"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-Mark Twain
Unless you're a total psychopath, you probably love to laugh. These memes are a one-way ticket straight to Giggletown. I don't know how you're going get back home from there, but that's really not my problem.
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"The great gift of Easter is hope."
– Basil Hume
Happy Easter to all of our peeps on the internet. I know things don't feel very festive this year, but in these trying times, we need laughs now more than ever. These Easter memes are totally egg-cellent, so grab some candy and get ready to get your giggle on.
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One group of people who are really struggling in quarantine are celebrities who are getting a very small taste of how "normies" live. Some of them are even facing such arduous as challenges as full-time parenting without on-site assistants and hired help. Can you even imagine?!
"We're doing good. We're mostly commiserating over the fact that we… just, 24-hour parenting is just not human," said the former member of N'Sync. CRY US A RIVER, responded parents everywhere.
It's pretty bizarre and tone-deaf to complain about being responsible round-the-clock for the humans you put on this planet, even if it was a joke. But it's especially bizarre and tone-deaf during a global pandemic, when 24-hour parenting is the least of many people's problems.
“To be honest, we thought the best way to kind of do our part was ― we have a place in Montana and so, we came up here,” said Timberlake. “We feel very lucky and kind of blessed that we’re in a place where — they’re pretty socially distant here anyway where our place is. I mean just being able to kind of walk out into your driveway and maybe go for a little hike is always nice.”
Maybe at lease something positive will come out of this whole nightmare.
Imagine a world.....
Everyone is on their best behavior in a job interview, but once the job is secured, that's when many employees show their true colors. And it's pretty wild the behavior people think they can get away with at work while still holding on to their job. If you think it's a good idea to steal, lie, or misbehave at work, remember, their are consequences. Big Boss (and sometimes security cameras, as well) is always watching.
1.) From tolae01010:
At a retail job, we had a kid come in and punch in for the day then go home. Would come back at quittin' time and punch out.
2.) From MonkeyMeex:
I was a bartender/bar manager. This guy came in one night and said he was an aspiring DJ and asked if we would consider hiring him to come in just on Sunday nights to DJ for us. He said we wouldn’t have to pay him at first, he would just take tips and we could renegotiate after he helped to build up our Sunday night crowd.
He lasted less than 3 months. He drove away so much business and I got SO many complaints. He played the same songs every week and when people made requests (for commonly known songs), he had no idea who they (the musicians) were.
I had to fire someone who was working for free. He was a nice guy, which is the only reason he lasted as long as he did.
3.) From Mt1017:
Not my personal experience, but one fellow contractor had a safety guy for 6 months. One weekend he took a trip out of town for non work related reasons. But used the company truck, and charged it all on the company credit card. On his way up there he ran a random person off the road, who just so happened to be one of the owners of another contractor who works closely with the one who employed this guy. Shortly after he was fired and I'm sure criminal charges were being brought against him.
A couple weeks later his wife calls his former employer saying he had called her randomly and killed himself in his truck on the side of the highway. Me and another colleague went searching for records of this guy, couldnt find anything no claims of a suicide in the local paper where he supposedly killed himself at. Thought it was wierd but whatever. It turns out this guy falsified all his qualifications and job experience.
Fast forward a month later, and I heard through the grapevine that the original contractor who had employed this guy recieved a call from some contractor across country because he applied for work there and put them down as his previous employer.
He faked his own death to get out of trouble with the company then proceeded to put them down on his resume not expecting anyone to check his references lol.
4.) From carbusinesslady234:
My coworker at a coffee shop.
Told a customer she didn't feel like making x drink and she should go elsewhere.
Wore cookie monster PJ pants while we had a very strict "black or khaki pants, no jeans, no leggings" policy at the time.
couldn't figure out the concept of milk?? This still baffles me to this day. Like I was trying to show her how to steam milk properly, she was off in la la land and when she snapped back into the conversation asking, "What are we doing again" followed by me reminding her and she quite literally asked what was in the gallon jug that I poured into the metal pitcher. I told her it was milk and she just looked at me, her eyes saying, '???!??!!?"
She was there for 2 days.
5.) From skdubbs:
Once a had a guy call in sick to his restaurant/bar shift right before his shift and then proceeded to show up shit faced drunk for happy hour during the time he was supposed to be working.
He was not a bright man.
6.) From momoispeachy:
Fired a high schooler because his girlfriend kept showing up and they would disappear behind the racks. I told him his girlfriend was banned trying to not fire him and she kept sneaking back.
Worked in an office and they hired a girl from a temp agency to help me. She wouldn't do anything unless I walked her through each step after telling her she had to do it. Hey an estimate just arrived on the fax RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, complete the quote and send it back. Come to find out she was playing spider and solitaire on her computer...... She was also sneaking out back and the warehouse guys thought she was doing drugs. I told my boss get rid of her, I would rather work alone than babysit her so he called the temp agency and told them to stop sending her. She showed up the next day so boss sent her home and called the agency saying hey she is useless stop sending her. She showed up again the next day! This went on for over a week. The people at the temp agency said they told her to stop showing but she kept coming in every morning, mind you usually 10 to 20 minutes late. My boss wouldn't say anything to her face so finally I said hey we can't afford to pay you so we had to let you go through the temp agency. They should have told you. She was all oh I thought they were joking. I was so glad she was gone.
7.) From woodenman22:
Years ago, at a lumber company. Had a guy, less than two hours after he started on his first day, pick up his car with a forklift and stand underneath it to see what was rattling when he drove.
8.) From asleeppam:
I worked retail, and we had an employee that would hide and take naps inside racks of clothes. Somehow that wasn't the reason we fired her. We fired her for stealing clothes and then wearing them to work.
9.) From DonkeyTron42:
CEO ordered me to fire one of my interns because he was trying to hit on one of the other interns the CEO had the hots for.
10.) From Jewpracabra:
When I worked in hotels I was promoted to front desk manager. My first task was to hire someone. I ended up getting this very charismatic guy that was a little over the top but overall seemed like a solid employee. After I end up hiring him and on his first day he asked me if it's okay if he carries his gun on him and I think that's strange but it is his right and the owners honestly didn't care so long as he had his license. he was never able to produce a license so he was never able to bring this handgun on the property. About a week into his employment we find out that he's been calling guests specifically the really attractive females and asking them if they need any "overnight service". we were very understaffed and my boss decided that instead of firing him we were going to take him off the desk and put him on basic groundsman duties. Part of these duties included driving the shuttle to the airport and back and also filling up the shuttle when it got low on fuel, which means that he had access to the gas card.
Our accountant confronts me one day about some very strange charges to the gas card apparently we had been filling up the shuttle near daily at anywhere between 20 to $45. We looked into it and got the surveillance footage from the gas station and it turns out was this kid filling up his friend's cars and even his own car. When confronted he tells my boss that I said it was okay. Obviously that wasn't true and they didn't believe him. He ended up also being my first termination.
one of the other employees googled his name and found out he was a child predator. He was in a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl when he was 26. I also found out that day that we did not actually do background checks we just said we did and assumed anyone with a history wouldn't bother applying.
11.) From USPSA-Addict:
Dumbass stole a $100 bill out of the register at the end of his FIRST shift alone on register.
12.) From TheJaundicedEye:
Not too crazy. More stupid than crazy. One of the programmers on my team was sitting at his desk looking at porn. And this is cubicle land. No offices. My Director walked into the area to talk to me and saw it. Then it was the first thing he told me about, so I got up and walked over for a look myself and there it was. Me and the Director looked at each and I said I gotta take care of this. So we walked back to HR, I told them what was going on and what we saw and they told me to fire him. So I did. He lost a $110K job for looking at porn on his computer at work.
13.) From GenXed:
A guy shaved/trimmed off his pubes and left them scattered across a shared desk in a shared office. When confronted, he pulled a George Costanza: “Oh, is that frowned upon?”
14.) From CactusPearl21:
We had someone fall asleep at his desk with a lit cigarette in his hand. In a office full of cubicles like maybe... 6-7 years ago? Smoking wasn't legal anywhere indoors let alone in an office building lmao
And the first time he wasn't even fired. He was fired when it happened again!
15.) From bunnyb2004:
Had to fire a guy for coming to work high on meth and getting lost in a closet while painting it. Asked what the deal was and was told"shhhh I am having a conversation". That was his last day lmao
16.) From formerPhillyguy:
I was a florist and had a 40-something woman delivering for me. I received a call from the building manager of a brand new office building, with only one tenant, telling me my driver wrote on the elevator wall with a sharpie. They had video showing that she was the only person to use the elevator during the time the vandalism took place.
The worst part for me was, this happened a few days before Valentine's Day.
17.) From ENEBZILE:
I work at an art studio where we teach classes and sell pottery that our artists make for others to paint. I'm one of the artists and the manager. I started getting a funny feeling about one of my employees.. she wasn't doing anything blatently wrong, just seemed to work really slowly sometimes, request insignificant but kinda odd schedule changes, and have different break habits from the other staff. I started feeling like she was stealing but this is a really small business so I didn't have her on camera or any way to really prove it... Until she accidentally sent me a video of herself painting pieces that I MADE from her home!
18.) From YDAQ:
Hoo boy...
I'd have to go with the guy who in the span of 24 hours...
Started a fist fight with another employee (on camera, with witnesses) then called the police and said the other guy did it, trying to press charges. I just sent the video.
Trespassed on the property the following day and slurred at my boss (on camera, with witnesses), then called the police and said my boss did it. I just sent the video.
Hurt himself somehow and went to the hospital, where he told the doctor he'd been attacked at work. Doc found no injury consistent with his story and well yeah, camera...
19.) From rivanko:
Fired a guy for looking to pay someone to cast black magic on the owner and the owner’s family to bewitch them into giving him a raise and, ironically, never firing him. Only reason I found out was because he asked someone else in the office for help in finding a witch doctor to cast the spells and word got round. No one wanted to be in the same room as him after that.
When I confronted him he said the devil made him do it so it wasn’t his fault. I live in the Middle East. I definitely did not wake up expecting to fire someone for black magic that day. Side note: practicing black magic is literally a death sentence here.
20.) From drumandbass01:
Had an employee that was going to get fired for simply showing up late constantly with no legit reason. During the term meeting she tells me another employee cut the brake lines in her car - it’s obvious this was to save her from being fired. She didn’t realize that something like that gets cops involved. She was termed, and then detectives showed up to her house to get statements. Of course, no evidence of lines being cut and now she’s dealing with police for making false statements.
21.) From PomegranatePlanet:
The guy had somehow hung on by the skin of his teeth when caught making plastic model funny cars at his desk (pro tip: throwing a newspaper over the model doesn’t hide the smell of the glue), but when a client called complaining about our hero trying to sell him golf clubs out of the trunk of his car, he was gone.
22.) From CanineRezQ:
They stole a $3 bottle of wine that could have easily put on the "house" check for employees.
Prep cook stole a 25lb bag of onions.
23.) From ConvertibleBurt1:
I am a chef at an upscale restaurant, the sauté cook has a lobster dish on his station that involves a technique called deglazing that involves alcohol so in turn the pan catches on fire briefly and flames up. When you do it correctly (hard to do it incorrect) the alcohol is cooked off and the flame goes out. Every time he made this dish he would deglaze the pan, catch it on fire and then blow it out, blowing his own germs and nastiness all over someone’s food and everything in the blast radius. That was a week ago. Fired him after he did it multiple times after being asked not to. Maybe it’s because of the current state of affairs, but I couldn’t believe a trained cook would do that.
24.) From EzraSteel:
One of my ER nurses was chasing another down the hall with a scalpel in her hand screaming at the top of her lungs “I’m going to cut you bitch!”
25.) From WilhelmWrobel:
Not me but my dad. He has a small handyman company with less than a hand full of employees. His tools somehow have the habit of growing legs when he's at construction sites so he rigorously writes his name on everything with permanent marker.
One day, shortly after he hired someone new, his folding ruler is missing. He asks around if anyone has seen his folding ruler but that doesn't seem to be the case. He doesn't think much of it, sometimes things get lost.
The next day he sees the new hire with a familiar looking folding ruler. He asks him to see it. New hire refuses. Dad tells him that he's his boss and insists he shows him the ruler. He complies under pressure. Sure enough, there's my dad's name on it in capital and bold letters.
Now that could've been an honest mistake and there probably wouldn't have been any repercussions if he simply said "Oh, my bad. Must've put the wrong one in my pocket. Here's you're ruler" ... But the new hire insisted that this was his ruler and that the name on the side of it wasn't my dad's handwriting but rather a note the new hire had written on it himself to remember my dad's name.
What makes it even more stupid is that my dad's company pays for the tools of his employees. He could've simply asked for a folding ruler and my dad would've given him one for free but, no, he needs to steal the bosses folding ruler and give the stupidest lie imaginable as an excuse.
26.) From PoisonAlii:
He worked at the company for 2 weeks, came to the Christmas party on friday, got shit faced, told the HR manager that she was a slut and would die alone (they had some previous vaguely romantic history, went on a couple of dates or something) tried to fight 2 of the customer service managers who asked him to calm down, and while being escorted out he turned to the CEO and COO and told them to go f*ck themselves.
He showed up to work on the Monday talking about how fun the party was and how he had seen some people who would probably be called into HR that morning.. he was the first and only employee to be called and was sacked on the spot.
27.) From YeahIprobablydidit:
In the early 2000's I managed a coffee shop that required the customers' names to be put on the cup. One guy looked like he was doing it but upon closer inspection on some cups he was writing an IP address.
Turns out he was running an illegal sports book out of the shop.
He did quit before I had to technically fire him because he found out I knew.
28.) From blindgirlandherguide:
I worked at a pet store, and was the lead cashier so I had to train this girl who didn’t think she had to abide by the uniform because it’s just(store name) and doesn’t count as a real job. That was a warning that despite her thinking she did need to follow the uniform rules. Then when ringing up customers she actually told customers they couldn’t buy certain items because we were running low and she planned on getting a pet soon and wanted these items. I apologized and rung them up. Second warning with me explaining how that’s not how it works and she could shop when she’s off the clock. Finally my manager fired her when she tried to steal one of the cats that were up for adoption after being told she needed to wait for approval after they do a home visit and make sure she can care for the cat. Her excuse for trying to steal the cat? Her landlord doesn’t allow pets so she wouldn’t be approved and she’d be a much better pet parent then anyone who else who wanted the cat and much better than any of the customers we got. The girl didn’t even last a week.
29.) From arbrady:
I worked at a retail store and found one of my coworkers was using the company iPad (that we used to play music and order lunches) to go on Craigslist and search for hookups. She didn’t even bother to delete the search history.
30.) From speecyspicymeatball:
I'm training a new girl. We're sitting at a computer together. The whole time I'm training her, she's scanning the perimeter around her. She's asking about this guy. Is he single? What about that guy? She's paying very little to no attention to what I'm telling her about, you know, the JOB. She's not even looking at what I'm doing as I'm demonstrating the work to her. She's rubbernecking every male who walks past.
At first I was nice. Ok did you see what I just did there? Now when this happens, we do that.
Etc etc. Her eyes were glazed over, she wasn't absorbing anything, I could tell.Nice wasn't working. After a time, I said to her very sharply, "Are you here to work, or are you here looking for a boyfriend? Because if you're not here to work, I'm going to need to find someone else for this job (I had hiring authority)".
That snapped her into reality for about 15 minutes. I finally said it's break time. She smiled and said, "I'm going to go up to the 4th floor and see if there's any fresh meat up there."
After break time, I sent her into the fax room to collect some faxes I needed. The mail guy was in there changing rolls of fax paper. He came out of the mail room and said I think there's something wrong with your new girl. He was very nervous. I said what happened.
Apparently she was in the fax room which tended to get hot because of all the machines in there. She had perched her ass up on the edge of the table, hiked her dress up to where her underwear was showing, arched her back, unbuttoned the front of her dress, and fanned herself with the sheaf of fax pages and said, "Oh, it's just so...HOT...in here." Yeah. Like that. Like the opening of a porno.
I totally believed him. I believed she did that. 100%, she totally did that.
I called her temp agency and said she's not working out. I think this was under 2 hours.
I have stories about temps for days lol.
31.) From ohiomensch:
He said, My ex wife died and there’s no one to take care of our kids. Needed a week off to sort everything out. Ex called to talk to him. Boom.
One of the guys went to lunch with short hair and came back with a ponytail down to his ass. Identical twins that were sharing the job. All the guys knew and thought it was funny. Yikes.
Live from the homes of SNL cast members, it was Saturday night, last night! Like so many of us, the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live is working from home during the pandemic. They didn't let us down last night with their first "at home" edition of the show, hosted by a thankfully healthy-looking Tom Hanks, which included a bunch of funny and entertaining sketches by the cast in their own homes. Thanks for making us laugh through our masks, SNL!
Here are 7 of the highlights:
No matter how much you prepare for it, becoming a parent can be a shock.
A recent Reddit thread asked people with children to honestly explain whether they'd still have kids if they could do it all over again. The responses cover the entire spectrum of parenting.
Going back even further, I never would have gotten married. - RonSwansonsOldMan
Yes, I could not have imagined a better kid. - ShirwillJack
My wife and I had kids at a young age. We are both in our forties and both of our boys live on their own, have careers and are off the payroll. We have a great relationship with both of them.
If I knew then what I know now (and had the financial security we have now in our forties) I would have had 5 of those guys. - Stiv_b
I used to make fun of the crazy baby people at work. Then I got a little girl, and I love her more than everything I’ve ever experienced. But I make sure to not make myself a target for the younger people. I don’t post 100 pictures and don’t talk about her more than a story of what happened over the weekend or something. I realize no one cares about her as much as I and my wife do.
If I could do it again, I’d have started earlier so she wouldn’t have such old parents and we could have had 2 or 3. But then she wouldn’t be her so I’d really just have to do it exactly the same.
The thing that I learned about having a kid is that during the bonding period, when they’re young, you and mom/dad become their whole world, and whatever your shortcomings and faults are, you fix yourself for them. That is, they really make you become a better person. - baozebub
Yes [I'd have children again], but I wouldn't mind the occasional option of switching between the two timelines. - vabann
Oh man, if I could have like 2 days a week of "not a parent" that sounds really great. - InannasPocket
Tough question.
My children are the best thing I've ever done and I love them to pieces. They are kind, generous and just decent human beings.
On the flip side, the world is not as nice a place as I thought it was and I feel bad from bringing kids into it. - awhq
I couldn't ever wish away my kids' existence. But I can't say I'd recommend parenthood to a friend, if that makes any sense. And if there's a me in a parallel universe not living that life, I think I'd be a little jealous of that f*****. - RelsirctheGrey
I sometimes dream about life without kids, when the days are long and they drain me of every ounce of energy. Then I put the to bed and hug and kiss them and then go and watch videos of them while they sleep! - likestolooky
Absolutely. I’d want the exact kids I have now too. They are the best - funny, smart, kind. They are a perfect blend of my husband and me- but all of our good parts. - optimisticambivert
I 100% would never have had kids. Hear me out before you judge me.
I have Bipolar Type 1 with Psychotic Features. My father has bipolar. That sort of stuff is genetic.
My middle daughter has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. When she isn't getting "enough" attention she hurts herself or threatens to hurt her sisters. She has made my life hell these last 3 years.
She got it from my side of the family. No kid deserves to deal with this and her sisters don't deserve to feel threatened.
She is not "bad enough" for residential treatment so right now it is therapy and meds.
I 100% would have never had kids JUST to not pass on the psych issues. - quilterlibrarian
I have a 5 and 2 year old. Sleep is irregular, I have no free time or personal space. The last time I watched a movie outside of Rated-G was 2015. I can sing every song from both Frozen movies by heart though.
It's literally also the happiest I've ever been in my entire life. I would be terrified if I did go back in time that there'd be no chance of me getting these wonderful kids back. - voxaroth
Oh yes. I might say I wish I had them a little sooner (first kid at 40) But by and large, it's the best thing I've ever made. - That-shouldnt-smell
Nope! Kid struggles with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and sensory processing difficulties. I have cancer that is generally considered incurable (breast cancer with bone mets).
But I can't undo having my kid. Knowing him now, I wouldn't want to. He's hilarious, brilliantly intelligent, creative, and (best of all!) compassionate. He's a damn good young human.
Because he's here, because he's struggling, because I love him, I do whatever I can to help him get healthy and cope with life so he can hang onto his compassion and use it to make his tiny corner of the world a better place. - insertcaffeine
My biggest regret when it comes to my kids is not having financial freedom and time to spend with them. Can't help but feel like a piece of s*** dad for having to choose work over my kids. - DoubleJointer
I am not sure, really. They have had so many mental issues and I guess they got some of them from me. It's been a really hard time and I feel completely worn out. - signequanon
Love my kids to death, would absolutely not have them twice if I were given a do-over.
My girlfriend (now wife) conceived our first born when we were both 20, essentially transitioning from high school graduates and still very much kids ourselves to being full time caretakers. Neither one of us got to experience the young adult developmental phase, where freedom and limited responsibility intersect. We missed out on some pretty important experiences that both hampered our growth in some areas and accelerated it in others, to the point where we have a difficult time relating with our peer group. Queue social isolation long before the quarantine distancing.
Not to mention, we were both so young and didn’t have a sense of who we were as people. Now that I’m much older and a bit more self aware, I’ve woken up to the reality that the career trajectory I’ve been on for the past 20 years is completely misaligned with who I am as a person and the interests I hold. Yet, because I’m also responsible for providing for others, making a risky move to change industries in search of fulfillment isn’t a viable option. In other words, I feel trapped by the circumstances I’ve created for myself. Painted myself in a corner and it’s gonna be a long while before that primer dries.
If I could do it all again, I’d wait until early 30s before stepping into a parenting role. - loveitorleafit
I would still have my two kids but I would bring them up differently, things I thought were important in the whole scheme of things weren’t. - sprit67
It's always nice when someone does a favor for you — but when the person is a stranger and they expect absolutely nothing in return, it's even better.
A recent Reddit thread asked people to name the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for them with no expectations in return. Here are some of the best answers.
I was homeless, was thirsty and hungry. I walked into this Fast food place at 2am and sat my bag down. I was dirty and smelled horrible, I asked him if he had anything I could buy for a dollar and he said that anything on the menu I wanted. I told him but all I had was a dollar. he said if I gave him the dollar he would cover the rest of the price. I gave him the dollar and got a double cheeseburger and some fries and a large drink. when he gave me the order I went to the table sat down and when I opened the bag there was a 50 dollar bill inside of it with a note saying that he hopes it will help me and he hopes I am able to get back on my feet soon and wished me the best in life. it actually brought tears to my eyes. - d3adandbrok3n
A stranger bought myself and my ex dinner on Valentine’s Day and the waitress said he was so happy to do it. I guess he was a widower , and doing a kind thing was enough to keep him happy through tough times. Thank you stranger. - OhNoNotBigPoppaJoe
I was 18 and living away from home for the first time (from the UK, moved to Canada). I couldn't afford much so I'd walked two miles through the snow to buy bedding in a discount shop and was having a miserable day. The woman in front of me in the cashier queue put $50 on a store voucher card, handed it to me and walked away before I had a chance to react.
In the middle of a tough day, it really made a difference. Definitely the most memorable random act of kindness I've ever experienced.
- w1256414
I was totally down on my luck living out of a hotel, I did have a job but not enough money to stay there until my check came.
A friend of mine bought me lunch and was telling that they couldn’t help with much but this is what they had, which was $300 short.
I guess we had talked about it but I don’t remember. The next thing I know this guy at the next table is leaving and he tells me not to go until he comes back.
His girlfriend / wife stayed behind even though they had paid the bill. He was back in a few minutes and he hands me $300.
I asked him for his contact info and said he didn’t want it back and to keep working to stay off the streets. The man literally stopped my mom and I from becoming homeless.
I still have a job and I am in a nice apartment now but I will always remember that man’s generosity. I have tried to help other people as much as I can to pay him back in some way.
Thanks for the question. It reminded me of one man’s generosity of spirit and kindness and I think we all need that right now. - Limp_Distribution
I was struggling through college, had maybe $30 in my account and REALLY needed gas (I commuted 25 miles to campus every day). I pull in and it’s full, but a guy waves me down to pull in behind him. He says “hey I bought more than I needed so there’s about $10 of gas still on there.”
I almost started crying, because that got me almost four gallons of gas. It really helped me out in a bad time, and I’m forever grateful. - irishcreamcoffee94
Some old couple gave my son 50k tickets at the arcade.
The husband was dying, this was their last trip, and had been collecting tickets for over 10 years. - BattleDickDave
When I was 19, had a flat tire and a kind stranger and his daughter were walking past and the dad stopped to changed my flat without any hesitation. After that, I asked my dad to teach me and have helped people change their tire. - letter_y_
Last year, we had to take our dog of 17 years to the vet to be put to sleep. It is a small office, so I am sure our bawling was easily heard from our room as we sat with her in final moments. As we were leaving, we had a nice conversation with a lady that happened to be picking up her dog. She offered her condolences, and the vet said I could just come back tomorrow to pay our bill. I called the next day to find out how much I owed and found out that nice lady had paid our bill for us. That is easily the nicest thing a stranger has done for me. - Wide_Open_Colon
When I was in Middle School, I crashed my bike in front of the supermarket. It wasn't bad, but I was shaken up. An older lady pulled over and picked me up and took me back to my home. I don't remember her name. It was so sweet. - harshagarwal97
About 20 years ago I was flying standby to my hometown because my brother had died (suicide). I was 5th or 6th on the list. I was a mess but didn’t say why I was flying to anyone. When the first guy on the list got called he went up to the gate agent and told her that I obviously needed to get on that flight before anyone else on the standby list & she agreed and called me to get on the plane. I often think about this kind man & hope he’s been living the good life he deserves. - tinks2much
About 4 years ago, my family and I were on a roadtrip to Florida. At the Mississippi/Alabama state line, we got out to take pictures at the sign, like families and tourists tend to do. Spent about 5 minutes there, exchanged some pleasantries with a father-son duo doing the same thing, then went on our way.
15 minutes later on the highway, we're just casually chatting in the car, when we hear a honk coming from behind us. I look over, and it's a massive, white truck. It's the father and son. And the son is waving MY PHONE. Apparently, I had dropped it at the sign. We both quickly pull over, and I get my phone back.
What amazes me is that they caught up to us at all. We were going 70-80 and had a good head start on them. That means they were on a MISSION to get my phone back to me and gunning it.
The best part about it all? It was Christmas Day, so I'll always consider their kind actions as one of my favorite Christmas presents. - MiniatureTyler
An old lady I met on an Amtrak train when I was ten years old found out I was interested in coins. She asked me for my address and promised to send me "a couple books."
A few weeks later, a big package arrived on my doorstep. Inside was her entire coin collection, most of it carefully cataloged and arranged in coin books.
Thanks, Connie, I still think of this! - filthy_lucre
I was walking home in heavy rain and a bus stopped beside me and the driver said to get on, I explained that I didn't have the fare and he said not to worry about it. - manualalpha
I was on an airplane with my then toddler daughter and infant son.... it was a 12 hour, transatlantic flight. My daughter was a champion traveler but my son was not, and he was really fussy. I struggled to handle both kids.... making sure she got what she needed and trying to calm down the crying baby and I was just plain tired and overwhelmed.
An angel.... a kind lady tapped me on the shoulder and offered to walk my baby in the aisle so I could get my daughter settled and take a break for myself. Normally I wouldn't hand over my baby to a stranger, but it's hard to kidnap on a plane.
She walked my son for hours. I got settled, rested, and calmed down. She brought back a happy, sleepy boy. He's now 16 and I still remember how grateful I was for her.
- Acciosanity
Years ago, about 3 days before Christmas, I was renting an old trailer near a state hwy. I was living there with my son who was about 2 yrs old. I heard a knock on my door on a cold rainy night and a lady wanted to use my phone to call her husband because she had a flat tire.
Well, I didn't have a phone so I told her I would change her tire if she would watch my son. She had to see how poor we were at the time, I had a ugly Charlie Brown X-mas tree about 2 ft tall with no presents underneath. It was a low point in my life.
Anyway, I got the tire fixed and she went on her way. The next day I went to work at the Pizza Hut (told you it was bad) and when I got home, there was this huge X-mas stocking on my front porch full of toys on my front porch. I knew it was that lady, there was a note thanking for changing her tire and wishing me and my son a Merry Christmas. I must have cried for 15 minutes and I still get a tear in my eyes 35 years later when I think about it. - chtrace
When I ran away from home after a huge fight with Both my parents And my brother hitting and kicking me, and the police picked me up. I sat in a holding cell and a very nice police woman came to talk to me and I basically threw my entire life story on her while bawling my eyes out.
She was very kind to me and helped me find a place to stay in a crisis ward for people with mental issues basically.
- jofloberyl
While some of us have been thriving in their homes creating beautiful breads and baked goods, building furniture, and finally getting around to some home improvement projects they've been putting off--others are, well, let's just say we're doing our best.
If you're beating yourself up because you haven't used the last month to do anything particularly productive and instead have been stress-eating chips and day-drinking while watching trashy reality television about people who decide to get married without seeing each other, forgive yourself. A pandemic doesn't need to be the time to have your "Eat, Pray, Love" journey of self discovery and purpose. Social distancing, washing your hands, supporting your local essential workers, and staying healthy are the best things you can do right now.
Luckily, the pandemic hasn't ruined people's sense of humor. When Hend Amry, @LibyaLiberty shared her story about a banana bread gone wrong on Twitter, people were quick to chime in with their quarantine baking fails...
"It's not you, it's the lottery."
People are sharing the most bonkers reasons why were dumped (or, you know, told they were dumped). It's a fascinating tour through the many absurd dealbreakers people have while looking for a partner in life.
Everybody deserves to find somebody who will choose them over fish.
College girlfriend's dad won one million dollars in the state lottery over winter break. Broke up with me over the phone, telling me “now that I’m rich, I can’t afford to date regular people like you. That’s really the only thing wrong, you’re just regular.”
"I’m not ready for a relationship." I thought it was a bad time to bring that up since we were engaged and had been together for almost 2 years.
She thought I killed her horse (it wasn't actually her horse) with voodoo (it hung itself*) because I was jealous (it was a horse.)
*Someone put it in the stable with its harness on, harness got caught, horse panicked, fell and damaged its neck.
My ex's cat was named "Ben". The girl I was dating's cat was named "Bundles".
One day, I called "Bundles", "Ben". She asked me what I just called her cat. I thought about it, and then remembered that was my ex's cat's name. I laughed and told her and she was super unimpressed. Broke up with me the next day.
My boyfriend broke up with me because he was moving away to go to puppet school.
She found out the truck I was driving was owned by my mom.
"We have to break up. I mean, we can't even get married... you're allergic to fish!"
She chose the occasional tuna sandwich over me. I laughed and still tell the story so I guess it's a win!
"I love you so much and want to spend the rest of my life with you. We have to break up, if it's really meant to be then we will end up together again like they do in the movies."
One of my exes dumped me saying that he wanted to "be like Paul" from the bible...
Made a girl smile too much.
She had braces and it cut up the inside of her mouth.
Not me but one of my friends who’s a senior in high school got dumped by her boyfriend who she dated for almost 2 years. He dumped her because he didn’t want to go to the school dance. A few days later he texted her to tell her that he wanted to get back together but she declined. He could have just told her that he didn’t want to go and still be her with her or just go to the stupid dance.
The girl told me she thought this boy who she had a crush on for a long time was gonna ask her out. She said this to me. Her then boyfriend.
He dumped me because I cheated on him... In his dream!
After going out with this guy for 6 months I asked him if we were dating and he immediately ghosted me.
We were 14 and I wore a tank top for the first time in his presence. Turned out I had way more cleavage than he was comfortable with and he dumped me over the phone.
A girl I dated texted me that I wanted a relationship and she's not really up for that right now. It was actually because she was taller than me and was afraid of what people would think. I met my wife a week later.
He said he didn't want to see me anymore because he didn't like that I had played with a Ouija board when I was a kid.
I couldn’t find the right pair of stockings he liked, solely for his interest in ripping them during sex. When I told him to purchase a pair he liked, he dumped me, claiming I wanted a sugar daddy and not a boyfriend. Lol.
Ties with the time a girl dumped me because she thought I was spending too much time with “that guy.” It was my brother. Who she had met.
I wouldn’t eat tomatoes to "prove I loved her."
Obviously I’m not a fan of tomatoes or that relationship.
Because I ate my pizza with a knife and fork. She told me that it made me seem too upscale...
I said, "hey, dude," to her.
I was dating a guy whose parents didn't like me. It was a long distance relationship, and so we mostly chatted online but also made occasional phone calls. So we were talking on the phone, and at one point I said, "You shouldn't have to choose between me and your parents..." The conversation continued, we decided to break up. We stayed friends. Something like 10 years later, we were talking online when the subject of our breakup came up. Turns out he thought I had said, "You should have to choose between me and your parents..." and decided that he wasn't going to do that. I would never give someone that kind of ultimatum, that would be ridiculous. It blew my mind that a single misheard word caused us to break up, and we didn't realize it for 10 years.
When a parent abandons their kids, their title as parent isn't automatically stripped away. They may be physically and psychologically distanced, but their adult kids fully have rights to track them down and address the years of abandonment, and how it affected them.
Unfortunately, the real issue here isn't whether adult kids have a right to track down their absent parents, but rather, whether it'll ultimately do more emotional harm than good.
In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a woman asked if she was wrong for tracking down her mom and telling her mom's current husband about the kids she left behind.
AITA for telling my mom’s new husband that she has kids?
OP's mom left her and her brothers when she was 15, and from then on OP was raised by her dad and uncle.
When I was 15, my mom left the family. For a long time, no one knew where she was or even if she was okay. Eventually, it was discovered that she was just “too overwhelmed” and left to handle herself. My brothers and I were raised by our uncle and my dad from that point on, but it was hard. I became like my brothers’ mom and had to grow up quicker than I probably should’ve. I got into therapy and a few years back and have been doing better.
Recently, OP came across her mom on Facebook (my accident) and discovered she had gotten remarried and started a new family.
Recently, I found my mom on Facebook. It was by pure mistake because I reconnected with some other maternal family members that I guess are friends with her. She had the same first name and looks pretty much the same, with just a different last name. The more I looked at her page, however, I saw that she had gotten remarried not long after she left my dad and had basically started a new family.
In a moment of justified anger, OP messaged her mom's new husband asking if he knew about the family she left behind.
She has kids ranging in age from 2-10 years old. My husband told me to leave it alone, but I was so angry and I just couldn’t handle it, so I ended up finding out her husband’s FB and messaged him, saying that his wife had 5 other kids that she had abandoned, did he know that?
OP's mom ended up angrily messaging her, saying OP made her husband upset by revealing the truth about the past.
My mom ended up messaging me, pissed, saying I had made her husband mad because he didn’t know. To me, that’s not my problem. You can’t just run off and neglect my responsibilities. However, my brothers and husband think I was the a*shole. AITA?
OP's brothers and husband think she should have left it all alone, but she feels justified in her actions.
NTA, she left her family to "handle herself" she can handle her husband being mad about the whole thing. Her own fault for not saying anything til now, you did him a favor.
NTA. This man is not nothing to you— he’s your stepfather. You have a right to be acknowledged to your stepfather and siblings. Your mother cannot erase you, no matter how much she may want to in order to avoid dealing with her own enormity. Since she can’t be trusted to do so, you had every right to do it yourself.
Your mother is not a colleague or casual acquaintance with strict rules of civility and boundaries that demand observance. Your mother committed a grave betrayal of her duties to you and inflicted grave wounds as a result. She treated you as though you are nothing. You are not nothing. You are valuable and did not deserve to be abandoned. By announcing your presence in the world to her husband, you are letting her know you’re still here in the only way that would make her listen. She can’t ignore that anymore and that’s a good thing in my books.
NTA, because your action was justified. Building up for years being a mother to your brother. Seeing her being a mom to other children.basically ignoring you ever existed. I'm sure it brought you to tears and anger. Idc what anyone say I feel you were in the right.
It feels clear OP had a right to call out her mom's abandonment, and the hypocrisy of starting a new family after leaving her kids. The question left at hand is what her mom's new husband will do with this information.
There's nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. But if you're going to challenge someone to compete with you, just make sure you do a little research in to who you're dealing with. No one wants to get their butt seriously kicked by a master.
1.) From sarahohimesama:
Some Japanese client that studied in France asked me for a translation job but wanted to change all my sentences to prove she was better than me at my own mother tongue. She ended up writing something grammatically correct but that sounded so horribly sexual that if you tried and googled the terms you would only find porn and erotic novels. I had to tell my boss she was forcing me to write porn (because it was for a mascara brand that was supposed to be sold in France) so he could stop her and after that she stopped trying to best me.
2.) From charlzandre:
A tinder date bet me dinner that I couldn't beat her in smash. I've been playing competitively for around 6 years, so she ended up paying for dinner.
3.) From DaddyAiello:
Guitar Hero. That poor bastard didn't know what he was getting into. He suggested we play and was making joking comments about how he could totally beat me. We played on expert and I absolutely demolished him. My man was even struggling to hit the orange notes smh.
4.) From OkComputerOK:
I’m not a great swimmer but there was a time when I would do laps for literally hours. I would go slowly to make sure that I had the energy to do the time I wanted to. This kid challenged me to race. I left him so far behind it was funny. He though he was about to humiliate me in front of his friends.
5.) From maleorderbride:
My nephew challenged me to Super Smash Bros Ultimate once. Once.
6.) From phisch13:
Everyone thinks they are amazing at Mario Kart. They used to be good as a kid and think they still are.
I played 2-4 hours everyday in undergrad (a couple years ago). I raced in local and school tournaments and won most of the time. I was within seconds on several course records. I have every course memorized and know exactly when to brake on every turn.
I don’t play much anymore, but anytime somebody sees my Mario Kart painting (I won it at a local tournament), they tell me how amazing they are. I’m happy to absolutely destroy them. It’s an otherwise useless skill.
7.) From TryThat12:
I had a mate that would play Call Of Duty with me & I'd usually beat him in a 1v1 but he occasionally would maybe win or at least get close, but then we played a different game. Motorstorm Apocalypse. I was a legitimate top 10 player on that game with multiple #1 time attack times etc and he had just started playing through the offline mode and was winning the races so he thought he was good, I warned him but he insisted on a 1v1 to show off his skills.
2 minutes later & I've lapped him on a 3 lap race and he's quit the race before he's finished due to the embarrassment of not being able to finish because there's a 1 minute timer on the end of the race where anyone that hasn't finished doesn't get to finish.
He never played that game again.
8.) From MoodyBernoulli:
Wasn’t me, but there’s a story about an old geotechnical engineer who used to work for the company I work for.
Several senior staff had to attend a meeting with the client, and some government regulatory staff who were being awkward and not approving the design.
This geotech guy is pretty much quiet the whole meeting. Throughout the discussion, the government guy keeps referencing this research document and shooting down anything anybody suggests.
Near the end of the meeting geotech asks government guy if he has the research paper with him. He responds yes and places it on the table.
Geotech asks government guy who is the author of the paper? Then slides over a business card. Turns out it’s geotechs own paper that government guy has been referencing to defend his argument.
Government guy went bright red and apparently approved the design the same day.
9.) From andereerenuth:
We had a golf work outing and he challenged me at golf. Now I've played golf my whole life, I also played in highschool and have played at public courses every year since. He did not know this.
The first hole, he gets to witness a 200 yard drive down the middle, he tries to play it off like I got lucky but no, every hole after that was the same. He drank alot after the first couple holes.
He, to this day, refuses to say I won because we didn't keep a scorecard..
10.) From sadpanda___:
Co worker - “I’m pretty good at running, I run every day. I could probably beat you in a marathon.”
They didn’t know I used to be a pro runner. Ran under 14 minutes in the 5k, sub 29 in the 10k, and under 15 hours for 100 miles on trails. Won a national title even.
So I agreed to run with them and jumped in the local marathon with no training. I took the prize purse and made myself a few hundred bucks and took everyone out for beers with it. Was an interesting next Monday at work.
11.) From B0BAFATT-:
Chicken wing eating
I destroyed them
12.) From impulsekash:
Not me but a while back a guy I knew from church growing up posted on facebook something about Crusades and medieval Christianity. A girl responded and gave x, y, z reasons why he was wrong. The guy responded back with you don't know what you are talking about, you need to do your research and linked couple of youtube links of armchair historians/pastors. She hits him back with a dozen or so academic sources and let him know that she was 3 years in a PhD program studying medieval history.
13.) From Motocrossx23:
I’m a teacher so people try to tell me how to do my job all the time (parents, kids, politicians, etc). How’d it turn out? Welcome to my world, fuckers. Home schooling is a bitch, isn’t it? Your kids are kind of horrible, aren’t they? Lessons aren’t that easy to plan, are they?
Meanwhile, I’m drinking a beer at 10am while grading the assignments I posted last week.
14.) From cottonmouthedperson:
I found myself in a discussion about vaccinations with an antivaxx couple in a fkn smokers area of a bar.
I'm a scientist.
I tried every logical, emotional and personal plea but they ended up getting mad, telling me to get fucked and walked off. My friends that heard it said I put forward a good argument and they walked away because they lost. Sucks because we all lose when they don't vaccinate their kids yeehaw
15.) From LeepII:
My wife and I were taking an evening cruise for adults in Portsmouth Bay. The ship drove around the shipyard, where my submarine and several others were stationed. My wife and I are having a quiet drink when a really loud know it all starts spouting misinformation about each submarine we are driving by. Calling them all the wrong class, wrong names, etc. When he literally points to my submarine and says "and that is a 637 class" my wife finally speaks up and says "actually that is a 688" . The guy gets all gruff and says "well how would you know?". My wife smiles, hugs my arm and says sweetly "That's my husbands submarine, it is the Minneapolis St Paul, SNN-708." He turned beat red while his date laughed.
16.) From NickKnocks:
My landlord tried blaming me damage to the kitchen cabinets but didnt know that im in construction and am very familiar with home building codes.
They placed the cabinets too close to the stove and the glue that held the laminate had melted.
17.) From UltraBuffaloGod:
This guy trying to be a major alpha at any interaction with another male challenged me to a distance race, saying they could run longer than I could. I knew they weren't a runner at all but they did not know I run ultramarathons and had recently set the course record in a 50 mile race. Well I said sure and we set out the next morning at 6am around a track with 3 of our mutual friends watching. I just trailed behind him by like 20 feet at a casual pace. That way he'd always be expending energy trying to put distance in between us. Surprisingly he kept that up for like 4 miles (which is a lot for a non runner). I eventually ran up to him and stuck with him for another mile talking about my running accomplishments and how this was a stupid thing to try and be better at.
Eventually our friends wanted to leave and said it was the last mile so I was like "if you want we can run in together." He agreed. But then the very last lap started he said "sorry but I'm gonna win" and tried to speed up to pass me. I was like "okay you stupid bitch" and dropped my pace to like a 4 minute mile and came in like 150 meters ahead of him.
He was full of excuses and challenged me to a sprint a few days later. I also completely rekt him at that. Just give it up dude you don't have to be "alpha" all the fuckin time.
18.) From Andromeda321:
Astronomer here! So if we were to just meet on the street, you probably wouldn't guess I was a scientist (I am a woman who enjoys dresses when the weather is nice), and this was doubly true when I was a few years younger in my 20s and single. Especially at bars.
So at the end of college I was doing a summer internship in Mountain View, California where if you went out there'd be a lot of Google boys who would literally sometimes wear "Google" shirts so you'd know they're extra obnoxious. I remember getting stuck chatting with one, and when he asked my major he sneered with the "do you really know the subject?" attitude. And ask me if I knew how the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle was. And when I explained his 20 questions, said "it's probably not so hard because they go easy on women because they don't want to scare them off."
Then he proceeded to tell me about a lecture he attended in Mountain View that he'd been lucky enough to visit, as a Google employee, by Jill Tarter who runs the SETI Institute. And proceeded to tell me about the Allen Telescope Array they were building in northern California because I "might not know about it."
I gave him a minute for his spiel but then said I actually was working for Jill that summer at the SETI Institute, on interference mitigation for the Allen Telescope Array. And did he want to hear what she was really like, or see some pictures from the ATA site? I'd also just met Frank Drake, and he was really nice!
Oh man, was that guy not happy! But hey at least he stopped talking to me like right after.
19.) From CaptainWaders:
A local mall had a portable climbing wall with a “make it to the top and win $100” side. The route was actually pretty challenging. As I walked by the guy asked me if I’d like to try “nobody has made it to the top, you think you can do it buddy”
At the time I was ranked top 12 climber in my age group and kind of laughed to myself.
After taking my $100 I then proceeded to call the rest of my climbing team and one by one they went to the mall and claimed their $100
After the 4th person they guy got suspicious and took the sign down. We later told him we were all Nationally ranked competition climbers and he got a good laugh. The company who owned the rentals was the one who lost the money, he just worked the booth and wasn’t the one who lost the prize money.
When you work a job that involves entering other people's homes, you are bound to have some disturbing and creepy days on the job. Home is a sanctuary for many people, but it's also a den of secrets and hoarding for others, and some homes are better left under lock and key than exposed to outsiders.
In a popular Reddit thread, people who work jobs that involve home visits shared the creepiest and most disturbing days on the job.
Before reading on, please be warned, some of these are truly graphic or disturbing.
1. From MrCrix:
I was doing some work with an engineering firm and there was a lady who was complaining about severe moisture and water build up in her apartment. After checking with all the other apartments around her and nobody else complaining we went to investigate.
We knock on the door and the second she lets us in we are hit smack in the face with a wall of humidity. I mean like standing in Vietnam during monsoon time humidity. It's hot, extremely humid and just walking 5 feet in you're already saturated with water.
We start the investigation and notice her carpet is soaked everywhere. Just squish squish squish as we walked through. I get to her sliding glass doors to her patio and no word of a lie there are 2' tall mushrooms growing out of her carpet. The water built up so badly on the glass doors and dripped down onto the carpet she had a 10' x 10' mushroom garden growing.
Turns out the cause for it was found when I opened her closet. She had her son sneak in a clothes washer and dryer one night and 'installed' them into her closet without having proper plumbing for the washer and absolutely no ventilation for the dryer. So all the humidity from the dryer and washer were trapped in the apartment.
Real Estate Appraiser - all kinds of screwed up sh*t. Worst one for me though - I found a guy in the basement of a vacant, foreclosed house, flat on his back & little charred. Apparently he tried to steal the electrical wiring (to go with his copper plumbing stash) & the electricity was still on. I'll never forget the smell.
My FIL is a telephone man out in the country (Missouri). He said he couldn't find a lady's house on this road so he called her for more detailed directions. Turns out she lived UNDERGROUND, below a pole barn (huge garage). He said they walked down a 30-ft ramp and this lady and her husband had a full home down there - furniture, nice decorations, etc. The CRAZY part was the husband built the home around an aquifer he came across while digging. The aquifer was contained in the back part of the house, and they built a little bridge over it...all underground. Weird, but totally cool.
EDIT: Damn, if I had known this would be my highest rated comment, I would have taken more time get details before posting! I will try really hard to get him to take us by there next time we visit
As a Paramedic, I am constantly required to go into the filthiest places imaginable to drag people out. One of the worst I remember, a cop was in front of this trailer, and as I walked up, he just smiled and said "Be prepared." I walk in to blood, guts, and chicken feathers EVERYWHERE. Inside was a dude with pure crazy in his eyes waiting for me.
I asked him what going on, he explained that he had quit taking his meds, and was demonstrating to his children where food came from. Dude had taken his kids PET chickens and proceeded to rip their heads off. Needless to say, that was one nerve wracking ride to the hospital.
Two years ago I had a job doing crime scene/ untimely death clean up. We saw some pretty sad stuff. The worst job had to be an eviction clean up. No one had died amazingly but it was worse than when I had the opportunity to hold grey matter in my hand. The former tenant was a heroin addict, hoarder with Hep C. Our job was to clear the apartment. Upon arrival we discovered he not only hoarded trash and large amounts of clothing and other miscellaneous items but also his used needles.
They were scattered throughout the junk mixed into every little nook and cranny. Given the fact that he was hep c positive we had to don our most protective suits and sift through and separate everything piece by piece. A total of 42 man hours were spent in the abatement. We found diaries, telephone numbers, hidden stashes and many other things. He mainly shot up in his right arm, I can say this because his lazy-boy was soaked in blood on just the right side. Luckily None of us were pricked in this ordeal and we saved the apartment. I have an AMA about this if you are interested.
A few years ago I was cleaning apartments with a local carpet cleaning company (funny how that works out). One day we got a call to go clean a rented house and they said that the door would be unlocked and to go ahead in. The tenants had apparently moved out and we'd have nothing bothering us as we cleaned, "Good deal" I thought to myself, "No need to move furniture, etc." When we arrived we (my partner and I) opened the door and immediately were accosted by this awful stench.
We chalked it up to being another hot, humid, Iowa summer day and didn't read too much into it. We donned out respirators and started to it. While I was pre-spraying the carpets, I was opening all the doors to see if there was any carpet inside to see if they needed cleaning, I opened one closet and almost fell on my a*s in shock. Laying on the floor in front of me was a maggot-covered, rotting, smelly, severed goat's head. Needless to say I bolted as my partner looked at me and said "The f*ck happened to you?" Too late, I was already out side breathing in some much needed outside air. Two seconds later, he was right there beside me, pale as a ghost.
TL;DR: Found a goat's head.
My electrician told me a story about one of his call outs. He went over to the house to fix the lights in one of their rooms. He got in and the owner of the place, a middle aged woman, said go up the stairs and its the first room on your left. He walked up the stairs and saw a a dim red light coming from the room which struck him as odd but he kept going and as he opened the door the owner screamed not that room! He opened the door long enough to see a naked young girl sat atop what was her current client. Turns out he'd walked into a brothel.
My friends told me later it was a well known brothel in the area and the previous owners have since moved out. There's a big sign on the front door now saying 'this is no longer a brothel. Please don't knock our door looking for a shag' I feel so bad for them cuz they must get people coming up throughout the night.
I'm a face painter and I travel to people's homes for birthday parties. Thankfully, most people who hire me are friendly, middle-class moms, so there's not much sketch.
The funniest thing I've seen in someone's house was a guinea pig city. They must've had at least 6 guinea pigs, and they built little houses connected with tubes ALL OVER THE HOUSE. I kept hearing weird little squeals and whistles as I face painted, but I thought it was pretty cute.
I used to work for a company that owned a lot of rent houses. Normally, I was in charge of landscaping, and would do various tasks related to that. However, if the tenants hadn't paid rent in a month or two, they'd usually ask me and my partners to knock on the door, take a peek in the window and see if anyone was actually home.
I should take a moment to point something out. This took place in a rural community that has a rather large strip club not too far away. Because of the cheap rent and the friendly nature of my boss, most of the tenants were strippers and bouncers.
When I knocked on the door, no one answered, but the door didn't make the normal CLUNK sound, it was softened. As I looked down at the door, I noticed water leaking out from the bottom of the door frame. At this point, I used the master key to open the house.
Water poured out around my feet, and was standing several inches inside the house. (We later found out that a pipe burst inside a wall, and instead of telling their landlord, they just...left) But the water wasn't the worst thing I saw. G-strings floated across the lake like seaweed, constantly drawn to my legs as I carefully waded around.
Broken high heels were everywhere, too waterlogged to actually float, and were in a sad sinking limbo. Handcuffs were draped over a doorknob like the ole sock trick. Glitter was clumped together all over the apartment, giving the lake a strange shimmer.
But what I haven't told you, what caught my eye immediately when I walked in, will haunt me to this day. There, floating around the apartment like abandoned boats, were dozens of dildos. And not just your standard flesh-colored ones. No, some were neon, some clear, some were the size of your forearm, some were tiny bullets, they even had one of those Sybian machines.
That's when it really hit me. At first I thought I was just standing in a flooded apartment, but that stagnant swamp most likely filled with the juices from some sketchy strippers.
Called my employer immediately, and learned that my partner and I got to clean it up! Elbow-length rubber gloves and duck waders were involved. TL:DR Stripper Swamp.
My dad is an electrician and a while back he had a job testing the wiring in council properties. Once he walked into a flat where the tenants kept way too many pets; cats, dogs, birds absolutely everywhere.
Whilst he was testing a socket in the living room, a f*cking tortoise emerged from under the sofa and casually made its way past him. The tenants later told him that they had "forgotten" that they even owned the thing.
I used to clean houses. People are horrible. We had one house where the cats would spray everything even her toddler's toys. Also it seemed like they would 'spill' food on the floor and then leave it for whenever we cam next. We went every two weeks. Another house had four dogs that weren't allowed outside.
There was always a lake of dog pee by the back door, dog feces everywhere, dirty underwear, puke in the shower, and the bathtub was always clogged so we couldn't get it clean. They would always complain that we weren't cleaning well enough. The amount of people with naked pictures hanging on their walls is also way too high.
When I was in university my wife and I worked for a large property management company managing a medium sized apartment complex in sort of a sketchy neighborhood. We had a lot of interesting 'entering apartment' experiences but one we tell people about all the time. There was a really nice couple who we didn't see often - but anytime we did they were very pleasant - and seemed completely normal. One month they came and gave notice that they would be moving.
During their last month there - I put a notice under their door that I wanted to show their apartment. They came to me - told me they had a bit of cleaning to do and asked if I could hold off showing their apartment for a few days. The unit one floor above them was vacant and was the exact same floor plan so I agreed. A week or so later - we rented the upper unit and now I wanted to show their unit again. I put notice under their door. The next day I noticed that the corner of the notice was still sticking out from under the door. I hadn't seen he occupants for a few days so I entered their apartment.
The stench in their apartment was overwhelming. On the floor was about 4 inches of wood chips and feces covering the entire floor - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom - everywhere. There were cages in one room and multiple books about breeding guinea pigs. It was revolting. We had the apartment gutted - down to bare studs and to the subfloor. After the repairs it still smelled off. The residents dropped their keys off at my apartment in the middle of the night with a note that said 'Sorry' (classic Canadian). Never heard from them again.
tl;dr: We managed an apartment building where some tenants turned their apartment into a breeding site for hundreds of guinea pigs.
My girlfriend and I work for a company that cleans carpets, air ducts, mold work, and all that other fun stuff. I've found piles of tentacle porn before but that's about the weirdest for me. My girlfriend has walked in on people taking a crap with the door wide open and not caring before. Her weirdest thing was probably walking in to a house to see the customer talking to her stark naked 22 year old son. They both were carrying on a conversation as if nothing were amiss.
I worked in Security for a couple years doing alarm responses. I have seen a lot of hoarder homes. The worst was this one house. It had very narrow passages leading to the bed, the couch, the kitchen. I always do a full check of a house and I started with the basement. There were no narrow passages. In fact it was jammed so tight with her things that you could barely get a single finger between the top of her stuff, (mostly magazines and old newspapers) and the ceiling or wall.
I could smell mold and could see water damage on the bottom of the stacks of paper. I finally got to her bedroom and saw the biggest pile of dildos I have ever seen in my life. They were floor to ceiling jammed together tight. I am pretty sure if I pushed on them there would have been no give whatsoever. They took up about 4 feet out from the wall and about 6 feet of wall. I would say it was 8 to 10 feet high. The worst part was they were all filthy. I now know where dildos end up when they go to die.
TL:DR: Hoarder house 240 cubic feet of rubber cocks.
House cleaner story here: Highly respected dean of university/beautiful home. On the inside of his bedroom door was a key/bolt lock that looked like many escape attempts had been tried and failed plus electrical wire on all four bed posts. Creep.
“Home is the nicest word there is.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
Give your Netflix queue a break and enjoy these hilarious memes. They will keep you laughing and help you kill some time until it's safe to go back outside.
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Don't tell grocery store employees to smile at you while they're risking their lives to keep you stocked up on four year's worth of peanut butter. Don't ask retail workers why they're wearing masks or standing six feet away from you. Stay informed and do your part in keeping yourself and others safe!
Luckily, for every nightmare customer who is still insisting on yelling at a manager during a pandemic, there are good people out there too. If you're wondering how you should act when you go out to buy quarantine supplies, here are some the best (and worst) ways people are treating retail and grocery store employees during the pandemic.
We're all watching a lot more TV in the age of quarantine, but the shows we're watching were filmed pre-pandemic, which can make them seem pretty unrelatable. Formerly benign interactions like hugs, handshakes, or—gasp—house parties can now transform a comedy into a horror show, and suddenly you're screaming "NOO!!! RUN!!! GO WASH YOUR HANDS!!" at your TV. But what if TV shows actually reflected the strange new reality in which we're living?! That's the theme of today's #hashtag challenge courtesy of Jimmy Fallon.
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There are some people who wander the earth completely unwilling to accept the consequences of their own actions. People of this nature will spin a tall tale and dance circles around others creating stories about why they are the real victim, and the world is always conspiring against them, at every turn.
Since people who play the victim are often practiced at spinning things, it can be hard to nail down their behvaior amidst the oblivion, but there are some situations that are so cut-and-dry it's wild to watch someone play the victim despite all proof to the contrary.
In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most obvious examples of someone playing the victim despite being the villain, and it's truly wild how some people delude themselves.
I was in a crowded parking lot, driving around looking for a space. There was one car ahead of me. The car ahead of me stopped, so I stopped as well. (I'm not sure why she stopped because there were no empty spaces and no one was pulling out, but whatever).
Then, before I even had time to react, her reverse lights came on and she came flying backwards towards me. I didn't even have time to honk. She slammed into the front of my car, got out of her car, and started screaming that I hit her.
When officers arrived, she was crying and shaking and complaining that her neck hurt. And cursing me for slamming into the back of her car.
Thankfully, two people had been walking through the parking lot when this occurred and told the officer what really happened. Later, the driver of the car that hit me, tried to tell her insurance company that I knew the witnesses and that's why they lied. I didn't know the witnesses by the way.
At any rate, if the witnesses hadn't stuck around to give statements, I'd have been screwed.
A woman rear-ended my car in the car wash of all places. She failed to put her car in Neutral and rolled right into me. She then proceed to yell at me and insist that it was my fault for “not going fast enough”. After we finally convinced her that the track always goes the same speed, she decided to blame the CAR WASH EMPLOYEE for making the track too slow.
My friend's sister. She doesnt feed her kids nor send the oldest one (7) to school. Her neighbors reported her to CPS, and now she's posting statuses about how cruel people are for separating a mother & her kids.
An older lady walked into a construction area where she knew she wasn’t supposed to go just to snoop around when the workers weren’t there and then sued because she slipped on a plastic floor covering. She worked there. She knew the area was off limits. Did it anyway.
An employee was being fired for a multitude of infractions at a coffee shop. He had been caught by management calling customers things like 'dumb a*s' and 'stupid f*ck' under his breath and several customers had also reported the behavior. He was constantly late or would leave early or beg others to cover his shift.
Instead of restocking or cleaning the area during down times he would take out his drumsticks and 'practice', which annoyed the other employees and customers. During inventory counts we noticed whole pallets of sandwiches or baked goods were 'missing' as well as bottled drinks, etc. We were mysteriously out of huge 5 lbs bags of the espresso roast. The numbers were not adding up.
He was subsequently fired after being caught bad mouthing a customer while a visiting manager was also in the cafe (the guy didn't know it). The guy blamed all the issues on everyone else:
- Late to work turned into 'I missed the bus' or 'my roommate forgot to wake me up in time'
- Leaving early turned into 'well I got a call for a gig/there was a concert I wanted to see'
- Food missing turned into 'I didn't have money to eat and it's the companies responsibility to ensure I'm fed while on the clock'
- Calling customers names turned into 'they misunderstood me' Management said 'what part of calling a customer a dumb fuck is a misunderstanding?' followed by 'not my fault they're so sensitive'.
All this dudes problems were blamed on everyone else and all his issues and situation in life was blamed on everyone else.
Us employees stopped inviting him out because at bars he would order drinks and tell the bartender one of us was covering and skip out or leave rapidly before check was presented to us. He would also walk around tables when people got up to dance or talk in a group and guzzle down their drinks. He was an all over sh*tty person.
Found out after he was fired from our store he was hired by a Starbucks in the mall - who failed to call for a reference or check even though our store was listed as previous place of employment. He was caught stealing money and food from there too.
EDIT - I wanted to add this was our worst employee. We had another guy who worked his a*s off but had a generally bad demeanor, but he was a solid hard worker. One day he sat down and watch the drummer dude spout his mouth off and treat customers like shit and turned to me and said 'I hope to God I don't sound or act like that'. Just from watching this one guy the other employee became a model customer service employee almost over night.
Also, we had another guy there, he went by some weird animal name instead of his real name, he was sent home for showing up drunk several times and was let go after management found he snuck a bottle of vodka in and was adding it to girls drinks during the late shift.
Sometimes my children ask me why they've met my mother but never met my father, I tell them he died a long time ago when I was a kid. In reality, my dad used to be an abusive drunk, and my mother had to kick him out because he used to beat on us kids. We used to spend weekends at his new house but around the time I turned 10 he told my mother to stop dropping us off, and gave her a shoe box full of all the pictures he had of us. We tried calling him on holidays every now and again, but he finally just told us to stop contacting him altogether.
Last year my mother passed away, and he decided to reach out to me and expressed he had changed and wanted to make things up to me. I told him it was ok, I filled him in on how I was doing in life and sent him pictures of my children...but I expressed I was already a man, and don't need a father anymore, but he was forgiven for the 20 year absence.
He then proceeded to tell me that I'm horrible for pushing him away and abandoning him, that he was dying and just wanted to fix things. So I just explained to him, it's already forgiven but he abandoned me and I had no time for his foolishness. I wish things would have been different, but he's too much of a bad influence to allow in my children's lives.
Edit: I'd like to thank everyone for the positive support and encouragement. I hope everyone who shared a similar experience can find happiness regardless of us having crappy upbringings.
Facebook drama from a few years ago, this girl was leaving a bar drunk, and she backed her car into the car of someone she was an acquaintance with while exiting the parking lot, then the next day went off on him for telling the police he saw her do it, when he knew she was poor and could have just said he didn't see it and had his insurance pay.
She kept digging a deeper hole and all the replies were like "b*tch, don't drive drunk", it was glorious.
I lost a lot of weight (150lbs), my overweight friend didn’t. I don’t care, she’s my friend, I love her. I tried on a pair of size 12 (size 8 US) jeans but they were too big so asked for the smaller size. Before I could try them on my friend stormed out of the shop and when I followed her she screamed at me for rubbing my weight loss in her face. I lost the weight in 2015, I’ve been this size for 4 years.
I once witnessed a car accident where a lady blew a red light and another car (whose light had clearly turned green) didn't see her and hit her broadside. (The innocent driver had her view obscured by my vehicle also entering the intersection--I was able to stop, but she couldn't.) After the impact, witnesses stopped to help, and the lady who ran the red light tried to argue she was going through on a yellow and that her neck hurt.
Apparently she had the nerve to attempt a lawsuit over it, because I was later interviewed (deposed?) over the phone by crazy lady's lawyer who tried to trip me up by saying another witness claimed to be the same place I was. Too bad, man. I was right there, and there's no way in heck you can paint me as an unreliable witness for your client to steal money from an innocent for her own stupid mistake.
My crazy college girlfriend cheated on me and then blamed me for causing problems in our relationship by being "obsessed with the truth" as I figured out what had happened.
This guy got upset saying we were always talking about him behind his back. He would creep up to the door in our apartment and stand there listening to our conversations. Of course we would talk about him!
He owed two of us over 600 dollars and refused to pay it. And then WE were the bad people because we would talk about it, in our own apartment, not knowing he is creeping around the door.
My best friends ex-girlfriend. Basically her ex was kicked out of her parents house when she told them she was a lesbian. She moved in with my best friend since they were dating at the time. At first she told my gf that she was too depressed to find a job. My best friend was okay with that even if it meant she'd have to work more, which she did.
She even found a second part time job. For the next six months, whenever my best friend ask her if she found a job she'd always get the "I'm too depressed" response. Eventually my best friend finds out her girlfriend cheated on her. Her excuse for cheating was "you're always at work and never have time for me.
I need someone who will be there for me." My best friend kicks her out and then her ex blames her for having to move back in with her parents. The kicker: turns out her parents never really kicked her out, she was just tired of them telling her to get a job.
Local business owner/friend asked a lot of his regular customers to invest in his new business in Atlanta, by buying shares. I bought in, knowing we wouldn't break even for at least three years, but that he could sell religion to the Pope. Had losses for two years, break even at three as predicted. Four years in, he closes the Atlanta store and opens in another town, but this time he's doing it all with "his own money". Bullsh*t, he's doing it with the inventory and proceeds from the Atlanta store. Even has a shiny new house, cars, the works for his new venture.
He's shocked to the core, and hurt, I tell you, hurt and disappointed! when all the share holders took him to court.
EDIT: Wow, this blew up! Thanks for the gold and the comments and the concern. Our lawsuit basically never got off the taxiway, and as one of the good redditors below mentioned, it soon looked like the cost of going through the courts would quickly outpace our losses. People started dropping off and it fell apart.
The original store and the Atlanta store were closed. Those bridges he well and truly burned. The final store has changed names but appears to be going strong. No way in hell will I name the business -- I don't doubt for a second that while we smaller potato investors weren't ready for a long court fight, the owner would have no qualms about bringing a defamation suit against me in a heartbeat. Sometimes, karma is just asleep at the wheel and you have to accept it!
My cat plays with the closet door and sometimes shuts himself in. Then I get an angry cat yowling to get let out and acts like i'm the one that locked him in there.
During a Sunday liturgy, I gave the priest the proper intonation for the Gloria in Excelsis, but he started chanting the "Sanctus" instead (which comes much later in the Mass).
No one knew how (or if) to respond, so the place fell silent.
Afterward, the priest blamed me (the organist) for giving him "the wrong intonation" instead of simply admitting that he wasn't infallible and had made a simple mistake.
My ex cheated on me and I left him, he said he cheated because he felt like he couldn't please me in bed and it made him insecure lmao.
I manage an outpatient drug and alcohol education/treatment center. We're licensed with the state so that anyone who gets a DWI/DUI has to go through an evaluation process and complete some form of the education/treatment program dependent on that evaluation, in order to get their license reinstated or satisfy a probation requirment. Every state has its own version of this for alcohol or drug related driving offenses. Everyone has to do it and no one is exempt or special, regardless of whether they won or lost their criminal case in court.
There are those who very obviously made the mistake of driving after a couple glasses of wine, had a BAC just over the legal limit, they realize they f*cked up and they usually end up in the lowest level. They get it done, no complaints. But every single day I come across at least one person who blames the state for having to do the program. They call it a racket, a money scheme, a waste of their time, complain about having to go through it, etc. And they treat me like shit in the process as if I make the rules.
Without fail, these are always the people who've had multiple DWI/DUI's, have drug/alcohol addictions, and many of them have concurrent charges of vehicular manslaughter or accidents with injuries. These f*ckers who walk through my doors who've literally killed or injured someone because of intoxicated driving, avoided jail, and have to go through 6 weeks of outpatient treatment, COMPLAINING about having to do it, piss me off to no end.
I used to keep my mouth shut. But I've experienced so many of these perpetual victim types that when they start their b*tching, I remind them of the real reason they're in my office.
Recently I went out on a date with a guy. During the date he proceeded to hit on someone and get their number in front of me.
Apparantly it was my fault because I'm bisexual so clearly that meant I'd be interested in her too.
I was just like?
My roommate kicked himself out of my condo.
I didn’t know this before he moved in, but he turned out to be a pathological liar and attention/pity seeker. He fabricated and gossiped all kinds of stories that were easily proven false and then he’d backpedal and lash out if caught.
I was super uncomfortable with it and privately started making mental plans to give him his 30 days’ notice at the end of his lease (4 months away), but hadn’t told anyone. Well, one day I get some text messages from some mutual colleagues asking if it was true that I was kicking him out TODAY and I tell them that this was the first I was hearing of it.
Turned out that roughly after the third or fourth time that I caught the roommate in a major lie, he noticed that I wasn’t as chummy with him anymore, and he started spreading a rumour that I hated him now and that I was going to kick him out on his ass and make him homeless. He went crying to all of the prettiest ladies of the gossip mill at work about how he was getting kicked out tonight and the rumour travelled quickly in a circle back around and he got tons of attention.
So that night he comes home from drinks with his gossip entourage and starts yelling at me about how he’d heard that I’m evicting him and demands to know if the rumour was true that I was going to kick him out tonight. I told him nope, I had no idea what he was talking about. He starts ranting and raving about how gossip gets around and continues accusing me. I tell him point blank that I don’t know what he’s talking about, because I wasn’t planning on evicting him today AND I had never talked to anyone about evicting him — but I was upfront about my intention to give him notice at the end of his lease.
He starts yelling WHAT DATE and then cuts me off and gives himself 30 days notice from today and starts accusing me of kicking him out before the holidays. Then he stormed off and updated his whole gossip train that he HAD been kicked out tonight and that the rumours were all true.
The next day he found a friend’s couch to sleep on and another room to rent by the end of the week, and upped the gossip to “Billie hates me so much they kicked me out onto the street that night.”
So he turned his own rumour that he created about himself into a quasi-reality. He did leave my home that day, but not on my doing. My home and my life are 1000x more peaceful now that he is gone.
TL;DR My roommate spread a rumour about himself getting kicked out of my condo, confronted me about the rumour as if I had started it, and during the confrontation gave himself notice and kicked himself out.
This girl who was in my school made a hate account against herself and got super pissed if anyone insinuated (sp?) it was her. She'd say shit like 'maybe this person is right' when one caption was 'the world would be a better place without this b*tch' etc.
Some people are learning a bit too much in their online classes, like what porn their professor is into.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced schools and almost all workplaces to go online, and some people are adapting to this new virtual reality better than others.
Here are mistakes people made that you should make sure to avoid.
6. Forgot their mic was on.
7. Aired a streaker.
8. Toasted with a sex-positive cup.
9. Accidentally leaked a social security number.
...and on the 31st day of quarantine, while honoring the anniversary of our grandmother’s passing, our dear dad accidentally made his zoom background my 2017 W2 with my social security number flaunted to all (😭😭😭!!)#zoomfail#socialinsecuritypic.twitter.com/9iiOauuC2W
— Rachel Woods-Robinson (@rachelectron) April 13, 2020
10. Brought weed to work.
11. Zumba'd with paraphanelia.
12. Rolled eyes on camera.
13. Had the class interrupted by a rapper.
14. Showed up to the wrong job.
15. Trash-talked a classmate.
16. Fought with their parents unmuted.
17. Turned into a pen.
18. Stood up.
You know the chair. You know the drawer. Have a spot in your closet that you just toss things that don't have any other logical place to go? Maybe it's finally time to go through the mail, or that box in the attic. Sure, it's annoying and boring and it's hard to decide if that photobooth picture from the mall food court in 2003 sparks joy or not, but now is the time to do it! Plus, you never know what you might find...
If you haven't been cleaning or organizing in the quarantine yet, it's ok. Perhaps these people who have discovered old treasure from the days when we could go outside and hug our friends can help motivate you to dive into those boxes...
One aspect of adulthood that's both liberating and painful is realizing you have agency when it comes to your family. Just because you're related to someone by blood doesn't mean you need to keep them in your life, especially if their behavior is harmful to you or those close to you. Yep, it's crazy. But it's true! Thanks, therapy :) However, it can be difficult to know when and how to set boundaries with people we're related to, even when they behave really, really badly.
A dad asked Reddit to weigh in on if he's an "a**hole" for choosing to stay in contact with his conservative, homophobic brother, even though his 14-year-old son is gay.
The dad says he has tried confronting his brother about his bigoted opinions, but it's clear that he's "not going to change his mind."
About a year ago, my younger son (14M) came out as gay.
My wife and I have no problem whatsoever with this and neither does my older son (16M). My brother on the other hand was not happy at this news. Me, him and my sister grew up in a relatively conservative community and he still reflects that. I'm not going to sugarcoat it, he is homophobic. He doesn't like the thought of same sex relationships one single bit. I never tried to confront him about this, even though I disagree with him on it, until I found out about my son. However, it's clear I am not going to change his mind about it.
While I'm sad that he thinks like that, he is family and I want to keep in contact with him. My son however said a few months ago that he wants me to cut him off and said that he basically feels that by keeping in contact with my brother I am not valuing him as a person. I understand why he doesn't want anything to do with my brother, and have allowed him to stop coming with us when we visit and stay in his room or go out the house while my brother visits us. But I don't want to tear the family apart over this and lose my relationship with my brother, and also my niece and nephew. My son got extremely upset when I told him this and accused me of not caring about him and said that I will never understand what it's like to face homophobia.
I genuinely feel sorry for him, since he first came out he has faced a few incidents of homophobia with some of the other boys he goes to school with so the issue is very personal to him, but at the same time my brother is still my brother and I don't want to lose him because of this.
Ooooooooooooooooof. At first glance, this is a tricky one. Because even if you think the dad is wrong to maintain contact with his brother (and he is), cutting off a family member isn't easy to do. Even if that family member is a big ol' bigot. But just because something is hard doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.
carolinemathildes writes:
YTA. You're not just staying in contact with your brother, you are choosing him over your son. You say you don't want to tear the family apart but that's exactly what you're doing, because you're absolutely wrong if you think your son is going to have any respect for you or stick around when he turns 18. This shows that you don't support him and he'll carry that knowledge with him forever.
happysapling writes:
So, you aren't ok with losing your brother over your son, but you are ok with taking a chance on losing your son for your brother??
Why would you eant to keep contact with someone who disrespects your child?
And FireGorgon agrees, writing:
This, exactly this.
There's a pretty good chance, you'll lose your relationship with your son, or at the very least, that you wouldn't have as good a relationship as you could have
ThePokinatchaPunk writes:
Couldn’t agree more. OP is already pretty clearly prioritizing one relationship over another. If my brother — or anyone — treated my child that way they’d be cut off pretty much immediately.
lydriseabove writes:
“But I don’t want to tear the family apart over this and lose my relationship with my brother.” Then tell your brother to grow up and stop tearing the family apart by being an ignorant asshole. YTA.
And lightwoodorchestra agrees, writing:
YTA. The message you are sending your son is that you accept him, but not enough to actually stand up for him. And honestly? You’re an asshole for only bothering to confront your brother’s homophobia when it affected your family. Allowing hatred to go unchecked because you don’t feel like dealing with conflict is cowardly and immoral.
kayluhhhhhhhhh writes:
YTA. You’re not just still in contact, but sounds to be regularly bringing this man to your house and forcing your son to either hole up in his room or leave, or be stuck at home alone when you go visit. You say you don’t want to tear your family apart, you still will continuing to contact your brother. Your son will no forgive you for that. Experiencing homophobia, especially from a family member who is supposed to love you, is extremely hurtful and mentally damaging.
And BBQpigsfeet agrees, writing:
This is what makes op the AH to me. It would be one thing to keep in touch via the phone or fb, but to leave your son out of family gatherings or to have him go to his room while your brother is coming into his space is serious asshole material, and is only going to serve to alienate him.
As this story highlights, it's a lot easier to tolerate someone's bigotry when you're not a member of the group that the person is bigoted against. The dad can't understand how painful this uncle's behavior must be for his son, but he can try.
That being said, I know a lot of people have family members like this bigoted uncle, and they still get invited to holidays. So, this dad may be an "a**hole," but he's definitely not the only one. If you have experience with a family member like this, how did your family handle it?
Connecting with family, friends, or coworkers in a video chat is so important during this time of social distancing. It's also pretty hilarious. These memes totally nail what we're all experiencing when we're on a Zoom meeting.
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