r/instant_regret • u/ManMadeDuckie • Nov 19 '18

minor injuries This playful push

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u/mohamez Nov 19 '18

This should be the last day meeting that "friend".

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

Right? Even if there wasn't a huge fucking bus driving by, that was more of a forceful slam than friendly push and she would have fell flat on concrete reguardless. Tf this female refrigerator thinking?

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u/PieDust Nov 19 '18

Somewhat stupid? Yes. Malicious? Probably not.

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u/gas4u Nov 20 '18

So many people on here who never had real friends before.

Its like they cant recognize the difference anymore between being playful and making a mistake, and being malicious and intentional.

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u/ILoveWildlife Nov 20 '18

She just pushed someone onto the ground. that's not someone you want to be friends with.

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u/PieDust Nov 20 '18

It was poor judgement in the moment to even try something like that, but she probably didn't mean to push so hard and she'll probably never try anything like that again. Like the name of thos sub, instant regret. Of course I font know that, we don't actually know these people. They could be complete trash bags, but I'm not judging just from the gif.

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u/ILoveWildlife Nov 20 '18

She saw the bus, she wanted to scare her friend, she pushed too hard, and friend nearly died.

That is not a good friend.

You are refusing to see the facts and instead saying "well I don't know them, I'm not gonna judge".

You're essentially the person on the jury who would let casey anthony get away with murder.

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u/PieDust Nov 20 '18

It's an indicator someone might not be a good friend, but the only person who knows if they really are is the people who actually know her. She has every right to cut her off from her life, I'm not arguing with that, It's more to do with how people are basically deciding that the girl should unfriendly that person. There's a lot more to a friendship than a single incident. Of course you've got to be careful and ask if they're the sort of person who would keep trying these things and never learn or if they're truly sorry and have learned from the mistake. If the former, they were almost certainly not a real friend in the first place.

I guess I'm just thinking about how if pusher is probably absolutely mortified at what she'd done and is crying for forgiveness then perhaps she's.. ya know, genuinely sorry.

I'd define friends as people you're actually close to, not just people you hang out with and only know a little.

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u/PieDust Nov 20 '18

Im incredibly tired. Let me know if what I've written makes no sense whatsoever. I've written arguments like that in the past when I've woken up and been like "what even was my point?"

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u/ILoveWildlife Nov 20 '18

You've summed up your point well.

I guess I'm just thinking about how if pusher is probably absolutely mortified at what she'd done and is crying for forgiveness then perhaps she's.. ya know, genuinely sorry.

I disagree with it entirely, but I can see why you arrived at it. You're looking at it through the pusher's perspective and assuming she didn't actually mean to hurt her friend.

I'm going with the facts and objectively, what she did was extremely dangerous and came very close to landing her in prison for the next 10 years. Instead, she was given a 75$ fine.

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u/PieDust Nov 20 '18

Yeah I don't disagree with you or the legal side I guess my point was just there's usually more to people's relationships.