Things you never got over?

[Melon Hunter]

Fallout: Equestria... sniff

Have you read Pink Eyes? It's an FO:E side-fic with an adorable (and nigh-on invincible) main character. I found it a great antidote whilst reading the grimdark mess that is Project Horizons (seriously, after those last few chapters, I wonder what goes on in that author's head)

As for me, it was a girl I asked out for Valentine's Day in 2010. We'd both been on the Student Committee at my college since the previous September. At the time, I thought I had a pretty good chance; we talked regularly, joked together and got on pretty well. I even had a couple of people tell me they thought she liked me.

So, on the Friday before Valentine's Day (also the last day before the half-term break), our committee were selling fake roses for £2 a pop for charity. Right at the end of lunch break, I find myself alone in the little room we used for our meetings with her. She laments that no-one bought her a rose all week. Golden opportunity, right? So I buy her one and ask her out on a date. She tells me she'll be busy throughout half-term, but perhaps afterwards when college starts up again. Now I realise alarm bells should have started ringing there, but this was the first girl I'd ever asked out and so I naively went along with it, exchanging mobile numbers in the process.

So, for the next four hours, I'm walking on air. I can barely keep a smile off my face, because I'd finally manned up, asked a girl out, and she'd said yes! (Or so I thought) Anyway, about 6pm, I get a text message from her. I forget the exact wording, but it was chock full of generic rejection phrases like 'you're such a great guy, but...' and 'let's just be friends', etc, etc. Here's the real kicker; it was written in text speak. I was a 'gr8 guy', apparently.

This is what got me the most. Not so much the fact I'd been rejected, but the fact that I'd asked her out in person, and she'd given me false hope and lied to my face. She could have told me there, she could have phoned me, but no, instead she decides to blow me off with a text she couldn't even be bothered to spell properly. At worst, she was an utter *****. At best, she was a coward and so socially oblivious that she couldn't see how much her actions were going to hurt me. I hated her for it then and still resent her now.

 

[SD-Fiend]

in 4Th grade my GBA SP was stolen and I know who did it but I never had the proof. If I ever get a time machine I'm coming for you Jamie...

 

[imperialwar]

I was born with a slow physical development, co-ordination and all that.
So i became a physical mimic. Thing i'm right handed and my mother ( the person i mimiced ) is left handed. Any way by the time i was 10 they said i was a slow learner as my hand writing was really messy. Yeah you just tell a 10 year old he's a slow learner.

I was also attacked by a kid after school and he slashed me with glass, so i told the principle and my parents. the principal cross examined the other kid and believed him over me, even after i showed him the cut on my chest. So he made me call my parents and tell them i was lying. After that for years i never told the truth on the grounds of them not believing me anyway.

my uncle, quickly followed by my mother both had psychotic breakdowns when i was 13.

when i was 16 i went to live with my grandmother who i figured out had cancer, she made me promise to never tell anyone. she died when i was 26.

at 23 i had my own psychotic break, but i've recovered somewhat now 10 years later.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I'll never get over the disappointing conclusion of that "so my girlfriend dumped me..." thread. Also my childhood. More specifically my mother letting her abusive boyfriend move in and her lovely habit of beating me whenever I complained that I had been beaten.

 

[stinkyrobot]

Me and one of my friends where ten and where waching some stupid show on the family channel. He was being a dick all day and while we where watching the show he kept making fun of me saying how I wanted to have sex with Myley Cirus, or something. Eventually I got really angry at him and grabed his wrists pulled him down( we where sitting on his couch) and I kneed him in the face 3 times. His older brother was watching and said that I should go sit down somewhere else. The worst part about it was that I didn't get in trouble, because his older brother thought that he deserved it and when he told their mom she did to. I guess he sort of did, but I felt like I should of been punished. The oddest part about it was they never told my parents about it and the next day my friend acted like nothing had happened and didn't tell anyone about how he got a bruise on his face.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Fallout: Equestria... sniff

Have you read Pink Eyes? It's an FO:E side-fic with an adorable (and nigh-on invincible) main character. I found it a great antidote whilst reading the grimdark mess that is Project Horizons (seriously, after those last few chapters, I wonder what goes on in that author's head)

I have, and I've stalled at the last 2 chapters because I don't want to find out the ending. Confound these ponies, they drive to fear a side-story of a fan-fic of a cartoon about ponies.

 

[Steinar Valsson]

Being born...

 

[gritch]

I was always a really good kid in Elementary school (Hell I'm 19 and still a "good kid"). I remember having cards in our classroom of different colors with green being the best. If you were misbehaved you got a card pulled. I always prided myself in my perfect green record throughout the year. That all ended one day when I got my wonderful green card pulled at lunch. All because I didn't push my chair in. My perfect record ruined because my chair was a few inches too far from the table! It was rather disheartening to a 7 year old.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I have a feeling I would be answering this thread by saying "University" were it not for the fact that I'm still going through it now...

 

[A Satanic Panda]

I was always a really good kid in Elementary school (Hell I'm 19 and still a "good kid"). I remember having cards in our classroom of different colors with green being the best. If you were misbehaved you got a card pulled. I always prided myself in my perfect green record throughout the year. That all ended one day when I got my wonderful green card pulled at lunch. All because I didn't push my chair in. My perfect record ruined because my chair was a few inches too far from the table! It was rather disheartening to a 7 year old.

Wow... who was your teacher? Stalin? I remember the green yellow red card system. The only time I ever got yellow is when we were cutting out birds from a paper, and I accidently cut off one of its feathers. I got so scared that I would get in trouble for messing it up I didn't hand it in. And tried to keep it away form the teacher when she wanted to see it.

 

[NoOne852]

Well after being bullied throughout elementary school and the beginning of middle school, I became very withdrawn and in some cases paranoid. Not physical bullying mind you, most was mental with the heavy hitters being the ones that cost me the closest thing I had to a friend in school (not the regretfull part yet).
Anyway, around 7th grade (maybe it was 8th) me and my best friend at the time (I had finally formed a circle of friends in 6th grade) were at an anime club party at the library and a girl I've know for a bit from the club asked me out. Now, after constantly being told I was ugly, disgusting, etc., I couldn't comprehend that she was asking me. So I look behind me at my friend who didn't hear (or maybe he did and was trying to mind his own business) and tell him the girl was trying to talk to him. As you would imagine there was confusion. After a few minutes of working things out, they finally convinced me that she was asking me out and not my friend. I imediately think it's another stunt to bully me again and lose another friend, so I said "No. You don't want to ask me out, don't lie!" and I ran away. I more or less avoided her the rest of the party. I look back now and realize how much of a...I will go with jerk... I was and wish I could make it up to her. We are still friends now, but we don't talk too often.
It also should be noted this isn't the only time it happened. I was too much of a coward to fully trust someone, even if they were my closest friend. It wasn't until 11th grade when a good friend pulled me out of the funk that made me so socially awkward at times. I have plenty of other small things I beat myself up for a bit now and again, but I just have to make the best of it by ensuring I don't act that way again, and being there for my friends so they don't go through what I did, at least, not alone.

 

[gritch]

Wow... who was your teacher? Stalin? I remember the green yellow red card system. The only time I ever got yellow is when we were cutting out birds from a paper, and I accidently cut off one of its feathers. I got so scared that I would get in trouble for messing it up I didn't hand it in. And tried to keep it away form the teacher when she wanted to see it.

It was during lunch and I've always had the nasty lunch ladies. These were the same people that would routinely make the whole class stand outside in a line at recess instead of playing because we were loud during lunch.

 

[iLazy]

Giving into peer pressure, which resulted in me dating my best friend (who, apparently, and a crush on me since grade four) for a bit. I didn't see him in that way, but his skank of a cousin (who I will never forgive. Ever.) basically guilt tripped me into dating him. We broke up, tried again, broke up.

Wanna know the kicker? First time we broke up, I had a friend to do it, second time a note! I was so cowardly that I didn't even have the courage to say "I want to break up" to his face! HE WAS MY BEST FRIEND! He was one of the first guys to befriend me.

It's the one thing that I'll never get over. /shit that'll effect future relationships

I also never get over the fact that I never beat a single Pokemon game. Damn my lack of patience.

 

[robert022614]

Belated back again with another thread that gets uncomfortably personal with you and your honest feelings. Why? I dunno. Curiosity I guess. Anyway, onto the subject.

We've all had pasts. And if you're an average person, yours was probably full of ups and downs. Good things happened to you that you probably get nostalgic over, but bad things also happened to you. Things you feel you really should've "gotten over" by now, but never did. Don't worry, you're not alone. Events are easier to remember when they left an impression, good or bad.

So, what are some bad things that happened to you that still make you feel sad or angry to think about? I'm not talking like, big, epic, life-changing events or massive tragic stories. I'm talking about the little things. Maybe somebody erased your Pokemon save. Maybe a teacher punished you for something another kid did. Maybe your dad ate your french fries. Y'know, something petty but irritating.

How can you introduce this topic without sharing something about yourself first? You obviously don't know how to win someones trust *tsk tsk* (all written jokingly BTW)

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Wow... who was your teacher? Stalin? I remember the green yellow red card system. The only time I ever got yellow is when we were cutting out birds from a paper, and I accidently cut off one of its feathers. I got so scared that I would get in trouble for messing it up I didn't hand it in. And tried to keep it away form the teacher when she wanted to see it.

It was during lunch and I've always had the nasty lunch ladies. These were the same people that would routinely make the whole class stand outside in a line at recess instead of playing because we were loud during lunch.

Oh man, this brings back memories. One table talks too loudly, the whole class is punished. Did they do the thing where the lunch ladies turn off the lights to make the whole cafeteria be quiet?

 

[Random Argument Man]

Umm.. let's see...

-Bullied kids when I was younger and got bullied by them when I was older. I was in a bad group of friends when I was a kid. I moved on and sweared to stop bullying. However, the other kids didn't. It's the justice of karma. I wanted to apologize to them, but they never listened.
-Locking the door so that my last girlfriend's over-religious brother would've not caught us in the act. He told that to his over-religious mom and over-protective dad. It pretty much ended the only serious relationship that I had and shattered my confidence for a long long long while.
-Lost my cousin last week and still feeling terrible.

On a lighter note*

-Forgot to ask a girl her number two nights ago..

 

[Zeckt]

The only family I pretty much got left is my sister, everyone else pretty much died on my dads side and my mom's side ignored me from a very young age so me and she is literally it, and she moves to another country across the ocean. I never got over it. My parents were basket cases and died while I was pretty young and were pretty abusive. I know its selfish being angry and upset at my sister for moving, but I never told her that and fully understand her doing what she wants but damn, I loved her and now I only see her every 3 years.

I had to live on my own since 16 and have lived on the street half a dozen times simply because I had no money. College? not a chance for a ghost like me.

 

[sheah1]

My first girlfriend's death.

Whoa. Sorry, I know I'm a stranger on the internet an' all but, uh, wanna talk about it?

 

[Deathmageddon]

How bad Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 were, the results of the 2008 US presidential election, the fact that infanticide (in the form of abortion) hasn't been outlawed, the fact that people who have never read the Bible and do not know anything about Christianity have the balls to call us ignorant (pot calling the kettle black) and the fact that a lot of good metal bands (and the aforementioned, ignorant atheists) don't realize that religious intolerance is wrong.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Had to be a week after Christmas a few years ago. I was talking to my friend, complaining I didn't a get a certain game. I got so much good stuff that year -- other games, maybe a portable game system, clothes, even my dog, and I was complaining I didn't get one thing.

My mom overheard it all. I felt like absolute shit, like I was some spoiled brat.