Whether you’re a serial procrastinator, a risk-taker, or just plain don’t care, consequences will get to you all the same, but your conscience will be affected to a smaller or greater degree depending on which category of people you fit into.
Whatever the case, there comes a time when you do end up saying “screw this, I’ll deal with whatever comes because of this later” and just go for it. And the internet is full of like-minded individuals sharing their stories too, as seen in this one AskReddit post.
So, someone asked the lovely folks on Reddit “what was your ‘screw it, I’ll deal with the consequences later’ moment?”, and loads of folks delivered their intriguing stories of how they… well, probably not regretted their choices, but they certainly told the consequences to get out of here, and had to live through whatever would happen.
Scroll down to check out the best answers in our curated list below, and while you’re at it, cast your vote on the ones you enjoyed the most, comment your thoughts and share your own stories of “consequences be damned” in the comment section below!
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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.
Oh I know this all too well. I believe I'm starting to feel the effects of all-nighters from my 20s with all the naps and long sleeps I've been needing in my 30s. Insomnia still kicks in. One night of being up all night, unable to sleep, and I'm call in sick. There's no way I'm lasting even into the morning.
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!
That's really lucky. There've been 2 people killed by black bears last year in my parts. (People should explain their reasons for downvoting Oo.)
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.
What happened after? LOL I know it's probably inevitably obvious, but I gotta know if the cop at least had a sense of humor about it. I wish this was a BP original post.
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.
The only people who gave me flack for travelling to see my overseas boyfriend were non-friended co-workers. I didn't need anybody's permission or validation. No regrets. All I say to others is proceed with caution. Make sure some trust-worthy people know where you're staying, who you're with, have your cellphone and register with your country's embassy, get traveller's insurance, and for the love of all that's Holy learn the laws and customs of the country.
F**k future me, he has literally never done anything for present me and present me does so much for future 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
Internal tissue damage can be worse pain than an actual break. I hit my pinky toe on a doorframe. It just tingled at first then got more and more painful to the point it was excruciating and I couldn't walk on my foot. The nurse I saw said because it's not a break provincial health wouldn't cover the sturdy sandal but she knew nerve damage is more painful than a break, so she had some mercy and gave me the sandal on the house lol. It took weeks for it to get better.
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)
So glad to hear you're happy in your new job. I know what it's like to be sweating and panicking on a Sunday night cause you've got work Monday morning
Quitting any job whenever I want regardless of having money or not I’ll figure it out, because you won’t have me feeling trapped and like you have control over my life been there done that
Ya' know... that is motivating. No matter what there will be other jobs.
I knew my marriage wouldn’t last while I was walking down the aisle… but f**k it! I’ll deal with that s**t later!!!
Four years divorced. 0 out of 10. Was not worth it.
I hiked through 6 miles of public land early one morning doing some pre-season deer scouting for the upcoming deer season. Took several hours to complete and i was exhausted when i got to my truck. Only to see my best friend had texted me at some point asking if I want to join him on an over night camping trip. Said f**k it. Got home. Grabbed my camp pack. Met him at another spot on public land and we hiked another 4 miles in before setting up camp. That night and the next week, my legs felt as if they were ready to rip themselves off. Might not sound like a lot of miles but when 90% of it is off trail bush wacking. Climbing over logs and through thick brush. Its a good bit of work.
Found a new coffee shop in town which was so good I immediately went back for a second and a third large (so 6 shots in like 10 minutes). Regretted it both throughout the day and during the multiple toilet visits!
Edit: the cafe was called Gumption by Coffee Alchemy. So good!
I used to unload freight from delivery trucks for a living. Most the s**t was half haphazardly thrown in without regard to anything. It gets a bit frustrating. One time I had got to the back of the truck and there was one pallet left. The pallet itself was crushed with these concrete barriers that were stacked on it. They never should have loaded it that way and they knew it. It would be impossible to unload by hand, but I couldn't get the fork lift all the way under the crushed pallet.
I decided ultimately to just say f**k it. I leveled the forks at pallet level, backed up about 30 feet, and then rammed it full speed. The forks went clean through the pallet..... and the back of the truck. I got those concrete barriers off though.
I blew past a state trooper doin about 140 mph (225kmph) on an empty highway just because I was testing how fast the car could go.
I don't know about everywhere, but I know our local speedway has times for people to go and play with their cars and speed along the track. Probably need to sign a waiver. But you can do that there.
I changed my secondary school choice last minute from a school 15 miles away to the one a 2 minute walk from my parents house.
I figured I would deal with the consequences.
Time came around to see if I was accepted into the school... I was accepted into the original one, 15 miles away.. Confused AF.
My mother grins and says she changed it back to the original one before sending it off.
I wasn't even mad, I regretted my decision about a week after I changed it. The original school was a much better school and I'm now still the only person in my family to do all of the education stuff.
In 4th grade, my mom made me go to a private school that I absolutely hated. I begged her to go back to public school. I sat at school and did no work for the entire year. I failed to graduate to the 5th grade. She told me that she would make me work twice as hard next year. I told her I would deliberately fail every year. When I am 18, as an adult I would go to public school and pass the 4th grade... Went to public school the rest of my life. No regrets!
I had a whole ordeal with my wife developing a neurological disorder and my chain of command allowed me to come off the ship a couple days to get her help at the hospital. There was a miscommunication where they made me come back on the ship sitting off the coast and left her behind. I got brought into a room with maybe 5 chiefs and my division officer to get absolutely railed. I went fully numb and responded to everything in the most nonchalant way and when they threatened to bring me all the way up the discipline pole, I asked them to “please do. I’d love the face time with the captain, maybe I could actually help my wife.” It went nowhere after that but after I went straight to my rack and setup my uniforms just in case. Later in that same ordeal my wife and I were involved in an email chain where my XO and chiefs basically lied about the situation and we sent a novel correcting every piece with a “just so we’re all on the same page.”
I had developed feelings for a coworker (small company, about 20 people), we kinda flirted at work and some people were starting to suspect something but we managed to keep it professional. One night we had a few drinks, could not decide to part ways, one thing led to another... the morning after when we woke up together, neither of us could muster the strength to go to work : she called in sick, and a few minutes later I sent an email to use a day off, as things were quite slow at work anyway. But we knew all too well that the both of us not showing up, with coworkers aware of our plans to get drinks together the night before, well, we weren't going to fool anyone. And the following weeks/months were pretty awkward indeed (we never made it official, for the time it lasted).
There are so many people who have met their spouses at my company it's almost sickening. But nearly all of the new couples end up having to work in separate departments or one has to quit. I don't know how it happens, really. Some spouses were working below and above each other.
A friend ordered 2 pitchers of beer at a bar at like 11am (one for each of us).
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