Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once

Experiences vary from person to person. What may have been memorable and worth repeating for one may have been a regrettable moment for another.

The stories you’re about to read are more about the latter. People candidly shared the first experiences they’d rather forget in response to this Reddit question that made the rounds recently: “What’s something you tried once and instantly knew that it wasn’t for you?”

Commenters talked about the first time they explored mind-altering substances, went camping, had roommates, and dated after divorce. Some anecdotes were funny, others were perplexing, while a few were slightly saddening.

Nevertheless, these were interesting reads many of you will likely enjoy.

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Dating again after my divorce. I realized I actually really truly did want my own space, my own home, my own finances, my own freedom. I was fulfilled by the relationships I had in my life.
The first relationship after my marriage lasted 14 days. The whole time, I tried. But I couldn’t do it.
I’m very happy alone.

whatmanthetinky , Kiran KR Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Exercising right after I wake up in the morning. F**K THAT.

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Living with roommates. Cannot stand it. I'm fine living with a partner, family, or by myself. But a stranger, no thank you.

NewFlow6979 , cottonbro studio Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Outdoor Festivals

Gross porta potties, no water to wash hands, the smell of weed, the smell of p**s, people smelling of BO and alcohol, pushing each other out of the way to get to the front, people OD-ing, heat strokes, people with no awareness of their surroundings, minimal seating areas, no shade, drunk adults who bring their kids while they get wasted and over priced food lol.

Fadingintothesun , Wendy Wei Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Camping.

Spent one night in a tent and knew I belong indoors with AC and a fridge.

Neat_Dress_8555 , Tegan Mierle Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Church. I got dragged to some free BBQ and music thing by a friend. Turned out to be a church pushing the hip new youth rock band they had some decade or two back.

I tried to be respectful, really. I late some food, chatted with the other folks there. Then we were led into the basement for the "concert." Fine.

The issue came when they locked the doors. This felt wrong so I politely asked to be let out. They refused. I informed them they had no right to lock me in and demanded to be let out. They grabbed the pastor.

At this point I started to get pissed. I began to complain loudly and was suddenly surrounded by church-goers trying to tell me this was normal.

Soon afterwards I really started to lose my cool. I demanded they unlock the door and basically informed them this was utter b******t.

In the end a scene was made (I shoved preacherman) and I was escorted out by three people and i have never set foot in a church since, quite happily.

Edit: I added that I got salty shoved preacher after they resisted letting me go because it felt dishonest not to tell the whole story. Also I did make the case that the locked doors were a fire hazard to no avail.

Edit 2: seems thus was a cult. It was a large-ish Christian church in my hometown that was freshly built and seemed legit from the outside.

Pretty_Benign , Nikko Tan Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once C**aine. The high is fun but short, and my first thought was "you know what would be fun? More c**aine." Noped right out of that party and never did it again.

VenkHeerman , cottonbro studio Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Big, loud parties. I’m not all that social in the first place, but it gets worse when I’m surrounded by super social people who are all socializing very loudly, typically with very loud music in the background (I also have fairly sensitive hearing).

MrExist777 , Maurício Mascaro Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Dancing in a club. It looked like a good time, then I discovered I have absolutely no idea what to do with my arms and legs on the dance floor, and I look and feel ridiculous. Not fun.

Leipopo_Stonnett , Yan Krukau Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once For me, it was dating apps. I tried one out and instantly felt it wasn't for me. The endless swiping and shallow interactions left me feeling more lonely than connected. Plus majority of people there only want one thing.

frenchmarlboro , Good Faces Agency Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Sweet potato fries. Everyone always tells me how great they are, but if you want fries, get fries. You can't beat the classic.

Cbonline12 , Valeria Boltneva Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Running as exercise.

JWMLUV0810 , Pexels LATAM Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Meditation . I cannot sit still for the life of me.

Fun-Comfortable-9028 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Haunted houses. Having people jump out of the day and scream in my face while I walk through cheesy scenes of violence was not even a little fun for me.

DoomsdayMachineInc , Carlos de Miguel Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Marriage. I knew before I did it that I shouldn't be doing it with this guy. I did it anyway. Big mistake. Huge. I figured out that it's a lot easier to say I do, than it is to say I don't want to do this anymore.

Initial-Shop-8863 , Emma Bauso Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once This world. It was so bad I cried the moment I entered it.

pikachu_sashimi , Pixabay Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Telemarketing. I walked out after two hours. I felt like the lowest of low life.

dma1965 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Corporate job… it’s not for me. Except it’s now been 20yrs soulless years and I have zero will to live.

mr-blister-fister , Campaign Creators Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once I put on roller blades, stood up, sat down and took them off. Was going to break my damn neck.

Kooky-Clue-4855 , RDNE Stock project Report

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Never Again: 30 Times People Learned Of Their Hatred For A Certain Thing After Trying It Once Shrooms. The first bit was pretty good, but then while I was laying in bed my Kurt Cobain poster fell on top of me. I was freaking out as to why Kurt Cobain came of out of heaven to specifically attack me. Nonetheless, I k*lled him a second time.

PresentationTop6097 , MART PRODUCTION Report

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What’s something you tried once and instantly knew that it wasn’t for you?

StPaul9 1 week ago

A lot of these are just petty. One bad time and never again for olives?

11points

DC 1 week ago

... can't force joy on people...

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Ranger Kanootsen says GOODBYE! 1 week ago

Being with a woman? Tried it when I was a teen. Nope. I'm definitely gay.

8points

Roan The Demon Kitty 1 week ago (edited)

men I guess, lmao. as a lesbian myself, I had a boyfriend for a couple of months at like, 13 or so.. he kept asking to kiss and i didnt know at the time that i was a lesbian, so we finally pecked lips, i hated it and i avoided him for days and we broke up after I finally confessed. Funnily enough, around 5 years after that we bumped into each other and he said he thought he was gay, so... we became good friends because I was the only one who supported him coming out at the time. Unfortunately, he passed away after a motorcycle accident.... RIP, man, I still miss ya.

5points

Trisec Tebeakesse 1 week ago

Horses. I'm totally not a city boy; I'm actually an outdoorsman. However, I've only been on a horse twice in my life, and neither time ended well for me or the horse. I admire them from afar now.

3points

Walking them like a dogis fun. But, their role as, sort of, pre-industrial motorcycle, doesn't do it for me either. Luckily, the one horse I fell down from was a rather small sort thereof, and ... we'd share a few carrots then, but decided to not again try that riding thing...

1point

Lisbeth Guz 1 week ago

Jägermeister. It was disgusting. Some time later someone offered me Sambuca, and I almost vomited. Then, a couple of years later some French friends gave me some Pastis, and I hated it. I definitely can't stand anise.

I don't mind Jagermeister - it's Fireball for me. That is utterly disgusting. Glad I only tried a nip.

0points

BookFanatic 1 week ago

Sex. I gave it a couple of tries, talked to my friends, talked to the guy, talked to my obgyn. The "first time" pain was "every time pain" and the sticky aftermath made me want to throw up.

2points

SkippityBoppityBoo 1 week ago (edited)

"Diet Coke" ... I'd already worked an 10hr split shift as in finishing at after midnight and then starting again at 10am on New Years Eve until closing. A person I knew could get me some. I was high on that NYE shift but still in full ability to work. I only took it because I was absolutely shattered from the Christmas period and hadn't had a day off in two weeks. I said to my supervisor, "10 minutes to go until New Years and I'm just going to go to the loo, I don't want to hit midnight on there!". He laughed. I went...***sniff*** and out. Scary thing was I still had enough for the next few days. I was working New Years Day too. Even without it? I'd have had to probably have a caffeine IV just to stay awake because of the ridiculous shifts I was on. I hated that job but at least I did it well... Even on "Diet Coke". Did it once. Never again.

Andrea Steinacher 1 week ago

Anything "sugar-free" is a nö-gö for me, I hate the taste of sweeteners

Pittsburgh rare 1 week ago

Kalimotxo. Red wine and coca-cola. The first time was the last and my poor grandma's vase received the aftermath.

veirdbuttrue 1 week ago

oooh . That does not sound like a tasty combination

Amphetamines. I don't even know what exact that was, it's so long ago ... I remember having known it. But, as it sucked anyway, doesn't really matter. Alcohol, but that, for whatever reason, I tried multiple times, only to again and again discover that forcefully induced stupidity isn't really my cup of. Automatic transmission. Ok, on the Autobahn, it doesn't matter, but if driving is meant to be fun, I wanna have a stupid machine without attempting to be smart, that I can manually operate. Power steering comes to mind, too - whatever car is that heavy that it needs such, is too heavy for me to like. Vehicles are either light, or they're wasteful, and that, I don't see as justified, but it's hard to avoid it these days.

L. L. 1 week ago

cocaine appears twice on this list

Zoe's Mom 1 week ago

Marriage. It's a NO for me dawg.

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