Everyone had their moment of accidentally doing something that made them feel nervous and tend to overthink things. The truth is these events are unavoidable, and we must face them.
Just in case you’re having a bad day, you might want to check these stories of people from the Reddit community sharing their “Oh Crap” moments! Hang on because you’re about to dive in on a fun thread!
1. Wild Thoughts
I used to live in a tent in the woods. Woke up one morning to a massive object casting a shadow on my tent wall.
It moved and turned out to be a mountain lion. It circled my tent for about an hour. When it finally left, I gathered the courage to investigate. Found a rabbit's head about 10 feet from my camp.
I didn't sleep well for the next few days . . . .
[deleted]
2. Awkward Guy No More
Probably the scariest moment of my life. I know it was for my friend. We were on a high school AP Biology trip to Big Bend (lived in the southern panhandle of Texas) with the rest of the class. My friend, calling him Kevin, is a great guy, but he was pretty awkward in every social aspect. His dad also happened to be the teacher of the class, so it didn't help much.
We're hiking down this trail that eventually ends as a canyon that drops into a cliff called the Window Trail. Everything's great, and we're having a good time just walking the trail with everybody.
On the way back, we heard some rustling and saw this doe run right by us, nearly hitting me. I dodged unnecessarily and scraped my knee. As Kevin's friend is helping me up, we hear more rustling.
We stand up and start moving to the sides of the canyon to give whatever's coming through a wide berth, and out jumps a motherfreaking mountain lion. Understandably, all of us freeze in pants-crapping fear. The lion stops, but probably just because he's assessing the situation, probably not out of fear.
"Oh, God, now I'm screwed."
Kevin is the closest to the lion, probably 5 feet away. Then Kevin does the unthinkable. Without moving anything except one arm, he reaches into his pocket and puts his sunglasses on. The lion doesn't move. I exchanged a glance with a couple of the girls. They were absolutely terrified.
Kevin takes a step forward. What the fudge. The lion doesn't move except to pull its head back a bit. I look at Kevin, trying to get his attention, tell him to chill the fudge out, or we'll all die. He's staring intently at the lion, or I assume so since he doesn't move his head, and he just puts on sunglasses.
He starts to move another leg, and the mountain lion starts to move back, so he freezes. After holding the pose for another 15 seconds, Kevin finishes his sidestep and moves to the side, giving the lion room to continue.
The lion continues to stare at him, then looks at all of us (7 seniors juniors in high school), then rears back and takes off the way the doe went. Kevin is immediately praised as a badass and completely loses all awkwardness.
BrianAllred
3. Too Much Food Enjoyment
This is perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever done. I was at an outdoor wedding in Tampa, and it was hot. In the middle of July, in a black suit, I was sweating my balls off.
After the wedding, the reception started immediately and was very nice. I was dating the Groom's sister, and we were at the big table with everyone she was related to. I drank a good amount of bourbon before the wedding. I continued during the reception, and by this time, I was very hungry.
There were buffets all around, and there was a prime rib buffet with horseradish sauce, and I was making a pig of myself on it. The post-wedding speeches had begun, and my girlfriend at the time's father was speaking about how wonderful everything was when a large piece of prime rib got lodged in my throat.
No air was able to get by. I didn't know what to do, and for some reason, my drunken, polite self didn't want to make a scene, so I walked out to where the cars were parked in this field next to the tent everyone was in.
I was trying to force it out and give myself the Heimlich maneuver, and nothing was working. All of this had only been about a minute and a half, but I was sure I was going to die. I sat down in between these two cars and just said a few prayers and awaited my death.
About 3 minutes had now gone by, and this kid, who was probably 13 came out and was peeing between cars about 10 feet away from me. I started slapping the car I was leaning on, and he turned around. I guess I was bright red/blue, and I started making the choking sign, still sitting down (I was pretty weak at this point.)
He came up and kicked me VERY hard in the stomach area below my sternum. I launched this massive hunk of fat out of my throat, then threw up some afterward, I guess because of nerves.
The kid wanted to call me an ambulance, but I told him I'd be fine. I went into the bathroom, cleaned the tears off of my face, and got my tie and suit back in order, but there was a huge grassy dirt mark where I just got kicked in the gut (also a fair amount of rib pain).
I went and sat back down, got a beer, switched to chicken, and had a hell of a night. Later on that night, I gave the kid my pocket knife and thanked him.
Haven't eaten prime rib since.
monolithe
4. Failed To Escape
I was delivering mail when a big sheepdog came running around the corner in this yard and charged at me.
I grabbed my pepper spray (we carry this for exactly this purpose) and went to spray him as he was leaping into the air towards me.
I pressed the trigger and had just enough time to realize the safety was on, but not enough time to do anything about it.
Now I have a good-sized scar on my inner thigh - it was six inches away from being much more serious!
MikePalecek
5. Unintentionally Flying
I was snowboarding, and they had the snow machines on in one spot, so there were a couple of huge mounds of snow, which I had not intended to jump.
But they were sloped and ramped, and I hit one way too fast.
The feeling of unintentionally being 20-30 ft in the air and looking down at flat land is scary as heck.
Paper_Champ
6. Dangerous Move
The morning of New Year's Eve, I decided to hit a few jumps( This is only my second season and I'm not very good at snowboarding yet).
I hit the first (very small)roller at a reasonable speed and stuck it easily, but instead of speed checking before the second jump, I just loaded my legs, intending to push off and get some mild air.
What I didn't realize was the second jump was substantially bigger, and I was going way too fast. I messed up when I pushed off and landed straight on my tailbone, going at a high speed and from a decent height. I only just stopped hurting and was able to go riding this weekend.
When I fell, I was terrified, and my whole body locked up.
[deleted]
7. Self Comfort Is The Key
When I went to take my final for Economics101 during the summer session. I forgot to check the exact time of the test, so I assumed it would be regular class time (10-11 a.m.). When I got there, the door was locked, and the lights were off inside. Oh, and my GPA was so low that if I failed this class, I would be put on probation.
It churned my stomach so much that I felt sick. I started looking up university protocols for late tests.
There was no excuse except for justified emergencies. So, I started writing an email to my professor begging for forgiveness. Then, a guy from the class came by as I was going over grammar.
Guy: Hey Yang, what's up?
Me: Wh... what?
Guy: Ready for the test, man?
Me: Wait, the test is later?
Man hugged the crap out of him.
yangx
8. Sudden Life Reflection
I was descending from a climb, and it was getting quite late. After making the 200-foot rappel down a cliff, one of the ropes got stuck, and I couldn't pull it down.
My partner and I had to downclimb steep rock and snow with no ropes to get to the next rappel station and make it off the mountain.
We ended up walking back in the dark from the bottom of the route and making it to camp a little after midnight, but I remember thinking that would be the day I die.
rocketparrotlet
9. Got Lucky
“Oh God, now I’m screwed,” went through my head in midair after I'd been swiped up over the hood of a car a few years ago.
If I hadn't landed face-up on my backpack (which was full of phone-book-sized textbooks and my folded-up "overstuffed" goose-down coat), I think I would be paralyzed right now.
Androecian
10. Abandoned Pancakes
I decided to take the garbage out one morning while I was in the middle of making pancakes.
Somehow, I locked myself out with no phone or spare key. F*ck.
I was locked out for a half hour before I managed to get to a phone. The fire department had to rip my door open...because of pancakes and my idiocy.
Embarrassing.
da_bbq
11. Big Reveal
At the ripe old age of 16, I was sitting at home when the phone rang and my mother handed it to me. My girlfriend at the time told me she had something important to tell me.
The words that followed changed my life forever. "Muffnut, I'm pregnant." I threw my hat into my sister's kiddie pool as hard as I could and replied..."What the fudge am I supposed to do now!" My girlfriend fired back with, "What the fudge are you supposed to do? What the heck am I supposed to do?" and hung up.
Needless to say, it was quite the "Oh God...Now I'm screwed" moment. My parents had given me the talk years before and left condoms under my pillow, everything they could do to prevent their son from letting this happen.
As I type this, my 11-year-old sits across from me, working on her homework as her mother, my wife of almost ten years, is happily by my side. Looks like we both figured out what the fudge we were supposed to do real quick.
Muffnut
12. The Numbness
My moment was when I had a seizure about a year and a half ago (September 2010).
I was eating lunch outside, and after finishing my main meal, I threw away my garbage. About two feet from the garbage can, I noticed an extreme feeling of numbness on the left side of my jaw.
Then, I lost my vision and hearing while still remaining conscious. The numbness spread across my body until I wasn't able to control my arms anymore. I remember telling the emergency room doctors and my parents.
Somewhere in this 15-30 second period, I had an "Oh crap" moment. I was terrified when I was physically unable to call for help, and I clearly remember that I started to debate in my mind if I was having a seizure or a stroke.
A few seconds later, I passed out for about 15 minutes. I woke up to the ambulance doors opening and my stretcher being taken into the emergency room. When I woke up, I basically said to myself, "Fudge, I just had a possible seizure or a stroke."
[deleted]
13. The Forum
Back in high school, about 9 years ago, My friend and I had a domain name where I set up a discussion board (three cheers for phpBB!). I went to a small school with about 120 students, so everyone knew everybody.
The forum got popular around the school for people to go and witch about stuff like high schoolers. I was ecstatic to have a forum that actually has people on it!
Then, one day, I got a call telling me my buddy had been arrested by the police because of the forum. I freaked out because I had no idea what was going on and knew I was next.
It turns out he didn't get arrested; he was just questioned. Apparently, someone spoke badly about one of the teachers, and the teacher found it through an online search.
The IT teacher printed off every page of the forums. He notified the police of wanting to press charges for libel. The student claimed he was shoved and abused by a teacher at a sporting event.
The teacher was a Vietnam vet who was a hothead, so it was plausible it did happen, and some other students claimed they saw it.
I never got questioned by the police, but at school, I was told to shut down the website, or I could face suspension. I refused, saying we had rights against government institutions such as the high school.
But I compromised. I threw up a fake "sorry, we are shut down due to recent events" closed door with a login and register button for the active forum.
Papshmire
14. Attendance Conscious
For one of my classes during the first semester of college, we had an attendance sheet that the professor would pass down in individual rows. You would write your name and be done with it.
Anyway, one day, I was about twenty minutes late because I was sleeping in. I sat in the very back and couldn't see my friends. I signed myself in, and when class ended, I left the classroom and waited for my friends.
As soon as they saw me, their jaws just dropped.
I was like, "What?" immediately, and they told me they signed me in, aka, my name had been on there twice.
All I could think was, "I am screwed."
The professor was strict on attendance and on forgery. What followed was about a month of proving that my signatures were my own for every single day of class that semester. I had to bring in official documents with variations of my signature.
Luckily, it all worked out (for me). My friend ended up failing the class because he signed me in that day, and that sucked.
[deleted]
15. Last Minute Horror
Last semester, I walked into a class and noticed that everyone was sitting there with something that looked like a piece of paper in front of them. I sat down and nervously asked the kid next to me, "Uhhh... what is that?" as I pointed to the paper in front of him. Turns out it was a research paper that was never mentioned in class, only in the syllabus.
The paper was 30% of the final grade.
I was freaking out all day because I had already done terribly on the midterm. So I took some Adderall, spent 8 hours in the library, finished it, and handed it in the next morning. Came up with some bullcrap excuse, and he didn't dock any points for being late.
Everything went better than expected.
ohheytrevor
16. Trust No One
I was in a class last semester where the final consisted of a partner project worth half of our grade. We finished the project the day before it was due, and I gave it to my partner to turn in (I was moving the next day).
In the car the following afternoon, I sent a casual email to my professor thanking her for the great semester and explaining that my partner had dropped off the 23-page paper.
I got an email almost immediately explaining that the paper would not be graded as it was never turned in. I found out later my partner had gotten wasted and slept through the due date.
I had a second "great semester" in that class.
Ziggy84
17. Hiding Out In The Open
I went to a boarding school, and the principal, who had the whitest hair you could ever imagine, had pretty much grounded the entire school for excessive drinking the previous weekend.
We were confined to the dorms, and only the main street in the small town for the whole weekend curfew was moved to 11, and no one was allowed to have any alcohol. 3 of my friends and I, who are not real troublemakers, decided we would go way out to the extremities of the town to a random bar where no one goes just to have a couple of beers.
Not to get drunk but just to chill as a gang. Anyway, there we were drinking, sure that no one would find us, and all of a sudden, the whitest-haired man walked in, and lo and behold, it was our principal.
As soon as we saw him, we had one of those collected "F**k" moments. The 4 of us got escorted back to the dorms, and we got grounded for another 2 weeks.
The worst part of this story was that the people who got us grounded in the first place got super wasted at the town's main bar, where we usually go, and were not even caught.
lochness1202
18. Sleep Well
I was taking mushrooms for the first time on the 4th of July, and I really had to piss. My friend didn't want to come into this nice pizza shop because there were a lot of people inside, so I ventured in by myself.
After waiting 15min to get into the single-stall bathroom, I finally was able to sit down and piss. Cue me blacking out on the toilet. Luckily, I was wearing my watch and knew I had fallen asleep for 25 minutes despite the fact it felt much longer.
I awoke to a knocking sound and a woman's voice saying, "Are you OK?" commence the Oh Crap moment.
After stumbling outside, embarrassed, I realized my friend was nowhere to be found. I sat down in the middle of the sidewalk, looking around like a lost child (Mind you, I'm a 21 yr old and about ready to burst into tears at this point)
Finally, a nice gentleman asked me if everything was alright and helped me find my friend, who was lying in the grass around the corner.
[deleted]
19. Gone Laughter
I was out to dinner with prospective business associates. The couple was in their 60's. The man was a brooding individual, while his wife was quite petite with a bobbed haircut.
A few hours in, things had lightened up a bit, and we were discussing animals. I was handed an iPhone displaying a picture of some old man with a dog.
Being the idiot I was, I laughed, saying, "Am I supposed to be looking at the dog or that old man?" I was greeted with stunned silence.
The man then yelled, "THAT OLD MAN IS MY WIFE!" Oops!
trueoriginal
20. No To Cheating
Cheating on a high school biology test. I had things written on my hand. The teacher was going around the room and saw me.
I quickly flipped my hand over, but it was too late. "Let me see the other side of your hand," she asked.
She collected my test, and I got a well-deserved 0%.
[deleted]
21. Snowy Ride
February or March 1999, Swedish Air Force. We were checking on all our spread-out depots and equipment storages, which included driving across a mostly unused airfield.
Well, I wanted to find out just how fast we could go in our brand-new Passat TDI, so I drove down to one end of the landing strip and gun it. By the time we hit the taxi lane at the other end, we're going close to 110 mph, not bad at all.
However, this is when both I and my passenger realized that while the airstrip was nice and dry, the taxi lane was covered in ice, as the sun must not have been able to reach it throughout the winter months.
Straight up ahead is a solid line of trees, and the car really isn't slowing down at all despite full-on ABS brakes.
At this point, the other guy in the car yells at me that I've killed us both. The trees approach rapidly, and I'll I'm thinking, "Crap, why did I do this?"
But then, all of a sudden, the car finally manages to get a little bit of grip. A couple of seconds later, we come to a complete stop in fairly deep snow, less than a foot away from the trees. No damage at all to the car and, more importantly, to us.
After a while, we got the car back in the taxi lane and drove on.
Thankfully, our officers never found out.
asmodeanreborn
22. Sudden Burst Out
One time in high school, I thought our teacher had left the room, so I decided to put my head down for a little nap.
Someone yelled really loud and scared the crap out of me, so I just shouted, "What the FUDGE was that???!!?"
Turns out the superintendent decided to pick that day to watch how effectively our teacher (she was new because our old teacher had a baby and quit) taught class.
flohammed_albroseph
23. That “Almost” Moment
In my teens, I drove a 1990 EA Ford Fairmont. It had a few "old car" issues, but it ran OK. One of the issues was that if I didn't turn the key all the way in the ignition, it didn't make proper electrical contact and would make a burning smell. I just made sure to turn it all the way when I used it.
Fast forward a few months, and I was driving home from a friend's place at around 1am on a freeway with two of my friends in the backseat. It was a miserable rainy night, with windscreen wipers at maximum, and there was no moonlight.
When I was about halfway home, still on the freeway doing 100kph, I lost power. There are no headlights, inside lights, or windscreen wipers, and the engine cuts out. I smelled that burning smell again, and I knew the issue was the ignition tumbler again.
I tried turning the key, but I couldn’t turn the key in any gear other than Park. To make matters worse, my car had an anti-hotwire feature where you couldn't turn the steering wheel unless the key was turned in the tumbler.
While the freeway wasn't "busy," it had your typical Saturday night near major city traffic.
So, doing 100kph on a freeway on a dark moonless night in heavy rain, no headlights, no internal lights, no windscreen wipers, no engine power, nowhere to pull over, and now.. no steering.
This is my "Oh god.. now I'm screwed" moment.
I had very slight maneuverability with the steering before it hit a stop, preventing me from turning it anymore. I rolled as far as I could to reach an offramp, hoping that I wouldn't get rear-ended by another car traveling at 100kph since I didn't have any lights on.
Once, I reached an offramp which, luckily for me, wasn't too far away. I turned it as hard as I could, not caring about breaking the steering lock. While I didn't have enough turning range to follow the offramp around. I reached a point where there was no concrete divider and just dirt, so I put the car into there, hit the brakes, and came to a stop.
Put the car in Park, restarted the engine, pushed the tumbler ALL the way forward, and drove home. I checked to ensure the key was fully turned in every 5 minutes during the drive home.
Replaced the tumbler the next day.
BryceW
24. Random Question
This happened when I was home from college one weekend. I was standing in my mom's kitchen at 3 am, in near darkness, stoned out of my mind and eating a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
My mom walks through the kitchen, half asleep on her way to the bathroom. She probably would not have noticed that I was even there except that I stopped her and said, "WAIT, WAIT! Do you think that each color pebble in this cereal has its own flavor (ie, red is cherry and yellow is lemon), or do you think they all just taste the same?"
My brain immediately explodes with thoughts like, "What the heck are you doing!?" and "That is the most stoner thing you could have possibly said!” She stops, looks at me, and says, "That is a good question. You should test that out."
She just continued on her way. I ran to my bedroom once she was gone and locked the door.
Never did find out about the pebbles.
barepaws
25. Cons Of Newbie
I play ice hockey in a beer league in Seattle, WA. I've only been skating for like 2 or 3 months, so stopping is an issue.
I'm also about 5 ft 10 inches tall and a bit chunky, so when I run into things/people, it hurts.
I decided to chase the guy into the corner, going fast, crashing face-first into the board and messing up my knee.
Right before impact, I realize I'm about to die and just go splat.
zanzibarman
26. Nearly Lose It
I do programming for control systems in public works water depts. Anyway, one day, I accidentally hit a key switch on the PLC, which is basically a computer that controls the entire plant, and switched it to stop operating. Well, all the inlet valves to the plant closed.
Meanwhile, 4 groundwater wells were pumping at about 1000gpm into the plant. The pressure went from 30psi to about 120psi. I didn't notice until one of the couplings of the piping in the plant began to shoot out water.
I had no clue what the problem was, and while I was trying to figure it out, a few High-pressure burst valves broke to relieve pressure, shooting water onto the plant floor at an outrageous rate.
I ran to the control screen and shut off all the wells until I could figure out the problem. The city was a little upset. I thought I was going to basically lose my job, but my boss was just like, crap happens.
For about 15 minutes, though, I was like OH GOD I AM SO SCREWED.
[deleted]
27. Wrong Spot
I once accidentally peed on a hobo. It was in a pitch-black alleyway. I thought I was pissing on some trash or a pile of leaves (it was autumn).
When out of the darkness, a figure of a man's head came up out of this pile and said, "What the fudge."
The First thing I thought of was, "This guy is going to stab me in my private part."
I Zipped up as fast as I could and freaking bolted.
TardisBlu
28. Thought of The End
I fell off a 40-foot cliff backward while strapped onto a snowboard.
I had no idea how high or whether there was fresh snow or rocks at the bottom. Because if that were the case, I’d be so messed up.
Turns out a bit of both. That was the only time in my life I genuinely thought I was going to die.
GospelAccordingToMe
29. Worst First Date
On my first date with my ex-partner (I was cooking at home), I had dessert ready on the bench, defrosting a little, and decided it would be a good idea to climb across the slightly slanted roof next to my balcony and look at the moon from the flat balcony across the way.
We did so, it was all lovely. Then, when trying to get back, I realized it had gotten cold, and the slanted roof had been covered in condensation and was now a slippery ice slope of doom.
Neither of us could climb back across the slanted roof without falling into the 2 story concrete hole between the two buildings, so my only option was to call the Fire Brigade, who came.
Upon assessing the situation, I had to smash the top window of the restaurant that was under the flat roof and walk two 19-year-olds barefoot and bleeding through an expensive eatery, where I was met by two police officers and charged with trespassing.
doublethink87
30. Free Labor
My mother used to own a restaurant where she used my brother and me as free labor. Needless to say, I wasn't happy with this. One day, she asked me to work from opening to closing. Reluctantly, I agreed and proceeded to do so.
To make my day go faster and to remotely enjoy myself, I would take the customer's order and shout it back to the kitchen in an overly redundant and disgusting way.
For example, if someone ordered braised beef shanks with a side order of lasagna with béchamel sauce (white sauce), I'd shout back in the most unprofessional Chinese accent I could muster up, "I NEED WUN ORDUR OF DA BEEF ASS AND DA LASAGNA WITH EXTRA CREAM-OF-SUM-YUNG-GUY"
What I didn't know was that on that day, the health inspector was dining there at that specific moment. Let's just say he isn't one for jokes. Long story short, the restaurant was closed for 4 days pending a health investigation. My mom whooped me for those 4 days.
I will never ever work in a restaurant setting ever again.
KingVisto
31. Secrets Unveiled
Just today, my school started this thing where parents can see their kids' grades and absences online.
Now, the grades don't really bother me; I'm honest with those, but the absence.
If my parents find out how many classes I've skipped, jumping off a bridge would be a better option.
xSwirl
32. Worse Than A Tree
So this was in 2010, I was 15, and it was My under 16's rugby end-of-year celebration. I was pretty happy I got Best and Fairest that year, and now it is the annual scratch match we do every year.
I had the ball (I'm a forward) and had just broken through the pack. I was legging it for my life because I had the fastest guy on our team hot on my tail. I looked back to see him slowing down with a puzzled look on his face.
At that time, it clicked that I was probably about to run into a tree or something (we were playing in a park, not the proper field).
I turned to look where I was going and was surprised when I didn't see a tree but a swarm of a few hundred European wasps.
I hit the swarm, and it felt like a brick wall, me being highly allergic to Bees, freaked the fudge out and started running harder and faster than I ever had to get away from the swarm so that my mother could come and help me without putting herself at risk. All up, I had about 50 stings on my back, about 12 on my face, and about 8 on my left hand. Luckily, I went to the hospital and survived.
There was a picture that I had on my phone, but I lost it a long time ago.
phillipniblett
33. Followed Wrong Path
When I used to live in NJ, we had a big house that had a backyard that literally was the forest.
I was playing around one day, and I saw something run by, so I decided(idiot) to chase after it. Got maybe 20/30 feet, and it was a baby black bear! (How cute!)
Suddenly the freaking mother jumps out and stares and growls at me. Luckily, I had read about this precise situation in school. I looked at it and slowly, very slowly, walked backward until I couldn't see it anymore and legged it to my house.
[deleted]
34. Just Doing His Job
I lived in Vancouver, BC, for a few years, working as a phone line technician. This often involved hoofing it out to a pole 50-60 yards behind someone's home in bear country.
The freaking bear had me "treed" up the pole for the better part of two hours.
Once I couldn't see him, I climbed down and booted it for the truck. Sprinted 50 yards in climbing spurs without looking back.
Bashed up the inside of my knees, something fierce.
pics-or-didnt-happen
35. Double Hit
I was riding my bike through the park with my lady roommate. She was giving me some girl advice because I was having an issue. I was about to visit my hometown for work, meaning I would see my newly-singled ex whom I had just gotten back in touch with.
The problem is, I had just begun to see someone, and it was getting severe a little too fast for me. I went into detail about how much I liked my GF but I still had serious feelings for my ex, who I never had any real closure with and whom I honestly wanted to see and make out with a bunch.
She hadn't indicated any desire to rekindle things, just to catch up, but it got me thinking. I was being ruthlessly candid about my ideas about the future with the GF when I got a text from her telling me that my phone had pocked dialed her and she heard our entire convo.
Understandably, she dumped me.
I went on the trip and awkwardly hung out with my ex and her new boyfriend. FML with a chainsaw.
coattails
36. Late Reaction
I'm a diver, and I was learning a new dive off the 3-meter. It was a Reverse 2 and a half tuck, supposed to look like this. I took off the board, and everything was going great. Flipping tight and fast; great height.
I was waiting for my coach to call me out (when the coach yells and you kick out and reach for the water). We use calls on new dives we're just learning. ANYWAYS, I heard the call, and I just didn’t react right away.
I flipped a little extra and reached straight out in front (basically, everything was wrong with the end of my dive). It was then I had the OH CRAP moment. There was a moment of stillness, like time stopped for a split second, and I thought, "This is going to hurt." and I landed FLAT on the water.
Knocked the wind out of me and the whole 9 yards. My wiener hurt the most. It was on FIRE. My teammates loved it, though. I had bruises for about 2 weeks all over my thighs and chest.
Hilarious.
RadicalBoner
37. Shortly Horrified
I was killing time before a movie with my girlfriend and best friend. We drove to the show in my Dad's new car. We were goofing around in the parking lot, checking out the sweet features, when we noticed how large the trunk seemed.
My friend climbed in the trunk to check it out, "Spacious!" he claimed, so I wanted to try. he hopped out, I jumped in, and they slammed the lid, "Yes, quite spacious!" I agreed, and we all laughed.
Then I realized.... the keys were in my pocket... PURE TERROR!
The car doors happened to still be unlocked, so my fast-thinking buddy jumped in and peeled back the area below the back window. I saw the light, relayed to him the keys, and they let me out.
It was the most horrifying 3 minutes of my life.
rickreflex
38. Out of Curiosity
I was at the register at my job at a pizza place. Some guy came in and sat down near the door and was staring at something, his phone maybe. This was weird to me, so I watched him when the girl came to my register and ordered a beer.
I was so busy trying to figure out wtf this suspicious guy was doing that I didn't check her ID. After I gave her the change, he swung out of his seat and pulled out his badge, "Officer [name], [my city] police department."
It hadn’t registered it with me yet. I just waved at him.
Him: Did you know that this young lady is 19 years old?
Me: No, sir.
Him: Did you card her tonight?
And that's when it hit me. It was a compliance sting. I had failed it and was now going to be hit with a fine and probably lose my job. Both of which did end up happening.
ohsnipsnap
39. Heavy Heart
I was 16 years old, and I had my driver's license for about 4 months. I was casually driving down a back road and got pulled over.
Apparently, I was going 16 miles an hour over the speed limit (46 in a 30).
The feeling in my gut felt like someone had punched me as hard as they could in the windpipe.
That feeling had increased when he handed me the $280 ticket.
thechode
40. Sisters War
Okay, it's a bit of a long story, but whatever.
So, my older sister went away to university this year. She didn't have a laptop, so we sent her off with an old desktop computer, and my parents promised her a laptop at Christmas. In early November, this desktop computer breathed its last breath.
My sister, of course, needed a computer, so I volunteered my netbook. It's a crappy little thing I bought cheap, and it runs Ubuntu. Linux isn't exactly my sister's cup of tea, but it was better than nothing.
Christmas came along, and my sister got her new, shiny laptop, and I got my netbook back. A few days after New Year's, I decided to do a clean install of Ubuntu. This is not new to me; every so often, I decide to wipe out the netbook's SSD and replace it with something new. The only files I keep on the drive are all backed up with Dropbox.
I didn't think much of my actions.
As the OS is installed, I'm chatting with my sister. I asked her what I should rename the netbook. And then this happens: "Wait, you're wiping that drive? Did you back up all my school files first?"
The answer, of course, was no. Cue the witch fight of the century.
After my dad calmed my sister down somewhat (i.e., sent her somewhere else to freak out), I got to work on fixing the problem. So, I got to spend the next five hours performing my first recovery of a drive and then go through every single freaking doc and .odt file I recovered to see which were hers and which were mine.
In the end, it didn't end up being a big deal. She lost a few files, but nothing major. At the time, though?
It was terrifying; my sister knows how to hold a grudge.
jellybellybones
41. The Scar
Right, it's pretty dumb, but here goes.
I was at the ski slopes with some of my friends.
I was in the skies, and my friends were snowboarding. I'm not very good, so I was kinda trying to follow the other guys' lead and just not mess up too much. So This slope isn't too big. Instead of gondolas, the lifts are these hooks on zip-wires you slide behind your thighs.
So one of my friends is on the hook ahead of me, another behind. At the top of the lift, there is a big pile of snow left by the slope machines. Also, I guess it is to stop people going around the bend.
So I've been up and down a few times, and I've noticed that the end of the lift was a bit lower than the start of the slope. You had to loosen your skies and walk just a few meters to get over to the slope.
My friend in front solved this little problem by hanging on to the hook, up the pile of snow, and then easily gliding over to the slope without having to rearrange anything.
Great! I'm doing well so far, not messing up, so I figure I'll do the same. So here goes, slide the hook in front, hold on with both hands, up the pile, fall on my back, and roll down the other side. Great.
So I'm lying there, feeling pretty dumb for falling. My friend in front started shouting something, "Se opp!!" which translates to "Look out!" What I heard was "stå opp!" meaning "get up," so I got up, just to see my friend that was behind me, doing the same thing as us up the snow pile, just as he's at the top, letting the hook go.
I remember thinking, "This is going to hurt a lot." before the hook landed on my forehead. Still have a big scar and probably frontal lobe damage, who knows. Hook lifts still scare the crap out of me.
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42. Wrong Move
That moment when your dad was stressed out and being jerkward for no reason when you were a kid, and without thinking, you said something like, "Shut the hell up!" He looks at you with dead eyes, and you realize you actually said that.
You can't believe you said it out loud, and if there were any way to take it back, you'd pay any price. When you finally realize you can't, it's one of the biggest "Oh God...now I'm screwed" moments of childhood right there.
Even now, thinking about that moment, my stomach is dropping!!!
zyguy
43. Sick Feeling
Well, about 10 months ago, I went to the doctor because I thought I was getting the flu as I had been feeling...crappy.
I had taken about 11 pregnancy tests, and they had all concluded that I wasn't. I was.
Now, I have the most adorable little boy I could have ever imagined. So, I guess you could say it worked out after all :)
unicorn_shart
44. Became A Trash
Throwaway time, I'm yet to tell anyone I know this. Had a typical night out, got extremely drunk, and I guess I decided to walk home alone, as my memory of the night ends pretty early.
I woke up the next morning in one of those big bins companies use, with the sound of a lorry nearby.
I have no idea why my drunk self thought a bin would be the best place to sleep. I try to lift the lid, but it doesn't open completely, yet I am able to see the bin men working their way up the road, loading the bins onto their lorry.
Commence. Oh God... Now I'm screwed moment, as I frantically try and get out before the bin men find some hungover kid falling out of a bin.
ohshitmoment
45. Dark Nightmare
Skiing down a mountain thinking, "Hey, this isn't so bad :D" I, unfortunately, did not see that it was a black diamond. The slope was so deep that if you were standing, you wouldn't even see the bottom.
There was no way I could stop since I already picked up so much speed, so I tried to awkwardly sit down, but I ended up flipping over...
Let me just say thank God for helmets.
EatThatIcecream