Plastic surgery can be a very personal and divisive subject. Some people believe that outside of correcting serious deformities, it's a sign of vanity and shallowness. Others view plastic surgery as a regular part of their skin care routine, just another thing they can do to look and feel good.

At the end of the day, getting plastic surgery (or opting not to) is a very personal decision that only should be left up to the person placing their body under the knife. However, because a lot of plastic surgeries are easily noticeable, they often end up becoming a discussion piece.

In a recent post on the Am I The *sshole subreddit, a mom asked if she's wrong for allowing her 17-year-old son to get a nose job.

AITA for letting my son have plastic surgery at 17

OP shared that her son's nose has been slightly crooked ever since he broke it as a child.

While it's not super noticeable to the naked eye, it has been a central insecurity of his.

My son broke his nose when he was 7, because of that his nose became kinda crooked,it’s not extremely noticeable, but he was really really insecure about that.

In the past couple years OP's son has gotten into modeling, and while he's done well for himself he's received a lot of advice suggesting he get a nose job.

He started getting into modeling about year and a half ago. Lots of people advised him to get a nose job. He has asked me about it before that too, but after he heard people’s advices he said he wanted to get surgery 100%. I talked to him and told him that he doesn’t need a surgery, he’s already pretty successful at his job for 16 y.o, but he told me that it wasn’t even about his job, he just wanted to do it for himself.

At first, OP tried to talk him out of it, reminding him that he gets a lot of work with his natural nose.

But when he insisted the choice was personal, and not completely made under pressure, OP compromised by saying he could get it when he turned 17.

So, I thought about it more and I told him that I’ll let him get the surgery when he turns 17(in 4 months).

When the subject came up with OP's brother, he criticized her parenting and claimed she should have been more adamant about her son not needing to change anything about himself.

I told my brother about it randomly. He had a bad reaction. He said that I should be telling him that he doesn’t need to “fix” anything, and that I’m doing such a horrible job as a parent for making my son even more insecure and letting him alter his appearance.

I started doubting myself after that.

Beadnoze409 ultimately agrees that it's up to OP's son.

"NAH. It’s what your son wants. Lots of people get nose jobs for a variety of reasons. Fixing a long broken nose isn’t a bad reason at all:."

ScienceNotKids thinks it's totally reasonable for OP's son to get a nose job, but that OP should stay relatively mum when around other people.

NAH, but don't tell people about it. That's his decision to make. He's obviously embarrassed about it, don't pile on by spreading that or you'll approach A territory.

--Replicant-- doesn't think OP is TA, but does think her son should consider the risks.

NTA. However, I have a caveat for a different reason than you’ve already heard... Children, even at 17, are still growing. The skull is still growing. A plastic surgery done before growing is complete can result in pain and malformation as growing continues despite the reorganized bone structure resulting from plastic surgery. This could land your son in a worse situation than before the surgery, and possibly end his modeling career (the results can be BAD).

Consult your doctor/surgeon on this, and find out if your son is already done growing in that region, if not entirely. If he is, rest easy and proceed. If not, you may want to put off the operation until he has finished growing.

Rageybuttsnacks pointed out that the surgery is more reconstructive than cosmetic, surgery.

NTA. This is more reconstructive/corrective surgery than an outright nose job. If it's something he wants for his own body, the doctors don't have any reservations about performing the procedure and you're willing to pay for it I don't see any reason you should forbid it.

the-incredible-ape thinks no one is wrong in this situation.

I think NAH because it all hinges on how you view plastic surgery and appearances. On one end, your brother views some forms of appearance modification as morally wrong because they assign too much importance to appearance and amount to a value judgment of appearance itself.

On the other end, you and your son just feel like you should look however you want to look, and likely don't attach any value judgment to appearance.

You and your kid aren't hurting anyone, so long as you genuinely believe your son has healthy attitudes about looks. If you're worried about encouraging him to have an unhealthy attitude about appearances... then you'd be the A.

This is one of the rare situations where it seems that no one is a jerk, and it's truly a matter of personal opinion. The biggest priority for OP's son, is that he doesn't feel pressured to get surgery, and he gets a thorough doctor's consultation.

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. "

-Eleanor Roosevelt

With a new day comes new memes and new laughs. This batch of memes had me giggling. Hopefully it does the same for you this morning.

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It takes a special kind of badass to be a truck driver. Not only are you tasked with driving around a vehicle the size of a house, but you often work long hours and spend a lot of time at gas stations, which we all know are lawless places. In various Redditthreads, people who drive trucks for a living are sharing the things they saw while driving that scared them sh*tless. And if you've met a truck driver, you know those things must've been pretty freaking scary. I think it goes without saying that these stories are not for the faint of heart. Clearly, neither is being a professional truck-driver.

Here are 19 stories from truck drivers on the scary things they've seen while driving that haunt them to this day:

1.) From CalvinDehaze:

My mom is a trucker, this is her story.

She was driving through Arizona when she saw what she thought was leaves blowing across the road in the distance. This puzzled her since there's mostly pine trees in northern Arizona. When she finally got to the "leaves" she realized that they were migrating tarantulas, 1000's of them. There were so many of them that her truck was sliding on their guts so she had to slow down. She stopped at the first truck stop and told her co-driver to fuel up (he was sleeping at the time) because she wasn't going to step foot outside after what she just saw. Her co-driver was pissed since it was technically his time off, and he thought she was crazy, until he saw the tarantula guts and legs caked in the inside wheel well of the truck.

She also outran a tornado in the midwest. She was about to pull over and take cover until she saw another big rig that was parked on the side of the road get tossed a couple hundred yards like a toy. She called me and told me that she thought she was going to die and wanted her last words to be "I love you" to me. She pulled off the freeway and got to a Wal-Mart, where she ran into the basement where all the staff and customers were taking shelter. After the tornado passed, they stepped out of the basement and into daylight, since the Wal Mart was destroyed.

She has many many stories like this. Trucking is 90% boredom, 10% insane shit like this.

2.) From Digyo:

Many years ago I was on what is called a "meet and turn" This is where a driver that is domiciled out of one city will drive a load halfway to its destination, while a driver domiciled out of that destination will drive halfway with a load that is destined for my city. We meet in a parking lot, switch trailers and drive back home. I had been on this run for a few months and found that I always got to the meet point about an hour before the other driver. It was a dark and empty dirt lot at about 3 am, so I would stretch out across the seat and take a short nap.

One night, about 10 minutes into my nap I was awoken by a barking dog. I tried to ignore it, but it carried on for several minutes and got louder as the dog got closer. Soon, it became apparent that the dog was right outside of my truck barking at me. OK, either this dog is Lassie and is trying to alert me to something, or else he is just a pain in the ass and I will need to throw something at him to scare him off. It is important to note that the barking had been going on for a good 10 minutes at this point.

So, I sat up and looked out my window. Standing there, mere inches on the other side of the glass was a man of about 35. He was a large fellow. And was barking at me. his eyes were crazy and he was frothing at the mouth a little -- the scene really held my full attention for a moment. The sheer creepiness of this struck me. Gently, and making an absolute minimum of sudden movements, I reach down and started my truck and slowly pulled away. He chased me, much like you might expect an angry dog to do, barking all the while.

Needless to say, it played hell with my power naps from then on.

3.) From buh-buh_bacon:

Not mine but my grandfathers. One night after completing his water delivery he stops at a roundabout to let the other car go thru but it doesn't and soon people hop out with knives and tools and they yell at him to cut the engine and to hop out of the truck. He guns it smashing their car out of the way and goes around the roundabout and drives to the nearest police station and tells them what happens. He thinks they were trying to steal the bulldog from his truck cause the only way to get it is to steal it or buy a Mack truck.

4.) From JimmyL2014:

A friend who is a truck driver told me this one. He was driving through the edge of some bushland on his way back to Perth, Western Australia when he hit a kangaroo. He stopped the truck, grabbed his knife (in case he needed to dispatch it), his flashlight, and got out. He went over to the kangaroo. It needed to be dispatched, as it was alive and in immense pain, but he got this weird feeling that he was being watched. He flashed his light around and saw dozens of pairs of red eyes watching him. The whole mob of kangaroos was just standing there watching him kill one of their mates (kangaroos have red eyeshine). He quickly dispatched the kangaroo, bolted back to his truck, and took off. He said it was the creepiest shit he had ever seen on the road.

5.) From KarmicComic12334:

I25 south of Albuquerque, there's a huge dip, straight down one side of a canyon and up the other. I'm a very safe driver, so i took the downgrade slow and crawled up the other side with my hazards on. Looking in my mirror i see headlights from another truck at the bottom, then 2 jets of flame shoot like 20 feet into the air above it. This truck runs past me doing 80 up the slope. I didn't even know it was possible to put nitrous into a semi, i know it ain't legal, but i thought the devil himself was riding up on me.

6.) From greeneyeded:

There’s another driver where I work that tells a story about driving through the desert in Arizona back in the 80’s with nothing around for miles when he broke down in the middle of the night- it was an easy fix (his fuel filter was clogged- he drained it a little to free up the fuel and got the truck running about 15 minutes later), he took off down the highway when he saw a man that was out of breath on the side of the highway that was staring at him as he passed.. he said it looked like the guy had been running toward him until he got his truck running and drove away.. He said if he had been there a few more minutes the guy would’ve been able to walk up on him with his head in the engine bay. He said the look on the guys face gave him chills and telling the story you could see it still creeped him out.

7.) From Troubador222:

I've posted this before, but the most frightened I have been driving a truck was going over Donner Pass one night on I 80 toward Sacramento. I had stopped in Reno and checked weather reports. It was early May or late April, cant remember now, but there was still a chance of bad road conditions up there. The weather reports called for light snow flurries and the CA DOT site said chain laws were not in effect, so I went on my way.

I got up to the top and suddenly the sky just dumped a blizzard. It was almost total white out conditions and I was past the chain up areas and the rest areas with no real safe place to stop. I could just barely make out the tracks of the truck ahead of me and I slowly followed those, praying that he did not run off the road.

The worst thing about it, the wind was blowing, making the snow swirl violently in my vision. That caused me to experience this weird vertigo, I have only experienced like that, that one time. I began to feel like my body was losing which way was up.

Fortunately it dd not last very long. I got down to a lower elevation and it suddenly became heavy rain. I was never so happy to see a rain storm on a mountain that I can remember.

8.) From DigbyTheDogKing:

Not something I’ve witnessed but happened to me. I was driving down Hells Pass in British Columbia in the winter when my truck started to jackknife. The cab was right up against the trailer and I was being pushed down the hill sideways. 7-10% grade. I managed to use the trailer brake to bring cab back around and bring the truck to a safe stop but still scary as hell.

9.) From TinyFromKalgoorlie:

One night, I was hauling sulfuric acid from the rail siding to the mine site. Normally do 3 loads a shift, so it was pretty full on. 1st load of the night, and I get overtaken by a Commodore full of Aboriginals. Now, country Australians will recognize the type. No windows, because they're all smashed, only one headlight, no tail lights, and a stream of empty VB cans falling out. A few km down the road, they're stopped off the side of the road trying to flag me down.

"Hey brudder, we got no petrol! Can you gib us some?" Well, actually, no. I run on diesel, you need petrol. "Nah brudder, dat's ok. We only going to Laverton." Yeah, nah, ain't gonna happen. Sorry guys.

Take off again, warning everyone about the carload of Aboriginals right on the side of the highway.

Heading back after the first load, and they start jumping on to the road, trying to make me stop. Not happening guys. Pull on the air horn and drive straight towards them. Sure enough, I'm still 200m away when they run off the road. I got back to rail, and rang the coppers in Leonora, and they promised to send a car out. Heading out on the 2nd load, and the coppers overtake me before I get there, so no troubles when I went past. Coming back from the 2nd load, coppers are just leaving, and the Aboriginals have gotten a fire going and pushed the Commodore well off the road.

3rd load, and by now it's nearly 3am. Figured it'd be a nice, quiet run. Not fucking likely! Now, for a bit of information, this is a fully loaded, triple trailer road-train, grossing 147 tonnes, and coming in at about 40m long. Say 325,000 pounds, and 130 feet for our American brethren. I'm doing 90km/h approaching the broken down Commodore, and the fire's burnt low, and it looks like they're all asleep. Then I notice a dark patch in the middle of my lane. I figure it's probably a eead kangaroo, and so I move over to the opposite lane to avoid it.

I shit you not. This dark pile jumps up out of my original lane, runs over, and lies down in the middle of the opposite lane, directly in my path! So I move back to my correct lane. And the pile jumps up, runs over, and lies down in his original spot! I start slowing down, spotlights shining, and grab a hold of the damb air horn cord again. I slowly start to swerve into the oncoming lane again, and a 2nd dark pile jumps up off the side of the road, runs out and lies down in this lane! So, now I've got 2 lumps to avoid.

So, I just gave in to the inevitable. I took my foot off the brakes, slammed the throttle to the floor so hard I nearly punched it through the firewall and aimed for the gap between them. Never let go of the air horn, that was just screaming to the world that I was coming.

Well, fuck me. There's not enough room between them for me to fit through. And I'm committed, there's no way I can stop in time. So, I just screwed up my eyes and kept rolling. Thank fuck these boys gave in. Right at the last second, they both bailed off the road and disappeared into the bush.

But, I'm willing to bet they never tried that shit again!

10.) From MC_NIGLET:

Cousins husband is a trucker; witnessed a shootout between cops and crackheads next to the gas pumps while pulling into a truck stop

11.) From illogicalfuturity:

Not a trucker, but an uncle used to be one.

He used to drive in the 80s and 90s, but one scary event was when he was driving through a densely wooded area.

He noticed flashes of light and if he stopped, he'd hear muffled footsteps and murmurs. As soon as he got out of the wooded area, he turned to see behind and found over a dozen people holding torches and machetes.

He never learned who they were, but he did chalk it up to the people living there not knowing what a truck was as they were so remote.

12.) From Bear_Like:

Former trucker here--

Was driving north through the mountains of Colorado towards Pueblo, and it was my first time dealing with anything like the Rocky Mountains so I was taking it nice and slow with my hazards on and in the right lane. This was in the spring, and there wasn't much snow on the ground aside from a light dusting.

I remember passing another truck pulled to the shoulder on my way up, nothing out of the ordinary. However, as I was heading down the mountain (which can be scary as shit in an 18-wheeler, trust me) I saw the same truck I passed earlier FLY by me in the left hand lane. Now being passed on the left going DOWNHILL in the ROCKY MOUNTAINS by another TRACTOR TRAILER is crazy enough, but what really makes this story is this guy's trailer brakes were on fire. He was pulling a load (could tell because the trailer was sealed) and if you know anything about trucks you know there's only so much braking you're supposed to do before they overheat and, worst-case, catch fire.

This guy's truck looked like a fucking comet as he sped down the mountain at what I thought was a surely to be deadly pace.

I grabbed the mic to the radio and called out to him, "Hey Driver! Your brakes are on fire! I mean literally on fire!"

This rough and weathered sounding voice comes back over the speaker of my radio and says, cool as a cucumber, "I know."

And he disappeared around a curve.

I never saw any wrecked truck, emergency crews, or even mention of an accident over the radio.

I did see a discarded fire extinguisher on the ground at the base of the mountain though.

Just one of many awesome stories.

13.) From pb5434:

I was only a long haul driver for 3 months but one of the strangest things I noticed were the number of other truckers who had life-sized stuffed animals riding shotgun. I saw one with a life sized gorilla, a huge dogish...thing and a few aliens. All in their seat belt, of course, for safety. Also, the gallon sized piss bottles left in truck stop parking lots is amazing.

14.) From TEmpTom:

My friend who works in the business once passed a completely totaled car on the side of the road with a seemingly dead moose in front of it. My friend got out to help the guy, and then the moose rose up screaming in its moose tongue and then ran away.

15.) From Koffeeboy:

Well, My dad sometimes drives a WPS shipping truck out of state and he has a couple stories but there is one that I really like. My dad was coming back one night when he hears a loud thud that sounded like it came from the front of the truck. He pulled over and finds that he had hit a huge owl and that it is was lodged in his grill, It also turns out the owl is still alive. This happened at around 12 in the morning so my dad has a great idea and decides to buckle up the owl in the passenger seat, for the first hour the owl was unconscious, but at around 1 my dad hears the seat belt move, he turns to see one pissed owl staring at him. One of the owl's eyes were hanging out and the owl knew that it was my dads fault. The first thing my dad now notices are the talons on this owl, they could have easily tore my dad up. Even so the owl seemed content to stay put, probably because he was pretty beat up. So my dad just turns his head back to the road and they both have one awkward trip back. He pulled over at the next gas station and calls the police, he was pretty much at the border so it took a awhile for both state departments to decide who had to pick up the owl. after that my dad decided that he has a new found respect for owls. TL;DR:My dad picks up an hitchhiker owl.

16.) From [deleted]:

This just happened to me.

I was making a delivery and was crossing the train tracks in an unfamiliar town. Along the tracks were those cone-shaped pine trees used as wind breakers or privacy walls. I couldn't see through them at all they were so thick.

Slowly I crossed the tracks. There were no red lights flashing, the oncoming traffic was blasting through there, and I had no reason to believe it wasn't safe to cross.

Needless to say, I began crossing the tracks. Immediately past the trees I looked left and saw a train, with its light on, coming at me from about 40 yards away! I could feel the engine thumping.

I gunned it! In an automatic this means you go nowhere fast.

Fortunately for me I made it. Barely!

I looked back over my shoulder and saw that it was a stupid rail yard and they were doing a turnaround and had parked that train there out of the way.

It sucked. Big time!

tl;dr I was almost hit by a parked train I didn't see causing me to scream like a little girl.

17.) From yaboyAllen:

My dad was a trucker. One time he was driving around Chicago at 3:30 in the morning trying to find the warehouse he was dropping at (before GPS). Rolled his window down to ask a little old black lady at a bus stop.

"Do you know where Big Company is?"

"No, but I'll suck your dick for six dollars!"

"Thanks, ma'am."

18.) From catsasss:

My dad (who just died last Nov) was a long-haul trucker from his teens until his mid 30's. He never told us a lot of stories, except the one about how he knew it was time to get off the road when the pills he was taking to stay awake made him see giant rabbits on the road, but his favorite was when he was about 19, he went across a bridge in the middle of the night, then was surprised to be pulled over. Turns out the lights on the bridge were all wired together over the roadway--and his trailer had been high enough to catch the wires, and very efficiently pulled down every single light pole. (How he didn't see/hear what was going on is probably due to how much attention he was having to pay to the road bunnies.)

19.) From psychopathenator:

My trucking days were shit, but I got some good stories from them. Going south on I-75 in Georgia at around three a.m., I see this bright light maybe about two miles behind me. Not only is it super-bright, but it is on the interstate and it is HAULING ASS. It's big too, and it's moving faster than anything I think I'd ever seen. Now, earlier that day I had called the guy who taught me how to drive, and he is really, really superstitious about life on the road. He would tell me stories about how a green apparition chased him in Florida when he was pulling too many miles, all kinds of stuff. I was already spooked from that conversation earlier, so looking into my mirror and seeing this giant light FLYING towards me made my asshole clench onto the seat. This thing closes the distance between us and FLIES past me, probably doing around 120. I had the window down and as it went past me, I felt this massive amount of HEAT. When it passed me, I could finally tell what it was!

Get this.

It was a hay hauler, a truck that hauls a trailer designed for hay, and the ENTIRE LOAD OF HAY IN THE BACK WAS ABLAZE.

I jumped in the CB and screamed "DRIVER, YOUR TRAILER IS ON FIRE!!!" The driver comes back in a surprisingly calm voice with, "I know, I'm just letting it burn off. I figure if I go fast enough, I can keep my cab from getting burned."

I've got a few more stories, but I'm too lazy to type them out.

For better or for worse, social norms prevent people from saying how they REALLY feel, so a recent forum on Reddit called on people to share the things they always wish they could say, but don't have the balls to.

One that didn't make the list—but should absolutely be heard by a certain sixteen people—is: Stop running for president. You're a long shot and wasting a lot of money.

If you're not a presidential candidate, these are all very applicable.

1. jjruns has advice for the people whp managed to enjoy high school.

High school was a long time ago. We haven’t aged well. In fact, we look like our parents. And I don’t remember you.

2. thisguyknowswhtsup is careful with who they trust.

Not everyone wants to be your friend. Nice does not mean loyalty. This goes double for coworkers.

3. TipToppGrantio desperately wants to be applauded for this one.

“Stop fishing for compliments, it’s annoying”

4. SteveM19 works with plumbers.

I can see your butt crack when you sit down or stand up

5. rex1030 wants you to take some goddamn responsibility for once.

Saying “That’s just the way I am” is a pathetic way of avoiding growing out of poor behaviors and habits.
Mold yourself, stretch yourself. Make yourself better.

6. Loxreaten knows that it's okay to say no.

"No." Some people are socially anxious and can be extremely compliant. Saying no won't hurt someones feelings most of the time.

7. What town did vybzkk grow up in?

Just because I know you or you’re from the same town as me doesn’t mean I have to support you, your business, or your shitty music. Put in some work and make people care about what you’re doing.

8. No man is an island, shaka_sulu.

Every selfish act you do is affecting another person (or another living thing) in a negative way. You cut in line, you leave a shopping cart in the parking space, you littler makes another person's life just that much harder..

9. lighthousekeeper33 will save lives with this one.

“I don’t love you anymore.” Seriously if that’s true, tell the person and don’t string them along for years in a sham of a relationship just because you don’t have the guts to tell the truth. Always be doing exactly what you want with the person you want to be with.

10. Hell is other people's YouTube videos, costil.

“The video you’re showing me isn’t funny.” I would never say it but god I hate fake laughing for 4 minutes.

11. Sad but true, o-hannah.

Some people aren't fit to be parents.

12. BooksRock typed this from somebody else's couch.

Please go home from the party. I hate hosting and people won't leave.

13. katrascythe knows that nobody cares, and it's liberating.

Nobody cares about that small thing you're afraid they'll notice. They're too obsessed with their own small things they're afraid you will notice

14. mc_fugly knows the fugly truth.

Maybe YOU are the reason no one wants to date you.

15. BarcodeNinja 2020.

The government isn't going to fix itself, so stop pretending you're an aloof genius and get involved.

We're all in this together.

There are few images that cause more backlash online than the sight of a plus-sized woman comfortable in her body. Children on the heavier side face high bullying rates starting as young as 3, with girls receiving an even higher amount of abuse for their bodies. Sadly, this routine body-shaming continues well into adulthood as the childhood name calling shifts into concern trolling over health risks.

Obviously, there are health factors that weight plays into, but you cannot truly predict how someone's health by looking at their body. Basing health concerns off weight alone ignores how many thin people have eating disorders, poor diets, drug and alcohol abuse issues, and sedentary lifestyles. Conversely, basing assumptions on image also ignores how many plus-size people are physically active, eat well and have healthy blood pressure.

At the end of the day, someone's health and body is their business alone, and not a subject for strangers to debate. But the culture of fatphobia has obscured basic human privacy under the guise of "concern."

One example of the culture of concern trolling cropped up when conservative Youtuber Dominique Samuels took issue with a Calvin Klein billboard featuring the rapper Chika.

"Why do we need the morbidly obese to speak the truth in their Calvins? Out of all the black plus-size models that exist, you just had to pick the one that looks 5 minutes from diabetes to promote unhealthy living, Calvin Klein? You should be ashamed," she wrote.

"I’ve got no problem with avg curvy bodies being represented in fashion. The avg size of a woman is around 14-16. This isn’t that. It’s not representing women. It’s participating in this dumb woke culture that needs to die out fast," she continued.

It wasn't long before other people jumped on the thread to echo her sentiments about the billboard.

However, plenty of people took issue with Samuels' rhetoric, and pointed out how weird it is to get bent about an underwear ad.

Others went on to point out how reductive it is to conflate weight with diabetes, when there are plenty of thin people with diabetes and plenty of plus-size people without it.

Eventually, Chika caught wind of the thread and jumped in with her own responses to the body shaming.

Chika pointed out how fixating on someone else's body just shows insecurity and internal ugliness, and went on to point out the absurdity of defending her own existence when she is hurting no one.

She also pointed out that the billboard was taken down months ago, so the backlash is literally late.

After Chika responded, even more people jumped on the thread to appreciate the billboard and point out the hypocrisy of Samuels' original logic.

Everybody wears underwear, so why can't we see people of different sizes modeling it?!

Living in a "haunted" house is my worst nightmare. Sharing a home with a living roommate is stressful enough without having to deal with a dead roommate who doesn't even share a portion of rent! People who live in "haunted" houses are sharing their most unexplainable paranormal experiences in a Reddit thread.

These 21 stories from people who've shared a home with someone who was not living might make you appreciate your living roommate a little more.

1.) From coolicidal:

I had fallen asleep at night with my fan running, and woke up freezing - I turned it off. Not long after, I woke up hot, and turned it back on. This happened several times. The last time, I woke up hot once again, and the moment I opened my eyes, I heard the pull of my fan and looked up to see it slowly start speeding up.

I said, “thank you,” and fell back asleep.

2.) From TlFF:

In 2012, my stepfather overdosed on heroin and dropped dead in the hallway in his condo apartment. My mum had to move out shortly after since they were already behind on mortgage bills. A few months later, my lease went up and I was barely making ends meet and couldn't find a new roommate. My mum offered me the key to the condo apartment to "squat" for a few months until I saved up enough for my own apartment. I took the offer and moved into the condo apartment. After a month or so, I was asleep in the living room and I had this dream of him standing in the hallway facing the living room. He was looking at me and smiling/laughing. Even made a stupid joke and everything. It wasn't disturbing at all, just bittersweet. Then I suddenly woke when I felt some pressure stroking down my head and back. There was nothing around me and it tripped me the hell out.

As a skeptical person that doesn't believe in the paranormal, it has to be some kind of sensory hallucination. It was still nice to see him in my dream once again though.

Made me tear up typing this. RIP Darin.

Mildly Interesting Fact: he dropped dead on July 13th in 2012. On a Friday the 13th.

3.) From Nai75:

Moved from the US to the UK and our parents bought an old beat up house. It still had lead pipes for the water. Nightmare all on its own. Anyway work proceeded on the house whilst we lived there. We started seeing bright lights in the corners of rooms at night. Foot steps on floor boards, the house had carpet. I was about 6 at the time and started getting woken up in the night by a little girl, who would dance on my chest of drawers for me. I was fricken terrified. My mum just fobbed it off as me dreaming. Workmen complained of strange things happening like tools being moved and odd feeling like being watched. After about a year of this my eldest sisters friend stayed over night. She woke the whole house up screaming, saying a little girl had been in her room, she had apparently pulled her from the bed. The friend left the house and refused to ever come back. Mum decided she might need to do something about it and got some advice. He suggested my mum and the whole family should treat the presences as part of the family. So when we got home we shout “hi we’re home, did you have a good day?” Over time the house settled and we didn’t get anymore trouble. We also found out a little girl did die in the house of asthma. My parents still live there and it is a beautiful homely place now.

4.) From suspiciouspalmtree:

I live in a house built in the 1800’s. It’s survived the 2 world wars and it’s seen some shit I imagine. One of the previous owners had 2 sons, who both committed suicide.

A lot of strange stuff happens. The animals (dog and parrots) will wake up from their naps and follow something with their heads just as they would follow me if I walk around. Also, before I switched rooms in the house, my brother had a room and he refused to sleep there as he would hear voices. He slept with my parents (he was a child) until the day he got my old room and since then has slept in that room without problems. There’s also a whole floor we don’t use and I sleep in the attic, and I pass through that floor to get to my attic (weird explanation but it’s a weird house) and I have a motion activated light there that goes on as I’m walking the stairs to that unused floor. It would also switch on in the middle of the night while nobody is walking under the motion detector. Also, there’s cold spots.

5.) From 1LT_0bvious:

I lived in a house that seemed to be haunted by "doppelgangers." Every event that happened never involved some mysterious figure, but a known person being in a place where they should not have been. Here are a few examples.

• I was a teenager at the time, and I was instant messaging my gf at the time with my webcam turned on. I had the viewer up so that I could see myself in the webcam. Behind me, there was the stairs leading up (left of camera view) and the entrance to the living room (right of camera view). My younger sister would typically fall asleep every night on the couch in front of the TV and make her way up to bed in the middle of the night. At one point in my webcam view, I saw my sister leave the living room and go up the stairs. The thing that struck me as odd was that I didn't hear anything. It was an older Victorian house, so the wooden floor and stairs were loud af. Without saying anything to my gf, I got up and looked into the living room and there was my sister passed out on the couch. I sat back down and asked my gf if she had seen anything in my camera. She said "Yeah, I just saw your sister go upstairs."

• My family was all getting ready to go somewhere. I was sitting in the car with my mom and we were waiting on my sister who was still in the house. After a bit she comes out and gets in the car and just looks at me like "wtf?". I ask her what's wrong and she says that just before she walked out of the house she thought I was still inside so she yelled up the stairs "1LT_0bvious, we're leaving!" and apparently "I" yelled back "Okay I'll be down in a minute!"

• My mom woke up to someone tapping her foot and she said someone was standing at the end of her bed who "faded out" after a couple seconds. She said it looked like me.

• I had an encounter where I woke up and felt like someone was under my covers laying up against me. When I said something, my blanket visibly deflated and I no longer felt anything. (I include this with Doppelgangers because though I didn't see what I felt under the blanket, it layed like my gf would have layed against me).

• When I was 22 I was in the military and I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It still took like a year after the diagnosis to separate from the military, but I went home on leave for the holidays about a month after the diagnosis. Anyone that has insulin-dependent diabetes typically carries around some sort of kit (mine is black zip-up pouch and it has a glucometer, insulin pen, needles, and alcohol pads). Right after I left home to head back from leave my mom texts me to ask if I'm missing my diabetic kit. I look, and I'm not. She sends me a picture of a diabetic kit and asks if I know it. I've never seen this kit before in my life. Apparently, my sister went into her bedroom and discovered it outside of her window propped up like someone had set it there. Oh, also, her bedroom is on the 2nd floor. Nobody else we know has diabetes.

6.) From TheCaptainhat:

I have a similar experience! When I was younger, my parents would frequently go run errands in the neighboring city and be gone most of the day from morning to night. Our living room was in a spot where you would have to walk through it to get from the back door to reach either the front door or my parents' room. You would walk between the couch and the TV while doing so.

So I was home alone and my dad came through the back door, walked in front of me as he crossed the room and entered his and my moms room. Then he came back out, walked across my field of vision once again, and left through the back door. He didn't look at me, look at the TV, or really do anything besides walk across the room in both directions.

When I asked him what he came home for or if he forgot something he honestly had no clue what I was talking about. They were an hour and a half away and coming home for something they forgot would have not made much sense. He was also wearing different clothes when I spoke with him compared to when I "saw" him earlier. Such a strange experience and I only saw it that one time.

7.) From iMostLikelyNeedHelp:

A lady who had 2 husbands die on her in the same house. That's the house my dad decides to buy. The first one hung himself from the rafters in the garage and the second one fell ill and died in his bed in the basement. I lived in the basement room and often just felt like I was being watched all the time. The bedroom in the basement has a secret storage room behind a bookshelf with a locking latch. I would always wake up to find the door wide open. It happened so often that I would wake up cold and routinely go shut and lock the latch of the door in the middle of the night. For the longest time I thought it was my dad or step brothers messing with me but it wasn't. My stepbrother now occupies that room and he says it still happens to him and that he's even seen it open on its own! There are no air vents or anything so I've ruled out wind.

Also in the garage, I always see light coming from under the door through the crack only to open the door to pitch black. I've heard sounds coming from the garage only to find saw blades clanging together and slightly rotating in their place on the hole storage wall. Didn't think anything of it at first, but when you find shit moving on more than one occasion, it makes you look over your shoulder at the rafters and wonder...

8.) From WeeklyPie:

I lived in a house for about 5 years that was haunted, but not in a malicious way. In a 'shitty roommate' kind of way. I'd come home to the windows on the second floor being open when it was raining. To food containers being open in the fridge that I hadn't touched yet.

The worst was that the 'ghost' hated clocks. She hated them. I had antique cukoo clocks that had worked for 50 years that would just stop. Brand new wall clocks that ate through batteries like it was candy. My watch ended up on the floor one morning, the crystal shattered, even though I knew I slept with it on. The one that pissed me off the most was that I got a brand new kit-kat clock for Christmas - and the bitch threw it off the wall. I was cooking and out of corner of my eye saw the cat freaking FLY. Turned around and it was across the kitchen. Broken. It was brand new!

Man, she was a bitch.

9.) From Denholme2:

When I was around 9-10 years old, I remember waking up to see a large shadow stood at the foot of my bed

I was living with my dad at the time, he has a very large (5 floors) terrace house built in the 1800s, every so often there would be an unexplainable event happen, such as footsteps when there’s no one there or voices

On the night this happened, it was just my dad and I in the house, my sister was staying with my mum at the time.

I woke up and noticed the door to my room was wide open, I normally sleep with it closed. I then became aware of a large (around 7ft tall) shadow-like figure watching me from the end of the bed.

When the figure noticed me it seemed to ‘melt’ into the floor and the door to my room slammed shut, understandably I was slightly traumatised by the whole experience

Asked my dad the next day if he was in my room and he denied any knowledge of the event (he’s not the type of person that likes jokes)

10.) From MTSwagger:

I watched one of our cats being pulled backwards about 5 feet by her tail. She was walking through the dining area and suddenly was sliding backwards, as if someone was pulling her by her tail. Only there wasn't. She freaked out and tried to run, but couldn't immediately as something held on for a brief second before letter her go. I tend to think that was the handy work of a 4 or 5 year old girl ghost who hangs out and she just wanted to play with the kitty.

11.) From MTSwagger:

I watched one of our cats being pulled backwards about 5 feet by her tail. She was walking through the dining area and suddenly was sliding backwards, as if someone was pulling her by her tail. Only there wasn't. She freaked out and tried to run, but couldn't immediately as something held on for a brief second before letter her go. I tend to think that was the handy work of a 4 or 5 year old girl ghost who hangs out and she just wanted to play with the kitty.

12.) From Imported_Thighs:

Closest I've got to a haunted house is a haunted room:

I used to sleep on the 2nd floor (the bottom one being the 1st) and my sister in the attic. She used to have sleep paralysis often. Then she moved out and now I have her old room.

She no longer has sleep paralysis, but I do.

13.) From Twigsnapper:

My uncle's house out on a very eastern part of NY was said to be haunted due to the family that used to own it in the 1800's decided not to give it to the stableman and sold it instead. He and the maid were said to have haunted the place.

We always used to joke that you would hear people or things moving at night but since the house is so old, we used to just laugh it off.

My uncle's friend had her and her sister stay over the house one night and the friend noticed a maid bringing towels down the stairs when she woke. She saw the maid again, bringing what looked like a percolator, down the stairs.

She was so impressed by my uncle hiring staff (he is a Neurologist in NYC so he had a habit of spending a little bit extra). She went back to bed and woke up later downstairs to see my uncle and his friend just chatting.

She asked where the maid went and she thought that the maid was cooking breakfast. My uncle had no idea what she was talking about and asked what she looked like. The sister explained and he laughed. Walked her to the living room and pointed to an old picture. She said that was the woman.

My uncle replied, "Yea, she has been dead for about 100 years".

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14.) From kingpickles98:

One night when I was about 12 I was drifting off to sleep then I clearly heard a baby laugh for 1-2 seconds. Presumed it was just my imagination and went to sleep. The next morning my sister mentioned that she’d been woken up by the sound of a baby crying. I don’t really believe in ghosts but I’ve never been able to explain that.

15.) From iCountFish:

So I used to live in a big house (6 Bedrooms, 4 bath, basement, etc.) by myself. I was there as a hiring perk and to look after the place for my boss who lived out of state but owned the home, one of those win-win situations. The first couple of month were fine, but when winter came I started hearing things coming from the second floor. (I lived pretty much exclusively on the 1st floor) It started with little bumps and bangs coming from above where I had my computer set up and progressed to distinct footsteps coming and going across the 2nd floor.

I had been up to the second floor to check up on it from time to time and I knew that there were unfinished areas up there. One place always stuck out- an unfinished room that was a sort of walk-in closet for one of the upstairs bedrooms. It was attached to the garage attic (complete unlit). It was open when I went up to investigate the noises. I shut the door- and locked it.

Two nights later, more noises. Footsteps- leading from unfinished room to the bathroom- then nothing. The worst part- the door. The door that led to the unfinished room would not stay closed or locked. I tried everything. Eventually I pushed the bed up against the door to keep it from opening. That seemed to work , a few months went by without the door coming open, but I would find it unlocked all the time.

As time passed- I would hear noises all over the house. Mostly footsteps, but the occasional THUMP with no explanation. I cannot explain how horrifying it is to hear little taps up and down the hall from the other side of a bathroom door during your morning shower.

I eventually moved out- but another employee moved in to take my place. His stay there only lasted about a month. The story he told me is that he was shaving one morning before work an d he heard a SLAM like someone dropped a heavy stack of books right outside his bedroom door, then heavy footsteps like someone running down the hall. He won't stay there anymore and no one in the company will live in the house.

16.) From munchyz:

I lived in an old, haunted house in college. Things got so weird that everyone moved out except for me and one roommate. Here's a few:

1. I woke up at 3am because my roommates door kept opening and slamming shut. From bed, I yelled for him to stop only to realize I was the only one home that weekend. As soon as I yelled, the slamming stopped, but the hippy beads I had hanging outside my closed door began to sway perfectly, yet violently, against the door frame, for a half hour, while I debated if I should pop out my air condition unit and jump out of the window. I laid in the fetal position in bed til it stopped.

2. I woke up at 3am, alone again, hearing the nintendo in the back porch playing loudly. I figured a drunk kid came in and started playing. I grabbed a bat and walked towards the back of the house as the music got louder and louder. As soon as I opened the door, it was completely quiet, mind you it was loud enough to wake me up.

3. I had friends over and told them the house was haunted. No one believe me so I asked the ghost to do anything to prove it was there. As soon as I asked, all the lights in the house began flickering for about a minute straight. This was the middle of the day, everyone witnessed it.

4. almost everyone who stayed at my house had sleep paralysis at least once in the house.

5. every time something spooky happened, the house would smell like old lady, flowery, strong perfume.

6. This house had a door built into the flooring that led to the basement. We always had a rug covering it up so no one knew it was there. Things would constantly go missing in the house, and turning up in the basement. This house had a coal-shoot from when it was heated by coal back in the day. Missing stuff would always be placed on the shoot for us to come and get.

7. Roommate had some issues, once while playing video games late at night he saw mist kind of hovering from the kitchen then move into the bathroom. The bathroom had a trap door that led to the attic, that's where we figured the old-lady ghost used to like to hang out.

8. Roommate was up late, he went to go lock the doors and turn off lights. When he turned his back on the room and walked to the door, someone breathed into his ear "haaa". He thought it was me, I was sleeping, he turned around, pissed himself, and ran to his room. He was too afraid to come out and turn off lights and TV.

9. Loud thumps in attic at all hours. For peace of mind, we told ourselves squirrels must've gotten in there.

10. voices would wake us up in the middle of the night. I spent many mornings on the front porch waiting for the sun to come up before I went back in the house.

11. coincidentally, I had a friend years later that rented from the same landlord (same town, different house) where he and all of his roommates moved out because that house was also haunted. I didn't think it was too weird, until he was telling me that when all of the weird stuff happened, it was accompanied by old-lady, flowery, stanky perfume. Also, a lot of people had sleep paralysis in that house as well.

17.) From ragxdoll:

my father in law died before my son was born, so he never meet him. When we moved into our new home, my son would often be laughing in the middle of the night by himself. No biggie, kids will play with anything. One day,we were finally putting pictures up in the house and once I put up the picture of my father in law, he said "oh mommy why do you have a picture of the man that comes and play with me at night?" He had never ever seen a picture of my father in law before.

18.) From Hobo56hills:

I used to live in an old big 5-bedroom house with 6 other people. My SO and I shared one of the rooms.

I “saw” a stranger in my room when I was in my 20s. It wasn’t exactly visible, but I somewhat knew it was right there in the corner of the room. My SO was next to me sleeping. While I had my eyes open, I knew it was there.

So I closed my eyes. I tried to wish it away. I opened my eyes, and it was now next to the bed, looking at me. I closed my eyes again, and suddenly relief came. I opened my eyes, nothing there.

I saw it once again at the stairs. It was only a brief moment this time, and then it was gone.

19.) From TheToenailCollector:

I lived in one when I was a teen, along with my parents. Several instances come to mind. We were remodeling an old farmhouse and had been there a couple of months before witnessing anything.

One day I was underneath my truck, which was supported by only a jack. (stupid, I know) I was in the middle of working on it, with no good reason to get out at that moment. Suddenly the overwhelming urge to get out from underneath overwhelmed me. No sooner than I got out, the truck fell to the ground, the jack had slipped. Freaked dad out, he thought I was under it. When mom got home, we mentioned it, and she started crying, sobbing pretty hard. It turns out the previous owner died in the driveway, under a vehicle, in that spot.

I would often see moving shadows, and strangely hear music from the upstairs area. The windows of the old house were caulked shut, and blackbirds would often get caught between the panes. We ended up replacing all the windows but we had to break three inside panes to get them out. One of the more disturbing things happened when my mother was cooking breakfast, she turned away to get something out of the cabinet and when she turned back around, all the forks set out were bent straight up.

20.) From lunchesandbentos:

There's a post about this somewhere on Reddit that I wrote before but I'm too lazy to dig it up. My husband and I own a martial arts school, and the building that it's in (which we also own) is about 130 years old... next to a church... And I never (and still don't really--there has to be another explanation) believed in the paranormal but the things that happened in it didn't just happen to me. It was decrepit (which was why it was so cheap to purchase) and we basically did all the work ourselves, old, creaky, and drafty. Still knob and tube that we had to get an electrician to change out. So here's a bunch of things that happened:

1. When we'd be working with like drills and electric saws, I'd hear the tinkling of a music box, and I'd stop everyone to ask if they hear it too. No one else did so I assumed it must have been some music from the church coming through.

2. My husband would often hear a woman's voice calling his name from the bottom of the stairs (it's 2 floors, a basement, and a loft) and, thinking it was me back from work, would always ask it to come up. Turns out the building was empty. Happened 4 or 5 times.

3. One night (there's a small apartment on the second floor connected to a large hall), we woke up hearing what sounded like a broom sweeping across the wooden floors in the large hall. My husband got up to go check, but once he would walk in there, the sweeping sound would stop. It happened three more times that night. We chalked it up to mice or squirrels (we did find mummified squirrels in the attic once.)

4. We had a barbecue in the backyard and I needed to go get more utensils, there's a metal stairwell from the backyard up to the second floor, and then there's the main entrance staircase opposite to that. I came up the main entrance and heard footsteps pacing back and forth across the far end of hall and thought my husband came up from the metal stairwell to get utensils with me. It was dark and I couldn't see anything. I called out for him and the pacing stopped. No response and then the pacing footsteps continued. Annoyed, I thought he was messing with me so I flipped on the lights and all of the utensils from the shelf where I heard the pacing crashed down to the floor, like I spooked something. But there wasn't anything, not even a rat like I thought there might be.

5. One Saturday morning, my husband was on his computer in another room, I'm in the apartment playing with a tamagotchi app on my ipad when I heard the stereo sitting in front of me click on and a girl's voice started talking from it. I thought he controlled the stereo from his computer so I ignored it because he often puts on music to work out before class started (he teaches the morning class.) I do remember thinking what kind of weird ass indie music is he listening to anyway, because the voice just said "Hi, my name is (I thought I heard Katie but I'm not 100% sure because I wasn't paying attention--I have never known a Katie in my life)... I am ___ years old... I'm from ____..." etc. I didn't catch the specifics because I wasn't really listening but that went on for about 2 or 3 minutes until it suddenly went "Something's hurting me." and when I caught that, I looked up and squinted at the stereo, like what? "Something's killing me. Something killed me." At this point the hair is standing on the back of my neck and I'm getting up from the couch to take a closer look. "Please, someone tell my parents, tell the teachers, tell the corrections officer..." at the word "corrections officer" I just bolt into the other room and start yelling at my husband and cursing him out because I was certain he was playing a trick on me. Told him "we don't fucking play jokes about dead people." and he's of course looking at me like wtf? When he finally calms me down long enough to get what I heard out of me and what I was accusing him of, he told me it was impossible and led me to the stereo. It's not plugged in. I thought maybe the stereo picked up the signals from an ebook or something.

So after that last fiasco, I went to ask our live-in student who lived with his GF in the basement apartment of the building if anything weird's happened. They shot each other an alarmed look and told me this:

1. His GF was sleeping one night when he was working overnight and she heard footsteps come down the stairs and their door open and then close. All of a sudden a bright flashlight shines in her face and she can just make out the silhouette of who she thought was her BF because he's tall, and she can see the dirty jeans he's wearing. She's annoyed thinking he's messing with her so she's swatting at him and telling him to stop. Finally she gets so pissed off she rolls turns on their lamp and there's no one there.

2. They sometimes hear footsteps on the first floor when there's no one in the building. They had a pet mouse at the time and whenever that happened it would start doing backflips in its tank. However, when class is going on and there are people in the building, the mouse didn't care and just went about its mousy business.

3. They were play wrestling one day when suddenly, their african gray parrot ruffled its feathers and in a really alarmed voice asked "Who's there? Who's there?" They thought it was funny at first, so our student looked at the bird and pointed to the door and said "You mean over here?" and ran towards the door to open it. As he did that, all the books that were lining the shelf on the way to the door fell over in front of him and the lights started flickering. The bird and the mouse both got spooked and were throwing themselves against their cages.

Our second live in student after the first (the first one got married to his GF, got their own home, had a baby) several times could just not find his phone when he woke up in the morning when he had placed it next to his bed the night before. He would search his room high and low and then he'd find it perfectly placed right outside his locked bedroom door on the floor. I thought he might have been sleepwalking but his GF says she'd realize it if he did since she's a very light sleeper. So don't know what that's about.

Nothing notable has happened since then, but we have also not had anyone stay there overnight in years.

21.) From Economy_Cactus:

When I was younger, I used to take naps upstairs but by the time I was 8 years old I absolutely REFUSED to go upstairs. The upstairs had two large ,Closets? Attics? They ran from one side of the upstairs all the way to the other side on both sides. It was essentially a crawl space that was maybe 30 feet long.

It started one day when a friend and I went crawling from one side to the other with flashlights like kids normally do. Then I saw a girl, sitting there, in the corner acting like she wanted to play with us.

I know a lot of people say when they see a ghost they aren't scared. Just interested. Nope, I was beyond terrified. This girl looked normal, had blonde hair, a nice dress and seemed friendly. I stayed silent, kept crawling behind my friend and got out of the closet. Told him what I saw in there, he said he didn't see it, but felt like he didn't want to go back in.

Then my parents would occasionally send me upstairs to get something and when I would get up there I would see the doors swing open. As if they were trying to get me to come inside. I would lose toys and wouldn't be able to find them anywhere. Suddenly, my parents would be fishing out christmas presents out of the attic and we would find some of my toys in there.

I remember being 8 years old, my parents are asleep still in the morning and I leashed up my dog to go take on the monster in the attic. My dog, usually up for anything REFUSED to go off the top step into the attic.

My parents never believed me with all the weird things that happened in that house. I would get blamed for things that happened all over the house. Leaving lights on, toys all over, things I knew I didn't do.

Well, anyway we move out of there when I am 10. Not a week passes before the new owners call us up and ask if the house is haunted. There daughter sleeps upstairs, she says that she has been playing with a blonde haired girl at night.

My parents laughed at how crazy these new homeowners must be. To make an already long story short, the girl started appearing in other parts of the house for them (they kept in contact with us.) They would look over while watching tv and see the girl sitting on their daughters lap etc. They looked up on the computer the past owners of the house, found an old dress maker that lived there and yep, a picture of the little girl wearing one of the ladies dresses.

The family that moved in there were absolutely torn apart by the events. Got divorced, dad stayed living in the house and ended up taking his own life in that house.

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When it comes to sorting through donations, thrift store workers have seen everything under the sun. Sometimes, the donation bin is overflowing with fashion gold, valuable tools you'd pay a fortune for new, and gorgeous historical artifacts.

Other times, the donation pile shape shifts into an anthropological nightmare full of morbid objects, human skulls, drugs, and NSFW pieces covered in bodily fluids.

In a popular Reddit thread, Goodwill employees and other thriftstore workers shared the weirdest donations they've found, and they truly represent the full span of humanity.

1. mohawk_ADE found an adorable bat.

A Blazer Vest with a LIVE BAT comfortably nestled inside it, cute little guy.

Never got pictures, was before the age of smartphones I'm afraid. Got the thickest pair of gloves to carefully grab him and release him outside.

2. 2016mindfuck found historical newspapers.

An entire cardboard box of original newspapers from historical events. Kennedy Assassination, Nixon Resignation, Man on the moon, etc.

3. xNekozushi found a winter jacket with very strange accoutrements.

We got a winter jacket with a lice comb and an extremely old hard boiled egg once. My coworker took the egg out back and chucked it, which is how we found out about it being hard boiled... Also people have accidentally donated their groceries before, that's always interesting.

4. RileyMilf saw a whole load of bizarre machines.

I used to work at Value Village and one day somebody brought in an entire truck load of machines used in a convenience store. Those hot dog rollers, slurpee machine, warming cases and surprisingly that ended up selling them.

5. thoughtyouwerecool stopped a woman from committing suicide.

This was 7 years ago now. Had a lady, late thirties, donate everything in her house. A whole moving truck full. I didn't notice anything until it was almost empty, she was acting nostalgic, yet semi flippant about giving it all away. At the end she asked if she could pray for me and the co-worker that helped unload the truck. It was only a few seconds after she drove away that I had a sinking feeling about this lady. I told my boss that nothing about this lady seemed right.

Ended up racing through some of the boxes to look for info, found a bunch of journals and things from therapists over the years. Turns out she'd been living with mental illness for most of her life, and was giving us all her stuff so she could go home and end her life. I asked my boss to call the police, and an officer apparently contacted her sister, and they prevented her from committing suicide that day. I'm unsure if she's still alive today, but I hope she wasn't mad at me for trying to help.

6. hecticengine found a whole S & M collection.

An S/M collection. There was a whip, a fur glove, several heavily illustrated insanely violent novels from the 70s, and other stuff I’ve forgotten. My manager let me take most of it for .99 an item. She kept the fur glove.

7. audie-tron171 found old propaganda.

Haven't worked at Goodwill (in Australia) but did volunteer in an op shop for 8 months. Most interesting thing by far was a piece of East German Propaganda from 1967 about the Berlin Wall. Included lots of info about how the West Berliners were smuggling weapons and criminals. Interesting read for sure.

Edit: I didn't manage to get the book (this was a while back) but I did get a few pictures of it for those interested:

• https://m.imgur.com/gallery/yNWUv

8. Srianen found human ashes.

I was volunteering at a Goodwill once and while sorting donations, came upon an urn that still contained the ash of human remains.

9. KingCasul watched an older woman donate some really weird porn.

Used to be a Donation Attendant, my personal weirdest was when a very VERY old woman came to donate. Sweetest woman ive met in donations. Just 1 bag full of DVDs, didnt need a reciept, EZPZ. I go to open it and its like 40 dvds of the grossest porn ive ever seen. The others DA's and I were laughing for a good while from that.

10. MythicalHobo received a tent full of poop.

3-man tent. All poles, excellent condition, complete with shit-filled underwear stashed away in one of the pockets attached to said tent.

11. thebornmaker got a scary donation.

During the Austin, TX serial bombings earlier this year, someone donated an artillery simulation devicethat ended up going off while being sorted and led to minor injuries to an employee and mass hysteria that the bomber had started to target donation drop offs.

Bad weird donation. Worse timing.

12. ANoiseChild got a confusing Bible.

A book with “Bible for the deaf” written across the cover while the rest of it was written in Braille...

They kinda missed the point with that one.

13. SparkyMountain found a real human skull.

Worked there one summer at a satellite drop-off area by a bar.

Weirdest was a medical study skull made from a real human skull. It came in a legit medical study supply box. The top of the skull was cut and hinged.

14. rafferty85 found bizarre cellphone display models.

A briefcase of about 20 display model cellphones.. this is pre-smartphones. Just fake cellphones, display models, from a cellphone store. They don't turn on, they don't have batteries, no electronics.

Also used underwear with streak marks.

15. thepurplehedgehog has found a smattering of weird objects.

The used vibrator was a highlight, with the added touch of a single pube stuck to it. The dead mouse was....a somewhat different experience.

The homemade jam was a nice one. We couldn’t sell it but we had pre-opening staff toast parties in honour of Mrs Old Lady and her homemade plum jam!

Edit: just remembered another one. The mystery knitter. So every so often, at various times of various days, a bag would appear. A nondescript white bag, full, with white tissue paper on top. In the bag would be beautiful knitted babywear - cardigans, hats, bootees, all different sizes and colours. All hand knitted, with the same talcum powder scent. We’d try to stake the front of shop out to find out who but we never did. I still go in for a chat and a rummage and the Mystery Knitter is still at it. We like to think of some wee old lady lurking around until the coast is clear then finegling finagling the bag into the shop and leaving the scene unnoticed.

16. Snipman found a cool little bot.

I worked in the sorting area for a month sorting electronics. It was mostly crap but I did get this big RC robot that shot little rockets. The guy across from me did not find it amusing. Also plugged in an OLD drill which promptly tripped a fuse in the warehouse.

17. SlackerNerd has seen it all.

Hey, a question I can answer, I've gotten lots of stuff! The usual sex toys, lots of weed, I got a barrel of wine, used needles (one of which I found with my finger), once accidentally accepted a cat hiding in box of clothes. There were things like 14 ft Christmas tree, Nazi lantern, knit dick sock, a guy tried to give me his truck once, which apparently my store does take vehicles but those are picked up after paperwork is filled out not donated directly to the store. My lead got mad me for taking a bouncy castle once.

18. PM_MeYourSnootBoops got a box of baby faces.

Got a box full of rubber baby faces once. Must have been about two dozen of them. Sold them to some guy who had never come in before for 6 bucks. What a steal.

19. onionofyourbusiness got a jar of farts.

A glass jar labeled “fart june. 1975”

20. Weinertotheface's brother finally got boobs.

My brother used to work there and one time someone donated probably by accident a pair of fake breast like the ones some cancer patients get. Anyways he got the idea of a little bitty skinny dude walking around with some d cup titties would be hilarious. Turns out it was and the looks he got were priceless!

Anyone who's worked in retail or the service industry knows the saying "the customer is always right" is one of the biggest lies ever told. Not only are customers wrong a lot of the time, but they are sometimes straight-up criminals and scammers who will pull all kinds of sh*t to avoid spending their money.

These 33 people who work in retail shared stories of the "most desperate" scams customers ever tried to pull (most of them unsuccessfully). Friendly reminder: don't mess with a retail worker.

1.) From RudgerZ:

I used to work a game store a little more than 10 years ago. Once had a woman come in dressed fairly trendy and ask for 2 PlayStation Portables (PSP), 2 Xbox 360s, and a handful of games and accessories. My store was pretty slow so this would be a pretty big sale for the day and I was excited about it.

She goes to pay and hands me a credit card which was not laminated and appeared to be printed out on a home color printer. I told her it wouldn’t work and she said just scan it anyway. So I scanned her fake credit card which clearly did not have a magnetic strip and it didn’t work (of course). She told me to just “put the numbers in” on the computer. I refused and she asked why, seemingly legitimately confused. I told her I just couldn’t.

She told me she would be back with cash. I put everything back on the shelves. She did not return.

2.) From Nightmare_Gerbil:

September 12, 2001. USA. A guy in Spartanburg South Carolina calls and says that his weed trimmer was in the twin towers in NYC the day before and got destroyed by terrorists. And demanded I replace it under warranty.

3.) From celesticaxxz:

Years ago I worked at a small hardware store where they were constantly getting huge rolls of copper wire stolen. One day this guy and his girlfriend come in to return a roll. I was a few months in on the returns counter. They had no receipt and when I scanned the item for the return it was only doing the price per foot. I couldn’t figure out how to get the sku or the price for the whole roll. Called the manager and he comes out and right away knows there’s no way these people bought a roll and returned it. So he asks when they bought it and they say two weeks ago ( the common response ) and my manager tells them “oh really because the last time we sold an entire roll was over 3 months ago” the guy starts to get brave and tells him “so you’re saying I stole it?!” And my manager says yes. They end up leaving and left the roll behind. Before they leave the store the guy says “I’m coming back and bringing the cops” manager says “go ahead that way you can explain to them how you stole the roll”

4.) From celesticaxxz:

Years ago I worked at a small hardware store where they were constantly getting huge rolls of copper wire stolen. One day this guy and his girlfriend come in to return a roll. I was a few months in on the returns counter. They had no receipt and when I scanned the item for the return it was only doing the price per foot. I couldn’t figure out how to get the sku or the price for the whole roll. Called the manager and he comes out and right away knows there’s no way these people bought a roll and returned it. So he asks when they bought it and they say two weeks ago ( the common response ) and my manager tells them “oh really because the last time we sold an entire roll was over 3 months ago” the guy starts to get brave and tells him “so you’re saying I stole it?!” And my manager says yes. They end up leaving and left the roll behind. Before they leave the store the guy says “I’m coming back and bringing the cops” manager says “go ahead that way you can explain to them how you stole the roll”

5.) From Valhallan1984:

Sold a guy a phone years ago when I worked for a wireless carrier. Spent an hour getting all his information transferred and set up his new phone. He comes in the next day with a shattered screen. Apparently he didn’t remember that I was the rep who helped him and proceeded to tell me that is how it looked when he left the store. Needless to say the phone was not replaced.

6.) From Perschnickity:

A woman came in, grabbed an herb-roasted rotisserie chicken, moseyed over to the casual seating, ate 85% of it with her bare hands, then brought the carcass to customer service and tried to return it.

7.) From Knut_Sunbeams:

We had some members of the travelling community pull into our car park one summer. Guy comes to the till to buy 2 patio kits at £50 each. I tell him the total is £100 and he says he bought one for £50 the day before in another branch...I say yes but you're buying 2 so its doubled. He then starts to argue that Im over charging him. This went on for 10 minutes with me explaining that hes buying 2 so its more expensive than one. His entire plan was to attempt to hold up the queue to a point where I'd give him one for free by acting like a dumb f*ck. Once he realised the queue had disappeared, you know due to it being a f*cking huge DIY store with multiple cashiers, he suddenly clicked and paid up, never to be seen again.

8.) From DaisyDee85:

Had a customer return a vacuum cleaner once, my supervisor did the return thankfully. The box went back on the floor unchecked. The next customer who wanted to buy it checked it out before they went to the register. The whole f*cking thing had been replaced with a catering size tin of beetroot.

9.) From coydog33:

Idiot comes in with a coupon for a free iPod. Fine print says "Guaranteed and payable by Bill Gates". I asked why would Bill Gates guarantee and Apple product. Idiot left.

10.) From schweinerneer13:

We don’t deliver the pizzas we make, it’s carryout only. Had a customer call and have a long/angry conversation with me because I wouldn’t deliver to her. She proceeds to say (a couple times) “you must be new here. I know the owner personally”, to which I responded “well I’m the owners daughter and we don’t deliver”.

11.) From Mr_A:

The store was open until midnight the two last nights of the financial year calendar. Apparently the store thought someone might come in at 11:59 the last chance they had to deck out their entire office with new laptops and chairs and shit. After about 9pm the store was pretty much a complete ghost town. By 10pm-11pm the store was the cleanest it ever was since it was built.

On this one night the phone rang at about 11:30pm. The guy wanted to know if we were still open because he wanted to buy something specific. It turned out we had it in stock and he told me - several times - that he was going to get out of his pyjamas, get dressed and come down to the store. I was, like, "Sure. The item will be at the front counter whenever you're here to collect it."

So he turns up and tells me again that he had to get out of his pyjamas, get dressed and come down to the store to pick up this item. It was about 11:45pm by this point and so I just told him how much it was going to cost and then he asked for a discount. I said "Why?" he said "For being your last customer of the evening!"

I told him no, there's no reason for giving out that kind of a discount and besides, we weren't closed yet. There might be other customers, you know. He might not have been the last one that night and besides, it costs what it costs. He told me again that he had to get out of his pyjamas, get dressed and come to the store to buy this item.

He paid full price for all his troubles.

12.) From mr_humansoup:

Kmart returns counter, had a guy try to return a CD (with receipt). The shrink wrap had been sliced and the CD taken out. He claimed it was like that when he bought it. I told him I couldn't return it for cash but could swap it for the same thing. He went to get a new CD and brought some other artist. Told him it had to be the exact same thing. I had the electronics employee bring up the right CD. As I checked that they were the same and told him I would give him a new one, a smile grew on his face... which quickly melted away when I took out a knife and cut open the plastic on the CD. No, you can't return that one later.

Another scammer that I actually caught was this guy who was paralysed on the left half of his body. He walked slowly around the store, dropping stuff and drooling. (Never did find out if he was actually paralysed or just part of the scam) One day I caught him bagging Oxy-Clean in his cart. Notified LP and she watched him. He went through self checkout and told me he bought the Oxy-Clean in electronics. LP called electronics, no such sale was made. I think she let him go that time but the next time he came in, he got a police escort.

This one was an insider job. This guy who worked in electronics also did layaway. One of the service desk girls would put a giant bag of dog food in layaway. Then the electronics guy would empty the bag and fill it with expensive electronics. Turns out they had been getting away with this for years then the LP staff changed and the new lady knew how to police the place.

13.) From moogula1992:

A guy comes in to fill his sons aderall script. Guy is super twitchy and son is chill as could be. For all controls we are supposed to run a report that shows every where in the state they have filled any. Of course the report is a mess, multiple pharmacys, multiple scripts, multiple doctors, all the red flags. To top it off an aderall script within that week had been filled so we really couldnt fill this one.

Dad comes back we tell him that we cant fill it and dad starts going on about how his wife must have filled it but they need some for today blah blah blah. We decline and his last words to us are ‘my son needs them for a birthday he has to go to today cant you help?’

No dude we cant help. Youre clearly taking your sons pills, get help and stop using your son to get high on prescription drugs.

14.) From Pineapple_Pistol:

Years ago I worked at a Walmart and this guy comes in trying to return his "Wii" that doesn't work. "I just bought this for my kids last week and it's already broken but they won't take it back because I lost my receipt."

The "Wii" in question was the most beat up and disgusting looking Gamecube I have ever seen, like he found it in a landfill or something. I should also point out that I wasn't working the return desk or even a cashier. I was stocking the food department. Turns out he was trying to talk every employee in the store into either giving him a refund or a Wii.

15.) From Euchre:

Just yesterday I had a 'till tapper'/'quick change artist' try to money shuffle me for what would've been a grand sum of $5. Pissed him off when I wouldn't play his game.

Next best was someone calling wanting to know if we had spare empty boxes for Xbox consoles, because he 'wanted to prank his kid and give him an empty box'. I know very well he wanted to try to stuff the box with who knows what, and attempt a return. Of course, the folks at customer service check such boxes for actual product, and match serials to those on the box.

16.) From Wrashionis:

I work at a major cell phone retailer. I once had a man come in with his wife to do an upgrade to whatever the new iPhone was at that time. While they were sitting in the store working with one of my reps (I was in management at the time) the wife starts getting text messages from someone claiming to be her husband’s mistress. This did not go over well.

They took it outside before it got overly nasty, and we all assumed they were gone for good. Not so, the husband comes back in. Alone. He finishes upgrading his phone (priorities) and left. The very next day he tried to return the phone claiming that we had sold him one with screen damage. He brings it in, and it looks like someone took a diamond ring or something to the screen and scratched the heck out of it.

Now we have a strict “open the box and hand it to the customer before they leave” policy to avoid these situations. I was able to pull tape, show the customer where he held the phone for a good 5 minutes without pointing out any flaws, and tell him that my company offers no warranty on that brand even if it’s bad out of the box, and especially when he didn’t show it to us before leaving the store. I suggested he take it up with the manufacturer if he truly believed the phone was damaged out of the box.

He did, right there in the store he called them. They also told him to kick rocks. The best part? I was new to management so I didn’t have a manager name tag yet. He asked to speak to the manager and I got to give him my best evil grin and say “I am the manager.” He left after that and we never saw him again.

17.) From MateriaBubbles:

A customer brought back a jumpsuit for a refund because it had shit in it. Apparently it had been like that when she bought it.

It stank so bad that you could smell it through the taped up plastic bags that she had put it in. The levels of how impossible that would have been to be unnoticed by changing room staff, to then be put on the shop floor, to then be picked up by the customer , to being bought via a cashier still unnoticed.

The worst part is some idiot on the refunds counter downstairs actually accepted it and put it on top of the trolley full of other returned items for us to put back upstairs - complete with a note stapled to it that said "Warning: Faeces inside".

One of the bigger "wtf" moments I've had in any job that I've worked.

18.) From vick7171:

I used to work at Best buy. This guy came in and returned a laptop saying that the box had some old laptop in it. He was yelling and screaming that we dont know how to do business. Manager gave him full refund. We started to check that old laptop he brought in. It won't turn on. Looks like the motherboard was toast. We pulled the hard drive out and started checking the data. Hard drive was completely fine with everything on it. We started looking for the clues and found the pictures of the guy who returned the laptop. It was his old machine. We had all his info. Manager called him and said he has 15 mins to bring the new laptop back or he is calling police. That guy came in, dropped the laptop at front desk. Never saw him again in the store

19.) From PoolAddict41:

I had a customer come to purchase some stuff, and they had found a coupon from 3 years ago on Google Images for 50% off whole purchase. I told her I can't do that, and the only one we had going at the time was not viable for her purchase. She yelled stupid loud, stormed out cursing, and I felt good. She emailed corprate, and I got in trouble for making her upset...

20.) From ShadyLady709Q49:

At my old job, they used to have sales pretty often and would also give out coupons for specific dates. For Boxing Day, they had a 30% off sale and we'd also given out coupons that would start the next day. Lady comes in on Boxing Day and we worked out that she'd get more of a deal if she used the coupon instead, so I offered to hold her items for her. I explicitly told her that she wouldn't be able to get the 30% off and she decided to use the coupon instead.

She comes back the next day, goes to cash to purchase her items and gets angry because they wouldn't give her both the 30% off and let her use the coupon. She told the cashier that the person she'd spoken to the day before had told her she could do that, sees me, and says "it was that girl who told me!"

I went to cash to speak to her (I was a keyholder at the time) and her story changed about three times through the whole thing. First she said that I told her she could combine the discounts, then she said that I never told her she couldn't combine the discounts, and then finally it was "Well I don't understand why I'm not able to do this." Another manager came over to help sort it out and as I walked away I heard her saying that I was a liar.

Now, I work at Sephora and we always get people trying to return fake products. My favourite one was when someone returned a face mask but had put a can of tuna in the box instead of the actual face mask.

21.) From Alessandruh:

I was working in a betting shop during the 2014 Football World Cup.

We had this one really awful customer, must have been in his 80s and always wildly inappropriate (asking what colour my underwear was, did I need someone to keep me warm tonight etc) but I couldn't do anything as the higher ups wanted to squeeze money from him.

Anyway, the night before the final match he comes in and tells me he wants to bet on Germany to win. I spent about ten minutes explaining to him that as it was the final he could no longer have a broad bet like that, instead he'd have to choose between a 90 minute win or winning in extra time, on penalties etc. I showed him the odds for all of the different bets and he ended up choosing the 90 minute win, I put the bet through for him and off he went into the night to be creepy somewhere else.

The match plays out and of course Germany wins in extra time. The next day Unnamed Creepy Dude comes in grinning from ear to ear and telling me how he's a winner. Oh boy. Again I have to explain to him that his bet isn't valid as he predicted they'd win before 90 minutes, and they hadn't. Dude flies into a rage about how I'm a money grabbing slut who's jealous of his riches and I have to pay him out or he'll call the police. I tell him to leave my store or I'll call them myself, he complies.

A few days later I come back from my lunch break to see him ranting at my cashier, I ask what the problem is and he throws me his bet slip for the world cup, only now he's written 'extra time' on it in pen and is trying to get my less experienced staff member to pay him out. I tell him that when we scan bets the computer takes an image of it, obviously the slip he has given to us has been altered as it doesn't match what's on the screen (I even turned the computer to show him) and that counts as fraud. Again, he leaves spouting nonsense about how women shouldn't be working anyway because they can't count or read.

Next week I get told I have to go to a meeting as I've had a complaint filed against me by a customer. The day of the meeting rolls around and I'm greeted by my area manager, security director and CREEPY DUDE. He had phoned the customer line and said I'd refused to pay his bet and taken the money for myself. We ended up bringing up the CCTV of the night he originally placed the bet, complete with audio, to prove without a shadow of doubt that he was in the wrong. Dude won't accept this and starts screaming that we're all thieves, we faked the video, and threatening to get a lawyer. Security director escorts him off the premises and he is banned from all of our chains indefinitely.

The kicker is, if his bet had won it would have been a whopping £55.

Tl;dr old dude is creepy, refuses to accept that his bet isn't a winner, makes threats and escalates to head office, is banned from all stores.

22.) From CoolWaveDave:

"I'd like to return this unopened pack of cigarettes I purchased earlier today at your establishment". Might be paraphrasing a little bit.

I open the store everyday, hadn't seen this dude once that day. Looked at his cigarettes, it's a brand we don't carry. Asked him for a receipt to "confirm" he purchased them here, but he obviously didn't have one.

"That's fine! If you can just tell me what time you were in here today I can look it up on our cameras to confirm your purchase."

My God the backpedaling and stuttering. I grabbed his cigarette pack and fake examined them.

"Wait a moment sir, are you sure you purchased these at this store? I don't think we carry this brand". He took the cigarettes back, came up with something about his brother must have yada yada and then he walked out.

A tobacco store in town sells some of the brands we carry at a much cheaper price, so people like to try and do returns at our store to make a quick buck. We generally don't take any returns on tobacco, but this guy didn't even scope out his mark.

Edit: Resident of Indiana. Couldn't find anything pertaining to the legality of tobacco returns in my state. If it helps, anytime the ATF drops in for a check-up the only question we get asked is if we sell individual cigarettes. Outside of that, I've worked a few retail jobs where tobacco was sold and I wasn't told at any of them that tobacco returns were illegal.

I'm assuming it's more individual store policy on whether or not they take returns, and I've worked retail long enough to see how an employee would tell someone it's illegal, rather than against store policy, just to help avoid an argument. Not to say it might not be illegal in other states, just that I don't think it is in mine.

23.) From ampmetaphene:

Oh boy, back in highschool when I worked part time at a KFC, there was this one fat man who would come in, order a 2 piece quarter pack, and then claim we forgot his chicken. Like, when we turned around to fetch his drink at the end of the order, he would open the box, take out the chicken pieces and hide them in his pockets. Hot chicken. Right in his pockets.

I got so fed up with everyone just giving him extra chicken all the time that I demanded he turned out his pockets one day when he tried to pull it and WOW LO AND BEHOLD this guy has his pockets full of drum sticks.

24.) From AtelesJubatus:

Worked in a bottle shop. One afternoon a shady character entered and spent 10 minutes browsing the liquor section. I stayed at the checkout and watched him on the CCTV. He ended up shoving two bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue down his pants and walked out. Store policy is not to confront shoplifters; that's what insurance is for. I called the police and burnt the footage onto a DVD for them to collect. About an hour later the same guy returns with the bottles demanding a cash refund because he 'purchased the wrong type'. Just as I was telling him I can't do a refund without a receipt the police walked in to collect the footage. He left with them in handcuffs.

25.) From Bakingjingo:

I worked at a jewel many, many years ago. Opening shift as a cashier, a man comes through with two 24 packs of Pepsi. It’s opening shift, so at that time we count our registers and confirm they’ve got the correct opening cash. We didn’t carry too much cash, and we all know how much is in the drawer to start.

He ends up paying with a $100 bill for these sodas. I counted back his change with mostly 20’s, (all the 20’s I had just counted. There was no more 20’s I could have given him.) and I don’t know how he did this, but he shuffled them in his hand, and showed me that I supposedly short changed him. Now, I knew immediatly that he was a piece of shit.

My store wasn’t shitty, so I told him that I would call a manager over and have them double check the register. The manager came, counted down the register and explained that the drawer was balanced, which means I didn’t short change anybody. But, if for whatever reason the drawer turned up $20 over at night, we could give him a call.

The manager tries to take his info down and he asks for his name and the guy thinks about it and says “Steve...Bush!”

F*ck you “Steve Bush.” You’re a sack of lying shit who tries to scam 16 year olds out of $20.

26.) From [deleted]:

I'm not usually on register but-

When the store I used to work (petsmart) at first opened, they would send out coupons to specific people if they had petperks and an email. Well, someone shared their coupon online, which was for a free bag of dog food. What proceeded was a mass of people coming in the next few weeks attempting (and succeeding) to redeem the coupon, as we didn't want to start off on the wrong foot after newly opening.

Anyway, I get put on register and this woman comes through with 12 bags of dog food and 12 coupons. We can't actually do that on the same purchase, and usually when someone does that (having two coupons), we just do two different transactions. It's whatever. But this lady has 12 and I'm lazy so I call my manager over to deal with it.

The manager tries to explain to the woman that the coupons aren't technically valid as it's for a specific person for one bag. Woman keeps pushing on the fact that she physically has the coupons so they must work and acts like she doesn't understand why they won't. Eventually manager says, you know what? We'll do it but only for 6 bags.

Woman throws a fit and leaves the entire cart. Coulda got 6 bags free but nope. Manager said she'd seen the woman doing the exact same thing at dollar general the day before.

2nd story and not me but-

Same store. Occasionally we had a spokesperson for a few brands of dog food come in, usually weekly that would set up a booth at our store, but would do the same with other stores in the area. We had a coupon come out where you could get a ~$15 box of wet cat food (about 16 cans) for free, or pay the difference. She came through with a $30 box, and the cashier caught it and said, well, you have to pay the difference or get a box that costs $15. The woman was like, oh, no, all the other stores let me have it for free. You can do it too.

Cashier says nope. It's not how we do it here. You'll have to pay the difference or buy cheaper. The woman demands the manager and gets the GM, who backs the cashier up. Difference or cheaper. Woman gets huffy and goes and grabs a cheaper box, ~25, and expects the cashier to free it out. Cashier is like, lol nope. I guess the woman is either frustrated or embarrassed at this point because when cashier points out- difference or cheaper, she gets huffy again and will 'pay the damn difference.'

Edit: I forgot to mentioned, the second lady also brought in previous receipts from others stores to prove that they'd freed out more expensive food. I'm thinking one store did it, either on purpose or accident, and since she has the receipt she can 'force' them because 'the other stores did it.'

27.) From dawrina:

I work at a movie theatre. We have a 5 dollar discount day. A customer comes over and starts telling me how she was there the prior day and that we had given them the wrong soda and her Diabetic husband had drank it and suddenly had to go to the hospital to get medication to "cure him".

Several things wrong with that story:

1. That's not how diabetes works. You don't die from one sip of soda, and generally if you did, you'd have insulin to take.

2. The employee she had complained to in order to call me over had been the only concessionists the prior day and somehow she failed to identify him when I asked her who it was.

I asked her for a ticket stubs or proof of purchase, and she came up with nothing. I went to the attendance for the prior day and pulled the report for the movie they claimed to have saw. To my delight the showtime they claimed to have seen had zero tickets sold to it.

I printed the report and went back to meet them.

"Yea, sorry looks like there were zero tickets sold to that showtime." And I showed her the report. She then tried to say we sold her tickets to the wrong movie. I told her that was impossible because then she would have been in the wrong auditorium. She had no response to that. Then she spluttered that she "guessed she would just go buy tickets" and I said "yea I guess so"

She left.

28.) From ommnommmoe:

Movie theater worker here as well, this same same situation happened to me too.

We received a call yesterday from a guest who had to leave because of a group of guys yelling and hurling insults at her and her friends, throwing popcorn and kicking her seats She claimed that she just left didn’t want to cause a scene and wasn’t going to speak to a manager. Well since this has happened to me in the past with scammers, I ask the basic question is do you have your tickets and I’ll just give you a pass. Of course she paid only in cash, didn’t have any thing else that showed she was here, she didn’t know where she was sitting and got her movie showtime wrong twice.

My bullshit detector went into overdrive but I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and still tried to figure anything out that proved she was here. When she just kept on insisting it wasn’t about the money and that a few free tickets and call it even, I had enough. I told her that since she didn’t have her tickets and the fact that she did talk to anyone after the movie there wasn’t too much I can do, sorry. The kicker was we have brand new recliners and when she kept insisting they were kicking her seats, I told her that wasn’t possible since there’s about a 2 feet gap from the back of a seat and a fully reclined chair. She got flustered and just said she couldn’t possibly explain how they did it, to just trust her work.

Not likely.

29.) From ColourfulSmarties:

Telling me she had a voucher for 50% off in her emails, but she didn’t have a copy with here. I was like no hun, nice try.

30.) From cookykidcatman33342:

This probably doesn't really count as a scam, but had a teenage boy come into the store and say he had no money but needed condoms desperately for tonight or he "wouldn't lose (his) virginity". I really felt for the dude, so I ended up buying him some myself.

31.) From drs499m:

Used to work customer service at a hardware store. You get so jaded by junkies trying to return stolen items I just started handing out refunds based on how good the stories were. Your dad with dementia bought circuit breakers every single day and recently died? Refund. You don't need these commercial sized copper elbows because you bought too many for your residential plumbing project? Nah.

"To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful."

-Bess Myerson

Pretty much everyone's been through a bad breakup. If your ex is pure trash, you will relate hard to these hilarious memes. Laughing at this meme list feels better than texting your evil ex, I promise.

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Winning the internet is crucial to winning the presidency—just ask the Russians.

Winning the Democratic nomination, one not only needs to dominate the debates but also capture the hearts and minds of the electorate. An ever-growing chunk of voters is comprised of millennials who grew up on the internet, and have taken to memes to spread the word.

A lot of the memes tend to turn the septuagenarian candidates into superheroes, and turn into absurd, hilarious fanfiction.

1. The boomer thirst for Buttigieg is real.

2. The Photoshop here is cringe-y.

3. Shining a light on Elizabeth Warren

4. Is being oat milk a good thing or a bad thing?

5. Truth hurts: Lizzo and Joe Biden is a weird combo.

6. Does the maker of this meme know what happens to Iron Man after this scene?

7. Ellen is for everyone.

8. Buttigieg fans are concerned about his laundry.

9. This meme format will live forever.

10. Berning it up at the gym.

11. There's a page called Bernierotica, and it's full of flirty fan fiction.

12. The Beto erotica is out there, too.

It can be easy to get jealous while scrolling through other people's seemingly perfect lives on Instagram. But Instagram is far from an accurate reflection of reality. Not only do people carefully curate the content they choose to share with the world—they often digitally alter it. Especially if we're talking about "influencers," celebrities, and others who are especially preoccupied with maintaining a "perfect" image for the public.

But though photoshopping, photo-tuning or otherwise digitally altering your photos before sharing them on the 'gram might seem like a good idea, there are plenty of eagle-eyed internet-users out there eager to catch people in the act of fakery. There are even online pages devoted to exposing people for photoshopping their pics—like exposingcelebphotoshop and Instagramreality.

Here are 33 examples of celebs, Instagram stars, and just regular ol' people who got exposed for Photoshop fraud.

Nice try, y'all, but behind the filter and the Photoshop, we all have flaws. Yes, even you, Kylie Jenner.

1.) "This 'MUA' got called out on twitter for photoshopping entire makeup looks. Have a look at the closeups - the angle and eyebrows are exactly the same in each photo. She claims all the intricate designs are hand drawn & deletes any comments that ask about photoshop/editing."

2.) "He looks like a character in a video game."

3.) "Check out those seagulls"

4.) "Same day comparison."

5.) "100% white Swedish influencer (blackfishing)"

6.) "Instagram vs. Tagged photo"

7.) "Blogger who claims she’s never had any plastic surgery or edits her photos."

8.) "I'm literally terrified."

9.) "the longer you look the stranger it gets"

10.) "Teeth brighter than my future"

11.) "That cloud won't leave her alone.."

12.) The great outdoors.

13.) Kylie's version (left) vs. the original.

14.) Instagram vs. real life.

15.) "A sickness for thickness"

16.) "This artist frequently posts pics of herself "painting," but the paint palette never changes"

17.) "I started paying attention to the clouds ever since I saw the post on here.."

18.) "This is an instagram model lying about having heterochromia (a brown and a blue eye). She wore one contact lense until her father exposed here posting a childhood photo of her with her natural eyes. Then she went to India to have a dangerous operation to colour one eye blue. (Sorry if repost)"

19.) "teeth brighter than my future"

20.) "Same day — Instagram vs Forbes photoshoot"

21.) "He 'travels' the world and he has his own personal fence following him around the world"

22.) "When puberty hits you so hard that even your eyes turn blue"

23.) "Photo on left is from when she first joined Instagram. Photo on right is recent and after influencer fame. Might as well be a different person."

24.) "when it’s 'raining' but not enough to make your hair wet"

25.) "Posted VS tagged. She is always making her waist tiny and editing her arms to create a muscular build."

26.) "Influencer who got called out for photoshopping herself to Paris uses exact same shoot for another fake posting"

27.) "When instagram famous gonna youtube"

28.) "Everything is an illusion on this woman’s profile"

29.) "Her booty just melts into the seat"

30.) "When you facetune your skin to oblivion but forget to adjust your claw"

31.) "Instagram 'model' steals photo of Queen and photoshops herself in"

32.) "photoshop: fun for the whole family!"

33.) "The razor burn is real"

“I never laugh until I've had my coffee."

-Clark Gable

Grab a big old cup of caffeine and start your day off by laughing at these absurdly funny memes. This wacky list is sure to make you chuckle, even if you still have crusty eyes and morning breath.

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Is it just me or is everything getting more expensive? Even if you're not saddled with debt, the increased cost of goods and services makes saving money essential. Uncool as it sounds, I saved 33% ($9) at CVS yesterday with coupons and discounts - and it made my day. I checked my bank balance and was thrilled to see it in the triple digits. When you're trying to keep from hemorrhaging funds, it's the little things, y'know?

So my blood pressure rose when reading this Reddit thread cataloguing instances of wasteful spending people have personally witnessed. Below are some highlights. Scroll through at your own risk! Not advised for broke people with heart conditions.

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My boyfriend’s dad owns 7 different Apple Watches because he didn’t want to change the bands out.

-handsome_colon

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I know a guy who purchased a second car.

His first car is a mustang. His second is an Audi.

He is a single father,.

His payment arrangement is 400 per month. He didn't try to talk it down.

The car is 10 years old.

His mustang isn't paid off.

He works on my team in the same position as I have. My wife and I together can barely afford our 250 per month single car payment.

And the best part?

He can't drive a stick. His new car is a stick.

He hasn't learned to drive a stick. It's been 3 years.

He's been doing all of this and struggling for 3 years for a lawn ornament.

-Effendoor

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I work as a freelance musician and often stand in for wedding bands; have worked at lots of weddings where clearly the families have crazy money.

One thing I always see at the fancier events without fail is a TONNE of amazing, fully prepared food and expensive drink being tipped/thrown away at the end of the night.

When I asked about it once, I was told by one of the staff that a lot of catering companies are trained to prepare enough of every menu option so that if everyone orders the same thing, they have enough. What happens in reality is they tip away enough food to feed the wedding party (often of 200+ people) another two times over.

Particularly annoying when the band are served cold chips as their 'evening meal' because "we couldn't stretch the budget, sorry!"

On a more positive note, one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a drummer successfully sneak out of a catering tent, having liberated a whole wheel of cheese that night.

-SolidSizzle

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I'm a VIP tour guide at Walt Disney World. Each guide costs $600/hour and charging starts when you ask us to meet you, whether you're there or not. A family booked two of us multiple days in a row and wouldn't show up until typically 2-3 hours into being charged. $7k+ overall paid for tour time they didn't use. Didn't care at all.

-gatejejf

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Bad superbowl commercials. Every 30 seconds of this is 5 million dollars.

-Stewart_Games

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Someone buying a £20 extended 3 year warranty on a £6 kettle.

-Atarisrocks

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Few years back i used to make cast molded pewter figurines for DnD. I could buy $25 worth of pewter, and mke about 50-75 figurines, which i sold for $10-$50 each (depending on the size).

Had a guy come to me, buy EVERY figurine i was able to make (i had 72 different molds) for a cost of $900.

Said he was going to get deep into DnD...week later he gave up on the game because he couldnt figure out the battle system....

-WeirdWolfGuy

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I work at a car dealership as an apprentice mechanic, now I've seen many examples of people wasting their money, be it car parts, dumb accessories, whatever the list goes on. But there was this one guy that would spend literally 75$ on a car freshener, and bragged about it, constantly.

He'd call himself "elite" because he bought these 75$ pieces of scented cardboard. I dont know what went through his mind every time he'd buy one of them.

-BigJo101

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Some rich dude in the Hamptons buying a pallet of Fiji bottled water. For his hot tub.

-wwishie

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My roommate plays Fortnite and buys every single skin that come out. Every. One.

-mr_burrito

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I worked at a 5 star beach resort. Rich 30 something year old mom comes in around 10am to buy sunglasses. $500 Prada shades? No big deal... These people have "fuck you money" so I think nothing of it and return to work like the good pleb that I am. This bitch lost the glasses in the ocean, buys another pair, loses that pair, then complains that we won't give her the 3rd pair for free.... So she pays for the 3rd pair... This all happened before 3pm. 1500 dollars in sunglasses in 5 hours.

-not_your_dads_OP

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One from the late 1990's....

A large multinational engineering firm was given orders to eliminate "unnecessary overhead expenses."

One of their departments had a large conference coming up. About half the attendees were going to attend by teleconference. In those days, "teleconferencing" was done in dedicated rooms with CRT monitors and cameras.

The use of these rooms was classified as an "overhead expense". But business travel was not.

So, in the name of Saving Money, all the teleconference arrangements were canceled, and all attendees were flown in to attend in person.

-CliftonForce

Here at Someecards, we're intimately familiar with the hardships of teaching. It's an undervalued, misunderstood profession that puts even its most dedicated practitioners in the cross hairs of administrators, parents, and pupils. This week teacher Annie Demczak publicly discussed an issue plaguing the field that remains taboo: abuse at the hands of students.

Annie broached the subject by drawing parallels between signs of abuse in domestic relationships and the behavior that students can subject teachers to. If you wouldn't tolerate being hit or screamed at by a partner, you shouldn't tolerate those behaviors in the classroom, either.

We tell women (and men) that if someone hits you, screams at you, tells you that they’re going to kill you, tells you their going to bring a gun and shoot you, steals from you, destroys your things, threatens your friends, curses at you, mocks you, makes fun of your physical appearance, GET HELP. RUN AWAY. IT IS NOT OKAY. LEAVE THE ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP. CUT TIES.

Even though leaving can be dangerous, it's sometimes the best course of action. But that's not what we advise teachers to do - far from it.

YET when a student does any of the above to a teacher, we don’t acknowledge it as a red flag, we give them no consequences, we allow it to continue without any regard to a teacher’s well-being, safety or mental health.

In such toxic situations, we continue to ask teachers to show up with a smile on their face, ignore the issues, reward dangerous and toxic behavior and do as your told.

In Annie's experience, accepting such treatment is considered part of a teacher's job. You're expected to continue working like nothing happened.

Teaching is the most toxic profession I know of.

I am so SICK and disgusted of seeing young, fresh, energetic, bubbly, WONDERFUL teachers think that being assaulted at their workplace is OKAY.

I am so SICK and disgusted of seeing experienced, wise, INCREDIBLE seasoned teachers think that being assaulted at their workplace is OKAY.

She finally declares, 'Teaching is the most toxic profession I know of.' An assessment so harsh isn't what I expected to read, especially coming from a teacher herself. But I suspended judgment and kept going. I'm glad I did.

I love all my students. I love the students with trauma. I love the students with mental illness. I love the difficult students. I love the violent students....

because I’m a teacher and my heart is made of glitter and marshmallows and happiness and rainbows. Loving little people with abandon is what I freaking do.

But sometimes, loving someone looks like setting boundaries. Consequences. Hard conversations. Seeking additional support. Reporting dangerous behavior. Standing your ground. Finding alternative placements.

She invokes the domestic violence metaphor again to continue her argument. Teachers love all their students, even the difficult ones. They know not everyone has stable households or positive role models. But sometimes holding students accountable for their actions is the best way to love them.

Stop worrying if you’re tenured.

Stop saying “they’re just kids”.

Stop being scared of the parents or of administration.

Stop wondering if you should tell someone.

Stop giving up because no one will do anything.

Annie exhorts teachers to stop fretting and start taking action re: abuse.

Stop thinking you should be PHYSICALLY assaulted and VERBALLY berated at your job.

Stop thinking that having intense anxiety and depression surrounding your workplace is NORMAL.

It is not okay. This is not what we signed up to do.

You are a wonderful, caring, amazing person who has the biggest heart for wanting to help little people....

but don’t you dare think that it is OKAY to be ABUSED and TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF at your workplace.

We would never tolerate it in any other area of our lives. This is no different.

Teachers have normalized negative consequences of toxic classrooms. Now is the time to stop accepting what would be considered unacceptable behavior in other contexts.

If you have teacher friends, check on them.

If you’re a parent, please ask your child EVERY DAY what happened at school that day. Please speak up for the well-being of teachers. We are trying so damn hard for your kids. You are more powerful than you realize. You can help protect our teachers. You have the power to call our school systems to something better.

We have GOT to do better.

Teachers, you’re amazing and when I leave the classroom, I will still always have your back for as long as I live.

She finally appeals to the people orbiting teachers who can support them. We all need to check on our teacher friends (note to self!). And parents? You should ask your children *every day* what happened at school. Capisce?

"Sex is funny and love is serious."

-Stephan Jenkins.

Sex is funny and memes are funny, therefore this list is freakin' hilarious. We won't judge you for laughing at this slightly raunchy list of jokes. There are plenty of other things to judge you for.

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Paul Rudd, one of the most likable celebrities bar none, is in the news for a very silly reason. He appeared on the web series Hot Ones, in which host Sean Evans interviews guests over a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings. Evans asked Rudd about a trick he does to render any photograph taken automatically NSFW and the star demonstrated several variations of it. It's the weekend, but if you're in an office this video's probably not kosher unless your boss is cool - or a huge Paul Rudd fan. And honestly, who isn't?

'I learned my pinky, at the right angle, makes a great scrotum.' Sir, humanity doesn't deserve you.

People were obsessed with Rudd's hilariously juvenile sense of humor and the segment's masterful editing.

The entire episode is available on YouTube:

Rudd's been starring in film and television for over twenty-five (!) years now. His breakthrough role in 1995's 'Clueless' as Cher's stepbrother/love interest catapulted him to mainstream fame. He's well known for Judd Apatow films like 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'This Is 40' and for his role within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Scott Lang/Ant-Man. He's currently promoting his Netflix show 'Living With Yourself,' which premiered October 18.

If you're a human being who's never dealt with insecurity, you're lucky. And also maybe not even a human being. Like, are you for real? Even superheroes and supermodels have their moments of insecurity.

A Reddit user asked the people of the internet, "What screams 'I'm very insecure'?" and got a whopping 26,000 responses from insecurity connoisseurs. We've combed through the best ones.

Just to forewarn you: these are pretty vague signs that might leave you wondering if you, yourself, are insecure. It's almost like... we all are.

1. Humble-bragging.

"Constantly wedging 'humble bragging' into conversations" is one sign of insecurity, zazzlekdazzle writes.

K38FishTacos jokingly replied, "I had a hard time with that when I was at Harvard."

2. Assuming the worst in people.

Shurasena points out that negative thinking can be a sign of insecurity:

Automatically assuming negative intent.

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You friend didn't pick your call?

"Fuck her, she's trying to avoid me. I don't care about her anyway."

Bishiegiraffe corroborated with an anecdote:

Had a friend who, while I took a nap, texted me

"I noticed you didn't share your chocolate bar with me at lunch. Are you mad at me? Are we even friend anymore?" 2 hours later, "I guess I have my answer."

Oof, hope they worked it out!

3. Dominating conversations.

SpiritGas's red flag: "Trying to dominate conversations (not to be confused with just being a charismatic person)."

Inaimad concurred, writing:

I know a guy who will talk forever, on and on about something that may or may not be interesting to anyone but him in the first place. If anyone has something else to say that leads to a small tangent or participation of other people in the room he becomes visibly annoyed and will bring it back with an "ANYWAY" at the earliest opportunity and continue ranting.

OMG, Inaimad, I didn't know we were friends!

4. Excessive self-deprecation.

"This is a self roast," wrote catman11234, "but I think I degrade myself just to hear others deny it, is that insecure?"

Admiral_of_Crunch didn't miss a beat, responding, "You crafty son-of-a-gun that's what you're doing right now!"

5. GPS stalking.

This is a red flag for many pathologies, not just insecurity. Madisonjames95 wrote:

When people have and insist on constantly checking on their SO via some tracking app on their phone.

It's one thing to have it and use it in case of emergency, but using it while out with your friends to make sure he's actually at work is creepy and super insecure.

Uhhh, you got that right!

6. Inspirational tweets.

A user named saltyasss says a big sign of insecurity can be #LiveLaughLove personal branding:

I’ve found that a lot of people on Twitter that feel the need to post about how great of a person they are and they have nothing but good intentions are usually the most toxic people I’ve seen

This math checks out.

7. Shyness.

Not all shy people are insecure, but agatharcus says their shyness is based in insecurity:

As an insecure person, I find it hard to look people in the eyes. I also find it hard to tell any stories about myself, because I'm afraid people will think I'm lying, or that I won't be part of the group because of personal differences. I always think everyone is better than me; I can see all the good in everybody, but I know that they see all the bad in me. Insecure people stand in the corner and don't join the group.

Amanda30697 is also feeling it:

I feel you friend. There’s something about eye contact and conversing where if I’m saying something I’ll worry “shoot do they think I’m lying? Wait what if I AM lying?” And then obsess over the “criteria” that meets the situation. Example: I love cookies. But wait do I like cookies more than other people? I don’t eat them that often so can I really say I love them? A silly little example but my ability to rationalize needs a little help.

And Corrog clarifies that just because someone's shy and insecure, it doesn't mean they dislike other people:

Adding on for good measure, the internal monologue for insecure people isn't malicious. If I'm not looking you in the eyes while we're talking, I'm probably afraid you'll be offended if I do. If I'm not talking about myself to others, I probably think nobody would be interested to hear about me.

Can we get a group hug going in this subreddit already?? :(

8. Vagueposting for sympathy.

We all have a social media friend or two who's done what SwimnGinger describes:

[T]hey tag themselves into any and EVERY place including the docs/hospital/somewhere personal. Then when someone asks if they’re ok they reply with: ‘don’t ask hun xoxox’

Yikes! Also, maybe check on them, it can't hurt.

9. Being an a-hole in the workplace.

As we've mentioned, everyone deals with insecurity at some level and it's usually not malicious. But YourBoyRocket points out that self-doubt can manifest in nasty ways at the workplace:

I mostly see this at work.

- People who are in upper management and treat people like garbage just because they can.

- Being unnecessarily mean, rude or bitter to people.

- Treating new employees like garbage just because you're threatened they might take your job some day.

Oof.

10. One-upping.

MAXSELLSEY's biggest sign of insecurity? Responding to someone's comment or story with a similar comment or story that blows theirs out of the water.

People who always have to one up you in everything if you tell a story they have a better one, if you buy something expensive they have to be something even more expensive. Some people’s whole life is trying to win some non existent competition

Yeah, this can be annoying. But also, counterpoint: life is rough. Please tell me all about your expensive purse/vacation/home. I care and think it's great!

11. Inflating your child's accomplishments.

Littlecuckprincess (lol ok) has one for the moms of the world:

I deal with insecure moms a lot, either at the playground or mommy groups. They’re insecure about what milestones their child is hitting and how they are doing as a mother.

One of the biggest tells is when they brag about something that’s clearly a lie, or even a partial truth.

“My 3 year old is reading at a first grade level!” Ok but he’s eating grass right now and just pooped himself.

You see it a lot on social media now.

“My 20 month old is potty trained!” Having several accidents a day and needing a diaper whenever she sleeps is not potty trained.

Yeah moms are pretty judgy and many mommy groups are toxic but most of can tell when you’re lying and it screams insecure.

Motherhood sounds great.

12. Stressing about whether other people like you.

Degobbi came through with the most relatable one yet:

When you question yourself "do they actually like me or are they pretending to?" or when you think you're gonna bother other people if you talk to them

I'm in this photo, and I don't like it!

13. Tearing down people who actually like/tolerate themselves.

Allegedly, people with something called "high self-esteem" exist. And n0de_0f_ranv1er says a major sign of insecurity is when someone tries to pull these mythical unicorns down:

People whose self-esteem is so low that they can't stand the sight of people with high self-esteem, so they will try to break down anyone they perceive as more successful than them. When a group of this type of people comes together, a major crab bucket mentality arises and they will target people perceived as highly competent or successful for bullying, gossip, false rumors, and other things that should have been wiped out after elementary school.

This comment resulted in a bunch of other Redditors talking about how everyone hates them for being good-looking in nerd jobs. Good for them!

14. Worrying that you're insecure.

ThatsMyCow got meta, saying the biggest sign of insecurity is "clicking on this post, to see if any of the top comments are things you do."

But as Suza751 points out, this isn't such a bad thing. "Its nice to confirm im not a total piece of sh*t," they wrote. "If i am how can i improve as a person?"

And Mc_Whiskey came through with the real knowledge:

I think a lot of people here are confusing being an a**hole with being insecure. I know I am pretty insecure about myself but I dont have a lot of the traits people are pointing out. It is possible to be insecure about yourself with out being an a**hole to others.

Touché, Mc_Whiskey. Let's put the self back in self-loathing! Just kidding, but insecurity is totally normal and does not make you a bad person.