don’t do some kind of chore, I feel like the day was absolutely wasted.

So I spend my days off working around the house to keep from feeling guilty.

Then I complain I never get a day where I can do nothing.”

5. Bad sleeper.

“Sleep well.

As a kid I would sleep peacefully in any place, no matter how loud it is or crowded or in what weird position my body was.

As an adult it takes me an eternity to fall asleep and every oh so little sound wakes me up.”

6. Run free.

“Run.

I dream about running.

I would give anything to be able to really run.”

7. Stiff as a board.

“I used to be way more flexible.

I’m literally only 20 and I work out every day, and I’m still feeling stiff as a board.

This getting older thing sucks. I want a refund.”

8. Used to be dreamy.

“Get completely immersed in a movie without thinking about how it’s just a bunch of actors and special effects.”

9. Not so easy these days.

“Be outgoing, charming and slick.

Somehow I lost all these skills growing up.

Now I barely know how to socialize with people, when I used to just be able to walk up to someone as a kid and make friends.”

10. Former martial artist.

“A flying tornado kick.

I was in Korean martial arts as a child and after 4 years of training I could perform a kick where I front kick twist my body in the air and kick with the other leg. Did not think much of time.

Now I realize that I should have been impressed and that was not something most people can do.”

11. It gets harder.

“Sitting with my legs crossed.

Get up from a chair and immediately run.

Touch my toes.

Sleep more than 5 straight hours.

Write legibly.”

12. Language lessons.

“Learn another language, apparently.

I could communicate in 3 languages when I was 3-4 years old, but quickly forgot it all by the time I was 5-6, having lost my opportunity to use it or practice.

Despite studying again for years and taking multiple classes, I just cannot break through being able to actually understand or speak in those other languages beyond a pretty basic level. It’s super frustrating.”

13. Be careful!

“Roller skating.

Used to be pretty good as a kid then didn’t do it most of my teen years.

I tried again in college and ate pavement.”

14. Those were the days…

“Climbing a tree.

I can’t believe I would just climb so many feet in the air by just using my pure strength.”

What could you do easily as a kid that you can’t do now?

Tell us the painful truth in the comments!

Please and thank you!

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People Who Have Almost Died Shared What Their “Last Thoughts” Were

This is kind of a scary thought to ponder.

What do you imagine your last thoughts would be if you knew you were going to die.

That’s what the folks you’re about to hear from were faced with…but luckily they all survived…

Let’s see what these AskReddit users had to say.

1. Calm.

“Oh sh*t, my sister had to see me drown.”

I felt pretty calm about it though.”

2. Ouch.

“”Your shoe is untied”

I said that to my dad before promptly falling down a 20 foot cliff into the underbrush. Broken arm, fractured skull, ruptured kidney.

Woke up two weeks later to my dad saying thanks for letting him know his shoe was untied as he could have tripped.”

3. I can understand that.

“As I was getting the Heimlich I remember thinking how embarrassing it would be to die at a Renaissance Fair.”

4. Gonna be messy.

“My heart stopped beating for 7 seconds while I was eating dinner in my hospital bed waiting to be discharged.

I realized I was going to pass out and put my arm across my plate so I wouldn’t fall face-first into it. All I could think of was “this is gonna make a mess.” Glad they took their time with the paperwork.

Ended up walking out of there 7 days later with a pacemaker at the age of 46.”

5. Scary.

“Have you ever had a headache that was so bad? I mean, like call your parents and ask them if you were still on the healthcare plan? Even though you live in Canada and they live in the USA?

Yes, I’ve had this pain, i felt as if my head was goin to implode. I was half right. I had a brain clot. Then bleed.

So a stroke and a aneurysm all at once. My last thought before I regained consciousness weeks later?

I don’t want to die in this sh*tty ground level apartment.”

6. Wow.

“‘Sh*t, wasn’t the car that hit me white?’

As I’m looking down at a car underneath me.

I’d been hit hard enough I bounced up over the car that hit me and had enough air time to clear the second one.

Props to the driver of the third vehicle, he must’ve stood on the d*mned brakes the moment he saw me because he brought the cement truck to a stop before it got to me.

Second time I was hit by a car as a pedestrian. I’m now MUCH more careful crossing streets.. not that it’s helped much, I seem to have a car magnet in my *ss.”

7. No place like home.

“I almost died on a mountain last month.

The thoughts while I was free soloing the cliff were just “I would give anything to be at home safe”.”

8. I feel weird.

““My throat feels weird, my gums are itchy” and blackness like a deep sleep.

Woke up a bit later, found out I was allergic to crab the hard way.”

9. Bad accident.

“I had a guy turn in front of me at a light. My last thought before impact weas, “my bike is only 3 weeks old”.

About 5 minutes later, about 100 feet down the road where I landed, I got into it with the paramedics who wouldn’t let me sit up to check on my bike. Eventually sat up far enough to see her ripped in two. laid back down and shut the f*ck up.”

10. A big jolt.

“I was in the process of being electrocuted, having been working all day atop a scissors lift.

The electricians had left a 277-volt line live and while I was standing and reaching while running the last low-voltage run of the job, I contacted their line. I saw the white light at the end of the tunnel. All I knew was throbbing and 60-cycle noise and the white light.

My last thought was “I wonder if I can tell my knees to unlock?” Obviously they did, since I am here typing this. Severe electrical burns, still here livin ‘ the life!”

11. Bad luck.

“Three times.

Once almost drowning in the deep end of a pool, once trapped under a flipped ATV in a river, and once being shot at by a crazy old man who thought I was a deer.

I thought of my mom crying every time.”

12. Pizza on the brain.

“I thought about how I didn’t buy enough pizzas from my favorite pizza place.

It’s pretty good, but thinking about pizza when you think you’re dying is pretty depressing in retrospect.”

13. Terrifying.

“I was stabbed in the neck by someone robbing my house.

I totally thought I was going to die. I hate myself, but I begged the guy who stabbed me to stay because I didn’t want to die alone. He said “Sorry” and walked away.

That broke my heart. Thankfully he called 911 for me.”

14. This is how it ends?

“”I can’t believe this is how I die.”

Drunk, falling off a 30 foot cliff into about 2 feet of water at Lake Havasu, Arizona on Spring Break.

It just hurt really bad.”

15. Ehhhh…

“Was in a pretty severe car crash in my mid teens – we got tboned by a big Ford van coming home from school one afternoon. I could have swore our light was green but witnesses said my friend went though a red.

I remember looking over and seeing the van and thinking “Eh.” I pretty much resigned immediately to what was about to happen.

I was sitting in the front passenger seat holding onto the little handle above the door – the window blew out and and I had hundreds of little cuts on my arm neck and face it looked like rats had been chewing at me and I had a couple bits of glass in my hand.

The passenger side door crushed in far enough to hit me and left fabric imprint all down my side, completely knocked the wind out of me, and cracked two ribs.

After I caught my breath I had to crawl out of the drivers side, my hand bleeding all over the place, but was so amped up on adrenaline I hardly noticed any pain. The next day I could hardly move I was so sore. Almost my whole right side was bruised. It hurt to breathe too deeply.

My friends mom showed me pictures of the car, it was really surprising I got off as well as I did.”

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