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25 Memes That Will Only Be Funny If You're A Mom.

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“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

-Robert Browning

With Mother's Day coming up this weekend, we want to salute all of the moms out there who are crushing it every single day, especially during this pandemic. Being a mother is an extremely hard and thankless job, but as these memes prove, it's also quite hilarious.

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23 Memes To Help You LOL This Morning.

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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.”


-Mark Twain

Sometimes you just need to procrastinate. If this is one of those times, you've come to the right place. All of the mundane tasks you need to complete this morning can wait while you sit back and laugh at these seriously silly memes.

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19 Memes Every Mom Needs To Laugh At On Mother's Day.

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"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Thank you for all that you do. You've provided your children with life, love, and plenty of purse snacks. Moms deserve all the treasures of the world for their sacrifices, but these hilarious memes will have to do. Close enough.

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31 of the funniest tweets from moms about the realities of motherhood in 2020.

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Moms: they raise us. They teach us how to be humans. They put up with our bullsh*t. And they manage to keep loving us throughout it all. And in 2020, they do it 24/7 without a break, except when they're in the bathroom. And, even then, they don't always get the luxury of personal space. If there was ever a time moms deserved a Mother's Day mimosa (and don't skimp on the champagne, actually you can just skip the OJ entirely), it's now.

Here are 31 of the funniest, realest tweets from the past month about the realities of being a mom in 2020.

Enjoy! And then call your mom.

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23 people share the creepiest things that happened to them that couldn't be explained.

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Human beings, for the most part, want to be able to explain and understand our realities. For many of us, life and the world we live in can be understood and explained through the lens of science. But even the most logical, pragmatic people have at some point had an experience that made us question if maybe, just maybe, some kind of paranormal activity is possible. Or at least, it's impossible to rule it out entirely.

Someone asked people on Reddit to share the "creepiest or most unexplainable thing" they've ever seen. These 22 people share their chilling, haunting, and unexplainable stories.

WARNING: may cause goosebumps and a belief in the paranormal.

1.) From assault_potato1:

A long time ago in primary/elementary school, me and my friend came to the school compound on a Sunday to explore. We came in the wee hours in the morning, and coupled that it was a Sunday, there was nobody in.

We were walking along a corridor on the first floor, when suddenly we heard this thunderous noise above us. You know the sound where you drag a chair or a table across a floor? It was exactly that, but it sounded like there's multiple classrooms full of tables and chairs just moving around. It was loud. Very loud. And it was extremely sudden. There's no reason why anybody would be in school, moving dozens of tables and chairs on their own on a Sunday 6am. We stood rooted, stared at each other for a second, and bolted.

After we got out of school, he asked me whether I heard a lady screaming in the corridor. I said no. He didn't hear the dragging sounds either.

2.) From Zippy771:

I was in bed at night woken up by the sound of steps on my roof tiling. I think I was about 13 at the time. I see a shadow walk past my skylight unsure of what it was. I look outside my side window and see a man dressed in all black looking out from the construction scaffolding. After a while he looks into my window and I try to hide. My brother also saw him. We never found out what happened to him but the police were informed.

3.) From johnallanweegie:

When I was about 9 (in the 1970s) I was playing football in the street. A bus came along so I jumped up on the pavement. As it passed I noticed my Aunt and she smiled and waved to me. When the bus had gone I carried on playing. I went home several hours later to find my Aunt had died the previous evening.

4.) From lykaon78:

When my daughter was very young (3-4) we were on a family vacation in a state park lodge. Our room had exposed wood ceiling beams to match the decor (important later). It was suppose to be nap time for my daughter but she was quietly playing by herself and just chatting away and the wife and I were reading on the other bed.

Out of the blue my daughter turns to me and asks for a piece of rope. I asked why she needed the rope and she nonchalantly replies “It is for my friend, the purple girl on the ceiling.”

My wife asks “What friend?” and my daughter responds “I’ve been talking with the little purple girl hanging from that wood up there <points to the ceiling beam>. She asked me for another piece of rope.”

Needless to say that nap time was over and we quickly exited the room.

5.) From loudsilence1680:

Well, I think I may have shared this once before, but I was driving with someone through a very odd, small town in Arizona. As soon as we entered the city limits, I felt this extreme heaviness. Very surreal, dark, almost like a shroud of evil. As soon as we exited the limits, we both (not having spoken in a few minutes) said, “Did you feel that?” We both did. It was really weird. About a month later, I was reading Time Magazine (I think it was Time) and there was an article about that town and how it is so well known for cult-like polygamy and child-marriage, etc. That explained a lot.

6.) From bapresapre:

When I was five, me and my identical twin sister both caught scarlet fever. We are from America, but my dads project had temporarily relocated us to India, and we were not used to the water and food there. We both fell into a coma towards the end of the fever. One day I woke up to my mom and aunt screaming and crying and holding my sister because she was unresponsive and not breathing. They were doing chest compressions, cpr, etc. but nothing was working. I was desperately trying to get their attention because I was young and didn’t understand what was going on. I went back in my room to go back to sleep, but in the corner of the room where my sisters bed was, I saw her laying there, breathing fine. I went back out to the living room and realized I was looking at myself in my moms arms as she tried to revive me. Eventually, I saw my eyes flicker open, and then everything went dark. I woke up a few weeks later in the hospital next to my sister and mom (who ended up catching it because of us) my mom told me I had almost died and they were trying to wake me up but I was unresponsive, so the ambulance took all three of us into the ICU. To this day, I am still unsure how I witnessed my almost death.

7.) From prolixia:

When I was 20 I visited a town in Italy that has a number of medieval towers that you can climb. My girlfriend didn't want to climb any, so I went up one on my own and was the only person at the time doing so. It was a sunny day when I entered the tower. There was a flight of stairs that wound around the edge of the tower and no windows.

Climbing the tower took at the very most 5 mins. At the top of the stairs there was a ladder and a trapdoor that opened up onto the roof of the tower. When I opened it, I found the weather had changed dramatically and was overcast and threatening. I forget it there was thunder or not, but I was genuinely concerned about lightning, being at the top of a tall tower in that weather. I cautiously climbed out onto the roof just to have a quick look before going straight down.

The roof was surrounded with a sort of metal "cage" of bars that were clearly intended to prevent anyone falling/jumping off the tower. I heard some thunder and saw electricity arc between some of the bars - not a blinding lightning strike, just arcing. I decided that the tower was imminently going to be struck and descended as quickly as I could.

At the bottom I was surprised to find the weather was again sunny with a clear sky. My girlfriend could tell I was shaken, and was amazed when I told her I thought that maybe there had been lightning: the weather hadn't changed whilst I'd been up the tower.

I've started to tell the story a couple of times, but it's just too weird to expect anyone to believe. I have literally no explanation.

I'm very much a skeptic when it comes to the paranormal, I'm not religious, and I've had no other "weird" experiences like this. In short, I'm not your stereotypical "Spooky things happen to me" kind of person. And yet...

8.) From DashingBoy27:

When I was about 11 or 12 I went with my friend and my younger brother to play football in a park that was in a pretty remote place so there were never many people. Basically three or four people came dressed in like Victorian style clothes , set up a box underneath a tree with big branches, tied a rope around it, one of them stood there with this noose around his neck and then his friend kicked the box so he was hanging. They took turns doing this, and we left. Was super weird thinking back to it and I have to check with my brother whenever I think about it to make sure it actually happened.

Edit: for people asking “how did they not die, they were taking turns etc?” From what I remember, the box mustn’t have been particularly high relative to the length of the rope, so there wasn’t much of a drop if any. I don’t remember how long they were swinging for but I suppose it must have been between 15 seconds to a minute. Then the friends would put the box back for the one hanging to stand on so they could get down, and someone else would take their place.

9.) From DuckWithDepression:

Back when i was 9 or so, me and my friend were having a sleepover. His parents were at a dinner, and his brother was out getting stoned somewhere. Anyways, it was probably 9PM, his parents had just called and said that dinner had turned into drinks, and they would be out for a little while longer. Anyways, we were young, playing Minecraft on the Xbox 360. When we heard his front door open. It had a very noticeable noise when it opened, very creaky, almost eerie So, we thought ‘Oh it’s probably just your brother.’ and kept playing, thinking nothing of it. Then, we heard footsteps, on the floor above us. We once again thought nothing of it, seeing as his kitchen was above the basement where we were playing games, and his brother was likely there for mid-high munchies. But then. we heard another set of footsteps. We were confused at this point, but we didn’t worry as it was either his parents or a stoner friend of his brother. We then heard a scratching at the basement door. We both looked at each other like ‘Is that just me or is there a scratching’ (He didn’t have any pets) So, me being the oldest by 2 months, went to go check. I opened the door and there was nothing there. I yelled upstairs to his brother, lets call him Jim. “Jim, you’re not scaring us. Stop it!” No reply. So i sat back down and continued playing. Now, there was a scratching on the window. We were honestly terrified, and we stayed seated, one of use looking at the door, the other looking at the window. Then, again, scratching at the door. I opened it with a baseball bat in hand, and nothing. We barricaded the door, and put things in front of the window. We didn’t hear anything for the next half an hour, and eventually fell asleep. The next morning his dad came down and knocked on the door, and tried to get into the basement, We took down the barricade, and his dad came into the room, furious. “Why the hell did you guys rip open the screen door?!” We went upstairs and sure enough, the front door’s screen was shredded. We tried to convince him that it wasn’t us, and that the brother had done it to scare us. But what he said next made our blood run cold. “Jim wasn’t home at all last night. We dropped him off in the city with his friends.” (My friends house was half an hour away from the city, and none of the people at his friends house had cars.) Me and my friend looked at each other, and couldn’t speak. Needless to say, his parents didn’t believe us, they called my parents, and me and my friend had to split the cost to have the basement door replaced (it had tons of scratch marks as well) and the screen door replaced. Me and my friend still bring this up to this day. Whenever we meet

10.) From Flujera:

I’ve told this story on here before. I used to live in really rural Texas and was driving down a FM (farm to market) road during some very thick fog. I was in an old pickup truck, and was going maybe 20-30 mph because I couldn’t see very far ahead (super glad I was). As I came around a turn I saw through the fog this big hulking figure lurching across the road. I slowed down, pulled up near it to pass and saw what was the biggest hog I’ve ever seen in my life. A good 400 pounds certainly. It was dead (probably destoryed whatever car hit it) and dragging it to the side of the road an ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE white shaggy dog.

Y’all this dog. I was in a pickup truck, and this dog made eye contact with me, lifted its head, and stared me level in the eye for what felt like an eternity. I stopped my truck and stared I was so caught off guard. After probably a few seconds (felt like forever) it put its head back down, grabbed a chunk of hog and continued making its way off the road.

To break it down, this dog was smart enough to move the animal it wanted to eat, large and strong enough to drag a 400ish pound hog across pavement, and tall enough to look me in the eye IN A PICKUP. I will never forget those eyes. It had mud stained white fur, a big block head, and a long wolfy tail. It looked almost like a Pyrenees (common around there) but with a big St. Bernard shaped head and double the normal size. Big glowing yellow eyes. I have no idea if it was some freak mutant farm dog, a spirit, a wolf, or what, but I’d like to never see it again.

11.) From ouchmypeeburns:

When i was a kid i was playing in our kitchen when i saw a huge dark figure walk past the kitchen and down the hallway leading to the bedrooms. I walked to our back patio and saw the rest of my family watching tv. The patio is on the opposite side of the house from the hallway. I walked to the hallway and started looking for who it couldve been but never found anyone. Still have no idea who or what it couldve been but its always creeped me out thinking about it.

12.) From NSTalley:

I use to live in the middle of nowhere. The town had less than 200 people in it.

I use to work through the night in one of the metro areas and it was about a 40 minute drive with about 15 of it on a county road. I use to think I would see shit in the fields (coyotes, deer, etc) all the time. Never thought twice.

WELL, one morning I was on my way home (about 3 AM) and we had a little bridge to cross right before we got to our road. As I’m closing in on crossing the bridge I can see something pearl white just hanging out in the middle of the road. Thought it was probably a swan and it would move. As I got closer I realized that swans are NOT that big. I was in a F150 and it was at eye level with me. When it’s wings opened up it literally covered both lanes of traffic. I swerved to miss it, but hit some of the wing. I slammed on my breaks and turned around. Whatever it was was 100% gone without a trace. Never saw it again.

If it was a bird, that’s the f*cking biggest bird I have ever seen.

Oh, and I did not a live by anything considered to be a “large body of water”.

13.) From almostproperadult:

it's been almost 10 years and I still don't have anything that's somewhat close to an explanation what happened than

my bestie and me were sleeping over at her grandmas house and enjoying the newly renovated attic as it was supposed to become her little teenager-apartment. all new furniture with a huge comfy couch and nice clean boards screwed to the wall - all in white pink. sleepover went just like you would imagine it with two 15yo girls painting nails watching dvds and talking about the hottest gossip at school. it was already like 3am when we decided to go get some sleep and left the room to sleep in the bed next door. only a few minutes later we heard a little scratching sound followed by a loud bang clearly coming from the room we just left. one of the boards that were screwed to the wall was lying on the floor. almost 4m away from where it was supposed to be. not like screw broke and it fell. nope. solid 4m away from that wall. almost 2cm deep hole in the ground where the board was laying. the holes in the wall looked like something grabbed that board and pulled it straight out ripping the wood and concrete it was drilled to.

still getting goosebumps remembering it

14.) From q-a-z-x:

Several years ago my friends and I were road tripping cross country, and we stopped at a campsite in Southern Oregon.

Something about this unassuming place made us all uneasy. It felt like everyone was staring at us as we drove in and set up our tents. We’d gotten that treatment in places where we’d stuck out, but here it seemed less like gawking and more like... suspicion? malice?

The sun set, our gear was set up, and we got in the car to smoke some (legal) weed before bed. We were talking and passing a pipe around, and my friend in the backseat had the door cracked with his knee against it.

With no warning something slammed into the car hard enough that backseat friend was pushed away from the door and the whole car rocked on its suspension. We immediately started the engine, turned on the brights and drove around our area looking.

Nothing.

We fell asleep in the car arguing over if anyone was willing to get our gear before we went to a motel.

15.) From atlas_118:

Not technically seen, but heard.

When I was about 15 I willingly stayed home alone to look after my pets while my family went on a cruise, one night I heard the distinct sound of the old kitchen window open, freaked out and hid in the cupboard.

Was so afraid that I called the police, they showed up soon after, one stayed with me and the other went around outside to check the window. Window was closed, no footprints, no marks on the window or anything.

To this day I'm puzzled by this and am still confident that I really did hear that window open.

16.) ​​​​​​​From martinencinal0002:

I got recalled into work and was driving at about 3am. I was in a very rural area in Western Washington. As I come around a curve I see a woman in a night gown on the side of the road looking up at a steep embankment. Just standing there staring away from the road. There are no homes nearby, not for miles. I call 911 and pull over about a minute up the road not knowing what to think. Deputy showed up couldn't locate anyone and was as dumbfounded as I was.

17.) From Merjia:

Mine's pretty minor, I was awake one summer night with my window wide open to try to cool my room, and I heard this gigantic droning sound appear out of nowhere and remained for a few minutes. Sounded like it was coming from just outside my window above the road.

It was one of the loudest sounds I've ever heard, didn't sound like a helicopter, there wasn't that "chop" of blades in the air, and once it had stayed for a few minutes, it faded away, like it was going up into the air.

Never heard anything like it since.

18.) From okcool12:

I work as an adult novelty store manager with a theatre so please envision the kind of customers I get. I had this regular who was nice enough and we always exchanged pleasantries and small talk. One day we said goodbye and as he went to leave he stopped dead in his tracks and came back to the counter. He told me that he ignores it every time but today it wouldn’t let him. So naturally I ask what the hell is he talking about. He proceeds to tell me that there is and older black man who is with me 24/7. He sees him every time I’m in the store. The older black man just stands next to me watching me and smiling. At that point a chill ran up my spine because no one in that store knows besides my boss that I’m half black and my 65 year old black father that I was so close to passed in 2014. I said the usual “wow” and “oh my god” so I wouldn’t give anything away to see what else he says to see if it’s legit. The customer proceeds to tell me that the man (my father) is sad about about his kids not doing what he’s asked them to do and one particular child i has greatly disappointed him. The man (my father) also wants the customer to tell me how much he loves his wife even though she’s married again. At this point I have tears in my eyes because how would this man know there’s conflict between me and my siblings because of my dads death. How would this man know my mother is married again? He kept mentioning that he could feel a strong religious pull with my father. My father was a preacher. He told me a bunch of other things and asked if I was pregnant. I told him no but apparently my next child will have my father’s soul according to him. My 2 year old son looks like my father and loves his favorite songs.

I have never seen that man again.

19.) From dimiode:

Running through a large field in the middle of a nice neighbourhood on Halloween night. Got gassed sprinting halfway and reached out to hold on to a tiny tree, felt what I can only describe as claws like bugles on your finger tips wrap around my hand. Noped the fk out and ran back to my group of friends.

There were no leaves because it was fall so I still have no clue what it was.

20.) From ExtremeArrival:

My father died when I was 15. In my freshman year of college, me and my roommate in the dorms were somewhat close, but really had only been known each other for a month when the ~creepy thing~ happened. I hadn't told her much about my childhood, but she knew that my father had passed.

One day she woke me up and asked me...."Did your father use to call you (insert silly childhood nickname here)?"

I hadn't heard that name since I was 6 or 7. I definitely never told her that he used to call me that, as it was a repressed memory that I hadn't thought about in a long time.

Anyway, as it turned out, she had a dream that my father had come to her, and asked her to take care of me, calling me by this silly childhood nickname.

It was always difficult for me that my father never saw me graduate high school or start college. But I guess he did, from wherever he is now.

21.) From emoandproud:

I was in my final year at uni, and I worked as a TA for a language prof (this meant teaching one hour sessions multiple times a week). I basically lived in the (known to be haunted) Humanities building. One Tuesday after my final class and before my first lesson of the evening, I was in the staff room heating up my shitty microwave dinner. A woman I had never seen before came in, obligatory "ope lemme just scooch past ya... and check the time on the coffee machine."

Now I found it odd that this university employee came here just to check the time on the coffee machine, you don't have a phone/ computer/ watch/ clock?? But who am I and my Lean Cuisine to judge? She looks at the time on the coffee machine and says:

"That can't be right. What time is it?"

Me: uhhh it's 5:37

Her: hmm 5 minutes fast. Ok.

With that she left and although a bit odd, I didn't dwell on the interaction. That is... until one week later, Tuesday evening, I was again heating up my food when she enters, obligatory OPE lemme just scooch past ya and check the time.

"That can't be right. What time is it?"

I look at my phone. It is exactly 5:37. I tell her and once again she says "hmmm 5 minutes fast. Ok" and leaves.

I am deeply unsettled. The microwave dings. I take my lean cuisine and quickly head upstairs.

Never saw that woman again.

22.) From akasha154500:

My friend and I were sleeping in my parent's room one night when she was over and it was probably about 3 am. Suddenly we hear a sound like a fart from the corner of the room, and distinctly from this one corner. So I ask my friend if she farted, and of course she says no as it clearly came from that corner. Thinking maybe it's my dogs as they sometimes sleep in my parent's room, I go and check it out but realize they're' not in the room with us. Okay, so that's weird I thought, and my friend also said she heard a distinct fart too so we assumed that maybe we both misheard. Then all of a a sudden an unknown caller starts ringing my phone and I don't answer because at this point I'm freaked the f*ck out. After I decline the call I receive a message from an unknown caller with the same area code as the caller who had just called me. The text message is all in Spanish and me and my friend decide to paste the text into Google Translate where it proceeds to say "Did you hear that fart?"

Needless to say we never slept in my parent's room again, and we're convinced that we have a Spanish farting ghost in our presence.

23.) ​​​​​​​From southpawlemon:

Back in 2016 My mother was staying at my place because My father was in the hospital at the time and my apartment was right next to the hospital . One night I had this dream that the landline rings and my mother answers the phone and hears the news that my dad has passed away. She hangs up the phone and tells me that my uncle (a doctor at the hospital my father was in) just gave her the news of my fathers passing. I wake up startled. I have a drink of water ,and just as I start feeling relieved that this was all just a bad dream. The phone rings and my mom picks it up.. I was just watching her from a distance noticing the expression on her face noticing the tears that started dripping down her cheek, and she hangs up the phone and tells me that my uncle just told her that my father has passed away. This is the only unexplained thing that ever happened to me and this is the first time I share this with anybody

31 people share the ways quarantine has positively impacted their lives.

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Nobody WANTS a global pandemic to take lives and ravage economies across the world. But since that's the reality we're currently living in, it can be helpful to focus on the positive outcomes of an otherwise shitty situation. People all over the world have been forced to live in quarantine. And though this new lifestyle comes with its fair set of challenges, some people are experiencing unforeseen benefits as well.

Someone asked Reddit: "what positive effects has the quarantine had for you?" and got an enormous flood of responses. Turns out nature isn't the only thing that's healing.

These 25 people share the positive ways quarantine has impacted their lives, because every dark cloud has a silver lining and an excuse to watch Netflix all day in sweatpants:

1.) From neomagicwarrior:

My company, who had a firm "no working from home" policy, has finally seen how well everyone is doing while working from home...and have talked about loosening restrictions post virus.

2.) From YardSaleFail:

My boss just said when he opens the office he's going to make it voluntary to work there (vs. Work from home), because everyone did such a great job working from home. Now everyone gets to pick full time from the office, full time from home, or split. So happy :)

3.) From gilmorefan:

I'm finally not exhausted. I've slept better than I have in years. I'm broke af, but at least I'm sleeping. Lol

4.) From believeinxtacy:

I was burnt out at work and with being social all the time. So spending quality time with myself has been great. On top of that, not having time to myself resulted in me not cooking my own meals and I’ve gained a bit of weight in the last year. I’ve been cooking my own healthy meals and going out for long bike rides. No idea if I have lost weight-I get obsessive over the scale. I have been living in sweats and leggings the last few years and decided it was time to put effort in how I look. I’ve started learning about how fashion works and sold/donated some of my clothes. My room was depression messy and I cleaned it right after my work shut down and have kept it clean since.

5.) From Lamprophonia:

I feel awful even saying it but... I work in software, so my job and productivity didn't change one iota. It took me about an hour one way to get into the office, and I'd usually buy a lunch instead of make one (though lawd knows I tried... I even subbed to r/mealprepsunday without ever actually prepping anything, that counts doesn't it?).

Being home, I do cook a lot more though.

My son is also not in daycare, which was costing me like $170 a week.

No more gas + no more going out to eat + no more daycare + no more random "I'm tired and don't feel like cooking let's just go out" = THOUSANDS of dollars appearing into the savings account, seemingly over night.

6.) From Back2Bach:

I've been going on daily walks in wooded areas, noticing things in nature I'd never paid attention to before.

7.) From ladies-pmme-nudespls:

Due to my job, and the hours I work, I spend most of my time alone. There are days when the only people I see are the person who worked before me, and the one who works after me. But now my roommates work from home and I actually have people to talk to, and be around. I feel like is been good for my mental health.

8.) From Sannibunny:

Im one of those people who started to do their balcony.

Three years in a row my balcony was dirty and without any plants.

Now I cleaned up and put up some plants and it starts to look really nice.

9.) From SupremoZanne:

it made it feel right for me to be by myself.

10.) From RXIXX777:

I haven't worked since March 16th, and now I'm a couple weeks away from finishing my first novel!

11.) From More_mortem:

I have started working out.

12.) From throwawaythekeylime:

It forced me to change my business from catering big parties to serving carry-out dinners a few at a time. I made a decent living from catering, sure, but I'm making an absolute killing on these dinners and now I even get to take weekends off. Plus whenever large parties become a thing again, I will have introduced myself and my product to several hundred potential clients with a marketing expenditure of $7 - the cost of the sign I put by the side of the road that simply says DINNER ➡️

13.) From bagofm3th:

Been saving a ton of money

14.) From incendiaryw-it:

Have had a consistent exercise schedule! It's helped a bit with keeping my moods stable.

15.) From Topheavybrain:

My wife has breast cancer, was pretty aggressive.

Was diagnosed back in August and finished chemo towards the beginning of the year. She has since undergone a few big surgeries (mastectomy/plastics/lipo/hysterectomy) and recovery since the quarantine started.

I'm a school teacher and had I been in school, I would've had to take a big pay cut (due to only having 4 sick days a year), gone on long term fmla, or quit. With the shut down, I've been able to be there for her, tell her how beautiful she is everyday, cook/clean, make sure kids are fed/active/engaged in activities/keep myself sane et al.

The quarantine could not have come at a better time and for all the hurt and death it is causing, our highly immuno-surpressed family has been able to hold everything together through this.

Thank you for your question, I've really enjoyed reading all of these.

16.) From TRIGMILLION:

Loving not having the commute. I can wake up five minutes before work starts and I'm fine. And at five o' clock I'm instantly home.

17.) From Hawkmek:

And you get chores done around the house during the work day which makes my weekends truly mine. I mowed the lawn at lunch Thursday. Loving this home stuff. No tollway fees, no fast food lunches.

18.) From jon_noj_jon:

I don't feel compelled to do any social activities or cut my hair, two things that I normally feel like I have to do. But with isolation dictating those things, I finally feel free...while bound at home.

19.) From thwoorrpthereitis:

Oh man. So many positives. I bartend in a restaurant so I’ve been laid off and collecting unemployment and it’s more money than I make in a week. I paid off my credit card debt, my carpal tunnel has healed, I have been drinking significantly less, quit smoking, I’ve been cooking more, saving money by not going out, I have a regular sleep schedule, I’ve been reading more, I’ve lost weight, I don’t wear makeup anymore and my skin cleared up, I got a puppy and I’ve had all the time I need to train him, and so much more, this run on sentence could go on for hours. I think the best thing is realizing how important it is to make the most of time away from work and to establish a routine that doesn’t revolve around a job.

20.) From jessicamay14:

I'm still not convinced it's positive, but I've probably gained about 10 lbs and have not made myself throw up since March 19th, the longest stretch I've gone in about 10 years.

My body feels so different and it feels like I have curves in pants that fell off my hips just a few months ago - terrified yet kinda proud of my new butt.

21.) From turdshack:

I've had time to learn more about myself. I am in recovery from alcohol abuse so after years of numbing myself, I've been relearning how different emotions feel and how I react to those emotions in a safe environment.

22.) From knuthfa:

I stopped smoking.

I stopped drinking everyday. Now I drink once a week. Will have to quit after I run out of alcohol.

Started exercising, as being out of breath keeps the nicotine pangs away.

23.) From Benjaminbuttcrack:

I learned how to play dominoes, make mashed potatoes, and cook ribs. All of which i thought would be hard but we're actually ridiculously easy.

24.) From purposefulthrowawaye:

I’ve gotten to spend a lot of time with my aging dog :)

25.) From MyTootsMyTootsMyToot:

I‘ve stopped wearing makeup and have become super confident in my natural appearance. I’m 30 years old and can only recall going bare-faced a handful of times in the last 15 years. My skin looks seriously amazing, and frankly, the full gamut of war paint made me look older than I realized. I think after quarantine, I’ll still wear makeup on certain special occasions, but it won’t be on the daily (nor as a compulsive, “I can’t leave the house without my face cuz I look like a troll” necessity).

26.) From mister_poo_pants:

I still have to goto work, as I am in healthcare, but the traffic and parking spots have never been better!

27.) From RufusTheDeer:

The housing (mostly flipper and air bnb) market has slowed down enough that I might finally be able to buy a house. Even with the slow it's still a tight fucking squeeze. I've been waiting 6 years

28.) From ClumsyKatie:

Happier. I love being stuck at home.

29.) From cakenbacon:

I ended up quarantining with my boyfriend at his apartment after possibly being exposed so I wouldn’t put my high risk parents in danger. We decided to move in together for real, have both been working from home and saving up money, and are looking at the possibility of buying a house. I’m not sure we would have been able to take these steps in our relationship without quarantine.

Also the new hours I’ve been working have given me the time to see a doctor about a long standing condition that I’m finally receiving treatment for and going to be going through surgery soon to hopefully fix it. Again, I don’t think I would have taken this step if quarantine hadn’t made it possible.

30.) From Maebyfunke37:

My teenager is being nicer than she's been in years. Less stress? Fewer ways to escape the consequences of hurting others? Reevaluating her life and realizing we've had reasonable expectations all along? Don't know but I'm enjoying it.

31.) From wvwvvwvwwv:

I got on methadone and quit using heroin after doing it for almost 5 years nonstop

25 of the funniest posts about moms struggling with technology.

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Moms are really good at a lot of things, such as: giving us life, cooking casseroless, and hugs. But if there's one thing most moms (and dads, but today is about moms) of the baby boomer generation seem to struggle with, it's technology. Specifically, anything involving texting, social media, and the internet. You can't blame them. And one day, millennials' kids will be laughing at us for our failure to operate whatever technology has yet to be invented yet (TikTok is already hard enough). But until that happens, we can all get some light-hearted pleasure from the hilariously bumpy intersection between baby boomer moms and digital technology.

Here are 25 of the funniest posts online about older moms struggling with technology.

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Adele's personal trainer writes post defending her after fans criticize her weight loss transformation.

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Adele posted a new photo for her birthday last week that showed a slimmed-down figure, and it sparked a debate on social media about body positivity. Her personal trainer has now penned an Instagram post defending her choice to lose weight after some criticized her transformation.

In the photo, Adele looks like she has continued a weight loss journey that people first noticed around the holidays. And like those holiday photos, her birthday snap sparked yet another debate.

Some fans bemoaned her weight loss as if it were a personal insult to them.

Others took issue not with her weight loss, but with the fact that people were congratulating her for being skinny.

Even British newspaper The Mirror posted a story with the headline, ""F**k off skinny Adele, I loved you just the way you were."

Now, her London trainer, Pete Geracimo, has weighed in. He shared some details of his work with Adele, and said her weight loss is her business alone.

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As Adele’s former London-based personal trainer, it’s disheartening to read negative commentary and fat-phobic accusations questioning the genuineness of her amazing weight loss. In my personal experience of working with her through many highs and lows, she always marched to the beat of her own drum on her own terms. She never undermined her God-given talent in any way. She let her incredible voice do the talking, or should I say singing! She never once pretended to be something that she wasn’t. What you saw was what you got. And we all LOVED it! When Adele and I started our journey together, it was never about getting super skinny. It was about getting her healthy. Especially post pregnancy and post surgery. When 25 dropped and the tour announced, we had to get ready for a 13 month gruelling schedule. In that time, she warmed to training and made better food choices. As a result, she lost considerable weight and people took notice. Her body transformation was splashed across every media outlet. The attention it generated was mind-blowing. Since she moved to LA, it’s been well documented that she underwent some tough personal changes. It’s only natural that with change comes a new sense of self and wanting to be your best possible version. She embraced better eating habits and committed to her fitness and “is sweating”! I could not be prouder or happier for her! This metamorphosis is not for album sales, publicity or to be a role model. She is doing it for herself and for Angelo. My hope is that people appreciate the hard work that Adele has done to improve herself for the benefit to her and her family only. She did not lose the weight to make others feel bad about themselves. This personal transformation has nothing to do with me or you. It’s about Adele and how she wants to live her life. She has not changed from the Adele we grew up with and have loved. There is just a little less of her to go around. #adele #fabulous #strong #songbird #transformation #powerful #voice #love #rumorhasit #pt

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Geracimo starts by praising Adele for working on herself on her own terms:

As Adele’s former London-based personal trainer, it’s disheartening to read negative commentary and fat-phobic accusations questioning the genuineness of her amazing weight loss.

In my personal experience of working with her through many highs and lows, she always marched to the beat of her own drum on her own terms. She never undermined her God-given talent in any way. She let her incredible voice do the talking, or should I say singing! She never once pretended to be something that she wasn’t. What you saw was what you got. And we all LOVED it!

He says getting "super skinny" was never her goal:

When Adele and I started our journey together, it was never about getting super skinny. It was about getting her healthy. Especially post pregnancy and post surgery. When 25 dropped and the tour announced, we had to get ready for a 13 month gruelling schedule. In that time, she warmed to training and made better food choices. As a result, she lost considerable weight and people took notice. Her body transformation was splashed across every media outlet. The attention it generated was mind-blowing.

He adds that her divorce and move to LA changed her perspective:

Since she moved to LA, it’s been well documented that she underwent some tough personal changes. It’s only natural that with change comes a new sense of self and wanting to be your best possible version. She embraced better eating habits and committed to her fitness and “is sweating”! I could not be prouder or happier for her! This metamorphosis is not for album sales, publicity or to be a role model. She is doing it for herself and for Angelo.

He hopes people can let the singer live:

My hope is that people appreciate the hard work that Adele has done to improve herself for the benefit to her and her family only. She did not lose the weight to make others feel bad about themselves. This personal transformation has nothing to do with me or you. It’s about Adele and how she wants to live her life. She has not changed from the Adele we grew up with and have loved. There is just a little less of her to go around.

Fans are applauding his take.

But some still feel that he's equating thinness with health, which could be damaging.

Clearly, this debate won't end any time soon.

But at least Adele doesn't seem to be losing sleep over it.


21 people share the creepiest things they've seen while visiting someone's house.

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Every house is different — and sometimes when you visit somebody else's place, you might be shocked at the weird or creepy things you see.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to share the creepiest things they've seen at someone else's house. From killer snakes to haunted dolls, it's clear no two households are the same.

1. This person saw a toddler crawl out of a washing machine.

I went to visit a neighbor who had just moved into a bigger home (she had 11 children). I sat down at the kitchen counter as my neighbor was getting us tea. All of a sudden, the dishwasher slowly opens (from the inside) and out crawled a kid...couldn't have been more than 18 months old. Kid looks at me then crawls away. I thought I was on camera being punked somehow but my friend never saw it and never skipped a beat in whatever she was talking about. It was weird....and the kid was creepy. - fanster6

2. Only in Australia...

I was at sleepover and we were watching a movie in their shed, and since we were 10 it got scary so we went back into the house and we passed by this (what we thought) was a toy snake, it was humongous. Anyway she brushes it off saying it was probably her brothers, and we went inside. I mentioned it to her mum saying it was so cool and she was like ??? What toy snake. Turns out it was a 2 meter snake thar definitely was venomous. I’m Australian. - Snkshishis

3. Straight out of "40-Year-Old Virgin."

I went with a friend to this guy's house that she was seeing. She said he had a lot of collectibles, which is fairly normal since we are both collectors ourselves. We walk into his very large house (I'm pretty sure it had five bedrooms) and every surface -- literally -- EVERY surface was covered in figurines. I'm talking about the edges of the staircase, the banister, in between the slats on the handrail, the kitchen counters, the coffee table, the tops of the cabinets, the edge of the bathroom sink, the window sills, hanging from doorways. There were countless bookshelves and display cases overflowing with collectible items. Nothing about the collectibles were creepy, it was just your run-of-the-mill nerd stuff but oh my god, the sheer amount, it felt like a sarcophagus. - Meryl_And_The_Streeps

4. Say no more.

carpeted bathroom - U29jaWFsaXNt

5. Major Jonbenet Ramsey vibes...

My husband and I were house shopping. We go with our realtor to view this one house that was SUPER nice, checked all of our boxes, and within our price range.

The first thing we noticed is there were security cameras in every single room. Even in the bedrooms. Odd but whatever.

We finally get to the master bedroom where there was a SHRINE of a maybe 5? year old girl above the master bed. There were old bouquets of flowers and candles surrounding the shrine which led us to believe the little girl was deceased. They even kept the girls’ bedroom fully intact. We noped out so quick. They pulled the house off the market the next day (we suspect they were watching us on their surveillance). - TacoFlavordKisses

6. A rich guy creating his own illuminati history museum? Yikes.

Back in high school a longtime friend of mine used to work for a stereotypical eccentric rich guy, mainly charity and non-profit stuff. But he collected the rarest historical memorabilia, and my friend was giving me an unofficial tour of the room where this guy stored everything. Two that freaked me out were Haitian slave shackles from colonial times and a cracked voodoo doll that was supposedly haunted. Nope, no thank you sir. - tight_tight

7. She was out for blood.

I was visiting a friend as a child and she let me peek into her older sister's room. It was completely red! Red lacquered walls, red rug, red bedspread, lamp with a red light bulb in it! 11 year old me was horrified. - Offthepoint

8. Horrifying.

It was morning and their mom put milk before cereal and she warmed up the milk. It was the summer. Horrible times. - Legend_of_Utopia

9. Call the police.

I had a male friend who seemed pretty normal. He was a shy nerd who had a bit of trouble making friends, we bonded over video games and anime. He left the room to greet another friend at the door. He had a note pad under his pillow and it had really detailed beautiful drawings of me. It was flattering until I flipped further, there were pictures of me!

Some were printed out screenshots of my insta posts or friends snap stories, but others were just pictures of me in class or at the mall and they weren’t pictures taken to my knowledge or accidentally. He was a r/incel r/neckbeard type. We stopped hanging out after that. He started getting really creepy and pushy and so I cut all contact with him. - _Unironic-irony_

10. Haunted dolls, anyone?

Not necessarily visiting but for a couple months I lived in a house with an older woman (late 80s) whom I provided care for in exchange for room and board (rather than paying rent). Her late husband had been a dollmaker and I'm not sure if he still does but at one time he held the Guinness world record for the smallest doll with moving parts made without a magnifying glass.

The parlour was lined with glass cabinets showing some of his best and favourite dolls. Nobody really hung out in that room because it was supposed to be kept nice for visitors. I wasn't even allowed to sit on the couches. So for the whole time I was living there that room always had a musty, impersonal feel to it even though it was cleaned and dusted regularly.

I passed through that room every once in a while to look out the front window or on my way from my bedroom to the kitchen. Every once in a while I would take a quick peek into the glass cabinet and check up on my favourite dolls. That's when I started to notice that the dolls would change directions. They'd be facing front the first time I looked at them but later in the day they'd be facing the side or the back.

I told the owner about this and she said she never noticed it but nobody could have been moving it because the cabinets were all locked with a key she kept in a secret place in her bedroom. The only people who ever came into the house were me, her, her sister, her brother-in-law, her grandkids, and the cleaning lady once a week. The majority of the time I was just the two of us and her family hardly went into that room anyways. I always thought it was weird but I never really thought it was that scary. - RavenWolfPS2

11. Imagine if your sleep paralysis demon was your friend's grandma.

Not something I saw; but I slept over at a friend’s house who’s grandma lived with the family because she was so old and losing her marbles. While getting ready for bed, my friend told me “Don’t worry if you wake up and see my grandma standing over you while you sleep; sometimes she forgets who my friends are. Just tell her ‘grandma, it’s okay, go back to bed’ and it’ll be fine.” It was in that moment that I realized I had made a terrible mistake deciding to sleep over. I thank my deep sleeping every day that I did not wake up in the middle of the night because an old woman was standing over me, watching. I did end up with bed bugs though. Which is why I never went over again. - StopTheBigFishMan

12. Not PETA-approved.

A stuffed leopard that the grandad killed in Kenya many many years ago.. those beady eyes stared at you no matter which part of the room you went. - bellef0u

13. Vampires need their computers fixed, too.

I fix computers and go to peoples houses from time to time to do so. One day a guy who looked a vampire answered the door. He had black curtains, red walls, a literal demom shrine with the pentagram, goat skull, incense and all. He was pasty white (whiter than me and im a ginger), wearing a black silk suit and had dark ete circles.

I walked in, looked around for about a minute as he showed me where his desk was then pretended to get an emergency text and noped the f*** outta there. Not about to be your next sacrafice or hex my dude.

- citizen42701

14. Haunted chompers.

A wooden voodoo doll lookin thing that my friend's dad bought back from his vacation to some weird 3rd world country. It was old so he took it to some sort of specialist who said that if it was authentic it was definitely made with human remains. My friend told me that when I was holding the thing and as soon as he did I noticed it's teeth looked a little too real in comparison to the rest of it so I put that shit down immediately cuz like wtf I'm not holding a doll made of people that's f***** - Indicocybin

15. The worst kind of "creepy" there is.

My friends dad. The way he was looking at me and said I should wear that shirt again next time. - skylayers

16. Well, this isn't normal.

Had a sleepover at a friend's when I was around 12. The dad sat at the dinner table in only his tighty whities and didn't say a single word. The entire family was clearly intimidated by him as no one else said a single word for the entire meal either.

I never slept over again. - calcifer411

17. Recycle, reduce, reuse!

I had an acquaintance who invited me to his home for a party. The guy was an amputee due to a diabetic foot, I think cuz I didn't pry.

But a few years back when he got it amputated, he decided it would be cool to get the bone kept. So this foot bone is used as a paper weight on his desk right now. (Was creepy when I saw it, now I kinda think it's cool)

I think he got the idea off an article once of some guy doing the same thing. - GetOutOfTheWhey

18. Sounds like there was a lot going on for this poor girl.

Not so much as creepy to me as sad but when I was a teenager I was hanging out with two close friends who took me to their friend's house. This girl was extremely messy, not just messy her room was so dirty! There was garbage everywhere, clothes everywhere it was gross. We were all smoking and when I asked for an ashtray she told me to just ash on the floor.

There was animal feces on the floor as well and when we were talking the topic of her mother came up. Her mom died and she lived with her grandma but this girl said that her mother's ashes were somewhere in her room but she couldn't find the container anywhere... like wow. I didn't go back to her house, she was a nice girl she just.. needed to clean her room and find her mother's ashes. - pistashio03

19. Holy hell.

My grand aunt's house had religious statues (the large ones the size of 1st graders) EVERYWHERE. You will always feel like someone's watching you, it's unnerving. Even the bathroom isn't safe from the piercing eyes of jesus. - FearlessInformation5

20. It would be creepy if you were the one showering.

It wasn't creepy as much as strange. We were house hunting and one of the oddest homes we saw was one where they had added an extra bedroom on one side of a bathroom.

It would have been bad enough if you had to walk through the bathroom to enter the bedroom, but because of limited space you had to walk through the shower recess itself!

I can only imagine the frustrations if you didn't plan ahead when someone wanted to take a shower. - bluelinen

21. Hope you got a discount.

I went to this girl’s house to do my hair. As she’s doing my hair, her mom comes home. She says hi, puts her stuff down and just takes off her top. She was topless until I left. - jamie9319

21 people share the most ridiculous reasons they’ve picked fights with their partners in quarantine.

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If you've been quarantined with your partner or spouse during this pandemic, you might have learned things about them that make you feel like you were living with a stranger before...

Did you fall in love with someone who excessively interrupts during a conference call? Just learned your partner who works from home works all day in bed, surrounded by snacks? Are you living with someone who refuses to put pants on for a Zoom meeting? Quarantine has truly been a journey.

While it's safe to safe we're all sufficiently stressed out right now, being trapped inside even with the people you love can be difficult. If you've found yourself starting a fight over something fully ridiculous, you're definitely not alone.

So, when author Ijeoma Oluo asked her Twitter fans about the crazy things they've wanted to yell/have yelled at their partners while stuck in the house, people were definitely ready to share their hilarious adult temper tantrums.

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15 of the most creative ways people celebrated Mother's Day in quarantine.

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Quarantine has temporarily shifted the ways we navigate holidays, and this year's Mother's Day was no exception.

Usually, there are a myriad of ways to celebrate Mother's Day with the family - there are brunch specials, movie showings, special park outings, and limitless ways to construct a day showing love for moms. But this year, with many grown family members quarantined separately, and a bulk of businesses closed, people had to get extra creative with Mother's Day.

Luckily, if this pandemic has shown us anything (beyond how deeply America needs to restructure its social safety nets), it's that people adapt quickly and find ways to be together.

Twitter was full of pictures of people finding ways to show love to mom while social distancing, here are just 15 examples of the ways families rallied during this tremendously strange time.

1. This festive family facetime.

2. This drive-by gifting.

3. This loving conversation through the glass.

4. This drive-in family gathering.

5. These loving glances across the driveway.

6. This celebratory socially distanced hike.

7. More families spreading love through the glass.

8. This road trip with a mission.

9. This sweet family picnic.

10. This mom who found a way to celebrate herself and her deceased mom.

11. This mother who took the day to draw the family history.

12. This Mother's Day zoom hang out.

13. This Mother's Day stoop sit.

14. These Twilight-themed Mother's Day cards.

15. This dream Mother's Day snack package.

25 employees who got their bosses fired share how it all went down.

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Most people have had a mean, unfair, or militant boss at some point in their lives. Maybe you have one currently, judgmentally reading this over your shoulder, even though they can only see you through Zoom. But bosses aren't the only ones capable of catching someone misbehaving at work and making them face the repercussions. Sometimes bosses or managers themselves have to face the consequences of their own bad behavior.

For employees who hate their bosses, getting them fired is a fantasy. But for some employees, it was a sweet, sweet reality. Someone asked employees of Reddit who've gotten their bosses fired: "how?" Maybe they were seeking advice or a guide. Maybe they were just curious. Either way, they got lots of juicy responses.

These 25 employees who've gotten their bosses or managers fired share how it all went down:

1.) From mynameisjudygarland:

I used to work at a title company and witnessed our department manager forge mortgage documents on a fairly regular basis. So when she went to upper management to throw the entire department under the bus for being behind on recording documents, I marched straight to HR to resign and let them know what she was doing.

She was fired and they called me and offered my job back before the week was out.

2.) From Antistis:

Worked register at a tour company.

I also had a manager who f*cking HATED me for some reason. She was probably the bitchiest person I've ever met. Constantly yelled at us for not reason, got on to me about answering questions a new hire had (when I was asked, not her), wrote down I was 30 minutes late for a shift when I was 2 minutes late, etc etc.

We had a sneaking suspicion that she was taking money from our tills, as she was always the one who counted down the till when someone got fired for stealing cash. I made it a habit to count down every bill when I gave it back to a customer, because we would get pay docked if we were even $1 off. So if a customer had $23 in change, I'd count twenty, one two three in front of them, so I knew I'd given back the right amount. We also had cameras pouring at the registers.

Well, one day my GM pulls me aside and says $20 was missing from my till and they were going to fire me. I straight up told my boss she could look at the cameras, because I counted out all my bills for customers.

LO AND BEHOLD. Bitchy bitch was the one who counted down my till and got caught on tape pocketing the money. She was gone by my next shift.

F*ck you, Jennifer, I won.

3.) From Jenniferinfl:

I had a boss who was skimming off employee hours at Walmart. I took screenshots of my employees hours on Thursday before the shift started and then screenshots of their hours on Friday that showed that all of them had a couple hours skimmed off their work week. I was a low level manager- he was an upper tier manager.

He got fired.

I believe his motivations was that he wanted to get promoted and wanted to show that he could get more done in less man hours. Probably would have impacted his bonus too.

4.) From 2beagles:

I had a job that required my supervisor to be doing evaluations of my cases and charts. She just hadn't, in months. She and my director ordered me and my co-workers to do our own chart audits, fill out the forms, and they would sign off. I was so tired of not having adequate supervision, staff meetings weekly where she yelled at us and invariably someone cried due to the stress and lack of support, and not having been paid enough to do everything I was doing AND their job, I refused. I was told to do it or I would be fired. Nope. So I got fired.

On the way out to my car, I called my former director who had moved to another agency. She set up an interview for the next day and I had a new job within 24 hours. She asked me what had happened at that interview. I spilled all the tea. Her sister-in-law was on the board of the previous agency, so she called her and I told her everything, too. Director was fired and supervisor was reprimanded and put on close monitoring. She had killed any chance of promotion and left shortly afterwards, I heard. I was just happy to have jumped ship from that toxic mess. I should have left months earlier.

5.) From Azraled:

Not my story but my mothers, I watched on the side lines as a Teenager. My mothers job was basically a professional fundraiser (I really don't know what else to call it). People came to her for help raise money for nonprofits or other foundations that needed it. This was a long time ago before Social workers were more of a mandatory thing at high schools, my highschool was very poor and did not have one. So my mother took it upon herself to set up a fundraiser to pay the salary of a Social Worker so my highschool could have one.

After Raising all the money she went to talk to the Principal who flat out refused to take any of it and said the position just wasn't necessary. My mother was pretty upset and just decided she would donate the money to supplies or something like that. (I honestly have no idea what she did with it, but it did go to some sort of charity.) After a few months, at a Christmas party the Superintendent of all the public schools in the area was at the same party and he struck up a conversation with my mother, after some small talk my mother said that it was such a shame that Principal didn't take the money for the Social Workers position. The superintendent was dumb struck and then told her that he had ordered Principal to find funding for that position and when Superintendent asked him about it he replied with, "no one is interested in that and we just couldn't get the money for it."

Needless to say he lost his position and whenever we came back from the Holiday break the school was hiring for his position.

6.) From penny_can:

Management was giving an injured worker shit, not wanting to pay him, accusing him of goldbricking. Worker said, tell you what, do the right thing here or you will be sorry. Management said take your best shot. Worker called the EPA and APCD, told them where to find the logs that showed discrepancies in toxic material storage and usage. Sheriffs deputies showed up and raided the offices. Field supervisors from 10 years ago that had retired got subpeonaed. It was epic. Cost the company massively in fines and remediation. All because you wanted to f*ck with one poor bastard.

Edit: since there may be some question around how all of this could happen in the age of electronic reporting, here's the story. It's not all the story of course, the news never does quite get all the story. Since it's in the LA times I'm not worried about privacy. However, it was a state agency that was called, the EPA became involved later and at another site. Its been a few years and the chronology of events gets recalled incorrectly sometimes. Once you appear on a regulator's radar, you better have your shit tight.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-21-mn-36782-story.html

7.) From IronSorrows:

He was always slacking off; he'd go and do a 15 minute task, and be gone 2 hours. He'd have to 'shoot off early' for a doctors appointment, or a dentist appointment, always with no prior warning and whenever he was obviously bored. This was, mind you, within weeks of the new shop opening & all of us being hired.

I was young and went along with it for a while, my colleague was in her 40s and vaguely knew him anyway, so was not standing for it. She reported him repeatedly to our area manager, who decided to come down to speak to him about it.

AM rung in the morning, told him to stay in the shop today, and send one of us out for anything that needed doing. He said he had something to do, but his boss said nope, need you in the shop. Somehow he didn't get the obvious message and went out anyway, the AM came down and he was gone; my manager wouldn't answer his phone all day, AM was PISSED.

At the end of the day when we were closing up, he walked past, posted his keys through the door, and I never saw him again. Didn't even attempt to argue his case.

8.) From GrumpyScapegoat:

I used math to prove to their superior how severely my boss had underestimated turnover 3+ years in a row, costing a ton of money and labor issues. One day earlier the boss had screamed at my team until his face went purple, making a huge spectacle in front of the entire floor. The gist was that we were colluding against the company by (a handful of us) electing not to renew our contracts. Came back with graphs and maths, baby. He was demoted and transferred out a couple weeks later.

Pro-tip: don’t make a grumpy scapegoat out of someone who loves to make excel graphs.

9.) From LochNessMansterLives:

I had proven myself as a competent management level employee. She on the other hand, showed favoritism, broke rules, set schedules nobody could work and all around didn’t give a shit as assistant manager. When the manager left she assumed she was a shoe in, after all she was the assistant manager so why wouldn’t she be promoted? We both got called into a meeting the district uppity up, told us both that I was going to be the new manager and she lost her shit. I never saw her again. And quickly after all her relatives that worked there, quit mysteriously.

10.) From Flahdagal:

For a while I was a project manager who got moved around from project to project as a "fixer". I was moved to a project where the customer just could not be satisfied, no matter how many people, how much attention, how we bent over for them. Our program's director, who should have been our advocate, would not manage the customer, and instead just hammered his employees to do more more more. People on our team were being let go due to "failure" or quitting outright due to burnout, and he was bitching that he couldn't get good people.

Because of my sort of special position as general dogsbody I happened to have the ear of our VP, and this project came up in casual conversation. I mentioned that it seemed funny that if the director was doing his job, how so many employees that we knew by fact and reputation were good employees had "failed". A week later I heard that the director had been let go.

11.) From BigMomSloppers:

Our manager spent her whole shift in the office watching us on camera and if we so much as stopped to talk to each other she'd come out and yell at us to get back to work. She was completely immature. One time I left my water bottle at the front counter and my co worker had to stop her from purposefully throwing it away. She would make up rules on the spot if she didn't like something someone did. I could go on. She was a terrible, unfriendly, hypocritical, mean manager.

Honestly, we all just went to the owners and told them everything and how it made us feel. They got HR involved and got her fired and found out she may have been stealing or giving away product. It was such a relief. If you work for a small business, just be honest with the owners if management isn't family.

12.) From Sexybroth:

I got my boss disbarred. He was an attorney who was a serial sexual abuser of female clients/criminal defendants. He got away with it for over twenty years and preyed upon at least twelve different victims. The Office of Attorney Regulation censured him multiple times for other offenses, like being late to pay his annual bar fees, but even though they knew about at least five of the victims, they wouldn't disbar him.

I discovered that the Office of Attorney Regulation decides whether to "pursue an action" against an attorney based on a cost/benefit analysis. I gathered as much documentation of everything as I could, over a six month period.

13.) From BlueFalconPunch:

I've told it before...not fired but transfered.

Had a squad leader make us all stand out in the Missouri winter soaking wet until someone volunteered for weekend duty. I told him I had previous cold weather injuries (frostbite) he ignored it. The corporal saw my blue feet when I took off my boots and sent me to the aid station. The Dr. Lost his shit and that squad leader was in another company the next day.

It's not as justice bonering as getting an asshole fired but it's the Army that's not gonna happen

14.) From mrsheikh:

I used to be a store manager at sneaker/sporting goods store in the mall. One of my co-managers was f*cking one of my teenage (underage) employees in that back stock room after the store closed on a regular basis. This was going on for several months apparently. I found out when said teenager came to me and she said that my co-manager promised her a raise that she never got. I asked her why he said that he would give her a raise. That is when she told me about the sex in the stock room. I had to call the police and corporate about this. We arranged a sting with help of the girl, as she acted out for the police that to meet up with my co-manager after work. Basically "caught him with his pants down" to use the term.

15.) From filthy_lucre:

Advanced through the company through hard work and dedication and slowly began to usurp the boss's duties and responsibilities. Eventually the owner realized what a lazy schmuck the old boss was and "laid him off." A week later I got a new title and a 35% raise.

16.) From defios:

I had a boss who refused to make accommodations for a disabled coworker. Refused to keep other staff in line and basically let the disabled worker fall behind and get picked on because she (the boss) felt like she was not required to do anything else. I work for a local government agency and reported it to our HR and upper management. After they did nothing, I contacted them again to let them know I would be filing a suit with the ACLU for ADA violations.

My boss was gone in two weeks and the rest of the staff had mandatory ADA trainings.

17.) ​​​​​​​From tdasnowman:

By doing so much it started an investigation into what they were actually doing during thier day. Officially she was fired for sending nudes through corporate email, but the only reason they were tracking her email was to understand what she was spending her time one. Turns out it was an affair.

18.) From Nambi007:

I was an intern at a tech company and in a one-on-one/mentorship meeting my boss asked me what skillset I wanted to pursue in the future. I said that I wanted to do backend work (this was a programming internship). He replied and said "Girls aren't smart enough for that type of work, how about we put you on the QA path, you'll do better there". At the time I was so stunned that I just repeated quietly that I wanted to do backend work, the meeting awkwardly ended after that. I always thought that I would be courageous in the face of blatant sexism if it ever happened to me but, instead, I was silent because I was a 23 year-old who really needed that internship to turn into a real job.

Fast forward a couple weeks and I was out to lunch with a few co-workers who brought along a lady who had worked at the company for years. She'd been out on contract for a while so I hadn't met her yet. Everyone was talking about the boss and some of the stuff he had done or said to them, mostly just rude things, so I took a chance and mentioned what happened in that meeting. She said she'd take care of it. Within a few days he was fired by the big boss. I went on my first contract doing backend work about a month later and I loved it :)

As I understand it I was not the first person to have serious complaints about him, just the last person.

19.) From ctruemane:

Mine is pretty pedestrian, but very satisfying. I was working in a garden centre. I'd been there a long time and was woefully overqualified for the job I'd been doing (and was therefore very valuable in that position - think Ops Manager skills at Admin Assistant position and pay).

We lost our Sales Manager one year and corporate hired a new one. Let's call her Flora. She was... a real piece of work. I don't know what her interview looked like but in person she was instantly and constantly rude and strident and mean and curt and dismissive and that attention-seeking brand of lazy where she threw her weight around without cause, talked shit about anyone not in the room, and collected 75% of the credit for 5% of the work. She had some knowledge, I guess, but it's way easier to teach a competent manager how to grow flowers than it is to teach an asshole horticulturist how to be a human being.

ANYWAY. For whatever reason, corporate loved her. So she stayed.

What with one thing and another, I got another job. This process was slightly accelerated by Flora, but only a little. I'd been looking for some time, mostly waiting for the right opportunity. When I gave my two weeks notice, I got an email the next day scheduling my exit interview with the head of HR.

Now. My position didn't get exit interviews. Only managers (and sometimes department supervisors) did. And everyone at my store knew why I was leaving, so there was literally *NO* reason for the Store Manager to pull strings to get me one. And he never said anything about it. But I knew: he set it up so I could tell the head of HR (a man I was very friendly with) that I was leaving because of Flora.

And I did. I just just laid into her. I said that Flora was the only reason I was leaving after almost 10 years with the company, during which time I wrote the company's Health and Safety program, trained almost every other person who did my job at other stores, made spreadhseets that got used company-wide, as well as setting audit records that still stand to this day. And all for a few pennies over minimum wage. I said I was going because she was the worst and I couldn't take it any more.

I found out later she was let go. I was thanked by most of my old workmates. My Manager never said a word about it to me then, or since. He was a real OG.

20.) ​​​​​​​From ExcitedlySuprised:

I quit because I was sick of her shit. On my way home the companies president called to talk to me about what had happened. He offered me two weeks of paid vacation (extra vacation on top of the 5 weeks I already recieved) and promised she would be gone when I came back.

21.) ​​​​​​​From Gl35791:

I worked in a bar and I caught my supervisor giving her and her friends free drinks and taking bottles home. They reviewed the CCTV and found she was also dealing drugs from behind the bar and she was fired the next day

22.) From PerfectCar55:

Was working maintenance at an ice rink. The rule for anyone who knows how an ice rink works is if the zamboni doors open, you get the f*ck off the ice. Some dick-head decided to ignore the fact that they were open and that I was standing in the doorway, and decided to rip off one last slap-shot. The puck bounced off the glass and hit me in the head.

I was OK, but reported it to my boss, because we have to fill out an incident report for things like that. The boss asked "Are you OK?" I said I feel OK, then he responded with "Well, we don't really have to report it then do we?" I reminded him of the protocol, but it was clear he didn't want to do it. Since he wouldn't do it, I sent a descriptive email of the incident up to the administration, because I felt there should be some sort of documentation/paper trail in case god-forbid I ended up having a brain hemorrhage or something a few days later.

The boss was fired by my next shift.

23.) From ClumsyKatie:

I got a manager fired because he sexually harassed me on Facebook.

24.) From PerfectCar5:

It was my supervisor. It got to the point that I had decided to quit. I had my resignation letter in my purse, but decided to let his boss know why I was quitting. Supervisor would talk about all the people on our team constantly, but only behind their backs. I got so sick of telling him to cut it out. My husband and I happened to work at the same place (different departments) and my Supervisor would make sexual comments about threesomes (with him - ewww), what hotel we picked for our afternoon delight, shit like that. It was so bloody uncomfortable. Apart from this he spent most of his supervising time outside smoking. Problem was Supervisor was "one of the guys" and I was the only girl.

Turns out his boss was disgusted, told his boss who lost his mind. They started an investigation which took three days. They interviewed staff - they corroborated what I said. They checked the security cameras, saw he was spending most of his work day outside smoking. And was fired.

When he was told he guessed (wasn't hard!) that I was the person who complained and tried to get to me to "apologize that I took it the wrong way". The best feeling was my co workers surrounding me as he was waled out. That was a lovely ending to it all.

25.) ​​​​​​​​​​From Zulias:

Caught them stealing. Recorded it. Went over their heads.

20 dads and adult kids share their favorite 'don't tell mom' stories.

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It doesn't matter how unified your parents are when it comes to rules, most kids have a few stories that fall under the "don't tell mom (or dad)" umbrella.

These rare instances of secret alliance with one parent make an experience that much more special. After all, everything is cooler when it's done in secret. One of the funnest parts of becoming a parent is being able to continue the tradition of keeping (harmless) secrets from mom (or dad).

In a popular Reddit thread, Dads and grown kids alike shared their best "don't tell mom stories" and it's a great way to continue celebrating Mother's Day.

1. From schnoj:

My wife or I will write notes and put them in our 9 year old son's lunch box most days. One day my wife's note was found by a boy named Max in my son's class and read aloud to his table. Needless to say my son came home quite embarrassed. Since I'm currently unemployed I went to have lunch with my son at school the next day. Towards the end of lunch, he points the boy out to me. We have always preached turning the other cheek, telling the teacher, etc, but something about this kid's face made all those teachings fly out of window. I told my son "now listen, I'm going to tell you something you can say to him but you cannot tell your mother."

My son replies that he'll keep our secret so I give him a pretty mild burn and tell him to use it discretely. Fast forward to that evening and my wife is signing the daily conduct sheet upon which is written "Your son came into the classroom after lunch and yelled to the entire class that Max's mother doesn't send him notes because she doesn't love him". He didn't rat me out to the teacher but I fell on the sword for him at home.

2. From ProdigalEden:

Not dad but son, When I was about 5 years old I was playing hide and seek with my mom and dad, Dad would pick a spot for me to hide and mom would come looking. Dad decided mom would never find me if he opened the window and put me out onto the roof of the balcony a floor below us (3 story apartment house).

3. From Scrappy_Larue:

I brought my sons, 5 and 10, to Circus Circus in Las Vegas for a weekend. I lost the younger one for a full 5 minutes at one point. Scariest 5 minutes of my life, and mom never heard about it.

4. From Myzyri:

My parents divorced and my mom remarried. When I was about 10, she became a bit of a holy roller. When I say "a bit," I mean "off the deep end." For context, this was the mid-80's.

Suddenly, cartoons were evil. I couldn't watch He-Man, Voltron, Richie Rich, Tom & Jerry. Nothing! She could see evil in anything. Smurfs taught homosexuality. He-Man taught witchcraft. Richie Rich taught greed. And so on..magazines were evil too. I was at the age where driving was in sight, so I had various car magazines coming to the house. Not anymore! Why? Because the sexy bikini-laden car models taught "hyper sexuality" and it would turn me into a rapist. Don't even get me started on video games either. I was only allowed to play religious video games and watch religious cartoons. Also, no TV in my room anymore because if I was left alone with a TV, I'd end up being influenced into being a gay, murdering, Satan-worshipping warlock!

My dad and step-dad hated each other, but looking back, they both looked out for my best interests. They both thought my mother's religious stuff was a bit nuts, too. So, they had some common ground. As a side note, my step father must have a special place reserved in Heaven for him because he stuck with her through a decade of absolute hard-core religious fanaticism. She's much more reserved now.

Anyway, on weekends, I'd see my dad. When I'd get there, he'd have a couple VHS tapes ready for me. All my favorite cartoons! He and I would spend half a day binge watching all that animated evil! And my car magazines were now being delivered to his house, so I got those too.

My dad bought me a small TV for my room. It was a 13 inch camping TV. It was about the size of a milk crate. My room had a lot of angles in the walls and ceiling, so I had some good hiding spots. My mom went on a retreat and came back all gung-ho thinking I was on drugs because the evangelist said that any child who wasn't as interested in church as their parents is a child who's being influenced by the devil and most likely is on drugs.

My step-dad said he'd search my room for the drugs. She and I stood and watched. He ended up finding the TV (which was in a box in a hidey-hole behind my bed), but he didn't tell her. He found my stash of Mad Magazines too (to her, those were "100% filth!"). He didn't tell her about those either. After saying my room was "clean," she left. He walked out with a wink.

When I came back from school the next day, my step dad had moved my bed and built me a "fort" in the hidey-hole that had a little entertainment center built into the backside of my headboard. He also added two brand new gaming systems. It was cramped, but whenever my mom was off, he and I would gather around my tiny TV in the hidey-hole and play video games. Why hide? Because he wasn't allowed to play video games either and he didn't want to get caught either.

Whenever she'd come in, we'd pull the cord on the entertainment center which dumped legos out and covered the tv and video game consoles. We'd tell her we were playing legos. She'd ask why we were in the tiny hidey-hole and he'd just be like, "Forts are awesome, babe!" She thought we were nuts, but we got away with it.

Cheers to all the dads who helped us get away with sh*t!

5. From theseasickcrocodile:

When I was a kid, my dad would mow the lawn and then sneak up to the local dive bar and have a beer before my mom noticed he was done. I grew up in a town of roughly 1,200 people and the bar was two blocks away so it was totally feasible. My dad used to bring me with him, bribe my silence with a $1 bag of redskin peanuts and a can of Mountain Dew. My mom always knew because I'd slip up about the peanuts a day or two later.

Fast forward to being 24. I'd just moved to a new state after grad school with my then-boyfriend's job, I was underemployed at the time and my only company was my new kitten. I didn't tell my parents but I think my dad always knew I was miserable. One day I got a package from home that was 1 lb of redskin peanuts. He tracked down the vendor from the bar and bought them in a bulk bag. Still warms my heart when I think about it three years later.

6. From Aimlesskeek:

At 16 my parents helped me get a car; the keys to freedom were: Per Dad: no tickets, pay my own gas and maintenance. Per Mom: home by curfew, after a few close calls/negotiating a few extra minutes with upset Mom, Dad recommends I call him if I'm cutting it close. Really...?

From then on, I'd call Dad, he'd tell Mom that he would wait up, aka fall asleep in the lazy boy. This was a 2 birds one stone deal. He got parenting cred from Mom (go on to bed, honey) and a good night's nap in the lazy boy until I drifted home.
Miss you Dad.

7. From londongarbageman:

My oldest caught me being the tooth fairy. She agreed that telling mom or her brother might ruin it for them more. She still gets her silver dollar if she loses a tooth, I just don't have to be such a ninja to give it to her.

8. From gogojack:

I'm a dad, but this story is about my dad.

It was the summer before my last year at college. A friend of mine got a job across country and he decided to take the opportunity to see as much of America as possible before he had to start work. He asked me to come along. It was going to be a month long road trip. We'd contacted a few friends and relatives along the way where we could crash, the company was paying for gas and 5 nights hotel, and we brought along a tent for the days we didn't have a place to stay. I'd saved up a little money at my summer job.

The night before we left, my dad was sitting in his recliner reading the paper as always. I sat there on the couch watching TV.

Now, my dad was a very conservative man. Old school. The kind of "kids should be seen and not heard" parent. Not big on emotional displays. Frugal to a fault.

So after everyone else had turned in for the night, it was just me and him. He motioned me over, and pulled out an envelope he had hidden. Looked at me over his reading glasses and said "don't tell your mother about this" as he handed me the envelope.

It was filled with money. Not a lot by today's standards but a lot in 1986 and without a doubt more money than I'd ever seen my dad carry. I sat down and said "I don't know what to say."

He responded "have fun" and went back to his newspaper.

He died six months later. That moment was the last real one on one interaction I had with my father. A little while after he'd died, my mom was going through his dresser drawer when she found his stash. Apparently my dad had been squirreling away cash for years. Walking around money for when he went on one of his many fishing trips. He dipped into it so that I'd have some walking around money on my trip.

9. From white_butterfly1:

You know those noise maker gunpowder bangy things? Explaining to my daughter that you can put them in your hand and headbutt them to make them explode. We went through an entire packet of them that day...

10. From optimaloutcome:

One night I was enjoying a small bit of ice cream after my four year old daughter went to bed. She came downstairs and 'caught' me. So I offered her a small bite, but since she was supposed to be in bed, I said "don't tell mom." She assured me she wouldn't. My wife wouldn't have cared anyway but it was a fun little game to play.

After she went up to bed and I was down on the couch, she snuck in to the master bedroom where mom was resting. She told mom that I had let her have some ice cream, and she was afraid of "sugar bugs" so could she please brush her teeth again.

My wife just laughed at me the next day. Little sh*t ratted me out to brush her teeth, something she doesn't like doing anyway.

11. From __slamallama__:

Went fishing in questionable conditions. Left the harbor in 6-8 foot waves in a 19' boat. Probably shouldn't have gone out at all in retrospect.

Had a great day off fishing in the lee of a point.

Start to head home and things have deteriorated big time. Going home in 10-12' waves, with big ones hitting 14'. Struggling to even make it through them.

All this is happening in late November in the north Atlantic. Bad f*cking news if anything goes wrong. No one else is out there to help us.

My dad tells me at one point "Take your life jacket off. It won't help out here, it will just make the inevitable take longer. We make it home or we don't. I love you."

To this day, that's the only time I have been scared on a boat, and I have been in some serious situations.

When we made it back he said "never tell your mom what I told you. That is between you and I."

So yeah that's my craziest don't tell mom story.

Edit: first thanks for the gold I guess.

Second this happened off Montauk point in a ripping ebb (current going out quickly) so the if anything happened we would be a mile offshore within a few minutes. We were on the VHF with some friends on shore but the reality of the situation is that no one short of a helicopter will be fast enough to get there before you go hypothermic (water was in the mid 50's and air in the mid 40's). And even with a helicopter it would be highly unlikely that we get found in those waves.

Last I'm not gonna stand up for being out there in those conditions, it wasn't smart, but to be fair we left in very acceptable conditions with a forecast saying the winds would be calming down. For us 6-8's are not outlandish at all, and I will go fishing any day of the week in that. And when we went out the breeze was going with the tide, so the waves were much longer. We fished underneath the cliffs at the point all day listening to NOAA still tell us the wind was dying. We didn't know it had picked up until we rounded the point to go home and realized not only had the breeze picked up but when the tide switched they were not going against each other so the waves were standing much more vertical.

Oh forgot to add that yes my dad is a total bada*s. He has been in conditions much worse than that, and understands the realities of being offshore. He's always taught me that you have to respect the ocean and once you don't, you're dead.

12. From Pingly:

Buying extra candy for Halloween. I was afraid my wife wouldn't pick up enough (she works at Costco) so I took my daughter to the store and told her we'd buy stuff we like that way we could eat it all year if we didn't use it but we had to hide it from my wife until Halloween.

We have a "no lying" rule so I told my daughter we'd tell her Mom AFTER she bought her candy at work in a few days.

When my wife got home from work that night my daughter immediately said "Daddy, can I please tell Mommy about the candy?" right in front of my wife.

I'll be honest, I'm just glad that my 8-year-old daughter is such a terrible liar.

13. From butterflytesticles:

I was once a resourceful young lad and would ride bikes with a friend to the recycle center behind some stores. We would jump in the magazines bin and pull out all the playboys, hustlers, sports illustrated swimsuit edition, and well, anything with pictures of girls.

Sometimes we sold them to our middle school peers and as fate would have it, some kid ratted me out when he got caught with it. My mom launched an all out search for the pornos. She found somewhere near 200 (about 50% of the loot). They were all on the dining room table when I got home from school. Mom wouldn't even talk to me and just said "wait until your father gets home".

A couple hours later, I get yelled at by both parents, grounded for a month, no tv, no phone, no friends, etc. When I wouldn't give up the names of kids I sold to, I got an extra month of restrictions.

The next night I found a playboy under my pillow with a post it note that said "200 is excessive, but so is 2 months restriction to your room. Here is 1. Hide it better and don't tell your mother."

14. From chocolate_pancake:

When I was young, we had the typical parent dynamic of 1:1 strict/lenient ratio. Mom was laid-back and figured we were allowed to find our own fun while my dad was more critical. However, both agreed on the "no underage drinking" policy.

So my brother, fresh out of Freshman year and with his typical 15 y.o. "bro" egging him on, snuck tequila out of my parents' liquor cabinet and took about 5 shots each while my parents were sleeping upstairs.

Almost immediate regret.

Half an hour later, there's a cycle of being totally obliterated on the couch and worshiping the porcelain god. The whole while they're "sneaking around" to not wake up my folks.

The next morning, my dad pulls my brother aside and asks what happened the night before. My brother tries to blow it off, but my dad just dead-eyes him and says "That tequila made its way into the toilet somehow, I don't care if it was out one end or the other."

Brother fesses up. My dad nods, slaps him on the arm, and says "I think this is one lesson your mother doesn't need to hear about."

15. From AizenShisuke:

For literally a year, my mom was under the impression that elementary classes ended at 5 instead of 3. Each day, my dad would pick me up from school at 3, which is at the water's edge, and take me two miles down to cross the river and play at a MASSIVE park for 2 hours. Then we'd go home and do normal family stuff like listen to mom and dad fight while I play some Spiderman 2 in the freedom of my room.

16. From RideAndShoot:

I tell my wife everything, we have no secrets. So when I tell my 3 kids to not tell mom something, she usually already knows or will shortly. I took the kids to the park one day and it was getting close to dinner. I bought them all ice cream anyway and told them they better eat all their dinner and not to tell mom we had ice cream so close to dinner. I told my wife when I got home in secret. She ask our middle daughter, 8 at the time, why it looks like she has coloring or ice cream around her mouth.

Without skipping a beat my daughter pipes up, "Well I was riding my bike around the park, and someone stepped out in front of me, so I went around them, but I crashed and landed in the grass, but someone had spilled a slurpee there, and I landed in it, and it got on my face!" My wife had to stifle her laughs and feign concern over the nonexistent crash. My daughter said she was ok but her leg and hand hurt and she'd wash up before dinner.

My kids have my back. I'll occasionally let them have double dessert too when mom isn't looking, they always eat it quick and brush heir teeth and right to bed. Mom doesn't care, but likes that we have our 'own little thing'.

17. From Ghostronic:

This happened in my junior year of high school. I was sitting at lunch one day I saw my dad walking through the quad, and it was very dumbfounding for me. He told me there was a family emergency and that we needed to go, so I said goodbye to all my friends and trudged behind him, trying to figure out what was going on. He said he'd tell me when we got home.

We get home and he brings me over to the computer (which was alarming seeing as far as I knew he didn't know how to turn it on) and he asks, "I need to print this page. How do you print?"

So I reached down and hit ctrl+P, clicked OK, and out spat some little news blurb that was from a while ago. Then like it was just an ordinary thing to do he said, "Alright, back you go."

WHAT?!

I talked him out of letting me miss Algebra II class. He dropped me back off at school and I went into my last class of the day, which really confused my friends, as they all saw me walk off campus.

I totally used missing algebra class as leverage to not tell mom. She would have been very upset that he came and took me out of school for an hour-ish when I could have done it for him just a couple hours later. It did mean a lot to him to have the news article though and 13 years later he still has it on his nightstand.

edit: I forget the guy's name but it was his best friend from the military that died during battle. I'll try and ask him later to edit it back in.

edit 2: guys plz I am just waiting until I can take a few minutes to talk to my dad later!

edit 3: Larry Maxam, who my dad went to high school with. They named a park after him in their hometown, Burbank CA. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for something you would expect to see in a movie.

edit 4: I'll just put the story here since it actually isn't all too long:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a fire team leader with Company D. The Cam Lo District Headquarters came under extremely heavy rocket, artillery, mortar, and recoilless rifle fire from a numerically superior enemy force, destroying a portion of the defensive perimeter. Cpl. Maxam, observing the enemy massing for an assault into the compound across the remaining defensive wire, instructed his assistant fire team leader to take charge of the fire team, and unhesitatingly proceeded to the weakened section of the perimeter.

Completely exposed to the concentrated enemy fire, he sustained multiple fragmentation wounds from exploding grenades as he ran to an abandoned machine gun position.

Reaching the emplacement, he grasped the machine gun and commenced to deliver effective fire on the advancing enemy. As the enemy directed maximum firepower against the determined Marine, Cpl. Maxam's position received a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade, knocking him backwards and inflicting severe fragmentation wounds to his face and right eye. Although momentarily stunned and in intense pain, Cpl. Maxam courageously resumed his firing position and subsequently was struck again by small-arms fire.

With resolute determination, he gallantly continued to deliver intense machine gun fire, causing the enemy to retreat through the defensive wire to positions of cover. In a desperate attempt to silence his weapon, the North Vietnamese threw hand grenades and directed recoilless rifle fire against him, inflicting two additional wounds. Too weak to reload his machinegun, Cpl. Maxam fell to a prone position and valiantly continued to deliver effective fire with his rifle.

After 1 & 1/2 hours, during which he was hit repeatedly by fragments from exploding grenades and concentrated small-arms fire, he succumbed to his wounds, having successfully defended nearly half of the perimeter single-handedly. Cpl. Maxam's aggressive fighting spirit, inspiring valor and selfless devotion to duty reflected great credit upon himself and the Marine Corps and upheld the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
Signed, Richard M. Nixon

18. From Merax75:

So I'm working on an extension to our house, building in the garage. My wife has to pop out to the shops and leaves my youngest (at the time six) and her cousin (five) in my care. We're putting up plasterboard and the brick layers are working, but I still try and check on them regularly.

Suddenly I realize there is silence from upstairs where they were playing. Parents, you know the silence I'm talking about. The lack of sound that means your kids are doing something they shouldn't. I call out to them. No response. F*ck. Run upstairs and they're not in the room they were playing in. Call out again. There's a muffled response from our bedroom, as the door is closed.

I burst through that door like an NFL linebacker and there they are. Sitting in the middle of our bed, with my wife's makeup arrayed around them. They are covered in the stuff. Lipstick smeared all over their faces. There is foundation ground into our brilliant white duvet that my wife loves.

I grab a bag of wet wipes and get to work. Five minutes and I'm able to remove 99% of the crap off their faces. Then I banish them to the play room and take the duvet and all the sheets and put them in the wash. Toss in the bottom of the bin one of my wife's compacts that has had all the powder lost from it (she has others).

Once that is done I head to the playroom. They're looking at me, they know they're in trouble. I crouch down in front of them. "Listen girls....do you want to do a sleepover tonight?" (sleepovers are their most favorite thing ever). "YES!" they squeal. "Ok...we can do that, but ONLY if you don't tell your mothers about playing with the makeup. If you do that, you'll get in trouble and you won't be allowed a sleepover." They both agree solemnly and then go back to celebrating their unexpected bounty.

I go back downstairs and return to work. Wife arrives home about 10 mins later. Shortly thereafter she comes downstairs. "Why did you put the duvet and sheets in the wash? I only changed them yesterday?" I look puzzled. "Sorry, I thought they always got washed on Saturday, I was just trying to help you out. Oh, by the way I promised the girls they could have a sleepover here tonight, hope that is ok?" Wife thinks I am sweet for helping out with the laundry, sleepover is 100% ok.

They never told. There were no marks on the duvet. Wife thought she lost her compact somewhere.

19. From GreyhoundMummy:

Not a dad, I'm a mum, but in my experience telling my kids "don't tell mum" is a lost cause.

A few years ago when my oldest two were around 3-4 their dad took them to the park. I told everyone dinner would be ready when they got back so no ice creams or sweeties this time please.

When I opened the door, both boys looked at me, looked at each other, and said in unison "we didn't have an ice cream." Husband stood behind them face palming.....

Edit: whooooaaah woke up to gold - thank you!

Your stories have really made me chuckle. And just to reassure everyone out there - the two boys concerned are now teens and have (mostly) refined Parental Deception Mode, so I absolutely do NOT know that they sometimes get off the school bus a stop early to buy sweets, or that they are secretly saving to buy their little brother a cool gift for Christmas ;-)

20. From notTHATwriter:

Happened just last week. We do "dates" with our kids about once a month, just for one-on-one time with each of them. I told my wife my son (he's 6) and I were going out for dinner and ice cream...

We saw Dr. Strange instead. No regrets. The boy has maintained the secret.

17 teachers and students share the funniest and most awkward questions asked in health class.

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Teachers have to say that there is no such thing as a stupid question...because they're paid to say that.

A popular Reddit thread asked teachers about "the most awkward/cringeworthy questions" they were asked in the most awkward/cringeworthy class of them all: sexual education.

Both teachers and students spilled tea on their days talking about the birds and the bees. Kids both know too little and too much.

1. Checks out.

We had a girl in our class ask our science teacher when did she lose her virginity, she answered "when I first had sex." -iantoevans06

2. Ouch.

Once asked the question to a group of Year 9 students: “what do you do if you want to have sex and you can’t find a condom?”

Student 1 (Male): Surely you can find something in your house?! Maybe cling film?

Student 2 (Female): Yeah! Or maybe tinfoil!

F*cking TIN FOIL! -Gandiddyalf

3. She learned from experience.

I teach fifth grade. This is the time for the “big talk” in Indiana.

I was roughly about 7 months pregnant. I was unmarried but engaged. My fiancé was a pretty active participant in my classroom so all the kids knew him. He came on the field trip due to not having a male teacher available to go to supervise the boys.

In Indiana, we still teach abstinence only. In the middle of the lesson, the instructor basically tells the kids that conception takes place after sex which can only happen after marriage.

Thirty seconds later, eyes are on me, and a hand shoots up. One of my fabulous tiny humans blurts out, “That can’t be true! Mrs. __________ isn’t married and she is pregnant right now! How did that happen then?!?”

I’m pretty sure the instructor would have killed me in that moment had she been able to.

And this was my TED talk on how I ruined the abstinence education by being pregnant and unmarried.... -AndThenThereIsJess

4. Is this why people hate public restrooms?

One of the girls in my class thought that she would become pregnant if she shared a toilet with a boy. She was 15. -Kitsunemon

5. Quite the opener.

[I'm] a 7th grade classroom teacher.

I had one boy ask me, "Mr. XXXX, you know boobs, right?" as he cupped his hands in front of his chest.

I nodded.

"I'm sorry, I know this is a bad word," he said, "but I dont know any other way to say it. Are boobs ... full of cum?" -AyneldjaMama

6. Her students have been doing the research.

I'm a teacher in year 6 (10+11yr olds) in the UK. It's the first year that children really learn and talk about sex in school.

We had arrived at the actual sexual intercourse lesson where we focus on the science of conception. One boy out his hand up and said that there were, of course, (sounding worldy wise), ways of having sex without getting pregnant. I nodded approvingly as I thought we were going to start talking about contraception. "Yes," he says, "you can stick your penis between a woman's breasts and then cum on her chest"....

I suppose he isn't wrong. Hard to get pregnant like that. Took me by surprise though! -Andyloners

7. I know you are, but what am I?

Omg I’ll never forget a question a girl asked in my sex ed class. Probably 7th grade.

Girl: Does pee ever come out instead of semen when a man ejaculates?

Teacher: No, when a man ejaculates it is only semen.

Girl: Okay, but what if pee came out instead of semen?

Teacher: That’s not physically possible, as it’s a separate system with urine vs. semen.

Girl: But what if it happened?

Teacher: It can’t happen.

Girl: ...but what if it did? -gunterzwei

8. F is for Fun.

5th grade sex ed:

Student: Why does my mom scream during sex?

Teacher: She’s having fun. -MikeMana

9. The student has become the master.

A kid in my class asked what is the stuff that girls orgasm out if males is sperm. Teacher said that girls don't ejaculate. The kid responded no they do I've seen it on the internet. -Beatleborg22

10. The '70s were a dangerous time.

We had notecards and wrote questions anonymously. One asked-

"If both partners have long pubes, will they get tangled? How do you untangle them?"

And honestly, I never thought of that. -meowddie2

11. The erection is normal, the announcement is not.

I teach 11-13 year olds. All subjects.

I was explaining the functions of spontaneous erection to a group of 40 twelve year old boys.

"As you develop, and even into your adulthood, you will sometimes develop an erection at times that seem inappropriate. Just know that it's normal and while it can be embarrassing, it does not necessarily mean that you are sexually attracted to anything or anyone at that time".

Boy in the front row with his hand up: "I have an erection right now, is that normal?" -psnWaikato

12. Awkward time for pillow talk.

Not a teacher, but way back in Grade 6 we had Sex-ed and the teacher had us write down questions on paper one day. She told us not to put our names because the next day we will be drawing the questions out of a hat to read aloud and then the teacher would answer them.

So, the next day, and my turn comes up to draw a question. I pull the paper out of the hat and begin reading "Can women masturbate with a pillow between their legs? signed (a female classmate's name)".

Woops. Shouldn't have read that part. -RecharginMyLaza

13. Adults have this question, too.

“Does the vagina stay giant after a baby?” -​​​​​​imbaby1210

14. An interesting strategy for teaching abstinence.

In my 8th grade health class the female teacher (About 50 and very obese) was asked what does butt sex feel like. She described it as taking a very large slightly uncomfortable dump. -boshimonos1

15. Everything should have a snack break.

"Do you have twins if you put the penis in twice?" "Are there snack breaks during sex?" "Will I wake my parents when the hymen explodes" "Does Sex hurt more than a car accident, or less? Just so I can prepare myself. " -schottenring

16. There's a fetish for that.

I had my Sex-Ed class in 9th grade, and at the end of the 2 hour session on the day we were talking about STDs. One of the boys in the room asks “Well if condoms don’t fully protect you, can I just wear a full latex body suit?” Still the funniest sh*t I’ve heard in school. -Cam1339

17. A joke worth getting fired over.

In my son's sex ed class (14 year olds) one of the boys asked "if you can get scented condoms can you get scented dildos."

I wish the teacher had said "ask your mum." -Beanieboru

Chrissy Teigen announces Twitter break after criticism from cookbook author led to cyberbullying.

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As if these times aren't dark enough already, Chrissy Teigen, supermodel, cookbook author, and Instagram-famous mom, has announced she's taking a break from Twitter. The announcement comes on the heels of a drama stirred up by popular food writer Alison Roman, who criticized Teigen, as well as Marie Kondo, in an article which riled up Twitter late last week.

Roman is a New York Times food columnist, chef, and cookbook author.

In an article published Thursday in The New Consumer, she basically called Chrissy Teigen a huge sellout, saying:

Like, what Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that. But like, who’s laughing now? Because she’s making a ton of fucking money.

I’m more interested in expanding myself as a writer. My next book is going to be narrative nonfiction — essays and short stories and stuff.

Roman also went after beloved minimalist Marie Kondo, calling her a sellout, too:

Like the idea that when Marie Kondo decided to capitalize on her fame and make stuff that you can buy, that is completely antithetical to everything she’s ever taught you… I’m like, damn, bitch, you fucking just sold out immediately! Someone’s like “you should make stuff,” and she’s like, “okay, slap my name on it, I don’t give a shit!”

The backlash was fierce. And many people pointed out that Roman's choice to specifically to call out two women of color reeks of racism, hypocrisy, and white privilege.

While others noted that Roman comes off as jealous of Chrissy's success and popularity.

And others criticized her for playing into the sexist narrative of "I'm not like the other girls!"

But Chrissy clearly took the criticism to heart. She responded over the weekend, calling the article a "huge bummer," especially since she herself was a fan of Alison Roman.

In a heartfelt thread, Teigen explained why she started her company based on her cookbook, Cravings, responding to Roman's accusations that it's a "content machine."

She said that she doesn't think she's ever been "so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover," and that she had "no idea" she was "perceived that way."

Roman dug her heels in. She first claimed that she was being "bullied" for her honesty about money, and complained she has no one to "hold her hand" during the backlash.

This drew further criticism:

She then followed up with what reads as a genuine apology towards both Teigen and Marie Kondo, calling her own comments "flippant" and "careless."

But apparently the damage was already done. Following the initial wave of support for Teigen, she then received a wave of backlash from people claiming she "deserved" Roman's criticism.

Yesterday, Teigen announced she'd be taking a break from Twitter, saying people went so far as to criticize her kids, calling them "petri dish babies," and spread rumors linking her to "Epstein island."

For those who are left "craving" (tee hee) Chrissy Teigen content, she's still posting on Instagram. Luckily the drama doesn't seem to have stopped her from doing what she loves: cooking, and momm'ing.


16 moms share the secrets their kids don't realize they know about them.

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Chances are, every secret we thought was a secret as children and teenagers was actually something our parents definitely knew and joked about...

Nothing is ever private in a family, especially when little kids or teens are involved. Teenagers tend to think their parents are technogically challenged morons who aren't paying attention when really every parent was once a teenager, and they usually know preciesly what their kids are up to. Young children can be expert pranksters, but they're often pretty messy when it comes to keeping secrets. Teenage boys, your mom knows why you're going through so many tissues. Clear your search histories, kids! You're not near as sneaky as you think you are. Also, everyone can smell that weed...

So, when a recent Reddit user asked moms, "what’s something you know about your kid(s) that they don’t think you know about them?" parents were ready to spill the tea.

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"Those tissues... You ain't got no cold, son." - Cerebral_Absence

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"My teenage daughter doesn’t know that I know she Snapchats with the boy she says she can’t stand and saves everything he sends her." - amandal0514

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"When learning a new word, our 18 month old runs into the kitchen (away from us so we can’t see him) and practices sounding out the word, thinking that we can’t hear him. Then he comes back into the family room to deliver the final product." - RedBeardMark

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"My 16yr old son watches cam-porn. If you are sitting in bed, laptop on your lap, think about how the screen might reflect off the picture behind you! Geez... At least close the tab when i come in the room..." - oneofeach1016

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"I know my 13 year old daughter takes an Uber to school when it’s raining or when she is running late. She doesn’t realise her Uber account is connected to my credit card and she must think the Uber fairy pays for it." - trainkpk85

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"I JUST explained to the wife why the boys socks are so crusty. She doesn't believe me." - carny66

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"When our family plays Go Fish with our 5 year old and one of us asks another player for a card, he snickers if he has the card. Every time." - crawlintothemoon

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"When our family plays Go Fish with our 5 year old and one of us asks another player for a card, he snickers if he has the card. Every time." - f-f-f*ckit

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"Since Christmas my almost six year old daughter has been leaving stones from the garden in front of my bedroom door. She’s been telling me it’s the stone fairy." - OilsGalore

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"I can hear my four year old son walking down the hall when he’s supposed to be in bed because he walks like a dinosaur." - big-girl-pants

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"I set alarms for the morning on the amazon echo. When I leave the room my daughter cancels them and I hear her snicker “no school tomorrow haha”. What she doesn’t realize is I also have an alarm clock and my phone. She’s five." - ChipAndDaleH20

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"My three year old daughter doesn’t understand whispering to herself isn’t the same as thinking in your head, she loves to call people idiots to herself and giggle not knowing we can all actually hear her." - JPKlaus

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"their reddit usernames." - higglety_piggletypop

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"My wife was the one to make the discovery but she doesn't use reddit much so I'll share on her behalf. When she revealed to our 7 year-old son that we can see everything he's searched on any device, he got terrified and embarrassed. The worst thing we found was YouTube searches for stuff like 'people showing their butts' or 'smooching'". - Danimals847

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"My teenage daughter has an electric toothbrush in her underwear drawer I'm pretty sure she masturbates with." - LovingDatDee

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"Christ. We have one of those fridge cameras. I was at the grocery store and I checked the cam as I often do. There was my son closing his ding dong in the fridge repeatedly. I must have been pretty horrified as I couldn't help but watch him just to try and figure out what he was doing. Is this some new age masturbation technique?" - KhAiMeLioN

14 of the funniest texts people received this year so far.

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In 2020, the majority of social interactions take place over text, and people are keeping each other (and us!) entertained. Here are some of the funniest texts blowing up phones this year so far.

1. This viral text from an ex.

2. Somebody commented with their savage text from an ex.

3. Oh, Tony.

4. It doesn't get more romantic than ranch.

5. Don't shoot the messenger.

6. King.

7. Smmmmmokin'.

8. People caN B A lot.

9. Winners never cheat, cheaters never win.

10. Fun fact.

11. Remember when?

12. "Who are you calling a thick boy?"

13. Ouch.

14. Really makes you think.

19 posts from daughters who honored their mothers by recreating their old photos.

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Mother's Day kicked off a particularly endearing throwback trend in social media with daughters recreating old photos of their moms, and the results are truly uncanny...

Daughters often get told growing up "you look EXACTLY like your mother when she was your age" by relatives and family friends, but the usual response is either a knowing nod or a "I've heard this a million times" teenage eyeroll. However, some daughters have been creative (especially in quarantine) and put together beautiful and stunningly accurate tributes to their moms for their Instagram or Twitter profiles. Who doesn't want to bring back 80's feathered hair and 90's oversized jackets? As long as low rise jeans don't ever return, all fashion is fair game.

Here are the best mother-daughter photo recreations we could find from daughters who are giving portraits of their moms (and vintage thirst traps!) new life.

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20 people share the creepiest thing they've seen in the middle of nowhere.

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If you wander into the middle of the woods and there isn't a fallen tree covered in mysterious blood, did you ever venture into the woods in the first place?!

The innate creepiness of secluded rural spaces can sometimes feel like a chicken and egg scenario. Are people's stories creepier because they went down in a seemingly empty space, or do more creepy things go down in small towns and amidst quiet natural havens?!

While we may never have a clear answer to this question, one thing is clear: people have a lot of creepy stories that went down in middle of nowhere.

In keeping with this trend, people on Reddit shared the creepiest things they've seen in the middle of nowhere, and it continues the legacy of rural terrors.

1. From Mixmaster_25:

When I was a weird teenager I had this strange thing that I would just take night walks in areas with no lights mostly forest walking paths.

My logic then was facing fears and feel awesome after.

On one night it was pitch black, could really not see far. So was doing my thing and I just bumped into someone else. Saw him at the very last moment.

I just screamed and started running back only to hear him chasing me, I could hear the sound of his footsteps. Then after a while they became more distant. I did a forrest gump and just kept running.

Never went for a night forest walk again.

Thinking back my guess would be that he was perhaps a forest ranger or something. Back then, I figured serial killer.

2. From Mixmaster_25:

When I was a weird teenager I had this strange thing that I would just take night walks in areas with no lights mostly forest walking paths.

My logic then was facing fears and feel awesome after.

On one night it was pitch black, could really not see far. So was doing my thing and I just bumped into someone els. Saw him at the very last moment.

I just screamed and started running back only to hear him chasing me, I could hear the sound of his footsteps. Then after a while they became more distant. I did a forrest gump and just kept running.

Never went for a night forest walk again.

Thinking back my guess would be that he was perhaps a forest ranger or something. Back then, I figured serial killer.

3. From youmusthailallah:

Okay. This might get long.

So as a kid around 11-12 I had the world on my fucking plate. We had these woods around us that I never ever came close to finding the edge of. I would wake up in the morning early when school was out and my friend Alex and I would spend the hole day out muckin round those woods. We would pack sandwiches and sodas and just go nuts. Play army and war, Cowboys and Indians, you name it. This being the 80s and Alex and I being smart enough kids, my parents had no problem with this and enjoyed taking us to the army surplus store to buy stuff like MREs and survival knives and camping gear. It was pretty regular that we would be allowed to stay out overnight if my dad was there to help us set up camp close to the property.

So not on an overnight, but out and about one day we find a treehouse in a part of the woods we have never been to before. Probably about a 2 hour trek from the edge of the neighborhood. Maybe 2 miles or 3, it was hilly and rocky. Seriously, a kids dream. This treehouse is probably 30 feet off the ground but it looks solid. We are so stoked to find out new castle. We hightail it back home to get some rope and my pops takes us down to the surplus store and over dinner Alex and I can't shut up about it.

Next day comes and we hike out at almost dawn. We got a backpack full of rope and sandwiches and our knives on our hips and excitement that's so thick we could chew on it. We make it out there and start attaching rungs made from big sticks onto one end of the rope. It took us a good few hours but we get one side finished and the rope tossed over the branch that's where the little deck and door are. We finally climb up and are sitting on the deck looking out and rock, paper, scissors for who gets to go in first.

Alex wins and goes in and comes right out. He's white as a sheet and wants to go home. So curious as I am I go inside. This treehouse is probably 8x8 and about 7-8 high inside. The inside walls are covered, every single inch, of naked girls. Not awesome found playboy porn, but kiddy porn. I think the oldest kids were about my age, but it was Polaroids and glossy magazine pages, stuck perfectly up with staples and filling the walls up.

Exit Alex and I getting back home as quick as we could. We informed my pops about it and he calls the cops. The officer shows up and asks us a few questions like where it is, how did we get up there, where did we buy the rope, did we take any pictures off the wall. He got increasingly rude about it and my pops put an end to it. He left with our statement and said he would be in touch. We were no longer allowed to take overnights in the woods or be out there for more than an hour without checking in. We actually built a really long tin can phone with the permission of my parents which allowed us a bit more of our freedom but we were pretty cut off from the deep exploring.

About a year or two later that same cop stopped me when I was hanging out in a different park. Saw me smoking and caught me with a joint. Alex asked him what ever happened with the treehouse. The cop told us to not do drugs and left us alone.

In college many many moons later, Alex sent me an email saying how he read in the big state paper (towns that are say, the county seat have their own papers, but the capital city has the big paper) that that officer shot himself with his service revolver after his wife found out he was circulating CP.

So it comes to my mind like it came to Alex's that we had found his little CP stash/ cave. The creepy part came a few months later when Alex sent me another email saying that he went to the estate auction and one of the items for sale was a rope ladder with a bag.

Creepiest story of found in the woods I have folks. Still grosses me out and sends chills.

3. From Lemai:

Hundreds of bones from different animals up the mountains in rural Ireland. It is obviously normal to see a skeleton in the wilderness but this huge pile of bones was just odd. Some were from sheep but others looked like cats, dogs, rodents. It was bizarre as we don't have predatory animals in Ireland the only 'thing' that could have gathered/put them there was a person.

4. From luckygiraffe:

Years and years ago I went with a friend to visit his grandparents (we were late teens.) Not really middle of nowhere but sufficiently separated from civilization. There was a creek running between their property and their neighbor's, and he wanted to go out catching frogs before we left. We've got about a half dozen in the creel when he spots a conspicuous pile of sticks and leaves at the base of a tree, on the neighbor's property, where someone had clearly tried to conceal something. Our curiosity got the better of us and we decided to check it out.

It was a plastic freezer bag filled with straight up child porn. I don't mean "just" naked pictures of kids or anything less than explicit children-having-sex-or-being-raped. It was bad. We covered it back up and told the grandfather, who told us he'd notify the police and handle it. We expected to hear from the cops but never did, and more or less forgot about it.

Ten years later the old man dies and his five daughters and some of their daughters come forward with tales of years of brutal sexual and emotional abuse. That goddamned stash was his, it had to be.

5. From _coyotes_:

I read a story about some guy driving in New Mexico and seeing an accident on the side of the road or something with two people laying down. It seemed suspicious while he slowed down and grabbed a gun under his seat. One of the people laying down started to get up or something and he sped off and saw a dozen people climb out of a ditch or something nearby while the two "injured" people had got to their knees.

6. From Ghostbug:

Bear eating a cupcake on the side of the road. Like a cupcake with frosting and sprinkles and he was holding it in his palms. Not really creepy but definitely did a confusing double-take.

7. From Brewski32:

My job is conducting various types of environmental surveys and those are frequently in isolated areas of wilderness. The creepiest thing we've seen is the remains of an abandoned camp site. It was clearly several years old but everything was still there, (tent, sleeping bag, pillow, cooking utensils, firewood pile, etc.) It's like they decided to walk away and never went back for their things. It was about an hour walk from civilization so probably a little too far for a hobo camp although we've come across several of those too.

8. From arachelrhino:

A girlfriend and I took a 2 week road trip last year and backwoods camped/hiked the whole time. (Insight: I am also a girl. Two 20some year olds out on the road.) We got to one free campsite in the middle of nowhere, New Mexico and we were the only people there (not unusual) so we just take the first spot and set up. As we make dinner, a couple pulls in, drives by and heads to the back of the camp grounds (no idea how far it went back). About 20 minutes later, they come back by and flag me down. Girl: "Have you guys been back there?" Me: "No..?" Girl: "It's like a massacre back there" Me: "What do you mean?" Girl: "There's bones, everywhere! Mind if we take the spot next to you?" Me: "Not at all." Now we're happy to have neighbors.

They stay maybe 2 minutes, look around, get back in their car and leave.

Friend: "What was all that about?"

I explain to my friend what the girl said and at that moment, we look down and see a huge femur bone under our feet. Possibly a cow. Well, us being a little cryptic, decide to go check out what they were talking about. We get about 100 yards back through the windy camp and there it is. Full blown animal carcasses everywhere! Some scattered, some still whole, one pile of what looked like Fox fur and another deer body still in a trash bag. Our theory is that it's where they dump all the road kill they scrape up off the highway, but we didn't figure this until a few days later. None the less, if there's that many bodies here, from whatever cause, then other predatory animals know they're here too. I don't want to be around when they come by for dinner.

We decide to pack up and find a different camp.

Free campsite #2 of the night: We drive for about an hour or so, still in the middle of nowhere, haven't seen a single car this entire time. No houses, just old country roads and pastures. Mind you, the sun is starting to set.

The road turns to dirt for a bit, we cross a cattle guard and see the National Park sign. Sweet. It's a National Park and it's free, it can't be too bad. My friend thinks it looks a little sketchy but we're ready to relax and get some grub. So I hit a left and start up the hill to the National Park. Looks like it's only about 2 miles from the map. Start going up this road, go around a few curves, the brush on the side starts getting thicker and thicker and the road starts getting rough. Now, to put this in perspective, we're in my fairly new Chevy Cruze, manual transmission, that is less than a foot clearance from the ground. About a quarter mile in and we high center on a huge rock. Okay, as long as this doesn't get any worse, I think we can manage. There's no possible way to turn around or back out anyway, so let's keep going.

Of course...it gets worse. Every rock and trench we hear the car just scraaapppeee and stutter and stall. I'm clinching the wheel, she's clinching the handle, all the brush on the sides of us is now dead and eerie looking and the sun is almost gone behind us. Thirty terrifying minutes later, we finally make it to the top flat that is supposed to be a campsite.... It is about a 10 square foot clearing in the dead brush and in front of us, a cliff!

We're still freaked out about the dead animals and now we feel like we're in the plot of some low budget horror film literally trapped on top of this hill. It's dark and neither of us even want to get out of the car. We decide we cannot in our right minds stay here. Even from this cliff top we can't see a single house or car light. We make a 10 point turn between the brush and boulders and the cliff, manage to get back on the path and very slowly and carefully, crap ourselves all the way back down that damned hill! We and the car miraculously survive and we head another 2 hours back to the closest town and sleep in the Walmart parking lot.

9. From wayofTzu:

A few years ago a friend and I went to explore a nearby limestone cave. I had been there before but never gone very deep. I had read of a waterfall which eventually lead to an expansive area beyond so we set out to try and find the path. Since we've never been on this route we took turns going forward and checking back to avoid passing points of no return without one of us being above with a rope to toss down. After the familiar route was behind us we found a tight climb down, the squeeze was like going from the front seat to the backseat in a compact sedan that's vertical. No problem. Next we found a tunnel, wide but short. We took of our packs and dragged them behind our feet while we crawled maybe 10-15 meters. It was getting a little claustrophobic but we knew what we were getting into.

We came to a small opening about the size of a half bathroom, this space we could stand in and so was a bit of a relief. The path forward was a small square tunnel the same height as the previous route but maybe 2 meters wide. We jokingly called it the coffin crawl. This route required us to go one behind the other and led to a 90 degree turn. At the turn I could see the path continued on past the range of my headlamp but mostly all seemed level and safe.

At this point, slowly it became apparent the path was getting more narrow ever so slightly. If we wanted to turn back we would have had to crawl backwards single file. I could not speculate how far we crawled but it seemed like a very long ways until I could see a small opening ahead, maybe the size of a cramped coat closet but two thirds the height. At this point that space was looking pretty comforting because it would mean we could at least turn around if we decided to go back.

Right before the coming closet sized space was the tightest squeeze i've ever tried in a cave. I had to place one arm ahead and drag one to get my shoulders to fit diagonally. As my light illuminated the closet space I could see a single stalagmite in the center and some bats resting on its walls and sloped ceiling. Small Mouse eared bats were infrequent but not a shocking sight, until our voices disturbed them and they decided to exit.. past our prone one-by-one bodies.. Their fluttering should have been non-threatening but in combination with the inability to GTFO it became very unsettling.

It took a lot of mental control to avoid panicking from the lack of space, apparent lack of air and Astro-Heebie-jeebies. After the bats had passed and I had caught my breath and sanity we entered the small opening. Upon the single stalagmite was a small note, the torn corner of a piece of notebook paper. The note read in blue pen "nothing here." We had not found the path we sought, and instead found nothing.

10. From executive313:

I used to run bread for a big bread company and started at 3am. I had to drive to a few remote stores in little towns surrounding my town. I was about half way through the 50 mile drive to the next town it was dark out and there are no houses around for a long way any direction.

I look on the side of the road ahead of me and see a backhoe which was odd in itself. Then I notice his bucket is super high and as I am getting closer I realize he is gutting a cow that is hanging from the bucket.

Now I happen to have grown up around ranching so I wasn't to freaked out. So for some reason I decided to slow down and see if this guy needs help... I cant explain this decision... When I stopped next to him he just smiles and waves so I do the same thing and ask "Need a hand?" he just cracks up laughing like hysterical knee slapping laughing. For some reason I start laughing to now we are 2 guys cracking up laughing one covered in blood the other with a truck full of bread. The reality of this situation makes its way into my sleep deprived brain and I hit the gas and get out of there.

I thought about it and realized this guy drove a tractor into the middle of nowhere to kill someone else's cow he was probably poaching this thing and he was just going to load the thing into the front bucket and drive this shit back to his house at fucking 3 am. Who knows how far away he has to drive this thing. No idea what the hell was happening but the whole thing was pretty creepy thinking back.

11. From _coyotes_:

I was hiking deep in a forest, sticking to the path. It was evening, sun low over the horizon. Making my way back out of the woods when I see something hanging in a nearby tree so I went to take a look for curiosity sake. It was a baby doll head. Looked up and there were hundreds of baby doll heads in the tree. The few I could see clearly seemed old with dirt smudged on them but a few seemed clean and new. I heard rapid footsteps approaching and I hightailed it out of there. Why someone hung up hundreds of doll heads in a tree deep in the forest, I have no idea.

12. From RedditWhileWorking23:

I was driving to visit my sister who lives in Missouri. It's late and I admit, I was a bit tired but not bad enough where I should have pulled over to a hotel.

I get to this stretch of road where it's just cornfield on either side of me. I have directions to drive straight and take the next left. I drive, and drive, and drive, and drive. No lefts, but multiple rights. Every now and again there might be a left, but its a small man made "road" that wasn't big enough for my car.

I start getting a bit confused on where I was supposed to turn because I'd been driving straight for like 45 minutes and still no turn in sight. I pass a left turn that was big enough for my car but was a dirt road. I figure hell, that's probably it. I take the next right and end up driving around a f*cking corn field paved road maze. I ended up lost for about two hours before I finally found the small dirt road. I drive up it and find myself at a house. This was obviously not the right left, so I threw it in reverse and went to leave when I saw light from my field of view and movement. I look over and it's just a large group of people, over ten, standing around a fire and coming my way.

It was like 3am, I was lost, I'd been driving in a maze for about 2 hours. I was tired and I'd had enough for one night so I drove off. I got lost again and ended up driving about 2 hours in the wrong direction, found a gas station, waited for morning and rang my sister to help me find where the hell she lived.

As you can tell, this was before cell phones and GPS became super prevalent.

13. From auntfaintly:

I was driving back to school one fall. It's about a 12 hour drive and I was doing it all in one go. There is a lot of middle of nowhere and teeny tiny towns on this drive. I really had to pee and there hadn't been anything for quite a while, finally there is one of those freeway signs with food / gas /lodging listed for the next exit. I'd been driving probably 9 hours at this point. The sign said there was a gas station and a fast food restaurant. Those have bathrooms so I take the exit.

Usually those signs mean there is something right off the freeway, but I end up following the signs for several miles and finally see the fast food restaurant. It's just starting to get dark. As I pull into the parking lot this little cat runs in front of my car, but I'm going slowly enough not to hit it. Parking lot is empty and there isn't much around it, mostly trees. I get out of the car and see another cat. And then another.

There are 30+ cats that I can see, so probably a lot more I don't. There are 3 colorings: all black, orange tabby-ish, and a greyish color. So they vary in size but other than that they look basically identical to the other cats of their coloring. They are all staring at me. I took a step forward and they all stepped back about the same amount as my step, and simultaneously. I stepped back, they all moved closer.

I walk into the restaurant, get a drink, use the bathroom. I said something to the person at the counter like "there are a lot of cats out there," but she was just sort of like "oh." So I go back to the car and they are still there and sit up and stare at me again and shift positions as I move. This time I notice there are giant food bowls filled with kibble around in trees just past the parking lot. Someone is coming and feeding this cat colony often. And a lot of food. It was very strange. I got in my car and found the freeway.

14. From I_Am_Not_Me_:

Every time I see children's shoes where I wouldn't expect them, it's pretty creepy.

15. From louiekr:

Last summer my brother and I were out on some back roads in central Oregon trying to take some photos of the stars. When we got home and started looking through the pictures this was one of the first ones we saw. It was around a 20 second exposure so this guy was just watching us completely still. We were out there for a solid 20 minutes after we took that photo and never even knew the guy was there. The creepiest part was that I illuminated the road with a flashlight for a brief second so it could be seen in the photo and didn't even see him with the light on.

16. From spinal_jellyfish:

I was driving across country alone on the 10, and was in the middle of the desert. My car said I only had about twenty miles left in gas, so I pulled off to the first place I'd seen for the last hour. Since I was young, sick, and a woman, I made the rule that anytime I stopped for gas I would only pay at the pump and would never leave my car or go inside anywhere aside from the hotels I stayed at. So I swipe my card and as it's processing the transaction cancels and it prompts me to see the cashier.

I try again and halfway through typing in my zip code it cancels and tells me again to see the cashier. I look towards the convenience store and see it has broken windows, is boarded up, and is completely abandoned. Even the tall station sign is torn apart. I spot someone inside peering at me from between the boards, and the second I see them they jump away. They clearly didn't want to be seen, but kept trying to get me to come into the abandoned station by canceling the transaction. Uh-uh. Nope. Got back in my car and by some miracle made it to the next station thirty miles away.

17. From cellardoor35:

Ripped female clothes on the side of a country lane opposite some woods.

18. From creatingforfun:

When I was about 11, we lived in an apartment complex with woods in the back that went straight uphill. A neighbor that we would talk to occasionally told us there was a cool playhouse or abandoned house and he pointed in the direction.

A few days later my little brother and I walked and walked in that direction. We came upon what really looked like a shallow grave and an old kid's sleeping bag.

The "grave" was a patch of ground which seemed indented about 3 inches, like sunken in from the rest of the dirt around it in a very deliberate rectangle. The sleeping bag was off to the side of the clearing and it was old and tattered. My gut told me to get the f*ck out of there ASAP. I wish I would have told someone. Hope it was nothing.

19. From saharawinter:

When I was a kid, my family and I were hiking in the mountains. We got to a small clearing at the dead end of a dirt road and saw a red convertible with its doors open. My Dad said, "Wait, guys, lets check this out." He walked around the car for a few seconds and then immediately turned and started speed walking back to us. He didn't even look at us, just said "Let's go, now." I was curious so I started to walk over to car and saw several bullet holes in the doors and blood on the seats. I ran back and said, "Dad, what happened?" And he said, "I don't know, but the hood was still warm." That still gives me chills!

20. From moonlight_Calypso:

Stopped at a gas station/ taco bell in the middle of nowhere near death valley. As I pulled up, a little girl of probably 5 ran past with a container of Mcdonalds french fries, screaming as the biggest f*cking ravens I've ever seen chased her on foot, flapping their wings. No f*cking joke lol, the birds had to be at least 2 feet tall. I've never seen anything like it. Fast forward a few minutes, I go into the taco bell. A man indistinguishable from Stephen King is working the counter while an old man with coke bottle glasses cooked. They had a witty banter. I left. F*cking bizarre.

Dad asks if he's wrong to be angry with his wife for always talking about their 8-month-old baby.

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Humans are jealous creatures. People can get jealous when there's a new person in their partner's life—even when that person is a baby. A baby they had together.

A dad is having a hard time adjusting to fatherhood. It's not the late night diaper-changing or the non-stop crying that's bothering them, but the fact that his wife just won't shut up about their miracle.

She’s always holding him and kissing him while I feel neglected. I told her she was obsessed with him today after I just had enough.

He had enough, and posted, "[Am I The A**hole] for telling my wife she’s obsessed with our son?":

I knew when our son was born I was probably going to take a back seat in my wife’s life, but not like this. Every time I get home she mostly talks about him. He’s 8 months now already and still he’s the topic of like everything she brings up. She’s always holding him and kissing him while I feel neglected.

I told her she was obsessed with him today after I just had enough. I told her he doesn’t need to be the topic of every conversation, and I can’t even remember what our marriage was like before he came into the picture.

I can’t believe I sound jealous of an 8 month old but still. I feel significantly lower on my wife’s priority list ever since he’s been born. She said it’s pathetic that I’m jealous of an 8 month old who I helped create. And she’s not anymore obsessed with him than any loving mother would be with their baby. She’s taken offense to it but I don’t believe I was wrong. She tried to make me feel like I was wrong for saying that.

It didn't take much deliberation for the Court of Reddit to declare this man to be The A**hole.

"YTA (You're The A**hole) - Did you think saying that to her would make things better between you?" BeepBlipBlapBloop commented.

TheRalphExpress added that his feelings may be valid, but he went about it in the wrong way.

"What he’s really saying is 'I feel neglected ever since our child has been born,'" the explained, "but instead he phrased it in a way that implies that his wife is wrong for caring about their baby too much!"

Another easy solution is for the dad to join his wife in doting over their baby.

"Dude... that’s your son. And the woman you love. Should be elated that your child is being so loved, and happy for your wife that she is finding so much joy in motherhood. She’s right. It’s pathetic that you’re jealous of your own baby," allywentout wrote.

Perhaps the real baby is the man who is jealous of a baby?

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