Pain resides mostly in your mind. Odds are, thinking about the thing that's going to cause you pain is a lot worse than the actual pain itself. Just ask any child getting a shot or going to the dentist. However, seeing the pain coming in, ready to smack you in the face or stab you in the foot can make it a thousand times worse. Just ask these folks!
Reddit user, u/aksell96, wanted to hear:
What was your biggest "F-ck, this is gonna hurt" moment?
The Awfulness Of Childhood
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Once as a kid I was racing my friends down a hill in our neighborhood on our razor scooters - I had a cool red one with hand brakes. Anyways, we're racing down this hill and I begin to notice some of the road is cracked. By this point we're flying down this hill. I avoid one big crack but get stuck in one directly after. These cracks were filled with tar to cover them up, but the tar sank to the bottom of the cracks and created another hard layer beneath.
In other words, I caught the most terrible case of forced speed wobbles due to my scooter moving to the curvature of the cracks. Next thing I know I'm doing a barrel roll in mid air. Right before I landed I knew it was gonna suck. I landed on my stomach first and puked. Most terrible feeling thing ever. Honestly thought I ripped my esophagus out.
Followed By A Lot Of Child Swearing
When I was younger I stepped on a shell while playing at the beach. That thing went so deep into my sole of the foot that I couldn't stop crying for hours.
The "f-ck, this is gonna hurt" momment of this story was when I saw the nurse pouring balsamic vinegar in my foot and placing a huge tweezers next to it. The rest of this story is NSFW.
Let's Fight To Get OUT Of Trouble
When I turned just a little too sharp on an ATV and the wheels caught and my brother and I flew through the air in slow motion. I landed face first my brother landed on his side. We were laying right next to each other and it rolled over us thankfully not hurt except for a couple scrapes. We were like "we should probably pretend to fight to explain these injuries."
So we drove the four wheeler back to barn and on the way back to the house we erupted into a fight outta nowhere and threw each other around in the gravel driveway with our mom watching. A few days passed and we thought we got away with it and at supper our dad was like "who wrecked the four-wheeler?" Me being dumb was like "what four-wheeler?" Anyways, that was when I learned that it goes a whole lot better if you tell someone you messed rather than let them find out for themselves.
Broke The Sound Barrier
ingrown toenail removal
need i say more?
Just went through that and I didn't get anesthesia. The people in the next state over heard me yell
Yeah, College Is The Worst
Was riding my bike downhill with a box of books under one arm. When I went to hit the brakes before I got to the street I discovered it was the wrong arm. My free hand was on the front brake.
Realized about ten feet from the road that I was gonna have to hit it and beef it. Went headfirst over the handlebars and sprained my shoulder. Never occurred to me to let go of the books.
Had to call my mom literally my first day of college to tell her I my arm was broken.
Incidentally, this is also how I discovered the student health center was for MENTAL health, not physical
Don't You Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!
When I broke my collarbone playing soccer. Was sprinting and a kid made a poor slide tackle effort (cleats up/red card style). It flipped me over, but I got so high in the air that I remember being upside down looking down to ground and thinking "I am not supposed to be this high, I'm f**ked." Kind of like when Ricky Bobby's car got flipped and he was like "yep, I'm in the air upside down, this is not good."
Probably Can't Watch "My Little Pony" Anymore
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Probably the time I had to bail off a galloping horse.
It was a horse I had been training and we were going at a pretty good clip. unbeknownst to me, the cinch (part of the saddle that wraps around their rib cage and holds the saddle snug to their back) was wearing out and loosening. Suddenly, the whole saddle was sliding to the right, rotating me down towards his legs. We were going at about 40 MPH and I had two choices: Hold on and potentially let the saddle injure his legs while also getting kicked to death or bail and tumble into the rocky ground at 40 MPH. I bailed to save the horse and ended up shredding my clothes on the rocky desert floor. A branch from a bush tried to force it's way up my *ss and left a long scar up my right butt cheek.
The horse is OK.
That's Not A Great Visual On Any Level
I had a pin in my big toe after a really bad foot/ankle break. The pin was about an inch and a half long, stuck right under where my toenail was. When I went to get it out, I was told I wouldn't be getting local anethstesia. The doctor walked in with pliers to pull it out. My butthole puckered up so tight.
What's the worst hurt you've ever been in that you saw coming? Tell us all about it!
The old wives' tales.
They are the stories of legend.
I think we all need a big DEEP Google dive though.
Where did they originate?
WHO ARE THE OLD WIVES!
You don't hear about them as much anymore.
It's like science and logic are suddenly a thing.
But they sure are a good way to keep your kids and their behavior in line.
Redditor the_spring_goddess wanted to discuss the tall tales we've all been fed through life, so they asked:
"What is an old wives tale that people still believe?"
"Wait an hour to swim after eating."
What a crock!
So many summer hours wasted.
I want revenge for that one.
Say Nothing
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"An undercover cop has to tell you he's a cop if you ask him."
LonelyMail5115
"Pretty much most advice when it comes to cops are old wives tales. I’m not even a cop but most of the advice you hear is pretty off."
I_AM_AN_A**HOLE_AMA
Say Something
"That you have to wait 24 hours to report someone missing."
Severe_Airport1426
"I really think this one is important and should be the top regardless. As it’s a piece of advice that needs to be relearned and the only way to do that is through awareness."
crappycurtains
"This used to be true. I think they changed it after some guy named Brandon went missing back in the '80s or '70s. You used to have to wait 24 hours if the missing person was an adult because they had 'a right to be missing' and then everyone realized that was stupid and stopped doing it."
AlbinoShavedGorilla
Body Temps
"That drinking ice cold water after eating oily foods will solidify the oil and permanently remain in your body. I informed my coworker that if your body temperature ever reached that point, you’d have bigger problems than weight gain."
chriseo22
"Oh, I have a cousin who 100% believed this. One of those guys who believed every early 2000s internet rumor and old wives tale. One night I chugged a big glass of ice water after dinner and he started freaking out and saying my guts were gonna harden."
"I sarcastically told him to drive me to the hospital if that happened. Obviously, nothing happened and the next morning I said something like 'Thanks for being on standby in case my guts filled with hardened oil.' He just walked off muttering under his breath."
apocalypticradish
Arms Down
"When I was pregnant, I was told by young and old alike that I should NOT raise my arms above my head or exert myself in such a manner because it could cause cord strangulation to my unborn sons and daughters."
Fatmouse84
10 Years Actually
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"Chewing gum stays in your stomach for 7 years."
"I remember accidentally swallowing a piece of gum when I was a kid in like 1995 and just accepting my fate like welp, gonna have this in my stomach til high school I guess."
Gecko-911
I was so afraid to sallow my gum when I was young.
This tale is haunting.
High/Low
Hungry Debra Messing GIF by Will & Grace
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"You can tell the sex of the baby by how you carry."
LeastFormal9366
"Pregnancy certainly wins awards for the most old wives tales. So much absolute BS was repeated to us by everyone we talked to."
IllIIIlIllIlIIlIllI
The Cursed
"If you’re a woman and you wear opal jewelry but opal is not your birthstone (October), you’ll never be able to have children, or will be widowed, or just generally have bad luck or something. You can counteract this by having a diamond in the same piece of jewelry as the opal, though."
"I have a nice opal ring that my parents gave me years ago, and I’ve had other women give me this 'advice' unprompted more than once when I’ve worn it. I have absolutely no idea where it started, but I’m pretty sure this little chunk of silicate rock has no concept of what month I was born in, let alone of how my reproductive organs work."
SmoreOfBabylon
Stay In
"Going outside with wet hair will make you get pneumonia. Or an earache. Or maybe arthritis. Depends on which old wife you listen to."
"Jokes on them - I haven't blow-dried my hair in decades and usually leave the house with wet hair in the morning. On winter mornings, the tips of my hair get frozen. No ear infections or pneumonia or arthritis yet."
worldbound0514
Dreams and Facts
"You never make anyone up in your dreams you've seen everyone in your dreams somewhere else before and never make anyone up entirely."
"How would you possibly prove that to be true? My partner adamantly believes this and tells me this 'fact' whenever I have a dream about someone I've never met before."
mattshonestreddit
"My late wife used to tell me that before she met me she would have dreams of standing at an alter on her wedding day but could never see the guy's face, no matter how hard she tried. After meeting me the face was filled in with mine. Don't know if it's true but one of those things I like thinking of every now and then when I miss her."
Darthdemented
Cracked
Getting Ready Episode 2 GIF by The Office
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"Some people still believe cracking knuckles causes arthritis."
Choice-Grapefruit-44
"There's a doctor (Donald Unger) that cracked his knuckles a couple of times a day for 60 years, but only on one hand, just to prove it. Both hands remained exactly the same."
MacyTmcterry
I love my knuckles.
Do you have any tall tales to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
