Let's just all agree to stop asking celebrities about their favorite sex positions...

Especially when the article is an interview about a 24-year-old gay pop star. It's important for celebrities to set boundaries for the press so that their personal lives aren't exploited or attacked. So, when South African singer Troye Sivan was asked if he's a top of a bottom in an interview by a New Zealand reporter, he wasn't having it.

Asking anyone their sexual preferences, particularly when the article wasn't about sex, is violating. Some people noted that this interviewer, Matt Fistonich, who is gay himself, probably wouldn't ask a straight person which sex position they prefer. However, the article was for Express, a New Zealand LGBTQ magazine. Sivan answered Fistonich's "Top of Bottom?" question with a classy, "Ooo...definitely passing!"

Perhaps because the publication is an ally for the LGBTQ community, Fistonich assumed he was allowed to cross the line, but he also asked in the same interview if Sivan's boyfriend would be ok with him sleeping with Shawn Mendes, who is straight.

Of course, the internet took note.

And Troye responded:

People were there for him:

Well done, Troye!

Federal housing regulations have yet to explicitly bar landlords from pranking their tenants, but there are other protections in place, and this tenant knows them all.

Rachel Bell is the head of creative content at a real estate start up, which must be why her landlord "Brucie" knew she was the perfect target for a prank.

Bell came home to find a flyer announcing a new 10% rent hike "according to Numbers 18:21." If you heathens are unaware, the King James Bible translation of the verse is "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation."

The takeaway from the verse, according to the landlord, is "give me your money, punk!"

The stock photo of a Moses-like cartoon hugging kids really makes it.

Bell, knowing that she had the law on her side, texted "Brucie Baby" a comprehensive takedown of the biblical decree and how a rent hike like that is very illegal.

Two can play the game of bible verses.

Raising rents in the middle of an active lease term is illegal according to New York law, and using religion to inform housing decisions is also barred (until Mike Pence takes over).

Since it was Bruce who brought the bible into it, Bell quoted The New Testament's proclamation, "neither the...thieves, nor the greedy, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

After sending the texts, Bell wrote a comprehensive blog post explaining just how illegal this ungodly move would be.

"I feel like a broken record when I iterate this, but for the love of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, this is just another reason to read and understand your lease before you sign it. No one needs their landlord sneaking some weird terms into a seemingly standard lease," she explains.

And lo, on the third day, the landlord hath revealed himself to be Ashton Kutcher in disguise, and the Word of God but a vehicle in the ever-escalating prank war.

"Gotcha," indeed.

Pranks are fun, but punking a tenant is a f**ked up thing to do, at least according to the word of God.

As is written in Leviticus 19:11,"Do not lie. Do not deceive one another."

Birthdays come once a year and can mark a very special time of reflection, but that doesn't mean strangers are obligated to care. There are restaurants that will sing to you, coffee shops that will give you a treat, and countless rewards programs with birthday hookups (I'm looking at you Sephora), but that doesn't mean it's safe to assume your birthday grants you freebies from everyone.

For example, hitting up a local artist struggling to make ends meet for a "birthday deal" is supremely tacky and very unlikely to go your way. Unfortunately, this specific example isn't something I merely dredged out of my toxic brain, but a real interaction that happened in our ridiculous world.

A screenshot recently posted on Reddit shows an exchange between an artist and an entitled birthday person who didn't want to pay full price.

The exchange started out fairly innocuous, the customer asked the artist for a picture and the artist asked for specifications on size and type of picture.

Conveniently, upon hearing the artist's rate, the customer remembered it was their birthday and decided to request a discount.

The artist then gushed about how it happened to be their birthday as well, a truly serendipitous coincidence.

The customer immediately wished the artist happy birthday, and then doubled down on requesting the discount.

The artist agreed to the discount, before requesting the original rate they set.

When the customer asked why their birthday discount wasn't applied, the artist smugly pointed out it was also their birthday, so they'd simultaneously applied a 50% extra charge.

Unsurprisingly, the exchange did not end in kind words or birthday wishes.

Disney World is an important place for a lot of people, but is it an ideal place for an adults-only vacation?

Surprisingly, a lot of people think so. Sure, there are kids everywhere, it's hot as hell, the rides are designed for children and the lines are heinous, but it is a magical place after all. (Full disclosure: I've never been to Disney World but I imagine since it's filled with children, everything is vaguely sticky. Is it sticky?)

There has been much debate about whether or not you should go to Disney World without children or if you should bring children who are so young they'll never remember it. One woman went so far as to suggest that people shouldn't be allowed in the park without a kid and that is truly insane.

Luckily, the AITA (Am I the Asshole) section of Reddit is here to answer all of your pressing questions. When someone asked, "AITA for saying a baby cannot come on vacation?" the internet was ready to weigh in.

For the past two years, a group of friends and I have been planning a weeklong trip to Orlando to visit Disneyworld and Universal Studios in three weeks. The first rule we made when we started to plan this trip is that it would be childfree. The two people in our group that have children agreed that their children were young enough not to be traumatized from not going to Disney at 3 years old.

For personal reasons, one of my buddies had to drop out of the trip last minute. Since everything has been paid for, he said that if I could find someone to take his place he wouldn’t expect to be reimbursed in any way, except for sweets from Honeydukes and mouse ears.

I managed to find someone, but before I could say anything to the group. My girlfriend (hopefully soon to be fiancée, I plan to propose on the trip) told me her sister wanted to take the empty spot. I asked how, because her sister just had a baby and at the time of the trip she will be 6 or 7 weeks. She said that her sister would just bring her daughter and we would make it work.

My girlfriend is a huge pushover when it comes to her sister and has never said no to her before.

I called her sister and tried to politely tell her that everyone going on this trip is either in their late 20’s or early to mid-’30s. She wouldn’t listen and started rambling about her daughter getting pictures with Mickey and Elsa (she also named her daughter Elsa btw) and how much fun she’ll have. I interrupted her and said that the trip was adults only and her newborn was not allowed. I then pointed out that a lot of the places we’ll be going to after the parks are adults only and no one would want to stay behind with her and the baby. Plus I don’t think an unvaccinated newborn should be taken to Disney.

I was called a dick and how dare I tell her how to parent her child and it was creepy that a bunch of adults wanted to go to Disney without children. The last thing I told her before I hung up was that the empty spot had already been taken, by someone, so sadly she cannot come, but we'll take plenty of pics in our coordinated disneybound outfits and wizard robes to show her later. I think she cussed me out, before I ended the call.

My girlfriend thinks I was mean to her sister and said I should apologize for not giving her a chance to come on the trip. AITA?

Damn. This is a mess. In my opinion, a newborn baby doesn't have a place on any vacation but it somehow seems a lot worse carting a newborn around in Florida humidity. Does a newborn want to drink around the world at Epcot? Probably not.

"missmegz1492" said:

It sounds like this woman isn't used to not getting her way. Also someone who wants to bring a weeks old baby to Disney is a total moron.

"peabody77" wrote:

Its your trip that you all planed far before she was even included. She doesn’t get to come in last minute and make it about her and her kid.

"DeeLite04" wrote:

1. it was already agreed it was a childfree trip by all involved. Your GF reneged by inviting her sister who can’t reasonably go anywhere without her kid so the sister never should have been given an invite.

2. A six week (edit) old at Disney? Fucking really?

3. Let me say this loudly for the entitled people in the back: DISNEY IS FOR EVERYONE NOT JUST PEOPLE WITH KIDS. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, KAREN, THE PRETZEL NAZI WHO HATES CHILDLESS COUPLES AT DISNEY.

"Demarzi" wrote:

NTA. I had trouble finding time to wash my hair when my baby was 6 weeks old, let alone traveling to Disney. Not to mention the heat and crowds for that poor baby?

"kt-bug17" wrote:

NTA. 1) An unvaccinated 6-7 week old baby should NOT be going on planes or inside amusement parks. Especially with the measles on the rise. Heck there were thousands people exposed to the measles in Disneyland and Universal Studios last week from an infected tourist!

2) All the baby is going to want to do at that point is eat and sleep. So your SIL is probably going to be stuck in her hotel room breastfeeding and putting the baby down to nap for huge chunks of the trip.

3) Your SIL is going to be 6-7 weeks post childbirth/cesarean section. There is very strong chance it will be medically unsafe for her to ride anything more exciting than It’s A Small World. That would be a really disappointing trip for her.

So, there you have it! This person is not in the wrong, according to the very reliable moral compass that is the internet.

It usually takes a little while to get the hang of a job, which is why the first day of a new job is usually pretty hard—whether you're a blogger, an accountant, a schoolteacher, or a sex worker. Someone recently asked on Reddit: Strippers/escorts/other sex workers, what was your first day on the job like? Turns out, just like any other type of work, getting started in sex work can be exciting, scary, rewarding, and just a little bit awkward.

Here are 31 eye-opening responses:

1.) Via fluellen:

I got VERY lucky. My first ever client was an attractive, middle aged man who lived in a huge and pristine house. After all was said and done, I divulged that he was my first client. He looked me in my eyes and said 'you shouldn't be doing this.' I only did it for about six weeks.

2.) Via GledaTheGoat:

I once worked for a company where I would reply to explicit text messages. First day I thought it was really funny and kinda cool, I did it from home so I would tell my partner about some of the messages I would get. It was explained to me that I would handle several ‘profiles’ of women. I was sure the men knew it’s a fantasy line as the manager told me it was clear on their website. But she would not tell me what the name of that site was.

Anyway as time went on I realised that the Johns were texting what they thought were real women. They kept referring to it as a dating website. I kept getting general emails from my manager repeatedly to say we must always say we “liked the idea of meeting sometime” but never agree to, and to keep saying we wanted to talk longer first to keep them replying for longer. Some of these men had been texting ‘one woman’ for YEARS, when in reality that profile could be handled by 20+ women a day.

Found out from one John that it was advertised as meet local singles for sex, and they had to spend £3 per message and were getting frustrated that the women never met up.

Edit: Lots of people asking about pay. It was £0.15p per message (around $0.18). Even going as fast as I could it was much less than minimum wage per hour as I often had to read through the message history or look up info (e.g the John might ask what the weather was like where ‘she’ lived).

3.) Via slutforbalrog:

First day on the job stripping—I was 19 and worked in a very tiny club (used to call it my shoebox club) with a wobbly pole from Lowe’s that went through a gaping hole in the ceiling. Had a panic attack in the dressing room before it was my turn to go on stage cause getting partially naked in front of strangers for the first time is very unsettling, and then came out to see people that I vaguely knew sitting by the tip rail (I used to live small city). I had actually biked past them on the way to get there! Proceeded to awkwardly roll around on stage and accidentally kicked an ash tray off the tip rail at them. Not my finest hour haha

4.) Via Tedbastion:

Confusing and awkward. And advertising through craigslist wasnt easy either. I labeled it naked amateur massage. Lol.

I honesty dont remember my first in memory because a lot has happened in several years. I have a lot of great times too. So the bad ones dont stick out to heavily anymore.

5.) Via noodles_the_food:

I was in a pinch for cash so I decided to try prostitution for a while. I was really nervous at first but honestly the people who requested my service were much more awkward than I was so I got over it pretty quickly.

6.) Via ChickenRave:

I used to have sex with older men to fill up my fridge.

My first experience was with a really obese guy in his 50s. Nothing attractive about him, so thank fuck there was porn on his TV because I don't know how I would've gotten hard. We got naked, and he spent at least 10 minutes licking my body all over. I remember this because his breath smelled like rotten fish, and the stench remained on my body even after I was done. I think I spent an hour in the shower when I got home.

I had to stare at the TV and fake an orgasm to be done with it. Thank fuck I don't have to do this anymore.

7.) Via beautycristine:

At one point in my life when I lost my job and car I stripped (lasted only 3 days) and I remember my first day, technically night, like it was yesterday. I was very shy, awkward, clueless, desperate, and ashamed. I never thought I would turn to dancing (stripping). After I danced the 5 stages, this Indian man (doctor) asked for a private dance. We go to the very back of the building where no one can see. So I'm dancing on him and then he asks could he insert his penis in me. I freaked out!!! I said NO! And he said "okay, can I jack off while you dance, ill give you $200". I agreed. and a few seconds later, he jizzed in his pants.... they were khakis..... I made $250 in about 3 minutes. I was scarred, and was only able to dance 2 more nights before I realized I just couldn't do it anymore.

8.) Via volim:

Dancer here.

I remember coming home with around 120$ on a Saturday and saying "Okay, not bad". Now I'm not satisfied unless that's a solid grand. Surprisingly, I wasn't nervous at all about going on stage or being naked. Guess I'm a natural!

9.) Via MourtyMourtMourt:

I was very nervous. No one in my life knew I was going to work as a SW. The madam at the brothel knew it was my first time but she gave me very little useable advice. An older experienced SW told me what I needed to know to get through my first client.

My first client was a young man, he treated me well and the sex was vanilla. It wasn’t scary or anything. He made it easy. I think I had a few clients that night, I can’t remember.

10.) Via myboo4u:

Not sure if it’s considered as a sex worker, but I do camming, I really enjoy it.

My first day I did it I was so nervous and anxious the whole time, nothing exciting really happened but I was so nervous I was going to get some hate on there and people where going to be mean.

I have realized about 98 percent of the people are really nice and fun, but the other 2 percent are so nasty. I have had people try to get me to talk about my children in a fucked up sexual way.. I have people demand things.

But overall I highly recommend it for a hobby and not a job :)

11.) Via trustmeimabartender:

Brothel receptionist here, hope that's ok. Fuckin terrifying, didn't understand what was going on, just that it was fast paced and confusing. I checked on a client before all the ladies had met by accident and one of them went off at me. Luckily that didn't deter me, 5 years later I couldn't imagine being anywhere else. My bartending years gave me experience with drunks, cash handling, multi tasking and customer service and I'm very comfortable around nudity so it turned out to be a perfect fit. Added bonus of helping to provide a safe space for sex workers to do their thing, and being surrounded by beautiful ladies and sexual energy makes me feel all warm n fuzzy inside.

12.) Via thisuserhatesyou:

I'm a dancer, my first day was kind of awkward but I think I got the hang of it quickly. I was interested in pole tricks before I started the job so I was pretty good at those already, but had no idea what to do for the actual dancing part. My coworker had to show me how to give a lap dance lol. Talking to customers was also nerve-racking but I quickly learned to just ask questions and they would spend the rest of the conversation talking about themselves. It got easier once I developed a fun, confident persona that was separate from my actual everyday self (I usually have a lot of anxiety and body image issues). I also learned some very effective ways to shut down creeps.

13.) Via shinyhappycat:

I used to be a prostitute and I can't really remember the first time. I was probably quite nervous. I do remember putting all the safeguards in place so someone knew where I was and any details about the guy that I had. And I made sure to get the money first!

14.) yaya606:

My first day as a dancer was really eye opening to me. I was 18 and had just moved into a large city alone. I had never made my own money before and I was extremely naive. I had never seen or done any drugs before and was shocked that they were everywhere in the club. I did my first private dance that night and the man I was with had pulled out a sizable bag of cocaine and expected me to indulge with him- and was very surprised when I turned him down as if it was normal.

Throughout the rest of the dance the man forcefully pulled me into him so I was rubbing against him and couldn’t even dance. Being that I was new I didn’t know that I should tell him not to touch me like that- and man did it feel super nasty.

I worked fully nude and at first it felt really uncomfortable to have men looking at me, touching me, and bribing me for sex. However, I made about $400 that first night, the first money I ever earned, and it was incredibly rewarding.

Almost 4 years later I am still at that club dancing. Nothing shocks me now, I love what I do, and I definitely lay the law down with my guests.

15.) Via Authentisizm:

Barely a sex worker(I've kinda done porn and sold nudes so it's a technicality)I was always insecure about everything involving myself and rarely show my face even now often using masks or something obscuring whenever I'd be on camera. I was struggling with a ridiculous rent to pay and needed money.. One of my friends gave me the idea to sell nudes on facebook but then the first thing I did was hook up with a semi-random guy.They were fine with being uploaded and before that happened I barely even knew the guy. It was kinda awkward and very amateur for lack of a better word..The comment responses from everything I started doing boosted my self esteem significantly day one, but I was very nervous with everything as to be expected.

16.) Via Veldron:

Ex-prostitute here. Did most of my work through tinder, fetlife, Craigslist and a specific site for trans escorts. My first few sessions were absolutely terrifying thanks to anxiety

17.) Via Uzumati666:

Male gay escort here, my first time I got pain $850 to have a guy smell my armpits. It took 15 minutes, and he drove me home. I was only was supposed to get $400. I need up doing the business for 2 years.

18.) Via hollco615:

Stripper here

Was a nanny before and one night decided fuck it at 18 yrs old. My first night was the night I realized how many guy have mommy issues. I was still breastfeeding when I started, a guy squeezed my boobs and for the rest of the night kept calling me mommy (so many guys wanted to buy my milk.... so many) Another guy whipped his dick out and said “just sit on it”. Oh oh can’t forget arm pit licking guy!! Stage was absolutely nerve wracking and I’m sure I looked like a newborn baby deer, possibly worse considering I had never walked in heels before that night.

From being a nanny to kids - to being mommy to adults, let’s talk about a curve ball

19.) Via LittleMissHundin:

So, I started off doing erotic massage back when I was basically homeless and just couch surfing my way around NYC, working any odd jobs I could find. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was living off stale food left forgotten in random peoples fridges, so I went for it. I posted an ad on a website with a friend and within a few hours got an inquiry. I didn’t screen or take any precautions because I didn’t know any better, and in retrospect I was INCREDIBLY lucky. I was so nervous. I got all dressed up in the only halfway decent thing I owned. I went to his hotel and when he opened the door my mouth nearly fell open. He was so fucking handsome and I was floored. He was a 30 something businessman from Iceland, in NYC for work. He was absolutely delightful. He was charming, intelligent, immaculate, and funny. I had an amazing hour with him and walking away with what I normally could make in a week working my ass off at a shit cafe getting abused by rich customers who were fine with spending $7 on a latte but not tipping a single cent. The 180° change in my job status was shocking.

After that I started posting ads every day and was able to get an apartment and go back to school. I’m Pre-med now at a great university and my life is wonderful. It’s been over five years and I’ve never been more grateful for anything in my life. Sex work saved me.

20.) Via -Trimurti-:

Got into the escort industry through a friend of a friend after university (UK) it was straight work - the clientele were 99% high-achieving women who had little time for relationships, or had to forgo them for their goals. Mostly childless, divorced or not-married. Quite the eye opener after I look back on it years on. By that I mean that the promise of career (and no kids/family) through competition with men - as men were usually competing for the same spots - made them extremely unhappy, like most of them had horrendous regret once the penny dropped that what they had wasn't what they wanted/thought it was - but I won't go into any of that since it's unpopular opinion going by most of Reddit...

I was a very good ear, which was mostly the MO of a straight male escort. Think of it like this - women can get sex easily, but being properly listened to wasn't something they had in great abundance, given they were in positions of authority (and so they felt they couldn't let the veil be pierced) and I'd say about 30% of the time it a booking wasn't about sex at all, but either what we'd call 'a show and tell' (imagine "Wedding Crashers" but for business events) or venting whilst I looked for a way to amicably probe deeper let's say.

Anyway, after the interview with the agency owners I had my picture taken and put onto the website, then Tiffany (one of the owners) rang a few of the known regulars and told them there was a new guy starting. That did it.

As the new guy I was super busy for two weeks and it died down from there. I was shitting it a bit on the first day as I'm quite cerebral, attentive and can stage-fright the fuck out of myself, but it ended up being EZPZ - met at the restaurant and ate, went back to the agency flat in the centre, where there is always cocaine and booze, but I didn't know that at the time - *the client did * and she ended up showing me where it was in the flat... then one thing led to another and we went our separate ways later on. Total time from the meal would be about four hours on the clock and I came home with just over £500 cash in my hand.

The next day I went to a cobbler the client told me about (in the posh 'arcades' of the city) and put an order in for some handmade shoes. I still have them today.

21.) Via wontwatchtheprequels:

Barely hits the sex work umbrella I guess but interesting all the same. About 8 months ago I started sugar babying and selling pictures. At first I was pretty nervous as I was doing it as a survival job, but even after I got hired fill time at my current job I kept doing it because i started to enjoy it. It’s really interesting what men want sometimes.

Currently there’s only three, I just kept communicating to the ones I liked the most after I was hired full time

One guy is someone from my high school that goes under a fake persona and buys videos from me purely to get off on the fact I used to reject him in high school,

Ones a charity case, I tell him my woes and he acts like “my savior” (sometimes he’ll get sexual and I’ll send pictures)

One man just wants me to be his friend and talk to him once in a while and be supportive.

About 50% of people I deal with aren’t too into it sexually, I’ve found it quite fun to create these roles for myself and have these different professional/personal relationships.

(Also it happens to be my birthday today so im waiting for all their Venmo birthday presents, multiple daddy’s multiple presents lol)

22.) Via DunningthenKruger:

My mom got stranded hitchhiking in a podunk town. Headed to the local strip club to make a few bucks. Got there, made a few friends, conned some side stage time. Drunk and high, she immediately burns the inside of her thigh on a stage light just trying to climb up. Gracefully rolling onto the stage cursing, she falls off the other side onto a table. Being the supportive empowering group they were, they hoist her flailing body back to the stage. She grabs for the pole and catches a handful of her own hair.... in her own hand. Not realizing this fact, she thought someone jumped on stage to accost her. She turned around with all the feircum fury of an inebriated teenage runaway and began to swing at her assailant. Of course there was no assailant. Just a wobbly, naked, 19 year old with a burnt thigh, bald spot, covered in drinks, shadow boxing on stage. Can't remember the rest of the story but she said she made enough to leave the next day.

23.) Via karmasabih:

My first day stripping was terrifying. I wore off brand stripper shoes so my feet absolutely killed me. I was scared out of my mind to talk to people I was a nervous wreck. Luckily the girls at the club were nice and helped me figure out what to do. I’m still stripping a year later and it’s pretty much second nature now I love it and i’m pretty good. I also do porn now and my first day doing that was addicting! I loved it I had so much fun it made me feel invincible.

edit: Almost forgot to mention I’ve gotten to meet so many amazing people. All my close friends now are girls I met at the club. Everyone at the club is like a weird, fucked up family.

24.) Via ghettoprinsessa:

I'm an independent escort; I don't work for any company or have a pimp. My first date was a car date (I know, stupid af). I was very nervous but the guy was really sweet and nice, clean and good looking. After the date was over I bought a few beers and chilled out. I was happy.

25.) Via AStrangerSaysHi:

When I first got out of the Army, I stripped at a number of gay bars around Orlando. First day was a little awkward, but a couple guys bought be some drinks and offered me 50 bucks for my socks afterwards.

It was actually a lot of fun once I got over the initial shyness.

26.) Via pumpkinspicestripper:

I'd been a waitress for a few months prior, but after talking to the girls about it, I wanted to try it out. Whenever I thought of a reason why I shouldn't do it, my brain countered with two more reasons why I should. Seemed like a good way to go. So I tried a different club that had a good vibe. First time walking out of the dressing room and you feel the air conditioning hit my skin in places that are normally covered up, the nerves hit me. I got a shot to calm my nerves, wondered if I was respecting myself, why was I doing this, but I got on stage and decided there was only one way to find out if it really would bother me.

The cheers of the day shift drunks helped, but as soon as I counted up my stage money, every doubt went out of my mind. It's amazing what an immediate, decent income will do to put your fears away. Sold two dances, thanked the DJ for letting me work, and auditioned the next day at the bougie club downtown. Best decision I ever made.

27.) Via MissCatrin:

My first day as a dominatrix, I was so nervous but I have had acting training (in school, not for the job) so once I got 'into character' it went a lot smoother. Now it's less acting and a lot more natural. It's funny because I'm very introverted and kind of quiet, but when my domme rolls out, it's a transformation.

My first client wanted me to tie him up, humiliate him a bit and step on his face. It was fun for me, and surprisingly empowering.

28.) Via lnx64:

I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but I do porn (and a male). Getting an "in" wasn't easy for me (this was 12 years ago by the way, fresh out of high school), but my first time doing a shoot was nerve-racking, I was worried more about how I'd perform with my co-star and in front of the camera, and she knew it too, which didn't help how I felt. Luckily after filming she sat with me and was cool about it, as it reminded her of her first day filming. To this day I still do occasional porn, and it's far easier now. My trick now is to just get to know my co-star, and even ask if I can just hang out with them first before filming, so there's a stronger bond, as it helps ease any nerves I may still have.

29.) Via pathtoFI:

For me, there are different areas of sex work I'm involved in, so here's the breakdown:

Camwork: My first day was actually camming with my husband. We have a friend who does this and she kindly showed us the ropes, set us up, explained what to look out for etc, so we set up our camera, sat on the bed, got the lighting just right, and calmed as a couple. People would come in and out of the room, chat, and leave. Eventually, people started paying for shows (it was the kind of service where you can chat for free, but don't see anything sexy unless you pay for a show), so we just performed on each other while the paying viewers watched, or gave direction (direction was only for a single person paying for a private show, not someone paying for a group show). The first day we made £80 ($100 or so) after about an hour and a half.

Escorting: The first day was actually with my friend who I mentioned above, and was actually a duo booking (two girls, one paying guy). This was a massive god-send as I was really nervous about it as it was the first time (the nerves were just first-time nerves, not anything else), and he could tell as he said so. However, working with my friend made all the difference as she was able to guide the way and ensure that everything went well. From there, I took several solo bookings (we were on a "tour" where we worked out of a location for a few days doing in-calls), all the clients were polite, clean and decent. She showed me how to vet and screen clients, how to present the room, and how to get them out when the session is over. After a weekend, I went home with about £1,500 ($1,800) in my pocket.

Videos: I film videos with myself, sometimes with my partner, and sometimes other girls. Sometimes my partner andanother girl. I put these up for sale on a few sites, and earn roughly $400 a month from this, which is all passive as once they're online, they're there and they essentially sell themselves. My first video was with my friend (as mentioned above, she's a great girl) who filmed a threesome video with my partner and I, which we put online. To date, that video has made several hundred pounds just on its own and is one of my best-selling videos.

I still do sex work on the side next to my normal job. Being in the UK, it isn't illegal which I am immensely thankful for. I genuinely enjoy my job, I choose to do my job as does every other girl I've worked with and associate with.

30.) Via radradraddest:

First day as a stripper... Ahem, dancer: I had been working in a club near a military installation as a cocktail waitress, and I was killing it. Found out a new place was opening, in an area with potentially better clientele. Got hired as a cocktail waitress again.

Showed up for day one, and started working... I'm taking orders, doing body shots, etc. The GM comes up to me about halfway through the shift and tells me to come into the office. Immediately my stomach drops, and I'm fully prepared to have some Casting Couch shit pulled on me.

He didn't make a move on me, but he informed me I would no longer be a waitress if I wanted my job. He said that it was the stage or nothing. I remember the way he pitched it was by appealing to my ego, "I can't have a girl like you behind the bar and on the floor all night, running around. I need you on the big stage."

So, I did it. He told me to pick out a song I knew really well, have a couple shots, and go for it.

It surprised me how easy it was, honestly.

The dudes who would come in were from all walks of life. Most of the job was essentially being a therapist in a bikini. I was working in clubs to fund my way through school, and now I am one of the managing partners at a mental health clinic and I care for patients everyday.

Instead of doing paperwork between clients though, at the club I got to get up and dance. Kinda puts things in perspective...

The people I worked with in that industry were the most legit, hardworking, ride or die, authentic, good people I've ever known. We all helped each other hustle, we all supported each other in ways I've never seen duplicated.

It's a really misunderstood industry and I am so grateful to have had the experience.

31.) Via cosmicpu55y:

Ex stripper here! My first job was a quiet upscale club where we wore evening gowns down to our ankles. The main clientele were bankers, traders and other business men. My audition involved dancing to 2 songs around the pole and having to be naked by the end of the second song. I was understandably nervous so the manager kindly offered me a shot of tequila which I happily accepted. But once I was up there my nerves subsided, and once my bra was off I thought “well, it’s done now!” so getting fully naked no longer felt intimidating. After 1 night on the job getting constantly naked in front of strangers feels like absolutely nothing.

It was a very quiet night in the club that evening. There were 2 older business men sat at a table and 1 dancer sitting with them, looking very involved with one of the men while the other looked like a total third wheel. All the other girls working were sat around the place looking incredibly bored and annoyed about being there, so I asked a girl why no one was going over to sit with the other guy and she said “we’ve all tried, he doesn’t want anyone.”

So I figured that was my chance to give it a go. I walked over, introduced myself, and asked if I could take a seat, to which he said “if you want, but I’m being a bit of a miserable bastard.” Without hesitating I cracked a big smile and said “oh great, I love miserable bastards!” And sat myself down.

They ended up spending hundreds of £ on VIP with us 2 girls that night (which doesn’t mean “extras” like many assume, just means expensive champagne and unlimited lap dances) and I ended up leaving with what would probably equate to about $1000 in GBP. They were the only customers that came in that entire night, and we were the only 2 girls that made any money. I always went for the more “difficult” customers that other girls tossed away or gave up on easily after that.

I really miss the job (and, obviously, the money) sometimes.

The news is full of moments of cruelty on the massive and personal scale. There are politicians passing xenophobic legislation, stories of cruelty, and a generally grim outlook on humanity.

However, for most individual stories of evil and callous, there is a less reported on anecdote about someone going out of their way to express kindness. These often get less attention, because kindness doesn't pose a threat like a killer on the loose, so it doesn't have the same urgency.

However, wholesome stories often take off on social media because people are looking for narratives outside the large looming clouds of despair found in major headlines.

For this reason, a very wholesome Tumblr post by the user beepboop-its-a-robot quickly took off.

"STORY TIME:

I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car (OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!), she piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean (“Wooooosh” she says, making a wave gesture with her hand)."

OP was working at a popular indie bookstore when an effusive older woman came in to gush about how much she loves the store.

"Ok. I think to myself. Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They’re thrilled about everything and they’re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one. So we chat and it’s nice."

While OP was chatting with the woman, a college student approached the counter to collect his textbooks.

"Then this kid, who’s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her (we’re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through). She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He’s confused but she explains that she’s going to buy his textbooks."

Without pause, the woman offered to pay for the student's $400 worth of textbooks, and promptly decided he needed some chocolate as well.

"He goes sheetrock white. He refuses and adamantly insists that she can’t do that. It’s like, $400 worth of textbooks. She, this tiny old woman, bodily takes them out of her hands, throws them on the counter and turns to me with a intense stare and tells me to put them on her bill. The kid at this point is practically in tears. He’s confused and shocked and grateful. Then she turns to him and says “you need chocolate.” She starts grabbing handfuls of chocolates and putting them in her pile."

The student was baffled and kept asking why she was being so nice, and the woman ignored his question and offered to add some fun extra books to the pile.

"He keeps asking her “why are you doing this?” She responds “Do you like Harry Potter?" and throws a copy of the new Cursed Child on the pile too."

"Finally she’s done and I ring her up for a crazy amount of money. She pays and asks me to please give the kid a few bags for his stuff. While I’m bagging up her merchandise the kid hugs her. We’re both telling her how amazing she is and what an awesome thing she’s done. She turns to both of us and says probably one of the most profound, unscripted things I’ve ever had someone say:"

After the kid hugged her and left, the woman revealed to OP that her son is a homeless m*th addict, and she often wonders what his life could have been if he'd experienced more kindness.

"It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.”

"The kid thanks her again and leaves. I tell her again how awesome she is. She’s staring out the door after him and says to me: “My son is a homeless m*th addict. I don’t know what I did. I see that boy and I see the man my son could have been if someone had chosen to be kind to him at just the right time.”

The woman finished the exchange by complimenting OP's bangs.

"I’ve bagged up all her stuff and at this point am super awkward and feel like I should say something but I don’t know what. Then she turns to me and says: I wish I could have bangs like that but my darn hair is just too curly.“ And leaves.

And that is the story of the best customer I’ve ever had. Be kind to somebody today."

The story got even better a few days later when the mother of the college kid came into the bookstore and revealed that she donated money to a homeless shelter in honor of the woman's son.

"Update!

A lady came in today and asked for our manager. At first it was one of those "Oh God no” moments but turns out she was the mother of the kid who had his textbooks purchased.

She wanted to let the little old woman know that her son donated the money from the textbooks to a homeless shelter downtown to help people like her son. This made me 1000x happier with how this story went down. Kindness matters!"

BRB, there is something in my eye and I have to get it out with a full roll of tissue paper.

There are ways to recover from a mistake as out-of-the-ordinary as accidentally inviting somebody to your wedding, but having them ejected is not it.

If any bride deserves to be shamed in Wedding Shaming, it's this one who would rather humiliate a couple than pull up a chair.

OllieC84 shared the story on—where else?–Reddit, and it's the kind of cringe you'd expect to see on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

They opened with photographic evidence proving that they were indeed invited to the ceremony at 2 PM.

Here's how the awkwardness began:

On the invite you can see in the pic, we were invited from 2pm, so we duly arrived in time for that. We were surprised to be invited to the day, but knowing what a flakey friend the bride has been over the years, I could understand why she might be struggling to fill a room these days.

After the service we had a lovely chat with her over a drink before the wedding dinner and carried on mingling.. until the chief bridesmaid came over to shepherd me aside starting with ‘This is really awkward and I’m really sorry to say this, but you’re not supposed to be here until the evening and the bride is freaking out because there’s no place setting for you.’ I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me.

Evicting a couple is bad enough, but implying that its their fault is even meaner. There was PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of the mistake, but it's her party, she can kick people out if she wants to:

She was implying that we had just rocked up and crashed the wedding, so I got the day invite, (which I’d luckily brought along,) out of my pocket and showed her. Rather than accept the mistake and try to accommodate us, she just kept saying how awkward this is until I said, don’t worry, we’ll go and have some food elsewhere and come back for the party. We waited until everyone was called for dinner to not make a scene and strop out, but just before that happened, we could see the bride telling the ushers and bridesmaids what had happened and they all turned and looked at us at once from the balcony above. To add further insult- the ushers physically separated us with an arm gesture when calling everyone else to dinner, making us feel like social lepers.

We left, opened the card with £100 cash inside and went and spent it on getting pissed up together in town- like hell did we go back for the evening do after that. I’ve not heard from the bride at all since then, which is twisting the knife.

Ollie decided not to give the bride and groom their cash gift, and I hope they were strong cocktails.

Consistent with the internet's obsession with the question of "Am I The A-hole?", Ollie asked the group:

Is it acceptable to ask someone to leave your wedding if you’ve made a mistake with inviting them?

Was it the right thing for us to do not to come back and spend her gift?

"Wow, what a bizarre situation you got thrown into by very rude and tactless people," a nice person commented.

"I believe you did the right thing. You had proof, cold hard physical proof that the bride made a mistake and still they wanted to blame you and humiliate you," added another.

The consensus in the comments is the obvious one: the bride who had ushers physically eject a couple instead of just giving them some salmon is clearly the a-hole here.

Amplifying a Congresswoman discussing climate change's existential threat to American cities to own the libs.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is laughing at a new Republican attack add that seeks to mock her for caring about climate change, as the Amazon burns, and a hurricane barrels towards Florida (a swing state, so they should at least pretend to care).

Media Research Center, the self-proclaimed "one-stop-shop for the best conservative videos!", posted a video that appeared to be a parody of Saturday Night Live's Deep Thoughts recurring sketch.

"You think overhauling our economy to decarbonize and save the planet is gonna be expensive? Try not decarbonizing our economy and allowing sea levels to rise," she says, in a video from one of her Instagram Live fireside chats. "Every Midwestern city or large swaths of the middle of the country experiencing drought on a level that we have not seen, that's gonna be way more expensive."

The video was ratioed, and people thanked the conservative account for spreading the important message.

AOC herself tweeted about the video, thanking the group for "paying for ads that spread & explain our policy positions."

That is known in plain English, not DC jargon, as a "self-own."

So-called "bridezillas" get a bad rap. But grooms are often just as capable of sh*tty, entitled behavior in the lead-up to their wedding. Case-in-point: a soon-to-be groom posted on Reddit asking if he's an a**hole for cutting off his "close" friend when the friend, who is a touring musician, had to miss his wedding because of work. Commenters responded with a resounding: YES.

The groom explains that this friend, who he's been close with since high school, is a member of a "pretty mainstream band" that is currently touring.

He adds that he is "nothing but happy" for his friend's success, except when that success gets in the way of what HE wants. He writes:

This is something I've been thinking about for months now and I need some help. I apologize for how messy all of this is.

I have a friend who I've been close with since junior year of high school. He is a musician and a member in a pretty mainstream band and is currently touring. While I've (obviously) seen him less and less over the years due to his success, we do still talk on an occasion and I see him when he's in town. I am honestly nothing but happy for him and I want nothing but the best for him. But I'd also like for him to be a good friend and I feel like that's the exact opposite of what he's doing.

The groom is getting married soon and asked his friend to be one of his groomsmen—this was over a year and a half ago. The friend agreed at the time, but then back in May said that he "didn't know" if he'd be able to attend his friend's wedding because of his band touring.

I'm getting married in October. I asked my friend shortly after I proposed if he would be one of my groomsmen, and he agreed. Official invitations went out early last month, but my wedding date has been publicly known for over a year and a half due to its significance. He knows and has known the day I'm getting married since then.

In mid-May he told me he didn't know if he would be able to be in my wedding because of touring. I was pretty upset then but he said he would try to figure something out. I won't pretend to know how far in advance he would've found this out, but he told me before the tour was officially announced so in my mind I had at least a little hope that he would still be able to be in the wedding. We texted back and forth a few times after that in the weeks following but never about my wedding, and he fell off a bit due to work.

Last month, the tour was officially announced and one of the tour dates falls on the groom's wedding day. The groom was "LIVID" (all-caps so you know it's true) and called his friend to "confront" him about it.

Seems he basically tried to "push" his friend to try and make the wedding anyway—by changing his tour dates?! Unclear. Either way, the friend got mad and hung up.

Then last month the tour was officially announced and my wedding date is one of tour dates. I was LIVID and called him and left a message asking him to call me as soon as he could. He called like two days later and when I confronted him he told me that there was nothing he could do and that this was a sacrifice for both of us. I pushed him more and he got extremely short and shitty with me and said that he "didn't have time or energy to deal with this right now" and hung up.

The groom is saying that his biggest problem is his friend not telling him before the tour was officially announced. And he hasn't spoken to him since.

To be honest I'm mostly upset that he didn't tell ME before the tour was officially announced that he absolutely 100% would not be able to make it. I texted him a couple weeks ago and asked him one more time if there was ANY way he could still make it and he replied that he was sorry, but no, it just wasn't possible. I haven't spoken to him since.

He does on to say that he "understands" how "busy and stressful" his friend's life must be, but also he doesn't, y'know?

He thinks his friend should've dropped his career responsibilities to accommodate his wedding—because that's what "friends" do (when they have no boundaries and put other people's needs before their own).

I understand how busy and stressful his life must be, and I also understand that sacrifices sometimes need to be made, but this just has me feeling really shitty about myself and our friendship. I feel like I matter way less to him than he does to me. I was at his wedding and pretty much nothing would have prevented me from attending it, and especially not work. I don't want to lose his friendship but I also don't want this to be the first of many times he lets me down.

Finally, the groom asks Reddit: "Would I Be The A**hole" for "cutting off ties with him completely over this?" He may not have gotten the response he hoped for.

Reddit commenters called him out for his entitled, selfish, "groomzilla" behavior and said that yes, he is the a**hole in this situation for expecting his friend to put someone else's wedding before his own career.

lolofit writes:

YTA. Your wedding is the biggest moment in YOUR life, not his. His career and future are more important to him than your day. He didn’t end your friendship over it, he didn’t cut you off, he didn’t purposely schedule a show on your wedding day. That’s just how the cookie crumbles.

Zerole00 writes:

YTA

Let's not forget that the friend is part of a band. What's he supposed to do, bail out on the other members for OP?

I was at his wedding and pretty much nothing would have prevented me from attending it

Really? If your job prevented you from going, would you quit?

flora_pompeii adds:

YTA. Weddings feel very important to the people getting married, but to everyone else they're just someone else's party. A wedding invitation should be given in a spirit of genuine openness and understanding, and the bride and groom should understand that noone can be in two places at once and some people just won't be able to make it. Making a friendship contingent on attendance makes you a rude asshole.

And Willbabe explains:

YTA. In this situation, he has very little power over the tourdates, most of which will be decided by his record label and his managers. He probably told them that if at all possible please see if they could work around this absence, and they weren't willing. Adults understand that life isn't always fair, and sometimes we have to miss things we want to do and things we care about because of our work. Now, Beyonce could probably force the issue, or a big name band if he could get all of the bandmates behind him, but if he is in a band that doesn't have that kind of clout, there is little he can do. You should try and be an understanding friend and realize that nobody wants to miss a loved ones wedding, but sometimes people literally can't make it, and it all isn't about you.

This story perfectly highlights the fact that weddings often bring out absolutely horrific, entitled behavior in both brides and grooms—and that, my friends, is feminism.

Most people who worked a job they hated have daydreamed about rage quitting and making a scene. Since it takes a special level of hell (or financial safety net) to push most of us to that point, it's cathartic to read the stories of people who threw caution to the wind while flipping their boss the bird.

In a recent Reddit thread, people who rage quit their jobs shared exactly what went down, and it's truly wild any of these workplaces are still in business.

1. Tommy_Furys_Sandwich was practically dared to quit.

"I was working at a restaurant that was, to put it bluntly, fucking atrocious. The place was almost always dead apart from the owners friends who would make it their life’s mission to be incredibly rude to myself and other staff members. Somehow I stuck it out for 6 months."

"The final straw came at Christmas when I wanted to travel back home to spend time with my family (as my grandmother was sick at the time), and their response was ‘you have to decide what’s more important, your job or your family.’ I told them that was the dumbest fucking question I’ve ever heard and walked out."

2. tiersin told Red Lobster "boy bye."

"Worked at a Red Lobster for a few years in college. Didn't really have any complaints, it was what it was. Right after graduating I moved to another town and was able to transfer to one near my new location."

"Worst experience of my life. Horrible management, and the location was in a relatively upscale part of town, so there were MUCH better alternatives for seafood so the customers were always shitty as well."

"We were required to be in 15 minutes prior to the start of our shift for a pre-shift meeting and change over and stuff. Thing is, you couldn't clock in until 5 minutes before your scheduled start time. Like every other shitty company Darden (The owner of Red Lobster, also a VERY shitty company), wanted to run skeleton crews to save money so we were always scrambling. So often I would come in and I would already have seated tables (plural) waiting for me. The host managers mentality was "well they need to be here 15 minutes early anyway so if they can seat them 15 minutes early. Nothing seemed to ever clarify why this was wrong on many levels."

"Well one day I came in and already had a seated table. Went over and greeted them immediately (They were upset but understanding) and then went to the bar to ask them to make some drinks (I couldn't enter them in the system since I couldn't clock in yet). While I was waiting for the drinks I was venting to a fellow server about it and mentioned "If they seat me again before I can even clock in I'm done". Well before I could even finish the sentence they had seated me again."

"I told the server I was talking to it was nice to have worked with them, made sure to let BOTH tables know they were seated in a section that didn't even have a server yet because the company didn't want to pay for a full staff and that they should dine at restaurants that care about them having a good experience, and walked out. No regrets and I'll never give Darden a dime of my money ever again."

3. CanIgetkalamari couldn't physically do their job anymore.

"Worked an overnight job. During the holiday season me and the other overnight guys took all the overtime we could get - working 18-20 hour days, working after having 4 hours off, whatever. All legal in the state I'm in, and it's not critical or cerebral work so no harm - we're basically just lumps of flesh in a uniform."

"That was fine for a few months - I bought a bunch of extra crap with it. But I got burned out after about four or five months straight of it and just started turning it down. Then the manager started making it mandatory. I told him no, we drive on our regular job so pushing it when we can't do it isn't a good idea. Appealed to his manager and the mandatory overtime went away for awhile."

"Suddenly one day I come in to the other overnight guys being moved elsewhere and I have to pick up their slack. Why? That shift needs to be covered, so I'll cover their shift and mine... which will force me to work 4 to 5 hours over to just cover the shift and the work required on said shift. I texted the manager immediately and told them I can't do it. He stated it's mandatory and if I cannot do it, I'll no longer have the job. He'd do me a "favor" this one time and move the other overnight guys back so I don't have to stay over.

They were legitimately shocked when I didn't show up the next night, or ever again."

4. mkay1911 worked inside a death machine.

"First, a little backstory:

I worked my way through community college at an aluminum diecasting plant, in the tool room. It was the nastiest job in the plant, easily. As the dies (molds) came off of production, we would have to take them apart, clean them, grease all the pins, polish certain areas prone to buildup, and then store them until next time they are needed. We would also fix whatever broke on the dies during the run, sometimes out of the press, sometimes inside of the press."

"The press is a giant machine, 90 tons of pressure, that runs an ambient temperature of about 300 degrees considering that the molten aluminum being pushed through it is at about 1100 degrees F, if I remember correctly. So they lock out this instant-death machine, you climb in, and fix what may be broken, trying to avoid getting burnt (you don't avoid it) or being squished like a grape if something goes wrong. Other than the machine shop, it was not climate controlled, and in the summer, could get up to 120 degrees or so inside the building, with fans being the only relief. By the end of my shift, I'd be a greasy sweaty mess, and would have to change clothes just to drive home without ruining my car."

"I started working there at the start of my second year of college on 2nd shift. I was majoring in Engineering Graphics (drafting) and had hoped that this job could be a foot in the door for when I graduated. I'd go to school during the day, then go to work full time on 2nd, come home, do my homework, catch a few hours sleep, and repeat. I graduated a year later, and had the opportunity to move to first shift, same job."

"Sure I lost the shift premium, but at least I was home during waking hours with my soon to be wife. In the meantime, I'm ravenously looking for my first job, but everyone tells me the same thing... you don't have any experience. I worked at that hell hole for another year while I continuously looked for a job in my field. I'd keep my mind sharp by quizzing myself on how I'd draw a part that I might be working on at the time.

During all of this, my first shift manager, A*shat, was going to the same school at night, with the same teachers as me, for the same degree I had already graduated in."

"One day, Prof, the head of the Engineering Graphics department, brought in a new class for a plant tour of our facility. This would be the same plant tour I did two years prior, and how I learned about the job I currently had. The group finally made it to my department, and I tried to hide from Prof out of shame of still being there. He saw me, came over to me, and said, "What the hell are you still doing here? You were my best student of your class." I told him like I said earlier, no one wanted to take a shot on me, everyone said I had no experience. That's when he shook his head and said: "I lost your number right after you graduated. I knew you worked here with A*shat, so I have been telling him for over a year, for you to contact me, that I had jobs lined out the door." A*shat turned red and walked off. I gave Prof my number, thanked him, shook his hand, packed up my tool box and walked out the door. Had a job two weeks later."

"TL;DR: Worked at a factory doing unskilled labor for a year after I graduate college, couldnt find a job. Meanwhile my supervisor who was attending the same school at night, with the same teacher, was being asked to ask me to contact said teacher for job opportunities in my field. I found out about it from teacher during a plant tour with his new class. Quit on the spot."

5. Jeremyvts's boss wanted them to work in a kitchen with a torn ACL.

"So this happened 2 weeks ago, I was going out with some friends and I tore my ACL. Told my boss I couldn’t come in for a while because of this ( I’m a chef so there’s no way I can work with a torn ACL) however my boss failed to understand that and said that if I didn’t come in the next day I would be let go, I quit on the spot."

6. bsknash26 lost their mind selling cable over the phone.

"Inbound cold transfer sales job, you get utility customers from across the USA randomly transferred to get a "confirmation #" but mostly to upsell for cable services. Hated it, would always get pressured to sign-up caller for Dish Network even though no one ever wanted it."

"One day my supervisor, sits next to me listens to every call I'm doing questioning why I didn't sell a 80 year old woman AT&T U-verse triple play when she said I don't own a computer and I just use an antenna. He freaks out and says you need to get your shit together now. I give him a blank stare continue to take calls for the rest of the day and ignore everything he's saying. He is storming around I get 0 sells. I grabbed my phone charger and on lunch never come back."

7. chickadee35 was expected to guard a pool with a broken arm.

"I used to work as a lifeguard. I had injured my shoulder and was in a sling, and they forced me to come into work and threatened to fire me If I didn’t. I had to guard a pool being unable to swim because MY ARM WAS IN A SLING. Did the pettiest thing possible, sent in my resignation late at night, the day before my morning shift. Have fun finding a replacement, assholes!"

8. headdna stood their ground.

"Worked for a soda plant. For two years I was the best worker there. I know this due to the daily reports. I carried my team and other teams and only had two raises. I would sit on a raise for about 6 months and finally get it but my other quarterly raises would be ignored since "I just got a raise"

"Well after 2 years I went up 50c while other people who didn't work at all had multiple raises and been there only a few months. They thought raises to shitty workers would mean they would work harder. The hard workers already work hard so who cares."

"I never got promoted officially. Never got a raise after year one. Worked 60 hours a week and never called off. My production was twice the average guy and never appreciated. Well someone left and a position was up for promotion. I didn't even apply but they told me in a few weeks I'll be moved into the new spot. So I busted ass for a few weeks to let them know why I really deserve the position."

"My last day at the bottom and I'm finally moving up I get prepared for my new spot. I come in the next day and they hired a guy off the street for the new spot and told me they changed their mind. I argued with the top managers, telling them if they dont promote me I will quit. They told me i needed to change my attitude and that's why they didn't promote me."

9. HawaiianShirtsOR quit after being punished for being good at their job.

"Inbound call center. My sales stats went up because I reversed the order of two upsell paragraphs. Boss told me to just read the script. I handed in my notice. Not really a rage-quit, but definitely a spontaneous one."

10. Holly-Trees dealt with ringworm in the workplace.

"I worked at an animal shelter. I loved my boss, manager, everyone that worked there were like family to me.. But the board of directors kept fucking with us, cutting our budgets and hiring people without our knowledge. One day when I was off my boss arranged a walkout to go complain to the county executive about the unfair behavior of the board and the mistreatment of our staff (including EXTREMELY racist remarks towards our manager)."

"All of the animals were taken care of before the walk out, and they were only gone for an hour. We thought things were finally going to get better, but ten days later the BOD came in and fired my boss. Most of the staff quit and walked out with him, I wish I did too."

"Within the next month the new management let the place go to shit, cats not getting their medications, being given the wrong food, and a massive ringworm outbreak. They had to open a new building just for the cats that needed to be quarantined, and the remaining original staff was thrown into the mess to supervise the new buildings ourselves. It just kept getting worse, spreading around the shelter like a wildfire."

"New management had no idea how to handle it, and one day a couple of veterinarians came into our building and put down three cats. They actually had to restrain us from the room they were euthanizing in, and after that I sat in the break room and refused to work for the rest of the day, just crying with my other coworkers instead. I went home that day and never showed back up. I now volunteer with an amazing organization with my old boss and other staff members, still rescuing animals and doing all that we can."

11. meddlingbarista's boss was so deeply incompetent they didn't pay people on time.

"Once, I worked at a Barnes and Noble during a summer home from college. I had a job teaching at a summer camp lined up, but had time to kill before it started. Worked full-time for a few weeks in the cafe, with the understanding that when the camp started I would drop down to 1-2 shifts a week for the rest of the season. The camp was a day camp that ran Monday-Thursday."

"Didn't get a paycheck for my my first month because the manager never put in my paperwork. Thank goodness the time clock saved my punches and just left them in the system to be processed later. That should have been my sign that this wasn't a good place to work."

"Before camp started, I wrote down my new part time availability and handed it to the manager. The week of camp starting, my schedule was the same as before, and I was scheduled during camp. Reminded the manager that I put my availability in his hands week before, and he said "oh, you shouldn't hand me important documents, I always lose them."

"I wrote "you're an idiot, and I quit" on a piece of paper, handed it to him, and said "Don't lose this."

Another time I gave my two weeks on the spot after doing two full time positions for one salary, and my boss told me she felt like I was only putting 60% effort into both jobs. I reminded her that was 120% and that wasn't worth 35k A year."

12. mooroi refused to serve disgusting ham.

"Worked in an independent cafe as the lone chef. Hours were good, free reign with the menu was great and the quality of produce that came in was second to none. Unfortunately the owner had misplaced aspirations towards being a chef and instead of hiring help, ran the kitchen himself on my day off. After repeated conversations about food safety and his apparent lack of care for customers well-being, I came in after my day off to find a single breast of chicken cling-filmed (serran wrapped?) together with ready to eat ham (fucking expensive ham). I told him this wasn't safe and if he continued to violate food safety, I'd walk. He told me to serve the ham."

13. AlwaysUseAFake wasn't allowed to go to a funeral.

"I was about 22. Working at a call center for sprint. There was a three week training class before you got out in to the work space. I was in the last week of training and I needed the afternoon off to go to a funeral. I was miles ahead of where people needed to be at that point, it was training for idiots who didn't know what a cell phone was."

"I got told I couldn't have the afternoon off, but if I did go I would have to restart my training on Monday and do it all over again. I walked right out told them to mail me my last check"

14. JerkfaceBob left the salad game.

"I've posted this before, but here you go, copied and edited for your enjoyment:"

"I had a job in a salad plant (those bags of salad mix a lot of restaurants use.) I was there for two weeks coring lettuce: in front of a conveyor belt, 8 hours a day, pick up a head, slam it, pull the core, put it down, next. You talk to your co-workers or you plot the downfall of Western civilization. One really sweet lady had been there for 10 years. 10 years on the lettuce line. she got called into the office and was gone for about half an hour. She said "I won't be here tomorrow. I got promoted!" I asked what she'd be doing. "Cabbage!"

"I wished her well, dropped my shit and walked out. I feel bad about not telling anyone I was quitting, but I was young and, well, 10 years!

That was 29 years ago. Had I stayed I might be up to carrots by now. I sometimes wonder how my life might be different had I stayed, and in those moments I celebrate every decision I've ever made."

15. luxayecee was expected to work the day their father died.

"I worked as a tour guide at a birthing center for a couple of weeks when I first started grad school. My Dad was terminally ill at the time and I let my manager know that as soon as I was hired as I was anticipating a funeral. He passed away at 2am and I contacted my manager to let them know and to say that I wouldn’t be working for the next week or so."

"She texted me back saying “so sorry for your loss, but I really need you to be at work today.” I texted her back saying I wouldn’t be there and that I was quitting as I didn’t want to work for a company that would make someone work on the same day their parent died. No regrets."

16. definitelynotandrea was done with the harassment.

"I worked at a small, family-owned restaurant for over a year. All I did was wash dishes. The owner hated me and always made my shift miserable because her creepy husband loved being around me and talking to me and she accused me of hooking up with him more than once. My last straw was her calling me a filthy whore in front of not just my coworkers, but also some customers.

I was 15."

"I don't want to work. I just want to bang on the drum all day."

-Todd Rundgren

I don't want to work today, no one does. Too bad it's something 99.9% of us have to do to be able to afford to live. It's unfair, I know, but at least you can kill some time laughing it up at these hilarious workplace memes.

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“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”

– Tina Fey

Parents work too dang hard. You all need some laughs in your life. These memes are the best thing to happen to parents since naptime.

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"Being a strong woman is very important to me."

-Reba McEntire

Ladies, you are strong and kick butt all day every day. We salute you. These memes are relatable and funny as hell.

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Pop star Billie Eilish, 17, is slamming Nylon Germany after they made her their September cover star without her consent — and as a topless, bald cyborg.

The magazine announced Billie's cover in an Instagram post. They made it clear that Billie was not interviewed for the feature, but it might still be confusing to fans.

"We asked fans to tell the stories of three digital prodigies who are redefining the future of being a Teen Superstar," they wrote. Billie is one of the "digital prodigies" — hence the robot, we guess.

Billie wasted no time commenting on the photo to register her dismay.

Her comment reads:

what the fuck is this shit.
1. i was never approached by nylon about this piece whatsoever. i did not know it was happening nor did anyone on my team.
2. this is not even a real picture of me.
i had absolutely no creative input.
3. youre gonna make a picture of me shirtless?? thats not real?? at 17? and make it the cover???? even if the picture was supposed to look like some robot version of me... i did not consent in any way.
4. ANNNDDD YOU’RE GONNA REMOVE ALL MY FUCKIN HAIR?
booooooooooo to you🖕🏻

It's important to note that in most countries, magazines have a right to feature whoever they want on the cover. As long as a magazine has legal rights to use the photo or artwork, consent from cover subjects is not required.

Nylon responded to Billie's comment t oclarify their intentions, but not apologize. They added this to the Instagram photo's caption:

For this cover, it was never our intention to create a look that is confusing or insulting to Billie Eilish. It was only ever our intention to honor Billies impact and her work by creating this avatar which is part of a cover series highlighting the power of digital prodigy artists. This avatar is a piece of 3D artwork created in dedication to her achievements and the positive effect she has had on millions around the globe - including us.“

It's also Billie's right to be peeved she wasn't consulted. And it looks like her fans are #TeamBillie.

Some are calling for Nylon to delete the post, which seems beside the point because it won't change the physical magazine cover.

Welcome to 2019, when the only thing scarier than a legacy publication's flailing ad sales is a mobilized fan army.

There are some batsh*t funny wedding stories on the internet — and then there are truly terrible ones like this.

A woman is seeking advice from Reddit after her fiancé informed her that his dad will need to physically inspect her genitals, in front of other males in the family, before she can marry him. Her fiancé told her about this less than a week before their nuptials.

Now she's not sure if she should leave him or not.

Her post:

My fiance proposed to me about 8 months ago. We decided on having a relatively small wedding which is in two days. Everything was going great. He seems absolutely perfect and we are very much in love.

I am a virgin and so is he, he wanted to save it for marriage and I wasn't fussed so I agreed to saving it. He has told me earlier that in his family the father checks the virginity of the bride the night before the wedding. I laughed this off as it seriously sounds like a massive joke. No turns out he was dead serious. He wants me, the night before to open my legs up in a small ceremony type thing so his dad can check me while him, his brothers and uncle can watch so that they know I am still 'pure'.

I told him fat chance I am going to do that and he was begging to me to go through with it and how important it is for him. He said he knew it was slightly embarrassing for me but his mom did and it will prove how much I love him and that I have nothing to hide anyway as I am still a virgin. I left and he was crying, it was very dramatic tbh.

I want to call off the whole wedding because of this and never talk to him again. But at the same time its only one thing and other then that we are genuinely perfect for each other and I dont want to spend my life with anyone else and it is very important to him and his family.

What the frick frack do I do. I am currently at my friends house and I might stay here for the night. tomorrow would be our last day as an unmarried couple and I am straight up panicking.

What the frick frack indeed.

The people of Reddit are urging her to leave the guy.

Says prolixity:

Slightly embarrassing? If he considers being forced to expose yourself to an audience consisting of your future in-laws only slightly embarrassing, I'd hate to see what he considers to be actual embarrassment.

Why is the burden of proving love being placed upon you? If anything, this is his chance to prove how much he loves you by standing up to his family for his future wife by telling them there will be no genital gawking ceremony.

FederalBelt has a great idea:

Ask him if he'll agree to have his asshole examined by your male relatives. They'll need to look inside btw.

Razor_Grrrl adds that it doesn't even make sense:

And the hypocrisy is astounding. He is concerned about her “purity” but at the same time every male in his family gets to see her vagina? This is old world sexism and female oppression, has zero to do with love, and I really hope this isn’t a real scenario.

imgladisaidit puts it well:

What you do is run.

Even asking you to do that is so far out of line it's insane.

I'm all about embracing cultural differences. If you didn't have a problem with it, that would be one thing. But you do. Once you said no, the only acceptable response from him would have been "it's your body, your choice". End of story.

And honestly, in a culture clash, personal autonomy wins every time.

Personal. Autonomy. Wins. Every. Time. Put that on a T-shirt and send it to OP!

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”– Oprah Winfrey

Good morning people of the internet. We have a real treat for you today, it's memes! Wow, how lucky are you to be able to wake up and laugh at hilarious memes without having to do the work of looking for them yourself? I'm so happy for you.

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Is there anything more erotic than a man cleaning your apartment? It doesn't matter if he's a roommate, husband, boyfriend, or a platonic friend with a penchant for scrubbing down floors, the vision of a man making a space cleaner is welcomed and treasured.

The erotic nature of it transcends attraction, you don't have to be attracted to men or the specific man cleaning, you just have to be attracted to the concept of a dust-free space that didn't require the labor of someone's exhausted mom.

By now, most of us have heard (or firsthand experienced) the good, bad, and the ugly of dick pics. Whether sent by a long-term partner or new fling, they're generally meant to be sexy, although many times they deeply fail.

So, instead of sending a dick pic and risking the chance of annoying his partner, the Facebook user Michael Oonk has opted to take far more creative sexy pictures - he sends his partner pictures of himself cleaning and doing chores.

When Oonk jokingly shared a series of cleaning photos he sent to his girlfriend, the post quickly took off.

Some of the photos show him in the middle of cleaning or performing a chore, while others showcase the end results.

In each of the photos Oonk gazes into the camera, as if to say, "hey girl, I can't wait until you come home and enjoy this clean kitchen with me."

The comments for the original post immediately filled up with women not-so-subtly tagging their partners.

Oonk's set of sexy photos are nothing if not thorough, he covers everything from laundry, to kitchen cleaning, to floor care, to dog walking.

The popular post has also successfully reminded countless people of the household chores they've been putting off.

The comments are mostly playfully thirsty, and confirm that cleaning pics would be welcomed by pretty much everyone.

Hopefully, if anything, the popularity of this post confirms that a clean house is far sexier than even the most well-lit dick pic.

This was the last week of August, which is bad news if you love lounging in a pool of butt-sweat on your couch while scrolling through the Instagram stories of people who can afford to "summer" as a verb. I regret to inform you that all humid and over-hyped seasons must come to an end. But if back-to-pumpkin spice season has you in a funk, then maybe this list of the funniest tweets of the week from women on the internet will make you smile—but only if you feel like it. No pressure whatsoever. Your face, your choice!

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5. Liam Hemsworth, because he's already losing his divorce to Miley Cyrus.

After ten years off-and-on, and seven months officially on as husband and wife, Chris Hemsworth's brother and Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter called it quits.

Since the announcement of the separation, Miley has been enjoying Hot Girl Summer as both a hot girl herself, and in the company of another hot girl—Kaitlynn Carter, ex of reality TV bro Brody Jenner.

Meanwhile, Liam has posted meditative, Sad Boy Instagrams of sunsets, kindly being asked to be left alone.

To add insult to injury, it's been reported that Miley is keeping the kids, and by kids, I mean animals.

According to TMZ,"Miley will keep her menagerie of pets -- 7 dogs, 2 horses, 2 mini horses, 3 cats and a pig."

Poor Liam. Will the pig even recognize him if they see each other on the street?

4. Queen Elizabeth II, because she's dealing with not one, but TWO crises that can bring down the monarchy.

While summer for Queen Elizabeth II is supposed to be all about sipping tea at Balmoral Caste in Scotland, new Prime Minister and Donald Trump look-and-act-alike Boris Johnson is making her do stuff with actual political ramifications.

While the challenges and threats to American democracy are all-consuming and dizzying, a golden-haired slop is wreaking havoc on institutions across the Atlantic, too.

Prime Minister BoJo, himself appointed rather than elected, asked the Queen to officially suspend parliament so he can run out the clock and better force his Brexit plans, and she obliged. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling it "a smash-and-grab raid against our democracy," and the fact that it was rubber-stamped by an unelected queen is not a good look, either.

Her Majesty's subjects are pissed, and #AbolishTheMonarchy began trending on Twitter.

Nothing hurts the queen like calls to abolish the monarchy... just ask the Founding Fathers.

Also not a good look for the monarchy? Pedophilia, or paedophilia, as it is known in the UK. The institution exists solely for appearances, so any appearance of criminality is a wee bit of a existential threat.

Prince Andrew is dealing with the fallout from his friendship with notorious sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell.

Andrew insists that he had no idea that his friend was a sex criminal, even though that very friend had gone to prison for sex crimes.

One of Epstein (and Andrew's) victims, Virginia Giuffre, is speaking out. She claimed in a sworn deposition that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew at the age of seventeen.

An incriminating photo shows Andrew with his arm around the teenager, as Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's "madam," smiles in the doorway. Andrew's team is trying to claim that the photo is fake, because the fingers on the girl's hip are insufficiently chubby to be Andrew's.

That's right: the best defense the monarchy can come up with is "Andrew has big hands." Where have we heard this one before?

It's going to be an intense season 12 of The Crown.

3. The Nevada counties under states of emergency because of the "Storm Area 51" meme.

An event calling on terrestrials to "Storm Area 51" has received over 2 million RSVPs on Facebook, and inspired both thousands of memes and two emergency declarations.

California guy Matty Roberts created an event called "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" after listening to an episode of the podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience." The event was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but government officials are taking it as seriously as people take their aliens-on-earth theories.

Commissioners of two Nevada counties are worried that the joke is not, in fact, a joke, declared states of emergency. Per USA Today:

Nye County is home to Amargosa Valley, the original site of the Area 51 raid, but the event has been shifted to Lincoln County in the town of Rachel. The self-proclaimed "UFO Capital of the World," Rachel is located on State Route 375, dubbed in 1996 the "Extraterrestrial Highway."

On Aug. 19, commissioners in Lincoln County also voted to pre-sign an emergency declaration, which allows the state to supply resources in the event that a rural county needs help.

Area 51 is an ultra-secretive military facility that is roughly the size of the state of Connecticut. The secrecy has spawned countless conspiracy theories, and there's no doubt that the aliens are laughing at us.

If Nevada was really nervous about weirdos, they'd declare a state of emergency over Burning Man.

2. Everyone who dropped out of the 2020 presidential race (so far).

Pour one out for former presidential candidates Rep. Seth Moulton, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, who withdrew from the presidential race but not from our hearts, because they were never really there to begin with.

It's easy to make fun of losers, but it's an impressive and rare skill for people to know when to quit. *cough cough* John Delaney *cough cough*

1. Tourists at the Great Smoky Mountains, because they're getting hit by rolling balls of poop.

The National Park Service is warning visitors to the Tennessee-North Carolina mountain range to be wary of sh*t. Literally, sh*t.

Deer and raccoon excrement are avalanching down the mountains, and if getting hit by bird poo is good luck, then these spheres should guarantee you a happily ever after.

The poo balls appear to be moving on their own, but are being shifted around by dung beetles, fulfilling the prophecy of their name.

"This tumblebug (Canthon sp.) is one of the many beetles found in the Smokies that relies on animal scat to complete its life cycle," wrote the National Park Service on Facebook. "The female tumblebug will lay only one egg inside each ball of dung, allowing the developing larvae to have all the resources they need without having to compete with their siblings. The male will help bury the balls of dung in the ground for safe keeping. Dung beetles and tumblebugs do us a great service by keeping the trails clean and aiding in decomposition!"

They do a great service, until the service ends up in your food.

In these dark times, it can be easy to lose all hope in humanity. But I truly believe that deep down, most humans are inherently good, if not flawed. If you don't believe me, believe these 25 people sharing stories about times a complete stranger came through and made their day with a random act of kindness. Read 'em and weep and then go do something nice for a stranger (or friend or loved one) today. Maybe one day it'll come back to you when they write about you on a Reddit thread like this one.

1.) From andytheg:

I’m a Seahawks fan living in Arizona. In 2011 a regular at the Starbucks I worked at gave me four tickets to the Seahawks @ Cardinals game. It was the last game of the year so he also gave us the money that was left on his stadium food card. He said it was “use it or lose it” and that it had about $200 left on it. The seats were club level and my three friends and I ate like kings.

As a thank you we pooled in and got him a $100 Starbucks gift card

2.) From holyshitsnowcones:

Years ago I was on a summer road trip with some friends from Dallas to Austin. On the way down, the battery meter on my dashboard started acting funny. Jumping up then dropping down, all sorts of weird stuff.

We make it down to Austin and we're supposed to go see my one friend's show, but I say I'm going to run to an Autozone and see about buying a new battery (it was 6 or 7 pm and I assumed all the mechanics were closed) (I should also say that this is way before smart phones were a thing, and only one of us even owned a cell phone). I buy a new battery and install it in the parking lot. Turn the car on, and it's not the battery that was the issue. Shit.

I go and meet my friends after the show and say we should leave that night instead of the next morning. My rationale being that if we drive at night, we won't need the AC (this is Texas in the middle of the summer so even at night it's going to be hot, but not unbearable) and therefore can use less battery power.

We all pile in my car and get about 20 miles outside the city when my car dies. While we didn't need AC we did need headlights. We're pulled over on the side of the road, my friend with the cell phone calls AAA, and they say it'll be an hour or so before anyone is able to make it out.

While we're standing there on the side of the road, in the near pitch black, a truck pulls over in front of my car. A man gets out and starts walking towards us. All of my friends take a step back, nominating me to do the talking/get killed first.

The man asks us what the problem is, I reply that my car's dead. He says he has a tow chain in the back of his truck, and would be able to tow us to Dallas, which is about 200 miles away. This seems like a terrible idea since I'll have to ride in my car steering and using the brakes since it's only going to be attached by a chain. But I was 19 years old and stupid, so after my friends and I talk it over, we say OK. He says that he's got a small trailer at his place about 50 miles away that we could use to tow my car, but until then, I'm steering a dead car about 3 feet away from this guy's bumper.

Myself and my ex girlfriend are in my car, and my other two friends are in the truck. It wasn't until later that I learned the story of the truck driver from my friends who were riding with him. Turns out, a year or so earlier he'd been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Instead of doing treatment he decided to accept his fate and spend whatever time he had left driving all over Texas helping people who were stranded on the side of the road.

I can't remember his name anymore, but I'll never forget him rescuing us that night.

3.) From sowydso:

When I was 9 or 10 I missed the school bus. This big guy picked me up and run towards the bus screaming to try to make the bus stop. It eventually did and he put me inside of it and then dipped, I couldn't even say thanks. And I was a chubby one no less

4.) From GoKelsey:

Spring 2018. I accidentally stumbled upon a wedding dress I loved for 60$ with only 3 weeks left until my wedding. I called around everywhere and not one local business could fit me in for alterations.

I was discussing this with a coworker on our hospital lunch break in a quiet area and a nurse from the cancer center pops around the corner and says, “I do alterations! I’d love to look at it!” Taken aback, I ask her what she usually charges for her work. She says, “Eh, 50 dollars” (this is extremely cheap for wedding dress alterations.) I accept her offer, get her number, and we arrange for me to bring it in on our lunch break the next day.

She had me do several fittings, just to make sure it’s perfect. She even purchased additional material for part of it. During those times, we spoke about our lives and she told me that her mother passed this winter. They used to sew together, and working on projects like this makes her feel close to her mom again.

On the day I pick it up she hands me the dress with a huge smile. I try to give her the money and she won’t take it. She says it’s on her, in honor of her mother. I broke down and we both cried together. I promised to pass on her good deed one day.

5.) From AmySchumersAnalTumor:

My wife and I saved up to buy a nice (for us) grill years ago, but we never thought of how to get get it home. We were trying to get it in the trunk of our little car, and were just about to resort to opening the box it came in to put it in piecemeal when a guy who'd been sitting in his truck eating dinner in the parking lot came up and asked if he could help us transport it to our place.

We lived 20 miles away, and he was still more than happy to drive it to our house and drop it off and refused any kind of payment for helping.

6.) From kemosabi4:

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of me at the local bar and grill with my parents, and I was like 6 and looking at a very specific doll in a claw machine. It was Tweety Bird in a spacesuit. I was so zoned out, I didn't even know someone walked up until the claw came down, picked it up, and dropped it in the chute in one fell swoop. I turned to see a man who looked homeless/transient taking the Tweety Bird out of the chute and immediately bending down and handing it to me. Neither of us said anything, just smiled at each other, and then he turned and walked out of the restaurant.

7.) From MarsNirgal:

I was on a trip on Norway and it was literally my last night in the city and the country. I lost the midnight train, but no problem, I could still take the first train in the morning. In the meantime, I went to the dock because that's where all the nightlife was.

The bar closed at 2 a.m and the train passed at 5 a.m, so a guy I had met at the bar told me "there's no way you're gonna spend three hours walking around" and he took me to his house. He gave me the worst coffee I've ever had and we spent those three hours talking. Then he took me to the train station, bought my ticket to the airport and before he left he told me "I'm drunk and I haven't slept, so tomorrow I might not remember you, but it's been a pleasure helping you."

8.) From Goofball412a:

Christmas Eve a couple years back. I had worked a shift at the hospital (not a doc or high paid person) and was trying my best to get to my families house about two hours away before dinner. My breaks on my car just are not working right. It’s snowing like crazy, and I’m thinking there is no hope. I saw the local mechanic was still open so I pulled in and told him what was going on.

Half hour or so later he comes out and tells me what was wrong and that he had gone ahead and fixed it. I asked him what I owed him for the work. He said get home to your family safe and have a merry Christmas. I felt like I was in a hallmark movie. It is now the only place I will take my car.

9.) From DrunkenOliphaunts:

I was an American in China and 6 months pregnant. I was at the train terminal and the hormones kick in. I start crying for literally no reason which makes me only cry harder. A very tiny old Chinese woman grabs my shoulder and said something I dont understand. She then grabs me and gave me a huge hug.

When she pulled away she gave me a great smile. It was exactly what I needed.

10.) From Ageati:

When I hit no money as a student I went to do a shop with the little money I had left.

Turns out my phone bill came out and I was flat broke and had to leave all the shit at the cashier whilst I went outside to work out if I could loan money.

This absolutely amazing, amazing woman comes out and said she saw the whole thing and she has a son who's a student who gets into similar situations and she gave me a hug and forced some money in my pocket.

I was too flabbergasted to say anything then but lady, if you're reading this you really changed my opinion about people in general and made sure I ate for the first time in a week, thank you kind stranger and I hope life rewards you.

11.) From inkishworks:

I had a cyst inside my ovaries that became incredibly painful out of nowhere. I was white as a sheet and managed to leave work and get to the pharmacy nearby. I was hunched over and even lying on the floor at certain times because I was in so much pain waiting in line. After I paid for whatever it was that I bought, a lady in line asked if I needed a ride anywhere. She took me to the urgent care clinic and even stayed with me to take me home. What an angel.

12.) From NorCalAthlete:

I’m now in my 30s. I’ve had quite a few over the years and I try to repay it as I can to others. So here’s a few random acts of kindness people have done for me.

1. Flying back on military leave, had a stopover in Vegas. Was really hungry but military pay is kinda shit so I figured I’d just get Burger King. Standing in line and some dude who wasn’t even in line came up and just went “here man you look tired, thank you for your service let me get your meal.” Handed me a $20 and walked away. I was like wait $20 is way too much just for BK...got to the front of the line and ordered, came out to like $18. Apparently the Vegas airport BK is way more expensive. That surprised the shit outta me and I was glad he’d given me a $20.

2. Crashed my motorcycle on a back country road. Group of bikers found me and called one of their friends to bring a truck, took me back to my apartment, took my bike to one of their guys’ place who lived by me, and stayed with me to monitor. Ended up taking me to the ER a couple hours after because I started repeating myself. Had a concussion. They stored my bike for me for about a month till I could get my insurance payout and offload the wreckage.

3. Watching the World Series in a crowded bar. Old guy next to me chatted throughout the game. End of the game said I reminded him of his son that he’s drifted apart from but was going to make an effort to reconnect with after talking with me. We ended up back at the bar for the rest of the series and when the Giants won, he covered the entire bar’s tab. Also bought my dinners and drinks, unprompted, for every game of the series. When he picked up the whole place’s tab I was like WTF?! He goes “eh my bonus alone last year was $300,000. Don’t worry about it.”

I’ve had a lot of other times people have randomly bought me meals when I was pretty broke. So now sometimes I’ll randomly buy the person’s meal behind me in the Chick-fil-A drive thru, or help other veterans out since I had old vets help me out getting on my feet. I volunteer with homeless orgs and Habitat for Humanity and food banks.

You don’t have to make 6 figures to give your time to others. Keep the random acts of kindness cycle going.

13.) From guacsolid:

I had been going through a breakup and was sitting in a plaza with a friend. I decided to try some sort of dairy free frozen yogurt at one of the shops there. Inside, the workers were talking while helping me and apparently the girl that was helping me was going through something at the time too. She looked at me and said, "I'm sad. Are you sad too?" I said, "yes" and she gave me my froyo for free

14.) From Back2Bach:

I was parked on a downtown street in the full sun.

The lady that pulled in to the next space started installing her "windshield sun shade" before she walked away.

I said, "You're lucky to have one of those - I must get one, too." She opened her trunk and handed me a brand new one, saying, "This is an 'extra' that was given to me, and I now give it to you!" She even showed me how best to install it. So I thanked her profusely, and off she went.

Later, I spotted the same one online for $59.95

p.s. Enjoy your cake day, OP!

15.) From bexallday:

I was at Target to do some shopping when my baby had a blow out diaper. I also had my two year old with me. There was no family restroom so I had to use the changing station in the ladies’ room. My toddler was out of control and was just itching to do gross stuff like lick the floors or play in toilet water or something that would horrify literally anyone on the planet except a mischievous 2 year old.

A woman, probably in her 40s, saw my predicament (baby on changing table and me unable to physically intervene with the 2 year old) and interacted with my toddler so I could deal with the shitsplosion my tiny infant son produced.

They counted sinks, jumped from tile to tile, made silly faces to one another. It probably only lasted 2-3 minutes, but it was the most helpful thing someone could have done for me in that overwhelming moment.

16.) From DrSuckenstein:

I showed up 1 minute late to the airport to catch a critical flight. People were literally still going through security but they wouldn't let me enter the line. I had a breakdown in the waiting area. Some random old guy came and handed me twenty dollars and said "I know this doesn't help whatever it is you just missed, but if they let you take the next one at least go have a hot breakfast on me. Take care." and he just shuffled off on his way.

I was floored.

17.) From Narwen189:

I was going through a rough patch and was in the subway and just started crying. An older gentleman took the time to talk with me and just be nice until I calmed down a bit. Reminded me so much of my dad it made me cry more. He was just so incredibly kind and patient, even though I was in a really dark place.

18.) From emmareddit:

A girl came up to me at the train station when a man was harassing me for my number/wouldn't leave me alone/generally being very creepy and asking what train I was taking and said "Oh my God Sarah, it's been so long! So good to see you! Come over and say hi to me and Jake!"

I'd never met her before, but I was eternally grateful she saved me from a potentially very dangerous situation.

19.) From Johnnadawearsglasses:

I was running and dropped my MP3 player without realizing it on a busy city street

A nice older African man literally stopped in traffic and flagged me down. When I didn’t respond because I was spacing out, he honked and waived his hands for like 5 seconds.

People were beeping for him to go, but he was persistent.

When he had my attention, he said - He has it! He has it! Hurry!

I turned around and ran two blocks and caught up with a guy who had just picked it up and tried to fast walk away.

Thanks dude

20.) From BateonGSX600F:

One time my motorcycle died at an intersection. I was like 16 or 17 maybe. It died while I was rolling and I just rolled right through the intersection (it was still a green light luckily) and done the Stewart about a quarter mile maybe. I pulled the bike to the side of the road and onto the sidewalk. It was night time, like maybe 10ish and I had was riding home from work to my parents house. The intersection was at a Meijer known locally as "the ghetto Meijer" and the area I rolled to was almost section 8 kinda housing. On the stoop of the apartments was a gathering of fellas, just drinking 40s, smoking, talking, and for some reason wearing generally the same colour.

Needless to say, I was sketched out, like really sketched out. It was dark and I was a white looking kid (I'm half and half white/black, but look like a constantly slightly tanned white boy). I was scared. I'm standing there trying to figure out what was wrong with my $700, jenk ass Kawasaki ninja, just keeping a lookout over my shoulder the whole time. Then, out of nowhere this man walks up the sidewalk and I'm like "here we go, gotta empty my pockets I guess".

The man stops next to me, looks at me and smiles. "Are you okay? Do you need some help? Do you know what's wrong, I have a flashlight." I told him I had no idea what was wrong and I just was going to push it up the hill to the Meijer and call my dad. He offered to help and handed me the flashlight and he helped me push the bike up the sidewalk to a carwash (it was closer and we'll lit enough. In assuming he could tell I was sketched about the area because he talked to me the whole walk.

I called my dad and he went to the wrong car wash so I had to wait twice as long for him. The man talked to me the whole time just about life and growing up and just talk, I didn't pay too much attention to what he was saying, I just knew it was calming me down. My dad shows up finally, the man helps us put the bike in his van (it was a little 230ish pound 250cc bike so it was small enough to fit in a van), and then he says have a good night and just walks away. Ill never forget that moment in my life.

I feel like that was outside the scope of the question, but it felt good sharing that story and remembering it in the process. I'm having kinda a shit life right now mentally so that was nice typing that for me.

21.) From GrewUpAtMidnight:

I was in Whitefish Montana for work and decided to go to a discrete gay bar. Met this guy who I thought was pretty cool. We go back to his place and his roommates are there and everything seems cool. Their pounding back beers and asked if I wanted one. I said sure, why not. Well after my second beer I wasn’t feeling all that hot and decide to lay low. When all of sudden one his roommates demanded that I drink another. I tell her no...she tells me no that wasn’t a question. You drink another or you leave. It escalated so quickly I didn’t know what to do so I politely said fuck off and left.

The thing was my hotel was 15-20 miles away. I start walking back at 1AM in the woods with no cell service and to top it off this was in October! It was 20 degrees out. This old pick up truck in the opposite direction makes a u turn and pulls up right next me. This old man opens his door and asked where I was going. I told him and then added I don’t have any cash to give him for the ride if he’s offering. He tells me he wasn’t even thinking of asking for money for someone walking home by them self at 1AM. I hop in and we start talking and he tells me how his son died on this rode from a drunk driver and how he rides up and down the road when he can’t sleep. He looks out for people hitchhiking after the clubs to get them home safely.

22.) From Drylnor:

Today I was going on a job interview. I started my route extremely early to be sure I would go there in time, but as fate has it the train was late anyway. So when I got off the train I had to basically trot my way to the company. It's a very hot day and I got all sweaty in my face and stuff. While I was in the elevator this guy who works there asks me if I'm going to HR. I reply yes and then he proceeds to tell me where the bathroom is so I can wash up a little bit before going in. Damn it, I didn't thank him then and there but I thank you now, kind stranger!!!

23.) From felfel_addict:

When I was a kid, my aunt brought me to an arcade. She bought me some tickets so I could play. After using all my tickets I went to tell her I was done and as we were leaving the building a random stranger gave me a lot of tickets. A LOT !

I played the whole afternoon.

Now as I type this and being a grown-up, I think it was a way to open conversation with my aunt AND sending me away.

24.) From gothicxtoy:

Person donated $200 to me, no strings attached to help with my cancer treatments. 📿 Bless them

25.) From Cxmpass:

I was waiting at the traffic lights to cross the road. It was raining a bit and I didn't carry an umbrella with me that day (I don't really mind the rain so it didn't bother me that much). However, a man went up to me and held his umbrella over me while we were waiting to cross. It wasn't much but it made me so happy :)