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Woman asks if she's wrong for not telling strict vegetarian boyfriend he was eating bacon.

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Dating someone with dietary restrictions can be rough — especially if they're really emotional about their diet.

One woman is asking the internet for advice after she allowed her "devout" vegetarian boyfriend to eat bacon, because she didn't want to deal with the temper tantrum he'd have if she told him. Yikes.

The boyfriend has a history of flipping out when he accidentally eats meat:

Background: my boyfriend has been a vegetarian since 12 years old. The few times we have eaten together and he’s eaten meat by accident, he’s become enraged, induced vomiting, and implied that I should somehow know and recognize every possible instance where something may contain meat or have touched meat. There was the dim sum incident and the pot sticker incident. Big deals, lots of vomiting, lots of yelling.

Recently, the two were out for a date and he ordered Brussels sprouts — not realizing they included bacon:

On this particular evening my boyfriend and I were out having a few drinks and decided to make a stop to fuel up. It was a nice restaurant and we both ordered some appetizers. He ordered brussel sprouts. After they arrived and halfway through eating them he commented on how delicious they were. I agreed, looked down at the plate and noticed little shiny bits of bacon. He stabbed his fork back in the pile and I thought “we’re having a lovely evening, let’s not ruin it” and continued to watch him devour the brussel sprouts...and bacon. I felt a wee bit guilty but didn’t want to have a big scene in the restaurant.

Now she's wondering whether she did the right thing.

Summary: I let my devoutly vegetarian boyfriend eat bacon because I didn’t want to deal with his reaction.

Most people agree that because of her boyfriend's somewhat troubling history, she's in the right.

Sassyvermonter's question: who doesn't notice bacon?

I mean vegetarian or not, how the hell doesn’t he notice bacon? You’re not his parent or sponsor here, he’s a grown ass adult and can ask questions about food he’s unsure of.

Vegetarian of seven years pizza_roll_boot said it's not the girlfriend's problem if he accidentally eats meat:

Anyone with dietary restrictions should have (and want!) full responsibility for what they put into their body. How could he expect you to facilitate that for him?

(Plus... he didn’t already know that potstickers and dim sum are usually meat-filled, after being a “devout” vegetarian for so many years?? Super odd tbh.)

Redqueenhypo points out that if the boyfriend reacts this poorly, something else might be wrong:

Even religious food restrictions hold that if you ate the thing completely by accident then it doesn’t count. If the same thing has happened multiple times, I almost wonder if he does it intentionally as a way to control people or as a genuine eating disorder binge/purge thing

TransFattyAcid agrees that there's a deeper issue here:

if his bad behavior is driving you to keep secrets, you probably need to discuss and/or think about that. You shouldn't need to walk on eggshells in fear of emotional abuse just because he can't monitor his own food.

Talk about food for thought. Either way, hope he doesn't return to the restaurant and ask how they make those amazing Brussels sprouts!


24 Memes To Help You Start Your Morning Off With A Chuckle.

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You don't have to be a morning person to enjoy this utterly random collection of memes. Even the crabbiest people will appreciate the humor of these hilariously silly memes.

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20 bystanders share the most bizarre situations they've seen happen in public.

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Most people save their biggest displays of unhinged behavior for the safe privacy of home, but there are exceptions for every rule, and the people who fly their freak flag in public make life a helluva a lot more fun.

Who among us hasn't at least witnessed one stranger completely losing their marbles in a public space? Better yet, who among us hasn't walked into a scene that felt completely surreal and incomprehensible? While these moments are rare and numbered, the weirdest public scenes haunt our brains forever with a beautiful and terrifying force that cannot be tamed.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most hilarious and outlandish things they've seen go down in public, and some of these sound straight out of an Adult Swim clip.

1. OP kicked it off with a riveting tale of a monkey fighting a dog.

I was waiting out front of a truck stop back in the mid 80's. Sitting on a park bench with a guy that had a big Rottweiler kinda dog on a leash with him. I tried to make small talk but he was quite a sourpuss. So we sat in silence for a few minutes until the most unexpected thing I have ever seen, happened right before my very eyes.

While we were sitting there a big 18 wheeler pulls in without a trailer (bobtail) so he parks right up front like a normal car would. Inside the cab of the truck with the driver is a little monkey. The dance for the organ grinder kind. I think they are called Rhesus monkeys perhaps. Well the dog spots this lil monkey and proceeds to go apesh*t over it. Lunging at the end of his leash and barking at the top of his lungs. Generally making a real spectacle of himself to say the least.

The driver is obviously upset, but not nearly as much as the monkey is. Actually upset may be the wrong adjective to use for the monkey though. In retrospect I think eagerly aggressive may be a more appropriate description for his disposition. He was pacing the dashboard back and forth. Never taking his eyes off of this very aggravating dog.

The driver opens his little triangle window that they don't make on cars anymore. The ones made for smokers back in the day. He yells out to this douche bag to call his dog off because it is upsetting his monkey. The guy laughs and says no way (I told you he was a jerk didn't I?). Says that his dog ain't bothering nobody. The dog hasn't shut up since he laid eyes on the monkey. I promise you he is bothering everybody for several blocks around.

Now here's where things start to get interesting. The driver says that if he doesn't call his dog off he's gonna let his monkey loose on that dog. Douche bag laughs and says that his dog would eat that monkey alive. Upon hearing this the driver leans over and reaches into his glove box I guess. Pulls out one of those tiny baseball bats like you used to get at Astroworld or carnivals, and places it in the monkeys hand.

The monkey obviously knows what's about to go down because he is now trying to squeeze out of that little triangular window I mentioned earlier. This monkey has murder in his eyes if I have ever seen it. Driver hollers "Last chance to save your dog's a*s man." In response douche bag lets his dog off of the leash. Now we have a situation that has escalated to the point where we have a dog jumping up at the window and a monkey screaming profanities right back at him.

Well, the driver finally rolls down the regular window and out leaps all kinds of miniature primate hell. The dog never knew what hit him. Quick as a flash this monkey is riding on the back of this dog's neck. His two back feet all wrapped up in his neck fur with one hand hanging onto an ear. The other hand as you may have guessed by now is steadily and mercilessly raining down blows about this dog's head and face. I mean hard blows. You can hear them whap whap whap.

Well it only took a moment for the dog to realize he was in way over his head. He bolts yelping bloody murder as he runs away at full speed. I mean this dog is running so f*ckin hard he's throwing up tufts of grass and dirt as soon as he leaves pavement. The monkey still riding him and beating on him the whole time. Douche bag acts like he wants to fight now but several people including myself stepped in to stop that nonsense. In a couple of minutes or so the little monkey comes loping back with his little bat still in hand, and leaps up into the still open window of the truck to await his master who has gone on into the store.

That wanker ran off to try to go find his dog, but I don't know if he ever did. My ride showed up and I had to go. Never again in this lifetime will I see something so totally crazy and unexpected like that. I am both fortunate and humble to have been so privileged to be present for such an event.

So Reddit, please do tell. What's your craziest thing you have ever seen in public?

TL:DR Small monkey beats the sh*t out of large dog.

2. cadaverbonnet joined a proposal flash mob.

So I was loitering with a couple friends in a little village-style outdoor mall that's pretty popular in my city. Without warning, a massive group of people turned the corner onto the street and started walking down it together at a brisk pace. Not a flash mob, no one's shirtless, just a group of what had to be three or four hundred people all walking together, and as they're walking the ones on the fringes of the train are calling out to passersby to join in. There's no indication of where the group is going or why, and no one is explaining themselves or holding signs or anything.

We're near the end of the street, watching more and more people latch onto the group out of sheer curiosity as it moves en masse towards us, and I said, "F*ck it, let's go." So we tacked on to the side of the train and followed it for ten minutes or so into the heart of the mall, where there's a small park with a sculpture garden and a fountain. By that point there were way too many people to come close to fitting in the park. I would estimate at least a goddamn thousand packed together.

The guy who was leading the parade approached this young woman who was sitting on one of the benches there, who was looking pretty bewildered at being surrounded by hundreds of strangers. Another young guy who was with him, sort of a ringleader type, turned to face "us" as a group and started to shout-sing "Lean On Me." With no idea what was going on, the rest of the group joined in until there were enough people to fill an auditorium all singing Lean On Me together to this complete stranger of a girl in the park. We got about a minute in (to the end of the second chorus) before the guy's friend shushed us by raising both hands, and everyone went dead silent.

Then the guy who was leading the parade got on one knee and proposed to the girl. She said yes. Everyone cheered and dispersed, more or less.

It's one of my favorite memories, just because of the sense of being part of something greater, for no reason except that we were all human. With no idea where we were going or why, we still joined the parade of people and sang to this guy's wife-to-be, because it was a good thing to do.

TL;DR: I join a man's spontaneous flash mob to help terrify the woman he loves.

3. Decyde saw a woman get busted for doing what she loves.

A chick got arrested at a concert because she was blowing random guys. I don't think she was drunk or on drugs but she would just go up to a guy and unzip his pants and pretty much suck his dick and spit out the load. A few minutes later, she'd go up to another guy until 40 minutes later 3 police officers came and arrested her after people were complaining.

4. 4ppleseed saw a young man confront his abuser.

I was doing some window shopping on Upper Street in Islington, London about 4 years ago. It was the middle of summer & I was just passing the time going from shop window to shop window. I'm looking at some boots and my attention is grabbed by the reflection of a young, long haired blonde guy around 20 years old who all of a sudden looks physically stressed. I turn around and he's blocking the path of a old man.

The old man is wearing some old fashioned hat and has a grey beard & looking equally stressed about this kid not letting him pass. I'm just about to tell the kid to stop being a dick and get out of the way, two or three other people have now stopped around us as it's a quite an odd looking scene but all of a sudden the kid finds his voice, with tears in his eyes he says... "My name is Julian Flow, my parents are [something and something] Flow. Your name is [I can't remember what he said], my parents are Deaf and when I was a kid, you babysat both me and my sister. You sexually abused us both for years and I never thought I would see your face again. There is no way in hell I am letting you pass me this time'.

The old man insists the kid has the wrong guy. The small crowd start to circle them both, some extra people have now joined after hearing the speech. I think some guy says to the old man, if you're not who he says you are, just prove it - take out a credit card or something. The old man refuses. I start to walk away from the crowd as one of the passerbys says 'well, you're not going anywhere until the police turn up' and calmly holds the old guy by the arm.

5. stickflickpick watched a man care more for a shopping cart than himself.

Saw a homeless man park his shopping cart between two parked cars on the side of the street. Then he walked out into the middle of the 4 lane street and took a shit.

6. 0-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21 has no idea what was going on that night.

Was outside smoking at a huge university by myself at about 4am when I see a deer running down the middle of the road. The noise of it running against the pavement was super bizarre. Next a pickup truck comes barreling after it.

The deer runs onto the campus lawns and the truck jumps the curb and follows it through the yards. I run after, gotta see what this is about, and by the time I get to where the truck had eventually stopped the deer was nowhere in sight. 4 guys were standing outside the truck yelling at each other. I sort of duck behind this bush area and run into a guy who was ducking there, doing the same thing as me. We kinda looked at each other, shrugged, and kept watching.

These guys look university age, yelling about guns, fighting, shooting each other. The guy in the bushes with me starts to make moves to get closer to the action, and the 4 guys see him. They start to walk over, I'm terrified, and they see me. They are marching over, confident, like they are going to murder me, and one guy (HUGE black guy) comes right up to me and picks me up. In a hug. And sort of just sways left to right with me in his arms saying "We were just kidding. We were just kidding." He set me back down and the 4 of them walk calmly back to their truck, and drive away.

I really have no explanation for any of it.

TL;DR: Deer, truck follows it through campus, confronted by huge black man, comforted by huge black man.

7. kplis watched a man crash two cars at once.

I was driving out in the boonies and I saw a man towing a late 80's Honda with another late 80's Honda. Now this wasn't such an odd thing to see in the area. If you couldn't afford the tow truck, you just got a buddy, some rope and another car. As long as you always braked carefully and slowly the guy behind could also brake, and the bumpers would only touch a bit. There would be some scratches, but nothing you couldn't live with.

This man was doing this task solo though. Also not unheard of, but it just requires even more caution with braking. Brake slightly so the car behind you contacts the bumper, and then slowly apply the brakes even more.

I'm not sure how long the man had been doing this for, but he was going about 45 mph, so he must have been pretty confident in his abilities. However, when the deer leaped out into the road, his reflexes took over and he slammed on the brakes, leaving the second car to slam into his first car. He was fine and missed the deer, but both cars were totaled.

tl;dr: Man rear-ends himself with his other car.

8. arccentric saw Paul dominate the party.

First off; that is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read. Hopefully this story offers fair competition:

While I was in college a friend of mine threw a house-party that ended up getting extremely packed. The house was fairly large, and the bulk of the party was dancing in the living room area (carpeted), which had the furniture cleared out to make room for the DJ / drunken people dancing.

The DJ was a childhood friend of mine that I used to break dance with, but was only spinning top 40 stuff to keep the energy high. Let me introduce the star of this story: let's call him Paul. Paul is the guy you see at every bar / dance club that dances horrendously, but for some reason or another, thinks his dancing is amazing. Paul also happens to be on overly machismo douche.

If at any point in the night any girl started cheering for some other guy's dancing, Paul would magically appear and try to have a dance off... usually ending in the other guy stepping out of the room to escape the pelvic thrust taunts.

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My DJ friend and I decide to spin some old-school hip-hop that we could break dance to; the crowd starts to get into it, and a circle forms. I step in to take a turn in the circle, and about 30 seconds in, I see Paul at the edge of the circle looking like a dog on a leash, waiting to break into the circle and show everyone who's boss. I finish my thing and get to the edge just in time to see that Paul had cleared himself a runway into the circle.

And now.. the magic: Paul takes a running start towards the circle, and does a front flip as he enters. He had had a bit much to drink, and underestimated how it would affect his ability to stick his landing; rather than landing on his feet, he over-rotated before un-tucking. The combination of his forward momentum from the running start, and the centripetal force of his flip made him transition straight into the worm, then his legs curled backwards up over his head (his body in the shape of a C) as he skid across the carpeted floor on his forehead.

I spit out my drink and laughed like a little girl, as did pretty much everyone else in the room. I seriously have never laughed that hard in my life; I cried so hard it gave me a headache.

Later on in the night I overheard him hitting on some random girl at the party. The girl notices the rug burn all over his forehead and face, and asks what was wrong with his face. The only words that get out of his mouth were "we were having a dance circle, and I..." before the girl cracks up and says "YOU WERE THE FRONT FLIP GUY!". She couldn't stop laughing, and he walks away in shame. I later found out that he had to go to the hospital for a concussion - I say it was worth it.

9. Sebring_the_Second watched a woman shut it down with her boyfriend.

I was waiting for the bus and a couple were arguing extremely loudly then the girl screamed "NO ANAL FOR YOU TONIGHT!!!!!!" before storming off. I almost died laughing. The best part is she sounded furious and was totally serious.

10. nakedbootleg saw a bar fight to remember.

A bar fight between a group of deaf guys. Hands down, the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.

11. PICKLED_KITTENS broke the rule of fight club.

I think I saw a fat chick fight club one time. I live in a pretty small town and we have a local grocery store. I was driving home one night about 11 and passed by said grocery store and noticed a bunch of the local country hicks had their trucks in a semi-circle with the headlights on and in the headlights were these 2 very obese women just going at it. Like clothing ripped and just beating each other. It was the strangest thing.

12. beyondtheridge saw a man method acting like a chicken.

A man was "walking" down the sidewalk like a chicken, strutting and flapping his bent arms. I ducked behind a building to avoid interacting and waited a while until I figured he was on his way.

When I peaked around the corner of the building to make sure he was gone, there he was posed on one leg with one of his "wings" behind his head and the other tucked under his armpit. I really went the other way then. It was a public enough setting that I wasn't in danger. I wonder now why he wasn't making clucking sounds.

13. LookSuspicious saw a man burn it all down.

I was walking into Rite Aid to buy batteries. As I walk in a homeless man slinks in behind me. We both walk to the right and he turns in the snack aisle. The batteries were perpendicular to the snacks. All of a sudden I hear multiple footsteps behind me jogging to where this homeless man is.

I turn around and see the homeless man now shirtless ripping bags of peanuts and throwing them in the air and two store employees trying to subdue him. As they finally struggle to pin him down he begins to yell, "I REGRET NOTHING." Just repeatedly yelling it as he is dragged out of the store...

14. rareearthdoped saw a bunch of monkeys fight a dog.

The most hilarious thing that I can recall is related to monkeys and a dog too. I was in India at that time and back in my school, students living in the hostel (dorms) used to have the breakfast from the canteen during the winters, and eat outside on a sunny day on set fixed chairs and tables.

Most of us used to throw the yellow part of the boiled eggs on the ground, leaving a competition between monkeys, (stray) dogs and crows to grab those. Usually dogs use to dominate in this fight. And of course monkeys were badly pissed at this. One day, me with three of my friends was having breakfast and saw a group of 6-7 monkeys surrounding a sleeping dog.

One monkey pushes the dog, and as soon as dog takes his head up, all the monkeys slap him one by one, taking 2-3 rounds. Before the dog could realized what happened, all monkeys were gone and the expression on the dog was like what the hell just happened. Whenever I think of that, still make me chuckle.

15. ajoker40 watched a man truly fail at a roundhouse kick.

During a bar fight I saw one guy jump off a table and try a spinning roundhouse kick, only to miss by 4 feet and then get hit in the face by a plastic trashcan by his opponent. He was then escorted out by the bouncer while the entire bar laughed at him.

16. Downhillrunner thought they were on candid camera.

I could've sworn I was on one of those hidden camera shows one time. I went to the Social Security office to legally change my name after I got married. The guy next to me on the elevator practically ran to grab a number before I got there. I go in and sit down and mr in-a-hurry sits next to me and tells me how he bought a suit at Jos A Bank for a job interview in Vegas and someone stole them and his wallet with all his money and credit cards. He happened to see one of his suits on some guy on the street and decided that he should go beat the guy up (obviously!). The cops showed up and arrested him. Can you believe that! The guy with his suit and wallet got off scott free and now he is in jail overnight and he has to sleep on the dirty floor!

I nod, politely like "yeah, that happens to all of us." I am rescued by the good looking business man sitting next to me. He is there with his sister. Trying to make small talk, I ask him if he's there on his lunch break, as he appears to have just come from work. "No," he says "I haven't been able to work for a year. They say I have problems, but they're wrong. They mad me go to a place for a while, but they're just trying to steal my ideas." Huh... "I write sometimes, but I know someone wants to steal what I write, so I burn it all. You HAVE to burn it all."

The conversation continues like this for 10 minutes until schizophrenic business man stands up, looks around suspiciously, mumbles something, and walks away. Suit Man looks at me like "Can you believe these people?!?!

So ladies- think twice before you go to legally change your name.

17. The_Slender-Man doesn't know how the man got the piano there.

Saw I guy playing a piano. Right outside a subway. Full-sized grand piano.

18. Cigareddit has a few stories.

I have 2 stories first one just happened. The second one, however, is hands down funnier and stranger.

I'm here in NJ, on the shore, where we took the brunt of that bitch Sandy's wrath. 4 or 5 days after we went to the Wawa (it's a convenience store) to buy some Cigs. The line was literally coming out the door and looping around the building, because this was the only place that accepted credit cards at the time, since most computer systems were still down.

I was waiting in the car and this girl starts screaming at another girl in the passenger seat of a car. I should note here that drug use is rampant, and anyone addicted to something would, at this point, be going through some type of sickness/withdrawal. Both of these ladies clearly were going through it. The girl in the passenger screams.

"B*tch what did you say?"

Girl 2: "I said f*ck you you b*tch if you want to something then d..."

The girl in the car had already opened the door, run out, and punched Girl 2 in the face before she could finish the "do something" part.
A drug sickness fight started and it took 5 grown men to pull them apart. Huge drug induced brawl.

Story 2

I used to work at a funeral home. The town had some bad parts and this we had one chapel that was across the street from a crack house. The crack house got raided by full SWAT and about 30 other officers, bullhorns saying "come out of the house" all that jazz just as we were carrying the deceased outside to put in the hearse.

So the whole grieving family had to see that f*cked up spectacle, swat raiding a crackhouse, crackheads running all over the place being tackled by police. The really strange thing about this is that the funeral parlor was always in communication with the police station because we would have to block some intersections so the precession could stay together. The police knew there was a funeral going on and decided not to wait another 45 minutes to bust this crackhouse that everyone knew was a crackhouse for at least 3 years.

19. Maxwyfe witnessed a truly bizarre protest.

My husband and I were in a mall in the DC area in the early 90's. At that time, Mary Lou Retton was hyping Tyson chicken products near the Mall food court. We took a look - "Oh, hey, that's Mary Lou Retton" and walked past.

Out of a service door comes a man in a pretty shitty looking chicken costume being led by a girl in tie dye and dread locks. Sensing epic misfortune about to unfold, I grab my husband and we follow them back to the food court. Sure enough, the chicken throws a water balloon or something filled with red liquid resembling (might have actually been) blood at Mary Lou Retton and her crew as they are frying up delicious Tyson chicken in front of a crowd of soccer moms and their kids. The girl shouts something about Tyson being serial murderers and in an instant the chicken is underneath a large security guard.

As they are leading the chicken away, his girlfriend is shouting "Don't hurt him! Stop choking the chicken!"

20. Lampmonster1 watched a couple drive a doghouse around.

Two white trash heroes (one guy, one girl) driving down the highway in a small hatchback with a gigantic, homemade, doghouse on the hood. The doghouse was so heavy that the front tires were rubbing the inside of the wheel well and so big that both of them were leaning out the windows so they could see ahead of them. The were also both smoking like there was no tomorrow. If only I'd had a camera or a video camera. You guys would have loved it.

Wife forbids husband from attending funeral for baby he conceived with mistress.

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Sometimes life is more entertaining than any melodrama made for daytime television...

Before the internet, most people consulted their loved ones and friends for advice if they had a deep, dark secret. Sometimes, they consulted strangers in bars about their problems (this was back when people talked to each other at bars instead of using bars as phone-charging, beer zombie stations) or they just had no choice but to die with their secrets. Now, we have the morally questionable land of the, 'Am I the As*hole?" section Reddit.

When a distressed woman asked strangers what to do about a situation involving a mistress/baby mama and a funeral, it was even a little too much for Reddit to handle. An affair is spicy enough, but now there's a tragedy involved and a husband who seems very out of of touch with reality.

Dive in if you dare!

AITA for not letting my husband go to the funeral of the baby he conceived with his Mistress?

This is extremely difficult to talk about with anyone I actually know, and is a secret from a lot of friends and family members. Posting on an alt in the hope that people here can give me an honest answer.

My husband of 10 years had an affair that lasted approximately 6 months. He cut it off when I found out, we went to couple’s counseling, etc. Turns out the woman was pregnant though and intent on keeping the baby. I understood that if she gave birth, my husband would have to do his part in supporting that child (at the very least, financially).

Tragically though, the baby was stillborn. I wasn’t looking forward to this baby coming but I didn’t wish for this either. My husband’s former mistress has sent details about the funeral. I don’t think he should attend. He never got to meet this child and wasn’t even there at the hospital when everything happened. If this was a child he knew at all, of course my opinion would be different. But as of now, I don’t feel comfortable with him going. He (bizarrely) said maybe I should go with him. That’s a no. I obviously am not going to attend this funeral and make the woman and her whole family uncomfortable. Despite my disdain for her, I am not going to disrupt her mourning.

There are a few people in the family that are aware of the situation. My husband’s sister, my MIL, and my mother. His sister thinks he should go to the funeral. My mother says if he goes I should divorce him. MIL refuses to comment on the situation at all.

So I’m at a loss, really. Am I in the wrong, given the circumstances?

This is definitely a soap opera level dramatic situation. Luckily, people were ready to help (and judge).

"spartanmax2" wrote:

I can't see anyone being in the wrong here (about the funeral, your husband is obviously TA (the as*hole) for having a Mistress)

It's complicated.

His child did die but I can also see how you are hurt by the whole thing even existing and the funeral is just a reminder of that.

I would let him go but I don't think you're TA (the as*hole) for not wanting him to either.

"sadthrowawaygrl" wrote:

I’m usually all about people grieving however they choose.

However,

All of this is the husbands fault. If he wouldn’t have had an affair, there wouldn’t be a child to mourn.

Since the husband wants to stay with OP, he needs to suffer the consequences of his actions.

"OrangutanMan234" wrote:

YTA (You're the As*hole) - He’s an asshole for having an affair. You stayed with him after that. You knew what that meant. That kid was gonna be a part of your lives some how. This funeral is how.

"moesickle" wrote:

YTA (You're the as*hole) Yes 100% this. I can’t understand the NTA... yes he cheated and you know what? OP decided that they’re “OK” with that and have clearly decided to carry on with life.

If OP stops him from mourning this loss (by attending the funeral) it could be extremely detrimental to him and could lead to resentment. Now before people jump down my throat about his cheating and how his actions affected OP, it’s not the same, this was a child he lost, and there’s not going to be another funeral, not another chance to say good bye. And If she wants this marriage to work, which she does by her actions of “forgiving” him, he’s going to need to properly grieve and stopping him from doing that will only seriously complicate any chance of repairing their marriage. OP should not attend but instead send a trusted friend, to put her mind at ease.

"wildstylemeth0d" wrote:

I disagree, she’s absolutely not the as*hole for banning him from going. He shouldn’t go! Funerals are for the living. He doesn’t have to console the mistress. He can grieve the loss of his child in private.

Some people were also at a loss for advice:

"triciann" wrote:

I’m taking a page out of MIL’s book.

"BURNERINO12345" wrote:

holllllllyyyyyyyyy sh*t

Uhhhhh, I think this one is above Reddit's paygrade

So, there you have it!

While this one is certainly a tough situation, the general conclusion was that no one is obviously in the wrong and that this woman can't really decide whether or not her husband attends the funeral. Good luck out there, everyone--it's a scary world.

17 funny tweets about Nancy Pelosi ripping up the State of the Union.

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President Trump's campaign speech State of the Union address can be summed up by two gestures:

First, after entering the chamber, Trump refused to shake House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand, and then after the speech, Pelosi tore the transcript up.

Whether you think it was an act of treason, an empty gesture just to be memed, or a bold act of #Resistance, the versatile GIF provides something for everyone.

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Jameela Jamil responds to criticism from LGBTQ community after taking job hosting HBO voguing competition.

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Hollywood casting choices are a constant source of debate, with many claiming the industry erases marginalized voices with white-washing and straight-washing, while others claim acting is acting, and television shows shouldn't be dictated by people's off-screen identities.

The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil has been recently centered in the conversation about appropriation and casting, after Deadline Hollywood announced she would be a judge for HBO Max's new voguing series Legendary.

Alongside Jamil, rapper Megan Thee Stallion, celebrity stylist Law Roach, and vogue icon Leiomy Maldonado will serve as judges. And the "king of vogue" Dashaun Wesley will feature as an MC.

Given the long history of LGBTQ roles given to cis straight people, and the fact that there are plenty of qualified people with firsthand experience in ball culture, people were quick to question why Jamil was included in this project.

People were quick to name other stars they'd love to see in Jamil's role, particularly members from the cast of Pose.

The actress Trace Lysette, who has starred in Transparent, Pose, and Hustlers, and worked as a house mother for a decade expressed disappointment at being passed over while a cultural outlier like Jamil got hired for the job.

After seeing the backlash, and Lysette's tweet in particularly, Jamil jumped on to clarify that she's not in fact an MC, and definitely not a house mother, she is just one of the judges.

Still, people felt Jamil should have considered the space she was taking up from LGBTQ icons when she took the role.

Particularly since she turned down a role for a deaf woman just last year, claiming she didn't want to take a role from a disabled woman.

Others pointed out the fact that Jamil isn't the only judge who doesn't come from a ballroom background, and it seems unfair to target her specifically.

Jamil posted another follow up on her personal page, expressing excitement for the show and clarifying that her and the other judges are honored to bring their followings to the show.

Still, people maintain that Jamil's spot should go to an LGBTQ actor or activist who has lived the life themselves.

This discussion is still currently raging online, and it shows no signs of calming until HBO addresses their hiring practices and acknowledges the straight-washing of their show.

24 people share the most embarrassing mistakes they've ever made in a work e-mail.

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Communication is hard. And although communication technologies like e-mail, texting, and digital messenger services are supposed to make communicating "easier," they have instead just created more platforms for our communication breakdowns to live forever and ever, a permanent reminder of our shame.

Someone named Maurice recently shared this story about the most embarrassing email exchange he's ever had, involving a tragic misspelling of his name:

Maurice's email mishap has prompted others to share their own stories of digital communication gone tragically and hilariously wrong. These 33 people share their stories of typing or texting-induced shame.

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And not all work-related mishaps involve e-mail:

15 people share the ridiculous things they can't believe nobody noticed them doing.

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Unfortunately, most of us can be pretty oblivious.

Now that we're all trapped to our phones with our heads down like hunchback zombies most of the time, it's pretty easy to be completely unaware of your surroundings. Especially if you live in a major city, ignoring the people around you can be more of a safety necessity. Sorry, but you don't need to see that man dressed as a clown running with an inflatable frog on your way to work.

When a recent Reddit user asked people what their, "how did they not notice?" moments are, people were ready to share. Shout out to all the times you snuck out of your parents' house or cut 9 inches off your hair and nobody noticed. If you're crafty in the art of hiding, deceit, and trickery-this one is for you.

1. Brilliant, healthycopingmech."

I was playing hide and seek at a friend's with her younger nieces. I was a teenager and not super committed to playing games with a couple of eight year olds, and as a joke I put myself in a corner between a wall and a bookshelf, picked up a pillow off the bed, and held it in front of my face. I was immediately visible once you cleared the doorway - I'm not a small person, and from the chest down I was just a person standing, completely unobstructed.

The kids came through, looked right at me, and kept searching with growing confusion. The friend, my age, came in behind them thinking I'd gotten somewhere in the closet, and I had to actually wave to catch her attention. Her dad even came through to join the hunt, and I had to actually clear my throat to get him to notice me. Nobody was able to spot me on their own. I was just standing in plain sight holding a pillow in front of my face, but nobody noticed.

Once everybody figured it out they were in hysterics - no one believed I'd been just standing there the entire time, they were certain that I had been hiding elsewhere in the house and then got caught after I'd moved. Nope. Y'all just can't see!

2. Uh oh, "AdditionalAlias."

One day my sister mentioned in front of my dad that she’d been helping me rearrange furniture at my house. Mentions my boyfriend. My dad is all surprised: “you and your boyfriend sleep in the same room?!”

...by that point, we’d been living together for six years. It was my bf’s house. My parents had been over DOZENS of times. Where did they think I slept?

“Oh, we assumed you slept in the guest room. By yourself.”

3. This is so good, "tj_w."

When I was about 13 I shaved my little brother's eyebrow off. I don't know why. I panicked and drew it back on with a marker with little hope that I would get away with it and avoid my mom's anger. Somehow I got through the first day, then the first week, every day getting ready for school and re-drawing his eyebrow on with a marker to hide it from my mom. After a couple weeks it had largely grown back and I realized that by some miracle I got away with it. Years later I came clean to my mom and she still refuses to believe that she didn't notice.

4. HA, "P0ster_Nutbag."

My hair used to be extremely long. Like all the way down my back.

On a whim, I decided to cut off most of it, and rock a rather short haircut. I walked around my parents place for over an hour before they actually noticed.

5. Classic, "bentnotbroken96."

I shaved my beard off once. Took my wife a week to notice.

Took my MIL 30 seconds.

6. Yikes, "driveaforklift."

I am a high school teacher in California and while explaining something, I accidentally drew a huge dick on my board. Confirmed not one kid noticed.

7. Aw, "Thunderflamequeen."

My boyfriend and I initially started dating in high school. Our friend group was me and a bunch of guys, and I was relatively new to the group, and worried I’d become “his girlfriend” if we went public too quickly, so we kept it quiet. We later stopped caring, but it was too far in to make an announcement without seeming weird, so we decided to just admit everything if anyone ever asked, but not bring it up ourselves.

Well, we weren’t the couple that was all over each other in public, but we were fairly affectionate, always sitting next to each other, talking somewhat privately, playfully poking and all that. We would also hold hands on our way out of school, when we didn’t see anyone around. That last one is what nearly caused problems the most. Regularly someone would come up behind us and say hi, and we’d quickly drop our hands. They never seemed to notice, shockingly (Our friends were really oblivious). We figured that they were probably noticing, but not saying anything.

Until one day. Somehow a conversation arose about how some people are closer in our group than others. Both of our names are mentioned, and they all say that we seem like close friends. Somehow they all noticed we were close but never put two and two together. I know this because of the shock they experienced when they finally properly found out.

We’re still together, by the way.

8. Wow, "Trin20k."

I went for a job interview when I was six months pregnant. I wore a fitted pencil skirt and a fitted short blazer over the top. To my eyes the pregnancy was obvious, I was very slim and I had a belly that poked out at the front, well defined by the fitted outfit I wore. They didn’t ask anything about it during the interview so I assumed they were okay with it and didn’t volunteer it. Got the job and on the first day, at orientation, I got introduced to two other women who had been hired the same day for other roles in the admin office I was in (one was accounting assistant, one was admin co-ordinator, and I was admin assistant/receptionist). The two other women were also pregnant (one looked enormously so) and as it turned out we were all due within the same week. The woman who hired us said to me happily that they were very excited to have us all start, and I would be getting trained by the new admin co-ordinator so I could take over some of her responsibilities when she went on maternity leave.

I had to tell them that I was also very pregnant as well and would be needing to go on leave at the same time as the other two girls. The organisation was stunned and didn’t know what on they were going to do when we all went on leave. Fortunately they were very comfortable with me coming back to work and bring my baby with me after two months off. It worked out great and I stayed working there for around eight years. Incidentally all three of us gave birth within a day of each other hahaha.

9. Oh my god, "RushingRocks."

One time when I still in school my mother walked into my room in the middle of my acid trips and asked me what I was doing up. I turned around instantly with probably the craziest look on my face and said I couldn’t sleep. She told me to go to bed and shut my door. Tripped f*cking balls that night.

10. Close call, "69mi."

A few years ago, my friends and I were drunk as f*ck stumbling down the street to a McDonalds. My best friend pulls out his d*ck and starts peeing and walking at the same time. While this is happening, a cop passes by and gets stuck at the light about 10 yards away from us. Literally all he had to do was look to his left and he would have seen 3 teenagers who can’t even walk straight laughing their a*ses off because one is walking and peeing. Very grateful he didn’t look. My life would be a LOT different if he had caught us.

11. Amazing, "Chief_Yeetor."

Got my nipples pierced 3 years ago(it was a bet i swear), i never really wanted to tell my parents cuz thats kind of a weird conversation. I was swimming over at their house and said "f*ck it, i dont care anymore". I was swimming for 3 hours they didnt notice and went inside. They are definitely people to make fun of me for it, they wouldnt stay silent. Dont know how the titanium rods shining in the sun weren't noticeable, but i still laugh about it to this day

12. Yup, "sin_tacks."

Many many times I have watched people on security cameras approach a sign with extremely clear instructions to stand to the left to wait for an elevator, read the sign, look at the place it tells them to wait, and then stand in the exact wrong spot so they block anyone exiting the elevator when it arrives.

13. Perfect, "tsuchinokoDemon."

I was at a wild Halloween party a few years back. One of my good friends puked himself into a coma and fell asleep on the couch. Obviously we took this opportunity to draw a massive d*ck on the right side of his face.

The next morning we were all chilling in the basement when my friend comes downstairs and we all bust out laughing at his face. He asks what's so funny and we try to play it off like we were just laughing about something else but he wasn't fooled. He assumes something is on his face so he goes up to a mirror and checks only the left side of his face before saying :

"Alright, you guys are good. "

For whatever reason he didn't check the right side of his face, which was almost entirely covered with a rather impressive dong. Being the good friends that we are, we didn't tell him until after we went out for breakfast.

14. Impressive, "sbclaikin."

Felt really sick in class after lunch in 5th grade, knew I was going to throw up and calmly opened my empty lunchbox on my desk and vomited all inside it and over my hands. No one noticed even though I was sitting next to people in the middle of the room, and I just got up with the bag, requested to go to the bathroom, and washed everything out before sitting back down again.

15. This is a real mystery, "GoldGangsta0211."

One day in my Year 6 class, I got up from my chair to go get something (probably a tissue since during my Primary School years, I usually got up to get a tissue once it was hayfever season for me) and when I was walking back to my chair, I realised my d*ck was very obviously hanging out of my pants. Now, I was sure somebody would atleast notice but nobody did. Nobody giggled, nobody pointed, nobody talked.

But what I can't understand is how did my d*ck got out. I usually wear pants that go all the way to just above my knees and I wear boxers too. And I was 11 at the time so my d*ck wouldn't be that long. So I'm confused on the how it got out.


Parents applaud mom's post about why sick kids should stay home during flu season.

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Happy flu season!

This is mom and photographer Samantha Moriá Reynolds.

I love my style for my maternity photos! My hair turned out better than I could’ve ever imagined. I highly recommend Studio K Salon for all your hair needs!

Posted by Samantha Moriá Reynolds on Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A lot of stubborn moms, likely worried that their young kids are pulling a Ferris Bueller's Day Off, send their kids to school despite showing symptoms, thinking it's the right thing to do for their education. Reynolds challenged the flu skeptics with a funny rant about the importance of keeping kids with fevers at home.

It went as viral as the flu itself:

This morning, Sam woke up and noticed her son wasn’t feeling well. Sam took her son’s temperature, and wow! A fever....

Posted by Samantha Moriá Reynolds on Friday, January 24, 2020

Reynolds writes:

This morning, Sam woke up and noticed her son wasn’t feeling well.
Sam took her son’s temperature, and wow! A fever.
Sam gave her son Tylenol and then...
Sam did NOT send her son to school.
Even after the fever went down a couple hours later, Sam did NOT send her son to school.
Sam missed work knowing that the well-being of her son and the kids who attend his school is more important than work missed.

Sam’s son was invited to THREE birthday parties over the weekend.
Sam’s son has been so excited to go, but he will unfortunately also have to miss them because Sam’s son is SICK.
Sam knows passing along a sickness would not be a great birthday gift regardless of how bummed her son may be.
Sam knows her son is still contagious until he is fever-free, WITHOUT medication, for 24 hours.
If Sam’s son is running a fever at 7am on Sunday, Sam’s son will also not be attending school on Monday.

Be. Like. Sam.

A grateful nation, not wanting their children to get sick, applauded Reynolds's third-person words to live by.

Pediatiricians agree: Be like Sam.

Dr. Stormee Williams tells Children's Health, that it's not a good idea to give your kid a fever-reducing medication and then send them to class. "Most likely, the fever will return while they are at school and you'll receive a call to pick them up early," she explains.

Listen to Stormee and Sam. Your kid, and their classmates, will thank you.

25 people share stories of the worst parties they have ever attended.

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Parties can be ridiculously over-the-top fun. Or they can be hellish nightmares. They seem to rarely exist in the gray area. Inviting acquaintances and friends to gather in one place and adding booze and/or cake seems to swing wildly in one direction or another. And when parties go wrong, things can get really, really messy—and memorable (unless you've hit the booze and/or cake too hard to remember, which can sometimes be a blessing).

These 27 part-goers dish on the worst parties they've ever been to that they'll never forget, although they probably wish they could:

1.) From Poopsturrbator:

I went to a friend's graduation party after high school. I wasn't great friends with him, but I figured I would stop by with my gf because he was nice enough to invite me.

The party was so done up, tables full of food, streamers, confetti, all that shit. And my gf and I were the only ones there. I felt awful. His parents clearly went all out to celebrate it, and it was so uncomfortable being one of 5 people there (including him and his parents). I felt awful for him. We stayed for hours out of pity, and just kind of made small talk. Super depressing :/

2.) From deviousdumplin:

The floor collapsed under the weight of a throng of jumping Freshmen.

3.) From thumbwrestleme:

Highschool, late 80's, at an outside party with a bonfire to celebrate the end of the school year. Some numb-nuts throws a glass bottle of beer into the fire. About 20 minutes later the bottle explodes and shoots a stream of boiling beer all over a girls crotch and legs. Ambulance was called, I believe she required several skin grafts over several months . I can still remember her shrilling scream and then her passing out.

4.) From Gaffit:

My brother was at a party once where there were more than a couple under age drinkers present. The house they were at had a thin driveway so all the cars were packed into a bottleneck. The night wore on and around 1 in the morning someone decided they wanted to go home. They found the girl who owned the car at the front of the bottleneck and asked her to move her car so she could get out. She said she couldn't because she had a breathalyzer installed in her car and it wouldn't start until someone sober blew into it. They went around the party and tried to find anyone who hasn't been drinking and couldn't find one. Another guy had the brilliant idea of asking the cool 20 something dude next door to do it. So an envoy of teens head over to the house next door and ask the dude living there if he would please blow into a breathalyzer so they could leave. The dude takes a minute to look the group over, takes a drag of his cigarette, and says:

"You're gonna give me $25 for every person at the party or I'm calling the cops. "

5.) From Emily_Starke:

My sisters birthday was in the middle of the school holidays, and for her 7th birthday she had a party that no one turned up to. Turns out our mother put the wrong date on the invites, so a lot of people had tried to come over the day before whilst we were out.

6.) From BowsNToes21:

Some girl apparently had made out with a guy who wasn't her boyfriend before leaving. Someone at the party tells him via text and a little while later someone is kicking down the door. He barges in waiving a gun around screaming, "Which one of you motherf*ckers made out with my girl?" People are ducking, scurrying away and I'm just standing there thinking, "If this is how I die I'm going to be pissed."

Host who knew him quickly pushes him out the door.

7.) From Batmanstarwars1:

My buddy's girlfriend jerked off his dog while he was out back talking. She did it to prove she could get anyone or anything off. It was horrifying.

8.) From Omakepants:

My pal had a birthday sleepover. We were in 8th or 9th grade, I think. Street Fighter 2 had just came out for the SNES so that was basically all we did.

His parents had laid out some snacks and drinks on a party table, and there was one of these huge bags of party size Doritos there.

We were playing Street Fighter when one of the guys grabbed a chip, bit into it, and yelled "UGH THIS CHIP IS WET!" He began investigating the bag and we quickly discovered that ALL the chips were wet.

The birthday boy's 5-year-old little brother had taken advantage of our Street Fighter distraction and licked all of the Dorito dust from every chip and placed them back in the bag. We found him playing in his room, his face covered in the implicating dust.

9.) From CartoonDogOnJetpack:

Went to a bachelor party at a house someone rented with a buddy. We got there late so everyone was pretty lit by the time we got there, especially the bachelor. Now, he hired like four strippers for the party to walk around and dance for everybody but at one point the strippers took the bachelor to the middle of the room and they were going to do a dance just for him. Again, by this time the dude is gone but he manages to stumble into the chair in the middle of the room. The strippers set up this kiddie pool in front of him and a couple of them were going to wrestle each other covered in baby oil. While they were oiling each other up in the middle of the room, one of the other girls starts to grind up on the guy and dance for him. Well she made it past like one verse of "Pour Some Sugar On Me", when homie just threw up EVERYWHERE. I mean this was like someone turned on a fire hose of vomit. Of course he just drenched that poor girl that was dancing for him which made her freak out and run away towards the kiddie pool, which remind you has two oiled up strippers. Covered in vomit, she slips, takes the other girls down with her and she throws up all over them. At this point there's three strippers, flailing around like fish out of water, trying desperately to get out of a kiddie pool covered in baby oil and vomit slipping and falling over each other while the bachelor is passed the f*ck out, covered in vomit, drooling on himself in a chair in the middle of the room.

And just to add to this, I guess the strippers bring a guy with them for protection or whatever and he is losing his shit. He's trying to get the girls out of the pool, getting all sorts of nasty shit on himself, slipping around while just repeating "What the f*ck!!" over and over. Good times.

10.) From ignoramusaurus:

A couple of months ago I went to my friends party which was joint with his flatmates. About 20 minutes after we got there the housemate started banging on a glass with a fork and one of my friends got everyone to quiet down assuming it was a speech.

The guy then says "there are too many people here that I dont know" and told me and most of my friends to leave. He took us down to let us out but couldnt unlock the front door so we had to awkwardly stand there for 15 minutes until he found the housemate we were friends with and made him let us all out.

11.) From nekrad:

I was invited to a birthday party and I took a 6-pack of beer. I found out halfway through the party that it was actually an anniversary party for the woman's first year of being sober. Everyone at the party was from the group at alcoholics anonymous. I was the only person standing there with a beer in my hand.

I quickly left and was too embarrassed to take the remaining beers. For years after, I wondered whether any of those people drank the rest of my beer and feel off the wagon as a result.

12.) From xmasterZx:

Back story: We had a friend that liked to throw parties, but most of the people that showed up were underage, including me. I went to a few of his parties, but he lived in a dorm and the parties got bigger and bigger so my SO and I got sketched out and stopped going. Good thing too because the next one got busted; ~50 underage people with 2 guys that were 21--the host and another random friend. The host was charged and kicked out of the dorm and everyone (except for the of-age friend) had to go do student conduct.

Fast forward a couple months and he's throwing another party in his new apartment. I was living in the same complex, and my roommates and I decided we'd go. The host had hyped it up a bit (he had a facebook page for his parties) and it was supposed to start at 10. Of course, we don't show up on time cause that's un-cool and we get there around 11 after pregaming a bit. When we get there there's techno music and lights in the window, but when the door opens there's no one there but the host and a keg of Shock Top. It's just me, 3 friends I brought, and the lonely host. We tried to pick it up a bit by playing some drinking games, but the host was desperately texting everyone in his phone to try to get people to come and not even paying attention to the 4 guests he does have. At one point a few more people knocked on the door but left when they saw it was empty. He ended up putting on Space Jam... We left about 30 mins in because we couldn't take it anymore.

Edit: Talked to some co-workers and remembered this also happened another time (we worked at the same job). Before I started working there, 3-4 co-workers got stuck at a "party" in his dorm with a keg to themselves. Awkwardness ensued.

13.) From notjane:

I threw a surprise birthday party for my middle sister last year & she got super upset. She cried and made a huge scene in front of everyone at the restaurant. She thought her boyfriend was gonna propose because he wouldn't tell her where they were going. She's the worst.

14.) From [deleted]:

Well, I'm late to the party (heh heh heh) but here's mine:

Senior year of college, me and two classmates rented a big, crappy house in which we held big, crappy parties most weekends. We were all theatre majors, so every time a show opened or some other big event occurred in our major, we invited everyone over afterward to get sloppy and stupid.

One of our last parties before graduation, my roommate invited her friend from high school down. He seemed like a pretty nice guy when I met him during the day, and at the party he was even nicer, giving out bumps of cocaine to all of our friends in my roommate's bedroom!

Now, I'm not too prudish about drug use. Though I wouldn't do coke myself, I don't necessarily have a problem with other people doing so. But this dude... was a bonafide drug dealer. Sooo... I drank a little more and avoided my roommate's bedroom.

Flash forward a few hours, and suddenly some coked out chick I didn't know is puking in our fridge. Plenty of people have puked at my house (it's what you get when you throw parties), but never in my damn fridge! I had just gone grocery shopping earlier that day, so I was feeling pretty pissed. At least this girl was kind enough to move over to the sink for her second wave.

As I accompany the girl out of the house and call her a cab, her friends arrive and are all, "WHERE ARE YOU TAKING OUR FRIEND, SHE'S SICK!!! WHO ARE YOU?!"

I respond: "I live here, and your friend just vomited on my cauliflower."

The friends are also pretty drunk... not sure if they were coked out, but they may have been. Anyway, they shout a little bit at me, but when they realize that I'm not actually doing anything wrong, they start shouting at their friend for being "such a f*cking freshman." By this point, the girl is sitting on my lawn and pulling up the grass. I explain that I've called a cab and tell the two others to just wait until it gets there and to please get their friend home.

Back inside, the party is starting to wane, and I'm grateful, 'cause I've got a f*cking fridge to clean... But when I arrive in the kitchen, there's the cocaine dealer: whistling a happy tune and cleaning the puke out of my fridge. He looks at me and says, "Hey, don't worry, man. I've got this!"

Next morning, the coke dealer is gone, but the fridge is spotless. He even bought me some new cauliflower.

15.) From bonrmagic:

Was invited to a sorority party and thought it was going to be like the movies... wild. Boy was I wrong.

Ended up sitting in the corner of a room smoking hash all night and watched one girl eat an entire roast chicken to herself before I sauntered home blazed as f*ck at midnight. There was no alcohol at the party.

It wasn't like the movies.

16.) From abCEEdeeznuts:

Acquaintance I had met a few weeks prior invited me to a surprise party for his girlfriend. He said free beer so I was there. I show up and it's pre-gaming and your usual college shenanigans. Person in charge of keeping her busy texts him and says they'll be home soon. We are all pretty blitzed at this point but we manage to start hiding. 2 minutes pass, then 2 more, and nothing. Finally I get up to go find him. He's getting s blowjob from one of the other girls at the party.

They barely noticed me, but in the meantime, the girlfriend came to the front door and she couldn't have been more excited. Everything other than that was going great until I was formally introduced to the girl giving some sloppy head. It was the girlfriend's sister. No one at this party knew except me. That was the worst party because it sobered me up quick with awkwardness all night.

17.) From hank_moo_d:

It was a bachelor party. A friend of a friend was getting married, i ended up there because my buddy had an extra invitation.
Strippers all around, booze and shit.
About 30 minutes later, 5 to 6 wives break in the place and start to yell at their husbands (almost all of them with a stripper by their side).
I left as soon as possible and maturbated myself to sleep.

18.) From MrPeel11:

Fools decided to hold the keg in the basement. The party got way too crowded and people ended up camping around the keg... as you can imagine, the basement got exceedingly hot and crowded. With too many bodies, stagnant air, low ceilings and heat someone eventually threw up. This coupled with an already empty keg caused a stampede for the one narrow staircase out. A bottle neck ensued and someone got wedged and pushed so hard into the door frame at the base of the stairs that their arm broke in two places. Hysteria, police and an ambulance ended up on the scene and the party was over.

TL:DR --> Don't put the keg in the basement

19.) From Dabugar:

Probably the one my friends convinced me to throw in my dads house when he was away..

  1. Someone took a shit in my washing machine

  2. Someone wrapped themselves in toilet paper and set themselves on fire.

  3. Someone stole coins from my dads coin collection (f*ck I felt bad about that).

  4. Someone broke the bathroom mirror.

  5. A group of kids burned cigarette holes in our fancy couch, some other kids upstairs burned holes in the carpet.

  6. A huge group of 30 year olds showed up with a keg (We were 17 at the time so wtf..) and we almost got into a fight for not letting them in.

  7. The girl I had just started getting close with left with a random group of people when things started dying down.

  8. Lastly, no one stayed to help clean and my dad came back a day early.

Worst party ever.

20.) From Affordable_Z_Jobs:

Friend told me about this Corporate party held for the clients he was at. Open bar but pretty dull with people being on their best behavior to schmooze and make the clients feel important. It was "open bar" in the sense that employees were understood to hold their shit together.

One very very low on the totem pole employee got hammered drunk with one of their biggest clients and finger-banged the hell out of her in the pool for like half an hour.

Fired that following Monday. Probably worth it as he was making minimum wage.

Edit* To clarify some confusion; everyone at the company got an invite, management was expected to go and guys in his position didn't usually go because it's a work environment on the weekend. AKA not fun. He was new and probably thought "Party!!" Or did not give a f*ck. My friend thought it was the latter. She was also drunk and not unattractive.

21.) From stickleboing:

Friend spat in a girls face. I had to sleep in the kitchen and used the inside of a cupboard as a pillow.

22.) From webrowsr:

oh dear God, I made out with my ex wife's mother at a pool side party. Yes booze was involved.

23.) From maters77:

An old friend who unfortunately is no longer with us used to throw house parties all the time in high school. It would usually be 15-30 people getting wasted and doing hard drugs.

This one particular time he hosted a massive high school party because his parents weren't home. So he had probably between 80-90 of us teenagers at his house partying like crazy. Ecstasy, Coke, Shrooms, and of course tons of pot and booze. About an hour and a half goes by and people are messed up and having a blast. I did about 4-5 grams of shrooms that night so I was toast. My buddy who hosted the party filled up capsules with nutmeg...yes nutmeg...and he was swallowing those all night. (Read up about a large consumption of nutmeg).

So like I said, an hour and a half goes by and someone asks him where his parents went on vacation.

His response...

"They're not on vacation. They went out to watch a movie."

Just then is when the car rolled up on the driveway filled with a bunch of drunk ad stoned punks. Everyone ran out of the house and to the park closest to his place. Every single person in that house took off. Everyone. Even the guy who hosted the party. I dunno if he was worried his parents would kill him or if the nutmeg f*cked him up so much that he didn't know he was at his own house.

Man I miss that guy.

24.) From [deleted]:

My 5 year old birthday party, my friend Ricky decided to blow out my candles after everyone sang happy birthday but before I had a chance to blow them out. I cried like a little bitch. F*ck Ricky!

25.) From Couchtiger23:

I was at a trashy shotgun-wedding reception and slipped off to piss in the bushes. When I came back there were two blonde strippers dressed as cops "arresting" the groom.

I said "who the f*ck rents strippers for a wedding" really loud right as the music cut out. They weren't strippers.

20 people share the weirdest things they found in their homes with no explanation.

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There are few feelings more unsettling than finding your home slightly different than you left it, particularly when you know you had no official visitors.

Obvious home invasion aside, finding mysterious objects in your home poses a lot of questions: is there a ghost leaving your presents?! Is sudden memory loss manifesting? Worse yet: is your partner or roommate concealing a myriad of secrets?!

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the strangest things they've inexplicably found in their own homes, and the questions are still looming.

1. cucowgirl's sister found a guest in her room.

My sister worked night shift. She came home to find the homeless guy who lived in the neighbor's yard asleep in her bed. Her dogs were sleeping with him.

2. thebachmann experienced phantom blood.

I was going back to my bedroom after a shower, and I slipped on my bedroom floor (hardwood) and landed square on my ass. I was dazed for a second, but when I grabbed my bed sheet to get up, I smeared blood on it. I was pretty creeped out, because I had no idea where it came from. I looked myself over, no cuts or scrapes, nothing. But for some reason there was blood all over my fingers. I looked on the bed, and the blood was only where I'd smeared it, so it wasn't like there was already some on the bed. It was as if blood just appeared.

3. Lost_first_username doesn't know what the red button is for.

When my parents bought this house, it came with this quite long cable attached to the wall in my room. At the end of the cable, there is a button. It's a red button. Nothing happens when I press on it. I have no idea what it is.

Edit: I realized a lot of people want other people dead. Also, I had to click it!!! My imagination was building up and I just had to do it.

4. meandmybadness has a toaster strudel angel.

I came home from a long day of work to find my toaster on the counter with toaster strudel all cooked and ready to eat. I didn't have any toaster strudel in my house at the time. I still have no idea how that happened.

Edit: I did not eat the toaster strudel. Eating random, unsolicited strudel is not on my bucket list.

5. thinkitsaredherring got a faucet present.

I was in the bathtub as the water was filling up. Out of the faucet pops a small, blue eraser shaped like a skull and crossbones. I traded it the next day for a lemon slice eraser at school.

6. maggot_brain79 now uses the mysterious Richard Nixon mask to freak everyone out.

I found a latex Richard Nixon mask in my closet. No idea where it came from. Now I use it to make impressions and scare the sh*t out of drunk friends. Sometimes I mow the yard with it on to make my neighbors wonder what the hell is wrong with me.

7. dishragcologne fired the dogs.

One morning my wife found a note in our kitchen that read "I was in your house." It's been over 4 years and we still don't know if it was a friend messing with us or some creeper. The dogs were immediately fired.

8. psychoplatapus found a mysterious French wig.

One time I found a French inspired powdered wig in my closet that I have NEVER seen before in my life. Safe to say I am still really confused.

9. holdmybeer87 found a mystery shoe.

Not my home, but my car. A single, raggedy black moccasin. It just showed up one day. I've never owned one.

10. Stecman now has two ice cream machines.

One day I left my garage door opened for 10-20 minutes while I was doing yardwork in back. I came back and someone had obviously been in my garage but only my Cusinart Ice Cream Machine was stolen. Funny thing is that the machine was stolen but the bowl that you needed to make ice cream was in the freezer. They didn't get that so they wouldn't be able to make ice cream with it.

Fast forward 8 months later and my wife got me a whole new ice cream machine. Now I have 1 ice cream makers and 2 bowls.

Fast forward about 6 months after that I left my garage door opened again and walked in to close it. Right in the middle of the garage was my original ice cream maker machine. Now, I have two...

11. TSEpsilon now has a panda bear watching over them.

A wooden magnet in the air duct. It has a picture of a panda bear and the saying "when I works, I works hard; when I sits, I sits loose; and when I thinks, I falls asleep."

12. fatestpigeon doesn't know who dropped the fish.

A live fish in our pool, nearest neighbor is half a mile away.

13. Fallout4Enthusiast may have murder in the family.

Brother and I found a secret basement in our house. Crawl in to find bullet casings all over the ground and a newspaper clipping tacked to the wall with an old lady's face on it. It was her obituary, but she had died only a few years before we found it. Nobody in the family knew her, and we had lived in this house for almost a decade at that point. We boarded up the opening after that.

14. SirMikan found a mystery knife, which isn't a great omen.

Found a knife on my wife's vanity. Not a bad one, I actually wanted to keep it, but instead we gave it to the police and installed a security system.

Edit: more background, just because. We did have some handymen installing shutters on our house a few days prior, so I thought it was from them. Wife was sure it was because at that same time there had been a few robberies in our neighborhood. None of our stuff had been stolen at that point. They did catch the guys a few days later.

15. PerilousAll still doesn't know who the toilet culprit was.

Found the toilet seat up one day when I came home from work. Was a single female living alone at the time.

16. jamcan162 now has a starchy heirloom.

A box of corn starch with an expiration 1989. Our house was built in 1991. I keep it for, well, not sure why really. And my wife wants us to throw it out.

17. Owwmysoul found some surprise items at their grandma's.

When cleaning out my grandmothers room after we had to place her in a nursing home for long term care I found an Afro pick made of black plastic in the shape of a black power fist. Also my high school class ring which was weird because it had been stolen out of my locker in high school.

18. _52hz_ found a mystery revolver.

Smith & Wesson revolver in our futon. No idea how it got there or who's it was when found.

Called the police and apparently it's not of great concern, they got the serial and told us they'd contact us if it turned up stolen or used in a crime. Never called back.

Gave it to my grandfather, now he keeps it in his car.

I've told this story before and people are critical of me for giving my grandfather a possibly stolen revolver, but he's the retired sheriff of my hometown so he knows the story as does his old department.

19. Ohsoeasy is pretty sure it was their ex best friend who took the wallet.

I lost my wallet. I tore the house apart looking for it. I searched parking lots where I last shopped to no avail.

I came home feeling defeated. The wallet was on my dresser which was the first place I looked. I think my druggy ex best friend stole it, got remorseful and put it back. I never asked him about it.

20. cay_h doesn't know who Leslie is.

I found a really tiny mug (the size of a thimble) on the floor in our bathroom with the name "Leslie" on it. My husband and I have lived in our house for 3 years. We have no idea where it came from.

18 people share the strangest human interactions they've ever had.

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Your mom was right: Don't talk to strangers.

People are sharing the stories of their most awkward interactions with fellow humans, and they certainly escalate quickly.

1. God bless America, hold_my_lacroix.

Uber driver. I picked a guy up downtown, midday. He was early 20's, red head, tatted out. Extremely nervous, jittery to the point I wasn't sure if he had a condition or was on drugs. He sat in the front. We're driving and he's all over the place, telling me wild stories about how he makes all his money climbing dangerous construction sites around the world and posting videos to youtube. I believed him! Anyways, we are on the highway heading to a nearby town, and he reaches in his backpack, takes out a towel, unwraps and it is suddenly holding a luger pistol. I freeze up and feel cold and hot at the same time. He looks at me with a smile and says "what do you think of my gun?"

I can't tell whether he is being serious or if I am being held up or what, but I try to smile and say "WOW man, that gun is so cool, what is it? I love it, but while we are on the highway, can you put it away?"

I could see the realization cross his face that he had been foolish, and he puts it away sheepishly, explaining it is his grandfather's and we are on our way to a shooting range. The crazy part of the story is that we then get to the shooting range and it is surrounded by cops and crime tape because there has been a SHOOTING AT THE SHOOTING RANGE. So we turn around and drive back to his hotel. He gave me a cool $20 for a tip. Scary though.

2. P1ckles2, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

When I was about 8 years old my mum brought me to her friends house so I would play with her friends 8 year old son while they had a chat. He walked me outside and said “hey check this out” He pulled down his pants and took a massive dump onto the floor right in front of me and then his dog ate it and threw up. I’ll never forget that moment..

3. Pay it forward, vomirrhea.

I was out with coworkers in the crowded downtown area and we all got pretty smashed. Trying to leave at 2am, I was put in charge of getting my buddy home as he was too drunk to function and we lived only a block away from each other. I was trying desperately to get a cab but it was a busy Saturday night and I was having no luck at all. Then out if nowhere, a man with a full beard and a manbun appeared and he was wearing a gauzy pink dress with yellow flowers. He said I looked like I needed some help and proceeded to call his best friend who was a cab driver and we had a cab there to pick us up in 5 minutes. I thanked the man in the dress, and upon reaching our destination I also learned that the man in the pink dress had paid for our fare as well. One of the strangest, nicest humans I have ever met.

4. Lepringles710 posts sad cringe.

Lady comes up to me to be checked out (I work in a retail store) and says “we had a baby 2 weeks ago..money has been tight” which I respond, “oh congratulations! How exciting!” When all of a sudden she says “oh it was a stillborn baby, it wasn’t like a normal baby.”

I had no other response than, “have a nice day..”

5. Nameless-Servant won the shootout.

Was writing out a skit for an after school thing in high school, guy I'm writing it with walks out of the room to use the restroom, this other dude he knows who also happened to be using the same room for different reasons makes a snappy comment. I do the finger guns in response, he does finger guns right back at me.

Things escalated into a finger gun shoot out, snapping at each other from across the rooms,until it all ends in a climactic final charge, he falls defeated to the floor, where I give him the finger guns execution style. I help him up we get back to doing our individual projects.

Our mutual friend walks back into the room completely oblivious to what just happened. I had never spoken to this person before, and never really saw him after that. Our sole interaction was an impromptu finger gun war while our mutual friend was in the bathroom.

6. Define "amazing," geewhizz90.

My wife was pregnant and we were checking out at the grocery store. The cashier asked how she planned on delivering and suggested that my wife not get an epidural. The cashier, who was maybe 20, said how amazing it felt to feel her baby slide through the birth canal. Getting an epidural would ruin that experience.

7. Hey, Zeruvi.

Probably not the strangest but I'm pretty bewildered by what just happened on the way to work.

Sat down at the back of the bus like I always do. Dude sat in the seat in front of me. Looked normal, t-shirt, jeans, looked awake and didn't smell like a pothead. He turned around to look at me and said "Hey". Not like "Hey! You took my wallet!" or "Hey, got any gum?". Just a regular, "Hey. I am acknowledging you as a person I am in proximity with."

So I respond with the same "Hey." figuring he'd carry on with whatever he had to say. But he resplies with another"Hey." I'm thrown at this point, my parents didn't prepare me for this. I respond with "Hey?" trying to convey the phrase "Do you want something?" into a single syllable. Dude just breaks into a smile and says "Hey." then turns back around and sits quietly until he gets off the bus ~15min later.

8. It's the most beautiful sentence in the English language, user45677654893.

I was walking into a Walmart and a woman was comforting her crying child by saying, “Hush child! There be corn dogs up in here!”

9. CleavageConneisseur is quite the screenname:

I got into a pool cab, a middle aged man sitting beside me said "can you remove the earphones from your ear, they are bothering me."

I was surprised and annoyed and said "no."

Then he said " OK, can you share one with me then?"

I said no again and changed seats.

One of the strangest conversations I ever had.

10. Be afraid, PsycoBoyFilms.

The other night I was at my girlfriends house late (she lives with her parents) and didn't have a phone charger. I asked her mom if she knew where a wall brick was since I had the wire but not the wall part. She asked me what phone I had and I told her "Google Pixel. Same one as you" and she replied "Oh well you can just use my charger". I asked "Would you be alright with that?", to which she said "No" completely deadpan and then went into her room and shut the door.

11. udamndirtyape took insider trading very seriously.

When I was a kid I vividly remember my fellow classmate aggressively throwing rocks into the forest near our elementary school and screaming "I HATE MARTHA STEWART!" I will never understand.

12. _Green_Kyanite_ must have gotten hotheaded.

A complete stranger stopped me on my walk to class, so she could compliment my hair. She did all the usual, "Your hair is just so pretty! I'll bet you hear that all the time though. I used to have hair like that!" stuff I've gotten used to as a natural redhead.

But then she followed it up with, "Oh, by the way, I'm a Russianist, and if you ever go to rural Russia, little old ladies will ward you off with the sign of the cross because in rural Russia, they believe redheads are the actual spawn of Satan!"

I thought I was used to people saying insane things about my hair. But that one was new.

The lady clearly didn't notice my expression and went, "Well, I just complimented you and insulted you in the worst way possible. Have a good afternoon!"

13. A social safety net and warm croissants are the cornerstones of liberalism, nebula4364.

I work at Starbucks and one time this older man ordered a coffee and a butter croissant so I said “would you like your croissant warmed?” And this man yelled back at me “NO! What do I look like? A LIBERAL?” I had never been yelled at before so I just kind of walked away because I was really confused

14. brightyellowgarland won that game of Truth or Dare.

I was in 8th grade at a school dance. A casual acquaintance walked up, licked my ear, and walked away. We haven’t spoken since.

15. Canadians are automatic babysitters, CanadianArtGirl.

I was in Cuba in a resort. Gathering with the masses for evening entertainment. A woman, who I believe was/sounded German was going from group to group. She came up to me and asked "Canadian?" I said yes. She handed me her baby and walked away for a few minutes. I made cooing noises and sang "hello strange baby" while she giggled. The lady came back with 2 chairs and set up in an open area and said thanks before taking the baby back. Cute baby, weird situation.

16. Run, ouihger, run.

Pretty sure I met a couple serial killers in my life. This one guy wanted my to check out this hole he had dug below the deck which had a padlock on it. I got the creeps and turned around where his wife was right about to knock me out with a flash club like the cops use. I got out of there as soon as I could.

Others have said in the past "Why did't you go to the police?" this was a weird little town far away from home and I had no idea if they might be in on what ever they do with the people the catch.

17. chojiisdavid met Edward Cullen.

While working at Amazon . I talked to a kid that said " I'm half vampire and I need to switch to night shift because the sun is burning ". It was the best 30 mins of my life talking to this guy.

18. AgentGravitas met the Joker.

I once saw a cab driver stop at a red light and look over at the car in the lane beside him. Then in one smooth unbroken motion, he put on a clown nose, took it off, opened his mouth to reveal a plastic spider on his tongue, closed his mouth, pulled a rubber dog mask hanging around his neck up over his face, then pulled it back down again. Then the light changed and he drove away. It all happened in the span of maybe three seconds and was so bizarre my brain short-circuited.

29 people share the reckless things their parents let them do that they'd never let their kids do.

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As society evolves, so do standards for what is considered safe and acceptable behavior for kids. When I was a kid, my mom let me ride around in the back of her pickup truck, and go sledding on the street—as long as we "kept a lookout" for oncoming cars, yikes. Of course parenting rules vary from one household to the next, but overall, parents of today tend to be a little stricter about things like internet use, nutrition, and safety.

Someone asked Reddit: "what did your parents allow you to do that you would never allow your own children to do?" These 28 responses highlight the ways parenting rules have changed over the years.

Also, those of us who grew up in the '90s, '80s and before are pretty lucky to be alive.

1.) From Yerfsmaddaw:

Stand on the center consol with half their bodies sticking out the sun roof as I drive at 50mph down some twisty country roads.

2.) From Amethyst1018:

Never forced me to wear a seatbelt. I remember only once having to put it on quickly when she got pulled over.

3.) From milkmilktea:

post my address on a "penpal" group on 90s internet. a few men xeroxed copies of their dicks and wrote me explicit letters.

4.) From LeashAggression:

My dad used to load about six of us kids (me, my brother, and some neighborhood kids) up on the step bars on the side of his van. We would stand on either side of the van, then he would drive around the block and jerk the wheel to throw us off. We fucking loved playing that game.

5.) From [deleted]:

Swim in a drainage ditch that the water from a corn field drained in to.

6.) From maritagator:

My parents put me on an airplane from Peru to USA to visit my grandmother whom I had never met for a month. I was 7 years old at the time and spoke very little English. Back then (1964) kids traveled alone without an airline stewardess to watch them or deliver them to their families. It was a 12 hour flight on a propeller plane! When I got to Miami, I started crying because I was confused and an airline worker picked me up and sat me on the counter of the immigration officer to get my passport stamped. They located my grandmother and she gave me a hug so I went with her even though I had no idea if she was really my grandmother or not. When my kids were 7 years old, I kept thinking...how in the world did my mom think this was a good idea?

7.) From popover:

Take non-alcoholic beer to school for lunch.

Edit: Just to elaborate a little- It was when non-alcoholic beer just came out as a thing. Sharps was what we had. It came out in '89. I was 7 or 8 at the time. The teachers surprisingly did not complain. They were more upset that our mother let us watch The Simpsons. I frequently traded my beer for pudding cups. Pudding was considered 'junk food' and we were not allowed to have that. I think teachers would shit themselves now if a 7 yr old brought NA beer to school. But I also remember getting those packages of candy cigarettes at the convenience store, so different times indeed.

8.) From Nothingwithaface:

My parents would buy me cigarettes when I was around 15.

9.) From moopshcelroy:

Not brush their teeth. My mom never taught me how when I was little. "Her baby teeth are just going to fall out anyway! I'll teach her when she's older!" Single mom with three jobs, five kids, blasting through abusive relationship to abusive relationship.. Yeah. She never got around to it.

10.) From poorfolkbows:

Climb back and forth from the front seat to the back seat of the car while driving.

11.) From syncopator:

When I was 14, I got a motocross bike for my birthday. I would ride it from our house in town, using alleys and trails where I could, out to my buddy's house in the country where we would then ride wherever we liked, way too fast, with no helmet. Often these rides included carrying guns so we could shoot stuff.

Sorry, son. Those were the good old days.

12.) From C-Boltini:

“Hang out” by the train tracks. Nothing good goes on down by the train tracks.

13.) From kmagsy:

My parents let me skip as many classes as I wanted in high school. It was technically under the guise of only being allowed to do so if my grades were good, but they never exactly checked on it (they had a lot of trust/thought I was a genius).

It took me a long time to be able discipline myself into actually studying/going to to class. I fumbled through university as a result, having had no proper routines in place. I know it was ultimately up to me, but I didn't have the foundation to be disciplined early on.

14.) From james0martin:

Walk to the 7eleven, nearly a mile away, alone at the age of five to get her a snack. I had to steal my own stuff since she only gave me money for what she wanted.

15.) From lucy111285:

Eat as many sweets as I wanted to; -Eat as much MCDONALD'S as I wanted to; -Skip brushing my teeth at night. I am now 21 and I had lots of problems with my teeth and digestive system. I managed to fix them all up in my teens and now I am strict with myself.

16.) From Joafie:

Letting my kid's friend (who is 16) whom I've never met drive my brand new SUV 3 hours away into the mountains for snow camping.

17.) From heavensgate911:

My siblings and I use to play a game where we walked along the train tracks behind my house and tried to wait as long as possible before jumping away when the train came. Last person standing on the tracks was the winner.

18.) From dogmom5:

Play at the beach or in the sun without sunscreen.

19.) ​​​​​​​From thesassyllamas:

Ride in a car without seat belts or car seats.

20.) From anxnickk:

My parents didnt care if I got shitty grades, i wont let my kids make the same mistake i have

21.) ​​​​​​​From Axolotl-Aristotle:

Make my kid scared to talk about their emotions to the point that they become depressed because nobody knows how they feel. So it becomes hard to get friends because they’re too afraid to open up. Also make them scared to cry because they think it’s wrong and I’m going to make fun of them for it.

22.) From ksanthra:

Brew my own beer when I was 15. They were far too lax about letting me drink. My mother really wanted me to be popular and social.

I'm 44 now and 2 years sober.

Edit: I'm all for teaching responsible drinking and/or brewing beer with your kids. Neither of those apply to my situation, my parents had no idea how much I was making or where it was going.

Also I'm sure I was predisposed to alcoholism already, there's a lot of family history and I was the one who put the effort in to setting up a small brewery in my room. I had 2 barrels going and at peak had about 30 liters a week coming to "maturity" (here means becoming drinkable).

23.) From Mavado:

Letting me microwave, and later deep frying, the same meal every day for a decade.

24.) ​​​​​​​From bruhrlly:

Use the internet unsupervised. I sent my first nude at 14 years old to my boyfriend when he was 13, and had a long running dirty email chain. He saved that shit to his phone and his dad found it 6 months later when he took my bfs phone away because he was staying up too late and was tired at school.

Still weirds me out a bit, cause I know that's probably what they think about when I'm around is "it's that same girl"

25.) ​​​​​​​From sspiegs234:

Watch the sopranos... when I was around 8yo.... until I called my brother a c*cksucker. After that I was banned.

26.) ​​​​​​​From domestic_omnom:

Being home in supervised. I was a "lock away kid" cause my mom worked nights. I saw her for maybe two hours a day. She would get off work take me to school and sleep till I got home. So from 5pm to 7am I was by myself. A lot of shenanigans.

27.) From XAngelHunterX:

My parents let my brother get away with so much that he just plays computer games all day screaming, drinks nothing but soda and has one fruit or vegetable on a good week. With me they could not care less about my education but I have to eat healthy and have to keep quiet.

My kids will be going outside and will be eating their greens (if they don't like something there is always something else). I will also treat every child equally.

28.) ​​​​​​​From VictorBlimpmuscle:

Watch The Exorcist at 9 years old - my parents were very lenient about letting me watch pretty much anything on TV, but that film gave me nightmares for weeks.

29.) From TheSmarterBear:

Smoke dope, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, stay up until I went to bed. As long as did these things at home. I was smoking dope before, during and after school. This was 7th grade. I was 13. Not as cool as it sounds. I'm indecisive as hell... Can't hold a job or relationship.

Vanessa Lachey interrupts interview to deny sending Jessica Simpson a baby gift.

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Jessica Simpson's new memoir is the celebrity gossip gift that keeps on giving.

In "Open Book," the singer and retail mogul tells all about her "Mickey Mouse Club" days, her past alcohol addiction, and the abuse she suffered as a child. She also goes into great detail about all the 2000s heartthrobs she got to know in real life — including her ex-husband Nick Lachey.

But Nick's current wife, Vanessa Lachey, is apparently taking issue with one detail: Jessica's recollection that she received a baby gift from them.

Nick and Vanessa were on "The Today Show" recently when host Hoda Kotb mentioned Jessica's book.

In the book, Hoda says, Jessica mentioned that she and Nick had both moved on. Jessica is now married to ex-NFL player Eric Johnson, and they have three children. Hoda says Jessica was happy to receive a congratulations gift from Nick and Vanesssa after the birth of her first child.

"She kept saying, 'They sent me something beautiful when we had our children,'" Hoda says.

Hoda moves on, asking Nick if he knew anything about the more troubling revelations in Jessica's memoir, including the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Nick starts to answer, saying he hasn't read the book and "we've all moved on," when Vanessa interrupts to ask about the baby gift.

"I feel bad, I'm sorry, you said somebody sent her — we — I — cuz now it's like, we, did... it wasn't us, but thank you whoever sent it from us," she says, followed by a loud laugh.

Hoda tries to play it off, saying, "She got something nice from you guys, I don't remember, after some moment in her life, she said it was sweet, so anyway, she sort of was saying kind of thanks to you guys."

Nick turns to Vanessa and mumbles, "What'd you send?"

Vanessa starts sputtering again, then says, "I didnt. I don't know her address. But thank you, whoever sent it from us."

Yikes.

Podcast host Danny Pellegrino posted the clip on Twitter, saying, "I desperately need to know who sent Jessica a gift on behalf of N*ck & Vanessa Lachey."

He later added that it could be Nick who sent the gift:

Others agreed:



And some thought her 'tude was unwarranted.

One thing's for sure though: the couple probably had a pretty awkward Uber home.

Woman asks if she's wrong for refusing to nurse her friend's newborn baby.

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They say it takes a village to raise a child. But did one new mom go too far in asking her bestie to literally breast-feed her newborn?

A boobily blessed woman took to Reddit to ask for advice, after her BFF freaked out and demanded she whip out a nip to feed a baby that isn't hers.

Most of Reddit agrees that hey, this isn't the Middle Ages. Formula exists and wet nurses are no longer a necessity, thank god. And while some moms are happy to swap milk, it's far from something you can demand from other people.

The woman in question specifies that she's currently nursing, and has nursed three kids before. So she's an old pro:

I'm (36F) a mother of 4 kids. Ages 16,11,9 and 10 months. I breastfed my oldest 3 over a year each and am currently nursing my baby.

When my best friend (32F) found out she was pregnant last year we were ecstatic. She started asking me all kinds of questions about pregnancy, childbirth, which baby products I recommend, nursing, etc. She expressed that she definitely wanted to nurse but she was nervous. I told her I'd be there to offer as much support and advice as I could. She has no family here and the baby's daddy stepped out of her life.

She was ready to lend a hand when the baby came, but then he wouldn't latch onto the mom's breast:

The day comes for her labor and she's asked me to be in the room. As soon as the baby is born they place him right on her for skin to skin contact. All the nurses are encouraging her to attempt to nurse right away. She's trying to get baby to latch and he's just screaming his head off. I could tell she's getting flustered so I tell her it's ok. I had the same issue with my last. We'll just keep trying. I stay all day and leave that evening. At that point he still hadn't latched.

Mom and kid didn't sleep all night due to his hunger — and doctors said he was losing weight already:

I came back the next morning and she looks like she didn't get a wink of sleep. She says baby pretty much screamed ALL night. He just won't latch. I suggested a nipple shield which helped with my first. We tried that for awhile, no luck. The doctor is concerned because baby is already losing too much weight. He tells her she needs to supplement with formula in the mean time.

Many parents would switch to formula in this situation BUT:

She's COMPLETELY against using formula. She calls it "poison". And then she asked me to please try and latch him to my breast and feed him. I think I was so caught off guard that I may have made a face. I told her I just wasn't comfortable with that and even if he did latch what would she do after I left? She needed to go ahead and supplement.

When the friend said she'd rather not swap bodily fluids with someone else's kid, the mom lost it:

She flipped out on me. Yelled for me to leave since "I'm not going to be helpful" and she couldn't believe I wouldn't help out a best friend when I "had promised I would help her with nursing".

I left but felt really bad when I got home. I just kept thinking maybe I should have at least tried. I've tried texting her with no response. [Am I the a-hole]?

Most people agree that while nursing other people's kids can be totally normal, it's also fine to refuse — and the mom had no right to freak out.

VeryVeryTexan is not a fan of the mom's approach:

Hormones are one thing, but your friend's an idiot. That "poison" has saved generations of children who would have otherwise starved to death. She's got no rights to you or your body, and you're under no obligation to nurse someone else's kid. She can try a nursing network, where moms offer to share milk, or if you want to pump some for her, that's your choice, but to demand you do anything was WAY out of line.

And bookluvr83 added that there's nothing wrong with formula:

I literally read this while formula feeding my 3 1/2 week old. I also formula fed his older brother. There are MANY reasons why moms choose formula over breast milk. FED is best and it sounds like this baby isn't being fed and THAT'S the real problem. NTA, but if your friend is choosing to let her child starve, rather than use formula, she's definitely TA

Jeffsang agreed that the mom was behaving badly:

Your friend is not behaving rationally here. It's not your responsibility to act as her wet nurse. Your friend is not making a reasonable request here.

There's a saying that "breast is best" but it's a fucking lie. "Fed is best." It's better to feed a baby with formula than let it starve because there's no breastmilk.

vvousmevoyez taught us something new: "begging around Facebook" for other people's breast milk is apparently a thing now:

That kind of mentality is only going to make things 100x harder for her. If she can’t use formula because she’s scared that it’s poison, she’s going to have to either beg around Facebook and her friend group for breast milk or risk her baby becoming underweight because breastfeeding is too difficult. Not all babies are meant to breastfeed and that’s fine. Fed is best.

PristineTreat said we should all cut the new mom some slack:

I think even though your friend made a super weird/inconsiderate request and then flipped out when you said no, she's in a really difficult situation and it sounds more like she just lashed out in the moment and less like she's an [a-hole]/awful person.

To be clear, you didn't do anything wrong, and it sounds like you care a lot about your friend. I think you should just give her some space and either let her reach out to you or contact her again in a week or so if you don't hear back.

Well-said, and let's hope someone fed this child!


26 Memes To Help You Start Your Morning Off With A Laugh.

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Bride asked if it's wrong to demand cousin dye hair for wedding, now cousin responds.

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It's always important to hear both sides of every conflict, but when the magical world of Reddit grants that exact wish--soap opera drama happens.

Remember this story of the bridezilla from the depths of wedding chaos Hell who demanded that her cousin dye her natural red hair to fit her peacock color scheme? Girl, you chose to design your weddings around exotic birds and you're upset about colors clashing? Check yourself!

Of course, this request is ridiculous and nobody took the bride's side in the AITA (Am I the As*hole?) free therapy session of the internet. No sane person wants to dye their hair for an event that lasts six hours, especially when most at home dyes damage your hair and never truly wash out. Natural human traits like hair color and eye color can't technically clash with any wedding theme-that's just the way humans look! The other option the bride "generously" offered up was a wig, but natural looking wigs are expensive and hot, especially if you have long, thick hair which the "Merida" in question does.

Well the unhinged bridezilla original post was entertaining, things got extra spicy when her cousin came for vengeance and shared her side of the story. Saddle up for wedding season, everyone! This is just the beginning....

WIBTA (Would I Be the As*hole?) if I refused to attend my cousins wedding after she asked me to dye my ginger hair?

Yes I'm aware that my cousin posted here and oh the irony as i showed her this sub last year, but I really don't care if she sees this, maybe it'll hammer the point home. And I doubt she will see it as they are currently on their pre wedding honeymoon, legit didn't even know those were a thing. So Amy is getting married, she has a blue and green and purple theme for the wedding. People are supposed to wear these colors including the moh and the bridesmaids. What irked me about that post was that my hair is NOT FLAMING MERIDA RED. Maybe slightly more ginger in low light:

This whole thing is completely insane to me and I have no idea where it has come from. My hair is what i would describe as strawberry blonde, maybe ginger blonde. Those are actual picture's of my hair not some poor stranger's instagram.

Things have been awkward from the start with Amy demanding that everyone has to stick to this dress code or they will be barred by security at the damn door. She has also asked anyone with hair past their waist to cut it in a Facebook post but it got no replies and I can't think of anyone except me and maybe my sister with super long hair. My mum and dad are both way more ginger than me and my sister who is 8 months pregnant's hair is not much shorter than mine and is super ginger, and Amy never asked her to touch her hair? if anything I got the dull hair gene.

At first Amy called up to tell me she had made a post here, I took a look and had to laugh to be honest, She linked me early on clearly thinking people would agree with her but she said she was worried because it blew up.

After things went south she decided to try and "negotiate" with me, still completely bizarre as my hair is not merida red. My mum and dad called round a few days back to talk about it but got absolutely nowhere with her as she's still insisting i dye my hair a dark brown for the day or get a wig.

My aunt, Amy's mom called to apologize to me and asked me to please come but I don't feel welcome, can you imagine attending a wedding where the bride stares daggers at you the whole time? and what if the security refuse to let me in. These are extremely similar to the gowns the bridesmaids are going to wear, I've tired mine on and it absolutely dose not clash at all:

Sean Couture Peacock Corset Back Ball Gown Prom Dress 70567

I brought and paid for my dress so I don't owe her anything but our families are so upset that I'm dropping out. But if I go I have no choice except to dye my hair as there never was a compromise or middle ground, it was dye it, buy a short brown bob wig or don't come. She specified it has to be a short brown bob wig for some reason.

WIBTA (Would I be the As*hole?) if I just say f*ck it and stay home?

EDIT: also to be fair I dyed a small strand underneath to test how it washed out 4 weeks ago, it is STILL DARK BROWN

Of course, the internet was ready to weigh in...

"Cest_pas_faux" wrote:

I love it, LOVE IT when we get to hear both sides of an AITA thread, I kinda live for that sort of drama lol! Everyone made it clear to your cousin that she was a bridezilla, don't bother to go if she hasn't realized how insane her expectations are!

"Shavasara" wrote:

I don't remember from the bride's post, but she's also refusing long hair?? Hell to the no. This is clearly a case of "I don't want anyone looking prettier than me." Clash, my ass, your hair would look gorgeous with that dress. NTA (Not the as*hole).

And pre-honeymoon--what??

"Arry_Potter" wrote:

HOLY SH*T I REMEMBER THAT POST AND YOUR COUSIN IS CRAZY!!

Seriously though, NTA. Your hair is gorgeous and you shouldn't change it for anyone, least of all a bridezilla! I'm glad your family is on your side :)

"LadyLochan" wrote:

Your hair is beautiful and honestly I think she's probably jealous of your hair which is why she wants you to change it.

"Ricoret" wrote:

WTAF?! You are absolutely NTA, your cousin sounds like an absolute loon.

Your hair is really beautiful btw, and even if it was flaming Merida red (which would also be awesome) it still wouldn’t be remotely reasonable for your cousin to ask you to dye it. Is she really jealous or something?

Three of my bridesmaids were redheads and they all looked like the beautiful, glowing mermaids they are so f*ck your cousin for being a d*ck.

You definitely do not have to go.

"Alceriniel" wrote:

You 100% WNBTA (would not be the as*hole) if you chose not to attend. And quite frankly I hope your cousin DOES see this thread.

Amy - You are 100% the entitled a*shole in this situation, and if you are really making your bridesmaids wear a dress like that? You obviously either

A.) Have no taste/style whatsoever, or

B.) are colorblind, which would make a lot of sense seeing as how you would call this girls hair "FLAMING RED"

"thisgirlcan76" wrote:

firstly I have to say your hair is lovely. People with ginger /strawberry blonde hair generally always look really good in green so I don’t see the problem. Maybe she knows this and is worried you will look better than her. Finally you should never change who you are or what you look like for ANYONE else. She is being a bridezilla.

"brainbluescreen" wrote:

Read both posts to my dad and he's a lot meaner than you're being about this: "Tell her 'It'll take my hair longer to grow back than this marriage is gonna last, so I'll pass'."

So, there you have it! Of course, this bride is a Grade A bridezilla demon monster and I hope our redhead keeps us updated on any developments (such as the inevitable divorce).

11 people who flatlined and survived share what happened.

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The mysteries of life are nothing compared to the mystery of death.

People who survived medical emergencies and were miraculously revived (thanks to medicine) shared their stories on Reddit, and it's a fascinating peek at what's to come.

Thanks for sharing your stories. We're glad you're back.

1. From bilbiblib:

Once my heart stopped pumping (I had an undiagnosed arrhythmia at the time). I slowly died while my heart stopped pumping.

It hurt. It hurt in a silent, whole, complete way I cannot describe.

Everything went dark, I lost my hearing, then black.

And then, my heart started again, and I opened my eyes alive.

That is it.

2. TepesX is a miracle.

My heart stopped once, when I was seven. Just gone. Paramedics, father, nobody could revive me.

It went black, instantly.

Then I awoke after I had been declared deceased. It was like waking up from a nap. My heart started back up on its own.

No nothing. Just from the dinner table, to paramedics.

Then I got to learn I have a bicuspid aortic heart valve. Woo.

3. c*ntymcgee is Amy from Little Women.

Fell through the ice on a pond when I was 7, I remember it was extremely cold, and dark, and I was panicking, and then it was silent and there was nothingness and then from there I don't remember anything until I was back on the ice coughing up water.

4. BazookaGoblins explains:

I drowned once. I panicked and freaked out, but then I got really calm until someone pulled me out of the water. I remember looking around and everything was bright and had a sort of dream-like quality to it. Than I passed out and woke up and was exhausted afterwards. That's about it.

5. From wellmynameishaley:

A few years ago, I was hit by a truck. My nose was broken, among other things, and my head hit the pavement so hard that I received mild head trauma. I began to seize in the middle of the street where I was laying. Because of some complicated medical sh*t involving the bizarre angle of my head during aforementioned seizure and the blood coming from my nose going down my throat instead of out of my nostrils, I suffocated.

I was not conscious, but I was aware, and that's the best way I can describe it. I did not see myself from outside of my body. I did not see a light. I felt my brain feel like it was shrinking and I felt my eyes refuse to open. I could taste the blood but couldn't spit it out. My brain felt like Pinhead's face and I was so aware that I was unable to control my body. I then had the thought that this was it. I knew that my last words were "whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there", because I was singing Drive with my friend, which was going to be the last song I had ever listened to. Everyone says that your life flashes before your eyes. I was only 14, and the only thing that flashed before my eyes was all the things i never got to do. It was terror and confusion and I was so painfully aware of it. Suddenly,the pains and the fear stopped. It felt like I had fallen asleep, but better. I felt relief. It felt like at every point in my body, there was a thread connecting it to a spiritual version of myself; I felt so many of those threads break. I felt my brain let go, lay down its burden, and feel okay.

Suddenly, I was awake. Waking up was honestly the worst part. Everything hurt, everything was loud, I wanted that medic to just let me go back. Dying was the most serene, peaceful, refreshing feeling.

Sidenote: I love living! I'm glad I lived. The physical pain was 50 shades of cray, so dying was relief. I'm all healed now.

6. nthensome came back (twice).

I died on the operating table (twice).

Nothing, nothing happened.

I fell asleep and when I woke up they told me what happened.

There was no white light, pearly gates or hell.

I fell asleep and there was nothing.

I hate for that to sound like a downer, but this is what actually happened to me.

7. MikesKitiKat learned the hard way.

I saw nothing. I felt nothing. I didn't even know that I had been dead for 4 minutes until the doctors told me. The only thing that changed, really, was that I now know I'm allergic to narcotics/opiates.

8. From Wh*re_Bag:

I OD'd on cocaine and my friend had to do CPR to me. She said I started to turn blue and she got really scared. I'm not sure if I were legally dead, but I would assume I was. My nail beds took a couple of weeks to turn the regular color again.

For me it was just like a light switch turning off. No lights or dead relatives inviting me into the afterlife. There was nothing. It was the blackest black I had ever seen. When I woke up it was like a dream. A very scary one.

9. PistolPete23 writes:

I was close to my death bed. I stopped breathing for four minutes the day after a surgery.

Four years ago I had went in for a routine spinal fusion surgery (L4 fused to my L5). I had a sports aggravated condition called spondylolisthesis. The day after the surgery, I woke up and was doing fine. About four hours after I woke up, I had a hard time breathing.

I went into respiratory failure. Basically, my lungs filled up with liquid and I stopped breathing for 4 minutes.

I will never forget what happened next. My fiance at the time (now Ex), was in the room when this happened. She was an ER Nurse and knew something serious was going down. She called for help immediately.

A code blue was called. Doctors and nurses rushed into my room. It took over 10 people to hold me down as they intubated me. The doctor forced an apparatus down my throat to guide the breathing tube into my lungs. This was the scariest thing I have ever experienced.

Everything went black. I have no memory after that. I thought I died.

A few days later, I was propped up in my bed by my ICU Nurse. The bed tilted so that I was full upright. A nurse yelled my name at the top of her lungs then slapped me to wake me up. It was liking waking up from the dead.

I genuinely thought that I died.

I will never forget fighting the doctors as they held me down. I will never forget the feeling of the breathing tube being forced into my lungs. Also, I will never forget fading to black thinking I had died.

To this day, it's the scariest things I have ever experienced.

TL;DR: I stopped breathing for four minutes, had a code blue called on me. I thought I died.

10. TheBigJoblonski is succinct.

I drowned in a pool once, and it was just like going to sleep. I always used to be afraid of drowning but not any more. It's like, "I need to breathe, I need to breathe, I..." zzzzzzzzz

11. From eyeofdelphi:

Intentional heroin overdose. It didn't feel like anything at all. One minute I was there, then I don't remember anything. I do have some recollection of feeling peaceful and calm, but I was, y'know, shooting up heroin. It's the coming back that was excruciating. I was told I was not breathing and had no heartbeat when the EMTs got there. They did stuff, I'm assuming narcan, maybe some compressions. I came to on the kitchen floor right under the light. F*cking intense eye pain, everything was so bright. It hurt to breathe, it hurt to move. Every muscle in my body was screaming and it felt like I had battery acid in my veins. And everything was so loud, it felt like everyone was screaming. I remember being sad that I was back, I think I cried. But then pain took over and I don't remember much until the hospital. I try not to think about it too much. Would not recommend.

23 people share the funniest things they ever misdiagnosed as a serious illness.

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Hypochondriac meltdowns: we all have them. And the internet should help, but it doesn't. WebMD only makes things worse with its endless pages of worst-case scenarios.

A man named Mark shared his story of a WebMD-induced health scare that landed him in the ER. Turns out, there was a very simple and benign explanation for his symptoms. Luckily, he's fine, because embarrassment isn't fatal (even if it sometimes feels that way).

Mark's hilarious story has resonated with hypochondriacs all across the web(MD). Many people are sharing their own stories of misadventures in self-diagnosis.

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People react to guy's post about why mental illness doesn't give you a pass to mistreat people.

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Taking care of yourself during a difficult mental health spiral is hard work. Even the most basic of interactions or daily tasks (like getting dressed and feeding yourself) can feel insurmountable, and this deep exhaustion can lead to irritability and paranoia-based fights with even the closest of friends.

Ideally, people who know you well are able to parse the outbursts that are symptoms of mental illness from your actual personality and feelings. But even so, no friendship can last without mutual care, and dealing with mental illness doesn't serve as a shield against emotional responsibility.

In a popular Twitter thread, the artist Quill shared why he thinks it's toxic to use mental health episodes as an excuse to treat people badly.

He emphasized that regardless of what deep dark pit you find yourself in, it's still your responsibility to apologize to people for hurtful behavior, even if it's not intentional.

He also went on to say that friends and family have a right to cut you off for damaging behavior even if it was a symptom of mental illness.

He went on to clarify that he's found himself on both sides of this equation.

At times, he's lashed out at those he loves the most, and in other situations he's been forced to cut someone off who wasn't getting better. It's all a matter of keeping personal boundaries and mutual respect, whether you're the one going through it or the person supporting a friend.

While Quill's thoughts got a lot of traction, not everyone agreed with his assessment of personal responsibility.

One person claimed it's unfair and stigmatizing to expect depressed or struggling people to backtrack and apologize for all and any unsavory behavior.

Quill was quick to share that they fully understand the struggle, but that doesn't excuse people from mistreating others.

Others jumped onto the sub-thread in agreement with Quill, pointing out that apologizing isn't that hard or time consuming and can make all the difference in relationships.

A lot of people jumped onto the thread to echo Quill's original sentiment and point out that while it's hard to apologize or stay accountable while in the throes of mental illness, it's ultimately healthier for everyone.

People also jumped on to emphasize the fact that recognizing which behaviors are toxic after a breakdown is a useful skill and serves as another compass for improving mental health.

Dealing with mental illness is a true challenge, and in the darkest moments it takes all your strength just to survive. No one should beat themselves up for not being at 100 percent when dealing with the difficulties of mental illness, but finding a way to be mindful of others once you've regained some health and clarity is a win-win for everyone.

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