When you switch lanes in a supermarket and end up taking longer
Bill swapped lane to a smaller one in tesco his line went faster he had lane regret
The feeling of remorse and embarrassment experienced by religious people who make decisions based on the expectation of an impending "Rapture" event, when said event fails to occur.
Keith came around asking for all his stuff back today. Seems the Rapture didn't happen on Wednesday after all. The guy's suffering from Rapture Regret.
when you post a cringe reply and instantly regret it
You : "I shouldn’t had made that post ..."
Your friend : "Don't worry, it's just post-replying regret, it's temporary"
A feeling of overwhelming ennui when a remote worker arrives at the office in a hybrid workplace. Immediate causes are the "ghost town" effect where the building is so empty it crushes your soul. Additionally sporadic conversation from zoom meetings or people talking about nothing makes you long for your quiet home office.
Joel was okay for the 30 minute commute in, but when he stepped in the door he was overcome with commute regret
when you take that one hit of weed that gets you TOO stoned
“shit man, i was smoking in my bathroom last night and my dad walked in right as i took the toke of regret”
“damnnnn”
“yeah i’m grounded for 3 months”
This is an unintentional click/ like on a pic or post that you don't actually like but subsequently too lazy (or maybe even too nice) to go back and unlike/unclick.
Crap! I "liked" her pic by accident, now I got total click regret.
When you order just a little bit too much food, and the amount left over seems too small to keep as leftovers, so you eat it because you’d rather not waste it - and now, you’re overfull and your whole meal is ruined.
I mean there’s only one more chicken ball, it can’t hurt…
*10 minutes later*
Oh god no! Chicken regret! I feel so gross!