Ellen DeGeneres is facing some intense online backlash after making a joke about prison in the at-home rendition of her show.

Because of the coronavirus lockdown, Ellen decided to film a short version of her show with the help of her wife Portia de Rossi.

"I wanted to start doing my new show as soon as possible because it's really for people who are stuck at home, and especially my staff and crew. I love them, I miss them, and the best thing I can do to support them is to keep the show on the air," she shared in her first living room episode.

While the episode started out innocent enough, with expressions of gratitude for first responders and healthcare workers, things went south quick when Ellen compared quarantining to being incarcerated.

"One thing that I've learned from being in quarantine is that this is like being in jail," she joked.

She continued: "It's mostly because I've been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone in here is gay."

People were quick to jump online and point out how asinine it is to compare staying inside a mansion to the experience of incarceration.

It wasn't long before people pulled up receipts of just how expensive her home is, to hammer in the extreme bad taste of the joke.

One woman shut down Ellen's jokes by point out just how much danger her daughter is in, and claimed the talk show host's complaints about staying home are a gross exercise in privilege.

Others also brought up the fact that rich people love to use prison jokes as a punchline without having any idea how brutal the reality is.

Of course, on top of the scathing and more serious responses, there were a lot of memes bemoaning Ellen's foot-in-mouth.

This isn't the first time people have dressed down Ellen's reputation in the past few months, back in March the podcast host Kevin Porter launch a thread of stories about how rude Ellen is off-screen.

In order to counter the negativity, Porter matched each of the stories with a donation to the LA Food Bank.

All this is to say, Ellen may have been America's sweetheart on television for a long time, but it appears the tables are rapidly turning on her in this time of increasing class tension.

Whether it's around the world, around the country, or to your grandma's house, "traveling" is no longer an option in the time of coronavirus lockdown. But just because we can't leave our homes, let alone our towns or countries, doesn't mean we can't take "travel photos" with the right amount of creativity and imagination.

A Lithuanian journalist named Liudas Dapkus challenged people to recreate their favorite travel pics within their own homes. Here's his:

People really rose to the challenge.

Here are 22 funny and creative "before-and-after" photos from people who recreated their travel photos without leaving home:

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If you've never had a haircut that you deeply regret, consider yourself very lucky.

Sure, there's always a risk when you walk into a salon looking for some kind of extreme change to your appearance. If you're going through a breakup, maybe it's not the best time to cut a foot of your hair off, dye it 5 shades darker and get bangs. It's also important to remember that if you go to a salon asking for an extreme change to your cut or color, it's not always the stylist's fault if you hate it.

So, when a reddit user asked the internet, "Barbers and hair stylists of Reddit, what is your oh sh*t, this is bad moment?" stylists everywhere were ready to share their horror stories from the salon chair.

Remember kids: don't dye your hair with Kool-Aid, don't put henna on your hair if you ever want to bleach it or dye it with anything other than henna, and don't lie to your hair stylist about what products and dyes you've used previously...

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When I was assisting, I used a code phrase with my boss to have her come check something without freaking the client out.

It was, "do you think we should tone this?"

It's a really common saying in the salon so the clients don't think anything of it, but her and I both knew that if I was asking, it basically was my way of saying, "oh, shit."

One day, I take a client to the bowl to shampoo her and start pulling out her foils.

OH. SH*T.

Her hair was coming out with the foils. Like every piece that was in a foil was disconnecting from her head. I was panicking. So I said it. "Do you think this needs a tone?" And of course, this would be the one time where it didn't click with her and she casually says, "no, it's good."

I'm literally sweating. I don't know shit about hair, but I know it's supposed to stay attached to the head. So I say it again, but more direct. "Hey (boss), are you sure? Do you want to check this? I think it needs a tone." And again she brushed it off. Finally, I was like, "I REALLY THINK SHE NEEDS A TONE." Then the boss took over.

It's been a few years since I assisted, but my old boss still gives that chick free extensions. - Shuriesicle

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my hairdresser told me she always triple checks that shes holding thinning shears when thinning hair after witnessing a fellow stylist chop off 6 inches of a girls hair because she thought she was using thinning shears but was in fact using a regular scissor. - yarnandpeaches

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At a mall salon and in charge while the boss was on lunch, a guy came in who was tall and exotic. The other stylist thought he was cute and he asked for a blonde Mohawk. Off they go; he pays and leaves happy. Everything is awesome.

Half an hour later his mother rolls in like a shrieking Panzer. There is obviously a cultural difference because she screeches that I have defiled him like myself (I'm moderately tattooed and at the time had a few facial piercings - and wasn't the stylist who touched her son's head) and that he's 15, and school pictures are next week.

No amount of offers of rinses and buzz cuts was going to calm this woman down. She started knocking the product everywhere and basically howling.

I hit the speed dial for mall cops and left the receiver up on the counter while she had her back turned. The ruckus was loud enough, they got there shortly.

Everything was not awesome. - [deleted]

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Hairstylist of 11 years. I have a regular client who has a fine part shaved into the side of his head. The top is about 5 in long, sides are a 0 to 1 taper. Client had a rough night of drinking and came in for his appt the next morning. While I was shaving his part line in, he gagged and I took a 2 in square patch out of the top of his head. - acwin

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So, a few years ago, a friend of mine did a color correction for this woman. She had gone to a salon to get the bottom layer of her hair red. Well, it didn't turn out well (I think it was like kinda red and splotchy) so she lightened it to apply a vibrant red. When she went to rinse the color, the hair was destroyed. During consultation, we fill out a consultation form that asks about previous services, medications, perms, etc. And make them sign about what could happen if they don't disclose information, etc. I was a senior director master stylist and required to handle matters. When I went over, the hair was completely breaking off about 2" from the scalp. I explained the situation expecting her to lose it and she just started laughing. She went with it and shaved it off. Came back a week later and shaved a side, too. I'm still convinced she had permed it because of the curl pattern, it was straight when she came in. - MayWeHaveAnother

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In beauty school, I watched as a fellow student buzz cut the back of a little girls hair and the mom shrieking in response. There was an obvious language barrier, the mother kept saying she wanted it razor cut, so the fellow student thought she meant clipper cut. It's beyond me why the mother didn't stop her when she picked up the clippers and turned them on. - frizzielizzie83

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My mom bleached my sister's hair. Left the bleach in too long. My sister lost clumps of hair. - UpsetUnicorn

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When I was in beauty school, I got a client who wanted a caramel blonde ombre. She had dark hair, and I could see some red at the ends. I asked her if she had colored it herself, and she said it was just manic panic, which usually lifts right out. I should have done a test strand, but this was before I knew better. She had lied to me. It was kool-aid. It turned pink. Kool-aid is the devil's stain. Once you put it in your hair, there is no getting it out completely. I spent hours trying to correct it, but the color just wouldn't budge. we were able to do a really subtle mahogany colored ombre, but she was upset. I learned a lot from that experience though. - cat-92

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Been a hairstylist for 8 years now. Only had one bad experience where I was blending the sides with a trimmer and the guy turned his head. Big ol' bald spot. Try not to move when you're getting a haircut, it's only 10 minutes. - [deleted]

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When I was a kid, my next door neighbor thought he was pretty cool sh*t. He convinced his parents to let him get "Wild Thing" buzzed into the back of his head...

They miscalculated the spacing and could only fit "WILD THIN". The barber shop comped the haircut, but the parents tipped the stylist the full cost of the cut. It seems that kid needed to be taken down a notch. - gwammy

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I witnessed a stylist rip a girl's eye brow off. She was waxing and apparently messed up and accidentally waxed a girl's whole eye brow off. And to top it off she hurriedly drew one on the girls face as if the girl wouldn't notice - Dramaqueen_069

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Had a guy start jerking off under his cape while I was shampooing him. The hilarious part, I usually do my clipper over comb work dry, finish up the hairline first, shampoo, then finish the rest of the cut damp. I kicked this guy out of the salon with half finished hair.

Of course, at first I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but when he saw me looking at the fapping front of the cape, he asked me how much extra for him to be able to finish. I told him $40, he pulled 3 $20's out and handed them to me. Oooh, a tip! I then did the c'mere finger beckon to the reception desk, walked over to the front door, and chucked 40$ out into the wind, holding the door open for him as he took off after his money. He ran outside like the world's cheapest Batman, cape billowing to show his junk tenting out the top of his undone jeans. When he finally came back to bang on the door, I held up the 20 and said, " this is for my time, asshole!" Then sauntered over to pick up the phone and do the 'I'm calling the cops' pantomime. It was solid gold.

Since I was alone in the shop at the time ( they wouldn't spring for a receptionist, I was closing that night) my bf at the time stayed on the phone with me while I waited for him came to get me, and we had no trouble on the way home. Told my manager about it the next day, she reviewed the tapes, and was behind me 100% when the guy called to complain that afternoon. Ah, Regis. The Walmart of North American hairdressing. Maybe even the Dollarama? - AdelePhytler

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So this girl from school comes in. She wanted thin, blonde highlights. I asked my boss what I should do, and he said, " do whatever you want!" OK. It took me like, 4 hours to do these foils. Every single one slipped and bled, leaving weird tiger stripes on her scalp. None of the highlights were uniform: some were spaghetti thin, others, thick like lasagna noodles. It had that shitty burnt scrambled egg colour, that no amount of toning would fix. She paid and left, and the next day asked for her money back.

You know you suck when the client dosent trust you to fix your own work , and straight up just wants cash back. It was awful, too because she is a really nice person, and i know it was hard for her to come back like that. I still facepalm when I think about that day, it was like, 12 years ago, too.

I finally found work at a really nice salon, and the owner had to basically retrain me to undo all the shitty habits I picked up at that first salon. It was a nightmare. - AdelePhytler

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When you can tell there was miscommunication. When somebody says they want an inch and mean an inch off their hair and not an inch left. When someone says they want it over the ear but they mean they want the hair to cover their ear and not clean around. When they say a 3 all over but really mean just the sides and back. Saying they want me to fade it higher and don't realize when I blend it it will be shorter there but they demand I take it higher anyways.

People look at me like I'm crazy now because I clarify maybe 4 different ways EXACTLY what they mean by something because of misunderstandings where people lose their sh*t - OneBlueberry

It's not only humans whose lives have been deeply impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic. Major changes in human behavior affect animals, especially animals who are domesticated or in captivity. Just ask my dog, who has been getting 300% more belly rubs and has never been happier. But though house pets are getting more attention these days, zoo animals are getting much, much less. And some animals are handling this change a lot better than others.

Someone asked zookeepers of Reddit: "how are the animals acting differently now that there are no visitors to the zoo?" These 26 people who work at zoos share how the lack of visitors has affected the animals:

1.) From Frogchix08:

For a lot of our animals, having the ability to interact with guests is actually extremely important. Even for primates to be able to play with kids through the glass, they are missing out on a lot of enrichment. Guests keep a lot of the monkeys entertained. I watch our guests all day long show our marmosets and capuchins selfie cameras and they LOVE to see their reflection. Guests will also show videos on their phones to animals and the monkeys totally enjoy it.

We have a rescue cockatoo named Row who sings “row row row your boat” to guests. When little kids dance and sing it to her, she gets really excited and feeds off their energy. So do our other cockatoos on exhibit. But now without guests to show off for, every now and then when it’s quiet we’ll hear her start “row row row...” and then she stop and huffs a bit and gets really quiet and sad because she has no one to sing to. Some of our animals REALLY miss having kids to show off for.

You also have to remember that animals in zoos for the most park have grown up totally accustomed to being around people 24/7. They’re not wild animals at all really. They’ve grown up in a very different social dynamic. Quite a few animals get noticeably depressed in the winter months every year when we have few guests, and then perk up in the spring when we get busy.

2.) From sdooj:

Most of our animals are happy as long as we can keep their routines, feeding times etc. For some they need a little extra. We do public encounters with our koalas, wombats and snakes among others so we spend an hour or so a day cuddling and handling these animals to keep them happy. A few of hour koalas really fret if they don't get their cuddles. Otherwise we just try to continue to spend time with animals that are expecting human interaction and of course we can take things for walks around the place like I'm sure you've seen at other zoos. Our wombats love a run and sniff, dingoes as well.

3.) From CursedUmbrella:

Due to temporary staff cuts, they no longer have the people to regularly walk the wombats. Some of the wombats are holding the keepers personally responsible. Imagine having a 20kg chunk of muscle with big rodent teeth mad at you.

4.) From thegoldensnitch9:

In our local zoo the apes started to miss the visitors so they brought in an artist in who's now just painting in the empty monkey house so the apes have someone to watch.

5.) From BanditRecon:

My girlfriend is a zookeeper and animal behaviorist. She says their animals are becoming stressed. One of their African Grey birds has been plucking his own feathers.

She also mentioned that because they can’t touch many of the animals due to the virus potentially spreading to another zookeeper, many of the animals are looking and acting depressive, not eating well, etc.

6.) From Qicklash:

I'm an aquarium keeper, and I've certainly noticed a change. Fish are not as stressed as they use to be, as there are no longer children stomping around and banging on glass screaming "NEMO, NEMO, ITS NEMO" at every clownfish. We brought some of our younger penguins down to let them watch the fish, and they were intrigued but confused as to why they couldn't catch them through the glass. Our octopus has become much more friendly as well, and instead of hiding all day from people, enjoys playing with small baby toys or solving food puzzles. Its been nice. I wish there were guidelines people had to sign to behave at zoos before entering, but at the same time, they are the lifeline we so desperately need to keep functioning.

7.) From OscarTehOctopus:

Fellow octopus keeper here. Without the crowds scaring her into her cave, our GPO has gotten straight up fiesty. She's so active, I've encouraged our parrot keepers to go past her when taking the birds on walks just for a little extra visual stimulation. She's got quite the love affair with one of the cockatoos.

8.) From fuscescens:

I take care of fish, but mostly jellyfish. The jellies don’t give a single fuck. It’s been nice for me though because I can turn most of their display lights off so less algae grows and I have to do less scrubbing.

My actual fish don’t care. The beluga whales were screeching at the cleaning crew the other day which was hilarious. I don’t work with the whales but it seems like they enjoy, or are at least interested in, seeing others around.

9.) From Grandpas_Cheesebarn:

My wife works at the gift shop for our zoo and the other day we had to go move some stuff around in the store because due to some heavy rains, it had flooded a bit.

Of course we took a lap around the empty park (other than the keepers and few maintenance workers) and found that all the animals were really active and playful. A lot of them seemed really curious about us too. I’m sure they get used to seeing crowds every day and were starving for attention.

10.) From Pyrocephalus-rubinus:

As a zookeeper coordinator I’ve been working at the now closed zoo almost every day for the past month. Animals that are free roaming (peacocks, iguanas) are more active, and follow keepers around like they usually do with visitors. Most of the others don’t show much change in behavior. Although birds like swans and flamingoes are using the edges of their habitats more.

11.) From Avynn:

Theres a bit of a balance of different behaviours that is kinda interesting. With no visitors there is more time for enrichment, to get more creative with said enrichment, trialing new things, and exposure to enrichment that has to be supervised which the animals are loving. Then there are certain animals that do seem to miss having public around - our younger (<5 years old) African Penguins are really seeming to miss being able to swim at the glass and interact with people. Higher intelligence animals we have had to come up with new interactions, lots of new training going on because they are "missing" the variety and variability of interactions with the public.

The snakes don't give a f*ck though.

12.) From Chegang:

The two pygmy hippos, six bison, giant anteater, and lowland tapir I took care of (I'm temporarily laid off) didn't have any change in behavior.

Sulcattas are still assholes.

13.) From nicklo2k:

I work on an activity farm. There is a 22 year old Shire horse. He acts like a dick when there are customers around. With no customers, he's actually still a dick. That being said, he's still awesome.

Edit: I've been asked what he does when there are customers. Basically, if he sees any customer feeding any other animal in the large barn where he hangs out in the day, he will stare at them and stomp his front hoof on the ground. That guarantees they look at him. If they don't immediately come over to feed him, he will start kicking the heavy metal bars that divide his area and the pen next door. This makes one hell of a noise. And he will keep it up, all whilst staring at the person with the food. If they feed him then he rewards them by slobbering all over their hands as he takes the food. Also, at the end of the day he is really good at telling the time. He knows when we close and what time he should be released from the barn and taken to the field/stables where he spends the night. If he isn't let out bang on time he starts kicking the shit out of the gate at the back of his pen. This is a big metal gate and it sounds like someone playing a giant glockenspiel with a sledgehammer. He will keep this up until it is opened.

Some customers are just scared to hand feed him. He is massive and his mouth is big enough to easily fit someone's hand in. Some customers come up to me with their bag of food and ask me if I will feed him, because "He keeps staring at me but I'm a bit too nervous to feed him". I happily oblige. I love that ornery old bastard.

14.) From fleshcoloredbanana:

Horse trainer/Barn manager here. My farm has 46 horses, about half are privately owned and boarded with us. Like most farms across the country we are completely shut down to all but essential staff. The horses are mostly pretty happy to eat, hang out, and do horse things. We keep our horses turned out 24/7, which helps them remain healthy, happy, moving, and socializing. They are starting to lose muscling at this point, with being worked/ridden. Months or years of conditioning just disappearing by the day. But it will come back once they are all in work again. But I can tell that they are missing human interaction. My personal riding horse was giving me the cold shoulder yesterday, probably because of the lack of attention. I have been trying to give the boarded horses extra attention, I am sure their owners are missing them terribly right now. They all seem to lean in a little more when I brush them these days.

15.) From Xanlthorpe:

Actually, you can check the live cam video feed and see for yourselves:

San Diego Zoo Live Cams

16.) From FriedCockatoo:

Not a whole lot of change, but animals definitely missing out some enrichment of seeing guests, especially the otters that follow the kids in the glass under water. Takin, Maned wolves, bison, gibbons, BoPs, Lions, etc all are about the same. Some of our animals that are skittish have been standing closer to the fence where guests usually are (zebras, gazelle) which is nice.

It's kinda this weird balance of being both more and less stressed. On the one side, I don't have to worry about keeper talks or BTS tours and I have more time to get everything done and spend more time with animals. On the other side we're skeleton crewed and there's less of us to care for the whole zoo so I'm working a lot more in areas I don't usually cover as often.

There's one kangaroo that still tries to box me while the emu is shifting 🙄 The one peacock still really doesn't like taking his medications of course 🤷‍♂️

I have noticed that the crows in the city are behaving a bit differently as well and are being a lot braver lol

17.) From smokeyhawthorne:

I’ve been watching the Taronga Zoo cams and the seals definitely keep trying to look through the glass for people while the tigers will pace for 40 minutes straight in front of the viewing window.

18.) From Erosenthal:

I’m on day 25 of working at a closed zoo. I work with great apes, and their behavior has changed a bit. They are generally very interactive with the public, so they are seeking even more attention than usual from us.

Some of them were suspicious at first of the overwhelming silence outside now. They were climbing up high and scanning the area looking for everyone.

Edit I forgot to mention the wild animals. We are in a much larger park, and wild animals wander in all the time, but always scatter when the crowds roll in. Now, there’s bucks just walking around, raccoons and foxes out in the middle of the day. And the squirrels... my god, the squirrels.

19.) From PizzaLinter:

The majority of our display birds could care less, however our birds that do flights outside or routinely meet guests and do more interactive behaviors with the public have definitely noticed and they are not cool with their being no guests around. Of course I can only guess, and while this is a bit anthropomorphic, I dont think they understand the change and seem somewhat hesistant to enter a new environment (to them) as we try to maintain their behavioral skills. One of the macaws who is also excited to fly is now always looking around. Pretty sure she expects for 50 to 100 people to be watching her.

20.) From antelopeunfolded:

I work at a very well known and heavily visited zoo. I work with ambassador animals and it’s nice to get a chance to take animals to areas of the zoo they wouldn’t normally get a chance to go to because of traffic etc. BUT, the free ranging geese man.... they are getting mean and territorial. Literal bridge trolls. They might have the hardest time adjusting when all the people come back and they can’t control every pathway!

21.) From Boefixepa763:

The pandas could finally get it on...ten years they have been waiting for people to leave them alone.

22.) From zookeeperNstbernard:

I am a fulltime zookeeper and it’s been difficult since we had to lay off all our seasonal/part time help. More work for those of us still there, but the animals are all still getting top-notch care. We’ve been able to take them out to new places they don’t get to when guests are around. Like taking our porcupine to the manatee building and walking a cheetah past the rhinos. I think it’s fun for them, but I haven’t seen any animals acting differently.

23.) From TheJadedSF:

The walruses are masturbating furiously

24.) From radioactivespiderpod:

Large public aquarium.

It's been only a little different for them. A few of the more timid animals are out and about a little more frequently than usual or changing their active hours (the giant pacific octopus for example).

I expected to see more change in the touch tank areas. Horseshoe crabs don't notice or care which is expected but the whitespotted bamboo sharks are also not really changing their behaviour really either which is good to see. We have cleaner shrimp that have to have more regular food because they're not grooming people anymore but other than that it's just another shrimp day.

25.) From zooolady:

I work for a very large, very busy AZA zoo.

I work with the ambassador animals, so they are animals that are very used to the public. Pretty much like what everyone else has said, the animals are mostly confused that there aren't any people. Our petting zoo animals in particular are super needy. The second they see or hear us they all come running over and start crying for attention. We're trying to give all the animals as much attention as possible, but we're down to a bare bones crew, so it's not as much as we would like.

What I wanted to add, though, because I think it's incredibly interesting, is that we are collecting fecal samples from some of the animals to be tested for cortisol levels, which is a pretty good indicator of stress levels. That way, when guests come back, we can take samples for comparison to see how much guests impact stress.

I think its really cool that we're taking this opportunity to see what we can learn about how guests impact the animals, and to see if there are potentially things we can do even better to improve the lives of the animals in our care. We were really hoping to do some behavioral studies too about things like activity levels, amount of the enclosure being utilized, etc. that are also important considerations for their welfare, but unfortunately we just don't have the time or staffing.

26.) From DefinitelySteveIrwin:

One of our emus loves everyone and makes friends with any new keepers who visit him, and so by extension loves having guests around. With the zoo being closed, he became quite morose for a few days, not acting anything like his usually happy self, because all the new friends he makes everyday were gone. So his keepers began asking people from other departments to stop by, take pictures, point him out, basically act like he's the center of attention. The hilarious little diva has been loving it

For those craving more animal content, via MerylPriester:

you can go to explore.org and view live animal cams from zoos and sanctuaries all over the world.

Selling a house is hard enough when you're dealing with steep competition and a slippery economy, but a house with a violent or creepy history is notoriously harder to pawn off on even the bravest of buyers.

Sometimes people can sense something off even without being told the gruesome history of a place, and other times, town gossip can dissuade people from braving a space with a sad history.

In a popular Reddit thread, realtors shared the most disturbing history they've found out about a house they were selling.

1. From tieberion:

The lady next door to me died, and wasn't found until she was...more liquid than solid on her living room carpet. The family couldn't pay something about back taxes or something, and the house went to HUD to auction. Hud paid for some cleanup, but not to replace the carpet, only steam clean it.

So it finally sold, and was talking to the guy who is flipping it, before I could mention the death, he asked if the house had a water leak under the foundation. Because when they ripped up the carpet and pad to put down the lament floor, it was really dirty and got all over them and their clothes. Told him what happened and how HUD went cheap on what to fix before the auction, he got green as a pea and started puking right there on his side of the fence.

2. From JaytheFarmer:

My parents were realtors, and also flipped houses. When I was growing up I used to help them a lot, usually by cleaning. When I was 12 I was helping with a house that was infested with roaches. I noticed the closets were smeared with shit and children's hand prints...there were fingernail scratches on the insides of the doors as well. I asked my parents why this was the case. They told me the old tenants used to lock their toddlers in the closets for days.

3. From SDr6:

How about the one I bought. A kid drowned in the pool, so far every person that I have met asks me "you know what happened there right?" People are nosy.

4. From Thelatedrpepper:

Got a good deal on an old apartment because a lady was beaten to death next door. It was an old house converted into separate units.

5. From Yup4545:

When I was looking for my last house, I went with my wife and realtor to look at several houses. We went to look at one house in particular because it didn't seem like the price they were asking for could be real...huge house sitting on tons of land with outbuildings, going for millions under market value. We got there, and the realtor said "oh, I should mention, a serial killer lived here and when he was put away cops found 11 bodies on the property." Source. Oh, well that'll do it.

6. From snapdragonflies:

Not that I was buying but one I was visiting.

I went to visit my sister in California and once I flew in I wanted to shower. Well I took a long enough shower that the mirror was all steamy when I got out. Except one tiny dot in the middle of the mirror. My immediate thought process was "oh weird. I guess if you draw on a mirror with expo it won't steam around it". So I went to go investigate and upon looking right up to it I realized it was a f*cking camera lens.

Well I freaked and ran out to her room and dressed then went and told her. We went around our back and looked in a utility closet type thing that looked like it was in line with her room. Sure enough the drywall had been cut away and re patched at some point. We cut it open and while there was no camera there was a little lens still stuck to the mirror. It's real freaky to think whoever was getting actually spied on and if they ever actually knew. Eek.

7. From Zutsky:

Not a realtor, but I used to rent an apartment that was in a converted Victorian asylum. It was rumored to be haunted but I never heard or saw anything whilst living there.

When I met with a letting agent to hand the keys back at the property, and for him to run through a final inspection he asked if we had been 'happy' there. I said something to the effect of yes, but we were only moving as the landlord had it up for sale. It became clear he was after some kind of ghost story as he explained that none of his colleagues liked going to any apartments in the building because when taking photos to market one of them, the red eye detector kept triggering on his phone when no one was in frame!

The poor guy looked nervous as hell the whole time we were there.

8. From WillSmiff:

I photograph homes. It's normal, people die in homes. I've photographed a few homes where the reason for sale was a recent suicide in the home. I photographed a new home that the builder killed himself in the garage just before the project was complete.

The weirdest one was mostly very creepy and suspicious. I photographed a billionaire's compound where the guy had and absurd fascination with flesh. There were well over 50 heads mounted on walls from water buffalo to elephant. 5-10 large cats, stuffed. Chandeliers made from the feathers of rare birds. Stools made from elephant feet/legs, they were hairy, ugh. Paintings and abstract photos of oily skin, "veiny" muscles of humans and animals etc etc. I looked for his kill room, but I never found it. In general I find billionaires don't behave like normal people, but this one was particularly weird.

9. From GreyhoundMummy:

Not a realtor! (I think we would say estate agent here). The flat opposite my house was occupied for a couple of years by a lovely young man, long hair, Goth clothing (may not be the right word, but f*ck it, I'm old), super polite if a bit reserved.

He hanged himself in the flat one day. I only found out afterwards that he had had a liver transplant some years before and was worried his new liver was failing.

I wish I could have helped him. I used to see him at my doctors surgery (I had a new and sickly baby and was there a lot, so was he) but we just said hi, how are you, etc. So sad for him.

The flat has been occupied since by a succession of young couples, I've never said a word in case it troubles them but I've tried harder since to let them know I'm there if they ever need a friend. Being young and just starting out can be lonely.

10. From Back2Bach:

That there was a "secret passageway and stairs" between bedrooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors that no one now could find, but it was there, well hidden.

11. From fireinvestigator113:

I've been in a few where the realtor might have a hard time selling it after it is fixed.

One in particular where the mom drowned her two kids in the bathtub then set herself on fire in the back utility room. Source.

12. From stuisthebest:

My aunt is a realtor and was selling a house that a lady owned but was renting out to her college age son and a few of his friends.

When they went to do the first walk through so my aunt could take pictures and such, it was apparent the lady hadn't been in the house in ages.

EVERY SINGLE ROOM had a tv, a chair, a box of Kleenex, and a bottle of lotion. They were literally just jacking it with each other all over the house all the time.

The lady was so embarrassed.

13. From Myzyri:

Here's another one... This isn't as much "house history" as it is "owner history."

An attorney I know calls me up and tells me she has a client in Canada. The client's uncle passed away and left her everything. Since she lives out of the country and just wants the money out of everything, she wants a Realtor who will also do an estate sale.

I agree to do it. I work it all out with the niece through the attorney and the niece says, "There's a strongbox in the house. When you find it, do not open it. Just mail it to me." I never found the strongbox and trust me, I looked for it. She even claimed to know exactly where it was. It there was nothing there.

Anyway... the main floor is 1960's chic. The basement is set up as a doctor's office. There's a lab, exam room, examining table, instruments, etc.

I ask the attorney what the deal was with this guy and it was an amazing story. So, he was 96 when he died and he was still practicing medicine. He'd make house calls and still drove.

He was German and was born in Germany. Apparently, he was a brilliant scientist and was recruited by the Nazis around WWII. When he was faced with some "horrible tasks," he ran. (Apparently, he never told anyone what exactly he was asked to do or what he actually did, but would only say that he couldn't do what was asked of him.)

Since he made a bit of a scene (probably because he didn't think anything would happen to him), the Nazis had already arrived at his house before he did. He went in and was asked to return. He refused. He was beaten and still refused. He was carted off and put in a prison camp where he was beaten daily and told to return to his job. He finally came up with a plan to escape and agreed to go back to his job, under heavy supervision.

His plan included having his wife and children ready to leave as soon as he returned home. He was told he'd have 3 weeks to recuperate. He got home and they formulated their escape from the house which had guards posted inside and out.

They set the house on fire as a distraction and ran. He was the first out. His wife and kids were behind him. A guard jumped out and decked his wife. The kids stopped and stayed with mom. He turned to run back, but the guard started shooting at him. He was shot in the back and in the arm. He ran off and met some friends hoping to find a way to get back to his family.

Over the next week, he smuggled himself back to his neighborhood and was hiding with friends. Sirens went off and everyone ran to the windows. A flatbed truck was driving up and down the street with his wife and children on the back. A loudspeaker was saying that they were looking for him and if anyone knew where he was to turn him in so he could be reunited with his family. His friends kept him hidden and told him not to go because they'd kill him. This happened for a couple days and on the last day, they basically said he had to surrender or they'd kill his family. He was instructed to go to his home. Hours later, he could see his home from where he was. They announced one last time for him to surrender and he was going to. His friends tackled him and held him down. Then, the shots rang out and when he got back to the window, his entire family was dead in front of his burned out house.

He stayed hidden for a few weeks and then decided to leave the country. He met up with a couple other refugees and they made their way out of Germany, on foot, at night. For months, they walked and hid until they got to Spain or Portugal.

They somehow booked passage on a ship to the USA and were smuggled overseas. They were apprehended in the USA and he spent a year in a detention camp being debriefed.

After the war, he went on to be a successful doctor here in the states. When he "officially" retired, he opened a small office in his house and made house calls for a select number of long-time patients (one of whom was the attorney's grandmother).

While he had a girlfriend for 30+ years, he never remarried, and he outlived her. They never lived together because he had night terrors and was extremely violent in his sleep. She couldn't even stay in another room because he'd be screaming all night long.

He was a fascinating guy but it's such a sad story.

14. From EdgarAetheling:

Failed to sell a townhouse built in the 1800s last year - two separate buyers said they could still 'feel' the previous owners in the house and that's what put them off making an offer. Spooky as both sets of buyers used the specific phrase that they 'Feel' whatever is still a presence there.

But seriously, I've been in 100 'spooky' houses with gruesome back stories and have only got the serious creeps in two or three over my whole career.

15. From dgbgb:

Not a realtor, but when the sold sign went up on our last house our neighbor came over and said, "Now you're moving out, would you like to know about your house's history?". Turned out the previous owner was a heroin dealer, who allowed his customers to shoot up in the living room - explains the brown arcs all over the walls when we stripped the wallpaper. He also used to pimp his wife out from an upstairs room (our then bedroom). Lovely.

EDIT: Colour. As many of you have quite rightly pointed out, blood dries brown not red! If it'd still been red, the giveaway probably would have been the users legging it out the back when we moved in.

16. From CubbieBlue66:

I've been doing this job for a while now. The thing that scares me most is how often I find the locks reversed on bedroom/basement doors.

There's lots of sh*tty parents out there.

17. From Grandmastrgusto:

An old friend of mine bought a nice house in a quiet neighborhood. The place is beautiful and has a really nice deck outback with a hot tub. About 3 weeks after closing he was cleaning out some previously owner junk in one of the closets and found an old DVD. It was a Bridget the Midget porno with a hot tub scene on the cover. His hot tub. It was epic.

18. From yac_attack:

Not a realtor, just a buyer. And not really disturbing, just moderately amusing.

Just days after closing on my house, a friend of mine who was helping me move in told me he had been in my house many times. Turns out, his childhood babysitter had lived there. Then he tells me he wants to show me something in the back yard, and he leads me to a specific fence post on which he had drawn a penis as a kid.

I do wonder if he had actually drawn it that day while I wasn't watching.

19. From TheGhost206:

In Seattle there was a house just up the block from my work. This was probably around 2007/08 or so. There was a zombie themed rave and said house became the after party. Most of the club kids knew each other and the ages ranged from like 16 to 21. Unfortunately they invited this loner dude who came over and started unloading a shotgun around 6:30-7 in the morning.

Kids dressed like zombies were pouring out of the house jumping over fences, into the street, into the backyard. Nobody knew who was actually wounded and who wasn't because everybody looked f*cked up due to their costume. I think like 6-7 died. It was totally f*cked and has always stuck with me. Probably because it was in my neighborhood in which I lived and worked.

Eventually the house went up for sale and I always wondered how much the prospective buyers knew about what happened there. Houses in Seattle don't stay long on the market so it had a lot of real estate agents and buyers coming and going. I also wondered if there was a little discount considering it's history.

20. From Player_Haterz_Ball:

Not a realtor (have taken the course twice just never took the test) but I've been in the residential property management industry for 14 years and have managed/leased thousands of apartments and single family houses. A historic building I used to lease apartments for was formally an insane asylum and prior to that was a hospital. The building itself is on the national historical registry.

Thankfully I never had a bad experience here except for one unsettling thing in a stairwell but I did meet people over the years with stories. Anyways, certain things are required for historical landmarks and restoration tax credits in this particular city so in many of the apartments had to maintain certain features of the original design/architecture like some old tile was still on the walls and floors. The thing that creeped me out was the basement. Even after 50+ years on most days you could catch a whiff of formaldehyde.

Some days were more pungent and distinct than others. Of course being the basement it also had the addition of that musty basement smell. Since this was once a hospital obviously it had a morgue. There are a handful of apartments in the basement and the original tile on the floor marked where the morgue actually started. In one of those apartments there is a bedroom with incredibly spacious walk-in closets. If you haven't already figured it out these two massive closets are the old body lockers with the original latches on the walls next to the entrance to the closets. I still for the life of me cannot understand how anyone could live in that apartment because I wouldn't even go into that apartment by myself.

Hey, all you cool cats and kittens. If you watched Tiger King, chances are you hate that dang Carole Baskin. They have actually reopened the case of her husband's mysterious disappearance. It will be interesting to see how everything from this bonkers show plays out in the future. For now, entertain yourself with these hilarious Tiger King memes. They will crack you up, especially if you think Carole totally fed her husband to the Tigers.

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You never know what people are up to behind closed doors—but when they live right next to you and have large windows and backyards, it's easy to get a glimpse.

People shared the creepiest things they found out about their neighbors, and they didn't even have to be spies to discover these secrets.

1. As seen on TV, from lindseysaywhut:

One of my neighbors was actually caught on "To Catch a Predator"

Edit: Just called my dad to find out what the aftermath was. He got caught. He was on TV. The prosecutor didn't handle the case correctly (not sure exactly what happened), but all of the 40 people who got caught all got off scot free. He still lives in my parents' neighborhood, but nobody talks to him and they rarely see him leave his house.

2. They got deep, Squeeg.

A middle-aged couple in my street got drunk with my dad a few years back and for some reason told him all about how they like to f*ck wearing scuba gear.

3. CrystallineFrost knows the rich get randy.

A few years ago, my father moved to a new home in a very rich neighborhood. I learned from him that his new neighbors were swingers when they invited him and his current wife to their house for a "welcome to the neighborhood" party. This was followed by a revelation from my mother several months later that they also are my cousins on her side. My father has no clue.

Also—they have cardboard cutouts of themselves in their basement, the current wife (the fourth one I believe) walks their pet cats in a bikini, and they have heart ponds in their front yard which the husband dug for his third wife. Gotta love neighbors... and family.

4. Hopefully Sal79 still knows how to run away.

Apparently, my one neighbor stabbed a man back in the day. His cavalier attitude with telling me that was a bit disturbing. All I did was tell him that I was on the track team.

5. philtomato can see it all.

Every 4 PM I would see him masturbate on his garden, he thinks nobody knows what he's doing because he's got a lot of bushes to hide what he's doing. But my room is on the 2nd floor and I can clearly see what he's doing. Me and my dad knows what he does and we just don't talk about it. It's really awkward.

6. She saw it coming, IAMA_BRO_AMA.

The guy that lives above me regularly has a psychic over for readings. Judging from the noise, she reads a lot more than his palms.

7. lavacat has a theory.

They're vampires.

How I know this:

-They have no windows in their house.

-They only do yardwork late at night (like 2 am) by the light of a floodlight.

-They have a child and a dog and I've never seen them in 2 years.

8. It's hard to keep that a secret, FulminatedMercury.

My neighbour is big into dancing under a full moon naked on her roof. She is a very spiritual person.

9. More cool than creepy, Naked_Sagan.

One of my neighbors is friends with Elijah Wood and sometimes they drink wine together on the stoop.

10. thingg's neighbor is a total nine out of ten (toes).

My neighbor sunbathes naked in his backyard. Fortunately there are now pine trees blocking the view. Also, on an unrelated note, he is missing one of his big toes...

11. RayGunEra sings passive-aggressive showtunes.

My neighbor is a hoarder, and a dumpster diver. I live in the unit across from the community dumpster, and our newest tenant is in the dumpster EVERY SINGLE DAY. She leaves her 2 year old strapped into his stroller next to her. She seems to favor pieces of cardboard and thicker stock paper. She'll take the pieces and just trace the outline of the shape with her fingers while making a duck face.

Also, I helped this b*tch move in originally and the day after I helped her move in, I realized I didn't move a SINGLE piece of furniture...no couch, no tables, no bed, no crib that I recall seeing. She's divorced and for some reason she chooses to take all of her phone calls outside next to all of our apartments...and of course she's a loud talker. I know the baby-daddy is on the line when I hear something ridiculous shouted passionately like "YOU SAID YOU WERE GETTING CHEESEBURGERS NOT HAMBURGERS".

My wife hates it, but I've taken to belting show tunes whenever I hear her outside my window...she goes back upstairs pretty quick after a couple stirring numbers.

12. only_ceremony's neighbor has visitors.

My neighbor is a prostitute. She's a heavier lady in her late 50s and works the area out by the post office on my side of town. Every now and then someone will come to her house, flash their lights, pick her up, and bring her back 20-30 minutes later.

Every morning she meanders down the driveway in her muumuu to get the newspaper... and she always has the same muumuu on when people pick her up.

13. Interesting, kirbypuckett.

A lady in my apartment building pulls her laundry out of the washer with grill tongs.

14. It's lit, alice_ah.

I'm pretty sure my neighbours are growing weed... Perhaps it's time I introduce myself?

15. kelz0r has the absolute most disturbing tale.

One of my neighbors committed suicide in one of the worst ways I've ever heard. He tied a rope around a tree and then tied the other end around his neck. Then he got into a car and took off as fast as he could. Lost his head.

If you're not sticking to a skincare, exercise, reading, foreign-language practicing or any other routine right now, give yourself a break.

While some people seem to be thriving in the quarantine on social media with their new set of abs and sunrise virtual yoga Instagram livestream, it's also ok to not use this global health crisis as an opportunity to better your life. The entire world is incredibly stressed out and there are still so many things that are unknown. As long as you're social distancing, supporting your local frontline workers and washing your hands--you're doing a great job.

If your sleep and eating schedule have gone out the window and you had breakfast at 3 AM, wide awake while binge-watching a show from 2007, you're definitely not alone.

Here are some of the funniest tweets we could find from people who have 100% lost all sense of their schedule...

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Divorce makes weddings complicated.

A dad is inquiring on "Am I The A**hole?" whether he'd be a jerk to threaten not to attend his daughters' weddings if they refuse to invite his wife, their stepmom.

In the soap opera version of the story, the stepmom is an extremely younger woman who broke up their parents' marriage, but this dad wasn't the cheater, he was the cheatee.

He wrote:

My two younger daughters (27 and 30) are both getting married next year. Their mother and I divorced 13 years ago. It was a bad breakup when I caught her in an affair but she didn’t want to divorce.

Anyways, I’ve remarried to my current wife for 8 years now and we’re very happy to have found each other.

The daughters are firmly Team Mom and Anti-Stepmom:

The issue: when my oldest daughter got married, my wife wasn’t invited to spare my ex-wife’s feelings. She struggled to recover from the split and never remarried nor dated. We’re now on amicable terms but she still tries to “rekindle” things even though I’ve shut her down too many times to count. Regardless, for my oldest’s wedding my wife stayed home to keep the peace.

Now my younger daughters want to do the same thing this time and exclude my wife in rather rude ways. I told them early on that I would like to bring my wife of nearly a decade since I’m paying for both of their weddings. But we just received news that my wife will be told to stay home yet again. I told my daughters this won’t work for me this time and I can’t allow them to snub my wife like this after so many years.

They don't respect their dad/Sugar Daddy enough to invite his wife, so he wants to throw down the gauntlet:

My daughters see this as me choosing my wife over them but I completely disagree. I just think they’ve got no real reason to exclude my wife at this point after 8 years of marriage. They say it’s because my ex wife will get sad and surly seeing us together, but it’s been 13 years since we divorced. AITA to tell them that they shouldn’t be excluding my wife and if they do I can choose not to attend?

It's always exciting to read an AITA with two "Bridezillas" for the price of one!

The Reddit jury is unaminous in saying that this dad is Not The A**hole, and his daughters totally suck.

"They might be your children but they're not actual children and shouldn't behave as such," teke367 commented.

"The only hiccup is that you acquiesced for the first daughter, which set a precedent. You aren't choosing your wife over them, they're choosing their mother over you."

Gracelandrocks warned OP that he really needs to accept his wife now (well, they should have eight years ago).

"Nip this in the bud now. Otherwise there will be years of Christmases where OP will be leaving his wife alone at home to spend it with the daughters, grandkids and ex wife because mummy still has an issue with daddy being remarried and happy," they wrote.

"I think it's time they pay for their own weddings if they care so little for your feelings and happiness," added Dangerfyeld.

One thing we can all agree on: the cheating mom sure is an a**hole.

Ladies, we may be stuck inside, but that doesn't mean we can't laugh. These hilariously relatable memes perfectly nail how were all feeling while quarantined right now.

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There are pros and cons to walking in on a partner cheating on you. Cons: heartbreak, betrayal, a scarring memory, and potentially losing the ability to ever fully trust someone again. Pros: you can break up with them, move in with three roommates of the opposite sex, have an on-again, off-again relationship with one of those roommates, and become the plot of the sitcom New Girl. Also: you now have an excuse to absolutely destroy someone's car with a sledgehammer. And let's be honest, that part seems fun?!

Someone asked Reddit: "have you ever walked in on your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend having sex with someone else? What did you see & What happened?"

These 17 people who've experienced the living nightmare of catching a partner in the act of cheating share their horror stories:

1.) From throwaway12934509834:

It was a weeknight. I woke up a few hours early (4 AM-ish) to play a few video games before work. My wife (of 6 months) is not in bed with me. I call her phone, and hear it ringing in the guest room. I peek inside, and saw her in the throws with one of her male friends that I had met the previous night. They did not see me, so I closed the door. I went out to the garage, and returned with a claw hammer. I sat against the door for almost an hour, deciding what to do with my life. After that, I kicked in the door, gave them both a stare that I can only hope froze their blood, then walked out and drove to work. I left her that night, and I kept her hammer. She begged me to stay with her. It was winter, and I did have to live in my car for almost a month, but it was still the best decision I ever made.

2.) From anthrbrickinthewall:

Ugh, I'll bite. I not so much walked in as caught them on camera. It is a long and sad story honestly. My "best friend" offered to come take our dog to the groomers on his day off since my "wife" and I couldn't get out of work the day of the appointment. I thought this was odd so I set up a camera to see if he was going through our stuff. I get home from work and find a video of him screwing my wife. To make matters worse we were trying to have a baby so she was not on BC and they weren't using protection. I felt like I lost everything. Turns out it had been going on for at least a year.

Wife just said "You took care of everything, I felt like I was 8" and my "friend" said, "You were a shitty friend" That was what both of their excuses were. Oooh I almost forgot "We were going to stop being whatever we were when she got pregnant", so he even considered her his girlfriend. All things considered I got really lucky to get out when I did. I had to wait 2 weeks to find out if she was pregnant or not and if she was I wouldn't know if it was mine. Talk about hell. This was almost a year ago. Let's just say I'm in a MUCH better place now. Edit: I meant to use a throwaway...all well!

3.) From Blu3j4y:

The summer after my freshman year in college, I caught my girlfriend (who had just graduated HS) making out with her former band director in a car parked in her driveway. I watched for a minute or two from across the street until I saw her swoop down for the BJ.

She called me the next morning to ask when I was picking her up for a concert for which we'd made plans. I asked her "When I kiss you, will I be able to taste nameredacted's dick?"

Aftermath: Some good citizen sent that guy's wife a letter detailing his infidelity, and a few weeks later some prankster beat the crap out of the guy's car with a baseball bat. Bad luck for that silly old bastard.

4.) From wee_man:

Yep. Was dating this ridiculously hot girl in college that I knew was out of my league but we still were together for over a year and I was in puppy love. She got a job at the campus liquor store and I immediately start hearing stories about her "cool new boss" who is obviously trying to f*ck her from day one.

Fast forward a few months and she decides we should sleep at our own apartments so she can "get better rest". The next morning I'm driving to work at 7am and swing by her place to drop off a note and her boss's car is parked in the driveway. Like an idiot I go inside and immediately hear them f*cking. I run upstairs but her door is locked. I bang on the door and all goes quiet, she even whispers "Shhhh, just wait until he leaves". I yell "She's your f*cking problem now" at the door and walk out. We never spoke again.

5.) From TheyCallMeLithium:

Yep! At a small Halloween party at our house, I went to bed early (re: midnight), and went to go sleep in our bedroom. So far so good. Then the boyfriend comes in and tells me that I need to sleep in the living room and he's made up a couch for me. I'm annoyed, but sleepy so I trail along to the living room. I can't sleep, and a few minutes later get up and go back to our bedroom and his ex-gf from highschool (that he had recently re-met via a hs-reunion) is naked on top of him and f*cking him.

Icing on the cake: Four months later they got engaged.

Extra icing: They got married two years ago, and she sent me multiple messages asking me to come to the wedding because she said I meant a lot to him and that I should be there.

F*ck that :)

6.) From necrodae:

Not to me thankfully but my girlfriends uncle came home to a guy f*cking his wife. He opened the door and yelled out... The guy f*cking his wife just looked at him and smiled while proceeding to f*ck his wife. Uncle didn't say a word, walked to dresser, pulled out his gun and shot and killed the guy. Went to prison for 14 years.

some updates He was only sentenced to 10 years, only served ~8-9. 2 years in prison with the remainder in ASH (Arizona St. Hospital) as he was diagnosed with some sort of serious mental illness (I want to say paranoid schizo with some other social disorders but I'm not 100% sure). The crime happened in the 80s even after he was released for this crime in 2002/2003 he went to prison again for ~2 years for aggravated assault. From what I know he spent about half of his life in and out of lock up. He was also connected to another murder because he gave some type of blunt object (I thought it was another gun issue, I was wrong) to his friend who ended up murdering someone with it.

tl;dr he's been mentally unstable and a criminal for most of his life involved in multiple homicides and in and out of jail/prison/mental health facilities for ~1/2 his life. Still, killing the guy who smiles while f*cking your wife, priceless.

7.) From eckpm:

I was in the military, stationed in Hawaii. I got married when I was 19 to my high school sweetheart after being there for about 6 months. She moved out there with me and our house instantly becomes the "flop house" for all of my alcoholic and idiot friends. The night before Thanksgiving she decides to stay at home to get some sleep so she can get up early and cook for us. I thought nothing of it and went out to the bars with all of the guys. For whatever reason we get back to the house earlier than usual (around 2am) and as I get out of the cab I notice a familiar car down the street parked under a street light. I decide to look in the window of our bedroom first and can just make out two people doing it doggy style outlined by the dim light of the alarm clock.

I flew up to the front door and fumble f*cked with my keys to get the door open. Just as I got the front door open I hear the bedroom door slam. I race down the hallway and knock (slam my fist) on the door and tell her to open it. I can hear whispering and a much deeper whisper than a woman at that. I put my shoulder into the door a few times and she scream and then I just kicked the living shit out of the door right by the handle. The door flies open and she's in our waterbed naked and one of my best friends is bent over in the middle of the room trying to get his pants on. His back was facing me so I laid my fist right into the side of his back which made him fall over and I just kicked and kicked. Like a mule... I kicked and stomped.

She already has the phone and is calling the police. I picked up a lamp and smashed it on the floor next to his head and ran out to the living room. I waited on the couch for them and waited for the military police. They show up and take reports. I was hauled off to the cool down tank and spent Thanksgiving in a holding cell. My Staff Sergeant brought me dinner and told me that she was on the next flight home. Our divorce was finalized over the mail and I never saw or heard from her again. The guy that she was with ended up testing positive for cocaine and meth at the hospital and was kicked out of the military. I was never brought up on any charges.

8.) From [deleted]:

i broke in through the kitchen window (she lived on the 6th floor and i scaled the fire escape) and yes they were getting it on. the guy she was boning just pulled the covers up to his neck and yelled "who the f*ck are you." my shocked response: "who the f*ck are you?". all 3 of us stood in awkward silence for maybe a minute and i realized that breaking and entering was probably good enough for the day. my work was done, so was the relationship. the look on their faces though! ah, fond, fond memories

9.) From icanhasreclaims:

Not me, but my dad's friend had learned his girl was cheating on him and chose to say nothing. However, he placed a hidden camera in their bedroom. Now with conclusive evidence, he brings up taking a trip to puerto vallarta. She is completely dependendent upon him financially and quickly jumps at the offer. They leave about a week later. As they are boarding the plane, he mentions that he must have left his wallet at the counter and for her to go ahead and board, and he will be there in a moment. She boards, he goes to the boarding agent explains he will not be getting on the plane, and the plane takes off with her having no cash, no accomodations, canceled credit cards, and only her baggage. They no longer talk.

10.) From omgpokemans:

Yeah, came home to my GF banging my best friend/roommate. Lost my girlfriend, best friend and home that day.

11.) From turbie:

My best friend told me my (ex) fiance and her had been cheating on me. I went to go confront him (He was living in a converted garage). He thought I was asleep for the night, so when I started banging on the garage door all insanely he went ahead and opened it with out thinking, and there sat another chick with out her clothes on. And he still tried to deny it.

12.) From VaporMaus:

My previous girlfriend cheated on me with one of her study buddies. I barged in on them mid hump. I told my girlfriend that I was just diagnosed with the HIV. Which was a bold faced lie, but the look of shock on my face sold the lie to them. I knew the guy was condomless because that was her thing. Two weeks later, she told me that her results turned up negative, and that I am an asshole.

13.) From JoeRuinsEverything:

Walked in on her having sex with another dude. I paused for a moment, walked around the bed and went absolutely batshit ballistic on a really old wooden chest she got from her great grandmother. I knew she loved that chest, so it was really satisfying to smash it to pieces. Walked out without saying a word, while the two were looking at me with completely baffled faces. Standing in the door i gave her one last look and she started crying. Up to this point it was a really great relationship and we were supposed to move in a few days later. Never saw her again or even talked to her after that day.

14.) From Kinetic_Waffle:

Girlfriend and my sister. Scarred for life. THE THERAPY DOES NOTHING.

15.) From ChocolateJigglypuffs:

My girlfriend at the time went with me to the hospital one day so I could visit one of my really good friends who just underwent surgery. She left the room to take a phone call and told me she had to go and take care of something. I stayed for about another hour.

I leave and go home (we lived together) and when I walked in the front door, there was some guy on top of her on the couch, just going at it. I slammed the door, called them out and tried to grab the guy but he was able to get away from me. My girlfriend tried to explain everything but I didn't listen to any of that shit and left.

16.) From jrik23:

While in the army I walked in on my girlfriend and my army buddy going at it. We were planning to go to her parents house 10 hours away for the 4th of July weekend. I acted as if nothing happened waited till we were half-way to her parents house stopped at a highway rest stop let her get out to pee took out all her bags and took off. Drove back to base with the biggest grin on my face. I got some really interesting voice mail messages from her. Boy was she pissed.

17.) From gold_pants:

I had a spinal tap a few days before the incident. As a result, I had a spinal headache that left me unable to even sit up without extreme pain. I popped some painkillers and fell asleep. My boyfriend of about a year, who lived with me, was there when I fell asleep...but not when I woke up at 3am.

I called for him, no answer. He didn't pick up his phone. In extreme pain, I got up to look around. The back door of the apartment was wide open and he was missing so I called 911. We lived in a not-so-good neighborhood at the time so I worried he'd gone to take the trash out and never came back. I ran around the property looking for him as I was on the phone with a dispatcher. I remember being amazed at how I could run around like that after barely being able to sit up. I thought he might be dead.

The police officer arrived and looked around the place. He then went down the back staircase that was connected to the downstairs neighbor's apartment. The cop had a big smile on his face when he came up, and asked if I was sure the boyfriend was missing - there were two people "f*cking like rabbits" down there. I laughed at that, thought it was preposterous. I said there is no way that would happen - he wouldn't do that and she had a boyfriend. I didn't give it a second thought.

About 5 minutes later, my boyfriend came in. He was obviously flustered and upset. He asked if everything was ok and was worried about the cop car - worried that something had happened to me while he was on a late-night walk. We all had a good laugh and the policeman chided him a bit and told him to leave a note next time. The boyfriend and I even saw the policeman around town the next week and we all laughed about the situation.

I was incredibly innocent. I was in the apartment while he was f*cking the downstairs neighbor while I was sick. The policeman was right. I found out from a chat log he saved to his desktop a few months later. I created an account just to tell this story, at least it's useful for something.

tl;dr: I thought my boyfriend was missing after he took out the trash at 3am; turns out he was downstairs f*cking the neighbor. That cop knew what he was talking about.

Ever hear the saying "money talks, wealth whispers"?

It basically means that people who flaunt their cash might not have much of it — and those who play it cool are more likely to be rolling in dough.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to name the biggest sign that someone's pretending to be in a social class higher than their own. The answers might make you see wealth in a whole new light.

1. Giant logos won't convince people you're wealthy.

Wearing brand clothes that have the huge name of the brand on them. I used to work in one of the brand stores and these were literally made for the lower class that wants to show off. More expensive and higher quality items never had this flexing on them. - ocotkoala

2. That's some attention to detail!

I work at an exotic car rental branch. I have plenty of customers that rent our cars and ask us to take the ID tags off the key ring (understandable). Then I have some that INSIST they get the same license plate each time and will flip out if I give them the same model as usual but with the plate one digit off. They’re trying to make the appearance to whoever that they own the car and get themselves in a trap where they have to keep renting to keep up the illusion. That charade never lasts long. - TigersNsaints_ohmy

3. Anyone who flexes on Instagram is probably faking it.

Rich people on Instagram are probably mostly fake rich. Buying followers.

If I were a billionaire, I would not want to be tagged partying on a yacht. Especially not in 2020. - screenwriterjohn

4. Being nasty to service people is a dead giveaway that even if you have some cash, you're new at this.

Talking down to working class people. Dont get me wrong there are definitely snooty arsehole upper class people however in my interactions with them as a working class person in services they've always been extremely nice. My guess is because we both know who we are in "society" so there are no pretensions.

Fake upper class people have to completely reinforce the class divide. It had to be absolutely clear that they are and always have been above you. Part of me thinks its resentment at what they might have used to have been and the other part thinks it's how they think other upper class people behave.

5. Flaunting your car's sound system but failing to take care of the engine? Red flag.

Saw some guys at a stoplight in a convertible 6 series BMW with the top down blasting music and wearing expensive clothes. I can see his dashboard: every possible warning light was on - iqstick

6. If you're gonna get a big house, make sure you can afford to fill it...

McMansions without curtains or furniture in the upstairs. - GreenBois77

7. Entrepreneurs don't do this.

Putting "Entrepreneur" on any social media platform bio - mtnmza69

8. Flashy cars really are the biggest culprit.

My first job ever when I was a kid as a caddy at a very expensive country club. Every new guy would chase the players coming in with rolls/bentley/whatever else. After being there a while, I knew to wait for the dude rolling up in a woody station wagon. That's where the tips were. Everyone who could afford a membership there HAD money, the ones that looked like they had the most had it because they KEPT it.

When I say they kept it, I mean they hoarded it for spending it on themselves. Not for tipping peasants like me. - Stair_Car_Hop_On

9. Saying that anyone "has no taste" is a major sign of insecurity.

Shopping in the curtains aisle of Walmart and openly declaring to me (an employee trying to zone) that we, "Have no taste." - TheWolfEmperor82

10. Never borrow money for a wedding.

Getting married in a big fat wedding by taking out loans, borrowing from friends. Plus, getting super expensive rings when you cant afford 1/10 of it. - Archiver_test

11. Bragging about what your wine cost will only make people feel bad about drinking it.

When you get invited for supper and bring a bottle of wine, but feel obligated to mention it cost 35$. - ZePatator

12. Isn't this why people buy them?

My boyfriend tried to convince me that if I bought a kitchenaid that we’d need to leave it on the counter so people would notice that we could afford to spend ~$250 on a kitchen appliance. I would love to have one, but I don’t bake enough to justify it and if I ever get one it’s going to be stored when I’m not using it because I hate clutter on my counters. - shinkel1901

13. This person switched the price tags on a wine bottle and actually fooled their friend.

Have a wine snob friend coming over for a party. So I bought the a cheap obscure wine (like $10 bottle) and when I cashed out I asked them to take the sticker gun and put $80 on it. My friend thought it was an amazing bottle of wine. - kfh227

14. You have a Range Rover but there's no hospital wing named after your grandfather? Ew.

Appearance of wealth, but no philanthropy. Philanthropy is how true upper class people really show off. - galivet

15. Being nice to everyone is a sign of wealth.

We didn't know that our batchmate was rich until he invited a couple of his close uni friends to his house (which was a mansion) for a Chrismas dinner, after which he gave them expensive gifts.

Those who were invited kinda told everyone else. We were surprised because this guy was a very, very humble bloke who did not for once act rich. He socialised with everyone, was not a snob, the lot. He's still rich, still very humble, now more generous because he's making his own money. The kind of rich person I wish every rich person could be. - omgwtfkcbbq

16. But what if I really am the CEO of my Twitter account?!?!

Calling yourself a “CEO” of your tiny side hustle - Viren90

17. Basically, the uber-wealthy just act... normal.

One of my husband's best friends comes from a filthy rich family (think, billions). We went to his wedding a few years ago and the social experiment that ensued was beyond fascinating.

The guests themselves were a mix of anyone from broke college kids (us) to doctors, to millionaires and billionaires. Some trends definitely emerged amongst the people who were obviously self-conscious about their wealth though.

They were frequently dismissive (and sometimes downright rude) to the serving staff. They made sure logos of their belongings were plainly in sight (your hotel room is literally connected to the reception venue, so I know you didn't need to bring your $1200 Canada Goose parka to dinner). They also made sure to talk loudly about their expensive plans for the future and highlighting any wealth-related attributes in the process ("Oh well, my girlfriend is graduating medical school next year, so we're starting to look at houses - mostly in the 800k-1mil range").

It was a stark contrast against the people who were comfortable with their social status (wealthy or otherwise) who were all just happy to be there, having fun, drinking alcohol and wholly unworried about which stranger they'll never meet again knows how much money they wish they had. - box_o_foxes

It's always been hard to tell if a product is worth it before you've bought it, and the advent of online shopping has made it even harder.

Is it really a good idea to spend double the amount on a pair of undies just because your favorite podcast host swears they fit like a glove? Or should you stick to something cheap to be safe?

A recent Reddit thread asked people to name the products they've bought that were actually totally worth it. Here are some of the best answers.

1. A good desk chair isn't just for top executives.

Can't say this enough — a properly supportive office / desk chair. Worth every penny! - jupark

2. Fun fact: some drill bits are better than others!

Quality drill bits, they're actually cheaper in the long run than cheap low quality ones and much better to work with. - Mjarf88

3. A dash cam can be very valuable.

Dash cam. They can really save your ass. Speaking of, I need to get me a new one - Klown1327

4. A good mattress is something you'll never regret buying.

I bought my $2000 Serta mattress for $150 at a factory liquidation and returns auction. Literally tons of stuff that’s broken or slightly scratched, for pennies. Best buying decision I’ve ever made. - jackjimmy19

5. Knife-shopping is an art form.

Victorinox [knife] With Fibrex handle. Get just a chef knife to start. Always use a wood cutting board end-grain if you can and never put it in the dishwasher. If you like it then add to the set later.

I cook a lot of chicken so I also have a separate chicken only knife that I bought from the grocery store and I throw that one in the dishwasher until it gets rusty or dull and then buy a new one every couple years - majornugzz

6. Non-flashy cars are usually a great idea.

20 years ago I bought a used 1991 Toyota with 60K miles for cheap...still running and just wont die.

It is a 4-cylinder truck, I change the oil myself, I use Mobil-1 synthetic oil. It was purchased from the original owner for $4200 when it was 9 years old. - series_hybrid

7. Invest, invest, invest in good bags!

A good backpack. My mom always got me cheap backpacks in school, and they'd always break about 3/4 of the way through the school year. Sophomore year of high school I finally convinced her to pull the trigger on a mid range Jansport daypack. Yeah, it was literally 5 times as expensive as any other backpack she'd ever bought me. But it lasted the rest of high school. And community college. And the 2 years at regular university for my bachelor's. And a year and a half of graduate school. And I have used it at least a few times a year since for business trips since. And it's still perfectly useable, if getting a bit ratty and faded now. - THEREALCABEZAGRANDE

8. Everyone loves cast iron pans.

A cast iron pan. They’re super versatile and you can buy a great one that will last the rest of your life for not very much money - mlouisd1521

9. Buy cheap headphones and you'll have to keep buying them.

I bought a pair of bose headphones a couple years ago. Very expensive, but I never loose them, they are great quality, and they last forever. I think I actually saved money buy buying them. - MF-ing-J-Rod

10. Better vision is priceless.

If you wear glasses, laser eye surgery is absolutely worth the money.

My vision was 20/400. For those of you who don’t understand why that means...

If a person with “perfect” 20/20 vision were able to read a sign (freeway sign, street sign, billboard, etc) from 400 feet away, I would have to be 20 feet away to be able to read the same sign with the same clarity.

So reading street signs (especially at night) without my glasses was literally impossible.

I got the laser eye surgery in 2014. It cost me $5,000 but it comes with a lifetime warranty. So if my vision ever changes, a “touch up” is no cost to me. - Fixmy59bug

11. Expensive shoes: usually worth it.

Someone once told me not to cheap out on the things that separate you from the ground. Shoes, bed and tires. - Billytense

12. Don't skimp on the girls!

If you're a woman.. a well fitted, custom-made bra. Too many females out here suffering wearing bras that just don't sit right. This is important ladies. The difference in bras are astonishing! - CheckeredNightOwl

13. Birth control is one of the best investments out there.

not even just for preventing kids- but for period pain management. im 14 and take it because it started to hurt so bad i was missing school. it's a lot better not missing 3-4 days out of every month due to writhing in pain because of children i probably won't have. - lonleybottleofranch

14. Chocolate varies a LOT by price point.

Good quality chocolate. If you're ingesting those calories, they'd better be worth it. - TheFlyingBandNerd

15. Massages are a luxury but they also serve a purpose.

A really good massage from a professional masseuse - Goodgooglegogo

16. If you prefer yourself hairless, there's a long-term solution.

Laser hair removal, if you really have persistent unwanted hair somewhere. - Kay_Elle

17. Domestic labor is labor and it's okay to outsource it!

Hiring someone to clean the house. I save so much time to do things I actually enjoy it is insane. Also does not cost all that much. Around 150€ for two hours of cleaning twice a month, by far my best decision Ive made in the past few years. - SquishHotS

18. Therapy is pricey but often worth it.

Therapy. Costs me $170 per hour. I go twice a week and it is the only reason why I am not slashing tires and busting lips right now. - Anicha1

19. Layovers are often not worth the savings.

Flying direct! It's worth the extra couple hundred bucks to save the compounded exhaustion from layover + extra hours. - cci605

20. Weighted blankets are really having a moment.

A weighted blanket.

It really helps with my anxiety. I have troubles sleeping at night because of anxiety and when I slept next to my boyfriend for the first time I was able to fall asleep almost instantly and it was the weight of his arm around me that brought me a sense of comfort. So now when he isn’t at my house, I have a weighted blanket to help me sleep. I still prefer my boyfriend though. - GoddamnAppleJuice

21. If you travel a lot, skipping the line is worth it.

TSA Precheck. The best $85 I’ve ever spent. - Barbarossa7070

22. A good pair of sunglasses just hits different.

Classic black sunglasses, polarized. Looks good with any outfit, protects your eyes, and let’s you stare at people without looking like a creep. - mecawilson

23. Health ain't cheap — easy. But it's worth it!

Your HEALTH. Invest in your physical and mental health - good food, exercise, building mental support system etc. Once you have that set sky is a limit on what you can do. - MashUTTa

If you're lucky, every day at your job makes you wonder how you could be getting paid to do something you love...

However, most of the time work is work and the expression, "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" feels like something that applies to pop stars, Oprah, everyone on "The Great British Bake Off" and no one else. Of course, we all have days that we love at our jobs and every once in awhile, something work-related is so fun that it makes you question how you're getting paid to do something you'd happily do for free. If you've ever worked in retail or the service industry, there are days you might remember where you've been so slow you wonder how you're getting paid to scroll through Instagram, experiment with new foods and cocktails, or wrestle your co-workers in the back. (Shout out to the time I worked at a soap store and got paid to do hair treatments, wear exfoliating face masks, and play with bath bombs all day).

Now, with so many people out of work or working from home, it's nice to look back on positive workplace memories. So, when a reddit user asked, "What were some 'I can't believe I'm getting paid for this" moments at your job?" people were definitely ready to share the times they were shocked they were getting money at their jobs...

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

1.

I teach high school. We just got done with our first week and I am sort of sad it is the weekend, even though I am exhausted. These kids are so fun and funny and interesting. I can’t believe I get to have out and talk about books with them and teach them how to be good at things. It is just baffling. I’m so happy. -dryerfresh

2.

Worked retail and had to sticker hundreds of items of clothing with little black sale stickers. Just as I’m finishing up, I was told they changed their mind and wanted me to use red stickers instead. So I went back over every item with red stickers. It was also a public holiday in Australia so I was paid 2.5x my average pay, and spent six hours of my shift doing just that - dyingonmyhill

3.

I used to make video content for social media to drive ticket sales for a major arts festival. I would go to the tech rehearsal for major operas, plays, ballet etc. There would be the full cast and orchestra performing as if they were playing to a full house but it was just me and my camera. I could move around to get the right shot. I could go backstage and interview the performers and whoever else was in my brief to talk to. I got to tour around with an opera once. I have no background in this. I’m completely self taught and had only done really pedestrian jobs before this. It was amazing, I never would have wanted to go to an opera or ballet before this came along. If you ever have the chance to see something like this go. It’s not as boring as you think it will be. - [deleted]

4.

In a past job (albeit a low-paid one), I got to help raise a baby sea otter and one day I had the task of combing and fluffing up her fur to keep her waterproof and help her float. I was literally being paid to groom an adorable baby otter. - sentimentalaqua

5.

I work 8 hours a day. I actually work 20 minutes to a half hour of that. I read reddit most of the day. - newacct77

6.

I was a photojournalist.

Getting paid to sit on the sidelines of major sporting matches, at the sound desk or in the pit of bands from ACDC to ZZTop meet all sorts of interesting people and create a photo to help tell their story.

I photographed John Cleese during a sound check - he went on a 20 minute rant about photographers - I had to ask him to stop as I was laughing so hard I couldnt take pictures, met Jackie Stewart and heard him speak about his time as a formula one driver.
It was an amazing job, and one I was very lucky to do for as long as I did - some days I would think “Some people would pay to be able to do this”

There were crap days too - sitting in the hot sun at a murder scene all day, watching police bag evidence sucks, as does attending car crashes in the middle of the night, in the rain. But I remember the good days better than the bad ones. - Echo63_

7.

Not at my job, but I was once in a documentary of the miners strike.

I got paid to spend a weekend throwing fake rocks at fake cops, shouting at them, it was so much fun - ThomasNavarro

8.

I lifeguarded for 3 years, sooo a lot. When it gets rainy and everyone leaves the pool, they normally keep us around just in case it clears up. We watch tv and raid the snackbar. We play in the pool sometimes and blast music on the speakers. Having a party with a bunch of cute girl lifeguards while getting paid by the hour = not a bad gig - ADecentURL

9.

I get to teach kids how to play Dungeons and Dragons for six weeks every summer. Rolling into work dressed in an elf princess costume and getting to play a game for seven hours a day it feels unreal. Am still incredulous every time that direct deposit hits. - puppypuppyl0v3

10.

Oh hey I can answer this one. I'm a dog trainer and we help dogs that are reactive to other dogs when on leash (i.e., barking/lunge at dogs when on walks) and one of the ways we do this is to drag a stuffed dog around (looks realistic) at a distance. You even talk to the stuffed dog, pet it, and pretend to feed it. All of this is happening while another trainer feeds the real dog any time they see the fake dog.

I've legit been asked if I'm crazy before until people figure out we are training a dog. - scifihounds

11.

Working In IT, getting paid to be a professional googler basically. - Fleedizz

12.

Anytime a client takes me out for lunch or invites me to a golf or shooting tourney. but the craziest for me was when I was taken to a 4 hour "lunch" to a high end steak house on Warren Buffets credit card. That was pretty dope. -Frekkes

13.

Probably the opposite end of the spectrum than intended but I work as a professional photo retoucher for a mid sized ecommerce site that focuses on womens clothing. So one day I was going through and editing lookbook images (meaning we outsourced a photographer, got a more expensive model, and shot on location), and in order to know which images we have a spread sheet which gives me an image number, a deadline, and editing notes which is something specific they want done to the image. This is where things getting interesting. Im working my way through all of my edits when i come to an image number with a single editing note, "Remove horse genitals". Of course i think its odd and kinda funny but only expect to maybe have to remove a couple equine testes. So i open the image, the model in a field sporting a yellow fluffy coat walking a horse by the reins, and a massive, fully unsheathed, red rocket hanging low. As i spent the next 5 minutes gingerly, and artfully, making sure this penis doesnt make it to the public i couldnt help but keep asking myself how tf im being paid to photoshop away a horses dick... - nachorykaart

14.

Anytime I dog sit for my neighbors. - stealer_of_monkeys

15.

I work recording and mixing anime. One day my job was to record and edit burps. Everyone was laughing in the studio. I love my job. - BulletMaggot

16.

When I’m babysitting, after putting the kids to bed I will sometimes literally nap on their couch waiting for the parents to get home. - bhsrbcjk

17.

We have a yearly golf tournament at my work. Get paid for the day and if you win (or team if were doing best ball) you get $300. Beer is always supplied and theres a lot of it. Everytime we do it I have that "holy toast I'm getting paid to get drunk and play golf" - ylnevaH

18.

Worked at a grocery store as a teenager/college student. Manager said that the company's store brand of pizza wanted to take stock photos of people eating it. Myself and a few work friends were volunteered.

They came in with some pizzas, cooked them, and told us we could try them while they set up their equipment. Something was wrong with their stuff and they couldn't take any photos. They encouraged us to eat the pizzas while we waited. Two hours later, they never got their stuff working and gave up. Friends and I sat around eating pizza and chatting for two hours. - GeraldFord210

19.

My old job deliberately gave us "downtime" when work was slow and wouldn't give us more to do till like 3. So me and my co-workers downloaded left4dead and played co-op lol

But then the bosses were mad we had so much free time like wtf you're the ones who decided to make it like this -sadga12

The coronavirus pandemic has, in one way or another, affected every life on earth. You'd think that because of the universality of the impact, people would be understanding of the struggles that small businesses and artists are experiencing.

Social distancing has lead to these people forgetting their matters, and they were shamed on Instagram and the Subreddit Choosing Beggars for it.

1. Harry J. Cook (32.7k followers) got blasted on Instagram for asking a liquor store for free booze.

The DM was leaked to journalist John Lethlean, who shared it on his Instagram.

2. This dad whipped out the c-word over a bunny portrait.

3. "All you do is donate. Easy."

4. This soap shopper smells like a Choosing Beggar.

5. A Sydney food blogger still wasn't willing to pay for couscous.

6. Artists have it too good these days.

7. Pizza places need money to survive, too.

The term "community" is often associated with a positive and welcoming environment. But communities can also be judgmental, controlling, toxic, and exploitative. And since most human beings are social creatures who crave structure and inclusion, it can be hard to leave a community environment even when it's bad. This phenomenon was famously depicted in the story of Cady Heron's successful attempt to infiltrate the "cool girls" clique in Mean Girls.

Someone asked Reddit: "have you ever been in a community so toxic you had to leave? If so, which one?" These 23 real life Cady Herons who broke free of a toxic social group share their stories:

1.) From Thursday_Cupcakes:

Military spouse support groups.

They get mean for no reason at all. Then they find out where your spouse works and try to get them into trouble with their First Shirt.

2.) ​​​​​​From donutshopsss:

My former mega-church's praise music band. We performed in front of 2500 people and there were always 4 to 8 singers on stage. It felt like I was on American Idle watching singers trying to out perform each other by who could sing the loudest with the most vibrato while raising their hands in the air.

3.) From JZCrab:

Was raised Jehovah"s Witness. Excommunicated at 17.

4.) From Hug_of_Death:

I can give you a few thoughts about my own experience [as a former Jehovah's Witness].

1. The way I adapted the way I looked at people who were not JW. Basically you are told to be "no part of the world" and that non JW's are "worldly", but you are simultaneously told to be a representative of the "truth" so you must be extremely friendly to all in the hopes they might be "witnessed" to and eventually convert. If they do not convert they will die at armageddon which will be their final judgement but if they die before hand they will be resurrected and given a second chance to convert afterwards. This creates a very difficult internal dilemma when I met people I liked. For me I was either trying very hard to convert them or in a very fucked up way thinking that I hope they die before armageddon so they get a chance to be resurrected.

2. Within the congregation there is the act of dis-fellowshipping which basically is if you do something wrong (like have sex outside of marriage or smoke a cigarette) the elders of the congregation can disfellowship you, during which anyone outside of your immediate family is not allowed to talk to you but you are expected to sit at the back of the congregation in public exile for an extended period of time (often 12 months from what I have seen but varies wildly at the discretion). This is announced publicly to the congregation in a meeting you are expected to attend. Your family is given the opportunity to make the decision as to whether their conscience will make them cut off contact with you or not. Many families or at least part of them cut of or at least visibly reduce contact with you. It is at this point many people commit suicide as the entire system of support and social network they have been trained to rely exclusively on is suddenly removed with no recourse (unless they were bad and made worldly friends which if they knew about likely wouldn't help your chances at being re-instated).

3. No Birthdays, Easter or Christmases celebrations and having to avoid being involved in anything to do with them, at school or otherwise even if it meant sitting in a classroom alone or with a teachers aid doing a seperate activity to the rest of the school. The first birthday I ever celebrated was my 21st, and the first I ever had a party for was 22 (it took me a while to build up non-jw friends for a number of reasons, one being having a hard time finding common ground with normal people).

4. No participation in the national anthem or any activities considered nationalistic (personally this is one of the only things I actually still agree with because I think nationalism divides us as a human race but that's another story).

5.) From Mmccombie:

It wasn’t toxic per se, but it was a negative part in my life. I used to have a friend group that never made me really happy. I never felt validated by them and became sad whenever I was around them. I love being around people and friends and just knowing that having to leave them and get some friends that liked me more was scary and I just didn’t want to have to leave a bunch of friends that I had spent three years with. I found some really good friends now. I haven’t really talked to my old friends, but life is a lot better now where I really feel like I belong with them.

6.) From Onceabanana:

More of an online community.

It was a breastfeeding support group. As a first time mom, I really wanted to learn about baby stuff so I join quite a few mom groups.

The excessive superiority and self righteousness of these purist breast-is-best advocates was bad. They would lambast moms for offering formula milk to the babies. Some were so harsh, that it was truly hurtful for the women asking for help. Especially moms of newborns who are hormonal and sleep deprived.

Found a different source of info instead and left that group.

7.) From lamesas:

Eating disorder twitter/Instagram/Tumblr.

When I was younger i made a private account as I was going through a difficult time and beginning to experience several mental health issues one being a eating disorder. I followed similar accounts however you quickly end up with people who are pro-ana, shared 'tips' and just generally were also using their private account as their diary but i guess it's just toxic when you're all in a bad place.

I internalized all those messages, images and behaviours enforced by this community at such a fragile age that it's still stuck with me 7/8 years later. I dont blame that community for my ED but it definately made it worse and I also saw it make it worse for others.

8.) From stupidlyugly:

Ever live in an HOA? I did. Never again.

9.) From abhikavi:

A friend of mine lived in an HOA when we were teens. Her house was the first built, and they'd painted it a color that was later not among the approved colors list. The first few neighbors were fine with it, but once a head was elected she was not. She was threatening fines and liens and all kinds of stuff (unclear if she could legally do any of it).

Anyway, her dad bankrolled us to get a bunch of flower bulbs in unapproved colors, and in the middle of the night we snuck over and planted them. It took months, but it absolutely paid off-- every time she'd bitch about something, my friend's parents would ask when she was going to fix her unapproved flower colors. And we had planted these every 3' on a very large suburban lawn.

10.) From madeamashup:

I grew up in a bad family environment, and I learned to tolerate certain things as a coping mechanism/survival strategy. As an adolescent I should have been more sensitive to those qualities in people and learned to avoid them, but instead I was especially tolerant as I had learned to be, and I surrounded myself with shitty people who took advantage of me.

At some point I realized my friend group was toxic and started cutting them out one at a time. It was a slow and painful process, and it fucked me up to end those friendships even though they were bad for me. I had a lot of doubts... how could all my friends possibly be jerks? If I'm having conflicts with everyone I know then obviously the problem is me, and not them, right?

Well turns out it was both! They were all jerks, because I had chosen jerks to be friends with! In a lot of cases, my friends didn't even like each other. What a mess I made.

As an adult it's a lot harder to make new friends, but I'm glad I eventually made those realizations and cut people off for my sake. I'm still lonely (especially in lockdown) but the people I do have in my life are a lot more supportive now. It turns out that when I'm not following a deeply ingrained path of self destruction that I started on as a child, I'm actually a pretty good judge of character.

11.) From ByroniustheGreat:

When I was in 6th grade, I tried to become one of the "cool kids", and I was actually pretty much one of them for a while, but then I realized that about half of what we did was making fun of people, so I left the group at the end of the year

12.) From bearded_charmander:

Overwatch. I love the gameplay, I really do, but when people start yelling at me for not getting a team kill or not picking the characters that they want, it ruins the game for me.

Then they pick a "troll" character and say stupid shit like, "ok well if you're throwing the game, then I'm going to throw too!"

Like how do they expect new people to learn when everyone is held to such a high standard.. Such a shame, that game is a lot of fun.

13.) From realsies11:

I moved back to my reservation in my early 20’s and I found it to be such a shitty place to live. Everyone knew everyone’s business and like 90% of the people living there were alcoholics living off the welfare system. Someone died about once a month from drinking and driving on average.

14.) From confusedwillshaper:

The kpop fandom. I still like the music but I try to avoid crazy stans

15.) From shadowbruiser:

All of the JustNo subreddits. Way too toxic for me. Funny enough so was Relationship_Advice. Almost every post has red flags and strangers calling for you to leave your partner. Seeing as how I’m single and my mom passed away, I don’t need that negativity anymore.

16.) From gigabytestarship:

Back in 2010, I was big into the Muse fandom. Had to leave because holy shit are those people awful. I still love Muse (not their last album) but I don't associate with most of the fans.

Same goes for Sherlock which is the absolute worst fandom. It is just awful.

17.) From CumboxMold:

In real life: Very long story cut short, I spent many years around people who didn't have much ambition and complained about everything not going their way. Despite not having the educational or cultural background as these people, I felt that I was part of them. I only broke free from that mentality a few months ago and still feel terribly guilty about it, to the point it affects everything I do.

On the internet: I have considered joining femcel groups as I am terribly unattractive and haven't had much luck with dating, but I just can't relate to a lot of their stories. Something that comes up a lot is dropping out of college and never having even a chance at a decent job due to being ugly. Being unattractive and having graduated college/found a decent job and seeing many other people that have makes me think it's something else at play. A lot of them post their pics and they aren't ugly at all. A lot of the posts are them trying to out-ugly each other.

18.) From PurpleVein99:

Do families count? If so, I noped out of mine in December and have been feeling might fine. Less stress. Less drama. I'm feeling lighthearted af, to be perfectly honest.

19.) From JJ82DMC:

For all I know it could be different now, but as of about a year ago, r/keto.

No, Keto will not cure my Type 2 Diabetes - or anyone else's. It helped me lose weight and get my Metformin dosage cut in half thanks to a lower A1C, so that's fantastic, but it's not a cure.

Stop trying to push it like essential oils.

20.) From adanipse:

Always lots of drama in the BDSM community I belonged to.

Sometimes it was very lovely though.

21.) From The_Sheep_Dragon:

LOLZ my hometown.

I grew up in a small farm town of less than 1200 people. Everyone knew everyone, which made it feel safe.

When I was in high school my dad had an affair with another woman, who was also married. This continued for two years and my mother never found out. However, it was talk of the town.

Apparently the woman's daughter was bragging about how great of a man-eater her mom was that she let it slip to her friends about my dad. They then told their parents, and some adults in the community would stumble upon her and my dad out together while my mom was at work/taking my brother to sports practice.

Of course, no matter how good of friends we thought we had, no one said anything. It was on my parent's anniversary where my mom found out. All because my dad tensed up at her trying to touch his hand.

I was shattered when it all came to a head. When I tried to talk to someone about it, they'd look pale and then would straight up tell me they knew of it. I loathed everyone in that town so much, I left and attended college 2,000 miles away from it all.

22.) From ieatpizzabooo:

I am bi and I met my ex girl when I was 19, she helped me through my hardest times and she was around 25 at that time. My ex girlfriend who really is a very pleasant and soft spoken person introduced me to our local LGBT circle. Everyone was way too much sweet to me on my face but the amount of hate and bullying my ex had to go through just for dating me was unbelievable. They had a very active Telegram group that consisted of 50+ users, they literally created a new group only excluding her only to bitch about her life decisions. We found out about it through a few common friends and she really was heart broken by the words that were used for her only because she was dating me. These were the same people she considered as her family for 7-8 years straight. We are no longer together and I really hope she did not get back with that toxic group of sore haters who would hate everyone who does anything slightly opposed to their personal hard wired beliefs.

23.) ​​​​​​​From zack_bauer123:

I used to play Magic The Gathering. My local MTG community was horribly toxic. All of the top players in the area awarded notorious cheaters, and the LGS owners and employees generally tolerated it.

I knew it was time to quit when one of the areas most well-known players, who was in his twenties, tried to fight a middle schooler because he lost to said middle schooler.

Some secrets are too personal to even share with blood, and perhaps more accurately, some family members can't be trusted with our most vulnerable truths.

While it's emotionally healthy to have at least a few confidantes you can reveal your most intimate secrets to, family isn't always the safest or preferred space for that, even if they care. Even if you're planning to reveal the truth, sometimes it takes time to cook up the best time and place for an intense sharing session.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the secrets they're currently keeping from their families, and they range from heartwarming to heartbreaking.

1. From NeonHellSpawn:

I had a "suicide pact" with my cousin. He wasn't all there in the head and lived with his parents (my uncle and his wife). He would babysit me when I was 9 to 11y/o (I think my uncle thought it would help him focus if he had to watch a kid during the summer.)

Over the last year that he watched me he told me about how cruel the world was and how I would be no different because it runs in the family and that most of the males have some kind of mental issue (true for most of the males on my mothers side of the family).

By the last month we would basically spend the days crying or talking about how terrible things are. At 11 he had me convinced that the world was going to hate me. So when he brought up taking the easy way out before I would have to go through it I agreed with him. He said we would do it the day after Christmas so we could have 1 last good memory with the family.

I ended up getting so sick I was in the hospital from mid December through the end of January. When I got out of the hospital my family said I couldn't see my cousin anymore and that a neighbor would take care of me during the summers. I thought he ran away until my aunt let it slip that he shot himself in the backyard with my uncles shotgun. Blew bits of his head onto the roof of the house.

What was insane was that when I found out I cried because he went without me and I was too scared to find another way to die. I felt like I had betrayed him by getting sick and missing our day.

After about a year and going through ups and downs I started to realize how great things were for me without having my cousin mentally dragging me down for a couple months every year. I got a girlfriend and good grades. I even moved to a whole new city.

To this day I regret not telling the family before it happened, but back thenI expected to go too so i didn't see it as a big deal. Now it would do nothing but hurt everyone. It's been over 10 years now and not a soul knows.

It just confuses me how much he talked to a kid about how terrible the world was until the kid was ready to die.

Honestly I'm sure I would have gone through with it had I gone to his house for Christmas.

God I was stupid.

Tl:DR: cousin said the world was sh*t so we should die together. I got sick so he died without me. But I'm good now.

2. From SaltyHuman111:

That my mum scares me a lot at night when she drinks and that keeps me up a lot.

3. From MMMLG:

That as soon as my mother dies I will move to the other side of the country to start over and disappear. Father and brother can go f*ck themselves.

4. From imlonelylol:

This is kinda really stupid but I hide my online friendships cause they're kinda closed minded and A) don't believe that you should talk to people "you don't know", B) internet bad, and C) if you talk to a guy online, it must be a sexual thing.

5. From manlikerealities:

My family have a rough background, a lot of violence and substance use problems. I left home at 16, haven't spoken to them since, and after seven years of university have a pretty high-paying job.

I have to constantly ask websites to take down my full name because if my family found out, I'd be swamped with messages asking for money that would go straight to alcohol and ice. They already have an idea after I didn't catch a result fast enough, so it doesn't really matter and I loosened up my social media. But I still hide my income.

6. From FluidHyena:

That most days I’m too broke to even buy my son diapers. I often have to choose between diapers and baby wipes, and something I need for myself like shampoo or underwear. They also don’t know that I have severe depression and that I’m suicidal.

The only reason I am still alive is for my son. No one will love him or take care of him better than me. And I will not leave him to suffer through life like I did because my mom bailed on me. I have a responsibility towards him and I don’t care if I never buy myself anything ever again. He’s my baby and I will not fail him like my parents failed me.

7. From Lyn1987:

I quit my job with the cable company a year earlier than I told them. The pressure and stress from that job became overwhelming and it was right around the time my grandmother died and I legit dropped everything and worked at a car dealership for a year before I got my insurance licenses.

8. From Jinera:

I am no longer a virgin.

Not that my mom cares, but the way I lost my virginity was really bad and I know I'll disappoint her if she knew even if I feel upset about it.

Also, all the names of my social media accounts. No way in hell my fam gets those.

9. From hold_my_casket:

The mental illness. I don’t feel like getting murdered so I’d rather not tell anyone.

10. From Goatsr:

That my dog saved my life. When I was 14 I was pretty depressed, and after a particularly difficult day at school (I was not exactly popular) I grabbed some rope from my garage and planned on hanging myself. I started getting it set up, but my dog came running in and wanted to play tug of war with the rope.

If he didn’t do that, I wouldn’t be here today. It’s hard for me to type this because I’m putting him down in a few minutes. He has been living in pain for a long time and has reached the end of his life. I’m crying really f*cking hard right now but I know it’s the right thing to do.

Edit: I just said goodbye. I know he’s in a better place now, but it hurts so bad.

11. From getalonglittledog:

That my husband and I go to nudist swinger resorts for fun. At least, we used to, before the pandemic. Hopefully we will again someday. Family doesn't need to know -- I think my mother would have a heart attack.

Edit: So some people have been asking. I'm 53F, husband is 70M. We've been going about 15 years. We've been to Hedo in Jamaica, Sea Mountain in California, Rooftop Resort in Florida, and Live Oak Resort in Texas. And a place in Mexico I forget, Dreamers or something like that. Live Oak is our favorite. Extensive, beautiful grounds, so lots of walking-around room -- gives it a nice mix of peaceful and erotic vibe. Note: Big difference between "lifestyle friendly" nudist places and "family friendly" ones. I've never been to a family-friendly one -- I have no interest in being around kids when I'm naked.

First time visiting I was nervous as hell, but everybody tends to be super friendly at these kinds of places. My husband and I don't swing; we just like being naked and playing with each other and watching others. It's a sexy environment with plenty of booze and smiles and laughter, and generally, plenty of respect and hands off when you say you're not interested. It's really good for the self-esteem, too, to see bodies that are not perfect but still getting laid. My visits have made me feel infinitely better and more confident about my imperfect body!

Another edit: Most people at these places are middle-aged, 35ish and older. Younger people are welcome, but as a general rule, and this is just my personal opinion, I think a lot of people are too insecure to go naked in public when they're younger. I certainly could never have done it when I was younger. It just takes getting to a certain place in your life where you are more at peace with yourself and less worried about impressing other people. Some places require couples only, others welcome singles.

12. From dlordjr:

I'm mom's favorite.

13. From billbapapa:

They'll never know how depressed I really am, because, I cannot and do not want to burden them. They are the best thing in my world, and do make it better. They are responsible for what joy I do have.

I watch my kids closely, mental issues I'll deal with at the root and start if they exhibit themselves. My wife knows about my struggles, just, not how present they are, so it's not a complete secret. But it's the one thing I won't tell them.

14. From BeautifulRelief:

Where to begin?

My mom was f*cking my dad's best friend right before dad's best friend started dating my cousin. When my mom found out they were dating, she tried to break them up. When they got married, my mom refused to allow my little sister or I to be in the wedding (my cousin asked) or go to it.

My dad was suicidal. I took a gun out of his mouth.

My mom stole $54K from me after my dad died. She used it to buy herself clothes and fly back and forth to Boston to cheat on my stepdad.

I paid for my little sister's class trip.

My grandmother explicitly wrote my sister, brother, and I out of her will.

My husband and I got married a year before our actual wedding.

I'm about to sue my aunt for my dad's house (very long story there).

Think that about covers it.

15. From Datman97:

I no longer love my parents anymore and I haven't for years. I don't want to say they were the reason my mental health, self esteem, or my daily life is f*cked up by them. I tried so hard to find a job and this COVID-19 pandemic killed my chances of it.

I just want to move out and begin to accept my life and move on.

16. From untraced1:

I was marked with two absences in my Spanish and English class one day. When my parents asked what happened I said "period cramps" and they just believed me. I actually was forced to go to guidance by my English teacher after she found out I was skipping and crying under the stairs. I was silently debating suicide at that moment. It goes farther beyond that.

My parents still don't know why my ex-boyfriend and I broke up and why I haven't talked to my "best friend" in two months. Im sure they connected the dots to assume they're dating now but oh my god the whole story is even more f*cked up than what im typing rn. I've been acting overly happy around my parents so they don't suspect that recently I've been crushed by just everything happened.

17. From b778av:

I have been in a relationship with a woman that is over 20 years older than me for 6 years now and I have even moved in with her.

18. From DanlexTheKnight:

I’m bi. And quite frankly, I don’t think I’ll ever tell them. They hate anything and anyone LGBT.

19. From Toxic_Button:

So everybody wrote kinda depressing things in here...but for the past two years I’ve been pulling a “Santa” on my parents by buying gifts for them (going to the mall w/ my friends) and then putting them under the tree when they are all asleep... its still a family secret and I don’t know if they suspect me. But it’s really funny, highly recommend if you are a good liar. Make sure you buy new wrapping paper too, so they don’t recognize it.

20. From MelOdessey:

My political views. My parents are absolutely obsessed with politics and it drives my mother absolutely crazy that I refuse to discuss anything political with them. I feign ignorance when she asks me my opinion on something in the news. I would literally rather look like an ignorant idiot *miLLeNniAL~ who doesn’t give a crap than have to try and fight against their complete and utter bullsh*t.

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."

-Harold B. Lee

I know it's hard not to be able to go out and live your life as you used to before COVID-19 put us all on lockdown. However, if you think about it, you're so lucky to be home and bored. If you're home, you're not in the hospital. You have your phone, snacks, and of course memes. These bad boys will make you laugh and ease your boredom. We've got this!

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If you're not sure, today is day 800 and Tuesday of quarantine and we're in the month of purple, the 90th.

If you've lost all sense of time and space between panicking at your phone's news notifications, scrolling through social media, wondering if you're turning into a zombie, and trying to see what kind of food you can make with toilet paper, a bag of chips, and leftover pizza--you're not alone!

Since the quarantine began, the most important thing we all can do to stop the spread is stay home. While that is great for our overall physical public health, our individual mental health is questionable right now. Give yourself a break if you're not using this time to develop a thigh gap and six pack abs--it's ok.

Last week, there were a lot of people who didn't know what day it is. This week is no different. Here are some of the funniest tweets we could find from people who still don't know what day it is...

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Time is a fickle friend, and can bring justice to some while unveiling a series of unfortunate events for others.

Few events sum up what time can do quite like a high school reunion. Suddenly, all the popular kids and formerly bullied are just middle aged people dealing with their lives, and the way people change (and don't change) after high school can be both inspiring and tragic.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the worst change they've seen from someone at their high school reunion, and it just confirms that real life begins after high school.

1. From GooseJaw:

Obviously she didn’t make it to the reunion, but one of the sweetest and kindest girls in my class became a hooker. My best friend dated her for years in school. She got hooked on heroin, started turning tricks to pay for it, and was murdered. The saddest part was seeing what it did to her mom and dad, who are just wonderful people and raising her daughter that she never knew. The bastards who killed her dumped her in a ditch...f*ck heroin man. And f*ck anyone who sells that death sentence.

Edit: Come to think of it I don’t think I’ll be attending any other reunions. I’ve been to too many funerals of people I should be having a drink with instead. Our reunions are funerals now, and I’ve only been out of high school 15 years.

2. From DylanBrandonSandwich:

As the evening wore on, it became apparent that the crazy fun party guy who seemed awesome at the beginning of the night was really the weepy alcoholic crying about having nothing left to live for. It was very depressing.

3. From Kierik:

One guy who was a total a*shole to me apparently fathered children with several classmates in the first few years after school. Including both my ex girlfriends. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

4. From designgoddess:

A friend of mine was super smart. He had skipped a couple of years. He went to college and majored in engineering. He had a great job, lovely wife, and kids. A couple of years later he just dropped out of society. Moved to a tiny one room cabin off the grid. His wife thinks skipping grades in school messed him up.

For most of his education he was 3 years younger than his classmates. Doesn’t sound like much but at that age it’s a big difference. He was smarter than the older kids and had no common interests. He didn’t know many kids his own age and didn’t have much in common with them either. Everyone expected big things out of him and the pressure finally got to him. He just got in his car after work one day and drove north. Didn’t tell anyone.

He married well. His wife was 100% supportive. He lived like a hermit for years while she raised and supported him and the kids. A couple of times a year he’d show up for a visit. About 10 years later he just showed up one day with all his things and moved back home. He works on a night crew cleaning movie theaters after hours.

Everyone thought he was going to change the world. He was voted most likely to succeed. I think the expectations from everyone else led him to make decisions based on expectations and not what he wanted. Great guy. Amazing wife. Good kids. I still can’t believe he’s cleaning theaters at night.

5. From Saoirse_Laochra:

This girl was one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. And not in that, 'oh, I'll be nice to you so you are nice to me' mindset. No, she was just a genuinely nice person to everyone.

But she was really sheltered. Like she wasn't allowed at school dances, no dating, no makeup (not that she needed it; she was freaking gorgeous), no drama cast parties, no field trips unless her parents were allowed to chaperone, no sleepovers, and all that jazz. Always dressed super modestly.

My ten year reunion was this year. And she was basically Skeletor, the Red Nosed Crack Whore. I guess she went off to college and went absolutely wild with her new found freedom. Went right over the deep end, and never climbed back.

6. From PapaSteel:

Found out a girl I dated married a guy in Turkey, and they were both killed in the honeymoon hotel a few weeks after the wedding.

7. From Curleysound:

I went to my 20 year reunion a few years back. The girl who organized the whole thing was, and is pretty, popular and intelligent. She also turned out to be a high level member of the Keith Raniere cult NXIVM which has been in the news lately. She was using the event to recruit people!

Edit: Damn this blew up while I was on the plane! The girl is The daughter of one of the founding members, who I’ve known since I was in Elementary school. Never had the slightest clue about any of this until this reunion.

8. From PaleAsDeath:

Well, two classmates got married, and then one murdered their toddlers and killed himself.

9. From crochetprozac:

She brought her children. There were 12 of them. She was drunk. Really drunk! Like she turned up drunk!! She didn't leave until 11pm. She left her baby in the bathroom. She used to be president of the chastity club. (100% serious)

10. From R0binSage:

Well, since I was the only one to show up for my 10 year reunion, it would be me. I got fat.

11. From zerbey:

Just had our 20th, two people we could not locate but both are known to be drug addicts and homeless. I hope they're both doing ok because they were good kids who had a hard upbringing.

12. From GKrollin:

I went to high school with a disorganized but well-mannered kid who was pretty well known and not unpopular. He ended up dropping out of college to travel in Asia, where he got into a bar fight, hit someone, and badly injured him. Spent the rest of his college years in an Asian (can't remember where) prison. When I saw him at our reunion, he had a massive face tattoo and was using every racial slur known to man. Loudly.

13. From inthesandtrap:

They were all pleasant.

The surprise for me was two of the ultra-stud guys now had some severe male pattern baldness. One guy tried to keep it going with an extremely thin forest on the top of his head (looked awful) - the other guy just shaved it clean (looked great).

14. From TheShredder315:

In high school I was more then 100 pounds overweight, by my senior year I think I was the heaviest in my school class of 1500. I was picked on like you might guess for my weight. I ended up losing all the weight and hit the gym hardcore, building up a nice physique. At my 10 year it was crazy seeing how many of the skinny guys who had picked on me were now really overweight. So many dad bods.

15. From Secretlysidhe:

In high school, there was a girl I envied because she was the stereotypical popular girl. Blonde hair, blue eyes, full of pep. She had dreams of going to medical school and being a pediatric cardiologist. She was a star in my dance class, the lead in the plays. She could sing. She took advanced placement classes. She was nice too.

On our senior trip at the end of senior year, she told me about how she'd take speed to be up for days at a time, so she didn't have to sleep and could do so much.

She never went to college. She looks really bad. Had a few babies, one of them born addicted to drugs, I believe. She walks around town with her head down, all in black. She doesn't talk to anyone.

It's really, really sad honestly.

16. From myheartisstillracing:

I'm not sure what was worse, the guys who were full-fledged middle age at 28 or the guys who were still exactly the same (trench coats and top hats included) from high school at 28.

17. From C4TD4DDY:

I went to my 10 yr a while back, flew from NYC back to my little one horse town in TN. Wasn’t sure if the trip would be worth it, but it was. Reunion was held at a local bar and everything was normal for the first half of the night; caught up with a few old friends, had some drinks, and talked about life.

Toward the end of the evening, one of the old class clowns whips his dick out and smacks another guy, who is seated, right in the face with it. Other guy retaliates by chucking his beer, and a drunken brawl ensues. Apparently the class clown had a tremendous drinking/drug problem since high school and no one else seemed that surprised by his actions. Last I saw he had been jailed for meth after leading the cops on a lengthy chase. Sometimes, the saddest thing is how certain people never change.

Though seeing that dick slap really did make the trip worthwhile.

18. From dewnmoutain:

Ex-girlfriend of mine was murdered by the boyfriend that came after me. He used to beat the hell out of her and she always had an excuse. She finally made up her mind to leave him when he went to work the next day, and that night he killed her. Then blew his head off.

Sucks. I really liked her and at one point thought we would've had a future together.

19. From nolalawyer:

Most handsome, popular, rich, quarter-back-of-the-football-team/class president guy took a swan dive off a high floor of a hotel in front of his wife and kids a couple years back. Didn't see that one coming.

20. From 20yrstoomany:

I consider this guy my best friend in high school. A little strange, but super intelligent and a cool dude to hang out with. Didn’t see him at my reunion. Reached out to his sister to check on him...find out he is serving two consecutive 75 year sentences without parole for molesting children. I still think about him, have his address, and want to reach out to him to see where everything went wrong.

Edit: I appreciate the replies. My concern was that something happened to him when he was a kid...that would be the answer I would be looking for and probably wouldn’t get or be inclined to after all these years. It was, and still is, a hard pill to swallow. The news article wasn’t very detailed and I couldn’t bring myself to ask the family anything.

21. From marxroxx:

Two stories:

Coming up on my 40th, have never been to any of them - ZERO interest. Last year, started receiving email notifications that someone was putting together the 40th Class Reunion and wanted to verify contact information and life change updates, etc...

The person in charge of the reunion was actually someone I knew from school (graduation size of ~600), so I supplied some information per the request and was kindly kept in the loop of the details of the upcoming reunion in June.

Three weeks ago, received an email that the person that was ram-rodding the whole damn thing dropped out for whatever reason and subsequent emails with new emerging details would be forthcoming.

Since then, nothing, nada, zilch.

I live in the southwest and graduated on the east coast, was actually seriously thinking of making the trip - not now though.

2) About ten years ago when I first started to get introduced to Facebook, I started looking up old friends, acquaintances and co-workers to see who's who and what's what.

Found my old high school girlfriend and sent a 'friend' request.

Months went by without a response, then one day I noticed the 'friend' request had been approved followed by a message apologizing/ explaining why there was a delay from one of her kids. The message went on to say that she'd been fighting cancer and had recently lost her battle.

I was saddened to learn that news followed by the numerous condolences from family and friends, albums of photos throughout the years and one particular album from her school years including pics of us together 30 years prior.

Took me quite awhile to stop thinking about her.