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20 funny reactions from critics who really hated the new 'Cats' movie.

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"Cats" already looks like a terrifying lesson in why CGI has gone too far.

In case you haven't heard of this certain disaster yet, here's the trailer:

With an all-star cast and Andrew Lloyd Weber's award-winning score it certainly has a lot going for it. Still, the Broadway musical gave it a certain level of suspension of disbelief that people could get behind. Onstage, we know people can't magically turn into cats but it's fun to see dancers in elaborate tights lick their hands for two hours. However, turning this musical into a movie was an idea that I hope somebody had while high as hell on a boat in the sun.

Already, there's no plot. The musical was fun because it had pyrotechnics and great costumes and one objectively, undeniably great song ("Memory"). The entire story of "Cats" is that one cat gets to die and be reborn into a new cat life once a year at the "Jellicle Ball." What's a Jellicle, you ask? Don't worry, there's an entire song about it. There's no villain, there's no protagonist--the entire show is each cat trying to prove why they should be the one who gets to die. And now we get to add celebrities with computer fur to the mix? NO THANKS.

Why do the cats have breasts? Why didn't they just make this an actual CGI musical where the cats look like actual cats? Is this what Dame Judy Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and 1 million dollars-per-day artist of the decade Taylor Swift really need? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

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Mom criticized for post asking if anyone can photoshop her stepson out of family photos.

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If there's one thing all those Disney movies taught us, it's the trope of the evil stepmother, hellbent on making the life of her stepchild an isolated hell while treating her own kin like tiny royalty.

While Disney movies aren't the most accurate depiction of the real world (you'll be hard-pressed to find a half-octopus woman determined to steal a royal mermaid's voice), they still affect our cultural perceptions. So, the (misogynist) trope of the Evil Stepmother has remained, despite the fact that plenty of stepmothers are kind-hearted, and many step-fathers are equally bad news.

That being said, there are real life horror stories of stepmothers who swoop into a kid's life and treat them like second class citizen while doting over their birth children. Even when it's not intentional, this type of treatment can affect a person's self-esteem and feelings about family down the road.

One mom is currently coming under fire online after making a Facebook post asking if anyone could "remove" her stepson from a handful of family photos.

A screenshot of the post was shared on Reddit, with the children's faces blurred out for privacy's sake.

The stepmom's post read:

"Is there anyway y'all could remove the kid to the right in these pictures. He's my stepson and I love these pictures of us together but I also didn't get any good ones with just two without him. Also remove him from the full family pictures please. Thanks in advance."

EDIT: I love my stepson but I do want some without him in them. I already posted these but I just wanted to have it both ways.

As you can see by the reactions (ranging from angry to sad), it's clear the post blew up in a bad way on Facebook, and that infamy helped it travel to Reddit, where people dragged the stepmom and empathized with the stepson.

smsjohnson2 remembers what it felt like to be the little boy.

This happened to me - i'm 30 now.

Family were discussing the upcoming family photos, and my sister suggested we move the date so I could be involved too.

My step-mum said it was "for family only", and said it was best to leave it as it was.

___ireallydontknow already has schadenfreude for the stepmom's future.

Parents seem to forget that when they get old - they'll need people to take care of them again. At least you won't have that burden.

AnonymousChikorita feels nothing but empathy for the sweet little boy.

This genuinely made me sad. Imagine how that child felt. I bet he noticed he wasn’t included like the other two.

foilfun is positive that the stepson could sense things were different with him.

I’m sure he noticed. Kids are perceptive. He might not notice enough to recognize what’s going on, but he for sure notices enough to internalize it.

MunkyFarm75 thinks the stepmom should be photoshopped out.

If I was fortunate enough to get her request I would have photoshopped her out and sent that back to her...."now the photo is perfect"

While the stepmom's public request to alienate her stepson is a bad omen for their relationship, the fact that people are calling it out gives hope that she'll wake up and change her ways.

13 teachers share the most dramatic things that happened on school trips.

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Most schools rarely take their students on field trips, and these stories explain precisely why. Teachers and students on Reddit shared the worst things that happened when their classes left school grounds and there's blood, chewed gum, and secret orgies.

1. ellieellieoxenfree had a bloody good time.

We went skating, and one of the students fell, smacked her chin off the ice, and somehow got a skate blade to the face... she needed a bunch of stitches, and was able to stick her tongue through the hole in her face...


2. AmazingAbel_'s student had a next-level sense of entitlement.

Asked my students to be respectful of other pedestrians while on the trip, because some people want to enjoy the nature center by themselves, one kid saw a woman with her service dog and tried to pull on it because “mommy would let me have it” we had to leave because of that and he ruined the entire trip for everyone.


3. MisterBigDude survived everybody's social anxiety nightmare.

I was a new teacher when the whole grade went on a field trip during the first week of school.

In fact, I was so new that nobody - not even my colleagues - noticed that I wasn’t on the bus. So it left without me.

(Fortunately, the destination was only about 15 minutes away, so it wasn’t a big deal for me to jump in my car and follow the bus there.)


4. marteaula with another social anxiety nightmare: not being invited to the orgy.

Kids were going to a conference for a leadership/service oriented club. They got brought home early because a chaperone found an orgy in one of the rooms that had been pre-planned in a group chat that almost all of the kids on the trip were in.

That was a sh*tstorm.


5. maryejane's would be hilarious if there wasn't such a double standard for girls.

My 15yr old step-sister was caught giving a guy a blowjob on the bus back from their ski trip. Catholic school, they both got asked to leave. She moved to a local public high school and was known as blowjob girl.

Side note, 2yrs later my bio-dad and step mum split up. I'm back living with my Mum, in a different town (4hrs away) and a new kid starts at the school and he was telling the story of blowjob girl in out home-ec class.


6. In the future, every one of Veechin's students will be stuck in a baby swing for fifteen minutes.

One of my students thought it would be cute to sit in a baby swing. She got stuck. The NYPD had to be called. They cut her out of the baby swing in front the whole grade, who naturally swarmed the area to watch. She s “Snapchat famous” for a weekend.


7. PopeliusJones had to teach a student not to steal.

I went on a class trip as chaperone to a science center. I was in charge of a group of 8 boys. One of them goes missing, I ask the others where he went, and they don't know either. He's missing for about 10 minutes until a security guard from the center comes up to me with him. The guy asks "is he one of yours?", and tells this kid to open his backpack when I say yes. Probably $200 worth of stolen stuff in there. He spent the rest of the trip right next to me


8. tg1024 story is the most Florida thing to ever Florida.

Band trip to Disney World. Lead bus driver "knew a shortcut". This led to 5 large motorcoaches lost in an orange grove somewhere near Orlando. No idea how much damage we did to those trees, the roads really weren't designed for huge busses.


9. raw_testosterone's story is a story of...raw testosterone.

Not teacher. I remember back in high school my friend got caught jacking off in the furthest back seat on the bus... by his mother.. who was a teacher and chaperone for the field trip


10. stemh18 had three crises for the price of one.

9th grade student got caught with beer in his energy drink bottle. Student very nearly got hit by a car. A third student vomited. All on the same trip.


11. your-yogurt is a tall glass of dead woman water.

My sis went to NY for a field trip and the hotel told them not to drink the water. They found out a woman had drowned herself in the water tank. But apparently it was okay for them to bathe in it?? My sis said the kids were washing themselves and going, "omg, this is dead woman water!!!!"


12. reptilefood taught a psychopath-in-waiting.

Kid punched a dolphin. Petting tank at SeaWorld. Kid just hauled off and punched a dolphin. School was banned.


13. Believe_In_Magic's class caused an international incident with gum.

When I was a kid my class went on a full day trip to Canada on a fairly expensive ferry. On the return trip two kids messed up the bathrooms and put gum on a lot of the ferry seats. Our school district was banned from that ferry afterwards so the next year my sister's class wasn't allowed to go.

Man asks if he's wrong for getting high school bully fired as an act of revenge 10 years later.

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Bullying is wrong (even the wife of the world's biggest bully agrees!). But is it also wrong to get someone fired for bullying you, ten years later? This was the moral dilemma a man shared on Reddit's "Am I The A**hole?" forum, after he served up a cold dish of revenge to the man who bullied him back when he was in high school.

The man, who is gay, explains that he still has trauma a decade later from a bully named "John" outing him to his entire high school. The repercussions were "so bad" he had to change schools.

So, highschool was a while ago, like a decade ago, and I still have trauma from my highschool bully. We will call him John.

When I was in highschool I hung out with a small group of people, who then I thought were my friends. I confided in them, and expressed my biggest and most secret insecurity at the time, my sexuality.

I had told 2 people in my circle of friends that I was gay. Long story short, word got around to one of their friends, John. John had always treated others really badly, and loved to humiliate people on a regular basis. John outed me to the rest of the school, and the repercussions were so bad that I had to change high schools.

The man, who is now out, in a relationship, and "loving life" (yay!), says "John" recently added him on Facebook (bullies love Facebook) and he accepted the request.

Fast forward to today, 10 years later. Good news is, I am now comfortable with who I am, and have been living as an openly gay man with his loving partner, things could not be better. I am loving my life...

As for John, he decided to add me on Facebook a few years back (probably to snoop on my business and see how I was going in life) and for some reason, past better judgement, I accepted the request. And for the most part, regretted accepting that request, until today...

Apparently John recently got his "dream job" as a first responder. He also recently got into a Facebook argument that culminated in him "trying to belittle, humiliate, and harass" people who disagreed with his opinions, slinging the "r-word" and calling people "f*cking dumba**"—basically for being everyone's worst uncle.

Well, John just got his dream job of becoming a first responder. (Got to move across the country, and is making good money). Today John decided to make a Facebook post, stating a political opinion (which he often does) in order to get a "rise" from his Facebook people. Well, things escalated very quickly, and some super nasty things were said from John, to anyone that was trying to debate with him. He was clearly trying to belittle, humiliate, and harass anyone that tried to debate. "Retard, moron, fucking dumbass" were some of his most commonly used phrases and words when he would reply to anyone that would disagree with him. Clearly he hasn't changed much since high school.

The man saw this as an opportunity for revenge. So he screenshotted the comments and sent them to John's employer.

I ended up screenshotting the whole status and comments (blurring out anyone elses name and profile pics for privacy) and sending it to John's employer, and HR department.

Since John was only employed a month ago, he is still in a "probationary period" and will likely lose his dream job. The man says he "feels good" about his decision to get John fired to "repay" him for what he did in high school.

John has only been at his new job for a month, he is still in the "probationary" period. John is most likely going to lose his job because of me, and I honestly feel good about it. I feel that John tried to crush me 10 years ago, and this is the least I can do to repay him.

But clearly he fears that maybe he didn't do the right thing. Because he took to Reddit to ask the question: "Am I The A**hole?"

Commenters are divided. Some people think that this man's actions were justified and his bully deserves to face consequences for his actions.

LingWisht writes:

He hasn’t matured at all since high school it seems, and if he is fired it’ll be over his own words.

And roadwobbler writes:

NTA. He is TA. And a stupid one at that. What half smart person does not realize by now that employers are highly sensitive to that kind of moronic crap. He should have been especially careful because of his probationary period.

Some people say you TA but deservedly so. I say you had a right to do that because he was TA.

But it seems the majority of people believe getting someone fired as an act of retribution for past wrongs is actually an a**hole move.

Longtimefirsttime9 writes:

Very surprised people here aren't holding you accountable for being spiteful and getting revenge for something that happened a decade ago.

If you are holding on to this shit for 10 years I really recommend therapy.

ESH [Everyone Sucks Here]

And RagaMuffinSun agrees, writing:

ESH-He’s an as*hole for his behavior past and present. While I understand why you did and would probably do it myself it’s still an as*hole move.

So is it wrong to get someone fired as an act of revenge? Probably. But does it make me feel happy and warm inside just in time for the holidays? Also, probably. Am I a bad person who deserves a lump of coal for Christmas? Definitely.

People are bragging to internet strangers about the Christmas gifts they can't wait to give.

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'Tis the season of giving!

There's truly nothing better than knowing someone so well that you absolutely nail it on a gift. The holidays can be stressful when it comes to shopping and it's pretty tempting to phone it in and go for the standard cash or gift card.

If you're a thoughtful, creative gift giver and you think of a perfect gift for Christmas, the hardest part is waiting until you get to finally watch the person you love open it!

When a recent Reddit user asked, "What awesome holiday gift did you get someone that you can’t tell them about yet but want to brag about?" people were ready to share! Get ready to feel pretty guilty about your chocolate bar and socks combo, these people aren't messing around when it comes to Christmas.

1. This is adorable, "emirja."

My fiancé’s grandma makes these really labor intensive stockings whenever someone enters the family (birth/marriage), and she just finished mine after a year of working on it. No one in the nearly 40 years that she has been making these has ever made her one, so she’s the only one in the family who doesn’t have one. She has no clue that while she’s been making mine, I’ve been making one for her for Christmas this year!

2. A+, "sunsetlemon."

My nan loves doing jigsaw puzzles and my nan's cat loves ruining said puzzles by pulling them off the table and generally being a nuisance. I took a picture of her cat laying on a puzzle she was doing a little while ago and had a puzzle made of that picture!

3. Oh my god, "fold_equity."

I have a baby grand piano being delivered on the 23rd for my wife. She has wanted one since we have been married (7 years) and I have said “someday” for a while. She has been taking lessons again (since childhood) for 1.5 years and is getting good.

I “hid” funds for a couple months to pay for it and had to take a day off work to go look at one 100 miles away.

Also, she is picking up her Mom and brother from the airport the day of delivery so it’ll be in our living room as a surprise when she gets back. She’s going to a party tonight so I’m going to wrap some decoy presents and place them under the tree.

She’s 7 months pregnant with our first child so I wanted to blow it out this year.

4. I'm crying, "loves_spain."

My grandpa has dementia. Prior to that time, he was really into geneaology (it's something his own father was into as well). I got him a family tree sculpture that has small photo frames, and I've gone through old family photos and had the best ones professionally printed, and I've put them into this sculpture. It goes as far back as to the first photos that his father took with their first camera. So not only are there photos of the whole family, but you get to see how technology has improved over time too. He may not remember what he said five minutes ago, but he loves to talk about the past and I really hope he loves this gift.

5. AMAZING, "PhilosophersPants."

We’re surprising our kids (14 and 11) on Christmas morning. We’ll open all the presents, have cinnamon rolls, etc. Then drop the old “oh, there’s one more present hiding back there.” It will be snorkeling gear... (?). Then we’ll tell them to pack their bags because we’re leaving for Hawaii in 4 hours.

Should be epic.

6. AHHHH, "RacerM53."

My brother loves the office but is upset that its leaving hulu. So I got the complete series for him and got it signed by steve carrell

7. This is amazing, "altusvires."

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer around Thanksgiving. Because of her chemo treatments, she’s too weak to travel, and all of us kids live in different cities now. (Four siblings, some married, some with our own babies).

What she doesn’t know is that we’re all going to fly down and show up at her house so we can all spend Christmas Day together, grandbabies and all! I’m so excited, and it’s going to be hard to keep it a surprise!

On top of us all coming, we’re also going to recreate a photo from our childhood. She made us all matching plaid outfits and posed us for a picture - twenty years ago!

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the awards and nice comments! Not to mention all the good advice!

First, don’t worry, we won’t be “ambushing” her with guests and germs all at once! I’ll be arriving a week earlier to help clean, cook, etc. My dad and sister live with her, and will help out, too. My husband, my other sister, brother, and his wife and baby will all arrive at different times leading up to the big day! And we all made sure to get our flu shots!

I was second-guessing our big surprise, because I was worried about how sick and weak she’ll be feeling. But all your positivity reminded me how happy she’ll be to have all of us together, even just for one day! We’ll take good care of her, she won’t need to lift a finger! And yes, I’ll do my best to remember to post the re-creation picture later!

8. Aw! "danielle8088."

My sister is away teaching English in another country. Her pet Cockatiel sadly passed away this year. I got her a small geometric Cockatiel charm and gold chain necklace. I bought it in August and is my favorite gift this year.

Also my mom wanted 20 cheap storage bins to stack her shoes in and I wrapped each one individually with random doodads in every single one.

9. STOP THE TEARS, "peytonstone3."

my grandpa passed away last year around christmas and its been really hard on my whole family because we were all very close to him. my sister always watches old videos of him because she loves to hear his voice, so i got her personalized teddy bear dressed like him (flannel, glasses, mustache) with a recording inside that plays a voicemail that he had left her that says “keep this thought with you; your grandfather, michael, adores you”. it plays whenever you hug it and i cant wait until she sees it!!

10. Yes! "2WoW4Me."

My girlfriend never treats herself at all and doesn’t enjoy shopping for clothes and accessories. She only has one small purse that’s going on 6-7 years old.

I was in Italy last month and while I was in Florence I stopped in Benheart, a super highly recommended shop, and got her a new one that’s a similar style/colour.

She doesn’t like when people spend money on her so she’ll flip her lid a little, in a good way.

11. A+, "PM_ME_UR_TRIVIA."

My moms coming from the west coast to visit me in Vermont for the first time. What she doesn’t know is that I’m meeting her at the airport and we’re going to Ireland, which is her bucket list destination.

12. So cute! "ButternutSquawk."

I symbolically adopted a sloth through WWF in my best friends name (her favorite animal). It comes with a little stuffed sloth in the mail and an adoption certificate.

13. This is so good, "CarmenSanDiego00."

I bought my parents a star chart of the night they were married. They were 17 and told they could never make it and over 35 years later they still love each other so much and I wanted to commemorate that day for them

13. All hail weighted blankets! "dannyr."

My wife is an insomniac and doesn't get to sleep until 3am some nights. She will lie there for hours and just can't nod off.

I've got her a weighted blanket which is said to help people with anxiety and also insomnia.

Everyone I've spoken to who has one has said how wonderful they are, so my fingers are firmly crossed she loves it.

14. This is so beautiful, "DivineMrsM."

My dad died 4 years ago. Right after the funeral, I snagged all his plaid button down shirts (10 of them!) and have spent the last few weeks turning them into a quilt for my mother. I had hoped to do it sooner, but a lot of life happened in the interim and it was just too painful for me to work on it for a while. But I’m finishing up the binding this week and it will be ready by Christmas. I’m so excited (and terrified) to give it to her.

15. Yay! "ch1ck_norr1s."

My mom is German but has lived in the states for as long as I've been alive. Her favorite breakfast is coffee and some sort of danish. It's a German thing. I found an authentic German bakery in a different city and got loads of German baked goods for her.

Now if I could just find a place that sells authentic German chocolate I could give her the happiest Christmas she's had in years.

20 pizza delivery drivers share stories about houses on the 'no delivery' list.

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Most pizza delivery drivers have their fair share of annoying customers. There are the bad tippers, the late night customers who fall asleep, the rude entitled people who expect pizza to magically appear within moments, and those that inexplicably give off strange vibes. Most of the time, these customers are frustrating but ultimately harmless, but there are some whose behavior goes so far it gets them blacklisted.

While the concept of blacklisting normally conjures up images of exclusionary Hollywood executives, or potentially dangerous travelers, the same rules apply to shady customers who repeatedly put people's safety or comfort at risk.

In a popular Reddit thread, pizza delivery drivers shared stories of the places they no longer deliver to, and it ranges from bizarre to terrifying.

1. bend1310's manager went full Terminator.

We had a guy and two girls order separately, then grab the pizzas and run.

The girls had picked the food up and left, while the guy was paying. After 30 seconds the guy bolted.

It was a $100 order.

My manager, who is a frequent gym goer, leapt the counter and gave chase.

The two girls had gotten into a car with the food, but when the saw my manager they drove off leaving the guy.

My manager chased him three blocks, and was gaining on the guy when the girls pulled up and the guy got into the car.

Unfortunately, all three of them went to school with a kitchen hand at the store, so we had names, jobs, addresses, and facebook accounts.

We contacted them all on facebook, and got them to pay for the pizzas the next morning under threat of contacting police. We also put them on the no delivery list.

2. MyWordIsBond was the lone deliverer.

I'm sure I'm too late for this to really be seen, but here's my positive story...

I delivered for a while in college, and there was two "we don't deliver there" neighborhoods. The manager actually allowed it to be driver's choice, but pretty much everyone said no. I actually had a friend who grew up in one of these neighborhoods and I knew it wasn't just drug dealing murdering psychopaths running rampant so I said yes, and I delivered to these neighborhoods.

One time I was delivering to an apartment that was part of a tri-plex or quad-plex and some kid outside, probably like 5 or 6 years old, stuck his finger at me and said "this is a robbery! Give me your money," I just chuckled and kept walking. While I was giving the person their pizza i heard from behind me "The hell do you think you're doing, boy?! Don't you know he the only one who deliver here?!" then as I was walking back to my car he was standing on the sidewalk (mom several feet behind him) and he said "I'm sorry"

3. colonelkidney had cop escorts.

Okay - we had a really nasty apartment complex in one area of Sacramento. Totally a no. One night a new guy took an order and actually accepted one from there. I was about to call back and say no (I was asst. manager at the time, but running pizzas that day), when in come two cops to pick up their pizza.

They listen in and offer to 'tag along.' I was dumb and crazy then, so we made the pizza and I loaded into my little truck and drove out there. As soon as we pull into the parking lot, the cop turns off ALL his lights and coasts in to th spot next to mine. I walk up, start the spiel, and start listening to their story of 'this guy' or 'that guy' ordered it.

I started to walk away and one of the shady dudes steps out of the bushes next to me, where he'd been hiding. Instantly, every light came on on the cop car, flashers, both spotlights pointing right at me, the cops getting out of the car - fast. Dude steps way way way back, I walk back to my car, and a couple cops got an extra free pizza that night, and I got a great story.

4. myheadfire didn't deliver to the scammer dude.

When I worked at a pizza place, we just had one person that we wouldn't deliver to because he would always refuse to pay and hassle the delivery guy, saying the pizza was cold, took too long, wasn't the right order, whatever. He probably got a couple free pizzas at least before we stopped bothering sending him anymore.

5. J31ch0n's shop banned a few sex creeps.

At our shop we banned an older man who tried to molest one of our larger male employees. Another guy just happened to be masturbating facing the window so the drivers could see him this happened a couple times so the cops were called... turned out he had a record of doing this but also doing it in front of school buses.

6. Booner999 wished they could throw 200 sandwiches at this lady.

I used to deliver sandwiches for a shop. We had to blacklist this one lady who would call up last minute and demand 50-100 sandwiches for her meetings and she wanted them delivered in 15 mins. We explained things to her over and over again that this was not how it worked, but she still demanded her order. So, when it showed up 45 mins later than expected, she became a monster, causing a scene, not tipping, sending in complaints to the district manager, etc.

This happened so many times, and finally, one day, she called in an order for 200 sandwiches, wanted it in 15 mins. I delivered it myself and she took the sandwiches from me for her meeting. I sat there and waited for her to sign the receipt... and waited......... and waited. Turns out, she took the sandwiches in to her meeting and booked the hell out of there, not signing the receipt.

She then called her bank to cancel the charge on her card and called us in for fraud. She had the nerve to call up our district manager and said that we OWED this to her since all of her orders were late. She was blacklisted after that and my district manager finally apologized for not believing me on this story. Drug Reps are the WORST!

7. Isord lives in a "do not deliver" complex.

Apparently our entire complex is on the "do not deliver after dark" list at a local pizza place. That was encouraging to find out a week after moving in.

8. sharlayan's store cut off a racist.

Our delivery store has a woman who used to come in every so often, or order delivery, who did not want black people to interact with her or her food at all. One of our drivers, a really nice old black dude, delivered to her, and she simply slammed the door in his face.

Another time, she walked out on a black cashier, because she swapped places with the white driver who was originally taking her carryout order. Finally, the manager put his foot down and told her not to come back or order from us ever again.

9. BassAddictJ wasn't trying to die on the job.

Former Dominos driver in a Central FL hood. The no service list were apartment complexes or streets where drivers had been robbed at gun point. The downtown store had some it'll do in daylight but no service after dark.

F*ck that job.

10. atsinged had a lot of places on the list.

Long time ago for me, but we had a huge delivery area and several entire apartment complexes blacklisted because they were hideously unsafe for anyone thought to be carrying money. There were also a couple where we would deliver to the front gate only, not go in to the complex itself.

Greenspoint area, north side of Houston in the early 90s for those aware of the area.

11. AreNotOnFire is relieved they didn't see the goods.

I used to be a delivery driver for Pizza Hut. I used to work the Sunday afternoon shifts and would have the same man order a supreme pizza every week. I was always the one to deliver his order because most of the time I was the only driver on duty at that time of day. Alan was a nice, quiet man who had a lovely front porch.

One day, I didn't take his delivery for some reason. Poor Marvon took the delivery instead on the day that Alan decides to open the door stark naked. Alan wanted to show me (a small redheaded girl) the goods, not big black Marvon. Alan never got another delivery.

12. EnglishMajorRegret's shop protected a man who was overtipping.

There was an older man who suffered from dementia that would order four fountain drinks and nothing else from my shop, then would tip about $300 every time. After hearing about it a couple times, I told my manager, and we all agreed to get in contact with his family, let them know we wouldn't take orders from him, and that they'd have to take some measures to keep him from doing the same with other establishments. God only knows how much money that guy gave away.

13. jsnoots got bitten by a rottweiler.

I delivered pizza in NJ, I went on the porch to see a snarling Rottweiler behind the door. Not a big deal, happens a lot, I'm a stranger the dog is just being a dog. The lady pushes him back, we do the pizza transaction and as I'm turning to go the lady said, "Oh my god, he's out.. " the back door was open and the dog was charging around the house about to come on the porch.

I quickly opened the door to run inside but the lady screamed "no, the really bad one is inside" and I see a bigger Rottie just inside the hall so I stick myself between the screen door and the real door and I'm trapped in an angry dog sandwich. The outside dog bites my calf because I can only close the screen door so much, not much damage but I'm bleeding.

The manager goes to talk with the lady (it is like 1/8th of a mile from the store or that lazy bastard wouldn't of bothered) and Rotties are penned up out back. As soon as the lady starts talking to him another small mutt dog zips out the door and bites him on the hand. He made the call on no more pizza for them.

14. scottevil110's owner refuses to protect the delivery drivers.

Our greedy a*s owner refused to develop such a list, even after two of our drivers were mugged at the SAME HOUSE. They wouldn't let us avoid neighborhoods, no matter how unsafe, no matter what time of day.

15. chronologicalist did not return to that house.

In the late 90s I was still living in Detroit and in between desk jobs, so I delivered pizza as a part time gig. Detroit's neighborhoods have been rough for a few decades now, but the 90s seemed like they were on their own level. I won't say the specific neighborhood, but there were some really rough ones.

This one house, though...this house was just in awful shape. I kind of figured this would be bad even as I was driving down the street to get there. Every other house (literally) was either burned out or very obviously abandoned.

This one was just sh*tty looking, but I tried to be optimistic. I walked up to the door, awning kind of drooping over my head, and knocked. Almost instantly, the door cracked open, and all I saw was a dark hand with what looked like a glock. "Leave the pizza and walk away."

I complied, obviously, and told my manager that I wouldn't be delivering to that neighborhood anymore. Still stuck around with that job for another 6 months or so, but that was probably the only thing on that level I've seen.

16. esteban42 had a long list.

We had a few blacklisted numbers/addresses. Mostly were for people who wrote bad checks or would constantly complain/return orders/make threats. One address that was on the absolute edge of our delivery area (a business all by itself on the edge of town) got blackballed because people from outside the delivery area would give that address and meet us there.

A couple of bad neighborhoods (including one that was literally 6 dilapidated trailers in the middle of a field with a two-track going back to it, nothing but crackheads with Pit Bulls and Rottys with no leash) were blacklisted too.

17. BruschiOnTap's boss was a scammer of sorts.

Let me tell you this. One time I worked for this lady that owned Nardonne's Pizza in Atascadero, CA. She was the worst person ever, no one ever worked there longer than a couple months, and she just shit on everybody. She didn't have a "No Delivery" list but what she did have that was even worse was her own personal "Whitelist Delivery Book" that had EVERY single good tipper in the world on it.

Example: Delivery boy gets back and goes, "Wow that guy tipped me 20 bucks!" Owner then writes down that order/name/number in her book. Next time that guy calls to order a pizza she doesn't let anyone else deliver, she takes the delivery. No one new knew this trick, and she just kept taking orders from all the newbies, I worked there for about 4 months and caught on after the first month or so, after that I spent the next few months claiming that the HORRIBLE tippers, were AMAZING tippers. I would watch her go to these repeat customers and come back with a disgusted look on her face, I would ask her what's wrong but she didn't want to talk about it.

TL;DR: Pizza Owner would write down all the big tippers, she would only deliver to them, not share tips or nothing. I eventually started claiming the people that tipped horrible to be AMAZING tippers. Hilarity ensued.

18. Fail_Panda was remembered as one of the good customers.

My house got put on the a "deliver first" sort of list because we ordered so much and so often. Eventually, they would know people's phone numbers and knew the address automatically and sometimes give us a discount.

19. I-come-from-Chino does not miss their job.

Worked at papa john's the only place on the no delivery list were bounced checks. We had one driver get his knee bashed sideways with a baseball bat and money stolen, I delivered to the same place the next night. They didn't care about getting robbed because the driver is only supposed to have $25 max on him all times. So everything over that $25 the driver had to pay for. This driver I think had to pay around $125 after being assaulted.

Edit: I wanted to clarify about caring cash. We were told (for this very reason) that after every delivery (usually 2-3 houses) when you come back to the store you put all money in your drop box. Obviously if you got $60 cash on a delivery the store wouldn't make you pay for that but they had a record of how much the order was and how they paid.

20. lancegreene got set up by their manager.

Prior to my freshman year of college (2002) I was delivering pizzas for Pizza the Hut in a decent suburb outside of Cleveland. I was the typical stoner/partyer easy going delivery guy, as a little background. One afternoon my manager requested I go change several hundred dollars for smaller bills for our register. As I'm leaving the bank after getting change and getting into my car I sense someone approach from behind and suspect they are going to ask me for a cig.

Nope. Instead its a dude with pantyhose and his head and a knife and demands the money I have in my pocket and my keys. I oblige and he ultimately runs off and tosses my keys in the parking lot where I can see. When I run into the bank, no one at all saw the incident and wouldn't you know when they pull the footage there is sun glare in the exact spot on the window where my car was parked. The cops interrogate me and search the car, but seem to conclude that in fact I was telling the truth. My manager even vouched for me saying how I was a good kid.

Flash forward to about 10 years and I'm telling the story at a party and bam, it hits me. My manager, who often dated unsavory characters, set up the whole thing. Considering I was robbed in front of a bank in broad daylight on the busiest street in my town, who the hell would know to rob me; especially since I hadn't put my car topper on at this point.

15 funny interactions people had on dating apps in 2019.

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People spend hours and hours on dating apps, whether it's to score a date or write the hottest new pun going viral on Reddit. These slick digital pickup artists and self-satisfied punsters deserve to be in the Tinder Hall of Fame.

1. This slick roleplaying strategy.


2. A clever insurance policy.


3. Well the fact was interesting, as advertised.


4. So cheesy, it just might work.


5. Take her to Splash Mountain ;-)


6. He seems like a total snack.


7. The only thing better for his middle school fantasies would be if he matched with Stacy's Mom.


8. Speaking of hot moms...


9. Thano-she-didn't!


10. This is some next-level pun work.


11. This one really takes its Tolstoy.


12. Dead.


13. Another killer joke.


14. It's not a conversation, but it did take a lot of research.


15. This one went from wholesome to.......extremely not wholesome.

People are sharing the most embarrassing photos of themselves from high school.

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A fun thing about coming home for the holidays as an adult is getting to take a visual trip through the past. The findings are a hilarious reminder of the choices you made in your youth. Many of these choices were not good and yet they will live forever in a frame on top of mom's dresser. Or just on your phone (and the cloud). Either way, the shame is real.

A guy recently asked Twitter: "what’s the dumbest pic you have of yourself from high school? mine’s this of me posing seductively in my firehouse subs uniform after an extremely unfortunate haircut"

What followed is one of the most relatable threads in the history of the internet.

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A moment of silence for the cool people we all thought we were in high school. May they rest in never existed at all.


People are sharing stories of the creepy towns and haunting places they've visited.

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Have you ever gone somewhere and then discovered it wasn't listed on a map, and no one else in the area had ever heard of or witnessed it? Or maybe you've driven through a small town that just didn't feel right, only to find out it's a cult community, or the site for a series of ritualized crimes.

There are some experiences that don't fit neatly into the umbrella of ghost stories, or close-calls with predators, but enter a whole different realm of twilight zone.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the eerie towns, disappearing spaces, and the unexplained stories of places that shouldn't exist, and it makes me never want to go on a road trip.

1. RealAbstractSquidII wandered through an imaginary hill.

When my brother and I were 10 and 12 respectively our family went on a hike through the cemetery and into the woods not far from our house.

(My brothers and I would explore these woods every day. Even camped in em before. We knew it like the back of our hands. )

Anyway, as the family hits our usual spot by the creek halfway through brother 1 and I said wed be back in a few, we wanted to wander off further up creek. So we did.

We came across a very large hill we had never seen before. It was littered with what looked like someone's worldly possessions. As if they turned a house upside down, shook out the contents, took the house and left. There were tons of painted X's on the trees showing someone intended to cut them down at some point. We poked around for a few when we thought we heard our mom hollering at us. So we turned tail and walked maybe 20 feet back down the hill to where our parents were. The entire encounter was maybe 45 minutes long....on our end.

As soon as our mom saw us we got the beating of a life time. We had actually been gone almost 4 hours. She never saw us walk up any hill and remembered seeing us meandering down the strait path by the creek, not turning up a hill that was 20 feet away . She and her husband and our other brother combed the woods for over 4 hours screaming our names and couldn't find hide nor tail of us.

We pleaded our case and even tried showing her the hill. Surely she was messing with us. So we stomped up to the turn off for the hill and....it was gone. No where to be seen. For YEARS we explored the woods determined to find that fucking hill. We covered miles and miles of off path woods. As we got older we mapped it out. To this day that hill does not exist. We never found it again. Never found the weird furniture, toys, clothes, and other house hold items that were scattered across the hill. And never met anyone in the area that had a clue about the hill.

We probably just wandered way further then we meant to but I always found it weird that we never found the hill again.

2. Reconsct still has no idea what was going on with that town.

Many years ago myself and 2 of my best friends decided to go for a day of mountain biking at Snowshoe in southern W.Va. Now this was way before the days of GPS, so we were kinda doing this by some half assed directions and an old map, but the point is we got very lost. Sometime along the way we ended up in this very tiny little town and we figured we would ask for directions it was absolutely deserted. I'm talking not a single sole to be seen anywhere.

We parked the truck and split up looking for anyone. Now this was at around 9-10 a.m. so not exactly the a*s crack of dawn mind you. We went into the post office, nobody, we went into the only bar in town which was unlocked, unattended with music playing, but not a single sole present. We went business to business to business and walked the streets and after about 25 min finally found one old guy who just seemed to appear out of nowhere in the middle of town walking alone.

The first question we asked his wasn't even for directions. It was "where the hell is everyone" to which he replied: "Well I guess folks round here don't get up much till round noon". We asked him for directions to Snowshoe and he pointed to the road we came in on and said to go that way about 10 miles and make a right and we will find the interstate. We left quickly. We all had a very bad sense of unease about the whole thing.

As we left we were about 5 miles down the road and hit a lady dressed up in a state road uniform standing in the middle of a very long straightaway holding a stop sign. When we approached her she turned the sign from "slow" to "stop". We asked what was going on. She stated that there was road construction ahead. We told here of what just happened and she just kinda laughed and said those people in that town are kinda strange, but let it slide.

So we actually started talking to her waiting for a line of traffic to come by from the opposite direction. We actually ended up talking to her for about 45 min to an hour, just shooting the sh*t. Kinda got lost in the convo. Not one single vehicle EVER approached from the other direction or behind us. Eventually she said: "Well I guess it's clear now and y'all can go ahead" and slowly turned the sign from stop to slow and motioned for us to go ahead. We went straight ahead; the only direction you could possibly go for the next 30 some odd miles and didn't see any signs of construction, state road workers, or maintenance going on at all.

She had no vehicle we figured she was a flag woman dropped off by some crew up ahead. After the encounter with the town and this woman we had enough and called it quits. We turned on the interstate as soon as we found it and headed north and home. Every single one of us still remembers this whole encounter in vivid detail to this day. I asked my friend about it actually about 3 months ago at this wedding and it still freaks him out to no end.

3. PumpkinSpiceWhatever still doesn't know what happened.

This took place when I was 13. No one in my family will acknowledge it happened, the only ones who would cave to my “but great grandpa...!!!” have unfortunately passed away. No one will give me the time of day about it.

My family has a cabin in Cook’s Forest, Clarion, PA. Cabin was built by my great granddad, and has expanded a bit over the years but has a nice little nook at the bottom of a long dirt road off the main road and down a hill. There are a few other properties around, but most are up and off on the dirt road, only one is down the hill and only halfway at that. It’s not modern by any means; no internet, cell service, the TV still has dials you have to twist to get to watch a DVD. It’s very rustic and I love it.

The property halfway down the hill is visible from any part at the front of our cabin, which is where the kitchen window, parking, porch, and fire pit are. For as long as anyone can remember, it’s been this abandoned lot that had what was once a cabin with a concrete basement. The cabin was built on a hill so half the basement stuck out from the hill, but the remaining part was crumbling. It also was at the fork where we would ride our ATVs to get to the firebreak, so even though it could’ve been creepy it was a very common and familiar sight.

Until one Memorial Day, which is when we opened the cabin after the winter and a large part of our family would go to the cabin for the long weekend to spend time together. Everyone would usually get there through the early evening, and then all come together for my great granddad’s dinosaur pancakes for breakfast (The highlight of my single digit to preteen years).

So I wake up, expecting to smell pancakes and hear chatter from the older members of my family down in the kitchen, but nothing. I assume I’ve gotten up too early, and go downstairs to use the bathroom and then go back to sleep. Looking back, the whole upstairs was just mattresses with an aisle between them, I should have noticed that most beds were empty.

I get downstairs and see all the adults outside, and I go out to say good morning and demand my T-Rex pancakes. I walk out and see all my family adults in a kind of semicircle facing an older man and a woman I didn’t recognize. I assume this is some adult situation so I go back inside to wake up my cousins, but not before looking at the clock on the microwave and seeing that it’s about 3pm.

Now, I LOVED the cabin. I’d doodle the cabin itself, 4 wheelers, and the area around it for months leading up to Memorial Day weekend. I was usually up at the a*s crack of dawn because I was so damn excited to just be there. Sleeping until 3pm was not in any way normal.

I wake my cousins up and by the time they all mosey downstairs the adults are all back inside. Everyone is pretty silent but then great grandpa fires up the stove and gets us kids excited for dino-cakes, so all seems normal.

I was there with my one of my aunts and my uncle, no parents, and my aunt is pretty close in age to me and was for sure the “cool aunt”. So when I saw her pale as a sheet I went to ask what’s wrong.

She took me outside and pointed at the aforementioned abandoned and crumbling property. In its place was a sprawling cabin-mansion, parking area full of SUVs and the coolest looking 4 wheelers my 13 year old self had ever seen. Aunt tells me that the owners had come to say hi (the couple I saw earlier) and invited us over to hang out with their nieces and nephews, as they were having a Memorial Day get together just like us.

Me, having zero thought besides AWESOME 4 WHEELERS, almost ran to the house but my aunt caught me and rather forcefully reminded me of my dino-cakes. I conceded and ran back inside, to an atmosphere so thick with tension that even my undeveloped brain (thanks dr mom) could detect it. The oldest of the adults were acting normal and playing around with us kids, but something was very off. I finally asked wtf was up, and my aunt bonked me in the head and asked if I had seen that massive cabin-mansion last night, last year, the year before? We’d come to the cabin every few weeks until December, did I see any construction? Well...no..but they invited us over and they have cool 4 wheelers aunt Beth come on!!

A resounding NO from multiple family members made my emotional girl self almost flee and cry, until my grampie (a 6’7” hulk of a man) got down to my level and explained that he felt there was something weird going on. He said the couple didn’t act right, I assumed that meant they were rude, and that we should just keep to ourselves this weekend. I agreed and we went about our day, all adults keeping us occupied with activities either inside or behind the cabin.

We get ready for bed when I see my great granddad (WWII vet) who had the only bedroom on the first floor loading 3 shotguns, handing one off to my grampie and the other to my uncle/cool aunt’s husband. To my shock and awe, my Gramie pulls out a (bedazzled) Glock from her purse. I go to bed with images of my little Gramie taking down a bunch of bad guys with her shiny pistol.

I wake up the next day to the smell of pancakes and the sound of adults chatting downstairs. I’m sad because today is when we have to pack and leave, but things seem back to normal so I’m very glad. I run downstairs, note that the clock says 7:30, but ignore the weirdness and sit in front of a plate of dino-cakes that I dig in to, while asking my aunt what time we have to leave.

“Leave? We don’t leave until tomorrow.” Wait, what day is it? “It’s Saturday, we just got here last night.” I notice just a bit of doubt in my aunt’s eyes that I know something is up, and I run outside. The abandoned lot is back to its decrepit state. I resolve to brush it off and enjoy my ATV riding, and forget about everything pretty quickly.

It wasn’t until I got back to school and was called to the main office where the asked why I wasn’t at school on Monday. I told them that today was Monday, wtf are they talking about. Nope, it’s Tuesday, and my absence was unexplained despite several calls (I skipped school frequently) to my parents (divorced) neither of which were at the cabin.

So either my family played the trick of all tricks on me, or I’m living in an alternate universe where I can sleep into the afternoon. Like I said, no one will even remotely entertain a conversation about this incident, so I’m left telling my fellow redditors about my family’s conspiracy against me lol.

4. literal9 still doesn't know where the barn went.

My grandparents had a big farm when I was growing up and all of the grandkids would help work it over the summer when we were out of school. Anytime we saw a rabbit we were supposed to get it with the hoe or grab the shotgun. I was around 12 or so when I saw a little rabbit in the beans and I didn't want my grandfather to see it so I tried to chase it off. Followed it into the brush on the land and for whatever reason I just kept following it because usually I'd lose sight of them pretty quickly once they hit the brush. Kept following it until I found what was clearly an old barn ruin.

These are pretty normal to happen upon where I'm from and they're fun to look around inside, so I went in. It was weirdly kept up really well with antique tools in great shape and fresh hay. I worried I had crossed into our neighbors’ property so I high-tailed it out of there. I asked my grandfather about it and he said our land went way far past what I had described, and I couldn’t have left our land in the short amount of time I was gone, so he followed me out there and we couldn’t find it. I checked every summer I worked there and never found it again. Not creepy but it always drove me crazy where that stupid barn went.

5. seersucker was likely poisoned by agent orange.

In the 7th grade I had a friend that lived near a beach on a bay of lake Michigan. One day in early May it reached 70 degrees, nearly unheard of for that time of year in northern Wisconsin. My two friends, including the beach friend, excitedly rode our bikes down to the beach to maybe dip our toes in, expecting still frigid waters, and then "tan" for the rest of the afternoon. The water, though, was surprisingly warm. Like bathwater warm. In this particular area of the bay the water was shallow for about a half mile out, and we joyously splashed around, wading deeper and deeper until we were about chest deep. As we dunked each other and swam with abandon I started to feel sick.

Bad headache, nausea, wobbly. Just then, my other two friends mentioned that they also felt sick. We headed back to shore, nearly crawling by the time we got out. The three of us collapsed under a tree and fell asleep for 2ish hours. When we woke up we talked about how weird it was. I dipped my toe back in the water and it was freezing cold. To this day I have no idea what was in there. I do know that there is a chemical plant in town that used to manufacture things like agent orange, and that their practices were known to be less that environmentally conscious. I have never touched that water since.

6. CaptLongbeard still doesn't know what was going on at that Taco Bell.

Was driving through Illinois to get to Chicago about a decade ago with a group of friends and we stopped at a Taco Bell. The first thing we noticed was that the workers were acting very odd. Everything they said was monotone and rehearsed. After sitting in this fairly busy restaurant for a bit, we kind of all just looked at each other at the same time as we realized that none of the conversations happening around us made any sense.

The people were speaking, and it was English, but the sentences weren't logical. They were just saying words at each other. We didn't say much about it until we got outside, at which point we all freaked out and confirmed each others' experiences at once, and got the fuck out of there. We jokingly refer to that place as the "NPC Training Center" since the people didn't seem to be real, or they were learning how to be human or something. Still freaks me out.

Edit: yes, I believe the orders were all correct, which I guess just ups the creepy factor

Edit 2: we were young and actually pretty straight edge at the time, none of us were high or anything.

Edit 3: the best I can remember about the weird conversations was that they were stringing several prepositions in a row with no real sentence structure, forced laughter and nodding, stuff like that. Like they were mimicking how humans talk. Think of those "what English sounds like to a non-speaker" videos on YouTube, but EVERYBODY was doing it all around us.

Edit 4: u/tommyjohnpauljones has helped me determine that Pontiac, IL is possibly the town. Has a TB right off of 55.

Edit 5: I wasn't clear yesterday, but the weird conversations were happening between customer, not just the workers, so it wasn't the crew trying to mess with us. If it was just the workers, I would totally buy that theory. I used to work retail and you'd do anything to make the day go faster haha.

7. NamesJeffrey may have bought a bass from a creepy ghost store.

Not creepy, just weird to me. A music store seemed to just show up in my town. I'd lived here three years and never saw it. Went in, and the guy had one bass guitar in the store. Me, being a bassist, played it and fell in love. Bought it, and then the next week when I was in town, the store was totally empty, and looked like it hasn't been open in a long time.

Got a new bass out of it though, so I'm cool with it being a spooky ghost store.

8. oceanceaser has found a lot of cool abandoned buildings.

In the interior of BC I spent a lot of time exploring in the truck. Found loads of abandoned buildings and cabins but the coolest place that a friend showed me was an abandoned hippie commune deep in the forest. There were some crazy house designs, one looked like an ark, one was a ~40ft teepee clad with aluminum.

The place was clearly built by people who had very little building experience, but lots of creativity and motivation. There was a lot of weird stuff I found on the property, and I even found a bike that was stolen off me the year prior.

I have an Imgur album I'll find and link.

Edit: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/5Ko6q

9. Economy_Cactus found a strange cave.

By my hometown there was a hiking trail that people went to very infrequently. It was along the side of the Niagara Escarpment so it had some climbable cliffs, and some very shallow caves that you could crawl around on.

I went with some friends when I was 19/20 and we were crawling around and found a cave that went pretty deep. We had never been in there before, had never even seen it before. So we pushed forward and decided to check it out even though we had no flashlights and this was when cellphones didn't really have a flashlight function.

We stepped into the cave and it was easily 20-30 degrees cooler than outside. Upon looking around with which light we had we noticed it was really clean inside the cave, as in it didn't have beer cans littered everywhere like all the other small caves did. While in there we got a really eerie feeling after being in there shortly... hearing weird and strange things. Feeling like we were being touched, poked and pulled and not having anyway to figure out who was doing it because it was too dark. We were just using lighters to see what was around us.

We were convinced one of us was messing with the others. Although anytime we sparked up a lighter, we were all decently far apart.

We decided to high-tail it out of there after only a few minutes, convinced to come back with flashlights. We came out to see that it was now dusk outside, when we entered it was mid-day. Somehow we had lost roughly 3 hours inside of this cave.

We went with back with flashlights the next week. But have never been able to find this cave again

Edit: Got 8pms asking where this is.

It is in Wisconsin, Oakfield ledge if you want to check it out!

10. Slooth849 still doesn't know what "buffer night" is.

I posted this on Letsnotmeet a while back

this story takes place in the mid 90's, a time before widely used cell phones and GPS. My two best friends and I freshly able to drive decided we would head out on a Saturday to a water park in Southern Missouri about a 3 hour drive from our home town in Northwest Arkansas. We had never been before and just used road maps to get there.

We had pretty fantastic time but as the sun started to reach the tree line we thought we ought to head home. Its about 7 o'clock and we miss a turn but my friend Paul who was navigating said not to worry another turn was coming up that would get us their just as fast. The next turn took us from detoured to completely lost. By 8 o'clock we are on a road that seemed to be lacking in informative road signs and zero lights.

We finally see a gas station and are relieved to get some directions as well as some gas. My friend Taylor and I go inside while Paul pumps the gas. We come inside and a very friendly old man in his early 60s who gives us a very large grin and says "Weeeeell Hello there" it was very foghorn leghorn-esk. Looked like an extreme hillbilly but very pleasant.

We explained that we were needing gas and wanted to fill up. He explained that he was about to shut down for the night but would be happy to oblige us. He then said something I'll never forget, "You have to make haste though... tonight is buffer night." Taylor and I looked at each other and shared an awkward look. We asked him if he could point out our location on the road map.

While he was finding it two people entered the shop from the back and called out for the old man. He said he was up front. The two approached us, A man and a woman, and at first looked confused then as though hit with an epiphany they smiled. They asked the old man "Are these the guests tonight?" He shot them a look and said "no these are some lost children."

The way he said "Children" caused the hairs on my neck to stand up. Not sure why. They looked at us and said "The three of you should make haste, because tonight is buffer night." Two things scared the shit out of me right then. The first being how did they know about Paul pumping gas out front when they came from the back and the second being that they repeated the old man verbatim.

We clarified the directions to get back on a main highway and paid for the gas without waiting for change. Taylor and I booked it out of the gas station to find Paul already in the passenger seat. When we got into the car we were nearly airborne from the speed we took off. Before we could say anything Paul told us about how three men from across the street stood under a tree just watching him. He waved but they didn't move a muscle.

We just drove as fast as we could until we got back to the highway. To this day I will still have a nightmare every so often about that gas station and what my imagination has twisted "Buffer night" into being.

11. nidenikolev

1. There is a town right near me in Pittsburgh, PA (Lincoln Way in Clairton, PA) where a whole street full of families disappeared overnight back in the 70s. Everything (bills, food, clothes, etc...) was left behind, no trace of them to this day. You can go on google maps and look it up, the houses are abandoned and almost closed off from the rest of the town.

2. There was another instance that I'll never forget, I read it here on a "Creepiest Google Map Places".

A man in Canada decided to drive until the highway stopped (sometime in the past couple years). I believe he started in Winnipeg and kept going N/NW until he ran out of road. About 1-2 hrs before he got to that point, he saw a lot of cars parked off the side of the road. Keep in mind that there wasn't a single gas station or store nearby and hasn't seen a house for quite some time.

There was a lot of about 30-35 cars old cars (want to say from the 50s or 60s), and in the distance he saw a cavern entrance that was faintly illuminated by light. He noticed the tail end of a group of people dressed in all black walking in.

No signs were around advertising it and he said he couldn't find anything about it on google maps.

He posted this a year ago, and that trip was even further back from that. I reached out and tried to get any markers or nearby areas I could do my own research by, but he said he could not remember specifics.

Still makes me wonder to this day what was going on there...

13. foxhunter may have been one of the only hotel guests.

My story is less creepy than it is odd and I've posted it before so you may have seen it:

When I was 13 years old, I bicycled the Natchez Trace Parkway from Mississippi up to Nashville TN with my dad over the course of a week. As much as I know I complained about the difficulty, it was a great trip with some amazing bonding. I still can't believe my mother let me go. This would have been late 90s.

The most interesting story on the journey comes from the day from Belmont, MS to Waynesboro TN. The previous day we had ridden further than we expected (92 miles!) because we couldn't find a motel room (and weren't biking and camping on this trip - probably my mom's plea). Needless to say, we were a little tired from the previous day.

It's a good 75 miles to Waynesboro - but we had a motel tour guide of the trip that said a small motor lodge would be available. The terrain was rolling hills, and they got more difficult after we crossed the Tennessee river in northwest Alabama, so we were ready to be done.

We got off the Parkway, and went about 4 miles west. This little place wasn't actually in the town - it was just an old motor lodge along U.S. 64. It looked straight out of the 50s, and had 1 pickup and one semi-bobtail parked out front. It looked closed, and we were a little worried. There wasn't anything else listed in our guide, we were dead tired - and no one lives in this part of Tennessee.

But we walked in and sure enough, a couple was at the window and ready to get us a room - in fact, they even had a small diner that they were trying to get open, so we were welcome to join them for dinner. Awesome - you better believe we want to have dinner with you!

We took a room - and we were in fact the only ones there besides the trucker. We opened the door and...what a sh*thole. For starters, the walls were that old faux wood board and had seen better days. The carpet was orange shag from probably the 50s or 60s. Maybe original to the building. The beds were hard. Oh, and it was about 95 in the room from the day's heat with no A/C turned on - which is perfect for after a long, hot bicycle ride. TVs had rabbit ears and got about 1.5 channels. This was 1999 mind you. There was a huge old window unit that we turned on ASAP. Took "cold" showers to get feeling normal, while the other hung out outside (with the door open) and went to dinner to let the room cool off.

No traffic on this road. Hardly a sign for the town a few more miles up the road.

Back in the office/diner, the lights outside were now on and it was obvious we were the only ones in for dinner. Food? Not that good, but you'll eat anything after a workout of 75 miles. But the folks who ran the place were just wonderful. A husband and wife, they had bought the motel days prior and were trying to get it running again. Would have been closed if we were there a few days before!

They were keeping the old place open while the started to redo rooms, and get the diner running. They talked about the place and how they wanted to start something like this, and how they hoped it would go. They were really interested in us as well - and probably listening for the tourist aspect of what we were doing on the bike trip.

The gentleman said that he thought they could get some folks to the diner by introducing a kareoke night. He had just bought a machine and had it hooked up to a tv - but it wasn't working and he couldn't figure it out. I offered to give it a shot - and I don't know exactly what I did, but in a couple tries it was fixed again and he sang a song.

And then the power went out.

The couple brought out some candles - and said that this had already happened to them twice now - but it wasn't them and they didn't know why it kept happening. We all talked in the dark for a bit - and then we said our good nights.

Went back to our room - and it was still hot. Ugh. My father and I talked about the place and he said that there was no way that their idea was going to work, but it was too bad, because they were nice people. Went pretty much straight to the uncomfortable beds. Power came on at some point before midnight.

Next morning, we had a pretty good breakfast at the diner, and the couple was so apologetic. Nah, it happens. We were happy they were here. We wished each other luck and left out after that.

A few days later after we got to Nashville, and took a bus back to get our minivan to go home, we stopped by again - just to say hi.

Place was closed up and locked up. No one there.

I've tried to look up the place again, but it's been long since demolished. I know the place failed under those folks, but they tried something - and they were gracious hosts.

TL;DR Closed before us. Closed after us. Open for us - a story of odd hospitality.

14. mythical_accountant thought the college kids shape-shifted.

One time I was hiking around Arkansas with my wife and lost track of time. We ended up being too late for a camp spot at our intended place so we had to search for another one. Eventually we found a sort of ranch where the owners often let campers stay who had nowhere else to go, so all was good. It was a bit crowded with other campers so we had to ask these college-age kids if we could camp next to them on their spot and they agreed. The kids were nice and even helped with our tent but kept us up later than we wanted because they were loud and getting wasted well into the night.

Anyway, we wake up in the morning and I'm just eating breakfast and getting ready and stuff when out of my eye, I notice someone coming out of our neighbor's tent but I didn't recognize her. It was a woman who was much older than the kids from last night, followed by her small daughter. The college kids from last night weren't there but the actual stuff was the same. It was still their tent, their chairs, their car, same everything except for the people. It was really surreal; everything was literally the same about our neighbors except instead of them being 4 college kids, they had been replaced by an older family of 3.

15. InfamousCrown's mom doesn't know what was going on in that gas station.

Many years ago, my family and I moved from California to Nebraska. I was still a young kid, probably 5-6 years old. We were driving through Nevada and shortly after Las Vegas and we needed to stop and fuel up. We stopped at your typical old school gas station that rings when you pull up to the pump. I don't remember it that well but my dad told me it looked normal.

He got out to stretch while my mom went inside to pay for gas. My mom said that when she walked in, the gas station had quite a few people inside (despite us being the only car there.) When she walked up to the counter to pay for gas, everyone turned to her and the lights went out.

She ran outside where my dad witnessed everything and helped her into the car and we sped off down the interstate, not caring whether we ran out of gas or not. To this day, my mom says that's one of her scariest encounters because she can't explain nor figure out exactly what was going on. And yes, we found a better gas station down the road and made it to Nebraska.

16. urgehal666 noped out of there.

There's this old abandoned hotel a couple hours away from me. It's not like a modern hotel, but like an old Victorian house that was turned into a B&B. It's totally boarded up, big fence around it with barbed wire. Apparently it's pretty damn haunted.

In high school me and some friends went to go check it out. It's in the middle of this a circular road, not a roundabout but you can go around several times before feeding back onto the main road. It takes about ninety seconds to go around this circle.

Anyway, the first time we drive through all the shades on the windows are drawn. We drive around again, only half of the shades are drawn. The next time we drive by all the shades are open. We drove around one last time and all the shades were drawn again. We freaked out and drove the hell out of there.

17. voluptuousTTs is pretty sure they drove through a cult.

I'm a little late to the party now, but near where I live there is a little town called Ridgeview Park.

My friend was talking to a new girl, and we were scoping out where she lived so he wouldn't get lost on his upcoming date when we took a wrong turn.

After a slight decline, the road sharply rose until we crossed some train tracks and were met with a fence about 20 feet tall made from wood pillars about the size around of telephone poles. There was a gate that was open, so we drove in.

Once inside, there is a single loop that winds through the whole complex. Only wide enough for one car. One way in, one way out. In the middle sits a large dome/church. The houses that surround it are all square two-story homes painted brightly in strange colors. There is a drained community pool off to one side with grass growing in the basin. Lined up along the very back of the loop are 50-70 single car garage doors, all right next to each other. No house appears to have their own.

It was strangely quiet and as we drove passed the homes, residents would step outside and watch us. The loop isn't too large, and we eventually made our way around and exited through the gate and some people walked closer watching us leave.

Haven't seen anything else like it. Their website is password protected, and their Facebook page is private. The part you can see says it is a "summer community" that started out as a Methodist camp and still has religious services, and that they only sell homes to members of the family.

Such a creepy vibe to the whole place, and we try to drive through at least once a year (when the gate is open).

18. sichbumba ate at a ghost pizza place.

10 years ago, my friend and I were bored one night and were driving around. We were on a highway in NJ about 30 minutes from our houses and through the trees in the middle of no where we see this beautiful freshly paved cement pathway with lampposts every 100 feet just lighting this pathway up.

It was beckoning to us...and so we found the nearest exit. We drove around for a while through darkness until the road came to a dead end and the path began. We got out and started walking on this path through the trees and these beautiful wide open fields until eventually it ends at a little small town after a couple miles. At this point its like 2am and a small town like this nothing should be open except for this pizzeria....which is odd...so we go in. It is empty except for the older gentleman behind the counter. We order and start eating...then another older customer walks in.

The gentleman behind the counter and this customer do a double take at each other and then smile. Both of them run around the counter and embrace......"Mario!" "Stefano!" "What has it been 40 years?" "They talk the whole time about their childhood and growing up back in Italy.

We think what are the chances we would be here..at this moment....seeing friends reunited after 40 years, just plain, odd. My friend and I, we finish up and we head back down the brightly lit path and back to the car and call it a night. Ever since that night my friend and I tried to find that brightly lit path, but to no avail we haven't seen it since from the highway or driving down that road.

In the small town the pizzeria is there, but it closes at 10pm, so no explanation why it would be open at 2am. Just plain odd and something we never could explain, experiencing an unlikely moment to watch friends be reunited after 40 years.

19. Illbeanicefella has never returned to Skidmore.

A couple years ago a buddy and I got turned around on a side road in rural north Missouri. I had no service for GPS and it was pouring rain so I headed south toward my destination hoping to run into a main highway. We ended up coming into the town of Skidmore MO. It’s a tiny town in the middle of nothing but there’s something dark about that place. Infamously in the 80s a man known as the town bully was killed in broad daylight in the middle of town there.

Not one person spoke up about who killed him and it’s never been solved despite many witnesses. There’s also been disappearances, and a brutal crime a few years ago involving a baby being cut out of a woman’s womb. Keep in mind this is a town of only 270 people. As we drove down the main drag several people gave us a blank but intimidating stare, completely unnerving. Once we got out of the town my buddy mentioned he’d had a sense of impending doom or danger as we drove through, weirdly enough I’d been feeling the same way. I’d never had a such a persistent gut feeling of danger like that before. We agreed to never ever fucking go through Skidmore again. There’s something seriously evil about that town, it shouldn’t exist.

20. __celli noped out of that camping spot.

I posted this a few months ago, but here it is again. Still creeps me out. My friends and I saw saw something very scary while camping. All of us forgot to bring matches, so my friend went looking for people to give us some. When he cane back, he told us he found this abandoned campsite he wanted to show us. When we got there it was seriously weird. It had obviously been a family staying there, since one of the tents had two girls names labeled on it.

If they left the campsite, they did so in a hurry, since several items were left behind. The creepiest thing was every tent there was slashed open down the middle from top to bottom. If it was a bear or other animal, I thought the cuts wouldn’t have been as clean, and there might of been three slash marks instead of one. I’m very glad we left that day. EDIT: So I see a few of you have questions. I am currently driving to another city, but I will provide more details as soon as I’m available.

EDIT 2: Made it to my destination, here are some answers to your questions

  • This was at Dinkey Creek in California.

  • Things left behind (besides the tents) were a chair, and some cookware. There were also toiletries inside the tents.

  • No one has been missing in that area since 2008, and our trip was in 2014.

  • I don’t believe we reported it. I think we were going to report it to the park ranger or something, but we never did.

  • I actually misspoke, as we left the day after the campsite was found. The friend that found it took us to it the next day.

  • We did find matches! Some random stranger gave them to my friend after he explained that we didn’t forget, we just were all depending on each other to bring them.

18 people share the biggest scandals going on in their small towns right now.

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You might think living in a city is the craziest lifestyle there is. But in reality, there's no drama like small-town drama, and a recent Reddit thread collected all the best stories from across the country.

As MissMurica1976 points out, lots of small-town scandals go down in the bedroom:

The scandal in my town is always the same... Someone is sleeping with someone else's husband... Or the 50 year old dating the 18 year old...

But in addition to those old chestnuts, there are manifold other ways small-town drama can come up. Here are a few of the best.

1. A lot of teachers didn't get the "no porn on your work computer" memo yet.

A teacher posted a link to a porn site on his website for classwork instead of the recent assignment, and got fired immediately. Apparently this wasn’t his first offense. - branklinshairbrush12

2. This town banded together to protect the sanctity of front yard fires.

A couple months ago someone left their fire pit in their driveway for a few days. They received a mailed letter from an anonymous neighbor shaming them for making the neighborhood look bad. The recipient then posted the letter on the town’s Facebook page. People ran with it and created the first annual front yard fire night. - sayyyywhat

3. Police departments with social media accounts must be stopped.

A local police department likes to post "Wanted" pictures on its Facebook page.

The other day, I saw one of their shitty Wanted postings of some woman who is allegedly evading police for drug charges and intent to distribute.

The suspect herself commented on the post and said, "I'm not evading, I'm not on the run, I've been out of town, and when I come back I'm turning myself in." - OtherwiseJello

4. Naked masked horseback-riders are taking over in this town.

My grandparents small town has had a recent outbreak of teenagers riding horses through the middle of downtown, while wearing nothing but facemasks. It has happened a total of three times now, always different kids, always different horses. - MoldyDildo

5. Not even the local petting zoo is safe.

Not really recent, but the owner of the petting zoo turned out to be a serial murderer and buried 2 corpses under the goat enclosure. A lot of kids volunteer there and walked over them unknowingly. He murdered the couple, and used their house, car and money. - Fooking_Yungblud

6. This happens like nine times a day in New York.

A pigeon got caught in the supermarket and it made front page of local news website with ‘live updates’ - Roadlesssoul

7. The dating pool in a small town can be tiny, but this is ridiculous.

Two cousins just got married. The families all knew when they started dating and didn't say a word until they were in a committed relationship. They went ahead with it. Wasn't even very distant. - Iamdaisylion

8. Crazy sports dads are always a reliable source of drama.

During my sisters volleyball game one of the super aggressive sports dads slapped someone else's kid- cause apparently she "set the ball into a bad positioning" and that caused his daughter to miss the spike

The entire community is turned against him right now and the family of the girl is considering pressing charges, which i feel they should cause this guy has gotten close to crossing the line before and he needs to be reprimanded for his actions

[...] a lot of you have commented about how he didn't get his ass beat at the game, no one had the chance because immediately realized he fucked up and ran out to his car

He drove away leaving his kid to be embarrassed and alone in a court full of people pissed at her dad ( one of the nice moms gave her a ride back to her house where she spent the night ) - -thisishell-

9. Nobody wants a day-drunk mayor.

Our newly elected mayor (who is a school teacher as well) caused in a head-on car crash injuring 2 small children in the other car. She was found to be drunk and it was 330pm on a weekday. The kicker: she wasn’t charged with a crime (as of yet) but she did resign after “considerable thought.” - murkfury

10. A serial horse killer is on the loose in this small town.

Somebody's been murdering horses and PD is blaming wild boars, but at least a couple of the horses were shot so.... - throwwwwwaway1996

11. You gotta find fun wherever you can in some of these places.

In 2017, we had some kid going around to random porches and lighting bags of his own poop on fire. He never got caught. - BasedRocker

12. Facebook has a way of escalating even the most petty small-town drama.

Some frequent at a smoothie shop didn’t pay. She said she’ll be back and went across the street to her work place.

She never came back to pay. So the shop called the work to be like yo. So she had to do the walk of shame back to the smoothie place.

Got heated on Facebook. The shop had to show security footage. Classic crazy Karen vs inexperienced business owner -Baby_Venomm

13. There are way too many touchy teachers out there.

the middle school science teacher ~touched~ some kids, so a teacher from the high school had to come and teach basic biology instead of chemistry... and he ¡also! touched kids so our school has a long term sub. - pasta-daddy

14. How many letters had to slip through the cracks before they figured this one out?

postal worker got caught selling crack out of her mail truck - K42FTW

15. Embezzlement of public funds is also a very popular small-town crime.

Local fire chief and his wife have been embezzling thousands of dollars from the fire department fund. Also have received multiple federal grants that went straight into their accounts, state troopers finally arrested them yesterday. - WittyNamesAreTaken

16. And pedos are lurking everywhere...

Owner of a bouncy castle company that (obviously) caters to children’s parties got arrested for being a pedophile - Exotic-BlueBird

17. Really, these dating pools are too small.

There are two brothers who share the same mother of their child where I live 😬 - 420Angelox

18. And tech illiteracy seems to affect small-town-dwellers more than any other demographic.

my middle school teacher accidentally sent out an email to all the parents of the kids in her class that was meant to go to the guy she was cheating on her husband with and it full of all the stuff she was gonna do to him when she saw him next - The_Chief_Zev

Man uses photoshop to prank wife into thinking he bought a Christmas tree too big for their house.

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A dad who is a master of both Photoshop and pranks showed us all how it's done when he tricked his wife into thinking he purchased a ridiculously oversized Christmas tree. His photoshop skills are so good that she completely fell for it.

GET THESE TWO A HOLIDAY ROM COM, STAT.

When the man's wife, Lisa, sent him Christmas tree shopping, she clearly had some misgivings. Because she texted him to check in, asking "how'd the tree search turn out?"

Playing into her fears, he responded with a photo of an oversized tree strapped on to the top of their van. She immediately noticed that the tree in the photo would be too large for their house, responding "OMG!!! How big is that thing?!?!" and adding "And how are you getting it in the house?!"

Prankster husband responded, casually, "not that big. I mean it wasn't the biggest one they had," adding "I think it's 13 feet? Maybe 14."

Lisa, no longer trying to disguise her panic, responded, "our ceilings aren't even that tall!!!" And when her husband insisted their ceilings are "huge!" she pointed out "yes, but only 12 feet huge!"

Prankster dad then sent his wife a second photo—this one showed the enormous tree squeezed into their 12-foot-tall living room. If you look closely, you can see it's photoshopped. Lisa was clearly too panicked at this point to notice.

Lisa, still trying to stay calm, asked how much he paid for the tree. He told her it was $190, calling this "a deal" (it's not). She then responded that she's "legitimately trying not to lose my shit" (a thing people say when they're legitimately losing their shit.)

The husband, probably in the interest of saving his marriage, finally revealed he had been messing with her and the photos were photoshopped.

Her response: "I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!" (A thing you say when you love someone.)

This may have been a prank, but the story hit close to home for a lot of people online. After screenshots of the convo were shared on Imgur, commenters responded with their own stories of oversized Christmas tree purchases.

This story makes me want to get married just so I can play pranks on my husband every day until death—or divorce—do us part.

Dad wants to teach 12-year-old daughter fiscal responsibility by charging 'rent.'

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Sometimes a parent's desire to teach their kid a lesson can go way overboard.

One dad is planning on ransacking his daughter's baby-sitting money to teach her a lesson about fiscal responsibility, and he's asked Reddit if this would be a good idea or not. Pretty much everyone agrees it wouldn't be the best move.

The dad says he lives with his wife and two kids, ages 12 and 10. His 12-year- old recently started baby-sitting and makes $5 an hour. Says the dad:

I thought it would be a good exercise to teach her about taxes and fiscal responsibility if I charged her $1 for every $5 she earns. I pay for everything for her - her education, food, clothes, extracurricular activities, etc. This isn't about her paying me back though, it's just to teach her a general life lesson. She has no real need for the money anyways, maybe once in a blue moon she'll go to a movie with her friends or get some lunch for example.

The daughter freaked out that her dad wanted the cash — so he went into her piggy bank and stole it.

I said that the $1 for every $5 is her "rent" that she will pay to me at the end of each week. Well the end of the week came, and she broke down crying as I tried to take $12 from her (she babysat for 12 hours that week). I felt bad, but also wanted to stick to the decision I made and am hopeful that she will ultimately take something away from the experience. She refused to give me the "rent" so I went into her room and took it from her piggy bank. I explained how the IRS does the same thing in real life but isn't so nice about it, and that this is a learning experience.

His wife and his daughter cried, but he doesn't want to budge.

She broke down into hysterics and my wife started crying as well. My wife has since calmed down since I helped to comfort her, but my daughter will not talk to me. I am starting to question my tactic, but also think it will instill bad habits if I reward her crying when I am trying to teach a lesson.

AITA for charging my daughter $12 in rent?

He added a few additional details that make it seem as if he really does just want the money:

My wife does not work, and I also have a 10 year old son. So currently I am supporting four people by myself. I am hoping to encourage my daughter to "chip in" (even though as of now it's almost nothing) just to instill that value, rather than have her freeloading even though she is earning a salary

The people of the internet are not in this dad's corner. At all.

A 12-year-old is, by definition, not a freeloader, ppixie said:

you pay for her everything because you decided to have a kid. The only way this would be okay is if you were making her put a dollar out of every five into a savings account for her or something. Let your kid be a kid. Those life lessons come soon enough

And boudicas_shield offered a little prediction of the future:

My deadbeat father used to open my birthday card from my grandmother in front of me, stuff the enclosed $10 in his pocket, and hand me the empty card. When I protested, he said he deserved it because he gave too much in child support already.

My father and I no longer speak.

Dominosismycrack wondered why the dad wants her to feel the pain of the IRS at such a young age.

he's a kid for 4 more years and you're trying to force her into an adult role. She's got 70 more years to get f*cked by the government, she doesn't need you to start it early.

And Johndough1066 pointed out that child protective services might not be that into a parent charging a 12-year-old "rent" in the 21st century:

Your daughter is crying. Your wife is crying. And you're asking if YTA?

Unbelievable.

If your lessons that are just meant to help result in tears? Your lesson is no good.

Something else bothers me about what you are doing -- what are you doing with that money?

You don't mention that and I'd like to know.

Btw, you can't charge a 12 year old rent. You are responsible for caring for your child. I'm not saying this would be right, but if someone had it in for you and reported this to CPS, it could create trouble that would not be any fun at all. Not likely, but it could happen.

So the verdict, overwhelmingly, is that this dad needs to chill.

Hopefully he'll be getting coal this year.

'Homewreckers' who have broken up relationships are sharing their stories.

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To be clear, the term "homewrecker" is kind of a misnomer. Usually when partners break up because of cheating or an affair, this is a symptom of a problem within the relationship. But people love to point fingers at the third party for destroying the relationship, because it's easier to blame the "homewrecker" than to acknowledge that many relationships are not meant to last. But they are not completely devoid of responsibility—dating or hooking up with someone who's in a relationship with someone else is still a sh*tty thing to do.

On Reddit, people who have been the third party in an affair or cheating scandal are sharing their side of the story. Here are 18 accounts from people who "wrecked" homes. Spoiler: it didn't always work out well for them.

1.) From ghostinyourpants:

He asked me out before he started dating her, and I said no, for a bunch of reasons that had nothing to do with my feelings for him. They were together for almost 2 years, and during that time, we kept in touch. It was innocent enough, talking over Facebook once in a while, joking around, and I would tell him funny stories about bad dates I was going on. One night we were both drunk texting, and things got super super flirty. I realized that we were no longer talking as just friends. The next day, I messaged him, and told him this wasn't fair to his girlfriend, and that we had to stop talking online. We stopped. Six months later, he shoots me a message, saying that him and his girlfriend had broken up, and asked me to hang out to catch up. I hadn't been sure if it was a date or not, until he smootched me. We were inseparable from that day on. Unfortunately, he had failed to tell me that he had literally broken up with his girlfriend THE DAY BEFORE he called me. And I got a reputation for breaking them up, which I kind of did, even though he never technically cheated. We're still together 10 years later, though, and sadly she still resents me for "stealing" him, and I know that she (and her friends) still think he cheated on her with me. I don't blame her though, I'd have been heartbroken if I was her, and I still feel bad for how it played out.

2.) From TheLightningCount1:

Lost my virginity to a married woman. Got gonhorrea. Not worth.

3.) From hi_im_desperate:

Obligatory not me story but...

basically, a few years ago my aunt goes to Las Vegas with a bunch of her friends. No one thinks much of it, until she starts introducing us to her boyfriend who I’ll call D. We’re all happy for them and within a year they’re engaged and married. Pretty wild, but admittedly normal for my aunt. This is her 3rd marriage.

So D is actually Canadian (we’re American) and has a 5 year old daughter back home. He only really sees her a few times a year, and mostly his ex girlfriend has custody.

I thought there was nothing wrong with this whole story until my mom told me that the big wedding my aunt had with us was all fake! My aunt and D got married in Vegas before we even met him. Turns out D was about to get married to his girlfriend in Canada and was at his bachelor party in Vegas, got drunk, and married my aunt. And he decided to leave his daughter and ex fiancé in Canada for my aunt.

Wooo a wild ride!

4.) From BeautifulAndHappy:

My sister is dead gorgeous and is a twice homewrecker. She really doesn't care. She sees it as "If they were willing to cheat with me, they would have done it with someone else eventually if I wasn't around. I saved the wife time."

She also slept with a long-term ex after he got married just to know that she can (wife never found out about that one). She has superiority issues.

5.) From TinyTinasRabidOtter:

I didn’t know he was married until she contacted me. I got lucky as hell. She found out what he was up to, she knew I didn’t know, and simply asked me to meet with her to confront him and understood I was blindsided and understandably hurt and guilty all in one. So we met him together at a coffee shop. It was awkward as all get out. I cut him out of my life and after she and I had a talk we also broke contact. I still feel bad.

6.) From luckyleighton:

I will give you my story. One of my friends was miserable in marriage. He married his high school sweetheart; 1 child, 15 years marriage.

One day he meets someone 20+ years younger than him at work and starts a side hustle. He tells his wife he is taking trips with ME and lunches with ME to distract. One day I get a call with a hysterical jilted wife asking me how long I knew of their sorted affair (with very colorful conversation). I told her I had no idea truthfully. They go to counseling; but he never wanted to stay married. So he began to groom his finances and other things to prepare to leave over the next year.

He leaves her, and a year later he is married to the younger lady. A year after that and they have a baby. So I guess he is happy. He is 50 with a 28 year old wife and a new baby on family no 2. I stopped talking to him because I did not appreciate being the cover of a side hustle unknowingly.

7.) From acenarteco:

Definitely regret it, but mostly because I wasn’t behaving well for myself or by my own standards. So I started dating this guy I worked with, and ended up moving in with him. I’d just graduated college and really wanted out of my parents’ house. It was hard for me to adjust to living back at home, I couldn’t find a decent job for months (still didn’t I was working at a restaurant). Anyway, I lived with this guy for a few months, and he goes back home to Visit his family.

Except he didn’t. He went home to get MARRIED. And then he came back, and we went right back to living together. I heard rumors sure, and when I confronted him about it he gave me all sorts of excuses until he finally confirmed it. And then it was more excuses to keep me around—it was arranged, he didn’t love her, blah blah blah.

But eventually, she tells him she wants to come live with him. So she does. I’m kicked to the curb. Bounced around for a bit. She hates it here, wants to go back home.

So me, being the dumbass that I am, get asked to move back in. Now, at this point, when I look back at it, I try to be a little kinder to myself. I did, and ended up in a really low part of my life. He strung me along, saying he wanted to be with me, and told me he would break it off. He didn’t. He exhibited a lot of abusive/controlling behavior during this time. Mostly emotional abuse, and once got physical. Then, after almost 3 years of living together, he straight up ghosted me. Left the country. When he was supposed to return, he just didn’t. I also was a bit of an alcoholic at that time (1.5 years sober now!), and didnt handle it well. Drinking, hating life, stuck in a shitty apartment in a shitty city not really knowing what to do.

I went back to therapy, talked it out, and started working on the self-esteem problems/undoing a lot of the abusive behavior he was displaying. I didn’t do a great job. I went back to hooking up with another shitty ex. Started talking more to an old hookup from school.

That old hookup from school came to visit me, we reconnected, and I moved four hours away from that fucked up situation to move in with him. I’m very lucky that I ended up with someone who was not only honest, hardworking, sweet and respectful, but willing to love me through all that fuckedupness lol. We got married two months ago!

Edit: I should probably clarify we lived together for 9 years before we got married. The last guy, I mean. My husband.

8.) From tootytoos:

Was sittin' at work on my lunch break one day, get a message from friend's husband. He's drunk and high and wants me to come over to mess around. (This was the second time ever speaking to the man, mind you)

So I remind him that I'm his wife's friend, have never met him face-to-face, and give him the chance to tell his wife what just happened. Then I had to make a choice. Do I tell her or not? Cause some people dont wanna know. Or they blame you instead of blaming their S/O.

Send her a message and tell her that I have something to tell her about her husband, but I need to know if she wants to know or not. She says "Send me everything"

That night after work, she confronts him. He deleted the conversation but I had sent her screenshots. They got divorced over it (and other things too, she told me) and they have dual custody of their 8 year old son.

As for whether it was worth it or not...I feel like she and I are closer friends now but I can't really say. No one seemed to come out on top with this one.

9.) From cyannic:

One of my bffs was one. She met him at the coffee shop she worked at, and he was a regular. She knew he was married because once in a while he would go there with his wife and kid. Well, one week his wife was away to see her parents with the kid, and they started the affair. It lasted 6 years. She would tell me that he loved her way more than his wife, and that he kept promising that he would leave the wife. 5 years into it she gets pregnant. And so does the wife. He starts pressuring my friend to get an abortion. She says no, that the baby is the product of their love. She has the baby, and so does the wife. One year later my friend is at work, and she had the baby with her, who looks just like his dad. The guy and wife go in. The baby screams "daddy". The wife gets confused, until she really sees the baby and is a dead copy of her husband and her baby. She goes ballistic. My friend told me she did it on purpose, since he wouldn't leave his wife, so she was forcing the wife to leave him, so he would be with her.

Well, the wife got a divorce, a huge settlement, and the guy resented my friend so much for what she did, he gave up his parental rights of the kid and moved across the country.

Edit: since everyone is asking about the legality of giving up parental rights. I'm no law expert. I don't know if he actually signed a paper giving up, or if they just reached an agreement where he gave her full custody. It's what she told me (so it's what I wrote) and since I've heard about it before, I never really questioned it. It's entirely possible that he just gave her full custody.

10.) From Crzy_Grl:

Huge regret. If anything good came of it, it was that I learned not to be so judgmental. I married at 19, and divorced at 23, my ex was the one cheating. I used to say any woman who would do that is a slut. After the divorce, I was a bit lost and a little wild. I hesitantly began a relationship with a guy I considered a friend and trusted. He told me he would leave his wife for me, and I believed him. I knew her, and while I liked her, she did cheat on him multiple times, so it wasn't hard for me to believe he was leaving. Pretty soon, I tired of the sneaking around, and began to pressure him. Turns out I wasn't supposed to really believe he'd leave her. That was the end of that short-lived stupid mistake of mine. Later, he spilled the beans to a friend of his, who told someone else, and the wife found out. Started driving by and wanting to fight me, screaming names as she drove by the house. I told her I didn't want to fight her and that I regretted what happened. Said she could kick my ass if she wanted to, but I wasn't going to defend myself, I was already kicking myself for being so stupid. That was pretty much the end of it, it was many years ago now, and it still makes me feel bad. Probably my top regret ever, and definitely out of character for me.

11.) From yowiezowie:

I got called one by the pissed off wife of the guy I dated for a few months. The problem was that was the first time I had a clue he was married, and if I'd known before then I would have broken it off immediately.

Thinking back, I should have found it weird that he never invited me over to his place, but eh.

But yeah, he was the homewrecker. He had a home and decided to fuck it up by dating me.

12.) From fabulin:

my fiance's mum was a homewrecker lol. she fell in love with a married man who had 2 kids and would sneak round his house when his wife was at work, his wife actually caught them in the act and tried to stab them. he moved in with his mistress and had 2 kids with her including my fiance. ngl, i'm happy that my mother in law is a homewrecker

13.) From halfpintlc:

A friend of mine met a guy at a party (while he was there with his girlfriend of 6 years). They were talking a lot throughout the night and he gave her his number. He continued to text her all the time and they would talk non stop (super flirty messages) it then turned into hanging out, first just with friends (while his GF was not there) then just the two of them. He would always tell her to not say anything to their mutual friends because his gf is "very jealous and possessive" and would get mad.

We all told her to stop doing this but she continued insisting there was nothing wrong and they were just friends hanging out. He ended up proposing to his GF while still secretly hanging out with my friend. She never mentioned anything happening but I'm pretty sure it did and she wanted to avoid us judging her so she never went into detail. He eventually stopped contacting her all together without an explanation (my guess is his GF saw the texts or something) but I know for a fact if he didn't stop she would've continued hanging out with him and eventually starting a full blown affair.

The thing I've found in common with a lot of people who do stuff like this is that they believe they're "better" or "hotter" or just boost their confidence thinking this person likes them more than their S/O. It's sad.

14.) From laygo3:

I slept with a married woman like twice after talking like 2wks. Turns out she was pregnant & told me I needed to go to the doctor with her to get an official pregnancy test. I was 21-22, still fairly naive in the pregnancy knowledge department. The test was like a week after we slept together, but she was like 8-9wks pregnant. It finally clicked & I stepped away pretty quick.

That didn't stop her from naming her baby after me. That kid has probably graduated college by now.

15.) From Pretigee:

Yes. I did not know he was married. 30 years married... he was military, I worked on base as a civilian. I moved in with him and everything. Turned out his wife lived in another state and never visited. There was nothing that made me think he was married. No hushed phone calls or anything. After we broke up he told her about me hoping it would make me take him back. She divorced him. And against my better judgment 6 months later we got back together. It was the worst year of my life. I quickly moved out and moved on.

16.) From TotallyNotAnAgent1:

I was labelled the "homewrecker" even though nothing actually happened between me and this girl. We had a bit of "flirty banter" at work over the course of a few weeks during the summer. I kept coming in in the mornings to post-it notes left on my desk with flirty messages, and I would return the favour of course ;)

I was unaware that she was engaged and had a child, and we carried this flirty banter on until one day she came over mine and we sat down and watched a movie together (literally nothing happened, and her SO clocked onto her not being home at her usual time and started spamming her with calls). I walked her down to her car, and managed to lock myself out of my house (that's another story which I have told in this subreddit -

Go into work the next day and everything is normal, walk out of work and there he is, the girl's SO, standing at the back of his van searching for tools. She messages me and tells me not to leave the building, to which I oblige. After this we split things off and don't talk anymore.

From what I know they are still together and she has another child on the way.

17.) From DaddyTrumpsFurryAcct:

I didn't know she was married until she got dropped off at my front door after being thrown out by her husband. Dating after 30 is weird. I had to add "are you married" to the list of small talk questions to ask.

In the case of the other married woman I wasn't a "homewrecker." She said they were separated. He wanted to get back together and she didn't want to, but was happy to accept his money to pay for her apartment.

I think online dating apps make it easier for cheaters.

ninja edit: I broke up with them both immediately when I found out.

18.) From no12nobody:

My wife and I both are. I'll try and condense.

Met when she was 14 and I was 16. Friends first. Then dated off and on through high school. To be fair I always wanted her, but she wasn't ready at a young age. Never led me on or anything. We remained friends and dated other people.

She went to college out of town. First year or so I'd see her on trips home or when I'd drive to her.

We kinda drifted apart. Her senior year of college I hadnt seen her for over a year. She started dating some dude. I started dating some girl.

She graduated and moved out of state. Girlfriend and I were pretty serious. I was going to propose. I called her basically begging her to stop me. She wouldnt.

We both married our partners at the time. Me a couple years before her.

Couple years later (havent spoken in like 4 years) she moves back here. Gets in touch. Both of our marriages are pretty shit...because we soul mates and regret what we did...we both got divorces. Together 10 years now.

People react to Kim Kardashian wearing 'blackface' on magazine cover and blaming the lighting.

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In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except for death, taxes, and Kim Kardashian West pretending to be black. Despite the millions of dollars spent on plastic surgeries and bronzer, the Kardashians are Armenian, not African American, but her latest magazine cover is desperate to have you believe otherwise.

Kim K is on the cover of 7Hollywood, a magazine nobody has heard of until now, which one can surmise is dedicated to the art of blackface.

Kim's skin has been drastically darkened, especially considering the fact that she was legally blonde just two months ago.

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People called it out on Twitter, and are exhausted by this consistent pattern

People noticed that the look chaneled black icons Diana Ross and Diahann Caroll, and that in the picture, her skin looks even darker than Beyoncé's (Beyoncé, unlike Kim, is black).

Comedian and actor Amanda Seales posted a video on Instagram in which she passionately explained why the Kardashian-Jenners' appropriation matters:

“As a black woman, to see this person on this cover in blackface, and yes, you can call it tan or bronzer or whatever, but again, she don’t care. She don’ care. But I am of a lineage of individuals, who because of our innate likeness and dopeness in various forms have had to exist in our expense. What I mean by that is, we are so dope in so many ways, we have consistently been seen as only resources, not as people. So they touch our hair, they inject their lips and their hips and their booties to mimic ours. They attempt our style, and they give nothing back. It’s all depletion with no replenishment.”

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Kim K is studying to become a lawyer, so she (or her team) came equipped with an excuse: the darkening is because of the lighting.

"It’s the lighting that makes her look darker in this specific image," a "source close to the family" told Page Six. "There are multiple covers and images from this shoot where the lighting looks more natural."

"People are so quick to find the negative in everything and also often forget that she is of Armenian descent."

Armenia is not in Africa, but nice try.

Maintenance workers share the most bizarre and NSFW things they've seen in people's homes.

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People who work in home maintenance, like handymen, plumbers and electricians, enter strangers homes on a regular basis, getting a unique glimpse into the behind-the-scenes realities of people's lives. As you can imagine, they encounter some really, really weird sh*t.

Someone recently asked Reddit: "People who enter other peoples' homes as a part of your job, (Maintenance workers, etc.) What's the weirdest thing you've seen inside someone's home?" Here are 31 of the most bonkers replies from people who have truly seen it all:

1.) From Aiged:

I used to install smoke alarms for the hearing impaired (50% elderly and 50% deaf) all over the state of Oklahoma. I would get addresses for the installations the week before and plan routes accordingly, meaning i would just put the addresses into google and check out the earth/map views.

This place I'm thinking of was in the middle of nowhere, which is saying something considering that the entire state of Oklahoma is in the middle of nowhere. When my ASL interpreter and I made the trip, we had to ramp our minivan over a nearly washed out bridge, bounce down a forest road, and choose which of three broken down trailers these people were using as shelter. Looking back, we really should have just called it before ramping the bridge.

Once there, we met the people and they explained (in ASL through my interpreter) that they had a tornado rip through their home that ended up sparking a fire somehow, that explanation never made it through translation.

Since then they had decided to be more fire safety conscious, which i applaud but their home had holes in the roof the size of people. One wall was just a tapestry of duct taped trash bags. I didn't feel right just installing fancy smoke alarms when they clearly needed much more help... but there wasn't anything i could do.

So I'm doing the only thing i can do, installing smoke alarms, explaining basic fire safety, teaching them to use their bed shaking devices (these folks were deaf), and when i start to explain that they should exit the home without stopping to grab anything including pets, they stopped me and explained that their pet is very valuable. As in it had a monetary value.

I'm not one to pry, so i took this at face value and reiterated the importance of leaving the home immediately if it is on fire, especially because it's a trailer home. They had a long, silent conversation with my interpreter during which she looked more and more concerned.

The occupants go into a room i hadn't yet entered and emerge with a f*cking bald eagle on a leash.

Shit's illegal yo.

2.) From murphSTi:

This lady had 7 huge birds--parrots, etc. all without cages and shitting directly onto the floor. It only had the pad that goes under carpet and everything had seeped through. It was horrible. She just got a German Shepherd puppy also and then proceeded to show me her machete collection. Had a dope ass classic air stream in the backyard tho.

My coworker called animal control on her but we ended up closing her case shortly after so not sure what ever happened.

3.) From Poko-1:

So this isn’t weird, but it was the most shocking.

I was working with adults with intellectual disabilities that lived in residential homes. It was one of my first weeks in the job and a co worker was taking me out to a home to show me what she did when she did home reviews.

We get to the house, open the door, and a we are instantly hit with a wall of air smelling like Feces. Two steps in and it was apparent; there was diarrhea on a chair, on the carpet and random splotches all over. The whole house was in shambles. The fridge was full of moldy foods, and I’ll never forget picking up the shredded cheese, shaking the bag, and seeing green mold flakes go up and down.

Food was splattered all over the cabinets, the beds were stained with urine and feces and expired canned food was found everywhere.

The staff there had been neglecting those guys for a long time and no one had bothered to check up on them.

4.) From Let_Us_Hmmm:

I do construction sales so I'm in homes a lot. For me, it's the sheer number of preppers that exist today. Walk into a suburban America basement and BAM. Two dozen buckets full of survival food. Or ammo stuffed into every alcove and rafter. It's definitely not just the ones you expect.

5.) From Verypoliteperson:

I worked as a delivery driver for a deliver anything company in the early 2000s. At the time it was a very novel (but ultimately unsustainable) idea for a business back then. We had alot of regular weirdos. One night one of these weirdos ordered about 30$ worth of candles from the dollar store. This job really brought too the forefront the disconnects that exist in us as consumers. So of course initially I had gotten the wrong kind of candles for the weirdo. He showed me what he wanted at his apartment door. Luckily the store was literally a couple blocks away so I didn't have to waste much time because I wasn't being paid hourly. "Come in" was what I was greeted with when I returned which is never something I'm particularly happy about as a delivery person. I see what my rational brain tells me is a pile of laundry on a coffee table in front of a filthy couch. But it's not that. It's a 3 foot tall wax pile. I had bought candles in jars the first time, and I could definitely see why those would not work for our gentlemen. He needed freestanding candles so he could just plop one down and light it to continue building his wax mountain which was starting to spill onto the floor. A less weird but more awkward experience I had with this man was him literally falling asleep mid signature for his burgerking.

6.) From ShwaSan:

On one occasion we were demolishing a kitchen for a remodel and found, sealed inside the wall, five empty beers and one full one.

7.) From geminiloveca:

I had a neighbor who offered me money to clean her apartment. She had mental health issues and got some kind of subsidy from the county for home assistance, which she didn't like, but she had an inspection coming up for continuing her other benefits.... so....

I walked in and there were dishes everywhere. Glasses with dried stuff in the bottom. Pizza boxes that smelled of old cheese in stacks. Ashtrays piled so high they were pyramids of butts. Beer cans and bottles scattered. Went into the kitchen and both sinks are piled up past the faucet. One side has water in it that's covered in a white film. The kitchen trash can had overflowed to the floor and has flies buzzing around it.

Gross, but I needed the money, so I rolled up my sleeves and got to work. After I got the dishes under control, I moved on to the stove/oven. When I opened the door, the enture bottom of the oven was crawling with maggots. The wave of smell was enough to about knock me on my ass and I ran out gagging. Went home, got a mask, went back and finished cleaning up.

I still cannot figure out what she did to that oven. There was no food inside and looked like it had never been used...

8.) From Walker2012:

Service plumber here. At the house of an elderly lady (at least 75 yrs old) and there’s naked pictures of her on all the walls and several dildos all about. It was interesting.

9.) From ceigetank:

I don't know if I could really peg one thing as the weirdest but collectively it sure as hell was. The entire main floor had drains in every room, because they though it would be easier to hose their house down to clean it. The bathroom had a shower that you had to hold a button on the down for water to come out. There was no ensuite, instead the master bedroom had the tub and toilet right in it, with the toilet facing the bed. The tub was a massive jacuzzi but with a kitchen tap for a faucet so it couldn't fill up quickly enough to stay warm. Oh and the house was filled with naked picture of the homeowner.

10.) From cjeam:

A plane.

Dude was refurbishing a light aircraft in his lounge. It was only the fuselage, the wings were outside. That’s certainly the weirdest.

Here’s an actually not that impressive picture.

11.) FromSevastopol15:

As a maintenance guy at a large apartment complex I've seen some shit... naked people, really gross people, but thank god no dead people. I remember doing an emergency water repair and had to go in to an occupied unit, its was the strangest thing, it was pretty much empty, dirty but empty, like no one lives there, no furniture.... not even a bed, just a shitty mattress on the floor.... and some clothes scattered around.... and at least 30 pairs of Nike shoes, all sorts of weird colors.... like this guy had no TV or Couch but had a collection of expensive shoes... all the same size from what I could tell... idk it wasent as bad as a few hoarder units we had.

12.) From jerkITwithRIGHTYnewb:

I was on a ride along with a fire department. We responded to “smell of smoke” in an apartment building. We found the apartment fast enough because the fire alarm was going off inside. We walk in to find this guy naked as the day he was born passed out on the floor in front of the tv with porn on way louder than it should be and the remnants of a pizza in the oven.

Edit: Thanks for the silver guys! Ok to answer some questions. The gentlemen I question was very drunk. There were beer cans all over the kitchen and a bottle of liquor on the floor next to him. To wake him up we actually all left and the fire chief woke him in his daily uniform so he didn’t think he was being abducted. Lastly, this was in Fargo, North Dakota about 14 years ago.

13.) From lambchop1192:

Checking fire alarms/testing emergency bedside buttons in a nursing home that are like individual little apartments, opened the door to stench of death and sure enough lady dead on the bed been there about 2 days.

*so I wasn't expecting so many responses but to answer some questions. Yes the bedside button worked fine. No nobody was in trouble for her not being found for 2 days, this specific place is very independent they have their own cars and are free to come and go as they please and the only time someone comes by is for any sort of maintenance or if they have visitors stop by

14.) From Drackenstein:

Worked as a furniture delivery guy for a rent to own place in Iowa for a couple of years, and I saw some absolutely crazy shit.

We were delivering a couch to someone and when we arrived there was no answer to our knocking. We called our manager back at the store and explained that no one was home. He tells us to hang out for a minute while he tries getting in touch with the customer. While we’re waiting we start hearing this weird sort of screeching sound coming from a detached garage.

We decided to investigate the noise. We turned the corner to the front of the garage and came face to face with the meanest, scariest looking monkey I’ve ever seen! It was in the garage but they had like this wire fence keeping it inside. The entire garage was it’s cage. In the middle of BFE, IA. I have no idea what type of monkey it was. It was large and very angry.

15.) From Yuvar:

Cleaning a huge condo for a wealthy book publisher, the owner felt that cats were sacred, so they had suspended walkways through the entire 6k sq ft condo for the two cats to walk on, so they could move through every room without having to touch the floor, additionally every 12 feet or so in each room, they had a cat balcony the cats could sit on made out of real crystal, we weren't allowed to touch them as they were valued at $10,000 apiece.

16.) From JoshuaS904

Used to work for a concrete company, and our mixer trucks would sometimes damage property. Typically my partner and I did maintenance on the plants, but we’d get sent to job sites to unfuck whatever the drivers did.

So while at one house, we had to tear up the driveway, replace the culvert and repour the end of the driveway. The first day we were there, all the old snoopy neighbors were standing around watching us, and I had to piss pretty bad. So I asked the homeowner if I could use his bathroom. He said sure, and led me through his house, past a bathroom, into the bathroom in the master bedroom. Already creeped out by that. Oh, also I noticed cameras all over the place. Some pointed out windows, some pointed into the rooms. Creep factor leveled up.

So he leads me to the bathroom, opens the door and holds it for me, like you would at a store, when someone is behind you. I say thanks, he still stands there. I had to walk past him and yank the door closed.

While leaving, I notice a bedroom decked out in kid stuff. This would normally not toss up any flags. Grandkid’s room probably.. right?

But with all the added creepiness, it just didn’t seem normal at all. Told my partner, he laughed and pointed out there was probably cameras in the bathroom.

If either of us had to piss after that, we drove down to the gas station.

(Edit time for clarification)

So this was around 15 years ago. We are talking camcorders on tripods, not your cutetsy nanny cams. Old guy was single, and this wasn’t a very “kid friendly” set up as far as foster homes go. The part about him holding the door for the bathroom- imagine going to a restaurant and there’s a group of people with you and you hold the door open for them. This was what I was talking about. Except he didn’t seem to have any intentions on closing it, hence me snatching it from him.

17.) From RideAndShoot:

Years ago I use to deliver and setup furniture of all sorts. Not that weird, but I use to find vibrators and dildos under mattresses all the friggin time. I would stand the mattress up against the wall and they’d be laid out there. I’d simply tell the homeowner, “I gotta grab some tools from the truck, if there’s anything you need to clean up, No w is the time to do it.”

I’d come back in and the sex toys would be gone. Every time. And they would never say a word about it. It wasn’t a big deal, I just didn’t want to handle them if the homeowner was home. They would be a little embarrassed(no eye contact, red cheeks, etc) but I’d like to think I handled it as professionally as possible, given the fact I was 17-20 years old.

18.) From dehiphopopotamus:

I was an estate agent (realtor) for rental properties and I had a few wild moments. Top two were when I had been ok'd by a member of a male couple to let myself in for a flat viewing one Saturday morning but he must have forgotten to tell his boyfriend/husband because when I opened the door to the bedroom with my M/F middle-aged couple we found one of the tenants having a vigorous affair against the wall without a stitch on them and only 5ft away. Still no idea how we didn't hear them before we opened the door.

The other one was similar but I was there to take photos and the tenant (an elderly and overweight woman) forgot I was coming so guess I found in the bath...

20.) From FakeNewsLiveUpdate:

Back in the early 90s, I worked for a company that removed old electric water heaters and replaced them with propane powered water heaters. Because propane water heaters can possibly spew carbon monoxide, there are state regulations as to where the water heaters can and can't be placed, so it was my job to inspect the water heater room and draw up plans for ventilation, if necessary.

I showed up at a client's home to inspect the area where he had his water heater to see if we needed to install any vents. When I asked to see his current water heater, he seemed a little uncomfortable and said, "I have something in the room that I forgot to clean up." I followed him to the room, and when he opened the door, the smell of weed hit me. In the water heater room, he had fishing lines strung up with trimmed plants being dried. If I were to guess, there must have been a couple pounds of weed drying in there.

He said, "Oops, sorry about that." I smiled and told him, "No problem. I don't even know what that is." I knew exactly what it was, but I didn't want the guy to get worried about me telling someone. He offered me some, but I told him, "No thanks. I don't know what that is."

As I was leaving, he asked me, "You aren't going to tell anyone about the plants, are you?" I asked, "What plants?" The guy smiled, then said, "You sure you don't want some?" I definitely wanted some, but I was still pretty new at my job so I didn't want to take the chance that accepting weed from him would blow up in my face. Before I left, I told him, "Make sure you clear that closet before our guys arrive. They might not be happy about the plants I didn't see."

21.) From fitzbuhn:

Similar, I was tasked with entering every room in a small hotel to verify dimensions for an architectural project. One room, two men who looked like their from the 80s clearly doing some sort of business - computers, printers, filing cabinets. But, there was also some serious porn on the tv. Like, hardcore penetration and it was just background noise. So weird.

22.) From Lonelyviewing:

I do odd jobs on the side. Often times I help older people move.

Recently we were moving a large dresser that the owner (an older gentleman) didn't bother to clean out, or tape up. His VHS porno collection came falling out.

Who the Hell keeps VHS porno these days? We know for a fact he had internet.

23.) From kalgary:

In the bathroom. Thought I saw a giant pink dildo. Closer look revealed it was penis shaped soap.

24.) From sl0601:

Years ago I drove a tow truck at nights putting myself through college. Got a call to go get this woman’s car. I pull up and she’s in the car and won’t get out. I ask her ma’am to please get out so I can safely tow your vehicle without you in it. She said “that’s never going to happen”. I said it’s an insurance violation for me to let you ride in your car. It’s late so I said screw it...ma’am please move to the passenger seat so I can put your car in neutral and steer it up on the flatbed. She complies. I get in the car and she says I can’t leave them alone in here...I’m like who? I turn around and there is no joke 30+ cats in the back of this old station wagon. Every single one of them in some sort of Halloween costume. The car smelled worse than anything I’ve ever encountered in my life.

Edited: I guess this counts as a home since the crazy cat lady was living in her car.

25.) From Badusernameguy2:

DICKS! Dicks every where. Sculptures and artwork of dicks literally about a thousand, like a hoarder type situation. I was doing their cable and you really couldn't avoid contact with a dick or two. It was dark in there from the sky scraper stacks of cocks blocking out the light.

26.) From Claited:

Not exactly weird but cool. Knocked on the door and didn’t get a response. The door was unlocked so I let myself in to find a 90 yr old woman in her dressing gown head banging to Led Zeppelin.

27.) From ShoddyBiscotti1:

When I did pest control, I had a house I serviced where three strippers lived. They had poles all over the place and SO MUCH GLITTER EVERYWHERE.

But they always hooked me up with some really good coffee that one of them got sent from back home.

Aside from that, I found a body once. That probably wins for "shit I wasn't expecting"

28.) From NickKnocks:

I had to work in a government housing block at main and hastings in Vancouver. I was cuting a hole in a ceiling while someone was laying on a dirty mattress right beside the ladder injecting heroin. The person was so f*cked up that he didn't even notice all the drywall dust I was spilling on him.

29.) From cybersoldier93:

An antique dildo collection dating back to the 18th century. I’m an electrician.

30.) From Jomezus:

Several picture frames clearly displayed. They all had different stock photos still in them

31.) From Syphon88:

I worked for Pizza Hut many years ago. I had to deliver to a house that was as normal as can be on the outside. I knocked on the door and a guy wearing only silk boxers answered. He was slightly overweight but looked look he was smuggling a f*cking baseball bat in his boxers. He was casual as hell and asked me to step inside for a second as he had to get his wallet. I take one step inside and this extremely hot lady came around the corner. She was obviously not wearing a bra and her robe was barely closed. One of her steps flapped open her robe enough to know that she shaved her "down below" I looked behind her and you could see a video camera set up on a tripod so it was obvious what they were doing. The guys hands me the money with a good size tip, no pun intended, and tells me that he appreciated me bringing the food. I said "no problem, have fun doing what you're doing, and if you need a camera man, let me know". I don't even remember thinking the last part until it was coming out of my mouth. He just kind of laugh and said maybe next time, my dude. The girl just laughed a little and I left. Damn, the bad luck. Honestly, I don't know what I would have done if they said, yeah, let's do this.


18 funny jokes from women this week that aren't all about 'Cats.'

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This week was historic, giving us both a messy conclusion to a years-long saga, and also The Rise of Skywalker. In a span of just a few days, Donald Trump was impeached, JK Rowling went full bigot, and Cats had everybody purring.

Here are the best tweets from this week, because we all know that you're not getting work done.

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People are sharing stories about their most embarrassing moments in the bedroom.

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People on Twitter are bragging sharing stories about the times when embarrassing things happened while they were having sex.

People out there are doing it. The sex. With each other. And it gets messy.

Here are just the ones that will make you laugh, not the one that will make you sad.

1. Say my name, say my name.

2. (Snot) Rocket power.

3. Got milk?

4. The dude's ignorance is impressive.

5. It's the circle of life.

6. 'Til death do us part?

7. Be careful what you wish for?

8. Busted.

9. Don't let it get to your head.

10. Bless up.

11. Holy sh*t.

12. It must have been a really nice couch.

13. The belly button is nature's storage unit.

Engaged couple ask if it's insulting to serve Chipotle at wedding.

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We all know wedding food is overpriced and usually not that great. But is this couple's solution a little too extra?

A future bride and groom are embroiled in an argument with their parents over whether or not it's okay to serve Chipotle at their nuptials. Even with extra guac, this would be quite a thrifty solution — but the parents aren't into it.

They posted on Reddit about the dilemma:

I'm getting married in April, and when my fiance and I started planning our wedding, we were shocked by how expensive all of the different components were, especially catering. We live in a high cost of living area, and the cheapest catering quotes we were able to get were still well over $100 per person. We're inviting 75 people and the thought of spending $8,000 or more on food is pretty horrifying.

The couple doesn't want to shell out eight grand for lukewarm salmon, so they're getting creative:

And then we started thinking — our first date was at a Chipotle, and it's been our go-to spot whenever we're in the mood to go out for lunch. We thought it would be a really fun idea to have them cater our wedding, and we could tie it all together with cute little signs with sayings like "life is burrito-ful with you" (maybe not quite that corny, but you get the idea). Even though we'd have to rent tableware/glassware and hire some people to bus the tables, it would still be thousands of dollars cheaper than the lowest quote we got from the standard wedding caterers. Plus, it would be super easy to accommodate our vegetarian/vegan and gluten-free guests, and who doesn't like Chipotle?

But one set of parents is horrified, while the other set of parents just thinks it's a little kooky:

My parents have been pretty laid back about our decisions, but they are adamant that we cannot serve Chipotle and that it would be cheap and tacky and reflect badly on them/us. My mom in particular is worried that family traveling from out of state will find it insulting. My fiance's parents think it's a little strange but they're not nearly as opinionated and are basically just like "do whatever you guys want."

The couple are paying for most of the wedding themselves, although both sets of parents are chipping in:

If it matters, my fiance and I are financing the majority of the wedding, but our parents have made some contributions as well. My parents have a family friend who runs a gorgeous event venue in our area and were able to negotiate a great deal for us, and they also offered to pay for the flowers and the cake, which we very much appreciate. My fiance's parents are paying for the rehearsal dinner.

The question on the bride and groom's minds:

Would people really be that insulted by Chipotle at a wedding?

With this being Reddit, many are on the couple's side.

"[No a-holes here]," writes GlitteringHair7, "should I save the date?"

But realistically, many predict that there will be some sideways glances and whispers if the couple do, indeed, go the Chipotle route. Says lisasimpsonfan:

Is it tacky? Maybe depending on the venue. If you are having this formal wedding with an expensive high end venue it's going to look cheap AF to everyone if all you serve is Chipotle. They might call it "fast casual" but really it's still fast food. You might as well buy a couple 6' subs. Especially if you have family flying in and you serve fast food. OUCH. Now if you are doing more of a casual outdoor-sy type wedding then it's not so tacky. It really depends on the vibe of your wedding.

Either way there are no assholes because it's your and your fiance's wedding day so it's your choice. Just be prepared to be judged.

"Just be prepared to be judged" is probably a good rule of thumb for everything wedding related, TBH.

As Oliver_Green pointed out, they can do whatever they want at their wedding:

It's your wedding. If you want to married in an all nude ceremony under the full moon with a choir of barn cats in heat, you do you. I served appetizers at my wedding, I promise you that decision has no bearing on the rest of my life.

If your family cares more about the food you serve than about being present and happy for you, they can leave. Those types will find something to gossip about anyway, don't plan your wedding around the Jones's.

Which is true — but it still doesn't answer the question at hand: will people be insulted by the choice?

If they're bringing a high-cost gift, then yeah, they will probably not be stoked about the Chipotle. Heyitssani suggested warning people beforehand:

if it’s a formal wedding. I don’t understand why people are saying it’s fine because it’s “free food” when you have to give gifts/money at a wedding. I think you should mention the menu with your guests beforehand so they can adjust their gift value.

And Mydogsnamesleonidas points out that food costs are an integral part of how people decide how much money to give a married couple:

Common practice is to give a gift the cost of your plate. Not saying they should give 5 dollars if they get served chipotle, but OP should keep in mind that though expensive up front, they will probably see a lot of this money returned through gifts.

And octopus_hug points out that people who spend a lot of time and money to get there might be miffed:

if your wedding is anything but super casual. I’d be pissed if I traveled from out of state to a formal wedding and they served me Chipotle. Is it a cash bar too?

So there you have it: it's fine to serve whatever you want at your wedding... but yes, people might be insulted by fast food.

Women are sharing myths about their gender that they find infuriating and false.

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The battle of the sexes is a war that has been raging for centuries.

Of course it's impossible to truly know what it's like to walk in someone's else's shoes, but empathy is what sets humans apart from every other species. Trying to see someone else's side of an issue or learning about what makes your partner's body and life experience different from yours strengthens your relationships and your own life.

While gender is fluid and we all still have a great deal to learn about the experience of being a man or a woman, there is still so much that is misunderstood specifically about womanhood. Many men refuse to learn to acknowledge the struggles all women go through and many women feel uncomfortable admitting they are in physical or emotional pain because they don't want to appear to be "the weaker sex." By the way, period cramps are just as painful as heart attacks, boys!

When a recent Reddit user asked, "Women of Reddit, what myth about women is 100% untrue and infuriates you when you hear it?" women everywhere were ready to share the myths they encounter daily.

1. Women definitely snore, "JARlaah."

That women don't snore (seriously, I've heard this loads and it always baffles me).

People breathe when they sleep, sometimes it makes some noise, male or female. Let em breathe.

2. It's not always jealousy, "Mishy-P."

That because you don't like another woman it's only because you're jealous. Listen, I can hate a woman because of something she did or said and in no f*cking way be jealous of her. She may be just dumb and why would I be jealous of that?

3. Truth, "treeshugmeback."

Nearly everything about endometriosis. It is sorely misunderstood, research is underfunded, and terrible treatments get used all the f*cking time when they don't help and make things worse. Its a hidden debilitating disease and i hate the misinformation spread about it. There IS help out there and legit treatments.

4. It's called a urethra! "Exiode."

We pee with our vagina.

5. Maternity leave is just a different kind of work, "pinkblossom331."

Maternity leave is basically vacation. If you've never experienced the exhaustion of carrying a child and the intense body changes that occur during and after delivery, you'll find out that maternity leave is necessary for recovery and is not a vacation. Try working with a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th degree tear while now trying to deal with a baby that needs to feed every 2-3 hours.

6. It's not always pregnancy, "Ashleighbell032."

Every time I throw up or say I feel nauseated, literally since I was like 16, the FIRST thing someone jumps to is "are you pregnant?" Like we can get sick without it being because we're knocked up

7. Yup, "lady_laughs_too_much."

Stuff about our periods in general. Like if we're mad, it's definitely because we're on our period. We never have a legitimate reason to be upset. Also myths like we're able to hold in our period or we only have it for a day or that we're impure. The impure one definitely infuriates me. I just think about the billions of women throughout history, and sometimes even today, being treated as if they're impure or an evil omen because of a bodily function they cannot control. Banishing them to menstrual huts when they have their periods or not allowing them to touch anything. And yes, this happens. My mother as a teenager was not allowed to touch anything when she had her period. It got to the point where she would just not tell anyone she was menstruating and do what she wanted.

8. We LOVE pockets, "Minemose."

That we don't need pockets in our f*cking clothes.

9. Women aren't all born with a shopping gene, "SaltyDoggoMeo."

That we all love shopping. I fucking HATE shopping.

10. Not everyone is wedding-obsessed (sorry, TLC) "Smurff833."

That as little girls we all dreamt about our future wedding. Not all women want to get married or actually enjoy attending weddings

11. Women like all movies! "junedy."

That we're only supposed to like rom-com movies. Someone once told me I've quite a masculine movie collection- wtf?

12. Many women are perfectly happy child-free! "Proper-Atmosphere."

All women want/need children.

13. A+, "fck-rffld."

That the clitoris is hard to find.

Or that labia grow exponentially with lots if sex.

Or that vaginas are anything but elastic.

Basically every ridiculous myth about female sexuality and their genitals.

14. Not all women like to liquid dessert, "gypsy373."

That I like pumpkin spice lattes.

15. 100%, "totesmagotes69."

That we all hate when our significant other is going to hangout with friends & we expect them to be with us 24/7?

16. Women are independent! "throwmeawayboys12."

Women are looking for a man to provide for them. It's attractive to have your shit together but I can handle myself, I just want a best friend to f*ck and goof off with

17. Hair is IN, "DarshnaRekha."

That it is mandatory for all women to shave or trim every single hair on our bodies.

No. Not mandatory.

18. There are other colors! "reykolt."

That we'll buy anything if it's pink. Pink guns, pink staplers, pink calculators, pink camo... ugh

19. Women are humans too! "liramae4."

That women don't like sex.

20. This is a lie, "kevnmartin."

That the more sex you have, the looser your p*ssy gets.

21. Women can be honest! "glitteraapje."

that we mean the opposite of what we say

People are sharing stories of their worst first dates of all time.

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The road to love is paved with bad first dates. And the rise of online dating apps has only worsened the problem, providing single people with more ways to connect with and disappoint each other (am I bitter? absolutely!). But....but....things work out well in the end, right? As long as you "keep putting yourself out there"? Love must be real, or all these sappy holiday movies wouldn't resonate with so many people. If only these holiday movies also depicted the endless slog through awkward and uncomfortable moments most of us have to go through before finding someone decent enough to settle down, or even go on a 2nd date, with.

People on Reddit are sharing their worst first dates of all time. Here are 22 terrible tales from people who learned very quickly that the person they were on a date with was not"the one."

1.) From meghanarsenic:

Dinner went pretty well, he was funny, sweet, so we decided to uber to a bar.

On the way there we're holding hands and chatting, the guy immediately pulls his half hard cock out and asks the uber driver to reroute to his home.

The uber driver threatened to call the cops, kicked him out of the car, and drove me home free of charge.

2.) From confettiicecream:

Met a lovely girl over Tinder, we really hit it off and had a great conversation, decided to meet in person for coffee the next day.

She showed up on time, looked just like her pictures - and brought her boyfriend.

3.) From tinydancerxo:

i went on a first date with a guy. he was very educated and polite. he was friends of a friends and they set up us. they failed to mention that he just got out of a 5 year relationship and was not over her in the slightest. we went to a restaurant he frequently took his ex to, which i found out 10 minutes into the date. i would try to change the subject when he mentioned her but it was obvious he needed someone to vent too. so i spent the date letting him get out his thoughts/emotions about his ex. he wasn't a bad guy, he just wasn't in a position to be dating anyone.

4.) From pm_me_your_taintt:

She ordered three bottles of wine at dinner. I had maybe three glasses total. Which means she had 9 glasses on her own. When she tried to order a 4th one the waiter cut her off. She caused a scene and got us kicked out of the restaurant. I called her an Uber and while we were waiting she pissed herself in the parking lot. Basically poured her into the back seat of her Uber and went home. She texts the next day- "hey sorry I missed our date last night, I must have taken a nap and slept through it. Reschedule?"

Wow, just woke up and saw how popular this is. Figured I'd follow up. [Here's the rest of that convo.] (https://imgur.com/SRfbeJq) For context "bitch bar" is a bar my ex works at. Blackout had originally suggested we meet there for drinks and I had to explain that she works there and is kinda crazy and I probably shouldn't take a date there. She knew that's what I called the place. When I first said I'll get back to you I was really contemplating a second chance because she's smoking hot. But ultimately my big head prevailed over my little head.

5.) From HugOWar:

Sophomore year of college, my roommate and I decided to double date. It was the first date for both of us and we invited the guys to our apartment to watch A Knight's Tale. My date got drunk within 20 minutes and spent most of the movie face down in my lap mumbling "It's just so anachronistic!" while my roommate and her date cuddled and laughed at me.

6.) From AMMJ:

My only blind date...

My college roommate had a date, asked me if I’d come along and take out his date’s roommate.

I thought ‘what the hell, why not’

We arrive at their place to pick them up.

My date comes out, she’s cute. She looks at me and just says, “Oh hell no”. She goes somewhere else.

I drown my sorrows in pitchers of margaritas...find out they have a 2 pitcher per person limit, and we’re at 6 pitchers already.

I call a buddy to join us. Buddy arrives, sits across from me. Order 2 more pitchers of margaritas.

Buddy tells me he had plans with a girl he’d been dating for a bit, but the plans had just fallen through, so let’s get f’d up.

Three minutes later, the girl he had plans with arrives on a date with another dude...sits at the table right next to us.

We call another buddy to join, so we can get 2 more pitchers of margaritas.

In retrospect, we should have gone home after the second pitcher of margaritas.

7.) From Roo514:

Didn't quite get to the dating part. My best friend was a guy and his girlfriend didn't like me hanging out with him. She decided she wanted to set me up on a date to get me out of her hair. My best friend asks me to please do this to get her off his back. Apparently the guy she wanted to set me up with was her coworker's brother. He was a young widower and a solid guy. I reluctantly agreed and she gave him my number. This guy called me and we talked. He told me that he was a widower. We talked about his job. He didn't ask me out. Three more conversations over the phone and he still didn't ask me out. I finally told him if he wanted to go out on a date it would have to be soon as I was leaving on a lengthy trip soon. He said he was waiting. I asked him what was he waiting for? And his reply was.... the funeral. His wife's funeral. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I noped out of that asap and told him he should wait a while to date. Was sooo mad at my bestfriend and told him his girlfriend could fuck off.

8.) From Seigest:

They walked into the restaurant immediately said "I don't believe in dental hygiene". I believed them as they had black teeth and gums that I could smell from several feet away.

I could not tell if it was a joke, or some sort of experiment, but it was hard to focus on much else. It was easily the most disgusting mouth I've ever seen.

9.) From Aypreltwenny:

Probably any of the dates with my abusive ex when she would throw a public tantrum to 'test' me.

For example, the last time we went out together before I managed my escape we were going to the zoo. She wants to cross the road, I ask why and point out we can't get to the zoo from that side, she immediately goes into a screaming hissy fit, shouting, tears, the whole works, right there in the middle of the street in a very busy city. I was pretty used to it and done with the whole thing by this point in our relationship, previously I would have been desperately trying to comfort her but this time after she wouldn't tell me what was wrong I just walked away. Tears dry up, comes running after me, finally explains there's a shop across the road she wants to visit. 10 years later I can still feel the exasperation with how bloody stupid the whole episode was.

10.) From LN3132:

I went on a tinder date that ended in me leaving because his friends showed up at his place with a stolen goat. They wanted to kill it and try to get in touch with the spirit world. I wish I was kidding.

11.) From JessBS27:

Okay, I was a sophomore in college and went on the worst tinder date of my life.

This guy invites me to a realllly bro-y college bar. He shows up in sweat pants.

I bought us the first round of drinks, but he never got another round, so that was it. I definitely wasn’t drunk enough for this.

I’m trying to make the most of out this because he’s cute and I only wanted something casual anyway. I was truly trying to make conversation, but EVERY answer he gives is about football. He said he was on the team (a google search later on proved that to be false). I asked him what he did for fun? Football. What other hobbies he had? Working out after football practice. Does he enjoy any games or anything? Madden.

He also took a phone call in the middle of the date. While he was talking on the phone right in front of me, I was looking at the decorative signs all over the bar (I was too young to get up and just walk out, but I really wish I would have at this moment...) When he hangs up the phone, he sees me scanning the signs on the wall and says, “so you like to read, huh?”

We left shortly after.

He insisted on walking me home. We get to my apartment building, he goes in for a hug. While grabbing me, he whispers “I was really hoping to get a piece of this tonight.” You can’t be serious right now.

I say, “maybe next time!” And run away.

I didn’t hear from him again until the following weekend, Saturday night, 2am.

12.) From jzhoodie:

On the very first date this woman decides to tell me she had an affair with her brother-in-law. Couldn't leave the bar fast enough.

13.) From 4ninawells:

Went on a first date. Waited 60 minutes for food at the restaurant. Cue awkward conversation. Went to a movie and the movie jammed in the middle and we had to wait 20 minutes for them to fix it. Cue awkward conversation. On the way home, the car broke down and he insisted we couldn't call any of my brothers or sisters for a ride, so we walked 4 miles home. In the snow.

We have been married for 37 years. ;)

14.) From Kamehwik:

I got catfished but for some reason I felt too mean calling her out on it because she was a nice person, just not my type, and she had obviously used another woman's photos. Other than that she seemed very kind and I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

So we still went to my place where eventually during a movie after some hints she finally just asked me, "Do you want to have sex now?" Again I felt bad, so I made up this lie about how I really wanted to, but I was a devout Christian and it was a war inside me. I got her a soda and we finished watching Captain America.

At the end of it she asked me if I was gay and I said no, then she kinda rolled her eyes while we said goodbye.

15.) From Lark1987:

I went on a date with a guy who not only felt that I was emasculating him because I won’t let him pay for my meal and drinks. It was a first date and I believe in splitting the bill on the first date so that no one feels they owe the other. He kept demanding that I let him pay and I kept saying it’s fine when he blurted out “just let me pay damn it. How the fuck else am I gonna get lucky tonight?”

Date ended there and then. I don’t sleep with people of the first date either. It made my school year awkward though because we shared a lot of classes but for the most part I avoided him.

16.) From Much_Difference:

Mr Complex, ugh. It was seriously like he was a shitty movie stereotype come to life.

He made a couple of snarky comments about me wearing heels on the date even though I wasn't. We were the same height (5'7") and I guess imaginary heels was the only way his mind could grapple with the concept. When we got to the restaurant, I opened my door to exit the vehicle and he began screaming at me for "making him look like less of a man" by not letting him open my door for me. A LOT of the dinner conversation was about how women don't appreciate "a male provider" "anymore". I was young and stupid so we ended up going back to his place and it was the only time I've actually had an "is it in?" moment. Afterward, he recalled that he's pleased many women before and they all said he was one of the best they'd ever had. Before I left, he let me know we were actually at his sister's house and she was in the bedroom next to us and to try not to wake her up leaving.

What a sad dude. I hope he got therapy.

17.) From Lazy_Raccoon:

First night I stayed over at my partners house. We both thought her family had gone away for the weekend and were somewhat vocal as a response. The morning proved us wrong when her mother congratulated us over breakfast she had specially prepared.

She offered us tips and practical advice, also gave us a thumbs up. Best MIL ever. Mortifying at the time however.

They had a large house, and her mother was keeping herself occupied in a wing we had no reason to enter, so we didn't know/expect her to be home.

18.) From squidnaay:

I'll keep this as short as possible.

I was set up with a guy by a good friend so I was excited. We texted back and forth for a few days and finally decided to meet up. We decide to get dinner in my town. Plans are set and then he asks for a ride. No big deal we were college age at that time. I get in my car, punch in the address and he's an hour a way and like in the CUTS. Okay whatever.

I get to the address and I'm like...this can't be right? It's literally a shed leaned up against a fence. Okay, no worries maybe I can't see the rest of the property or something? Or maybe this is his home and he's just struggling right now. No skin off my nose we had good chemistry texting.

He gets in my car and he's bundled up, like turtle neck, jeans, puffy jacket (its summer in a hot climate.) Throws a massive bag and something else I couldn't tell what (it was dark and I have a large van) in my back seat. I'm wearing a mini skirt and a button down blouse and 6in heels. He suggests we go somewhere else than we planned. Exciting, my friend had told me this guy was spontaneous like me!

He guides me to a beautiful dark lake. The moon was shining and I could see so many stars. I'm not really dressed for this but maybe he has something up his sleeve. I'm like oh cute! Romantic. Then he pulls a fishing rod out of my back seat. I tell him I'm not dressed for this and I also don't like killing animals. I've tried fishing before and discovered it is certainly not for me. He objects, and I watch him fish for about an hour. Ignoring all my hints that I'm not having fun or that maybe coffee was a better plan. He puts his fucking fish in my backseat and I tell him I dont feel well let's stop at the gas station so I can fill up and take him home.

This part is the REAL DEAL BREAKER FOR ME. At the gas station while I'm filling up, an African American woman approaches his window (this is important to the story) she asks for help filling her tires with air and I look and see her two kids in her car just looking exhausted they were clearly on a road trip (once again we're in the cuts) he looks at her and goes "No." and turns away. I'm like wtf so I get out and help her. She was on a trip. I get back in the car and ask him why he acted like that. He then proceeds to roll up his sleeves and show me prison tattoo swastikas and tells me all about his sentencing for assault with a deadly weapon and a few other things I can't remember. Lovely.

I drive as fast as I can back freaking out. I have a racist, potentially dangerous, fish toting weirdo in my front seat. I drop him off at his shack and let him get his stuff out of my car. As he's leaving he goes "do you wanna come in and meet my mom?" I sped off. I don't talk to the friend who set us up anymore. The end.

(Oh and I once had a friend who's Tinder date took her on a first date to his mom's funeral.)

EDIT: grammar. By "cuts" I mean middle of nowhere, the boonies, far from civilization. I used capitalization for emphasis. Thank you for the silver despite my horrible sentence structure and poor choice of words!

19.) From Slash1909:

Not me but I was heavily involved in setting up the date. I set up a good friend, a girl with a guy I used to work with.

Later that night after the date, she called me up and said "I think I'm related to him somehow". We go sleuthing on Facebook and text each other updates. And after an hour of talking to some distant relatives, we are dead certain that he's her nephew a couple of times removed.

She calls me up sobbing saying they had already had sex twice after that first date.

20.) From OV3NBVK3D:

Not me but my uncle told me about a date where he picked the girl up and on the way to their destination she asked “would you mind if I fart ? I’m super gassy” and so he was like uhh no I guess not and rolled down the window for her like a gentleman

21.) From buffal0gal:

I had a blind date to a frat semi-formal at the end of the spring semester. My flaky roommate said my date was a great guy and a good piano player (as if that has anything to do with being a good human being.) He was from her hometown and had some kind of family ties?

My mom and I sewed a very cute strapless red dress with fake pearls on the bodice and a poofy petticoat (it was the late '80s)

This goofball picked me up and asked me if I wanted to see the hotel room. I figured we'd be pregaming there, with other party goers. Wrong. There was evidence of partying, but they were all gone by the time we arrived.

I wasnt offered a drink. This should have been a signal of more discomfort to come.

My date sat on the bed, patted it beside him and asked me to sit. I perched on thw edge of the bed, as far away as I could without being rude. He promptly went in for a big, sloppy tongue kiss as I turned my head away. I got a nice slime trail of spit all the way to my ear.

I scooched away a bit more and brightly asked, "So, when are we going to the party?" His reply? "I thought we'd stay here and make out for a while first."

Nope. I jumped up, grabbed my purse and said, "Let's get going, I don't want to miss anything. "

We got to the party at a ballroom. It was a big party put on by three fraternities all together. There might have been 200-250 people there.

I was looking for a sorority sister I knew would be there, also on a blind date. I was hoping to cling to her as a lifeline. No dice. She really, really liked her date, and she pretty much ditched me.

After making a loop around the room, talking to some guys I didn't know at all, my date abandoned me (probably to bitch about how I spurned his elegant romantic overtures) Oh, well. I could at least get drunk, right?

Wrong. My date neglected to provide setups or a bottle. No cash bar.

I sat with the frat's house mother for a while. She took pity on me and gave me a Sprite from her flat 2-liter bottle. I wandered around, seeing if there were any unaccompanied bottles on any of the tables. No luck.

I looked around for my date a few times, and I finally found him on the dance floor with a a bunch of guys and their dates. He did not ask me to dance. He did not ask where I had beem or if I was having a good time.

At about 8:30, I'd had enough and and told my date I was tired and wanted to go home. The drive back to my apartment was filled with uncomfortable silence.

I literally got home before it got fully dark outside.

Never heard from him again. Never heard him play piano, either.

My roommate thought I must have done something terrible to deserve my evening out. She turned out to be a psycho bitch in her own right. Fuck you, Debbie.

I never went on another blind date.

22.) From PerilousAll:

Went out for a workday lunch date with a guy I met at a professional association. You'd think this would be fairly short, but he insisted we drive from the burb we both work in to a downtown restaurant. While walking from the car to the restaurant the heel of my shoe gets caught between the brick pavers and my foot pulls loose. Before I can bend over and pull my shoe free, he goes down on one knee and insists on getting my shoe for me and placing it back on my foot, Cinderella style. First clue this is going to be weird.

So while we're at the restaurant things are pretty normal until I glance down and see that the safety pin I was using to keep my criss-cross blouse decent had come undone. Because I'm pretty obviously doing something with the front of my blouse, and don't want him to get any weird ideas that I'm being flirtatious, I say "I'm just fixing this safety pin." He replies "Why did you tell me that?" I almost give the reason above, but I pause and say "Why do you think I told you that?" His reply: "You're letting me know there's a trap in your blouse in case I try to reach my hand down into your bra." This is where I remind myself that we know a lot of the same people, and several of them know we're out at lunch together.

Then the final piece of this date comes as we're driving back to my office and he casually mentions his wife (?!?!?!). At this point all I want is for this to be over and I don't really care about what he thinks of me, so knowing that he has a Master's degree in Philosophy, I ask him if he doesn't think going out on his wife will rack up some bad karma for him. He pretends not to understand this, so I add that maybe she'll start cheating on him if she finds out he does this. He replies that she cheats on him all the time. We were at my office parking lot by then and I just got out and walked away.

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