Sometimes our demons will get the better of us.
Rage and emotion will often lead to a hysteric choice.
So when these moments arise we have to learn self-soothing methods.
Because not matter the cause of the behavior, there is always going to be consequences to actions.
We can't undo life.
It may feel good to unleash hell fire and all that, but... five minutes later.
You're cleaning up debris.
Redditor Bitter_Chapter1798 wanted everyone to fess up about the times they were shocked by their own bad behavior.
They asked:
"What’s the worst thing you’ve done in the heat of the moment?"
This topic is an issue I can relate too. I have some bad behavior, heat of the moment issues. Clearly, we all do.
Cancelled
Sassy Over It GIF by NickelodeonGiphy"I used to go to the gym and sneak into the health suite (sauna, steam room, hot tub) without paying. Got busted and had to pay on the way out. Manager was nice and said 'look… just pay next time ok?' I said 'I won’t get caught next time.'"
"She said 'consider your membership cancelled.'"
josoap99
Ashy Thief
"Childhood friend died and I was about 20. He liked my drawings, so I wrote him a goodbye letter on the back of one of my drawings. He had been cremated, and I found myself alone in a room with the urn, so I opened it up. His ashes were in a bag, so I stuffed the drawing/letter down alongside the bag, thinking that way I could hide it from his family."
"When I did that, the bag ripped and I got his ashes all over my hands. I brushed off what I could into the urn but had to wash some of him down the sink. It was awful and I’m still guilty about it decades later."
skelly6
So close...
"My parents were tailors and they used to do a lot of work from home. They had really big, heavy metal scissors they used to use. I was very young. Under 10 for sure. My older brother did something to piss me off. I grabbed the scissor near me and threw it at him. It missed his eyes by a small fraction. He went ballistic on why would I do something like this. 25+ years later the memory still makes me sad how close I was to seriously injuring or killing my brother."
JustARandomPokemon
Window Treatment
"I didn’t do it but it happened near me. I was working construction one summer, and the 'veteran' guy working with me got into a fight with the foreman and came back to the floor we were working on all pissed off, kicking things around. We were up on the 4th floor, and windows hadn’t gone in yet. He picks up a huge level and flings it out the window, and about 5 seconds later says 'F**k! That was mine.'"
Jealous-Network-8852
Don't Throw
Scooter Yolo GIF by NOSAMGiphy"I was probably 10-12 hanging out with the neighborhood kids one being a few years younger."
"He was being annoying as hell and wouldn’t stop so after a few minutes of constant annoyance I threw my scooter at him… hitting his head. No serious injuries but he needed a few stitches. I knew I messed up the instant the scooter left my hands."
apaulo_18
Wow, people really have some behavior issues. I'm not alone.
Damn FB
motion picture thumbs up GIF by A. L. CregoGiphy"Back in college it was the first week at a new school and I was on my computer waiting for my evening class to start. Someone asked if they could use my computer to log into their student account to see where their class was."
"I let them do it and had my Facebook account open in the other tab. They updated my Facebook status to something VERY racist thinking they were funny, but forgot to close out of their school account. Once I figured out what they did (thanks to a FURIOUS phone call from my mother) I used their account to drop all of the classes they signed up for."
flyguystandingby
Said what I said...
"I was being lightly scolded by my boss, and instead of rolling with it, I got pissed and told him 'you know what, suck my d**k' and left. I was not in a financial situation to quit at the time, and regretted my decision the entire elevator ride out of there, but looking back now it's easy to say 'worth it.'"
earic23
Dig Deeper
"When I was 18 I got a job in excavation. I was learning how to dig with a trackhoe. Fast forward a year. And I’m still learning the tricks. My boss screamed at me for parking the work truck in the wrong place. Then told me either I need to learn to dig faster and better or find a new job. Well I said forget it. And I started digging fast as I could. And then, I found the freaking city water main."
letsgetnerdy95
In his face...
"I was a teenager, I was helping my family clear out our basement, sorting old clothes and toys to donate or dispose off. Me and me and my brother are horsing around when I spot an absolutely ancient water gun. I pick it up swiping away cobwebs and what do you know water is sloshing around the reservoir, so I pump it a couple times and spray my little brother directly in his face."
"He screams instantly and not the fun haha you sprayed me with water scream. The water smells like mold and death, it's left over from the last time we played with the guns which was years ago. He gets a bacterial infection in both eyes, cycles antibiotics and comes away from it whole. I catch crap about this at every family gathering and will until one of us dies."
SuicideKingsHigh
Shoot!
Judge Joe Brown GIFGiphy"Told the judge, 'Gimmie your best shot.'"
"10 added days for contempt of court."
Feels2old
Be Fit
"Late night impulse buys. In the height of the pandemic I ending up buying a little too expensive rowing machine for my apartment thinking I was going to be all fit. Now it’s just collecting dust in a corner."
"Edit: After seeing all the replies and the interest for my rowing machine… I’ve decided to use it this morning. Got to 15mins before calling it quits. I’ll keep at it."
Final_Distance_9275
Just a Concussion
"When I was in tenth grade a classmate of mine pissed on my shoes. I didn't not snap right then and there, but he made fun of my looks a couple minutes later. I completely lost my sh*t, grabbed him by the neck and slammed his head into a steel beam. In hindsight I realize that I could have killed him or disabled him for life, but luckily he got away with a bad concussion."
Tall-Structure-8670
Psych
"I work hospital security, and we hold a lot of violent psych patients until they can be transferred to a behavioral facility. This surprisingly strong old man assaulted a nurse when she was trying to change his briefs, and I responded first. I was wrestling with the guy and trying to hold him in the bed until backup got there."
"He finally calmed down, looked me in the eye, and told me something to the effect of 'When I get out of here I'm going to kill you and your wife.' And I responded, 'Big words for a man in a diaper.' I've never seen anyone rage harder. Dude genuinely tried his best to kill me. But thankfully my co-workers got there right afterward and nobody got hurt."
MozeoSLT
Bad Messages
Text Chat GIF by IlizaGiphy"Texting when I’m pissed off. The anger goes away, the text remains for eternity."
ThinkIGotHacked
"Sometimes I write a really long message then delete it before I send because the anger I've put into writing it usually goes before I am finished spell checking it."
spikeyunpeeledbanana
'because I always do'
"I don’t know about 'heat of the moment' but when a cop asked why I thought I could go that fast down that road I (without thinking) responded 'because I always do' then realized what my mouth had just said without consulting my brain and proceeded to lay my head against my steer wheel forcefully in shame."
BestAtempt
Years Later
"My oldest son was still a baby and I was a fresh teenaged dad. It was the middle of the night and he was screaming. I was sleep deprived and I was getting screamed at in my ear... and he was sick and cranky and nothing would help. I went to move him and his baby fist hit me in the eye or something."
"But either way, I swatted it away really fast and hard and he cried even louder. I kept rocking him and crying and holding him even after he fell asleep. I felt so bad. Almost 9 years later and I still feel awful about it."
SigynsRaine
"Is that a trick question?"
"A cop busted us hotboxing my car, it was Feb and freezing outside and had 2 of my friend with me. after they searched the car and broke our bong and let us sweat for a few min the cop came to my window and asked me if I was ok to drive."
"Due to my paranoia and because we were parked I assumed to cop was getting me to drive so that he could give me a DUI so I responded 'Is that a trick question?' he was taken back and got annoyed 'no it's not a trick question.' Me... 'Oh well yeah I do this all the time.' Ahh the teenage years."
Lemmonjello
Night Sweats
Angry Trash GIF by BLoafXGiphy"Middle of summer, caught my girlfriend cheating and in the heat of the moment threw my fan at the wall, I was not only sad and alone but sad, alone and sweaty that fateful night."
timingandstructure
Life lesson: Next time... be calm, think first.
