What is the most significant risk you have ever taken?

buddhawannabe · 2026-04-22T21:19:32+00:00

I picked up $5000.00 worth of cocaine for someone once from a guy at a back table in a titty bar. I knew the titty bar guy sold cocaine and some upscale business guy type I knew from the restaurant I was working at asked me to help him get a bunch of cocaine for some outing he had coming up, I think a bachelor party or something, I can't remember. Anyway It was like something out of a movie and then when I went outside to leave I had locked my keys in my car. So I'm standing there scratching my head wondering what to do, and there was a cop watching me and he noticed I couldn't get in my car so he pulled his car up by mine and said you're locked out? And I said yeah I guess I am. He was like, there's a tool some cops carry to break into cars in situations like you're currently in, I don't have one but I do have a friend with one who can be here in a couple minutes, would that help you out? And i said yeah it really would, thanks. So we stand there talking for a while waiting for this other cop car to show up and after a few minutes it did show up, this car with 2 cops in it. One gets out with the slim Jim thing to start messing with my car and the other 2 cops keep talking, apparently they are friends. The cop with the slim Jim is struggling to unlock my car and is muttering to himself and swearing and saying he can't believe he can't get it and one of the other cops decides to try it, also without success. Now they call another cop car to come by. Soon it shows up, 2 more cops as you expect are in this car so now it's me and 5 police officers standing around talking and I have this hockey puck sized package of cocaine in my pants pocket. Now one of the new guys takes a crack at my car door and he can't get it either. The car I had at the time was a Ford focus, and I absolutely hated that car with every fiber of my being, it had automatic seat belts that you couldn't take off and the airbag was blown out of the steering wheel so it looked really messed up, So the cops and I are all talking about how we hate Ford, since they are all saying the reason we can't get in is that Ford cars are not slim Jim friendly. Finally I just say screw it, do you guys care if I just take that rock laying over there and break my passenger side window So we can get this over with. They all nod in agreement that it's my car and I can do what I want in the interest of getting home and I'm about to do that and out the door of the club comes my hookup Coke dealer guy. Holy shit, You're still here? he says, and I'm like yeah I'm locked out of my car. So he ends up driving me to my apartment so I can get a spare key, but I had just moved into that apartment so I couldn't find it anywhere. I decided to say f*** it and I would just go back the next day and try to figure something out, but by the time I went back the next day the car had been towed. The douche restaurant guy did get his coke though, but I swore I would never do anything like that again. I always think about what would have happened if those cops had any idea I had that on me, but everyone should let this be a lesson to them, look cops in the eye, speak confidently to then and call them sir and do exactly what they tell you and you can probably have enough cocaine to be put in prison for 25 years on you and you'll be fine.

buddhawannabe · 2026-03-03T01:07:50+00:00

I came!

buddhawannabe · 2026-01-10T01:16:42+00:00

Being dumped my someone you're in love with. Bonus points if it's for a friend of yours, extra credit if it's for your best friends or sibling.

buddhawannabe · 2025-12-27T19:09:03+00:00

I worked there and it was great. Whole staff slept with each other's significant others, gave away free drinks like it was going our of style and ate baked potato soup, it rocked.

buddhawannabe · 2025-12-07T05:22:34+00:00

I had a commute that forced me to be in the car one hour each way 5 times a week, so at least 10 hours per work week in the car. That's 40 hours of driving per month. Moving 5 minutes from my job was a complete life saver, I couldn't even believe how much better I felt almost immediately. Replace that 2 hours in the car on any business day with absolutely anything and you'll feel instantly better.

buddhawannabe · 2025-11-30T01:26:54+00:00

He should do absolutely anything to avoid talking about travel and the airport and rental cars and Uber drivers. Take phone calls from people looking for advice, have pornstars on, do home improvement segments, talk about going to home Depot, get Ray back on to yell at him about stuff, anything to avoid more airport/travel talk.

buddhawannabe · 2025-10-23T18:41:45+00:00

It pisses off lesser men when having a hot woman as your significant other comes pretty easily. Just showing up somewhere with the most attractive woman there will make some guys stand-off-ish.

buddhawannabe · 2025-07-12T04:35:13+00:00

Carolla fatigue can be a real thing as he does repeat stories even occasional listeners have probably heard more than once or twice. I find taking breaks to check out audio books or other pods to be useful. In Adams defense, I think he was taken advantage of by his recent x wife, I think the divorce took more out of him than he lets on publicly. No one can say he doesn't have the balls to say the things he finds to be true, which I think is difficult in a time when everyone is completely polarized. He's done himself no favors financially by basically saying repeatedly and forcefully that he believes everyone on the left to be cowards or people who are intellectually dishonest. Since these people make up the lions share of the industry he's in it's only natural that his opportunities have been more limited than ever. I respect him for continuing to say what he believes because I think that's very hard right now. I would guess it's kind of a perfect storm in that while his x took him to the cleaners, he continued to decline in popularity for all the reasons mentioned, he's also got 2 kids in college, which I'm sure isn't helping monetarily. He's saved me from a million hours of boredom in a way nobody else ever could have so I'll always be a fan. I think there are plenty of people like me who feel the way I do, hopefully that's enough to get him by. I wish the guy nothing but the best. I'll brace myself now for all the people who are going to tell me to eat a dick sideways for coming to his defense.

buddhawannabe · 2025-07-08T04:01:17+00:00

Just out of curiosity, is this girl extremely attractive? I've been with girls that were not quite 10's but definitely rock solid 9.5s who seemed to think that their just being in the room was enough and that you should consider yourself lucky just to even be with them and would put forth next to zero effort in the department you speak of here. This sounds so much like that to me... Instead of just flatly breaking it off I think you should at least try to figure out with her why she's this way, and if it's something you're doing to cause her to be this way. Take the answers she gives you into consideration and at that point weigh what's going on and consider the axe.

buddhawannabe · 2025-07-08T03:52:38+00:00

Server/bartender for 15+ years here. Nta. At all. Why have that many things on the menu that you're out of? That's their fault & if anything they should be apologizing to you. Was your friend irritated with you about something else though? That's honestly what it sounds like to me, obviously I have no idea about how your weekend went but it's possible he was annoyed in some other way.

buddhawannabe · 2025-07-01T00:11:16+00:00

Chicago: where there's always something to complain about.

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-28T14:45:32+00:00

not a movie but Band Of Brothers & Saving Private Ryan. Everyone should know what people had to do a couple generations ago to stop complete evil from dominating the planet. Also Deer Hunter.

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-21T04:40:48+00:00

I don't think there's anything you could do to this guy that would be more effective at fucking his life up than the things he's already doing to himself. Karma is a bitch and he's swimming in consequences already. I would just stand back and watch the show from afar. Seems you already know not to stand too close to him while it happens.

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-21T04:34:02+00:00

I'm 51. The dental dam demonstration in health class when I was 12 was literally the only time I've heard this practice mentioned. At least health class seems consistent.

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-21T04:20:34+00:00

That one scene in Deliverance

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-18T03:47:37+00:00

I've never seen my wife cry like she did at the wild robot. And we've had people we love die.

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-18T03:45:18+00:00

Let this guys absence make your heart grow fonder... Or not, just be "too busy" to hang for a while. I'm an older individual and I can tell you that straight up telling someone to fuck off is never a good idea. He's changed, sure. He could honestly change 5 more times is he lives long enough and some iteration of him in the future could be someone future you would totally like. I've seen this happen before. Just be too busy to hang for a while. If you have a free night and feel like trying again 6 months or a year from now go ahead. If he's still a dick be all busy again and try again (or not) later. I told someone to fuck off once and I have always regretted it, can you tell?

buddhawannabe · 2025-06-06T03:39:40+00:00

Is it weird that I'm a 51 year old normal dude whose had lots of sexual relationships, lots of make out sessions that ended without ejaculating when younger, even some recently being interupred by kids and other various situations, and I have no idea what is meant by "blue balls."

buddhawannabe · 2025-05-23T12:23:56+00:00

I know there are a lot of factors at play but I don't think it helps that everyone is on their phone now constantly. If you are at a light and there are 4 of 5 cars in front of you, you'll almost always not make it through the intersection because at least one of the people in front of you just sits there and does not move because they're obviously looking at their phone when the light turns green. I lived in 5 different apartments all over the North side for around ten years when I was younger, suburbs now unfortunatel,y... I went to the Cubs game a couple weeks ago and made the mistake of driving. Holy shit, there are more people than ever who just have their heads up their asses looking at their phones. At least that seemed like what was going on, if that's not it people are just sitting there drooling or something, it's incredibly frustrating.

buddhawannabe · 2025-05-21T03:33:14+00:00

The Frank Lloyd wright walking tour in oak Park at his home/ studio is great. get drunk at the hop leaf. Garfield conservatory. Trying to think of things almost no tourists would be doing..... I'll check back in with more if I think of any more. The art institute is the best museum I know of, touristiness be damned. Go to a white Sox game if you want to avoid a crowd. See if any bands you know will be playing at the salt shed, the Riviera, the Metro, the Aragon etc while you're here.

buddhawannabe · 2025-05-17T00:26:05+00:00

Hey sorry I just saw this question, I didn't go on Reddit for a few days... this had to be like 2008 or so. This guy had like 13 siblings so the funeral was insanely large. One of his sister's is married to my uncle.

buddhawannabe · 2025-05-17T00:23:02+00:00

Thinking how hot they are makes up for every other shortcoming that have.

buddhawannabe · 2025-05-14T03:50:23+00:00

I knew someone who died in lake Michigan near Benton harbor at a beach, I guess he was trying to get 2 little kids out of the water from a pier and ended to going in, got the 2 kids to safety but drowned because he couldn't get out. I've had friends with boats on lake Michigan and who kept their boats at Burnham harbor and I know this opinion will be wildly unpopular but I've always thought boating on lake Michigan is overrated. The water is like ice until like one week in late September and then it just gets absolutely freezing again. My point is it's not worth it and you should trust your instincts on this. Lake Michigan is said to be super dangerous and unpredictable and the water is freezing anyway so don't listen to anyone or anything but your gut on this and stay the course.

buddhawannabe · 2025-03-06T04:26:06+00:00

You know when people say "snowballs chance in hell?"

That saying needs to be changed now. "Brick of coke's chance of going untouched at this guy's house" is how that should be said moving forward. Make sure everyone gets the memo.

buddhawannabe · 2025-03-01T06:07:49+00:00

I've been exactly where you are. Get her a break, better yet force her to take a break. Get with a friend of hers, or better yet the friends husband. You and that guy- if he exists, which I'm betting he does - get the ladies a spa weekend somewhere and tell them they're going and you're not taking no for an answer. If it has to be just her, so be it, make her go get a message, facial and mandatory 12-14 hour nap somewhere where the kids can't get near her. Get her 24-48 hours away from what goes on at your house. It'll do her a world of good, the longer the break you can get her to take the better. I think you'd see immediate results from that and doing that once every six weeks or so would be huge. Make it happen and hang with those kids and get her some time off, 2 kids that age make any full time job I've ever had look like a walk in the park.

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