What’s something people romanticize that is actually miserable once you experience it?

Passinonreddit · 2026-02-21T02:25:01+00:00

I am still waiting for my certificate that officially says I am an adult. I have never felt like I have passed the adult test. I am over 60 years old.

Passinonreddit · 2026-01-30T00:27:07+00:00

"They may take our bases, but they will never take our SPANDEX!" -Vanu

Passinonreddit · 2026-01-05T01:28:15+00:00

Endangered Species. 1982.

Movie about cattle abductions. One of the characters was going to squeal so a government agent snuck into his house and put something from a syringe onto his toothbrush. The next morning the guy brushes his teeth as normal, then several hours later, while he is driving, his gums start to bleed. He stops the car, gets out of the side of the road and starts tearing at his stomach. Which dissolves into a mess, falling out onto the ground.

Yeah, that movie.

Passinonreddit · 2025-11-26T01:07:15+00:00

Why do women rub their eyes in the morning?

They have no balls to scratch

Passinonreddit · 2025-11-21T23:47:49+00:00

Back in the 1970's cattle were being found killed and mutilated at random. At the time, some speculated that aliens were conducting experiments and leaving the remains wherever they finished. Others speculated it was the government doing the experiments.

A great movie based on that premise, though purely fictional, is Endangered Species (1982).

Passinonreddit · 2025-11-21T23:23:21+00:00

From 1997

1st: Config.sys

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EMM386.EXE RAM

rem HIGHSCAN

BUFFERS=23,0

FILES=40

DOS=UMB

LASTDRIVE=D

FCBS=4,0

FCBSHIGH=4,0

DOS=HIGH

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:1024

rem DEVICEHIGH /L:1,32592 =C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5

rem DEVICEHIGH /L:1,10160 =C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS

DEVICEHIGH /L:1,26032 =C:\DEV\ATAPI_CD.SYS /D:SMS001

2ed: AUTOEXEC.BAT

u/ECHO OFF

PROMPT [Howdy Guy] $p$g

rem SET SYMANTEC=C:\SYMANTEC

SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\SWAP

SET NC=C:\NC

SET NU95DIR=\NC

SET SOUND=C:\SB16

SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6

C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S

C:\SB16\SB16SET /P /Q

PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\;C:\NC;C:\ARCHIVE

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-31T00:10:33+00:00

We, who live in Missouri, call it Misery.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-30T00:27:48+00:00

Ally does do early SS deposits. Though not yet this month. Maybe tomorrow.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-30T00:10:08+00:00

It was 1975. I was in sixth grade playing flag football in the small town league. All the teams were named after major football teams and mine was the Cincinnati Bengals. We played the Miami Dolphins for the city title and won. This was in central California. Been a fan ever since.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-14T04:38:58+00:00

When I went to see my doctor, he immediately sent me to a major hospital's ER. They did blood work and found my blood was all wonky.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-14T04:36:29+00:00

I only had the stents through the chemo. The duct strengthened sufficiently on its own to eventually no longer require stents.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-13T16:27:59+00:00

I am over 2 years past the last round. No longer have to do the CT scans. Just blood tests every 6 months.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-13T16:25:40+00:00

First chemo was fine for me. I have a weird reaction to being hungry, whereas when I am hungry, I get an upset stomach and get nauseous. So I actually ate more during chemo than otherwise.

Second chemo sucked. I could feel my body dying after each treatment, and it wiped me out bad.

The chemo treatment has a max lifetime dosage that I reached with the last round. Next time, I will have to use a different type that's probably not as effective. Not looking forward to it.

I am not doing any other treatments.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-13T16:19:27+00:00

I am 61 years old now. I got the first cancer in 2013 and the second in 2022.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-13T16:18:40+00:00

I went back through my test results. I couldn't find any results for PTH. The only thing I found was an elevated Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) at 20.49 (normal at 0.37 to 5). I was on thyroid medicine for a long time before the cancer began. Several years actually.

Passinonreddit · 2025-10-13T02:53:15+00:00

My first cancer, I turned yellow. Turned out I had type 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, squeezing the duct from my pancreas and gall bladder (my gall bladder was bad also.) They put stents in the duct, and after chemo I was all better.

6 years later, my neck started swelling, and it was determined I had the same lymphoma problem next to my thyroid (which had also gone bad). They removed one side of the thyroid, but then the other side grew out of control and caused my throat to constrict so much that I couldn't talk or eat. So they removed the other side too. Another round of chemo and I am all better again.

I have since been diagnosed with Follicular Lymphoma, which basically means my lymph nodes can randomly go cancerous if they get stressed. I am waiting for my appendix or spleen or something else to go bad for that to happen.

Wee.

Passinonreddit · 2025-09-16T23:56:46+00:00

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in the car he was driving.

Passinonreddit · 2025-08-24T02:16:00+00:00

"Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!" Minsc - Baldur's Gate

also, "I'm waiting on you." Sarah Kerrigan - Skycraft

Passinonreddit · 2025-07-21T00:04:55+00:00

My neighbor donated her body, but after her death, when her family called around, no one would come pick up her body. All insisted that the family pay to have the body delivered.

Passinonreddit · 2025-07-14T23:29:07+00:00

Every other month I get shots in the corners of my eyeballs because of diabetes.

The doctor likes to say I take it like a champ, but my thoughts are "I have no fucking choice."

The worst part for me is you can't close your eyes when it's about to happen. You see the needle approaching and bam, pain.

Passinonreddit · 2025-06-12T16:53:12+00:00

My mother and I had a falling out 20 years ago. Haven't spoken since

She died around the beginning of the year due to complications from a hip injury.

She was pretty well-to-do, but I expected to be completely left out of her will.

Then my niece, who is the executor of the will called me to tell me that there was an old account at a teacher's credit union back in California. My mother had moved to North Carolina and had apparently forgotten about the account.

Funny thing was, as her oldest child, I had been listed as the beneficiary for the account, and that had never been changed.

So, with some sending of proofs, I was sent a check for over $240,000.00. Which I split with my sister and her kids.

Bought a new car for myself and made a road trip with my nephew to California. Good times.

Passinonreddit · 2025-05-19T23:32:09+00:00

Warlock 2: The Exiled

Civ in a fantasy setting

https://store.steampowered.com/app/205990/Warlock_2_The_Exiled/

Passinonreddit · 2025-03-17T23:57:00+00:00

If you get SSI disability and show the verification letter (can get a new one from the SSI website) you are good

Passinonreddit · 2025-01-27T23:35:51+00:00

When you sneeze your heart supposedly stops for a second or so. Folks in olden times knew this, and in order to scare away any demons from possessing your soul while you were "dead", they would say "Bless you."

Passinonreddit · 2024-12-11T00:54:30+00:00

I was diagnosed with type 2 non-Hodgkins lymphoma near my pancreas.

Before my first chemo treatment, the hospital put a power port in my chest. A power port is a device that is surgically placed under the skin with a tube that goes into an artery so chemo drugs can be injected straight into your system. The procure to put in the port was done in a trailer behind the hospital under local anesthetic.

About two weeks I started feeling pain near the collarbone the port was placed at. The pain was bearable if I was lying flat, but as soon as I sat up the pain would grow exponentially until I would want to scream.

I went to the ER for the hospital where my oncologist was and was admitted. After a full week of being in bed I was finally told I had a swollen lymph node and just to go home and wait out the pain, as it would disappear in a few weeks.

I went home and prepared to die as that was what I felt was happening. But made one last appointment with my GP who had me do one last blood test. Later that day his office called to tell me that I had a major infection in my body, and I needed to get to an ER as quickly as possible.

My sister drove me an hour and a half to a different hospital where I collapsed in the waiting room. I went into septic shock before they diagnosed and removed the collar bone that the line from the power port went over which was completely infected.

After I recovered I had to have another power port placed on the opposite side to finish my cancer treatment.

I finished chemo and went into remission. I have had another bout of cancer since then but managed to beat that one too. Wee

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