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Share a true story from your life in five lines or less (2023 edition)

Self-explanatory.

Based on this previous post from 2020

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    Nox_bee
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    One winter, years ago, one of our farm cats got into a fight with some animal. It was bad. The next week it was horribly infected and suffering. They weren't going to make it. I took him out back...
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    One winter, years ago, one of our farm cats got into a fight with some animal. It was bad.

    The next week it was horribly infected and suffering. They weren't going to make it.

    I took him out back and shot once through the head with a 20 gauge. He looked at me while I did it.

    I remember that and still feel sick sometimes.

    I think I was thirteen.

    10 votes
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      1. Nox_bee
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        To say it didn't affect me would be a lie, but then again I can think of at least 4 or 5 death related life events that happened back at the farm. Either you grow from it or you let it keep...

        To say it didn't affect me would be a lie, but then again I can think of at least 4 or 5 death related life events that happened back at the farm.

        Either you grow from it or you let it keep hurting you.

        4 votes
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    atchemey
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    My roommate came home from dollar taco + two-for-one margaritas one night. She cut through a parking lot on the way home, and noticed an injured goose. My wife and I asked if she was drunk. She...

    My roommate came home from dollar taco + two-for-one margaritas one night. She cut through a parking lot on the way home, and noticed an injured goose. My wife and I asked if she was drunk. She said no, but there still was a goose. We called an animal hospital to pick up a carrier, leaving my wife at the vet. My roommate and I went to the parking lot and herded the goose into the carrier after half-an hour. That was the day I went on a literal wild goose chase.

    11 votes
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        atchemey
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        (OH MAN that's hilarious...I'm going to edit it, but dang, good job XD)

        (OH MAN that's hilarious...I'm going to edit it, but dang, good job XD)

        3 votes
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          1. atchemey
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            Still worth the correction XD

            Still worth the correction XD

            3 votes
  3. SnowFox
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    I visited the US once and that week I got more compliments from strangers than during my entire life from friends. Even about things I was very self conscious about, so that trip was the biggest...

    I visited the US once and that week I got more compliments from strangers than during my entire life from friends. Even about things I was very self conscious about, so that trip was the biggest self confidence boost I‘ve ever gotten. I heard that I have a nice smile, that my English is great, they like my accent, I‘m beautiful, my name is beautiful, I‘m an interesting person and much more that I can’t remember anymore. Every time I feel bad about myself, I just think of these lovely people and know that at least I‘m liked in Texas.

    8 votes
  4. lou
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    Fell in love so hard I thought everyone should see her. My best friend agreed. Maybe I should've kept her hidden.

    Fell in love so hard I thought everyone should see her. My best friend agreed. Maybe I should've kept her hidden.

    7 votes
  5. knocklessmonster
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    It took a dad and his three teenage sons 19 hours to go 130 miles one evening in 2006. That's how we learned how well a 1970 Volkswagen Beetle can perform on 3 sparkplugs.

    It took a dad and his three teenage sons 19 hours to go 130 miles one evening in 2006.

    That's how we learned how well a 1970 Volkswagen Beetle can perform on 3 sparkplugs.

    7 votes
  6. hahnudu
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    In middle school there was this tradition of destroying your art class pottery projects after the semester was over. It hurt me deeply to see their work destroyed. I begged them to let me have it...

    In middle school there was this tradition of destroying your art class pottery projects after the semester was over.

    It hurt me deeply to see their work destroyed.

    I begged them to let me have it instead.

    I still have their pottery in my home now, inscribed with names of people I have no memory of anymore.

    When I look at it I ponder whether they had the right idea all along.

    7 votes
  7. Tygrak
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    I used to have trouble sleeping but then one day I started eating some Vitamin D every morning afterwards been well snoring ... not actually snoring but you know, it really seemed to help sadly...

    I used to have trouble sleeping
    but then one day I started eating
    some Vitamin D every morning
    afterwards been well snoring ... not actually snoring but you know, it really seemed to help
    sadly now a deadline is coming and welp, maybe it's just been placebo, but I am back to not being able to fall asleep fast, just too anxious and excited, this is still one line just a long line, sorry for the bad rhymes, k thx byes

    5 votes
  8. vord
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    On wedding weekend circa 2010ish, was at a low limit roulette table in Las Vegas with my wife. There were many other drunk patrons. The pile of chips sitting on top of 17 got to be 8 inches tall....

    On wedding weekend circa 2010ish, was at a low limit roulette table in Las Vegas with my wife. There were many other drunk patrons.

    The pile of chips sitting on top of 17 got to be 8 inches tall. Because someone spilled a beer in that direction and that was obviously a sign.

    After a few rounds it hit, and the table went bonkers. Good times.

    4 votes
  9. bret
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    Be at theater with wife. Hear loud bang. Oh no its a gun. Some guy accidentally fired his concealed pistol into the ground while reaching for his wallet in the popcorn line. Now I can say we...

    Be at theater with wife.
    Hear loud bang.
    Oh no its a gun.
    Some guy accidentally fired his concealed pistol into the ground while reaching for his wallet in the popcorn line.
    Now I can say we survived a theater shooting.

    4 votes