My wife and son went to a corn maze that had a trivia question posted at every decision point. Based on your answer, the sign directed you which path to take. They were stuck in there for hours! They tried multiple answers at some point. Eventually, they could see the edge of the maze and they just busted out the side.
Plenty of people don’t realise how flimsy it all is. One or two mistakes and you can find yourself in a financial situation that’s going to take years to escape.
Grew up in it. It was really tough to break out of it. The thing is, in a lot of ways, I never really left. I still am frugal AF, rarely allow myself to have nice things and feel guilty when I spend money.
There are a few tricks to IKEA. For one, you can enter from the register side and directly go into the area where you pick up your boxes. Ideal if you already know what you're getting as you can skip the showroom maze.
Smoked some weed with a mate once, and then he told me he had to buy a desk from ikea… and I was coming with him… on a Saturday afternoon. I still remember his cackle as I asked if I could wait in his car… Don’t think he even bought one in the end… but it was a long time ago… and I was baked off my ass
Underwater caves (specifically without cave training/gear). The water is air clear, so it's very inviting. Super easy to go just a bit too far. Once you're in, there are a lot of ways to die. You can take a turn down a side passage without realizing it, stir up the bottom with poor technique, have a light failure without proper backups, stay too long and not reserve enough gas for exit, get stuck, have an unfixable reg failure without redundancy, etc. Lots of really experienced open water divers have kicked the bucket in caves. Sometimes they were right near the exit, they just didn't have the training or gear to get there.
Caitlin Doughty, a mortician on YouTube, says that cave diving and underwater cave related death is her worst fear. When a mortician says that you know that shit is truly terrifying.
I’ve dealt with a lot of addicts in my family. The only thing that I’ve ever seen get them on the right path is nearly dying or being told they’ll die if they continue.
Still struggling with it, I put the heroin and meth down but I still take benzos and drink. I have a good job and on surface value you’d never know even though I indulge in benzos and alcohol daily
Mexico if you're entering from the United States. Seriously, you can just walk into Mexico whenever you want, but leaving you have to wait in a very long line and get your passport checked and sometimes your car/bags searched even if you got nothing illegal going on...I love Mexico, but man, going back into the States is always a hassle lol
You can do it, I'm right there with you but things are beginning to look up for me. It'll take time sure, but eventually everything will be alright again.
Any thrift/antique place really. Its hard to get bored in them when there's literally something completely different and unique right around the corner. And a lot of them are practically mazes with how the shelves and rooms are set up.
Ooh, a happy answer. I love used bookstores. Just ran into a good one near me (I work seasonally and move around a lot, so I'm always just learning the area). Wandered it for an hour, then went out to my car where there's a box of books. Picked out half of them I'm willing to part with, and turned ten books I didn't need anymore into six new ones to start whenever I want for free, and left happy.
Only problem being is that without the Internet you can't do most of your everyday things. I could live without the Internet because I'd get a lot of music written, but I wouldn't be able to post it. It's a bit of a double edged sword.
Fun story. There is a hotel right by Santa Monica Pier called "Hotel California". Yeah, cool, it's not the "real" hotel California, but it plays on its name and welcomes questions etc.
Its actually very hard to convince myself to shower. I'm trying to do it now, but (obviously) am scrolling through reddit instead. Once you get in though, it's very hard to leave.
As a kid I loathed when she'd take me grocery shopping with her because she was a teacher in a small town and inevitably she'd run into people she knew and good god they'd talk forever and this was long before mobiles.
Fuck trying to convince them you lied, just try to convince them you're better. It won't work either, but at least you're not opening yourself up to perjury charges and a reversal of your trial.
Lying to get in there will seriously fuck you up with time. Being the only sane person in a ward of insane people and having nobody believe you will definitely do it
It's really pretty easy to get released from a psych ward in the US if you have crappy insurance. They purposely keep people for the length of time that their insurance covers. If insurance covers a week, it doesn't matter if you really need to be there three days or a month, you'll be getting discharged in a week.
Losing in a casino the first time you go there is good luck because you will probably not return again, winning in your first time there is bad luck because you will probably come back and most likely waste a lot of money there
I went to Vegas one time and there was a large portion of the gambling area downstairs below the main floor. The escalators going down we’re working but the up escalators were turned off, so essentially stairs.
I worked at one for 5 years. I paid a girl $5000 for her dollar slot jackpot. She was so excited, it was her 21st birthday and that was the first $20 she'd played.
Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory. I went there a few times, and it was easy getting in, but there was so many steps to just leave the facility/clean room. Also, I found that flights to the area always seem to get delayed on the way back to the east coast.
I think they're specifically designed so you can't find your way out easily, and so you search far and wide, and at one point you'll think "Might as well buy a thing or two since I can't leave".
The one time I went to one, just for the freebies, they let me go the moment they discovered I didn't fit whatever criteria they were looking for. Didn't even have to stay past the crappy free breakfast.
As a young man of about 18-19 or so, I recall me walking down the street one day and someone approached me and asked if I could come inside and fill out some either a survey or take an IQ test or something like that.
I think you mean psychotic. Psychopaths are the people with 0 empathy that become serial killers in pop culture and sometimes CEOs in real life. They have issues but generally a pretty good grasp on reality and the consequences of their actions. Psychotic is when reality has left the building and the moon people are trying to kill you in the shower so you can't bathe anymore and keep chewing on your fingers and randomly screaming for some reason.
Wasn't there an actor who spent some time in s psychiatric hospital for a little bit, and the crew had to get him out because they wouldn't let him go?
Ironically, I've tried to check myself in to an inpatient facility at my local hospital because I was suicidal and wasn't sure I could hold on any longer.
There's been a few times I've thought about checking into a psych ward, but I feel like being constantly spied on and denied any sort of freedom or leisure would just make me hate my life even more.
Any kind of volunteering. For me it is teaching children's church. Once you start there is no easy exit. Girl scout leader, flag football coach, company birthday planner .. idk .. just about any volunteer gig.
Can confirm, I volunteered at a youthhouse and the number of volunteers kept dropping, I couldn't abandon it or otherwise it would have to seize their operations. It wore me down and dragged my mental state down with it.
Whaa? My parents took me to a Mormon church for a while when I was a kid and we left a few years later. They've never bothered me at all in the ensuing 30+ years, I've seen no reason to involve a lawyer.
I am still dealing with so many anxieties and self-esteem issues directly caused by Mormon teachings. I left when I was 17 after having fully believed it all despite having dilemmas with it, I'm in my 30s now, and I didn't realize until somewhat recently how much I was still impacted. Given the area and people I grew up around however, I do think the church probably kept me from going down a really dark path so I'm in this weird situation where I'm both very grateful and resentful. Being aware though has helped me start to move past a lot of it, better late than never right?
Micro Center is an amazing answer. Every time I go in for something simple I end up spending a ton of time just looking around at the DIY stuff. I can't get myself to leave.
Grandmas house
That ain't no joke
One reason this may be is because as elderly people (65 and up) age, they can get increasingly lonely. Visit your elders while they're still here!
My grandma likes to make me eat AND taking some fruit home, just because. Love that woman
Especially when grandma has dementia and insists on telling the same story all over again for the 4th time in the last hour.
The grave
Zombies unite against having to dig out of 6ft graves.
bed
Bed in winter.
I struggle to go to bed honestly, i always sit up feeling like bed is a waste of time then i can't get out again
That's until your bladder says it's time to get up.
A Maze.
Amazing point
My wife and son went to a corn maze that had a trivia question posted at every decision point. Based on your answer, the sign directed you which path to take. They were stuck in there for hours! They tried multiple answers at some point. Eventually, they could see the edge of the maze and they just busted out the side.
"Not if I bring a ball of string!" -Theseus
There is no point. Only right angles.
Apparently my house if you are a moth
Or a fly.
LAMP.
turn off lämp. open door. turn on låmp outside
A pit of spikes
This is deep
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Mad I had to scroll this far for this reply haha
Came here for this
a cult
I was gonna say the church of Scientology but yeah, cult works.
My first thought. And I had to scroll down quite a bit
How is this so low down...
I’ve been a member of many cults, both as a leader and a follower. You make more money as a leader, but, you have more fun as a follower.
Call your dad!
Poverty
Plenty of people don’t realise how flimsy it all is. One or two mistakes and you can find yourself in a financial situation that’s going to take years to escape.
I lived in poverty for like two years when I first got married. I had a strong support structure though.
Grew up in it. It was really tough to break out of it. The thing is, in a lot of ways, I never really left. I still am frugal AF, rarely allow myself to have nice things and feel guilty when I spend money.
This one is not getting the attention it needs
And compared to some of the others, this one is usually uncontrollable.
Ikea.
It's the Wonka factory of furnishing stores. Everything has a wacky name, and you have to go forward to go back.
There are a few tricks to IKEA. For one, you can enter from the register side and directly go into the area where you pick up your boxes. Ideal if you already know what you're getting as you can skip the showroom maze.
Hello, I am from Sweden, and therefor represent IKEA.
They also make it hard to enter right into the market place. Everything leads you to the upstairs decorated spaces.
I need to go to Ikea
As in SCP-3008?
Smoked some weed with a mate once, and then he told me he had to buy a desk from ikea… and I was coming with him… on a Saturday afternoon. I still remember his cackle as I asked if I could wait in his car… Don’t think he even bought one in the end… but it was a long time ago… and I was baked off my ass
https://youtu.be/EozM4yidI_0
Have to admit....I have never been inside an Ikea. Live here in the US where they are all over too not like it is difficult.
I had an all-time greatest-ever trip to ikea last week.
Went in there once on a whim and ended up walking through the whole thing. Took me three hours.
Reminds me of SCP-3008
Their meatballs are made out of people that couldn’t find the exit
But if you find the minotaur you get a free bag of meatballs.
The Lancashire Hotpots - I fear ikea
Sorry someone already said maze.
There is literally an SCP based on this joke.
Underwater caves (specifically without cave training/gear). The water is air clear, so it's very inviting. Super easy to go just a bit too far. Once you're in, there are a lot of ways to die. You can take a turn down a side passage without realizing it, stir up the bottom with poor technique, have a light failure without proper backups, stay too long and not reserve enough gas for exit, get stuck, have an unfixable reg failure without redundancy, etc. Lots of really experienced open water divers have kicked the bucket in caves. Sometimes they were right near the exit, they just didn't have the training or gear to get there.
If it's underground and underwater, I'm gonna take the hint and stay the fuck out.
Nah im good thanks. I just really enjoy stuff like air and living.
Well thanks for officially ruining cave diving for me.
Caitlin Doughty, a mortician on YouTube, says that cave diving and underwater cave related death is her worst fear. When a mortician says that you know that shit is truly terrifying.
mrballen
Nope nope and nope. No cave monster for me.
Nope. Can’t do it.
I couldn’t even read that whole post without completely cringing and dying inside. No thank you cave
I almost died like this in Minecraft and I even had a Respiration III helmet and was like 30 blocks under my bed
I can’t breathe just reading this description.
Addiction. There are so many things nowadays, not only drugs, that can be addicting and really hard to quit.
Welcome to the hotel California
I’ve dealt with a lot of addicts in my family. The only thing that I’ve ever seen get them on the right path is nearly dying or being told they’ll die if they continue.
Still struggling with it, I put the heroin and meth down but I still take benzos and drink. I have a good job and on surface value you’d never know even though I indulge in benzos and alcohol daily
Booze, nicotine, food, screens, work, image
^^^^^
Porn
Internet addiction.
Hotel California
Mexico if you're entering from the United States. Seriously, you can just walk into Mexico whenever you want, but leaving you have to wait in a very long line and get your passport checked and sometimes your car/bags searched even if you got nothing illegal going on...I love Mexico, but man, going back into the States is always a hassle lol
Debt
Student loans
depression
True.
Can confirm
You can do it, I'm right there with you but things are beginning to look up for me. It'll take time sure, but eventually everything will be alright again.
... basically
I felt that
Used bookstore.
Any thrift/antique place really. Its hard to get bored in them when there's literally something completely different and unique right around the corner. And a lot of them are practically mazes with how the shelves and rooms are set up.
Any bookstore is right.
Any bookstore for me.
Ooh, a happy answer. I love used bookstores. Just ran into a good one near me (I work seasonally and move around a lot, so I'm always just learning the area). Wandered it for an hour, then went out to my car where there's a box of books. Picked out half of them I'm willing to part with, and turned ten books I didn't need anymore into six new ones to start whenever I want for free, and left happy.
The internet. After a while of being exposed to it, you find yourself being sucked in. A little while ago, my internet was not working.
Agreed, as I sit here scrolling through reddit lol
A little bit of everything, all of the time
Only problem being is that without the Internet you can't do most of your everyday things. I could live without the Internet because I'd get a lot of music written, but I wouldn't be able to post it. It's a bit of a double edged sword.
I grew up without the Internet and not being connected is pretty sweet.
Can I interest you in everything all of the time?
I spent a week without the internet and absolutely hated it. Internet is awesome if you don't use it solely for social media
Hotel California
I came here to say this but knew in my heart it had already been said
Such a lovely place.
Fun story. There is a hotel right by Santa Monica Pier called "Hotel California". Yeah, cool, it's not the "real" hotel California, but it plays on its name and welcomes questions etc.
Had to scroll way to far to find this
Likewise,
you can check out anytime you like but you can never leeeave most epic guitar solo ever
Relax said the night man, we are programmed to receive.
I just commented this thinking I was really original. Turns out I'm not
Actually, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
The shower
Its actually very hard to convince myself to shower. I'm trying to do it now, but (obviously) am scrolling through reddit instead. Once you get in though, it's very hard to leave.
Going to a store with my mom where her friend also goes
well. might as well get a sleeping bag
Eternity
As a kid I loathed when she'd take me grocery shopping with her because she was a teacher in a small town and inevitably she'd run into people she knew and good god they'd talk forever and this was long before mobiles.
Psyciatric Ward. If you lie to avoid prison, good luck convincing them you lied lol.
Fuck trying to convince them you lied, just try to convince them you're better. It won't work either, but at least you're not opening yourself up to perjury charges and a reversal of your trial.
Lying to get in there will seriously fuck you up with time. Being the only sane person in a ward of insane people and having nobody believe you will definitely do it
It's really pretty easy to get released from a psych ward in the US if you have crappy insurance. They purposely keep people for the length of time that their insurance covers. If insurance covers a week, it doesn't matter if you really need to be there three days or a month, you'll be getting discharged in a week.
Fun fact, pretenting to have a mental illness (or any illness or that matter) is a mental illness, it's called Munchausen syndrome.
A casino
Losing in a casino the first time you go there is good luck because you will probably not return again, winning in your first time there is bad luck because you will probably come back and most likely waste a lot of money there
Why did I have to scroll this far to find this answer?
I went to Vegas one time and there was a large portion of the gambling area downstairs below the main floor. The escalators going down we’re working but the up escalators were turned off, so essentially stairs.
I worked at one for 5 years. I paid a girl $5000 for her dollar slot jackpot. She was so excited, it was her 21st birthday and that was the first $20 she'd played.
Comfort zone
This needs to be way higher up
Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory. I went there a few times, and it was easy getting in, but there was so many steps to just leave the facility/clean room. Also, I found that flights to the area always seem to get delayed on the way back to the east coast.
Man, just being there has to be incredible. Crazy what people are able to do now! What was it like there?
A pyramid scheme
An airplane, once your flight is in progress.
Ask DB Cooper
I believe it would actually be quite difficult to enter a flight that is in progress
Nah, just open the window.
A negative headspace
Oooffff
Some shopping centers. I once spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how the hell I could get out again
I think they're specifically designed so you can't find your way out easily, and so you search far and wide, and at one point you'll think "Might as well buy a thing or two since I can't leave".
Any timeshare presentation
The one time I went to one, just for the freebies, they let me go the moment they discovered I didn't fit whatever criteria they were looking for. Didn't even have to stay past the crappy free breakfast.
the church of scientology
As a young man of about 18-19 or so, I recall me walking down the street one day and someone approached me and asked if I could come inside and fill out some either a survey or take an IQ test or something like that.
Notoriously, mental institutions. Once you've convinced someone you're a psychopath, it's nearly impossible to convince the staff otherwise.
I think you mean psychotic. Psychopaths are the people with 0 empathy that become serial killers in pop culture and sometimes CEOs in real life. They have issues but generally a pretty good grasp on reality and the consequences of their actions. Psychotic is when reality has left the building and the moon people are trying to kill you in the shower so you can't bathe anymore and keep chewing on your fingers and randomly screaming for some reason.
Wasn't there an actor who spent some time in s psychiatric hospital for a little bit, and the crew had to get him out because they wouldn't let him go?
Ironically, I've tried to check myself in to an inpatient facility at my local hospital because I was suicidal and wasn't sure I could hold on any longer.
There's been a few times I've thought about checking into a psych ward, but I feel like being constantly spied on and denied any sort of freedom or leisure would just make me hate my life even more.
Marriage
How did I have to scroll this far for this
Shower
for me it's the opposite, especially during winter
Any kind of volunteering. For me it is teaching children's church. Once you start there is no easy exit. Girl scout leader, flag football coach, company birthday planner .. idk .. just about any volunteer gig.
Can confirm, I volunteered at a youthhouse and the number of volunteers kept dropping, I couldn't abandon it or otherwise it would have to seize their operations. It wore me down and dragged my mental state down with it.
yup, last week I made a donation to the local animal shelter and figured "eh, might as well volunteer for a lil bit since I'm here already"
Earth
Easy use 15 megatons of TNT
Escape rooms
Just wait an hour.
Your mom's bedroom
There had to be one 😆
Mormonism. You need a lawyer to expunge your personal information to fully leave it.
Whaa? My parents took me to a Mormon church for a while when I was a kid and we left a few years later. They've never bothered me at all in the ensuing 30+ years, I've seen no reason to involve a lawyer.
I am still dealing with so many anxieties and self-esteem issues directly caused by Mormon teachings. I left when I was 17 after having fully believed it all despite having dilemmas with it, I'm in my 30s now, and I didn't realize until somewhat recently how much I was still impacted. Given the area and people I grew up around however, I do think the church probably kept me from going down a really dark path so I'm in this weird situation where I'm both very grateful and resentful. Being aware though has helped me start to move past a lot of it, better late than never right?
Today I learned; this is insane
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Can’t you just stop going or attending their things
The psych ward
The internet, especially if you have a history on the deep / dark web
Ain’t the deep web just the normal websites that you can’t find by search, like unlisted YouTube videos?
Thunderdome. Two men enter. One man leaves.
North Korea if you are born there
You only have around a 1 in 30 chance of being born there tho, so I wouldn’t say it’s easy to enter
Thunderdome
Mentally: Micro Center
Micro Center is an amazing answer. Every time I go in for something simple I end up spending a ton of time just looking around at the DIY stuff. I can't get myself to leave.
Reddit Edit: thanks for the award .^
slavery
Reddit.
Addiction. By the time you recognize you have a problem it may already be too late.
Bath and body works
The Matrix
The perfume department
Bed
The workforce
My Aunt's house.
"I can't sleep, I just drank a bunch of coffee"
A Chinese finger trap
My heart
The Hotel California
Quicksand
IKEA
Debt.
a coffin
a crab trap
Depression Anxiety Attacks Mood Swings
Jail
Vim
The friend zone