Navigating the scary waters of dating, sex and romance can certainly be a challenge.
However, it's Valentine's day and you deserve to celebrate all your romantic and solo accomplishments in the arena of love. Finding the "right" person for you may seem impossible sometimes--vulnerability is terrifying and breakups hurt like a truck repeatedly driving over your chest. Still, love is worth it (allegedly) and whether you're spending tonight with a new flame, a committed partner, or a bottle of wine and a face mask--here are some of the funniest love-related tweets we could find.
Not only are these celebrities beautiful and rich and famous, they're also happy and in love! Here are the best brags Valentine's Day posts from the verified showing their love for the likes.
1. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson seem like your average couple, despite being Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
"Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone."
-Lewis Black
Happy Valentine's Day! Whether you love this holiday or hate it, we can all agree the chocolate is good. These memes may not buy you flowers or take you out to a fancy romantic dinner, but they will make you laugh, and that's more than I can say for 99% of the people I've gone on dates with.
Doing things is a lot harder than talking about doing things, and this applies hugely when it comes to parenting. When you're planning to have a kid it can feel romantic to map out the ideals and habits you want to instill in your children. However, chaos ensues when they actually arrive, and all of the highfalutin plans fall to the wayside full of sleepless nights.
With the wisdom of 20/20 hindsight, mom-of-three Casey Huff penned a letter to her pre-parenting self laying out the things she wished she knew.
27 THINGS I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND TELL MYSELF AS A FIRST TIME MOM
1. You will in fact sleep again. Someday.
2....
She kicked off the post by touching on feelings of eternal sleep deprivation, and the fact that formula is perfectly fine for kids.
27 THINGS I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND TELL MYSELF AS A FIRST TIME MOM
1. You will in fact sleep again. Someday.
2. Breastmilk is really good for babies. So is formula. Do what you gotta do. They’re your boobs, it’s your baby.
3. Screen time is not the enemy. Make sure whatever your kids are watching is age-appropriate, then sit back and drink your coffee in peace. (Also, prepare yourself to have at least one cartoon theme song stuck in your head at all times).
She continued by reminding her past self that while baby shoes are cute, they are easily lost.
4. I know those baby shoes are sooo cute, but put them back. Your baby will wear them exactly one time before the left one goes missing forever.
5. Always have an extra large bag of chicken nuggets waiting in the freezer for quick lunches or nights you’re too tired to cook dinner.
6. The one time you forget to take an extra change of clothes for your baby will be the one time she has a massive blow out in public. You’ve been warned.
7. The only people who need to approve of your parenting decisions are you and your spouse. YOU are the parent. As long as you have the best interests of your children at heart, ignore the naysayers.
8. Trust your intuition—it’s almost always right and it’s a valuable gift.
While it may feel like everyone is judging you, the only people who need to approve of your parenting decisions are you and your partner (if you have one), also, doctors are way too busy to judge your kids' outfits.
9. The pediatrician isn’t going to judge you if your kid is wearing mismatched socks at his well-check appointment.
10. Google can be both your best friend and your worst enemy when it comes to researching your kids’ well-being.
11. You will make mistakes. Push the guilt aside, and do better the next time around.
12. The $1 craft projects in the dollar spot at Target are sanity-savers and boredom-busters for the toddler years of stay-at-home-motherhood. Throw a couple into your cart every time you’re there. You’re welcome.
13. The list of things you “would NEVER do” as a parent will get shorter and shorter as time goes by. It’s okay to laugh at pre-kid-you’s optimism and “insight”.
14. Your mood rubs off on your kids 90% of the time. If you’re struggling with their behavior, take a look at your own.
She continued by encouraging herself (and other moms) to have more grace with themselves about the state of the house, since so much of raising young kids is 24/7 survival mode.
15. Make the pancake before you decide which shape to tell your kid it is. Accidental “dinosaur pancakes” are a whole lot easier to make than intentional ones.
16. No one who has ever had kids expects your house to be spotless—you’re the only one putting that pressure on yourself. Keep your house as clean or as messy as YOU are comfortable with.
17. Anyone who gets tired of seeing photos of your kids on social media or elsewhere can choose to keep scrolling. Don’t feel awkward about being proud of your kids. Show those babies off!
Still, even with all the stress and crazy-making days, Huff wrote that the rare times you do get breaks from your kids will lead to missing them.
18. Your kids are just as lucky to have you as you are to have them.
19. If you ever get a photo of your whole family looking at the camera at the same time, frame that sucker. You might not get another until your kids are all teenagers.
20. Even when you swear up and down that you are SO READY for a break from your kids, you’ll find yourself missing them when you’re apart.
21. The best days are the days when everyone in the family stays in their pajamas. Cherish them.
22. Loving your kids in all of their forms is 95% of a job well done.
23. Marriage is a tough job, and throwing a baby into the equation will rock the boat more than you ever imagined. Keep working at it; your spouse is worth it.
She ended the post by emphasizing how crucial it is to have a few back-up outfits for days you're behind on laundry, and encouraged everyone to give themselves credit for the hard work and love they pour into their kids.
24. Find your favorite kind of sweatpants or yoga pants and buy two pairs for the days you're behind on laundry (AKA, every day).
25. Don’t be fooled—no one has it all together all of the time.
26. You are a good mom. SUCH a good mom. Extraordinary, really. There will be many days when you forget that, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
27. You don’t have to be perfect for your kids to really, really, REALLY love you.
Her post quickly racked up thousands of shares and comments from moms who related to her words and needed the encouragement.
If all of us had the knowledge of 20/20 hindsight going into big decisions like parenting and career leaps, the process would be so much less scary.
People on Reddit are sharing stories of the grossest, strangest things that people they don't know decided to go up to them and say. It has some really important life lessons.
First of all, your parents were right: don't talk to strangers. And secondly: nobody wants to hear about whether or not you're ~turned on~ except your significant other. Keep it in your head... and in your pants.
Oh no, when I was 13, a guy grabbed me by by the wrist and he said, 'Hey sexy, wanna come with me so I can show you something? I love bad girls like you.' I was so stupid that I was still worried about being rude and apologized to him for saying no but when he tried to fully grab my arm I just ran.
At the local bar, there’s a little old man (like 70) who goes and gets a bouquet of roses and gives them out too all the young girls. It seems really sweet, unless you happen to hear what he’s saying. One time he told me that ‘he wonders what my p*ssy smells like’. I don’t go to that bar anymore…
I was waiting for an Uber home from a theater in Boston after rehearsal one night. It was after 11pm. This black car that matches the make and model on the app rolls up, stops by the curb and rolls down the window. Guy inside asks if I'm waiting for Uber, I say yes and ask his name to see if it matches.
He says, "I'm Uber, get in." At this point I'm creeped out, alone on a street corner close to midnight. I refuse and he says, "I'll give you $300 if you get in this car right now, we're going to a party."
At that point I turned around and booked it back into the theater. Absolutely not getting kidnapped today folks. Check your plates before you take ya uvahs.
I had rainbow colored hair as a teenager. One time at work a 60+ year old customer said to me, “Does the carpet match the drapes? Never mind, you probably don’t have any down there.” I’ve never been so uncomfortable.
Said I would make a good wife for someone like him while staring at my chest. In front of his wife. I was at work and this guy later flat out asked me to marry him. I was 17 at the time I wanted to die.
I was in Paris at a Christmas market and a guy came up to me and told me I was very beautiful. Before I could say anything back, he said, "You know, I've been following you for awhile and saw your friends walk away from you. I could kidnap you so quick, they would never see you again." Then he laughs, and my friend, who was only like eight feet away and heard this exchange, pulls my arm and we start fast-walking away. We cut down so many alleys, popped in and out of shops, and got on different trains since it was nearly impossible to know if he was still following us.
I was wearing my horse back riding clothes. He held the door for me and said "You can ride me!" when I kept walking into the store ignoring him he screamed after me "Hey B*tch! I SAID YOU COULD RIDE ME". This is why we can't have nice things people.
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”
– Diane Mariechild
Women rule. We know how to get stuff done and how to look damn good while doing it. These memes will definitely make all of the ladies out there laugh today.
"Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to."
-Anonymous
Keep smiling and keep laughing, nothing will annoy your haters more. These memes will definitely make you laugh and help you live your best life starting right now.
Nobody around you truly understands how you're feeling and usually the only person you want to talk about it with is the person you broke up with. While you're not technically physically sick, the symptoms of lost love are actually identical to the symptoms of cocaine withdrawal. It's true: love is a drug and we're all either users or recovering! You can use that excuse the next time you "accidentally" post videos of yourself reading depressing heartbreak poetry accompanied by a tambourine and all your friends have to ask if you're ok...
While break ups definitely hurt while they're happening, it's true what they say that heartbreak does make you stronger. Plus, there's usually always a good story. Betrayal? Break up texts? Exchanging the things you left at each other's places? Soap opera drama!
So, when #ABreakupStory started trending on Twitter, lovers everywhere were reading to share.
#ABreakUpStory He told me I was deserving of $14.50/hour because I was a customer service rep at start-up and my job "wasn't that hard". Tried explaining the emotional labor of being nice to people who berate you for things outside of your control, but he was paying me $0/hour. pic.twitter.com/Z4lIUDEAf6
I was 30 and dating a guy who was 15 years older than me. He dumped me via text and this is how he initiated the convo #ABreakUpStory😂☺️💀pic.twitter.com/IWmcXNwL86
He said I was too stressed and too worried about the future. (I’m in college as a double major, working a part time job, and have fam duties. He’s jobless, lives at home with his mama and cheated on me) ps. I was the one who got dumped #ABreakUpStorypic.twitter.com/3tKjvaIPCD
Crying alone into a pint of Ben & Jerry's while watching Meg Ryan movies is nothing compared to the emotional hell of working in food service on February 14th. Take it from someone who's experienced both.
Not only do restaurants tend to be overcrowded on Valentine's Day, but they're full of couples or first dates bending over backwards to have the "perfect" evening. And when there are unreasonably high expectations, disappointment and dramatic meltdowns are sure to follow. Restaurant workers get front row seats to all of it, often taking the blame when things don't go as planned.
Someone asked food industry staff of Reddit: "what are some horrors you saw yesterday on Valentines Day?" Unlike Valentine's Day, these 23 tales from service industry workers won't disappoint you:
Bartender here, Not my guest but a guest in the restaurant threw up on his steak not even a minute after it was placed in front of him. His date kept surprisingly calm for that scenario.
Chef made a special menu. No one ordered a single thing from it. This was an Irish pub mind you and was more of a runoff for those not celebrating. Waste of food.and labour cost. Was my first shift.
Food court at the mall, just a lot of dudes standing or sitting at a table for hours with flowers, gifts, etc. Some of their dates showed up, some left alone.
One of our favorite regular customers brought in her boyfriend for the first time and in her excitement she bumped into a table and knocked someone’s cup off, which isn’t bad but in her haste to pick up the cup she hit her head on the corner of the metal table and cut her forehead open. It looked like a mini crime scene.
So, I had some guy who couldn't get the concept of ravioli. He kept asking if we hollowed out a spaghetti (his words) and stuffed it with lobster. I said no, but we did use pasta. He kept reiterating that he wanted a pasta. It finally dawned on me, "Sir, do you think that spaghetti is the Italian word for pasta?"
His date was clearly unimpressed, but I finally get him down for an order of Lobster Ravioli, even though he still seemed unaware of what he was actually ordering. After he got his food, ate one of the ravioli, he said to me, like I was the dumbest shit on the planet, "Bro, all you had to do was tell me that they were boyardees. I know what those are."
Work at a pizza place, heart shaped pizzas that took twice as long to put in a pan, and nobody was allowed to order ahead of time because corporate thought it’d be hella busy. Online orders weren’t going through properly so we had some customers waiting for their pizza for a solid 40-50 minutes. Short staffed on delivery drivers as well. Overall pretty stressful
I work in a kitchen at a popular steakhouse, we had a wait of over 200 parties and we ran out of buzzers, things were a mess. Anyway, we had a new guy working that night because everyone has quit. He sent out steaks all at the wrong temp, we had mediums come back well and well dones go out rare, no specific disaster but that was the worst and so hard to watch
I worked at a fine dining restaurant years ago -- a middle aged guy comes up to me, hands me a gorgeous sapphire and diamond ring -- just gorgeous -- and asks me to have the pastry chef include it with his companion's dessert.
The chef found beautiful blooms to decorate her dessert plate and placed the ring in the middle of one.
She saw the ring, took it out of the flower, and placed it on the table. Then, she picked up her fork and started to eat her dessert without saying anything at all.
The ring must have been an extravagant "I screwed up" apology on his part and she was having NONE of it. I was tempted to say if she doesn't want the ring, I do!!
A bit of context. There's a front desk girl who everyone hates because she doesn't do her job, goes on smoke breaks too much, and just generally bothers everyone while they're working. Anyway so I'm on salad and dessert prep and I had about 8 tickets that I was struggling to make and I hear the front desk girl ask if the tray of garlic bread that just came out of the oven was any of the waitresses. The thing about garlic bread is you have to pay for it so there's a set number of slices. So she turns to me and asks if it's anyone's while I'm busy af, so I just shrug and try to finish up the orders. I look up and see her just finishing shoving the entire piece in her mouth. Not 30 seconds later one of our waitresses walks in and goes "Where's the last piece of garlic bread?" I don't even look up and just go "The front desk girl ate it." The waitress went OFF on that girl and told our manager who also went wtf. Me and all the other cooks were laughing our heads off. Just in general don't steal a customer's food.
I bartend. I'm assuming this couple was on a date. They just ordered their food. In less than 10 minutes of their date, I saw the girl take a drink (and I mean a full 20 ounce beer) and throw it on the guy. It hit the people behind him, the walls, and it soaked the floor too. She immediately walked out almost in tears. The guy's face as he just sat there soaked in beer was indescribable. It was the most movie like break up I've ever seen happen in real life.
I bartend in the lobby of a fancy hotel in Wisconsin. A woman put a cigarette in her mouth and asked what I would do if she lit it. I told her security would probably escort her out. She then proceeded to try and light it, calling me names, while her friends forced the lighter away from her. Also, a couple Japanese dudes from San Fransisco were at the bar and this racist ass dude at the end of the bar kept demanding that I "check them for coronavirus" and he wouldn't shut up about how scared he was that they were there. I ended up cutting him off, asking him to leave. So many trash people last night.
So the pizza place I work for cuts all the pepperoni pizzas into hearts and we had to make about 450 of those, plus 250 more pizzas, in 4 hours. Our slogan is “Take and Bake”, so obviously we make the pizzas and you take them and bake them at home. Several times, we had people get their pizzas at the end of the line and go “Its not cooked”. Deadpan, my coworker looked at them and said “Yes.” to every single one of them. Also, I took a phone call and I said “When will you be coming to get your pizza?” and she goes “Actually I’d like it delivered.” Needless to say, we didn’t deliver it and she hung up.
TL:DR Sold 700 pizzas in 4 hours and people should just read our slogan.
Last year I worked at a high-end sweets shop. Everything is top-notch as advertised, it was what people were willing to DO for it that scared me.
Chocolate covered strawberries? $50 per box of 4. We couldn't keep them in stock, and more than a few sweaty husbands begged us to make more and throw them in any container we had. One guy walking in on Valentine's morning offered to pay us double, even without the fancy romantic packaging (we didn't take it).
We had also sold a big embroidered heart-shaped box for nearly $100. One guy asked us how much it cost, left, and came back later with his friend. He'd asked him for a loan. To buy V-Day chocolates.
A man came in and ordered 50 quarter pounders at the McDonald's I work at. I got off just before we started making them. So I lucked out, but if you know how the kitchen's work at McDonald's you know the horror this entails.
Edit: For those asking, this is a horror because we only had 2 grills because we closed the other 2 for the night. And you can only cook 3 quarter pounder patties at a time on 1 grill. So imagine making this order only being able to cook 6 at a time.
We had a reservation for a kids birthday party on the bus (we have a seating section on a old school bus). A preteen couple comes in and the guy gets mad because we told him we couldn’t seat them on the bus due to the reso. He tried to force his way up after being told repeatedly no. Pretty sure he was trying to impress his date, who watched this all unfold.
not an employee but a bystander. me and my friends meet up at this big food court to hang out where one of them who got there an hour early saw this one dude with a bouquet and a giant teddy bear. almost 5 HOURS later we come back to the food court for lunch and the guy was still there still with no date. he left shortly after and we watched him make call, throw the flowers at the ground, pick them back up and leave.
Not a staff, but a bystander. My wife and I went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch, in a bid to avoid the crowds. Next to us, a dude got down on one knee and proposed (yes, in a Cheesecake Factory). The waitress was filming it, people were watching, she saw the ring and started crying, he smiled, and all looked good... ... Except when my wife and I left 20 minutes later, she was still crying, covering her face, and he wasn’t smiling anymore. I couldn’t hear well enough to know what they were talking about, but they kept speaking in low voices. Didn’t look good.
Had a woman at my place get extremely pissy because she wanted her prime rib sizzling hot but also rare as possible. Like lady have you ever actually eaten prime rib or have any idea what the process is? Jesus christ.
Just a bystander here, but I walked into a grocery store yesterday evening, which was pretty packed with last minute frantic looking Valentine’s Day shoppers. I walked in at the same time as another man with a confused look on his face and I hear him say out loud to himself “man, the store is pretty packed for a Friday evening...”. Then, we both turn the corner and are met with all of the last minute flower arrangements and Valentine’s cards lay out and I see the man completely freeze and again out loud, he says “oh.. no... no no no! Today is Valentine’s Day?! SHIT I’m so fucked!” As he quickly runs to the chocolate section, joining the rest of the panic stricken dudes with the same looks on their faces. Hope those dudes are all still alive this morning.
Happened to my friend who works in the food industry: She worked a 14 hour shift then wanted to meet up with her boyfriend afterwards to give him his vday gift. He gave her an address and when she shows up, she realizes it’s a strip club (he did not tell her he was at a strip club, only gave her an address she used to call an Uber) So she goes inside, vday balloons and gift in hand, finds him, drops off his gift and Uber’d back home alone. Poor las.
I had a man verbally abusing his wife at my table, and I don’t mean talking over her and being rude I mean saying things like “what the fuck do you think you’re doing you fucking bitch” and “I’ll give you 36,000$ to get the fuck out of here right now you piece of shit”, had 4 different tables complain about them and we eventually asked them to leave. I’ve never seen anything like it before, at one point the guy went to the restroom and I went up to the wife and asked if I could help in any way and if she was alright. I’ve never wanted to assault someone in my life more than that piece of shit.
Edit: for those interested we also had something really good happen when our chef and her girlfriend got engaged at the end of service! It kind of balanced it out.
I wasn't working there, but a table next to mine had an absolute meltdown because their food took long to arrive. Most of them just left and the last few asked if they could just box it up and leave when the food arrived. They got it all on the house.
There's a difference between faking a cold to get out of school and faking serious medical problems in a hospital or ambulance...
Apparently there are people out there who will take advantage of the time of medical professionals by faking illnesses and other physical problems. Regardless of the patient's motivation, doctors and nurses are pretty hard to trick. According to Reddit, it's definitely not just teenagers looking to ditch class so they can make out in a cemetery on TikTok (or whatever it is teens love to do these days).
When a recent Reddit user asked, "Doctors of Reddit, what's the biggest case of "faking it" you've ever seen?" medical professionals everywhere were ready to share their most memorable stories of sneaky patients trying to pull the *gauze over their eyes.
1. NOT THE BRAIN NEEDLE, "Seraaphime."
We had a patient faking a seizure so my supervisor told one of us to get the “brain needle”. The patient made a miraculous and swift recovery without intervention.
2. Commit to the bit! "SloopyDoops."
One time my roommate (who is an ICU nurse) came to see one of my indoor soccer games. During the game a player on the other team went down “hurt” and starting screaming in pain and swearing and rolling around while holding his ankle before he was eventually helped off the field. He then limped over to where the fans sat and watched the rest of the game brooding in silence before he left early. After the game my roommate told me he was going to go over and see if there was anything he could do to help, until he saw that the guy was limping on the wrong leg.
3. Yikes, "SinsiterlyDexterous."
Had a patient when I was an intern feigning blindness. She would constantly be playing on her smartphone, only furiously trying to hide it when someone from the care team came into her room. The best was when my attending one day strolled pst her room and threw his hand up in a highly exaggerated ‘hello’ wave. She started to throw her arm up to but caught herself half way through, then threw her hand back into her lap and pretended to be ‘staring’ off into nothing.
4. Wow, "-Stammers-"
My brother was an EMT for two years and he told me this:
People will try to use the ambulance as a means for transportation from Fulton to Oswego (because the hospital is in Oswego), by faking seizures. Sometimes when the head EMT guy was feeling fun and knew that the person was faking, he'd say something like "man it's weird that he's having seizures but not peeing himself". Apparently the person would kind of snap out of it for a second, weigh up the repercussions, then either pee themselves or stop faking. I thought that was hilarious.
5. Gotta have the subwoofer, "yMidget."
A patient claimed to have all kinds of illnesses and would cough every minute or so.
Have you tried coughing when you don't need to? It's like a normal cough but you take the subwoofer away.
Now imagine that, but ten times more fake.
6. Not the worst idea, "idrawinmargins."
I had a patient when I worked in a ICU that was sedated and on a vent. A "family" member showed up out of nowhere and was staying day and night. I got pretty suspicious of them because they were clearly lying about knowing this person. Just talked to the fake family member about how it must have been sad since they just celebrated their birthday a week or so before getting ill. This person said it was a wonderful party and such, to which I replied there birthday hadn't occurred yet and wouldn't for months. Turned out when security came it was a homeless person who snuck in and found a room with a sedated patient and decided to make it a place to stay. Needless to say security to enter the ICU was absolute shit.
7. Bold! "VisVirtusque."
I'm a surgery resident. When I was on my trauma rotation we had a patient come in after an MVC, with question that maybe the patient had seized and that had caused the accident. So he's in the trauma bay, and starts shaking. The trauma nurse goes "oh this isn't a real seizure". And the patient stops shaking, sits up, turns to the nurse, and yells "you don't know a f*cking thing about me!".
8. Busted, "jmikk85."
Opthalmology technician. People pretend to be blind all the time. Go to check their eye pressure with the tonopen (a device you poke them DIRECTLY into the eye with) and they go WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT THING!?!?!?!?!
9. Keep Rugby a secret, "mariawest."
Obligatory not a doctor ...I'm a nurse. We had a guy who had to come in every 3 months to get a medical certificate to say he couldn't work at his retail job due to severe disabling back pain. He was receiving large amounts of insurance money for this condition. After the Dr had done his usual examination and questions and signed it off the guy asks the doctor to check his shoulder which doc does and asks how he injured it? Guy says playing rugby for a competitive team. Really says doc? How long have you been playing for them ? Guy has been playing and training the whole time. Doc puts this info on insurance form . Doc loses his sh*t in staff room laughing. Next week the patient loses his sh*t in reception because his insurance has been canceled.
10. Didn't even try, "_Stamos."
ER nurse. Bringing a patient back to a room who said he had kidney stones. I had him stop at the bathroom and get a urine sample. Dude comes out with with the specimen cup that literally has a piece of concrete in it. Looked him in the eye expecting some sort of joke. He. Was. Serious. I threw it away and walked his dumbass back to the waiting room to contemplate his stupidity.
11. Ouch, "TorrenceMightingale."
Guy came to ER (I was a nurse at the time) for stomach ache when asking him about history he randomly mentions a fight with his girlfriend where she left in a tizzy and he fell asleep on the couch. 20 min later when we see the CT, he has a satellite cable remote wrapped in a condom lodged in his rectum. I suppose he intended to frame “her”. Didn’t get to hear the conversation he had with the doctor. I was curious how he was going to explain why she was nice enough to wrap it in the condom.
12. Amazing, "mnfundude70."
My mom's an ER nurse and she said once some crazy lady came in and complained hat she had the whooping cough. And whenever she coughed she followed it with a loud "woooOOOP!"
13. Don't trust kids, "ginnymoons."
Nursing student here (2000+ hours of practice). Pediatric patients are my favourite fakers. Once I was giving the kids in the ward Mantoux shots (a test to see if you’re TBC positive) and a 5yo male kept telling me I couldn’t give him that shot because he was allergic to needles. He started fake-coughing when approached and said he couldn’t breathe. I just said that it was a pity he couldn’t get the shot because I gave free tattoos to the kids who got it (you’re supposed to draw a circle or a square to mark the area since the results on the skin are available only 72h after the injection but I always draw little doodles with skin safe pen on kids). He said that maybe we should try to see if he was still allergic because he wasn’t so sure, and stopped fake-coughing.
14. This is hilarious, "sexyfoxx85."
Nurse for an ophthalmologist here. Had a 21 year old new patient claiming to be completely blind from a sudden and severe glaucoma diagnosis from a previous unknown doctor. Would feel around while walking, tried to keep eyes rolled back into his head. The whole 9 yards. He said he is a famous YouTube rapper that is now unable to make videos or earn a living. I exclaimed to have heard of him before and very excitedly asked him to search and show me his YouTube channel on my phone so that I could subscribe. He took my phone out of my hand and effortlessly found the YouTube app and typed away in the search bar. Oh, and of course his eyes were back to normal and focused.
Most of the experiences we believe to be "paranormal" actually have perfectly reasonable explanations. Doors slamming on their own can be caused by a shift in air pressure. Weird noises in the night can come from a pet or a strong wind. "Disappearing" household items are often explained by our own forgetfulness. But sometimes, the reality behind a creepy experience is even darker than our darkest imaginations made it to be.
Someone asked Reddit: "what was the creepiest thing you experienced that you thought was paranormal, but was actually much scarier when you found out what really caused it?" Here are 24 stories from people who found out the truth was even scarier than ghosts or black magic.
When I was 8 we were on a long holiday, staying with some family in a town called Surat it's in country Queensland, Australia. I was staying in their son's room who had moved to Brisbane for university. Each night I had the same recurring nightmare of an alien tentacle trying to grab me. After a week I was terrified of going to sleep but my parents kept telling me that it was okay, I was just frightened because we were staying somewhere new and that it would be okay. Well I couldn't get to sleep, I kept watching the clock, waiting for the sun to come up and terrified of the alien. It was just after 2:00AM when a large tentacle landed on the bed, I screamed in terror as I felt the tentacle wriggling, I jumped out of bed and kept screaming. My parents, aunt, uncle, and sister run into the room, to find me huddled in the corner screaming. Turns out it was an adult carpet python over 2 meters long (6.5ft). Each night it worked its way under a ceiling tile, and onto the bed. I still have an Indiana Jones fear of snakes, why'd it have to be snakes.
About 7 years ago, my family rented a one story house. It was originally one bigger house that was split off into two, and there was another family that lived in the other part that we didn't really talk with. During the night, I would hear what sounded like knocks above the ceiling, but any entrance to the small "crawlspace" between the ceiling and the roof was patched up when the house was divided. For a while, I thought there was a ghost who lived in the "attic", and I would have trouble going to sleep without a light on. After we moved out, I heard through the grapevine that the neighbor's kid was caught spying on the new people that moved in. Turns out that he had broken a hole in the ceiling of his closet to get into the crawlspace and had been looking through holes that he had bored in the ceiling overlooking the other part of the house. The noises I heard was him moving around on him arms and knees up there.
As a young kid, I had "nightmares" of waking up to see my mother hovering over my bed by the window. She just blankly stared down at me and my sister. I'd get so scared yelling Mom! Mom! and she never responded. It knew it was not "my mom." When I was older I told my Aunt about it and she told me they weren't dreams. It was real. My mom would go into our rooms randomly to check on us. She had serious mental health issues that got worse over the years. Occasionally she would have episodes of anxiety of something happening to us and "guard" us at night. Due to the traumatic death of her 1st child it apparently triggered obsessive anxiety when we were younger. I now know the whole fucked up backstory and can sympathize with why it would make any parent get to that mental state but I still shudder when I think of the blank face stare. I still tend to associate the "nightmare mom" as not being "my mom."
I came home from work. Opened the door and took my shoes off. My dad was standing maybe 10 or 12 feet away from the front entrance area in the middle of the hall. He was just staring at me. No emotion. No movement. No sounds. Just staring. Something felt off so I called out to him. He didn’t respond. So I kept calling out to him. At this point, in my head, I’m starting to come up with ways to kill him if I had to. This goes on for an uncomfortably long time. And I’m just standing there looking back at him. Then all of a sudden he busts out laughing. That shit was just screwing with me. I freaking hate my family sometimes.
When I was 13, I had a small jewelry box my mom gave me that had cushions for rings. I had six rings that I kept in it (nothing of value, think mood rings and silver rings). I was somewhat neurotic as a kid and had spent an afternoon arranging my room, and I’d put the six rings in a specific order.
I opened the box one day and noticed that two of the rings were out of order. I thought someone in my family had moved them because there was zero explanation for this. I asked my family if anyone had touched them, and they all insisted no one had opened the box, but I was convinced someone had to have gone through it.
My dad ended up going through our entire house checking for missing stuff and the only missing things were an old bottle of hydrocodone from the medicine cabinet and some of my mom’s gold jewelry from a bathroom drawer.
Turns out there had been strings of robberies in the neighborhood where thieves had broken in but only taken prescription drugs and small gold items. None of the robberies had indications that the homes had been broken into, and things like laptops, diamond jewelry and other valuables had been left alone. My family wouldn’t have known anything was amiss aside from the fact I was so convinced something was off.
I had a friend who was staying at a ski lodge, and he went outside at night to smoke a cigarette. While he was out there he said it seemed like an invisible monster was coming right at him. He heard it stomping, even smelled it, felt it’s breath as it charged him, and then it passed through him and it was gone.
Turns out it was a grizzly bear, stomping it’s way around on the floor directly underneath where he was.
I was 24 and working at a startup dotcom. I spent a weekend at my parents house, came back to my apartment and went into my bedroom where I saw my bed was made. Felt my heart stutter as I stood frozen in the doorway because I never ever made my bed, it was something I consciously refused to do. After the initial shock, I went through the apartment examining the closets, under the bed, etc. I calmed down after awhile, convincing myself that I must have made the bed before I left for my parents and just forgotten about it. Deep down, I knew it wasn't true but I couldn't think of any other explanation.
I later found out it was the woman I was dating at the time who did it. She was the person who hired me. We'd been in a relationship less than a month but she managed to somehow get a copy of my key. She used to visit my place and snoop through my things when I was gone. She also slept in my bed overnight several times when I was away for the weekend. If she hadn't made my bed, I never would have known anything was going on.
A little after I graduated highschool some friends and I were hanging out at a local park after dark. Decided to go walk through the woods for the spookiness of it. About 20 minutes in we hear this loud screaming from behind us and barely see this dark figure rushing towards us at what we would describe as supernatural speed, so we hauled ass and didn't stop until we were out of the wooded area and didn't see it. A couple of friends claimed it appeared to be floating towards us as it howled like a banshee.
We later found out that area of the woods is popular for homeless people to hang out in and shoot up. So instead of some sort of evil wood spirit, it was most likely a homeless heroin addict running at us at full speed and screaming.
A previous owner had died in one of my childhood homes. Strange things happened there that drove us (and my dog) absolutely nuts, but it became exceptionally creepy when my sister, who was sleeping in the basement apartment, began insisting that somebody was watching her at night.
We later found an old camera hidden in the walls and learned that said previous owner was arrested for spying on the girl who rented his basement apartment ...
This did not happen to me, but it happened in my city when I was in high school. A family thought that their house was "haunted" because things like furniture and objects would randomly move or go missing. This went on for several months. They even reached out to their pastor to "bless" the house. Well, the house wasn't haunted. It turned out that a drifter had wandered in at some point and had been living in their attic. He would come out when the family was at work and eat their food and go through their things for cash and stuff to sell. One day, one of the family members came home unexpectedly and caught them. Called police for an "active break in." The cops quickly discovered what had been going on.
I had a blind dog growing up and she barked at things that were there, and things that weren’t. One night, around midnight, she woke up my mom and I (my dad’s too heavy of a sleeper) by barking at the wall next to the back door. I woke up but I was maybe 9 so I went right back to sleep. My mom got up and ushered her back to bed.
That same night, an arsonist hit my neighborhood. “He” set fire to a luckily vacant house for sale and it burned to the ground. Following his footsteps in the snow, he then passed between my bedroom and our garage and nearly lit our garage. Then our dog and my mom woke up, and we think that scared him away, and he went across the street and burned the neighbors’ garage instead. Then he stood in their front yard and watched it burn. He walked out onto the street and they lost his footsteps. They never caught him.
RIP Oreo, I miss you. You were a very good pup. Love you, be good.
When I was 12ish something, I came home to find the bedroom's lights on. If it was just my bedroom, then it wouldn't have been a problem. But my brother's room lights were also on and we never leave those lights on. Could have been my brother or my mom, but one was in the army while the other was at work.
I was a little freaked out, but tried to tone it down by saying that I might have left them on before going out. Then I turn and see a couple of wooden spoons on top of our kitchen's cabinet.
I knew for a fact that I hadn't left any spoon sitting there. I also didn't recognize those two spoons. That was when I realized that someone had been inside our house.
Long story short, I had lost my keys a few days prior and my neighbor, who was the same age as I, found them. Instead of giving it back, he kept them with himself. Days later, his mom asked him to, idk, deliver something to my mom? But there was no one at home, so he used his keys to enter our house. He forgot his mom's wooden spoons there, and if it wasn't for this, we would never have found out that he entered our house. I think he stole money from us as well.
My friend lived up in these pitch black windy hills about 20 minutes from any ambient city lights. No traffic stoplights, street lights - nothing. One night when driving up to visit him I reached a stop sign. I looked left, no one there, looked right, no one there, then proceeded to make a left turn. From the time it took for me to look left, then right, a man stepped into the street about 10 feet in front of my car. I immediately slammed on my brakes and he just stood there, my car lights hitting him, not moving. I slowly just drove around him and he kept facing forward as I passed (didn’t turn his head at all to look at me/make eye contact).
I get to my friends house convinced I had seen a ghost and was freaking out about it. My friend asked me to describe the man I saw, and when I did, he tells me it was a pedophile that moved in down the street with his (the pedophile’s) parents after getting out of jail.
TL DR: a man stepped in front of my car in the middle of nowhere. Thought it was a ghost but it ended up being a convicted (and recently released from jail) pedofile.
Towards my second half of high school, everything started feeling like it was all going downhill. It felt like to me, there was some unseen outside force making my life hell. TURNS OUT that I actually have Type 1 diabetes, and in that time of my second half of high school was when I was first experiencing the symptoms of the condition.
So sometimes I get sleep paralysis, I've accepted that if I wake up and weird things are happening, I should just ignore them. Well, one time I woke up in the middle of the night to two male voices arguing, nothing unusual. I tried to ignore it and go back to sleep, when I heard my dog start barking/growling, and then heard my parents talking in concerned voices. I realized it was not sleep paralysis at all, and got up to find a very drunk father and son duo arguing outside our front window (started swearing at us when my dad yelled at them to move along, cops were called). Another time, same situation only it was a Vole tunneling into my room very noisily and eating through the drywall.
About 5 years ago I got a phone call from my brother and he just kept mumbling into the phone, He kept muttering random words and because I was younger, stupid me thought he was possessed or something but he had just had a seizure and had just woken up (my brother gets really woozy and panicky after he has a seizure. Scared the living hell out of me.
My uncle bought an old house (150ish years old) as a fix-up project. If you went up the stairs you had an option to turn right or left. Left led to a series of bedrooms and right had a landing and one bedroom past it. If you took the dog upstairs she would cry and run away if you tried to take her right. My cousin insisted that the bedroom to the right was haunted, thus the frightened dog. Later we worked on the house and found that the landing to the right was structurally unsafe. To this day we wonder, did the dog know the landing was unsafe somehow or was there something more sinister at play?
I was seven years old, home alone. My parents went for dinner at around 9 PM. They left me in bed for me to sleep, hours passed and still couldn't sleep. Went downstairs to get some milk and cookies to watch tv in my parent's bedroom. While I was getting my snacks, I felt like someone grabbed my shoulder hardly, I was so scared I couldn't even turn around to check who did it. I stayed there, frozen, for at least one minute straight; I had the balls to run and went to my parent's bedroom. I locked myself in there and didn't get out until my parents came home. It was three AM and heard my parent's car park outside the window. I was never so happy for them to come home. As soon my parents get in the house my om screamed and called 911. The thing I thought was a ghost that grabbed me was actually a drug addict who secretely lived in our basement and that night thought nobody was home so went grab some snacks from the fridge too and confused my shoulder with the fridge's door and then passed out. Still freaks me out to this day
When I was with my ex we lived with his parents for a bit in a kind of granny flat above their garage. I'd often take naps through the day while he was at work and stuff would inexplicably move around or go missing while I was asleep. Never happened when he was home or when Ibwas awake. I was convinced the place was haunted and whatever spirit it was had it out for me.
Turns out his dad was coming in and doing this, with the intention of making it look like I was nuts so I would be discredited when I spoke out against his abusive ass son.
When my friends and I initially entered college, we used to chill a lot at my friend's dad's house, who lived out in the country. Late at night, when scanning the horizon, you could see the all of the stars. It wasn't like the city. But you could also see a radio tower, perhaps a few miles away.
One late Fall night, maybe one or two in the morning, we decided to drive out to this radio tower, just out of curiosity. It was in the middle of a large field with one entrance which happened to be open. We entered from there and drove about 1/4 mile in towards the radio tower. When we got there, we noticed, underneath the radio tower, a rusty beat up car. The thing looked like it hadn't been driven in years. We pulled to the other side of the tower and just chilled for a little bit, talking about whatever and listening to music. Then one of my friends pointed towards the beat up car. "Does it look like there's a light in there?" he said. We all stared at the car and sure enough, emanating behind the dust covered windows of the car was a dim light.
We pretty quickly put our car in drive and started moving out of there. It was a field though so of course we moved relatively slow. The same friend who pointed out the light noticed that the car started moving along with us, following slowly. It didn't put on its headlights, but the light inside the car seemed to glow brighter. That was the moment that my friend driving screamed, "Fuck it!" and hightailed it faster than I'd ever seen. We left the junk car in the dust, literally in this case, and from that day we had always referred to this story as "The Ghost Car" Story. Did we really believe in ghosts? Probably not, but paranormal is better than whatever else it could have been.
Come to find out, a few years later, that field was regularly being monitored by the local sheriff's office for big drug deals that apparently went down there. Had we stuck around any longer that night than we did, we could have legitimately been killed. This was also in the era that we watched a lot of Breaking Bad so in retrospect it seemed to us like that could've very much been a likely outcome from that night. Luckily we're all good and nothing bad ever came of it for any of us.
For several months during my senior year of high school and all through the summer before I left for college, I kept hearing noises coming from the attic above my bedroom. I would only hear it at night, and I told my parents and brothers that it sounded like someone walking in the attic and dragging a chain on the ground. My dad even had me go sleep on the couch one night so he could sleep in my room to try to hear it. My older brother went up into the attic. Nothing. I left for college and didn’t really think much of it. When I returned for my first visit home, my dad revealed he’d found a slow leak in one of the pipes that rotted a hole in the ceiling above my bed! The drip of water had been ricocheting around the pipes, sounding like chains dragging!
I have a little dog that barks at everything. I was watching a scary movie at home alone one night and my dog ran to the back door and started barking like crazy. Once I got over the initial fear of ghost, I realized that she probably needed to pee. I let her out and she ran straight to a bush in the corner. She keeps barking at the bush so I go out to see what it was thinking a cat or squirrel. There is nothing there so I pick her up and take her inside. When I turn to walk I saw some kind of shadow so definitely ghost now and I run. I lock myself in my room while my dog continues to bark at the window but looking out there is nothing there. The next day a cop shows up at my door. A woman nextdoor got accosted in her backyard the night before and the house on the other side was broken into while the people were asleep. The guy didn’t take anything, he was just walking around when someone found him. They think the guy used my backyard to get to the 2 houses.
Whole family in the camp trailer at a sweet little place with full hook-ups. Kids were asleep, it was late, campground was totally quiet. A flash of light no bigger than your thumbnail lit the whole trailer up in a blue-smoke, odd smelling flash. Wife and I were certain it was a ghostbusters type of weird shit. I went outside; nothing but that odor, but total darkness.
Apparently light struck a power transformer three miles away that finally grounded out right next our trailer, and overnight, the power pole simply smoldered away from the center out.
I started firmly believing in ghosts in middle school. My freshman year of high school, I knew there was one who stood in my room by the closet, and I had enough one day and started yelling at it through my mind because I was angry that it was watching me. A sudden weight came down in my head and I knew what had happened. It was punishment. The ghost was inside my head. For years I kept quiet about it, knowing people would just think i was crazy or lying. In the meantime I lost basically all emotions except for fear—the rest sink no deeper than surface level—and I stopped feeling rested after I slept. I chalked both of these things up to the ghost.
Turns out I was so quick to believe in ghosts because I have OCD that tells me I’m being observed 24/7, and the idea of ghosts being the culprit fit perfectly into my interpretation of my surroundings. This obsession will likely never go away fully. My brain feeds me lies every waking moment and all I can do is learn to overcome them. As for the weight in my head, it’s still there, almost ten years later. So far all the doctors I’ve seen for it seem uninterested in helping me after basic scans and tests come back negative. If I ever find out what it really is, I’ll try to remember to update.
There is one major reason to go to the gym, no matter how much you hate it, and that is to silently judge other people. There's no shortage of weirdos at the gym. I know because I go to the gym (humblebrag) at least 3-4 times a year—and I'm never the only weirdo there. Even if I am usually the only one audibly crying on the treadmill.
Someone asked Reddit: "what is your weirdest experience while going to the gym?" These 23 gym-goers share their stories.
Lady walks in on a Saturday morning. I've never seen here there before. She was significantly overweight but had on gloves and knee braces, so I figure she's a powerlifter on a bulk. I'm warming up doing some cable internal rotations and have my headphones on, so I don't see that she sets up at the cable machine behind me. I finish my set and turn around, and I see her getting ready.
She's got a straight bar attached to the cable machine with the arm down near the ground and the bar on the floor. She half crouched/squatted in front of this thing and I'm thinking she's about to do some kind of squat, when she starts waving her hands. As in, the kind of hand waving a wizard does when he's imitating someone imitating Bob Fosse-esque jazz hands. I couldn't stop watching. She did this for at least 30 seconds before she grabs the bar to start her exercise
And when I say grab the bar, I mean pick it up with both hands, extend it until it gets resistance from the weight, and then start standing up and half squatting/crouching. She wasn't engaging any weight, she was just using the bar as something to hold in her hands as she stood up and crouched down slightly.
She did this for three "sets" and then moved to some cardio machines.
I saw her a few times after that, each time doing something equally nonsensical, and always, ALWAYS with the incantation hand motions.
I swear my gym is actually a gateway into the fae.
One time I saw a fit man with impeccable, flowing locks stare himself down in the mirror. He just kept saying “yes!” And growling a bunch. Then he went over to the stretching area and did what could only be described as jazzercise while listening to aggressive hip hop on his headphones so loud I could hear it from the squat rack. Periodically, he’d holler out grunts and hype sounds and curse words with the music. I’m pretty sure he was a lynx in a human body.
One time I’m on the bench and I hear two dudes: “you look fucking amazing bro, you’re the best looking dude in this gym.” “Nah, you are bro.” I turn around after a set, and they’re identical twins.
There’s this old guy who wears a toupee to the gym. It’s hideous, like he decided when he bought his wig “I’ll be ginger now!” but he’s like a swarthy Mediterranean white dude. When he works out, the toupee wax that affixes it to his bald skull melts and runs down the sides of his head. He never seems to mind.
I was running on the treadmill and there was this scruffy guy all hunched down like 3 treadmills away and he kept loudly muttering to himself “you can do it, you got this” and making weird noises. He kept doing it for like 20 mins. At first I was like annoyed cause he was rather loud and it was weird but after about 10 minutes I distractedly started thinking to myself “I CAN do this!! I GOT this”. He was unintentionally inspiring to me.
I go to the gym at lunch and my office is somewhat close to a good sized university, so some of the college students also gym there since it's cheap and close.
One day I was at the gym with a work buddy, we were alternating sets on the butterfly machine which was right in front of a row of treadmills.
There were a few folks on the treadmill, an older guy I'd say in his mid 50s and 2 college aged women 2 treadmills away from the older guy, they're wearing t-shirts and shorts of the local college . The women are running pretty hard, doing some interval work. After a few sets, the woman closest to the old guy lifts her shirt to wipe her forehead sweat off, she's not wearing anything underneath said shirt. The older guy looks over and notices this and promptly stumbles on the treadmill and shoots backward onto the floor about 5 feet.
I am in the middle of my rep when this all happens and I can't stop laughing. My gym buddy turns around at all the noise of the guy falling over. The 2 women immediately run to the bathroom giggling. I still wonder if this was all some kind of prank, or just an accident. Never saw those 2 at the gym again.
NSFW. Moving to a new place, no friends/nightlife, so went to the gym twice a day. One night I was closing the place down with a swim and was almost the last person in the building. Nobody in the locker room, but I could hear a shower on. Walked into the shower and assumed that some asshat had just left it on. As I got closer though, I saw a shadow. I just went into the shower stall I was adjacent to. Men’s showers so no doors. There was a man there leaning hard against the wall with a hard-on out front and one hand reaching down behind his back. When I turned on my shower he froze, turned facing me in shock, and I watched a 10 inch dildo flop out of his butt and hang between his legs. He then proceeded to drop it and awkwardly try to kick it to the side so I wouldn’t see it when he picked it up. I can’t unsee it.
I was on the treadmill waiting for the only squat rack to open up. A guy was holding it up talking to some other guy, and they talked for like 15 minutes. I was about to ask if I could work in...and then they started praying. Other guy put his head down, and squat guy put his hands on other guy's shoulders and started praying and doing that loud "HUH" thing between sentences Southern Baptist preachers do. And then another guy walked up to get in on the action. At the loaded squat rack.
The woman who was hanging out in the locker room in her underwear. She was there when I came in, and still there an hour later. Someone told me she was probably an IG "model" doing a selfie photoshoot.
I was running on the treadmill and there was this scruffy guy all hunched down like 3 treadmills away and he kept loudly muttering to himself “you can do it, you got this” and making weird noises. He kept doing it for like 20 mins. At first I was like annoyed cause he was rather loud and it was weird but after about 10 minutes I distractedly started thinking to myself “I CAN do this!! I GOT this”. He was unintentionally inspiring to me.
There's this guy that does interval training on the treadmill hilariously wrong, it looks like he's trying to imitate Road Runner from Loony Toons. Imagine someone upping the speed on the treadmill so much that the they have to hold on to the railings to keep from flying off. That's how this guy sprints on the treadmill. The stride of his legs is ridiculous as well, his heels are legit half way up his back on each stride.
Skeleton of a man was psyching himself up for a 225 lbs squat (deep breaths, loud grunting, and smelling salts included). Proceeded to get under the bar, squatted what seemed less than a half rep (more like a quarter rep with bad form), re-racked the weight, and proceeded to yell, "Fuck yeah!" as if he was at a power lifting meet.
I remember a guy would spit & lick his hands before lifting weights or using machines and wouldn’t clean it afterwards. Then even weirder he would straight up moan like he was fucking while lifting the heavier weights. It was weird and gross.
Back in the early 1980s and late 1970s, I used to work out a Gold's Gym in a western Canadian city. The gym was also the favourite workout spot for professional wrestlers when they were doing a gig in town. The weirdest thing was seeing how dramatically different some of these guys were in real life compared to their wrestling personas.
One guy whose persona was of a British dock worker type would show up at the gym in a three piece suit (edit, no he didn't work out in a suit) and speaking the poshest of British accents, and was constantly giving other wrestlers investment and tax advice -- apparently he was an accountant as well.
What was surprising was that some of them weren't faking it but in real life they were as rude, selfish and ignorant as their characters. I also remember how sad was seeing how some of the older wrestlers were really suffering from dementia (probably cumulative effects of concussions) and were literally guided through everything by other wrestlers, even simple things like getting dressed. I was impressed by the care some these guys gave to their older colleagues who needed constant attention.
However, the most interesting experience was Jesse Ventura. Of course when the wrestlers showed up, they were generally followed around by a hoard of fans, usually teenage boys. Some were hostile to their fans, telling them to f*ck off, others gave a quick acknowledgment and then moved on.
However, Jesse would spend an incredible amount of time with his fans, especially the younger ones, listening and talking to all of them with total attention. I remember seeing him trying to do leg presses while taking questions from a crowd of boys about what it means to be a man.
Even back then, when he was just the heel "Jesse the Body", out of the ring he showed that he understood the impact that he could have as a role model to young men and took it seriously. When he became governor of Minnesota, I was definitely not surpised.
Not really weird, but this huge guy was weightlifting at the gym I frequent and he farted, and it was the longest fart I've ever heard. Like at least 30 seconds long. He couldn't stop giggling like a little girl, and then everyone else started laughing and clapping like he just performed a theater piece. It was surreal.
Probably the worst thing I saw was a woman who had her 3-4 year old daughter literally sitting in her lap with an ipad while she benched. I get the whole needing to work out but not having the time cause of kids, but at least have her sit on a nearby unused machine.
I was toweling off after a shower in front of my locker, my junk is pierced so it kinda makes a lot of noise when I do. This caught some old dudes attention who then proceeded to call his friend over. So I got two old guys asking me a ton of questions about my dick, I swear they were like an old school comedy team. One was a lawyer the other a doctor. One's granddaughter was brought up cause she's into those kinds of things then decided not a good match cause I'm actually older then I look. In the time it took me to finish getting dressed I swear my abs got a better work out then any ab routine. All because some old lawyer didn't know guys were getting thier dicks pierced.
Wedding planning can be a headache, even without a rival bride gunning for your email address.
One woman is defending her inbox from a bridezilla invader who thinks it should be hers, because it happens to be the same as the couple's first names combined.
It all started with the woman writing invitations to her wedding when she got a weird email:
A few days ago, I'm sitting at the table with my fiance addressing wedding invitations when my phone buzzes. I've gotten an email that reads "Please mark Name1 and Name2 as coming to your wedding, we will have the chicken and the fish". Cue a very confused thirty seconds of trying to figure out which of our guests has precognition and has RSVP'd before the invites were even dropped in the mail!
She told the sender they had the wrong email address and went back about her business:
Not recognizing the sender's email or the names of either guest, we chalk it up to a wrong email address, send back "You might want to double check who you sent this to so your RSVP goes to the right place!" and chuckle at the confusion it caused us, thinking things have been resolved.
But the emails kept on coming:
Until the next day. I get two more RSVPs from two different addresses, and a reply from the original that says "This ISN'T the email for the wedding of Firstname and Surname???" I reply back No, no it is not. I'm perplexed, but at work. I decide to deal with the other emails later.
Then she heard from the bride and it all started to make sense:
When I get home, I've gotten another RSVP (four in total for those playing along at home) as well as an email from someone with the same first name as me, saying that she's going to need me to give her my email account. Um.... ?!?
The bride explained that she thinks the woman should just hand the email address over:
I reply to that, no, and also, why? I get an email back in about 10 minutes. She says that she's got the same first name as me, and is getting married to a guy named Surname. They've picked "FirstnameSurname" as their email account for RSVPs. She didn't realize I made the account, so I can either give my password to her or I can reset it and she can create a new one, whichever works for me~! :)
(The smiley wasn't included, but it read like it should have been, so I editorialized here.)
The woman with the email address said no:
I reply again that she's going to need to pick a new account, this is mine, it's my full name, I've had it for a literal decade, it's the email all my family knows... blah blah. More apologetic than needed at all, but I wanted to explain why I wasn't giving it up. I do congratulate her on getting married, and mention that I'm getting married myself as well.
And the bride started to play dirty:
Oh she LOSES it. I get a nasty nasty string of emails from her saying that I have no right to use FirstnameSurname unless my fiance is named "Surname"; that I won't need it after I'm married so what's wrong with giving it up a little early; that I am ruining her life and her wedding; that I am a wide array of gender-based insults and slurs; she hopes that my fiance cheats on me because I deserve it; and finally, she's giving me one more chance to hand it over before she sues me for theft and I owe her a lot of money.
I was a more than a little taken aback, so I didn't reply to any of this. (The fiance did offer up some snarky replies for me to use, but I didn't.)
It turns out the bridezilla actually wrote the woman's email address on the invitations:
A few hours later, the original RSVPer sends me an email saying they double checked the invitation, my email is definitely the one written on the invite.
Ah, now the mystery unravels.
She put my email on her wedding invites and sent them out to people without first registering the email address herself. It's printed and in the mail. It's permanent. Oooh, what a super stupid decision!
So the woman offered to forward the emails on to the bride:
I finally reply to her tirade (without using any of the snarky comments I'd been given!) telling her under no circumstances would I be giving her my email, legally she doesn't have a leg to stand on, she's being super rude, but I am still willing to forward on the RSVPs to her if she would like me to. I ask how many people she invited, so I can get an idea of how much work I just volunteered for. (Privately not really looking forward to forwarding emails for her, but I am not a nasty person, and, hey, it IS her wedding after all. I have personal, real time experience of getting stressed over wedding plans myself. Maybe she's normally a nice person and just at her wit's end over this mistake.)
But the bride decided that wasn't enough:
She sends back a nasty email full of expletives and name calling again demanding my password or nothing.
Well!
OK then, nothing it is!
So now she's responding to the RSVP emails in an admittedly petty way:
I blocked her email and replied to the three RSVPs I hadn't talked to yet with a simple "I'm sorry, you're not invited to my wedding." This has the benefit of being 100% true, albeit deceptive.
Today I got another RSVP and they got a nice curt "not invited!" reply as well.
I'm hoping she has a very large wedding party.
And she might make it even pettier:
Fiance offered a few snarky replies to the guests I could make, including claiming I'd gone vegan and by requesting chicken they'd failed the "test" and I never wanted them to contact me again; confirming but pushing back the date of the wedding a week; or saying that I had decided to marry "fiance's name" instead of "surname".
None of them have responded back yet, but if they do, I'll forward the email chain between me and bridezilla to them and explain the situation. This is only r//pettyrevenge after all!
People are applauding her decision to take this revenge to the pettiest level possible.
nickis84 points out that the bride doesn't seem like the brightest:
WTF who goes through craziness of sending out invites for wedding and doesn't check to see if email you want to use is available? Which if it isn't, is easily fixed by adding a number like 2020 to commemorate the year!
What a zilla, you were far more polite than she deserved!
Please continue to update!
momof3dragons2012 agreed that giving up the email is too much to ask:
I’ve had my email since I was a junior in high school, so over 20 years. It would be a huge imposition to change it. This lady is nuts.
User Jurassic-Park-fan90 had some advice, too:
This might not be necessary but when you make your wedding plans make sure to lock everything down. Tell your vendors only changes approved in person or with X password will be done( get that in writing). She knows your email address and possibly your name. It’s not hard to find out who you are and she sounds crazy.
We love to call America the "land of the free," but some of our pointless laws and traditions tell a different story.
A recent Reddit thread urged European people to share the "American problems" they can't understand. Get ready for a crash course in how weird America is.
1. Americans share this confusion and frustration over our pointlessly high drinking age.
21 Drinking age like whaaaat you can vote , go join the army , get married , have children and drive but you're too immature to drink ???!!???! - captainsincers
2. Fun fact: in other countries, tax is included in price so you actually pay what the price tag says.
Australian here, don't understand why tax isn't automatically added to price tags. - Android_frog
3. In European countries, calling out of work sick isn't frowned upon. What a concept!
I truly do not understand [limited sick days]. I mean, if you're sick you're.... you know, sick. I have tried, but I canno limit the time I'm sick. I don't think a lot of people can, so why tf limit sick days?
Here in The Netherlands we went, in my opinion, a bit overboard. You can be sick for one year, then your empoyer has to pay only 70% of your salary. After two years they can fire you. That's a bit long. But I read somewhere about people who have two sickdays a year, which is the other end of ridiculous. - Myana_1st
4. Your middle school teacher was right: no one outside the US uses inches, feet, pounds, etc.
The confusing Imperial measurements system and US customary units. - b8075313
5. While some countries have a similar system for freelancers, spending money and time to "do your taxes" is a uniquely American concept.
Having to do your tax bill (I mean, the IRS know how much you earn, so why can’t they just take it out?)
Damn, I swear they want you to f*ck up so they can put you in jail. - Bitmexxed
6. Did you know most people drive stick in Europe? So driving automatic cars seems more like an American solution, but okay.
Not European but Driving manual cars. Where I'm from, most people learn stick at 16-18 - tanmak100
7. Most Americans don't realize living in the U.S. is a huge ripoff.
Tipping, paying for health care (thank god for the NHS), ridiculous living costs, not having holiday time - mrshighwvy
8. The costs pile up so quickly in the U.S. that even people with money don't feel like they have money.
Living "paycheck to paycheck" despite making like 4 grands a month - BlackLatexPanther
9. We don't understand how our health insurance got to this point, either.
Having to take out a second mortage because you twisted your ankle in the wrong state - EHainesReddit
10. Having to join the armed forces to afford life... what a concept.
Joining the army for college money and free healthcare.
Also how religious they are - WKH1970
11. We're stingy with everything here, even public wi-fi.
Probably not really European but Finnish, memes about forgotting to connect your phone to wifi. Here we have unlimited internet and it's working almost everywhere. - tohtorimikkonen
12. Yeah, conservative Americans are pretty good at saying one thing and doing another...
Double standards. E.g. being prude but having the largest porn industry in the world, praising religion but disregarding Christian values IRL. - humphrey_b52
13. Living beyond our means is the American way.
Credit card debt.
You have a credit card, you buy something with your credit card, you pay it all off from your checking account in the same month.
The interest works never in your favor. - kaesspaetzle_ftw
14. A lot of our food is barely food, to be fair.
Food portions, the amount of fat and sugar in food. I have been to the us a few weeks ago. I couldn't deal with the nasty food after 2 weeks. - tokke
15. Europeans can be cranky about Americans who claim European ancestry.
Their obsession with race and heritage, like getting your DNA analysed and finiding out you're 43.72% Norwegian or something. Nobody cares, you're all just Americans! - LucyVialli
16. Why do we still live here again?
Student debt. I pay €20/Semester tuition in Austria. - TheLadderGuy
Sometimes some healthy pranks can help to keep up the fun of romantic relationships.
Other times, your spouse just truly doesn't understand very basic elements of being a human in society and it forces you to question why you vowed to spend the rest of your life with them. Why can't they remember to close drawers? Tighten lids? Put towels back on racks? Change the toilet paper roll? Why did you send them to the store to get peanut butter and they came back with two sticks of actual butter and a skateboard? Love is a mystery!
If you and your partner could use a laugh, enjoy these husbands who are truly trying their best to annoy the living hell out of their wives.
Kids say the darndest things. It's not their fault: the "filter" part of the brain has yet to fully develop.
Parents on Twitter are sharing stories of the times they got accidentally roasted by wee ones, and they're better than any comedy club. Nothing is more confusing to kids than mom in makeup.
Whether you're a single working mom, a married stay-at-home mom, a full-time working mom with a nanny, or you're dealing with a completely different set of motherhood circumstances, one thing is for sure: you're likely exhausted.
Being an adult in the world and taking care of yourself is exhausting enough as is, but when you add the moody needs of kids to the equation the exhaustion level goes from 0-100 real quick.
While there's truly no sense comparing lots in life, since it largely leads to misunderstandings and resentment, there are plenty of discussions in the parenting community about stay-at-home moms, and whether they have it the easiest or hardest of all.
Feeling exhausted by the assumptions that staying home with the kids is a walk in the park, stay-at-home mom Bridgette Anne recently penned a Facebook post that got brutally honest about how it feels for her.
☝️ everyone thinks being a stay at home mom full time is easy.
— that we are lucky to be able to not have to work.
—...
She kicked off the post by sharing a few of the assumptions she's heard from people not in her shoes: that she is somehow lazy for not working outside the home, that being a mom is not real work, that there's nothing to complain about.
Everyone thinks being a stay at home mom full time is easy.
— That we are lucky to be able to not have to work. — That we are lazy. — That it’s not “real” work so we have nothing to complain about.
👉 but the truth is...it’s f*cking lonely and overwhelming
She then went on to lay out just how lonely the job can be, and how something as simple as enjoying a cup of coffee or scrubbing your pants becomes a circus when you're surrounded by kids 24/7.
You can’t do anything by yourself; go to the bathroom, enjoy a cup of coffee, read, hell you can’t even scrub the sh*t out of pants for the 3rd time in a day without someone crying or screaming at your leg.
You don’t get breaks unless they are sleeping; which even then you use that time to clean up.
You struggle to come up with ways to entertain someone for literally 12 hours a day every day.
Because of the non-stop exhaustion, Anne wrote that even putting on clean clothes feels like a formidable challenge, and most days there simply isn't the time.
You wear the same clothes that smell like sweat and tears for days at a time because it’s already stained and no use in ruining more clothes.
You forget what it means or feels like to be an individual; because your entire existence now revolves around that child.
This feeling of constantly throwing on dirty clothes to chase a wired child can feed feelings of losing your identity, and while working and raising kids is another type of exhaustion, Anne sometimes envies moms who interact with adults at their job.
You look at working moms and get jealous because you wish you could have an excuse to have an adult conversation without being interrupted.
You lock yourself in the bathroom and scream into a towel while crying because you need a second to breathe; all while a child is banging on the door to get in.
She shared that in the past, she was part of the chorus of people who undermined how hard it is to be a stay at home mom, and she's eaten a large piece of humble pie while facing the reality.
☝️ Let that sink in, most of us don’t even have the luxury to cry and be frustrated in peace..and when we do break down people question it; “like what do you have to cry about you get to sit home all day.”
I was one of those people who judged SAHM’s. But I get it now. The people who said they’d be there to help have all but disappeared, and you’re left with this overwhelming sense of failure.
She ended the post by encouraging people to check in on their stay-at-home-mom friends, since they are likely dealing with issues of isolation.
My house isn’t clean, I’m not clean, the dishes aren’t done, I have screamed already today, I have cried, and I have felt so d*mn guilty that my child was here to witness it.
But I am alone....and I am lonely
👉👉 check in on your SAHM friends....we are NOT okay.
Her post quickly went viral, and was flooded with comments ranging from deeply supportive to somewhat judgemental.
A handful of moms encouraged Anne to extend more grace to herself, and to remember the most important thing is that her kids know they're loved.
Another mom suggested mom groups to lighten the load, and one even questioned Anne's attitude about it all.
One woman chimed in to ask why Anne and others feeling frustrated don't just go out and get jobs outside the home, and yet another pointed out that working moms deal with double this exhaustion as well as a load of guilt for being away from their kids.
The thread brought out a lot of different opinions and life experiences, but luckily, most of them were expressed in respectful ways and the overall tone was one of support.
While receiving support doesn't erase the day to day exhaustion of staying home with kids, knowing you're not alone can provide a much needed boost when everything feels way too hard. Sometimes, you just have to take everything one hour at a time until it becomes more bearable.
In an ideal world, none of us would have to pay rent. Landlords would not exist. Having a roof over our heads would be as free as the air we breathe. But we do not live in an ideal world. If you're an adult, you have to pay rent, in some form or another. Even if you live with your parents as a grown-up, you pay in the form of your privacy and judgment from your Tinder dates. Them's the rules.
But even though rent is an inevitable facet of a capitalist society, there are always going to be people who try to weasel their way out of paying it (no offense to weasels, who in their defense don't have to pay rent because they're weasels). Even a non-paying weasel would make a better roommate than this guy whose post seeking free housing has become the laughingstock of Reddit. A screenshot of the housing post was shared with the title: "Male seeking new housemates for free but makes it up with ‘fun cool vibes’"
Buckle the f*ck up.
This guy describes himself as a "young, independent photographer/insta baddie" who is "looking to move in to a cosy place long term with a couple house mates." As if someone calling himself an "insta baddie" isn't enough of a red flag, he admits he "wouldn't be able to pay rent."
But, fear not, future house mates! Your future roommate will pay by "doing the dishes, cleaning the house" (two things I'd be willing to bet he has never done once in his life) and also providing everyone with a "fun cool vibe!" Not multiple vibes, though. That would be excessive. Just one, singular vibe.
Oh, and it gets even worse. This person comes with his own house rules. The people paying his rent are forbidden from being male (sorry, guys!), eating meat or dairy ("no murderers!"), or from having peace-and-quiet. Because this guy is....drum roll.....a drummer. But a drummer who demands silence after 10 pm. Unclear if this last rule applies to him—since he clearly thinks other rules, like rent must be paid with money, don't apply to him.
I dare you to name a more terrible potential roommate. I'll wait.
Clearly this guy doesn't live in reality (or this decade—"Cowabunga?!") but the internet does.
Reddit commenters are trying to decide which terrible aspect of this heinous person's awful post is the worst.
Man...here I am, renting my own place, paying my own bills, all alone like a sucker. What this place needs is a stranger eating my food, loafing on my furniture, providing good vibes, drums, and sexual harassment.
If what you're looking for is an entitled, judgmental brat to take your money and fill your home with noise but forbid you from making any, you're in luck! But also, you need to see a doctor.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy a whole lot of weird objects, vacations, and hobbies. While many of us daydream about paying off debt, funding the lifestyles of close friends and family members, and going on that trip around the world, people who are actually wealthy have the space to build habits beyond that.
For some people, the presence of excess causes a complete loss of perspective, as they demand fancy bottled water for their pets and limousines for five minute drives. Others, however, cling to the fear of losing it all and then become obsessively frugal.
In a popular post on Reddit, people who have worked as gardeners, nannies, and maids for the super rich shared some of the weirdest things they've seen behind closed doors. As it turns out, rich people are just as weird as the rest of us, they just have more freedom to fly their freak flag.
1. 2greenToes helped their mother at a mansion with a basement full of one use underwear.
Helped my mother in law who was a maid once with a very large mansion in NC. Beautiful house, amazing architecture. They traveled the world all the time. The kitchen had old old appliances from the 70's, the wife's bathroom had a broken toilet seat that was duct taped together. The wife did not rewear her underwear. We were not to go in the basement. I peaked down there, there were clothes three foot deep in the basement where she took off her clothes and just threw them down there. Thousands of pairs of underwear. Very weird people.
2. dick_felt's client only lets their dog drink brand name water.
Dog walker here: one of my clients only lets her dog drink Smart Water.
3. DaveDavidsen delivered furniture to a man so rich he just kept empty rooms.
It wasn't really behind closed doors or anything but I delivered furniture to a very rich person's mega-house once only to discover, as we were going from room to room, a few rooms were completely bare and empty. I didn't really register it at first because I figured we would be putting furniture in there with the load we were delivering but that didn't happen and I mentioned to a co-worker how the one room was bigger than my living room and completely bare and he said "maybe they're getting stuff during another round?" and the guy heard and said "nah that room is staying empty - I have no use for it. Same with the others too."
I couldn't really wrap my head around a lot of things after that. First off to be rich enough to afford a house like that, then on top of that, purposefully have parts of your house go completely unused because you don't care about them. Like...why even buy a house that big then? Why overdo it and leave some of it unused? Why not just buy what you need and use it all? Rich people are weird.
I nannied for a New York City power couple in 2014. Both were corporate lawyers for national banks. The husband owned more socks than I had ever seen at one time in my life. Drawers upon drawers of them, all navy blue, black, and grey.
5. sambeano knows a woman who stretches her coffee to complement her wealth.
I know a lady who's discreetly rich. One of those that unless you knew the more expensive but quiet brands, you wouldn't be able to place her. She would wear designer jewelry sets to the gym. Anyway, her quirk was she liked Costa coffee, so she'd get one, drink half of it, let it cool and then put the rest of it in the fridge, and reheat and drink the other half the next day. When she told us that she does this, and we asked her why, she laughed and said: I'm just frugal.
I used to be a live- in nanny for the CEO of a major German investment bank in Berlin. They were a lovely couple with a sweet baby girl, and they made me feel like part of the family from day 1. They paid me well, had a separate car for me and weren't concerned by what I did in my spare time. They were very generous, lovely people.
My only gripe is that they had strange eating habits- some days they would have three enormous meals, and other days they would 'forget' to eat all day. I was often too shy to say that I was hungry.
My sister is a nanny for an NBA player and his wife. The wife called my sister at 9 PM to come to their house for an "urgent" matter. When my sister gets to their house, the wife tells her take the trash out. That's it. My sister drove an hour round trip to take out the trash.
She has so many ridiculous stories about this family, but that one is my go-to.
Edit: My sister signed an NDA, so I'm pretty sure I have to keep his name under wraps unless I want a shake-down. Let's just say he's in his 20's and he seems like a decent guy. His wife is just an entitled, raging b**tch.
8. grassyarse's friend went on a goose chase to find someone who could fix a blu-ray player.
My friend works for a tax lawyer for the obscenely wealthy. Their firm is one of those go to places when you want to take advantage of tax havens. Think Panama-Luxembourg.
He tells me he one of their clients had an issue and called the people he always turns to for help. His lawyers.
The problem? He bought a new jet and only just realized its entertainment system doesn't have a blu-ray player (this was 5 years ago). Find someone that can fix it. Today.
He had lawyers at 3 different firms searching for a solution that afternoon, all billed him for it of course.
9. Pregnancyinsomnia has a whole list of weird behaviors they've witnessed.
Gosh, where to start?
The wife was driving through the home improvement part of the city and saw a sale on bathtubs. So she popped in and bought three. As she was leaving, she saw another tub she liked and simply had to get that one too. She wasn't renovating a house at the time.
They refuse to throw away food. Used by and best before dates are completely ignored, to the point where I found a tin of seafood marinara which was 15 years out of date.
They have a holiday home in the south pacific and have a housekeeper clean it three times a week yet they only visit 3-4 times a year. When they're not visiting, no one lives there.
When the family go out for dinner, the father will happily pay for the expensive meals but not the drinks. The kids (who are all teens or older) have to pay him back for the drinks and he will send reminder messages about the amount. Yet when any of the kids offer to pay for the meal, he won't accept.
The wife is a hoarder and will often take way more samples than any normal person. She always makes sure to take all the shampoo/soap etc from hotel rooms and if she passes the housekeeping trolley, will grab as many as she can from there too. Yet she never uses them. They have a whole bathroom cupboard dedicated to samples.
10. LittleGravitasIndeed had to convince the family about the importance of brushing your teeth.
I was a babysitter for rich people once.
Their silverware was constantly filthy and caked in what resembled peanut butter and regret.
Their children were pleasant, but refused to brush their teeth more often than their hygiene-impaired parents until I told them gross stories about gingivitis.
The mom had a small Buddhist altar in the living room, but was also extremely vocal about her Christianity.
Would repeat the experience. It was mostly getting paid to help with homework and watch Voltron in pillow forts.
11. psychotic-chaotic assisted a man who wanted to a rent a car for a five minute walk.
I once assisted a Country manager of a big MLM company. He wanted me to book him a rental car until he gets his own car. He got so stressed out that the rental car can't accommodate him (it was last minute).
His place was less than 5 minutes away from his work, if you walk.
I've only babysat one time and it was for a friend of my grandparents. All I really had to do was hang out with their 8 year old grandson for a night. Overall it was a pretty cool night. All we did was play 2K and Madden all night so it wasn't bad.
But anyway, this family wasn't like billionaire wealthy, but wealthy enough to where they left me an envelope with $500 in it and told me whatever I don't spend on food, I can keep. Wealthy enough to have sped off in a Maserati for the dinner they were at. Wealthy enough to have a pool, jacuzzi, and nice BBQ builtin to the backyard out back. You get the idea, they were just an old couple with some money, and they were taking their grandson's parents out to dinner one particular night. Leave me with $500, so I think to myself, I might as well splurge like 30 or 40 bucks on a meal for 2 and pocket the rest. I was like 17 or 18 at the time so I can't say it was a negligible amount of money. Anyway, I take the kid outside to my car across the street, which, at the time, was my older brother's 2005 Toyota Corolla.
He gets in, takes a look around, and goes "Where's the button that moves the roof back?" Sorry kid, no convertible here. He tells me that his parent's only have convertible cars and that he's only been in one other car that isn't a convertible, and that "he isn't my friend anymore."
I thought that was pretty weird. Throughout the night, he did also make some interesting "rich kid" comments, such as asking if we could go to a restaurant that had steak on the menu. He revealed an interesting bit about his parents, saying that they keep talking about bringing him a sister when "the time is right." Apparently the kid asked the dad when the right time was and he said when "mommy stops being afraid."
I then learned that the kid's mom and dad divorced about a year later. Felt bad. He was a cool kid, didn't really have that shitty spoiled vibe. More like an innocent, curious, steered wrong by his parents vibe.
13. bananamedley had to do a spa treatment for children.
The most bizarre was this newly rich young family in Vienna. The bed time routine for the kids (aged 3 and 7) included basically a spa treatment for both. I haven't seen that amount of products in a child's bathroom (they each had their own) in my life. The poor 7 year old girl had next to no hair on her head but I was required to slather her in the most expensive adult shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, hair oil, and some other things I didn't recognise - every night.
They only had one tiny box of toys and time spent playing was set up for 30 minutes after they brushed their teeth. Dinner was normally a bland fish fillet and a ton of salad. Not a grain of sugar anywhere in the house. Hot cocoa was made with skim milk and pure high quality cocoa - no sweetness to it whatsoever, it tasted awful.
They had time to explain EVERYTHING to me the first time I was there and I received an inch thick file with lists and procedures to follow. What they didn't mention was that the older girl was still wearing diapers at night. It made for a very awkward conversation with the child and I only hope I was sensitive enough to not cause her any future trauma.
Very, VERY weird.
14. ousalsa's mom saved the poodle from their owner's wishes.
Growing up my mother would clean houses for wealthy individuals. There was an elderly widowed woman with large all white poodles. She insisted that my mother clean them with bleach. She would provide 2 gallons of bleach each week.
My mother never did bleach them, she just poured out the bleach in the tub.
I was a nanny for an affluent family. They had a beautiful home and nice vehicles and the kids all had lots of toys and new clothes but while doing laundry one day I had to take a load of moms cloths out of the dryer and every single pair of her panties had multiple holes in them. Not like gnaw holes lol but worn out most tattered panties I've ever seen holes.
Got curious and looked in her under garment drawer and this was par for the course and not just period panties. She was like a major high up in a huge company and her panties looked worse than I would imagine a homeless person wearing.
16. WorkAccount2017 is always amazed by how their rich friends treat sharing.
I grew up in a middle class family living in of the richest parts of the country, a lot of my friends had incredibly rich parents. What I remember most of all was how weird some of them can be with money, they'd spent big money on some things then turn around to be incredibly frugal on something else.
I knew people that wouldn't think twice about dropping €300k on a new car or putting in a sauna and swimming pool in their basement but who wouldn't allow us more than half a bag of chips between the three of us.
Worked for a beverage distribution place in a very ritzy resort area for awhile. Guys assistant shows up and says he needs a pallet of Evian for his bosses house. No problem. We load it on the truck and drive it up to his house.
After unloading we ask him where he wants it and he leads us into the garage and asks if we can help unload it. So we start downstacking and carry cases of this shit into what I thought would be the kitchen or pantry. Nope. Straight through the house to the back deck.
I regularly babysat a quietly wealthy widows two kids, seriously sweet little kids, hanging out with them was always fun, they even liked sharing their newest toys with you.
I don't think anyone in our rather small town realized how loaded she was, when I babysat, it was because she was helicoptering off to the capital 30kms away for a party/date/5 star function in a new designer gown, shoes, purse, the works.
She paid really well, and always offered me 'trinkets' like gold bracelets that I still couldn't afford 20 years later... I think in part, it was because I never mentioned what she got up too, to anyone, even my mother who was friends with her.
The family I worked for had a nanny. Youngest daughter forced her nanny to push her around the entire property while she just emitted a high C note. The property was hundreds of acres and they were at it for quite a while.
The breadwinner is the husband. Can't say what he does as I believe he wouldn't like that. Either way he was a menace to the trees. Would need work breaks so he'd grab a pole saw and go to town on random trees. Then he'd get bored and tell me to clear the piles he made and "pretty the trees back up".
This was also their 365 acre weekend home complete with dam generated power that took them off grid. They had a mansion in the big city, cottage in cottage country, and this property in farm country.
20. 69poop420 went to school with a guy from a very weird family.
Didn't work for them, but went to school with their son.
The daughter was 19 and had gotten married, so the couple decided to have a test-child that was a small monkey. That was already pretty weird, but then I learned that they also had a previous monkey before that. It had been playing in the laundry while the maid was loading clothes in the washer. Poor thing died. Makes me wonder why they didn't call the test-child thing off after the first one died.
