The entire world is dealing with the rampant spread of coronavirus, causing massive lock-downs and a halting of the global economy as we work to slow the death rates and find a vaccine.

While all of the U.S. is currently in the throes of disease, New York is the current epicenter of the American crisis, and temporarily shutting down the city stacked with people has proven difficult and surreal.

Luckily, amidst it all, New Yorkers have kept it funny and cutting online, and it's clear that even a pandemic can't stop the city from talking sh*t and being ridiculous.

Here are just a few examples of New Yorkers coping with the coronavirus in the most NY ways possible.

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A side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been an epidemic of stupidity. The internet and the real world are full of people who refuse to believe the science and spread misinformation and toxic BS.

Thankfully, people who are taking social distancing seriously have the time on their (freshly washed) hands to respond to the ignorance with harsh and hilarious burns.

1. Salam, brother.

2. Have the people who need ventilators tried waking up?

3. That's DOCTOR Karen From Facebook, thank you.

4. A fatal blow.

5. Well, church does have wine...

6. Respect the troops.

7. Know your history.

8. Shrek is love, Shrek is life.

9. Welcome to Camp Quarantine.

10. RIP Julie.

11. Welcome to socialism.

12. Public ownership.

13. Ok boomer.

14. Schooled at the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

Living with people can be difficult sometimes, even if you're incredibly close.

Having roommates is a great idea to split the cost of rent, but finding people you're compatible with can be a struggle. Even when you think you know someone, learning about someone's living habits can be a real game-changer. Suddenly discovering that you moved in with someone who thinks a month is an acceptable amount of time to leave dirty dishes in the sink? Were you unaware that the internet stranger you allowed to move into your apartment sings opera all day at top volume and has a nocturnal exotic pet whose wheel keeps you awake all night? It's all part of the adventure that is shared living spaces! How exciting!

If you've ever had roommates, you're probably familiar with some of the chaos that can come from sharing a small space with people. For all the fun times you can share with each other in your home, there are often full blown nightmare horror shows that'll make you wish your biggest problem was that your roommates don't clean their hair out of the shower drain. So, when a recent Reddit user asked the internet, "What are your roommate horror stories?" people were definitely ready to share.

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my cousin had a roommate her freshman year of college that had to listen to Harry Potter book one on tape every single night to fall asleep. My cousin bought her headphones but she refused to wear them because they "hurt her ears" she would play it on a portable speaker loud enough to keep my cousin awake all night. The worst part... she wouldn't even start the tape where she left off the previous night, she would play the beginning every night over and over again. "Mr. and mrs. dursley of number four privet drive..." - chlowoah

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I came home after work one morning to smoke barreling out of my oven. My Roommate left a pizza cooking all night while passed out drunk. He lived through the smoke but every thing I owned including all my furniture and property reeked of putrid smoke for 3 weeks. - username_errors

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My old roommate was dating a good friend of mine. One day, after her spending the night, they went out for lunch. His dog came out of his room with a tissue in her mouth, I stopped her, grabbed it and went to throw it out when my hand felt really wet. It was a condom, fully loaded, and when I grabbed it I guess I squeezed it because my hand was now covered in my roommates cum. It's been years and I still haven't told him about it. - LadyJane17

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My roommate was from Appalachia, West Virginia. Gets drunk and catches a "mess of squirrels" Brings them inside the apartment house. They're all in the same damn cage. When he opens it up to clean one before cooking it, they all shoot out and run off. Dude stumbles around trying to catch them all again. Knocking sh*t over. - [deleted]

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Had a roommate freshmen year in a shared room who was training for a bodybuilding competition. He would wake up at 5, make a ton of noise, go for a run, come back at 6, go to the gym, come back and pose in front of the mirror (sometimes in the nude) all while I was clearly awake. He would also go to bed at 8pm and get pissed if any noise was made, the clicking of the keys on my phone once set him off because he needed beauty rest. - Doggo_Of_Wisdom

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First year college I was living in an old Hungarian widow's house where she rented out three rooms. It was a good quiet place to study and not get distracted.

So one of my fellow renters was a quiet nerdy girl who lived in the basement, she was no problem... then there was Phil...

Phil was a 500lb bachelor in his 40s who claimed to be a professional pilot and millionaire (all while renting a room for 400 bucks)

-He would cook steaks the size of my head and then blame his dishes on me to the old lady who had no idea what to do about it.

-He'd steal my food

-If my girlfriend was over he'd masturbate and wheeze so loudly we could hear

-He couldn't fit on the toilet in our tiny shared bathroom so he would sh*t in the shower and waffle stomp in down the drain leaving a horrible sh*t smell and brown stains in the shower.

I hated Phil - CaptainFilmy

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My roommate's boyfriend moved in with us to "get back on his feet," which was supposed to be a couple weeks at the most. He kept ordering porn on our cable box and when I told her he had to go, he refused to leave. We called the cops and they made us allow him 30 days to vacate! It was the most awkward situation. Pair this with the fact that I had to hide my food in my bedroom because my roommate would get up in the middle of the night and eat my poptarts. - slyce0flife

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I had a horrible, nightmare roommate who had no sense of smell. Her boyfriend was a creep who lived with us without my permission and they each paid one-quarter of the rent while I paid half (he also loved to leave hair in the bathroom sink!) She got pet rats that stank, and they escaped and ate/pooped on a bunch of my stuff when I was out of the apartment on winter break. - FontenotA

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I caught my college roommate masturbating. More than three times. In the first semester. He transferred.

I also had a roommate who was excessively "green." Meaning he would sort through our recycling and trash and then hold house meetings explain why certain types of things were going in the wrong container. I learned a lot about recycling, but it kind of got to be too much.

Also, quite a few too many roommates prefer to have their dishes "soak" when we have a perfectly good dishwasher. -bluegnatcatcher

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4 of us lived in a 4 bedroom house. My roommate had a pretty serious girlfriend who was over all the time. One day she came up to me and asked if I was alright with splitting rent 5 ways instead of 4. Of course I am. She then asked the other 2 roommates the same thing. Yes answers all around. Finally she approached her boyfriend to ask if she could move in with us since all of his roommates already said it was alright.

Wait, what was that? She hadn't asked him about it yet. - the_co_founder

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One of my roommates was a real slob. We got on his ass about messes in the kitchen, but there wasn't much we could do about his room.

Anyways, one night we woke up to his yells and when i opened his door a raccoon ran out of his room, which my other roommate shot and killed.

My dirty ass room mate fell a sleep with his window open and a raccoon ended up coming in and eating random sh*t strewn about his room. - [deleted]

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I lived with 3 girls in off campus housing in college, against my better judgement. None of them cleaned. And they were incredibly rude.

Girl 1 survived solely off of microwave pizzas (which exploded everywhere), regularly left dishes out to mold, puked in the sink at least once a week, and never flushed the toilet. When asked to clean, she said I should have to do it since she was in "hard classes." She watched Netflix at least 10 hours a day and barely passed said classes.

Girl 2 was a violent drunk. She would also yell at my guests, while sober, and constantly try to get up in people's faces. She threatened me multiple times, to the point where I was able to use her texts to break lease and could have pressed charges.

Girl 3 was petty, stupid, and just blindly followed what the other two said and did. She kept stalking her fwbs, and always expected me to listen to her problems.

None of them are successful now, unsurprisingly. - alchemyshaft

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Worked as a stripper for a while so was roommate with a coworker, Walked in on her and some guy fully naked and her snorting coke off the dude's erect penis, In the middle of the apartment, I mean, You do have a room Cindy, Go do whatever you wanna do in there. - ByeChick

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In university dorms I lived in a townhouse style unit with three other people for a single summer semester. One never cooked (dining hall), and was pretty cool. The other two would cook, but would leave food scraps out, wouldn't take out the garbage ever, and would only clean dishes when they wanted to use them again. I'm not a tidy person myself, but the kitchen became unbearably awful. We started getting fruit flies and they multiplied into swarms. They would cluster together on walls in the hundreds. I put out traps selectivity so they didn't really make it into other parts of the dorm (i.e. my room), and basically stopped using the kitchen.

The thing about my school was that whoever left last, was responsible for the damage deposit (stupid system). I cleaned my crap out of the kitchen, did a garbage run, cleaned my room and half my shared bathroom, and bailed leaving the two messy ones to deal with whatever was left. - CrispAndTangy

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I've had horrible roommates in the past, but three really stand out.

The first was a girl I worked with who was just totally chill, we were great friends, etc. She moved in, didn't want to pay rent or utilities, used all of my food, then left the dryer on high heat and left for the day - our dryer was old and had no shut off timer, so it would run until you turned it off. We were extremely lucky to not have a fire.

The second was a friend of my ex's, who was a compulsive liar, ended up selling drugs out of my home without my knowledge, let his boa constrictor get loose for two days without telling me (while I have a small dog running around). He kicked my dog, and just acted like a jackass in general, then refused to pay.

The third was a friend of the second. He was underage but his parents couldn't control him, so they asked if he could stay with us. He refused to shower or wash his clothes, pissed on our futon and didn't clean it, and ran off after two weeks. His parents were upset they had to take him back and refused to pay us rent for him. He snuck back in a month later to see our other roommate and wouldn't leave, so I got to call the cops on the little bastard. The last I heard he was arrested about ten years ago for bringing weed into a courthouse. Dumbass. - ILuvMyLilTurtles

"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

-Thorton Wilder

When we could go out we wanted to stay home. Now that we have to stay home we all want to go out. Go figure! Social distancing is the responsible and downright heroic thing to do. So have a seat, grab a snack, and laugh at these hilarious memes to pass the time. We'll be back at the malls and bars making bad decisions soon enough.

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"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."

-Dave Barry

You're never too old to laugh at some silly stuff. These memes are for all he goofballs out there who love starting their day off with some giggles.

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“He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.”

– Charles de Gaulle

If you don't laugh at these memes, it's time to get your funny bone checked out. This hilarious collection will put a smile on your face and help you start the day off with a chuckle.

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Nothing spices up a quarantine with your significant other like playing games. And no I'm not talking about Monopoly. I'm talking about emotional games. Psychological games. The kind of "games" that push even the happiest of relationships to the brink. If you've been in quarantine with a partner and you haven't played them yet, don't worry, you will.

Comedian Eric Spiegelman shared the "fun game" he and his wife have been playing in quarantine. Spoiler: it doesn't sound very "fun."

Clearly Spiegelman's tweet struck a cord with married people in lockdown. It went viral and got thousands of replies.

Here are the 26 of the funniest replies from people sharing the high-stakes "games" they're playing with their partners.

May the best man or woman win! JK, there are no winners.

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Class presentations and school assemblies were always exciting because they provided a break from the monotony of the school week. They also had the potential to go completely off-the-rails, which is what everyone (except the people giving the presentations) hoped for. Because there's nothing more entertaining to students than a class presentation or assembly gone very, very wrong.

Someone asked Reddit: "what was the "please stop" school presentation that you witnessed?" These 25 students share the terrible, cringey, and inappropriate class presentations and school assemblies that they'll never forget.

And now, neither will we.

1.) From sharmander15:

Someone in my class did a book report on the dictionary. The teacher was pissed, all of us students thought it was hilarious. Never heard the end of the presentation.

2.) From otterusingreddit:

For 8th grade talent show, 2 girls sang the "Mr. Bledel" song (Mr. Bledel was a good looking, recently college graduated teacher) that basically was about how cute they thought he was. Even then, it was incredibly uncomfortable and I remember looking at the teachers face and he didn't seem very amused.

3.) From Conhoff:

I was in 4th grade and a girl in my class did an oral report on Martin Luther King and how he was a hero for freeing the slaves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4.) From hayeday:

We had an assembly in high school where the students that helped plan homecoming would announce the nominations for homecoming court. It always had a cute little theme and like a short skit involved. Well at one point the audio they were using as the cue for the skit failed. They just kind of paused for technical difficulties, but this one girl from the planning committee started singing a random Disney song a capella while improvising a dance to go along with it, I guess as a distraction from them trying to fix the audio?

She kept trying to get people to join in with her, but nobody did, and she eventually just kind of trailed off mid song and started pouting that nobody would sing with her. Then once they got the audio fixed for the skit she pouted and snapped the way through the rest of her lines, which made everything even more uncomfortable.

The other famous one was when a girl in our class running for student government referenced a hashtag that she was trying to make popular during her campaign speech to the whole school. The hashtag was something catchy about her having a big ass. There was a genuine collective "yikes" from the crowd when she said it. I don't think she got elected.

5.) From mindfeces:

The one where my school got ripped off by paying a guy who claimed to be on SpongeBob to come talk to us about drugs.

He did look kind of like Tom Kenny I guess.

6.) From Mr-Butt-Thanks:

For a Public Speaking class in college, we had to give a persuasive speech. One kid did his speech about porn.

If he had had a legitimate argument, like "sex work is real work," or "porn has a negative affect on a person's self-image," the speech would have been fine - we were all mature adults. But all he did was list the different kinds of porn he liked - in detail, with visual aids.

The professor stopped him after a few minutes, and asked him to explain what he wanted to persuade the audience about. He answered: "Porn is good."

7.) From ILoveTheMinions300:

I was in a japanese film class for a credit I needed and the final project was some open ended paper where you got to choose the topic and our Japanese born teacher told us some story about a creepy neckbeard who did his on Japanese porn and how no one should do anything like that.

Anyways on the day it was due the creepiest neckbeard stereotype Ive ever seen, who was in my class, presented his long ass cringe presentation on Japanese porn in the class that no one wanted to hear, already knowing the teacher has seen this shit before and wasnt about it at all

edit: just to clarify his main talking point was about how Japanese people have a greater appreciation for big boobs than Americans, it wasnt some academic treatise on sexual norms or gender expectations in porn or anything

8.) From ardun91:

During nursing school a guy decided to use my little pony figures as props to a seminar room of about 100 people. He told the class that he would refer to himself as his pony name for the duration.. Don't remember what it was.

Also, not that this is relevant but he wore a black leather trench coat and it was pretty hot in the room yet he never took it off... cringe.

9.) From RoadFlowerVIP:

In 1984, when I was in 6th grade, each class did a winter concert. The 8th grade football team sang "I'm dreaming of a black Christmas" in. blackface. Green Bay Wisconsin, Bay View Middle School (edit: it was 1984, not 1985)

10.) From nonconformistnugget:

It was a group project for one of my literature classes. There were five people in this group. According to the rubric for this assignment, everyone was supposed to have equal speaking parts.

One of the members in this group would just not stop talking. Half of their presentation was just her talking (and she went on about each of her slides for like 5 minutes). The rest of her group members had like 1 or 2 slides each, and she had IIRC 5 or 6. She would also interject into the other group member's parts to add her opinions.

The look on my professors face screamed "Just shut up already!" everytime she talked.

11.) From lameflamingo:

In my high school "current events" class two freshman girls got a little lost in their research about ISIS. They somehow connected this terrorist group to the magic bullet theory used in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Me and the few other seniors were holding back laughter the entire presentation.

12.) From SumGoodJuJu:

Student gave a presentation on the need to strap laser beams to deer heads that trigger sonic waves so that the deer are detracted from crossing highways.

Context: Wasn’t the grading teacher, but was asked to observe or supervise the teacher.

This was their final assignment for the school year and constituted for a large percentage of their final grade.

Theme was supposed to be on how to solve a problem youth is facing (ex. How to be a “Solutionary”).

Student was in 10th grade.

13.) From tjt5754:

I studied went to school for Computer Security. In an introduction to computer security course, we had to do a project on Social Engineering. A student decided that for his project he was going to find a way to gain access to a chosen website.

• He found a small local business website.

• Identified that the domain was registered to an email address from a local ISP

• Called the ISP to reset the password, they asked him for his last 4 of his SSN, so he hung up.

• He found the phone number of the business, so called them and pretended to be from the ISP offering 3 months free if the person did a 5 question survey. They accepted, and answered some BS questions, then he asked for the last 4 of the guy's SSN, which they gave no problem

• He then called the ISP with the last 4, got them to reset the password of the email account

• He then logged into the email, and used it to get the domain registrar to send a password reset to the email, which he used to reset the password of the domain account (and deleted the email).

• He recorded all phone calls and screenshotted the whole process

As he presented all these we kept expecting him to say "but that would be illegal, so I didn't do X", but he went all the way.

The professor finally stopped him after he said he logged into the domain registrar and told him to destroy everything and never speak of it again.

I think the professor was a bit nicer than he could have been... potentially to the point of accomplice (telling him to destroy evidence).

14.) From cooldart61:

An Anti-Bullying campaign

They spent most of the presentation explaining different types and ways to bully/harass people

Bullying increased in school and everything got 10 times worse now that the students were more “educated” on the subject

15.) From ginabeena:

In college, someone was doing a presentation on Nelson Mandela and kept referring to Africans as “African Americans”

16.) From partofbreakfast:

It's me. I did this. I cringe about it to this day, nearly 20 years later.

I was 16 and in high school. My high school was going to do a spring talent show. I wanted to be in the talent show and show off my talents. The problem was, my actual talents are not ones that I could show off at a talent show. So I decided to try singing.

I have never sung in my life. I have never had voice lessons.

I was in my prime weeb stage and chose an anime song to sing. I didn't know any actual Japanese, I had just memorized the lyrics from hearing the song so many times.

Luckily I didn't make it past auditions, but several people saw an overweight girl in a Sailor Moon shirt try to sing 'Butterfly' despite having never done any singing or voice training ever in her life.

Nearly 20 years later, and remembering it keeps me awake at night.

17.) From smake_and_vope:

Opioid awareness, literally a few months ago.

Started with them blasting the ENTIRETY of the Disturbed cover of The Sound of Silence, while a slideshow of images containing sad stock photos with the watermark all over, random shots of really dark nighttime photos, and tons of poorly photoshopped drug images trudged on ever so slowly.

Then, two women told us the harrowing stories of how their sons died of opioid overdoses. Incredibly emotional, several people cried. Real downer, basically.

Then, a DEA agent comes up and tries to act all bad cop. He calls us, an assembly of high school students, grades 9-12, “f*cking morons”. The principle was not pleased.

He is then followed by a nurse who was there to tell us the physical effects of opioid addiction and withdrawals and all that, and she did talk about that, but the whole time she was running around practically screaming jokes and doing shitty over-the-top gags trying to be the comic relief. In an opioid assembly. Where two women shared the stories of how their children DIED. What the f*ck was she doing being that loud and crazy.

Everyone came out of the whole thing with a general attitude of “yeah f*ck opioids, but also f*ck that whole presentation”

18.) From Aquaticfilly0:

Psychology class. Our final was to research and to a presentation on a mental illness. One group chose necrophilia. Started with the first slide saying 'lets crack open a cold one'

19.) From sometimesiamdead:

Late to this but... Grade 12 advanced placement English. We were assigned books then had to do a presentation on a topic somehow related to it. The book I was assigned was "the Stranger" by Camus, so I presented on existentialism in literature.

One girl was assigned Animal Farm. She started her presentation on...

Kinds of tractors used in farming.

She hadnt read the book and assumed it was about actual animal husbandry.

It was a very long presentation. The teacher had to actually hide her face.

20.) From Taconips:

Not at school. But when I was in high school my church youth group went to this church camp. For those uninitiated Thursday nights are normally the really emotional nights. Well this camp was different! Thursday night the guy that started the camp comes on stage and begins giving a bunch of middle school and high school boys and girls the sex talk. All I remember from that night was the quote, “Just because there’s a hole there doesn’t mean you have to stick something in it!”

21.) From Minister_S:

My Sophomore year we had to make a presentation about any person that made an impact on the world that was inspirational.

Someone chose Hitler.

22.) From cl00nkio:

This was my presentation, and it was about the science behind how mountain dew can dissolve a mouse. This was in 4th grade. Needless to say I got some parent complaints

23.) From LlamaManatee:

Enviromental science. For our final project in the class we were allowed to talk about

Dude decides to do his project on global "cooling". Buddy was up there for 7 mins explaining to the class how the earth has been getting colder and colder, and how its eventually going to cause problems to other species.

Teacher was really passionate about this class and you could se her squirming in her seat the whole way through the presentation. Whole thing was a Big WTF.

His sources were online forums.

24.) From krysty702:

In Speech 101 in college we had to pick a children's book and voice act each character. That was it. That was the entire assignment.

Well... One student decided to take it to the next level. He chose a Berenstain Bear book and decided to not only do voice acting for every single one of the characters, but also act it out.

It was physically uncomfortable to watch this guy scramble around the room and pretend to be bears and other animals. It was not well done. It was awful.

25.) From comicazi06:

It was my sophomore year English class, this kid who was reading his essay in front of the class and started to stumble over some of the words. The teacher recognized the words and found the essay the kid plagiarized and started HELPING HIM READ IT the kid didn’t understand what was happening and just thanked the teacher and kept reading.

26.) From whatnameisnttaken098:

We were supposed to have Arnold Schwarzenegger come to our school sometime around 1999 or 2000, principal was hyping it up for weeks, then about 4 days before his arrival it was announced on Friday that he wasn't coming. Fast forward to Monday during morning announcements it's announced he's changed his mind and is coming to our school tomorrow as planned.

Come Tuesday morning everyone is excited, were all amped to meet The Terminator, a handful of parents even came with VHS copies of his movies, posters, ect. Were all going to our gym/auditorium, taking our seats.

Principal takes the stage takes the moment to make some announcements, award honor roll, perfect attendance, ect. Finally she starts hyping up Around Schwarzenegger, everyone is excited and on edge, when she basically says "heres Arnie" and.

It's the vice principal in a leather jacket holding a shotgun (not a toy one either) and spends 30-40 minutes trying to hype us up for FCAT all the while doing the absolute worst impression of Arnold Schwarzeneg I've ever heard.

Once we realized Arnold wasn't there people start shouting, screaming at the principal's for lying to us, along with some of the parents who came to this.

I do hope someone has footage of this meltdown of a bunch of K-5 kids shouting and screaming at the principals because Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't come to our school. Because I clearly remember 2-3 people having camcorders.

27.) From Stauen:

When I was in high school, a girl from an absurdly wealthy family gave a presentation on why the rich are just as oppressed as anyone. This was in a normal public school in Kentucky where about 90% of the students were middle class at best. You could feel the eyes rolling in that room.

People love to say they "married their best friend." But though marrying your BFF might sound romantic AF, hooking up with your BFF can actually get pretty messy. Sex with a best friend is a risk—it might go really, really badly, or it might be the stuff that romantic comedies are made of. Whatever the outcome, it makes for a great story.

Someone on Reddit asked people who've had sex with their best friend "how did it happen and did your friendship change afterwards?" These 19 people who took the plunge with their BFF share their stories:

1.) From sosmore:

I slept with my close guy friend for months after going through a hard breakup with someone else. We were able to stay friends afterwards but things have definitely changed for the worse now that he has a new gf. She’s said before that she feels uncomfortable around me, which I understand. Any person he dates from now on is probably going to feel that way, so I know we’ll never get back the close friendship we had. Definitely something I never thought about when I chose to cross that line.

2.) From Apageo:

I spent my four years of highschool with a good boyfriend, but my best friend was broken up with in the same week I was, in a super similar way, right after the summer of our graduation. We kinda bonded over it and he kissed me because of ~emotions~ but I told him I didn't feel the same and he was really respectful about it. He joined the navy and I sent him a bunch of letters in bootcamp. A few months later, I saved up and flew 2000 miles to go visit him on base, we stayed the weekend together, and... sex happened.

To be completely honest with you after he fell asleep I totally flipped out. I was a wreck. I thought we were never going to be able to look one another in the eye afterward, but we got up, had breakfast in a little cafe, and went to the library holding hands. We've been together since. I love him more than life itself, I've never been in a relationship that felt more natural and healthy. We still talk like old friends. He calls me darlin' dearest. I'm enamored.

3.) From ReallyBigTanks:

Well, I'd always liked her but didn't want to risk the friendship. Turns out she was thinking the same thing the whole time. For about 5 years. She was just a physically affectionate friend to everyone, so I didn't think anything of her constantly touching me in ways that would usually be considered flirting. At some point one of our mutual friends, who I hadn't told, let slip by accident that she had a mega crush on me, and I couldn't believe it. I asked my friend, and she said it was true, I confided my feelings as well, and we got busy fast,, because we both felt we'd spent enough time together to be sure of each other and now it's been a year and a half, and we're still together and still in that honeymoon-phase. I'm a very lucky dude, and I know everyone won't be so lucky, but there is hope my dudes

4.) From pressthebuttonfrank:

Ruined a perfectly good friendship. We later married and have been together ever since.

5.) From xandrenia:

Friends for almost 10 years, he got embarrassed about still being a virgin going into his second year of college. Being the great friend i was, I agreed to sleep with him platonically so he could have his first time nervousness free.

After that, we never really talked about it for about 2 years, unless it was a joke. We continued our friendship like nothing happened.

After those 2 years went by we somehow ended up in a sexual relationship again, after a drunk night at college. We continued this relationship for a few months, progressing from purely sexual into a romantic relationship. I really thought we were finally about to get it right, and maybe this was the way it was always supposed to be. It was heaven, it was bliss.

But then he got an actual girlfriend and never talked to me again.

6.) From hellanordi:

I went over to his house one day to hangout, we had joked about just having sex with eachother since neither of us were getting any, and well one thing lead to another. We're engaged now.

7.) From OneRhinoArmy:

We had been close friends for a couple of years, but the sexual tension was palpable. Most people who saw the two of us together thought we were a couple. But we both had too much baggage to get involved. Two days before I was moving across the country we were drunk as hell (we usually were) and I asked him if he wanted to f*ck. So we did. For all the sexual tension we had, the sex wasn't particularly memorable. We spoke a fair amount after I moved, but eventually fell out of touch. I don't know if that was because of the sex or just distance and time.

8.) From Roland_T_Flakfeizer:

My best friend and I have a bit of an age difference (8 years). We met when she was eighteen and I was twenty six. I didn't really take her seriously as any kind of romantic or sexual partner, because that was quite a bit younger than I felt comfortable with. Also, she's one of those Asians who looks way younger than she actually is. She was cool, though, well traveled, highly intelligent, and we got along well, so we became friends.

Years went by. We became better and better friends, until we were talking on the phone basically every day about pretty much anything. We were living in different states at that point, we had kind of turned each other into the one constant as everything else in our lives changed.

Occasionally, we'd see each other in person as we'd pass through each other's states on our way somewhere else. At this point, things were still completely platonic. That didn't stop whatever girlfriend of mine or boyfriend of hers to be pretty put off by our friendship though. In retrospect, it's totally understandable why, but I had a hard time seeing it while I was in the middle of living it.

When she was about twenty three or twenty four (and I was in my early thirties), she decided she was going to hitch a ride with me for one leg of a road trip so she could visit family. We ended up getting caught in a huge windstorm in Wyoming. It got so bad, they ended up shutting down the interstate in front and behind us, so we had to get a hotel room for a couple days while it was all cleared.

I'm sure you can see where this is going. One thing led to another and we ended up having sex.

Here's the thing though. Nothing changed afterwards. Except we'd usually find time to bone when we saw each other in person. Other than that, it didn't affect our friendship in the slightest.

Until about three years later. I had just moved to the same state as her for the first time in almost six years. There's a lot more to this part of the story, but it would make an already long story much much longer. In short, a few months after I got there, we fell into bed together again, and this time something was different. We officially started dating about three days after that and got married six months later. We just celebrated seven years together a few weeks ago.

9.) From Ryguy55:

Wouldn't call her my best friend but a very good friend I grew up with. I wish it never happened. She got super f*cking weird afterward and it completely ruined our friendship. After a year of attempting to ease it back to what we had before I got the hint and stopped bothering her. She's engaged now and I wasn't even invited to the wedding which really f*cking hurts.

10.) From Griffin2627:

We went to California for about a week to visit some friends and go to a concert. I had been in love for close to 6-7 years but she had a boyfriend so I put my feelings to the side. We went and had an absolutely great time, movie montage type stuff. She’d previously told me how bad her relationship was and how she wasn’t happy anymore and was tired of being treated like a second class citizen and I joked about how I would treat her better and I guess that stuck with her because we had our first kiss(it was awkward, I blew it) right before heading out to meet with friends and I guess had our first official date at Disneyland the next day. We’ve been together just over 2 years now and I’m planning on proposing the next time we’re in California

P.S-Coronavirus please leave I’ve waited long enough

11.) From flowerrmouthh:

It went really bad .. I confessed that I liked him and he told me he felt the same and things lead to another and I thought it was gonna be a start of something new for us. I invited him to hang out with me the next day and when he arrived to my house and he was with this girl I never seen before and he told me "Oh this is my now fiance" and after that day I never saw him again.

12.) From Icarus_Dee13:

I slept with my best friend from my teenage years a few weeks after her long term serious girlfriend (my close friend) cheated on her.

We were friends at the time, but not too close. She can to visit a mutual friend while she suspected her girlfriend was cheating and basically it was confirmed while we were all hanging out. She was heartbroken and I ended up going back home with her to help her kick her girlfriend/my friend out.

It was a real shit show and she was heartbroken and it put me in an awkward spot since I was actually closed to the girlfriend at the time. She has completely alienated everyone else to run off with her 18 (still in High School) new girlfriend and totally changed.

We slept together and it was incredibly awkward and honestly terrible but we ended up spending more time together and eventually dated and getting married next month now. This happened about 7 years ago.

13.) From ThrowRA24000:

Not my best friend, but a very, very close friend.

We tried the FWB thing for a little while, but eventually developed romantic feelings for each other and made the mutual decision to break it off because we were both gonna be separated soon and neither of us wanted to do long distance.

I've learned that there's such a thing as being TOO close to someone. That girl was(and still is) one of my biggest support systems, abd has been for the past year and a half. We liked each other a lot, but our mental states weren't great, and if we started dating we would've been risking a messy breakup, and if I ever lost such an important person in my life, I don't know what I'd do. She felt the same way.

We still talk all the time, about life, the future and our problems, as well as trade memes from time to time. I love making her laugh But she's still one of my closest friends, a person I can talk to about anything, and I'm more than happy with that.

I'll miss the cuddles though

14.) From itsbaaad:

It destroyed the best friendship I have had yet.

A bunch of her friends and mine weren't surprised at all when it happened. We partied pretty hard a few nights in a row and one thing lead to another.

Two weeks layer she broke it off and it turned into a hard situation as I had developed feelings for her. We tried to go back to normal but the very next week she was talking about how bad she wanted to f*ck this one chick we both knew and was letting dudes at the bar hit/kiss on her. She admitted when she broke things off that she knew I had feelings for her going into it, which left me feeling used. Like she tried me out and decided I wasn't good enough and moved on. I felt and still feel extremely used by some one who told me they loved me at the end of phone calls, even before I developed feelings and we had our moments together.

15.) From phisch13:

I left the job we both had and she is blocked on my phone.

I had a strict rule against sleeping with coworkers/classmates and friends. She convinced me to break this rule. Was a critical error on my part.

16.) From Cyanora:

We were friends. Agreed to be FWB. Are now dating for a couple years now. Other than the sexual aspect of it, we're still two goofballs who make each other laugh. So nothing really changed all that much.

17.) From Emotionally_dead:

I thought we had real feelings for each other. Turns out I was just a hook up.

18.) From zaybo_no1:

Following her breaking up with a guy she had been with for a couple years we had sex about 4 times the last month of senior year after being super close friends all throughout high school. It was no secret that I had a thing for her the entire time but she never really saw me that way. At that point we just kinda got stuck in this weird limbo between not wanting to date but not being able to go back to being friends and wound up getting into a huge fight before she left the state for college, obviously the friendship was never truly rekindled but we still talk occasionally. She wound up getting back together with the guy and only seems to text me when shits not going right with him. A mutual friend told me that she had said she regretted not dating me but at this point f*ck that, I’m not gonna be a dick but she had her chance.

19.) From paipilu:

We were really best friends, we grew up together, went to school together, had our first kiss together, then she started to date older guys and there was never a chance, but when we were 19 she broke up with some dude and we were hanging out and it just happened. I was a lot less experienced sexually than her and I think she was disappointed because I really had no clue what I was doing, I tried my best but it was just my 4th time ever having sex. The next day she told me it was a mistake and we should just continue to be friends. I played it cool but inside I was very disappointed because I really liked her for many years and I thought it would develop into a great relationship. That was my only chance and I blew it. She left the country after that for school and we just grew apart. We don't talk anymore.

Some teachers are amazing, but all teachers are human — and some humans suck.

While many teachers are underpaid and undervalued for the great work they do, plenty of others are just not up to the task. A recent Reddit thread asked people to spill the beans on the crappiest teachers they've had. The answers might make you consider home-schooling.

1. Well that escalated quickly.

Grade 10 English teacher. Had an assignment where we made up fake names and did a penpal to other students in the class. He also joined the assignment and wrote sexual letters to one of the female students. - freddhuama

2. It takes a special kind of a-hole to be mean to kids.

Third grade teacher. She had her teachers pet that could do no wrong. One day she gets a low score on her test, and begins crying. To make her feel better, she points to the worst student in the class (that probably had an undiagnosed learning disability) and says in front of the whole class, "don't worry you could be like her and have an F carved into your report card. "

Even 3rd grade me was like wow whatta b*tch. - mkaj91

3. This teacher's like a villain in a Roald Dahl novel.

Mrs. Davis in first grade.

One time, I had a messy desk (you remember those ones with the top that flipped up so you could store your books and stuff inside).

She picked up the desk and literally dumped all my books and school supplies on me and made me clean it up off the floor while the rest of the class watched. Of course I started crying.

What kind of sadist does that to a f****** 6-year-old? - FastWalkingShortGuy

4. Way too many professors take pride in torturing their students.

The biochemistry department at my college has notoriously bad professors. I had one who in past years, made a mistake grading an exam (giving some people points for wrong answers and marking down correct answers) but refused to re-grade them. She was the stereotypical, bitter “my class is hard and some of you will fail” professor who thinks that suffering is a rite of passage in the sciences.

She wouldn’t upload slides, even when students were snowed in at home and the lecture recording malfunctioned. A lot of university professors don’t care about their students, but this one truly made me feel like she wanted us to fail. By the second week of class, I cried in lecture and went straight to my advisor after to switch from a BS to BA just to get out of her class. - yeahicapiche

5. There are way too many pervy teachers in the world...

I had this teacher in year 7 who would look up girl’s skirts. We recorded him and went to the head teacher, but nothing was done. We went to the police, but nothing was done. I’m 34 now and he still works there. :( - dhhdjsksndjakdjsks

6. Teachers who treat kids differently baased on gender are a real phenomenon.

She looovveeedddd the boys, but always hated on and picked on the girls. Just as an example, I worked really hard on a project for her class. It came back with a D- on it. My mom had had enough of her shit and took my project to the principal. She asked him to tell her what grade he would give the project. He looked it over and read through everything and said it was definitely A work.

Mom showed him the grade she had given me on it. Teacher was spoken to and my grade changed. She also failed me in that class (along with several other females), claiming I had never turned in any homework. I had, but couldn't prove it. The boys in her class never received less than a B. The year after I had her, she "retired" after speaking with the principal and the school board again. Btw: I was a straight A student, except for her class. - morganlafaye125

7. At least people can get revenge through reviews.

I had a college professor who favored the boys blatantly. When a girl student asked a question she would always belittle us or ask the questioner why they hadn't read the assignment. If a boy student asked the same question suddenly it was, "Good question! Let's explore that." She couldn't explain concepts well at all. We destroyed her on the end-of-course review, after finding out she was seeking tenure. - Flahdagal

8. If you make your students cry during presentations, that's not a great sign.

I had a college"ethics" teacher who hated the 4 people that were a certain major (mine). She failed us 4 and during one presentation, she kept asking me to speak louder and restart the presentation. She didn't even let me finish the first slide before she told me to sit down. I started crying and just left the room.

We talked to the head of the university and wrote formal complaint letters. She got fired. F****** miserable hag made our lives hell.

- noirpanda

9. Not nice, not nice at all.

In middle school jazz band, teacher asked me to play a solo during one of our performances. After the performance the teacher congratulated us and told the soloists what a great job they did... except me. For me I was told how horrible I sounded in front of the group. Never performed a solo again haha - dice_99

10. Not funny for the husband.

Well, funnily enough, my school history teacher was weird, she'd always give us strange assignments and tell weird stories about her personal life, but today I learned that she stabbed her husband to the stomach with a knife about a week ago. He's alive. - straik34243

11. Let's hope public shaming as a teaching tactic is on the way out.

In the early 1980’s I went to a Catholic school up until 8th grade. In fifth grade we had to do a report on a country in Europe. I was assigned Russia’s political history. I worked really hard on my report, and was already nervous about standing up in front of the class to give my speech. While giving my report, I had a very hard time pronouncing these very hard Russian names. I remember struggling and tried painfully to get through it.

My teacher made me stop in the middle of my report and told me to sit down. Then she said, “Class, (my name) is a prime example of not being prepared.” “Learn from (my name).” I was so young and that affected me greatly. Thanks Mrs. K for planting the seed of anxiety, which I will have for the rest of my life. You truly made a lasting impression on one of your students. - borgorymi_bubble

12. This one might take the cake.

3rd grade teacher choked me against a blackboard. I remember looking out to my classmates and seeing the look of horror on their faces as I gasped for air. This was in 79 . - whomper13

13. Where did she get the ball of duct tape?

She literally shoved a ball of duct tape in my mouth in front of the whole class because I couldn’t hold in my laughter after my friend said something funny - R_rest_T

14. Wow, Mrs. Huddleston, you're the worst.

Mrs. Huddleston, grade 4. I had a troubled childhood, and I remember during that grade that I had found out my grandfather was divorcing my grandmother, and that he kicked her onto the ground and stepped on her while threatening her with an axe. So naturally, I probably had some issues but I never acted out like an asshole kid.

Anyways, she was trying to teach me something after class, something with blocks and multiplication maybe, and I remember that she was getting angry and frustrated, so I was crying because my home life had a lot of anger and fighting. She eventually slammed the blocks on the desk in anger and started screaming at me, while other kids laughed.

Now she wins awards for all of her "good work". She could have had an off day, but that school memory sticks out to me more than any others during that time, and I'll never associate her with anything else. That was 1994 or something like that. F*** her. - P00f4rt5

15. Why go into teaching if you clearly hate it?

My math teacher was a terrible person. She once wanted to call my mom because i wasn't doing it how she wanted and she got mad at me cause I didn't knew the mobile number of my mother. (I think it was in 7th grade or so) She also told me in front of the whole class I'm not the brightest bulb. - SirSmileyFace

16. Very odd hill to die on.

He asked me “did your father ever teach you how to act?” I informed him that my father had died 4 years earlier. Two weeks later my step-dad comes to pick me up for an appointment saying he’s here to pick up his child. Teacher over the phone with the office; “you mean the deceased father is here for pick up?”

All through high school that teacher just kept doubling down, never showed remorse for what he had said. He would chase me into other classrooms because I had a hat on and I needed to take it off.

This gave me motivation to become the compassionate, empathetic, and awesome teacher that I am today. My kids always get the benefit of the doubt and I respect them.

- 69ingchipmunks_

17. Terrorizing students and puppies? What a disgrace.

I had a professor who was awful at teaching. I never liked him. He eventually got fired after an investigation into him, sparked by PETA we were told, found that he was doing unethical testing on puppies and falsifying data for academic studies before coming to our college. I forget his name, but he taught genetics. - AstaticDynamic

18. This stuff can really stick with you.

She humiliated me in front of all my classmates by pointing straight at me, saying I did bad on an exam. I was 9 y/o. Kind of why I have anxiety from school til this day - jbeanszz

19. An insult to Britney.

He repeatedly tried to get female students' phone numbers and kept a poster of Britney Spears in his room. He was incredibly pervy and creepy. - FrogginBullfish

20. Thank goodness she got fired.

I don't think my junior kindergarten teacher was a neo-Nazi but she was definitely racist. I started school in 2002 so 9/11 was still pretty fresh. Most of the students were non-white, immigrants or the kids of immigrants, and most were Muslim. My junior kindergarten teacher happened to dislike those groups, so she took it out on her four year old students.

She did s*** like changed our ethnic names to something more anglo (my easy to spell, easy to pronounce, three letter Hebrew name was changed to Aaron), only called on white, non-immigrant, Christian kids, made fun of kids who kept halal or kosher, yelled at me because I couldn't come to school on Yom Kippur, and talked shit about hijabi moms to the few white, Christian, non-immigrant parents.

She got fired the next year because a few of the parents reported her to the school.

- punkterminator

21. Uhhh, wow.

Not a teacher, but a guidance councilor I had when I was in my final year of school told me I would end up dead in a gutter in 20 years if I didn't go to university. - SharpeF

22. Corporal punishment? Retro!

My 3rd grade teacher bopped in the head with a plastic wiffle bat when he didn't like our attitude or answers. Had to stop when he made a girls head bleed, he hit her barrettes. - Its_a_Mara-thon

23. This is pretty amazing, unless you actually want to learn Spanish.

I had a Spanish teacher who got a job at another high school and decided to not give a darn for the last 5 months of the class. He would sit at his desk and watch the walking dead. Sometimes he would say something like “Okay class, today, think about Spanish”. He then gave us a challenging final exam over material he never taught. - OliverPMorton

24. Just erode the kid's trust in all adults, why don't ya.

5th grade teacher, I turned in homework late and he said “Well I’ll have to call your parents to talk to them about this.” I broke down crying and begged him not to because my stepdad would beat me.

So when he called my house while we were eating dinner, he mentioned what I said...and my stepdad was even angrier at me for telling a teacher that he was abusive. F*** that teacher. - Delica

25. Who does this help?

i am english as a second language and had a hard time writing essays etc in high school. my grade 10 english teacher read and mocked my essay on a book aloud. i was embarrassed and never asked her for help again. i still can’t believe that happened.

its funny because i am the age she would have been then. cant believe someone would make another feel that shitty. i know i wouldnt. - LittleMousey91

Waiting tables can be rough, but at least there's a ton of drama to keep you going during a shift.

When you work in a restaurant or bar, you witness tons of social interactions and some of them are truly bonkers. A recent Reddit thread asked people who've worked in restaurants and bars to recount the worst best dates they've ever witnessed, and the results might make you happy to dine at home after all.

1. Tonight's dessert special is grand theft auto...

[A friend] met a guy on a dating site, they agreed to meet at a strip mall parking lot and go to dinner together from there. He asks if he can drive her car, because it’s a Camero and he’s never driven one. So they go together in her car, to a restaurant a couple miles away.

Dinner goes ok, nothing too crazy. Then he gets up to go to the bathroom and never comes back. after 10 minutes, she gets up to check on him, and her car is gone. He’s dashed on the bill and stolen her car.

She pays the bill, and gets an Uber home, and calls the police to report her car stolen. Turns out the guy just left it in the parking lot where they originally met, and seems to think he did nothing wrong. Last I heard he’s still being charged with auto theft.

-02K30C1

2. It takes two and a half martinis to ask for a divorce.

I was bartending at a restaurant in San Francisco. This guy came in and ordered a vodka martini. He downed it and ordered another. Halfway through his third he called his wife and asked for a divorce. After he hung up we talked about the Red Sox (I’m from Boston). -thisnameisfineiguess

3. This will make a fun slideshow!

[I was asked to take photos of a marriage proposal at the famous, upscale restaurant where I worked.] I set up at an angle she couldn’t see me and when he busted out the ring I started taking as many pictures as I could. Anyone who has tried to capture a once in a lifetime moment on camera knows that you’re not really watching what’s going on, you’re just trying to frame the moment.

After about 20-30 pictures I slowly realized that she was declining the proposal and the scene was quickly degenerating into a Five Alarm dumpster fire. However I was far enough away that I couldn’t hear what was being said and couldn’t be sure of what was transpiring so I continued taking pictures just in case. Finally I stepped back and watched the scene unfold in reality as she stormed out of the restaurant in embarrassment and he scrambled to pay the bill and chase after her.

He’d requested that I use my phone and send the best pictures to him. Needless to say he never approached us for the pictures and I have about 100+ pictures of a wedding proposal gone wrong somewhere deep in my iCloud photo bank... - RipGuts415

4. Justice for the waitress!

I was bartender at a country club in college and I watched a woman curse her husband out at their table because the husband kept flirting with the waitress. She got REALLY loud and walked out. Keep in mind this was a nice restaurant at an upscale country club. The waitress felt it was all her fault but she told me the guy had been coming in there often and tipping her 100% of the bill everytime. - bodhisattva2424

5. It's not like the stain will come out anyway, might as well sit tight.

I worked fine dining in Vail Colorado. I once saw a lady throw red wine all over a guys shirt and leave. He sat and continued eating his spaghetti plate. No f***s. - Ive_got_spirit

6. Guy #1 definitely knew what was going on but liked his odds.

I used to work at a bar where 70% of the customers were on tinder dates. There was a line of two person booths along the wall when you first walk in. There were two dudes sitting by themselves in two different booths. Both of them were facing the door, one was in the first booth one was in the last booth.

This girl comes in and walks up to the first booth, says hi to the guy, and sits down. They are chatting for about five minutes when the other guy who is sitting by himself comes up to her and says hey I’m so-and-so… aren’t you so-and-so..? They all talk for like 30 seconds and she gets up and goes and sits with the other guy at the last booth.

Eventually a different girl shows up for a date with the guy at the first booth.

I don’t know exactly what happened, but I almost died watching it unfold. She was definitely embarrassed. - franklyloveee

7. Anybody in the mood for some puke al pastor?

A couple of friends and I went to the Mexican restaurant where another friend was waiting tables. There was a couple kind of catty-cornered from us that had a bit of an “off” vibe. We could see them, but not really hear them, so we asked our server friend what was up. She said it seemed to be a first or second date that was a bit awkward. The girl had ordered one of those enormous margaritas, and was not sharing it.

I had to go make a phone call (back in the pay phone days) and when I came back, I ended up sitting with my back to the couple. Maybe 10 minutes later, I hear our friend the server say, “No, noooo nooooo....” and the sound of a full punch bowl being emptied from a great height.

Giant Margarita Girl had stood up, swayed a bit, and vomited all over their meals, table, and the surrounding floor. The restaurant comped everyone sitting nearby, and the girl’s date abandoned her in the ensuing chaos. - BubbaChanel

8. Weird approach, man.

I used to bartend at a yard house in the beforetimes. Yard house is a corporate place that's basically a nicer sports bar with a ton of beer on tap with stupid, giant novelty glasses.

I had a couple at the bar during happy hour drinking from one of the big glasses and they ordered some onion rings that were half price, he jokingly proposed with an onion ring and she started laughing and jokingly said yes

Then he busted out an actual ring.....she wasn't laughing anymore.

- TheRelevantElephants

9. Sounds painful.

Bartender here. A couple on a blind date took their seats directly across from the dishwasher so I had to pretend I couldn't hear him (40+, balding, overweight, and drunk) asking her (30+, pretty, friendly, and level-headed): "Listen. I see you over there, just amazing and gorgeous, and I'm wondering what you're seeing in me. What do you think?"

She smile/cringed and made an effort to sidestep his questions and change the subject at least 3 times, while he ordered shots of Fireball (at an upscale establishment) for both of them. She would politely refuse, and he would end up drinking both of them. He didn't seem to be big on learning. - jeezy_peezy

10. This was a lot of trouble to go to just for a free meal.

This couple came into this bar that I worked at and it was business as usual; took their order, brought out drinks and food, including dessert. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

However, this couple began to argue as they work through their dessert about the guy didn't bring a battery pack to charge their phones. Homegirl is straight up screaming at this dude. Luckily, it was a really slow night and they were only ones in the restaurant.

I offer to charge their phone if they have their cable. I NEVER offer to charge anybody's phones because I don't like dealing with the hassle. But I felt for the guy because I was that guy at one point.

This is the point where I feel like I should've thought something was up. The guy hands me what looks like a busted up prepaid phone you get from the supermarket and what looked like a chewed up charger cable.

I run to the back and go to charge it only to find out the cable wasn't compatible with the phone. I go back to them and notice they left without paying. I was more impressed than I was upset.

TLDR; Couple pretended to get into argument over charging phone, then dine and dashed after I go in an attempt to help - NOMsayin670

11. The old suitcase bait and switch.

Guy makes a reservation at the most booked table. It’s by the window, all romantic etc. Also super visible from any other part of the restaurant. Comes in, all dressed up and with a suitcase. Strange, but okay. A few minutes later, his date arrives. They laugh, flirt, we actually thought it’s an anniversary or he’s going to propose or something the way it was going. NOPE

Half way through the evening she starts screaming at him. He broke up with her and actually packed her suitcase. Then paid and left her there sobbing at the table alone.

We got her a brownie on the house, because just watching that we felt f****** awful. - water_your_dam_plant

12. This person deserves major props for resisting the urge to eavesdrop.

I kept my interaction with the table brief, but I'll never forget the time I had a couple come in and as I was setting down the entree the lady looked at her man stone cold; pointed to his phone and said "so who this ho you been texting." Me (of course) neither being the ho nor texter in question made definite haste away from that conversation. I do remember her asking to split the bill at the register tho. - qonml

13. Hey, he could still have a chance.

Bartender for a couple on a Tinder date. They talk for about an hour, he goes to the bathroom but left his jacket on the back of his chair with his wallet and keys in.

She stole them, stole his car, and went shopping. That poor schmuck refused to call the cops for an hour because "it was going so well." I felt bad for him. - thinkdeep

14. Who doesn't want to associate the memory of their engagement with chronic illness?

I worked briefly as a waiter at a semi-nice place near me. I had a couple come in for a date who we've seen there a few times before (I think it was their regular dating place).

She was very clearly sad, and was talking about how her uncle was really sick and was probably going to pass away soon. He decided to pull out the ring and pop the question anyway.

Seriously, dude? Read the room.

- InkMage94

15. Wonder if they ever went out again.

Not a waiter but I saw a first date next to me. In short, girl states she has an allergy to pineapple, guy says OK in a "I don't believe you" kinda way. At some point he scraped some pineapple glaze off his dessert and onto her spoon when she popped outside to make a call.

She comes back and eats without noticing too much, has a severe reaction. Guy freaks out and tries to run but gets stopped by my girlfriend who is suspicious of him. Manager administers the girls epipen and ambulance & police are called. Absolute clusterf*** situation. - REDxSAM

16. Sounds like a lovely evening.

Couples fight in restaurants a lot. That or maybe they argue everywhere. I couldn’t say. I worked as a waiter for years and I could not begin to count the number of arguments I saw.

But one guy comes to mind above all of them. This guy must have been 50-60 years old and got angry with his lady. He actually threw a snit and stomped off and was wandering around the restaurant and looking back at her and scowling. It was like a child throwing a temper tantrum, but most children aren’t even this dramatic usually. It was nauseating to watch.

- imk

17. Leaving your bad-in-bed boyfriend with the bottle of wine you just ordered is a power move.

I'm a waitress in my father's restaurant. It's not that big, but we're usually full during week-ends. A lot of couple come here cause it's kinda "chic" for a french restaurant.

Anyway, once there was a couple, early 30s. The dude arrived earlier than the girl, so i though it was something like a date but eeh no... The girl ordered everything, she chose all the dishes, the dessert and even the wine without even asking the guy what he would like to have. They both didn't talk, only said good evening, weird for a date... But when i came at their table to serve the wine, they started to argue about their relationship.

The dude was convinced that she cheated on him, and you know what, she admitted that and said very loud that he was bad in bed... at this moment any single cell in my body was cringing They kept arguing for 10 minutes until i decided to stop them, coz they were almost yelling and so disturbing the ~15 people in the restaurant. The woman asked if she could have an other bottle of wine, and she left within 5 minutes WITH THE BOTTLE. I felt so bad for this guy that i gifted him his whisky-coca

- Evil-frenchie

18. And finally, one entire restaurant banded together to get a woman out of a scary situation. Bravo!

I (22m at the time) was bus boy at a 200 seat restaurant that was part of a sporting club. I'd been there for long enough to have a feel for the personalities of the customers.

On this particular night one of my tables was a first date. The girl was lovely, all smiles and very pleasant. The guy was sort of normal, seemed a bit quiet. He put off some fairly clear signals that he would prefer to be left alone though. That's OK, some prefer minimal service.

What I did notice though, was that the guy was talking to her quietly, but forcefully, and almost non-stop, sometimes gripping her arm firmly, in a way that suggested that she wouldn't be able to pull away easily. I couldn't hear a word that was said, but the lady was looking more and more terrified all the time. Like, nearly about to wet herself terrified. A complete change from her pleasant nature when they had walked in.

I told the waitress on the adjacent section that I wasn't sure about what was going on and asked if she wouldn't mind checking on the table to let me know her thoughts.

Waitress went to the table, said a few quick words and came back to me. Out of earshot, she said "Yeah, I think we have to get her out of here."

We let the manageress know what was going on. The guy had booked his table. Good. We had his name.

Outside at the taxi rank, by some miracle, there was a female cabbie in the line. I ignored the protests of the other drivers. I hopped in and told the cabbie the situation, and offered her $20 to wait around the back of the restaurant. I said, "Please don't wait for a destination, just drive, something's really wrong with her date."

The cabbie didn't need the 20 bucks.

We had the front desk call the guy over the PA for an 'urgent call'. This would delay him while they tried to figure what the 'call' was, and then 'realize' in that he had actually won a meat tray - they were raffled off at various intervals through the night. ("Just wait here while we fetch it for you!!")

As soon as creepy guy was out of sight, I asked his date if she needed to get out of here. She just trembled and nodded. Figuring that she probably wasn't in the mood to trust a male at that point, my waitress friend escorted her though the kitchen and out to the waiting cab where she slipped away quick as you please.

The guy came back to an empty table, and staff seeming to be oblivious to where his lady friend had gone.

We didn't get much of the story, other than the the lady was set up on a blind date by a mutual friend who told her that this guy was OK.

- TrenchardsRedemption

Now that we're all in quarantine, video calls and phone calls are becoming the top form of communication...

Before the quarantine, if someone called me, I threw the phone across the room and then texted them a, "did you call me?" thirty seconds later. Now, every phone call has become a FaceTime or Zoom meeting which is a special form of punishment. Virtual birthday parties, Zoom happy hours, video work meetings, and online classrooms have been the most social interaction most of us have been able to have over the last month.

However, a new social problem has come into play. If someone asks if you're free for a virtual event, can you really come up with an excuse to get out of it? Everyone knows most of us don't have plans since we can't leave our homes. "Sorry I can't attend your Zoom Yoga class, I'm going to be staring at my phone for ten hours." If you're already on a phone call or video chat, is there ever a definite ending to the conversation when nobody has anywhere to be or anywhere to go? Turns out, virtual social anxiety is very real...

So, when comedian Naomi Ekperigin consulted Twitter about how to hang up the phone when you don't have an actual reason to leave, people were ready to help...

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Stay safe, everyone!

The coronavirus pandemic has halted economies worldwide, and resulted in millions of people laid off as jobs shutter under lockdown orders.

Under the CARES Act, federal student loan payments have been frozen for six months, unemployment amounts have been increased, and Americans making under $75,000 a year received a one-off $1200 stimulus check.

While many cities have passed moratoriums prohibiting evictions and foreclosures during the next three months, the question of paying rent has been looming in the air for millions of people who lost their income during this crisis.

Not being evicted is a start, but if landlords hand tenants a fat bill for months of back rent and late fees after the moratoriums are lifted, tenants will be faced with the same issue: an inability to pay and threats of homelessness.

While Ilhan Omar and other Democratic representatives push for a temporary rent freeze to relieve tenants and small landlords during this time, tons of people are witnessing the true colors of their landlords, and a lot of it isn't pretty.

Luckily, social media presents a great space to expose villains and also measure possible recourse. Here are just a handful of examples of landlords who got rightfully shamed during this pandemic.

1. This landlord who broke the law.

2. This landlord planning to cut off showers.

3. This cruel landlord unwilling to work with people during a pandemic.

4. This land lady scamming on someone trying to care for their grandparents during a pandemic.

5. This landlord claiming they "understand" it's a hard time before threatening late fees and evictions.

6. This landlord who literally yanked a woman's door off.

7. This landlord with the presumptuous follow-up email.

8. These landlords raising the rent during a pandemic.

9. This awful reminder.

10. This landlord with the threats.

11. This landlord sending out job applications during a pandemic.

12. This landlord who plans to call the cops on tenants.

13. This landlord who started disassembling the roof.

14. The landlords soliciting sex.

15. This landlord who messed up the water bill with

Nothing gets parents to respect teachers like forcing parents to become teachers.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced schools to close all over the world, and parents are stepping up to make sure their kids don't fall behind. From math class to art class, homeschool is in session, and it's hilarious.

1. This hungry dad.

2. This mom whose son has caught on.

3. This mom whose student had a Freudian slip.

4. This art class that got out of hand.

5. This kid takes things literally.

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7. This mom who should have kept her eye on her son.

8. This mom who just wanted to watch Mamma Mia.

9. This distracted mom.

10. This "old" mom.

11. This art teacher who got phallic artwork.

12. This mom who *let it go.*

13. This dad who couldn't resist a roller disco.

14. This kid has had it with this sh*t.

15. This mom whose daughter had an exciting show and tell.

16. This parent who had a Teaching Assistant.

In case you've been living under a very heavy rock on a deserted island for the last month, 2020 isn't exactly the greatest year so far...

We're only four months in, but things are getting pretty chaotic all around the world. It feels like we're living in the apocalypse, we can't go outside, everything is closed, and all of a sudden you're happy to be answering a FaceTime call when you just woke up. Looking at the news is terrifying and it's hard to not see the people you love, but this is what is necessary right now to flatten the curve. The most important thing we can all do is socially distance and support our local essential healthcare workers. If you're doing that, cut yourself some slack for only doing four push-ups when the challenge was to do ten...

Luckily, we haven't yet lost our sense of humor. Since 2020 is the absolute worst (maybe not as bad as 1920, though) people on Twitter have been comparing it to things everyone universally hates. If 2020 was a jelly bean, it could be the licorice one. If 2020 was an outfit, it would be that blue and black dress that nobody could agree on. If 2020 was a song, it would be "The Song That Never Ends." This year is a nightmare and we're all living in it...

Here are the funniest tweets we could find about 2020 being terrible. Enjoy and stay safe!

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Some people have absolutely no filter. That's the nice, filtered-person way of saying, "some people are straight up a**holes."

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared stories of the most insensitive questions they've ever been asked. You guys shared your own stories in the comments of the Facebook post, and they're rough.

If you've ever been insulted by an obnoxious stranger or somebody you thought was your friend, you're not the only one.

1. From Ashley W.:

While pregnant, I had someone ask me if my kid being born was going to enable me to be a citizen. 🤣 sorry Karen, I was born and raised in the US.

2. From Tiffany R.:

My youngest son has red hair (my husband and I have dark blond hair) and we've had multiple people walk up to us and ask "Who is the father?"

3. From Phil H.:

6th grade. Going through puberty with changing voice. At rehearsal for Christmas program with ALL the sixth-graders in school system when the music teacher asked what I was doing there. Seems she forgot to mention that my cracking voice was not wanted. Had to sit in auditorium seats watching everyone else sing for 2 hours (1970's, no cellular tech, no change for pay phone). Did not sing in public again for almost 20 years.

4. From Emma E.:

At my second child's baby shower I was asked if I was excited about it. I said yes! 😊 and she just replied surprised asking "really?"
Who the freck says that!?

5. From Shaylah A.:

Was talking to my family about being put on medication for depression/ anxiety. (this was when I was 20, after years of not being medicated and being diagnosed with PTSD) one of my family members asked “Well have you tired reading the Bible more?” Like.. what? I believe in God, but reading isn’t going to fix the chemical imbalance in my head 🤦‍♀️

6. From Johanna C.:

I've been asked what my sex change was like. I never had one.

7. From Michele S.:

I'm overweight, it's pretty obvious and I'm not oblivious to this fact....

A woman at the wake after a friend's funeral asked if I "was going to eat all the food?"

[I said] "Yes, yes I am, how do you think I got body?" and walked away.

8. From Larry S.:

I got mugged on Christmas Eve. The only person I knew said, "but you don't have anything."

9. From Brittany S.:

I was hanging out with some "friends" one day, just laughing and having a good time. One of the girls out of nowhere goes "Are you going to get braces soon? Your smile is disgusting!"

She then called other people from all around the room (we were in choir so it wasn't like a normal sized classroom) and asked if my smile was ugly. I refused to smile for 6 years and if someone asked me too I'd get so anxious I'd start crying and leave. Having 40+ teenagers all tell stories about how your smile is so bad it makes people lose their appetite really makes you want crawl in a whole and die. The teacher didn't even stop them. She just said "at least you have a good personality" which made everyone burst out laughing.

10. From Keiasha B.:

I went into a store once when I was thirteen. I went up to the counter to buy my stuff. The lady asks, "how old are you?". I say, "thirteen". The lady says, "wow, you're big for a thirteen year old." I say "no I'm not". She says "yes you are!." Mind you, I've never been overweight or considered tall, but apparently this woman thought I was too big 🤨.

11. From Nicole L.:

Someone asked me when I was pregnant with my daughter if there was something wrong with my baby because my bump was small for how far along I was. Thankfully there wasn’t, but what if there was? Why would someone ask someone that?

12. From Brynn T.:

I brought my two small children to the childcare facility I was applying for a job at. The front desk ladies said "I see you're already a nanny." I'm mixed and my kids' father is white. I get the kids don't look exactly like me but have some tact.

13. From Kathy R.:

At my 30th year high school reunion, I saw a guy I had dated in the 11th grade. I was so happy to see him! His response to my saying hello? "Man. What happened to you?!". And he then walked away. F.U. Tony!!

14. From Yvonne W.:

A doctor once looked me dead in the eye and asked, "Why aren't you dead yet?"

15. From Jordyn L.:

My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for 1.5 years, the most annoying insensitive questions I’ve encountered
“have you tried to just have sex? Stop trying and you’ll get pregnant easy”
“why don’t you just adopt?”
“Is trying to have a baby really that hard? Just enjoy yourself that’s how I got pregnant”
“You’re so young don’t you have your whole life ahead of you? Don’t you have things you want to do before having a baby? Live your life don’t ruin it."

16. From Sydney M.:

“Why didn’t your parents have an abortion?”
I was ten and all the kids were talking about how old their parents were. Mine turned 46 that year. (They had trouble conceiving and were told they had a slim chance of having a child then my brother came out a giant and the docs said there was NO WAY another kid was gonna be able to come out)

17. From Bethany D.:

Day of my prom was the same day as the funeral of one of my best childhood friends. After the service when I had to get ready (to distract myself or whatever), Mom took some pictures outside the house and then said I should start smiling cause I look like I lost my best friend.

It's fascinating see where everyone from your graduating class ends up. Some stories go down dark tragic paths, and others shoot into near unrecognizable fame, most of us fall somewhere in the middle.

And while schadenfreude can be a delicious tonic in some cases, it generally feels toxic and depressing to take joy in the downfall of people you came up with.

On the contrary, watching acquaintances become rich and famous can be equal parts wonderful and awful, depending on what they were like. Some famous people stay grounded and true to their roots through it all, while others are eager to throw off the shackles of their past.

In a popular Reddit thread, teachers and students who came up with famous (and infamous) people shared what they were like before the money and flashing lights.

1. From Cheezedood:

In Maine, Stephen King was my both my mom and my dad's English teacher in high school. Pretty much what you suspect; quiet and restrained teacher. From what I've heard about him though, he would apparently go off on huge tirades about why the state of Maine should be wiped off the face of the earth.

2. From senatorbrown:

Elijah Wood is from my town. People that know him really like him. Unlike Ashton Kutcher (who returns all the time), I have never once seen or heard of Elijah coming back home (although it's possible, he just stays out of the spotlight when he's back). I was shooting a short film a few years ago and stopped inside an Ice Cream Store to ask if I could shoot in there, the owner (a man) obliged and started talking about his experiences on set.

I asked if he used to act, and he said something along the lines of "no, no, no. I just used to visit the sets sometimes. My favorite was going to New Zealand". Immediately it clicked and I asked if he knew Elijah Wood, who he told me was his son. So I'm happy to say I directed Elijah Wood ('s father). His cameo as Ice Cream giver was snubbed by all the major Award Shows.

EDIT: For those that have been asking. This was a school project from my yesteryears, so I will try to dig it off of some old hard drive and post it online. The store itself is in Cedar Rapids, IA in "Little Bohemia". It was on 16th Ave SW and would love to know if it's still there.

3. From Grombrindal18:

Kinda a reverse of the question, but my host dad in high school had a teacher named Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a young Jesuit seminarian who was very kind and humble. He is now better known as Pope Francis.

4. From nahsty_nas:

My history teacher taught both Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z in middle school. She said Jay-Z was pretty shy and well-behaved, but she hated Biggie because he was obnoxious and flipped.

5. From growingconstipation:

Leonardo di Caprio-- didn't get along well with the other kids, came in during lunch to eat with the teachers and faculty.

6. From jonscrew:

There was a science teacher in my high school who taught Adam Sandler. She was horrible and one of his first recognized songs, "I hate Mrs K" is all about her.

Edit: to all the locals, I graduated from merrimack, where she retired, not central.

7. From SidneyFriedman:

My high school band director taught Nick Offerman. He said he was always pretty funny and apparently a talented musician. He actually won the jazz award at the school for playing the tenor saxophone.

8. From Fatlol:

My grandmother was the secretary at a Beverly Hills High School when Nicolas Cage was attending. She said he was always late and often at the principles office for goofing off. Apparently he dropped out of school for a bit. She also described him as charming in a Ferris Bueller sort of way.

9. From LarryEustachy:

Jason Momoa and I were on the same hockey team in junior high. I still contend that I was much better than him, and therefore the rightful ruler of the Dothraki.

10. From iGotPride:

I live where Katherine Heigl grew up. My old Spanish teacher had taught her. Never paid attention, she just sat there putting her makeup on and chatting all class--she dropped out after her sophomore year.

11. From Neuchacho:

Went to highschool with Megan Fox for about a year or so. I didn't really know her, but we hung about the same people. She was pretty typical, I guess. Nose a bit up in the air, but no more so than the other girls in that somewhat 'popular' clique at the time. We always heard stories about her mom being kinda nuts and taking her all over the place for auditions, which is why she missed most of our year. I guess that payed off though.

12. From bstandturtle7790:

My dads ex-wife was martin Lawrence's teacher when he was younger, I believe around middle school. He was a very disruptive kid in class so she suggested that he try stand up. The rest is obviously history.

Unfortunately she has passed away recently and when she was really sick Martin was on a late night talk show and gave her a shout out wishing her all the best and thanking her. At least some people never forget where they come from.

13. From Username674:

One of my professors taught Lady Gaga at NYU. She said Gaga used to stand up after class every day and tell everyone to come out and see the gigs she was playing in. Lady Gaga wasn't doing very well in the class, so my professor asked to meet with her. She told her that maybe if she focused more on her school work and less on her gigs, she'd be more successful. Awkward.

14. From TheRose656:

Dean Norris who played Hank on Breaking Bad went to a local highschool in my town and everyone always says that he was a nice and confident kid.

15. From lilamoi:

My school adviser went to college with Denzel Washington and of course he was the best in acting class, very serious and polite. I attended school with Blake Lively from 7th-12th grade. She was in choir all those year and she's actually a pretty good singer, I have nothing but nice things to say about her. Very sweet, polite, and bubbly girl, I'm really happy to see how far she's come; she deserves it!

16. From TheRedEminence:

My mother had Tommy Morello in her English class. Loved him, absolutely loved him.

17. From termisique:

I was in Academic Decathlon with Michelle Trachtenberg and while she was a very sweet and intelligent girl, I was a 12 year old hormonal wreck. I had a big crush on her which manifested itself as being just terrible to her. I am sure she doesn't remember me, but obviously I remember her. Puberty was a weird time.

18. From thebigruski:

I went to high school with Wiz Khalifa. He was pretty much as expected, a pothead and surprisingly a nerd.

19. From bowhunter_fta:

My mom used to work for Phyllis Diller (she was her secretary) when I was a baby. Occasionally, my baby sitter would fall thru and mom would take me to Phyllis' house with her.

Phyllis would get on a roll coming up with new jokes and my mother would write them out (short hand) as quickly as Phyllis would come up with them.

When Phyllis was "in the zone", she did not want to be disturbed or have anything interrupt her while she was working. So if I was crying and/or needed attention, Phyllis would hold me, feed me and even change my diaper while spouting off new material while my mom wrote down everything she said.

tl;dr Phyllis Diller has changed my poopy diaper and touched my junk.

20. From athlete3000:

My mother was a teacher for 40 years before she passed away. Mainly she taught elementary school and some special classes. Well one year she was teaching 3rd grade in Terrell Texas and she had a student named Eric Bishop. He was a wild child, always running around and making the class laugh, but he was also a sweetheart and a caring person like his grandmother who raised him.

Mother had many sit downs with Eric and his grandmother and ultimately helped him not only pass 3rd grade, but also to channel his energy into appropriate times and places. Eric later became Jamie Foxx the comedian and actor. I still have the decorative bowl that he gave my mother and the letter he wrote her once he made it to Hollywood.

TL;DR : My mom taught Jamie Foxx in the third grade and we still have things he gave her.

21. From Smoked_Bear:

Went to middle school with "Ke$ha". She was totally normal girl that just liked to sing. Did a number at a talent show that I remember. Was definitely the best singer of the school. Fairly quiet in general and seemed nice.

Edit Woodland Middle School in Brentwood, TN. Here's a video of that talent show: http://youtu.be/wHBuyHQzh68

22. From DisneyDroid:

My high school was right across the street from the middle school Demi Lovato went to. All my friends knew her and all my friends hated her.

You know that story she told about being constantly bullied in middle school? Yeah, that's a lie. She was the bully. Apparently she was full of herself, tore people down to make herself feel better, and was just a bitch in general.

Whenever people called her out on her attitude, she would say they don't matter because she was going to move to Hollywood and become famous. Who knew it would actually turn out that way.

23. From sabotagegaz:

Lorde. I was her English teacher. She was incredibly bright and wrote one of the best short stories I've ever read. She was 14 at the time.

24. From FormotherTexas:

My girlfriend's mother was a P.E teacher in a San Antonio elementary school where she had Shaquille O'Neal in one of her classes. She noted that he always wanted to be an NBA player, but everyone told him that he would never be good enough, even all the way through high school.

25. From jrkenny5:

An English teacher at San Jose State University in Cali is bassnectar's (a famous DJ's) mom. she has a bassnectar wallpaper on her computer and when kids ask her about it she just goes "oh thats my son" gets 0___0 faces every time.

26. From charlesmajora:

My seventh grade science teacher taught Beyonce years before me. Said she was friendly but not especially bright, a little ditsy. I am not sure what age this was. :P

EDIT: Just remembered, she also coached tennis with one of the Williams sisters. Can't remember which one. Apparently she's a boring person, doesn't like kids. This is an international school, I should ask around and see if any other teachers have cool stories, they've lived everywhere.

26. From CooterSquirrel:

From my father: I taught Uma Thurman briefly in high school, but I didn't really ever get to know her - she was always taking time off to model/act, never did her work, and was generally entitled, but spent so little time in the classroom I really didn't get a chance to get a more positive impression of her.

27. From poo_smudge:

Johnny Depp, not me, my High School science teacher. She told us she was his teacher when he was in High school and she said he was a disrespectful drug dealing hooligan that would rarely show up, and whenever he did he would just be really distracting and rude. She couldn't stand him or the fact that he was now so highly respected. She said he eventually dropped out.

28. From chasingstarlight:

My high school drama teacher, taught Kevin of Backstreet Boys. She said she always thought he'd wind up famous. She talked about him all the time.

29. From ShotFromGuns:

One of my university profs'd had Chris Farley as a student when he was there, and reported him to have been exactly what you'd expect: Nice guy, very funny, lots of clowning around. Considered his death to be a huge waste.

30. From bidoing:

Both of the Coen brothers attended my public school system and my high school . One of my IB English teachers was extremely proud that she had taught them. She said they were really great students and extremely bright, but both of them were total class clowns and always up to mischief. They even had made films for a couple class projects.

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
-Jim Rohn

If you're running the day right now, I kind of hate you. The rest of us are just trying to make it to Friday. These memes will be hilariously relatable to anyone who's working from home right now.

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We all have those cringe-inducing memories that still keep us up at night weeks, months, and even years later.

Maybe we said the wrong thing at the wrong time and hurt someone's feelings, or maybe we said exactly what we meant and it was embarrassing beyond measure, no matter the scenario, mulling over past interactions can be an endless pastime that leads into an emotional abyss full of regret.

All this is to say, if you neurotically turn over awkward moments from your past in order to beat yourself up, you're far from alone.

One Reddit thread blew up after the OP asked people to share the cringey memories they lie awake at night, replaying and regretting.

1. From jajamochi:

In late highschool I was doodling in class. A classmate noticed my drawing and said it looked nice. I replied "I'm able to put on paper exactly what image is in my mind" and he kind of smirked. I then objectively looked at my drawing and realized it's objectively sh*t. I actually can't draw very well at all. Not sure why I decided to blow my own trumpet but it's embarrassing considering how bad I draw.

2. From anon12345633838:

I was in 7th grade in the middle of class and I decided to carve a semi-large penis into the desk. The next day I walked into class and I had a new desk without my carving. It turned out that a mentally handicapped kid that sat in the same seat as me but from the previous period ended up taking the blame. His parents had to pay for the new desk and I still feel terrible for what I did.

3. From cidercaribou:

I was in the fourth grade and it was Valentine’s Day, I was the new kid in school and this one boy had been picking on me all year. My 10 year old self was very non confrontational so I wrote a paragraph on the back of his nerds valentine explaining that I don’t like it when he’s mean to me, and I don’t understand why he has to be.

He couldn’t read my handwriting and brought it to the teacher who made me read it aloud to both of them. I think about that day every day of my life. He even ended up finding me online and contacting me to apologize a few years ago but all I can think of is the cringe.

4. From aolowa:

I went through a phase where I scolded people for reading Harry Potter because my parents told me it was evil. Lots of awkward situations because of that.

5. From forhuo:

I’ve always been overweight. My whole life, even as a little kid. Never really got made fun of for it though. This is the first, and probably the only time I got “made fun of” for it it (to my face anyway).

I was in 7th grade, and I was in a small classroom of about 8 people. This very thin girl held up her arm and made a comment about her arm fat. There was clearly nothing there, her arm was a thin twig. I just kind of rolled my eyes in my mind. The teacher, a man around 35, told her “You’re not fat! Girls always think they’re fat!” Something like that. He points around the class to each person repeating “You’re not fat, you’re not fat, you’re not fat..” to everyone. He saved me for last, pointed at me, and didn’t say anything. A couple people in class chuckled.

Extremely inappropriate thing for the teacher to do and I’ve never forgotten it.

6. From holdthemayoyo:

The time I was ordering a burrito and combined the words “beans” and “please” and asked the worker for some “bleans”.

Or the time I ordered a happy meal at McDonalds for the first time. The worker asked me “Girl or Boy?” bc the Toys were gendered. I misheard this as “Grilled or Boiled” for some reason, and said “Boiled please” and she asked me to repeat myself and I confidently said it again. It wasn’t until got my food and got the boy selection of Toy that I realized. Poor girl. I’m surprised she didn’t laugh at me but she was probably too confused to react.

7. From hejmeddej:

At work I accidentally laughed when the person I work with told me her uncle died. I didn't know what she said so I just laughed.

8. From jjx15:

I lead people in the wrong direction at this cross country competition in high school. For some reason, I didn't notice the markings out of the track and I overtook the guide. I don't know why all the other competitors decided to follow me, but the distance we completed was so much further than it should have been.

9. From whatsuoou:

In seventh grade some girl was wearing a Goonies shirt. I had no idea what it was but it looked like a punk band or something and she was preppy so my emo ass tried to act offended and said, "do you even listen to the Goonies?"

10. From michigander47:

I was having dinner at my first ever girlfriends house freshman year of high school. To set the stage a bit, she lived with her kinda controlling but nice to me mom, her 6-foot tall 250lb police officer stepdad, and her two young step siblings. It was her stepbrother's 11th or 12th birthday coming up which I knew, and we started talking about what he wanted for gifts and what kind of party he'd like to have. Mom and stepdad told me they had already planned a party but it was a surprise and they didn't want to talk about it. I leaned over to my girlfriend to try and press her about what they were going to do for him and she whispered in my ear that they were going paint-balling.

My eyes lit up because that sounded like fun and I loudly exclaimed to the whole table "oh man! I love paint-balling!", zero percent chance everyone at the table couldn't hear what I said. I put both hands over my mouth as stepdad let his fork clang onto his plate and he leaned back in his chair while crossing his arms and death staring at me. Little brother starts to jump for joy and talk about how he was so excited and blah blah blah.

I start apologizing profusely and even apologized to the little brother for ruining his surprise but mom and stepdad couldn't have cared less, it was like I had killed their dog or f*cking insulted them to their face. I couldn't shut the f*ck up so I kept trying to elaborate on why I said that or how badly I had f*cked up. Didn't help a bit.

I couldn't finish my food and both parents stopped eating and just sort of quietly gave each other the look of "f*ck this kid, get him out of our house". We finished dinner and I helped my girlfriend clear the table and do the dishes in an attempt to make peace. Stepdad definitely never forgave me and treated me different through the entire year or so I dated this girl. I had nightmares about it for the rest of high school, even while she ended up dating my best friend for the next five or so years. You live, you learn.

11. From _oopsies:

So this is a very long story but when I was about 13 me and two girls I knew from my school went across the country (from the east coast to California) for a co-ed summer camp that lasted two weeks. Well when I was there I started to have a big camp crush on this girl. So, fast forward 2 weeks and we are flying back from the camp. We are currently in the Dallas airport in a fairly long weather delay (If I remember correctly 3-4 hours.)

While we were all sitting in chairs minding our own business, a man walks up and sits down and I say hello. We start talking about where we have been, why we were alone, where we are going, etc. Well...the man asks what are you guys gonna do during this delay, and my dumba*s says, “We are probably gonna snuggle and take a nap.”

Right after I said that there was a slight pause and the two girls look at me with the “tf you just say” face. It was at that moment I knew I f*cked up. The next school year the girl I had a crush on literally tried to avoid me the whole year and wouldn’t even speak to me. I still think about that to this day, and how I didn’t know that snuggle means to lay close with a partner.

12. From Invalid_Dimension:

When I was younger my mom took me to a youtubers meet & greet and when it was my turn to talk to him I immediately started recording him for my vlog. Looking back I should've asked him if I could vlog with him instead of just doing it, I can't even watch the video because of how cringey I am.

13. From omgitsmoki:

I was serving in Japan, typical American, and walking home from base in the rain. I had just moved into an apartment with a friend and was excited to be in this beautiful weather (I love rain) and just enjoy the walk. This tiny little old Japanese woman was so nervous. She rushed out of the shop she was at and insisted, in broken English, that I was going to get sick. She INSISTED that she walk me home under her umbrella and kept saying I had to instantly get inside and get in the bathtub.

It was very awkward for me because she didn't have all the right words and kept saying I needed to get naked. She was not nearly tall enough to hold the umbrella over us both and I'm only 5 foot 2. She followed me home with me holding the umbrella and kept getting upset when I held it over her more than me. Like I was going to die in the rain. To be clear - I did NOT expect her to have perfect English when we were in frickin' Japan lol.

I had to promise her I was going to take a bath the instant I got inside. I thought she was going to follow me inside and make me. She just kept saying I had to get naked and take a bath. Very, very blunt.

I learned later that it is an actual thing for them. It is apparently common to come home and take a bath when you're caught in the rain because you'll get sick. I never forgot an umbrella after that so as not to interrupt anyone elses' day with my non-umbrella having American ways.

14. From spentgladiator1982:

When I was 5 I told someone in my class that Judaism was the only real Religion and she's stupid for being Christian.

She went crying to the teacher and I've regretted my evidently racist early years ever since.

15. From paneertikkamehameha:

Family friend's daughter who I had a minor crush on ages ago, her name was Roma so I decided to tease her (dunno why) by calling her "Roma tomatoes." Turns out she was insecure about her weight and thought I was calling her fat.

Yeah, did not go well. I still feel bad about it even though she probably doesn't remember the incident anymore or even care.

16. From zodwa_wa_bantu:

My friends wanted to use the lockdown as a chance to start exercising. So there came a part where we had to do sits up- something I do not have the body for. On my first attempt at one I farted, loudly - they laughed and said it happens sometimes and it's not something I should be embarrassed about. I eventually paid it off.

After a few minutes of them laughing/comforting me we decided to start over. I farted again.

17. From ElvenDeGeneres:

When I was in Junior college, like 15 years ago, I was in a math class and the professors computer wasn't working and he asked some question about if anyone knew how far away the moon was from earth. No one knew, I had one of the first smart phones that had really slow internet. I said I could look it up and the professor said okay.

A few minutes later the phone still hadn't loaded anything (I guess service was bad in the classroom) he asked if I had an answer, I said it didn't work, so the class went on. Anyway after class I was walking to my car in the parking lot and some kid was following me to his big lifted truck and out of nowhere he goes "A nerd with a cellphone, huh, how's that working out for you?" in a really aggressive tone. I was dumbfounded, and couldn't even come up with a comeback, just looked at him with a confused look on my face.

I still don't know what his f*cking problem was. We were in college, and he was trying to bully me. What a f*cking loser.

18. From RubyRuinn:

When I was in the 4th grade, I lived in the middle of nowhere and there was practically no minorities, just white country people. This Mexican family had just moved in and could barely speak any English and I befriended one of the kids my age in school. He came over to my place and we were both joking around about his bad English. Just doing what kids do. I would pretend to speak with his accent and then he would copy and it was silly, stupid and innocent.

My mom told me I was being really inconsiderate and how uncool it was to make fun of someone for not being able to speak English. I felt terrible. The next day at school my friend came up to me and started joking with me again but I just shook my head and looked down at my desk in embarrassment. He had no idea what was wrong and I was too young and dumb to be able to explain my behavior to him.

As I grew older I spent probably 20 years thinking about that day and how much of a sh*t I was to be friendly one day and then without explaining anything just stop talking to him out of embarrassment. I felt really bad about it for a long time and often laid awake at night thinking about it. I ended up finding him on Facebook about a year ago and we friended each other so I told him how bad I felt about it and apologized.

He just laughed it off and said it was no big deal and he was still really thankful to find someone as friendly as me when he didn't know anyone here. He said he figured my mom had said something to me about it and it never bothered him.

I don't know if maybe he was just being nice to me or not, but it was such a relief to hear it. It really felt like a weight had been lifted off of me.

19. From _shanshan:

It happened about 10 years ago, I was 17. I worked at a small shopping centre butchers. It was during a really bad time in my life. My relationship with my boyfriend at the time was disintegrating, I didn't have any friends, my home life was a mess. My parents were constantly fighting and taking it out on us kids. My boyfriend had up until that point had been my only refuge from the torment.

Anyway, I was having a really bad day mentally, like those days when you feel like you're about to snap. It was the end of the day, where we are rushing to clean up and pack everything away, but customers still come asking for odd things (really inconvenient but you can't say no) any way, I'm behind the door, scrubbing the floors with bleach, trying to get it done so I don't have to stay later than I have to, when the bell rings indicating a customer wants to be served. Something in me snapped, behind the door I said quite loud enough for them to hear, "For fuck sake, just f*cking f*ck off!"

I then proceed to go and serve her with that polite service face, she looked at me a bit bewhilderd and said "what was that about?" as politely as I could I just said it was nothing and served her as calmly as I could.

The worst part was, she worked in the shopping centre, so the next time I saw my boss she confronted me about it. My job didn't last much longer after that. A few months later I was told I had borderline personality disorder (BPD).

That moment of me swearing still haunts me to this day.

I am in a much better place now.

20. From milieyio:

In year one or two, I had a bigger vocab than most of the other kids, and I'd just discovered the word 'feline'. We were (I think) talking about what it'd be like to transform into animals, and I wanted to say that it'd be cool to turn into a feline, because I loved cats.

What came out was "I really want to turn into a female!"

Technically medicine is the best medicine. But laughter is a close second. And while comedy clubs may currently be closed to the public, that doesn't mean comedians have closed up shop as well (we literally can't stop, it's an illness).

Thanks to platforms like Instagram Live, Zoom and YouTube, comedy shows are still happening, and we've never needed it more. Here are 8 of the best comedy shows you can watch online this week from the comfort and safety of your own home, with or without pants:

1.) Daily, time varies. Mike Birbiglia's TIP YOUR WAITSTAFF

Legendary comedian and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia has a daily show on Instagram Live featuring his famous friends like John Mulaney and Maria Bamford. The show is helping raise money for currently out-of-work comedy club waitstaff and has raised $60,000 so far. You can watch it here.

2.) Tonight, 8 pm EST, Maria Bamford on Zoom

Several times a week, Maria Bamford is bringing her wildly funny and unique comedic perspective to a ZOOM room near you. More info. available on her Instagram page.

3.) Daily, 8-9 pm EST. Paul Feig's Quarantine Cocktail Time

Paul Feig, creator of Bridesmaids and Freaks and Geeks, hosts a daily Instagram Live"cocktail hour" online featuring his wife and sometimes their dog. It's as funny and weird and wacky as you'd expect. Bring your own cocktails or mocktails and bottoms up!

4.) Tonight/weekly, 7 pm EST. Butterboy: Live From Home!

This beloved Brooklyn show, hosted by Maeve Higgins, Jo Firestone and Aparna Nancherla, is persevering through the pandemic. It's the Brooklyn way! Tonight's show is packed with headliners like Phoebe Robinson and Sam Morrill and you don't want to miss out. You can buy tickets here for $5 (a steal!).

5.) Tomorrow (4/21), 9 pm EST. BEHOLD! A Digital Talent Show

This weekly live comedy show on YouTube showcases comedians' talents: comedic and otherwise! This week's show features talents from talents like Cat Cohen, Jared Goldstein, and more:

6.) Daily, 6 pm EST. Dinner with the Gaffigans.

Can you imagine a more entertaining dinner companion than comedian Jim Gaffigan? Yes: Jim Gaffigan and his entire family. He and his wife have too many kids to count (somehere between five and fifty) and each week they stream their lively dinners on YouTube live. You can join in every evening and also catch up on all the previous episodes here.

7.) Tonight/weekly, 5 pm EST. HOT TUB with Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal

A staple of the LA comedy scene, this hot, hot show is streaming live on Twitch every Monday at 9 pm PST/5 pm EST. Tonight's show features Shane Torres, Reggie Watts, and, yes, more!Click here for more info. $5 suggested donation.

8.) Tonight/weekly, 9 pm (EST). Comedy Quarantine.

This week's 420-themed rendition of the weekly Comedy Quarantine show is called QUARANWEED in honor of the high holiday. It will feature 20 comics doing 4 minutes each (get it?!!??). Tonight's lineup includes Liza Treyger, Megan Gailey, and more, and all money raised goes to the LA food bank. Funny, philanthropic, and weed-themed, it's a win-win-win!