Someone asked about terrible mistakes people will only admit on their death beds, and the answers will make you cringe in sympathy

Karen Dickinson. Updated May 12th, 2025

12.

‘Many years ago I had to provide a urine sample at the doctors. The nurse led me into the nurses desk area and told me to wait there, so I put my wee sample on the little work station whilst I found something in my bag.

I knocked that thing over and it spilled everywhere. All over paperwork, the pen pot, files, the lot. Piss everywhere. I’m there trying to mop it up and a guy in a suit runs past me with a sample cup and narrowly misses bashing into me.

The nurse comes out maybe 30 seconds later and looks pissed off when she sees the mess. I blamed it on the guy that came out almost running into me.’
–Midnight_Moongoose

13.

‘I was a waitress, and I was working during a very busy shift. I almost bumped into what I thought was a child, so I placed my hand on his head and said ‘Oh, sorry little guy!’. I heard a full grown man’s voice reply ‘That’s alright darlin”. He was a dwarf. I die inside every time I remember.’
–ripleylien

14.

‘The first time I waxed my carrot I got scared and called 911.’
–collectionz

15.

‘I was four years old and set fire to some weeds near my grandparents house and almost burned the whole farm down. The fire fighters came and put everything out, took them awhile to combat the blaze. They put it out and absolutely no one asked me anything, cause I was four, I guess. I wonder if my grandparents knew to an extent. Probably.’
–frankie_cranky_666

16.

‘When I was eight my fish tank was dirty. I thought hand sanitizer would clean it, needless to say the fish weren’t doing so well after and my dad was very confused as to why they all died suddenly. Till this day I haven’t told a soul.’
–Any-Sport-4331

17.

‘When I was in college I was taking a dump and there was someone next to me in the stall at the library. I ate three burritos the night prior. After getting done the handle wasn’t really working so I pushed it down four times like a dumbass. I think I used too much toilet paper as well. It completely over flooded in seconds with poop water. I was panicking and the dude next to me was like ‘Is this shit?? Is this shit?’. I left the stall and could see the guys legs try and stand up and he fell in my poop water.

I ended up putting that toilet out of service for a week with caution tape around the men’s restroom. It flooded into the carpet of the library. When working at the library on the computer it was a forlorn reminder. I’m sorry man, you probably tell that story at a bar whenever you can.’
–WideRoadDeadDeer95

18.

‘One time I was at a popular party when I was about 12, it was a co-ed sleepover at a girl’s grandparents’ house and as night time approached, I started getting really nervous and nauseous. At one point, I knew I was going to throw up but I wasn’t going to make it to the bathroom. My best friend at the time saw that I looked like I was going to puke and turned off the lights. I threw up on the floor, but it was really watery because I hadn’t eaten all day from the nerves. We heard a scream and when my best friend turned on the lights again, one of the girls had slipped in the vomit. We played it off like someone had spilled something. And then I called my mom to pick me up. So embarrassing.’
–sumslev

19.

‘I was 14 at a baby shower and there was a little girl (probably five) and her mom who sat next to me, this was when filters on Snapchat were popular and kids love filters so we started to play with them. Well there was a bald filter, I did it on me and she laughed so I did it on her, the mom saw it and said ‘Oh she probably doesn’t like that, she used to have cancer so seeing the bald head makes her sad’. Oh. My. Gosh. I’m actually cringing typing this out, I feel like a terrible person.’
–Muted_Friend_6775

20.

‘I broke a $50,000 tool at work and acted surprised when my boss found it broken. It was my first month working as a petroleum engineer.’
–snowboarder_123

21.

‘I once hit ‘Reply All’ on a company-wide email… to complain about the company. Spent the next two hours updating my resume and sweating through my soul.’
–Koteimi

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