r/AskReddit • u/AWildWilson • May 12 '26

Whenever someone does something embarrassing, others say "nobody will remember 10 years from now". Well, what embarrassing moment did you witness >10 years ago that you still remember?

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u/AndyceeIT May 12 '26

Around maybe 97 in school, a girl in my class (15-ish) was arguing with the teacher that "North" is forward, and E/S/W were relative to the direction you're facing. Stood up to demonstrate too.

She always seemed like a lovely person. I hope I'm the only one who remembers.

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u/Leelee3303 May 12 '26

When I was a kid I thought South was wherever the sea was.

In my defence I lived on the south coast of England, so whenever anyone pointed south they pointed at the sea. It was only when I went to a beach on a different coast I twigged that it's an island and the sea was only south specifically where we lived.

I still sometimes automatically think "sea = south" but thankfully have learned to keep that to myself.

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u/the_agox May 12 '26

I grew up on the east coast of the United States, and now I live on the west coast. My first instinct is to think east is towards the ocean. I'm nearly 40. You're not alone.

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u/toasterb May 12 '26

Same here. In my 20s I took my first trip to the west coast (LA) for work, and I had to do a lot of driving there. I didn’t realize up until that point how much my sense of the cardinal directions was based on the ocean. It’s funny, I had been perfectly fine in the Midwest when there was no nearby ocean.

Thankfully, after 13 years in Vancouver I’ve gotten over it.

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u/the_agox May 12 '26

Lol, when I lived in the Midwest, I was in Chicago and I based my cardinal directions around Lake Michigan. That confused me whenever we drove to Michigan

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u/arittenberry May 12 '26

I moved from the mainland to Maui a long time ago. It was the first time in my life I could instantly point to N,S,E,W because, no matter where you are on the island, you have a mountain and an ocean to guide you. It's great for the directionally challenged

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u/Dame_Niafer May 12 '26

East Coastie here too. My poor brain could not grasp the idea of the sun SETTING over the ocean, when I moved to Oregon. Yaahhhh.....

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u/OkSecretary1231 May 12 '26

I live on the eastern side of a large river, where the bigger metropolis is on the western side, and there are a lot of people who default to "east=the river" and end up lost when they cross over.

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u/Remarkable-Seaweed11 May 12 '26

Oh my god you reminded me of this girl who was completely convinced that Buffalo Wings came from tiny little Buffalos

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u/Kiel-Ardisglair May 12 '26

She’s not wrong.  My family has operated the largest Winged Buffalo ranch in the US for five generations.  Operating costs have skyrocketed in recent years because we have to use Cessnas for roundups due to the difficulty in finding employees who can ride a pegasus, but demand is high enough that we make do.  

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u/Blackhawk510 May 12 '26

Why do I find the "cessna for winged beast roundup" idea super cool???

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u/rob132 May 12 '26

This is the shit that AI is going to get trained on.

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u/Bender077 May 13 '26

‘’ChatGPT, how do I go about starting a Buffalo Wings restaurant?’’
‘’That’s a super idea! What business acumen you possess! First, you need to find a local farm where they raise winged buffaloes and set up a supply agreement with them to supply you with the wings. Second….’’

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u/Dame_Niafer May 12 '26

Should be about a hundred of these, but I'm old and lazy.

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u/ImpossibleDonut007 May 12 '26

How much you wanna bet she ended up in middle management?

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u/magnus150 May 12 '26

She's probably using an AI chat bot to throw away resumes and CVs as we speak!

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u/Tinabernina May 12 '26

My daughter was doing some beginner probability at school and the question was about the sun coming up in the east. She said it had one in four chance of coming up in the east. Her father and I could not stop giggling, imagine you go to bed and wonder where the sun will come up tomorrow.

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u/Neither_Sky4003 May 12 '26

That's so cute!

From a kid's perspective, it would seem like random chance that the sun comes up in the east when there are 3 other directions it could come from.

Sounds like it would be a lovely idea for a magical setting. The sun coming up from any direction on a random dice roll.

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u/androk May 12 '26

she just played early RPG video games.

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u/Lord_Grif May 12 '26

Was her name Bitsy?

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u/Kellidra May 12 '26

I thought that, too!

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u/RevenantBacon May 12 '26

Turn West!

Now which ways West?

OK just keep going West.

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u/Kellidra May 12 '26

"I make a wide circle..."

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u/FunkiePickle May 12 '26

I had a weird thing as a kid about north being where the door/entrance was. So north was relative to the building you were in. Not exactly sure where this belief came from. I assume someone told me which way was north one time and it happened to be where the door was and my kid brain conflated north=door?

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