Thinking about something I did in high school made me want to post a thread asking about similar experiences. I’ve been having a hard time coming up with a post, but I think that this will work (I hope <crosses fingers>).
Have you ever done anything, either for a friend, or just because, without putting any thought into it, only to have it come back and bite you later?
I live in Oregon, and in Oregon, we use to have this group called the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA for short). Now they were a one trick pony political group that were pretty much focused on homosexuality, putting out petitions to stop “special rights for gays,” and that sort of thing.
Now when I was in high school, I heard the name, but didn’t really know anything about them. I heard that they were some sort of Christian group, but other than that, I knew nothing. I had a friend who was wearing an OCA pin and gave one to me to wear. Not knowing any better, I put it on and went to my next class. In that class was this hippy girl, who, when seeing my pin, immediately launched into me asking me things like “How can you be so hateful?!” and “How can you believe that shit?!” and so on. I was sitting there, taken totally by surprise, and feeling like an idiot, because I couldn’t answer any of her questions because I didn’t know anything about the group and what they represent. They’re hateful? I’m wearing the pin of a hateful group? I didn’t know, I didn’t have any answers for her, and that embarrassed the hell out of me. All I could do was just sit there silently while she berated me.
A few months later, at our graduation party, she apologized, but that incident has stayed with me to this day.
Have any of you had any similar experiences?
I know that this kind of experience is probably pretty uncommon, so I wouldn’t mind seeing posts about related incidents like “My friend asked me to go to his friends house and pick up some sort of package for a delivery…” 