Losing a loved one is never easy, and by far, going through their things is one of the strangest parts of the grieving process. In some cases the morbid cleaning job turns into a weep fest as you come across sentimental objects and letters that signal how much love they had.

In other cases, looking through the belongings of a loved one reveals secrets they kept from everyone during their life. This of course, elicits a lot of questions that are mostly unanswerable since they're gone.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most surprising things they found when going through their dead loved one's belongings.

1. From theb*tchycoworker:

Lost my dad last year. I was very surprised at how many sentimental things he kept. He wasn't a total hard ass, but I never thought of him as sentimental. He still had a letter his mother had written to him when he joined the Navy, some toys/trinkets that I gave him when I was a child.

2. From RaedwaldRex:

A handwritten letter from the then King of Jordan. My grandad found it during world war 2, kept it in a keepsakes box along with old ration books and his dead wife's driving license.

3. From ldshimek:

My husband passed last July. I was going through his accordion file where he put all of his important papers trying to find his car title. I found an envelope that I had written my name and number on the first day we met. He kept it in his accordion file under “very important documents” this whole time. It made me cry.

Edit: Thank you for all your kind words and well wishes. You all have no idea how much this has helped me feel like I’m not alone, especially right now during quarantine. I am so happy to share a piece of our lives with you wonderful people.

4. From LilMeemz:

My Baba (grandmother) lost her dominant/right hand as a young woman. We found a box of letters she had written to practice adjusting to using her left hand. What was most interesting to me was that her handwriting was almost identical between the two, with very little adjustment.

5. From Angel12279:

Perhaps not crazy but it was somewhat surprising.

My grandfather wasn't really in our lives, he was abusive towards our grandmother and when they divorced he moved across the country and became a truck driver.

Growing up my mother never really saw him and the one time she did he was sober but admitted his dry humor made it hard to talk to him. However when my sister and I were born she put an effort to send him pictures and Christmas cards.

Throughout his life he never talked to her or reached out and assumed he just never cared and we were on better relations with his brother anyway.

However, in October of 2018 he ended up passing away and my mother came up to help his grieving brother sort through my grandfather's things. She ended up finding every wall covered in our baby photos and cards we sent him through out the years along with the few our aunts and uncles sent him.

My mother became so heartbroken because throughout her entire life she assumed he hated his past or just disliked us but he probably just didn't know exactly how to interact with us.

6. From xoxomaxine:

When my grandma passed away in the late 2000’s, we were cleaning out her house and found a large glass jar full of quarters. Each coin had a white label on it with her handwriting.

One of the coins was a 1972 quarter. “Aug. 5, 1972 - arrived to the US” was written on the label.

She had saved a quarter with the year of every single milestone since they came to the US. The date they bought their home, when they bought their first car, when she got her first dog. My aunt has the collection now.

7. From rdhd247:

When my grandfather passed, we found in a box hidden in an old closet all the love letters my grandmother and him exchanged before they got married. I'm glad we found them.

8. From HyperEnemy:

My mom died from cancer when I was 15, I'm now 19 and one of my sisters just gave me my mom's journal. My older sister had to hide it cause she was afraid my dad would take it and never let us see it.

Its been so nice to be able to read it. I never thought I would get too feel this close to her again :)

9. From RIII-XStitch-NHBS:

My friend's mum died about seven years ago and as my friend is an only child I thought it would be nice to help her clear out her mum's place. The mum was a bit of a hoarder and was in her early 80s when she died. Fortunately, my friend was out of the room when I found a jar with 40-year-old spermicide in it while going through an old trunk.

I knew it was that old as the woman was divorced in her 40s and never got over the failed marriage, plus you don't really need birth control of that nature in your 50s, etc. It was in a glass container and had separated into layers. I quickly tossed it into the garbage bag before my friend came back in and never told her.

10. From Gibbie42:

When my mother helped clean out her 80 odd year old long widowed aunt's house, she found condoms and gold lame stockings.

11. From tzlm:

I live in eastern Europe and my grandma was in concentration camp as a child. After she passed away, we were cleaning here apartment and we have found crazy amounts of dry food hidden, tons of sugar, pasta, rice etc. Decades after the war and camp she was still preparing for famine striking one day. It was the saddest thing to find.

12. From aventurinesoul:

Maybe not so much of a surprise per se but the closet in my mother’s old room was completely full of plastic grocery bags that grandma had been saving.

My mom made a braided rug with them as a gag gift and it’s still around.

The bigger surprise was how much of their wealth had been donated to charities. They lived such a simple life you’d never know they had that amount of money to begin with.

13. From teasus_spiced:

A bit of background first. Since I was very young my father lived half way across the world and my mother didn't let him see me. She also got together with a psychopath who hated me. My childhood was truly terrible, to the extent that I was suicidal before my age was in double digits. My two grandmothers were a total lifeline, and without them I really don't think I'd be alive. I was put into a children's home when I was 14.

When my maternal Grandmother died, my Uncle found a folder with my name on it. Inside were letters between her and my other Grandmother. They were conspiring to make sure that I had at least some positivity in my life, and arranging with each other about who would invite me to stay with them next. Those letters were truly beautiful.

There was also a watch, given to her by Saddam Hussein, but we knew about that. She was an interesting woman!

14. From kmartfreak:

For some reason, my Great Aunt had the pocket-sized New Testament my grandfather took to WW2. When I opened it up, his dog tags fell out, and his next of kin listed was a woman who wasn't my grandmother. I found out that day he was married once before, and I was shocked.

15. From butiwantthisusername:

Lost my mate at 13, grew up with her, I even lived with as a kid when my mum and brothers were homeless. Anyway her room is still the same, a year or so later and me and her younger sister where looking through her artwork and found Christmas cards. She died just before Christmas and you don't think of things like that.

16. From CosmicMaiden:

My oldest uncle killed himself years ago. He was depressed, paranoid and mentally ill. When my mom (his sister) went to his home, she found multiple dictionaries in different languages. He was working like park guardian in Paris, and so he learned a lot of languages to help people. He even had a complete collection of all Alexandre Dumas' books. He may have been terribly alone all his life, driving him totally crazy. But I assume he also traveled all around the world, and in time, in his mind.

May he found peace.

17. From imunclebubba:

My grandfather had major heart problems most of his life. Had to take nitro on the regular and his case was written about in a medical journal. The doctors told him that he should quit drinking 100% however that a "nip" here and there wouldn't hurt him. After he passed away while we were renovating the spare bathroom for my grandmother we found a hole in the floor underneath the bathroom vanity.

Within this hole was wooden cylinder with a lid that my grandfather had made. In it was a bottle of whiskey and written on the inside of the lid was a reminder that my grandfather wrote. "Remember, Just a Nip, unless it's a hard day then take 2". Grandma knew nothing of it, we all thought that grandpa had quit drinking entirely after he was told to stop.

18. From HelmutMelmoth:

I found a really spooky diary at my great aunt’s house. It had entries like “I murdered the neighbour just now”, and “Your mother was the victim today”. Needless to say my wee aunt is unlikely to have murdered anyone (or to have been so nonchalant about it), so it must be code for something, but for what?

19. From returningvideotapes2:

When my grandfather died we found three separate briefcases in his loft.

Briefcase 1: around 20k in it

Briefcase 2: around 50k in it

Briefcase 3: documentation and photo ID for different names but my grandfather’s face.

My dad and uncle finished the clear out process by themselves and have never told me if they found anything else or what they did with the briefcases

20. From SpiritofaTrafficJam:

I helped an ex girlfriend (well, ex fiancee, but yeah), clean out her stepdad's house in the early 1990s after he passed away suddenly. This is the man she considered her father - he and her mom married when she was very young (never knew her bio dad), and he was the most amazing husband and father. He never treated her differently than the kids he and her mom had later, and doted on her mother, only to be shattered by her passing about 5 years before.

We went to his house with her siblings and their significant others to sort things out. She and I were in his "hobby room" full of radios, small electric motors, model trains...that sort of thing when her younger sister came running down the stairs.

She had been in the "guest" room and found boxes of dildos, light bondage gear, leather straps....and a photo album. The photo album was full of pictures of himself and his wife at swinger parties, bondage parties, photos of people she knew as "aunts" and "uncles" in various states of undress with plates of what we assumed to be cocaine. Most of the photos were from the mid 70s to mid 80s. She was born in the late 1960s, and her siblings all around the times of the photos....

That was a fun day.

If you're keeping track of what day of the week it is in quarantine, you must have a magical photographic wizard memory...

In case you're not totally sure, today is day March purple 2,000 of quarantine and we're in the month of Blue Kangaroo. Time has entered a confusing, weird space where the hours and days are going by incredibly fast while also this has been the longest month of all our lives. Is there any point of keeping track? Do you only know how many days have gone by because of all the hours of television you've watched? Is it possible you haven't yet done your laundry in this decade? It's ok, you're not alone. Although, maybe you should shower...

Last week we brought you the funniest tweets we could find from people who have no idea what day it is and this week is no different. Turns out, nobody knows what day it is. Pretty soon we're all going to have to start making one of those chalk charts Tom Hanks relied on in "Cast Away."

Stay home (if you can), support your local essential workers and stay healthy, everyone! And if you need to know what day it is, don't ask these people:

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Things have gotten weird under coronavirus lockdown. So weird that the number one meme is anagrams using the title of a teen soap that ran from 207-2012.

A delightfully bizarre meme right now started when @baro_tokiyo imagined a conversation between Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester), in which Serena has to go to the bathroom.

The OP rearranged "gossip" into "go piss," and over 485,000 loved what was "left of her sanity."

It wasn't long before everyone from Lonely Boys to Upper East Siders created their own anagrams out of the show's title.

There's this hilarious one from @MargotKravitz, which is the opposite of the "piss" one.

There are funny ones that capture the quarantine experience.

This one is delightfully simple.

The meme has gotten so big, it's been broadened beyond Manhattan's elite.

Blake Lively, who must have a good sense of humor since she's married to Ryan Reynolds, shared a version that doubles as a coronavirus PSA.

"What should I wear to the supermarket?"

"Gloves girl."

It's the dawn of a new golden age of artistic expression.

You know you love it.

xoxo

Gossip Girl

Keeping a home clean if you have kids (or even if you don't!) is hard enough even without a global pandemic keeping the kids home 24/7. So if you're a parent and your house currently looks like it's been hit by a natural disaster, well, it has. It's natural for cooped up children to have a hurricane-like effect on their surroundings. And it's natural for parents at a certain point to give up on even trying to keep the mess under control.

So if you're a parent, don't be hard on yourself! You're not alone. Messy homes are a global phenomenon right now, and many parents are using social media to document their messes.

Here are 22 photos from parents that show what living with kids during a quarantine really looks like:

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Many families have wedding traditions they pass through the generations, so it can be an emotional minefield to navigate the desires of two families when planning your festivities.

In theory, since a wedding is a public celebration of love, the couple getting married should call the shots for how that takes shape. However, that's not always how it goes down, especially if one party prioritizes their extended family's desires over their partner.

While a wedding is just one day, the emotional politics around planning it can serve as foreshadowing for how the relationship will unfold over time. So, paying attention to the difficult conversations that come up is essential if you want a long and healthy marriage.

To this very point, in a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a man asked if he's wrong for considering canceling his wedding after getting pressured into a "tradition" he absolutely hates.

WIBTA for calling off the wedding

Alright, so I'm pretty torn here.

I've been dating a girl for a long time and it's been mostly great. I proposed a few months ago and we've been planning some wedding stuff recently.

During some recent wedding planning, OP's fiance revealed her family's tradition of placing a ball and chain on the groom at the reception for as long as they please.

Well, she has also recently dropped it on me that it is "family tradition" to put a ball and chain on the groom at the reception as "joke" and they won't take it off until whenever the f*ck they decide to.

OP made it clear that the tradition makes him uncomfortable, but offered to do it at a private reception for her friends and family if she's super attached to it.

I am certainly not doing that, but she seems pretty firm on it. I feel like if you want to embarrass me like that, you can host your own reception without my family and friends there, and embarrass me all you want in front of your family and friends.

However, OP's fiance has stuck to her guns and claims the tradition is important to her, and she wants it at the main wedding reception.

Really might call this off if they're expecting me to go ball and chain, and I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable but she's pretty f*cking mad at me right now for my refusal

OP wrote that the tradition itself is a huge turn-off, and the way his fiance is sticking to her guns is causing him to call off the wedding altogether. So, as any modern man would, he brought his query to the internet in hopes of gaining some outside perspective.

WebbieVanderquack thinks OP's instincts are correct.

NTA. What a repulsive, tacky tradition.

NoxWild thinks the "tradition" is wildly tacky and OP has every right to put his foot down.

NTA. It's your wedding. You can say No to this.

Tell her it is your family tradition that weddings don't have tiresome outdated joke rituals designed to embarrass people.

Hell, I don't know you and I'm not invited to your wedding, but I'm cringing so hard I'm about to throw my back out.

The number of people who think this is amusing is far, far less than those who think its an unfunny shtick from 1950.

rocket-c4t thinks OP's fiance's tradition, and all traditions like it need to die in a fire.

NTA, I’m tired of weddings that have jokes about how much the couple hates being together (cake topper with the groom trying to run away etc etc) it’s not funny and just extremely tacky and would definitely be a deal breaker for me.

Ms_Cats_Meow pointed out how this isn't really about the tradition itself, but how OP's fiance navigates his feelings.

NTA This isn't about this one "joke," it's about how you and your fiance navigate conflict. If her priorities are some demeaning family tradition over your comfort, that's a valid reason to have a serious talk about your relationship and possibly reevaluate things.

ninawolverina thinks the fact that OP's first response was to call off the wedding shows that he's not fully committed.

NTA if you're willing to break it off for something like this I'm afraid you probably werent gonna be that solid of a marriage, in the end. Best end it when you feel it's best, if you're even considering it. Seems like you want to and you're looking for an excuse to.

Flower-of-Telperion thinks it's telling that OP would throw away the whole wedding because of this cringe-inducing tradition.

NTA for being upset at your fianceé attempting to foist this horrifying, tacky "tradition" upon you. She should be willing to compromise with you on this. You're starting your own family, with your own traditions, hopefully.

But... the way you write about this relationship makes it sound like you're not that into it in the first place. Calling off a wedding is a big deal—does this mean you no longer want to marry her at all? What kind of conversation have you had with her about this?

Why does she feel it's so important to indulge this "tradition," and why are you so willing to break what was supposed to be a lifelong commitment over it? (Understand that I completely agree with you that this "tradition" is tacky and shitty and should not be done.) But, like, what does this say about how you would handle other, arguably more important conflicts in life?

After receiving a good amount of feedback, and a few pointed questions about the nature of their relationship, OP jumped back on to clarify where he stands with everything.

Edit - Super overwhelmed with the responses, I didn't expect this many people to show up and agree with me. I really appreciate everyone's thoughts and advice, but there is no way I'll be able to reply to everyone so here's some more info based on what I've read (most of the comments thus far).

No, I am not just looking for a reason to call off the wedding

Yes, you guys bring up very good points that if something like this would cause me to throw it away then it may be some form of writing on the walls (just to confirm, I do not want to throw it away).

I will not be caving in to this in any way shape or form unless as I mentioned earlier, she wants to finance her own private reception where her family and friends can embarrass me all they want while mine aren't present.

The point above, imo, doesn't mean the wedding will be called off. It's up to how firm she is on the "joke" and if they'll just let it go.

While it seems clear that OP's dislike of the tradition is completely reasonable, where he stands on getting married and a serious relationship with this woman seems contradictory and a vague. Hopefully they're able to figure it out, whether it results in a compromised wedding or an amicable break up.

If you're getting that $1200 stimulus check from the government, these memes will definitely be relatable. If you haven't received yours yet, you can still have some laughs while you wait.

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Teachers love telling their classes that "there is no such thing as a stupid question," and students love proving them wrong.

A popular thread on Reddit had people sharing the stupidest things they ever heard from their classmates. The celebration of stupidity was inspired by a classmate who said that using solar energy "would shrink the sun and kill us all."

These students have a lot of learning to do.

1. Maybe he's born with it, SweetHeartkiller.

A guy in one of my classes in high school didn't understand why a baby born in China then raised entirely in the US would be able to speak English instead of Chinese. He thought people were born automatically knowing a language.

2. Yum, crashpod.

10th grade Social Studies: When they launch rockets how do they get through the crust of the earth. Dude thought the atmosphere was the crust of the earth.

3. chunwing91 had a cool teacher.

High school biology teacher trying to be enthusiastic about plant reproduction : "Pollen is plant sperm! Just think about all that yellow dust on your car; it's plant sperm! PLANT SPERM EVERYWHERE!"

Girl: "...can I...can I get pregnant?"

4. Not everybody has seen Hamilton, rugger88.

A girl in my 7th grade honors history class asked who won the American Revolution. The teacher quieted all the groans and laughter and asked nicely, "Well _____, what flag is hanging in the front of our room?" Her response: "That's an American flag right?"

5. zarat is alive and thinking.

In intro philosophy class we were studying Descartes' logic of "I think therefore I am."

One girl raises her hand and asks, "So people that stop thinking die?"

6. 10twentyseven's classmate was not the fittest.

Some chick told me that "because of the iPhone 5, humans thumbs will eventually be an inch longer."

I asked her if she knew how long evolution takes.

She responded with, "Do you not believe that I'm a biology major?"

7. C'est dommage, cj0391.

Kid in my Gov't class a few years back said this gem, "Canada, I thought that was a state." The teacher wrote it on the board and kept it there for the rest of the year.

8. From Not_Quite_Normal:

"What state is Arkansas in?"

9. Your fave is problematic, capcalhoon.

We were discussing Christopher Columbus in a college course and a gal raised her hand and, very upset, said "why do we have to bring up the bad stuff? why can't we just enjoy him like when we were kids?!?"

10. All aboard, thatswhatsomesay

A girl in my English class called me stupid for saying Costa Rica had a coastline. She was sure it was landlocked. And she knew because she had previously gone there on vacation. On a cruise. I can't even make this up. SHE TOOK A BOAT THERE. A BOAT. ON THE OCEAN.

11. thiazzi's classmate plays the game of thrones.

"It would be fun to live back in the 1800's, man! Riding a horse, eating dragon meat! Yeah!"

I wish I was f*cking kidding.

12. soylentblueissmurfs described most congressmen.

"But isn't Islam a lake?" when asked to point out the spread of Islam on a map. This was after 3 weeks of studying it in religious class.

13. Nath_O gets the gold.

We were told that each Olympic ring is a continent, someone asked if the yellow ring was China. China. CHINA. CHINA.

14. farxism missed out on a business opportunity.

In culinary school: 'I don't understand why shrimp is so cheap. Wouldn't it make more sense to let them grow into lobsters, then sell them for more money?'

15. Crikey, IamBrennan.

"Whats the capital of Australia?"

"New Zealand"

16. Hopefully they weren't TheFruitFondler's classmate in medical school.

"Asthma is an allergy, and smoking can help to get rid of it"

17. Why not, Headhuntern1?

Girl in my college math class asked why the U.S. couldn't just print more money to pay off the debt. I got up and left.

18. From pronounverbnoun:

"Why do astronauts have to wear helmets?" "Because there is no oxygen in space..." "SOOOO?"

19. Eeeek, classylassy.

A kid in my 11th grade class thought yeast infections were caused by women eating wayyyyy to much yeast. We all just stared at him and I told him I would talk to him after class to save the embarrassment. It got even more awkward because he was super religious and was always talking about praising the lord. It didnt feel right to talk about lady parts with him.

XX. From NolanK:

I have two from the same girl in Chemistry class:

"So.. where does the sun go at night?"

"What's a Roman Numeral?"

21. Bloody wrong, faroh:

In my freshman sex ed class the teacher had us grade our classmates' tests by doing the old "pass your test to the person behind you" deal. One of the questions was "A male's penis becomes erect by filling with _____." The girl in front of me answered with "air."

22. I object, ohheyitsjess.

"So wait, you can't just copy and paste Wikipedia as a reference for an essay? What if they word things exactly the way you want to word it?" This girl is in law school...

23. Well, Darth_Brannigan...

A girl in my grade 11 geography class asked why people on the bottom of the Earth don't fall off? Dead silence, except for me, who was laughing uncontrollably.

We're about a month into the quarantine, and cabin fever is the least of our problems right now...

In the first week of lockdown, a lot of us wondered how long we were going to be able to stay sane while trapped in our homes with just a bag of chips, a puzzle, one roll of toilet paper and Netflix. Social distancing is critical to flattening the curve which means if you're not an essential worker, you must stay home and do your part in keeping everyone safe.

While the government has promised many Americans stimulus checks of 1200 dollars, it probably comes as no surprise that sending millions of people money all at once didn't go smoothly. While some people have received their money (and one man received 8 million?), others are waiting, constantly refreshing their bank balances.

Since we could definitely all use a laugh right now, here are some of the funniest and most relatable tweets we could find about the COVID-19 stimulus check.

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These work from home memes are hilariously accurate. Anyone working remotely will absolutely relate to this list. The good news is you can laugh as loud as you want because your boss definitely won't hear you from your couch.

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Humans tend to be quick to put other people in a box of "good" vs. "bad," but it's not usually that simple. Oftentimes, one person's "villain" has their own version of events, or at least an explanation for why they behaved the way that they did. Of course, this doesn't necessarily justify bad behavior. And sometimes a douchebag is just a douchebag. But more often it's more complicated than that, and otherwise "good" or well-intentioned humans are often capable of doing bad things.

Someone asked Reddit: "people who realised they were the villain in someone else's story, what's your side of story?" These 16 people share their stories of being perceived as the "bad guy" by others, and what happened from their perspective:

1.) From anon_1349:

Ok so this weird misunderstanding happened when I was visiting the Netherlands. I'd just bought a sandwich from one of the bakeries and was sitting by the canal eating it when this massive duck jumps out the water and goes straight towards me with its eyes fixed on my sandwich. I'm kinda worried its gonna try to grab it off me so I wave my foot in it's direction to try to ward it off. The duck stops at my feet and just sits there staring at me while I eat. "Ok, whatever, its just going to sit there and not bother me" I think, so I just ignore it and continue eating my sandwich.

Not long after this a women approaches me and speaks to me in dutch. I look at her blankly and she keeps speaking so I say "Sorry, I don't understand". She switches to broken English and starts saying "You make yourself big, you kick the duck". I continue to stare blankly so she repeats herself a few more times.

I'm desperately trying to figure out what the hell she's talking about. Eventually it dawns on me. She's seen that the duck wants my sandwich, and shes trying to tell me how to make it go away. The duck isn't bothering me, and I really don't want to kick it, so I just smile and "Right ok". But this damn woman won't leave. She keeps standing there staring at me. So I sigh, comically puff up my chest to 'make myself big', look at the duck, and give it a small nudge with my foot.

Nothing happens. The duck doesn't even react. It's still standing in the same place. At this point the women goes f*cking ballistic. She starts yelling at me to "f*ck off back to my own country", she "hopes I choke on my sandwich" and even says she's going to throw me in the canal and makes a motion towards me. I'm just sitting staring at her in utter disbelief.

After she leaves I'm kind of in shock and trying to process what happened. I eventually realise that from her perspective it looked like I'd kicked the duck when I'd waved my foot at it, and she was trying to call me out on it. To which I responded by politely smiling and then 'kicking' the duck again while puffing up my chest to take the piss out of her. She's probably still telling people about the asshole animal abuser foreigner.

2.) From Kirkland_MrMeeseeks:

I farted in a crowded elevator and tried to cough at the same time to cover up the noise but did not time it well.

3.) From nonotburton:

I realized that I was about to become a passenger in my own life, so I called off the wedding. I never should have proposed, and I still feel bad about it, when I think about it. But there's no doubt, I was the villain.

4.) From LydaPellerin:

Probably when I broke up with my girlfriend that I started dating in high school. We had made some plans about me going into the military or joining the police force so I could provide for us once we got married. Then I was like "yeah no I don't want to do any of that, I'm 19" and I left. She was pregnant by another man less than a year later.

5.) From Hematospermia:

Once my wife and I were waiting at an intersection, and there was a panhandler sitting on an overturned bucket holding a sign asking for change. I had a dollar and some change in my pocket, so I gave it to my wife and said "give this to him". She rolled down the window and held the money out to the guy, but he just sat there and said "just throw it to me". My wife said "huh?" And he said, "I don't feel like getting up, just toss it to me." So, my wife took all the coins and stacked them up and wrapped the dollar bill around them in an attempt to make a tossable package.

Then, she tossed the package at the guy, and as he held out his hand to catch it, the package f*cking exploded and coins went flying all around him and the dollar blew away. He just sat there and shrugged at my wife, and the light turned green so I started to drive in to the intersection. Then, in the rearview mirror I see that the lady in the car behind me had gotten out and was collecting the coins off the ground, handed them to the panhandler, and then gave him a "you poor soul" hug.

I realized later that to her it looked like we had callously thrown our spare change at this poor panhandler who had put his hand up to defend himself, sending change flying everywhere. I imagine she thought we were cackling with glee, Cruella deVille style, as we sped off after our disgraceful act. And she felt the need to comfort him after he had been treated so badly.

Little did she know the guy was just a lazy shit who couldn't be bothered to get off his bucket.

6.) From Carebear1013:

When I was in elementary school there was a girl who copied everything I did. From what I would wear or paint in art class and even down to the way I organized my desk. One time she heard my friend and I talking about going to the neighborhood playground to hang out and she just showed up. Neither I nor my friend really liked her so we said hi but kept playing without her. After she tried to play with us multiple times my friend and I just decided to leave because we didn’t want to play with her. I thought she was trying to take my identity and my friends by becoming me and it made me really angry. So I wasn’t very nice to her. I wouldn’t play with her at recess, I didn’t want to sit next to her at lunch and when she asked me to come over and play I would always say no.

Obviously, she was just insecure and wanted to be friends but being 10 I didn’t understand that. During high school I realized what had been going on reached out to her. We talked about it and we both explained our sides of what we were thinking at the time. I was an ass but she understood how I could feel that way. I apologized and we both went on with our lives.

Even if she did forgive me, I was the villain. If it helps I try very hard to make sure I’m trying to understand where people are coming from because of this.

7.) From khinua:

I guess it’s what happened with my ex, I fell in love with him hard and he realised he didn’t love me so he broke up with me but really liked me and wanted to stay friends. So I remained his friend for two months but my feelings got so out of control I started hounding him to get back with me. He got sick of this and cut me off. I just went ballistic, and would turn up at his house and cry and beg to speak to him, I’d text non stop. I was pure nice girl. I eventually became suicidal and was hospitalised a few times and they suggested I had borderline personality disorder. In the end it turned out I didn’t and we still don’t know why I ended up like that, but I effectively stalked him for a year. Sending him a text on a burner number would ease my anxiety for a moment, even though it caused him suffering. In the end he got a restraining order out on me and I came to my senses and left him alone. I hate myself for what I did to him and still wonder what snapped in my brain to make me act like that. If you’re out there Lance I am very sorry and I promise I am still working on myself to get better.

8.) From Stop_CharterSchools:

I got involved with an older (late 20s), married woman when I was in my early 20s. She fell in love with me and wanted to leave her husband to be with me. I slept with her multiple times, and then when I got tired of it, I ghosted her.

15 years later, I saw her again. She wouldn't even acknowledge my existence, and I don't blame her.

9.) From manotonous:

Back in 9th grade we had this math teacher. He was somewhat inexperienced in teaching but tried hard to teach us. I, being an asshole, always spoke out and used to pass mean comments. He tried to make the class understand every topic but i and few of my friends always gave him hard time by making noises and mean comments.

One day in class while he was struggling to solve a wrong equation or something (i cant remember exactly) i said something about him being incompetent and cant teach us.

I didn't bother thinking about it since but years later my friend mentioned it and i realized how much of an asshole i had been with him.

He had probably just started teaching then and couldn't handle the class properly and was trying as hard as he could.

10.) From CathNelson:

I was probably one of many villains in my childhood best friend’s story. If you ask her I ghosted her for a boy (I know she thinks this because I’m still in contact with her sister).

In reality she manipulated me and gaslit me for our entire childhood and teenage years. She attempted to isolate me and made me choose between my other friends and her constantly. She would refuse to tell me what was wrong and then blamed me for not knowing why she was upset every time (it was always stupid things, like I was drawing a dragon, which she saw as childish and uncool). What finally made me walk away was when she got mad at me for wanting to spend a few days with my BF alone (we were dating long distance, I hadn’t seen him in over a year). She picked a fight over it and I begged her to forgive me, which she refused and continued to yell at me over page-long tex messages. it caused my first ever major anxiety attack, which made her even more angry because I dared to not answer her for an hour while I was vomiting and trying to pull myself together(she had not answered my previous message for a week to “cool off” btw so it’s not like I left mid conversation). I decided to not answer her for a while after another round of “I’m so sorry!” Messages, and when I looked back after a bit, I realised how toxic this shit was. I regret not trying to explain it to her, why I had to walk away, ghosting her was not the right thing to do, but I knew that if I tried to open the conversation again I wouldn’t walk away, I’d end up right back where I started and I just couldn’t do that again.

Her sister did ask about it a few years later and I didn’t have the heart to tell her everything that happened. she was aware of the manipulation and some of the shitty behaviour though, she tried to warn me about it for years but she was my best friend and I trusted her, so I didn’t listen.

11.) From doubtfulanon:

One day when i’m not so ashamed of how things turn out I can publicly share this. but for my current sanity i would like to share it here

two years ago I got into a bad relationship. my now ex was very verbally abusive, snooped my phone constantly, i couldn’t go anywhere without him, he spent my money recklessly while also bullying me into buying him things and constant beer trips. he drank four tall cans probably every night at least, and i’m not sure if that makes him an alcoholic but he was drunk A LOT. my family relationships were poor and he also used this to isolate me from them. I felt trapped but unable to leave a relationship that would make me homeless and completely broke.

desperate and starved for attention, I cheated on him with the first guy who gave me positive attention. I loved feeling important and like I mattered to someone else. Never before in my entire almost 30 years of living have I even entertained the idea of cheating on someone and here I am having full on affairs behind my boyfriends back. for MONTHS.

eventually he found out and told pretty much the entire world how much of a cheating slut I am and how I ruined our relationship. convinced my family that I am evil, I wrecked a perfectly great life, he thought I was The One. Even after all of that he still refused to break up with me- so i snapped, took the car(it was in my name) and ran away with the man i had been seeing behind his back.

To so many people I’m the bad guy, the villain, in this story, including my family and most of my old friends.

it’s been a long time and i’m still together with my current boyfriend but 2018-2020 feels like a depressed blur of life. I’m still trying to cope and feel like “Me” again.

12.) From MyNameIsZa2:

Came to this realization with the help of a friend named Lucy:

Several years back, I ended up hooking up with a best friend of mine and we clicked like a perfect match. Dana and I spent a week together exploring each other's bodies and just being super content. It was surreal. Nearing the end of the week, "the conversation" happened. "So what are we?"

We mutually agreed to keep things casual because we were in transitory periods of our lives.

Anyway, that fateful week culminated with my birthday on a Saturday.

Dana volunteered to throw me a party at her place and all of our friends were going to come - fantastic. My other friends invited me to their house to begin partying in the late afternoon. Dana gave me the okay to take off and she would set up on her own.

About 4 hours later, after pre-gaming with friends and attending a local mini-film fest viewing, I stumble into my party just as it is taking off around 9pm.

Since it is around Christmas time, we had agreed to do a pollyanna gift exchange. I start it off by handing a poorly made wooden boat to a buddy of mine and immediately proceed to the kitchen to take a shot of tequila. At that moment, I blacked out until about 1am.

The night is a blur. I remember dancing. A lot. Yacked a couple times but always bounced back. And then I f*cked up.

There is another girl, Karla. Karla and I had a brief stint fooling around and that was that - nothing more of it, just friends afterwards. Anyway, Karla hadn't gotten me a gift and so she thought a little makeout sesh would suffice.

So it is nearing 1am and I am still dancing like a fool when Karla appears on front of me. I don't know what it was, but she gave me those eyes and I knew exactly what she was thinking so we make out for a few minutes. I turn around to a crowd is staring at us from the kitchen. Me being of my rocker, shrug and keep dancing. Dana was not happy.

Shortly after, another friend of mine who I had been involved with in the past shows up and mentions grabbing a pizza. Next thing I know, a small group of us left the party, grabbed a pizza, and went back to my house where I passed the f*ck out.

So I was a stupid, selfish, heartless idiot that totally betrayed a best friend I had recently gotten romantically involved with by:

• leaving her to set up for my party by herself

• showing up wasted to the party and immediately blacking out

• making out with someone else in front of her, in her house, at the party she was throwing me

• leaving to get pizza

• not returning until morning

I was in denial of my guilt initially, but upon some enhanced reflection a week later, I realized how selfish and self-centered I had acted.

After a month apart from each other, Dana even tried to forgive me and we started a serious relationship together. But I had broken the trust already and there was no going back.

As years have passed, it becomes clearer and clearer how knuckleheaded my behavior was over the course of those 3-4 months. I truly was the villain from every angle. I know Dana never wants to hear from or see me again, but I wish I could tell her that I understand I did her wrong and I understand why she was so frustrated and upset with me.

Early 20s are the stuff of life lessons.

13.) From sensitiveinfomax:

My friend and I (both girls) had been single forever and it was something we bonded over. We were in different cities and she decided to visit. She brought her boyfriend over, presumably to show off.

I had gotten a makeover and therapy since the last time we'd met (I was the definition of sad girl prior to that), and she immediately became convinced I was trying to steal her boyfriend. I had no such intention.

But it started becoming a self fulfilling prophecy for her. Her bf and I had a lot in common which I kept trying to downplay, but she kept playing up. Like we spoke the same language, had several common friends, had the same food aversions, and we would be in the same city at the same time for work in a few months. She just kept growing more and more insecure. I heard her crying in the night.

She was staying over with me, and he with some family. She went out in the morning to get coffee, and I was taking a shower. The door was unlocked, I didn't know that. I came out in my underwear and was applying moisturizer, when her boyfriend walks in, and then she walked in a minute later.

She ran out crying, he ran out after her, and I was mortally embarrassed.

Apparently that caused enough pain in the relationship that they broke up. So I'm very clearly the villain to her, but all of it was avoidable if she was less insecure.

14.) From Popular-Uprising-:

I once dated a girl who was too young for me (but still legal). She was persistent and I said no a few times. Finally I accepted and we dated for a few months. I wasn't really into her and I had been contemplating breaking up with her for a few weeks and I had finally decided to break up with her that weekend. On Friday, I met someone at a party and hooked up with her. When I met my girlfriend that Saturday to break up with her, she spontaneously told me that she loved me and wanted to be with me forever before I had the chance to tell her.

So I broke up with my girlfriend after cheating on her, right as she confessed her love to me. I still regret just about everything about that 4 month-period in my life.

15.) From DarkFander14:

I was really mean to the quiet kid in my class. He was definitively odd, carrying around those little Minecraft action figures. He would say weird things and someone asked him a not-so-nice question. They asked, " Dean, would you shoot up a school." He replied jokingly, sick of our shit, that he would just target specific people. Looking back it was just dry sarcasm, but he hated me, so I got really scared. I told others what he said, and before long the Vice Principal had to come into our room to take him out, he came back. He has been teased about it for a long time afterward. I'm starting to realize over this quarantine period that I was being the villain that was bullying him. Dean, if your reading this, I'm sorry.

16.) From John-Mandeville:

Dad was dead. Mom was crazy. We were poor. I didn't go to normal high school and had basically been a shut-in for years. I was really poorly socialized when I moved into the dorms. I didn't notice when the overwhelming feeling of affection I felt for her [edit: a girl in the dorms] crossed into obsession. I convinced myself that if I didn't literally stalk her or call or text her phone, that made it ok to send her a million pleading messages elsewhere. I was sure sure that we'd be perfect together that, when she tried to be my friend afterward--more than once--I ruined it by constantly pushing for a closer relationship. Years later, when the pandemic started, I fell into old bad habits and messaged her until she politely told me to f*ck off, which I really deserved.

"Karens" get a lot of flack these days.

A Karen is usually a middle-aged white woman who's fond of asking for the manager or, even worse, calling the cops when people don't follow pointless rules or when things slightly disrupt her day. In this age of social media, many a Karen has gone viral for bullying hourly workers or sticking her nose in other people's business.

In fact, one woman recently posited that Karen is a "sexist, classist slur." She immediately got called Karen.

But according to one Reddit thread, there are some Karens who use their powers — speaking to the manager, meddling, and snitching — for good. Here are the stories of Karens who actually helped someone out.

1. This Karen stuck up for a grieving worker.

I had a "Karen" come into my work demanding a manager [...] The manager, Pat, was a horrible person. Slimy. Pat began to yell at Kimberly. The manager threatened to fire Kimberly. Kimberly started crying, because her mother had recently passed away, and she was heartbroken.

In a turn of events, I didn't see coming, "Karen" turned on the manager. Karen tore into the manager for making "the poor girl" work when she was heartbroken. About how the manager needed to give the girl time off to grieve. And this wouldn't have happened [the incident that brought Karen] if the manager just let people take time off.

Karen asked Kimberly why she was at work.

Kimberly said, "Pat didn't let me take time off and threatened to fire me if I didn't show up."

Karen now had a new purpose. She called corporate and yelled down the phone at them. Pat ended up being fired because this was one too many complaints. The company didn't want to hear another word about him. - KyotoSkateShop

2. This Karen stuck up for two boys who were being racially profiled.

I was on the bus at peak rush hour in the afternoon, after school's have closed. The bus was packed primarily by high school kids. Karen was sitting on the bus waiting for it to depart as we all were. Two boys came into the bus and were attempting to show the driver their passes. One of the boys was black, the other looked Indian, both had dark skin. As soon as the white lady bus driver saw them she perked up and demanded to see their bus passes - keep in mind it is very busy, there are people waiting to get in behind the boys, and she'd done this to nobody else.

The driver then proceeds to completely profile these boys saying things like "I bet these are fake, your people couldn't afford them" (they were the expensive monthly passes.). She was looking at them like they were trash, and when she realized they were real she started yelling "Who did you steal these from?" and it escalated to "Go back to your country".

Insert Karen here. Karen stands up (giving away her seat in the process, super busy bus), walks up to the driver and goes off on her, threatens to call the police, and says that she will be speaking to the manager. She demanded the boys get their passes back, and then paid their fares in cash when the driver refused to acknowledge their passes still. It was cool to see a Karen use her powers for good for once.

3. This Karen out-managered her own manager.

At one of my jobs working retail, my manager was actually named Karen, and had the “let me speak with the manager” haircut. When I went in for my interview she seemed to fit the profile, and for maybe the first couple days of working she was kind of a hard*ss.

It turns out that was just to make sure she didn’t end up with lazy workers, and once she realized someone would be a decent worker and get tasks done, she was as nice as could possibly be. She ended up being one of my favorite managers I’ve had, and would never take sh*t from “Karens.”

I thought of a specific example, not me, but a friend I worked with.

The Regional manager, we’ll call her S, for the corporation would come in to check on the store from time to time, and she was a “Karen.” S came in one day that my friend was working, and he clocked in 1 minute late. S was absolutely ripping him a new one, even though it was his first time being late and he was a phenomenal worker.

My manager saw it happening and told S to lay off him. S starts yelling at my manager, so my manager handed her the keys to the store and told S that if that’s how she was going to treat her and her workers, then she was going to walk out and let S deal with the store. S shut up, left the store, and didn’t cause any more trouble for my manager. - Doesnt-matter-spats

4. When you're getting screwed over by the system, a Karen is all you need.

We went to see Trans Siberian orchestra. Planned to leave ten minutes early. Went out and found our car had been LOCKED and CHAINED into the parking lot. We were baffled. Along comes a karen.

Now this is 20 years ago so it wasn't known as Karen but she pitched a holy fit, screamed at all the employees, then called the cops, who came and cut the chain and let us out. I didn't go to that venue for 20 years. I finally went this year because they were showing a cirque du soleil show...and we parked 1/2 mile away and walked! - munchster489

5. Another Karen stands up for workers' rights.

I was in Hobby Lobby on a Saturday evening. One lone cashier was supposed to handle the night crowd, per usual. The cashier, who looked like a teenager was near tears. She called the manager to the front. She had been waiting for nearly forty minutes for someone to relieve her so that she could go to the bathroom. Instead of being sympathetic, the manager belittled and yelled at the girl for being so helpless.

The Karen standing in line got on her phone, called corporate, and let them hear what was transpiring. When the manager realized what Karen was doing, he suddenly got quiet. Karen handed her phone to the now dumbstruck manager, and said, "This is for you." F****** epic. - Thorne628

6. Karens have taste, too.

I was working in a customer service job for the summer, and a Karen was screaming at me for something beyond my control, but she paused briefly to tell me I have perfect eyebrows. She then continued to yell, but thanks for the compliment, Karen. I didn't even have enough time to thank her. - SocialBunk

7. A Karen will never let a bargain slip through her fingers.

Karen asked for the manager to complain about false advertised price of an item. Manager had to sell it for ridiculously low price and it was just really obvious that the price was wrong and somebody messed up. ...I had the same item and I was next in line. Karen is okay. - knotnotme83

8. Some Karens will stick up for those in need.

I saw a typical looking Karen give a disabled stranger £20 and helping him get his shopping, asking him if she could help and what kind of support he got. She was really nice to him. - SomewhatAnonamoose

9. This Karen bullied a worker into taking care of himself.

I once worked at a gas station. One particularly busy day I was by myself when a pump malfunctioned and started spraying gas. I shut it off but managed to get gasoline all over myself in the process of bagging the pump. In I walked to a line of pissy customers actively b****ing at me for them having to wait.

The first person in line is a lady, and she absolutely raises hell about how dare I try to ring her up with gas all over me, go clean myself up before I get her clothes smelly, blah blah blah. As I ducked into the bathroom to clean up, I caught a smile and a wink from her. Nobody else complained. - imfamousoz

10. This is still a net good, so we'll take it.

A friends mom was the picture perfect Karen, haircut, attitude and all.

She made a lot of donations to charity, not large amounts but a bunch of small donations $10-$50 to all sorts of different groups throughout the year. Food bank, humane society, etc.

She only did it so she could be perceived as a caring person when in fact she was a miserable. - uncertainty_critical

11. It's funny to imagine someone screaming a compliment.

At my work (in a restaurant) I had a “Karen” come up to me at the end of her meal, scream for the manager, and told him that her server should get a raise because he was doing great work and even helped deal with her crying child. 10/10 did not expect that - IsMyNameGage

12. Men can be Karens, and any Karen can come in handy when a business isn't following accessibility requirements.

My wife walks with a cane but it's only 44. We went to a comedy show with couple friends. I called before to make sure it was handicap accessable. When we get there they tell us that they only had two seats in the handicap section and our friends would have to sit in the balcony. That is when I saw my (who is a guy but has very strong Karen tendencies) friend's head spin around like the exorcist. He berated this house manager until they added a table in the handicap section so we could all sit together. - Boomicecream

13. Karens know how to spring into action!

When I was about 12, I was walking to school with a friend and his mum who was a very typical Karen. When we were just about there we heard the bell to say that school had started so me and my friend started running so we weren't late to class. I put my head down and ran full speed,head first into a goal post, knocking me out and splitting the skin on my head.

When I came too I was crying, covered in blood and had no idea what had happened but my friends mum (the Karen) was hugging me and I almost instantly calmed down. She had a mobile (which was lucky as they were still relatively new at this time) and she called the school who sent a nurse and a teacher down to help me. They then took me the the nurses office and "Karen" came too, holding my hand and comforting me the whole time. It was about his time that I realized she was covered in my blood, on her face, in her hair and all over her clothes. - Lord-Barry

14. This Karen wasn't nice, per se, but she apologized for being a pill.

Karen came up to me after her movie was over and fed me some story about how her daughter had to leave for work, so she needed a free ticket to come back and watch the movie because she had to leave early. [...] I tell her no, I'm sorry.

She of course starts screaming for the manager. Lucky her, I AM the manager. Then she starts screaming for the other manager who will surely see it her way and override me. Even luckier. I am the senior manager that day. No one else is here who can undermine my reasonable decision.

She begins with the insults. Calling me a horrible person, screaming how she was never coming back, flaunting the fact that she was a "club Member" and therefor she deserved special treatment (The loyalty cards are free. They don't pay subscription to them.) Then she told me to "unsubscribe her from the club"

I'm standing there just mildly amused. I am insulted at least twice a week so this is nothing new to me. It does not phase me. The woman storms out after she realizes that she's not getting anything.

About an hour later the phone rings. Karen is on the phone. I thought she was calling back for round 2 in which she'd demand corporate or something, but to my shock and surprise, she actually apologizes. She said she shouldn't have said those things and feels awful. I can't believe it. I tell her it's fine, don't worry about it.

It could have been a tactic to guilt me into passes, but I appreciated it none the less. It was the first and only time someone has ever apologized for being an absolute turd to me. - dawrina

The moment you announce an engagement, you can expect other people's opinions to come flooding in. One woman is wondering if she went too far in telling a frenemy to cram it.

A newly engaged future bride took to Reddit to ask for advice after she told a perpetually single friend "exactly why" she's not married.

It started with the frenemy, Kate, finding out about the engagement:

So I'm engaged. This news has been circling through my old high school friends and I've been getting a lot of nice messages about it from everyone except this girl Kate. Kate and I were friends in middle school/high school, but I haven't spoken to her since then (we are both 25).

It seems Kate always thought she'd be the one to get married first:

When we were kids she was very clear that her whole goal in life was to get married and become a SAHM. Dope, you do you. She's always been very traditional and feminine and I've always been very tomboyish/masculine. This never posed an issue when we were friends.

So she can't really handle this woman's engagement:

Since I got engaged Kate has felt the need to let me, and everyone else, know how she "doesn't understand how" I'm engaged. She said "OP is just not what anyone thinks of as wife material" and "OP just isn't very feminine, it's surprising she's getting married first" or just straight up making fun of the fact that I make more money than my fiance and he's taking my last name.

The bride wrote to Kate, politely asking her to stop:

I sent her a message "hey kate. I've heard from some other people what you've been saying and it's hurtful to me" and she hasn't stopped. My best friend thinks I should be more empathetic because Kate always imagined she'd be pregnant with baby #1 at 25, and instead she's never even had a boyfriend.

But Kate just kept going:

This is where I might be TA. We were in a group chat talking about my wedding and Kate said "it's crazy that you're getting married when you don't even shave your legs" and I just snapped and wrote "stop shitting on me just because you're lonely. No one wants to marry you because you have no thoughts or feelings or ambitions outside of being a wife or a mother. You're just jealous because I'm successful and happy and you're living at home with mom and dad and failing on Christian Mingle"

She's wondering if it was justified:

I know I was mean, but I feel like I was pushed and I tried to tell her that she was hurting me. Other people told her to stop as well.

Most people agree that while the bride was way harsh, Kate is the one in the wrong:

Boorikano thinks her mildly a-hole behavior was justifiable:

People don't seem to understand consequences these days, it's all fun until their feelings get hurt. She is hurting and taking it out on you, despite you and many others repeatedly telling her to stop. Yes you could've put the phone down or responded to just her or done a number of different things, but honestly she needs to grow up and I can't blame you for snapping. You don't deserve to be belittled like that (especially during such a stressful time as wedding planning) because she's insecure and bitter.

And mielparochun agreed:

the truth hurts. She’s clearly insecure. She’s also probably [not] married because she has some entitlement issues. If she was so hot why hasn’t she had a bf? Sorry not sorry. Someone should have told her a long time ago.

Smalltownmortician says they're both at fault, but it was probably worth it:

[Everyone sucks here,] she totally deserved it but you were extra brutal. That being said sometimes it's fun to be an a-hole and I think you picked a good time lol.

And marheena thinks maybe Kate will thank her one day:

She needs a reality check and sounds like nobody else is giving it to her. Maybe you helped her in the long run. Time will tell.

So there you have it. It's okay to be a little bit of an a-hole if someone's poked you for long enough!

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

-Albert Einstein

Are these memes stupid, funny, or stupid-funny? You be the judge. Either way, you will spend your morning laughing.

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We're about a month into quarantine, and things are definitely getting weird.

Suddenly you refer to your dog as your co-worker, you might've had to learn how to be an expert early childhood educator for your children, you can't stop baking, and your friends keep tagging you in fitness challenges you don't have to do. Watching every movie and television show ever made is challenge you're willing to take on and you don't remember the last time you saw sunlight. Whether you're currently unemployed, working from home or an essential worker, the thing we all have in common is our desire to stay safe and keep others healthy. Social distancing and supporting frontline workers are our top priorities right now, but that doesn't mean we've lost our sense of humor.

If you're experiencing a bit of the quarantine blues, here are some of the funniest tweets from this week that are bound to cheer you up. If you're feeling crazy, we all are! Let the weekend Zoom happy hours commence...

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

-Benjamin Franklin

Say, "I do" to these marriage memes. They will make you laugh in sickness and in health for as long as you shall stare at your phone screen.

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Boomers say the darndest things!

When we posted a collection of people's favorite phrases they heard from the older people in their lives, readers chimed in in the comments of the Facebook post with their own best-loved expressions.

Back in the day, people had to be way more clever when calling somebody cheap or covering up a fart.

Let's bring these back.

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Since we've been in quarantine for about a month now, most of us are pretty desperate to get back to the time when we could hug our friends without gloves, masks, and sanitizer.

The most important thing we can all do right now to flatten the curve is to stay home, socially distance and support our local essential and frontline workers any way we can. While it is a stressful time for many of us, a lot of people have been trying to lighten the mood with virtual happy hours and Zoom parties. Opening a bottle of wine and reuniting with your friends through a screen sounds pretty harmless, but when you're pouring your own drinks things can escalate pretty quickly. Remember: it is still possible to make bad decisions even on a Zoom happy hour. If you think you're about to say something you're going to regret, just mute yourself first...

Last week we found the funniest tweets from people about getting drunk on Zoom and this week is no different. We're still in quarantine, which means you're still chugging cheap champagne while live-tweeting movies you've seen 500 times (or is that just me?).

Happy weekend, everyone! Stay safe.

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As we all sit inside our houses, waiting indefinitely for a vaccine to be created to cure coronavirus and reopen the world at large, our brains are slowly cooking and anxieties are rising to the top.

In laymen's terms, it's a prime time to get on each other's nerves and throw around some feisty come-backs. While it's not emotionally healthy to start fights for no reason, it's nice to have your tongue sharpened when duty calls.

In order to entertain you during this weekend of lockdown, I have gathered a handful of top tier insults and comebacks in hopes they'll give you enough catharsis to avoid starting fights of your own.

1. When James Blunt came for a hater.

2. When Usain Bolt posted this Easter flex.

3. This fantastic shut-down of a conspiracy theory.

4. This top tier younger brother insult.

5. This excellent shut down of someone making fun of social distancing.

6. This burn that echoed through the years.

7. This education in how rain works.

8. Some tweets deserve jail.

9. This one hits even harder during quarantine.

10. This call out of the scientific community.

11. Another Usain Bolt flex.

12. This exorcism of the food devil.

13. This roast of a headline.

14. These facts.

15. That time Sega came for someone's Twitter user name.

16. When Nickelback finally stood up for themselves.

17. This Nathan Fillion exchange.

The coronavirus pandemic has united the world in fighting a common enemy.

On a smaller, extremely less important scale, it has also lead the internet to rally against the latest Punching Bag of The Day who has Hot Takes™ about your wardrobe while social distancing.

People on Twitter are rallying together to mock LA Times writer Adam Tschorn's audacity to criticize people who wear sweatpants.

"Enough with the WFH sweatpants. Dress like the adult you're getting paid to be," his headline reads.

People are arguing that Mr. Tschorn is unqualified to be giving fashion advice while he himself dresses like a tenor in a barbershop quartet.

The people will not be sweatpants-shamed, and they were merciless with their descriptions of his ~lewk~.

Even the paper's social media editor is distancing themselves from this anti-pajama propaganda.

Fashion bloggers who don't dress like they run monorails are calling it "elitist."

He went and pissed off the damn dictionary.

If there was ever a time not to shame people for wearing bottoms without buttons, it's now.

If anyone deserves to be shamed, it's not the people in sweatpants, but the people who are spreading disease by REFUSING TO STAY INSIDE.

Rumors, by the very nature of what they are, tend to be dramatic and ridiculous. Even rumors that start from seeds of truth tend to become overblown and skew the facts, as the game of telephone grows more rampant.

While some rumors can become toxic and ruin someone's social life or career, there are times when they are so silly all you can do is look back, roll your eyes, and laugh.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the dumbest rumors that have been spread about them, and it's truly wild the lengths people will go to with their nonsense.

1. From BrilliantlyDepressed:

That my parents were drug dealers, and they involved me in selling drugs at my elementary school.

What actually happened was that I gave my friends a dollar each from my lunch money so we could all buy cookies. Somehow the rumor spread all the way to the principal, so he dragged me to his office and lectured me about not giving my money away in front of other people.

2. From Kevin_Uxbridge:

That I was dead. I was late getting back to uni so my 'buddies' decided it'd be funny to tell people I'd been killed in Europe. The story started with 'killed in an accident' and blossomed to 'got a girl pregnant, wouldn't marry her, decided to marry her, killed in an accident'.

One girl I knew actually believed it and cried when we bumped into each other. Had no idea she cared.

3. From spliffwizard:

I moved from Scotland to England at like 13, I had a thick accent and I got a lot of sh*t for it so almost subconsciously I slowly started to like fake an English accent, was really stupid as I'd flip back to Scottish as soon as I got home.

After I left school I dropped the accent but by that time the majority of people I knew in the small town I was in, had met me as English Spliffwizard so when I'd see people they'd be like wtf happened to you!? Why are you suddenly Scottish!? I used to just make sh*t up like "I had a voice transplant an this is all they had" but eventually it stopped.

Roll on a few years and I'm back in town having a drink with some mates, I get talking to 2 guys and when I mention my name one is like "oh sh*t you're that guy who pretends to be Scottish" and so now apparently there's a fable around the town of some English kid who one day was just like fuck this I'm Scottish now.... and the kid is me. Class.

4. From AnActualSlinky:

I was once sick for an entire week of 9th grade. Somehow it spread that I went to Hawaii. Even a teacher made a comment. I have no idea how the f*ck that started and nobody would tell me why they thought it because they thought i was just being cheeky by denying it.

5. From -Baddest-B*tch-:

When I was in grade one some girls thought it would be funny to tell everyone I had ‘boy private parts’ which upset me greatly. I don’t remember this but my mother has told me that during an assembly I was talking with the people around me and it was brought up and I felt the need to stand up and pull down my pants and undies in front of everyone. I cringe every time I think about it.

6. From Rylyshar:

This was spread by an adult in a volunteer organization I was part of. Me, happily married, running for a leadership position. Her, many years married to someone running for one of the other positions. Apparently she didn’t want me on the leadership team because she told people I had the hots for her husband? Who was, bless his heart, a nice guy, but homely. I respected what he’d done to achieve leadership in the organization, but could not have been more uninterested in that aspect of him if he had been a cow pattie.

I didn’t know anything about this until after I lost the election. She also started a rumor about two other adults who were friendly, but not doing anything untoward. Unfortunately the wife of the man believed that rumor and it totally ruined a number of relationships and events because she wouldn’t permit them to attend the same meeting or event. I never understood what motivated that person to spread those types of rumors.

7. From throwitway22334:

In middle school some sub that no one knew that looked like a narc pulled me from class because of a family issue, walked me out of the school to my mom. Somehow this turned into the sub being a cop, and it being a cop car, and I was in trouble for something. One rumor a few weeks later was that I had gotten in trouble for bringing tons of huge guns to school or something. I was like guys, I'm still at school, I told you what happened...

8. From Stop_CharterSchools:

I made fun of Baptists at my friend's house, and his mom told the other moms that I worshiped the devil. This was in 10th-grade or so.

9. From Starnest712:

It wasn't mine, but my friend is allergic to peanuts and someone started a rumor that he was lying. So, someone waved a peanut butter sandwich in front of him. That started a allergic reaction. (we were in 5th grade.)

10. From cxllum02:

That I sold sandwiches in school. How do you even start a rumour like that?

11. From ihopeyoulikeapples:

In middle school someone started a rumour that I was a voodoo priestess (stereotypical Hollywood voodoo, nothing like the real thing). I'm white and live in Canada. People believed it, they'd shriek and run when they saw me, at the end of one year a girl who had been nothing but awful to me asked if she could sign my yearbook and her signature was basically her pleading with me not to curse her.

Even in my first year of high school I had a few people who didn't go to my middle school walk up and ask me if it was true that I did voodoo. Thankfully it died down after that.

12. From B0BAFATT-:

That I licked the top of the pizza box when someone threw it in the garbage.

13. From Dark_Gnosis:

That I was gay.

I like girls, but you never see me with one because girls don't like me.

Honestly, you don't see me with guys either.

14. From prunepicker:

A co-worker told several people I was having an affair with our boss. To add to it, she said I was the one who told her about it. I’m a woman. My boss was a gay man. No, we were not having an affair.

15. From Munsunned:

That I told my entire pre-school class that Santa wasn't real. It was actually a different kid with the same first name as me, and I hadn't even been there when it happened. So I learned the truth about Claus from my enraged and screaming mother calling me a liar. I''m now 32 and I still hate Christmas.

16. From WhompNStomp:

One was that I laid eggs.

Another was that I had 14 abortions in six months.

Unfortunately, both around the same time period.

Yikes.

17. From BASHFAUX:

As a child many kids thought I was gay because I had long hair.

18. From littlered27603:

When I was 21 and in college, I worked with a boy who was a senior in high school. His girlfriend broke up with him about two weeks before prom for another guy. I offered to go with him. The girl was dumped by her new boyfriend a few days before prom and wanted my coworker to take her to prom, but he said no, as he was going with an 'older woman.'

At prom, I was quite the topic of conversation. This girl had come by our store when I was working, and she and her friend told everyone I was a B*tch who had multiple children with multiple baby daddies.

I don't even go here! Anyway, prom was nice, dinner before was great, and after the dance I went home (alone) and had many legal drinks in my child free house.

19. From PonzuBees:

In fifth grade, these two girls that hate me once told the class that I cheat on tests by looking at other people's answers. My classmates avoided me for months because of that.

20. From PonzuBees:

In fifth grade, these two girls that hate me once told the class that I cheat on tests by looking at other people's answers. My classmates avoided me for months because of that.