11. Astro-not
I dated a super-smart girl in high school. She wanted to be an astronaut. She won the national science fair for a project to terraform Mars. She was accepted to the Air Force academy to train to be a pilot / scientist so she could be fast-tracked to the astronaut cadet program. The girl was brilliant.
Six months before graduation in senior year she went to a party.
She took some bad ecstasy and went into a coma for a few weeks. When she came out, she was a totally different person.
She just lost all her drive and basically stopped going to class or doing any work. She failed her last semester and dropped out. She cut everyone off and went into seclusion. That’s the last I heard of her.
12. This is an actual problem
In high school we went streaking, and one of my friends happened to be 18. We got caught by the police, and now he is on the sex offenders list. That was 6 years ago.
13. Couch hopper
He met a girl at a party on Friday. He put in his resignation at work and sent an email to his advisor he was giving up his grad program on Saturday. He moved across the continent with the girl he met on Monday morning.
Last time I heard about him, his friends were collecting money to fly his homeless ass home two years later and he’s been jobless and crashing on people’s couches ever since.
14. Hockey Dreamin’
Friend of mine spent his entire childhood playing in the minor hockey leagues. He got so good he was nearly at the top of the league by the time he was in high school. Then his mom died of cancer and he started drinking. All his teammates went on to play in the NHL, and he’s working as a roofer.
It’s sad watching hockey with him, and he’s like, “I used to play with that guy in Triple-A.” His mom’s dream was to see him go all the way to the top.
15. In just three months…
Most gorgeous, intelligent girl I’ve ever know. She was pre-med in college and breezing through.
Then she got an offer to make $1000 in a weekend as a model at a car show. Then she got offered much more than that to model lingerie for a bunch of sales reps the night after the car show. She made $2500 that night. I think that changed her perspective on life.
She dropped out of school “for one semester” with the plan of making enough money in four months to pay the rest of her way through college. She made a ton of money as a stripper.
Then she discovered cocaine and spent all that stripper money as fast as she could make it. Claims she was “tricked” into making a porn movie but was so high she’s not sure if it was commercial porn or just some guys making a home movie.
Then she got pregnant, not sure who the father is. While pregnant and high, she got arrested driving the getaway car for a couple of guys who tried to rob the strip club she worked at.
In THREE MONTHS she went from top of the world to being a felon, waiting to have a prison baby. So sad.
16. Less than a minute?
Had a friend who bought an expensive Mercedes. It was kind of a life dream he had for many years. It took all his savings and also his life insurance to get there, plus a decent credit.
When pulling off the dealer’s place, he totally wrecked it on the first turn. Paperwork with insurance was still in progress, so they denied paying. He now drives a used old car and is paying off a credit for a car he drove less than a minute.
17. Golden boy, indeed
Not a friend, my only brother. Golden boy, handed everything on a silver platter. Basically a Prince in our family, golf scholarship, lots of friends, chicks throwing themselves at him. All this despite the fact that he’s a supreme jerk, and a nasty person.
He started drinking heavily at 15. Seriously cheap disgusting stuff too – which is nonsense, we come from money. (Buy some good stuff and stop chain smoking menthols but whatever.) He hid it like a champ until 2015.
He suffered full liver failure a week after his 29th birthday. So he begs my parents for a 2nd chance at life, he needs help, he wants to live. My parents managed to get him a full liver transplant two months in which would have been impossible without money because addicts aren’t really high on the list for transplants.
Once it was done, he had mandatory rehab, 12 steps etc. The Mayo Clinic started calling because he was skipping his mandatory “how are you enjoying the organ you don’t deserve?” appointments.
When my mom forces him to go, he tests positive for coke, booze & weed. He is now dead to me & most of my family. He has four years or less to live & my mom is basically a slave because he cries that he needs her & she’s too weak to toss him in a home.
That liver could have gone to 8 people who maybe cared about their life. In my mind, he is a murderer who straight up stole someone else’s second chance at life.
18. Temper
He had a bad temper. He quit a really good commission sales job because they weren’t going to give out more vacation time. He then took a $7.50 an hour job at a pizza place. He ended up losing his house.
19. Life Sentence
A guy I knew in college was dragging his feet about breaking up with a girl. He went over to her house to finally end their toxic relationship, but ended up sleeping with her again instead.
And, naturally, she got pregnant.
20. Good plan
My buddy’s wife (both were my friends) got herself a “work husband”, she being in her early 20s and him being 43 and an ugly creep. She has her husbands baby and files for divorce a month later, citing abuse. (There was no abuse.)
Moves in with work husband and tries unsuccessfully to take all her hubbys money and keep him from his kid. His lawyer is way more competent and she ends up with credit card bills and 50/50. She’s dead broke and her 43 year old boyfriend works retail at a big box store.
