Everyone with a job has felt the urge to go off on somebody at work, but don't ~say how they really feel~ as not to get fired. Well, people on Reddit shared stories of the times they did blow up on the job, and yes, they got fired.

Whether or not the customers deserved it is up to you.

1. From Dr. onnicitta:

Lost my position at a vet clinic.

Story goes like this: woman brought in her 5-year-old dog that had diarrhea for the past week, was untreated for it. She was tired of the dog messing up the house...so instead of having the dog treated for the condition she decided she would rather just have the dog put down.

I proceeded to call her a dumb bitch while explaining to her the responsibilities that are involved when you decide you want to have a pet. I was fired...I never looked back.

2. I hope Rhooster313 brought their friend pizza in prison.

This didn't happen to me...but I witnessed it. A friend of mine used to work in a pizza place...I'd hang out in the lobby playing their Pacman machine...(yeah...it was a long time ago). Anyway, my friend is taking orders when a guy storms in, screaming about wrong toppings. He removes the pie from the box and frisbees it into my friends face. My 2 time Detroit golden-gloves champion friend. What followed was the worst beating I've ever seen one man take. My friend lost his job AND got jail time out of it.

3. IamWood13 didn't get the chop.

I was cutting a lady's hair when the child of lady waiting started running around the shop. I told the child several times to go sit with her mother and asked her mother to please keep her child seated next to her. Well, in the middle of cutting around my client's ear, the child ran into my work area, ran into me and almost caused me to cut my client. I looked at the child and firmly said "you need to go sit down with your mother now." Well her mom didn't like that and came running back to me and yelled "Don't tell my child what to do, I'm her parent." I responded with "Then act like it."

She glared at me, grabbed her child and stormed out. Everyone in the shop was relieved the child had left. A few days later the owner came and tried to fire me for it, but luckily there were enough other stylists and clients that came to my defense about the danger of the situation and I only got a write up.

4. zeebow77 was sexually assaulted and fired for it.

I used to work in the restaurant industry as a chef...Anyways, one day I was alone on the line and a server came to me and said a customer wanted to give me his compliments. No problem, I put on my nicer jacket and went out to say hi.

The customer thanks me, then tells me to come in closely because he had a secret. I was like okay sure? So I lean in a little, he motions me closer, I move in a little more. This guy then goes "I'll meet you in the bathroom in 5 minutes" and grabs my balls.

I f*cking lost it and shoved the dude.

Got fired immediately.

5. Ollamoot's siter got better. Not sure about the customer.

My sister was the manager of a women's clothing store. At the time she was dealing with some personal issues regarding depression and anxiety so she wasn't in the greatest state of mind to begin with. A customer came in with a pair of pants that had ripped along the inner thigh seams, which were well past the return period and had clearly been worn/washed.

The customer, who was a larger woman, went off on a sales associate, stating she'd only "tried the pants on" and that caused the seams to rip and she wanted a refund. She brought the associate to tears with her ranting and finally demanded the manager, my sister.

Enter my sis, and the customer starts yelling at her too. Sis promptly tells the customer that her pants split because she was a f*cking fatass, she wouldn't get a f*cking refund, and to take her fat ass out of the store and never come back.

Sis then went in the back, called her boss and quit before she could be fired. Her boss actually was willing to let her stay but she chose to leave anyway until she could get her depression issues under control.

6. WallOtterCarpetSeal did the math:

I used to work at pizza place in a small town when I was a teenager. One night I took a phone order from some idiot woman. It went like this:

Me: Thank you for calling "pizza place", may I take your order?

Idiot Woman: Yes, I'd like a large pizza. Half pepperoni, half sausage, and half black olives.

Me: Ok, did you want the toppings combined or separated?

IW: No, I want half pepperoni, half sausage, and half black olives.

Me: Ok so you want 1/3 pepperoni, 1/3 sausage, and 1/3 black olives?

IW: No! I want HALF PEPPERONI, HALF SAUSAGE, and HALF BLACK OLIVES!

Me: I understand the toppings that you want, but I'm not understanding how you want us to put the toppings on your pizza. Do you want them separated by thirds? Combined together? Or do you mean put half the amount that we usually put on?

IW: What's so hard to understand?! I WANT...HALF...PEPPERONI...HALF...SAUSAGE...AND HALF...BLACK OLIVES!!!!!

Me: Lady, there's only 2 halves to a pizza!

IW: I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!!

I got fired on the spot. It was easier for the manager to just hire another person than it was to lose a customer in a small town.

Oh, and the lady wanted the toppings divided into thirds. She told the manager the same thing and he just went with her math. The bitch also got it for free.

7. Spiralyst was free at last.

Had a customer that, for at least a year, came into our store and was a master tactician in getting free goods by making up complaints against our staff.

I was already planning on leaving for a better opportunity and was going to give notice of resignation one week when this customer started giving me an incredibly difficult time about an issue I had nothing to do with and couldn't help him with. It was extremely busy and he was holding everyone up with his bullsh*t.

I cut this guy off mid-sentence and just went off on him in front of a number of customers and part of our staff. I told him he was nothing more than a cheapskate grifter and told him I would no longer recognize him as a living, breathing, member of our species.

Then I told him to go f*ck himself. The look on his face was so goddamned beautiful.

8. From Joyrock:

One of my coworkers: She was towards the end of a long day, and was the only register open. A customer came through, making lots of special requests, and being particularly rude when she tried to ensure everything. Coworker had enough, closed her register, moved to the next one over, and asked for the next customer.

9. From SardinesGivePower

Obligatory, "it was my co-worker" but I was like 5 feet away. We worked in the produce section of Safeway. He had gotten in like 5 minutes prior and was obviously in a bad mood when a customer comes up and starts complaining about her fruit. He tries the normal talking points, but the lady is being a bitch. Finally he just loses it and yells, "Fuck off you stupid whore!"

He throws his apron at her and leaves the store. Never heard from him again.

10. TheEthalea went off on their boss.

So I was working for McDonalds. Opening to 1pm everyday and I get the entire kitchen set up and initial food cooked, then switch to back drive thru and take orders all breakfast long. When we switch to lunch at 10:30, I would go do all breakfast dishes, pull next day product, roll burritos, pan hotcakes, etc.

I'm about 45 mins from leaving, I've been awake since 3:30 am and my manager says "can you stay until 6pm?" I ask about overtime, she approves it. I say "I haven't taken a break so I'll take an hour and be back." Which is policy.

She asks if I can take my hour at 2 and get us through lunch rush on fries. So I agree and say "then I'm breaking 2-3 and will come back and work 3-6 back drive."

She keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and at 3:15 I finally put down my fry scoop and say "when are you gonna get someone here to relieve me I have been on my feet since 4am!?"

She gets all huffy and pissed off and says "WELL GO HOME THEN AND COME BACK WHEN YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR JOB!"

So I walk out, go home, eat, shower, and crawl into bed. 3:30am alarm goes off. I roll over. Turn it off and go back to sleep.

My phone is blowing up an hour later. She's screaming "where are you!?"? I say, "Sorry you said to come back when I care about my job and I just don't care anymore." Hung up and slept another 3 hours.

11. Hope GorillaS0up shushed them.

I have no idea who he was but I watched an employee punch a man in the face once in a library. He was a low level stock worker and everyday this customer would sh*t on him telling him he's no help and how incompetent he was. I think this went on for months and I guess the employee decided it would be better to be fired but get your dignity back.

12. Justice for laterdude:

I have a speech impediment and back when I worked at Starbucks, this young African-American kid would come in every day after school and order a caramel frap.

Every time I told him it would be "$3.50", he would laugh uproariously and ask me to say it again. After a few weeks of this, he'd start bringing in his buddies as well. Each one would order the exact same drink then ask me to keep repeating the price for them again and again.

After a few months, I broke down. "You boys should know how much the drink is by now!"

My manager overheard and claimed I was being racist by calling them 'you boys', even though they were all middle school age! Anyways, I still see the kids around town and they always shout at me: "How much are those caramel fraps again?"

13. From Arcade42:

Wasn't me but a coworker. Dude was from Egypt. Some redneck (judging from confederacy tats) and his family came in looking to return something that was way older than our return policy and no warranty or receipt. He told them he couldn't help them as there was honestly nothing proving that he had even purchased here and they wanted a cash or gift card refund, but that he would be happy to call a manager if they weren't happy with what he said.

Dude and wife starts being incredibly Islamaphobic, coworker was Christian. The wife's husband pushes him on the ground, gets up, and pushes him on the ground again. The coworker got back up and beat the ever living crap out of him right in front of his wife and kids.

The police were convinced it was self defense, but Target said that he didn't have to actually fight over a couple punches and canned him. He manages a Carmax last I heard.

14. From Warmasher:

Many a year ago I worked at a home improvement store called Menards. I was a cart pusher, which was nice as I was outside all the time. Anyway we gather about 25-30 shopping carts together and push them up to the entrance where they are stored inside. Now to get them there we do have to cross the main drive of the parking lot in front of the store. We always stop and let customers drive by. So as I push the carts up I stop because I see a guy in an pretty nice SUV...So I'm waiting to see if he drives off and he then looks at me and waves me across, looks like he wanted to finish a call he had gotten or something. So I wave back and start pushing the carts across. I am on the other side when some clips me across the shoulder blades and it stung somewhat and pushed me forward. And at the same time I heard glass shatter, I turn around and the guy in the SUV clipped me with his sideview mirror. It had swung closed and shatterered the window in the door, and I'm just standing there wide eyed. 2 seconds later the guy gets out of his car swearing up a storm at me and how I'm a low life piece of sh*t and how I'm going to pay for a new window and that I'm not going to get anywhere in life because I broke his window. Now I'm the type of person that if I was the reason I'll take the blame and fix the problem. But this guy hit me, I blew up on him for about 5 minutes before a manager finally had the guts to come over and pull me away. I didn't have to pay for a new window as it was on video, but I lost my job because we are not suppose to yell and cuss at the customer.

15. revanwright took DVDs VERY seriously.

Worked at a small Blockbuster location when I was a teenager. We had a guy my manager called "The Cougher". This f*cker would come in, grab a bunch of DVDs, shove them under his coat, then leave. When he passed through the detectors, of course the alarm would go off, and this asshole would start coughing his lungs out, as if the sound of his hacking would drown out the alarms. Then my manager would shout, "SIR? SIR! STOP!", and The Cougher would take off running. He did this 4-5 times over the course of a year, and somehow we never recognized him when he came in. Now the thing is, we were all expressly trained not to physically try to stop thieves. We couldn't grab them, we couldn't even stand in the doorway to stop them leaving. I guess they'd have grounds to sue Blockbuster or something if we did.

A year after he first shows up, I'm about to move to another state. Have my 2 week notice in, packing my stuff up. Cue The Cougher. He does the same thing he's done for the last year, grabs 5-6 DVDs and starts coughing as he goes through the detectors. Having a week left with that job, I chased him and dove into his legs in the parking lot. He wrestled with me while I spit a stream of some of the most heinous cursing I've ever done. I mean I laid into this dude, saying I hoped his mother caught Montezuma's Revenge and shit herself to death, all kinds of horrible things. After about a minute of wrestling with the dude and my manager screaming at me from the door, he threw me off and ran. My manager ran after him for a block, I guess to see if he would get in a car or something, then came back and fired me on the spot. I left the state the next week, and to this day I don't know if he sued or not. I never got a call or a letter about it.

"Sons are the anchors of a mother's life."

-Sophocles

If you're raising sons, you are probably too exhausted to read this. Just skip right ahead to the hilarious memes. They perfectly nail the joys and struggles of being a boy-mom.

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"Humor is reason gone mad."

-Groucho Marx

Mornings make us all go a little mad. Luckily, a little laughter can snap you out of your stressed state and make your entire day better. These memes will make anyone with a sense of humor laugh out loud.

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You don't have to be an aspiring influencer in order to understand the photo struggle. A flattering and seemingly effortless photo requires just the right balance of good lighting, angles, and posing. In the olden days, people relied on professional photographers and studios to get their glamour shots, but in the age of quality camera phones and viral content, everyone feels one photo away from internet fandom.

All it takes is a few behind-the-scenes shots to undo the sheen of someone's flawless Instagram feed, and honestly, meta photos of people taking photos are far more interesting to look at than pristine glamour shots.

The meta Instagram account Influencers In The Wild was launched in order to poke fun of the age of #content and 24/7 influencing.

The Influencers In The Wild feed is filled with photos of people trying to cash in on the "likes," and the lengths people go to for a dramatic shot are both hilarious and terrifying.

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We've all had a few slow days at work...

Sometimes the hours just crawl by and you want to feel useful, but you also really want to watch the video your friend just texted you. Unfortunately for business owners, human employees aren't machines. We get distracted, we require breaks, fresh air and blood flow and sometimes we just want to talk to our co-worker about the office's favorite TV show.

While there are plenty of tried and true methods for looking like you're working when you're actually online shopping for a last minute wedding gift, some people can get really creative. When a recent Reddit user asked for favorite techniques, people on the 9-5 shared workplace grind were definitely ready confess.

Office workers of Reddit, what’s your go-to activity to “look busy” when you have no work to do?

1. Genius, "J-Dizzle42."

Just look frustrated with whatever you're doing.

Squint at your computer screen, shake your head, let out an occasional sigh, have a bunch of papers on your desk you can rifle through periodically.

You don't want to look so frustrated that you might need some help, but if you do this right everybody will think you're already too busy with something to be bothered.

2. Take a walk, "givethatagoodsniff."

This is my go-to, always a classic.

Before my desk job days, when I was in retail/guest service, the equivalent was just power walking nowhere in particular with a slight scowl. Obviously meant I had somewhere important to be and shouldn’t be bothered.

3. Utilize your props, "82Recluse82."

I’m a cleaner/janitor in a warehouse complex

I just grab a broom or a bucket

Can walk laps of the place for hours without doing anything if I want

4. Use your skills to your advantage, "GrilledStuffedDragon."

My coworkers don't really know computers like I do, and since my job is 90% on the computer, I just load up 3 or 4 explorer windows over a random Excel spreadsheet, and stare intently at it.

5. Stay thorough, "Vyzantinist."

Reviewing. Going over work you did for the day "just to make sure I did everything right".

6. Just a little light reading, "Jenslosingit."

Find something to read that they can’t tell isn’t work if they don’t look close. Like did you know the script of the Truman show is online somewhere? That was a fun day.

7. Stay mad, "BlinkRogue1."

When you look annoyed all the time, people think you’re busy

8. Make your distractions your work, "Bloggersberg."

I'm a social media manager, so I can just browse through instagram and pretend I'm looking for inspiration, influencers or the competition.

9. Spreadsheets always work, "CitizenHuman."

I've had the same spreadsheet open for 4 days, no one has said anything, and I still got paid so I guess it's working.

10. Dream job, "Feer_Nandah."

For the past year I'm being paid to watch Netflix and twitch because of how little work we were having. I don't even pretend to do anything anymore.

11. Perfect, "Mole_kid."

I frequently write emails to myself. Could be my grocery list, to-dos for after work, ideas that I don’t want to forget, or planning the upcoming weekend. It’s a great way to make my free time more efficient and organized while killing time at work.

12. Do the busy dance, "Rootbeer48."

the power of walking with a folder in your hand with a little hustle, will get you far sometimes

13. Sharpen your reflexes, "Viiiibrations."

I always keep a separate tab open with work related stuff to quickly change to and look at intently if someone walks by

14. So true, "workitloud."

Always carry a clipboard. No one ever makes eye contact with someone carrying a clipboard.

15. Leslie is REALLY important, "pitapuff."

I work from home so if a family member calls me to give them a ride or something I slap on a pair of headphones and talk to "Leslie" like I'm in a meeting. There is no Leslie.

They say no good deed goes unpunished, and that was certainly the case for a guy who agreed to wash his ex-wife's clothes in his at-home washer/dryer while taking care of their kid. This should be one of those feel-good stories about exes who support and help each other for the sake of their child. But alas, dear reader, it's another story about a human being behaving like an entitled lunatic and then getting savagely set straight in the comments section.

A woman took to Facebook to complain that her ex and the father of her kid did not fold her clothes after he washed and dried them in his home, as a favor.

In the post, the mom says she asked her ex/the father of her child to do her laundry while he was taking care of their child overnight, since he has a washer/dryer and she doesn't.

So I ask my kids dad to wash some clothes for me since he was going to have our child over night. I have to go to a laundry mat but, he has a set at home. He told me to send whatever I wanted so I sent a small basket of things and he picked up our child yesterday evening.

He complied and did her laundry—but she says she "didn't bother to say thank you" because she objects to the fact that he didn't fold the clothes: "it is like he didn't even try."

Well, he brings everything back to me early this evening and I just looked at it and he didnt even fold ANYTHING. Half the stuff was inside out. I didn't bother to say thank you because really? Now I have to still fold them before putting them up, so what good did it really do? It is like he didn't even try yet, on (edit: I'm?) the one wrong for complaining?

She says the same thing happened a few months earlier when their kid got scabies (!!!) and he washed everything and returned it unfolded, saying he "didn't have time."

He did this several months ago when our child got scabies. I sent like 2 or 3 bags of stuff (including mine) but he seriously just brought it all back in the bags and brought it back not folded. He claims he "didn't" have time both time. He clearly just didn't want to put the effort in.

Apparently her ex complained that she didn't thank him (fair) for the favor of washing her clothes. But she says he "didn't put enough effort in" so "why should I say thank you?"

He complains I didn't say thank you either time but, why? He didn't put in enough effort and now our child has wrinkled clothes so why should I say thank you?

The post was shared in Reddit's "Choosing Beggars" community by someone named idloveacoffeeplease (same!). They also shared screenshots of the comments the post received. They were not exactly supportive.

Commenters mocked and criticized the mom for her raging sense of entitlement. They did not hold back.

This went down on Facebook, so we have to assume these people are her loved ones, friends or acquaintances straight-up calling her out. Brave!

People have really strong feelings about someone complaining about someone else doing a favor for them. Which makes sense. Favors are a rare thing in this world, especially from exes, and should be handled with care.

Commenters on Reddit seem to unanimously share the sentiment that this mom is the worst. Many are sharing suggestions for how they would've handled this situation.

Neph2911 writes:

And LaksaLettuce writes:

And EowynLOTR points out:

Also, unless this kid is headed to a corporate job interview, does it really matter that his clothes are "wrinkled"?! As for the mom, she should relax—with a personality like that, no one is going to notice a few wrinkles in your clothes.

Sometimes people just get extremely lucky...and extremely unlucky.

People are sharing their incredibly unlikely true stories on Reddit in a thread asking, "What is a one in a million thing that happened to you that will NEVER happen again?"

You know what they say: lightning never strikes in the same place twice.

1. serratemplar's story is shocking.

I was struck by lightning. 22nd story of John Hancock Tower in Boston...through a conference room window.

The storm was very pretty, but I don't go near windows during storms anymore.

The top of my head felt like a bad sunburn, but only briefly. The entire surface of my body felt tingly, like being gently electrified. When it happened my entire plane of vision was the whitest bright light I'd ever seen. It was very, very quick, as you might imagine.

I went back to my desk and Googled it to figure out WTF had happened.

No cool scars. No after effects other than the story itself.

2. Good fortune for blscratch.

I met my wife for Chinese food at a time when we were living separate and she had already served me papers for divorce.

We both opened our fortune cookies. Mine said, "You have a lot to offer to the right person".

Her's said, "Give him another chance".

I saw the first hint of consideration in her eyes. We ended up not divorcing and am happy 12 years later.

3. ScarfWars had a family reunion.

Was smoking outside a hotel in a place a few cities over from me..homeless man comes and asks me if i can buy him some food

Got to talking over some cheesy chips..homeless guy was my estranged cousin.

4. lrfiv got lucky.

I was in Vegas, playing roulette. Being somewhat drunk, and a bit of a goof, I was saying I was psychic, and that the next number was going to be 17. It hit. There was some groaning, but I'm an amiable guy, so it was good humoured. I then "predicted" that it was going to be 17 again, my psychic vision said so. Hit again. Ha ha, it was hilarious. Third spin? Yeah, 17 again, boys - my "vision" was clear. Hit again. The whole table was silent, you could hear a pin drop.

Almost a hole in one, 5oclockinthebank.

I fell off my loft bed, did a mid air flip and landed on a dildo and got a dildo shaped bruise on my hip.

5. LOL, Subject_1889974.

I stuck my hand out the window to feel if it was still raining and a bird shat right on it. Never doing that again.

6. It's a small, small world Acornwow.

I took a job in a somewhat remote area of northeast China about 20 years ago. I had two roommates (1 American and 1 Canadian) and we were part of just a handful of foreigners out of about 2 million Chinese in that area.

Fast forward 10 years and I'm back in the USA. I was dating a girl who was going on a girl's trip to Mexico. She and her girlfriends went out to a bar and got to talking with another group of people. One of the guys there started showing photos from his travels and lo and behold - there I am. He was my roommate from China a decade before and while chatting with these girls decided to share the pictures of his travels. After a few of those "prove that you know him" questions they both flipped out. Small world.

7. True_Kharma is a Rube Goldberg machine.

I was playing beer pong years ago. Definitely past my limit on drinks.

This really pretty girl shows up to the party and asks how to play beer pong. I start explaining the rules and when I got to "trick shot", she asked what they were.

Never breaking eye contact, I threw my ball up, which hit the ceiling fan blades(which were going at full speed) and went straight into a cup.

After laughing for 10 mins, we all tried to recreate the hole in one. Never even slightly close.

8. Timberwolf7869 was lucky.

I was doing a hike in Maui, and at the top of the hike was a large waterfall on a sheer cliff face. The moment I got to the waterfall, I heard this earth-shaking rumbling. I could feel the sound, kind of like heavy bass through speakers. When I looked up at the waterfall, a couple of huge rocks were falling down. If I had been a minute faster on the hike I would have been right below those rocks as they were falling. Terrifying but also breathtaking to see the power of nature.

9. Go Buckeyes, Timmace!

I bought a house in a small town in Ohio about 2 hours from Columbus. My wife and I decided to go to a random Ohio State game since we have never been and got tickets off Stubhub. When we got there, we ended up sitting next to the people we bought our house from.

10. Bonjour, theservman.

Ran into a neighbour from when I was a kid in a small Canadian town... In Belgium.

11. Jessibeeb is a ninja.

I was cutting vegetables in my kitchen and a fly was buzzing around my head so I swung around with the knife in my hand and sliced the fly clean in half.

12. SuddenTerrible_Haiku ain't afraid of no ghost.

I ran into Bill Murray at the Dallas Art Museum on a school trip, and he gave me wrong directions to the Asia exhibit.

13. laundryandblowjob lives to tell the tale.

Once upon a time, my brother and I were arriving late at night to a little cabin in the woods. It was winter, it was pitch black outside, and it was freezing. We needed to get a fire lit asap, but the firewood was stacked outside the back of the cabin, under the porch. Now, my brother and I used to watch a lot of horror movies together, and again, it was the middle of the night, at a cabin in the woods, it was winter, and it was fucking freezing and pitch black outside. We decided to flip a nickel to see who would venture out to get the firewood. And here's the part that answers the question: The nickel landed on its side.

Nobody went under the porch that night.

14. emptysee is an accidental gymnast.

Once as a kid I was running down a steep hill, tripped, did a full flip and landed on my feet still in mid-stride without even slowing or losing my rhythm.

It was so fast and smooth I still question if it even happened sometimes.

15. pspahn got banned.

Was at Dave and Buster's for a friend's wedding reception probably 10 or so years ago. I wanted to play skeeball. I'm not really good or anything, just liked playing and their machines were in really nice shape.

Get $5 in tokens, and the very first game I got a bunch of 100's and ended up beating the score to win the jackpot. I had like 860 points or something. Flashing lights, siren going off, everyone looking at me.

It takes about five minutes for all the tickets to spit out of the machine. It was a giant pile on the floor. Meanwhile, I just wanted to play some skeeball. It finishes and the teenager minding the counter climbs up to the top and resets the jackpot counter.

I put in another token and wham. Did it again. Bunch of 100's. Another jackpot (much less this time). The kid working gives me this look like I cheated. "You can't play anymore."

I gave all the tickets to my friend's daughter and she went on a shopping spree. As many rubber balls and plastic trinkets to last her a lifetime.

16. Beer is the original Google, manymoth.

Before Google (I am old, deal with it), when I was in college, I was trying for about 12 hours one day to remember the name of the instrument you use to take your blood pressure (sphygmomanometer). I was obsessing about still when I went to pick up beer for a party that night. The store didn't have the beer I wanted so I grabbed some random seasonal mix pack. Helped myself to one when I arrived at the party and opened the bottle only to find that the bottle caps had riddles and trivia on them and mine said "Pressure's On" on the top and "Sphygmomanometer" on the inside.

17. cherriepoptartz is incredibly unlucky.

I had 2 houses burn completely down two years apart from each other. I hope to God the odds are now in my favor.

Fun facts: Nobody in the houses smoked, stove was not on, and of course no insurance. House #1 the heating unit caught fire. House #2 it was the hot water heater. Yes the shit haunts me to this day.

Every family has a dark secret if you dig deep enough. What's yours? Mine is that my mom re-gifts all of my aunt's presents every year. If it ever got out it would surely rip my family apart. But I trust you not to tell a soul, strangers of the internet.

Someone asked Reddit: "what's a dark family secret you uncovered?" These 19 people revealed the dark things they found out about their families that aren't as dark as my mom re-gifting socks. But close.

1.) From TemporalBreak:

I found out one of my aunts had an arranged marriage. She wasn't the one who was supposed to be in the arranged marriage, but her sister was adamant against marrying the dude, and I guess my grandma decided to persuade my aunt into replacing the sister's part of the marriage.

Aunt and the dude got married and moved away, and had kids. They lived far away so I barely ever saw them but only as I got older did I learn that the dude was abusive to my aunt, to the point where she still had some intense mental breakdowns long after he died.

2.) From Klaudiapotter:

My grandpa doesn't know that his dad was hit and killed by a drunk driver. He was like 2 when his dad died and can't remember any of it. The only thing he said was that he thought it involved a truck.

I found the article of my great-grandfather's death when I started digging into my grandpa's family tree. I also found that great-grandpa was the result of a teen pregnancy and was raised by his grandparents.

I'd tell him but I'm not really sure there's too much point in bringing it up now.

3.) From vault13rev:

Uncle Joseph is very probably a serial killer - a major suspect for the West Mesa Bone Collector. He is also convicted as the Middle School Rapist.

One day Joseph was just sort of out of the picture and no concrete answer was given why. At the time I was young enough that I didn't think to push or particularly wonder at the details.

4.) From Traitorius:

Great grandma ran a "hotel" in the late 1800s near a train Depot and army fort in the Oklahoma territory. Turns out it was a brothel. Great grandma was a madam! She must have been good at it cause she left a stack to my grandma.

5.) From Orlando_the_Cat:

So turns out my mother was engaged to a guy. He went on a long family holiday to Europe. When he got back, my mum was with his best friend ... my father.

6.) From Drewskeez-e:

My brother discovered we had a sister because he was hitting on a girl at the bar and they got to talking about their parents. Turns out we have the same dad. He threatens to kill me whenever I bring it up lol

7.) From beachdadowen:

my aunt was recently arrested. why? she got pulled over and they found out she had a warrant.

she got sent to jail, they found meth in her car. turns out, a large majority of people in my family are drug users.

8.) From John__Batman:

My dad was pretty open about it but I know they kept it hush hush within their community. Idk how it when my dad found out but he discovered he had an older brother, his parents' oldest child(Ron, if I remember right, named after his dad). When Ron was preschool aged they were told he was "mentally retarded". Horrified, they turned him over to the state and never spoke of him again. Years later word got back to them that the kid was not in fact mentally disabled, he had "auditory dyslexia"(now called auditory processing disorder). He grew up to be a fully functioning independent adult. He refused to have any contact with the family when my dad reached out. Totally fair imo.

9.) From QuokkaMocha:

My dad tried to run out on my mum while she was pregnant with me, because he’d been embezzling money from a photography club at his workplace (then a government institution) where he’d been treasurer. It was all about to come out because the club needed the money, so my dad decided to cut and run.

My mother’s brother and father caught him by pure accident as he was leaving the house, and my grandad, a burly Scots coal miner, got him by the throat and told him if he ever pulled a stunt like that again he’d be dead. My dad, according to the story, wet himself right there.

My grandad paid the money back to the club so that no one found out, as not only would my dad have lost his job, he’d most likely have been jailed too. My mum though could never trust him with money again and so although they had a joint bank account, she had them limit his access and made a separate account to control the bills etc. She went back to work so she could always support herself, which in those days in rural Scotland was really uncommon. In that area, most women were stay at home mums. So, there was no such thing as childcare for under 4s. Mum went back to her job as a primary school teacher and I spent the first few years of my life sleeping in a basket in the stationery cupboard in her classroom.

At mum’s funeral, some of her former colleagues were still coming up to me, saying, “Oh, it’s the baby in the cupboard!”

10.) From LilTreeHuger21:

I was the family secret. My biological parents started having kids as teenagers. For context, when my biological mom found out she was pregnant with me, she was 21 and I was their 4th child. They quickly realized they needed to get their act together. They were already struggling financially, had countless drug issues, etc. They decided that they were going to put me up for adoption. I was a baby.

I was adopted by a loving family quite quickly, only about an hour drive from the city I was born in. Coincidentally, I ended up returning to that same city for college. My sophomore year, I decided to seek out my biological family. Turns out, my biological parents separated right after I was born. My biological mom is still in and out of jail to this day, but my biological dad was able to start a new chapter. He got clean & sober, remarried, started going to church, and built a legitimate career for himself. He told his new wife about me when they first met, but didn't tell any of his children. My other siblings didn't know I existed.

Thanks to the internet, I ended up tracking down his work number and gave him a call. Later on, he said as soon as I said, "Hi, this might be really weird, but..." he knew it was me. Apparently, ever since I turned 18, him and his wife were waiting anxiously for me to resurface. They knew the day would come eventually. That evening, they sat my siblings down and told them about me. It was difficult at first, but now I'm 25 and me and him have a pretty solid relationship.

11.) From meeper_meeps:

My dad was discharged from the military for going AWOL. He had found out his ex from when he was like 15 had his children back then and never told him about it. I have two siblings who are twins out there. I don't know their names or what they look like, but they're out there somewhere and they're only 3 years older than me

12.) From p38-lightning:

My great aunt was a nurse at a mental hospital about 100 years ago. She fell in love with a guy who had been committed there by the state. She helped him escape and they ran off together to another part of the country. Turns out the guy was a psycho murderer and he got extradited back and put in prison. My aunt, a sweet old soul, lived to be 99 years old and I never knew anything about her past until decades after she was gone.

13.) From daddioz:

My one cool uncle. Came to our house every Christmas, Thanksgiving, was always really great and pleasant...had a bunch of cats and dogs at his house, was married to my aunt shortly before I was born.

So one day my mom and I went to visit him and my aunt at his house, and there's this girl there, I think she was a year older than me, so about 15. My mom and I are like, "who's this girl?" and my uncle is like, "well...I just found out a few days ago that I have a daughter, so...I guess this is your cousin!"

Turns out that before my uncle and aunt got married, my uncle had a pretty wild bachelor party in which a prostitute was hired...one thing led to another, and my cousin appears 15 years later to find her father.

She was so sweet, and my uncle was actually really good about the whole situation...he even started paying child support to my cousins mom, his idea. My aunt was also very forgiving. I've never met my cousins mom.

14.) From nymow:

My father had a relationship with my mother’s brother. It almost got him kicked out of the Air Force.

15.) From dockerbot_notbot:

We have a set of plates our family uses ONLY on Easter. My mom always fusses about that they are great grandmother, pre WWI family heirlooms. As someone who is interested in this kind of stuff, I looked up the makers mark. 1940s kitch, at best.

I haven’t told anyone because I have my eyes on another set of china, and I want to seem magnanimous when I “compromise” with my sister to have these.

16.) From alias1ch1:

Great-grandmother was initially married with my great-grandfather's father, and she and my great-grandfather (her step son), would secretly have relations, until they- of course- ran off together. Both great-grandparents are still alive and happily married.

17.) From gdubtheballer:

My grandpa was married to Mary Jane (fake name obv). Mary Jane committed embezzlement and went to jail for it. She only did it to get more money for her family (although she continued to do it after the need had passed). She went to prison, and got leukemia. While she was in prison dying of cancer, my grandpa divorced her.

A while later we get a wedding invitation from my grandpa. 2 days before the wedding. And can you guess who he was marrying? Mary Jane. A different one. HIS NEW WIFE HAS THE EXACT SAME NAME AS HIS OLD ONE. BRUHHH

18.) From Qu1nn1fer:

My family could have been worth millions. My grandpas father, my great grandfather, had built a company from the ground up called Johnson Corrugated. We made corrugated cardboard for shipping boxes. Great grandfather was a major dick but had built the family empire so we still see him in a good way. My grandfather was supposed to inherit the company 30 something years ago until uncle Randy happened. My great grandmother was still alive and was technically owner of the company. She was also blind and deaf. Uncle randy comes in impersonating my grandfather and has her sign away the entire company over to him. He gives half of the 15 million to his son, who flees to Europe after the death threats, randy dies within the month after fleeing the family from cancer. Nobody went to his funeral and we piss on his grave.

19.) From Duck_Duck_Gonorrhea:

My grandmother gifted me a very old bottle of whiskey worth up to $4,000. She had no idea what it was worth and just thought it was neat because my grandfather's name was inscribed on it. Turns out she found a crate of them in the basement and had been using them for cooking sweet potatoes for years.

Bridezillas are everywhere...

Sometimes completely normal people will turn into selfish, unreasonable nightmares the day they start planning a wedding. It's wild to watch, but it happens to the best of us--friends, family, and acquaintances transform right before our eyes. A bridezilla in action is a sight to behold--terrifying, manipulative and full of drunk tears.

When one bridezilla popped out into the "Am I the As*hole?" section of Reddit to ask if she was wrong to try to hide her cousin's hair to match her peacock color scheme, nobody was on her side. For the record, if you've come to a point where you're asking people to alter their physical appearance for your wedding day, you need to sit down and take a long look at your life.

AITA for asking my bridesmaid to temporarily change her vibrant hair colour for my colour schemed wedding?

My 24 f bridesmaid / cousin Ella 26 f is to be in my wedding party in June. The ongoing issue is that my wedding has a blue and green peacock theme and guests have been asked to follow this colour scheme with their clothes. Hair wasn't originally included at all in the colour scheme but my cousin Ella has natural bright ginger hair.

I would never ask someone to permanantly change their hair for my wedding, I know that would be bonkers so I suggested some temporary hair dye, but Ella argued that she has been growing her hair for 6 years and doesn't want to risk the colour not washing out. I thought this was ridiculous because it literally says washes out in like 14 washes. But Ella says because her hair is completely natural colour it might take strongly to her hair.

So I gave up on that avenue and suggested a wig, it is 1 day 1 single day and there are some amazing wigs these days, I had a look on Instagram and you wouldn't even be able to tell. But she said she would feel self conscious and weird wearing a wig and that because her hair is butt length that it might sit weird on her head. So she won't dye it, and won't cover it up. I really don't want to come across as a bridezilla but butt length flaming red hair will destroy the wedding photos, and ruin the colour scheme completely.

Im at a loss, I can't cut her from the wedding because my mom would murder me but I can't have freaking Merida ruining the photos, AITA for asking this of her for just 1 single day?

tl;dr bridesmaid has flaming red hair and refusing to hide it for one single day for my wedding that has a colour scheme it will clash with aita

Wow, this is madness. Needless to say, people were pretty judgmental of this Grade A Bridezilla.

"riskmgmt" wrote:

This is her natural hair. If she had artificial coloring, I can see asking her to dye it again, but you are asking someone to change their natural hair color. Yes your wedding, but there are limits are you have exceeded the limit.

"Tlema" wrote:

The worst bit about it being her natural hair is that the cousin is right to be worried about "temporary" dyes. They're rarely temporary. Just because the package says 14 washes, doesn't mean it will. Frickin manic panic stays in my hair indefinitely. I've had pink in my hair since I last bleached it a year and a half ago and while most has grown out and been chopped off, I've still got patches of now coral but still noticeably pink hair. If it'd been my natural used-to-be-red-before-grey it'd probably still be pink.

"unholy7n" wrote:

she's hotter than you huh

"ISeeJustNoPeople" wrote:

I thought she was going to have some sort of comical Crayola shade of red hair. She has gorgeous, natural virgin red hair. It's beautiful and completely natural. Nothing about her hair is "flaming." It's not even particularly red, more like a deep strawberry blonde. This is just bizarre. You're a bridezilla like 17 times here. Idk what's behind this weird insecurity about someone's natural hair color, but you are absolutely the asshole for making such ridiculous demands. Your wedding guests shouldn't need to adhere to a strict dress code color scheme and people shouldn't be asked to subdue their natural hair color or other traits outside of your control. JFC it's not even like her hair is purple!

"irishtrashpanda" wrote:

100% bridezilla.

"Gadgetownsme" wrote:

asking someone to change their natural hair or their hair period is over the line. No one will give a crap about your wedding photos within a few months of the wedding besides you. Her hair won't ruin the photos, your attitude will.

The bridezilla later edited it:

EDIT: Ella has dropped out of the wedding because we couldn't reach a compromise so it doesn't matter anymore. I now have to deal with my mom and aunt chewing me out over it all.

EDIT: OK I get it jesus iata (I am the As*hole) please leave it be now, I decided to link ella this post as it hit twitter and i was worried she would hear about it anyway, we will be working to reach a compromise.

I hope Ella doesn't get her a gift and doesn't bother going to this wedding. Godspeed, Ella!

One night stands often seem like a good idea in theory, especially when you're three margaritas deep. And they're not not a good idea, as long as they're safe, consensual, and at least moderately pleasurable for everyone involved. But while a night of casual sex with a stranger or acquaintance can be fun, the morning after is often..... not-so-fun. Nothing like sobriety and daylight to transform a steamy romantic encounter into an awkward interaction between two hungover and underdressed almost-strangers.

Someone asked Reddit: "what is your worst experience of waking up after a one night stand?" These 25 people shared their most awkward, mortifying and hilarious morning-after stories that might make you think twice before your next drunken hookup (but we both know you're gonna go through with it anyway):

1.) From Leannor:

Waking up and being asked to leave, and then going outside to find my car was towed. Then having to go back inside and wait...

2.) From FaunoBastard:

She wanted me to stay for the night, I didn't want to but I did. I woke up in the middle of the night and tried to sneak out just to find out the door was locked! She woke up and asked me where I was going... "Water" was the only thing that came to mind. She walked with me to the kitchen, walked with me back to the room and locked the door again.

3.) From Snapcrackleburp:

Woke up between a young married couple I met at the bar the night before. I spent the morning awkwardly being shown their wedding photos from just three weeks prior. When it was time to politely jet, I couldn't find my other sock, at which point the husband excitedly shouts "souvenir !".

4.) From Ohsh1timatiger:

Woke up on the other side of London pretty happy with myself... until I realised all I had to wear was a tiger onesie, no shoes not t-shirt just boxers and a tiger onesie. Going through London rush hour in a tiger onesie with the remains of tiger face paint was interesting.

5.) From soyunaperdadora:

The previous night was valentines day. I had just been dumped by a long term boyfriend. I was drunk in walgreens looking at the flowers and chocolates thinking about my ex. I then decided it would be a good idea to buy him a balloon and some flowers and leave it outside his house, because these are the kind of brilliant ideas I get while drinking. Got outside, let go of the balloon and it flew away, started crying. Some dude in his car asked me what was wrong. Woke up next morning. He started telling me about how he was trying to be a rapper, made me listen to some really bad stuff he had wrote. I had to get out. Get up to leave, tells me I have to wait until his grandma leaves the house to play bridge with her buddies, because he lives with her since he cant afford to live on his own. I finally get to leave after a couple hours of extreme uncomfortable and awkward feelings of regret. As I walk out, I see his grandma had put the flowers I bought in a vase on the table.

6.) From MeeseeksTheDestroyer:

It was after a Halloween party one night in college, I went home with a girl back to her place, my buddy who was with was completely wasted, so he came with to pass out on her couch. I woke up at about 5 in the morning to him at the foot of the bed pissing on it and on our feet. I said "name wtf" and kicked him in the leg, to which he just sort of turned and continued to piss on the floor. He then crawls into bed on the other side of her.. She was still passed out, so I didn't know what to do. I couldn't get him to wake up so I thought I'd try to just fall back asleep and if she woke up, I'd act just as suprised as she was... I tried curling up into a ball to fall back asleep, but with the foot of the bed covered in piss, him sleeping on the other side of her and me being tall, it didn't happen. I pretty much laid there for a good hour or two. The other guy was my ride so I couldn't just get up and leave either.

He eventually woke up.. After pissing himself again in her bed, looked at me.. "Wtf happened" I was like dude you pissed everywhere.. He got up and went back to the couch, and she woke up pretty much right after. I was pretending to be asleep, and she felt the wetness around her, and "woke me up" confused as all hell.. I played dumb as best as I could.. She was putting her nose into it and everything trying to smell what it was, and since it was straight booze it didn't have really any odor.. She was questioning if her cat peed or what had happened, and I just acted as confused as could be as well.. I felt bad, but couldn't tell her the truth as we kind of knew each other and had some mutual friends. My friend and I left pretty quickly after.. He was suppppper embarrassed around me for awhile after.

7.) From Hopglock:

Came home with a girl from the bar. We were both trashed, had sex, her dog watched. She vomited on me while performing oral sex. Cleaned up as best as I could before passing out. Woke up in the morning to her mom attempting to come in, asking who was in her room. She said "no one, go away" before telling me that I couldn't leave until her parents left for work.

No way in hell I was staying for two hours with puke dick. I climbed out her window on the second floor and jumped off of the roof. Stuck the landing and jogged away down the street... into a culdesac. Turned around to get out and her mom is on the front lawn in a bath robe staring me down holding her morning coffee. Walked to a gas station where a friend picked me up.

Edit: Oh, and I got chlamydia.

8.) From notwinslow:

I was house sitting for my dad who was out of town for a week. Had a girl over who I've known for 6 years, and my dad was pretty involved at my old high school so he knew her too. He came home a day early, and found us both naked in my old bed. He thought it was hilarious, the girl and I were both mortified.

9.) From sdchhvvss:

we spent the night together at a party. we woke up reminiscing of the night before. he walked to the gas station to get us drinks and snacks. i had bubble guts so i farted one time, it smelled like death; he came back maybe 10 minutes later and it still reeked and he started yelling about dog shit, woke everyone in the house up. he still doesn't know it was me.

10.) From TheLegendofMace:

I woke up to her wheelchair-bound husband pointing a gun to my face. Damn cougars.

11.) From gen3stang:

Woke up next to my one night stand. She had pissed the bed. There were a total of 9 people in the house only the 2 home owners knew each other. Everyone else were total strangers. Come to find out I'm in a different state which to be fair is only like 2 hours away from where I live. I had to sit around in piss soaked clothes with a bunch of strangers while my friend came and picked me up. He made me put on a trash bag in his car lol.

12.) From [deleted]:

He punched me in his sleep, which resulted in me having a pretty bad black eye for a couple days.

We're friends though so he's never heard the end of it.

13.) From sassychick139:

A guy I toke home from a bar, whom I had previously met before multiples times, left $200 on the bed side table. I found it when I woke up. Attached was a note that just said 'thanks'.

I am not a hooker by any means and didn't 'perform' anything out of the ordinary. It was weird. But it paid my electric bill so I didn't complain.

14.) From pm_me_your_boob1es_:

Her one year old son crawled in bed and woke me up, he thought I was his daddy. For some odd reason I didn't mind it.

15.) From reedikkulas:

I served in the US Navy and on one of our visits to Singapore I met a girl at a club called Fire (I think that was the name). Woke up at her apartment in the morning, about 2 hours from the time my ship was set to depart after having spent all my cash the night before, no idea where I was and no idea how I would get back. As I was trying to figure out what I was going to do, one of the other guys from my ship called the girl. It turns out that they were friends and he saw me leave the club with her the night before. He had a taxi meet me at her place and got me back to the ship in time.

16.) From sid_reed:

I woke up and went outside to call an Uber home after hooking up with this girl and going back to her house one night. Turns out her Dad is an Uber driver, and guess who was his first customer of the day?

Hands down the most awkward car ride I have ever experienced.​​​​​​​

17.) From BuckFurke:

There was a continental storm and she was snowed in until 5pm the next day.

18.) From jenkinsonfire:

Went to an older lady's house one night. Next morning her kid comes in, and he's at least 16-17. Hes like, 'omg mom, another one??'

19.) From LakenBrion:

Her asking, "Sooo....what are we now?"

20.) ​​​​​​​From DkahreForPrez:

This girls parents came home a couple days early and in the morning I was sleeping with her in her room with a couple alcohol bottles surrounded the bed with an ash tray filled with weed and a couple of roaches in there too.

Well anyways, parents came home and went upstairs. Was completely naked with no covers on and they just see my shlong just out in the open. I thought her dad was going to beat my ass. Probably the most awkward thing to ever happen to me

21.) ​​​​​​​From singletonap:

Basically, a day after going too hard at a certain beach music festival I woke up in a really sandy and glittery pull out couch bed in our condo (that I was sharing with my older brother, an older family friend, and their friends) with a guy I barely knew who happened to look exactly like Mac DeMarco. I was horrified because it all came in flashbacks...this very loud, hallway bathroom of our condo sex encounter of the fourth kind. He drank like half a handle of our liquor and I remember him peeing/throwing up at the same time after us doing the deed and then falling into the bathtub. He also threw up on the floor and on my bag next to the couch. Of course, he woke up and didn't remember a single thing. I honestly felt so bad for him (and ashamed that I did that in front of my fam) that I took him to Waffle House and hung out with him at the beach.

Needless to say, not my proudest moment (more like my worst moment).

22.) From _hannahwindsor:

woke up at 6am laying in the guy's pee. hottest guy i've hooked up with to this day...yet he ruined it by peeing the damn bed.

23.) From thekiddzac:

Back when I lived with my dad, I took home a friend's sister from the bar. Pretty messed up, don't remember much. We were awoken by 4 guys with guns drawn yelling at us to get out of bed.

Turns out I was being raided by the friendly local drug task force. Sitting on the couch with my dad and this chick, whose name I could barely remember, while they tore up the house was interesting. We all ended up getting arrested and I haven't talked to her since.

She tried to add me on FB a couple years ago, I guess I made a good impression.

24.) From ITeachFuckingScience:

Woke up alone before dawn inside a beautiful house with no furniture. The fact that it was such a big house made it even more unnerving that it was empty.

As I slowly walked through the house to find where this person went, the large blank rooms began to fill with the predawn bluish light reminiscent of sci-fi movies. I started to become nervous and returned to the now illuminated bedroom.

The only place in the house that even looked remotely lived in was the bedroom which of course had a bed, but now that I could see better I realized what else was in the room with me.

Fucking hundreds of Diet Pepsi cans.

Just Diet Pepsi cans stacked from the floor up, row after row, lining the walls. Now I could see there was a dresser in there with cans stacked on top of it. Every corner, the window ledge...that's when I looked closer and realized they were empty cans, meaning this person wasn't collecting them for monetary gain or anything, just drinking and stacking them I guess??

So yeah, no note saying how to lock up or a phone number, just cans and an empty house.

I walked out the door and drove back into town. Creeps me out to this day

EDIT: Just found this person on Facebook, considering sending a message to ask what the fuck is with Pepsi cans since I never asked, not sure how to word it?

25.) ​​​​​​​From FruitCakeSally:

The girl had bit my lip till it bled I had bruises and cuts on my body and she had peed on her own floor. She couldn't remember my name either. We've been together for over a year and half and I've never been happier.

People who work as coroners see the human body in a way few of us could handle. Visions of bloated, traumatized, and often scorched corpses are just part of the daily work, and existential compartmentalization is crucial to do the job.

Still, even the most seasoned of coroners and morticians come across bodies with stories that leave them haunted or shocked.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who perform autopsies share some of the weirdest things they've seen on the job, and it puts all our work stories to shame.

1. TSniddyHeavyT has seen a scrotum blow-torch.

Oh, my time to shine!

I did a forensic pathology rotation in medical school in Florida. Was working there one day when they brought an old guy in who had been found in his apartment in the middle of the summer with no air conditioning after about a week (So he had decomposed pretty quickly). When bodies decompose the bacteria inside you eats the tissue and releases gas, so bodies tend to be bloated.

So when they unzipped the body bag I wasn't surprised to see that. But I was surprised to see that his scrotum was about the size of a football (No exaggeration). This apparently occurred via the same bacteria process. Anyways, I was being keen, and I think they liked me, so they took a large bore needle and stuck it into the scrotum to let the gas escape.

Then, they took a lighter and lit the end of the needle, so as the gas was escaping from the scrotum, it burned like a blowtorch. Lasted for about 20 seconds. They justified the process by saying it "decreases the smell in the lab". Talk about seeing things that very few other humans have. The scrotum blow-torch.

2. F*cktard420's coworker came across a suicide inspired by embarrassment.

I asked a coworker who used to work as a coroner's assistant a similar question. He said that one time they were called out to a suicide of an elderly man who lived alone and was sort of a recluse. While cutting out his organs he came across an 18 inch wooden dildo.

Apparently the poor old man had let the dildo get away from him and instead of going through the embarrassment of getting it removed he decided to just off himself in his front yard.

3. Sanvi's great aunt had four kidneys and didn't even know it.

Maybe not so relevant, but when they made a full body x-ray of my grandmom's identical twin sister, not only did it turn out all her organs were mirrored (her heart was on the right side etc) but she also had 4 kidneys... woman was 60+ at the time and they never knew before.

4. nighthawk_md met a landlord straight out of a horror movie.

Current pathology fellow, board certified (not in forensics though). Participated in ~80 autopsies.

Weirdest/scariest case: house fire, one body recovered after 1+ hour of burning. Body completely char-broiled, rigid, limbs curled up against the torso. We x-rayed the chest, abdomen, and head to see if there is anything of interest before dissection. Metal fragments in the chest. Hmm. Do the autopsy. The internal organs are largely intact despite the significant heat damage to the skin and soft tissue (this is not unexpected, I learn). There is a large (>1L) hematoma in the chest.

There is about a 2cm jagged opening in the posterior wall of the right ventricle and in the anterior left lateral wall of the right ventricle. Metal fragments embedded in the left lung. Tracing backwards from the heart, a path is found through the posterior thorax with an possible entrance wound in the upper back. Yikes, he was shot? Detectives arrive to morgue. Say they've got the homeowner/roommate in custody. They're interrogating him right now. He owns a gun.

He's been having frequent noisy arguments with the dead guy/tenant that have been observed by neighbors and reported to the police. He was away from home when the fire was happening, claims no knowledge of any of this, has no idea what happened to either his house or the dead guy. Detectives high-five each other when we tell them he's been shot and it's definitely homicide.

We find out later after they fully interrogate the homeowner, he confesses to shooting the roommate in the back while he is sleeping and then torching his own house to try to hide the evidence (!) The roommate was actually his tenant and he wouldn't move out, so he killed him (!!!) Scary stuff.

5. ghettokhan has far too many stories to just pick one.

I have seen so much when I was working in the morgue in Detroit. I've seen baby autopsies, where a bone saw isn't even needed to get through the skull because babies have soft skulls. I have seen people come in bags after being run over by trains. 1 bag which contained and arm the other an eyeball another a foot.

The worst thing by far is people who decompose during the summer. I saw a fat man who shot himself in the tub get all bloated and green and get filled with maggots. I could smell him before I even enter the building. I've seen some sh*t.

6. viveron found the body of a woman who beat herself so bad she suffocated to death.

I shadowed a medical examiner several times but the weirdest thing I ever saw still kind of haunts me. There was a woman that died suddenly and had all these bruises on her body. There were detectives and cops all around us because they thought it was a case of domestic violence. However, she was schizophrenic and was not on any meds. During one of her episodes, she would beat herself violently and self-inflict all of these bruises and wounds on her. But the way she died was crazy.

She beat herself so much that these bruises developed huge blood clots and broke off into the blood stream. They eventually ended up in her lungs (pulmonary embolism). We opened up her lungs and they were just full of blood clots. Her legs were full of them too.

She basically beat herself so much that she suffocated. It was so odd.

7. kilroy77's grandma found out her aunt was dead in the worst way.

My grandmother had a friend who was attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She and her fellow classmates were scheduled for "cadaver" class where donated bodies were used. My grandmother's friend and her partner were assigned a body at the end of the rather large class room. When removing the sheet from their assigned cadaver she discovered that this was her aunt who had died two weeks previous. Yikes.

8. aerinjl1's mom was morbidly relieved by the cadaver's brutal cause of death.

My mother is a physician and has always loved telling her cadaver lab story from medical school. At the very beginning of the semester, the med students were paired up with their cadaver. The professor had a policy that if the med student could convincingly attribute cause of death, they would earn some bonus points.

My mother was discouraged because her cadaver was an old white-haired lady and 'death by old age' is a difficult task to prove. Much to my mother's surprise, she was the first to earn said bonus points; her sweet old grandmother cadaver had died from being shot and stabbed multiple times in the back.

9. MasterAssFace's friend had to literally pick up pieces of a man.

I have a good friend who's worked as a coroner and embalmer his whole life (family business) and he has some sick stories. A man in my town committed suicide by sitting on the train tracks and getting hit by a train, he had to get under the train and pick out his pieces, where he found the guys hand/ forearm and some intestines. He then spent the afternoon walking a mile and a half strip of train track picking up as many pieces of the guy he could find.

10. koghrun can never look at milk shakes the same way.

Took a forensic biology night class at a community college which was taught by the county coroner. Second class he mentioned that human brains turn the consistency of a milk shake after decomposing for a few days weeks in the skull. They "pour them out".

I stopped at Chick-Fil-A and brought a milkshake to the remaining 13 classes.

EDIT: After some research I realized that I must have mis-remembered, as the liquefaction and putrefaction of the brain takes a while. It's this consistency about a week before saponification begins.

11. fistedsister469 knows firsthand that cats will eat you when you're dead.

I'm not a pathologist, but when I was an EMT, I got called to check the well-being of a woman who hadn't been seen for over a month. We found her, all 350+ pounds of her, dead...probably about 3 weeks. She was bloated and decomposing, but her cat remained well-fed.

Note***That wasn't the worst thing I've seen.

12. Dolfke can't unsee the woman with a condom in her throat.

Had a class in uni once where someone showed the pics of a case and the room had to guess. The lady with a condom shot in her throat took us the longest...

13. honeybadgergrrl's dad has seen some grotesque stuff.

For many years my father was a homicide investigator. He's seen lots of dead bodies. One time, they were all standing around this freshly-killed body that had just started going through the rigor mortis process.

All of a sudden, the body SAT UP. Five grown men, all of them tough Texas good old boy cop nearly shit their pants and started running out of the house screaming. The medical examiner who was there had a great laugh.

Another time, they got a call from a woman's neighbors that they hadn't seen her in days and her car hadn't moved and the mail was piling up. So they went over to check it out. When they got there, they found that she had hung herself from her high vaulted living room ceiling. By the time anyone arrived, her neck had snapped and the skin has stretched. Her neck was about five feet long and her knees were on the floor.

14. Beastingringo knows a cop who accidentally ripped a dead person's arm off.

Not my story but a cop told me once that he went on a call to a house because it seemed like it had been abandoned. He goes up to the window to look in and cant really see, it's too dark and it looks like a garbage bag is over the window.

So, they end up breaking down the door and get swarmed by thousands of flies, turns out the lights weren't off but there were flies all over them. The stench was horrible the body had been decomposing for so long it fused to the couch and when they tried to move the body they pulled the arm and it ended up ripping off.

15. Sh*tjustgotsh*tty came across a man who died doing what he loved.

A very large butt-plug still inside of the man. He died while having sex.

16. Kenziecocktail will never forget the summer of autopsies.

I'm probably way too late to the game but... I interned at our county coroner's office for a summer for college credit. Saw several dozen autopsies. The first and most haunting one was of a child who had set some things on fire in his grandmother's trailer and then hidden under the bed to keep from getting in trouble. The pathologist had to verify whether he had died of the resulting fire or if he had died of smoke inhalation.

He was curled into basically the fetal position kind of hugging his knees. He was totally blackened and charred. The waistband of his jeans and the tops of his socks had semi-protected his legs so you could see some severely burned skin there but it was the only humanesqe looking part of him. As soon as the first incision was made revealing the body cavity the coroner stated 'carbon monoxide' and exited the room while the pathologist continued.

Apparently when you inhale large amounts of carbon monoxide your blood and organs turn this crazy cherry pink color. The body's position with the knees to chest is another indication. He was unconscious and died before any flames ever came in contact with his body. The smell was insane.

Kind of a mixture of burnt popcorn and the smell your blow dryer makes when your hair gets caught in it. It looked so incredibly fake that if the actual body were to be used as a hollywood prop no one would have found it to be believable. Most interesting and horrifying summer of my life.

17. SatansLH's nurse friend saw a corpse with a "raisin face."

A friend of mine was a hospice nurse for a time. She told a story about one of her patients dying where the man was sitting in a chair and then keeled forward on his knees and face planted on a tile floor. She arrived to do the paper work and the crew came to remove the body they had to tell the family to go wait outside while they took care of it.

By this point rigor had set in so when they tried to pick him up he was stuck in this crouched over position. Even worse his face had taken the exact shape of the linoleum floor and all the blood had pooled into his face so it looked like a bunch of raisins that had been flattened against glass. To wheel him out they had to drag his body out of the room then throw it up on a gurney so he looked like a turtle on it's back except with his raisin face. She said it was by far one of the weirdest things she's seen in her 20+ years as a nurse.

18. xenizondich23 has gotten used to the gruesome nature of dead bodies.

I'm in medical school. We started pathology this year, in which we do one autopsy a week. It's pretty interesting, although some of the cases can get weird.

Because this pathology department is located in a poorer section of my city, they get a lot of people who died in their homes, or were homeless, or bodies from the nearby other university departments.

Some notable cases:

2 weeks ago we had an autopsy of an elderly male whole was homeless. He had tuberculosis. With tuberculosis, your lungs change from being airy alveolus spaces to becoming filled with necrotic (dead) tissue and pus. 3/4 of all his lung tissue was transformed to what pathologists loving call "cheesy necrosis".

Last semester we had some sad cases. A 3 day old premature baby with congenital defects. A 27 year old woman who died of rectal cancer after having survived breast cancer.

Sometimes we'll have practices in the Internal Medicine department, then come to Pathology and see the same person there.

Earlier this week we had someone with what was suspected to be an inguinal hernia. But once cut open it looked more like cancer.

Often someone comes in, and they look old, but otherwise healthy. And then you open them up and find so many problems. It really is remarkable what humans can live with.

One time we had the body of a person with Parkinson's. Their brain really does eat itself up from the inside. That was freaky for me.

Oh, we had the body of a person who had hepatitis c for autopsy last semester. Ravaged liver...

Usually you see the same things in the organs: heart failure or signs of heart attacks, liver showing congestion (due to alcohol or infection usually), lungs where you can just push the air around because of emphysema...

But sometimes you have more abnormal things. One time I was slicing a liver and there was a huge cyst with a worm inside. My teacher pulled back the capsule of a kidney a few weeks ago and a cyst burst, spraying fluid high into the air. But supposedly that's common.

Anyway, there's probably some things you guys would find freaky, but get really run of the mill after a while. In pathological autopsies, we are trying to see what's wrong, what's abnormal. We spent 2 years with cadavers in anatomy learning what's more normal. And I think we've all adjusted to the normal things found inside our bodies. In any case, it's all super interesting, although I don't quite see how people end up doing it as their job for the rest of their lives.

19. tacosaredelightful's best friend has a litany of tales.

One of my best friends is an autopsy tech at a hospital that allows her to actually cut into the person. One day she was called in for an autopsy on an older woman. She said that when she walked into the room, the other techs asked her if the woman looked strange to her. My friend responded that she looked a bit too thin but nothing else seemed off. The other techs told her to roll the older woman over to see something.

When she did, the woman's back was completely gone as well as a bunch of organs. Turns out the old lady had died in a chair and slumped over when she passed. She had a couple dogs and after a few days the dogs got a bit hungry and ate out her back and some organs. Another weird one was from when she went into get a testicular sample (since she has the smallest hands of the techs) and found a penis pump instead. She said they had a good laugh at that and were all also a bit grossed out. Grossest she did was a burn victim who smelled like barbecue. Saddest, and most common, are babies who's parents smothered them by accident in bed :(

20. rachel_soup's cousin had to remove part of a man's back from a fence.

My cousin is a detective and when he worked in homicide, sometimes he would take me on ride alongs. One time they got a call about a homeless man, and we were nearby, so we swung over to check it out. Anyways, the guy was definitely dead, so when they pulled him off the ground, a giant chunk of his back got stuck under the part of the fence and basically fell apart. That. Smell.

Women can do anything men can do... including be creepy stalkers.

Men on Reddit, finally given permission to share their feelings, are telling the stories or the scariest, strangest things they've ever seen women do, and it's eye-opening.

1. louiestarrz, the fairest of them all.

I met this girl when I was out one night. She was nice, seemed normal. Went to her house and there was pictures of me around her mirror.

2. Hide, mjshooter.

On a first date she asked "if you were going to kill me, how would you do it? I know how I would kill you." Then proceeded to tell me her plan on how she would kill me and get away with it.

3. FearlessLingonberry's ex is criminally creepy.

I had an ex-girlfriend stalk me for 5 years. I had a restraining order against her that included my grandparents (she had been bothering them) and my parents, but I didn't think to include my sister because she lived in a different city.

This woman stalked my sister and ended up approaching her at a music festival. She was wearing (this is so insane) one of those hats that has fake dreadlocks attached to it, and she was trying to pretend to be a stranger and get information from my sister. Now, keep in mind 1) She was white as f*ck, 2) That was the only thing she did to "disguise" herself, and 3) MY SISTER F*CKING KNEW HER ALREADY.

It would be hilarious if not for the years of harassment and inconvenience she caused me. Every time I would move, she would send me something in the mail to let me know she had my address. One time it was a box with a flannel shirt, a half empty bottle of cologne, a broken toy axe, a bundle of pubic hair, and an 11-page letter written in crayon. F*ck she was crazy.

4. Drumlin had to give up that bar.

Met a girl at a bar and we ended up back at her place. We had sex and fell asleep. She seemed normal all night, and I saw no red flags at all. I definitely would have dated her again, until she went crazy.

I woke up around 5am and started getting dressed to leave. I had to get home and get ready for work.

She woke up while I was dressing and totally freaked out. She was screaming, angrily "YOU CAN'T LEAVE!!" I explained I needed to go to work, and that I'd call her later. She was having none of that.

Then she attacked. I literally had to physically fight my way out of her apartment, with a few scratches on my arm for souvenirs.

I have no idea what her deal was, and I never went back to the bar I met her in.

5. hectorgarabit did the right thing by NOT RAPING.

Met a girl at a party, we flirted, than we ended up in my bedroom (this was in my appartment). Heavy make out, I suggest having sex, she declines. Heavier making out (basically including anything that's not intercourse), I suggest having sex again, she declines. Fair enough. We stop the making out and plan to see each other again.

The day we were supposed to meet, she stood me up (I had cooked and it was already time to meet). She told me that she doesn't want to see me again because I wasn't pushy enough, she liked men who were less soft and gentle??? She basically told me that when she said no, I shouldn't have listened?!?!

6. Yikes, northernmunky.

Woman I was engaged to was doing all the prep for the wedding, this was in her country and I didn't understand the language all that well so I was a bit limited on how much I could help her out other than helping to cut the invite cards out etc...

She was a very hot tempered person as she was but as much as I asked her what tasks I could help out with she just refused to involve me in anything at all, and then complain that I wasn't helping enough. She argued and argued with me about how I 'didn't care' despite my efforts to be involved in all the prep. It was all very manipulative.

Eventually she actually pulled a knife out at me. I slapped it off her wrist and she stormed off.

When she left for work the next day I packed my bags, took a taxi to the airport and noped out of there.

7. From gergsisdrawkcabeman:

I fell asleep sitting next to one of my friends on the way home from a school field trip in 12th grade. I woke up to her using my hand to play with herself. As I began to regain consciousness she threw my hand at me and made a huge scene about it. I never talked to her about it. It bothers me to this day. Definitely top 3.

8. Hope varthalon has better luck on Bumble.

My one and only Tinder date.

Turned out she had signed her divorce papers that day.
On the date she layed out her 1-year plan for us to date and get married.

Let her know I wasn't interested in a second date.
She thanked me for my opinion and declined not having a second date.

Very luckily I hadn't been able to meet her at my house at the start of the date like she'd suggested and we had to meet someplace neutral. I don't like to think what would have happened if she'd known where I lived.

Considering that I'm not attractive or rich or otherwise someone women are usually interested in this was a very wierd situation. It was just a "Hi, I don't know anything about you, but we're going to be married by the end of the year. No, your opinion isn't relevant."

9. She's still out there honking, AlexWheeldon.

I dumped my ex about 9 years ago and she pulled up outside my back door and held the horn down blocking the road for literally 30 minutes straight.

I got in the shower and left via the front door and went to a friends party. She could have been there for hours because she was still going when I left.

10. Um what, jonuggs.

Cut off all of her pubes. Put them in between layers of scotch tape. Crammed them in an envelope with a pair of her used panties and put the envelope under my windshield wiper.

There was a note. Read something like, "I know we can't be together, but now you'll always remember me."

She was right.

11. Dachten should sue for damages.

Hooked up with a girl [at] a nightclub. We went back to my place. She was being really weird on the walk over there, but I thought nothing of it because I was really drunk. Only realized she was being weird when I thought about it later.

We get back to my place, had sex and I fell asleep. My roommate was woken up by noises form downstairs. He got up, open his door and yelled down the stairs...

The bathroom was flooded with water at least 3 inches high (according to my room mate, he might be exaggerating). The door for our shower was torn off. There was a towel in the toilet and the entire bathroom was littered with all our toiletries. She had also clearly used my roommate's razor, although I fail to understand where, because as I remember, she was shaved all over.

Anyway, my room mate freaked out, thinking about water damage, and spent over an hour cleaning and drying up the bathroom at 4 am. Needless to say he's given me some crap about it.

The girl was gone when I woke up the next morning. Haven't seen her since.

Oh yeah, she also gave me chlamydia. Fun times.

Tl:dr hooked up with a girl. She acted really strange, flooded my bathroom and gave me chlamydia.

12. Kether_Nefesh took the train even more after.

In my 20s slept with a girl as a one night stand - we did kind of hang out after as she was a cool person. But one day she asked were I was and I said I was working and she said, no you are not - I saw you on the train... and I said I know, I took the train into work and she lit my car on fire.

13. At least RealityJaunt got Twizzlers.

A girl broke into my house three times in a week while I was rehearsing (cellist). Each time she left money to repair the window, a large bag of twizzlers, and two cans of tuna for my cat. That was it. We had never been romantically or physically involved, we barely even knew eachother.

14. Yum, ReplicatedPenguin?

Sat in my lap at a party and proceeded to lick my hand. In full view of her boyfriend.

I'm still friends with both of them, I still have no idea what happened, and I'm not sure I want to find out.

15. CloudCity2025 saw the signs.

Girl in high school wanted a pair of my used boxers as a birthday present and asked my best friend to get them for her. Best friend asks me for then and I refuse so he buys a new pair and rubs them on street signs and shit to make them look used. She proceeds to sleep with them every night for awhile until she gets over me, and then has a seance ritual where she lights them on fire.

16. Don't yuck somebody's yum, douchebagfukboi.

She thought it would turn me on to lick my feet.

It did not

She slobbered all over my feet, like every square inch of them. They smelled funny afterwards. Yuck.

17. kitchmanspiff has mommy issues.

Pushed me out of her vagina.

One of the creepiest parts about dealing with puberty as a young woman is the many ways the world sexualizes you and victim blames you for the leering eyes of men. Sadly, this form of misogyny is so deeply entrenched that many families police their daughters' clothing and bodies as a way to "protect" them. But in actuality, these rules and mindsets contribute to a culture of victim-blaming, self-objectification, and deep shame.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a young woman asked if she was wrong for calling out her mom's new policing of her clothing.

AITA my mom saw porn in dad's youtube history and asked me to choose my clothes better

OP started the post by sharing that her parents are generally bad with tech, and she's often called upon to help them figure stuff out.

My parents aren't good with technology and find it difficult to do basic stuff on their phones. They bought my younger brother (let's call him brandon) a phone recently and since they don't know anything about parental controls, my mom stays concerned about what he uses it for.

Tbh, he's just a lot into games and music and not a lot else.

Recently, OP had an awkward conversation with her mom at breakfast about her brother Brandon using OP's dad phone to watch porn.

This morning, my mom and I were having breakfast when she asked if Brandon's gmail is logged into my dad's phone too. I said he might've used dad's phone to check his inbox or whatever, no biggie. Mom then said Brandon's been watching "dirty stuff" because she saw it in his youtube history.

When OP checked her dad's phone to see if her brother Brandon was in fact logged, she quickly found that he wasn't - so the porn searches were her dad's.

I rolled my eyes bc I know it's none of my business but I'd have to deal with it because it's a big deal for mom.

I checked if Brandon's gmail was logged into my dad's phone that she so confidently claimed, it wasn't. My dad just has the same profile picture for no apparent reason.

Because the whole situation is deeply awkward, OP originally decided to keep mum and not tell her mom it's her dad's search history.

However, when OP heard her mom mention "having a talk" with Brandon she told her mom the truth about her dad's search history.

Rather than dropping the incredibly uncomfortable issue, OP's mom doubled down and told OP she should start watching how she dresses because Brandon is "growing up."

I said nothing for a while but she said she'll have to speak to my brother about this. This was when I decided to intervene. I told her she saw dad's youtube history and not my brother's. She was noticeably embarrassed. Called me in her room after a while and said I shouldn't walk around in short clothes or be braless around the house bc my brother's "growing up"

OP knew that arguing wouldn't go over well with her mom, but she needed to stand her ground when it came to her clothing, particularly in such a creepy context.

Speaking from how well I know my mom, arguing would've been no good. But I argued anyway "Now that's NOT on me. I'll wear whatever I think is comfortable. I couldn't care less who's "growing up".

AITA?

Edit: She just called me in again to tell me that my dad sleeps at 11:30 and that video was viewed at 1:30. I had to tell her the "1:30" on the bottom left was the video's length and politely ask her to never bring this up again.

seagem26 thinks it's supremely messed up for OP's mom to make this demand for multiple reasons.

NTA

Your mother is sexualizing your relationship with your brother, or at least the way he sees you, which, major ew.

This is also a case of teaching girls to cover up vs teaching boys to respect and not ogle girls, either way you’re in the clear.

KnightButAWhiteOne thinks it's incredibly creepy of OP's mom to bring this into the family dynamic.

NTA. I seriously doubt that your brother would be attracted to you regardless of what you wear. I hope at least. Shame on your parents for having that line of thinking.

aPenguinGirl thinks OP's mom should face the truth: that her husband watches porn, and keep OP out of it.

NTA wtf does your clothing around your brother have to do with your dad watching porn?

That question aside, your brother should be able to deal with women/girls (especially his sister) wearing revealing clothing. Hell, maybe seeing you in it, someone he has no attraction to (hopefully), will help to desensitize him to getting all weird around his female classmates in revealing clothing.

bamboodle21 thinks OP's mom needs to confront the dad stat, since this is obviously such a big issue.

NTA, it's pretty disgusting that your mother has somehow placed the blame on you in this situation. If she has a problem with the porn then she can address that with your father.

If she thinks your brother is attracted to you, she should absolutely be working to protect you in this situation, but methinks she's more insecure about her husband looking at porn and is taking it out on you as a young woman. You should be allowed to wear whatever you feel comfortable in in your own damn house.

If anything is crystal clear in this situation, it's the fact that OP shouldn't be implicated in her mom's anxieties at all: it should be kept between OP's mom and dad.

"I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to."

-Eric Dickerson

If you're lucky enough to be single right now, congratulations. You have all of the free time, money, and space on the couch you could ever want. These memes will be relatable and funny as hell for anyone who is totally unattached.

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"Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are."

-Will Ferrell

You've found the one, now find the 21 memes that perfectly sum up the hilarity of married life.

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Good morning people of the internet. If you're in need of a laugh these memes are just what you need to kick start your day off on a hilarious note.

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"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

-Albert Einstein

Life is crazy. Let yourself laugh today with these hilariously random memes.

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The FAA has reported that Kobe Bryant, 41 year old retired NBA star, along with 4 other unidentified people, died a helicopter crash today. This story is still developing.

These are updates from TMZ, but we caution that this is the only source we've seen these on.

Billy Porter is quickly establishing himself as the person to watch at every red carpet.

From ball gowns to pink capes to being carried into the Met Gala by a fleet of men, the actor has repeatedly ensured that his only competition is himself.

At the Grammys last night, he blessed us with a new meme after he debuted a remote-controlled, fringey hat.

Hundreds of memes were born, and Billy undisputedly won the red carpet. Her are some of the best ways Twitter repurposed Billy's hat.

1. The hat is perfect for reconsidering plans you previously turned down.

2. Or showing you DGAF.

3. The hat is perfect for coming out of hiding.

4. Or going into hiding, tbh.

5. It's a great visual metaphor for how it feels to enter a social media debate.

6. Or deigning to do your job.

7. Is it okay to incorporate the meme in work emails?

8. Like any good meme, it's being associated with carby snacks.

9. And the joys of talking sh*t.

10. This outfit's success is biblical!

11. The hat would be useful in the world of dating, too.

12. And of course, people are bringing their pets into it.

13. Which McDonald's are you going to?!

14. The meme is party-friendly, too.

15. I think we can all relate.

Thank you, Billy Porter, for brightening Grammy night with your shiny, shiny hat!

It's stressful to plan a wedding — especially when the other adults involved have the emotional maturity of children.

One bride has posted on Reddit asking for advice after her mother-in-law threw a hissy fit over being excluded from a dress shopping trip. The MIL now wants the bride to send photos of her dress — but she doesn't want to.

So who's in the wrong here? Let's dive in.

The bride and MIL have never beefed before:

I’ll keep it pretty simple and to the point here. My fiancé and I got engaged a few months ago — YAY! My MIL and I have a fairly good relationship. My fiancé is an only child. She was very much involved with the proposal.

So when the bride quickly found the dress she wanted, and grabbed a skeleton crew to come check it out, she didn't think MIL would be angry:

Last weekend, I went dress shopping and found THE DRESS. I took only my maid of honor and my mom. I didn’t expect to “say yes to the dress” so quickly! I won’t show anyone else the dress until the wedding.

But MIL is unexpectedly freaking out:

My MIL has called my fiancé a few times sobbing that she didn’t get to go on this shopping trip. She says this was her one chance to go wedding dress shopping and I took it from her. She said I’m being so unfair by not sending her pictures of the dress.

And the bride doesn't want to share the photos, because we all know boomers armed with smartphones are allergic to keeping any sort of personal news to themselves:

Here’s the thing. I know if I send my MIL pictures, she will show EVERYONE. And shopping for the dress was something I wanted to do with a very small, close intimate group - my maid of honor and my mom.

AITA though?

Is she the a-hole? Reddit thinks not.

Sushiblade99 succinctly laid down the law:

It's your wedding, not hers. Don't forget that. You make the choices here. She will get over it.

Swingmeround pointed out that the MIL has no right to claim the dress fitting as her own:

And don't forget she already had a chance to look for a wedding dress. Her own! Don't let her guilt trip you OP.

Bella0520 agrees:

Why do mothers forget they had their own wedding with their own dress that they picked out?? My mom was cray, she never had a big white dress, but she did have a gorgeous barely mint wedding drees in 1968. She was difficult but honestly pretty cool when I got married. OP's MIL already got married. This is not her experience or her day. She needs to chill. OP, go on about your life and don't share that dress. MIL's issues are her issues. Carry on.

But scpdavis sees things from the MIL's point of view:

Agreed, but since this is her only child I understand why she feels like she’s missed an opportunity she’s never going to get again and is probably feeling a bit left out overall. Maybe OP could make a day of going shopping for a dress for MIL to wear to the wedding so she feels included.

If I had a grown son marrying a woman who didn’t invite me dress shopping with her I’d be sad about it too (and worry she didn’t feel like she was family).

Still, most users agreed this mom was going overboard:

MIL can go tuxedo shopping with her son