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Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful

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Whether your school years are long gone by now or you are still studying, I think most of us know what it means and how it feels to be picked last in gym class. If we don’t know the actual feeling as we may have never been in such a situation - well, it’s not hard to imagine.

However, when you don’t need to avoid gym classes anymore, there appear to be many different situations that make you feel very similar. And unfortunately, there are a lot. For example, being one of two people who order a taxi and realizing that everyone else wants to go with that other person. Or finding out that your friends have a group chat in which you are not included. You understand the feeling.

Recently, one Reddit user popped the question online, asking folks to share what is the adult version of being picked last in gym class. The thread gained a lot of attention and different opinions, so scroll through and share your thoughts below!

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#1

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being well liked but never reached out to.

If you don't keep up the effort, everyone just fades away.

minmidmax , Andrew Neel Report

Final score:

137points

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#2

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Finding out your co-workers are all going out for drinks that you are not invited to.

WandererOverFog , August de Richelieu Report

Final score:

93points

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#3

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Basically you do something that everyone has a problem with for some reason and then someone else does the same thing and people are fine with it.

Gobo_Cat_7585 , Mikhail Nilov Report

Final score:

90points

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#4

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Trying to share an idea in a work meeting but no one acknowledges that you’re trying to speak.

notstephanie , Athena Report

Final score:

82points

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#5

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being ignored in a conversation.

trymycourage , Keira Burton Report

Final score:

81points

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#6

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Walking behind the group on the sidewalk because there’s no room for you to be next to them

bigredstl , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

76points

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#7

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful When the group chat goes silent after you suggest something.

PositiveEmo , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

67points

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#8

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Watching people plan an event in the same room as you but not inviting you

__DVYN__ , fauxels Report

Final score:

67points

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#9

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Seeing everybody in the office return from a lunch outing you were never told about.

And the even worse flip side, arriving at the location for a group outing, and nobody else shows up because it was cancelled but nobody told you.

khendron , Redd F Report

Final score:

65points

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#10

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful being invited to a social event but not really being completely welcome. like, everyone is nice to you but it feels like it’s out of obligation.

junoinbloom91 , Antenna Report

Final score:

63points

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#11

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful When your best friend mentions their best friend and it isn't you

According-News-5901 , Monstera Production Report

Final score:

54points

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#12

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful When you ask someone if they want to do something on a certain day and they go

“Yes but I’ll let you know if something else props up”

As in “I will but only as a last resort in case someone even better wants to hang out”

Mushroomc0wz , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

53points

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#13

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being asked to take a group picture of the group that you had come with.

Either-Sherbert-8845 , Kampus Production Report

Final score:

49points

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#14

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful In a group chat everyone wishing the respective birthday girl "Happy Birthday" and forgetting yours three years in a row!

KaligirlinDe , Robert Anderson Report

Final score:

48points

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#15

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Last resort friend because someone is bored and no one else will hang with them

every-one29 , Jarritos Mexican Soda Report

Final score:

46points

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#16

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Everyone knows about something important, and you're the last to find out.

Zhantae , Karolina Grabowska Report

Final score:

44points

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#17

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Your supervisor quit

You weren’t considered for promotion because “something something HR says we’ve got to hire someone from outside”

You get asked to train the new hire to be your supervisor

mad_king_soup , JESHOOTS.COM Report

Final score:

41points

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#18

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful No one laughing at your joke and someone repeats it and everyone laughs. Yeah pretty hurt about it lol

Spirited_Ad9924 , ELEVATE Report

Final score:

38points

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#19

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful I went to my son’s Halloween class party last year and all the moms stood in the complete opposite corner of the room and I sat by myself the whole time. No one said a word to me and I’m not sure why. That one kinda stung.

Lvsucknuts69 , Maryland GovPics Report

Final score:

36points

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#20

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being turned down for a job you’re very qualified for and you can tell that it’s because they just don’t like your personality or style or don’t think you’ll fit in.

Clean-Frame-4625 , Christina @ wocintechchat.com Report

Final score:

35points

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#21

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Not being in a group chat.

Mr-Ginny , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

32points

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#22

Out of all the people at work doing very little/ nothing at all, and being the only person to get a very s**t task, while the others have no tasks assigned. That's me.

ImperialZippo Report

Final score:

32points

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#23

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Bringing in some homemade treat for the office to share, and nobody eats it.

FalstaffsMind , Afif Ramdhasuma Report

Final score:

31points

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#24

Coworkers ordering lunch / coffee and not asking if you want anything.

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Final score:

29points

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#25

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Having your tinder date leave the bar with someone else

PMmeyourboogers , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

26points

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#26

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being invited to a party as an afterthought

Leela-Stone , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

25points

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#27

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Getting skipped when someone brings a birthday card for everyone to sign. Not just once, every time. I worked there long enough that I knew the birthday person way better than the person bringing around the card to be signed.

Then of course there is the "hey let's order pizza" day but they don't ask if you want to go in on it.

The best one is when someone tell you about something that happened and you were there and saw it yourself. You say I know I saw it. Their response "You were there?" Yes. I was standing right next to you.

Smile_Terrible , George Dolgikh Report

Final score:

22points

Zephyr343 10 months ago

Get them a better card just from yourself then

14points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 10 months ago

That was my thinking. Dollar stores have good cards, keep a few in your desk; when you see the card going around, fill out your own and beat the group to the punch. 😁

2points

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Lyoness 10 months ago

Could the card carrying yahoo have taken offense to something you said or did? Are they jealous? Because if it's the same person every time this is deliberate and nasty. There are adult bullies too.

3points

bigoldthor 10 months ago

Sounds like you need to find a different group of friends, coworkers, etc. You're obviously not fitting in or have been ostracized for some reason.

2points

KatSaidWhat 10 months ago

My bestie whined about not getting gifts from expected ppl this year so mentioned I only got a work card. "Nobody knows where you live". My response? "You could have asked" . It was the final nail in the realization that she was all about her.

1point

Mitchell 10 months ago

Time for some self reflection.

1point

MoJo1979 10 months ago

How about being the one that always did collections and birthday cards for everyone and then your birthday comes around and you get nothing.

1point

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#28

Texting all your friends merry Christmas and not a single one of them texting it to you first.

True_Turnover_7578 Report

Final score:

22points

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#29

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being dared to go home, while playing Truth or Dare!

CaLM0509 , Harsh Gupta Report

Final score:

21points

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#30

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Getting the mail and finding wedding invitations for all of your roommates, but not for you, for a friend you all knew from college the year before.

Varkain , Job Ferrari Report

Final score:

20points

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#31

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Having two ubers to get somewhere, being someone who ordered one of the Uber, and everyone obviously wanting to ride with the other person.

Panda_Mon , Paul Hanaoka Report

Final score:

20points

#32

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Every year, my father and stepmother host Christmas dinner. We all get assigned something: appetizer, desert, sides, etc. I always get assigned cheese. I have never, in my entire life, enjoyed cheese. And I'm a pretty good cook (nothing special, but just sayin' I could put something together).

Every year, they give me f**king cheese. And they bring their own, so why bother even giving me cheese?

BananasPineapple05 , Waldemar Report

Final score:

17points

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#33

Going to the bathroom with the girls and then they leave you in there alone hahahahaha

bigredstl Report

Final score:

15points

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#34

Being Picked Last In Gym Class Hurts, But Here Are 34 Adult Situations That Are As Painful Being given the day off on a big inspection day

Jiggly_dong , RDNE Stock project Report

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2points

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Panda-sized Potato 10 months ago

Some of these just sound like straight FOMO. But you can't expect to be a part of everything. You are not the center of the world. People's lives don't revolve around you. I have good friends that do stuff without me. That's perfectly fine. I've done stuff without other friends, too. Can't involve everyone everytime. And sometimes you have to take the initiative, if you want to do something. I understand it is hard sometimes/all the time. I'm an introvert, so I understand. And I know how much rejection hurts. It causes me to shy away from doing things sometimes. But you can't expect people to put in the effort if you are not willing to do the same. And you can't be a part of everything all the time.

22points

Astro 10 months ago

Yeah honestly I’ve known people who were not well-liked for legitimate reasons (they’re a jerk/racist/make other people uncomfortable, etc) and I’ve heard them make a lot of the arguments presented in this post. It’s not always everyone else’s fault if they don’t enjoy your company! But sometimes you can be a lovely person but introverted just stay in the corner without h letting anyone else get a chance to get to know you. Human interaction is annoying and complicated, and we all deserve friends, but you can’t always just wait for friends to just happen sadly :(

13points

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Denise Melek 10 months ago

When those things happened to me, with hindsight I often realized that I kinda was annoying or unfriendly that time.

8points

Ms.GB 10 months ago

If this kinda thing consistently happens to you perhaps look within. These kind of things happen to everyone once in a while but I have worked with people that were purposely not told about get togethers etc. but it was never because they were too shy or introverted or awkward. If you have terrible hygiene or constantly creep on people or insult others nobody wants to be around you...those are the only scenarios I can see of this happening time after time with different groups of people in the adult world. There was one person that would never pay for themselves etc...sometimes there are reasons.

5points

Bec 10 months ago

When I was struggling with depression, I felt unwelcomed or unliked, but it was probably mostly in my head. I watched this with a loved one as well, we'd go out to eat and he would complain that people were giving him dirty looks or being rude - nope, most people aren't paying attention to you, and even if they are, don't base your self worth on their opinions

4points

Mila Sliacka 10 months ago

Here’s one: supporting your friend during the long breakup on daily basis. Planning to see each other when he comes to town. Rescheduling my day so we can spend time together, calling him to check how the train ride is going only to find out he is not coming because he made plans plans with his new boyfriend. Didn’t bother to tell me. After this happened more than once I bailed out.

2points

Poediddy 10 months ago

Not once in any of these stories did anyone say, "Hey, maybe I'm the problem!"

2points

INGI 10 months ago

Well, most were one-liners, not deep, introspective essays, so...

1point

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Enlee Jones 10 months ago

I once heard my boss badmouthing me to a coworker. Fun times.

2points

Nils Skirnir 10 months ago

Being forced to be a project manager

2points

Jennifer Clayton 10 months ago

Having a friend confide their drama to you and say "I could never tell my real friends about this."

2points

DarkViolet 10 months ago

Wow, just....wow. What are you, then, a mannequin?

1point

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 10 months ago

So many pathetic, whinging, needy people. Maybe there's a very good reason others don't you around.

2points

Beverley 10 months ago

Never knowing if your work colleagues are going to remember/acknowledge your birthday. When it gets missed more often than remembered you kinda give up expecting anything.

0points

Nancy Doughty 10 months ago

Hell has no fury like a Bored Panda Admin that decides it doesn't like you.

0points

Steve Hall 10 months ago

If you aren't included, maybe there is a reason, maybe you should seek the answer from within.

-1point

Mitchell 10 months ago

A lot of self indulgent whining here IMO. If people are treating you like s**t, there is a reason and you need to figure out what it is. Either some aspect of your personality is off putting and you need to reflect on how you land on people, or the people are a bunch of mean girls and why would you want them as friends anyway? Boo hoo.

-1point

Panda-sized Potato 10 months ago

Some of these just sound like straight FOMO. But you can't expect to be a part of everything. You are not the center of the world. People's lives don't revolve around you. I have good friends that do stuff without me. That's perfectly fine. I've done stuff without other friends, too. Can't involve everyone everytime. And sometimes you have to take the initiative, if you want to do something. I understand it is hard sometimes/all the time. I'm an introvert, so I understand. And I know how much rejection hurts. It causes me to shy away from doing things sometimes. But you can't expect people to put in the effort if you are not willing to do the same. And you can't be a part of everything all the time.

22points

Astro 10 months ago

Yeah honestly I’ve known people who were not well-liked for legitimate reasons (they’re a jerk/racist/make other people uncomfortable, etc) and I’ve heard them make a lot of the arguments presented in this post. It’s not always everyone else’s fault if they don’t enjoy your company! But sometimes you can be a lovely person but introverted just stay in the corner without h letting anyone else get a chance to get to know you. Human interaction is annoying and complicated, and we all deserve friends, but you can’t always just wait for friends to just happen sadly :(

13points

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Denise Melek 10 months ago

When those things happened to me, with hindsight I often realized that I kinda was annoying or unfriendly that time.

8points

Ms.GB 10 months ago

If this kinda thing consistently happens to you perhaps look within. These kind of things happen to everyone once in a while but I have worked with people that were purposely not told about get togethers etc. but it was never because they were too shy or introverted or awkward. If you have terrible hygiene or constantly creep on people or insult others nobody wants to be around you...those are the only scenarios I can see of this happening time after time with different groups of people in the adult world. There was one person that would never pay for themselves etc...sometimes there are reasons.

5points

Bec 10 months ago

When I was struggling with depression, I felt unwelcomed or unliked, but it was probably mostly in my head. I watched this with a loved one as well, we'd go out to eat and he would complain that people were giving him dirty looks or being rude - nope, most people aren't paying attention to you, and even if they are, don't base your self worth on their opinions

4points

Mila Sliacka 10 months ago

Here’s one: supporting your friend during the long breakup on daily basis. Planning to see each other when he comes to town. Rescheduling my day so we can spend time together, calling him to check how the train ride is going only to find out he is not coming because he made plans plans with his new boyfriend. Didn’t bother to tell me. After this happened more than once I bailed out.

2points

Poediddy 10 months ago

Not once in any of these stories did anyone say, "Hey, maybe I'm the problem!"

2points

INGI 10 months ago

Well, most were one-liners, not deep, introspective essays, so...

1point

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Enlee Jones 10 months ago

I once heard my boss badmouthing me to a coworker. Fun times.

2points

Nils Skirnir 10 months ago

Being forced to be a project manager

2points

Jennifer Clayton 10 months ago

Having a friend confide their drama to you and say "I could never tell my real friends about this."

2points

DarkViolet 10 months ago

Wow, just....wow. What are you, then, a mannequin?

1point

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 10 months ago

So many pathetic, whinging, needy people. Maybe there's a very good reason others don't you around.

2points

Beverley 10 months ago

Never knowing if your work colleagues are going to remember/acknowledge your birthday. When it gets missed more often than remembered you kinda give up expecting anything.

0points

Nancy Doughty 10 months ago

Hell has no fury like a Bored Panda Admin that decides it doesn't like you.

0points

Steve Hall 10 months ago

If you aren't included, maybe there is a reason, maybe you should seek the answer from within.

-1point

Mitchell 10 months ago

A lot of self indulgent whining here IMO. If people are treating you like s**t, there is a reason and you need to figure out what it is. Either some aspect of your personality is off putting and you need to reflect on how you land on people, or the people are a bunch of mean girls and why would you want them as friends anyway? Boo hoo.

-1point

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