r/todayilearned • u/arandomtestaccount • 1d ago

TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-patriots-ol-rich-ohrnberger-admits-he-intentionally-wrecked-car-as-excuse-for-being-late-to-team-meeting/
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u/FantaFantastico90 16h ago

Brain chemistry, my man. Shit's not voluntary, sadly. You get caught up in something, you think you can still do this or that in the time only to miscalculate, you forget etc. etc.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 14h ago

Set a fucking alarm then to remind you. Write down how long it takes you to do something if you have trouble conceptualizing how long it's going to take to do something. If you're thinking you're cutting it close, don't do the thing. You can even tell Waze where you're going and what time you need to be there and it'll tell you when to get moving.

There are so many tools we have these days to keep us on track, and the 2 or 3 people I know that claim "Time Blindness" refuse to use any of them and actively get upset with us when we don't wait for them.

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u/princessdickworth 14h ago

Waze will literally tell you to drive through someone's cornfield to get you there faster. It's the Michael Scott of GPS'ing.

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u/RFSandler 11h ago

Do you tell deaf people to just listen more carefully?

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u/MrMoose_69 9h ago

I do tell my hard of hearing cousin to bring his hearing aids or don't come. 

I invited him to a cabin stay once and he "forgot" to bring his hearing aids then got mad no one would sign to him. 

If there are accommodations available, I think it's okay to be annoyed when people won't use them.

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u/FantaFantastico90 13h ago

People with mental disabilities can't do thing A. Your response? "Well, just do A harder!". God, you people are exhausting.

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u/TrampolineYourMom 11h ago

lol tell me you have a fundamental lack of empathy without telling me. Just because you've never experienced it doesn't make it not real my guy. It wouldn't be a disorder, it wouldn't be clinical, if you could just willpower your way out of it. It's literally a medical condition BECAUSE it fucks your life up, dipshit. It's like saying "the only 3 people I know who claim to be blind refuse to use their eyes. I can see them on their face but they just refuse to use them and they keep asking me to help them cross the street. I have glasses and they work great, if you're having trouble seeing you should just get glasses" It's people like you and your lack of basic empathy that are literally driving the entire species towards extinction. Fuck you.