30 ‘Screw It, I’ll Deal With The Consequences Later’ Moments, As Shared By People Online

I had put in vacation for 2 days to go back home for my grandpa’s bday 4 months in advance. Request gets accepted. 2 weeks before my vacation, there is a shift change and now my trip would take up a whole week of work. I inform my boss that I’ll be taking a whole week now, he tells me that’s fine and to go update the vacation request. I go to HR to update my request, instead of just changing the date range the HR person tries to delete the request and make a new one. Only problem is we were in a vacation blackout time (no new requests get accepted for that month because of workload), so they end up canceling my vacation and then go “oh whoops looks like you can’t put in a new request too bad”. My boss gets pissed and has my back but HR isn’t budging, not the first time our department has been screwed over. I tell HR “I’m still going on vacation. I’m not gonna miss out on seeing my family because you guys are incompetent. Fire me or don’t fire me, I don’t really care at this point.” My boss tells me to enjoy my time off and we can worry about stuff when I get back from break. Grandpa’s bday was great, had fun seeing the family and friends from back home. I come back after a week and I’m still employed. Boss and boss’s boss explained to HR that I’m the only one in our department who’s qualified to do what I do, and if they want to lose a bunch of money getting a 3rd party contractor to replace me than that’s their right to, they’ll just have to explain to the finance officer and general manager why we’d be bleeding money all of a sudden. I don’t work there anymore but I hope my old boss is doing well, he was a homie.

Side story, that same boss took 2 weeks of vacation when the Shadowlands expansion of WoW released. Man’s got his priorities straight haha. When I asked him what did he tell HR and his boss he was like “Those people don’t need to know what I do or don’t do with my vacation time, I’m taking my vacation time.”

My dog got stolen and was missing for over a month. Someone anonymously called me and said they were going to drop off the dog at front of my house wether or not someone was home. I just started a new job, I couldn’t find my boss to ask permission to leave, and I just bolted home.

1998 - on my first date with a woman I'd met in an online chat room. We did the boring, cliched dinner and a movie thing. Things got hot and heavy in the theater. After the movie we drove back to her apartment and she invited me in. I had plans the next morning, but said what the hell. I didn't leave until 5:00 the next morning, and ended up blowing off my plans.

She and I have been together ever since.

I have ADHD. My whole life is a long "f**k it I'll deal with it later" moment

Unprotected sex.

Consequences turned 9 this year.

Quit my job when I was 24 and went traveling around the world for a year. Parents wanted me to buy a house with my savings but I spent it all on seeing the world instead.

Every time I tell myself, "I'll just get gas before I drive to work tomorrow" and then find myself running 15 minutes late. You'd think I would learn at some point.

I stayed up with my friends playing video games online until the sun started rising. I'm in my mid-thirties and that level of sleep deprivation the next day was worse than a hangover.

Broke down fishing way out in the sticks with my cousin. We were out of cell service. It was getting dark and we were walking back towards the main roads.

We spotted a black bear walking the trail behind us. It kept its distance but clearly smelled my backpack full of trout.

I dropped the bag of fish and we kept moving. Seen a cabin up ahead so we broke the door open and stayed there untill morning. While there i found some spark plugs in a drawer while searching for a piece paper and a pen to leave a note.

The plug wasn't the same my UTV called for. But it was a close match just a hotter plug #8 vs a #9. We left a note stating i took 2 spark plugs. Used the propane and stove to cook a can of soup we found aswell as some crackers.

Left $100 for the door knob/lock and the plugs aswell as my contact info.

3 weeks later the owner called said not to worry. He was glad his cabin helped us. And i asked if he wanted anymore compensation but he said no. Cabin was not vandalized and he had a spare doorknob in the shed.

So yeah i broke into a cabin for the night. Took some spark plugs to fix my side by side and ate some vegetable soup.

Left owner 5 $20 bills and fixed my machine and went home. Also the bear took our catch....

Edit: I would like to stress always being prepared when venturing out in the woods. As you know i was not. My side by side was only a year old with 1200 kms. So i didn't anticipate a issue which was dumb. I had spare gas, tire plugs, compressor and a drive belt. Failed to remember a spare spark plug.

We had with us about 3L of water left. Some MRE's with the flamless food warmers. A coil of 1/4 rope, knives and a med kit aswell as our catch of trout. We also had a survival .410 with a rifled barrel to accept Colt .45 pistol rounds.

I have never had to fire it while on fishing trips but i knew i had something incase of a emergency.

But yeah never get complacent with your vehicles and always be prepared. I should have reviewed my kit before leaving.

As for the cabin we were very respectful. We listed what we used/took and left contact info. With the door broken i slept with the couch pulled up to the door. Since it was a in-swing. When we left we used some of the 1/4 rope to tie the door shut to keep animals and the elements out.

Be safe out there!

I was a teenager in a friend's car, we were smoking weed. Then he was getting pulled over. Driver said "throw it man!". I was like "he'll see that anyway, and this car smells a lot like weed anyway, also it's good, lemme just finish this real quick".

So the cop arrived at the car and I was this kid sitting there smoking weed. The look on his face was kind of hilarious.

I wasn't raised to be wasteful for goodness sake.

For a serial procrastinator like me.....This is my whole life. Sometimes, I have to postpone those dealings with consequences too. It's an art as well as science.

*Gestures vaguely to everything around me*

Travelling to meet the guy I met online. Consequences? Married now for 9 years.

F**k future me, he has literally never done anything for present me and present me does so much for future me

Credit cards. Oh man I wanna fight 18 year old me.

Was teaching English in Myanmar on an expired visa. One month turned to six and when I finally left I realized the airport people were going to look at my expired visa and get mad at me. I remember being at my jungle school and informing the headmaster I was working with that my visa was expired and I’d need a few days to go into Rangoon to get it extended. He said he was going to pretend i didn’t say that and we were both going to forget this conversation because he didn’t want to risk the government denying my extension and kicking me out of the country (or arresting me) since I agreed to teach a whole year... No one at the airport noticed though.

Was about to hit a tree while snowboarding.
Either break my board on it to lessen the blow or break my body on it.

Chose to protect my board.

Regretted ever since.

A lot of people asking what the damage was:

My thigh slammed into the tree and took the full brunt of it. I didn’t break any bones but couldn’t walk for two weeks. However, that was the best part.

I went to the hospital for a check and they said it was all good but what they didn’t notice was that my right side of my back had shifted.

So when I tried to run or play sports, the ligaments and meniscus is both knees got destroyed and now I can’t run anymore

Pretty much all of adolescence.

Currently dealing with it. High cholesterol, constant tenitis, bad joints, nutritional deficiencies...

It wasn't until November that I finally accepted that "Just because you technically can doesn't mean you should." 37 years old and finally an adult.

It's boring.

Any time I drink. But fortunately I have anxiety and it just ends up with me doing seemingly normal things like saying hi to strangers.

Quit a new job that had me an anxious wreck every morning, to the point I couldn't even have breakfast. So glad I did it, but I'm never that impulsive. (I'm ok now, happily employed in a position somewhere else)