And Yet Still Yet Even More Real life screwups!

Brandon

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"My biggest screw up happened when I decided to shut my dad out of my life. I decided to shut my dad out of my life when I came home from school and he was just gone. He had taken everything, and he had and moved out without telling me or my mom. This to me is the worst thing that has happened in my life, and it hurt me beyond belief.

For a while, I tried so hard to see my dad and to make him happy, but nothing worked. He was too busy with his new girlfriend, so I just gave up. I won’t answer any of his phone calls or his text messages because when I was there and wanted answers he was not and wanted nothing to do with me. Now that it is convenient for him he wants to see me. But I am so sick of everything he has put me and my mom through, so I decided to shut him out and move on with my life.

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t wish I had my dad back. The dad I once knew, that used to go for bike rides or play baseball with me in the front yard, is now gone and there is nothing I can do to get him back. I loved my dad more than anything and I would have never expected him to ever do something like that to me. I guess I never knew who he was. It’s better to have no dad than to be put through hell over and over again. I know what I’m doing probably isn’t the right decision to make, but it is what makes things a little bit easier right now.

I have screwed up and let the only dad I will ever have out of my life. I think I’m at the point where it’s too late to fix this, so I have to live with the mistake that I have made and move on with my life. :’( "

Britney

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Dalton

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"When I was ten years old, my brother and two sisters and I got into a spaghetti and tomato sauce fight. We were home by ourselves and my parents made us dinner. The fight started because my second oldest sister Hannah, and my brother Shane, got into a fight and my sister Hannah thought that it would work if she threw food at my brother.  It just made it worse.

My sister Mayghen and I thought “we want fun,” so we started to throw our dinner around. Then we looked at the time and we were thinking that our parents were coming home soon, “so we need to clean up.” So we started to scrub everything. There was sauce all over the counters, table, walls, the cabinets--it was every where and it was all over us to. As we started to clean up the house, my parents came home; they asked us what we were doing. We said that we were just cleaning. My parents, being the smart ones they are, noticed all of the sauce every where.

The next day we were grounded, and we had to clean the whole house top to bottom. We learned a really big lesson that day!"

~Emmalee

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"When I was like eight or nine, I was just getting home from school, and I was really hungry and my mom and I were making mac and cheese. She left the room to get something, by the time she came back I was running with the garbage can that was on fire. When she left the water started to boil and I thought that it was going to over flow so I took the pan and moved it to the back burner so that it wouldn’t. I must have ended up pushing the chesse packet to the burner and that was the fist to catch on fire.  I started to flip out, so the first thing I thought of doing was to throw it away, but that was the biggest mistake that I have ever made in my life!"

Halicia

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"I had just gotten into high school. I was a freshman and not interested in learning. So, I didn’t do my work all year. I got straight F’s. I felt bad about it, but I didn’t do anything about it either. Now I am half a freshmen, half a sophomore trying to catch up to my sophomore class. I have to take classes over to get the subjects I need. I might have to take summer school just to get enough credits to graduate with my class. This is my biggest screw up."

Jenna

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"One day during the summer I wanted to make something to eat. But I did not want to make anything big so I went with a grilled cheese sandwich. So, after I had everything put together I put it on the oven. I realized that it was taking too long to cook, so I looked at the burner.

As it turns out, I had turned the wrong burner on. On top of the one I turned on there was a plate. I went to pick it up and it broke into a million pieces and flew all over the floor and some of the pieces hit the dog I was watching. It scared the crap out of me! I thought more about the dog than I did anything else at that moment. After I cleaned every thing up, I still had nothing to eat. So, I had to start all over again, but this time I made it sure it was the right burner and that there was nothing else on top of the oven. And that is one of my screw ups."

Megan

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"Well, my biggest screw up was in the winter of last year. I had just turned sixteen; my girlfriend at the time lived in the next town over. I went out with a couple of my friends one night and I received a text from her.  She asked me if I wanted to sneak over to her house. Being the genius I was, I didn’t listen to instinct or common sense. I went over at 9: 30 P.M., this was a bad decision in the first place, but I went with it. Now you’re probably thinking I’m an idiot for doing this, but hey I am.

Anyway, I got there, snuck up to her room, she put on a movie; we watched about half of it and got “bored.” The next morning I woke up at four A.M.; I had to sneak out before her parents woke up. They are freaking early birds and a half. I walked to the door and kissed her on the way out, and I walked down her road and down the highway to my friend’s house because I was supposed to be sleeping over there. Ha.

About an hour into my two hour trek, I realized something; I am a retard for thinking that this was a good idea. For all you guys and girls out there who think it’s cool to sneak over to each other’s houses to have sex but don’t think about how cold it is outside or that you might have to walk two hours in the snow, well its not a good idea. Idiots don’t think of those things, idiots like me. Decisions like the one I made will come back to haunt you.

Trust me, I paid for it. Point is, don’t get caught up with stupid ideas that you think are grand ones… if you do, you’re just as stupid as I was. You never know who’s going to screw your life up. That’s my big screw up.  I hope you enjoyed reading this because I didn’t enjoy going through it."

Ralphie

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"At my fifth birthday party, it was almost towards the end of the party and it was time to crack open the piñata. I watched as the kids were being blind folded and spun around in a circle and tried to open the piñata. Soon it was my turn.  After I was blind folded and spun around, I raised the wooden bat over my head with a chopping motion.

But I ended up hitting my friend Emmalee in the face because she was on her way to see her sister and went behind me. I didn’t know what I had done until after I cracked open the piñata and turned to see Emmalee. I ended up giving her a bloody nose, a fat lip and a chipped tooth. It was a bloody mess! I felt so bad about it. So to this day we’re still friends and we always joke around and laugh about it. I learned to be more carful after that."

Suzanna

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"I remember one time I had what appeared to be my worst day ever.
 I wanted to make myself something to eat because at the time my family was really poor….and still is. Anyway I decide to make some Spaghettios, and we didn’t have any lids so I used something that no one else would ever use in a microwave--reflective tin foil! I don’t want to go into detail, but there was a thunderstorm that night… albeit in my microwave, but it was a thunderstorm nonetheless. 

My parents were furious when they got home.  My father went down to the German shooting range, and my mom ended up cooking Ramen Noodles….3 weeks in a row! Later, I took the microwave to our huge dumpster can.  I took my trash bag, and not wanting to be wasting time (mainly because I was lazy), I just flung it into the dumpster… only to hear “ow” emerge from within it.

I looked inside and there was a local German lady raiding the dumpster, and going through my neighbor’s thrown out laundry! I looked in and found that the bag I had thrown out had exploded all over her. Her husband, who had been carrying a TV set to his car, had dropped it, cussed at me in German, and chased me to my house, broken bottle in hand.  Well that’s the end of my story. I hope you liked this day better than I did, but I'm ok. I escaped with my life… and half a set of hair - hehe."

Warren

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