Hey Pandas, What Are Some Of Your Small Mistakes That Became Big Out Of A Sudden?

I told my husband he didn't have to go with me to my 20-week pregnancy checkup. He had a meeting he was trying to reschedule, but I told him it was fine and I would call him after. So I was alone except for the doctor and nurse when they told me our baby had died.

Eating that one piece of chocolate... And another, and another...

Came out to my mum a few months ago. Now she wants me to see a doctor as if I’m ‘ill’ or something.
Thanks, mum.

i was basically brainwashed by my country’s propaganda until the war started, and i realize that some of the things i used to believe were hurtful and racist and sexist and all sorts of awfulness. I’m a better person now, but i kindly ask of you not to judge the Russian people, rather their government and blatant corruption.

Small mistake I made that turned out to be the worst thing that ever happened to me.

I posted a post on Reddit asking if I should tell my parents about my atheism and me being part of LBGTQ. All the people in the comments were like “no, don’t tell your parents!” So I didn’t tell them, then I got banned from Reddit because apparently making multiple accounts is worthy of a ban.

The mistake I made was not deleting Reddit after that because then my parents saw the post and I got banned from ever talking to my friends again and everything I do in my phone, including texts and emails, is tracked and read by my parents.

Getting a line of credit and thinking I'd only use a small portion to get me through to the next payday.

So, I have very strict parents. If my grades aren't straight A's, they're bad. I focus a lot more on studying then most of my classmates, but I still have a few B's, which is why they're angry at me. But I'm not here to rant about my parents.
So I had an 89% in ELA (English Language Arts). I got a 100% in a mid-unit (it's never happened before because the cheaters would usually get straight A's, but our teacher said she'd be more lenient with her strict grading process if there was a good explanation, which there was). My grade would've gone up to a 90+%, but I forgot to do a Flocabulary quiz. She usually takes the Read & Respond and the Quiz and averages the score to give us our grade. I got 5/6 on the Read & Respond, 0 on the quiz, and 42% for the entire Flocabulary, which pushed my grade down to my very first C. Now, I'm grounded and my parents are looking for an ELA tuition. They also said that because of this, I will never get a phone or my own room (7th grader, still don't have either 🥲).
Moral of the story: Focus even more on studies, so I'm gonna be off BP for a while. See you when I come back 👋

Failed to stop hubby going to a chiropractor. He now has a broken back, yes, and he's in a brace with metal rods in his back, and all because I couldn't / didn't put some more effort into stopping his visit to the chiropractor. I was just really tired of him thinking my advice on health isn't as good as his GP's, or the dangers of going to a strange chiro without even an X-ray on why his back hurt, and now here we are. I knew it was a mistake not to push, but.... And now.... And, yes, certain back issues can end up that bad if a chiropractor just decides to "rack and crack" someone for the $50.

Birth control and antibiotics turned into a three-year-old at 45. To be fair we tried from January 2010 to December 2017 to get pregnant and I had one miscarriage at eight weeks. So to make sure I went on birth control because, of course, I'd get pregnant after 40.

When I got a sinus infection the summer I got pregnant, we were like f**k it it's not going to happen and didn't use alternative forms of birth control. I found out I was pregnant at my yearly appointment in early October. My husband found out when I brought home paint for what was once our spare bedroom.

My wonderful, brilliant, exhausting, stubborn toddler turns three this weekend. Best "mistake" I've ever made.

I was on Jeopardy's first season with Alex Trebek. Led most of the game and was in first place at the end. The Final Jeopardy category was Greek Mythology. I thought I knew the subject well and bet my whole $2,300 on it. Answer was "Jason sailed on this ship in search of the Golden Fleece." I didn't know the answer immediately, but reasoned, the sailors were called the Argonauts, so the ship must have been the Argon. Nope, the answer was Argo. Missed it by one letter, and lost the game. No one got the right answer, but the eventual winner bet less for Final Jeopardy. I won a queen-size sleeper sofa that lasted more than 20 years.

when moving to a new state with a giant haul truck, I had packed the cashier's check and other banking things we needed to move into the new place in the truck...and that box was loaded first. Since we didn't have the keys yet to new place (had to pay downpayment) We had to empty entire truck to get to it and reload the truck

Choosing the wrong job for the right reasons. I was a single parent that had just graduated college. I had no income... yet. I was sending out resumes like a mad woman, wanting to have some income sooner rather than later.

I was excited when I got two job offers. One was with the local newspaper, at ground level, for basically minimum wage at the time (2004 -ish), or a manufacturing company, in an office, doing data entry for $10 an hour. I chose money.

At first the job was great. I had my own little cubicle, I got the hang of ten key, nice normal hours, and best of all decent paychecks. I guess I was too good, because eventually I worked my way out of work. So, they'd send me down to the file room to help out. I was still getting ten an hour, sooo...
However, from helping out in the file room, I developed carpal tunnel! Due to Dr.'s orders, I couldn't work in the file room any more, couldn't go back to my old position, so they stuck me on the production floor, putting labels on tags.
It all went down hill from there! While overtime wasn't "manditory", it was greatly encouraged. At first, I did some here and there. Hey, made for some nice paychecks!! Yeah, it left me wiped out, but it wasn't often, and my 9 year old was a great sport about it at first.

But then, slowly it changed. Overtime became mandatory for about half of every month. About this time my daughter began to have serious emotional issues at school, so the school was calling several times a day. I even got warned that I should choose between work and my child.

All of this just added to my stress, to the point that I would stagger home from work, to have my 9 year old feed me, rub my feet, and put me to bed.
My work gave me insurance, so that state dropped me, I was making enough that the food stamps dried up. My new insurance however didn't have a prescription plan, so I was paying for my anti-depressants out of pocket... to the tune of 100 a month.
In short everything just spiraled out of control, and I eventually found myself in the ER feeling suicidal!!!

I quit the next day.

I didn't know how to tell the guy who wouldn't stop talking to me to f off. He was so persistent, he wouldn't stop talking. Every f*****g day.
Two years later, he is now my boyfriend. Still very talkative. A mistake I've come to love, if I'm being honest.

Giving my ex friend more chances than she deserved.

In 5th grade, she got jealous I started hanging out with another friend more than her and randomly at about 10 PM she texted demanding I apologize for something and I apologized for everything I could possibly think of. We became friends again in 6th grade.

In 7th grade she started bullying my friend, then bullied me too for standing up for him. It lasted about the whole year. When the teacher pulled me and her out of class (without my other friend she was bullying for some reason) she lied about everything and F*CKING GOT AWAY WITH IT! I switched schools so I didn’t have to deal with her. I never should’ve given her any more chances.

She’s a gaslighting, little weasel b*tch who made 7th grade hell. I don’t feel sorry that she started getting bullied after I transferred. I know that sounds heartless, but she deserves it more than anyone.

Passing Up so many opportunities that I would've loved to do now

making a bp account bc now i cant stop talking to yall but eh who cares its fun and i made friends so its worth it now ima go get a bluberry muffin

I think this counts... dating a guy for a few months. He seemed harmless, I thought I'd give it ago, was super not interested in the relationship for like the last month. Broke up with him. He stalked me for 4 years after. He only stopped after getting arrested. But I'd say that was a little mistake that turned out to be way bigger.

I had this lady who was my friend. She acted nuts so I distance myself for her for over a year. I eventually let her back in my life. She ended up being the cause of braking my family apart and severely messing my kids and my life up to where it is 15 years later and it still has huge damaging effects

Got married.

I really hate remembering this, because it hurts knowing that we're no longer together.

But I essentially sent my best friend a post, which at the time, I was being 100% legit in what I meant. But the mistake I made here was that I crossed this persons boundaries way too much and she ended up blocking me.