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The water main leading into the house burst, requiring the contractors to lay a new pipe from the street into the first floor. I had to clear everything out, and then go get jugged water to last a week for a family of 4.I asked to take the afternoon off work so I could take care of this, and they said it would be a writeup for unexcused absence. This pissed me off to no end because I had recouped hundreds of thousands of dollars that my predecessor had lost, and generally unfucked their processes. Not really intending to quit, I rage applied to jobs just to blow off steam and landed a new job with a $30,000 pay boost, WFH, and complete schedule flexibility.
I went in on my day off work thinking I had a shift that day , I didn’t but they were short staffed for the lunch rush so I stayed for a few hours . I ran into my childhood friend who moved away 15 years prior .. we are now married with kids
I made a left turn instead of a right turn when I noticed restaurant I liked had closed. I reopened it and 35 years later we are still going strong. It’s not especially heartwarming but it changed my life as well as my wife, my kids and 28 employees lives.
Knocked on the wrong dorm room in college.A guy answered he asked if I was there for the card game I said “sure.” And ended up meeting an amazing girl. We’ve been together for 25 years
Went for a coffee with a friend before he went out to pitch a tv show in LA. He asked what I was up to and I mentioned the comic book I was planning to write. His pitch went well and the studio asked if he had any sci fi ideas. He pitched my idea and a month later I was in LA with a bunch of agents and managers wanting to sign me.
I was solo travelling to Peru at the end of 2019 and spent a week in Cusco doing a trek and visiting Machu Picchu. At the end of the trip, I had a 6 hour layover in Lima where a guy who I was practicing Spanish with met me at the airport so we could hang out in person.We really hit it off and knew we wanted to be more than friends but circumstances (like living in two different countries) didn’t make it possible. As I was getting ready to board my next flight to Mexico, security asked where my entrance stamp to Peru was.I said it’s in my passport of course. But it wasn’t. I didn’t have an entrance stamp into the country, therefore I couldn’t leave the country.So I called my Spanish practicing partner and told him the situation. He came back to the airport and we ended up spending 4 more days together because it was Friday and the immigration office was open Monday (for me to get my stamp) and then I was rescheduled to fly out Tuesday.It was an amazing four days.Long story short, we are now married almost 4 years later!
I got into some trouble while very, very drunk.When I got sober I wrote a thank you note to someone who treated me really well and urged me to get help.He was friends with the editor of the local newspaper and thought my letter was well written. He asked if he could show her and I said yes, then kinda forgot about it.A few months later the editor came to find me to offer me a part time job filling in for someone.I’ve been working in journalism ever since. The pay sucks but I love it.
I accidentally logged into my ex-girlfriends Facebook on my PC only to see messages pop up with f**k plans with her co-workers.The next morning I pretended I went to work, but I really went to Uhaul, then I waited for her to leave for work and then I packed all my stuff and I drove to my landlords and explained I’m paying my half of the remainder on the lease.I had also printed out the FB conversations and left them in the kitchen.6 years together to complete silence in less than 24 hours. Never spoke a word to each other.That changed my life because it allowed me to take any job I wanted, nothing held me back. I can still feel the October air blowing on my face as I drove away in my Uhaul without a care.
My mum broke her arm and I moved in to help her…I was in a bad place in my life and we both think she saved ME…was doing way too many drugs etc now I’m actually happy :)
I had a serious health scare with physical symptoms to the point that I believed I had developed cancer, so did my husband.During the first week of doctors appts. he revealed his work affair with a 28-year-old colleague to me and ended our marriage over her.Then I found out I don’t have cancer! Just something that can be repaired easily with minor surgery. Best day of my life, and he was with her when I got the news 😜Right after, he actually used my medical situation to try to coax her away from her live-in partner at the time - so she ended their affair. They still work together every day. He looks deeply unhappy now.I feel so healthy now, getting healthier every day, and I’m really excited for the next chapter in my life!
Dropped my phone from my bed onto the floor and the screen (with the protecter) COMPLETELY shattered. Which is weird because I’ve dropped my phone from bigger heights and bad angles and there’s usually just dents in the protecter.Anyways, I’m out a phone and super broke, don’t have the $$$ to get it fixed right away. None of my friends have extra phones so I post on my then-company’s slack channel asking if anyone has a spare phone I can borrow, just for calls and texts, nothing fancy, and I’d be super grateful. Was also going through a terrible heartbreak where I’d been love bombed and then dropped in a second. Just an awful time.So one person responds to my shot in the dark and offers this extra phone he has. I have no clue who he is or what he even does in the company, even though I have several friends in the company. We’d never met because we both worked remotely and no one ever mentioned him to me. Our departments were also very different so there was no interaction ever. I was also bit confused why he’d offer a phone to someone he didn’t even know. Thought he was too trusting lol.Anyways, he couriers me the phone, I end up needing it for longer as I save up, and we finally meet up in person a few months later. Long story short, it’s been a couple years and he became my best friend and then my SO. For the first time in my life, I know what healthy, unconditional love is, he is the embodiment of love that keeps on giving. I grew up seeing an abusive marriage so my idea of love and relationships was completely skewed (still learning in progress). But with him, my heart’s calm. He’s my biggest fan and my rock whenever the going gets tough. There’s no one like him. I don’t know anyone as generous in love as he is.I remember that time and being absolutely gutted that not only had I got my heartbroken in the most miserable way but my phone freakishly completely broke from the shortest of falls, all in the matter of a week. I felt so unlucky for the longest time. But looking back now, I’m so so glad my phone broke that day (and my then-bf ghosted me). Or there was just no way I’d have ever met the love of my life.
i didn’t sign up for enough optional courses in high school because nothing interested me. I By chance got put into Biology among several other options. and got an awesome teacher who made me love the subject. i constantly got really high grades that carried me all the way to university. now im getting into prehospital medical care. I have zero clue what i’d be doing if not for that little bit of luck back then.
Accidentally accepted a friend request of (my now husband) thinking it’s another guy I knew with a similar name. I was ignoring the request before. And the rest is history. Married 12 years now with two kids.The website was orkut. If any of you are old enough to remember it. 🤭
My Dad stubbed the tip of his finger and had a hematoma under his nail. A blood clot travelled to his brain and gave him a stroke and heart attack. He turned into a veggie.Small things, like a fingernail…big things like his life, and his family’s life.
My mother went to the doctor for a routine exam and her doctor noticed a bump on her arm my mom passed off as a cyst. She removed the bump, which she also believed was a cyst and sent it for a biopsy to be safe.Results came back and they weren’t really sure what to make of it. It wasn’t cancer but it wasn’t nothing either.Turns out she had a very rare cancer that appeared benign but behaved malignant.The doctors had no idea how to treat it, even reaching out to other doctors all over the world.She died two years later once it had spread all over her body.The kicker is they believe if the initial bump would’ve been left alone it wouldn’t have spread and killed her.It’s been 2 years, 5 months and 17 days since she’s been gone and I will never stop missing her.
Getting my class A commercial drivers license.Basically tried the majority of work that an individual can get into with a ged. Randomly searched the internet for truck driver jobs out of curiosity. Top of the list was a small form to fill out. A recruiter called me within 5 minutes. They set me up with a bus ticket to their training facility 2 states over and lodging for the duration.All I had to do was bring enough cash and clothes for a week. They paid enough to feed myself the rest of training. Had an over the road job lined up for me right out of training. All I had to do was stick it out with that company at least a year to cover training cost.Boom, entry into a skilled labor field at damn near no up front cost, and a guaranteed minimum 1 year of incredibly valuable experience. This was back in 2008.And for what it’s worth. I didn’t even own my own vehicle yet back then. And I only tried manual transmission vehicles twice for maybe 10 minutes total prior to learning how to drive a 10 speed.Now, I can simply email or walk into a job that interests me with my resume and my experience speaks for itself. I don’t have to sell myself to an employer. They have to sell the job to me.Currently about to start up with a local company less than a 5 minute drive from home. Hauling mostly oversized loads up into and out of the mountains. It’s the highest starting wage I’ve ever had, with a guaranteed multiple $/hr raise once I demonstrate I can do everything they’ll need me to do.Moral of the story, don’t be afraid to try something new or different. You might just be great at it.
My parents made a typo on my FAFSA, Saying my stepdad made $500,000 a year, not $50,000 a year. We discovered the mistake too late and all funding was gone. This was in 2005 when FAFSA was first come first serve. I couldn’t go to college like my whole graduating class. I was depressed and humiliated. Then my aunt stepped up and invited me to come live with her in Europe for a year. Needless to say I went and had one of the most amazing years of my life, and I had a hell of an essay for when I applied for colleges the next year. I got a ton of aid and excelled in college. I paid off my loans 6 years after graduation. Needless to say I did my own FAFSA from then on, and just asked my parents for their taxes each year.All from a typo that I didn’t even make.Edit: forgot to mention the year I was in Europe, my mom and stepdad split, so I didn’t even need tov include his $50k on my FAFSA. This was back in the day when FAFSA included “separated” as a parent designation. They didn’t have to be divorced yet. I ended up rolling in aid. I heard they killed that clause.
My brother asked out a girl when they were 17.My brother started dating this random girl. He needed a job so he started working t the company where her family worked. Next year I needed a summer job so they got me a job at the same company. I liked the job and kept working at the company long after my brother and her broke up. At 21 took a job in another state to further that career and moved 700 miles away from home. Now my partner, all my friends, my hobbies, everything that is my adult life is because of that move.My brother randomly dating a girl for a year when we were teens changed literally everything about my life.
Went to a party in November 2017 for a friend of mine expecting/wanting to see my ex there. I did see him, and we did talk, but the friend whose party I went to was the one I actually ended up with. We had barely spoken before that, but he actually approached me first, totally innocently, thanking me for coming to his party and we made plans for 2018 New Year’s with friends. From then we talked daily, sometimes for 10+ hours.I showed up late at 2am New Year’s Day after work held me back and he was waiting for me after everyone else but one friend left, he did know I’d be late though. We kissed that night, and though we’re not together anymore we had a great 2.5 year relationship, and we now have a beautiful 2 year old child. Though we didn’t work out as lovers I can confidently say he’s a great father and still one of my best friends.
Ruptured my Achilles tendon.As a result, I got very VERY depressed, sought help and entered therapy and consistently went for two years. It was so worth it. I figured out what I wanted with my life, and living where I was living wasn’t it. I had a great job. But I moved to San Diego shortly after, got an even better job and have never been happier.
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I burnt a pair of welding glove while I was at welding school,(Re educating after a failed career in engineering technology)and had to buy some in a hurry. The supply store two doors down had an inside sales rep who loved his job enough that he shared his happiness with me as I shopped. A few years later once I’d divorced, subsequently had gone bankrupt and was having trouble welding due to hand pain a career councillor suggested I get into welding sales. I put in one application to the place with the happy employee. I got a job there, proceeded to meet my soulmate there, get several promotions and have been able to put able to put all that ugliness behind me. I have a great life
My Mexican great grandma hooked up with my American great grandpa in Mexico on a one night stand. It turns out my great grandpa was some big chief of a tribe in the US. His status helped my grandma get citizenship to the US back in the 60s and in turn my dad. Because of this, we were able to move to the US from Mexico when I was a teen in the 90s. Yes, the US has its issues but it’s not Mexico.
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finding a ContraPoints video titled “The darkness” in my recommended videos. This was the first thing that opened my eyes to the possibility of trans people just being normal people living their lives, and the technology actually is kinda there. This was after years of knowing I would rather be a girl if I had the option but not knowing that the technology actually exists, as all media representations of trans people I saw prior were over the top negetive and heavily made me internalize the message that we don’t have the technology yet, but in reality we do, these were deliberately bad representations to scare people out of being trans. Starting hrt in January has made a night and day difference in my mental well being. If I hadn’t started I probably would have killed myself in July, but instead I’ve had the best year of my life so far dispite being out to less than 10 people and still boymoding (presenting as male while on estrogen).
I ordered two pounds of chicken wings from my local place. My order got messed up or the cook didn’t understand but they fried and sauced my wings and then put them on the grill. The sauce carmelized & burnt a little.Oh. My God. These were the very best wings I’ve ever tasted. When the server came back I said “how did you order these? Because I want these every time. She laughed, told me to order them “sauced then toss them on the grill for a minute”, and my life was never the same.20 years later I still order them like that.
I started subbing as a way to make money until I finished college for computer technology, I wanted to go for animation and art but it wasn’t really a paying gig. The goal was when I got married I would move away and use my degree to work. When my fiancé and I split, those plans got ruined and I dropped out of college ( I didn’t want to go anyway but did it for my fiancé) a week after my fiancé and I split I was planning to kill myself, I got a phone call from the school I was subbing for and they offered me a full time position as an art teacher. That job saved my life.
I got super high on some heavy drugs and took the police on a low-key chase throughout my city until about midnight. I ditched my car and started running away on foot. I dodged them for about an hr until they got to me and told me to stop running lol. The situation was never too serious so they held me and put me in a drug facility the next week. Up to that point my drug use was a secret to everyone around me ( at least I thought it was a secret, but now that I think of it they prolly knew). When I got to the treatment I got cleaned up and decided to go to university and get a degree. I finished my bachelors in mathematics and now work as an engineer. I am in my second semester of my masters in computer science. If that day never happened I would prolly be dad right now.Btw the story is much deeper than what I wrote as WAY more stuff happened that day that lead up to the conclusion but for time purposes this is what happened and I am super grateful for this
Randomly decided to take German instead of French when in school as my foreign language the day before class started. I’m now a German teacher. It’s wild how such a small decision shaped my entire life.
Several years ago, I asked a friend where to donate clothes locally that my kids had outgrown instead of Goodwill. She turned me on to a small organization in our state that helps kids in foster care. I ended up falling in love with their mission and becoming very involved, eventually on the board and helping grow them.The impact of learning about the foster care system, and how ordinary people can unite to make a difference in the lives children has and continues to add a profound and positive purpose to my life, for which I’m very thankful.
Diagnosed with Lupus at 17 years old. My world was shattered and never recovered. I don’t feel like I ever got to experience being a young adult or adult and moved straight into a 90 year old body.
After I got out of the military, I went to law school and became an attorney that practiced in a fairly niche area of the law. While the money was really good as a practicing attorney, the hours and the firm life was making me really unhappy. I had a feeling I wanted to go back to the federal government so I went on usajobs to see if there were any postings for government attorney jobs in my area of specialization. I stumbled across a posting from a large three letter agency for special agents conducting criminal investigations in an area adjacent to my field of legal practice. I randomly applied and got the job. It has changed everything in my life for the better and I’m so unbelievably grateful I randomly happened across it. I was nervous about making a sudden, unplanned career change on such a whim but im so happy I did. Every aspect of my life has improved.
Got pregnant the first time I slept with a brand new boyfriend of only 5 weeks.3 years later we got married, been together 16 years in April and just had our 3rd child. The absolute greatest thing that ever happened, we are totally blissfully happy and in love still. And neither of us were really looking for something serious so thanks universe, I probably would have fumbled the bag.
My brother passed away from a drug overdose. We weren’t close and to be honest I wasn’t too sad, as it was not a surprise when I got the call. However, at the time I was working in healthcare (during the pandemic) working more than 40hrs a week while also doing 40hrs a week at an internship. I was extremely depressed and had planned that the last day of my internship I was going to kill myself. I had it all planned out, how I was going to do it and worked on getting my affairs in order for it.I got the call on a Friday morning from my dad as I woke up late for my internship, only about a week and a half left til it was done and I could kill myself. Went in like nothing happened bc all that was going through my brain that day was “well now I can’t kill myself bc everyone will think it was due to my brother’s death” and what am I going to do now. At the time I had a pretty strong hate for the things he made me go through in life, and it was a selfish thought, but honestly the only thing that kept me from doing it was that if I killed myself right after he died, people would think his death effected me that much. I feel guilty for thinking that way at the time, but have worked through it a lot.His death prevented me from killing myself, I got into therapy, started on meds for my mental health, and am finally working at a job I love, plus I’m in a way better position mentally, physically, and financially than I ever believed I could be. I still struggle a lot, but I’m far better off than I ever have been in my life and unfortunately if it weren’t for his overdose, I wouldn’t be here anymore. It really pushed me to take care of myself bc in my mind my only options were to suffer for another few years then commit suicide, or at the least try to get better so if I still come to that decision at least the last few years won’t be so terrible. At a place where I don’t want to do that anymore and if I can’t thank my brother for doing anything else for me in my life, the least I can do is thank him for saving me even though he doesn’t know it and it wasn’t on purpose.
Meeting the love of my life through tinder. Literally didn’t think it was possible. Also don’t use tinder it’s hot garbage.
I was diagnosed as infertile, went through fertility treatments to no avail. This eventually led to my divorce. I got pregnant a year later. Best accident ever!
I had a chance meeting on an online game with a guy, and struck up a conversation. We became fast friends and eventually decided to give a relationship a go, since we didn’t live too far apart. We’ve been together for over 3 years now.
Just met my boyfriend on a dating app from which I was expecting no serious responses. We met up and we had everything in common. I’ve never been in a committed long term relationship and it was like he fell from the stars. I’ve always suffered from serious depression and anxiety issue. I had my life in order, but no one to share it with. Now it feels like the sun has come up and heavens have parted for me. We already love each other very much and I’ve never been happier in my entire life.
I had a hemorrhagic stroke at 23. Almost 29 now.
In the course of three weeks, I applied to and accepted a job transfer from my hometown to their headquarters- partly due to me finally having enough of my toxic and unsupportive family, and partly because I wanted to follow a guy I was seeing at the time because I thought we had a future. My life has been quickly moving upward ever since. I lost that job and the boyfriend, but I leveled up to a company I want to retire at if they’ll let me, met my forever man, and the best group of friends I’ve ever known. I also don’t need antidepressants and my blood pressure has gone way down. I wish I had done this ten years ago.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed extended release adderall. It lead to medication induced psychosis that ended my career path, 7 year relationship, and all of my friendships. I ended up hospitalized inpatient and they documented meth use instead of my prescription because my ex/family failed to tell them it was prescription.My life is 100% different now. That was a year ago and I’m a fundamentally different person as a result.
My friend picked a guy out for me online…. Now years later we’re getting married
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