People Describe Their Worst Experiences At The Doctor's Office
Reddit user sydthakidd asked: 'What was your worst experience at a doctor's office?'
Let's face it. No one looks forward to a doctor's visit.
Anyone declaring otherwise is fibbing and needs to have their head checked–which should be no problem for them to clear their schedule for.
While some visits consulting a medical pro is beneficial for identifying an ailment or for seeking relief, the process can still be unnerving.
Curious to hear from the experiences of strangers online, Redditor sydthakidd asked:
"What was your worst experience at a doctor's office?"
When doctors don't know who or what they're treating, it's a major concern.
Unnecessary Scan
"I was getting a bone density scan for some odd reason, and the doc came in a while later and told me I had Osteoporosis. This was not why I was there in the first place and was completely surprised. I asked him if I could see the chart, and it was for a 70 year old woman. I was a 30 something man, and he had the wrong chart! Turns out I did not have any issues at all, well, bone density related…"
– Curleysound
Pumping Iron
"Oh god, this reminded me of the time I took iron pills daily for four months because LabCorp mixed my results with someone who had severe anemia."
"When I went back to be tested again, my iron levels were SO goddamn high it was almost bad."
– swanlakepirate423
Lethal Prescription
"I went to a clinic to see a doctor about a fever and body aches and informed him I was allergic to NSAIDs.. he said he'd give me something and it was not an NSAID."
"Went home, swallowed the pill, immediate allergic reaction starts.. rushed to the A&E of a hospital where they pumped me full of drugs to stop the allergic reaction.. and the doc there asked me why I took the NSAID."
"I think the A&E doc reported the clinic doctor because he was never seen again."
– bearyken
Bad Communication
"I had a similar thing at a hospital here. Told multiple nurses and staff that I was allergic to aspirin, basically everyone except the doctor. Doctor prescribed me Advil, and assuming he looked at my chart and having no idea that both are NSAIDs, took Advil. Came back to the hospital an hour later in anaphylaxis and difficulty breathing."
"25 years later, had a minor surgery at the same hospital and now they put a bright band around my wrist immediately, and the first thing any person I interacted with asked is 'Do you have any allergies?' Annoying to be asked that 25 times in a 4 hour period, but nice to see that policy has changed to make sure that kind of thing doesn’t happen again."
– impossibilia
Unpleasant Emissions
"I had pinched my syatic nerve pushing carts at work. He accused me of having very kinky sex while my gf was in the room. I told him it was at work, and he assured me he would not judge me if it was from sex. He then gave me OxyContin and told me when ever I needed a refill I should call him and he’d make sure I had plenty. Very weird."
"The other is super mild but he kept farting. Like the whole time he’d fart every few minutes."
– Karsa69420
The last thing these Redditors expected was to endure more suffering after seeing their doctor.
Fix It, Don't Break It, Doc
"I thought I had a broken nose. The doc was showing me, on a heavy glass x-ray plate, that my nose was not broken. But as I was looking up, he dropped the plate on my nose and broke it."
– Wind2Energy
"'I, uh, guess you're here for a broken nose after all, huh?'- Dr probably."
– Chris_the_Otter
The Inappropriate Specialist
"Was 17, had an infected ingrown toe nail. My pediatrician tried cutting and digging it out with what looked like pliers and bracing his leg against the table. After f'king around for a bit he realized he wasn’t going to get it. No numbing gel or anything. Hurt like a mofo. Scheduled an appointment with a podiatrist, he numbed it, had it removed in about two minutes and told me to never see that dr. Again."
– Sam_i_am_68
More Embarrassment Than Pain
"Laid on my side with my back to the door for a prostate exam. Heard people walk by talking while a finger was in my butt and realized the door was open."
– survival-nut
"I want to move to another country on your behalf just from reading this."
– OddEpisode
If at first you don't succeed...
X Didn't Mark The Spot
"The ENT doctor removed a skin cancer from my nose, leaving an ugly scar. Turns out he excised the wrong area and I went to a different doctor to actually remove the cancer."
– DdraigGwyn
"Smug Bastard"
"Not me, but a close friend:"
"She was having debilitating migraines, to the point she couldn’t work or function. She waited nearly a month to see a neurologist. Upon a brief examination, he said:"
“You don’t have anything wrong with you. Just exercise and try not having headaches.”
"Three months later, he finally relented and did an MRI. She had massive lesions on her brain. She was diagnosed with MS. The smug bastard was somehow irritated she had a positive diagnosis. Her health wasn’t as important as his ego."
– wheresmychin
Second Doctor Saves The Day
"I had been sick for a while and had been gaining about 20 pounds a month. I had seen multiple doctors and they just told me I was just eating more than I thought which was ridiculous. I went to a doctor for a skin issue and the new doctor walked in the room and looked at me from across the room and said 'let’s get you to the emergency room' after about five seconds."
"I had end stage cirrhosis of the liver. That kind of sucked. I had a liver transplant 362 days ago and only in the last month have I started to feel like I am getting back to normal."
"Did you know you can get so sick your hair turns gray and then get better and the gray hair goes away? It’s weird honestly."
– blippityblue72
Hands-down the worst experience ever at a doctor's office was before I met with my actual doctor.
While I was waiting in a separate room waiting to go into the doctor's office, the phlebotomist came in to take some blood samples from me.
I have very prominent veins with the bluish hues making them even more visible. Yet, the phlebotomist managed to miss piercing through my veins.
Not once. Not twice. NOT THRICE.
She had to run out to get my primary care physician to jab the needle into me for my fifth–but thankfully his first–successful time.
It's a wonder how I managed to get back home in my highly woozy state.
Sheltered People Raised In Cults Explain Which Things About The Real World Shocked Them The Most
What's most unsettling about people who grow up in cults or strict and conservative religious groups is they are raised with a highly distorted view of the world.
Rather than being taught to have an open mind and heart, they are brainwashed into believing that there is a very firm right and wrong way to live.
Often including sexist, homophobic, racist and other blatantly discriminatory policies.
As a result, when people leave these societies, either being rescued or through their own bravery, they are often shocked to discover just how different the world is than they were led to believe.
"Sheltered people raised by super religions/cults: what was something about the real world that shocked you when you learned about it?"
Comfort Levels Are OK.
"That it’s actually healthy to have boundaries."- aphroditespearl
It's Ok To Be Yourself
"The greatest thing to me is what it felt like to be authentic."
'When you grow up in a fundamentalist cult, your life is not your own."
"Everything is planned out for you, every worldview is shaped by your religion."
"Leaving that all behind and being my own, genuine person was the best and least expected blessings of leaving the Mormon cult."
"Yes, sex and drugs (esp psychedelics) were amazing too, but I love being my own person so much."- Bojikthe8th
"Normal People"
"How normal people aren’t thinking about you/judging you all the time, and even if they are- you can’t do anything about it anyway, some will judge no matter what you do."
"We (women, anyway) were raised to obsess over what we are wearing, how modest it is, and will it make men stumble?"
"My breasts are too small for one man but too large for all men, despite being what God gave me."
"My body is both too thin to bear children but somehow also too fat, and proof that I am a glutton."
"We were taught how to modulate our voices into a soft pleasant pitch, how to serve God with every breath, and how we’re living literally every single moment on a precarious cliff of falling into sin."
'The moment I realized that my hair color, my clothes, my makeup was more an expression of myself than a reflection of other’s desires was the moment I finally let go."
"I don’t dress for men, I don’t dress for women- I dress for myself."- Q_Fandango
The World Is More Wholesome Than Expected
"Where is all the sex and drugs?!"
"I was promised wanton lascivious f**king in the streets."- FairUnion275
Words, Words, Words...
"Nothing as major as here but my wife’s family is extremely religious, her grandfather was even a cult leader a few books written about him."
"Can’t get into details for sake of privacy, but it stands out to me and it blows my mind how ignorant her whole family is."
"And I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but ignorance in the way of the most basic social cues and interactions and even words in conversation."
"I’ll be talking to her aunts and uncles in their sixties and they’ll have so many things they’ve never heard of it blows my mind."
'She has two aunts who actually took classes to learn how to have normal conversations because they were so odd."
"It’s weird."
"Even my wife is still learning and growing vocabulary and she’s 39."- Dorkknight112183
People Actually Can Be Compassionate, Equitable And Kind
"Didn't realize that Christianity wasn't the 'default' for adults."
"Didn't realize it's not normal to treat your family like garbage while being a super nice charismatic human to everyone else."
"More of a narcissistic thing but since I was so sheltered and they were so strict and obsessed with being in control, I had no idea."
"Didn't know that not everyone has an ulterior motive when speaking to you."
"Was raised with the girls inside doing women chores and the boys outside helping with man chores."
"Grew up and realized some men actually cook and clean as well... what a shocker."- free-the-krug
The World Is A Safer Place Than You Think
"Not raised religious, but raised by an incredibly sheltering parent."
"Turns out I *won't* be mugged and murdered for simply existing in a city setting without a male escort."- TheRedMaiden
In All Seriousness, It Has Many Health Benefits
"That I’m not gonna go to hell for jerking it and it’s completely normal to feel the urge to self pleasure and release on your own terms."- Nuck_7
Not Always Beholden To Others
"How people can just... Make decisions."
"You don't need to jump through hoops, meditate all night, read the bible, and pray, just because you want to buy a certain dress."
"You can just.. Buy it."
"You can make that decision."
"I can make that decision."
"Freedom was extremely surreal at first."
"It still sort of is."- celaeya
Absolutely Everything
"For me, it was a complete culture shock."
"People could do anything ."
"Women could treat men as equals, not always defer to them."
'People treat other people with more respect-- adults are treated like adults."
"People could talk about sex and bodily functions like periods without being ashamed."
"People weren't afraid of living their lives in a way that made them happy."
"In the first few months of being out of my parents' home, I learned so many new words and things I didn't know existed."
"I watched a lot of movies that would have been considered wickedly sinful in my former home."
"I had to relearn how to talk and act with people."
"Outside of the church, people do everything different, and the people you can and can't trust are different."
"I felt like I had the IQ of a normal 8 year old in the real world."- Fearless-Complaint16
Life Doesn't Need To Be Lived In Fear
“'End is nigh!''."
"Oh I’m waiting!"
“'Christo Viene'.”
"'I wish he would'."
"'You’ve been left behind' … yep."
"To suffer like the rest of us."
"Grew up in a rapture-centric evangelical household."
"Parts of it were loads of fun, some just straight up trauma porn."
"Y2K was a hoot in my house, we definitely believed it could all end, given all of the televangelists hopping on the doom train."
"The part that shocked me the most, or affected me the most is that you don’t realize until you are older that you really did believe the world would end, well, soon-ish."
"The idea of getting old, worrying about retirement, whether my aspirations would materialize, most of those things seemed more far fetched than the apocalypse did."- rotissrev
Privacy Is A Right, Not A Privilege
"The complete and total lack of privacy in the church vs actually having privacy."
"Besides being roomed with all my siblings and cousin."
"Daily body inspections, spankings, potty time."
"Also being treated like a toddler pretty much 24/7.'
"God forbid we did something without permission.'
"We didn’t address adults as sir or ma’am, calling our parents Mommy and Daddy into our teenage years, having a bedtime, knowing how to do chores but not really knowing why."
"Getting to the real world."
"I knew how wash clothes."
"I didn’t know why I was washing clothes."
"I knew how to wash dishes, I didn’t know why I was."
"If I wasn’t told to do something I would just stand there hopeless."- lighthousek
No matter one's upbringing, the world can be a terrifying place.
Particularly when you set out to face it on your own for the first time.
But the only way to stop being afraid of the world is by exploring all the things it has to offer.
This includes many wonderful things, which should never be hidden by walls and boundaries from anyone.
People Confess Whether The Number Of Someone's Previous Sexual Partners Matter To Them While Dating
Sex. Let's have a frank discussion.
Most of us have it. And many of us have had it with several different people over time.
That shouldn't be a difficult truth to discuss.
So let's talk numbers.
Do we all have a number that is too high to accept from a partner?
Are the numbers none of our business as long everything turned out fine?
Reddit had some thoughts.
Redditor LaRata59 wanted to discuss everybody's past sexual history, so they asked:
"Does the amount of sexual encounters your partner has had matter to you? Why or why not?"
If you're willing to be intimate with a partner, you should be open to having difficult conversations.
Keep Quiet
Amy Schumer No GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphy"I don’t mind, but ten minutes after sex I don’t want to hear your last girlfriend was 24 when you’re 42. Or hear how awesome sex was with your ex-wife, or how great sex was in Guam with your ex-girlfriend."
amscraylane
Painful Partners
"I would care only because my wife and I have been together since high school and we both should have 1 partner each... each other. So if that's not true it would be a problem."
TreesusChrist47
"Same here but 4 years a go my wife had a brief affair and I'm still struggling to get past it since we are still together (of sorts)."
jimbojetset35
"Me too. I found out 2 years ago. I think about it every day, I’m definitely not past it. We are still together and have been for 18 years. It has really destroyed me."
makerofshoes
I was convinced...
"So long as they haven't run through my entire friend group, I don't care."
"A few years ago, I started to worry about a girl in our friend group that I suspected of having an eye on my boyfriend at the time. I expressed that to him, and he reassured me of the fact that he had several girlfriends and that he was not attracted to her anyway."
"She was single and she liked to party a lot. He concluded by telling me 'anyways that girl, she slept with all my friends.' I was convinced. Well, guess what, he's now married and has two kids with her."
non_brad
Who Cares?
Eddie Murphy Whatever GIF by Coming to AmericaGiphy"As long as the count doesn't continue increasing during the relationship, it doesn't matter at all. I have a past, too."
Odd-You-6869
Who cares? Carry on...
Be Silent
not listening stephen colbert GIFGiphy"No but also don't want to know, so I never ask."
Male-37-Hi
"Yeah, as long as you're clean and not comparing me to past lovers. Also, I sure as f**k don't want to hear about them. I'm very visual, so I'm not trying to picture your previous sexcapades, thank you.
Wednesdayofthewoods
'wild period'
"I was seeing a girl that had a lot of guy friends. It would come to light that she had slept with all of them at one point. Co-workers, long time friends, boyfriends of her girlfriends etc. It's unnerving socially to know that so many people in the social circle you're joining has been with the person you're trying to have a relationship with."
"It would also come to light that she had a 'wild period' where she would hook up with 3-4 random guys in a week. I thought it was in the past so I looked the other way. But things like trauma, dissociation during intimacy, trust issues, bad boundaries with the opposite sex, judgment over your own sexual appetite etc were all becoming an issue."
"She eventually cheated while visiting family back home with someone she said had abused her physically and mentally. A lot of the times, it is a sign of someone who has serious mental health issues or very low self worth. Either case does not result in a healthy relationship and you should tread lightly."
HereToBeRated
Just Numbers
"No, to a point. To me, the past only matter in its ability to catch up to the present. If someone has had sex with 50 people but it never has a negative effect on our life together and she still enjoys sex with me, then it’s not a problem."
"However if someone has had sex with 5 people and all 5 are frequently coming back into her life and causing drama for both of us, or if she can’t enjoy sex with me due to comparing it to a past partner, then that it is an issue."
"So to me it’s not the number, but the affect of the number. With that being said, it’s not something I would ask about because typically if the past is going to be a problem there are better warning signs."
TheNatanist
Collections
"For me, a very introverted person, sex is one of the most intimate things in a relationship. And if the other person doesn't need the same emotional connection beforehand. I would feel just like another body in their 'collection.' But also I don't shame anybody partaking in the hookup culture. It's just not something for me."
justshynotathrowaway
Be Sure
Is This Thing On Bob GIF by RedbrickGiphy"It does not matter to me however I’m still be cautious of STD/STI; so I’d prefer they get tested before we have sex."
OddReputation3765
The past is the past. Maybe let it be.
The Most Shocking Things People Have Ever Seen That Scarred Them For Life
Who hasn't claimed they've been "scarred for life" by something?
Usually something fairly trivial, like a scary movie, a food that disagreed with them, or a poor travel experience.
As a result, we say it more in jest than anything else.
Unfortunately, there are those who have had experiences that genuinely scarred them for life.
Memories so deeply implanted in their heads that they will never be able to erase them, no matter how hard they try.
Often witnessing people in situations that we could never imagine anyone finding ourselves in.
Situations that were anything but trivial, and sometimes legitimately life or death.
Redditor _pleasesendhelp was curious to learn if anyone had gone through a truly horrifying scenario that legitimately scarred them for life, and eager to hear their stories, leading them to ask:
"What is the most shocking thing you've ever seen?"
To Think This Is Actually Part Of The Job
"Used to be a traffic safety engineer."
"Traffic collision analysis was part of the job."
"Images of the collisions are intense and you can never unsee the decapitations."- Bobbingforfrenchfrys
Most Frighteningly, It Could Have Happened To Anyone
"About six years ago, my family was traveling to Pennsylvania to visit some relatives for Easter and we drove back on Easter Sunday afternoon."
"We were driving on I-81 South in Virginia, and noticed traffic was slowing down and smoke coming from the side of the road, a car had crossed over the median and hit another car head on."
"Both cars were beyond totaled and were engulfed in flames."
"I remember looking over at one of the cars and seeing a person in the passenger seat and a good chunk of their head was missing, and the driver appeared to be dead too."
"I looked it up on the news the next day and only one person survived out of the five people involved in that crash."
"It was a pretty ugly scene to put it mildly."- HerrPaws
Silence Can Be More Terrifying Than Any Sound
"Working at a special care home, had a resident who routinely screamed for help over minor things."
"'HELP!! I NEED TO TURN MY LIGHTS OFF' kind of thing."
"One night she fell alone in her room and split her face open above her eye."
"Instead of calling for help, she just quietly walked out into the common area at 3am looking like Carrie."
"It was my first time applying my first aid knowledge and my first time calling 911."
"Most unforgettable was the sight of her blood-covered rosary."
"Woman really looked like a movie crew had made her up."- shiveringsongs·
So Many Questions...
"My dad took me and my brother to the beach when I was 6 and we saw a dead body wash up on the shore."- pringle513
There Is Little More Devastating Than Desperation
"I was walking down a neighborhood where number of homeless people is insane, but most of the time I just mind my own business walking to where I work but one day I saw a person eating his own human waste."
"I was mind boggled."
"Later when I was heading back to my home I saw him at the same area so I decided to give some leftovers I got from the shop I was working."
"Man he was the happiest person I saw when I gave him the food."- MrD1SRESPECT
A Traumatizing Miracle
"Pedestrian hit by a car."
"The victim looked like a fake body as he flew through the air."
"He had a shoe land over half a block away."
"Somehow only broke a leg."- Potential_East_311·
Neglect Can Be The Most Lasting Abuse
"A kid bawling his eyes out, begging with a sign and no coat in 20 degree weather in a downtown setting."
"It was really windy out and I saw him talking briefly to his mom in a doorway who was bundled up out of the cold texting the whole time."
"She was dressed expensively, looked comfortable and didn’t seem to want to be seen with him."
"Talked to building security who brought the boy inside, was on my way to work so I didn’t get to see the full resolution."
"Sh*tty mom."- _manicpixie
Dangers On The Road
"In person?"
"Accident between an idiot in a Camaro and a moron on a bike ( motorcycle)."
"Camaro genius was trying to turn left across 3 lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic."
"Just as someone let them through, guy on a bike came flying down the right side berm."
"Biker was not wearing any gear; just shorts, shirt, sneakers, and sunglasses."
"Guy got massively lucky, though. If he'd hit a regular car/SUV, he would've gone splat right against the side of the car."
"But the Camaro was so low-sling, he just got vaulted over the top."
"He was in a world of hurt, but apparently in one piece."
"In video?"
"I'm a racing fan, so it'd be a tie between the fatal accidents of Roger Williamson or Tom Pryce in F1 and Gordon Smiley and Greg Moore in Indycar."
"All can be found on Youtube, but consider this a big warning--they are not for everyone."
"Williamson burned to death while trapped upside down in his car at Zandvoort, despite the efforts of fellow driver David Purley."
"Tom Pryce hit a track marshal who was crossing the track."
"The fire extinguisher the marshal was carrying struck Pryce on the head & killed him instantly."
"Smiley had a catastrophic crash during qualifying for the 1982 Indy 500."
"He reacted incorrectly and ended up going straight into the wall at 200 mph (320 kph)."
"In photos of the wreck you can see his helmet go flying."
"Part of his head is still in it."
"Moore was killed after losing control during a race at Fontana Speedway in 1999."
"Ultimately, he was launched sideways and head-first into a cement barrier."
"The impact was recorded by the car's black box at 154 Gs."- Unique_Football_8839
Worst Nightmare Averted
"About 2 or 3 years ago, my fiancé and I were in the kitchen cooking dinner."
"I was standing by the counter talking to her whilst she was stood over the hob frying."
"She started slowly lowering herself closer and closer to the flaming hobs to the point I interjected and panicking said 'what are you doing?', for her to slowly turn her head towards me with the blankest of gazes and then proceeded to collapse onto the hobs."
"Thankfully I managed to jump in and pull her away from receiving any burns but she collapsed to the floor and was out for a good 30 seconds."
"I thought she was dead, I'll never forget that look in her eyes too."
"Really felt like it was over."- JLUK95
Seriously, What Leads Someone To Do That?
"In a bar I worked in once, very angry men stormed in, grabbed one of my regulars by his hair and dragged him outside, and curbed him."
"Never seen anything so graphically violent in real life."- kerrykat91
Nothing Can Prepare You For It
"Finding my younger brother had just died."
"He'd been very sick for a long time but nothing prepared me for it."
"I was 14."- Professional-Permit5
It's Hard To Think It Ever Stops Being Shocking
"As a hardware tech working at a hospital."
"I got a high priory ticket to go into the OR."
"A computer shutdown in the middle of preforming open heart surgery on this guy."
"I normally don't cover this area, but it was early in the morning and I was the only tech on site.'
"I go down there and I have to gown up to go into the room."
"I had no issue going in till the nurse was like OMG have you ever been in a surgery room before?!? "
"The room is a bloodbath! "
"This guys is cut wide open! "
"Are you going to be okay?"
"I was like I was going to be fine before you started talking to me."
"Anyway I go into the room, and it is a blood bath with the guys chest cut wide open and a group of people operating on him with country music going while they were all singing."
"The issue was easy to fix."
"It was a desktop on a a mobile cart that had limited mobility in that section of that room."
"Anyway they had it pulled out as far as it could go and the power cable came out of the desktop slightly."
"I just had to tighten up the connection and turn it on."
"It was one of the most shocking and amazing things I have seen."
"Just the guys chest wide open and how calm and casually they are singing."- itsthewendigo
Most of these stories are the sort of things no one should ever witness in their lives.
One can only hope they all got and continue to get the help and comfort they needed to move on.
As we all know, wisdom is earned with time and life experience. Try explaining that to youngsters when they have questions that are too complicated for them to grasp.
Kids will always be inquisitive but they usually aren't ready to receive answers–especially when the subjects are related to the concepts of romantic passion and death.
The best response to give a child when they ask about a mature topic is what Mrs. Potts (R.I.P. Angela Lansbury) told Chip in response to his observation of the budding romance between Belle and the Beast:
"I'll tell you when you're older."
Curious to hear examples of earned wisdom, Redditor dickdockdack asked:
"What is the single most 'you’ll understand it when you’re older' thing?"
Getting older can be unpleasant over time. But children need not worry about it until they have to."
Unexplainable Ailments
"Health issues. I know I've been genetically lucky, but after 20, random sh*t just starts happening for no reason. It's like Darryl developing a soy allergy at 35, who develops a soy allergy at 35?"
– hey_there_kitty_cat
Kids, when your grade school classmates stop pulling your hair and you stop retaliating mercilessly, you'll learn a thing or two about the people you call "friends."
Value Of Friendship
"That the quality rather than quantity of friends matters."
– pinetreeroad
Sure, Everyone Is Cordial, BUT
"Good people aren't always nice people, and vice versa."
– bibbidibobbidi-bacon
High Stakes
"High school drama isn’t important. Like, at all."
– lalondtm
Kids Are Influential
"Understanding why your parents wanted you to go play with the awkward kid, or why they were so keen to help you make friends."
"It's beyond annoying as a kid when your parents try to guide who make friends with, but most parents instinctually know that bad social habits start early, are hard to break, and can be a real burden when you are older."
– zazzlekdazzle
They Come And Go
"Friendships fading away."
"I remember my dad telling me all kinds of cool stories about things him and his friends did in the past. I even asked him 'why aren't you still friends with these people?' He really did basically say 'it's complicated, you'll understand when you're older.' Even back then I remember thinking 'that's crazy, me and my friends will always be friends."'
"Sitting here now in my early 30's and it really hits home."
– Slowjams
Here are some honorable mentions.
Passing On "Luxuries"
"Can we get McDonald's? No we have food at home."
– ninten-dont
Kitchen Rule
"Why it’s so annoying when you forget to take the chicken out of the freezer."
– steviebergwijn
Convenience Of Zapping Food
"Man, I don’t know how parents in particular survived before the microwave oven. I’m a reasonably not-incompetent home cook, I understand there’s nothing you can do with a microwave that you can’t do without one - but doing without requires a lot more time, attention, and planning ahead, all of which are in very short supply with little kids underfoot."
"Also, unsolicited LPT: use the lower power settings, they do take longer, but they allow the heat to diffuse out of the 'hot spots' faster than it accumulates, so you get a nice, evenly-heated meal, and not an ice salad with lava dressing."
– bonos_bovine_muse
Getting old is a cruel fact of nature.
Loneliness Hits Hardest
"Why elderly people in nursing homes who get no visitors are so lonely and filled with despair."
– Back2Bach
Hardest Decisions
"We had to put my mom in a home because we physically could not care for her anymore. She didn’t want to be there and we didn’t want her to be. But there weren’t any other options."
"My dad was there every day until he got sick and died. My sister and I stopped in a couple of times a week each. The last month of her life I was there every day."
"I hope she knew I did the best I could to take care of her."
– BlondieeAggiee
We currently live in a fast-paced society where youngsters almost always have play dates, birthday parties, county fairs to attend, etc.
This is to be expected as kids are always needing to be stimulated.
Little do they know of the inevitability of doing nothing becomes a luxury to look forward to.
Until then, younglings, live life to the fullest and your reward of chilling out will come when you have learned to recognize it.