What was the worst decision you saw somebody else make?

I knew a guy who was supposedly recruited to be a part of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,

not even out of high school.

Then he saw his girlfriend to dance with another guy at graduation,

and in a fit of drunken jealousy, he punched a brick wall and shattered a dozen bones in his hand.

Never played an instrument again. My cousin dropped

a full-ride baseball scholarship at a college in a town he grew up in, wanting to move for a girl

he started dating his senior year of high school. She was two years younger than him. He went to a state

school instead that's 40 minutes from his hometown. She cheated on him and they broke up not long

after school started. Ouch. A girl I dated for a few years broke up with me for a smack addict

slash dealer. I told her, this is going to ruin your life. It's been almost 10 years and I think

she's finally staying clean, but she lost a decent job and had some

run-ins with the cops, plus got pregnant between stints in rehab. I witnessed my friend kick a skunk

in order to get it away from him. Bad decision. I had a family of skunks that lived by my house

for a long time. I moved. They're probably still there. They were always very

friendly as long as you didn't get too close to the kits, or act aggressively towards them. They'd never

let me pet them or anything, but they were perfectly content to chill out on the lawn just a few

feet away. And I told that to an idiot cousin who was over one day, and she apparently interpreted that

to mean it was okay to try and pet one of the kits.

It, um, it didn't go quite according to plan. So my fiance's cousin was donating 50 bucks to

Thon. Thon is a fundraiser held by Penn State where they dance for hours and hours to raise

money for causes like running a marathon, but dancing. He was

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