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re: The Butterfly Effect: Tiny Things that Changed Your Life

Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:30 pm to
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
15554 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:30 pm to
Broke my back in pthe Army - didn’t go to Afghanistan

Random pick roommate at LSU - met all my best friends to this day
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
8819 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:30 pm to
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
25942 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:32 pm to
I didn’t start masturbating with a finger in my arse until 2014. Game changer
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41199 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:32 pm to
quote:

If I was born 4 days later I would’ve been in a different grade.
My life would’ve been pretty different I’m sure.



same here
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27419 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:38 pm to
I pulled my pants off and threw them in the air... They landed on an underaged chick's head.

We ended up together for 8 or 9 years and married.

The problem is the girl I was dating at the time was likely the one I was supposed to marry.

Don't really know where I would be these days had that happened. Maybe happy. Maybe not
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48561 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:39 pm to
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If I was born 4 days later I would’ve been in a different grade.
My life would’ve been pretty different I’m sure.

My youngest daughter is like this but opposite. She's almost a year older than some of her classmates and missed being a senior this year by a week.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
63031 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:40 pm to
quote:

I randomly send her an email, saying something like "Hey, came across your email in the band newsletter, heard you live in Chicago now, how's life going?" Something real generic like that. She responded shortly after.

Fast forward 20 years, we're married with a child.


shite man, I don't have anything like this.

Sometimes I think about how many kids I'd have and/or how different they'd be without the early miscarriages. Trips me out.
Posted by MyRockstarComplex
The airport
Member since Nov 2009
3319 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:41 pm to
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Back around 2003 or 4, I was in a band but moved out of state for work.


Who are you? Identify yourself!
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53010 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:49 pm to
I love boomer threads like this

Don’t be scared just email a girl if you want to get married! You’d get arrested for that now
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16206 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:49 pm to
I took a job as a busboy while in college at a Baton Rouge restaurant. Worked my way up to bartender and met the people I call my best friends even 30 years later working there even though we all had little in common. Met my wife there as well.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 6:08 pm
Posted by MeridianDog
Home on the range
Member since Nov 2010
14201 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:51 pm to
My sophomore year of high school I was competing in the district Science Fair, which was at a local college. A friend and I were standing outside the science building, waiting to see if the judges had any questions during judging. An 8th grade girl came out of the building with her father, so he could smoke.

She was competing a layer below me and they were waiting also. She was very nervous, and I made some wise arse comment, that her father thought was funny.

The next three years, we competed against each other in the high school division and my senior year, she won overall at the state competition, went to international in Detroit, and I won the chemistry competition and got a scholarship to MSU. I sent her a letter of congratulations. We began dating and have been married 53 years.

If I had kept my smart-arse mouth shut, I might never have met her.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 6:47 pm
Posted by morganwadefan
TN
Member since May 2023
194 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:54 pm to
Congrats. I’m a huge fan of the Vaughan brothers, Jimmie is always thanking little brother Stevie for showing him how much better life is sober.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
21460 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:54 pm to
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That was the coolest story posted.
Posted by Randall Savauge
Member since Aug 2021
58 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:55 pm to

Wouldn’t change an thing
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Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
150761 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:56 pm to
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How much different would my life be if I didn't get curious about that newsletter mailing list, or never sent that simple little email?

quote:

we're married with a child.

You’d probably be getting more blowjobs these days I presume.
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
17297 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:56 pm to
Everyone’s life is filled with hundreds, perhaps thousands of these things. Many you may never have noticed at the time, or ever thought about at all.

Big one for me: was sitting at home, junior in highschool, get a phone call out of the blue from a classmate I barely knew He told me the local radio station where he worked parttime needed someone to work the Sunday morning signon shift, and he thought the only applicant they’d gotten thus far was an a-hole so he suggested that I apply.

Started a career in broadcasting and media thats lasted over 4 decades now, and ultimately led me to pretty much every good thing thats ever happened to me.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
28387 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 5:59 pm to
quote:

randomly send her an email, saying something like "Hey, came across your email in the band newsletter, heard you live in Chicago now, how's life going?" Something real generic like that. She responded shortly after. Fast forward 20 years, we're married with a child.

You sly dog you.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
28387 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 6:08 pm to
The friend is you, right?
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
8819 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 6:12 pm to
quote:

I took a job as a busboy while in college at a Baton Rouge restaurant. Worked my way up to bartender and met the people I call my best friends even 30 years later working there even though we all had little in common. Met my wife there as well.


And I have all the recipes
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
14209 posts
Posted on 8/1/23 at 6:17 pm to
My first job out of college I was in sales partnered with this guy in his mid 30’s. There was a young girl in our building that we would see coming in and out from time to time who was smoking hot. He kept egging me on that I should ask her out but I didn’t have the stones.

He came in one day and said “ Hey…I saw your girl in the parking lot and told her that my tall good looking buddy was going to ask her out…she said okay …..so there you go!” He forced the issue so the next time I saw her I brought it up … we had a laugh and ended up shooting pool on our first date.

We’ve been married for 23 years now and have two kids. I have no idea if I’d have worked up the nerve on my own - so him doing that definitely changed our lives.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 7:38 pm
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