rSlash - r/Askreddit What's The Craziest Butterfly Effect You've Experienced From A Tiny Decision?

Episode Date: December 5, 2020

r/Askreddit We've all heard of the butterfly effect, how one tiny little decision can snowball into a life-changing events. The people in this story describe the butterfly effects in their lives, like one person who avoided certain death just because he wanted to drink a cup of coffee, or another person who was born just because his mom pushed the wrong button at work. If you like this video, subscribe for more daily Reddit content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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post from across Reddit. Today's subreddit is R-Slash-Ask Reddit, where we answer the question, what's the craziest butterfly effect that happened to you because of a small decision you made? Our first reply is from 35mm pirate. My wife got an email from our old colleagues a day we returned home from our honeymoon asking if she wanted to start on a short film they were doing for fun.

She said Sharon asked if I could come along as she knew that I had an interest in movies, but at the time I worked in life insurance and was miserable. It was more than an interest. I'd always wanted to make films, but I never made the right connections with people and didn't know where to start. I made friends with the producer of the short film that my wife was in, and 11 years later, filmmaking and video production is my career. I've shot feature films, short films, video for TV and web, and all over the world because of that one email to my wife. It changed our lives. Oh, and that original short film never got finished low.

And then beneath that someone asks, are any of your short films available? I'd like to watch some of them. And then another random user says, backdoor sluts 9. Our next reply is from Nagano Fugano. He found out after 18 years that his mom's side of the family was Spanish, not Mexican. He found this interesting and changed his country to Spain on my space instead of the US where he really was. Meanwhile in Australia, I was helping my friend find Spanish people to add as a friend

as she was learning the language. I came across my now husband and decided to send him a friend request as well. We got along really well met in person after 3 years. We've been together for 11 years, married for seven. If he didn't change his country to Spain, which he only did for a day or so, we'd never know that each other existed. Wow, and it's crazy that your husband only changed it to Spain for just one day. If he had done that one day earlier or one day later, you probably would have never even met each other. Our next replies from Arleish.

The first day that I ever signed up for internet back in 1999, I installed MIRC because it was on the start of disk my ISP gave me and joined a random chatroom. Over the course of the next year, the regulars in that room became like family to me. We would talk about everything. All that practice made me a fast typist and a way better communicator than I was before that. They would even help me when I had trouble understanding something in my college classes. I also met my husband in that room and we've been happily married for 18 years.

Others from our little IRC family are married too and we still keep in touch. All because I randomly chose that chat room on that day. Our next reply is from a 911 owner. My existence. When my dad was about 20 he needed a phone number so he called the operator from a pay phone, she gave him the number, he hung up, and she accidentally refunded the money back to the pay phone. She called the pay phone back and asked if he could put the money back in, which he did

and hung up again. She accidentally refunded the money again and had to call back again to ask him to put the money back in again. He did in hung up again. She was so flustered that she refunded the money again and called back again and my father got to chatting with her and got her number. They set up a date, which she stood him up for, then she forgot his name when he called her again. Then they actually got coffee, and four years later, they were married. This coming August, it'll be 50 years for them. If my dad didn't need that phone number, I wouldn't be here.

Yeah, OP, and if your mom wasn't so insanely incompetent, you also wouldn't be here. This is a super cute story OP, but your mom sounds like one of the worst phone operators I've ever heard about. Though in fairness it's 2020 so it's not like I've heard it by a lot of phone operators. Our next reply is from Demon Art Park. My desire for pizzas set off a chain reaction that destroyed my family. One day I got home from school and really wanted pizza. My family was poor so spontaneous food trips weren't always in the cards. I really worked my patty face to my mom and begged to go to the local pizza place for dinner.

She said alright. While chilling there I saw my uncle walk by and I was like WTF, uncle X, is that you? Now you might say, well he wanted pizza, what's the big deal? Well he lived several states away, so to's arbitrarily being town and not telling anyone was strange. It turned out he was having an affair with his sister-in-law, my aunt, on the other side of the family. She was basically a money-grubbing whore and the family protested.

One thing led to another, and everyone hates each other now, and we haven't had contact in like 20 years. I just wanted some pizza, and then beneath that Sid Sip replies, it was a domino's effect. I'm gonna do a quick detour here and tell my own Butterfly FX story. I think I might have told this story before, so I'm sorry if you've heard it before, but personally, I think it's a pretty good story. So, I'm a really big video game nerd. I've been playing video games my whole life.

And one of my favorite video game developers is Blizzard Entertainment. I remember playing Starcraft on my Nintendo 64 with my little brother. When we were kids, my brother and I were straight up addicted to Diablo 2, and after that in high school and college, I played tons of World of Warcraft. So when Blizzard announced that they were going to launch Overwatch, which was a first person shooter video game, I was super excited. I saw that Blizzard was giving early access to the game to streamers, YouTubers, and other content creators. I was so jealous that they got to play the game before me, so I thought, you know what, how hard can it be? I'll just make like 10 or 20 YouTube videos about Overwatch, they'll send me a key,

I'll delete my YouTube channel, then just play Overwatch non-stop. So I made an Overwatch video, then I made another, and another, and another, and another, and I made dozens of Overwatch videos. Blizzard sent out a new wave of beta keys, and I wasn't one of the people. They skipped me. So I was like, fine, whatever, I'll just keep making videos and next time they'll send me a beta key. So, I made more videos and more videos and eventually another set of invites went out. And I wasn't invited.

At this point, I was less motivated than I was angry. I felt like I deserved a beta key. I mean, I'd put out literally probably like 50 toity to 100 videos at this point, and I still wasn't invited. Meanwhile, these other people who had put out fewer videos in me had been invited, so I was like, fine, I'm just going to keep putting out videos because I'm going to earn that freaking beta key. And after months and months of grinding overwatch videos, I still didn't have a beta key key and the game just finally launched normally. But by then I'd actually discovered that hey making YouTube videos is kinda fun. Also when the game finally launched my Overwatch channel blew up and got super popular.

And that was the first time I realized hey wait a second, YouTubers can actually make a decent amount of money off of this. So a short while later I got fired from my job, coincidentally, because I was always watching YouTube videos. And I became a full-time YouTuber. That was about five years ago, give or take, and one day, I was clicking around on YouTube and I saw this video of someone reading a Reddit post.

I was like, wow, this content is awesome. I love Reddit, I read Reddit all the time. I could totally do this. So literally, my entire profession was changed just because I really, really wanted to play a video game, and whoever was in charge of giving out beta keys just didn't care about my content and never wanted to give me a beta key. Because if they had given me a beta key after I'd only made like 10 or 20 videos, then I would have definitely stopped making videos and just played that game non-stop.

Our next reply from Kamar 2. The other day I was driving home from work, traffic was light and I was sitting behind a car with a number plate that started KFD. So I decided to duck through the KFC drive-through for Chippee's with Extra Salt as a little treat to myself. They took forever to bring them out and by the time they finally did, all about 10 minutes later, traffic had slowed to a complete halt. I need to get over a bridge as normally 6 lanes, which has been reduced to 1.

Turns out it suited a massive collision involving several cars. When I finally get to the point where I'm driving past the wreck, I notice the number plate on one of the cars, that same KFD number plate. If I hadn't stopped to get fries, I'm pretty sure I would have been in a major collision. Too long didn't read. KFC Chippies with Extra Salt saved my life. Beneath that, Benny Dizzle says, Kentucky Final Destination. Also, we have a similar story from Skater Guy Skater. Just the other day I was driving home from work with the intention of stopping at the

mall near my house because I was craving a burger. I also remember that I needed to go to the store to pick up an order from my girlfriend, but it was in the complete opposite direction. I made the decision to pick up the order for her instead and then head home. Not even 10 minutes after that decision, I could have messaged her my friend that there's an active cheater at the mall and it was being evacuated and was surrounded by cops. If it wasn't for my girlfriend's order, I would have been in the mall at the time of the shooting event. And then beneath that, Rami 557 says, my uncle was late for a meeting in the Pentagon

on 9-11. He would have been in the wing that got hit. Our next replies from Andromeda. When I was in 8th grade, 13 years old, I had a really long bus ride home, so I would pass the time by reading. One day, I faced a very serious situation of having nothing to read, with only a minute to grab something in the library. And for whatever reason, I grabbed a book on astronomy. That book was amazing, and grabbed me like nothing else I ever had before. I remember being excited to realize that every astronomer on Earth was 13 years old once too.

And that was a career that you could actually do even if you were just from Pittsburgh. Anyway, today I'm a professional astronomer who studies gigantic space explosions for a living. There was a lot of work to get from that moment to this one, but I'm always grateful that I picked up that library book. Beneath that, ZRKO replies, right on, what was your major in college? And Linsage replies, Ursa Major, but um, chch. Grit. Sure it's mud, and dirt, and all that. But the Toyota Tundra TRD Pro is redefining grit. With unrelenting torque, courtesy of the I-Force Max hybrid powertrain, connectivity

thanks to an impressive 14-inch touchscreen and total confidence to tow just about anything, anywhere. Yes, Toyota Tundra is the new definition of grip. Learn more at toyota.ca. What do I love getting my holiday gifts with Chopper's drug mark, the PC Optimum Points? Perfume for mom, points for me. Gaming console for the kids, points for me. Chalkets for the teachers. Oh yeah, points for me.

Shoppers, you should totally go. Exclusions of life. Our next replies from Robot Monkey Shark. I was at a university career fair, and I just had a long day talking to companies and I was hitting out when I saw a Honda booth. Designing cars would be awesome, but there's a huge line, it's been a long day, and what are the chances? But wait, they're giving away hats, insurance, and model cars, so I talked to them.

A day later I get a call back for an online assessment. I feel that out and don't get anything back for a month or so. Then I get a call one night saying that I was an alternate for someone who canceled last minute, so they want to fly me up for an on-site interview. I go and end up getting and accepting an offer. After graduation, I move about a thousand miles away from home for my new job. We're a few years after, I meet my now wife and we have two kids. I never would have crossed paths with her otherwise. So the entire course of my life was shifted because Honda gave away good swag of their career fair booth. As a millennial, I have to say, stories about someone landing a job are better than porn. Our next reply is from Wondering Drew. I was given an option of two different start dates for an entry-level job in a large

organization. The date that I chose to start led to working in a small but high profile team, so I got lots of exposure with senior management, and I became the can-do guy who'd fix a million tiny problems. That recognition led to promotions, a fantastic career, further professional qualifications, and working overseas for several years. I also met my best friend and my partner. If I had chosen the other date, I'd have been sent to a data processing pool and been

fairly anonymous. And beneath that, we have a similar story from a legal human. I was given two star dates for my new job in March. If I had chosen the earlier date, I would have come into the office for a week before we all went on work from home due to COVID. Instead, I started on the work from home date and had my computer mail to me. My desk was next to a person on my team who turned out to have COVID. He was young, only 31, and just a couple of years younger than me.

But he's been out of commission and been working part-time because of how tired he's been due to the illness even months out. If I had chosen the earlier start date, I would have been seated right next to him in a tiny co-working space for a week. Our next reply is from Numento Breikin. I chose to rearrange the sequence of classes slightly before starting my education. By doing this, I had to commute to a different branch of the school and a different town than the one that I originally signed up for.

On my first day there, I helped a girl who had managed to break both of her arms and a drunken shopping cart accident I learned later. This girl, whom I would have absolutely never have met if I hadn't changed my classes around, is my wife through 14 years. Our next reply is from my exerbig. I had to call my heart searching to give him my new insurance numbers. I had only just gotten them because the person who had them had the flu and wasn't getting back to me, so as soon as I got my numbers I called the surgeon. The receptionist said, oh hey we just got a cancellation for this Friday, do you want it?

Of course I wanted to get it over with and not wait another month. So I decided to take the open heart surgery cancellation appointment a month before my actual appointment. And well my surgeon said thank goodness I did because once you got a look inside of me, he realized that I wouldn't have survived to the original appointment date. So if the insurance lady didn't have the flu, I would have gotten those numbers a lot sooner and never gotten the offer to have the surgery when I did Someone else's flu saved my life our next reply from spiritual Jaguar

I was always super flirty with a girl from HR But we were always seeing other people and don't date at work So when she left the company I was bummed a year or two later a coworker asked me to search my email archives for something that he needed I ended up sampling across the farewell to my work friend's email from the HR girl and she sent it from her personal email address. I reached out to her, we had coffee, then a date, then many dates, then I love views, and then I put a ring on it ASAP. 12 years later and I'm extremely happily married.

Two goofy kids, two evil cats and she puts up with my BS. We're huge office fans and somehow we never realized how meta it was to our relationship. It warms our heart to get so much love and my wife is thrilled to be compared to Holly. I'm not sure I'm feeling like a Michael but, Evan I'll take it. Our next reply is from Yellow Horse Knot. In Afghanistan, I wasn't done with my coffee so I passed on a trip from one base to another. There was another convoy a few hours later.

Most everyone died who took the first convoy. My second cup of coffee wasn't even cold when I found out. Our next reply is from the 5th Beagle. When I got out of university, I was looking for a job in exhausting all the online resources. On a whim, I looked in the career section in a print newspaper that was lying around the house. We never even subscribed to that paper, I don't know why it was even there. I got a job in a different city, met someone who was now one of my best friends, who introduced me to their friends,

who introduced me to their friends, and so on, until I was eventually introduced to my wife. If I'd found a job where I actually planned on working, there's absolutely no way I would have crossed paths with any of these people. To clarify, I met my wife through a friend, who I met through another friend, who I met through another friend, who I met through the first friend I made at that company.

Our next reply was a Mendoose staff fan. My parents' dream was to have a famous child. When my older sister's figure skating career ended in her early 20s, the spotlight shifted to me. I was a fine oboist and took private voice lessons with the intent to audition for the local music faculty. In any case, there was a lot of pressure, and while I was successful at school and classical music, it was never enough.

At 17 before my senior year began, my sister gifted me a kitten. My parents had given her two kittens in her senior year and the implication was that it was my turn. When my sister dropped me off, my parents locked me out, saying that if I wanted my own pet, I needed my own place. So I found one that night. I worked three jobs to support myself through senior year and graduated with entrance scholarships to both of the local universities. I couldn't afford a music degree while living on my own, even

with the entrance scholarships. And good thing too! Entering the workforce showed me how much I love active jobs. Three years later I enrolled in college and became an industrial mechanic and millwright to my parents great shame. After a few years of this, I landed a sweet contract where I work on Saturdays and Sundays, but receive a full week's pay. Although I'm a living beacon of disappointment, I comfort myself with my $100,000 a year job, a two day work week, and two cats. Being kicked out over a kitten saved me from wasting years chasing an improbable career just to please my parents. First off,, oh my god your parents seem like buttles.

Secondly OP, oh my god that's an amazing job. You make over a hundred K year by working two days a week? I think most people would kill for that job. It's like oh boohoo you have to work during the weekend, but then you have a five day weekends. Our next replacement for Sitfer. The older I get, the more I'm constantly cognizant of the vast cast-cate of seemingly insignificant decisions and actions led me to where I am.

For example, a decision 25 years ago to change a refrigerator lifeball before going out resulted in me being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting mugged, which resulted in my decision to move out of the city that I'd been living in, which resulted in my meeting my wife and from there to having all my kids in the whole shebang. I would have had a different whole shebang had I not changed that light bulb that afternoon, but the path to the present leads through that and a thousand other similarly trivial decisions. Our next reply is from Cardoph L. Sukukpie. I watched who wants to be a millionaire and got so annoyed at the contestants not knowing

a simple question about Katy Perry that I applied and got in. I got to play won a lot of money and I booked a holiday to a dream destination with that money. I met my husband there and we now have a one year old son. Our next reply is from Disco Stud. I was going to carpool with my aunt to a family gathering. At the last minute, I decided to go by myself so I could leave early if I wanted.

It was a ways out of town, and I didn't wanna be stuck there. On the way there, my aunt drove off the road into a ditch. She was okay, but the passenger side of the car was totally smashed. Our next reply from Hay-Wat. So a few years back I lived in niece France for a while. As a musician I would make a bit of extra cash busking and one day I figured I'd go busk at the promenade danglays by the sea. It's usually packed and it's just a

generally pleasant place to be. I set up, played a couple of songs and was doing pretty well in making a decent amount of money. Then suddenly, not one but two of my guitar string snapped. I even remember that I was playing the scientist at the time. I was massively gutted and decided to cut my losses early. I stormed off home in a bit of a sulk and having to restrain my guitar and cutting short what was essentially one of my most productive days of busking since moving there. Literally one hour later, my phone starts to blow the f up with family and friends freaking out and asking if I was at the promenade. It was Bastille Day, 2016. The truck drove

into the same crowd that I was playing to, killing 86 people, including my at the time girlfriend's uncle. I had two other friends who were amongst the 458 people injured. I moved home the next month because it was too much and I haven't been back since. It's hard to explain. Sometimes I think I was super lucky. Sometimes I just kind of cry and wonder why I was lucky and others weren't. It's surreal, and despite what people think, it's a truly horrible feeling. Opie, you should look up a thing called Survivors Guild because it sounds like you're definitely suffering from that. Also, don't beat yourself up, you're not the person who is behind the wheel of that truck, so you don't have to feel guilty about it. That was our slash ask Reddit, and if you like this content, then check out my Patreon where I published episodes that were banned from YouTube.

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