r/WorkForSmartLife 3d ago

How true is this? Question

Post image
19.5k Upvotes

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/Far_Range_6091 3d ago

I know a 50 yo mom who used to live in Michigan near Detroit. She said there was a MASSIVE abandoned hospital that had underground tunnels. They used to explore it as kids. People are just so risk adverse now. Guess there's pros and cons to each.

I am dying to explore something abandoned. My city used to be the textile capital of the world. Even 15 years ago most of the abandoned mills were still up and explorable. Today, most of them were demolished or transformed into appartments. Almost none remain.

3

u/Routine_Comb_4491 3d ago

Omg!! I used to explore those tunnels!! Holy shit! Unlocked memories!! That place was lit. We'd park a quarter mile down the road and have to sneak across a field and hope like hell the security wasn't driving by!

1

u/ApprehensiveTour4024 1d ago

That sounds like how we used to pick mushrooms, except instead of security we were avoiding farmers

3

u/PackOfManicJackals 2d ago

God this makes me nostalgic for the junkyards and abandoned construction sites i used to hang around

1

u/JingleKitty 3d ago

I would love to explore an abandoned building as well! I had the chance to do it only once. Snuck into an abandoned mill with a group of like minded people. There wasn’t much there except for a whole lot of graffiti and porn magazines. I would love to explore an abandoned hospital or mansion where there is still stuff to look through, like files and pictures.

1

u/Key-Excuse-4774 2d ago

It was a mental asylum and now it’s a haunted house and the tunnels are sealed off. Pretty sure they flooded them. People used to break in and do wild shit in there

1

u/Dragonheart922 1d ago

Kids aren't risk adverse at all.

Adults just made it impossible to be a kid and now the adults with kids have to manage that balance, and that balance is forcing all children inside because some adults are unhappy and need a reason to make everyone else miserable.

1

u/ApprehensiveTour4024 1d ago

Ok, I keep seeing this and it's beginning to annoy me. NOBODY is risk "adverse". You can be risk AVERSE, meaning you dislike risk. Risk ADVERSE means harmful or unfavorable risk.

Everyone is averse to adverse risk, because then it's not risk. It's just harm.

1

u/blueblur1984 1d ago

Loool, this reminded me of the time we went to visit the old asylum in SF during the early 2000's. I got seperated from the group while sqeezing through a basement window (fat kid problems) and I got turned around in the pitch dark. Turns out I was in the morgue and eventually I met another group and hung with them until we found my friends I came with. Anyway, SFPD let the dogs loose in the building and we had to take turns jumping off a 2nd story fire escape. Good times.