Thanks for sharing, and happy holidays
My USMC recruiting officer didn’t want me to go home and confer with family, but sign the papers right away before I walked out of the office. That’s when I decided he seemed a bit too desperate.
Dozens of stories from vets later (many with TBIs who couldn’t get proper treatment) I engage in counter-recruitment now.
Took me years to stop obsessing about “what could have been”…
In hindsight, punishing myself did way more harm than missing the actual opportunity. I could have recovered quickly … which leads into another cycle of obsessing about the other missed opportunitiesBad
It’s going better than it was before. I haven’t been laid in six years, but it was worth it to leave her.
Why should I go big when I can go home.
Cuz we’re finally landing
Good good, thanks for asking!
But I also think FOMO is a terrible reason to do anything.
More like JOMO, amirite?
Jellybeans Of Missing Out?
El Barto, I wish!
Joy Of Missing Out… the Jellybean FOMO is inescapable.
There were jellybeans?
…shit.
u rite :)
If its pressured then never or no is my usual response. If its more situational then I might do now.
Avoided so many scam, so i’d say it’s going great!
“Now or never” is almost never a good deal. Avoid it like the plague
When COVID hit I had a now or never moment and took the now. I took it a couple times actually. Got me a real career in a new province out of the deal so I figure I ended up for the better. Sometimes the choice is obvious like it was for me and you need to jump on that shit before you never get another chance.
Same, though I didn’t realize it was now or never at the time. April 2020 I started the process of buying a house. Asked friends and family if I should wait to see what happened with Covid. They all said wait. I didn’t. Another couple of months later and I would still be renting. I’m so glad I jumped.
Getting g a mortgage just before the rates started skyrocketing seems to have been a good choice.
Hopefully you are locked in for long enough that the rates can return to some sort of sane level before you need to renew.
Surprisingly nothing significant or life-changing. Phew
This guy wanted me to help him count cards and we were gonna get rich at casinos.
I decided to stay home and play video games instead.
In hindsight, I’d say pretty good lol
Haven’t heard from that guy in years but I’m going to assume he got murdered by a shady casino owner.
Or he’s living in a beach house in the Bahamas.
Definitely the Bahamas. With lots of hot babes, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll
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whenever someone’s putting pressure on you to make a difficult important life altering decision, with the stipulation that the decision must be made immediately, RUN AWAY.
Thanks, man. I’ll go tell the doctor I’m never doing that emergency surgery. /s
Did your doctor say, “It’s now or never!” (?) Seems a bit unprofessional
How is that relevant to your original claim?
“Your spouse is horribly losing blood and we need your consent to remove her hemorrhaging kidney. What do you say? Ok! It’s been two minutes thinking about it, man… IT IS NOW OR NEVER!”
:: runs away ::
psycho killer
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away!
What if you’re trying to get rid of a ring in the mountain of doom?
Did they stutter? RUN AWAY!
*Fly you fools!
I don’t own a timeshare. Feel pretty good about that decision.
The numbers they were showing us seemed to make sense. If we spent an average of X on vacations for Y years compared to the cost of the timeshare and fees, the timeshare was cheaper AND we could trade our week in a ski area for timeshares anywhere in the world. How could we not buy into this? Might have signed, but when they told us we couldn’t take any of the information with us and had to decide NOW, I knew something wasn’t right. Had to say no for almost an hour, but but we were eventually allowed to leave the “no obligation presentation” required for our “free” weekend.
When I did more research, I found dozens of people trying to unload their purchases for far less than the company was selling weeks to new members.
I’ll NEVER own anything using that kind of sales strategy.
I have this side dream that when I’m retired I’m going to go around to all the vacation spots where they prey on people for this, dress and act like an easy mark and mess with these terrible people.
Dodged a massive bullet there https://youtu.be/Bd2bbHoVQSM?
Depressed. I could have had so much sex, with people who cared for me.
Story time, friend?
Please?
Or at least give us one example. One measly crumb?
Stuck in an abusive relationship and didnt take the opportunity to get out probably?
Nah, nothing abusive, just totally oblivious to others trying to make a move. I need big neon signs.
That’s because human beings in western society are wierdly messed up over sex.
Though in my case I figured out the consistent common beats of flirting / courting in my late twenties and realized when I was sixteen my aunt was totally hitting on me.
So a combination of societal sexual hang ups, neurodivergence and family social dysfunctiob kept me celibate until 26.
I’ve tried to err on the side of caution on that myself, because it’s pretty embarrassing to act like someone is trying to hit on you when they’re not, on either side. I’ve had people act like they think I’m flirting with them when I’m not also which is awkward.
Same, I can never tell if it’s for real or she’s mocking until months later.
