Lessons learned the hard way?

EdGey

EdGey

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When I was 12/13 I used to play hockey, and I was part of a team called 'colourcoats'. My dad used to take me all over the place for games.. and this particular tournament was in Sheffield.

After one particular game, we were all walking off the court and I started talking openly to my dad about how some of our players were ****, and how we could have won if we'd had a better goal keeper. I remember my dad telling me to shh and watch my mouth etc... but of course I was seemingly oblivious to my own team mates walking around me and spoke my mind. Now at the time I saw nothing wrong with this. I was too young and stupid to realise how bad it was.

After a few minutes when we were sitting down getting changed out of our kit, my dad noticed that some of the other kids were discussing my comments. My dad then said 'I'm off to get a coffee' and left the room. With no adults in the room, they confronted me and I remember one of them actually planted one on my perfect baby face.

It was a few years later when I realised my dad had gone out of the room on purpose. I've never mentioned it to him, and I'm sure he didn't realise it would escalate quite as much as it did, but I thank him for it because it was a lesson I evidently needed to learn.

What small life lessons have you learned the hard way?
 
At school, I got my front teeth knocked out by a wild hockey stick swing. A PE teacher got blinded in one eye in a similar event.

Lesson, hockey is ****** dangerous!!!!
 
When flicking the shampoo / shower gel cap open or close, briefly shut your eyes for that moment. Because if you don't, one day a large splodge of shampoo will go in your eye - and it will bloody sting.
 
estebanrey said:
A PE teacher got blinded in one eye in a similar event.

Lesson, hockey is ****** dangerous!!!!
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so is rounders. i remember one, hot summers day in the mid 90's and getting ready for a game of rounders. the first thing our P.E. teacher said before the first ball was thrown was 'drop the bat, don't throw it'. about 15 minutes later, she took a bat to the eyes and was wearing sunglasses for a month.

it was a mixture of shock and laughter from my good self.
 
Don't push your mate in a wheelie bin...because as his weight shifts, the wheels will roll ahead and his entire weight will fall on and crush your fingers between the bin and the concrete and proceed to drag them along the gravel under 9 stones of mate + bin.
 
Lesson learned the hard way: I am a complete idiot, and I'm likely to stay an idiot for the rest of my life, always finding some new way to be an idiot to replace the idiocy I've already identified and expunged from myself.
 
dont fap with your back to the door,

learned that one a few years back when the missus caught me, since then al fap stations have had front facing planning
 
estebanrey said:
At school, I got my front teeth knocked out by a wild hockey stick swing. A PE teacher got blinded in one eye in a similar event.

Lesson, hockey is ****** dangerous!!!!
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been in a very similar situation myself but luckily my teeth decided to stay put. there was blood EVERYWHERE though

many years ago i got myself a new push scooter and thought it would be great to ride it down a very long and very steep hill. i learnt that scooters with stupidly small wheels dont like potholes, and that knees and hands make terrible brakes, especially downhill. i think the majority of the skin from my knee ended up on that hill
 
Learnt that the car needs to be in neutral or have the clutch down to stop - you can't just release the throttle, bringing the revs down to idle, and stick the brakes on.
Think I was 11 or 12 when I learnt that.
Car I was driving went through the closed garage door :(.
 
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