Foolish Mistakes You Recovered Well From

You lost me at buying a lot of bootlegs. You are a thief. That should be your regret.

A triple bypass.

the Quad Lutz/Axel with folded arms in the air

This is your idea of a "foolish mistake?" Quite a charmed life you lead, OP. That time you bought milk without checking the expiration date must be a close second.

Tori, of all musicians, includes some downright odd gifts with her CDs. The deluxe edition of her Beekeeper album came with seed packets, and she released a limited edition of her live album From Russia with Love that came with a camera.

Being fat

Falling face first into a life of meth addiction off and on for 15 years. It really was all I lived for for the first five years. I spent the next 5 full blown sex addict tweaker, then another 5 years relapsing. I’m 11 years sober and living a great life, but wish I never picked up and did it even once.

If you think you have a problem with meth, you probably do. If you’ve never done it and addiction or alcoholism run in your family, don’t even do it once.

Taking a job at a failing family retail business run by grifters.

They tried to scam me and other employees out of pay for months on end, lied to us about tax fraud, harassed up off company time, and made us work in unsafe and unclean conditions among other things. Unbeknownst to the Bosses and under instruction from my bookkeeping mother, I kept very precise and accurate records about my hours and backpay, and upon quitting managed to sue them successfully and get my money back, as well as report them for fraud.

Childbirth.

R6 = Karen Carpenter

[quote] Childbirth.

you too ?

R4 Erm yeah I consider it to have been foolish. Foolish doesn't imply death defying, does it?

And I'm interested to hear more from more people.

Every time I did something dumb growing up, my mom would just say "Did you learn anything?"

Acting. It was always beneath my station. Actresses used to be regarded as being as lowly as common whores for very good reason. Granted, I was an uncommon whore and I did win an Academy Award™️, but I did display my bosom, pert and taut as they were, like two Parisian choquettes springing forth from the delicate lacy undercarriage of my sternum.

But one has to get these impulses out of one's system if one is to grow and blossom spiritually like a chrisanthymum, mustn't one?

Like a phoenix, I rose from the ashes of a humilating career as a reciter of working-class writers' lines to become a self-made media maven and entrepreneurial powerhouse. Like a phoenix I continue to ascend, a goddess now midway to my destiny in the firmament as an eternal constellation. A living myth. Queen of the heavens.

have another Kale sandwitch and STFU, Gwyn.

I never made any foolish mistakes. Obviously.

Supporting Chelsea F.C. when I was a schoolkid. I mostly only did it to piss off my Man United fan Dad. And I liked the royal blue kit with the heraldic crest. And I had a crush on Frank Lampard.

Stopped supporting them in the early 2010s, long before all the recent scandals came out. Just didn’t like the way the team was going, and I guess my gut was right.

Getting a DUI in my 20s. Stupidest decision of my life.

I dodged a HUGE bullet, because at the time, I was using blow regularly. However, I didn't have any on me at the time of my arrest.

The DUI was enough to scare me into vowing to never drink again -- and I haven't, in over 11 years. I'm not sure anything else would have motivated me to quit. I knew that I could not risk getting another one (I have acquaintances with multiple DUI convictions and it fucks up your life in major ways -- hell, even ONE never goes away). At the time of my arrest, I had a serious drinking problem, if not full-blown alcoholism, and it was a major wake-up call. I also quit smoking cigarettes and using blow.

r7 congrats on 11 years of sobriety.

R17 Drinking and then driving is stupid and it is reckless. It is also something countless people do, only most get away with it.

I didn't taste alcohol until I was 22 and I made a rule for myself only to drink while on vacation when I would not drive or in other instances when I wouldn't be driving. (It's not an issue for me now as I have lived in a city for over a decade and almost never drive.)

I have been out at bars or dinners literally hundreds of times when I had less to drink than most people and I was one of few people or the only person who didn't drive there. "I'm fine, I'm fine." One older woman I work with only drinks tequila shots and she has had five or six and then insisted on driving home while others urge her not to. She has not had an incident yet.

People appear to think that gauging their intoxication is an art they have mastered and they confidently go off and get on the road and risk their lives and others' lives. It is extremely common. It is terrible.

You should cut your guilt some slack. You did a dumb thing. You lucked out and didn't hurt anyone—very lucky. You did what the majority of people in the US do, and you got caught while most do not.

You are normal, not worse than most people.

And you are better because you learned your lesson.

I get really angry inside when I hear people rage against a drunk driver who killed people on the road mostly because most of the people I have witnessed doing that, I've seen have a lot to drink and then drive home.

I purchased a promotional box of Kellogg's cornflakes featuring Tori Amos to promote her Cornflake Girl single off of eBay for $180. I received it two weeks later and it was just a tiny box of cereal with a Tori sticker stuck on it!

So foolish, but I gave the seller one star.

In most states, you can get a DUI for sleeping it off in a parked car. And, as r18 points out, you will be judged harshly by people who regularly drive drunk while thinking they are “fine.”

Thanks r18

I was molested.

Watching Lucille Ball's Mame

R17, thank you.

Sobriety requires you to make an assessment about your station in life, recognize you are on a dangerous path, reach outside yourself and seek help, and to commit to living differently. What really helped me early on was to separate emotion from the equation and take evaluate myself more clinically. You have to have a satisfying experience sober or you will go back to drinking and drugs. It’s not for the faint hearted!

The solution I find in AA is that today’s society has mostly sanded off all the rough edges of drinking and drugging, in fact, many people are given multiple chances to destroy their lives, few people are homeless or destitute unless they’re mentally ill. Most of the gay meth addicts I met in NYC having seroconverted because meth addiction, livein public housing and didn’t have to worry about their health or living situation that much.

Sadly, having less consequences, it keeps them in a tight loop of relapse.

The saddest are those that walk the Earth and never realize they have a problem, it’s completely invisible to them and they instead blame everyone else or their upbringing or station in life rather than admitting they have the disease itself,

Anyone who ever was or is a fan of Tori Amos has made a colossal life mistake that is irredeemable. How can anybody take someone who wrote a song called “Cornflake Girl” seriously?