What is the WORST Decision You Made as a Teenager? - Reddit Podcast

what is the worst decision you made as a teenager I rode in the bed of a truck we had gotten out of school and my friend and I were talking about our cars we'd parked at a friend's house a couple of streets from the school a buddy of ours pulled up and asked if he wanted a ride and I said no because normally I would never ride in the back of a truck but my friend climbed in so I did too we made it to the end of the street and started to make a turn onto the highway no more than 30 seconds after getting in when we were T-boned the truck did a 180 and I flew out and landed on my head on asphalt broke my C5 vertebrae had to wear a neck brace for 7 months and had my neck fused a year later and did tons of physical therapy all because I rode in the back of a truck for half a minute not wearing deodorant because I read somewhere that your body odor can turn girls on sitting around thinking about all the fun my friends were having without me rather than actually doing anything myself I latched on to and obsessed about one girl for far too long when it was really clear she wasn't into me I may have passed up other opportunities while having my blinders on too we were both in the same physical education class and every Friday we would run the mile and track our times and the second half of the year I was the fastest runner in our class which apparently impressed some classmates unbeknownst to me all the guys would run at the same time then all the girls would run at the same time so so half the class was in the bleachers watching the other half run at all times at the end of the year this girl wrote in my yearbook did you know that some of the girls sit around in the bleachers and talk about your miles times whatever I didn't get into enough trouble as a teenager I feel like I missed out on a lot of fun by generally being a timid perfect kid I joined the debate team and started to regularly wear a fedora the narrator has to wonder whether you exhibited the stereotypical Behavior of a fedora wearer or whether that was just a sad coincidence then again if you were on the debate team I could imagine you regularly used the phrase well actually screw it all of my friends know this about me anyway I was 15 at the time I didn't know about adult magazines yet and the only female chest I saw was on my mom accidentally about a week after that unfortunate incident me and my then girlfriend were making out on the sofa my parents weren't home jackpot right wrong as things get steamy she takes her top off unaware of what to do and the horrors of my mom still freshen my mind's eye I ask her to put her shirt on 6 months later when we break up ah Young Love she tells everyone I managed to cover myself by saying that my parents are coming home screaming at the screen while using both pistols to play the area 51 game at a truck stop off Interstate 57 after snorting white snow for the second time being a craphead to my parents and not trying harder in school I made a joke about assassinating George Bush on my MySpace in 10th Grade it was a complete joke I was and still am a fan of the double year nevertheless my father got a call from the FBI and I had to come in and talk to some people about what I put on the internet it was terrifying mostly because I was scared they were going to tell my dad about all of the gay adult material I visited on his computer but looking back that probably wasn't on their agenda a fan of George Bush and gay adult material that seems a little counterintuitive mine is simple I just decided not to use protection being lame I didn't really start to be social and enjoy life until my senior year in high school from ages 13 to 17 I was just a boring guy who sat inside and played his MMO all day long no girlfriends no friends no going out no exercise nothing I don't know how I didn't do anything about it sooner dude I did the same thing in high school no parties I just hung out with good friends played a crap ton of video games and basketball never had or kissed a girl either the minute I turned 18 and was a freshman in college it all changed it's so much easier to find women in college because it's a fresh start to create a new you not being the same person that everyone you grew up with knew breaking up with my girlfriend in senior year because I wanted more time to smoke green h Hub being tooo shy to establish a large network of friends coach not putting me in we could have won State I could have went pro when I was about 17 I got a piercing on my chest from a guy in the back of a van for £10 that was not my smartest moment also Matt just skipped this comment pretend it never happened if you tell any of our mutual friends I might let slip about you searching for adult material on YouTube I got married I studied hard didn't hang out with friends and now stuck in a boring desk job wasted my youth I hung out with friends and got horrible grades now I work sanitation at a cheese ball Factory 57 and 1/2 hours a week for 630 bucks it blows it's 100° ambient temperature in the area I work in and I use 180° water to spray machines and everyone constantly slips on the greasy floor while we rush to finish our job in time I have barely enough money at the end of my budget to actually save for college I'm a very smart guy and could be an engineer right now had I worked in school and acquired the scholarships I needed also it turns out my friends were all losers so now I have no college no money no life and no friends a 60h hour a week job from 400 p.m. to 2: a.m. I think everyone complaining that they studied too hard made a pretty good choice I didn't go see my grandpa in hospital it didn't even occur to me that he wouldn't be okay and my friends just seemed so important I'm so sorry grandpa I didn't ask out the girls I liked now that I'm out of school it's so hard to meet girls set a cop car on fire with a bunch of friends I started smoking when I was 15 I spent 20 years addicted to cigarettes and six addicted to nicotine gum I finally kicked nicotine 4 months ago what a colossal waste of money and time stealing money from my grandparents to fuel my white snow habit I've learned to handle my problems through therapy and medication but now more than 10 years later after I stopped I still have disgusting large scars from my wrists to my elbows that people also find equally disgusting I can't date anyone because the scars scare them off often strangers Point them out rudely yes it's my fault and I wish to God I could afford surgery to fade the scars so people could see me as normal what I did to myself is so freaking lame especially when you're a real adult please don't do it so half of the comments are along the lines of didn't work hard enough only thought about partying now screwed without a job and the other half are studied too much and didn't have a social life and now screwed without friends what do I choose it almost seems as if finding a balance between the two might be ideal or you could just do what the narrator did and neglect both of those aspects of high school and play many hours of video games instead don't recommend to be honest getting engaged fortunately I realized my mistake before the knot was tied but still the breakup would have been so much less traumatic if I hadn't had to return a ring and a dress not enjoying high school because of a relationship being too self-conscious to go out and have fun dating the same guy all throughout High School instead of trying new things procrastinating so much that I got really average grades and not getting a job so that I could buy a car also not learning to drive mine was telling Reddit that I was a teenager not giving a crap about my grades I mean I knew the material I knew how to do it I just didn't do it got caught drinking at a company Christmas party when I was 18 I was a server at Outback making roughly 700 bucks a week while going to school got didn't know what to do so I joined the military now I'm back in Afghanistan again I'm still a teenager and I'm checking these stories from others to help give me advice for my future though to contribute I haven't done much yet the worst thing I did was cramming I got so used to it that until now I let my homework pile up and when the deadline was coming I actually waited for the latest possible time to do the homework and end up sleeping very late yep every time well while I was in high school I used to smoke the wacky tobacky frequently skip ahead a couple of years I moved in with my dad who I just met months prior and I'm going to a new school I decided to buy some green herb and smoke that to relieve some of the stress I was having it had a very negative effect on me and I experienced some kind of blackout and panic attack I woke up in the nurse's office with no clue how I got there and paramedics All Around Me skip ahead to later I ended up dropping out of school because of the panic disorder I developed now I can't go around any kind of smoke it triggers the blackouts I frequently have miniature attacks I convinced myself the Mary Jay was laced with something so a few years later I decided to try it again I was quite wrong I have a reaction to it and a bad one I woke up in the hospital for a second time I regret that I didn't take a gap here before starting College not taking advantage of it instead of chasing tail and getting into a good college I played video games nerd it out with my friends and kept my vCard besides that I really wish I could have joined the Navy when I'd planned to join I'd be out right about now and I'm considering that option again you can submit your own stories to be featured here on the channel the story submission link is in the description below and if you want to listen to some viby music in the background check out easy mode also linked below and subscribe believing that no one would like me anyway staying inside the whole day the day I graduated that one girl came up to me with teary eyes and cried onto my chest while hugging me I didn't get it I was cold and turned her down with some words I can't remember I never met her again I don't even know her name I was out celebrating my 18th birthday a couple of years ago an unmarked knar car pulls up as I was walking home with my significant other they were being jerks and ended up taking me to the station the whole time they were telling me how they also locked up my friend and were going to to have their way with her when they finished with me I then told them to let me use the bathroom but they didn't allow it so I stood up still cuffed to the bench and posed as if I'm going to go on the floor the cops jumped up and escorted me to the bathroom once we got in they surrounded me and one of them punched me fighting ensues I break someone's kneecap got taken down by five cops and got tased fun night in short breaking a cop's kneecap got a year of probation smoking Mary Jay that led to me being expelled my freshman year from my private high school really screwed stuff up I screwed up as well got expelled 3 months before I graduated obviously I did something wrong but doing that in a small town where ironically almost everyone smokes green herb is a big deal apparently and two weeks later some wrestling kids got caught with worse than what I did and only got 2 weeks suspension I'd never been in trouble until then but stats and money look better for them it ended up putting a strain on my 4-year sometimes longdistance relationship and 2 months ago she left me 2 months before I was supposed to move in with her I freaking love that girl so much and I'd do anything for her but I simply can't it kills me every day dating one of my best friends it ended terribly lost someone who was a good friend at one point put up with hell for longer than I wanted to on the bright side I learned more about myself and won't make that mistake again the narrator would like to say that dating One's best friends can be a good decision it's just a high stake one for most people but then again some of us are capable of sleeping with our friends and if anything being better friends after it ends so take this A's lesson with a grain of salt attempted for a short moment to act like an emo then stopped and moved on with my life that was a better idea ah emo kids that takes me back I used to be a security guard at a somewhat fancy Mall in an upscale part of town we had a problem with the teen population congregating there mostly it was emo kids up and down the mall there'd be everywhere stalking around and trying to look depressed it's not like they were threatening in any way many of the store managers blamed them for hurting business though many of the older Shoppers the ones that actually spent money started migrating to a different mall across town so the mall I worked for instituted a new policy no teens could be at the mall except for the movie theater and nearby food court unless they had an adult with them the first few weeks of this policy I spent most of my time finding emo kids and kicking them out within a few months most of the older Shoppers returned still it was one of the lamest jobs I've ever had not trying out for the football team seems like a Brotherhood and I bet I would have released a lot of teenage angst either knocking people down or getting some brain damage I did this going into my freshman year of high school I was a doughy uncoordinated doky kid but I wanted to reinvent myself as a jock going into High School it kind of worked but the jocks never accepted me even though I gotten lean and into shape I was never any good at football so the coaches rarely put me in games so all It Ever Was was a very involved workout program for me it did make a man out of me in that I learned how to take physical punishment and keep on toiling despite discomfort in the end I stuck with it until my junior year when I said screw it and switched to cross country that made me way happier I let my depression get in the way of my education I never told my parents I'm sure they would have helped me which in turn could helped my grades oh well C's get degrees doing substances in high school would have been fun as crap I was sober for over 18 years worst decision I made as a teenager was to start smoking cigarettes I started the summer between my e8th grade and freshman year when I was 13 years old and quit when I was 30 kind of being obsessed with finding the one in my teenage years should have had more fun in those relationships instead of obsessing about settling down not wearing a Jimmy I got lucky no kids no diseases but I still wonder if I might have a kid that I don't know about and if I don't it was just because of dumb luck I did nothing to protect myself from transmitted diseases or knocking someone up and I would screw anyone who'd hold still stupid stupid stupid kind of seems like you're humble bragging about having a whole bunch of unprotected fun with loads of women can I just say as a teenager This Thread is really useful 50% of you say screw it I worked too hard 50% of you say screw it I didn't work hard enough it really clears everything right up thanks dropping out of high school 8 years later still confined to deadend jobs only just starting to scrape my way out of poverty I eat at least once a day now that's nice I was a straight A student I could have been anything I wanted had I set my mind to it I have no words to express the regret drinking I honestly think it's heavily influenced my long-term memory as an adult decided that tickling my pickle underneath a desk in the library was a good idea it turns out it wasn't not doing the deed a whole lot more with other Randy teens it's more about what I didn't do I didn't make an effort to have friends lose weight or date I just assumed it would all come to me and just happen but nothing did I'm very pleased with all the traveling I did though road trip and stuff playing too many video games and not doing well in school I successfully had no social life and like no job opportunities once I left I should have really listened to my parents but hey what the hell would they know right I was a teenager I knew everything ignoring the advice and help offered by my mom in regards to eating healthy and exercising years of bad posture zero Fitness and horrible diet takes a long time to correct well I can't in all honesty put that missed opportunity just down to being a teenager I know many people who live into their 50s without ever doing those things granted they tend not to live much longer after that but maybe that's to be expected I put my eggplant in crazy no teenage regrets nothing but regrets from 18 through 28 though stealing my grandfather's Codine while he lay dying in the hospital because I was an addict sorry Papa missing the housing deadline for freshman year eating the way I did I can't blame it on genetics even though both of my parents were overweight my brother chose to eat better and exercise regularly I was just lazy I mean he still choose to eat the bad food but when he did he knew that he had to work it off he's a very healthy guy to this day now I'm almost 30 and just getting to the point where I'm sticking with a healthy diet and plenty of exercise and recently I had the opportunity to eat some of that prepackaged processed food and fast food it doesn't even taste that good my health thankfully has not failed me with the exception of a broken vertebra and fibromyalgia but I no longer want to lead that life I'm paying the price for my bad choices and laziness not talking to chicks more they were easier back then wasting my time being fat and not making out with guys well I'm still fat now but at least I recognized it at the ripe age of 19 and I'm doing something about it not bother ing to try and better myself by perusing a career that makes more than minimum wage got fired from a job because I continually went and blazed it still keeps me up at night from time to time I regret the time spent on not studying while in school I scraped by really the minimum to get a General Degree studying comes really easy to me but if I'm not interested in the material I have no motivation I think my average was a 6.2 out of 10 everything above the minimum was a waste effort to me now I'm learning to paint cars in school and after the first semester I got a 99 9988 in grades all of these out of 10 being interested makes all the difference can't wait for summer to be over it's quite the opposite from what my views on school were I might go to a university sometime in the future but for now I'm loving it I started college at 17 I picked out a local College because I wanted to stay close to a boyfriend you all know how that works out I regret caring too much about what other people thought of me being afraid to socialize outside of the classroom when I was 17 I had my first three-way and got both girls pregnant RuneScape wasted three years on RuneScape sent the famous UK magician Paul Daniels some pretty bad emails not my smartest move sending it from the school network he was a Bonafide seword though I regret not having fun a lot of family issues started happening when I was a teenager and I moved around a lot so I didn't really have any friends and stopped trying to make new ones liking anime also telling people I liked anime when you subscribe make sure to hit the Bell to turn on notifications put the playlist on in the background to finish listening to all the stories or if you want some viby music to put on in the background check out easy mode if you like am I the genius give am I the jerk a shot everything Linked In the description