Kids have extremely active imaginations, and not always in a fun way. Sometimes their inventive minds can take them to dark places that even full-grown adults find terrifying.

A dad named Barlow Adams shared a story on Twitter about the incredibly creepy thing his daughter said one night when she couldn't sleep.

Relaying the conversation with his 9-year-old, he wrote:

9: Can I sleep with you?

Me: Why?

9: Had a dream about the Lullaby Lady.

M: Who?

9: An old woman with no skin on her hands.

M: Why do you call her that?

9: Because she stands next to your bed and hums while you sleep.

M: Sure, just let Daddy put the house up for sale real quick.

Barlow's story went viral, and will forever haunt Twitter. But he isn't the only parent of a kid with a vivid and terrifying imagination.

In the replies, parents are sharing the things their own kids have said that scared the crap out of them. Here are 20 of the creepiest:

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Interacting with the living is scary enough, but some people have had experiences they claim to be "paranormal," making the world even creepier.

People are sharing the stories of their interactions with spooky spirits, and they'll make you think twice about the creaking cabinet in the kitchen.

Enjoy the stories, because the ghost who follows you and is reading over your shoulder certainly does.

1. From badlydrawnhamster:

Back in 1984 when I was ten years old I was out shopping with my Mother when she suddenly all but collapsed. Some people and I helped her to a nearby seat, and after a few seconds she turned to me and said "Your grandmother has died." We went home (a thirty minute drive) and upon arrival she learnt that her mother had indeed died half an hour before. To this day it's the only inexplicable thing I've ever witnessed, but I have no doubt in my mind that there was some sort of link between the two of them that was broken that day.

2. VTMike802 had company.

My family has a cabin next to a lake in Vermont that we spend time at in the summer. One night, while sleeping in the upstairs bedroom I hear what sounds like someone getting up to go to the bathroom. It was coming from right across the hallway outside my door, so I assumed it was my mom (usual occurance).

Oddly enough, no lights went on and no bathroom noises. The sound of footsteps just stopped. A minute later, I had this odd feeling that someone was standing at the half open door to my bedroom. Watching me. This feeling went on for minutes until all of a sudden the feeling of someone standing by the door turned into the feeling of someone standing directly over the bed. For the next 5 minutes, I had the terrible feeling that someone/something was looming over me with their face mere inches from mine. The 5 minutes or so seemed to last forever. Suddenly, as soon as the feeling started it abruptly ended. No retreating footsteps, no noise at all. Whatever it was was just gone.

The next morning, my family and I are eating breakfast at the table and I still couldn't shake the feeling. Then my sister spoke up and asked, "Mom, what time was it that you got up to go to the bathroom last night? I could hear you up and walking around from the downstairs bedroom." Confused, my mom said that she never got up last night. My brother laughed and said, "Mom, we all heard you!" Then my dad piped up and said, "No, your mom never got up. I didn't either." That's when I shared my experience. Freaked everyone out!

3. From sparklejaffe

When [my grandfather] died (across town, in a nursing home) he decided to knock out the power at my house. We were the only house on the street that blacked out and we had no idea why and then mum called to tell us he had passed. And then the power came back on.

4. flirtingwithdanger didn't want to risk it.

No one ever believes me when I tell this story but whatever.

Back when I was in hs (early 2000s) I went to Mexico with my ex and his family. We went 18hrs into Mexico to visit his sisters-in-law.

When we got there, it was a weird experience for me because I’m black and most people in their town had never seen anyone non-Mexican in their entire lives. To say strangers were interested would be an understatement.

The third night I was there, I awoke to a feeling I was being watched. I turned over and saw an old Mexican woman staring at me (but not in a malicious way..more like curious or amused like everyone else). At first I thought it was my ex’s MIL since we were staying at her house, so I called out to her in Spanish but she didn’t answer and after a few moments, I realized I could see through her.

Eventually she walked out the room and I tried to shake it off and go back to sleep but I couldn’t. The next morning I told my ex’s sister what happened and she says “oh, you saw her?”

I’m like “pardon the f*ck??” and she goes on to tell me that while she’s never seen “La Vieja” her husband has a couple of times. And the last time he saw her, she almost lead him to his death.

She tells me that one night a few years ago, they were once again visiting his mother and staying in her house. In the middle of the night, her husband wakes up to the feeling he’s being watched. He sees a woman that looks a lot like his mother standing in the doorway. He calls out to her, asking why she’s awake at this hour, but she doesn’t answer. Instead, she walks out of the room and eventually goes outside. Half asleep and in a trance, he follows, calling out to her again and again with no answer.

SN: His mothers house is located in the valley between two mountains and is so isolated she still draws her water from a well in her front yard.

So, my ex’s BIL is following this woman thinking it’s his mother and eventually follows her outside. He runs after her and sees her jump directly into the well. Panicked, he begins to jump in thinking he is saving his mother from drowning. But the moment before he jumps in the well, he fully awakes and realizes there’s no splash and the water at the bottom was completely still.

If he would have jumped in he would’ve drowned. They have no neighbors and everyone else in the house was asleep. No one would have heard him scream for help.

Needless to say, I packed my sh*t and went home early. Fuuuuck that.

5. child_of_ghostein is onto the ghosts.

High key, Mexico is haunted. My mom has so many stories it's crazy. One that sticks with me is this one.

My mom and her sister, Stella, were getting rid of junk in this one room. It used to belong to their brother, but he moved out ages ago. Well, they always got bad vibes from that room so that's why they started to clean it. Once the room was clean, the uneasy feeling was still there so my mom brought out holy water and sprinkled some in the room. Just then a horrible smell emanated and a bunch of tall, skinny shadows jumped around and left the room immediately. I don't know what my uncle did in that room, but clearly he wasn't a good person if he had whatever tf that was nested there.

6. childishconcarne had their very own Casper.

I used to see a little boy in the corner of my room mostly at nighttime when I was about 13 years old. I could see and sense that he wasn't a living human being and his clothes were really old-fashioned. I was never really scared because he always had a positive energy around him, can't really explain it. I talked to him sometimes and he told me his name etc., can't really remember any of the things he told me anymore. But the most intresting thing happened during a fight between me and my mom. My cousin and her mother were visiting us at the moment and I had never told them about this boy, since ghosts aren't really a light discussion over dinner -kind of thing. At some point I had had enough of the fight and got out, slammed the door behind me and for some reason went to a parking garage under our house to chill and cool down for a few hours. My mom, cousin and aunt went looking after me and eventually found me. My cousin told me that she had got the idea to look from the parking garage after she had seen a young blonde boy with weird clothes standing by a fence that was right next to a door to the garage. She told me that the boy just stood there and when he got her attention he jumped over the fence and disappeared. Only that behind the fence there was a thick bush full of big thorns and there is no way a little boy would have just jumped in it and let alone not make a sound after getting stabbed by the thorns. I guess my friendly ghost wanted to help.

7. A haunted house is a brilliant place for a ghost to hide, MadBunch.

I worked at a haunted house and once when looking down the hall of one of our actor exits, there stood a figure, like an all black somewhat transparent silhouette of a human standing, motionless in front of me. I stayed at the hall entrance and called my boss over and asked her to look down the hall, but didn't give any indication that I saw anything so I wouldn't give her a false impression. When she looked, her expression was pure cold fear.

"Who the f*ck is that?!"

She said. I told her, "I don't know, but you see him too right?"

"I see through him!! Who the f*ck is that!?"

And before I could say anything more, it came full sprint at us. My boss screamed and ran away, but I was curious what it would do, so I stayed. It got right up to my face and just stopped, inches away from my nose, then suddenly dissapated into thin air.

I still occassionally see my boss, and she confirms every time that we saw the same thing, and thinks I was an idiot for staying, but at the same time, it was cool.

8. MooseVevo with the ultimate listicle.

Only a few people believe me when I say that my old house is haunted. Instead of writing a long story, I’m just going to bullet point things that have happened to me or anyone else in the house:

• My sister has seen a shadow of a child

• My older sister, who didn’t believe in the paranormal, started screaming at around 3am. She was hysterical. She said that there was a maid in her room just watching her and the maid lunged towards her.

• I’ve been ‘breathed’ on and it petrified me.

• My baby sister used to have full conversations with nobody.

• My family went out for the day and as we got back, the neighbour pulled us over to her and asked why my baby sister was laughing so much. My mother asked what she meant and the neighbour says “Natalie was laughing really loud earlier and for quite a while. I was laughing at her laughing”. My mother then told her that we had been out all day and the house was empty.

• My sister and I were alone in the house when we heard a thud from upstairs. We went into the room where the thud was and it was freezing cold. Then out of nowhere, the TV Remote Control flew off the sideboard and hit the wall. The back of it and the batteries flew in different directions when it smashed. Me and my sister ran down stairs and after building some courage for a while, decided to go back up. We got in the room and the remote was back on the sideboard, fixed.

• All pets have mysteriously died in that house and the longest lasting one was 6 months. 6 Rats, a rabbit, two hamsters and a cat - all dead (not at the same time)

• Candles always ‘fell’ from the positions and onto the floor.

• One room was always freezing and electrical appliances always turned on by themselves in that room.

• A constant feel of someone watching you.

• The master bedroom was always thumping, creaking and causing insomnia.

• My baby sister started sleep talking but it wasn’t in her voice - it was a deep, scary voice. It would always be questions like ‘Are you alright?’

• She began sleep walking and watching one of my other sisters as she slept. It was only that one older sister, never anyone else.

• A wardrobe in one of the rooms would always open during the night on its own.

• There is a photograph of my baby sister staring at a streak of light. The light wasn’t there when the picture was developed.

I began researching the house and it turns out that the land the house stands on, used to be an old children’s home which was closed due to negligence and lack of care for the children (Could explain the little girls laugh, the maid and the shadow of a boy)

There’s so many things to list that I can’t describe. I was always sceptical about the paranormal until I moved into that house. I am now a 100% firm believer.

I never want to go back in that house again.

“When your Ex asks you to remain friends after your break-up, it's like a kidnapper asking you to "keep-in-touch" after he releases you.”
― Nitya Prakash

Sure we've all made plenty of mistakes when it comes to love, but look at it this way, if you hadn't dated that terrible person then these memes wouldn't be so damn funny right now. See, there's always a silver lining, even when it comes to your terrible taste in relationships.

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“When your Ex asks you to remain friends after your break-up, it's like a kidnapper asking you to "keep-in-touch" after he releases you.”
― Nitya Prakash

Sure we've all made plenty of mistakes when it comes to love. Look at it this way, if you hadn't dated that horrible person then these memes wouldn't be so damn funny right now. See, there's always a silver lining, even when it comes to your terrible taste in relationships.

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Rise and shine! Get up and get cracking. You've got things to do, people to see, and memes to laugh at. This list of memes will give you the giggles even if you are usually grumpy as hell in the a.m. hours.

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We can't all be immediately perfect at everything we try...

Talent often takes hard work and a whole lot of practice, but sometimes it doesn't matter how much you try if you lack the foundation of any natural skill. Unfortunately, doing ballet for 10,000 hours won't make you a famous dancer if you're not flexible and can't balance. You can't play basketball without hand-eye coordination and you probably won't be the best cab driver if you don't have a sense of direction.

Most of us learn early on what our natural skills and talents are, but if you came to a disappointing realization (R.I.P., tennis dreams) it can be hard to let go of. Luckily, it helps to laugh about it. When music publicist Eric Alper asked Twitter what they're hilariously bad at, people everywhere bonded over their missing talents. Bad bowlers, photographers, and chefs unite! This is our time to shine!

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Musician Mel Stone shared a moving story about ordering takeout after her transition, which was a moving experience, not just because it involved food. It inspired a thread of trans people sharing the most surprising, heartwarming reactions to their gender presentation. It's a solid reminder than not everybody is a bigot—there are still good people out there!

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Kids are just trying to figure it all out, much like us adults, except with even less experience and brain development under their belt.

One of the most amusing parts of watching a child grow up is witnessing the candor of their curiosity, and how it can lead to moments of accidental genius, as well as painfully brutal honesty.

Unlike adults, who are usually somewhat aware of our gaps in knowledge, kids will trudge bravely forward into the abyss with the confidence of an expert. This makes them equal parts terrifying and charming, depending on the context.

For your amusement and aspiration, I gathered tweets about 15 kids who truly own themselves in a way most adults can only dream of.

1. This daughter's all too accurate read.

2. Young Jasper, who has already claimed his kingdom.

3. This kid's classmate with a way too in-depth read.

4. This little boy's poetic passport.

5. This little boy who got an answer he wasn't bargaining for

6. This baby who started on the insults early.

7. This little girl calling cops about the real issues.

8. This precocious daughter who already knows where the priorities lie.

9. This little girl who connected that babies are the real vampires.

10. This three-year-old who was ready to see her skeleton.

11. This wee one who was really set on the idea of a potato wearing a jacket.

12. This little girl trying to piece together Rapunzel's self-care routine.

13. This kid who goes all in for the kisses.

14. This kid who figured out how to make baths infinitely better.

15. This kid who found the ultimate way to get the stuffed animal.

I'm an only child and when I was growing up, all I wanted in the world was a twin sister. I couldn't imagine anything better than someone by my side who looks exactly like me. Not only would I never be lonely, but we could spend our lives gloriously playing pranks on people like a couple of Ashton Kutchers ("you've been TWINNED!") According to the internet, I wasn't entirely wrong about what having a twin is like.

Someone asked twins of Reddit: "what's the best prank you and twin were able to pull off?" These 19 lucky, lucky twins share their best acts of deception:

1.) From thirdAccountIForgot:

I’m a triplet, but growing up I was significantly larger than my 2 brothers. In middle school, we told anyone new that I had absorbed our quadruplet, Rebecca, in the womb, hence my size. Some people even heard it before meeting me. We got one guy to believe it from 8th to 11th grade. ... then I looked it up and it’s actually a thing that happens.

Turns out the three of us were actually the idiots in this case, but it was a good time.

2.) From TrashBitch96:

This is a prank that is currently going on with me and my brother at our work. We are born identical twins, and even compared to other twins, we are really really similar in appearance. My brother and i work for the same company, and he just started recently. He works in a different part of the building as me, and we don't know each others coworkers. If either of our groups are throwing a party, or doing anything, we will often switch when the other is away to either mess with people, sneak off with some food, or have fun. We always deny the existence of the other, and act dumb is someone claims to have seen "the twin". It is so fun to see the look of confusion when you play dumb, and watch them try to ration if they are going crazy of not. Never gets old.

3.) From sweetserendipity1237:

About a year ago I sent her with my ID and a check to set up my water bill in my name since I couldn’t get there before it closed. Exciting stuff!

4.) From For_The_Lazy85:

1. While conducting a presentation in grad school I walked out a door located on the right side of the class mid sentence, then my brother immediately entered through the door on the left of the class and continued the presentation as if nothing had happened.

I asked my professor if I could do it in advance, and he joyously watched the rest of the students try to comprehend what had just happened as the presentation finished up. I received a high mark on the assignment.

2. I was visiting my brother (Twin A) who was doing grad school in London and he was going to show me (Twin B) around the city between his lectures. I was waiting close to the entrance to one of the building when he came out and hurriedly walked me off campus. Apparently he had an assignment that was due and bumped into his professor while on his way to meet me. When the professor started asking him about the work, he told the professor that he was me (Twin B), but that the professor could find Twin A in the library working on the assignment. After the professor left him to search for... him, he rushed out to meet me. Then we went to Hamleys a multi-story toy store to enjoy the rest of the evening.

5.) From thatgreengentleman92:

I’m an identical twin and get pretty tired of people’s amazement at me and my brother. So one trip to the pub a guy stopped us and was saying the usual twin questions at us. I stopped him and in a very nonchalant but serious way say “oh we get this a lot but we’re not actually twins but cousins. But our parents are two sets of identical twins, so my dad and uncle are twins and my mum and auntie are twins so that’s why we look so similar”. The guy thought it was the most amazing thing he ever heard and was running around telling all his friends and they are pissing themselves laughing knowing it obviously isn’t true. But it was a fun dodge on the typical twin questions but did open up a complete different line of questioning.

6.) From toxicgecko:

I have identical twins in my class, I seem to be the only member of staff that can tell them apart on sight. Last week we had a student in to observe and I watched as they slowly convinced her over the day they were one person; she promptly shat herself when seeing the kids out at the end of the day she waved off one twin to have the other pop out of the bathroom a second later.

Pretty well orchestrated plan for a pair of 6 year olds.

7.) From Komine_Sachi:

My brother and I are so used to people thinking we are the person they know from class that by now we more or less just roll with it, pretending we know what they are talking about. Just last week I talked to someone about the stats test I didn't take.

8.) From DutchLawyer1981:

Not so much a prank, more like fraud:
So in the Netherlands you get a card for public transit as a student, it's free. So I was no longer eligible for that, my brother was. So I gave him my passport photo and he collected his card with my picture. Then immediately he reported it missing and got another card but this time with his own picture. This is before they were swipe cards, it wouldn't work anymore now;)
Statute of limitation has expired so I don't mind telling you:)

9.) From epawtows:

At the Smithsonian Natural History museum. Some time ago (exhibits have probably changed).

It was in a large room divided into multiple smaller rooms by reasonable short walls showing exhibits. Part of the exhibit wall had a large hole in it at above waist-height, allowing one to see into the other room. At waist-height, filling the hole, was a large display set up to look like fossils found in sand. The idea being that you could look at the fossils from either room.

We went into each room, stood on opposite sides of the fossil-sand exhibit, and mirrored each other's movements. The idea being to confuse people about why they couldn't see themselves in the 'mirror'. Worked surprisingly well.

10.) ​​​​​From ValkyrieSword:

Not my story but someone else’s… I work at a funeral home and one of my coworkers did not realize that a woman he had just completed arrangements for was a twin. He had just walked out of the back where her body was waiting, and thought he was alone. A few minutes later her twin unexpectedly walked up, startling him from behind, and he JUMPED OUT OF HIS SKIN. He seriously thought for just a moment that he was either losing his mind or haunted by ghosts.

He apologized profusely, but the twin who had scared him thought it was hilarious (as did the rest of her family when she told them). She said they were always playing tricks on people, & her sister would have loved that they were able to pull off one last twin joke.

11.) ​​From ChemicalSand:

Once, a teacher thought we had switched seats when we hadn't. We kept telling her the truth, but kind of in a way so that she thought we were lying. She sent us to the principals, and we got to make her look like a dumbass.

12.) From foxes-and-flowers:

My prank would be that I am not a twin, but have convinced people I was.

I have a cousin a couple months older than me, our dads are brothers, and moms are sisters. We look like we could be twins. We were neighbors growing up. Went to the same schools, same college, same major, and ended up renting a house together there. Our weddings were 2 months apart. Had our first kids a couple weeks apart. Ended up buying houses on the same street.

13.) From ILikeToDrawIGuess77:

My twin sister and I aren't the exact same... But people always switch us up! So one day during the beginning of 6th grade, my twin and I were like, "Let's prank 'em!" So, we switched EVERYTHING! Backpacks, Glasses, clothes, Lunch boxes, Friends, Classrooms... Everything. It took even our PARENTS a week to figured we switched. The ultimate thing they noticed, was that my twin had have OCD, and I had ADHD. Her room became Messer than usual, and mine became EXTREMELY clean! We asked our Mom to keep doing it for school. So... We set up a bet. Our Mom would give us a dollar everyday they didn't notice. Us, being the little actresses we are, performed so perfectly.... That on the last day of school (Day 177), we came out as the other twin. Everyone was so shocked and mad, they had us in the front office for the rest of the day. We of course, didn't get in any trouble. Our Mom was in it, and it was the last day of school as I mentioned earlier. We were celebrities that day, not to mention we were moving away too. I still went to the Middle School everyone went to, except I was supposed to be in a different district. People to this day mistake me for my twin sister to this day, even though that haven't seen her in forever. We are currently planning to mess with our future high school. Her new friends don't know about me... You probably know what's going to go down😁

14.) From jsheil1:

I’m a primary school teacher. I have have one of an identical twin pair more than a couple of times. I always try to switch them just to confuse my coworker. But the kids always give it away before we can really get going.

15.) From Jesse0016:

My twin and I made it about 3 hours in each others second grade class before his teacher noticed I wasn’t him. We tried again the next year but they somehow caught us within 5 minutes so we stopped trying.

16.) From englishmaejor:

Identical twin here. We’ve done a few things, including switching classes as kids and switching on our new eye doctor.

I guess the biggest “we got away with it” thing was sharing a driver’s license. I’m a go-getter and went and got my license the second I could.

She waited until she was 20 to pursue hers, but she learned to drive with me, so we’d often just switch ID’s while she drove. Very easy to remember to just answer with her name.

Really freaked my ma out though. She was Sure. they would somehow know in a routine traffic stop even if I wasn’t with my sister while she drove.

17.) From urbancowgirl42:

My twin and I were indistinguishable when we were little. We look less alike as we’ve gotten older, but we got some good pranks in over the years.

1. In third grade we would switch desks when the teacher wasn’t looking. She did all the math and I did all of the spelling. We wouldn’t have gotten caught if our mom hadn’t overheard us giggling about how smart we were. Suddenly my teacher started marking stars and hearts on our hands to tell us apart.

2. I met my hubby when he was hitting on my twin in high school. He didn’t realize there were two of us at the time and couldn’t figure out why she kept changing from the soprano to the alto section at a choir festival. He took her to prom, too, but never me. They never wound up having an relationship and she began seeing someone else, and I wound up going to the same college as him a year after he left. The rest is history.

3. She came to my school where I was teaching. I used to hide instruments in my closet and then have the kindergarten guess what it was. I put her in the closet but when the big reveal came she jumped out a little too enthusiastically and probably scared several kids into therapy.

4. Later that day she went into my principal’s office and chatted with him about his elk hunting trip he just got back from. He had no clue and the secretary and I were silently dying from laughter outside of his office. When he finally noticed “my” hair was different I walked in. He was so stunned that he dropped a huge stack of paper that poofed all over his office.

18.) From benjathaninja:

My identical twin brother pulled a prank on me! He called my cell one day and I didn't answer. He listened to my mailbox greeting and after the beep repeated it 100% perfectly! When I checked my messages I legit thought my mailbox was glitching out until I heard him laughing in the background. I'm not sure if this is common amongst other identical twins, but he and I have exactly the same voice.

19.) From Emnitty:

I am an identicall twin. Yet we went to different schools and nobody knew it. My brother is the smart guy. He has a photographic memory. So he went to do my exams in high school. I now have a high diploma and a good payed job that i am not qualified to do lol

And a Harry Potter anecdote from idkwhattonamee:

Not my story but I read somewhere that in the Harry Potter movie series James and Oliver Phelps who played Fred and George actually pretended to be eachother for quite a number of scenes

Twins be twinning!

Sometimes it's hard to tell when someone is flirting with you...

Even if they explicitly look you in the eye and say, "hey dummy, I'm flirting with you," romance is complicated and the nerves can turn us all into full blown idiots. It's hard to put yourself out there and be vulnerable in a romantic setting and it's even harder to realize that you thought someone was into you and they actually weren't at all. Sometimes, the risk is too scary to trust your instincts but love is worth it! (That's what rom-coms tell us).

When a recent Reddit user asked women of the internet, "What is the most obvious sign you gave to a guy and he didn't get it?" people were ready to share their failed attempts at flirting. It happens to the best of us!

1. WTF Andrew, "Emily704."

Sat on his lap. He got up and found me a chair. Thanks, Andrew.

2. Amazing, "sunshinetrans."

Once i invited someone to take a bath with me and like three weeks later they were like “wait, were you flirting with me?” lol

3. Aw, "Pineapples4Rent."

My now-Fiancé told me he liked me, and I told him I wanted to get to know him. We went on a date and at the end of the night we kissed and arranged a second date. I told him later that night that I liked him back. After a few days he messaged me "but do you mean like as a friend or do we like each other the same way? I'm sorry but you have to spell it out for me. I don't want to get the wrong impression".

4. Wow, "Aubsedobs."

Told the guy I liked (now my boyfriend) that I was single and was looking for a boyfriend, and he just went “oh have fun, that’s always difficult” then later in the conversation I ended up calling him hot and boyfriend material (yeah bad joke I know) and he was like “haha thanks”

Three hours afterwards he texted me and was like “WAIT WERE YOU FLIRTING WITH ME”

Now we’re dating and I like to tease him about his constant obliviousness

5. Yikes, "PuffStanely."

I filled the apartment with candle light and then got completely naked on Valentine’s Day (in his favorite lingerie). When my bf got home he gave me a hello, said the place looked nice, and then went into his den.

6. HA, "tarlyo."

I met a cute guy in college and we started texting a lot. Our school used to host 19+ themed club nights on campus every Thursday night, and one of those nights, the guy texted me and asked if I was planning on going.

I hadn’t planned on it, but was hoping the guy would invite me to go with him, so I said something like: “No, I always want to go, but none of my friends are 19 yet, so I have no one to go with :(”

He said: “Oh, that’s too bad. Have a good night!”

Eventually, he caught on to my flirting and we’ve been dating for 3.5 years now. He still insists that there was nothing wrong with his response.

7. Oh no, "FakingGumption."

Asked him to adjust my bra strap. He did very shakily and then patted it down like "all done."

8. Damn, "DamnedDeity."

I said “You look hot, are you single?”

He just said “Thanks! I am single!” Then walked away...

9. Do the dirty, "Thicc_cheddar_bread."

i kept hugging him around the waist, cuddling with him, and all of that stuff. he kept missing the signal when i would grab his inner thigh. that was when we were “friends” we have been dating for about 8 months now and he asked “did you want to... ahem... d o t h e d i r t y ?” Funniest moment of my life right there lmao.

10. Repetition is key, "casemango."

We went on two dates that I CLARIFIED were romantic and he still didn't get it

11. This is cute, "factualmistakes."

I would cuddle up to him, sit on his lap, straight up flirt with him. I had to tell him I liked him. He still seemed confused.

We're expecting our first child so I think it turned out well in the end.

12. Slow but steady, "bumblebrutis11."

I told him that I have nobody to go with to watch fireworks on NYE and he just said that’s a shame until an hour later he realised that was when he was supposed to ask me out which he did

13. Aw, "artetmath."

I invited him over to watch movies while my parents weren't home. We actually watched the movie.

14. Ouch, "DavisaDavi."

My ex husband was playing video games. I slowly walked across the room naked, passing in front of the TV. He didn't see me.

15. This hurts, "jennyrules."

I work at a bar. A regular customer, who I adore, came in and had lunch by himself. He asked “so...what are you doing this weekend?” And I responded with “I’m doin whatever your doin...” and he says “my brother got a new puppy and I’m going to dog sit for him? Did your brother just get a dog too?”

After my dream man left that day, the guy sitting next to him (also a bar regular) was cracking up over this exchange. He thought it was a smooth line and said he was going to use it. I said “good luck, it doesn’t work that well.”

16. Wrong solution, sir. "69e5d9e4."

Sitting on couch, watching a movie in a basement with a dude I like. I make the "I'm collldddd" move. He points at the corner and says "there's a blanket over there...". I still cringe thinking about it.

It's hard to imagine life before Google. It answers our most unanswerable questions and provides us with an infinite amount of knowledge, information and entertainment. But internet searches can also send us to some of the darkest, most NSFW corners of the web—even when we're not trying to. If you're using the internet around family members or in a professional setting, this can be especially embarrassing. So beware of typos and double-entendres—and autocorrect is not always your friend.

A dad named Nick Harvey shared his story of his 8-year-old conducting an innocent internet search that accidentally led to R-rated territory.

"My eight year old just tried to google Bear Grylls but it autocorrected to Bare Girls and oh god I’ve never slammed a laptop shut so quickly in all my life," he wrote.

He's not the only person to have an innocent internet search accidentally become not-so-innocent. These 23 internet users share stories of the times Google betrayed them:

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In many students' minds, teachers are mysterious adults who exist solely inside the four walls of the classroom. Teachers are there to open up minds and hound people about homework, and that is their sole existence, the concept of them drinking alcohol, or having sex, or any sort of secret is practically inconceivable.

But alas, much like parents, teachers are people with their own terrifying personal lives and interests. Some teachers have a truly freaky side to them they let out to release the stress of the class room, while others prefer to keep even the most mundane parts of their personal life under wraps.

In a popular Reddit thread, teachers shared the most awkward things their students have learned about them, and it proves that no one is safe.

1. MoliereLovesParmesan is ready to fight a student.

I've had two students run into me while I was sword fighting in the park. One thought he could take me in a fight. I told him I would destroy him.

2. Alvraen formed a wholesome coalition.

Found out I streamed our guild raids, cheered me on privately. I bought him a lanyard when I went to BlizzCon to keep him quiet.

3. minimumrockandroll has a student who found their old band.

Nothing too bad: I've got a relatively sanitized internet presence.

They will google the hell out of you, though. One kid found my old punk band. It was cute.

4. SmallEyeball got the juice on their 8th grade teacher.

Found out my 8th grade science teacher was at one point the mayor of a nearby town and was forced to resign due to most of the people hating him. We even found a youtube video of him getting roasted by citizens of the town. He was pretty pissed that we discovered it.

EDIT: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_x_jjUm_VY

5. lunarwalker's teacher taught the class about doxxing.

I had a teacher who told our entire class to look her up on Google so she could prove a point. The class managed to find the address of each place she had lived, her phone numbers, her parents info, and so much more.

6. hmmatherne avoids eye contact with students when they're buying booze.

Having a student see you buying alcohol is always a bit weird since we hammer JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL down their throats.

A kid accidentally saw a sliver of my tattoo and freaked out. Luckily he was the only one who noticed, and no one believed him.

7. HomemadeJambalaya was served margaritas by one of their students.

Last time my fellow teachers and I had a happy hour outing, one of our students was a waitress at the restaurant, and another student was there with her mom. They all saw us sucking down margaritas like there was no tomorrow and being way too loud. It was fun.

8. jessepinkbitch's brother-in-law's teacher was selling fresh snow.

Not me, but my brother in laws' teacher was selling cocaine. Not to the students, but one day he made the idiotic mistake of trying to sell the stuff to one of the janitors during school hours. He was fired and arrested before the end of school day.

9. pickle_lady confounds their students by not being married.

I teach younger children. It is always weird for them to find out that I have a child and I'm not married. I think they feel like teachers always have their lives together, and it seems to be shocking that there is no husband in my life. To the point where many of them get very upset.

Also when I was in high school, I was at a summer music festival and caught my French teacher with two beers in her hands and a joint in the one as well. She was mortified when I approached her to say hello and tried to hide everything behind her back.

10. Spudhead1976 was not excited for their student to see them in a swimsuit.

Several years ago, I was on holiday with my family in Majorca during the summer hols. First day, in the outdoor pool with my young son. I'm not the strongest swimmer, and I'm not the most svelte. Anyway, couple of hours in, I hear from across the other side of the pool: "sir! Sir!"

Ignore it. Can't be. Can it?

Then: "Sir! Mr Spudhead1976!" I look over. There's a Year 7 pupil age11-12ish), whom I have just spent the year teaching, stood waving over at me. I grin inanely and try to sink.

So there you go. A year 7 pupil discovered I had knees, toes and moobs.

11. luciender saw their orchestra teacher get ready to get sexy.

Not a teacher, but I saw my high school orchestra teacher come out of a sex shop with a brown paper bag and a secretive look on his face. There was a whole group of us hanging around, so of course we couldn't let him just go peacefully on his way with his bag of dildos and porno DVDs.

I remember someone saying "Hey Mr C, big night tonight?" His boyfriend was waiting in the car and they both laughed and looked slightly embarrassed, but everyone was cool about it and we chatted a bit before they went off to pound each other mercilessly or whatever.

Good dude, Mr. C was.

12. Made_you_read_penis almost got in trouble for the audacity of being married.

Not a teacher, but I was a "homework teacher" in an after school program.

One of the kids found out that my coworker and I are husband and wife... not because we were making out or anything, just another coworker referred to her as my wife.

You would think that wouldn't be a problem, but parents. flipped. out. They thought we'd be making out/fucking in front of kids, even though we had both worked there for like two years and not a single person knew save for that one coworker.

Edit: this was an over privileged top ranking grade school in California. We worked in the same room on many shifts.

Keep in mind this was an after school program. The problem was that our assigned areas overlapped a lot when my homework shift was over, and we were assigned in tandem often because we were a great team. Most school marriages don't spend long periods of time with each other on the clock.

We never even held hands at work. There's no sexual chemistry when there's a dozen kids screaming for your attention.

13. Back2Bach had a student who really went in with the crush antics.

I had one student in particular who had a crush on me, and it made classroom teaching very uncomfortable. She did a little snooping, and found out that I have a cat, and that caused her to go overboard buying stuffed cats, cat cards, cat valentines - you name it - all of which appeared anonymously, but were def from her.

Over time, I wound her down in class without embarrassing her, and she eventually gave up. But all that she did "in secret" was kind of creepy, even though a crush.

14. Chaunceman5000 wasn't expecting to see their teacher in that moment.

Went to an adult bookstore with 4 or 5 of my classmates back in highschool. We had all recently turned 18 at the time and thought we should check it out. Two of the chicks with us were holding and laughing at these absurd dildos while my buddy was commenting on the Jenna Jameson two holed rubber mold thing, that's when we looked over and saw one of our highly regarded teachers coming from out of the back. Deer in headlights would be an understatement...

15. TheDangerousLesbian was gifted a beard.

They saw me walking out of a bar downtown with an attractive male friend of mine who taught at a nearby school. Rumors flew that this guy was my boyfriend and honestly, I did nothing to stop it-- it was the perfect cover since I'm a lesbian and was teaching in a school where that could have gotten me fired. It was funny at the time and I used him as my beard for the rest of the year.

16. newsintown was scoped out by students on Grindr.

That I'm gay. They found me via Grindr.

17. tit_wrangler gently threatened a student into not revealing their Reddit account.

One student discovered my Reddit account name. I pulled that student aside after class. I said, "Do you like having me as a teacher?"

'Yeah! You're awesome!'

"Would you like me to continue being a teacher here?"

'Well, yeah!'

"Then you need to never repeat what you learned regarding my Reddit account. Ok?"

Taadaa. Crisis averted.

18. StephanyYDG's middle school teacher got busted for child porn.

Student here : My middle school math teacher got arrested last year for having thousands of images of child porn hidden in his closet while living less than a mile from school, I had already graduated high school at that point . He was well liked by parents, my brother had him as well and said he always gave off a creepy vibe, not many past students were shocked about it but the parents were since he was so well spoken and well liked by adults.

19. revbrown19 used to run into their teacher at the psych office.

I'm not a teacher, but a student. I used to see my psychiatrist at 8pm every Monday, and the 7 pm slot was my substitute teacher from my local high school.. I remember how awkward it was for both of us when we saw each other because we actually spoke a lot during school. The next day I went up to him and told him, "I won't tell any of the other students about that." My school was pretty reckless when it came to rumors. Every Monday for the rest of the school year I would see him before my psychiatrist appointment. Pretty awkward for him I would say.

20. Littlealbert16 got hit on by one of their students.

I'm 25 teaching my first math class and a girl asks if I have a girlfriend. I tell the class I'm married and she responds "Hope you believe in polygamy because we are going to be dating by Christmas" I laughed it off but it was super awkward.

21. Maldemer720's student saw them in the roller derby zone.

Got into car with a teammate for a Roller Derby match. As soon as I get in the car I hear "Mrs Maldemer720!" It is a punka*s student I currently have, who is the niece of my teammate. Turned out okay because she saw me booty block the shit outta some roller broads. Never had a problem with her for the rest of the year.

22. abluntgrl's teacher was a victim of revenge porn.

Not a teacher but a student. We had this really cool math teacher a few years ago that a lot of kids really liked but some a*shole found a website and decided to spread it around. The teachers ex posted some of his nudes on this revenge site or whatever. Apparently the news went all the way up to the top and the teacher resigned and moved to Florida or something like that.

Nothing makes you feel more like a smart person than speaking with an incredibly stupid people.

Redditors are celebrating the most inane, ill-informed things they've heard uttered by human beings and folks...we all need to do a better job of learning geography.

1. differentiatedpans is such a Virgo.

When they tried to rationalize their child's sh*tty behaviour on their kid's Zodiac sign....are...you... fucking... kidding me? I went from not liking the kid to feeling sorry for him.

2. Merde, LuceDeep.

Kid in my class during high school thought Paris was in Italy.

They were French.

3. She was thinking of King's Landing, nerdlikejazzy.

When we were watching Spartacus and he asked me if Rome was a real place.

Because he thought it was fictional.

4. lintwhite's got burns.

When my former coworker said that she doesn't wear a seat belt (even though she drives 95-100 MPH) because she wants to be able to escape her car when (not if, but when) she crashes and it catches on fire. I kindly informed her that at the speed she likes to drive, she will absolutely not have to worry about being trapped in a burning car.

5. -eDgAR- with a new gender studies thesis.

When they said, "The spork is 'the devil's utensil' because it's the amalgamation of masculine fork and feminine spoon, trying to blur gender lines in society."

6. NotWorriedABunch explains American voters.

College roommate told me with confidence that there would be less cars in D.C. after the Clinton Inauguration. I asked why because it didn't make sense and she said, in all honesty, "because he's going to eliminate Congressional gridlock!"

She thought "Congressional gridlock" was a traffic problem.

I still shake my head when I think of her. There were others but that was the moment I remember most.

7. ImInJeopardy's friend has her head in the clouds.

When she said she thought that clouds were solid and people were able to walk on them. She was an adult. She knew about planes.

She also strongly, STRONGLY believed in astrology and the horoscope. To the point where she would get mad at me when someone with my same sign did something shitty because that means it's something that I would do.

8. But did he score, Alaska_85?

A guy I was talking to from tinder randomly referenced me playing basketball. I don't play, and was thus quite confused. He insisted I mentioned in my profile that I played. Nope, but I had referenced having an MBA, which I guess he thought was some sort of basketball league?! I explained what am MBA is and we never spoke again.

9. imtk stands up for legumes.

"Beans are not vegetarian."

Insisted they were not vegetarian until they were cooked with vegetables.

10. Danke, WeaselXP.

An old coworker asked how German people knew what other Germans were saying, while we were watching a World war II movie.

11. Boom, Eiza_Borealis.

Had a guest arguing politics with me at work, typical conservative vs liberal stuff, then the topic of climate change came up and he insisted that it isn't real because there are two spots in the ocean on both sides of the planet that are releasing all of the CO2 emissions causing it naturally because, and I quote, "The Earth is in the process of exploding." He explained that planets explode over time just like stars do and Earth has been in the process of starting to blow up since the end of the ice age.

And because all of that came up during a political argument it really had me thinking "This dude's vote counts as much as mine.

12. Were you roleplaying, rj20876?

I was hooking up with this girl in my squadron. I made a joke about her being a Nazi poster child. She asked me what a Nazi was. She was 19, in the military in a job that requires quite a bit of intelligence and didn't know what a Nazi was.

13. simpleharmonic2001 could have played a solid prank.

I work at a dining hall. They asked me if the chicken was vegan.

14. That'll do it, WompWompIt.

When she started talking about not vaccinating her four children.

15. SpacyCats's coworker believes in Mysterio.

When my co-worker I was talking to said

"Yea space is a conspiracy made up by the government."

"Ok, So at night, when you go outside. What it it you're seeing when you look up?"

"IDK that's like a projection."

"How would they project something like that? Like where is the projector?"

"How am I supposed to know."

Probably one of the dumbest people I've ever met. She also told me she "read" a book. When I asked her what it was about (out of interest to see if I wanted to read it) she said she "Actually didn't exactly read it, but she looked at the front cover and knew what it was about."

16. They have a pediatric brain, BRKN_WNTR.

When they said "You can't believe everything you read in the news, that woman isn't a pediatrician, I know her, she's a kids doctor."

Same person also advised that it's not wise to wrap wires too tightly, as you may restrict the flow of electrons.

17. Schmabadoop's aunt was doing schtick.

My aunt used to work at a local synagogue. Someone once ask "if i can find a kosher ham can i bring it to the event?"

My aunt perfectly responded "If you can find it we will happily accept it."

18. Party in the USA, heffleywood.

Checking in to a hotel right by LAX..when I gave the desk clerk my Canadian passport as ID, she asked what it was ..had never heard of Canada. Gotta love American high school education.....

19. Not All Vegetables, 10GivingTrees.

“I actually don’t eat any vegetables; I don’t like the texture of them.”

He really did mean any.

20. Same, JemmaUnicorn.

When he said that it's not his fault he simply believes anything he's told because he has asthma and asthma makes you gullible. Had to sit on that one a while. Still can't understand the logic behind it.

21. I hope HoudoeGandu gave them a high five.

Family friend INSISTED that people in Europe don't shake hands because SKIN CANCER spreads through touch.

22. No that's Niagara Falls, Vharlkie.

My friend's younger sister asked if the Great Wall of China was in Egypt.

In this life, nothing is certain but death, taxes, and Kim Kardashian wearing a traditionally black hairstyle despite not being black.

To promote her husband Kanye West's dish towel-inspired fashion brand, Kim Kardashian-West wore some bespoke Raggedy Ann pants, a sports bra, and—you guessed it—braids.

And yes, there was backlash, from people sick of her using elements of black culture like they're accessories and mere fashion trends.

Some fans are defending her, saying that it's not appropriation because all humans have a braiding custom of sorts, and mentioning that she is raising black children.

And some are suggesting that this is all part of Kris Jenner, Momager's master plan to be talked about.

Despite rebranding as a law student, Kim has yet to learn her lesson about why appropriation might be insulting.

The last she spoke on this was in 2018, when she explained to Bustle what she means when she wears Fulani braids:

I [do] remember the backlash when I had the blonde hair and that I called them ‘Bo Derek braids.’ But I obviously know they’re called Fulani braids and I know the origin of where they came from and I’m totally respectful of that. I’m not tone deaf to where I don’t get it. I do get it…In no way am I ever trying to disrespect anyone’s culture by wearing braids.

She means, "I like the attention! Thanks everyone!"

High school sucked for many reasons, and if you were on the bullied end of the social spectrum, longing for an adulthood where bullying no longer an every day issue is how you make it through.

The reality is, bullies are all over the place, even as a grown adult, and they can find you where you least expect it. Luckily, revenge can taste really good, and sharing it can be cathartic.

So, when a woman shared the story of the sweet, sweet revenge she got on her two bullies at spin class, it got a lot of attention online.

A Reddit user posted the beautiful story of revenge that she was able to get on the two bullies that ruined her fitness class.

KatarinaKiev decided to join a local spin class to lose some holiday weight and get in shape. However, instead of being intimidated by the bikes and hard work, she found herself challenged by two cruel students in the class.

KatarinaKiev writes:

There were these two other students in the class, though, who gradually made my morning spin classes suck. "Valerie" was obviously very fit. She looked like a model and obviously worked hard to look as good as she did. "Boris" was her male equivalent. They were both about my age, maybe a few years older but it was clear they were far more fit than me. They were obviously very invested in that particular gym's culture, in that they were always decked out in the store brand athletic wear. I'm not going to lie; they looked good wearing it.

She goes on to write how the two people in her class didn’t let her forget that they were more fit then she was.

For some reason, they seemed to take offense to the fact that I was riding up front. I can see why. The front two rows were filled with the very strongest, fittest people. The "let's take a selfie" sort of gym people, except these ones seemed actually fit. At the same time, all the other super-hot girls and guys (especially the guys) were very nice to me and didn't seem to care that I rode up front, whereas Valerie and Boris would always shoot these sideward, disgusted glances at me, or smirk. I'm not a confrontational person, so I wouldn't do the thing most would do in that situation (such as say, "the f*ck is your problem, b*tch?"). I always got to class super early to dress up and adjust my bike. The gym has a policy, first come, first serve when it comes to choosing one of the thirty bikes in the studio.

KatrinaKiev put up with this torment for a while because she was dedicated to her spin class. But, inspiration for revenge came to her when she was on social media one day. She posted a photo that her spin instructor liked, and the two bullies were in her comment section too, sucking up to the instructor. The Reddit user found the social profiles for “Valerie” and “Boris” and turns out they were bullies online, too.

I don't like to start drama, but I don't like being bullied and trashed, either. I screen captured and saved a lot of both Valerie's and Boris' comments where they trashed at least a dozen people in our class, and then made a dummy Facebook account. I fired off every screen capture to the owner of the studio. Not just the manager of that particular branch, but the owner of the whole company in ADDITION to the branch manager. I let them know that these two cretins were trashing many people in the morning class and creating a hostile, unwelcome environment.

And her genius plan for sweet revenge came through.

In less than a week, Boris and Valerie were gone. Both had their memberships revoked and were banned from every one of the brand's studios. Several of the people that Valerie insulted were sufficiently offended that they sent emails to Valerie's employer (Valerie, as previously mentioned, made no secret of where she worked) about what a hateful, body shaming person she was and how such a person should not be any kind of brand ambassador. From what the other girls in the studio tell me, Valerie got fired from her job. Don't worry Valerie, you still have your modeling career of taking selfies in your panties next to your toilet in your apartment.

Commenters rolled in on the Reddit thread with a resounding theme of "good for you," the feedback was so supportive it was easy to forget this was the revenge subreddit

tamammothchuk writes:

I read your story with such enthusiasm and excitement about fitness and forgot it was posted in a revenge subreddit. Well-written!

Itajel joined in and said:

Good on you. You have also inspired me to get more cardio. I work sitting down all day and it is starting to show. I'm gonna take a nice long walk tomorrow.

YouMadThough was impressed with the revenge and story-telling:

Aside from being a fantastic story that I am stoked you shared with us, I also want to congratulate you on some epic story-telling and writing skills. You had me totally engrossed from the first sentence right down to the last. I often skip through longer stories because people have a tendency to just blabber on, but this was such a journey, I couldn't stop reading and I was disappointed when it was finished. If you aren't already writing somewhere, you should consider it

Ajuvix didn't have the same feelings though, writing:

Whenever these stories get to a part where it goes, "and then I sent the messages to their employer and they were fired!" is when I politely stop reading the fantasy fiction and evaluate whether it was really worth reading in the first place. Sometimes a good story is a good story, but this was, meh.

And relativelyfunnyguy came through with some life advice:

Thanks for sharing this entertaining well-written story.. as a puffy guy trying to get in a shape (even though a sphere is still a shape...) I can understand what you were going through..

Luckily, the meanest people are also the stupidest ones; it's always a pleasure seeing them dig their own social network grave, just waiting for a little push to fall into.

This is proof that bullies often bite themselves in the foot, and awesome people will always rise to the top.

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it."

-Jerry Seinfeld

It's so hard being a parent. It's loud, it's stressful, and everything is sticky for some reason. Anyone who's working hard to keep their kids alive will relate hard to these hilarious parenting memes.

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Cheating is wrong and can result in serious consequences if you get caught. But in defense of cheating, sometimes it's the only way to do well—besides studying, of course. And who wants to do that?!? Boring! Students will often go to such extreme, elaborate lengths to cheat on tests that they would've saved time and energy by just studying in the first place. It's still wrong, but you have to respect the work that goes in to it. In a popular Reddit thread, students are sharing the best and worst attempts at cheating they've ever seen.

These 25 people shared stories of cheaters who deserve an A for effort and creativity—even if they deserve an F overall. Because they cheated:

1.) From LeluWater:

I had a spelling test in the third grade. We were told to spell the word “focus” and at the time I was using a Focus brand pencil with the brand name along the side of it. Thought I was going to jail for sure.

2.) From SlamClam:

I have dermotographia. It is a rare skin disease, harmless, but sometimes annoying. Basically that everything i scratch into my skin stays for around 15 minutes before fading. One time we had a substitute teacher so i wrote down some answers for the test. He busted me, but i just denied that it was there. By the time the principle came along it had all disappeared

3.) From legacyxsubzero:

Got caught using morse code

4.) From birdi1e:

This guy wrote all the solutions/answers at his palm, when the teacher asked him to open his hand he just said: “I cant open it.” Fucked me up lol

5.) From astrakhan42:

My favorite is still the student who noticed that the syllabus allowed for a "3x5 crib sheet" and didn't mention any units, so she created a 3 foot by five foot poster will all her notes on it. The professor let it stand because she was right, he hadn't specified 3x5 inches.

6.) From CopyrightRachel:

We had to make a math test on our laptop. All other programs needed to be closed and there were 2 teachers surveilling.

My classmate installed some program so his friend could take over his computer without it being obvious. The classmate scribbled on his paper like he was doing the math and his friend looked up the answers and filled them in. When one of the surveilling teachers neared my classmate would move his cursor so his friend would know not to fill in the answer until he moved his cursor again.

7.) From jonahvsthewhale:

College professor told us about a kid who came in to his office crying the week of finals and telling him about how his grandparents were killed in a car accident and he wouldn't be able to take the final because the funeral was on the same day. Professor was a nice dude - he consoles this kid and tries to cheer him up and tells him not to worry about the final. A little later in the day, the professor is feeling bad and decides to try to get in touch with the guys parents to offer his condolences. He calls the parents, who have no clue what he's talking about.

Professor ended up calling the kid back to his office and calling student affairs up right then and there to report him for cheating. I believe the kid made a zero on the final

8.) From adrianinked:

back in college, in math tests we needed a specific sheet of paper where the math problems were supposed to be solve, so everybody had an empty one that they had to fill up and turn in when they were done,

So pretty much all the students brought the whole exam written down in an extra paper, since the professor gave the same one every semester, and just write all the problems from the cheat paper, of course hidden in a bag or under the table, to the clean one over the table,

so all cool, but this absolute imbecile brought the full cheat paper, swap the clean one with the completed cheat paper, and turned in the test...

5 minutes after the test started...

the teacher lost it, everyone fails the test instantly, pretty sure they stoned that dude afterwards.

9.) From TJBullz:

I had a teacher once who just didn't give a shit. One day we had an exam where he was the supervisor, and some student asked him something about a question. He didn't know the answer, so he just asked the rest of the class to give the right answer. After that, he just asked us to tell the following couple of answers as well, so that we all could go home earlier, as he had more stuff to do.

Unsurprisingly, he doesn't work there anymore.

10.) From Rmanager:

College latin final. A girl I went to high school with sits next to me. She was a year older, a cheerleader, and we were in a club together back then. We knew each other but not well. At that moment, she looked panicked.

She was visibly shaking, pale, and really hung over. She grabbed my arm, leaned in really close, and in a shakey voice asked me to help. Before I could process what was happening, she scooted closer and said she would do anything. That last word drawn out in a way that I think was supposed to be sexy but in her state came out like a crack whore begging for a dollar.

All I could do was shake my head slowly and say "sorry."

Not because I wouldn't give her the answers. I would have done that without her begging or the implied sex (which I wouldn't have done).

I didn't study either and failed myself.

11.) From Sufficient-Violinist:

We had a french speaking test, where you had to recite a speech we had already written, except no one could be arsed to learn it, so there was this one guy who sat at the front who held his french book up like he was reading it, and on the back he held a printed version of the persons speech. Safe to say it worked because everyone did really well

12.) From snaynay:

Basically the whole school knew of this method; I think it was developed over the years and passed on by older siblings/friends. Surely the teachers must've known, but it's hard to catch.

On a multiple choice quiz with A, B, C or D for answers, kids would gently rest or tap fingers on the desk to represent the answer, you know as if they are just pondering. One finger for A, two for B, three for C and four for D. Then was a system to say which question you were asking for, which was to grab, pull, stretch or crack your fingers. Fist closed or complete open was 0, left thumb to pinky was 1-5, right thumb to pinky was 6-10, but 10 was ignored. You'd do the first digit twice and the second once.

You'd only really ask people around you for odd questions and hope they give you the right answer, but for SATs when we were about 16 this was potentially effective for improved guessing on questions you didn't know.

13.) From Fiberglass_mayne:

A kid hid a sticky note in the top of his mechanical pencil and pulled it out when the teacher wasn’t looking, after he was done with the test he ate it.

14.) From MTAlphawolf:

This is also the most impressed I have been with a college professor. Calc 3, multiple session (~80 students each), and on test day you could come in during any session that you wanted to take it. There were also 5 tests in the semester, and you can drop your lowest (ie you can throw your test away before grading). It was fairly common, unless you were trying not to take the final, so there were occasionally people that did not turn in the test before leaving. I was in the later section, and as the prof was handing out the test. He skipped over the blonde Canadian, and he was like "You missed me". The prof said "I gave it to you at the 8am section" and carried on.

He had tried to go to the earlier section to get the test, learn all the answers/what is on it/have all day, and turn it in with the afternoon section. And this professor recognized who he had given a test to earlier out of 200 students. Then he became know as the blonde Canadian dumbass.

15.) From MTAlphawolf:

This is also the most impressed I have been with a college professor. Calc 3, multiple session (~80 students each), and on test day you could come in during any session that you wanted to take it. There were also 5 tests in the semester, and you can drop your lowest (ie you can throw your test away before grading). It was fairly common, unless you were trying not to take the final, so there were occasionally people that did not turn in the test before leaving. I was in the later section, and as the prof was handing out the test. He skipped over the blonde Canadian, and he was like "You missed me". The prof said "I gave it to you at the 8am section" and carried on.

He had tried to go to the earlier section to get the test, learn all the answers/what is on it/have all day, and turn it in with the afternoon section. And this professor recognized who he had given a test to earlier out of 200 students. Then he became know as the blonde Canadian dumbass.

16.) From chalmun74:

In 8th grade I cheated a couple of times.

First was on a state capital test. I literally asked my friend next to me what several state capitals were and he told me. The teacher was right in front of both of us the whole time. Literally standing in front of my desk. We did not whisper. She was a bit clueless...

Second was on the periodic table. We sat at those three person lab tables and I was in the middle. I had a copy of the periodic table on my lap. The two girls on either side of me kept staring at my lap. The teacher noticed the staring and made a joking comment about what could be so distracting about my lap. The girls both turned beet red and stopped looking. Teacher did not think to check any further and I aced the test.

17.) From CWhiz45:

The best: I used to take a tiny piece of paper that could fit in the palm of your hand and write down a bunch of answers I needed before the test. I wrote incredibly small and could pack a ton of info on it. I was one of the first ones to get the test because of where my desk was. While the teacher passed out the tests to my fellow students I would quickly copy those answers to a blank area on the test paper but did it softly so I could erase it with ease. Once I was done I would just crumple the paper up and hide or get rid of it. It was tiny and was never seen even when I threw it on the floor. A teacher stepped on it once and had no clue.

The worst: not sure if it counts as worst cause the teacher didn't catch me but I texted my mother two of the questions that had me stumped on a test. She surprisingly sent the answers back and I was good. She wasn't mad cause I was in college and that class was hard as balls. She's a cool momma.

18.) From slockins101:

The guy sitting next to me during an exam had a cold the same day it began. He hid his notes between the folds of his handkerchief just a few layers away from the snot. He held it openly throughout the entire test, confident that the teachers won't dare to touch the snot filled fabric.

19.) From TheY2KBug:

A friend of mine in math class somehow got ahold of the answer key for the final exam. He then programmed the entire test into his TI-83. Now, the teachers suspected that people would cheat, so they made us clear the memory before the test. This guy saw through that and developed a macro by which the normal memclear command could be pushed through, but he wouldn't lose his exam answers. Oh, he even threw a random generator in there that would toss in a few random incorrect answers, so it wouldn't actually look like you were just copy/pasting the answers.

I myself have been quite proud of manipulating the time/date stamps on emails to buy myself an extra hour or so on projects/essays that I wasn't quite done with. I also had a great deal of success by sending "corrupted" attachments.

20.) From NixisTM:

The best was this girl had equations painted on her nails with such detail they had all you needed for the test. I even snuck a few looks at her nails when I was stumped. The worst I'd would say my classmate was using his phone and it was very clear by the glow on his face. Teacher was not pleased.

21.) From zerphappy96:

In the second grade I had a spelling pre-test and the word was “weather.” There was a poster in the classroom with that word on it but she was staring at the class so hard that I didn’t want to turn my head. Before she moved onto the next word, she sneezed and in that moment I thought I broke my neck from turning my head so fast back and forth. I may even have done a total 360 with my head I don’t even know, it happened so fast.

It was the one out of two words on that test I got right...

22.) From Blibrin:

Teacher was recovering from an injury and couldn’t walk around, so was seated at her desk during the entire exam. Somebody taped a sheet of paper with the answers to the front of her desk where everyone in class could see it.

23.) ​​​​​​​From Yocobanjo:

Litterally just had the phone between his legs. Got caught. Tried to justify by: "I like when it vibrates"

24.) From CouldBeWorseCouldBeA:

My friend in high school wore some prepped leggings under her skirt that had a pocket sewn on and a piece of see through plastic sewn facing outwards. She made her cheat cards to fit that pocket and when the teachers passed, she just pulled her skirt down. Because, surprise, surprise! No teacher would ask her to lift her skirt to see if she was cheating! It was so simple, yet so genius.

25.) From AveryTY:

The best one was this guy at my school who wrote the answers inside the label on his water bottle. If he needed an answer all he had to do was take a drink.

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period."

-Drew Barrymore

Forget Botox, extreme diets, and plastic surgery. The best self-care is laughing at this list of hilarious memes. Unlike some other techniques, these won't drive you crazy or drain your pocketbook.

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"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

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Do anything, but one thing you should definitely do is laugh. These memes will tickle your funny bone and help you start your day off on the right foot.

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If you've ever watched Bugs Bunny cartoons, it's likely you're familiar with scenes of Bugs scurrying in a panic off a cliff, only to look down and realize he's about to fall hundreds of feet. It's a fun cartoonish optical illusion, where the laws of gravity only apply after Bugs has obliviously been suspended in the air.

And while that's certainly not how gravity works in real life, there are times where you realize you're in danger in one all encompassing moment, and you're left to choose to fight the danger or flight your way out of there.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the moments they immediately registered danger and got themselves to safety, and it's a testament to just how much our brains want to help us survive.

1. From MadBunch:

So, I was walking to my school, and there's this little street with two lanes that leads onto the highway that you need to pass to get to my school. I usually wait til everyone has passed since no one respects the yield, but that day, the guy in the right lane actually yielded which was awesome, so I made my way across. Suddenly as I passed through the right lane and entered the left lane, before my mind could process anything, my body just straight up stopped moving.

I was briefly confused before I felt two cars barely graze both my front and backside. Apparently the guy on the right started driving again as soon as I was out of his lane, and at the same time, a guy behind him was being impatient and jumped to the left lane without stopping for me, so they both passed me at the same time while I survived by being frozen in the minor gap between the two.

Honestly my subconscious is the only reason I'm alive today.

2. From troovus:

I was on a bouncy castle at a college ball and my friend turned the pump off as a prank. My head was sealed in the deflating plastic and I was suffocating, kicking my legs wildly trying to free myself. I had almost passed out when someone noticed and pulled me out. It would have been quite an ignominious end.

3. From DisneyPrincessRiot:

When I was about 14 I chucked a teen-angst-tantrum and went for an angry-walk in the bushland behind my house. Didn't take my phone, didn't tell anyone where I was going, just stormed out. It started raining pretty heavily after about 45 minutes, so I turned back to head home, but a bridge I had crossed had been washed away and the creek was rising VERY RAPIDLY. I (stupidly) skidded down the embankment to see if I could cross, but didn't realize the rain had made it too slippery for me to be able to climb back up. I vividly remember standing on the little patch of rock thinking 'Haha, I might die.'

I didn't. I climbed onto a rock ledge, waited out the storm and managed to make my way back up the embankment and return by a different route. By that point, had been gone for about 4 hours and had escaped death only to be almost killed by my parents.

4. From cute_allergies:

Went to a neighbor’s house to help him decide on how to rearrange his living room furniture. First thing he did was start playing music on his tv at full volume then went to his back bedroom and asked me to come look at a chair in there. I dipped.

5. From zerbey:

When my intoxicated friend knocked over another guy's pint by accident and then his drunken brain decided he could take on the guy. The guy was built like a brick sh*t house, and his friends were all huge. They were the type of guys that don't take to kindly to being challenged to a fight. We were two skinny 19 year olds.

Anyway, I bought brick shit house guy a replacement drink, and somehow talked him and his mates down from flattening the pair of us. Then drug my idiot friend out of the pub and got him home. Some people should moderate their drinking. By the way, the rule is, you spill another man's pint you immediately apologize and buy the next round.

Actually saw the guy again a few days later (small town) and he was cool about it.

6. From creativepotatoes:

The day I moved into a new apartment and noticed pry marks on the door.

7. From frankleystein:

Couple of days ago I was working up a tree (arborist), the tree in question was a black locust that was dying at the top, however the base looked fine. I set about slowly dismantling the tree which was an awkward task because I couldn't get as high up onto the tree as I wanted due to the decay and it was growing over a building so I couldn't just let bits free fall. After an hour or so of working I heard a snap about a meter above me while I was about 13m up into the crown, I looked up to see a long branch above me that was growing into the crown of another tree had snapped.

I realized instantly that this meant that the base of the tree I was in had failed and I was going to go down with it if I didn't get out. Before I could even react the tree was free-falling down towards the out building that I had been working so hard to avoid. Time slowed down and I could see my colleagues standing in the woodland watching me with pure fear on their faces. After that it's hard to put my thoughts into words but I remember looking down at where the tree was going to land and thinking that it's weird because this second I am completely lucid but a second from not I will probably be unconscious, possible never to regain consciousness, yet I didn't feel any panic, just a knowing that I'm in extreme danger.

All I could do was grab the nearest branch and plant me feet on another one and hope to god that I didn't end up under any part of the tree. After what seemed like for ever the tree came down onto the roof of the outbuilding. I had probably traveled 10 metres vertically and about the same laterally, the large limbs of the tree that were previously to my right but were now above me, didn't snap and crush me like I was sure they would, I managed to hold onto my branch and stayed roughly in the middle of the tree, I was free from injury other than a twisted ankle and a twinge in my wrist from holding on tight as the tree smashed down. I don't know how I didn't get seriously f*cked up by that tree, and I don't know why it failed on me. But I will never forget that KNOWING that I'm in danger, falling with tonnes of wood and there's nothing I can do about it.

8. From johnwalkersbeard:

My 3rd year fighting forest fire, I was upgraded to pump truck operator for a mop up crew. After a section of the fire was deemed "extinguished", they send in mop up to make sure its actually really out. I drove a giant pickup truck with a huge tank of soapy water and filled up portable water bags for the mop up fighters.

On my way back to base I had a bit of water left when I saw plumes of white smoke. You're urged to extinguish all smoke, because no one wants a dead fire to come back to life.

There's a fallen tree next to a bunch of bushes, and another half fallen tree, and the half fallen tree is spewing hot coals every couple seconds with a loud pop.

Each pop of hot coals makes the other wood products take off. The fire was at risk of starting over again, right here lol. I had nothing but a piss ant bladder bag.

I bounded down to the pump truck, grabbed a hose, ran it up, bounded down, turned the hose on, ran up, and began attacking the situation.

As I'm chasing down the heat and fuel source, I realize I'm surrounded by flammable objects. Soon after, I'm surrounded by giant flames. Alone

I was literally screaming and laughing as I hacked and sprayed away at the rising flames. I got it tamed down after soaking and chopping killed the main source. I also sprayed the fuck out of branches so soapy water was dripping everywhere.

I had just finished rolling the hose back up and was catching my breath when these Marines came running up the hill, they were sent to investigate the smoky mess I'd been dealing with. Being high-fived by a Marine is a good feeling.

9. From Stroker_93:

Private pilot story: Just on a return flight with a few mates back to local aerodrome, look down at rudder pedals and notice the side of my shoe was basically starting to melt. First moment of realization that the engine was indeed, on fire.

Ha, I’m in danger.

10. From 9uff89786:

Falling off a bridge into water right next to a sting ray with dead sharks drifting by (I live in Australia).

11. From sunnyfel:

Going home from a party in a shared Uber with some friends. I mistook the street for another one and ended up further away from my apartment than I thought.

I put the GPS on and of course it makes you take some back alley. At one I see some movement near a car and there is a guy looking at me. I pass him, try to call my friend because he was looking weird. (btw I did the wrong number and someone got a voicemail from me sounding totally terrified and spitting nonsense.)

I walk faster and look back, he is dunking behind another car and clearly switched from his original place. And he has a small knife in his hand.

I bolted from here, ran as fast as possible with adrenaline and stopped after finding a busy street. But when I saw the knife that's when it went "oh sh*t".

12. From swish675:

I drove through a notorious neighborhood back in my hometown and the engine had became entirely cut off. Apparently my dumbass had it on 3rd gear for a couple of hours. I got robbed that night but thankfully there was no carjacking.

13. From JaceShearer:

When I was about 12 a friend from our local church drove me and his sons to go swimming at a creek near where we lived. I didn't know how to swim yet, but he assured me that I'd be fine since there wasn't much water and it could be a good learning experience. So far, pretty normal stuff. It gets weird though. The water was much deeper than expected and he did nothing to help on several occasions when I almost drowned. I was supposed to stay at his house overnight, but wasn't feeling very good after breathing in water a few times. Plus, something obviously didn't feel right.

He was mumbling to himself while he put his shoes back on after swimming. Good thing I stayed home. Turns out he was off his medication. My family didn't know that he had previously killed a person during a hunting trip when he was in his early teens. The night I decided to go home, he went off the rails. He believed the world was going to end and tried to kill his entire family. When my family went to church that Sunday we didn't see his family. The pastor told us what happened. They all had miraculously survived, but he was now in lockup for his serious issues.

TLDR: Almost drowned. Almost killed. Family friend was a murderer and we didn't know it.

14. From jwillis50:

I was on holiday and had left my hotel to walk to Livingstone National Park in Zimbabwe. My friends had visited earlier in the day and wanted to stay by the pool so I figured I'd walk over by myself, since it wasn't a particularly long trip. The easiest route from my hotel was following a small path between some bushes and trees. I'd been down the path before, but this time there were families of Baboons walking down this path and no other person.

I cracked on anyway, figuring that as long as I wasn't waving food around or getting too close I'd be fine.

Apparently I must have done the latter and unintentionally stepped too close to one of their young, because one of the full grown adult baboons jumped out in front of me and started howling at me, baring it's teeth. Because of the noise it was making it attracted the attention of all the other Baboons and two other full grown adults soon joined the first in howling and showing serious aggression all of a couple of yards in front of me and to my side.

I had no idea if there were more behind me, but my instinct in the situation was to hold up my hands to show empty palms, stand tall, broad and start stepping backwards and away slowly.

Thankfully it worked and they eventually turned away and carried on, but for a short while my mind was having flashes of being torn apart by 3 baboons. I later found out their bites can break human bones, so I'm pretty lucky that my instinct in the situation was the correct one.

15. From Can-I-remember:

The moment I arrived for work at a bank, stepped inside and had a stranger say ‘Happy April Fools’ and put a revolver against my temple. Two robbers, both with revolvers and rifles, had made there way inside before opening and had bailed up the manager as he arrived and then the staff as they arrived. They were talking to a third accomplice on walks talkies.

I was told to lie with my face down on the ground, arms on my back and legs together. One robber was going down the line hog tying staff with cable ties while the other had the manager and supervisors unlocking safes. All along there were threats not to look or move or you would be shot.

The robber had just tied my wrists together, with the pistol lying in the ground between my legs, when I heard a commotion. A staff member had managed to exit while they were distracted and the robbers followed him and left the bank quickly. They got nothing.

All in all I was there, with 15 other staff, for about 35 minutes.

16. From goblinfvck:

I was living with a man I'd known for a month (NYC be like that) and one day I left without saying anything to him. I was at McDonald’s and he texted and asked if I was at papa johns, which was across from McDonald’s. Thought “oh creepy” then I got home and we had a conversation where he started talking about something I'd just texted my girlfriend about, and it was a topic we had never discussed before.

Red flag. I'm in danger. All the times he seemed to be in the right place at the right time, had food for me when I hadn't eaten hit me all at once. Found out dude had spyware on my phone and was watching my every move.

17. From Haeymjsh:

When I was in year 5, I ate this cake which had one of those little bits of weird edible paper on them. In about 2 hours I felt my windpipe slowly shrinking so I took some antihistamine tablets but it was still getting worse. About half an hour after that, we called the hospital and I lay down while I was getting injected with my epipen. The ambulance came just when I was literally thinking I’m going to f*cking die.

They have me oxygen for about half an hour straight and took me to hospital. It was about midnight and I remember watching a rugby game on tv in the waiting room. I left the hospital at about 2 am. Basically I almost died from a trace of peanuts. But the worst part was that I still had school the next day.

18. From Party_Dingo:

Getting home from school with a SWAT team prepping to breach my apartment building.

Slept at my sister's that night.

19. From portlandninja:

Back in the day when hitchhiking was an acceptable method of transportation, I got into the car with an older man. Instead of going in the direction I knew to be correct he veered off onto the freeway. He wouldn't respond to anything I said and I knew I was in a mess. The car was traveling too fast for me to jump out but I knew that was going to be my only resort. I kept calm and reasoned that he couldn't just drive forever on the freeway and as soon as he exited I could plan my escape.

Which is exactly what I did. He drove for what seemed 30 minutes or so and then got onto an off ramp. At the bottom there were a few cars backed up and he had to slow down. He tried to grab hold of my wrist so I couldn't make a move and that is when I KNEW there was no option.

Flight it was, I jerked the handle and threw the door open, jumping towards the side of the road, wrenching out of his grasp. For some reason I distinctly remember thinking it wouldn't do at all for me to escape this guy only to get run over in the process (funny how the mind works). I rolled, getting major road rash but the car behind us hit the brakes and stopped. I jumped up, running and screaming to that car. The guy who had tried to take me swerved around the one car now stopped in front of him, turning into on- coming traffic. He hit one car then got away. This was well before cell phones and no one got the license number. sometimes i wonder if i was his first.

20. From reejoy96:

When we were driving at night in India and a huge trailer truck pulled out in front of us and our driver JUST KEPT GOING, not even a tap on the brakes, missed that metal monstrosity by a few breathtaking feet.

Actually all of driving in India is an "I'm in danger" moment.