Picking up a new passion is exciting. Certain things seem like they'd be super fun to start because they look so simple to do. However, a lot of times, things that look easy are, in fact, the total opposite. Here are a few examples of things that are way harder than they look.
u/PrideOfPR7 asked: What's something that looked easy but you failed horribly when you tried it?
Let me cry...
<p>I once tried to do one of those things where you drink an entire water bottle in a couple seconds and i ended up choking on it and spitting it out all over my friend/cousin. the embarrassing part was that this was in my history class. everyone was just staring at me for a moment in complete silence and i was dying laughing but also super embarrassed. the look on my teachers face as she slowly shook her head and sighed made me want to cry. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp0z6ef?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">txketheride</a></p>multiplayer....
<p>trying online multiplayer for the first time.</p><p>I remember dominating my friends/family (I used to win 90% of the time) at Halo, Gears of War, and COD on local multiplayer. then when I finally got Xbox live I vividly remember getting stomped by other players for weeks until I adjusted to online.</p><p>I'm pretty good now but every now and again i'll vs someone who is on a whole other level and i'll get put in my place again. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp146ip?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">ThatKiwiBloke</a></p>the struggle.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzI2NDI1Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1OTI0ODEzNH0.dVaR6fJVfhX6TMj1h_mqTsVT9CQnGyJ6vy2zmwlPL3M/img.gif?width=980" id="7d29d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="207ceb87092deed555112bbfd25ac131" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="320" data-height="240" />Giphy<p>Maintaining good posture for a whole day—you gotta start that crap early in life otherwise you're gonna struggle even in your 20's LOL. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp16kuk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">bapresapre</a><span></span></p>Immediate.Â
<p>Waterskiing. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp0y8bu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Boston_Strong_CQB241</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp0y8bu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"></a>Even though we went out to a big lake (Mead) almost every weekend during the summer while I was growing up, it took me years to be able to slalom ski. Everyone else in my extended family seemed to pick it up immediately. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp1z9ku?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">MazeTheorist</a></p>Let's Talk About....
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzI2NDI2MC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMTI4NzIwOH0.yQC6vA70TTqWLVossR-OVrgiGts195MdECWA74R4V8c/img.gif?width=980" id="30063" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="33244c9764ce16a5487408e95038af95" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="250" />Giphy<p>Im just gonna say it.</p><p>Sex. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp15cgm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Ranger343</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp15cgm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"></a><span></span>I honestly want to say that sex should be fun and not grueling and hard. It's ok to be lazy and slow. I like to lay on my back at an angle and him lay on his side and neither one of us is doing a whole lot of work. It's harder to touch but extremely enjoyable. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp1arik?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">demonfairy69</a></p>The Switch....
<p>Making a time table and following it to turn my life around.</p><p>I always thought I can do it the day I decide to. It turned out to be very difficult and I had/have a lot of moments when I just turn the old me. Now I know it is not a flick switch but a continuous process and one is supposed to take many small steps. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp12mo6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">lowkeyjakey</a></p>I suck.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzI2NDI2Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MjA3MDQ1NX0.xx1isaAuhHxk9ZwPXgyqFnXUPGmcvEl-ogyTWtz855w/img.gif?width=980" id="15d4d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4b825c3838d70d7c361f6bdf7675eb2c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="336" />Giphy<p>Woodwork. You buy wood, you cut it to the right dimensions, you screw/glue it together. Seriously, how damn hard can that be.</p><p>Yet somehow, I suck at woodwork. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp15v6g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"> HoggishPad</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HoggishPad/" target="_blank"></a></p>Jump! Or not....
<p>Ski jumping a tiny little 1foot high mogul size jump without using legs as shock absorbers and ending up landing in a fire sale 🔥 and split lip from ski shooting up my face into the air. Required 3 stitches to fix. Scar reminds me daily to not be a dumb fool. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp0yj5b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">j_k_802</a></p>RIDE!!!
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzI2NDI2NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTk1NTc2OH0.6Dts1tO4j1yscwZM_822x9YTb6PP12spFypYhztEijA/img.gif?width=980" id="e94a4" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="68eb5dd145bb447c2c306f08d234bc98" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="268" />Giphy<p>Riding a mechanical bull. It looks easy, and when I talk to people who have done it they gave me a few pointers. I watched all night at people who were both good and bad and "figured it out". I hopped on and of course I did well when it went slow, but as soon and the operator sped it up, WOOSH i went. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gaonoz/whats_something_that_looked_easy_but_you_failed/fp15ujz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">shaka_sulu</a></p>Using the fingers...
<p>Knitting. I worked with a woman at a hardware store who would knit while she was taking care of customers (the woman was a goddess of hardware). I am a Doctor Who fan and I asked her to teach me. Making my fingers move the way they needed made my hands feel alien like I was forcing them to do something they weren't made to do. </p>Bob Ross is the solution.
<p>Painting. It looks so simple, but it hardly ever is.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thisisisle/" target="_blank">thisisisle</a></p><p>Just paint along with Bob Ross! Who needs creativity when you can imitate instead?</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/twirlingpink/" target="_blank">twirlingpink</a></p>Not as simple as it looks.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE4MTYxMC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0Mzg2NDI3MX0.xmCL9QcYH9UIzn0ujYbPMErxWq8-bTrr2kyKTjDU6jk/img.gif?width=980" id="1a19d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e62e5a16c38656288df8ba418d2c5cda" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="402" data-height="484" />Giphy<p>Dancing. They make it look so easy and smooth!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Orangekosher21/" target="_blank">Orangekosher21</a></p><p>When your college GF is just twirling and shimmying around and you try to do... things. Then she's pulling out her phone, calling 911 and saying "help my boyfriend is having a seizure."</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThadisJones/" target="_blank">ThadisJones</a></p>It happens.
<p>Cartwheels. D*mn near broke my arm when I tried.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nachtopus/" target="_blank">Nachtopus</a></p><p>Competitive dancer here: dislocated my elbow trying to do an aerial because "I've done years of cartwheels and I flip on hoops and silks all the time, an aerial is just a cartwheel with no hands, how hard can it be?"</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mollybecute/" target="_blank">mollybecute</a></p>They're very different instruments.
<p>As a pianist, I badly overestimated how much of my ability would translate to trying a drum set for the first time.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tbone139/" target="_blank">Tbone139</a></p><p>Ironically it was the opposite for me. I started off on piano, was mediocre at it, but then became really good on the drums.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jakov_Salinsky/" target="_blank">Jakov_Salinsky</a></p>Stick shift is the worst.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE4MTYxMi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3NDE3Njg0OH0.mMFIu-f0heReib4X8e-Km7vayxeonfLwAIEIbzp89qQ/img.gif?width=980" id="5db4e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b2242f76ec456fc54a69a51a6414dbef" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="320" data-height="240" />Giphy<p>Driving a car for the first time.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JohnO500/" target="_blank">JohnO500</a></p><p>ESPECIALLY if it's stick and you never noticed. Stalling a car multiple times in a parking lot is very humbling.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/boochpls/" target="_blank">boochpls</a></p>Relatable.
<p>Losing weight.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/melindseyme/" target="_blank">melindseyme</a></p><p>Opposite of this is true too - gaining weight is just as difficult. I add heavy cream to everything imaginable just for the extra calories. I have grown to f*cking hate food.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Preskewl_Prostitewt/" target="_blank">Preskewl_Prostitewt</a></p>A lot of people THINK they're good at it...
<p>Rapping, I feel like everyone underestimates it until someone dares you to try it and you absolutely fail.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/treblethedog/" target="_blank">treblethedog</a></p><p>Everyone who tries rapping always starts with "my name is ____, I'm here to say..." lmao it kills me every time.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mrschestnyspurplehat/" target="_blank">mrschestnyspurplehat</a></p>Exercise is hard.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE4MTYzMy9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MjQ1NDI2MH0.TjGJPqQIRfwD4ohICLmIGEQZ_nLB-UVMuvu2qQAuSms/img.gif?width=980" id="95115" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0b09ddce671ee9d628451ef3b8661299" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="288" />Giphy<p>Pull ups. I learned very quickly that I have basically 0 upper body strength.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thatpurplegirl140/" target="_blank">thatpurplegirl140</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thatpurplegirl140/" target="_blank"></a>Related:</p><p>I wanted to improve my upper body strength and looked up one of those 30 day push up things. Day 1 was like 5 push ups.</p><p>Turns out I can't even do 1, I just collapsed on the floor when I had barely moved from full up position.</p><p>I had to start on some other arm strength exercises first.</p><p>I'm 3 weeks in and still can't do a full proper press up but I can get down about half way, and get back up again!</p><p>Upper body stuff is hard.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PM_ME_VEG_PICS/" target="_blank">PM_ME_VEG_PICS</a></p>Street Fighter = chess?
<p>Playing fighter games like Tekken or Street Fighters. The pros know the special combinations for every character and there's apparently a technique where they can "read" their opponent's pattern so they can plan their next move, sort of like chess.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fihsbogor_is_back/" target="_blank">fihsbogor_is_back</a></p>Not so easy.
<p>My godd*mn computer desk. You get it and you think "Oh this'll be easy, I'll just follow the directions. I know how to use a screwdriver what could go wrong???"</p><p>12 missing screws, 1 manual written in Portuguese, 6 and half hours and one broken relationship later you realize that maybe you aren't the handyman you thought you were.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Pusa/" target="_blank">The_Pusa</a></p>You ever read something on the internet and think, "well that can't be real"? Sometimes there are facts that are so outlandish that you can't believe that they're true. The real world is a very strange place, and thanks to the internet, we have access to the weird truths about the world. Here are a few examples.
u/XNTOL asked: What fact sounds fake at first but is actually real?
How do you even figure that out?
<p>The day Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire was the exact middle of his life, to the day.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/divshappyhour/" target="_blank">divshappyhour</a></p><p>Talk about a mid-life crisis. I'll see myself out.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gbr555/" target="_blank">gbr555</a></p>Bad joke.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3NDk4OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MjM0NDYwNn0.2fCBFguL5wze_hU_DmAAMoY48g28MDtlIPerjgtzR30/img.gif?width=980" id="c0377" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="97f587e967e24ff95c1fad513677e017" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Giphy<p>A Russian luxury SUV Manufacturer attempted and failed to use whale penis skin for their SUV interiors.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PersephoneXXX1209/" target="_blank">PersephoneXXX1209</a></p>Woah.
<p>It is estimated viruses kill about 50% of ocean biomass every 4 days.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SonofBenson/" target="_blank">SonofBenson</a></p><p>99.9% of which is bacteria and single-celled plants and animals, just in case anyone's thinking "wow what do they do with all the dead whales".</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThadisJones/" target="_blank">ThadisJones</a></p>Bad squirrels.
<p>Iran arrested 14 squirrels on suspicion of espionage.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PizzaLeftovers_/" target="_blank">PizzaLeftovers_</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PizzaLeftovers_/" target="_blank"></a>Nigeria once arrested a goat for stealing stuff in human form.</p><p>Some other African country arrested someone for murdering a human in hyena form.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ithilras/" target="_blank">ithilras</a></p>Witchcraft!
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3NDk5Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTk0MjQwNX0.BqELzS3m0bvi0c1Qh27_6UAmNHXEdpoaNNF07nUsT6c/img.gif?width=980" id="b9a32" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="eb44a46ffd289a62083ed97079c38c8c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="245" data-height="145" />Giphy<p>When compasses were first used on ships, sailors were afraid of them because they thought it had evil powers. Compasses were stored in boxes called a "binnacle".</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thisisanasparagus/" target="_blank">thisisanasparagus</a></p><p>That's funny. My husband was asking me, "How do you say compass in Spanish?" to which I replied, brújula. He was like, "Brújula? That sounds like bruja, a witch." The name makes sense if they were thought to have evil powers/brujerÃa/witchcraft.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheOneQueen/" target="_blank">TheOneQueen</a></p>Why would he eat it?
<p>President Coolidge got sent a raccoon for Thanksgiving one year, but instead of eating it, he granted it a pardon because it was "cute".</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LargeBigHuge/" target="_blank">LargeBigHuge</a></p>That's weird.
<p>Orcas are a natural predator to moose.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chrisv267/" target="_blank">chrisv267</a></p><p>Moose swim between islands or from land to islands and orcas annihilate them from below.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chrisv267/" target="_blank">chrisv267</a></p>I didn't know clouds weighed anything.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3NTAyMC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMTkyNzY2Mn0.v0TyL9iCwI_q0aQ4r86A7-DTjsuTeDV51v-pAjV2OjM/img.gif?width=980" id="20cb5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cc51b01d5198802acc7113801cf7d868" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="280" />Giphy<p>A typical cumulus cloud actually weighs 1.1 million pounds (498,951 kg).</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NoC0nnection_/" target="_blank">NoC0nnection_</a></p>The rare pineapple.
<p>It takes 2 years for a pineapple to grow.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BobMightBeCool/" target="_blank">BobMightBeCool</a></p><p>Have a pineapple plant in my yard. Can confirm. It's now Year 4 and it's about to bear 2nd fruit. And you only get one pineapple.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/burnblue/" target="_blank">burnblue</a></p>Bad joke.
<p>There isn't a single bridge across the Amazon River.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BobMightBeCool/" target="_blank">BobMightBeCool</a></p><p>I'm so glad all those bridges across the Amazon River found love.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Panda_Boners/" target="_blank">Panda_Boners</a></p>Kids do the darndest things. They're typically seen as the beacon of innocence, unaware of the horrors of the world. Other kids, well....they ARE the horrors. Here are a few examples of some children who definitely need a time out, courtesy of Reddit.
u/explodingpumpkin2020 asked: What is the worst thing you've seen a little child do?
Wow.
<p>Saw a young girl enter a store with her mom and throw a fit when she couldn't get a Barbie doll. Her wailing caused a group of people to show up and things blew up when the girl decided to say that the woman was not her mom.</p><p>Police were called. I, being a young stocker at the end of my shift, told my manager that the girl came in with the woman and promptly clocked out.</p><p>Long story short, told to me by the manager the next day, the police sorted the situation and they left the property a few hours later.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/holzasago/" target="_blank">holzasago</a></p>Smart kid.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3MTM3OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2Mjc3MDYxOX0.suE7diZZUGkHISc8fFEqaxxdcIT9SwkRXujbYUgDKMY/img.gif?width=980" id="efe8e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3cbd23ec23aa9ee199857869c2e0a59f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="266" />Giphy<p>When my cousin was about 4 years old, caught him spraying hairspray in to the furnace flames trying to "blow the house up." Good times.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DragoonHimself/" target="_blank">DragoonHimself</a></p><p>Blow the house up. Summon the ancient one. Fire and flight. Fire and flight. First the famine then the feast. Grateful we all are to feed the beast.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/yuckmouth/" target="_blank">yuckmouth</a></p>Uhhhh, what?
<p>I do a lot of secure transports between hospitals and psych facilities. I once transported an 8 year old kid who flushed his parents' insulin because he knew they needed it to live.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RRuruurrr/" target="_blank">RRuruurrr</a></p>Don't try this at home.
<p>Remember that scene in Game of Thrones where Gregor Clegane fights Oberyn Martell and pushes his eyes in to blow his head up?</p><p>My mother works in a kindergarten where they accept special needs kids too. She told me one day one of the more special kids got another kid on the ground and started pressing his eyes in just like in the show.</p><p>All the other kids started screaming in terror, not to mention the poor victim and the attending adult couldn't even get him off he was gripping his victim so hard.</p><p>One of the other kids had to run for help and they could finally get him off.</p><p>Luckily the kid didn't suffer any lasting harm.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Just_an_Empath/" target="_blank">Just_an_Empath</a></p>That's definitely not chalk.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3MTM5OS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTMyODg2OH0.yecJwA43p-z-ADJw9d2ufB0DrK3TdoZkvPzJP9rrYTY/img.gif?width=980" id="72eb2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3ebe81296fafb0728207d8be5c86a26b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="198" />Giphy<p>Me, it was me.</p><p>This was at our first house, so I must've been between 2-3 at the time. We were in our driveway with one of my parents' friends, I was just playing around like usual.</p><p>I had a chalk and a dark green easel in my room, which I enjoyed playing with often. So I was in the driveway milling about, when I found a piece of chalk and spotted their friend's dark green car. Toddler me saw no problems with this, so I started drawing.</p><p>My mom saw what I was doing. Suddenly everyone got really upset, really fast. My mom made me drop the chalk, and my hands were COMPLETELY bloody and started to hurt. I was so confused and upset, it didn't occur to me until later what happened. It wasn't chalk, it was glass. I scratched that poor guy's car up to kingdom come with glass.</p><p>We still saw that friend for years afterwards, so it evidently wasn't a friendship ruining moment. I'm sure they paid for the paint job.</p><p>In another case of mistaken identity, did you know that to a child who knows nothing about cacti, certain ones look super soft and fluffy? They're not. They're absolutely not.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Training-Crab/" target="_blank">Training-Crab</a></p>What terrible parenting.
<p>Oh gosh the list could go on for me, but here is one incident that really irked me.</p><p>My sophomore year of college, my cousin asked me if I can take her two daughters (11 and 6) to the mall, because she was busy and the girls wanted to use their spending money. We go to the mall, I buy them ice cream, and they spend their money. As we're leaving, we pass Claire's and boy oh boy does the youngest want to check it out.</p><p>Now here is some backstory with these kids: their mom (my cousin) doesn't punish them worth of sh*t. I had their son throw a toy train at me once and all I got in response when I told his mom was "He's 9 and you're 19, just be the bigger person. He's just a kid". THAT kind of parenting.</p>Good kitty.
<p>My neighbour's kid was burning ants to death with a magnifying glass. After a while he decided that ants were too boring so he tried to hold down his cat burn it with the magnifying glass.</p><p>Let's just say the cat f*cked the kid up.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PotentialTravel9/" target="_blank">PotentialTravel9</a></p>Poor frogs.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE3MTQzMy9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNjk1Mzk1NX0.sVyJeqg2D1CvPlnZK6L6g6-dg9iEdAaP77YsC3iERDk/img.gif?width=980" id="25946" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a8e43fd9a84207f3bb49065b6ce466a3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="245" data-height="184" />Giphy<p>Toss a bucket of frogs onto the hot grills of a fire. He was 9 at the time.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mr_Frible/" target="_blank">Mr_Frible</a></p>Why are these kids so mean to cats?
<p>A neighbor's kid would mercilessly throw their 2 cats into the pool.</p><p>The cats would fight and scratch, but that didn't stop the boy from flinging the cats repeatedly into the pool and forcing them to "swim or drown."</p><p>(His father finally broke him of this behavior by throwing the kid in the pool, clothes and all, every time he caught his son torturing the cats.)</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Back2Bach/" target="_blank">Back2Bach</a></p>There's always something inherently charming about where we grew up. The memories, the family, the old haunts- visiting is just so special. But there's always that one thing that our hometowns are known for, for better or for worse. Here are a few examples from the kind people over at Reddit.
u/reva_r asked: Without naming it, what is your hometown known for?
Stereotypes suck.
<p>Crime, unfortunately.</p><p>That's what it's known for on TV and movies and video games but it is so much more than that. It's amazing communities and small businesses and sh*tty roads and a lot of diversity ... I just love it so much and it makes me cringe every time I hear a flippant joke about my beloved home.</p><p>I guess if you're not from here you probably don't notice it, but we're the butt of a LOT of jokes.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DTownForever/" target="_blank">DTownForever</a></p>I'm from San Diego too!
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE2ODY0OS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjQzNzEyOX0.Nyo2TVJVdprrMVCRih_YwUT6saMxCmsGhgcYPLE-o7s/img.gif?width=980" id="a62aa" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="57b522be3acb61654c7230c75c0bbf8e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="300" />Giphy<p>A whale's vagina.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RealLeeSD/" target="_blank">RealLeeSD</a></p><p>San Diahhgo. Of course.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/judgehood/" target="_blank">judgehood</a></p>Yikes.
<p>Hitler was born there.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Oachkatzi/" target="_blank">Oachkatzi</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Oachkatzi/" target="_blank"></a>Sorta similar, but my town is known for the "Hitler Dad".</p><p><a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2008/12/child_named_after_adolf_hitler.html" target="_blank">https://www.nj.com/news/2008/12/child_named_after_adolf_hitler.html</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JanisVanish/" target="_blank">JanisVanish</a></p>Atlanta?
<p>Coca-Cola.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sonikku10/" target="_blank">sonikku10</a></p><p>I think I had a layover there once.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/droughtingcatsndogs/" target="_blank">droughtingcatsndogs</a><span></span></p><p>I thought the joke was if you ever flew in the US you had a layover there.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/golden_fli/" target="_blank">golden_fli</a></p>Sounds delicious.
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE2ODY4Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MDQ2MjU5NX0.4jH-tognDY8h2YSZvUDAG56m1haPsto1Snx39kmVkMw/img.gif?width=980" id="f0970" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="afd0a488c1593ef036326d6e15986acc" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="400" data-height="225" />Giphy<p>A plate of food that one would think was the hot item at a raccoon restaurant.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TaliskyeDram/" target="_blank">TaliskyeDram</a></p><p>Long shot but Rochester? I'm thinking of the garbage plate.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/didymeia/" target="_blank">didymeia</a></p>Honestly, this could be a lot of places.
<p>Chlamydia and Ice.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/taylah3/" target="_blank">taylah3</a><span></span></p><p>Sounds like most of rural Australia.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kn777/" target="_blank">kn777</a></p><p>Australia's koalas have taken additional steps to cope with the bushfires.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WeBeVibin/" target="_blank">WeBeVibin</a></p>How wholesome!
<p>Jelly Belly Factory!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ball_is_lifex17/" target="_blank">Ball_is_lifex17</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ball_is_lifex17/" target="_blank"></a>I got to go there in 2005! I was disappointed we didn't get to see the jellybeans actually being made, though. Just a tram tour around the perimeter of a warehouse.</p><p>I just recently found an old jellybean container full of dried-out jelly husks, it was the most fascinating thing. I'd never seen a jellybean rot and leave this porous exoskeleton behind.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/StrawberryR/" target="_blank">StrawberryR</a></p>Houston!
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzE2ODcwNi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MTQzNTgwMH0.3Hy7gU08gng6UGb5BsrJs_lJSQpr2ce-4OMA-CoYTVE/img.gif?width=980" id="eecee" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f6a1d391dc4efb25764b63c2cce9f4d9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="384" data-height="480" />Giphy<p>We're the place you call in the cliche when you say "we have a problem".</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/brutallyhonestfemale/" target="_blank">brutallyhonestfemale</a></p><p>I love calling my dad (ex Mission Control) every so often and saying this.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bullshitfree/" target="_blank">bullshitfree</a></p>What a kind city.
<p>Helping people who Come From Away when they're stranded.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RQ-0430/" target="_blank">RQ-0430</a></p><p>Gander! The whole world owes you a debt of gratitude.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sarabeara12345678910/" target="_blank">sarabeara12345678910</a></p>What's going on in Milwaukee?
<p>Two girls stabbing a third girl because they wanted to meet Slenderman...</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bananas21/" target="_blank">bananas21</a><span></span></p><p>Greater Milwaukee area. Also home to the Making a Murderer guy and Gypsy Rose's boyfriend.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheFalconKid/" target="_blank">TheFalconKid</a></p>When it comes to parting ways with someone, sometimes ghosting them is the only option. It sucks all around, but some situations call for it. Even if it's your friend. Here are some examples of situations where ghosting a friend was the best way to go.
u/dontmindme137 asked: What made you ghost a friend?