Renting an apartment can be a very special sort of nightmare.

Do you want anything fixed when it breaks? Do you want to actually live in the space? How about paying the majority of your income to deal with a landlord who is essentially just a money-collecting ghost? It's so fun!

If you live in a major city, you know that dealing with loud neighbors, walk up buildings built in the stone age and tiny spaces are already enough of a challenge. On top of settling for a less-than-perfect housing situation, you also usually have to deal with supers, building managers and landlords who refuse to acknowledge your existence as a human other than your money. The system is broken, and so is your fridge (probably).

In honor of the shortest month we all pay full price for, here are the funniest landlord and rent-related tweets we could find.

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Professional Instagrammers, aka "influencers," may be the most widely-hated group of people in modern society. Nevertheless, they persist—one photoshoot at a time. But if you think it's annoying having your feed interrupted by an influencer's compulsive displays of narcissism, imagine what it's like to have them as your colleagues. This is the reality for many professional photographers. As you can imagine, influencers often have absurd and outrageous demands that go way beyond what most people would expect from a photographer. But at least they pay well! Lol JK. They pay in "exposure"—if at all.

Someone asked Reddit: "what is the most outrageous photo shoot request you have received from an Instagram 'influencer'?" These 15 photographers' stories of insanity and entitlement will make you want to rage-scream into a pillow:

1.) From Amuro_Ray_Gunner:

Had an "influencer" try to set up a shoot with me. When I mentioned my price she was shocked because she was under the assumption that I was going to pay her for some reason.

2.) From rhgarton:

Someone asked me to shoot her entire wedding, a full day, an engagement photoshoot underwater (I do underwater photography also) and some 'honeymoon' shots somewhere... All for 'exposure'... I straight up said no, politely and she kicked off in a patronising way asking me if she knew who she was and what it would do for my career... She had about 10k less followers than I did and I don't even do weddings as I had pointed out so it wasn't even in my best interest even if she had millions of followers.

Oh and an 'influencer' guy asked me to do a nude photoshoot for him for free. I declined but wished him luck... He then sent a dick pic. I reported him.

3.) From notanotherbreach:

"Beet Poop"

Some influencer that was promoting betanin in beets as healthy diet. She want me to take images of the colored-change poop. That this is actually normal in those that can't process the betanin.

4.) From martlet1:

I got asked if I had any duct tape because she wanted her boobs to push up into her dress

She then proceeded to strip completely down to just high heels and wanted me to go in the other room so she could take selfies with my remote control.

Uh , I’m not leaving you alone with 10k worth of lenses.

5.) From Admiralbaz:

A bald guy asked me to photoshop veins in his head to make his head look like a giant penis. he was some kind of business man who was selling a audio book.

6.) From CodyDeasy:

She asked for $200/hr with a three hour minimum, without any real prior modeling experience, and had conditions that the photos could not be posted anywhere and that she was going to have them sold exclusively on her Patreon.

7.) From C0SAS:

This one was actually willing to pay (she was big enough for sponsors) but she wanted me to rent her a luxury car on Turo because she was banned from it....presumably for damaging luxury cars during photoshoots (there was an image of her standing on the hoods of 2 G-Wagons...in heels).

I wasn't about to get caught up in that mess.

8.) From AlaskanOverlord:

Haha I love ridiculous requests because I do surrealist/ neon stuff on my own time and really enjoy going for weird/ unusual vibes. Probably the funniest was one girl who came to my house (I have a mini jungle) to shoot with my plants and we wrapped her up in vines, wrapped her guitar, stacked up plants behind her and generally made it look like she was being enveloped by plants. Fun results, and really funny to shoot.

9.) From Heavy_Carrot:

Professional here.

This isn't really outrageous in terms of what they wanted to do in a photo, but I would say 90% of "influencers" who contact me try to use tagging as their form of payment.

"Well I have 100k followers so you're guaranteed to get so much work from this you'd be an idiot to say no,"

This is word for word what one woman said to me when I politely informed her of my rates. Paying artists in "exposure" is nothing new but the level of entitlement I'm seeing these days is off the charts. The only thing I can ever guarantee from these interactions is that they will throw a massive tantrum when I say no, complete with some classic r/nicegirls lines like "Your shit isn't even that good, I was trying to do you a favour, etc.

One person contacted me saying that she gets paid X amount from companies per post, thus every post she makes using my photographs should count for X amount of dollars paid to me because "like soooo many ppl will see it u will prty much be famos,"

10.) From GlassEyeGull:

The "Us naked" because of the influencer's ego. I was young so I did partake. I'd be more cautious now as it turns out that girl wasn't as responsible as I'd prefer with those photos.

11.) From certainly_imperfect:

I was in NY once and this girl (should be in her 20s) approached me and told me to take her photo. I thought it would be some general request. But still, to stand up to my pride, I lowered the camera to gain an architectural perspective. But then when I look at her, she was standing in middle of the road, one arm on a car (that she must have stopped cause the traffic was ongoing) and the other on another car and was holding a banner that said, "Life"

To this day I had no idea what I just witnessed!

12.) From yourkberley:

I was asked to do a boudoir shoot featuring blood, bondage and vampires (people biting each other) by a very well-established, very famous children's show producer back in Toronto.

13.) From PeterPanBean:

Influencer asked me to shoot and before I even had the chance to give her my prices she decided to give me hers, over $300 for ME to shoot with HER for 30 minutes, one of her main selling points was she could “teach me how to leverage and grow my social media”.

Girl was 15...

14.) From SquareCurvesStudio:

Well I’m a boudoir photographer on the side of also being a fashion (SFW) photographer, and I’ve had a request years ago to shoot a spiritual group self-masturbation orgy event.

At the time I was way too new to the boudoir and erotic side of photography in general to go through with it. Honestly if it were today, I would’ve totally done it and blogged about it.

15.) From nolimbs:

I do a lot of “collabs” aka free portraits because I enjoy it. Most of the time the girls are absolute saints, take it seriously, are very nice and understanding about timelines, etc.

The last girl I worked with (who isn’t from the same city I usually work in) asked me to BUY HER ROSES for the shoot. Bitch do you know how expensive roses are?! Also she implied we would be doing more than one outfit (nope, too much work) and that we should go to multiple locations and that I should be the one to drive her.

Most of these girls are extremely accustomed to male photographers rolling out the red carpet for them and treating them like royalty. I’m a female photographer and I do not have the time nor energy to spare their feelings.

16.) From RennyMoose:

I do documentary film and I had a non-film job in college and I met this lady who was maybe 30 ask me to do an "Instagram video like this" and she showed me a professional video-shoot done with a greenscreen, lights and set. I told her I could probably get pretty close to quality (with my University's equipment) but it would take time to get a crew together & reserve a studio. She told me no, that I should just record it with my phone. I told her that's not what they did for the Instagram video she just showed me and she said "It's on Instagram, that means they recorded it with their phone." She dropped it after I mentioned I charge money and wouldn't just "do it to be nice." She has like 10 followers and three of them were pornbots.

17.) From ItsMorpeth:

Work in a camera store and do photography myself, hear stories about this sort of stuff all the time. Usually just ask model shoots for exposure but I’ve heard and seen stories (there is a fairly popular one at the moment about a photographer in Chicago) about people asking for full wedding shoots for exposure. Not always ‘influencers’ asking these questions either, sometimes arsehole people ask this stuff and then say stuff like ‘well if I had that equipment then we’d be able to get the same results’.

They just don’t have respect for the time that goes into the art form.

18.) From niamhellen:

I had the girlfriend of a D-list celebrity try to get me to take cheesy couples photographs of them (I'm a fashion/editorial photographer mind you, not a family portrait taker) by saying "he was in Moonlight, he's very successful."

When I replied with my prices she literally argued with me about it for 4 emails about how "great it would be for me to do it for free" when eventually I told her to go find someone else. If he's very successful he can pay me $200 surely.

Another photographer around here did it for free and neither she, nor the photos got any exposure from it whatsoever. Shocking. 🙄

Thomas Middleditch did ask me to take his photo a couple of years ago, which I really wish I would have done but I was across the country at the time. Now THAT would have been worthwhile exposure!

19.) From That_GareBear:

Had a girl contact me to do a suicide girls photo shoot. I gave her my rates and she got back with "oh, I don't have that much. Isn't it enough that you'd see my tits?"

Normally, when we think of being part of the 1% we imagine living in a golden palace, and taking a private jet to lunch. While it's a qualifier often used to reference the small number of people who hoard the majority of the world's wealth, there are plenty of other ways to be in the 1%.

For instance, people who have rare diseases, deeply unusual family arrangements, or incredibly niche interests might also be part of a 1% slice of the population.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who are part of "the 1%" in some way or another shared what rare boat they fit into.

1. beesbeesbesbeesbees has special bones.

Bone density! I had a DEXA scan a couple years ago, apparently have super dense bones.

2. fugly16 has the bagpipe life cornered.

I think I must have been in a small percentage with being Asian and playing the bagpipes.

3. cousin_geri cleans the lint traps.

1% who clean the communal dryer lint traps directly after the cycle ends.

4. _orphic has the UK stats.

Living in the UK, apparently on 0.87% of people live here.

5. tflightz has a rare birthday.

Even less. I'm 0.3% of people for being born on March 26th.

6. weissguy3 is a leftie.

I write with my left hand, but use my right for literally everything else.

7. mintjubilee has gorgeous recessive genes.

Red hair + blue eyes. I didn’t know it was so rare because one of my siblings has red hair and blue eyes, too. Crazier is that no one in our family on either side has had red hair, and neither our parents nor grandparents had blue eyes. The fact that these recessive genes kept being passed down on both sides of the family and happened to team up for us is kind of cool.

ETA: The probability for a child with one carrier parent: 50% non-carrier, 50% carrier.

The probability for a child with two carrier parents: 50% carrier, 25% not carrier, and 25% redhead.

The probability of an NPE (milkman baby) is 2%-12% according to Wikipedia. So just an FYI that it’s actually statistically more likely to have two carrier parents than to have a different dad. (But for the record, we’ve done dna tests.)

8. greffedufois has a rare medical condition.

Not sure about 1%, but I am a medical anomaly.

Got to be in a medical journal with a tumor type my surgeon had only seen once before. 1 in 2 million odds.

Also got all the weird 'in 1% of patients this weird a*s reaction happened to this med/disease'.

Henoch-shonlein purpura was a fun one. That one got a picture of my bruise covered butt in a medical textbook.

Oh and avascular necrosis. I was the youngest case my doc had seen (19) as the usual age is 50+. Damned steroids keeping me alive also caused bone rot in my knee.

The chances of a girl from Illinois moving to the bush and marrying an Eskimo are probably relatively slim. One with a liver transplant too...as far as I know I'm the only one.

9. notagoodboye has a sense of humor about their position.

Brains, money, and penis size.

Remember, the bottom 1% is still the 1%.

10. Mor-Rioghan lives that rare amputee life.

Well, I'm an amputee in the USA (0.63% of United States population) and it's a congenital (from birth) upper extremity loss which accounts for only 8.9% of all amputees (4 in every 10000 births) ... I don't want to do the math but I'd guess that's a pretty small number.

11. throwawayyyyyprawn survived against the odds.

Doctors told my family I have 24 hours to live, twice. At birth and at 20yo. Now I'm relatively sober, relatively healthy and relatively successful.

12. HelenEk7 has green eyes.

I thought it might be the fact that I have green eyes. Turns out 2% of people in the world have green eyes..... So close.

13. JudgePrudy has Aphantasia.

I have Aphantasia. Found out last summer thanks to Reddit.

Supposedly around 1-2% of people cannot visualize in their mind at all.

I also don't hear anything in my head or have taste/touch/smell memory sensations. It has f*cked me up thinking about how this has affected my ability to learn, cope, remember, or problem-solve.

14. PubScrubRedemption spends a lot of money on Lego.

Adults who spend a non-insignificant amount of their disposable income on Lego.

15. design-responsibly has never experienced a headache.

I never get headaches and I've never had a cavity.

16. just_be_respectful has synesthesia.

I’m a synesthete! Basically, stimulation of one of my senses activates another (ex: I see colors and shapes when I hear sounds)

17. ImEntrapta can't tolerate histamine.

Histamine intolerance. Also, mainly effects those age 50 and over. I just got a big head start.

18. Abyssuspuella got pregnant on an IUD.

Got pregnant on a IUD.

19. _Moregone was raised by lesbians.

80's kid raised by lesbians.

20. thebrownkid left a very specific cult.

Having been part of a Filipino cult.

Before you post on Facebook, ask yourself: "Would I go up to an acquaintance and tell this to them in real life?"

For the following people, the answer is most certainly "no."

1. Everybody's aunt.

2. "Posted by my mother-in-law"

3. Yikes.

4. "Proud Mommy Moment"

5. You oughta know.

6. Any takers?

7. "No ugly ones pls"

8. Happy Father's Day.

9. Ew.

10. Every app is a dating app.

11. Somebody call the police on the baby fetishist.

12. Happy Hanukkah!

13. Sh*tty background.

14. "Feeling lovely"

15. "Don't have a horse."

Pizza Rolls are my favorite food. Sure, there are more gourmet options out there, but no other food will give you third-degree burns on your tongue and leave you begging for more like a Pizza Roll. I've been personally victimized by this food approximately 100,000 times, and to this day nothing will stop me from poppin' a molten lava filled lil baby Pizza Roll in my mouth. Nothing. Anyone who loves Pizza Rolls will relate hard to these deliciously hilarious memes.

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Anyone who's been on a fair number of dates has probably thought about leaving in the middle of one. But most of us aren't brave enough to actually do it—or maybe we just haven't been on a date so bad that it left us with no other choice.

Someone asked Reddit: "have you ever left in the middle of a date? If so, why?" These 27 brave souls share their inspirational stories:

1.) From MashMashSkid:

I told her I was color blind, she recoiled and said it was "gross" and sat there looking at me like I had the plague or something. I just sort of got up and left. It was really odd.

2.) From engelb15:

Met girl online, she shows up for our first date drunk, with her drunk friend... and one month old son that she had forgot to mention (baby was sober I think). I excused myself to the restroom and ran like my ass was on fire.

3.) From Woobie68:

She started talking about 'our wedding' and 'our future kids' on our first date. She wasn't joking around, and when I told her that it was way too sudden to be talking about that, she looked at me quizically and said "Don't you want to get married?" First online date I'd ever gone on. Plenty of awkward ones after that (including the girl who got drunk then admitted she had an infant son and lived with her ex-husband), but that one took the cake.

4.) From PM_ME_YOUR_PHILLIPS:

He brought another girl with him.

We had agreed to go for dinner, then see a movie together, not with anyone else, as a date. We had definitely agreed it was, in fact, a date. I would've understood if we hadn't made it clear if it was a date, but we both knew it was.

Anyways, he shows up with another girl. He pretty much ignores me the entire time, the bitch is sneering at me when he isn't looking. Why agree to a date when you're going to bring another girl? He didn't even tell me he was going to bring someone. He just did.

When we get to the movies, we take our seats, and I said 'I'm going to the washroom' and grabbed my stuff and left.

5.) From maylenexx:

Guy from OkCupid a few years back.

Takes me to a 5 star restaurant, I try to stick to the middle of the road drinks/food as it's a first date. Dinner went really well so we decide to go for post-dinner drinks. I get to the point where I feel I should stop drinking since it's a first date and I wasn't really ready for him to see me trashed. He orders me another drink and then invites me over to his house because his wife is out of town.

Date over.

6.) From RebelScumbag:

We met online. She brought her sister on our first date. She never spoke and all her sister did was drill me about "my plans" and "my intentions." After ordering she said "I hope you're planning on paying. That's what a real man would do on a first date." So I said "true but this wasn't a date, it was a job interview" I dropped my half in cash and walked out. Btw I drove us there. Never heard from them again.

7.) From refugefirstmate:

Blind date, Indian restaurant. First thing he does is produce a folder of photos of him and various celebrities. Shows me them, one by one. He keeps...clutching at me.

After about 15 minutes of this, I say "this isn't really - I don't think we're compatible. I think I should go" and get up to leave. He stood up too, and shouted at me as I left. No, I did not look back.

Ed: This happened in the mid-1980s, so unless the guy you're thinking of is now in his 70s, it's not him.

Yes, a real manila folder, with 8x10 glossies, in a real manila enevelope. Mid 1980s. No Photoshop, no iphone.

The two celebs I remember seeing are Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama. Remember, this was 30 years ago.

No, I don't remember what he was shouting. I was focused on GTFO of there, and as I said, 30 years ago.

No, I don't remember which Indian restaurant, but it was in Cambridge MA. Yellow walls.

Yes, he was a Harvard man. No, he was not blind. A "blind date" is when somebody fixes you up with somebody you don't know, or when you go out with somebody you've met via a dating service or ad. (No photos back then; just descriptions.)

Also, I am so glad this entertained you all. My operating principle re: nightmare experiences is "This is God's way of giving us drinking stories." You've proved me right.

8.) From titlejunk:

He was 45 minutes late, got mad that another guy had started chatting me up at the bar while I waited, then proceeded to tell me about the hidden satanic messages in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

9.) From [deleted]:

Yes. Went to get coffee to test the waters with someone new. First thing he did was ask me to turn around and lift my shirt so he can see my ass. I got up, turned around and walked out the door.

10.) From jamslambam:

I was in my late teens and went on a date with a friend of a friend. He seemed nice, and I got the OK from my bff, so I anticipated a pleasant, quiet evening - we were just going for frozen yogurt and TV at his house, after all. Well everything's going smooth and he seems really sweet. He tells me he likes to write poetry and my teenage girl brain is thinking, "Wow! A sensitive guy! How refreshing." Then he tells me that he wants to show me something. I assumed it was a poem he wrote because we had just talked about it.

ME: "Ok! What is it?"
HIM: "Well, it's not ready yet, but it will be in a couple minutes." As he leans over on his side, away from me. ME: Confused, because I'm expecting a poem... is he going to write a poem in a couple minutes? This is going to be awkward.

Then he starts making all these innuendos about what it is. I get annoyed because he sounds like he's describing his penis, and the joke is dying fast. Finally, just to shut him up, I say, "If it's your DICK then NO I DON'T want to see it!"

HIM: "Oh... okay then." And he sits back normally on the couch. I'm super confused and think he's pulling my leg. I ask if he's kidding and says no. He seriously wanted to whip out his junk and show me.
ME: "What the hell am I supposed to say to you while your dick is out?!"
HIM: "Well, my last girlfriend told me she'd been waiting to see it all night." ME: Stunned silence. Then, "Ohh...kay..."

Being the awkward teen I was, I sat back into the couch, not touching him (we had been cuddling up until that conversation) and uncomfortably waited out the remainder of whatever show was on TV - and then bolted.

After I got home, I called my BFF and frantically told her what had happened. Her response? "Ohhh, yeah, I forgot to tell you. He likes to do that."

11.) From area-woman:

OKcupid date - emailed back and forth, had some common interests, seemed like we would get along. We met up and got food, a couple drinks, seemed to be getting along well. Then he starts talking about how good he is at Karaoke. He's been in contests and won first place, he and his friends go all the time, etc. I tell him I've only done karaoke a few times, when very drunk and with a big group of friends. I also mention that I'm pretty sure I'm tone deaf. He tells me there is a Karaoke place only one block away!!! I tell him I'm not interested. He tells me you get your own little booth. No one else will even hear you. You can pick whatever songs you want!!! No waiting while other people sing!!! It's clear he's not giving up, so I grab two shots of vodka and say fine, I'll try it. We go to the karaoke lounge and get our booth and he does three or four songs perfectly. I start my first song and he starts criticizing me, and pointing out what i'm doing wrong WHILE I'm trying to sing. Then he picks up the other mic and starts singing over me. I say fuck this and just get up to leave. He chases after me and tells me -" I need you to pay for half of this". It's $60. I look in my wallet, take out the only cash I had and said "here's $20, and you can go fuck yourself". Then he follows me to the bus stop and tried to make idle chit chat while I wait to get the fuck away from him.

12.) From random989898:

Had joined a new sports club and there was one guy who was quiet and kind of just hung around the periphery of the group. I felt kind of bad for him so was always trying to bring him into conversations and talk to him. One night we all went out for drinks after the game and I talked to him for awhile. Conversation was hard work but he seemed like a nice guy. He texted and asked me if I wanted to go out for coffee. I wasn't really interested but knew given how quiet he was that it probably took a ton of nerve to text me that and I thought maybe in a 1:1 environment he would be more comfortable and I could get to know him a little more.

We met at the coffee shop and he had a big backpack with him. We ordered drinks then chatted, with me again doing most of the talking - he rarely initiated but would answer questions. About 1/2 hour in he said he had a few things to show me to let me get to know him better. He then did a show and tell from his backpack pulling out various items and pictures and telling me about them. Some were kind of interesting (a family trip) and some I had no idea how to respond to (here is a picture of how I had my hair cut in grade 8). He had stuffed animals and lots of items from his childhood. I kept trying to bring the conversation to the present to find out if the item linked to a current interest or hobby but he kind of had the story about each item rehearsed and he would go right back to the show and tell. Eventually the table was full of stuff and I tried to politely say that I had seen enough and change the topic. He told me had still had more to show me. I ended up saying I felt sick and left. I felt kind of bad but it was just getting too weird.

13.) From _Stamos:

I left in the middle of a movie once. The date was going great but I forgot that I had left a pot pie in the oven in my apartment (only broke college guys and old people eat pot pies). I remembered a few minutes in and whispered something along the lines of "gotta get my pot pie out of the oven so I don't burn down my apartment I'll be right back." I did return but she was pissed. Thought we could go see the pot pie and have a laugh. Arrived at my previously empty apartment to find my brother and the neighbor girls drunk and naked in my living room. Showed her the pot pie and she said something along the lines of "you're an asshole take me home".

14.) From [deleted]:

I've had a girl walk out on me, took me weeks to realise why.

This was date 3. We'd met initially at a nightclub randomly, kinda just said hi and our groups merged (the boys and her girls), met up a week later at a carnival and ha a great time.

This day in particular, we met up for a basic lunch at a nice little spot near my place and just had nothing to talk about (which was odd, she seemed semi vacant). Lunch goes by with small talk, we pay separately and she asks to come back to my place - no problems there, she's an attractive girl and I have a penis. Anyhow, we get back to my place, she throws on a dvd while I snack up the coffee table and we start talking about pet peeves with the opposite sex. Usual things come up first, like toilet seat positioning and 'get ready time' for outings. Somehow it leads on to a story about this girl I knew who was 'dating' me whilst having an actual boyfriend on the side, and how disrespectful it was in the end. She just goes pale white, grabs her stuff and makes some excuse about forgetting something at home. I thought I'd maybe sounded a bit cocky or come across like a douchebag, kinda felt like an ass for a day or so and moved on. My housemate ran into her and her boyfriend shopping a week later. That was awkward.

15.) From missbteh:

He scraped the bottom of his low-to-the-ground car on my driveway. He took it (and me) straight to a mechanic to look at the damage. He told me that if it was a quick fix he would only make me pay half. I said my brother is a mechanic let me go call him.

Left and called for a ride. Fuuuuck that.

16.) ​​​​​​​From I_Need_A_Fork:

She brought up politics & religion, attacked my stance on both then pestered me about my financial stability all before the brought out the bread.

17.) From 45MinutesOfRoadHead:

We had been on a couple of dates, and he invited me to his house to watch a movie. I showed up and he immediately brings me an Ice Pick. I don't like vodka and I wasn't in the mood to drink, but I thanked him for the drink and I sipped on it a little.

He commented that I wasn't drinking fast enough. I said "Oh, well I'm not really in the drinking mood." He kept pressuring me to drink. I inspected my glass to make sure there was no residue or anything else in it. There wasn't, but when I finished he made me another without asking. I thanked him, but said that I really didn't want another. He told me not be rude and that I should have drinks with him if he's making them for me. When I finished that one I said "I really don't want another". He brings me another.

It's obvious that he's trying to get me drunk. He keeps trying to make out with me and I said that I really wanted to watch the movie. He keeps, literally, pulling my face towards him and shoving his tongue down my throat.

I turned the other way on the couch, so I had my feet down by him and he couldn't get to my face.

He then gets on the floor, and walks on his motherfucking knees to my face and starts trying to kiss me again.

I said I needed to go to the bathroom. I quietly called my best friend and told her I need her to call me back with something "urgent" in a couple of minutes so I could get out of a bad date. She did, and I took off.

After that the kept trying to call and text me a lot and I just told him "Look, you were obviously trying to get me drunk, and kept forcing kisses after I said I wanted to watch the movie. This is not gonna work out."

18.) ​​​​​​​From Bleuonej:

This was a third date, he was a nice enough guy, an editor at the local newspaper. We're at his house and he's made me dinner and suddenly he drops in normal conversation that his fetish is having sex with girls that are unconscious. I immediately stopped eating, stopped drinking, and made my exit. I did not get roofied but damn was I scared that it was in the cards for that night.

Edit: His exact words were "You're so sexy. I'd love to share something with you since we seem to be hitting it off... Yada yada yada."

I excused myself to the bathroom and pretended to get an emergency call. He got arrested two years later for being a peeping tom, then moved away. I swear this happened. I met some real weirdos when I was doing the OK Cupid thing. For instance, met a guy that said a black panther was his spirit animal and that she came to him in his dreams. Sometimes she told him to do bad things to people, but she was OK with me. That one never got a second date...but I saw his engagement notice in the paper a year later.

19.) From workingdonttell:

So, this is about ten years ago, a few friends in another city introduce me and this girl. We call each other, chat on instant messenger, and text a bit. I tell I'm going to see my friends in a couple weeks and we set up a dinner date.

We met at the restaurant, big hug and huge grin from her. We sit down, chat, and are talking a bit when two of her friends get seated diagonally from us. She gets up to go say hi, never introduces me, and proceeds to have the waiter drop her food off at their table. Her friends ask why she's leaving me alone and without any shame she says "He's fine." Waiter comes to pick up my plate (I'd already ordered and I didn't want to be a dick and screw the waiter) and drops off my check then hands her her own check. I just shrugged it off handed the guy a $20 saying keep the change and left.

She calls me on my way back to my buddies house, bitches me out then had the balls to ask if I'd buy her alcohol to take to a party (I was 21 she was 19). I laughed, she called me a dick and hung up. Then I questioned why I answered the call in the first place.

20.) ​​​​​​​From staredaggers:

She would not stop talking about babies. Her friends had them, her sisters had them, her brothers had them and made sure it was perfectly, crystal clear, she did not have one.

Yikes.

21.) ​​​​​​​From TrixieDawn:

Met a guy online who lived about an hour away. We agreed to meet up closer to me and he told me he was just going to stay in town that night. I figured he had friends here or whatever. He gets to the date and he is clearly about 15 years older than his pictures represented. I figured I would finish the meal then gtfo. After dinner he insisted on walking me to my car and then said, "ok, so I'll just follow you back to your place then?" I was quite shocked and a little scared for my safety so I said ok and then ripped out of that parking lot before he could get to his car. He text me an hour later and told me he was home lol. Never heard from him after that.

22.) ​​​​​​​From Pock_the_Viking:

She started doing blow halfway through

Unexpected follow-up:

She actually is super cool, and I ended up helping her through sobriety and now she's almost two years completely clean and we're good friends.

23.) From DracoMeowfoy_:

"You're pretty smart... For a woman"

24.) From alientic:

It was an OkCupid date and we met for coffee after talking awhile. He had a sour look on his face when I got there, so I wasn't expecting too much. When our coffee came out, he said "I'm glad you didn't ask me to pay for that, because I don't think you should be drinking something with that many calories." I'm a fat person, but he was way fatter than me, so I thought he was being self-depricating. I was prepared to roll my eyes and let it go, but then he ranted for about 15 minutes about how women were getting too fat and how they should be pressured to lose more weight. Eventually I stopped him with a "You saw my picture! Why did you even agree to coffee?" His answer was "I was hoping you had lost weight since the picture was taken, because no one would put themselves on a dating app in that condition."

25.) From Siltyn:

Picked up a girl for a first date. On the drive to eat she's tapping away on her phone a few times. Get to the place to eat, sits down, tapping away texting. A few minutes later, texting again. I excuse myself to use the bathroom....and leave.

26.) ​​​​​​​From secretly_im_a_wizard:

He turned up drunk, and brought pictures of his time in Iraq in the army with him, that he took me through painfully slowly, one-by-one. I politely excused myself to go for a cigarette and he lost it - accused me of being rude, shouting about how no wonder I was single, and then sat on my coat so I couldn't run away - saying that even if I did leave, he would follow me and make me sorry. He also goes on a rant about how all graduates are entitled dickheads, he doesn't agree with women going to uni, and that I'm a middle class c*nt. He had insisted on paying for my drink, so when I came back in I said I wanted to go, and he insisted that I OWE HIM a drink, 'cos he was going up Camden to meet his mates and didn't want to be behind on the drinks front. Fine, whatever, he's CLEARLY insane, I'll just buy him one to shut him up then I can leave. At the bar, he begins throwing ice at the barmaid when her back is turned, then when she turns around accusingly, points at me and says 'she did it'. The barmaid and I both know that it was him. After he has his pint in his hand he goes back to the table, and I confess to said barmaid that I'm on the worst date of my life and want to run away. She pours me a shot of tequila, tells the bouncer to distract him, then helped me run away, as he banged on the window and shouted 'I'll find you'.

27.) From [deleted]:

I took a girl once to my favorite mexican restaurant.

She proceeded to pretty much give me a run down of her past 5 boyfriends, why the relationship failed, how each was in bed, what they all did for a living, where they all took her for vacations. My eyes started to cross, and my blood was starting to boil. I was relegated to "un huh's" and "wow, that guy is an asshole" responses. She seemed very disinterested in anything I had to say, and I was fucking done.

As I was about to get up and walk out, the waiter brought my fajitas. So you know what...I just rolled with it. Started asking questions about her ex boyfriends. All the while, I was stuffing my face with tasty tasty fajitas. Honestly, most of the dudes sounded like pretty good guys, but I put on a brave face and shit talked them in between bites.

Once I was full, I got up, said I needed to go to the bathroom, paid for my half of the meal at the register, and just left. She was busy texting someone, and didn't even notice.

On my way home, she texted me and asked me where I was. Told her that I left, and that maybe she should ask one of her ex boyfriends to come and pick her up since she spent the last 45 minutes doing nothing but talking about them.

Got a couple fuck you's, you're an asshole texts on the drive home...but its been radio silent ever since.

Children are often the most creative thinkers because they haven't yet been beaten down by years in the workforce. Everything is still brand new to them, and the ways of the world feel more malleable for a child scheming to get what they want.

It can be truly fascinating to watch children synthesize all the new information they're presented with, particularly when they make quick connections and ask smart and curious questions.

Some of the funniest comebacks and childhood inventions are amusing precisely because they're so inventive, the mindset of a child can mirror that of an intoxicated person because they embrace absurdity in its full beauty (and don't recognize some behaviors as absurd).

The world of social media has opened up the floodgates for parents and siblings to post highlight reels of the weird sayings and habits kids form, and honestly, some of these kids seem to already have a more inventive and confident grasp on the world than the rest of us.

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There's no "I" in "bachelorette party."

A Maid of Honor got fired from the wedding party when she didn't cancel the bachelorette party when the bride had to stay home to be in the hospital with her fiancé.

Dependent-Ferret asked Reddit,"AITA [Am I The A**hole] for going on the bachelorette without the bride?" It sounds bad...because it is.

The ex-Maid of Honor writes:

I'm the groom's sister and the bride, Jessie, asked me to be her maid of honour, and there were 2 bridesmaids, Jessie's cousins. We were all excited for the bachelorette and then Jessie said she didn't want one because she couldn't be arsed to plan it. I offered to plan everything, and I planned the perfect weekend at a spa hotel. If Jessie had any complaints she didn't tell me about them. The hotel was a few hours away so we agreed to meet there, and me and one of the cousins sorted out childcare so we could go as we both have kids.

On the Thursday night before we're meant to go Jessie calls me from A&E (emergency room). My idiot brother was on his bachelor party (a 3 day adventure trip), and fell from high enough to break a couple bones. Jessie says she now can't go to the bachelorette and as the hotel has free cancellation until noon on Friday, can I cancel the hotel. I try telling her how excited everyone is and that we can't go without her but she won't hear it and just tells me to cancel and hangs up.

Reader, she didn't cancel. Why should she suffer just because her "idiot brother" was in the hospital? She had already booked a babysitter, and babysitters don't grow on trees.

I know for a fact my brother would have been fine. He's an idiot and he's broken just about every bone in his body by now. He was with our older brother and I called my older brother who said the idiot was fine, he'd just gone rock climbing and fallen because his caribiner didn't close properly. It wasn't from very high. He said he'd broken an arm and a couple ribs, but the idiot would be fine and they were letting him go as soon as they had finished with the casts and were sure there was no concussion.

My view is that there's no point giving up a great weekend because the man who has yet to go a year without breaking any bones broke another, and he's had way worse, even just in the last year or so, plus we were all looking forward to it and we'd sorted out childcare and made arrangements already. I called him on Friday and he still wasn't discharged but I asked him to talk to Jessie for me and he said he would.

Here's the part when the bride finds out:

Anyway, Saturday morning, we all get to the hotel. Jessie isn't here and she isn't answering her phone. I call my brother and he says Jessie is with him in the hospital. I asked when she'd be coming. Jessie takes the phone and starts getting annoyed at me, saying "what the hell? I thought you were cancelling? Your brother is in hospital". I tell her he's fine and me and everyone else is here now. She tells us to have a nice weekend without her. I spend the weekend celebrating the upcoming marriage of 2 people who aren't here because it is no longer refundable and have to pay extra because the cost is now split 3 ways instead of 4.

We get home and I go to see my brother and Jessie. Jessie tells us that a couple of her friends are now going to help her out, and basically fires me and her cousins as MOH/bridesmaids. I turn to my brother, expecting him to side with me, and he says it's her call.

Was this me? AITA?

While a lot of the posts on AITA are from people whose actions are justifiable in context, this ex-MOH was ruled to be the a**hole, which is a refreshing development.

"YTA [You're the A**hole]. Absolutely. She told you to cancel, more than once by the sounds of it, and you just decided, no it makes sense that I still get a party out of this. She was right to 'fire' you all," carolinemathildes commented.

"YTA. It's the bride's party, not yours. If she told you to cancel and you still had time to do it without getting charged a fee, you should have done that," culturedrobot added.

I" know that you had a nonchalant reaction to your brother hurting himself, but can you really blame her for being worried about him and wanting to spend the weekend with him in the hospital instead of going on this getaway? It sounds like you didn't really consider how she felt as this whole thing was playing out."

Here's hoping that this ex-Maid of Honor will be a better sister-in-law than she is a sister.

People are criticizing Gayle King for asking one of Kobe Bryant's friend about his sexual assault charge in an interview — and Gayle says it's CBS's fault for promoting a short clip of the interview outside of its proper context.

Since his death on Jan. 26th, there's been an outpouring of grief and mourning from Kobe Bryant fans all over the U.S. and the world. News has mostly focused on what he meant to his fans, but a few stories reminding people that he was accused of rape in 2003 have trickled in.

Bryant was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel worker in Denver, Colo. The rape charge was eventually dropped because his accuser didn't want to publicly testify. Both parties reached a settlement whose details were never made public. At the time, Bryant released a statement saying, "Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did."

As the public mourning of Bryant continues, some have suggested that this case should be included as a footnote to his legacy. Others argue that there's no need to talk about it or, at the very least, we should wait until a less sensitive time. One comedian basically went into hiding after he joked about Bryant's death and the allegations and people began posting his home address online and sending him death threats.

Journalist (and Oprah bestie) Gayle King was interviewing WNBA player Lisa Leslie about Kobe's legacy last week when she decided to ask Leslie about the allegations.

"It's been said that [Bryant's] legacy is complicated because of a sexual assault charge which was dismissed in 2003, 2004," King says in the clip. "Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?"

"It's not complicated for me at all," Leslie responds. "Even if there's a few times that we've been at a club at the same time, Kobe's not the kind of guy... he's never been, 'Lisa, go get this girl or tell her or send her this.'

"I have other NBA friends that are like that," Leslie contines. "He was never like that. I just have never seen him being the kind of person that who would do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way. That's just not the person I know."

King points out that as his friend, Leslie likely wouldn't have seen that behavior even if it did occur. She then asks, "Is it even a fair question to talk about it, considering that he's no longer with us and it's been resolved? Or is it really part of his history?"

Leslie responds:

I think that the media should be more respectful at this time. If you had questions about that, you've had many years to ask him about it. I don't think it's something we should keep hanging over his legacy. It went to trial.

The clip can be seen here:

After this clip aired, people swiftly began to condemn King for bringing the assault allegations up.

Some agreed with Leslie that Bryant's legacy need not include a case that never even went to trial:

Others agreed that a better time for these questions would've been when Bryant was alive:

Others argued that King hasn't held other accusers to the same standard, pointing out that she's been photographed hobnobbing with Harvey Weinstein in his prime:

A few stuck up for King, saying that as a journalist, it's her job to ask the tough questions that no one else wants to ask:

But the social media criticism outweighed the praise. Even Snoop Dogg weighed in with a video attacking King, and Bill Cosby thanked him from prison.

Yesterday, she responded:

"I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I'd be extremely angry with me too," she said. "I am mortified, I am embarrassed, and I am very angry."

She goes on to say that CBS took the clip out of context, and says the clip is "very jarring." King began receiving phone calls from people asking what happened, and the network told her to keep quiet until the controversy passed. She decided not to, and issued the video statement on Twitter.

King herself reached out to Leslie to talk about Bryant, she said, and their conversation included his career, his sense of humor, his charity work and more.

"I wanted to get Lisa's take on it as a friend who knew him well," King says. "It was very powerful when she looked me in the eye as a member of the media to say it's time for the media to leave it alone and back off."

King adds that she included follow-up questions not to lead Leslie into saying something controversial, but to make sure Leslie's perspective was clear to others.

In the second half of the statement, she says, "I talked to Lisa last night, I believe that Lisa was okay with the interview, and I felt really good about the interview."

"For the network to take the most salacious part and put it up online for people who didn't see the interview, that's very upsetting for me and that's something that I'm going to have to deal with with them," she says. "There will be an intense discussion about that."

She adds that she's met Bryant many times and thought they had a good relationship.

"The last thing I would want to do is disparage him at this particular time," she says. "I hope people understand that."

People are still criticizing King. CBS responded by backing up its star, saying to TMZ:

Gayle conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with Lisa Leslie about the legacy of Kobe Bryant. An excerpt was posted that did not reflect the nature and tone of the full interview. We are addressing the internal process that led to this and changes have already been made.

Breastfeeding is stressful enough without adding in your family's weird reactions.

One new mom is asking Reddit for advice after she tried to politely ban her step-son from being in the room when she nurses. Her husband thinks the ban is ridiculous, and she's at her wit's end.

It's the mom's first time giving birth and she's feeling pretty out-of-body:

I gave birth two weeks ago, it was my first pregnancy and truth be told I found it incredibly incredibly difficult. It was painful, complicated, and I was told I was at risk of death because I developed DVT in my second trimester. I needed daily injections and will need them for another 6 weeks, they are painful injections and my symptoms are also additionally adding to the pain of my postpartum body.

The breast-feeding process isn't going smoothly, either:

As you can imagine I’m an emotional mess right now. One of the things that I’m struggling with is breastfeeding- baby is struggling to latch on and it’s fucking hard and I don’t know what I’m doing. Beyond my greasy hair and snotty crying face and tired itchy eyes, I can barely function, and that’s not even talking about the pains and spotting going on downstairs. I stink, I’m struggling, I’m in pain, my back is fucked, everything is f*****..

That's where her 13-year-old step-son comes in. He barged into the room while she nursed once, and couldn't stop staring:

My stepson is 13, he’s been my stepson for 2 years. I adore him usually but at the moment I’m feeling incredibly vulnerable and naked and there’s already been some embarrassing mishaps such as leaking breast milk without me realizing leaving spotting on my shirt etc. When that happened he made a grossed out face and looked incredibly uncomfortable. Another time his dad bought him over without my knowing and I was breastfeeding baby in the babies room and they didn’t bother to knock on the door- just barged in. I am all for the free titty movement but in my state I was just left feeling humiliated and upset. He again just stared.

Given how stressed she is, she'd rather avoid that awkward situation again:

I know there’s a time and place to have a conversation about bodies, and I have asked my husband to field any questions my stepson might have but I’m just not upto doing the q&a right now. I have better things to worry about and honestly I’m so emotional right now it’s scaring me.

She's asked her husband to discreetly keep the step-son in a different part of the house whenever she's nursing:

I have therefore asked my husband to make sure they are not around babies room when my stepson is visiting- I need to breastfeed a LOT, it’s taking longer than usual (and it would take ages right now anyway) because clearly my technique isn’t perfected and both baby and I are struggling.

I don’t care if they’re around the house still but I just want to be left alone to do my thing without being stared at and made to feel like I’m a freak.

Her husband has decided to form an opinion on this:

My husband thinks I’m being nothing short of cruel and has repeatedly asked me why I’m making things difficult. He says his son is just a kid and I’m being horrible by implying his gaze is anything other than childish curiosity. I feel like I’m going out of my mind here. Am I the one that’s being an a**hole?

So is she in the wrong? The people of the internet say no.

TemptedBayou thinks her request is totally fine:

all you want is for him to not barge into the nursery when you're feeding and for your husband to give you a heads up when he's there, it's not like you're saying he can't be in the house at all.

It's okay to feel vulnerable when you can't control your body and to not want extra stress like a person looking at you rudely and making you feel like a sideshow attraction, your husband should be doing everything in his power to make you feel as comfortable as possible and you're not asking for much.

MercyXXVII points out that when it comes to privacy while breastfeeding, no reason is needed:

There's nothing wrong with supporting the "free the titty movement" but still wanting some privacy for yourself. You shouldn't even have to have reasons for wanting privacy. It is every person's right to feel safe and comfortable and decide what they do with their own bodies and when. Your reasons (feeling vulnerable, feeling inadequate, feeling insecure and just wanting to be the best mom you can be to your newborn) are way more than enough of an explanation for why you just want a little god damn privacy.

It's absolutely nothing against your stepson or your husband. Your husband seems like he's feeling offended for himself and his son but it has nothing to do with them. It's all about you just needing space and time to bond with your newborn - not to mention time to heal. Your husband needs to see this for what it is and stop thinking there's more to it.

BriefNectarine2 goes as far as to say the step-son needs to get a grip:

I'm all for not automatically sexualizing the male gaze- especially in children but I think if his eyes are glued to her tits at thirteen we can assume there more than just regular curiosity going on.

At thirteen he should have the manners and self control not to weirdly stare. If he doesn't he should be taught to remove himself. It's not like he's a small child anymore.

FakeFinn2 had a very constructive suggestion:

Move the conversation away from what looks your stepson is giving you though. Focus on you and your needs: you need peace & quiet in order to breastfeed. You don’t need anyone looking, not just your stepson. In order to do that no one, but your husband, needs to be around the baby’s room, when you’re breastfeeding.

Have you considered asking a lactation consultant for help? You don’t need to figure everything out on your own.

And a few, including spottedredfish, told the new mom to make sure her husband's not gaslighting her or engaging in a toxic pattern:

I really hope not, maybe dad is struggling with new baby and has temporarily lost his social finesse but...

Watch out for this pattern OP; Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO)

You shouldn't have to (JADE) justify, argue, defend or explain the simple desire for privacy.

If someone utilizes (FOG) Fear, Obligation and/or Guilt to twist your arm and make you feel shamed about your own boundaries, to transgress them

Well it can make you feel crazy

"If you can't laugh at your own problems, call me and I'll laugh at them."

-Anonymous

Laughter truly is the best medicine. I mean Penicillin is pretty great too, but it can't take an annoying morning and make you giggle like these awesome memes can.

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Remember the hilariously awkward Christmas commercial for Peloton that everyone relentlessly made fun of?

In fact, the commercial was roasted so brutally online that Ryan Reynolds hired the actress to do an ad for his gin company.

So, when a recent Reddit user consulted the united moral compass of human conscience (the "Am I the As*hole?" subreddit) about receiving a Peloton bike for her birthday that she definitely didn't want, the commercial became a reality.

Is it ok to get someone a gift they've made clear they don't want, especially if it's just an expensive workout tool? Probably not. Is it hilarious when that gift is the exact bike that was torn apart so viciously on Twitter that is actually dropped the Peloton stock? Again, probably not. If you're going to spend $2000 on someone's birthday, might I recommend a beach vacation and not a massive, cumbersome, subscription fee required exercise bike?

Here is her statement:

I’m pissed that I got a Peloton for my birthday

So, I realize I already sound like a brat. This is the most expensive present I have ever received in my life and I enjoy spin classes, but the back story is what is important here.

About a month ago, my significant other said he had spoken with my sister and came up with some ideas for my birthday and would I like to hear them. I obviously said yes and the first thing on the list was a Peloton. I have never had any interest in a Peloton and as you can see by the spelling in my throwaway username, I can’t even spell it right let alone know anything about it.

I said no thanks it’s way too expensive and I have no interest in it. I work out at work where I spin 2-4 times a week and watch YouTube spin videos. I have an hour lunch break and go to the gym then to make sure I actually get my workouts done.

After providing that explanation, I followed up multiple times in the weeks saying “Please, do not buy me a Peloton,” “If you ordered a Peloton, please cancel the order and return it.”

Today (the day before my birthday) I walk down into the basement, and there’s the damn Peloton. I’m immediately pissed off. Ask why when I said countless times I didn’t want one, there one is in my basement. My fiancé just stared at me blankly. He thought I would change my mind when I saw it. I maintain that I’ve told him ten+ times that I don’t want one and why would he expect me to change my mind.

We aren’t currently speaking because he’s pissed I’m not happy with the gift. So Reddit, AITA? (Am I the As*hole?)

Of course, the jokes started rolling in...

"Appellofmyeye" wrote:

Have you considered vlogging your journey for the next year?

"kaytron00" wrote:

Uh yeah OP you actually may have been handed the opportunity of all opportunities here

Do your vlog, make money off ads every day, and at the end of the year you can tell your husband you still hate it, and sell your journey to a Peloton competitor just in time for a Super Bowl commercial

"super_common_name" wrote:

I'm a little nervous, but excited. Let's do this!

Luckily, a few people gave sincere advice.

"CosmicM00se" wrote:

NTA (Not the As*hole)

It’s so annoying when you tell people what you DON’T want and they get it for you anyway. It’s so disrespectful. You clearly have your own work out routine that you’re happy with and that works well for you. Waste of money on a superfluous trendy item.

"disregardable" wrote:

That's actually worse than thoughtless. It's intentionally disregarding your feelings.

He may as well have gotten you something to put in his truck for all you'll appreciate it.

Some people do believe that you should show appreciation regardless of how shitty the gift is. I am not one of them. NTA.

"ElizaCat9" wrote:

NTA. Does your boyfriend live under a rock? Did he not see everyone making fun of that stupid commercial and the running commentary about not buying your SO a peloton? You said no many, many times. You did not want it. He is the asshole, and also just kind of dumb.

"Elfich47" wrote:

any gift that comes with a subscription fee is not a gift.

So, there you have it! Getting your significant other a gift they specifically said they don't want is a disrespectful waste of money and if you insist on getting the gift anyway, make sure it's not an exercise bike...

Good luck out there, everyone!

There's nothing funny about having the flu, but these flu memes, on the other hand, are hilarious. This year's cold and flu season is a doozy, so wash your hands, get your flu shot, and always remember laughter is the best medicine.

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If you're looking for a laugh this morning, look no further. These memes are silly, random, and funny as hell. Each one was carefully chosen to make you chuckle. What could be better?

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If you're going to make an attempt to join the "Mile High Club," remember to be respectful.

If you've already made the choice to try to find the romance in one of the dirtiest, germiest, tiniest public rooms, then you've beat out most people at a chance for Mile High membership. Plane bathrooms are uncomfortable enough when you're one person, but the "let's say we did it" attitude usually wins. Most of us have been on a plane and seen two people attempt to enter a bathroom together, but knowing people who have had success stories is relatively rare.

However, nobody knows more about the secrets of airplane travel than flight attendants and pilots. When a recent Reddit user asked, "Flight Attendants of Reddit, upon discovering a mile-high club attempt, do you bust the culprits or allow the mischief-makers to try to get away with it?" people were ready to share. In general, it's a good idea to keep your voices down, don't disturb other passengers and stop once anyone notices. Otherwise, you'll risk getting kicked off the plane or having an entire shuttle full of people in the sky hate you.

1. Oh my GOD, "Samijowaslike."

Flight attendant here!

My old airline was a Delta Connection and we only had Dash-8 planes so i was the only flight attendant on board. One flight while I was picking up trash I saw two gentlemen jerking each other off under one of blankets that we provide on the plane for everyone to use. I didn't say anything because the flight wasn't full and they weren't being obnoxious. At the end of the flight I see them fold up that same blanket and as they went to put it back in the overhead bin I hollered out, "Nope! That blanket is yours now! We don't want it." Needless to say they hurried off the plane when we landed.

Also never use a blanket that didn't come packaged.

2. Interesting, "ShinyCupcake."

Flight Attendant, checking in! I've only encountered it a few times in my 5 year career. It was almost always on red eyes or overnights to Europe. We had one on a flight to Rome that was rather interesting. The couple didn't know each other at the start of the flight, and despite being on opposite ends of business class, somehow found a way to be in the same seat mid-flight. They decided to go at it sans-blanket, at which point we had to ask them to separate for the rest of the flight.

On a different flight, I had a couple ask if they could stand in the galley for a few minutes to stretch their legs. They were very polite, and I said sure and went back to reading my book. I made it halfway down the page, when I heard her moaning, and I turned and looked and the guy had her pinned up against my coffee makers with his hand up her shirt. I promptly told them to remove themselves from the galley and either finish up in the lav, or head back to their seats and keep their hands to themselves. If I can't get it on in my galley, no one can get it on in my galley.

My whole take on it is, as long as you aren't doing it in public, you're being quiet about it, and you haven't been acting suspicious the entire flight, if you want to go have sex in the lav then have at it. It's certainly not high on the list of places I'd want to have sex, especially given that the lav is cramped, smelly, and the liquid on the floor isn't water... But to each their own.

3. Damn, "[deleted]."

On a flight to Switzerland a couple of years ago, there was a couple who "mile-high clubbed" a couple of times over the course of the flight. The final time was right before breakfast was being served, and the flight attendant had everyone on the plane give them a round of applause for being the most consistent passengers she had ever seen.

4. Yikes, "mm2222."

A local celebrity in Ireland decided to masturbate in the front row of a 737, on take off, opposite the flight hostesses. He said after he didn't remember it because he took some OTC medicine.

5. You might get walked in on..."drrhythm."

Everyone should know that every bathroom on every airliner can be opened from the outside, even when locked from the inside. Most passengers wouldn't know how, but believe me every crew member does.

6. Nice try, "ironmaven."

Former flight attendant here: On a flight a fellow flight attendant encountered an attempt in the first class bathroom and before realizing she just said, "Sorry, one person in the washroom at a time." They just shrugged and went back to their seats and the man just said, "Oh well, we had last time."

A different flight attendant once discovered two people in the act, gave them a slight scare, then her and the in-charge gave them a bit of a private congratulations afterwards.

7. "Muuviestar" is chill.

FA here! I'd allow it. If you can maneuver well enough to have a sexually pleasing performance in an aircraft lavatory that's covered in thousands of germs go for it.

8. Wow, "airline_security."

Major airline security department employee here!

Around 2002, a prostitution ring on a major airline was broken up. Four females and one male who served as the salesman. They got caught because on a london flight the male propositioned a baptist minister who promptly called the security department. Apparently it cost about 800$ to have a go with your choice of Flight Attendant in the first class lavatory.

Were they fired? No. They were split up and continue working to this day!!

9. Something to remember, "[deleted]."

Former airline worker.... I just want to let everyone know that the lavs in the back of the plane aren't very soundproof. So if you're planning on joining mile high, keep that in mind! The people in those seats can hear just about everything.

10. Genius, "tre11is."

I dated a Flight Attendant for a while. She said that what they would sometimes do is just unlock the door from the outside and walk away. The couple would then often knock the door open mid-coitus and fall out.

11. This is impressive, "lasivously."

My ex managed to have a threesome with two girls he met on a plane to Australia. He got escorted off the plane, banned from flying with Delta, interviewed by federal police, then let go. My first question was about how they fit. Apparently international flights often have disabled toilets.

12. This is so bold, "itsmoist."

Not me (though I am a flight attendant), but a friend of mine caught two people a couple years ago. He said they were in the aft lav just going at it. The girl was bent over inside the lav but her ass was just sticking out and getting rammed by the guy in the middle of the aisle. This is obviously noticeable so my buddy went to stop them. They called the cops on them and If I remember correctly they both got arrested.

13. Fail, "Weston195."

My father has been a flight attendant for Southwest for 12 years now. He has pretty much told me all his stories he has to offer over a beer upon his arrival home. For answering the question here though this one story comes to mind.

You get a lot of the blanket and bathroom sex thrill seekers, depending on his mood and the size of the plane will determine if he lets it slide or not. If your on a full plane and try to do something, he will stop you. If the plane is for the most part empty and your quiet and away from everyone else he might just let it slide. One time though, on a full plane, a couple was doing well at hiding it and he didn't catch on... until she had her screaming orgasm and they both proceeded to make a mess of aisle 12. She also happened to be on her period. My dad being the attendant in front of the plane, for southwest they have most power, he made the plane land to throw those people off the plane.

14. Cool pilot club, "jedimasterlenny."

As a pilot who has encountered this situation before, my opinion is that anyone who has the cojones to do this won't come out when you "bust" them...I let em to their fun.

They deserve it.

15. Be respectful, "Ztumpan."

My aunt is a Flight attendant, I asked her this very question a few months back and she told me as long as you don't bother anyone they are usually fine with it. She told me you should do it when everyone is sleeping and do is discreetly although the Flight attendants will usually know whats up, two people going to the toilets, only one is locked.

There are billions of books, instruction manuals, and WikiHow articles dedicated to teaching people "how to get somebody into bed"...but what about getting somebody out of it?

People shared the funniest things they've done to let someone down, and when you're not attracted to somebody, farts are your very best friend.

1. Mother_Effer knows best.

A few years back, single, and on the mend from a 9 year relationship, I was on Facebook chatting with my Mother's best friend. We were talking about her kids who are my age, and how they've been, and how I wished I had hung out with them more in High School. The conversation becomes a bit more personal, and it migrates to text. She's asking me how big I am, and how she's always been curious. She's a very attractive lady, but 30 years older than I am. Plus, she has a big rack. Which I got to see based off the pictures she started sending me.

In a moment of weakness, I decided, I'm going to hit this. I give her my address, and she starts driving over. In a moment of clarity, I realized what was about to happen and started freaking out.

I called my Mother shortly before her friend arrived and told her I was homesick. That I missed her cooking. I asked if she could please come over and cook with me. She enthusiastically agreed, and said she'd be right on down! I asked her if she could please call 5-10 minutes before she got there because I may be in the shower.

Her friend then arrives, and immediately strips down naked before the door even shuts. She starts straddling me and my phone rings. I pick it up, put it on speaker, and it's my Mother saying she's about 5 minutes away.

Her friend had the deer in the headlights look, put her clothes back on, and bolted.

TL;DR: - I called my Mom.

2. humanmichael starred in Mission: Impossible.

my friend was very drunk in college, and went home with a very unattractive girl. we had tried to stop him, but he didn't listen. shortly after arriving at her home, he said he regained clarity, and realized he needed to escape. she left the room for a moment to brush her teeth or some such task, and he jumped out her second story window. he forgot his hat, though, and had to climb back in said window. then he jumped back out. it was a small school. we saw her on campus often.

3. kjnaslkfajskfla is proud of her accomplishment.

LISTEN TO THIS!! I have never gotten credit for how smooth I was. I was younger, and doing some underpants grinding laying on the couch. Things were getting hot and heavy and I could feel how irresistibly hard he was getting, but something just didnt feel right. I look down, and see a tiny dot of blood from mother nature's shank on his plaid boxers. OH FUCK!! OH FUCK OH FUCK!! No way in HELL am i letting him see that!!! In order to save face, i did what any nervous lady could do. I as sexily as possible take off his boxers and start blowing him, but take his boxers and put them on myself. Talk about biting the bullet. Once he was sufficiently finished I dealt with the boxers, my business and everything while getting a drink for my now parched mouth. No need to finish me, thanks, I am too TIRED.

4. Everything you need to know, rider_pride learned in kindergarten.

While wingmanning a friend (who was having sex in another room of the house) I had to sleep in the same bed as the girl he was having sex with's ugly friend. So she really wants to do the dirty but I'm not feeling it with her at all. So very drunk, I decide to make a "fort" on my half of the bed out of blankets and pillows and such and try to go to sleep. However, she is surprisingly aggressive, so for an hour I have to keep yelling at her, "NO GIRLS ALLOWED IN MY FORT!"...she eventually got the message.

5. You smelt it, you dealt with it, uncleoce.

Told her that Jesus wouldn't approve of our having premarital sex (she stunk horrendously once I got down there).

6. Happy laundry day, Winston_Vodkatooth.

I fell behind a dryer.

I was drunk, sitting up on top of a dryer in a friend's laundry room. The creepy girl I had avoided all evening entered and had me cornered in the room. She pushes up on me, tries unbuckling my belt, and attempts to kiss me. My only method of evasion was to fall backwards behind the dryer and wait until backup arrived. Three friends heard her calling for help and sprung me from being trapped between the wall and the dryer. I left the room with them as my guardians. I'll never forget the terror of being wedged back there, while watching her fat hot-dog fingers try to molest me from above.

7. It's the circle of life, and it moves us all chrispyb.

I was really high watching The Lion King and this very unattractive girl kept edging closer to me on the couch. I eventually wound up curled up in the fetal position away from her tucked into the very corner of the sofa.

8. RA ToxicNed didn't do the hibbidy dibbidy.

When I was an RA in college, one of my residents had a crush on me that wasn't reciprocated. Her roommate invited me over one night to watch a movie with the two of them, then the roommate left the room. There we were, sitting on the floor, watching some stupid chick flick, when she moved over to sit even closer to me. She grabbed a blanket and threw it over our laps, moving even closer. I knew things were going to be going the way of the smooching and horizontal mambo shortly if things went as she planned, but I was not attracted to her and wanted to the foil the plan as best I could.

Thank goodness it was taco night in the cafeteria. Even my eyes watered with the stench and spice of that magnificent fart. And it saved me from doing the hibbidy dibbidy with one of my residents.

9. I would like to see it, verydangerousasp.

This is a story of wingmanship more than turning down sex. Went to a bar with two buddies, one of whom was meeting a girl there he had a crush on. She was wasted when we arrived, and after introductions it became apparent she was interested in me--heavy flirting, obvious touching, etc. My friend with the crush took it in stride, sorta giving me a "c'est la vie" shrug, but I felt bad. I moved the conversation around till it was ripe to drop a white lie: I was gay. She didn't believe me at first, so I improv-ed and wrapped my arm around my other friend, who was in the middle of wtf-ing after hearing me say that, and introduced him as my partner. She did a hip cock and asked us to prove it.

There are those moments when you catch the gaze of a friend and realize that what's about to go down is something that you'll laugh about later, or regale at each other's wedding. It only lasts for a split second, but in those moments you can glimpse the depth of your friendship. We shared a moment like that before exchanging a slow, gentle, familiar kiss. She just stood there, then said "Wow, you guys don't seem gay."

Meanwhile my pal who was into her witnessed the whole thing, jaw dropped, and bought us two shots. She became more obnoxious as the night wore on, and my pal lost all interest. Came outta there with a great story though.

TLDR: Kissed another male friend to convince girl I was gay.

10. JohnofArc tried Fifty Shades of Grey cosplay.

TL;DR- I convinced a very vanilla chick I was into bondage to stop unwanted advances.

My girlfriend was in Spain for a while and I was hanging at my local bar for a few drinks after work one night. Somehow while I was having a beer or two and playing darts time passed and all of a sudden it's near closing time. I am normally a bike commuter, but was recovering from being hit by a car so I was waiting on a cab while this 5-6/10 regular customer was trying to chat me up. I'm courteous and polite, but trying to shut her down. After forty minutes of no cab showing up, chick offers to give me a ride home. I say, fuck it; it's free. I'll take it. Once we're in the car she won't stop seriously trying to hit on me. Eventually she asks why I don't just stay with her and I reply, as I have quite a bit at this point, that I have a gf and I love her. She asks what the hell is so special about this girl that I won't just cheat on her real quick. Now I'm past being uncomfortable an into getting pissed. I keep my cool, and explain that if I were to come over then I'd need to stop by my house and get my toy box. She asks what that means, and I tell her it's just the standard stuff. Ball gags, riding crops, a couple butt plugs, just the basics. She seems a bit weirded out, but not quite what I want. So I say, if you're into it, that's just the beginning. Are you into bondage? I've got a whole closet full of fun stuff to play with. I keep going, pulling all of this out of thin air, and by the time we're a couple miles down the road at my house, this bitch can't wait to get me out of her car. Never did see her in the bar, either.

11. AbigailRoseHayward used ignorance to her advantage.

I made up the biggest lie ever. I told him that I was on my "green period". I said "Once every year a girl gets her green period. The blood is so poisonous, one teaspoon could kill you." and he believed every word of it.

12. That'll do it, calicali.

I locked a guy out of my apartment when he went outside for a smoke and then pretended that I passed out.

He spent a solid 20 minutes ringing my doorbell and calling me before giving up. We're still friends...he always makes sure to remind him not to lock him out if he steps outside. haha.

13. bat_guano snored to avoid getting frisky.

I'm a guy. I had just graduated college and moved to a new town. A girl I knew offered to show me around for the night.

We go to a house party with her friends and drink until 2 AM. At that point, she asks me if I want to crash on her couch. The thing is, I'm actually really far from home. I have no car. I'm drunk. Public transportation will take hours. So, I agree -- sure, I’ll crash on your couch.

Now, she was not at all unattractive – far from it. The thing is, I had spent quite a bit of time with her in college, and there had never been any spark. We had been in a touring performance group together. We had rehearsed for hundreds of hours, gone on road trips, shared hotel rooms, etc. She fought constantly with other members of the group. She hooked up with a couple of the guys – all older than me. I didn't judge her for that, but I knew enough to know that I didn't want to get involved.

Anyway, we get into her apartment. She says, oh f*ck it, I don't feel like making up the couch, you can just sleep on my bed. It's no big deal, she says, it will be just like we're on tour. Hey, we piled four people into a bed on tour, didn't we? That's true, I think. We did do that. Sure.

So we get into bed. I'm lying on my back, she on hers. We stay that way silently for several minutes. I can tell she's wide awake.

And then, suddenly, I feel her hand on my leg. It starts stroking my thigh. Her nails dig in. She goes farther and further up my leg, rubbing back and forth.

Oh fuck fuck fuck.

I really don't want to do this. But I certainly don't want to explain that, either.

So, I think fast. And let out a loud, rasping, rattling SNORE.

Her hand pauses.

SNOOOOOORE.

Her hand moves away.

I rev up the chainsaw for about five minutes. Eventually, she rolls over on her side and goes to sleep.

Bullet dodged. She kept her pride, while I kept my dainty manhood intact.

TL;DR: I faked snoring to avoid having sex with a girl.

Nicknames are a rite of passage, it doesn't matter if your name is long and complicated or short and common, it's likely you've been given at least one by classmates or coworkers. Barring cruel or disrespectful nicknames, most parents are fine knowing their kid's name will get shortened or toyed with at some point, it's just a fact of life.

However, for every rule there is an exception, and some parents just can't handle the heat of their child's beloved name getting shortened at all.

One mother got so upset about her son Andrew getting called "Andy" that she wrote into her local radio station to vent about the situation.

A screenshot of the question was then shared to the Insane Parents subreddit, where people were quick to tear apart this woman's logic.

The distraught mom shared that she despises the nickname "Andy" and has felt frustrated by people's insistence on calling her son Andrew anything other than the full-length version.

Eventually, she made an appointment with Andrew's teacher to talk about the "Andy" issue. The teacher agreed to make a class announcement instructing students to call him Andrew.

The mom felt even more frustrated when the children kept calling him Andy even after the announcement was made. To make matters worse, Andrew himself doesn't really have a strong preference towards his full name.

The mom's bizarre and petty obsession inspired Redditors to share similar anecdotes of parents who couldn't cope with nicknames.

goblin___ had a mom obsessed with her son being called "Samuel" and NOT "Sam."

I used to be a toddler teacher and worked with a kid whose mom INSISTED he was “Samuel” and NEVER “Sam.” Because she didn’t like the name Sam. Which was so weird to me: if you don’t like the very common nickname, why name your kid that [full] name in the first place? Why not pick something else?

We were just like, sure, okay... doesn’t matter to me. But once he gets to middle school he’s just gonna be Sam either way so... hopefully she was able to unclench about that particular issue.

roccitybutthole pointed out how controlling it is to not allow your own son to make the decision about nicknames.

translation:

I gave birth to him therefore he is my property and I will make sure he and everyone else knows it. This is all about ME and what I want. I don't care what my child who has feelings and opinions wants. The only opinion that matters is MINE!

FuntimeChris79 knew an intense "Jennifer" mom.

Insane. I grew up with a Jenn. One time Jenn's mom was around when we called her Jenn and she completely flipped. She screamed HER NAME IS JENNIFER. We still called her Jenn lol. Poor Andy though...

elizabethunseelie's friend Andy-roo knows the struggle.

My brother had a friend called Andy whose mother had the same weird hang up. One day our family was out and my dad spotted Andy, and thinking he was alone shouted out-

“Hey Andy...”

And then when his mother loomed up from behind her teenage son my dad added -

“Roo.”

Andy-roo in our house from then on.

Edit: Thanks for the Silver kind stranger Edit 2: kind strangers :)

CinNordlaw's mom still pulls this stuff now.

Oh for f*ck sake, this is exactly what my mom does. She never talked to my teachers about it, but she still insists on calling me "Nicholas" and takes it personally that I'm "Nic" to everyone else, including my sister and all my cousins.

I'm turning 40 in 13 months and she still insists on fighting this battle.

If the responses serve as any indication, Andrew's mom seems to be far from alone with this neuroses, but that doesn't make it any less reasonable. Hopefully, for his sake, she is able to calm down and get some perspective on how innocuous "Andy" is.

Jimmy Fallon has a knack for tapping in to his fans' creative sides with his "hashtag challenges." In his latest challenge he asked people to take a movie and describe it "badly" with a "funny or weird summary." People went above and beyond—you'll never look at any of these movies the same.

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Unfortunately, cheating is fairly common in marriages, long-term relationships, and the plots of Lifetime movies. So it makes sense that people in committed relationships might find themselves on the look-out for clues of their partner's infidelity—especially on their smartphone or laptop. But even seemingly obvious clues can be misleading. So before you lose it and take a hammer to your spouse's BMW, make sure they haven't been wrongly framed by a false, albeit convincing, piece of evidence.

Someone asked married people of Reddit: "what was something you found on your spouses phone that made you think they were cheating, but turned out to be completely innocent?" These 25 people share stories of a partner being falsely suspected of infidelity thanks to misleading evidence.

Whew!

1.) From davidjricardo:

My wife found a contact in my phone for "Ashley Maddison" literally the week after the hacking scandal.

She's the wife of the new assistant pastor at our church that my wife hadn't met yet. I was texting her because I was going to meet the moving truck at their house for them when they moved in.

2.) From CapitanFlama:

My wife started acting really sneaky for some weeks: having sudden go outs with her friends, having some "private spending" and asking for money, getting home from work really late.

The last straw was that suddenly she blocked her phone, we had our phones unlocked or we knew each other passwords, we were really respectful of our privacy. But she began responding messages on the night, taking phone calls outside the house and that kind of stuff.

The very day that I was going to ask her what was happening she threw me a surprise birthday party like 10 days before my actual birthday because on those days she booked a vacation to the beach, secretly negotiated vacation days with my boss, and got a granny to take care of the kids. All under my nose.

3.) From Dogpicsordie:

I was the one accused actually. We both grew up super lower income and when we first started dating we went to a huge birthday party and started talking about how we never had a big party like this growing up. So when her first birthday of our relationship came around I snuck around for a week I came off super shady i guess throwing her a huge surprise party i saved like 3 weeks of pay from a shitty delivery driver job. I was careful to never text anyone with the word party so i texted a mutual friend who worked at a really nice bakery who was sneaking me a expensive cake for half price " (girlfriend) is heading to work can i come now?" she replied "yeah my boss is gone for a bit so make it quick". My girlfriend came to break up with me and walked into a suprise party. Still together 6 years later.

4.) From wickharr:

I was looking at something on reddit with my girlfriend on her phone, and suddenly this app notification pops up with "You've matched with Tom!" or something...

We've been together for years, so I've not seen Tinder, but I've heard of it. For about 3 seconds I was silently furious. So I tapped the notification, and it brought up Pinterest. Turns out Pinterest matches you with people with similar interests or something. I think that's the quickest I've gone through such a range of intense emotions.

5.) From Count_de_Ville:

Wife texted "I love you John" to me. My name is not John. So I just stared at my phone in disbelief until I realized that 'h' , 'n' , and 'j' are all next to each other on a keyboard. It was all just a typo. She actually tried texting "I love you hon" but she misspelled "hon", which was autocorrected to "John" and she didn't catch it before hitting send. Or after hitting send for that matter. My wife and I had a good laugh when I pointed it out that evening.

6.) From sheldonator:

Not me but my aunt and uncle. When my aunt got her first phone with a camera, my 12 year old cousin loved using it to take pictures and one day decided to take a picture of his junk. Some time later my uncle was looking through my aunt's photos to find a picture of the family he wanted to have printed, and he saw the pic of my cousin's johnson and immediately got upset, started yelling, crying, the whole nine. My aunt had no clue how a picture of someone's junk ended up on her phone. They were arguing in the kitchen when my cousin walks in, sees the picture (my uncle was holding the phone while yelling), casually says, "hey, that's a picture of my penis!" and then walks out of the room. My aunt and uncle just stared at each other for a few minutes before going to have a talk with my cousin.

7.) From beltfedshooter:

a buddy of mine and his wife had this text exchange, he at work, her in her car using voice to text (that reads it back to you before sending)

her: What are we doing for dinner? Should I stop at the store and get something or order sandwiches?

him: That works

her: Do you want me Paul?

him: who's Paul?

her: meatball, meatball, do you want me Paul?

they laughed and laughed

8.) From NachoManSandyRavage:

Not married but had an ex that confronted me about cheating and how my friends had told her about "Silvia". Silvia was a Nissan Silvia I was looking at buying.

9.) From beeeeeford:

Not on his phone, but on our computer. It was a picture of a woman with her back to the camera. She was wearing a long, flowing black dress, holding a glass of wine on what appeared to be a large boat. I had no idea who this woman was, and why my husband had taken a picture of her. While I didn't think he was cheating, I was really confused. I finally asked him about it. He said "honey.....that's you from our cruise." I had no idea he'd taken the pic and totally didn't recognize myself! https://imgur.com/gallery/BnPIN

10.) ​​​​​​From ramos1969:

I once suspected my gf was cheating and I looked at her phone bill (horrible idea) and became suspicious at a number she texted hundreds of times in the middle of the night. It was MY number I had recently changed. Idiot.

11.) From luetm:

When my grandparents were young, my granddad suddenly used to come home late, having weird excuses for it. My grandmother was sure he had 'another' , but didn't say anything - kids and all. One day he came home with a car, as a surprise. He was learning to drive.

They've been happily married until he died two years ago, age 97.

12.) From rakshala:

My husband and I traveling separately to meet in a shopping mall. We both thought we were talking about the same place when we said we would meet at the food court, but there are two food courts and we were in different ones. I texted him "Marco?". From his point of view I was 20 mins late to meet him at the mall and suddenly mysteriously texting men he doesn't know.

Apparently they don't play Marco Polo in Australia.

13.) From weirdinchicago:

My wife was married before we got together. When she was in the shower her phone rang anf some studdly young guy appeared on the screen with the caller ID. I tried to not let myself get upset, it could be a friend. Then I recognized the face of the guy. It was her son. I myself hadn't seen him in a while and he really grew up in that time.

14.) From electriclobster:

I was at a bar with my friend, when this girl walked up and asked to use my phone to text her boyfriend. Her's was dead and she wanted him to meet her in front of the bar. Her text read, "Hey babe meet me in front of Oteys." Nothing about who she was or her phone being dead. That was a tough one to explain.

15.) From tenni0191:

One night we were laying in bed just having some causal conversation while he scrolls through his phone.

I turn over to look at him and see what’s on his phone screen and it’s tinder messager. I look up onto the corner and see his picture. I jump out of bed and start screaming “ARE YOU REALLY SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME IN BED ON F$&@“?! TINDER???!!!” .

He looks at me terrified and clueless and he’s like, “No see, it’s just pictures!!!”....

It was pictures. Of screenshots his twin brother sent him of his own tinder conversations asking for advice.

I’ve never experienced such intense rage and intense regret as I did in those 2 minutes.

16.) From SuzQP:

He had a text from an unsaved phone number. It said, "His isn't as big as yours. Yours was GOOD and HUGE" His reply was, "Bigly, eh?"

Turns out it was a guy he works with talking about tamales.

17.) From NOTkristenstewart:

Not married, but had been seeing this guy for a few months and he was showing me something on his phone. As he was swiping across the home screens I saw a flash of an icon that looked like tinder. I got the hump a bit but figured we’ve not been together that long so I can’t really bitch. Turns out he has a health affliction and it was a medical app to track his treatment.

18.) From Trigger93:

When we were dating I found this guy flirting with her hard. She showed me the messages to prove that they were just friends and he wasn't trying to do anything.

So that's when I found out she has Asperger syndrome. She's not so good at reading people or their intentions. She's also never had a brother and grew up with her mom so I think she has an even worse time understanding guys.

She's oblivious but she's honest, and honestly I love that about her.

19.) From lemcke3743:

Spent a lot of time in a relationship with a chronic cheater. I’m now in a relationship with someone who is actually a respectable human being. When we first started dating, I couldn’t let old habits die and I went through his text messages. Found one going on and on about how beautiful someone named Charlotte was. I died inside. Turns out it was his friend’s newborn baby. Lesson learned: I’m an asshole, he is not.

20.) From epd20:

"Luca sent you a message". Multiple times per week. Icon looks not like any texting app I know (whatsapp, sms, Telegram, whatever).

Being a reasonable person I check with her who is this Luca.

Turns out there's an app that reminds you to perform a mammography on yourself at regular intervals and you can choose a model type who will write you regularly to remind you to massage your boobs. Genius.

21.) From goodfences:

My wife is Spanish and when we first started dating my Spanish was really rudimentary. Well one day I saw that she had posted on a guys Facebook "I can't wait to see you primo!"

Me, not knowing what primo meant, looked it up in a translation site and saw that it meant prime. I, using my not so great logic, concluded that she must me calling the guy her prime(ary) guy.

I was crushed because I thought we had something. So, I asked her about it and expressed how disappointed I was that she did not consider me her primary man.

Then, she kind of rolled her eyes and told made that primo meant cousin.

22.) From kmcgee88:

Found a picture on my husband’s phone of a new born and a message below saying ‘She looks like you!’ Mild panic ensued until I looked a little deeper. Turns out, it was a group chat with some coworkers and the message was intended for the mother. (Kid did, in fact, turn out to be a mini-copy of the Mom.)

23.) From windmilljohn:

Did a find my iphone on my wife because she was very late coming home. She was on the other side of town where we knew no one. Thoughts in my head of cheating. What the hell is she doing over there? She finally came home so I confronted her. She had a startled look on her face which was guilty as shit. Turns out she was getting a botox treatment and didn't want me to know. Ouch.

24.) From pixar-bound:

Not on his phone, so this story may not fit the question. But I was once laying my head on my SO’s lap as he sat on the couch and I was stretched out next to him. He was watching TV and I was scrolling through Facebook. A friend of mine had posted a picture from the perspective of her own eyes, as she laid bikini-clad on a beach chair. I stopped scrolling to look at the picture, and after a second or so my SO says in an incredibly lustful tone “god, I could really tear into that right now.” Boy, I saw HIS life flash before my eyes. I shouted “what the fuck?! What’s wrong with you?!” He seemed shocked and defensive. After a few moments of confusion on both ends, he pointed to the tv. There was a Hardee’s commercial on, with sexy close up shots of a double bacon cheeseburger. He had been lusting after the burger.

25.) ​​​​​​​From advisor_throwaway181:

My husband has a group chat called “Buttsies.”

After worrying he might be cheating or gay or curious (I’m a woman), I confronted him.

Turned out his friends are just weirdos. It’s the name of the group chat they use to organize when they’ll all play Overwatch together.

The traumatic losses of miscarriages are greatly undermined culturally, especially given how many women have experienced them. Conversations around grief often center death and breakups, and erase the complicated space miscarriages take up - a death of someone you were eagerly waiting to meet.

Since miscarriages are so common, and affect up to 50% of pregnancies (although many occur before the woman is aware of the pregnancy), a lot of couples don't announce their pregnancies until the first trimester is finished, to lower the chances of publicly grieving a miscarriage.

There are obvious upsides to keeping a pregnancy secret at first: you have time to process the news, you have time to prepare answers to the slew of questions that follow, and you can avoid being put in a position to share bad news if the pregnancy goes south.

The downside, however, is that when you lose a pregnancy before it's been announced you end up carrying a minefield of grief around that other people are unaware of.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a woman asked if she was wrong for snapping on her pregnant sister-in-law after a few days of hormonal hell.

AITA for kicking my pregnant sister-in-law out?

OP shared that she found out about a miscarriage right before hosting her brother and sister-in-law for a visit.

My brother (29M) and sister-in-law (SIL) (29F) asked Wednesday if they could come for a visit at that weekend. (They 6h away). We said sure, love to see you. Friday afternoon, I (34F) had an ultrasound for my 8 week pregnancy. The ultrasound showed a likely miscarriage. My husband (35M) & I were upset, but as my bro & SIL were already driving, we didn't cancel the visit. We hadn't told them about the pregnancy, nor had we told our 3 kids.

When OP's brother and wife arrived, they announced their pregnancy.

When bro & SIL arrive they were excited to tell us SIL is pregnant, and due 2 weeks before I would have been due. I tried to sound excited and happy for them but I wasn't as excited as I normally would have been. Then it turned into a nightmare.

Since OP and her husband hadn't told anyone about the lost pregnancy, they decided to keep it under wraps and feigned happiness for their brother and his wife as best as possible.

She didn't like supper; so we ordered in food for her. She needed the bed moved from 1 wall to another. Fine. She insisted on 5 pillows to sleep. I found a couple & she was upset I couldn't give her more & asked if she could go into the kids rooms and take theirs. I said no.

Despite OP's kindness and hospitality, her sister-in-law's behavior quickly escalated into ugly entitlement.

Next morning, she freaked out at 7 am that the kids were eating cereal too loud. She spent the morning curled up on the couch complaining about morning sickness. I sympathized and said it's awful, but it will go away. She screamed "No, you've never experienced this- they gave me the same anti-nausea drugs they give chemo patients so shut up!" I got quiet. My husband was making brunch and she freaked out that he was going to cook bacon because "the smell makes me vomit." We didn't make bacon. She also didn't want us to make eggs or let the kids have syrup on their pancakes. I refused, so she stormed off into her room until mid- afternoon.

During the visit, OP's sister-in-law incessantly complained about the struggles of pregnancy and constantly claimed OP "didn't get it" (despite the fact that OP already has kids).

Mid-afternoon she decides to go shopping and said they'd be back for dinner. We said dinner would be at 5:30. At 5:45 they hadn't show up, and weren't replying to texts, so we ate. They showed up at 6 and she freaked out that we hadn't waited so we ordered pizza. She spent the next two hours complaining about how brutal pregnancy is and how it sucks so much and how she's never going through it again.

Finally, after days of weathering intense complaints and being mistreated, OP snapped on her sister-in-law and revealed she was grieving a miscarriage.

I lost it & told her that I was in the middle of a miscarriage and I'd love to have her problems because it means my baby would be ok. Everything got quiet and she looked at me and said "I can't believe you'd use the "M" (miscarriage) word around me. That's bad luck, and if I lose the baby it's your fault!" and went to her room and slammed the door. About 15 min later she said "I'm glad you lost your baby. You already have 3, and if you had one right now, you'd just be trying to upstage me. I'm glad your baby is dead."

Rather than responding with empathy, her sister-in-law claimed using the "M" word was bad luck, centered herself in OP's miscarriage, and even claimed she was glad OP lost her child.

I burst into tears, and my husband told her to get out. He said "I've watched you complain, whine and b*tch all weekend. We stayed quiet about what was going on with us because we though you deserved a chance to enjoy sharing your news. But this is enough. Get out now."

At this point OP's husband lost it, and kicked both the brother and sister-in-law out of their home.

She started screaming about how we are TA while my brother packed their stuff and they left. So, are my husband and I TA?

Zykium has no idea how OP could be considered TA in this situation.

NTA - How could you possibly be?

OP responded to the comment, sharing the contents of texts she's been receiving.

She keeps texting my husband (i blocked her because I can't deal with this right now) saying we re sh***y people for kicking a pregnant woman out and demanding we pay for the hotel.

I don't see how we are wrong, but I'm a little messed up emotionally right now and needed reassurance im not just crazy with hormones and emotions.

aznbabeeo wants to know why OP's brother is a bystander to this behavior.

NTA. Your SIL was so cruel and terrible. Where was your brother in this? I’m sorry for your loss.

OP revealed that family members have been trying to convince her brother to leave his wife since the inception of the relationship.

My brother is in a mess. They got married 4 years ago and my family warned him from the start that she wasn't a good choice but he didnt see it.

He started to see it about 6 months ago and had said something to my dad about divorce, and now she's pregnant. I don't know why, or if this was an attempt to fix the marriage but its a mess.

Ladythack thinks this should be the end all of the relationship.

NTA. I'm sorry for your loss.

The only vaguely reasonable demand your SIL made was about bacon smells. Even that's pretty unreasonable; people still need to eat. Everything else is ludicrous.

Honestly I would refuse to see her again. 'I'm glad your baby is dead' isn't really something that's fixed by an apology.

ilikethefishiestoo is annoyed at OP for littering the thread with a situation where she's obviously not TA.

YTA for writing an obviously clickbait title that makes people think YTA to them tell a story where you’re obviously NTA.

Dear-Midnight almost felt empathy for OP's sister-in-law, until the end of the story,

NTA. At first as I was reading I was thinking "Well, tell her about your miscarriage" but then I got to the part where you actually did and YIKES.

Yikes yikes yikes.

megik87 asked if this behavior is out of the ordinary for the sister-in-law.

NTA. Is this unusual behavior for your SIL? I can't imagine being so entitled when visiting a relative. Her behavior was unreasonable all weekend, while you and your SO attempted to accommodate her.

There is no excuse for the way she spoke to you, and you are in no way an a*shole for enforcing boundaries (i.e. someone who is being incredibly disrespectful and doesn't live here has to leave). I am so sorry for your suffering with the loss of your pregnancy and baby.

OP shared that her sister-in-law has always complained about the kids, but has never reached this level of cruel or entitled before.

She's never been my fav, but my brother picked her and he and I have always been close, so we put up with her.

She's never been this bad before, but complaining about my kids is pretty normal. She always tells my sister that when she has kids, hers will never be allowed to get up that early or be that loud.

I've shrugged it off to keep the relationship with my brother, and I figured karma would give her an early riser.

It's abundantly clear there is no universe in which OP is TA in this situation, hopefully her brother sees the light and breaks things off with his wife before they are stuck raising a miserable kid together.