Whether you’re a serial procrastinator, a risk-taker, or just plain don’t care, consequences will get to you all the same, but your conscience will be affected to a smaller or greater degree depending on which category of people you fit into.

Whatever the case, there comes a time when you do end up saying “screw this, I’ll deal with whatever comes because of this later” and just go for it. And the internet is full of like-minded individuals sharing their stories too, as seen in this one AskReddit post.

So, someone asked the lovely folks on Reddit “what was your ‘screw it, I’ll deal with the consequences later’ moment?”, and loads of folks delivered their intriguing stories of how they… well, probably not regretted their choices, but they certainly told the consequences to get out of here, and had to live through whatever would happen.

Scroll down to check out the best answers in our curated list below, and while you’re at it, cast your vote on the ones you enjoyed the most, comment your thoughts and share your own stories of “consequences be damned” in the comment section below!

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#1 Now Is Always The Best Time For Gas

Every time I tell myself, “I’ll just get gas before I drive to work tomorrow” and then find myself running 15 minutes late. You’d think I would learn at some point.

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#2 Lost Dog > Work

My dog got stolen and was missing for over a month. Someone anonymously called me and said they were going to drop off the dog at front of my house wether or not someone was home. I just started a new job, I couldn’t find my boss to ask permission to leave, and I just bolted home.

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#3 Video Games Are Love, Video Games Are Life

I stayed up with my friends playing video games online until the sun started rising. I’m in my mid-thirties and that level of sleep deprivation the next day was worse than a hangover.

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#4 Procrastination Is A Fine Art

For a serial procrastinator like me…..This is my whole life. Sometimes, I have to postpone those dealings with consequences too. It’s an art as well as science.

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#5 So You Don’t Want To Accept My Vacation Request?

I had put in vacation for 2 days to go back home for my grandpa’s bday 4 months in advance. Request gets accepted. 2 weeks before my vacation, there is a shift change and now my trip would take up a whole week of work. I inform my boss that I’ll be taking a whole week now, he tells me that’s fine and to go update the vacation request. I go to HR to update my request, instead of just changing the date range the HR person tries to delete the request and make a new one. Only problem is we were in a vacation blackout time (no new requests get accepted for that month because of workload), so they end up canceling my vacation and then go “oh whoops looks like you can’t put in a new request too bad”. My boss gets pissed and has my back but HR isn’t budging, not the first time our department has been screwed over. I tell HR “I’m still going on vacation. I’m not gonna miss out on seeing my family because you guys are incompetent. Fire me or don’t fire me, I don’t really care at this point.” My boss tells me to enjoy my time off and we can worry about stuff when I get back from break. Grandpa’s bday was great, had fun seeing the family and friends from back home. I come back after a week and I’m still employed. Boss and boss’s boss explained to HR that I’m the only one in our department who’s qualified to do what I do, and if they want to lose a bunch of money getting a 3rd party contractor to replace me than that’s their right to, they’ll just have to explain to the finance officer and general manager why we’d be bleeding money all of a sudden. I don’t work there anymore but I hope my old boss is doing well, he was a homie.

Side story, that same boss took 2 weeks of vacation when the Shadowlands expansion of WoW released. Man’s got his priorities straight haha. When I asked him what did he tell HR and his boss he was like “Those people don’t need to know what I do or don’t do with my vacation time, I’m taking my vacation time.”

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#6 Take A Chance On An Internet Date

1998 – on my first date with a woman I’d met in an online chat room. We did the boring, cliched dinner and a movie thing. Things got hot and heavy in the theater. After the movie we drove back to her apartment and she invited me in. I had plans the next morning, but said what the hell. I didn’t leave until 5:00 the next morning, and ended up blowing off my plans.

She and I have been together ever since.

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#7 Everything

*Gestures vaguely to everything around me*

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#8 “I Have ADHD”

I have ADHD. My whole life is a long “f**k it I’ll deal with it later” moment

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#9 The World Is My Home

Quit my job when I was 24 and went traveling around the world for a year. Parents wanted me to buy a house with my savings but I spent it all on seeing the world instead.

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#10 Unprotected Sex

Unprotected sex.

Consequences turned 9 this year.

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#11 Credit Cards, Enough Said

Credit cards. Oh man I wanna fight 18 year old me.

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#12 Break A Bone, It’ll Heal, Break A Snowboard…

Was about to hit a tree while snowboarding.
Either break my board on it to lessen the blow or break my body on it.

Chose to protect my board.

Regretted ever since.

A lot of people asking what the damage was:

My thigh slammed into the tree and took the full brunt of it. I didn’t break any bones but couldn’t walk for two weeks. However, that was the best part.

I went to the hospital for a check and they said it was all good but what they didn’t notice was that my right side of my back had shifted.

So when I tried to run or play sports, the ligaments and meniscus is both knees got destroyed and now I can’t run anymore

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#13 Illegal Substances Are Extra Risky

I was a teenager in a friend’s car, we were smoking weed. Then he was getting pulled over. Driver said “throw it man!”. I was like “he’ll see that anyway, and this car smells a lot like weed anyway, also it’s good, lemme just finish this real quick”.

So the cop arrived at the car and I was this kid sitting there smoking weed. The look on his face was kind of hilarious.

I wasn’t raised to be wasteful for goodness sake.

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#14 Drink To Regret

Any time I drink. But fortunately I have anxiety and it just ends up with me doing seemingly normal things like saying hi to strangers.

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#15 The Cabin In The Woods And A Bear On Our Tail

Broke down fishing way out in the sticks with my cousin. We were out of cell service. It was getting dark and we were walking back towards the main roads.

We spotted a black bear walking the trail behind us. It kept its distance but clearly smelled my backpack full of trout.

I dropped the bag of fish and we kept moving. Seen a cabin up ahead so we broke the door open and stayed there untill morning. While there i found some spark plugs in a drawer while searching for a piece paper and a pen to leave a note.

The plug wasn’t the same my UTV called for. But it was a close match just a hotter plug #8 vs a #9. We left a note stating i took 2 spark plugs. Used the propane and stove to cook a can of soup we found aswell as some crackers.

Left $100 for the door knob/lock and the plugs aswell as my contact info.

3 weeks later the owner called said not to worry. He was glad his cabin helped us. And i asked if he wanted anymore compensation but he said no. Cabin was not vandalized and he had a spare doorknob in the shed.

So yeah i broke into a cabin for the night. Took some spark plugs to fix my side by side and ate some vegetable soup.

Left owner 5 $20 bills and fixed my machine and went home. Also the bear took our catch….

Edit: I would like to stress always being prepared when venturing out in the woods. As you know i was not. My side by side was only a year old with 1200 kms. So i didn’t anticipate a issue which was dumb. I had spare gas, tire plugs, compressor and a drive belt. Failed to remember a spare spark plug.

We had with us about 3L of water left. Some MRE’s with the flamless food warmers. A coil of 1/4 rope, knives and a med kit aswell as our catch of trout. We also had a survival .410 with a rifled barrel to accept Colt .45 pistol rounds.

I have never had to fire it while on fishing trips but i knew i had something incase of a emergency.

But yeah never get complacent with your vehicles and always be prepared. I should have reviewed my kit before leaving.

As for the cabin we were very respectful. We listed what we used/took and left contact info. With the door broken i slept with the couch pulled up to the door. Since it was a in-swing. When we left we used some of the 1/4 rope to tie the door shut to keep animals and the elements out.

Be safe out there!

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#16 Long Distance Relationships

Travelling to meet the guy I met online. Consequences? Married now for 9 years.

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#17 Well, That Visa Extention Was Close…

Was teaching English in Myanmar on an expired visa. One month turned to six and when I finally left I realized the airport people were going to look at my expired visa and get mad at me. I remember being at my jungle school and informing the headmaster I was working with that my visa was expired and I’d need a few days to go into Rangoon to get it extended. He said he was going to pretend i didn’t say that and we were both going to forget this conversation because he didn’t want to risk the government denying my extension and kicking me out of the country (or arresting me) since I agreed to teach a whole year… No one at the airport noticed though.

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#18 Future Me vs. Present Me

F**k future me, he has literally never done anything for present me and present me does so much for future me

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#19 Dipping The Pen In Company Ink

I had developed feelings for a coworker (small company, about 20 people), we kinda flirted at work and some people were starting to suspect something but we managed to keep it professional. One night we had a few drinks, could not decide to part ways, one thing led to another… the morning after when we woke up together, neither of us could muster the strength to go to work : she called in sick, and a few minutes later I sent an email to use a day off, as things were quite slow at work anyway. But we knew all too well that the both of us not showing up, with coworkers aware of our plans to get drinks together the night before, well, we weren’t going to fool anyone. And the following weeks/months were pretty awkward indeed (we never made it official, for the time it lasted).

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#20 Too Fast, Too … Much In Trouble

I blew past a state trooper doin about 140 mph (225kmph) on an empty highway just because I was testing how fast the car could go.

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#21 When Your Anxiety Actually Tells You To Do Something Good

Quit a new job that had me an anxious wreck every morning, to the point I couldn’t even have breakfast. So glad I did it, but I’m never that impulsive. (I’m ok now, happily employed in a position somewhere else)

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#22 All Of Adolescence

Pretty much all of adolescence.

Currently dealing with it. High cholesterol, constant tenitis, bad joints, nutritional deficiencies…

It wasn’t until November that I finally accepted that “Just because you technically can doesn’t mean you should.” 37 years old and finally an adult.

It’s boring.

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#23 Pushing Your Legs To The Limit

I hiked through 6 miles of public land early one morning doing some pre-season deer scouting for the upcoming deer season. Took several hours to complete and i was exhausted when i got to my truck. Only to see my best friend had texted me at some point asking if I want to join him on an over night camping trip. Said f**k it. Got home. Grabbed my camp pack. Met him at another spot on public land and we hiked another 4 miles in before setting up camp. That night and the next week, my legs felt as if they were ready to rip themselves off. Might not sound like a lot of miles but when 90% of it is off trail bush wacking. Climbing over logs and through thick brush. Its a good bit of work.

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#24 Quit Your Job, I Dare You

Quitting any job whenever I want regardless of having money or not I’ll figure it out, because you won’t have me feeling trapped and like you have control over my life been there done that

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#25 That’s Some Addictive Coffee Right There

Found a new coffee shop in town which was so good I immediately went back for a second and a third large (so 6 shots in like 10 minutes). Regretted it both throughout the day and during the multiple toilet visits!

Edit: the cafe was called Gumption by Coffee Alchemy. So good!

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#26 “Just So We’re All On The Same Page”

I had a whole ordeal with my wife developing a neurological disorder and my chain of command allowed me to come off the ship a couple days to get her help at the hospital. There was a miscommunication where they made me come back on the ship sitting off the coast and left her behind. I got brought into a room with maybe 5 chiefs and my division officer to get absolutely railed. I went fully numb and responded to everything in the most nonchalant way and when they threatened to bring me all the way up the discipline pole, I asked them to “please do. I’d love the face time with the captain, maybe I could actually help my wife.” It went nowhere after that but after I went straight to my rack and setup my uniforms just in case. Later in that same ordeal my wife and I were involved in an email chain where my XO and chiefs basically lied about the situation and we sent a novel correcting every piece with a “just so we’re all on the same page.”

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#27 Not My Job, Just Forklift It As Is

I used to unload freight from delivery trucks for a living. Most the s**t was half haphazardly thrown in without regard to anything. It gets a bit frustrating. One time I had got to the back of the truck and there was one pallet left. The pallet itself was crushed with these concrete barriers that were stacked on it. They never should have loaded it that way and they knew it. It would be impossible to unload by hand, but I couldn’t get the fork lift all the way under the crushed pallet.

I decided ultimately to just say f**k it. I leveled the forks at pallet level, backed up about 30 feet, and then rammed it full speed. The forks went clean through the pallet….. and the back of the truck. I got those concrete barriers off though.

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#28 Divorce. 0/10. Not Worth It

I knew my marriage wouldn’t last while I was walking down the aisle… but f**k it! I’ll deal with that s**t later!!!

Four years divorced. 0 out of 10. Was not worth it.

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#29 Hangovers Don’t Exist

A friend ordered 2 pitchers of beer at a bar at like 11am (one for each of us).

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#30 Do It For The Kids

Getting divorced when I knew my wife was moving the kids across the country. That kept me married 6 more years then it should have but finally the decision had to be made. Boo for divorce

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#31 Taking A Left On The Road

Pretty much every left turn i make

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#32 Quitting With Style

I used to work at an animation studio until a few months ago.

It was an 8-5 with unpaid OT, far from home and s****y pay. It was a terrible experience, only reason I stuck around so long is because I was in a tricky situation and wanted my credits on their project.

In January this year I got f*****g tired of working long hours in an office job because I’d been employed since October and I hadn’t been paid since then because “the salaries had been delayed due to budgeting issues”.

Ahhh this was a really bad time for me. Family was over, and for once I had no money to treat them to something nice, all because I chose to work at that filthy studio. I said f**k it, took a week long vacation without informing anyone and after coming back handed in my resignation in the form of a middle finger for all the miserable past experiences.

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#33 The Old “Switcheroo”

I changed my secondary school choice last minute from a school 15 miles away to the one a 2 minute walk from my parents house.

I figured I would deal with the consequences.

Time came around to see if I was accepted into the school… I was accepted into the original one, 15 miles away.. Confused AF.

My mother grins and says she changed it back to the original one before sending it off.

I wasn’t even mad, I regretted my decision about a week after I changed it. The original school was a much better school and I’m now still the only person in my family to do all of the education stuff.

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#34 When The Computer Doesn’t Feel Like It

Right now actually

I’ve been working on an assignment for school and my computer is not up to the task. So now that I’ve spent 5 entire days crying and trying to get as much as I can done, imma take tonight off and get really high and cry some more!

I’ll deal with it tomorrow.

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#35 “I’m A Race Car Driver”

Context: I’m a race car driver.

Went to England to test a car, and immediately lost my wallet and Green Card (my only way back into the US…)

Went through the process of having a temporary one issued at the London embassy, but had to wait for it to be delivered by courier back to me. Absolutely on pins and needles because I *needed* to be back in the US for a race, and I’d been stuck in the UK for 3 weeks by this point.

Got the text that the ID was delivered, met my teammate’s mom on the side of the highway to grab it, and drove straight to Heathrow, racking up enough automated speeding fines to drain the bank. Booked the flight on the way, and it was starting to board when we arrived.

We left the rental car in an airport parking structure with the keys in it and RAN. Later emailed Sixt with a pic of the car and the name of the garage…

Made the flight, made the race, but we’re no longer allowed to rent from Sixt. We’d also stuffed the rental in a ditch in Scotland a few days before, and left the ripped-off body panels stuffed in the trunk. So maybe that didn’t help? Still worth it. Won the race!

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