When it comes to holding onto anger, I'm stronger than a dog with a bone.
I may forgive. But forget??? NEVER!!!
I know that doesn't sound like the healthiest life option, but that's why my therapist has a summer home.
I'm bitter about lost clothes, bad dates, and owed money.
I could go on all day.
Currently, what I'm most bitter about is the latest American Idol eliminations.
I'll never be past it.
I'll be bringing it up for years.
Redditor Empty_Sea1872 wanted to hear about the rage that persists within us, so they asked:
"What is one thing you are still angry about years after it happened?"
Penny for your Pizza?
"37 years ago, I was five and had spent two years saving up 10 dollars worth of pennies. I used to count them 10 pennies in a pile 10 piles is a dollar. Kept them in an empty coffee ground can. One day, the jar was empty, and we had pizza for dinner. She made me thank her boyfriend for the pizza..."
- michaeleid811
Season 3 Bart GIF by The SimpsonsGiphy
Yard Work
"Twenty years ago, I was standing on my back porch, smoking a cigarette, and talking on the phone. This cop comes out of the forest behind the house, soaking wet and covered in mud. He walked right up into my yard and I asked if he needed help. He told me to get my fat a** back into the house or he'd arrest me."
"I just stood there as that cop walked through my yard and away to wherever he was going."
- randomly421
That is Correct
"I was kicked out of a bar spelling bee for spelling a word CORRECTLY. The word was Lilliputian. Like from Gulliver’s Travels. I spelled it correctly. They had it without the double L. I showed them I was correct and they still wouldn’t let me back in the spelling bee. This was like 5 years ago. I’m still super bitter."
- ThoseTruffulaTrees
"In fourth grade, my school held a spelling competition. Each class would go through everyone to get a single class rep to move up to the school-wide one held in the conference center."
"We go through, it’s me and another girl. I spell my word correctly, but she doesn’t. The teacher gives her another chance with another word… fine, unfair but whatever. She gets the second right. The teacher then says I need to do another word, and gives me a complex chemical. It was an absurd word. I miss it… but I'm not offered another chance!"
"That girl goes on to lose in the first round of the school competition. I knew every word and would have won."
I’m super bitter about mine, and it was 25 years ago. I’d be livid in your scenario."
- MrPlaysWithSquirrels
Unusual?
"I'm still bitter and angry about my high school Spanish teacher giving me a bad grade on a poem assignment. I used a word she didn't know (but was a valid word I checked in my dictionary). She initially accused me of cheating and after I showed her my rough drafts and explained how I'd come by the 'unusual' words I'd used, she then still gave me a D for the assignment. F**k you, Ms. L, I worked hard on that poem."
- InannasPocket
Inside Job
"About 35 years ago (when I was a teenager). The house was broken into. Detectives thought I did it as an 'inside job.' My dad had me sit down with them for questioning, After laughing at the accusation, I realized they were serious and told them, 'No.' and clammed up."
"After, I asked why my dad would put me in front of them, with no warning that I was a suspect. Like did he think it was me? He said, 'I think it could have been you.'"
"Like, WTF? Seriously? I never did anything illegal like that in my life for him to think that. Rocked my relationship with him."
- websagacity
Psycho
"My grandmother blamed me for the nails in her tire. I was f**king 6 and she lives in the middle of nowhere! It was like, 25 freaking years ago and I will never forget the scolding I from her for it. Freaking psycho."
- bralma6
dance moms lol GIF by LifetimeGiphy
Dirt Cheap
"When my grandmother died my grandfather was unable to talk or take care of himself. He had previous strokes. He was placed in a nursing home which was nice. My aunt and uncle went through my grandparent's house and labeled everything with their names and their kid's names. l that they wanted to keep and everything else as to get sold."
"Then sold the house dirt cheap, sold their new car dirt cheap. And got rid of everything ASAP. What they couldn’t sell they threw away. My aunt and uncle were not hard up for money but my family was. My grandma was my favorite person. I had to steal a few items to keep for myself so I could have something to remember them by."
"About 5 years later, after my grandpa passed, my aunt and uncle sued my dad because he was adopted, and by the state law, he got 1% more than his siblings. They lost the suit. It’s been over 20 years, and I still hate them for how they acted like a bunch of f**king a**-hole entitled pricks and took anything I could get to remember my grandma by away. I'm cordial to them, but I will always hold this grudge."
- yourname92
Evil Ms. Wilson
"Primary School, Sports Day. A bunch of guys I knew were bullying this kid by throwing his hat at each other."
"I joined the circle, got thrown the hat, and then walked forward, genuinely intending to give it back to the kid. He thought I was faking and punched me in the face. That's pretty understandable tbh, so I'm not mad about that."
"What I'm mad about is that a teacher sent us BOTH to the office where we BOTH got the same punishment of litter duty despite my friends backing me up that I never threw the hat and the teacher who sent me to the office has never seen me throw the hat."
"To be clear, nobody else got sent. Not the kids who were doing it for ages, just the kid who was being bullied and the kid who tried to help him."
"F**k you, Ms. Wilson."
- slightlysane94
The Workbook
"Had a teacher in high school tell me my answers were wrong in a specific section of our workbook. He refused to help me figure out what I was doing wrong. Just kept saying 'It’s wrong, do it over.' He marked all of my answers wrong in that section of the workbook."
"The following year I was reviewing for the certification exam and revisited those problems in the old workbook after having a better understanding of the problems. I got the same answers I had gotten before that were marked wrong. The guy just didn’t like me and decided that I wasn’t allowed a decent grade."
- photoguy423
Icy Roads
"Friend fell asleep at the wheel driving their stint while helping me move, it was snowing and icy. woke up to the beginning of getting sideswiped by a semi, and ended up crushing the passenger side of my car, which I and my pets were in. Threw us off an embankment over the guard rails and rolled "6 or 7 times" according to the man who dragged me out of the car."
"Ended up losing my car, every possession I had, my pets were killed in the impact, put into a medical coma for brain swelling for a few days, etc She was unscathed, not a scratch on her, walked away just fine and told me how I acted while being traumatized and severely injured, mourning my pets was "embarrassing" her."
- MochiMinchy
Oregon
"The destruction of Duckbill Rock, a beautiful natural rock formation in Oregon. Seriously a bunch of stupid kids robbed humanity of such a beautiful natural formation and it’s been in my mind since it happened in 2016. I had the ultimate privilege of seeing it in person and it’s amazing, like, 'puts our humanity into perspective' amazing. The vandals were never caught either."
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckbill_(rock_formation)"
- J-notter
Ours
"During the COVID lockdown, I graduated from college. It was a huge deal, I was the first in my family. They did a Zoom ceremony and the presenter accidentally skipped over my name. My family was all watching, waiting for them to call my name via live stream, and of course, the presenter never f**king did. it was just as devastating for them as it was for me. I will never forget my mom saying, 'I don't understand; our name should have been there.' Our name. Ours. I was graduating for us."
- GayCosmicToothbrush
No Big Deal
"The manager of the store I worked in got fired. As an assistant, I took over but was never offered the job. No big deal. I held the position for 4 months. The new manager came in, and on the day he came in, he went into a manager's meeting and was given a bonus cheque of several thousand dollars for the 4 months I was in charge. That still pissed me off."
- butcher99
Heavy Metal
"The hospital told me it was all in my head when I was in pure agony from heavy metal poisoning. It was a really toxic metal, too, not a common one."
- Positive-Anywhere302
heavy metal GIF by Nelson DiazGiphy
See? Forgive, but not forget.
Humans can be more obstinant than elephants.
When it comes to health though, I can't imagine not being enraged by mistreatment.
Especially with the prices of healthcare around most of the world.