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27 people share the weirdest things that happened while they were using a public restroom.

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Public restrooms: we all need them, and yet, we all fear them. Entering a public restroom is a gamble. You never know what kind of sh*tshow—literally, or figuratively—you might find inside.

Someone asked Reddit: "What is the weirdest thing you've heard or had happen to you while using a public restroom?" These 27 stories are about as bizarre, wild, and disgusting as you can imagine.

Do not read while eating.

1.) From LiccFlair:

I had the pleasure of hearing some poor soul trying to pass a kidney stone in a movie theater restroom. His screams would have scared the shit out of me if that wasn't why I was in there in the first place.

2.) From YourMateBatchy:

I was at a Festival in NSW a few years ago and saw the wildest thing at one of the portable portable troughs (that counts as a public restroom, right?).

It was right at the end of the night, just after the last band had played, so my mate and I went for a piss. As we did, some poor souls hat had fallen into the trough (probably a few hours prior to us being there, it was drenched in piss), so we thought hey, a target, and started aiming at it.

As we do, we hear some bloke, very happily yelling, making friends, saying gday to everyone as he made his way over to the trough. Clearly very very high (MDMA I’m guessing), we walks in, stands between me and my mate, let’s out a “Gday boys how are we?!” And throws his arms over our shoulders. Bit weird cause we had our dicks out, but ultimately a bit of harmless, spontaneous mateship.

Until he notices the hat we were still in the process of pissing on. He glances at it for just a second, then yells, “F*ck yeah, free hat!” Before slapping through my piss trail, grabbing it, and slapping it on his head with the most unforgettable squelch I have ever heard. He looks at me, stares me dead in the eye while beads of literal piss begin to roll down his forehead, and lets out what can only be described as spongebob’s laugh if he had been of a four day bender.

Then just walked off into the crowd. My mate and I stood laughing in shock for a few minutes before we could process what the f*ck we just saw.

Funniest part was that he didn’t even piss, think he was just too cooked and distracted by his new found piece of attire.

God bless you, piss hat man, wherever you may be.

3.) From Squealio:

At a heavy metal concert (Fear Factory/Ministry/Meshuggah fwiw) and I’m in the stall poopin. Concert hasn’t started yet. I hear this convo out by the urinals:

“Oh uhh. Sorry man “

“‘salright. It’s a nice cock isn’t it?”

“Uhhh sure..”

4.) From jlcd11147:

Overheard someone on the phone getting the results of their STD test. Which was positive.

5.) From trbofly:

Worked for a really Large company and decided to use the restroom near the boardroom (more private). When I walked in, one of our board members is at a urinal wearing a suit and jacket, with his pants and undies dropped all the way to the ground. Apparently that is how this 70 year old man has peed his entire life. Just odd

6.) From LopsidedTrip:

This girl was moaning in the stall next to me and I assumed she was masturbating so I walked by without looking. She called out "help!" It turns out she was moaning in pain and she was having a medical emergency. I called an ambulance.

7.) From kingpiss:

I was at a goth club and I was nauseous because I drank too many gin and tonics, so I went to the bathroom to take a shit. My stomach hurt so I was rubbing my belly like a cartoon character as I waited for a stall to open. A gay Asian guy in bondage gear (not odd for the location) walked up to me and said "Oh honey, stomach ulcers?" and gave me a hug and patted my back. I didn't have a stomach ulcer but I was very compelled to hug back because I appreciated the sympathy. He then walked off without saying anything else. Seemed like a good guy.

8.) From DarthContinent:

My under-18 self stopped at a public park restroom to take a piss.

A guy perhaps in his mid 60s sidled up to me, smiled, and looked my junk up and down in the urinal.

I left.

9.) From Trevor-On-Reddit:

I was in the bathroom of a movie theatre peeing in a urinal when I felt something tug on my shirt. I turned around and there was this little kid (had to be younger than 5). He asked if I could hold him up so he can pee in the urinal next. We are the only ones in this bathroom and I’m peeing hard because I just got out of a movie. I had such a Dad moment though because I said “Ask your mom.” He said ok and skipped out of the bathroom. I didn’t even wash my hands, I just wanted to be out of there before a dateline camera crew showed up.

10.) From fizoxyboxing:

Someone thanking jesus out loud after every splash.

11.) From Cherrynotastripper:

Someone was taking a shit and eating and talking on the phone. I was disgusted and impressed with the multi tasking.

12.) From 4565215576933:

Meth head in a Toronto Second Cup bathroom warned me that dolphins are not to be trusted and told me about how they're mind controlling humans while i peed.

13.) From TehChubz:

Not necessarily a public restroom. I worked at a financial company with over 2000 people in one office. There are around 10 different bathrooms in the building, all with multiple stalls/urinals. Anyway...

I was on my break and ran to the bathroom to relieve myself. I saw someone in one of the stalls because feet and doors were closed. As I walk up to the urinal, I hear the guy sneeze. I say "Bless you" like people do for some reason. Guy in the stall hits me back with. "That wasn't a sneeze."

I just left and went to a different bathroom

14.) From Brett707:

Not me but it happened to my son. He was about 4 maybe 5 at the time. We were on vacation in San Francisco CA. We were on fisherman's wharf and my son and I went in to use the restroom. It was cool and rainy day and the tile floors were wet. We go in a stall so he could pee as all the urinals were taller than him. So he drops trou and hikes up his shirt and jacket and saddles up to the toilet and he starts peeing. Well he is on his tippy toes and all of a sudden he is head first in the toilet. He slipped and nose dived into the toilet.

He was soaked head to waist. I get him out of the toilet. I'm struggling so hard trying not to laugh. I get him out and strip his shirt and jacket off of him and just put them in the trash and wash and dry him off. Take my jacket and put it on him. He's crying and I'm dying from laughter inside.

We get out of the bathroom and head to the nearest store and get him a new shirt and jacket. Then find my wife and daughter. Who both proceeded to ask why he was in all new clothes. Them once I tell them they start laughing.

He still hates when I bring up the time he fell into the toilet at fisherman's wharf.

15.) From hold_my_lacroix:

Was pissing at a urinal and the guy next to me said "Don't judge me, I'm a grower not a shower!" I mostly ignored him, then he asked me if I wanted to buy some weed from him. But before I could answer (which would have been no) he said "well it isn't real weed, it's fake weed, doesn't actually get you high. It's what I smoke when I'm practicing guitar."

Keep it weird Austin.

16.) From smartas:

My first time going to the Sturgis motorcycle rally.

Was told to meet my new friend Dave and his friend “Uncle Dick” at the TA in Rogers, MN. I ride my bike there and go inside to piss. There’s an old man inside already taking a leak, I say, “You must be Uncle Dick?”

He SWITCHES HANDS, TURNS HALF WAY AROUND, AND REACHES OUT TO SHAKE MY HAND.

“I’ll just wait until you’re done!”

My best trip to the rally yet.

17.) From Skabma:

Once upon a time I was in Europe and accidentally locked myself inside of a stall that had a toilet I couldn't figure out how to flush, and then a door I couldn't figure out how to open.

I had to climb over the stalls because the gap wasn't big enough below.

So I'm making my great escape and some dude walks up to the stall and I make a small noise he looks up and I just hope he has forgotten it by now.

18.) From uieLouAy:

Was using the urinal in the Port Authority men’s room when some random guy walks up behind me and says, in a raspy voice, “Hey kid... I like your hair!” Still peeing, I turn around and say thanks, and he says, “You like pineapple?” Caught off guard I ask, “What? Pineapple?” At this point I’m zipping my pants back up and starting to turn around to face him. He then points to underneath the wall of the first bathroom stall to a black plastic bag, like one from the liquor store, and says, “Yeah! You wanna buy one? I got one right there — it’s delicious!” Sure enough, there’s a black plastic bag with a pineapple sticking out of it on the floor of the Port Authority men’s room. I told him I was allergic to pineapple, he seemed shocked and, quite frankly, really sad that I couldn’t eat his delicious pineapple, and we parted ways.

19.) From metalmola:

There was hot water in the toilet. Not that I directly touched the toilet water, but the whole thing was radiating heat.

Edit for those who are curious: it was in a hotel lobby in Jacksonville FL. Pretty sure it was just hooked up to the hot water line instead of the cold. It was too hot to be warmed by the weather. The pipes leading to it were covered in condensation because the AC was on. The toilet refilled with hot water after it was flushed, so I doubt it was mop water.

20.) ​​​​​​​From Moonlight150:

I was in a stall at work browsing reddit after using the toilet and just killing time until my break was over. When what can I only tell was a somewhat older man shuffling his way over to the stall next to mine. He then lets out a thunderous fart and sits on the toilet and moans out “oh dear god it’s the end of days.” I immediately put myself together and left that restroom before I heard any more.

21.) From kreamaxx:

When I was younger, highschool age, I had been constipated for a few days, I got the urge while I was in the mall and went to the bathroom. It was empty when I got there and was having a rough time pushing this meteorite out. Then I hear some people walk in, a man and a woman talking, then they started making out. Now I was a pretty shy kid, so I tried hard not to make noise and be noticed. Next thing I know I can see through the crack in the stall that the girl is taking off her pants. I guess it escalated to the point where I was getting nervous which caused the giant shit I was trying to take to rocket out. They of course noticed, and she says "oh shit someone's in here" then they rushed out.

22.) From violentmauve:

When I was a kid, my parents worked in a university as professors and I would go to their offices after school until they finished work and we would go home.

Importantly, the men’s and women’s bathrooms were right next to each other. And they had the type of ceilings which are tiles resting on a grid-type metal grid.

One day, I was about 10 years old, I went to the bathroom. I was sitting on the toilet in the stall and for some reason looked up, directly over my head.

There was a guy looking down at me. He had climbed up from the men’s side, removed the ceiling tiles, and was peeping at the female college students as they went to the bathroom.

Apparently I was the first person that looked up.

23.) ​​​​​​​From Killdoc:

I walked into the bathroom at a hospital Food Court, was in dire need to relieve myself. As I walked in, I heard some thumping from one of the stalls, like someone was gently pounding on the stall walls. Then I saw two pairs of shoes, one in front of the other, under the closed stall door. Due to my need to empty my bladder, I decided to ignore what I saw and took care of business.

As I was walking out, the stall door opened, and one of the food court employees came out, alone. He had been changing into his uniform on his way to work, including his shoes. I actually had thought it was two guys having sex in the stall. He must had thought I was crazy as I walked out of the bathroom laughing hysterically at myself.

24.) From YikesOscillator:

My sister always believed in the importance of teaching her son, even from a young age, to use the correct terminology for genitalia. There was no “that’s your pee pee” or “those are your privates”. It was always “that is your penis”.

So the day before Christmas Eve we are doing some last minute shopping, my nephew was mostly potty trained at this time, but still wore a diaper just in case. She goes off to do some shopping and I take him to the washroom for a change as he has had an accident.

As I’m wiping him clean, he screams bloody murder in a washroom full of people “AUNTY DON’T TOUCH MY PENIS”.

I was f*cking mortified. Worrying that people are thinking I’m molesting him. So I say loudly (yet kindly) “We have to make sure you’re clean!”

I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life walking out of that stall. And to top it off, I was like 19 but definitely looked younger.

25.) ​​​​​​​From lifesahoot:

I was out drinking one evening. Went to go to the bathroom and there were 3 ladies blocking the guys bathroom. They told me I couldn’t go in. It was the only bathroom in the place and I had to piss bad. I waited about 20 seconds then pushed past them. As I walk in there is one dude at the end of the line of urinals with his dick out not facing a urinal. He’s giving it a pep talk saying things like “come on bud you can do it" and " don’t let me down again". I take quite a long piss and he keeps talking to his dong the entire time. I exited the restroom and told my buddy what happened. He had to see it for himself so he went to the rest room. Same girls outside trying to stop him and same dude in there still trying to sweet talk his wang into doing something.

26.) From icesir:

I walked into a public bathroom at a beach and found a big bearded guy nervously staring at the ceiling above the stall while using the only urinal. As I stepped past him toward the stall, he screamed "STOP!"

Since his hands were full of dick, he could only gesture upward with his head. I looked up and saw a very large pigeon sitting in a nest in the corner. With a super thick Slavic dialect, bearded guy says, "Never trust a mother bird." He washed his hands, still staring at the nest, and backed out of the bathroom.

27.) ​​​​​​​From Pwncak3z:

Sitting on the toilet in a Denny’s bathroom. The large plastic toilet paper holder was just missing the cover, so when I pulled on the toilet paper roll it fell off and rolled perfectly under the stall wall and fell over right behind the feet of a man standing at the urinal “next door.”

The man must’ve seen it because I instantly hear him say “ope, I got it!”

“Thanks!” I said, expecting him to finish his business then help me out.

What I did not expect was for him to bend down to pick it up right then and there... but not how one normally bends down.

I can guarantee he was midstream when he leaned over backwards like fucking neo in the matrix. I see his legs bend forward then see his hand reaching down behind him. He bends over far enough to grab the roll, stream still going (it was a urinal with water in the base so I could hear it) he grabs it and perfectly rolls it back over to me, GIVES A THUMBS UP, then stands straight up again.

Un-f*cking-real.


12 parents share what they wish they knew before they had kids.

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Before you have kids, you should know that it comes with a "no backsies" clause.

A recent Reddit thread asked parents what they wish they had known before they brought new life into the universe.

While a decent amount of people admitted to regretting that they had kids, a lot of other exhausted parents said that while they're glad their offspring exist, there are a few nuggets they wish they knew beforehand.

1. stylophonics says to pick the right partner.

Make sure your spouse will really, truly, co-parent with you. My cousin's husband would change her son's diapers but not their daughter's because "ew, that's weird"... Figure it out before you're like 10 years into marriage and decide it's the right time.

2. WeNamedTheDogHenry keeps it real.

I'm not as great at being a mum as I thought I would be. My kids are still every bit as huge arseholes as all other kids. And I do all the lazy bad parenting things I swore I wouldn't do.

I think I just wished I had been more realistic so I didn't feel like such a let down.

3. darksideofdagoon says to be ready.

Kids are a sacrifice.

You sacrifice your time, your energy, (sometimes) your love for your partner, your money, your personal space, and your identity to ultimately create a contributing member of society. It's a real shock.

If you're thinking of not having kids for any reason at all, I have no doubt that reason is 100% legitimate. If you're not ready, it can be quite jarring.

4. fantazja1 writes that regret can pass.

That things get better. That you will find new friends through your children. That you will grow stronger by parenting. That there will come a time when you don't regret having them any more.

5. Kiroley says to get your mortgage first.

I don't regret having kids but what I wish someone had told me was how much it cuts your ability to get finance from a bank (for a house purchase).

I should have thought about it, but long story short we would have been better off owning our own home for a bit before having kids.

6. nymeriasnow324 has perspective.

That not having to wake up 5 times a night because of your baby is much better than sex without a condom and that uni is much more expensive than a condom.

7. friendswithdog made a pro-choice argument.

I always wonder about this during abortion debates. When the nice clean Christian lady says that people regret their abortions I immediately wonder how many parents regret NOT having that abortion. When your child is sick and dying, when they get hurt and mortally wounded, when they suffer tragedies, congenital illness, a million mishaps, these are real concerns that should definitely be considered. I have two kids and it's been 30 years and I still worry about everything. And now grandbabies.

8. gravypig switched to Team iPad.

I don't regret having kids, but damn are they brutal on every aspect of your life. My 3 year old is currently at the other end of the couch crying and saying how much he hates me.

It's not just the kids either, your spouse will suddenly accept things they did not before. We would see parents jamming iPads in front of their kids and we were just baffled. Like really lady, you're not even gonna try? We were also very against co-sleeping, too risky.

I have lost my voice in both of those things, as my wife now allows both to occur.

It's very tough!

9. LovelyDay18's kids are better than YouTube.

I wish I would have been more prepared for the endless stream of trick shots and questions while preparring dinner every night...

"Mom, mom, mom, watch this!" -That's awesome sweetie

"Mom, and this one, look, check it out" -Cool!

"Oh yeah, mom! But this one!" -Uh huh

"Mom, check it out! Your not watching! Look look!"

10. Careless_Hellscape warns that parenting isn't always bliss.

I was told so many times that being a parent is so rewarding and fulfilling, but it isn't. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids but my entire life is packed with stress and misery at their antics. They do not respect me and aren't afraid of my attempt at discipline.

11. LucyNDaSkyy explains that parenting is for morning people.

I really didn't think about/consider having to be UP every morning for years and years and years making lunchs/early school routine... I'm NOT a morning person and this has been a struggle... I just never thought about it while I was pregnant LOL

Do NOT regret having a child. I wish I had known/thought about it before LOL

12. ConcreteEnema has a conspiracy theory about a friend's baby mama.

Not me but a close friend of mine from high school. Met a girl not long before I left for college, first relationship for both of them, and not long before them talking about getting married and stuff. The rest of our friend group didn't really like her, not just for the normal "you're stealing our friend" drama bullsh*t, but it just didn't seem like the healthiest relationship for how serious it was getting. Some of us tried to warn him. He shrugged us off.

Well eventually she gets pregnant. She decides to keep it.

It's triplets. I sh*t you not.

So this kid is still a teenager, and he has 3 kids on the way. They did end up getting married, but he went into a sort of downward spiral. I don't think he ever said it out loud, but it's pretty clear he had his regrets, and maybe should have put the brakes on that relationship. Good news is they're no longer married, the kids and ex seem to be okay she got re-married, and he's in a better place now (not dead, like, mentally). I guess the moral of the story is don't stick your d*ck in crazy, especially if you're not even old enough to vote, and always use protection. Because honestly, I have my suspicions that she used some sort of fertility drug behind his back.

Like TRIPLETS, damn.

23 Memes That Will Only Be Funny If You're Going To Be Single On Valentine's Day.

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"If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?"

-Lily Tomlin

Valentine's Day is coming up, but don't let being single get you down. These memes are hilarious and laughing will make you forget all about this dumb holiday.

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27 people share photos of the 'ugliest' things they own.

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We all have a household object that most of the world would deem "ugly" but that we wouldn't dream of taking to the GoodWill. Just because something is technically aesthetically displeasing doesn't make it garbage (or maybe it is garbage, but we love it anyway).

Someone on Twitter asked people to share photos of the "ugliest" thing that they own.

Hundreds and hundreds of people responded with photos of the "vile" and "ghastly" treasures they hold on to that most people would consider an insult to the eyes.

Here are 26 of the most gloriously ugly items you've ever seen. These treasured objects are truly the stuff of nightmares.

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12 people share the biggest red flags that a partner is cheating.

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Unless you catch them red-handed, it's impossible to know for sure if someone's cheating. But everyone who's been in a relationship has their own theories and red flags.

A recent Reddit thread asked, "What signs do you look out for to know if your SO is cheating on you?" And the amateur detectives of the relationship world delivered.

1. Some say a gut feeling is enough.

You have those feelings for a reason. Relationships are based on gut instincts, not intellectual certainty -DeathBy1000Cuts

2. Or a growing lack of interest in the relationship.

More distant. Less willing to talk. See less of them as time wanes - DeathBy1000Cuts

3. Starting fights to deflect from their whereabouts? Diabolical.

Starting a fight or making a huge drama when they arrive home so you think about that instead of where they've been. - DegeneratesInc

4. Accusations of cheating that come out of nowhere could be a sign.

I think if they constantly accuse you of cheating when you've never been anything but loyal, that's a sign of their mindset, not a good one. - aflashinlifespan

5. There's no such thing as a little white lie.

lying. it doesn't matter what its about. I've uncovered cheating in past relationships by prying at the smallest lie. - rosecolour

6. Hovering over their phone might be a bad sign.

Needing their phone everywhere they go, guarding of the phone, and withdrawn or less communication. These are all red flags, but one doesn't mean cheating, but more of a collective of things. - jazzbuh

7. If you partner is defending someone's over-the-line interaction with them, that might be bad.

When another girl/guy makes some sort of brazen move in person or on social media that makes you uncomfortable and your SO defends them and doesn’t think about how you feel. They don’t care anymore - Lie-la

8. "Don't worry about him, he's like my brother..." (or sister).

If there's a guy she tells you not to worry about, it's already over. - BausHaug76

9. Your SO is speaking glowingly about a co-worker over and over again? Not good.

Usually if there is a sudden or intense interest in someone else who isn't you that's usually a pretty good sign to end things even if they haven't cheated yet because their focus and intentions are completely away from you and the relationship at that point. - TheTimDonnelly

10. An indifferent attitude is a bad sign.

I was told hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is. In the grand scheme of things talk to one another. But be worried if they just don't care. - Zeapher

11. A sudden interest in their appearance could be a red flag.

Taking extra care over grooming. - DeathBy1000Cuts

12. But the biggest sign of a bad relationship might be searching for evidence of cheating.

If you've got so little trust in your SO that you spend all your time looking for signs that they are cheating then just split up.

That's not a healthy thing to do. - Geeky_Monkey

Bride asks if it's okay to be angry her bridesmaid announced pregnancy on wedding day.

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The first rule of bridal party etiquette is to always talk about bridal party etiquette, especially in public internet forums.

And the second, more important rule is to never upstage the bride. One bridesmaid did exactly that when she not only announced her pregnancy on the morning of her friend's wedding, but proceeded to steal her thunder all day long.

The bride posted on Reddit about the issue, asking if she's the a-hole if she gets mad at her friend.

The run-up to the wedding was pretty standard and non-dramatic:

I got married two weekends ago. I asked my three best friends Anna, Kelly and Laura to be my bridesmaids 2 years before the wedding and found them very helpful when planning.

For the morning of my wedding I hired a fancy penthouse apartment for myself and the bridesmaids to get ready.

But it all started to go haywire when the bride noticed Laura wasn't drinking:

We had champagne and as we were pouring it out, Laura said none for her. Now Laura is the biggest party animal of us all so naturally we questioned why she wasn’t drinking. Laura then told us she was pregnant.

Of course I was happy for her but obviously the focus was then on Laura and her pregnancy and not us getting ready for my wedding, something I had been planning for 2 years.

And it didn't stop there:

Anyway. We all got ready and headed to the venue. The photographer kept us outside the venue for a short while so he could do posed photos with myself and the bridesmaids. I was holding my bouquet, Anna and Kelly were holding theirs but Laura placed hers on the floor and was standing with her hands cradling her stomach as if to emphasise her bump (which wasn’t noticeable as she’s barely 12 weeks). The photographer asked her to pick her flowers up so all of us were holding our bouquets and Laura refused and said “oh it’s ok I’d prefer to stand like this” and carried on cradling her stomach. So now those photos just look weird.

Yes, the bridesmaid pulled a Markle in her BFF's wedding pics! And there's more:

The rest of the day went smoothly until it came to the speeches. As Laura was my oldest friend naturally I asked her to say a few words. She stood up and said some nice words, then ended her speech with “and I’m so excited to announce that as Bride’s best friend, I’d like her to be an honorary aunt to my baby who is due summer 2020!”. With her being an old family friend of course my family were over the moon and again the attention was on her and her pregnancy and not me and my husband.

The bride's not really speaking to her friend anymore, but she's wondering: does this make her an a-hole?

I felt so upset on my wedding day and haven’t really spoke to Laura much since. She has since sent me a text saying I’m acting like a spoiled brat and the world doesn’t revolve around me.

[Am I the a-hole] for being upset and distancing myself?

Most people agree the bridesmaid took it way too far.

Knifewrenchhh says if the bridesmaid left it at the morning announcement, it would've all been okay:

At first it seemed innocuous enough because you asked about her not drinking, but she spent the rest of the day deliberately drawing attention to her pregnancy and that’s rude af. You have every right to be upset and she owes you an apology, most specifically for using her toast to make an announcement to your entire wedding reception.

And as another user pointed out, 12 weeks is early to announce anyway.

MattyIceX argued that even the morning announcement was uncalled for:

I would go as far to say that on your wedding day, your world revolves around you. Well I think it should at least. It’s one day. OP is definitely NTA.

Jimmyjrdanceparty was "flabbergasted":

Wtf is Laura's problem? I can't believe you held your tongue. I am flabbergasted at the entitlement of flat-out refusing to hold flowers in someone else's wedding photo. It's not about how you prefer to stand, LAURA.

IridianRaingem laid down the law:

There are just some things you don’t do at someone’s wedding.

Wear a wedding dress

Propose

Share a pregnancy

Anything else that takes the attention of the bride and groom on this one day. This one at they are paying for. (There’s always exceptions, but in general most things can wait until the end of the night or another day.)

So let that be a lesson to us all: no announcing your pregnancy at another person's wedding!

23 Memes To Help You Start Your Day Off With A Giggle.

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
—Steve Martin

A day without sunshine I can handle, but a day without memes? Well, that's just a straight-up nightmare. Luckily that won't happen today. Here are 23 memes to make you laugh this morning.

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22 people share the ugliest 'treasures' in their house.

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We all have that one item in our house that may or may not be haunted by an evil witch from the sea...

Whether it's an ornament that you hang on the tree every year despite it looking like it could curse the whole family or an old doll that's so ugly you swear it's alive, many of us have family heirlooms or yard sale treasures so hideous and disturbing that they should definitely be trash.

When Twitter user @Brainimage asked the internet to share the ugliest things they own, sentimental collectors everywhere were ready to share. Does it spark joy? Definitely. Does it see through your soul and back with an evil force from the underbelly of the Earth? Yes.

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13 people share the creepiest things they encountered in the mountains, woods, or rural areas.

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If "Little Red Riding Hood" didn't already teach you to be terrified of the woods, then these stories definitely will.

A Reddit thread initially clowning other questions yielded some juicy results, asking "What is the creepiest thing you’ve seen in the woods, or in the mountains, or in deserts, or caves, or in small towns, or in remote or rural areas or while on large bodies of water, or while on a aircraft or a nautical vessel?"

Stay tuned for nautical vessel tales.

1. Ruvio00 met a Faceless Man.

I'd been at football training with a few of my cousins when I was about 10 years old.

We decided to take a walk before our parents picked us up, so we went along the canal towpath. My cousin looked down in the canal and saw a really nice jacket floating along and being a weird scavenger person, decided to reach in to fish it out.

Well, the jacket turned over. And so did the man wearing it. He also had no face left.

Not gonna lie, that was rough.

2. New phone, who dis, maximumovarize?

I know a guy who was out boating and found a body in the water, the police told him to send a picture to the Coast Guard. He used the number he thought they gave and got a text back going “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT”

Needless to say, he had not texted the Coast Guard.

3. Sounds like a mafia thing, OriginalZumbie.

I was walking with family when I was little and we came across a sheep's head. No body or blood just a severed sheep's head on the path. It was the first time I noticed sheep's eyes have slit pupils and I think my first contact with something so gruesome.

4. Ouch, jakesteed33.

I saw a dude take a dump and while pooping get bit on his a** by a snake.

5. From hops4beer:

I found a woman's body floating in a harbor in San Pedro, CA.

6. fortyhandz1738 found Ugly Naked Guy from Friends.

My girlfriend and I were hiking along some abandoned railroad tracks and we get to a small bridge going over a little creek. I’m about to go explore under the bridge when she points something out. I look over and in the woods across from us I see a guy. I'm like "whatever" and keep headed down to the creek area and then the guy stands up and he’s naked. We immediate back track pretty quickly to get away from there and once were like 1 minute down the trail I look back and this naked dude is just standing in the middle of the trail watching us walk away.

7. Did you see her... in the lake, Cherry-Dearest?

I went to a lake to see my grandma's friend with her and this lady found a dead body in the water. News came and there was a lot of screaming.

8. ExtremelyConfused_ was, well, extremely confused.

In order to get back home from a popular kebab restaurant I need to walk a short path through the woods. Along the way there is an extremely old abandoned partially collapsed chapel and occasionally I'll stand there for a few seconds admiring it. It's quite beautiful in its own way. One day during winter season I decided to rest there for a minute so I placed my kebab on the bench right next to the chapel and just stood there taking in the scenery. It was already rather dark and the woods were almost completely silent but right as I was about to continue my walk I heard footsteps rapidly getting louder. It was a child running towards me and as soon as it realized I was there it started to repeatedly scream "Run, he is coming" or variations of that same sentiment.

I was a bit perplexed by the situation so I watched the child run past me without moving an inch myself. It didn't take another second for a much more weighty pair of footsteps to appear. I could make out a silhouette in the distance which seemed to be their origin and at that exact point in time I got really scared. As opposed to running I decided to hide in the chapel next to the altar and after tripping over an old broken chapel bench I reached my hiding place. The footsteps got louder and louder but right as they approached the vicinity of the chapel they suddenly went silent. About 15 seconds of complete quietness had passed just for the words "Oi! You fucking idiot left your kebab on the bench" to break the silence. Turns out it was a resident of the very same street I inhabit, his nephew was visiting and he wanted to race him to the kebab stand. I don't know whether this was the right place to post this, ultimately this is more stupid than creepy.

9. crapemail must have felt like a dummy.

My friend Levi and I were walking along the river on the way to [a spot in the woods].

It was in the middle of a valley and nobody else ever went down there. Suddenly Levi stopped moving and ducked into a bush , I did the same because I thought there must have been a large animal somewhere.

I saw him staring up the hill and so I looked up too. There [were] two people standing at the top of the hill heaving back and forth a lifeless body.

We watched as they threw the lifeless corpse down the hill as it bounced off the trees and eventually got stuck on a tree at the bottom. Then they took off.

Me and him were terrified and I was shaking so badly I couldn't speak. So we decided to verify it was a real body. Levi got about 4 feet away before screaming "IT HAS NOSTRILS !! ITS REAL !! RUN!!"

So of course we take off running , and I glance back to see the two people run back to the top of the hill. Me and him ran 2 km through thick brush and trees to get away from them

The next day we were with his parents driving to town. And we saw like 10 firetrucks at the school closest to the forest.

Terrified we told his parents , balling our eyes out worried that we were going to get murdered. His mom started laughing at us and said, "They are training for search and rescue , that was a dummy that the firemen had to find."

I never slept as good as I did that night...

10. Happy Midsommar, HAW711.

I was jogging at night with headphones on in a park with dense trees and bushes. The over growth was taking over the path and it was difficult to see so I turned the flashlight on my phone on.

I started to see a fire burning ahead but couldn’t really make it out (I take my glasses off when I jog). As I got closer there’s a clearing and I see a big big fire raging and no one around. So I pause a minute and fish my glasses out and find out that yes, there’s 6 people standing there actually. Perfectly spaced apart from each other and they all turned at the same time to look at me.

I turned 180 and sprinted the fuck out of there

11. skeletorsleftlung saw dancing with the devil.

When I was a kid some friends and I came across people in robes chanting around a campfire out in the woods on the edge of the town we lived in. We were staying at a friend's house for a birthday party/sleepover and went for a late night walk. This was back in the late 80's during the satanic panic. Looking back now, I'm sure it was just some teenagers goofing around, but at the time it scared the living bejeezus out of us. One of the girls with us had a panic attack and started hyperventilating. Got pretty serious, but we finally managed to get her calmed down.

12. Nothing is more romantic than an underground cage, Donna_Matrix699.

Went walking in the woods while camping with an old boyfriend to where the road ended and found a giant underground cage. After exploring we started kissing and suddenly heard little kids giggling all around us. Hightailed it out of there and never looked back.

13. chicken_cider either saw Slenderman or the Sasquatch.

Cowlitz river. Washington State. Camping with my dad and sister me buddies, early 90s. Something was throwing rocks and sticks into our camp. We shined a flashlight out and caught a reflection of eyes and a silouete. Very very tall. Kept throwing stuff in our camp randomly for about 15 minutes. We just stoked the fire really high. In the morning I woke up to heavy footsteps in our camp and something reeked. Woke up my dad. He shook the tent and yelled. Whatever it was ran off.

Man accused by brother of 'sabotaging' his coming out moment by not acting surprised.

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Coming out of the closet can be an extremely vulnerable experience, even if you have a supportive and loving family.

There is a lot of cultural pressure put on the moment which makes any reaction feel loaded, so even if you have supportive family and friends it's easy for it to feel anti-climactic if they don't give you the response you desired.

On the other hand, there are plenty of LGBTQIA people who don't want to "come out" since the idea of "coming out" is homophobic in the first place, as it centers being straight as the default.

Basically, it's a complex process that brings different emotions out of different people, and the best way to express support as a friend is to follow their lead. However, it can be hard to follow someone's lead when you're not sure what they expect, or how honest to be with your response.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a man asked if he was wrong for acting non-chalant when his brother came out of the closet.

AITA because I “sabotaged” my brother coming out as gay to our family?

OP kicked off the post by sharing that he has suspected his brother was gay for over a decade, but the whole family has respectfully waited for him to officially come out.

Here’s the background of the story. My brother is gay. The problem is he didn’t come out until recently he’s 24 I’m 22m. The thing is though basically everybody knew he was gay already long before he came out. My brother all his life has enjoyed stereotypical “girly” things and has never shown any romantic interest in women he’s never had a gf or anything and his friend group was always girls in school he was usually the only guy in the clique.

OP has been vigilante about shutting down friends who openly talk about his brother being gay, because he's wanted to wait until his brother officially came out or openly owned it.

Not to mention in high school he became very effeminate, like stereotypical Hollywood gay character effeminate. I’ve never had any issue with this of course I love my brother for who he is along with the rest of the family. It was common knowledge he’s very gay and we just figured he’d tell us when the time is right for him. It was still awkward when he’d meet my new friends and later they’d be like “you didn’t tell me your bro was gay” and I had to tell them that, he probably was but as of right now he hasn’t actually come out and to keep it under wraps.

So, when OP's brother finally came out to him while setting up for Christmas, OP responded very casually.

We all went back home for Christmas and we were setting up for the family dinner. My bro and I went to the basement to get the extra dining chairs and when we were there he said “hey I have to tell you something important don’t freak out. I’m gonna tell everybody else at dinner but I want to tell you now” I said “okay what’s up” he said “okay... don’t be too shocked. I’m gay” I blinked a couple times and chuckled and was like “oh okay man. Good for you I’m happy for you."

OP's response offended his brother so much they got in an argument and the brother stormed up the stairs.

He’s like “that’s it?! “Good for you”? Why did you laugh?” So I said “oh sorry I had a pretty good idea you’re gay” he then tried to argue with me about how I actually had no idea and I must be in shock. So I told him that, no, I had a suspicion he was gay for probably 10 years now. (Understatement, I 100% knew) He got pissed and said the least I could do was be happy for him and not try to downplay something so important by pretending I already knew and went upstairs. Then later that night at dinner he said he had an announcement and told everybody he was gay.

When OP's brother came out to the rest of the family, they were supportive but also not shocked.

We all commended him for coming out and talked about it with him. Then about two weeks ago my brother texts and says I’m an a*shole because I must have told our parents after our basement discussion and that their reaction was super fake and that I spoiled the most important moment in his life “out of spite.”

Weeks after he came out, OP's brother accused him of sabotaging the coming out moment and telling everyone ahead of time.

OP fervently denied this and brought up the fact that the whole family already knew he was gay. The two brothers haven't spoken since, and OP's parents think he should swallow his pride and apologize to his brother.

I tried to explain that I hadn’t done that but he kept going on about how I tried to “sabotage” his big moment so I got fed up and told him the reason their reaction was fake was because basically everybody knew he was gay for years now and we all just decided to keep quiet about it until he acknowledged it and that nobody is shocked because it’s the furthest it could be from a “surprise” to anybody. He hasn’t talked to me since. My parents are furious at me and denied everything to him and said that I’m being insensitive and apathetic and that I should be happy for him and supportive.

TacomaWA doesn't think OP technically did anything wrong, but pointed out just how vulnerable it is for people to come out, supportive family or not.

NTA. Technically, you did nothing wrong here.

However, please understand that coming out is incredibly stressful. Many people going through this process mistakenly believe that their being gay is the biggest news on the planet. They feel that way not because they are narcissists or self-centered, but because hiding for so long distorts reality for them. They have worked so hard to hide, that it is only natural to feel finally revealing yourself is a big deal.

In addition, many LGBTQ people may not be self aware of how they come off. When I first heard a recording of myself, for example, I about died of embarrassment. I had *no* idea I sounded so... "gay".

So, I would ask that you show him some empathy. Give him a little slack... and be there for him. Believe it or not, he does need you.

Best to you...

OP followed up by clarifying that they've always supported and defended their brother, and wanted this moment to be special.

I love my brother so much and I’m so proud of him coming out. I’ve always supported him and I’ve gotten in literal fights in school over people saying homophobic sh*t about him and I even tried my best to convince people he wasn't gay because I didn’t want people gossiping about him being gay or thinking he was gay before he was ready to come to it even though I f*cking knew it for years without him ever having to say it. And now him trying to say that I sabotaged the most important moment in his life and him not talking to me anymore and my parents throwing me under the bus it f*cking hurts. It really hurts and I don’t know what I can do to fix it.

SoMuchMoreEagle understands where OP is coming from, but also understands why his brother felt slighted by the response.

NTA all. But maybe try to understand his POV. He was probably struggling with his sexuality for a while and thought he was hiding it, then he finally comes to terms with it enough to tell his family and they're like, "Okay. Pass the potatoes." It's sh*tty that he blamed you and said you told your parents before he could, then hasn't talked to you since.

That's a real over-reaction. It's also sh*tty that your parents are blaming you for everything when they had the same reaction you did.

I hope you can repair your relationship and move beyond this.

codeverity thinks OP should apologize and be a bit more sensitive about the situation.

NAH. I can understand where your brother is coming from. Even though it was really obvious to you, it was still a big deal to him, something that he was probably worried about other people finding out about. To have people just go 'yeah, okay' to something that he had built up in his head to a huge, life-changing moment was probably a surprise, a letdown and could even be a bit embarrassing for him.

I don't think that you meant any harm, here, but it wouldn't hurt to reach out to your brother to apologize and say that you hadn't meant to hurt or disappoint him. Keep in mind that this is a huge deal for him and probably a big part of his identity.

waggathism thinks everyone handled the situation in less than ideal ways.

ESH. But it's a mild judgment because your respective reactions are somewhat understandable (except for your parents - I understand their reaction less so).

You clearly sussed he was gay and so him coming out wasn't a big deal for you. However, you failed to appreciate that it was a big deal for him. You could have stressed that yes you had your suspicions but that you were really happy that he opened up to you about it and shared something so important. I don't think you suck as much for your initial reaction as you do for how you handled things on the phone/text though.

Your brother sounds like he was being belligerent, but I really feel like you missed an opportunity here to create space for him to explain why he felt you'd sabotage in the first place. Instead of creating space for your brother's emotional input you were reactionary and shut it down by ultimately insinuating a major event for your brother was meaningless just because you all knew. He didn't know they knew, so it's sucky of you to have not recognized that.

Your brother sucks for behaving like a brat and feeling entitled to others' reactions. He also sucks for not listening to you and your reasoning. But he's been in the closet through his entire adolescence and seemingly had no idea that others suspected he was gay, so revealing his sexuality is likely A Really Big Deal™. He's likely feeling weirdly rejected after his assertion was met by such nonchalance. That's gotta hurt. But he's still behaving immaturely.

Your parents suck for getting angry at you and denying their suspicions to your brother, thereby driving a bigger wedge between you and your bro. Given the accusations thrown at you by your brother ('you must have told them' etc) they are in a great position to try and broker peace and enable your brother to appreciate your reaction.

Hopefully OP and his brother are able to reconcile and come to a mutual understanding, since it seems pretty clear OP cares a good deal about his brother.

Bridesmaid ditches wedding after bride kicks out gay bridesmaid to please homophobic in-laws.

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Bridezillas: we hate you see it, but we love to read about it. A now-ex bridesmaid shared a story on Reddit about ditching her friend's wedding to protest the friend disinviting one of the other bridesmaids for being gay.

The bridezilla, Kelly, had asked her friend, Ellis, to be bridesmaid. Ellis is in a same-sex relationship and her partner, Anita, was also invited to the wedding, so clearly Kelly was cool with it. But when Kelly's homophobic future in-laws found out one of the bridesmaids is gay, they called the bridesmaid all kinds of horrible slurs, and said she and her partner have "no business" being at this "sacred" wedding.

Instead of telling her homophobic future in-laws to shove it, Kelly gave in to their bigoted demands and texted Ellis to kick her out of the bridal party.

My friend Kelly is getting married next Saturday. She asked myself and 3 other friends to be her bridesmaid, her sister as MOH. One of our friend Ellis is in a same sex relationship. Kelly seems to have no issues with it since she asked Ellis to be her bridesmaid and invited Ellis' partner as a guest to the wedding.

Well last night Kelly texted Ellis and told her she's no long a bridesmaid, she and her partner aren't welcome to the wedding. Ellis was confused and pressed for a reason. Turns out Kelly's FILs are furious "fucking gay sluts" are attending their wedding. It's a sacred place and dirty hoes have no business being there.

A distraught Ellis called her friend, one of the other bridesmaids, to tell her what happened.

Furious, the other bridesmaid called up her bride friend and gave her a piece of her mind, telling her that she, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's friends, have decided to ditch the wedding in protest.

Ellis calls me earlier this morning while my BF and I were sleeping. She was really upset and crying. I tried to comfort her the best I could and we are meeting up for dinner later. So I called Kelly and asked Wtf is going on. She tells me it's no big deal, she's only missing a plate of food and she will make it up to her. She also has the nerve to tell me to ask Ellis to lend her the bridesmaid dress because she found someone to replace her. So it wouldn't look uneven at the wedding. It's such a hassle and last minute, if everyone would just be normal then this wouldn't happen. I pretty much lost it right there.

I told her she's the shittiest piece of shit I have ever met. She's just all into looks and I told her I am not going to the wedding either and hung up on her. My BF heard this all go down and texted the groom that's he's not going to be the best man either. My BF also told his friends about what happened and they are also not going to the wedding.

Apparently the Maid of Honor called up the (ex) bridesmaid and called her a "b*tch" for "ruining" the wedding for Kelly.

The MOH calls me up and says I'm such a Bitch that I ruined the wedding for Kelly and I'm just starting shit up. I'm honestly glad I bowed out but I'm left wondering if I should've just kept to myself then confront Kelly after the wedding? Our tight group thinks i did nothing wrong but others said I shouldn't dictate who gets to go their wedding.

So the (ex) bridesmaid posted the story on Reddit, asking if she did the right thing. Even though, let's be honest, she clearly knows she did the right thing. But, hey, who among us hasn't at some point asked the internet to validate our choices?! I know I have. Please like this post.

Commenters, of course, told the ex-bridesmaid she did the right thing, is "not the a**hole," a true ally, yadda yadda.

flagg6805 wrote:

NTA. Go you for sticking up for your friend. And your bf too. And your friends are ah for saying you’re dictating who can and can’t go, people make up their own minds about that and you are all right to not go.

And everyone seems to agree that Kelly deserves to have her wedding "ruined," if that even is the case, by her decision to prioritize her horrible homophobic family's desires over what's right.

As apathyontheeast put it:

This is 100% the right thing for OP to do and, frankly, she deserves for her wedding to he ruined by catering to homophobes and being so horrible to her "friends."

But... this is not the end of the story.

In an update to the post, the ex-bridesmaid reveals that Kelly's fiancé, Eric, found out about what happened and apologized to Ellis and her partner, Anita.

The fiance is claiming that Kelly had misinterpreted his family's "homophobic" comments due to language miscommunications, and that his family never wanted Ellis to be kicked out of the wedding.

So yesterday was a huge shit show. The groom, Eric came to the restaurant where we had dinner and apologized to Ellis. He also wanted to make a few things clear. He had no idea Kelly would go behind his back and tell Ellis and Anita (her partner) they aren't welcome to the wedding. And most importantly, his parents didn't say any of those things.

His father made an off hand comment which translates to "what's a good girl like Ellis doing with another woman?" His mother said "children these days thinks different, you antique cow shouldn't talk so much." Kelly took it upon herself to interpret that her future-in-laws (FILs - sorry about the confusion y'all) meant they hated homosexuals. FILs weren't furious and never said Ellis and Anita aren't welcome to the wedding. Kelly and a few of us speak that dialect fluently, there's no way she didn't understand exactly what Eric's parents said.

Now the wedding is apparently CALLED OFF as Eric is not sure if Kelly is "the right match for him."

The wedding is called off as Eric wants to step back and think if Kelly is the right match for him.

Maybe he's looking for someone who doesn't interpret his family's dialect as virulent homophobia?

For background, ex-bridesmaid says that Ellis and Anita are getting married at the end of the year, and she believes this all started because Kelly was jealous of them for "upstaging" her wedding.

Anita tells us Kelly has been very passive aggressive towards her and Ellis for the past few weeks. Anita said she thought it was the stress of the wedding so Kelly was acting up. I think it's also because Anita and Ellis are getting married at the end of the year.

We live in a country where gay marriage is non existent. In fact if you are LGBTQ, you as a person don't exist. Ellis and Anita have talked about going to Canada or Taiwan to get their marriage license and holding a mini banquet back in our country. Someone suggested we all go to Taiwan for a mini vacation and they can have a small wedding there.

We have been talking non stop about this for the past month. Tbh we were talking about the vacation rather than the wedding since it's the first time most of us have traveled there. Kelly is probably jealous that Ellis upstaged her.

Both ex-bridesmaid and Ellis feel "guilty" for how this went down, because they don't want to see Kelly "go down in flames."

Either way, Ellis and I feel incredibly guilty for how it all went down. We've known Kelly for over a decade and we don't want to see her go down in flames. It's a pity that a friendship had to end this way over a single day.

IDK, seems to me that Kelly made this flaming bed for herself, and she deserves to lie in it. Either that, or this entire story is a work of very elaborate fiction. If so, someone give this poster a book deal, stat.

Guy asks if he was wrong to leave bad Yelp review that got his tour guide fired.

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Leaving a bad, angry review for an individual employee of a restaurant or small company makes you a very special kind of as*hole.

Many people who haven't worked in the service industry or been forced to deal with the public don't understand the power of a bad Yelp or Google review. If you have a bad experience with a particular individual who represents a restaurant or brand, the best thing to do is address it directly. Leaving an anger-fueled review makes you look like a cowardly, whiny baby keyboard warrior and if you believe in karma, you're totally doomed...

At the end of the day, all a bad review does is create a space for you to vent about your experience. Writing, "Brian was a rude waiter," doesn't usually make anyone else question whether they should go to that restaurant and it certainly causes a world of trouble for Brian. Before you write, "I wish I could give this place ZERO stars," think about why you feel such a compulsion to take Brian down. Will you feel better knowing a waiter's life is ruined? Or, should you go to therapy for anger management? Important questions.

Luckily, the "Am I the As*hole?" section of Reddit is a wonderland of moral dilemmas. When a man asked if he was wrong to leave a bad review of his tour guide in Machu Picchu, people were there for him.

AITA (Am I the As*hole?) for leaving a bad review and getting my guide fired?

Was on a 65 mile trek to Machu Picchu. Our guide said his name meant Panther because he was tough and strong.

On the last leg of the trip he decides to let the cook, who did not speak English, take us the last 15 miles. He rode the train.

We get to town, can't find him, can't eat, don't know where we are staying, have to sh*t, getting worried, tired, wet, etc.

He's excited and lively. We're exhausted and want to see a shower. He says that can wait, it's pizza time.

Since we just had internet in town, I leave a bad review on Yelp saying we were abandoned, lost and scared at times.

2 days later he finds my wife on Facebook and says he was fired due to my review.

While it does sound like this tour guide was pretty casual, I definitely don't think he deserved to be fired and would deem this poster the as*hole. However, there are a lot more opinions besides mine and the internet was here to help...

"ASBF2015" wrote:

Sounds like he deserved to be fired (unless there were mitigating circumstances for taking the train). Wouldn’t want him as my guide, probably did future guests a favor.

Don’t take advantage of your employers, people. It’s all good until it’s very bad.

"Cat_got_ya_tongue" wrote:

Sounds like you told the truth? That guy needs to take a hike in more ways than one.

"_09231994_" wrote:

What he did was incredibly irresponsible and unprofessional. Potentially dangerous and then contacting your wife is tacky. But also wow that is the most American sh*t you can do. Leave a Yelp review as soon as you get your hands on WiFi. You couldn’t have addressed him in person?

"beesknees9" wrote:

I'm calling bullshit OP, YTA (You're the As*hole)

  1. It is NOT 15 miles from the train station in Hidroeletrica to Aguas Calientes (the town at the base of Machu Picchu), it's a 2 hour walk at a moderate pace.

  2. It's typical that one of the guides split off at this point so they can sort everything in Aguas Calientes for when you arrive.

  3. You couldn't find him, or the cook couldn't find him? You said yourself you were accompanied by the cook. If the two guides were having trouble reconnecting and it left you vexed because you were eager to rest, that's not only this person's problem.

It sounds like your guide wasn't a good communicator, but you're dramatizing/misrepresenting the situation which leads me to believe YTA

"Brazenbillygoat" wrote:

YTA, you were “abandoned, lost, and scared at times”? Where did that come from? Is there more you’re not telling us? Just be honest in the review and tell it like you told us in the beginning of your post. Bc to me 15 miles alone is easy and sounds adventurous(plus you weren’t alone).

It seems like maybe he took the extra time to get things ready for the party. He probably thought a pizza party would be fun, and maybe something tied him up in town. Idk but more importantly it sounds like Udk(you don’t know). Did you ask why he did what he did? Did you ask if that’s usually what happens? Did the company put him up to that part?

People rush to review boards as soon as something bad happens, but it seems like you did no effort to investigate your own problems. Shouldn’t have to bc you’re a customer? Good luck on your world exploring sudo-safaris if that’s your mindset. But really I just get worked up when people embellish stories like your review seems to do...

"ThunderChild247" wrote:

As long as your review was honest and not written in anger (or of it was written in anger, as long as it was at least factual) then you’re fine. Odds are he’d had other bad reviews, I doubt someone would get sacked for one bad review.

"dalineman78" wrote:

This might be a little controversial but ESH. (Everyone Sucks Here). He probably shouldn't have left, but you did have someone there. You wanted to go through the experience of climbing, not him. You go to another country and don't speak the language, but don't prepare yourself. You kind of sound like the cancer that is cancel culture. You let one aspect define your trip. Seems a little bit entitled to me, but that might just be me. The Facebook thing he did was also unnecessary, but his actions doesn't justify yours.

So, there you have it! While the majority of people were on the side of the poster, it is important to always be honest and remember that reviews can seriously impact people's livelihood.

20 people who called numbers written on bathroom stalls share what happened.

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Many of us have lost ourselves reading the hieroglyphics on a bathroom stall. Public bathrooms are littered with half-scrawled poems, eulogies to broken relationships, and phone numbers for mysterious people offering a "good time."

While many of us have seen the litany of mysterious phone numbers, few have the bravery (or trolling desire) to actually call those numbers and see what can unfold. Luckily, for those of us too shy to take the leap, there are those who leap into the abyss of strange phone numbers and live to tell the stories.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who called the numbers on bathroom stalls share what went down, and some of these stories are surprisingly wholesome.

1. yoshi_1226 almost got busted for protecting themselves from random callers.

When I was younger, someone wrote "for a good time call" and my number on the playground slide. People would call a couple times a week, laugh and then hang up. It started to get annoying so I went to the playground to cover it up. Someone saw me doing it and called the cops saying I was vandalizing the playground. I had to explain to the cop that I was just removing my number so people would stop calling me.

2. unscot found out that Mike is in fact mean.

I saw a number scratched on a table at a bar that said something like "Call Mike, he's been really mean :(" So I sent Mike a text telling him to be nicer and in response he sent me back several angry "Who the hell is this?" texts over the next few days.

He's really mean :(

3. thejoedude had a wholesome vegetable text exchange.

I texted one a picture of a cucumber because that's what the note said. They sent me cabbage.

4. mazdaxlr texted their friend without realizing it.

In high school I messaged one that was on the backseat of a bus that was going through a town that was a 30 min drive from my town. I texted, "Who is this, your number is on the back seat of this bus" they reply "Greg". I told my classmate about it a week later since his name was also Greg. Sure enough, he holds out his phone with the text message from me in there.

5. cleonhr got a nice ride.

I was at the bus stop and saw this text: "If you are in deep sh*t, call this number". I called the number cause i had like 30 minutes to bus. It was local small taxi company. I told him to come and pick me up. He saved me like 25 minutes of waiting, the guy was cool, and I even gave him solid tip.

6. Quillemote called a cult on accident.

I found a business card in a phone booth printed cryptically with, "If you don't call, you'll never know," and a phone number. Since I had time left on the phone card I called, and now I know.

It was a pseudo religious self-help cult trying to recruit people to seminars at their ranch in like New Mexico somewhere with promises of finding a new spiritual family. No thanks, the last thing I need is more family.

7. Kariodude was lead on by the bathroom stall.

I called a number for a good time. Was greeted by a local pizza place. I proceeded to order 2 pizzas and at the end of the call discovered they didn't deliver to my area. It was a bad time. The stall lied.

8. Jappinen2k's cousin has an unusual love story.

My cousin met her boyfriend since 3 years by calling a number of a bathroom wall.

It said something like: For a good time call 07xxxxxxxx She texted out of curiousity. Apparently one of his friends had put his name and number down there just to mess with him. He usually had guys sending him d-picks and sh*t and was considering changing number.

They texted back and forth for over 6 months until they met up. They now live together and seem happy.

If they ever ends up getting married and have kids they will have quite a story to tell about how they met.

9. annehog19 texted a number on a Jenga block.

I was playing Jenga at a local bar with some friends, all the blocks had peoples numbers on it, so we made a rule that you had to text any number you pulled out. The first person I texted sent me a picture of a pile of coffee beans labeled "Find the Kanye" There was a tiny Kanye face on a bean in the bottom left corner.

10. kimberbimber texted a classmate's number in the snow.

I went outside after watching a movie at the theater and someone had written their number in the snow that had collected on the back of my car. I texted it and it was just a random guy who went to my school. Never met him, but he saw the decal from my university and his buddies had dared him to leave his number there.

11. rainingnovember's friend had a rare relationship arc.

Not in a bathroom stall, but someone had once written one of my male friend's number on a classroom bench. A girl called him, they talked, and began dating. Eventually, a guy who had a crush on her beat my friend up - and that is how my friend lost his first girlfriend.

12. chompey_the_goat learned to not trust numbers left on mountains.

I once added someone on Snapchat who had spray painted their name on top of a mountain I was hiking and they replied to my message with a "Who the f*ck is this" like I was the a*shole.

13. FoxyGrampa decided to shoot his shot.

About 10 years ago somebody wrote "call XXX-XXXX for a good time" on the sidewalk. So I saved the number for sh*ts thinking I would call the number and at least let them know how I got it but I never did... just kept the number saved as "???"

Well the other day I was on snapchat and saw "???" pop up in suggested friends or whatever so I added her... she added me back.

She's a babe and I have no idea what to say to her but I wanna tell her how I got her number and not seem weird.

edit - Alright... I did it. Allow me to embarrass myself for your entertainment. Had to crop it so you wouldn't see her username because I don't wanna get banned

edit 2 - still hasn't opened it... also people pls stop asking me for her snapchat/number.

14. 310_nightstalkers ran into the woman while on the phone with her.

I was at a restaurant and they had the give $1 to charity and put your name on this piece of paper we post on our wall. While waiting in the lobby for a friend, I saw one that had a name and a phone number with "call me" under it. I figured what the hell why not, girl answers and I ask if it's XXXXXX, she says yes. I explain I'm in the lobby of the restaurant and her name is on the wall with her phone number, she doesn't believe me despite my best efforts to convince her I don't know who she is.

Eventually she asks me to walk out of the front door of the restaurant, which I obliged, and she says holy sh*t. Meanwhile i'm standing in a parking lot looking around trying to figure out who the hell is looking at me. She asked me to take the paper down and thanked me. Apparently one of her coworkers told her that he did it and she didn't believe him, they worked in the area and frequented the restaurant.

15. DRUMSKIDOO's friend gets annual booty calls.

Me and a few mates wrote one of our friends numbers in the portaloo/drop toilets at Glastonbury Festival about 6 years ago. Every summer around festival season, he'll receive a good few calls from people asking if the guy wanting 'Kinky bum sex' is still available and if so where does he want to meet.

His girlfriend hates us, almost as much as he does.

16. potsieharris almost got scammed.

When my friend and I were about 11 there was a public bathroom in the park where we had soccer practice and outside that public bathroom was a payphone and on that payphone was scrawled a number and above it the word "sex." I don't recall ever paying for a call so maybe it was a 1-800 number, I don't remember. It was a recording of a woman's voice.

I remember only the beginning, but I can hear it crystal clear: "You wanna have fuuun? Yeaah?" And then a bunch of feminine giggling. We would hang up when the recording asked for a credit card number to continue the call. I think we were terrified out parents' credit cards would somehow get charged and we would get caught. Kid logic.

We were/are both straight females. But we still called that thing all the time. It was seriously the most risque thing I had ever done up to that point. And also probably for a long time afterwards, sadly...

17. DoctorWhisky got cussed out.

I asked for Jenny and instead got a very irate cussing-out from a woman with a southern drawl.

18. coregmrconman talked to Fred Durst.

Ok, so it isn't a bathroom stall, but a hilarious story. Back a long time ago, Paris Hilton had her Tmobile Sidekick hacked and all her contacts numbers leaked online. I was contracting some 15-16 year old kid to do a website for me at the time. About 4-5 hours before the list went public this guy building my site hits me up on AIM (yeah, that old) and is like "My buddy just did some crazy hack, he got all these celebs numbers." "Bullsh*t" i said, because at the time this was unheard of.

He sends me a text file of about 150 names. The first one that stuck out to me that I knew who they were was Fred Durst. Rang him up, froze and then said, "Yes, is this Mr. Durst?" "Yeah, who is this?" I truthfully explained the exact scenario and my morbid skepticism led me to dial him up. He said something about him going to have to turn his phone off now and actually THANKED me for giving him a heads up.

After that I waited a few hours and picked a number at random, someone I didn't recognize or know. Wrong idea. She picked up the phone and said my number was now logged into her phone and the FBI were on the case (whatever....) and she hoped I died.

At that moment I knew the list went public. I logged into some mIRC chats and it was story after story of interactions. I don't like his music, but Fred Durst seemed like a cool cat and I like to think I gave him a heads up before sh*t hit the fan.

Overall, teenagers do dumb sh*t.

19. IamThePurpleFist had a wholesome bonding moment.

I went to a gig and everyone who frequented this venue would write on the wall while queuing so me being drunk already decided I would ring one cause it said something amusing.

Guy answers and I tell him where I am and that I was bored so I rang this number off the wall. We had a convo about who he saw and who I was seeing that night and due to me being drunk I sang a song by the band he went to see down the phone to him. Funniest queue bonding moment so far.

20. Weaselmancer got a solid recommendation.

Never dialed one myself but I answered a call one day from an unrecognized number. He was in a bathroom stall at Arby's that read "for a long philosophical conversation followed closely by rough sex call..." and my phone number. Now I didn't write it, but I guess word gets around.

Photographer asks if she's wrong for refusing to work at her aunt's wedding for free.

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It's a Bridezilla/Choosing Beggar crossover episode!

Redditor sadphotogirl is—you guessed it—a photographer, and one of the things making her sad is her aunt's insistense that she be on the job at her wedding, and work for free.

She asked the "Am I The A-hole?" Subreddit whether she'd be the jerk if she said no, writing:

So last week I got my aunt's wedding invitation, she's having it in Hawaii and that's really exciting, as I have never been there. I of course sent out my RSVP.

I am a photographer... so you may see where this is going.

Last night she emailed me to let me know that she wants me to be her photographer, for free.

I want to attend as a guest, not a photographer. I called her and expressed that I would not do that, especially not for free. There has been a fuss in the family.

I could do it but, I know that if I say yes to her then my other family will exploit this.

We are not very close but they are pulling the family card. The gist is that the wedding is very expensive and that having to pay a photographer up to $3000 is really going to hurt their budget.

The annoyingness of the ask is twofold:

Firstly, it would suck to have to work at a family wedding in Hawaii, seeing as work is the opposite of fun. Plus, asking a relative to work for free is adding insult to injury, demanding that she sacrifice both her ability to enjoy the wedding, and her income.

While yes, people give gifts to newlyweds, a gift from a niece is hardly ever $3,000.

The story gets juicier, as sadphotogirl learned from other Reddit posts that her aunt is trying to recruit other family members to volunteer their services as well:

Someone replied to this with a link to a similar situation happening on this subreddit. Turns out my aunt has been trying to recruit a bunch of family members to work during the wedding for free.

The situation sounded similar and I know that my cousin hated going to beauty school, so I immediately called her.

She has asked my cousin to do her makeup, but since the day is clashing with my cousins exam week she has decided not to go.

Sh*t is now hitting the fan in our family, my aunt is trying to cut costs while still maintaining she has a bougie wedding.

I am now on the fence about going to the wedding.

Sadphotogirl would be happy to hear that the AITA jury ruled that she is not the a-hole here.

"You’re a professional, either decline the job or charge them your regular rate including travel," MagicMauiWowee commented. "Good photography is expensive for a reason."

Sadphotogirl has yet to update her post with whether or not she is going to the wedding, but here's hoping the cousins' Grandma doesn't have to intervene.

35 people share the worst cases of oversharing on social media they've ever seen.

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Social media overshares are the stuff dreams are made of. They're why we keep logging in to Facebook again and again even though it's mostly our moms, aunts, and people we haven't spoken to since middle school.

Someone asked Reddit: "what's the worst case of over-sharing you've experienced on social media?" Here are 35 of the goriest, wildest, most TMI posts people have ever seen someone put online for the world to see:

1.) From sting2018:

Two active duty soldiers who are married to each other, with completely open facebook pages start airing their drama about cheating on each other. Each admitting that they cheated on each other, how they are going fuck each over in the divorce.

Their CO was on their facebook page, so was the garrison commander.

Both got UCMJ action for adultery.

But wait, it gets better. They were ordered to cease talking about the proceedings on social media.

What do they both do? They go to social media, contiue to brag about cheating on each other AND put their commander, garrison commander, and respective JAG lawyers on BLAST.

They are both no longer in the Army, and yes they are divorced. It was truly epic, and they kept bitching about their punishment, and everything. They basically both started digging a hole and didn't fucking stop until they got to hell. They then bitched about how fucked they are.

2.) ​​​From queenoreo:

My sister in law checks in at the spa and talks about how she’s “going to Brazil” (getting waxed). My son was like 14 when he figured out what she meant and blocked her.

3.) From mrs_s86:

It was an accident so I don't know if it counts but a friend meant to post a question including some private details to her private pregnancy group. Instead she posted it on her own timeline. She told everyone on her timeline she has lost her mucus plug and had her bloody show, took her an hour to realize what she had done!

I also know a girl who posts fully nude pics of her 2yr old daughter on instagram. Apparently her husband's family had spoken to her about it and she totally freaked out about it! Now she still posts the pics and videos but covers her (nipples included) with various stickers/emojis which I personally find even more akward.

4.) From KringlebertFistybuns:

My half-sister. Every trashy detail of every trashy moment of her trashy life ends up on FB. Or it did before she blocked me for calling her on her bullshit. The final straw for me and my brother was when she posted "Well, my mom wouldn't send me money, so I'm homeless and freezing to death (it was September in North Carolina), I slept with some dude for money and now I'm pregnant." My step mother refused to send her money for drugs, she was homeless for stealing from her former roommates for drug money. She had also faked several pregnancies for drug money and sympathy. I can't say I'm sorry in the least that she blocked me before I could block her.

5.) From thelittlegoodwolf_:

I once knew this chick who was weirdly obsessed with her male cousin. Numerous posts a day about him, and when she went to stay with her aunt for awhile she posted play by play accounts of herself going through his underwear drawer...

6.) From [deleted]:

Guy (whom I was fb friends with) and his gf (whom I wasn't) would start an argument irl, unfriend each other on Facebook, then continue arguing via public status updates. It was annoying... until I got sucked in like an episode of General Hospital. Then it was all I could do to keep up with the fight, switching back and forth between profiles and getting pissed when one of them would stop responding for a few hours.

7.) From xxkoloblicinxx:

Overall it really wasn't that bad, but a set of twins I went to HS with got pregnant back to back. And they posted pics and uodates relentlessly. Multiple times a day.

So about 6 months into the second twin's pregnancy I commented on one of her pics "Jesus Ashley you've been pregnant for like 15months have the baby or don't!" And was promptly blocked by them both. Their older sister who I'm actually friends with thought it was hilarious.

Edit: so apparently "back to back" isn't clear, they got pregnant one after another, as in the second announced her pregnancy about the same time the first gave birth.

8.) From iridescentjackal:

A friend of a friend decided it would be appropriate to post about her 6 month old sons erection. That's not something I ever needed to know about.

9.) From goldfishandbacon:

A Facebook friend of mine posted pictures of her wedding and then THE NEXT DAY posted that her husband had walked in on her performing a blow job on her neighbor. Her husband had kicked her and her 5 year-old daughter out and did anyone have a place they could stay?

10.) From csl512:

Credit card, expiration, CVV on early twitter.

11.) From BlackThummb:

Someone I used to work with posts a picture of her and her boyfriend every day on instagram with some lovey dovey caption at the bottom, and a count of how many days they’ve been together. Every month they celebrate their “anniversary”.

When they broke up, she deleted every photo with both of them in it, leaving about only 3 photos left on her account.

She got a new boyfriend about a month later, and now she does the same thing with this new guy, and I swear to god I think she’s been reusing some of the old captions she made of the old bf.

12.) From Garfield-1-23-23:

CTO of my company went through a bitter divorce. His wife was friends with a lot of people at work so everyone was aware of everything she posted about him on Facebook. She stopped referring to him by name and instead called him "Ol' Three Inches Two Minutes".

13.) From [deleted]:

A cousin who gave the entire world updates on the sex she and her husband had, in over the top, pornographic detail. She was friends with her entire family on Facebook, from our grandmother to her children. She got super angry with me and lashed out when I suggested in a comment that she keep it to herself. I'm embarrassed to be related to her. Thank God she loves hundreds of miles from me and I never see her.

14.) From Sundaydinobot1:

Some guy I worked with constantly posted about his and his wife's fights. Every little detail of what was said, and what happened after. I think we he wanted us to sympathize with him but he came off as an ass in most of the posts. Before I friended him on facebook he seemed pretty chill. But after reading those posts (which on some days came once an hour), I was worried that we'd get news that he murdered her and I started to avoid him at work.

After I moved on to another job I unfriended him. But a few years later, out of morbid curiosity I went to check his profile and they were still married and had two more kids.

15.) From [deleted]:

I knew this girl who would post a blow-by-blow of literally everything she did for the entire day, down to how many times and when she used the toilet and what she did there.

16.) From KidneyStew:

My cousins ex girlfriend made a post about how she gave birth to a moth because she went to pee and a moth flew out from between her legs. I was like what the fuck.

17.) From Mittens22299:

I was in the airport on my way home from another continent when I was scrolling through Facebook and read my aunt's post (not a message, but a Facebook status) about how my grandpa (who I was going home to stay with for a couple months) died that morning. Called my mom, who had apparently asked all family members to wait 24h before posting anything on social media so that I could have been told in person. My whole family was livid at this aunt for a while.

3 years later, my uncle (a brother to my mom and this aunt) died unexpectedly in the middle of the night. His adult daughter happened to be traveling to their house that day from her out-of-town home, so her mom asked all family to refrain from posting anything on social media until the daughter arrived so that she could tell her in person (and also prevent her from driving while distraught). The aforementioned aunt decided to ignore this request again, and my poor cousin read about her dad's death in a Facebook post when she stopped for breakfast.

18.) From Dontjudgemeforasking:

Friend of a friend posted about her affair. Identified the person she had an affair with, when it happened, in what office in her place of employment. Went into detail about how she broke her fiancé’s trust because his previous wife had an affair too. It was a clusterfuck all the way around.

19.) From daisydemi:

Not sure if over-sharing. I once took a pic of my shower saying 'about to take a cold shower in this hot weather'. Posted it on my story. Took the shower and didn't think of it anymore. About 1 hour later my friend texted me 'reflection...'. I took a look, in the reflection of the shower you could clearly see me sitting on the toilet, naked. That stuff got 100 views by the time it was deleted. Good times

20.) From ionwesker:

Cousin made a post about her boyfriend cheating on her, His mother denied it. He didn't deny it. 15 minutes later Her, Her sisters, her mother, her mother's boyfriend and about 6 of her mates were having a full blown argument with Him, his family and friends in a comment chain that I swear went into quadruple digits and lasted about 8 hours.

It was an entertaining night.

21.) From leaveredditalone:

A Facebook friend of mine posted that she was worried because her 15 year old sons right hand had begun turning a strange brown/orange color. There were pictures. She’d made a doctors appointment. She then explained it was because he was using his sister’s tanning lotion. Only she didn’t seem to realize the reason only his right hand was tan and not the rest of his body! So, she let all of Facebook know her son jacked off using tanning lotion.

22.) From Tellmeyouloveme-:

Guy from my old school had to post a story of him taking his first shit of the year

23.) From [deleted]:

I'm friends with this lady on Facebook who posts about 10 pictures a day of her son just existing and she has to document every detail

Last year when he was 3 he went through a phase where he would whip it out and pee anywhere on anything for MONTHS and every single time she had to post about it on Facebook, once even followed by a picture of him sitting completely naked on his training potty with a little tiny star over his penis

He is going to hate her so much in the next couple of years

24.) From punkterminator:

My alcoholic great aunt spilled coffee on herself and uploaded a picture of her burnt boob to drive home how painful the experience was.

25.) From couchasianktina:

I will never forget this post.

Old restaurant coworker, followed him because all of his life drama would go down on Facebook. People posting to his wall about how he stole a child's bike and ruined her birthday, his mom calling him out for drug relapses and stealing from her. All on facebook!

When he broke up with another old coworker, he took to facebook. He wrote a wall of text calling her every name in the book, talking about how he was going to miss her daughter, then finished with something close to this: "Good luck finding another guy willing to put up with your fish market smelling p*ssy."

26.) From zoebadwolf:

My mom wrote a very long, very detailed blog post about my sister’s miscarriage before most of the extended family even knew she was pregnant. Definitely strained their relationship. When my sister got pregnant again about a year later my mom was the last to know. We now have a family rule that my mom can’t blog about anyone else without permission.

27.) From [deleted]:

Facebook moms talking about her daughter's late period.

28.) From BiblicalityPSN:

My mom and I went shopping for a wedding ring for my wife. She took a picture of the one I bought and posted on Facebook like instantly so I had to do an impromptu proposal.

29.) ​​​​​​​From Sp4ceh0rse:

Girl I went to high school with posted a picture of herself at the bikini waxing place with just a giant fountain drink cup covering her hoo ha. This woman is a mother of three whose oldest son was a teenager and was also on Facebook.

30.) From rats_rats_rats_rats:

A girl at my school wrote on Snapchat about how she peirced her own nipples and how they are infected and described the pus and stuff coming out

31.) ​​​​​​​From JustCallMe_Rose:

Some girl posted her used pad on Facebook, And everyone was congratulating her.

32.) From YtjlxMqr8:

A leader of a political party in my country posted a dick pick on instagram.

33.) ​​​​​​​​From g-a-r-n-e-t:

My brother is a furry and regularly posts furry erotica, pics of himself in his fursuit, videos of himself yiffing, etc. on the same account that he’s friends with our grandmother on.

34.) From [deleted]:

Guy I went to high school came out as gay. Cool. Good for him.

He posted a photo of himself giving head to some dude. Not cool.

35.) From jericha:

I ride horses, and I’m Facebook friends with this one woman I know through riding who seems to have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with her horse. Several years ago, she moved across the state to a much lower COL area, was able to buy some land and keep her horse at her house, rather than boarding him somewhere. Shortly after she and the horse moved in, this woman started writing these long posts about her horse than I can only describe as sort of... erotic? Some sample phrases:

  • He is more aroused here and has been pacing the fence some (lonely I wonder?).

  • I love it when he finds me in the pasture and stands close to nuzzle and lick me.

  • One stroke of his slick summer coat and the scent of his skin and breath and I know I did the right thing by bringing him home

  • When I go in the pasture with him he is all over me nuzzling my arms and pushing his head into my hands...gently like I taught him. What am I to do with all this sugar?

I don’t go on Facebook much anymore.


20 people share the life-changing anecdotes elderly people have told them.

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It's a common movie trope to see elderly people dispensing wisdom to younger generations before vanishing off into a death mist. Sometimes, it's a poignant scene where a young protagonist sits at the foot of their grandpa's bed, before he utters final philosophical words of reflection.

Other times, an elderly side character will mysteriously enter a scene in order to give a magical and near prophetic message. While older people are just that - people who are older, and plenty don't have special mind-blowing knowledge to hand out like candy, there is something to be said for the truths you learn after being on earth for decades.

Those lucky enough to have close relationships with grandparents often have stories or special words they carry with them through time.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most memorable stories and pieces of advice they've received from older generations.

1. OP kicked it off with some words from their grandpa.

My grandfather lived in Yugoslavia before and during WWII. When I was 14 we had a family reunion in rural Indiana. When we were alone for a moment, grilling some chicken, he said to me, "You're 14, yes? When I was your age I was walking in the mountains with a machine gun."

2. balancedinsanity's grandparents met on a blind double date.

I don't know if it qualifies as mind blowing, but my grandfather and grandmother met on a blind double date. Right before they met their dates, my grandfather and his buddy switched who they were going to be with. Both couples were married and were together until they passed.

Life can be really funny sometimes..

3. Munchees's English teacher plopped some solid wisdom.

My senior year english teacher... "nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best." Really good advice, in my opinion.

4. chazzbass made friends with a woman during their moving job.

I was working as a mover, and we got a call to an apartment in SF, it was an elderly lady, we expected to be moving her to another apartment but instead she had us move a dresser from one spot to another, then she offered us tea and proceeded to tell us that she was lonely and that was the only reason she called us. So, we started chatting and she told us her life story, from being a Jewish child in Russia, and forced to leave during WW2 and her travails from there to the US eventually in her 20s.

Amazing story and so sad that after all that she had been through she was so alone she had to call strangers to her house to have someone tell her story too. I cried many times during her story and I am feeling sad now thinking about it. I used to visit her occasionally after that to keep her company till she finally passed away.

5. citizen511 often forgets their age.

When I was in my twenties, some friends who were in their late thirties casually commented that it often took them a bit to remember how old they were (like "How old am I now? Oh yeah, I'm 36, I think").

I was pretty incredulous at the time, but now that I've aged, I often find it takes me a couple seconds to recall my exact age. You younger kids will no doubt think that I'm full of sh*t, but maybe some older redditors can confirm this.

6. inibrius's grandpa shared the cribbage story.

My granddad and I were rearranging the dining room in their house one day (about 20 yrs ago) and there was a cribbage board that had always hung on the wall in the corner of the room. I asked him if we should move it or anything, and he told me a story about it. Apparently when he was a radar operator in WW2, stationed in Guam, there was a whorehouse that all the NCO's frequented.

Well one of the whores was an avid cribbage player (he saw a set in her room after a 'session' one day). Well they started playing every time he would go there, and they would play best of three to see if he paid her or not. When he found out he was being rotated back to the US, he went and bought her a new set, and she gave him the one they had used. Only thing that was specifically left to me in his will...cuz I'm pretty sure that nobody else knew that story.

7. GreenSimplicity was given the gentleman treatment on the bus.

During college, I was riding near the front of a crowded bus one afternoon when an elderly man with a cane got on. I moved to offer him my seat, but he looked at me, smiled, and declared, "Miss, I may be old, but I'm still a gentleman."

8. monkeymanJJ still thinks about John.

I use to volunteer at this elderly home back in high school. Left for uni, and when I came back in the summer, I decided to go back and help out. I had good rep with the people there and I was older than almost all the other student volunteers, so I got a special job. I got to escort John, a gentleman living in the home, to Tim Hortons 2x a week to get coffee. The place wasn't far, maybe 5 minutes away, but John was missing both his legs and 5 of his fingers, confining him to one of those motorized wheelchairs.

I was suppose to just walk and talk with him, make sure he didn't get stuck on road and help open doors and things. None of the other elderly folk there had this kind of freedom, but John was special. He was loved by all the staff, volunteers and the residents. Sort of like one of those guys that make you smile and laugh just because he's around. Anyways, the trips were great. We'd get the coffees and sit there and talk for hours about random things, from sports to life. I didn't really pry about his personal life, but as the summer passed I stated getting bits and pieces, from how he grew up in NFL and moved to Toronto for a fresh start, finding a new job every week.

It really was all rainbows and butterflies up until my last day. John, usually talkative, was quiet and deadpan, the air around us was filled with an unnatural tension. When it was time to head back, I moved to get up, but he grab my arm, looked me in the eyes and said "I wish I was dead". He then told me the story of how he lost legs after jumping out of a 2nd story window one night because his house on fire, all while hearing his sisters, who lived on the bottom floor screaming.

He told how he hated the home and everyone there. How it was his prison and how he couldn't escape. At the very end, he looked at me and made me promise that I would never, ever put my parents in a home. It was just so unnerving to see someone who seemed so happy, so strong, to be so miserable and sad on the inside. I never went back to the place after that summer, and I don't know what happened to him, but sometimes I wish I had told someone what he had said.

9. the_real_darkrock still remembers the words of their grandpa.

The first letter I received from my grandfather in basic training was mostly about his experiences in his own basic training.

Toward the end of the letter, he gave me a brief update on the failing health of my grandmother. By this time she was unable to speak, and was pretty much stuck in a bed all day. He said that it was very difficult taking care of her and himself at his age, but he remembered a promise he made nearly 50 years before that, "Something about for better or worse."

Unfortunately, in my idiocy over the years, I lost the letter, but I remember the words to this day, and I recited them at his funeral.

10. acku11's uncle made eye contact with a man who wanted him dead four times.

My uncle was in Dday, and he was in the shit with the Canadian army on the beach. Long story short he manages to get up to the bunker and takes I think around 10 german prisoners, and as the prisoners were being escorted, one of them kept on wanting to touch my uncle,and my uncle asked why and the prisoner said "I had my sights on you 4 times, and each time the gun jammmed" My uncle said he nearly pissed himself when he heard that.

11. Trashcanman33 now understands what their dad means by "living many lives in a lifetime."

My dad likes to say, "You live many Lives in a Lifetime". Took me quite a few years to understand that. I also couldn't understand how my grandmother who was a Chemist, quit her job. became a housewife when Grandpa came home from the war to drive a bread truck.

12. ronearc's friend's grandma doesn't mess around.

Was sitting on a friend's porch and his great grandmother was sitting there too, same as always in a rocking chair, covered in a shawl. She was pushing 100. I'd never heard her talk, she just sat there and chewed tobacco.

Well, my friend's Dad drives up and gets out of his somewhat, beat up car, looking pretty shaken up. We ask what happened, he explained.

He was topping the hill outside town when right in front of him, not 100 yards away were two 18 wheelers taking up both lanes. One decided to pass the other but as they reached the top of the hill, was still blocking the oncoming lane.

My friend's Dad had to yank the wheel over, driving right into the ditch, but he was ok.

Just as he finished his story, we were all in awe, when the great, grandmother spoke up with this whispered, ragged voice and says, "That's the difference between you and me, I'da hit that son of a bitch head on." spit

13. Coffeh's grandma knows the significance of bananas.

My grandmother once went in to lenght about the arrival of bananas to sweden. And the first day they were available, there was a line stretching the entire block, and you were only allowed to buy one banana per person.

14. angelworks's niece doesn't understand life pre-tech.

I blew my niece's mind once while she was playing with a broken cell phone of mine (she's six).

"You know, when I was young, we didn't have cell phones."

Then my dad added, "And when I was young we didn't have computers."

"Or DVDs." My brother added.

The look on her face was priceless. "But... what did you do for fun?" she asked, all confused.

Then we all laughed and said we had no idea.

15. desenachoswillchngeu still hasn't used drugs to this day.

I was about 13 or 12. I went to the local taco shop to buy myself a burrito, from the 15 dollars I had just earned mowing a lawn.

An old man came in asking if they would trade his 2 whole purple lettuce for a fourth of a green one (he had taken them from the fields). He wanted a salad, he looked extremely poor and while he was making himself a salad with the lettuce, I approached him with a carne asada burrito and a large jamaica and a chocolate muffin and gave it to him.

He offered me a seat and told me all about his work on the atomic bomb. about half an hour later, he went to his rusty, beat up car, he pulled out a snickers and an old binder, brought it back, shared his snickers, and showed me blueprints, and a lot of math problems, and pictures of him and a bunch of engineers working on it. He also showed me pictures of his family. He told me "drugs will take everything away from you son. Remember me and never touch them, or you will lose everything too." I gave him all my leftover money and thanked him.

I later saw his car at the local truck stop, where he slept, and since I used to volunteer at the local convalecent center, I got him housing there.

I never touched a drug in my life.

16. Kelphatron9000 appreciates their grandparent's love origin story.

Wasn't really mind-blowing, but this was pretty neat:

My grandma told me that she met my grandpa once, through a friend in college. They had lived in different states and became pen pals. For a year, they wrote to each other. After that year, they saw each other again and my grandpa proposed. They'll be married for 50 years come this December.

17. bettareckognize saw the pain well up in their dad's eyes.

So my dad's a vietnam vet. He never really talked about it. I came across his medals once. A silver star, a bronze star and two purple hearts. I asked him how he got them and he would only respond with "killed a bunch of people." I could see it was a sore subject (for obvious reasons) so for years I left it alone. Cut to last year. I was 26 and helping my friend drive from LA to Atlanta during a move. We swung by Alabama, where my father currently lives. We were at a Cracker Barrel having breakfast and my friend, who'd never met my dad, asked, "So you fought in Vietnam?" "Yeah." "Ever kill anyone?"

My dad got this glazed look over his eyes. "I remember the first one. Kid, couldn't have been more than 14. About this tall holds his hand a few inches below shoulder height. Came at me with a bayonette. I put one in him and he did a full backflip. He got up and I put six more rounds in him. The VC were everywhere. After my rifle and sidearm were empty I jumped up on the fifty cal. I lost count after 28. The fight went on for three days." We were really quiet for a few minutes. My dad turned to the waitress and said, "Can I get another diet coke, sweetheart? So, guys, how's the road been?" tl;dr My dad had a vietnam flashback at a Cracker Barrel.

Second thing was that my grandparents (on my father's side) got married when my grandma was 15 and my grandpa 19, right before he went to WWII and fought in Germany. They were from West Virginia, and were together for almost 60 years. My grandmother died of bladder cancer and my grandfather, in perfect health for a man his age, died a month later from no apparent cause. I guess he just figured there wasn't any point.

18. kayehmaych's grandpa reunited with his love in the most unexpected way.

My grampa told me this at thanksgiving dinner a few years back (obviously paraphrased, but this is as good as I remember it):

"I went to Finnish center the other day and was eating lunch next to some woman. We started talking, and she noticed my veterans hat, so the conversation led to the war. She told me she lost her fiance at the time in the war, and they never found his body. She immediately moved across the country, and just recently moved back home to be near her family. I told her I was also engaged before the war and when I came home and our apartment was rented to new people, I figured she left me for another man while I was gone.

We looked at each other, and she asked me my name. And there I was. . . sitting next to my first love, decades later, at a random Sunday luncheon. We both cried."

19. LilSassy still remembers the handshake.

It's definitely not as mindblowing as most posted in here but four years ago the day of the new year I was with some friends and an elderly relative of the family had come over because it was his 100th birthday and everyone was crowding around him and talking to him.

When he saw me he shook my hand and introduced himself and I did the same. During the introduction he continued to shake my hand and after I said my name he said "Nice to meet you.....you'll never forget this handshake."

I quickly replied with a smile and said "I won't"

I never saw or heard from that man again and while there wasn't anything special about his handshake it was just what he said and how he said it that really touched me for some reason.

20. nomorerae's grandparents learned the hard way to focus on their own lives.

My oma and opa, who lived through WWII, with him in Holland during the hunger winter, and her in Indonesia in a Japanese POW camp. They told me that when they were young they had so much hope for the world after the war, that everything was going to change and people were going to have to be nice to each other and held accountable for their actions, but they kept hearing about more wars, more atrocities, more crime.

They tell me to not worry about anything at all going on in the world, and to live my own life and to just try to be happy because the world, and humanity, is never going to change. Idealism is a waste of energy and will only cause me grief. I'm still having a hard time accepting it.

25 people share the weirdest birthday presents they have ever received.

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When it comes to giving and receiving birthday gifts, it's the thought that counts. But sometimes the thought behind a gift is so bizarre and wrong, it can make you question everything you thought you knew about the person giving it. In those instances, you have to smile, thank the person, and then spend the rest of your life wondering if this person ever actually knew you at all. No wonder people tend to cry at their own birthday parties! (Just me?)

Someone asked Reddit: "what’s the weirdest birthday present you’ve ever received?" Here are 26 people whose loved ones thought WAY outside-the-box:

1.) From violetgnome:

A tampon holder for my purse from my step grandma

2.) From Aspiring__:

The last time my aunt saw me was back when I was 4 years old. She sent me a small kid-sized spiderman T-shirt when I was 13.

3.) From quidd_witch:

A duct-taped up cereal box filled with erasers

4.) From ItsMeLyz:

A pack of 10 not matching socks pairs. I still wear them
Edit: Thank you for so much love. No, I'm not Dobby haha. The story is that my older sister was leaving for Christmas and gave me her gift and gift from Santa because ,,He won't be able to give them to me during Christmas"

5.) From Trovernic:

when I was 10 I said I wanted a brick as a present to my Grandad. and told him I wanted it because I could throw it through the TV at our home and get a new one.

fast forward to my birthday and there is this very, VERY nicely packed present, with the brick inside.

and when I look up at my Grandad he is almost dying of laughter. Man I miss him

6.) From earwenithryl:

A fake ear made of silicon or something, with a van gogh birthday card inside which he wrote “I’ll always be here to listen” He’s my best friend, and that’s the weirdest but coolest gift I’ve gotten

7.) From senya_buh:

On my 13th birthday my friend presented me a string... He said: "Now you can play with your cat". I didn't have a cat.

8.) From 1regit:

Some kid who was the son of my mom’s friend came to my 12th birthday party without an invite. He gave me his geography report on Greece from school as a present. Thanks, Barrett.

9.) From joe_bogan:

A boardgame with half the pieces missing, then the guy asked me for it back after a couple of days.

10.) From CaptainWisconsin:

When I turned twelve, my grandmother gave me one half of a pool cue (she'd unscrewed it and gave me one portion). My younger brother received the other half for his ninth birthday a month later. We did not own a pool table.

Loooots of stories about grandma and her gifts.

EDIT - Alright, here's more:

A bag of combs. My grandmother is a retired hairdresser. She is also one to save everything. Well, during my horribly awkward teenage years, I'd begun using product to style my hair in an attempt to look cool. Grandma took notice and gifted me a plastic freezer bag absolutely filled with used combs and partially-used hair styling products that she'd saved from her salon over the years. Grandma: "...well, you know, you're just so into your looks these days, I thought you could put those to use."

One year she gave me two shirts and a pair of plastic flip-flops, so I could look stylish in the summer. The shirts were not only horribly patterned, but were size XLT, which she'd originally purchased for my Grandpa, but they were too big for him - Grandma: "He'll grow into them!" I was eight years old. The sandals were very obviously a pair of complimentary flip-flops from a hotel my grandparents had visited back in the 60s. They were so old that they shattered - yes, shattered - when I put them on my feet.

The Barbara Bag. When I got my driver's license, Grandma thought she'd celebrate the occasion by gifting me a road safety kit (essentially a small bag filled with items one might need in the event of a car-related emergency). The only issue was that this kit was pink and filled with items specifically for a woman - i.e. pink jumper cables, pink gloves, pink flashlight, and, most importantly, feminine products. The kit bag also had the name "Barbara" embroidered on it. Opening that in front of my drunk uncles on Christmas Day is something I will not soon forget.

11.) From Cannibeans:

SO's parents got us like 15 sex related items for her birthday. Cuffs, paddles, whips, leather straps, two vibrators, lube, etc.

We had to just sit there and open each item, thank them, and then move on to the next item hoping it'd be like a shirt or something... Nope, clit massager, okay...

12.) From [deleted]:

My mom once got me misshapen underwear.

It was sold at dollar stores and was like a reject pile where one leg hole was very big and one was very tiny.

she got me like 5 pairs of it.

also once someone gave me a half burned candle.

13.) From StarSpangldBastard:

When I turned 18, about twenty of my friends threw a surprise party in my basement and as a gift, one of my friends gave me one of those mini boxes of coco crispies, and everyone at the party signed the box before I got there. His explanation was:
"I wasn't even told we were throwing you a surprise party until like an hour and a half ago so I panicked and looked around my house for a good last minute gift, then I saw that box sitting on the kitchen counter and it was just meant to be"

I still have that box sitting on my dresser to this day

14.) From jakewithar:

Beard oil and comb from my step mum

I can’t grow a beard and it was a completely unironic present

15.) ​​​​​​​From ImOwningThisUsername:

Wrapping paper wrapped in wrapping paper

16.) From whoisdankly:

Grandmother gave me a bible and a massive jar of pickles one year. To snack on I while I became a good religious boy I suppose.

17.) From Back2Bach:

An anatomically correct, life-size female mannequin from a women's clothing store that had closed.

For a mannequin, she had a beautiful face and, of course, a shapely figure.

It was given to me by a group of college friends when I turned 21 - and the gift included boxes of lingerie and various articles of clothing to dress her up in a variety of "creative" <their word> ways.

18.) From Siiw:

A dried cod and a large hammer.

Exactly 12 years ago, on my 30th birthday, I had a housewarming party. It is common in my culture to give single women weird gifts when they turn 30.

My father has his own boat, and his boat club takes part in the annual cod fishing festival in Lofoten. They make some excellent dried fish and he knows I really like it. The fish is prepared by beating it with a hammer until the flesh separates from the bone. It smells very fishy.

His friends reacted with "You can't give a single, 30 years old woman dry fish!" "You are right", he said. "I'll also give her this hammer so she can beat it".

I pretended to not get their joke and enjoyed the fish.

19.) From Mangelwurzelbeat:

A used pumice stone rewrapped in cling film , the sellotape was yellowing so must've been like that for some time .

20.) From mcsoup88:

Grandmother gave me a random statue of a Cocker Spaniel for my 15th birthday (I think). I have never owned a Cocker Spaniel and neither had she. Looks like something she picked up at a yard sale. I didn't care for it at the time, but after she passed it is one of my precious treasures.

21.) From KakashiKawaii:

An empty toilet paper roll. no am i not even kidding.

I was about 7-8 ish years old I would say and went to a friend's house to celebrate my birthday (Our birthdays were on the same day so our parents arranged it that it'd be celebrated at the same time).

I don't remember what I gave her, safe to say at that age mostly parents choose and buy what their child's friends get (at least from where I am from).. However this was very obviously not the case for that family who let their daughter gift me a brown, empty paper toilet roll.

Now, I am not particularly socially skilled even today at 23 but even then at 7-8 y/o I thought something was wrong. I didn't say anything about the quality of the gift I think, I remember laughing and thinking It must be a joke and my real gift wasn't ready yet and would come eventually... nope never did.

I stopped going to that friend's house soon after. (OBVIOUSLY not because of the gift thing, just that she was a very self centered girl that I had grown not to like all that much).

I still wonder what her parents' thought process was. I remember looking at the mom to get confirmation it was a joke but she was laughing while looking at her daughter and not looking at me. odd family.. :')

22.) From IamHeretoSayThis:

My grandma -- who lives on the opposite coast of me in the US -- wrote me a letter for my birthday when I turned 16. In it, she listed several points:

  • Don't shame the family now that you're driving.

  • The weather is nice in Pennsylvania.

  • I pray to god every day that you don't go to hell since you've stopped going to church.

At that point I knew one thing, my grandma really appreciated a nice spring day.

And no, there was no money in the card.

23.) From ObiWanKaStoneMe:

I got a toaster that toasts Bob Ross's face onto the bread...8 months late...from a great aunt I hadn't ever met or heard from before. I turned 23 for the birthday that gift was for.

24.) ​​​​​​​From Zanzoken814:

An ashtray shaped like a toilet bowl from an uncle when I was a teenager who doesn’t and never has smoked

25.) From DiffCyr:

My friend gifted me a block of butter... that's it. And it was not a joke, but it's not like I'm complaining.

22 Memes That Will Only Be Funny If You're Married.

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“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

-Booth Tarkington

You've found the one. You've pledged "for better or for worse" in front of all of your friends and family. Now what? Well, you laugh at memes of course. This list perfectly nails the hilarious ups and downs of married life.

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16 students share the most embarrassing things they've accidentally handed in to teachers.

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Homework tip: Always make sure that you submit the correct file. Oh, and don't trust your friends with your open Microsoft Word document.

People on Reddit shared stories of the times they accidentally sent less-than-perfect versions of their homework assignments, and they're as fun to read about as they were humiliating to submit.

1. Achoo, PractisingPoetry.

I was texting my friend about the weird fact that I sneeze constantly when aroused. I hit the wrong chat box, and actually texted it too my online physics teacher. To this day, I'm mortified.

2. moosedownjacket forgot to proofread.

In college I left a paper I had finished writing open on my laptop and went out for the night.

Next morning before class I printed the paper and handed it in.

Got it back a couple weeks later covered in red pen with stuff like “f*ck my titties,” “butts,” and “penis” circled throughout the paper and my prof had written “roommates got to this?” at the top of the first page.

3. thaimin is a teacher with a stupid student.

I once received a submission from a student that had another student's name on it from the year before. They didn’t even bother to update that during their plagiarism...

4. No me diga, TheCakeIsALie0.

I once sent in my Spanish homework to my history class by accident. I got it back saying "Muy Mal. -Señor Bob."

5. Quaznarg rises.

A friend in college changed every instance of the word man into "Batman" in one of my papers. I noticed, and did a find and replace for every instance of Batman. I didn't anticipate there being "Batmen" as well.

6. struggling20somethin deserves extra credit for this.

I once got thanked for the recipe. I printed out my paper in college and didn’t realize my mother’s recipe was stapled to the back. Got an A and a “thanks for the recipe, it was delicious!”

7. Dumb is the new smart, kohlep.

My roommate emailed our prof an assignment that was extremely confusing and a waste of time, she had named the file “Dumb” and forgot to change it. Prof emailed back like “Interesting file name” and still gave her a fair grade for it. We thought it was hilarious.

8. Respect the hustle, noctif.

In college, someone caught on to the fact that one of the professors never read our weekly essays and instead randomly assigned a grade.

One of my friends submitted the same essay every week, just under a different title. He got varying As and Bs on all of them.

9. Selfies first, kaipbaisu.

I once sent out a picture of myself instead of my presentation.

10. Can anywherebutarizona share the poem with the class?

My college roommate wrote poetry. Her assignment started with a B but she sent her poem titled “backseat love” to her professor on accident. Very erotic poem. Noticed immediately and frantically ran to his office and supposedly caught him before he opened it. Made him delete it. She was a mess for a week after that though.

11. BrokeBitchBrokeLeg now writes for the show.

Once I sent some gay Supernatural fanfiction I'd been writing instead of my English final paper. It was awkward. It was 11th grade, all I can do is cringe.

12. SpacefaringGaloshes is Chewbacca's copilot.

I once pulled an all nighter to finish a paper during exams week, my brain was so fried. My roommate had been helping me edit it so I was giving different versions different titles.

The version I ending up submitting was entitled, "itsnotoveruntilthefatwookiesings.docx" . Roommate noticed it right after i sent it. I about died then slept for 4 hours.

Professor never said a word. I can only hope they too were so burnt out they didn't care.

13. D*cks out of Hammurabi, notseansaccount.

Somewhat relevant story. I worked as a graduate assistant for a university for their history department. I was basically a glorified paper grader, but I enjoyed it and it paid pretty well. Students had to write a 2-3 page paper on the code of Hammurabi. One person wrote a paper on Harambe.

14. Nycoth's homework must smell great.

I turned in physics homework that my dog peed on because I didn’t have enough time to redo it, and the teacher was eating nachos while grading it.

15. Welcome to your life, puppehplicity. There's no turning back.

I accidentally submitted the lyrics to Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" instead of my physics homework. I had just written them because I was bored and had time to kill.

When the professor handed the homework back, he wrote on my paper "Are you ok? Do we need to talk?" Which was nice and all, but I damn near died of embarrassment. It still bothered me intensely for like eight years afterward.

16. Where is the lie, SwingGirlAtHeart?

My bestie sent an English essay on Hamlet to her professor, but only after she'd sent it did she realize that she'd neglected to change the title to something less sarcastic than "The Fresh Prince Of Denmark".

12 people share their best advice for faking sick at work or school.

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As we hit the doldrums of winter, it becomes more and more tempting to fake sick and call out of work. But how?

Calling out sick is always a dicey proposition when you're a slave to capitalism — sometimes, even when you are sick, your boss can be a pill about it. So someone on Reddit asked for advice on how to convincingly call out. Here are the best tips, no doctor's note required.

1. Hope you're well enough for some acrobatics.

If you hang your head off of your bed upside down you will sound very congested! - berks99

2. Calling while you still have sleep voice helps, too.

call right after you wake up. Don't get out of bed, don't say anything before the call. Gives you that nice froggy morning voice. My mom taught me this one. - Elisande

3. Implying that you have a poop-related ailment will keep your boss from asking questions.

Just say "I can't leave the bathroom." Let their imagination fill in the rest. - lmflex

4. Explaining yourself too much could backfire.

Don't bother with a lot of explanation. I know my employees are faking when they spend a bunch of time on backstory and details. - MaiqTheLawyer

5. Another crucial tip: everyone will know if you fake it too often.

Don’t fake sick often, because it will become obvious you’re faking it and then no one will believe you when you’re actually sick - bonbi_

6. An invisible ailment can also be a good call.

Migraine! Only lasts a day or two, no outward symptoms to fake. - Yellowtemple

7. Especially if it affects your ability to physically do your job.

Especially ocular migraine. Can’t work through the pain because you can’t see. - lauralei99

8. Planting the sick seed the day before is a good idea.

You have to set it up the day before...say you aren't feeling great a little before you leave. Also, if you can come in for just an hour or two and then say you tried but just can't do it that looks really good. - string97bean

9. Calling out on a Monday or Friday is always sus.

I would also advise only calling in sick on Mondays and Fridays when it is legit. A lot of people use a fake illness to get a 3 day weekend. Fewer people value getting a Tuesday - Thursday off. - bruek53

10. This person stays up late two days before the planned call-out so that they seem lethargic the day before.

When I fake sick, I usually stay up late on a Tuesday night, so I seem lethargic on Wednesday. If people ask about it, I tell them I’m feeling under the weather and I’m sure it’s nothing. (Establish an alibi and that you aren’t thinking about taking time off, but don’t overdo it) the later in the day, the sicker you should act (within reason). I usually like to leave an hour early on Wednesday if I can. If you’ve spoken with enough people / the right people, they may even recommend it. Then come Thursday morning, it’s really quite natural to take a sick day. Once Friday rolls around, act pretty normal, just be a little slower than normal. When you talk to people, tell them that you’re feeling better than yesterday and that you will try to rest up this weekend. Your goal should be to gain sympathy.

Because it’s Friday, (and I’m still recovering from “being sick”) I usually will leave an hour early on Friday. Usually no one will care, as you’re recovering from some sickness (I generally a flu like bug, General weakness, achy/feverish, and stomach pain).

Big picture is for you to gain sympathy and make it look like you are trying to be committed to work. Working while you are sick makes you seem more committed to the company and will help you gain rapport for the next time you want to take a day off. I like to spread my “sick days” out. Try not to take more than one a month.

Next time you’re sick, be sure to pay attention to the symptoms and the progression of things, use that next time you’re planning a day off. - bruek53

11. If you have to convince someone in your house that you're sick, just wake them up at 3 a.m. to say you barfed.


The trick I used growing up was to set an alarm for like 3 am then go to my parents room and tell them I threw up. It’s one thing to wake up sick but they usually believed me if it “woke me up”. Plus they then couldn’t prove I didn’t and they can’t send me to school that day if I had thrown up - FifthUnicorn

12. Act contagious and they'll thank you for staying home.

For work, you just have to say “I don’t want to get anyone else sick” and you’re good. - Sirnando138

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