What's a time that you thought you would fail something, but unexpectedly brought yourself out of the mud?

[Corny Capybara]

Could be anything. College courses, Job performance reviews, etc

 

[fuzzyrodent85]

Getting my hamster to like me. When I first got him he would bite and now he lets me give him belly rubs.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I went through a freak snow storm in a manual corolla that had no traction control and I only had about a month experience driving stick. I became less confident as I went through it to the point where I was almost certain I would get stuck or get into an accident.
I was heading back to my house with my girlfriend and her fat retard friend 6 hours away and stopped at the last gas station before I-20. Its started snowing hard which was completely unexpected. Since this is the Southeastern United States, vehicles do not have snow tires and sand trucks/plows are either nonexistent or take hours to ready. This isn't an issue since the typical response to a freak snow storm is to stay inside until the next day when the sun inevitably melts it. Not wanting to be delayed and thinking it was going to cease in 30 minutes and become slush, I decided to continue. This would be a terrible mistake. The snow was powdery and would blow across the road. I had never seen it snow with the ground dry. This was fairly good since the snow would blow across the road and accumulate in the grass. A pickup truck speeds past me and several seconds later he spun out in front of me and proceeded to slide into the shoulder. Over time there was slush accumulation and my backend would try to get away from me but, as its a cheap front wheel drive car, the back end would straighten out a second later. Others weren't so fortunate. I started passing snow covered vehicles, suggesting they were there for quite some time.

The roads kept getting worse but they weren't iced. In the South the most dangerous part isn't when it snows, it's when the slush freezes at night to form black ice. This ice doesn't last very long given the South's sunshine and aversion to cold temperatures. As long I got out of this before dark, I would be fine. Then I hit a traffic jam. It was moving slowly so that was a good sign. Vehicles next to me and tailgating me made me very uneasy. We go through a small pile up with people standing by their vehicles.

Night was falling and I was losing confidence. There is almost nothing on this stretch for at least an hour. No gas stations, no hotels., just small towns away from the highway. I couldn't really go back and idling my car through the night wasn't an option. I continued on but now there were more vehicles near me and some where making mistakes. It was mostly crossover vehicle drivers slowly pushing faster until they started losing control. It was becoming harder keeping control. Black ice was forming. In a straight line this would be bad but not the end except there was a bend coming. There was a bend under a bridge and there were cars barely moving ahead. I slow to a crawl and see there are vehicles in the median. You don't think about highway curves being banked until you see cars sliding down into the median. Everything was eerily quiet interrupted by the sound of wheels frantically trying to gain traction before hearing the sound of vehicles banging together. I was in the right lane at the top of the bank and decided to put half of my car on the shoulder. While other cars were sliding down and piling up, I was slowly moving forward. There was one problem, the semis gave up and parked on the shoulder, blocking my path. I had to get back on the road and hope I wouldn't slide down into the mess of cars. I turned my car back to the road and was met with spinning wheels.... well the driver side wheel. The ice on the road and the shoulder reduced the traction so much that my car was not getting back on the road and I was running out of room. Several feet before I met with the semi's trailer, my car hopped back on the road and didn't slide. I made it past the bank and on a straight away. No one said a word the entire time. As I proceeded forward, I noticed the lack of lights around me. Only me and another car made it through. I have no pictures of this as my girlfriend was too occupied with being scared. As I went very slowly the other guy kept becoming impatient, speeding up, and losing control. I eventually left him far behind. I reached a bridge and as I went under it, the road material changed and the ice and water disappeared on the road as if it never occurred.
I made a terrible judgement call and, by the time I realized that, I couldn't abort. I was surprised I made it through, especially at the end. I must admit I did get a pretty good feeling when I was the only one on the road coming out of that mess, especially with a vehicle ill equipped for it. I guess zoomers would say "winner winner chicken dinner".

 

[fuzzyrodent85]

I went through a freak snow storm in a manual corolla that had no traction control and I only had about a month experience driving stick. I became less confident as I went through it to the point where I was almost certain I would get stuck or get into an accident.
I was heading back to my house with my girlfriend and her fat retard friend 6 hours away and stopped at the last gas station before I-20. Its started snowing hard which was completely unexpected. Since this is the Southeastern United States, vehicles do not have snow tires and sand trucks/plows are either nonexistent or take hours to ready. This isn't an issue since the typical response to a freak snow storm is to stay inside until the next day when the sun inevitably melts it. Not wanting to be delayed and thinking it was going to cease in 30 minutes and become slush, I decided to continue. This would be a terrible mistake. The snow was powdery and would blow across the road. I had never seen it snow with the ground dry. This was fairly good since the snow would blow across the road and accumulate in the grass. A pickup truck speeds past me and several seconds later he spun out in front of me and proceeded to slide into the shoulder. Over time there was slush accumulation and my backend would try to get away from me but, as its a cheap front wheel drive car, the back end would straighten out a second later. Others weren't so fortunate. I started passing snow covered vehicles, suggesting they were there for quite some time.

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The roads kept getting worse but they weren't iced. In the South the most dangerous part isn't when it snows, it's when the slush freezes at night to form black ice. This ice doesn't last very long given the South's sunshine and aversion to cold temperatures. As long I got out of this before dark, I would be fine. Then I hit a traffic jam. It was moving slowly so that was a good sign. Vehicles next to me and tailgating me made me very uneasy. We go through a small pile up with people standing by their vehicles.
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Night was falling and I was losing confidence. There is almost nothing on this stretch for at least an hour. No gas stations, no hotels., just small towns away from the highway. I couldn't really go back and idling my car through the night wasn't an option. I continued on but now there were more vehicles near me and some where making mistakes. It was mostly crossover vehicle drivers slowly pushing faster until they started losing control. It was becoming harder keeping control. Black ice was forming. In a straight line this would be bad but not the end except there was a bend coming. There was a bend under a bridge and there were cars barely moving ahead. I slow to a crawl and see there are vehicles in the median. You don't think about highway curves being banked until you see cars sliding down into the median. Everything was eerily quiet interrupted by the sound of wheels frantically trying to gain traction before hearing the sound of vehicles banging together. I was in the right lane at the top of the bank and decided to put half of my car on the shoulder. While other cars were sliding down and piling up, I was slowly moving forward. There was one problem, the semis gave up and parked on the shoulder, blocking my path. I had to get back on the road and hope I wouldn't slide down into the mess of cars. I turned my car back to the road and was met with spinning wheels.... well the driver side wheel. The ice on the road and the shoulder reduced the traction so much that my car was not getting back on the road and I was running out of room. Several feet before I met with the semi's trailer, my car hopped back on the road and didn't slide. I made it past the bank and on a straight away. No one said a word the entire time. As I proceeded forward, I noticed the lack of lights around me. Only me and another car made it through. I have no pictures of this as my girlfriend was too occupied with being scared. As I went very slowly the other guy kept becoming impatient, speeding up, and losing control. I eventually left him far behind. I reached a bridge and as I went under it, the road material changed and the ice and water disappeared on the road as if it never occurred.
I made a terrible judgement call and, by the time I realized that, I couldn't abort. I was surprised I made it through, especially at the end. I must admit I did get a pretty good feeling when I was the only one on the road coming out of that mess, especially with a vehicle ill equipped for it. I guess zoomers would say "winner winner chicken dinner".

I'm glad you made it out alive! Do you have any good stories about the retard friend?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I'm glad you made it out alive! Do you have any good stories about the retard friend?

Not really since I avoided him. He seemed so used to mooching off everyone that he would use up all your Southern hospitality in a very short time and wouldn't even be thankful for it. He was very juvenile(despite being in his twenties), fat, and smelly. His sense of hygiene was pretty poor and his room consisted of a mattress on the floor, a lizard tank, and small desk for this computer. He would watch "lets plays" more than he would actually play games. He was into the surface level anti-sjw memes but didn't know anything beyond that. He only had one job and that was working at Walmart with lasted a very short time. He was in the process of trying to get classified as disabled with the excuse that he has severe anxiety. He got denied and was pissed about it. There was some government vocation program he was going to apply to and claimed he wanted to be a blacksmith at a renaissance faire because "I can do things at my own pace". He had no drivers license and the moped he owned broke after a couple weeks, allegedly, and he never bothered to fix it. He was full of excuses as to why he was a failure, all of which stemmed from depression, anxiety, and not having money. The few times he stayed with me and my now ex gf, I would clean the entire time and stopped procrastinating. His self-imposed shitty existence was motivation. He was a terrible influence on my ex who wouldn't improve herself and would sit around all day watching youtube while I worked 60 hours per week in a stressful environment. It was a bit of a shock to me that people like that existed. I am used to white trash but not this kind. He now is moving in with my ex's family without a job. My ex's father is in poor health, very old, and only retired when the virus started spreading so their financial situation isn't good yet the kids won't leave the nest or contribute financially. My ex's two other siblings and the fat one spend all day watching excessively dramatic "lets players", breadtube, late night funny men, cartoon network kids shows, and watching their high functioning autistic? brother play sonic(i shit you not) and breath of the wild. They do not like me because I apparently come off as an asshole but I think part of it is them not having interacted with masculinity in their shetered lives.
My ex's brother is a better story but that's probably for another time. It involves a neighbor, a psychotic woman, a sex shop, a chastity cage, cucking(but not really?), and a 6 hour ride home in silence between two of them.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

When I was finishing high school one of my parents friends asked them if I wanted to go to a police academy in another country, study for free and get a secured job if I graduate after 5 years. I was a really whimpy, effemimate teen who had never done sports or other physical exercises, with huge anxiety whenever I was in crowds, in short I actualy thought I was autistic. But we were poor and jobs are hard to come by in my country so I accepted. When I got there and saw that I was gonna share a room with 11 people, have to get up early and do phisycal exercises in front of everyone I nearly fell to my knees and cried. My parents phoned me as soon as I got there and I gave it my all not to let them know how tough it was gonna be here.

The years I spent there were the best thing to happen to me. Yes the dorm was a wreck, the food was bad and unnecessarily greasy (even fucking boiled rice was just drenched in grease) some duded there were shithead racists towards me. And I could go on with the negatives but the constant exposure to things that I was scared or suffered anxiety from, really helped me man up and become a very stable person with a somewhat well paying job. Everyone I knew told me that they were expecting me to fail and come home crying like the little fag I was, even my parents.

 

[TFT-A9]

lol they already copped a ban wtf

 

[fuzzyrodent85]

lol they already copped a ban wtf

They were an @Bubbly Sink sock.

 

[Furret]

I tend to be better at video games than I expect. Not super exciting, but yeah.

 

[A-Z0-9]

Was doing some random physics equations years ago, and a rather difficult question popped up. I did not have much self-confidence at that time so I pretty much just winged it and gave answers out of my ass. Turned out later to have answered it correctly.

The best part is that equation was the sole reason that I managed to pass said paper.

 

[stares at error messages]

Taxes. I thought I owed a lot. But then I just didn't pay and nothing happened.