re: What's been your biggest "I don't give a frick" moment?

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After the flood I had that eff it mentality for a while.

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that was just your excuse to eat more ice cream.

About 9 months before my first child

When I was 14, I took my Dad’s State Trooper car for a joy ride.

Errantly got on the road that passed right by HQ and couldn’t turn off in time, so I put on his hat as camo and drove slowly by.

I never shared this with him.

When I was in undergrad, I worked at the intramural fields. Every August, we had to paint the lines for eight flag football fields. It was huge pain in the arse doing the measuring and whatnot.

After working there a couple years, I had developed a pretty laissez-faire attitude about everything. So I stopped being so precise with the measuring and just started eye-balling it.

After we'd finished one field, we stepped back and realized that it was clearly shaped like a trapezoid. One of my younger co-workers asked if we should re-paint it. Being the senior person on staff, I just said "meh, close enough."

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Ok boomer

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so is this like a new thing or something?
i hear my kids say it to each other sometimes

I once had a friend/roommate who had a 1995 Monte Carlo. It was the biggest piece of shite car I think I've ever been associated with. It had been in the shop twice for around 6 weeks with only a couple days between them. He got it back "good to go" and paid the mechanic. We were on our way to North Carolina when it broke down again on a bridge in/around Chattanooga at 2 AM.
He didn't say a word to me. He just got out and grabbed his bag and a few tools. He took the tag off, put it in his bag, and wrote a note that read, "If you can fix it, you can have it. The title is in the glove box and the key is under the mat". He slipped the note under the wipers and started walking with me watching from the passenger seat.
That was a guy who didn't give one single frick about anything at that moment.

Turning 40. From then on.

Not attending my high school or college graduation.

Listening to 16 y/o kids drone on about some stupid stuff while I’m trying to teach a lesson

my daily routine at work where i spend hours on this message board. My boss won't fix the shite that will allow me to fix the shite so i sit here and waste my time collecting my pay check. Hell she may be here doing the same thing, I know she hasn't been given funding to hire some other people to fix shite that she can't fix.