When it comes to stories of ghosts, aliens and otherworldly beings, some people refuse to budge — but once in a while, something crazy happens that can even make a non-believer come around.

A recent Reddit thread asked people who are skeptical of paranormal activity to share the stories that made them change their tune. Even the biggest non-believers might have to reconsider after reading these.

1. Spotting a UFO will do it.

It's not a famous case... but I'm a skeptic who has seen a "UFO." I have absolutely no clue what it was, but there were a lot of us who watched a green light move very quickly around the sky before shooting off into space. This was around 15 years ago and very close to an Army base, so I've always just chalked it up to something they were doing.

But whatever it was, I understand why people who see this sort of thing think it's a legit UFO. I've racked my brains for answers of what that could have been for years without understanding how that could have worked. - Broncos_Fan

2. If the army is doing it, there has to be something there.

both U.S. and Soviet armies had "psychic forces" in their militaries -- there's a great book called The Men Who Stare At Goats about it (the movie is something of a parody of the nonfiction book).

But the paranormal forces actually discovered all sorts of things that turn out to be totally usable, such as pheromone tracing and psycholinguistic training, that actually work. The fact that we can now explain how they work doesn't make them seem like anything less of psychic abilities as they seemed back then. - AdeptLength

3. We'll let you google these horrifying creatures.

A lesser known one but the Beast of Bray Road. (Lesser known urban legend from Elkhorn, WI) I think the beast is real, but it’s probably a bear or something along those lines instead of a werewolf. I also think skinwalkers might be real. It just makes sense to me. - salty_hotdogs_117

4. Crazy things happen in the woods.

I've experienced some strange s*** in my days, but the wilderness is by far the most paranormal place you could go, man. I live out in the boondocks, and aside from repeating noises like what sounds like a tractor starting up - a series of bassy pops that get quicker and quicker until they form a bass drone and then fade away - despite the farmers not working, it happening in the middle of the summers, winters, and falls, it coming from the same direction where there is no farm, and it being a sound no machine I know of makes. - El_Chapos_Cousin

5. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

Too many people across the world dating back centuries have seen creatures that could be described as Yetis or Sasquatch for there not to be some kernel of truth to it. I dont think they exist anymore, but I'm willing to bet at some point they did. - ActionComics_Kent58

6. A near-death experience can change your perspective.

I had an emergency c-section when I was 21. Apparently, during it I briefly died. My husband was present for the whole thing and told me about it afterwards. Anyway, while "out," I was a ball of light, traveling down a sort of labyrinth made up of pulsing white walls.

There was a voice telling me that who I had been no longer mattered. That all was well and as it should be and I remember feeling very sad that I was leaving so soon, but also recall feeling suffused with a sense of inevitability and... resignation? Like, oh well. This is just how it is. Next thing I know I'm being asked my name, the date and why I'm here. It's a nurse and I can hear my husband calling my name and telling me our son was fine.

I remember being unable to fully open my eyes. The room was too, too bright. Especially the window or door directly across from me. I remember telling them, my husband and my mom, to close the door. To close the curtains. To turn off the bright, bright light. They were confused. There was no bright light, window, or door. When I finally could get my eyes open I saw they were right. It was just a bland, hospital wall. And the lights in the room were very dim. - PurpleVein99

7. Kids see creepy things.

Growing up, I used to see a guy I called "Tio Nico" at our house all the time. I thought he was actually an uncle or friend of the family for the longest time. We moved and over time I realized I stopped seeing him come around. I asked my mom if Tio Nico was ok cause he never came around any more. Of course she had no idea who I was talking about. It was very frustrating trying to explain it to her.

Years later she ran into our former landlady who asked her if we had ever had any "problems" while living at the house. Mom said not at all. The landlady told mom that she couldn't keep any tenants in there since we moved. Said they complained about their kids seeing an old man hanging around the place. Then dropped the bomb. "You don't think it's Old Nicholas, do you?" And mom remembered an old neighbor that had passed away shortly after we had moved into the rental. And she remembered me asking about Tio Nico. - PurpleVein99

8. Having a creepy friend can also shake your beliefs.

As we were walking through the town, [my friend] all of a sudden grabbed the back of her neck, and told us to hurry in to the closest shop. We did and all of a sudden an extremely strong wind pushed everyone who was outside to the ground. We could hear the building itself creaking, and seeing things and even people being thrown against it. After a while, it stopped. We all thought it was a tornado, since we lived in Texas. There was never any report of a tornado. When we asked her about it, she just said, “someone pissed them off.” - TayTae321

9. This is creepy enough to change anyone's mind.

Twice in my life I've seen what looked like animal skeletons in skin tight latex or something running by. The first time I saw it running across a field. It looked like what you'd imagine a wolf-like skeleton with like a vacuum sealed latex skin over it, basically the most extreme possible definition of "skin and bones".

Then years later I saw a skin and bones deer-like creature dart across the road while driving. These were waaaay too skinny to be living animals and I brushed off the first sighting as a kid to my imagination until it happened again as an adult with a different looking animal. These were both solid black and too skinny to be real animals misidentified. - ablondedude

10. Why are UFOs always in the middle of the country?

My mom and her cousin saw a UFO on the farm in Western Oklahoma when they were about 13 (70s). It was a great big light that came down and hovered over the barn, then took off almost faster than they could see. It scared them s***less, and to this day, they’re both spooked by it and tell the exact same story despite not seeing each other for many years at a time. - Noninflammatoryfun

11. Kids tend to see a lot of weird stuff.

My sister saw a ghost when she was a kid. My sister is so freaking serious and has no reason to ever lie to me. She also refuses to ever talk about it now. I believe she saw something. I have no idea if it was a child’s random figment of imagination (she had run back upstairs in the neighbor’s house in the middle of the day to grab her coat as they all left so she wasn’t exactly prepared for a fright) or a break in the space time continuum. She saw a Native American man in the corner, but like, it was bright daylight shining in that corner. - Noninflammatoryfun

12. Sometimes all it takes is a creepy story from your dad.

To be honest, I still can't decide if ghosts are real. I'd like to say they're not, but some of the stories are just so convincing. One that I somewhat believe is one my dad told me (Not a famous case, but whatever). He said that when he was a kid, his grandma (my great grandma) had a really long clothes rack for hanging shirts on in her basement, and he would always run through it and just kinda let the shirts hit his face. One time when he got to the end, he saw a man in a brown suit standing there.

He ran upstairs and didn't tell anyone for awhile (I'm pretty sure it was years) until he finally told his mom, and his description of the man sounded exactly like his grandma's dad. Well as it turns out, his grandma's dad came home from church one day and said he didn't feel well, and went to the basement to sit down. He ended up having a heart attack down there and dying. My dad isn't the kind of guy to make that stuff up, so weather or not it was a ghost that he saw, he wasn't lying. - Walasqueegee_

13. The Navy has seen some weird stuff, too.

The U.S. Navy sightings of 2004.

Videos were just declassified by the Pentagon a few weeks ago; just Google “U.S. Navy UFO” for pages and pages on the incident.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/pentagon-ufo-videos.html

In releasing the videos, the U.S. Navy officially acknowledges that its pilots encountered so-called unidentified aerial phenomena...

"As I got close to it ... it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds," said retired US Navy pilot David Fravor. "This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way."

- UrsusRenata

14. Some places just have too many crazy stories to be fake.

Waverly Hills Sanitorium is considered to be super haunted. It was a tuberculosis hospital located in Kentucky that was abandoned in the early 1900s after the cure for tuberculosis was found. In general the experimental treatments carried out at the hospital were scary enough without the ghosts left over. There have been tons of paranormal investigations done in that place that have turned up evidence - dawrina

15. When scientists can't explain it, you know something's up.

Quantum Mechanics - Double Slit experiment This one isn't "Paranormal" but still has no explanation. Under observation light particles behave differently than when unobserved. This brings to question our whole understanding of reality and whether things are actually "real" or if our perception makes it so.

This ties well into paranormal phenomenon because when we observe something that doesn't make sense, we can't capture it and present it and perform experiments on it. Similarly to how these light particles seem to know and understand when they're being observed. - dawrina

Having to arrest someone can't be easy — especially when that someone is, say, your daughter's boyfriend or your second cousin.

A recent Reddit thread asked people for stories of police officers having to arrest their family members, friends or acquaintances. The resulting stories are awkward AF.

1. This guy got a speeding ticket from his own dad.

A buddy of mine's dad is a cop who rotates from being on the streets giving out tickets and making arrests, to working inside the speedometer monitoring office (I don't know what it's officially called).

Anyways, his son just had a bad breakup and was speeding home, not paying attention to the camera until it was too late.

His dad saw the footage, recognized the car, and processed the ticket just like he would for anyone else.

I actually remember sitting with both of them during a game night the week the son got the ticket in the mail and he joked about his dad "taking care of it" to which his dad simply said, "Nope, we caught you fair and square." - Gorssky

2. This son said his dad couldn't burn wood illegally on his watch.

A friend is a fire warden (LEO in our state). His father was illegally burning pressure treated wood in a burn barrel (can't burn pressure treated wood or use a burn barrel) on a day where open burning was suspended because of the fire danger. He told him about his intent to burn the day prior, to which my friend informed him its illegal and he will get a ticket for that. His father said that the town doesn't enforce the local fire laws and that the state won't care either (knowing that his son works for the state and very much does care).

My friend pulls up the next day, once again tries to explain it and his dad says something along the lines of "if you are really trying to be one of THOSE kinds of asshole cops, write me a damn ticket for this little fire". So my friend writes the ticket and takes a picture of the fire in case his dad tries to fight it. this "Little" fire was about 10 feet tall, in a burn barrel, on a day that you couldn't legally burn, burning pressure treated wood. They don't talk much and his dad is an a**hole so good riddance. - FNSCARZ

3. Not the smartest guy.

my uncle arrested his best friend because he asked my uncle to transport cocaine for him since nobody would suspect a police officer. He ended up crying and apologizing but still went to jail. - JustBerat

4. He can expect a lifetime of coal.

My BIL is a parking attendant gave my mother a parking ticket... on Christmas Eve... when she was picking up HIS present for my sister. He got toast for Christmas dinner. - KirstyJuliette

5. This person's mom gave them a ticket in front of the entire school.

My mother (State Trooper) wrote me a ticket once, in high school. I may have deserved it a bit, but I’m sure she also enjoyed being a bit of an urban legend.

my high-school (Chicago) was pretty much right off of the expressway. My car was a bit easily-recognizable around town, loud stereo, rims... the usual mid/late-90s setup. I was going a bit fast, let’s just say, and had my music up loud enough to where I didn’t hear the unit behind me (in what should have been a familiar voice, since it was my mother) instructing me to slow down.

I did see the lights, when they went on. I pulled into the school parking lot, thinking maybe I’d get a break. Then I heard “[Real name], get your narrow ass out of the car...” By this time, it was full on spectacle. She wrote me a ticket to where I could attend a class on a weekend to keep it from going on my record.

As you can imagine, the rest of the day was SUPER FUN. Everyone respected the sensitive nature of the situation, and barely brought it up AT ALL. - PhD_V

6. This guy deservedly wouldn't let his cousin off easy.

My cousin called me from a traffic stop once. His license was suspended as fuck for non-stop DUIs going back years. He was drunk this time, too, plus some cocaine besides. I did talk to the cop, but only to make sure he wasn't going to do my cousin any favors.

He got work release, escaped to get f***** up, and wound up back in prison. He bled my uncle for cash while he was inside, claiming he had gambling debts that would get him killed, likely contributing to my uncle's heart attack. When he got out, he tried to get shitty about me not covering for him. I told him he'll probably live longer in prison and he needed to quit smoking crack. I love him, but he's a stupid motherf******. - Derbil_McDillet

7. Arresting your sister for a DUI has to be a sad day.

Had to arrest my sister for DUI. I was the only cop in a small town and she wrapped her car around a tree and was hammered. On the one hand it sucked, but on the other it was an easy decision because being a family member doesn't excuse dangerous and illegal behavior. - PerestroikaPal

8. Lots of people have dreamt of Taser-ing their siblings.

Back in the day my uncle was a cop and my dad loved to party. One day my dad was drunk at a party and got into a fight, when the call came over the radio my uncle responded not knowing it was my dad. Apparently my dad didn't take his brother serious when he tried to calm things down, and got himself tazed along with a night in jail for disorderly conduct.

Another cop would have probably charged him for assault on an officer, then again, he probably wouldn't have assaulted any other cop. Well, untill he did 6 years later. - casual-captain

9. This person got off easy thanks to his cop uncle.

Uncle arrested me for underage driving and I was fined a slap on the wrist compared to what woulda happened to others. - Zlecklamar

10. This dad had to arrest his son for stealing from school.

my father was the Sargeant and Lead Juvenile officer of my hometown growing up. He had to arrest my brother for stealing when we were in High School.

My brother had been stealing money from the band room that was received from students for replacement reads, instrument screws etc.

Our band teacher could not figure out who was doing it, but he suspected my brother. The big instrumental solo competition was coming around and suddenly all the students admission money went missing! So my teacher set up a camera in his office and put away in the usual spot money that had been collected that day. Sure enough my brother comes in and doesn't hesitate going to the spot where the money is hidden and takes it.

Later that day I see my Dad enter the school (on his day off in civilian clothes), watch him not even acknowledge me and head straight for the principal's office. He had to not only read him his rights, but cuff him and put him in the cruiser that one of the officers then took him to the Police station to be processed. Ultimately the school dropped the charges but damn if that wasn't the coldest family dinner!

- Mr_Nice_Guy615

11. She's lucky her uncle arrested her before someone else could find the drugs.

When I was 17 My Uncle arrested me for Underage drinking. Slap on the wrist, sent to drunk tank for about 45 minutes until my mom picked me up. Didnt even search me or check my purse, I had cigarettes and weed in it. Oooooof. - UncommonGnome

12. Giving your mom a ticket? Ouch.

My sister is a police officer, and caught MOM speeding. Living in a pretty small town, most of the people knew each other so my sis had to give my mom a ticket just so people wouldn't complain about it. Idk how fair it was, but the funny thing is that mom was speeding cuz she thought I had a party at our house, even tho I'm a lazy ass introvert - lucian_florin3

13. He sounds delightful.

My wife works with a lady that's married to a cop who's notorious for trapping people in innocent conversations for "doing illegal things". I just mean random people at dinner parties. "Oh you brought back whiskey from one place to another? Here's why that's illegal. Be scared of me."

I f****** hate this guy. Typical moustache, loud, overtly racist piece of sun burn. - tigt0ne

14. Um... sounds safe...

My dad is retired now but back when he was a cop he'd purposely get pulled over to prank his coworkers. It basically could only happen if he was in a car they didn't recognize, like if he borrowed one or we got a new one. If he saw a squad, he'd weave a little in his lane so they'd think he could be drunk driving.

They'd pull him over and as they approached the car he'd crank the radio. They'd always pause like, "what fresh hell is this idiot going to be?" Then when they got to the window and saw it was him everyone got a good laugh.

A few times, the whole family was in the car when he did it and my mom was muttering obscenities under her breath the whole time because she didn't approve. - ginger_genie

15. Talk about adding insult to injury.

My late uncle was a police officer and my mom used to tell me how anytime she would get pulled over they would call him to the scene. Just so he could joyfully give his little sister a ticket. That is if he wasn’t the one pulling her over. He used to love pulling her over for no reason just to f*** with her. He was actually a really good guy, rode his Harley to the LCS to play DnD on the weekends. He unfortunately suffered a heart attack while riding and died because he didn’t have a helmet on (no helmet laws in Fl at the time). - z31

16. This takes a turn.

I had to arrest the father of two of my co-workers. He choked the hell out of his daughter one drunken holiday and none of the other guys wanted to touch it. I locked him up, charged him accordingly and kept it professional.

It was awkward for a little while but then things returned to normal and everyone respected that it was the right thing to do.

A year or two later the hot daughter took me home from the bar. Not sure if the two were related but 10/10 would lock dad up again.

- AlexxTrebek

17. How heartwarming.

My son got caught selling weed at his high school. The officer on duty at the school arrested him. When my son went to court this same officer was there. My son hugged him. Years later they will run into each other and it is always a warm welcome from both sides. This arrest was a turning point for my son to clean up his act. - bluecloud306

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

-Charles M. Shultz

Whatever it takes to get you through the morning, go for it. Coffee, chocolate, hugs, and jokes are all good options. These hysterically funny memes will definitely get you giggling this morning.

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A lot of people treat flight attendants like waitresses in the sky, but their main job is actually to keep everyone safe.

If you're thinking about being rude to a flight attendant because your mini bottle of wine is taking too long, think about how you're defying the laws of gravity in a massive, heavy metal sky shuttle. Save your entitled rants for your private diary of Yelp restaurant drafts, nobody wants to see that...

While flight attendants do deal with every personality type humanity has to offer, serving the traveling public gives airline staff a lot of interesting stories. Loud children, unruly passengers, fighting over a touch-and-go seat recliner, couples trying to sneak off for a ticket to the mile high club-the possibilities are endless. Of course, as plane passengers we also probably have at least one story of a time when the person sitting next to us was so awful they must've been one a plane prank hidden camera show.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "Flight Attendants, what’s the most ridiculous passenger you’ve ever had?" people were definitely ready share their stories of crazy people on a plane...

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"There was an elderly couple on board and the flight was completely full. They were sitting next to each other and the wife demanded another seat because when her husband falls asleep he will put his head against her shoulder. Since this was an intercontinental flight this was unacceptable. Nobody was willing to change seats and eventually the couple got so verbally aggressive they had to be taken of the aircraft by the Dutch military police." - scaevola79

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"I was working on a return flight from Moscow to New York at the back of the plane. One of the guys smuggled on a 5th of jack Daniel's and was drinking that along with the free drinks we passed out on international flights. None of us really cared that he had smuggled on the bottle and was drinking it with his friends but we thought it was stupid since we offered free booze. Everything was fine until he asks the flight attendant for another drink and when she leaned over to put it on his tray, he licked the side of her neck. We confiscated his alcohol and shut down drink service for the rest of the flight after that." -grhollo

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"Flight attendant here. Quick one hour flight, we board, uneventful. We get in the air and this guy is paranoid. Edge of his seat, looking around. He’s either on something or is a schizophrenic who didn’t take his meds. We (the crew) are doing our service thing, but watching this guy. He calls me over several times, points out a different passenger each time and mumbles about them being “up to something.” I assure the guy everything is fine, make small talk with him, and try to land without incident. He keeps up the paranoia, this time grabbing a young girl who is trying to walk past him to go to the lav. Now he has to be supervised non stop since grabbing a teenage girl is a no no. The Captain has been filled in that we’re keeping an eye on this guy, and it’s getting close to landing time. Just prior to touching down, he jumps up and rushes the exit. Me and another passenger, an off duty pilot who is quite buff, rush over to what we assume is a guy trying to pop the exit doors. All the passengers who have been watching the shenanigans go into f*ck this shit mode, and physically restrain the guy, while the plane is landing and taxiing. Meanwhile the guy is yelling about some other passenger having a gun. We get to the gate, cops come on, and the guy attacks a cop and tries to flee across the tarmac, meanwhile I’m watching this happen in the galley from the galley. I google the guy’s name and of course he has a history. The gate agent I find out later had a problem with him at the originating airport too but never bothered to inform us about him. Company sent me a $25 gift card for dealing with all of that." - DrumsCorpsAlum

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"I saw someone hand a baby with a dirty diaper to a flight attendant expecting her to change it. I wanted to engage the woman in a conversation. My wife stopped me. Probably good thing. The attendants would have had to throw me off the plane after I was done." - noeljib

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"My fellow flight attendant had the pleasure of kicking lil pump off her flight last year (for those of you who are blessed enough to not know him, he is an obnoxious mumble rapper). Him and his whole entourage were screaming and throwing money during the flight and were super drunk and taking percocets. They diverted the flight and kicked them off. He so thoughtfully dedicated a verse about it in his song Gucci gang 😂" - erica3440

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"My sister in law is a flight attend. And a very sexy one at that! She had a drunk guy offer to buy her pantyhose for $500. He wanted her to go in the bathroom and remove them and give them to him. She said she would have done it but didn’t want anyone she works with to notice her pantyhose were no longer on." - [deleted]

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"Getting ready to board a flight from California to Vegas (Vegas flights were notorious for being “eventful”) and we didn’t have a jetway. So this was a flight that had passengers come outside the terminal and board up the stairs. Lady comes out the door, puts down her bag, and starts pretending to be an airplane zooming around with her arms outstretched. Mmmmkay. Keeping an eye on her at this point. She comes on board, and has a cat with her in its carrier.

While we’re taking a seat count (for weight and balance before takeoff), the other FA and I notice she took the cat out, which isn’t allowed. We tell her to put the cat back and keep it secure for the flight. She complies, we take off, and before we’re even at 10k ft I see a cat head poke out into the aisle from her seat area. You f*cking kidding me? I have to get up, while still in a very steep angled takeoff, and tell her to put the f*cking cat back in its crate. Poor kitty was clawing at the seat and terrified. Luckily she behaved after that." - littlemisshellfire

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"I had a pair of sisters who started drinking, no big deal. First sister said the other was a nervous flyer. They were behaving so I let them order more drinks. They each had four, but still seemed fine. Come to find out the nervous sister had also taken Xanax before the flight - great. She comes to the back lavatory and has already wet her pants. Oh god. She asks if I can make her another drink, “but this time it needs to be Christmas tree!” Uhhhh, I think you’ve had enough for now. Rest of the flight is fine. We land and start to deplane and as I’m saying goodbye to passengers I hear a WHOMP. The hell?!

It was her. She totally ate sh*t and face planted in the middle of the aisle right before the galley. She gets up and there’s blood on her mouth, so I tell the captain to call medics down. They get her into a straight-back wheelchair and as they’re strapping her in she starts asking, “Are we in Denver?!” over and over. The medic goes, “No, were in Omaha and you need to hold still!” (And no, Denver was not where we left from either.)" - littlemisshellfire​​​​​​​

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"I also had a mother and son who boarded, and our plane had a seat that was MEL’d. (Minimum Equipment List is for things that are broken but not anything that’s bad enough to keep you from flying the plane - so this seat would be fixed when we got back to our base that had maintenance workers.) This seat literally had no seat cushion, and had bright green tape over the armrests with a sign saying it was out of order. While I was still boarding passengers, the mother had taken the tape off, sat her son in the seat, and put the tape back on the armrests on top of his arms.

I looked at him, looked at her, and said, “Ma’am, he can’t sit there, the seat is out of service.” Of course I helped them find seats together somewhere else, but man, that was weird." - littlemisshellfire

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You know how as soon as you get to the gate and the seatbelt sign turns off people leap out of their seats to stand around, this takes it to a new level.

A man in his 50s or 60s is at the front of the plane with his elderly mother. As soon as the seatbelt sign turns off, he jumps up, unbuckles his mother and lifts her up.

Man: I NEED A WHEELCHAIR NOW!

Attendant: Sir, we just got to the gate, there isn't a wheelchair here yet. Please put your mother down until the wheelchair comes.

Man: I NEED A WHEELCHAIR NOW!

Attendant: Sir, they are bringing the chair to the gate now, but it isn't here.

Man: WHEELCHAIR!

Attendant: Sir, please put your mother down.

Man: WHERE IS THE WHEELCHAIR!

This continues on for another minute until the man finally loses his strength and breath. - QuickChildhood

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"On a recent west coast of the US to east coast of the US trip, I had one entire row to myself on one side of the plane, and this older gentleman had the the entire row on the other side of the aisle from me. Sitting in the plane, as you do, while waiting to push back & taxi & take off, he asked the flight attendant if he could use the restroom. Fasten seatbelts sign was already lit, but she said she'd go and check if he could use the bathroom before we started moving - guess she wanted to see how long until we'd push back. Apparently he couldn't wait those couple minutes, and proceeded to grab his air sickness bag, unzip, and pee into it... in full view of me. Then closed the bag up and smooshed in down into the seatback pocket. I cringed when, at the end of the flight, he finally handed it to a flight attendant to throw away. Definitely something I never wish to see again on a flight." - PacificKestral

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"The woman next to me started eating a bag of boiled eggs." - littleleathers​​​​​​​

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"Had a flight get f-ed up so the airline upgraded my next flight to first class. It was a pretty long flight so sweet. I happen to sit next to a retired flight attendant and, being the pro she is, she orders us a bottle of Champagne. I didn’t know you could get the bottle on a flight but I’m not asking any questions.

Obviously I ask her for her horror stories. She’s like, “I can’t tell you names, but I’ve seen some very famous people get banned from airlines.” Not off the flight, from the whole airline.

How to get banned from an airline (drugs and booze help, but apparently some people don’t need those):

• climb the food & beverage cart while it’s in use

• accost flight staff repeatedly

• let your kids climb on other passengers and blame the other passengers

• DIY medical emergency via drug / alcohol abuse

• incite a riot mid-flight

We had a blast that flight, she was lovely" - SpoonwoodTangle

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"I once had my toothbrush taken away by customs, only to be later seated next to a man that ate an ENTIRE RAW HEAD OF CABBAGE. Like, how the f*ck does he get to take that with him?! I still have nightmares about the squeaky noise it made." - wehavefoodathome

The coronavirus pandemic has denied many teens the rite-of-passage of being disappointed in their high school proms.

The ban on group gatherings has forced teens to take their senior proms online, dancing with their moms in quarantine or with their dates from six feet away. To make teens feel better about being denied their fairy tale dance at the gym, writer and comedian Eden Dranger kicked off a thread of bad prom stories to assure the kids that they're not missing out.

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It feels like a gigantic steaming understatement to say that life is weird for everyone right now, but it's certainly true.

Quarantine has made everything feel harder and weirder, while leaving many people feeling disconnected from themselves and others. Sometimes the best way to break through the fog of cognitive dissonance is to laugh at the ridiculous fails of others (in cases where it's lighthearted and not cruel, of course).

None of us are completely alone in fumbling through this bizarre year, and many have taken to social media to share their most recent fails - ranging from texting fails to literal falls.

So, in order to spread some laughter and solidarity among those feeling out of it, here are 20 of the funniest fails from the last month.

1. This social media fail.

2. This birthday text fail.

3. This pregnancy test fail.

4. This sexting fail.

5. This snacking fail.

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7. This Facebook fail that got rightfully called out by Aunt Peggy.

8. This ex fail.

9. This fall.

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11. This perfect photobomb fail.

12. This relationship "test" fail.

13. This burger fail.

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15. This Jason DeRulo fail.

16. This email attachment fail.

17. This Tinder fail.

18. This DM fail.

19. This exercise fail.

20. This gifting fail.

Teachers are the best! Except when they're the worst. I'll never forget the names of the teachers who went above and beyond to change my life for the better (thank you, Ms. Baxter!). But I'll aso never forget the ones who went above and beyond to make my life a living hell. Thinking about you, Mrs. L__. (not including her full name not out of respect, but out of fear).

A man named Justin Boldaji shared a story on Twitter about a really cruel move pulled by his 4th grade teacher that "radicalized" him against the education system.

He's probably forgiven her by now though, right?

Guess not....

He's not the only one holding a grudge against a teacher. We never really forgive or forget cruel and vindictive behavior like this from the adults we are supposed to turn to for support. People are sharing stories of their own teachers' meanest behavior in the replies to Justin's tweet.

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Most of us have rapidly whipped our heads around to stare at something mysterious going down on the side of the road. Few of us, however, have gone to the trouble to turn the car around and see what's actually happening.

In some cases, an empty garbage bag illuminated by moonlight shines like a dead body, or an animal in need rears its head out of a ditch, or an abandoned object pulls our fascination from afar.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who have pulled over to investigate roadside happenings shared their stories.

1. From LifetimeOfLemons:

Near my house by an intersection, guy dressed in leather and a huge trench coat was stabbing a skateboard with a weird sword. Around 10 on a Sunday night, nobody else around.

2. From Dyko:

The wife was driving when I asked her if we could turn around because I saw something on the side of the road that I was instantly sure was a rubber 1990s WWF Iron Sheik action figure.

We turned around, and she slowed down as I opened the door and scooped up what was 100% a rubber 1990s WWF Iron Sheik action figure.

He now lives in the ceiling beams of the laundry room where he watches over the washer.

Edit: as requested, here is pic #1 of the man, himself: Ptooey

... And here he is in his laundry-humbling perch

3. From egmalone:

I found some gourds! But they were too tough to cut into with my pocketknife and smelled like terrible body odor so I left them.

Another time while out biking I saw a ski in the gutter. A few blocks farther, I found the other ski, so I picked it up and went back for the first one. On the way home with a pair of skis across the handlebars, I found another pair of skis in the gutter so I took those home too. My mom was absolutely baffled when I rolled up to the house.

4. From discostud1515:

My brother was driving 100 down the highway at night and swore he saw a guy right next to the road. He turned around the first chance he could and sent to look to see if he was ok. This was in the middle of no where and he had his wife and 3 kids in the back. Wife saw it too. They really only got back to the spot about 5-10 minutes later and couldn’t see anything. They called the police of the nearby town and met the officer there.

My brother and the officer looked around a bit more while his wife stayed in the car. Eventually they gave up and drove home. The officer said he would look a bit more. The next day he got a call from the officer. He found the guy in diabetic shock some ways from the road. Got him to the hospital and he lived. He had left a bar and started walking down the highway. He was found about 4 km from the bar outside a tiny town. Brother definitely saved the guy’s life.

5. From Nonewnews_:

We were driving and my boyfriend stopped the car all of a sudden and put his hazard lights on. The car behind us thought we were stopping for no reason. He got angry and cut in front of us and ran over the old man who was laying in middle of the road. The old man fell and was not able to get up and now...his leg was crushed.

And when the driver realized what he had done, he drove away at the speed of light.

6. From SimplisticFox:

Thought I had seen a turtle.

I pulled over.

It was a turtle.

That was a great day.

7. From FastWalkingShortGuy:

I didn't stop, but my girlfriend at the time and I saw a mountain lion (cougar/puma) standing on the side of the road in Connecticut around 2008.

There haven't been mountain lions here for 100 years.

No one believed us, until a few years later, when one got run over on the highway.

8. From Chefshipwreck589:

In a muddy ditch me and my sisters got out to see a filthy dog drowning in this mud pit. My sister jumped in, drug the dog out, and we took it in. The owner of the dog had apparently gotten sick of her and let her out in the middle of the busy road. He didn’t want her anymore so he gave her to us. She was a mixed Pitbull terrier we named flower who lived with us for 13 years.

I miss my Flower now. She was one of the kindest dogs I ever had.

9. From Dustlord:

I saw something in the middle of the road once after work one night. I stopped my car, got out, and called out to it. It ran straight to me and climbed on my shoulders.

That's the story of how I met my cat 4 years ago.

10. From Cyanide_Kitty_101:

I was maybe 15 and was in the passenger seat while my mom was driving us home from the store or something. I saw a mass of black and white in the road. I couldn't tell what it actually was by looking at it, but somehow I just knew it was actually two kittens. I frantically told my mom to pull over, and we got out to get them.

One came right up to us, and the other's eyes were so gunky he couldn't see. The girl who ran up to us was so happy and refused to leave her brother even on the road, so we took them both and nursed them back to health basically. Couldn't keep them, but we made sure they went to a good home. I still miss them sometimes even nearly a decade later.

11. From ObiWan-Shinoobi:

I saw what appeared to be a diamond necklace fly by in a glittery blur on the freeway shoulder. Thinking some girlfriend angrily tossed it out of a speeding car to make her cheating boyfriend upset, I turned around at the next off ramp and went back to stop and collect my payday.

It was just one of those stupid a*s fake diamond license plate frames.

I have an active imagination and an empty wallet...

12. From manlikerealities:

One night I was driving home just after receiving my first aid certificate. I glimpsed what looked like someone hunched over by the side of road, struggling.

I immediately pulled over and a little part of me was like this is amazing, I can do CPR, I'll be a hero, don't worry man I got you, I have a first aid certificate! Anyway it was a garbage bag.

13. From bfly1800:

I work for a garage. A customer picked up his trailer which was in for repairs, and drove away. 15 minutes later, he was back, and he was angry.

The trailer plug was missing, and he believed it was our fault. We tried to explain it was on there when he left but he wasn’t buying it. Wanted to speak to the foreman etc.

My co-worker was out on a test drive and spotted a small black object on the side of the road. It wasn’t bigger than a pack of cigarettes but it caught his eye. He stopped and picked it up, and continued back to the workshop.

Rolls in to see this guy demanding that we source a new trailer plug for him, when my mate comes up to me and says, “Hey I found this trailer plug on the side of the road.” We asked the customer if he’d driven that way, he had. Fitted it to the trailer and sent him on his way.

14. From ella20xx:

I saw something in my backseat once. I was on my way home from work late. It was dark and I was on a county road with no street lights. As soon as I saw whatever it was, I stopped the car, jumped out and quickly ran over to the other side of the road, leaving the driver door open. I spent an extremely petrifying half hour just staring at my car, waiting for what I saw to surface. It was pitch dark except for my domelight in the car.

There was a light hum of wind and the ding of my keys in the ignition. And my heart rate never decreased. I was trembling for a while. Eventually, I slowly approached the car, opened the the back door, and said, "get the f*ck out." And just then I realized that I heard a car door slam shut when I first ran to the other side of the road. Another intense wave of panic nearly crippled me. I hopped back in the car and took all the way the fuck off. Blacked that memory out for a while.

15. From justhereforthelul:

I was driving from work through this street that had a lot of bushes on both sides of the road and empty lots.

I don't know what made me noticed but I could see the silhouette of a person on the ground so against my better judgment I pulled over to check it out. When I got to the spot I saw this guy in pain and a bike off in the distance on the ground.

I asked him what happened and he said that his right foot got stuck on the front wheel which caused the bike to flip over and send him flying. Unfortunately his foot was a bloody mess and his toenail was hanging by a little thread, with the rest of the foot covered in wounds.

I brought back his bike and cellphone, while I asked him if I should call 911. He said no since he was a foreign college student and he didn't have insurance or money to pay for it.

So I did the best thing and carried him to my car, put his bike on the back which barely fit since I have a small sports car and took him home.

There I left him with his host family and called it a day. I don't remember his name or didn't exchange contact info with him, but I hope he was okay after that.

16. From Numerous-Explorer:

On a road trip through the New Mexican desert when my gf and I see a guy walking in the middle of nowhere. He had a sign saying he was walking across America. Stopped to say hi and he was a cool dude living his dream. I wish him the best!

17. From PracticalMinute:

I was driving home one afternoon and a pile of stuff that someone had put on the curb. One of them was a very nice amateur telescope still brand new in the box. Easily worth over a hundred bucks. Took it home and kept it for a bit before gifting it to someone else.

18. From Brswiech:

I was driving by an abandoned strip club on my way to get a replacement hydraulic hose. I glance over and I notice a box just setting in the parking lot. Before I turn back to face the road a head pops out of a hole in the side. Turns out someone put their puppy inside a box, taped it up and left it in the empty lot. So of course I pull in, grab the little guy and being him home.

19. From _sp00ky_:

Saw a flashing light in the ditch in the dark. Found a flipped motorcycle and a motorcyclist with a broken arm and dislocated shoulder.

20. From Tossed_Away_1776:

We thought it was a scared baby bunny, turns out it was a litter of baby bobcats after we stopped to investigate. We tore ass outta there like a hot damn.

21. From dericulous:

I was riding my bike as a kid and there was a large trash bag on the side of the road in a residential type area. Got close but it looked lumpy in a weird way. I jokingly told my friends I was with, “that’s a body.” We left it alone. Night time news confirmed it was, in fact, a dead body. There were a few weird murders in my neighborhood when I was a kid.

22. From loritree:

It was pouring and three cars in front of me each slowed down, when I got to the spot they had slowed down for there was a woman. I thought ‘what the F*CK, each of those drivers slowed down to look at a woman walking the pouring rain, what a*sholes” so I pulled over and offered her a ride, and she accepted. It turned out we worked in the same town and lived in the same city. I gave her rides to work for about 6 months.

It occurred to me much later the other cars may have been slowing down to avoid splashing her due to the huge puddles.

23. From achar073:

Stopped to look at a laptop bag in a parking lot once cause it was oddly out of place and who know maybe there was actually a computer in there...there was a giant human turd in it.

24. From slviiier:

Years ago on my way to school I saw a cat in the road. I turned to look at it. And rear-ended my math teacher.

25. From fastforward10years:

A few years ago my girlfriend and I were cruising around rural New Zealand when out the corner of my eye I saw a bit of smoke coming from the grass. We backed it up and yup, sure, a shrub fire had just started on the side of the road. One of the overhead powerlines had come down and lit everything up. So while she called the fire service, I got my traffic-controller cap on and started deadline with the building traffic. Eventually the farmer turned up and allowed people to drive through their paddock to keep traffic moving. When the fire & police showed up let them take over, although the fire was pretty significant by then.

On the same trip, two days later we were driving on a gravel background through some bush in the absolute middle of nowhere when we found a person just standing on the side of the road. We stopped (the road was too narrow to "pull over") and asked if she was okay. Well yeah, she's great, but see in the bush over there? I crashed my car, can you call someone to get it out?

Well there you have it, down in the ditch and hidden in the bushes was a crashed car. No cell phone reception so we ultimately settled on driving all the way out to get reception and sending the police in to help her out. She chose to stay with her car. I still have no idea to this day if she made it out of there...

College admissions is the rat race that many posh parents have been preparing their kids for since they were in utero. The fateful application essay is where teenagers are to use their words to convince an elite panel that they are, in fact, interesting people, and they tend to be even more pretentious than your average cover letter.

Admissions officers and coaches dished on the most memorably awful application essays they encountered on the job. Next time, these aspiring academics should try just bribing their way into the school by pretending to be rowing prodigies.

1. Thou shalt not bribe.

I worked in a very religious private schools admissions department for a few weeks, filing applications. The parents had to write a letter about their child and why the school would suit them.

I'll always remember the man who wrote three pages about how successful a business man he was, how he owned several businesses, how good he was at the school's main sport and then attached a large check to the last page. Not a word about the kid.

What I remember most?

The rejection letter from the principal with a thinly veiled insinuation that bribery was immoral and not acceptable at this school. -Mental_Vacation

2. Well well well, if it isn't Mr. X.

Letter simply said something along the lines of "Let me in, X hall named after Grandpa, he donated a sh*t ton of money, so this letter means nothing."

He was right, got right in. Gotta love pay to play. -wooter99

3. Mind the gap.

I coach kids on their essays. (No, I do not write them for them.) I volunteer with low-income kids at the local high school who could make it into school if they had some guidance. They have written about: surviving the Haitian earthquake, living in a shelter, living in a car, getting up at 4am every morning to get all their siblings ready for school, etc. You get the idea. Then I go back to my paying customers who want to write about how their parents spent $10,000 for them to go look at poor people in Rwanda or something and now they know there are people who don't have it as good as they do. I don't really blame those kids -- they don't know what they don't know -- but the discrepancy makes me insane. -Squinky75

4. Dive in.

I once got a binder with nineteen letters of recommendation from what seemed every adult who ever vaguely met the student. We also got photocopies of her SCUBA license and lifeguard certification. This was just for a college with a 98% acceptance rate.

We also had an essay question that was "If you could spend a day with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be and why?" and some kid wrote about how the college admissions racket discounted who he was as an individual and that he wanted to spend the day with the college admissions officer so they'd really get to know him. Came off as a bit creepy, and, again, 98% acceptance rate. If you could write a coherent sentence and didn't murder anyone, you were going to be accepted, we didn't freaking care about your personality. -bthks

5. A bad copypasta.

A whole essay about how it had "long been her dream to study at the prestigious University of Leicester" and all the incredible gifts life would bestow on her for living her dream.

In an application for a university that was NOT Leicester. -landt2016

6. A good way to stand out as lazy.

I'm a college admissions consultant and the worst one I've read was a full meta essay about how much the applicant loved college admissions and writing admissions essays. It was arrogant and aloof throughout but the kicker was when the student called herself "an elite applicant with outstanding admissions essay skills" right there in the essay.

I felt sorry for her because it felt like the stress of the process had given her a Stockholm Syndrome obsession with it. I tried to bring her back to reality gently but she wasn't having it.

She didn't get in. -ScholarGrade

7. Definitely similar experiences.

I was part of an Admissions Committee when I served as faculty at a wonderful University.

One admissions essay compared his act of applying to the law school with that of a Palestinian child facing oppression.

The closing line was "Bravery comes in many forms. A Palestinian child picking up a stone against Illegal Occupation, and me writing this essay, both are comparable."

Still haven't forgotten it. -im_a_professor

8. What's the point of taking a picture that you're not in?

Not an admissions officer, but I have evaluated placement essays for first year writing (first semester, second semester, or in rare cases, tested out completely). I remember reading one about how selfies were important because of such reasons as "so people can know where you are" and "if you travel you can use them to take pictures of monuments and landmarks." This student essentially, though I'm not sure intentionally, made the argument that every picture that is taken HAS TO BE a selfie and if they weren't in the picture it wasn't worth anything.

I put them in "first semester." -Gyrick

9. Gimme an A!

Not an admissions officer but...

I went to high school with a girl who was top of the class, applying to all the Ivys, 4.0 unweighted GPA, APs etc.

She wrote her essay about how she overcame stereotypes by being smart and a cheerleader. I'd say that's pretty pretentious. -atoms12123

10. xoxo, Blair Waldorf.

My best friend was salutatorian of her class of 600. She only applied to one college and it was an Ivy League. She is an upper middle class white girl, who plays the harp... she wrote her college essay on being a “jet setter." It pains me to say that she was completely shocked when she got flat out rejected. -rosietoesie

11. Write what you know.

I reviewed applications for a local state college. We didn’t need to read essays if the grades were good enough, but one time I saw a kid with an 800 SAT writing score. I had never seen one, so I curiously checked their essay.

Their essay was all about getting an 800 on their writing SAT. -EzPesos

12. Admissions essay or Real Housewives catchphrase?

I saw someone’s essay that was littered with idiotic statements like:

“Can cook minute rice in 30 seconds.”

“Probably smarter than your boss.”

“Fan of causing drama.” -lametown_poopypants

13. The engineers of the future.

I was an Admission Counselor for a state university in Texas. The essay topic given was "explain the biggest obstacle you have faced in life and how it has shaped you into the person you are today".

A student chose to write their essay about how their biggest obstacle was that they didn't have enough outlets in their bedroom to plug in all of their electronics. Apparently this made them an innovator and problem solver because they figured out how to use a surge protector. Genius. -ClumsyCactus

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I’m an admissions counselor and one of my colleagues sent us the worst essay the other day. For our 2-4 page essay requirement the student wrote:

“This is my admissions essay for [university name]. I would like to earn my degree through your school. Thank you."

They’ll still probably get in since no one bothers to read these. -reillyemma

15. Grab the bull by the horns.

Not very pretentious, just weird.

Worked at a uni in FL. Our office once received an admissions essay that got the attention of all of our recruiters and it was read by everyone in our office who had access to read admissions essays. They say boldness is the key to grabbing our attention, but that’s a fine edge to walk. This one particular application mentioned knowing with certainty that they wanted to a be veterinarian ever since the first time they castrated a bull.

Hold on. Whoa, what kid?! You do this often?! The essay was very moving with the passion, but most of our staff felt the abundance of detail made it weird. I gave it a thumbs up, but I think I was in the minority of readers who did. -JuanConnor

16. This girl was even more entitled than Aunt Becky's daughter.

I got to interview some students for a special program in my undergrad. It was highly competitive and lots of people wanted it.

Young woman comes in. I offer her a seat.

“I’d prefer to stand. This won’t take long.”

“It won’t?”

“No, my dad is the dean of (one of the colleges) and my mom is one of the professors who established this program. I’m getting in.”

I emphasized that she really should take a seat. She refused again. So I say, “Hey, this interview, me approving you is part of the process. You have to do well in this to get in.”

“You’ll say I did well or my parents will make life hell for you.”

Her parents had zero impact on anything in my life and I told her as much. After articulating this to her I said, “I’m going to give you a chance to walk out the door and restart this interview. Fresh start.”

She lost it and yelled at me. For like five minutes. I filled out the interview sheet with direct quotes from her tantrum.

She didn’t get in. A few days after decisions were made, I got an email from her father who was, in fact, a dean. He asked me to come in and “have a chat” with him. It was totally a request. I went to talk to him.

When I went to see him he had a copy of the interview sheet where I had several direct quotes from his daughter. Some of the quotes were awful and directed at me, my family, and basically everything she could hit on.

He apologized profusely for his daughter and asked if she could redo the interview. He was leaning on me a bit at this point. I told him that choices had already been made and she was not selected.

The whole thing was mind blowing. She was so entitled. -VerbalThermodynamics

Quarantine has been a rollercoaster of stress, virtual workouts, Zoom happy hours, boredom, learning how to homeschool kids with cabin fever, and drinking like a never-ending trip to Vegas...

Most of us are coming up on two full months of isolation and until it's safe to resume our normal lives, we have to keep socially distancing. However, staying inside doesn't have to a reel of zombie-like binge-watching everything streaming platforms have to offer. Some people have taken full advantage of their time in quarantine to focus on projects they didn't have time for before, re-organize their homes, or finally start writing that paranormal romance novel starring a family of centraurs...

Sometimes taking the time to finally go through those boxes in the basement or kitchen drawers can uncover some interesting artifacts of the past. If you could use some cleaning inspiration, here are the funniest posts we could find from people who found unjustifiably old items in their kitchens.

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Some things improve with age, like red wine and Keanu Reaves. But then there are things that get much, much worse with age. Some of those things, like milk, can be thrown away before they stink up the whole house. But other things live on the internet where they will rot before our eyes forever.

Here are 44 screenshots of things people wrote or said in the past that have aged, like unrefridgerated milk, very badly. Oops, lol.

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Sometimes people give you advice that you listen to politely, but know deep down you'll never follow. When truly good advice comes along, though, you never forget it...

Advice often comes from a place of the giver attempting to undo their own past mistakes and prevent others from falling for the same traps they fell into in life. However, there are definitely some missteps that people have to make on their own in order to really learn from them. We can't always become wise without being morons first. Take that, Yoda! Baby Yoda is about to do some serious damage to a house party.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What is the wisest thing somebody has ever told you?" people were definitely ready to share the sage and sound words of wisdom that actually stuck with them.

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"Never ask the barber if you need a haircut." - PortionKontrol

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"If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have something to laugh about." - roberto10992

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"Even the worlds best ping pong player can't beat a wall, just walk away." - slayer1189

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"When I was really young, my father told me this gem, when I was upset about being teased at school:"No matter how nice and kind you are; there are always going to be people who don't like you or appreciate what you do." I forget if there was anything else he added afterward.

It does sound pessimistic, however I internalized it as, to continuing being kind, and not letting a harsh response or cruel treatment bring me down.I think my dad was trying to teach me not to put too much worth into how much worth others put on me, but focus on my own" - Leporidae91

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"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, but there is always going to be someone who hates peaches." - T_Max100

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"Lack of preparation on your part doesn't call for an emergency on mine." - kj_SmrtAlc

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"Don't confuse hard work with good work.

Or, said another way, don't confuse working hard with working smart." - TheSquirrellWithin

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"A smart man learns from his own mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others." RickySlayer9

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"A wise man once told me 'the level of someone's mental breakdown can be measured by the number of inspirational quotes they post.'" - Dildo-Gankings

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"You cannot choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you react." - sendgoodmemes

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"The harder you work, the luckier you get - Grandma" - ItsMyView

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"Opportunity knocks but it doesn’t beg." - Yernar444

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"Do not fear failure, fear the ability of not trying" - bazgamboa

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"'No response is a response.' Seems so obvious now but was life-changing when I heard that and the light bulb went off." - ShanaFoFana

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"You're not as high as you think you are when you're up, and you're not as low as you think you are when you're down." - King_High_Ulfric

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"When I was very young, a friend once told me: "you don't have time, you take time". I had to get well above 25 to understand the meaning of this." - Icc87

Deciding whether to forgive or dump a partner after they cheat is a very personal choice, and there are so many different factors that play into a person's decison.

Of course, for better or worse, there is always a chorus of voices eager to tell couples how to move forward.

Some people abide by the saying "once a cheater, always a cheater" and believe the first sight of infidelity is immediate grounds for a breakup. Others believe in the power of forgiveness, and that it's worth looking at counseling or other avenues to move forward. Since every relationship is different, there's truly no guide book, but hearing other people's stories can help serve as a compass when you're at a relationship cross roads.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who forgave a cheating partner share what happened afterwards, and whether they regret sticking with them.

While these are anecdotal and not prescriptive, the hope is that they'll help others facing difficult choices.

1. From TheMiddlecouldbeme:

We were married less than a year. It was the hardest year of my life. He went to watch a sporting event with his friends and didn't come back that night. He called me in the morning and told me what happened. Lots of counseling, lots of fighting, and we are still married 20 years and 2 kids later. I think since he told me right away and didn't try to hide it made it easier.

2. From cookie_400:

Forgave her...6-8 months later she was pregnant. I found out it wasn't mine.

Dodged a bullet.

3. From ceedubs2:

I was in a eight-year relationship with my wife. We had been married for two years when she came back from a therapy session, shaking, and admitted to having a one-night stand with a coworker.

We spent a whole year in marriage counseling, but at some point she decided she wasn't going to try anymore. She kept staying out later and later with this guy, and at some point, they started sleeping with each other.

I didn't know this for a while, and figured we should just give each other space. So I moved into an apartment for a month, completely miserable. When I returned, she seemed to have a skip in her step about it all. I pretty much decided that we should take a break, which to her meant she got to sleep with this guy more often.

So, I ended up moving back in with my parents at the age of 26 "for a short while," still fully believing that we could somehow repair the relationship. A month after I had left, she calls me and says she's pregnant with the guy's kid. I was fuming, and as a sign of how far gone she was, she didn't understand and thought I'd be happy for her.

I'm now divorced, and haven't spoken to her since last October. Oddly, our interactions right before the kid being born were fairly cordial. I even stopped by her house to drop off food while I was in town for the divorce proceedings. It's very surreal to look back at now.

It's also bizarre to think that this person who knew me very intimately and saw vulnerabilities in me that not even my parents knew about, is now just logged in my brain as an acquaintance at best. She was my girlfriend for four years, my wife for another four, and yet she is now the same status of people I think about as my freshman roommate.

EDIT: As for current relationships, I find myself very defensive and resistant towards long-term relationships. Even if it's going well, I think, "Okay, but at some point, this will all end. She will betray you, or grow tired of you, and you'll have to go through this all again." I'm currently in a five-month long relationship, and I am REALLY tired of people asking if I'm thinking about marrying her.

4. From ImNotAClown:

I forgave because prior to his cheating, I had been going through a really rough time with my mental health and knew I had not been an easy partner to be with for several months. It was an excuse to stay for sure, but in a way I understood how it happened because he started talking to her ABOUT me and it progressed from there. When I discovered it, he did everything I asked without hesitation and after a few months, things actually did get better.

I didn't fully trust him again for a couple of years. What finally regained trust was when I had an unexpected injury and surgery and he was 100% there for me through the whole painful process and picked up the slack without complaint when I couldn't work for a couple of months because of it. Things were good again for a few years.

I left him in August after I discovered he was cheating for the second time. I'm much happier now.

5. From hansvanhengel:

The recurring theme here is that they cheated again, isn't it?

Guess I'll just add to that then.

She cheated on me 3 months before we were to get married. Decided to give her another chance. We even didn't cancel the wedding, just postponed it for 12 months.

Cheated again only a few months later with another person.

All of that was after a 5 year relationship. She never cheated then, only towards the end she changed.

6. From adrianmakedonski:

Not me but there's a girl I follow on Facebook just to watch the trashiness. Her BF cheated on her, she forgave him, got pregnant by him, they married, baby was born, then husband cheated on her again less than a year after marriage with the same person as before. Now she keeps posting Harley Quinn memes about beating him up with a baseball bat.

EDIT: A month later, she just got arrested for "battering" 3 police officers after fighting someone in a parking lot. In case anybody was wondering.

7. From BLACKMACH1NE:

I forgave her. She didn't even remotely try to make up for it. Not even walk on eggshells about the subject. Like she would mention the guy to me over and over again as if I was supposed to console her over the fact that he just wanted sex from her. I broke up with her for good when she did it again. Never again. She's still miserable like 4 years later. What a way to throw a 10 year relationship down the drain.

Edit: I didn't think this would blow up. Thanks to all of the responses. I want to take this time to offer the best advice that has ever been given to me: "Learn from other peoples mistakes". It has made life so much easier for me. I never saw this coming and always had amazing relationships until this one went south.

I should've trusted my gut from the get go and left when I knew I wasn't being treated fairly. Honestly you shouldn't be with someone unless that they making the same amount of effort or at least make you feel appreciated for what you do for them. Learn from me and don't get walked on. You'll be much better off and proud of yourself for putting your foot down.

8. From Sharkbyte12:

Being trapped in a lease with someone makes you think differently. When you don't have that hard evidence, but deep down you know whats going on. Physically didn't have the money to break up with her, if that makes sense.

After the lease ended and we moved into separate places, I gave us a few more months, but we ended it in April. Probably a good thing, because her and her new BF just celebrated their 1 year in October. Hmmmm.

These types of threads have popped up a lot recently, and I always seem to comment this story on them. I didn't realize how much its actually helped me to get it off my chest. There is so much wrong with this whole thing, that I could probably write a book about how hard it was being trapped in a lease with someone you loved, and all of the "coincidences" I had to deal with while questioning my sanity, wondering if I'm just overreacting. Thanks for listening dudes.

9. From jinx117:

We married in '96. The first affair happened in 03, with his co-worker. He came clean on his own one morning after we'd had sex....and he'd been with her the night before. It destroyed me. Our 2 kids were both under 10 at the time so I decided to try to work it out and move forward. I felt like a crazy person and I didn't like suspicious me at all. Before I had known about it I had wanted another child and he had adamantly refused. When he came clean he suggested we have another child. I told him he was out of his mind.

Anyway fast forward a couple of difficult years and things have smoothed out. He has a new co-worker Larry who he talks about a lot. When he gets home from work one day he sits in his truck in the driveway on the phone. When he finally comes in the house he says he was talking to Larry about work issues. When he was in the shower I got Larry's work # from his phone and called the number the next day. The outgoing voicemail message is a woman who says "Hey, you've reached Lori......" I didn't call him on it for a few days. I eventually spoke with Lori who says nothing was going on.

Again, I chose to stay. A short time later I know I have become a hardened person but I'm dealing with it. I'm raising kids, working, life is just busy. One night I can't sleep. His work phone goes off while I'm in the kitchen and it's the woman he first cheated on me with. I see she left a voicemail so I listened to it.

She loves and misses him bla bla bla. I'm shaking I'm so angry and the phone goes to the next message...it's Lori and she loves and misses him too. I think that's when I turned off all feeling. Not just for him but for anything except my kids. I woke him up and confronted him. He tells me he hasn't talked to either one in a long time and can't control who calls and leaves him messages. Our marriage continues...but he knows I'm done at even the hint of another woman. 2008. Christmas night. 2 AM. I wake up to my ringing phone. It's the husband of a friend of ours. He is our friend too. Our kids play ball together.

They have 3 kids close in age to ours and our 2 oldest are very close. Anyway he asks me has my husband talked to me? I'm not awake and I don't understand. Turns out his wife and my husband are having an affair and it's been going on for about 8 months. That was the end for me. My divorce was final in 2011.

It took a long time to get any peace of mind back and the hardest part was dealing with why I had allowed myself to stay in that situation so long. Besides the infidelity there were other issues of emotional and some physical abuse. I had not known what a narcissist was until long after I left.

Now I prefer to be single. I dated a few times but at the first hint of a red flag from someone I'm out. My ex and I speak at times about the kids but they are grown now so the ex and I have very little contact.

I'm finally in a good place and intend to stay there. For anyone dealing with this kind of thing my advice to to listen to your gut. Don't ignore things that really bother you. And don't let the awfulness of divorce allow you to get down on their level. Looking back I'm glad I didn't. Also, karma comes around very fast. A few months after we separated the ex's new girlfriend got popped for 14 felonies...I laughed till I hurt.

10. From poopscooper34234:

I tried. I didn't forgive him, but I loved him enough to try again even when I didn't trust him anymore. Guess what though. ^{He cheated again}

Shocker.

11. From 11kgm:

Forgave her because it was only photos started to trust her again till she tried to f*ck my friend. Found out she had been with over 30 guys in the 5 months together.

12. From glacea7:

I gave her a second chance, but broke it off years later.

All the insecurities and negative thoughts will slowly eat you apart. Don't recommend anyone to go through the same experience.

edit: We're still good friends though.

edit2: People are asking how do you stay friends with someone that betrayed your trust.

We didn't break off on a bad ending, I made sure to keep it a civil breakup. I think having a friend you were close with for years is better than her being a stranger/somebody that you used to know.

13. From CommentBear:

I was 19 and we had been seeing each other for 6 months and he calls and tells me he slept with someone else the night before (I lived a hour away). I broke up with him right away. Couple days later I'm thinking about it and I hadn't had a period in awhile so I take a pregnancy test and I'm pregnant. I tell him and he tells me he will take care of us and we are a team now and will do it together.

So I forgive him, he told me right away and I'm young and freaked out. Four years later we get married. Years after that we have another kid. We buy a house in the suburbs, both work, go on dates, ride our bikes and we're just a perfect happy family. I trusted him completely. Took awhile but we had over done so much at a young age. 6 months ago he sits me down and admits that he had slept with over 10 different women this whole time. We're divorcing.

14. From paintedwings28:

I just got out of a 5.5 year relationship (married for 4.5) he cheated multiple times and I always caught him. He never came clean on his own.

I always forgave him because he wasn't an a*shole outside of the cheating. He had a rough childhood and I'm a very compassionate person. We have two kids together and he's a great father but he just couldn't stop lying and cheating.

I've become a shell of the person I once was without even realising it. I don't recognise myself. It's been 8 weeks since the separation and I'm still struggling to navigate through my new life. Feels like I'm missing a limb but at the same time I feel so free. I hope he can get the help he needs.

EDIT: wow, thank you for all your comments and messages. There's been some incredibly helpful tips and advice. I woke up feeling flat after I commented on this thread so all your kind words have helped me start the day well.

To all those who can relate to my story and are going through something similar. I am so sorry. I am sending lots of love and strength out to all of us.

15. From webdeveler:

I should have ran after the first time she cheated.

We dated for 4 years during college. In our last year, she started staying out late "to study at the library." She was not one to study so I went to the library one night and of course she wasn't there. She also wasn't answering her phone. When I confronted her, she admitted she was seeing some guy in her class and wanted to move in with him.

We broke up for 6 months and eventually we got back together after she got bored of the other guy. She swore she'd never do it to me again.

We dated for another year and then got married. A year into the marriage, she did the same crap. She started staying "late at work." She also started getting increasingly b*tchy. After she came home late one night I asked her if she was seeing someone and she confessed. She was seeing some guy at her job. We got a divorce.

Luckily she got nothing in the divorce and we didn't have a kid. I'm still sad I wasted so many of my best years with her. It also sucks having to say you're divorced just because your SO couldn't keep her legs shut.

I wish I had listened to my instincts more. I let her rush me into getting married. I told her I thought we should wait another year since it was close to the cheating incident. She said she was "tired of just being my girlfriend." Looking back, I think she thought marriage would tame her.

It was quite embarassing too. We had a big wedding (her choice). Although, thankfully, her family paid for most of it. I suspect she lied to them about our divorce. She probably told them I cheated or I chose to divorce her so she could save face.

16. From rawketscience:

Never been cheated on, but I am a lawyer who's done a fair number of divorces. The cheater's age is a huge factor.

If you're 18-29, and he or she is already running around on you, fuck that noise. It's a symptom of a deeper problem, and just the first of many many ways that you are going to get hurt in the relationship.

If you're 30-45, eh, maybe it's worth it to stay in the relationship. YMMV.

If you're 45 plus, and you still love each other, and you've built a life together that you otherwise really like, but the sex has gotten boring or infrequent, then take a good hard look at forgiveness.

17. From Moon-owl:

My husband cheated on me and I forgave him. I later found out that he had cheated at our wedding reception and while I was giving birth to his son! I divorced him. My advice is once a cheater, always a cheater.

18. From BlackStormBrewing:

He cheated again, multiples times. I found out the first time about a year into our relationship. Told him that if it ever happened again (or if he even had the urge to cheat again) to discuss it with me and we would work through it. I just don't like being lied to - especially when I had to find out in a really ugly way through our social circle.

He agreed and things improved for a little bit. Just before our two year anniversary I ended up finding out through a mutual acquaintance that he had been consistently unfaithful with many people in our circle (I didn't bother to ask how many), and that most people knew and turned a blind eye. In fact, women in our social network knew he was weak and could sleep with him if they wanted to and would do so, whether he had a girlfriend or not.

Needless to say, it ended and I dropped out of that entire scene of people altogether. Couldn't stand being around so-called friends who would protect his behavior, or feeling like the fool who has being pitied for having an unfaithful partner and being the only one who didn't know.

Most people think it was the cheating, but fundamentally it was the lying. I would be hurt, yes, but I'd much rather let someone go and be free to do whatever they want than waste my time. I had lots of trust issues and self esteem issues I had to work through as a result of that, but I have a wonderful, supportive, and loyal partner now who helped me work through the baggage and empower myself to grow from it.

19. From kifeekai:

I gave him a second chance, but it was never the same. The trust was gone. Surprisingly, he began to treat me as if I had cheated. Worried when I went out with girlfriends, texting frequently when we were apart and becoming upset when I didn’t answer right away, and constantly asking questions about my male friends. It was like cheating woke him to the possibility that I could do it, too. Needless to say, we broke up a few years later. I wish it had been sooner.

20. From Chinlc:

My mother caught my father when I was in jr high (26 now).

She stuck it out until I was 23 or 24 because she didn't want the family to know or criticize her for being a divorcee. Since in asian culture, a divorced woman looks worse than a cheating husband. Her mother kept saying null the divorce papers, go back and so on after she informed her mother that she was splitting up. They wouldn't see eye to eye.

So I gave an example to my grandmother, if your husband (my grandfather was sitting next to her) brought a new woman and said lets sleep together all 3 of us. You would be okay and let him? She said yes. But later she laughed it off saying I was joking and its not serious, but thats what my household is facing. She just didn't understand. So my mother has no support other than me. She can't go to look for her parents for support, my father's parents obviously wouldn't be supporting my mother and yeah.

"Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”

– Frank Sinatra

This is a magical time where staying home and day drinking is actually the responsible thing to do. If you've ever uttered the words, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere," these memes are for you.

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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

They say beggars can't be choosers, but that doesn't mean they don't try.

These people were publicly called out after asking for free stuff as small as chicken nuggets and as big as everything needed to furnish apartment.

1. No good deed goes unpunished.

2. Free isn't good enough.

3. Something Carole Baskin would do.

4. What a novel idea!

5. Meatzilla deserves respect.

6. *sips water*

7. Spicy!

8. You're eizer in, or you're out.

9. Well, that escalated.

10. "Try getting a job."

11. Nice try.

12. Nicer try.

13. That's less than a dollar an hour...

14. I'm lovin' it.

Parents in quarantine with kids have to wear many, many hats (but only one pair of sweatpants). In addition to full-time parents, they're also: teachers, chefs, a cleaning crew, nurses, conflict resolvers, superheroes, and apparently, comedians. It's really true that the best humor comes from adversity, which is why so many parents seem to be crushing it on Twitter during this pandemic.

Here are 29 of the funniest tweets of the past week from parents in quarantine.

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Ladies, ladies, ladies! If you're anything like me, you could use some laughs today. Life is crazy, uncertain, and pretty freakin' depressing right now. Any chance to get some giggles, I'll take it. Share this list of hilariously relatable memes with all of your gal pals who need to lol today.

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It's always nice when your significant other enjoys the people they work with — but do some people take it too far?

One woman is asking Reddit if she was in the wrong when she exploded at her boyfriend for taking his "work wife" relationship to another level. Listening in on a Zoom call, she heard that he and his coworkers were planning a "vow renewal" for himself and the work wife when office life resumes. She freaked out, and now she's wondering if she overreacted.

The woman specifies that she hasn't felt threatened by their friendship up to this point:

My fiancé Mark works closely with a woman—Megan. They both have similar responsibilities and need to work together as a team. I’ve never had any problems with this. They don’t really interact outside of work.

We have been working from home the last several weeks. I happened to be in the living room with him yesterday while his office had their weekly zoom meeting.

But her ears perked up when she heard that they refer to each other as "work wife" and "work husband":

During that meeting, people began talking about what they wanted to do when everyone returned to the office. I could hear someone say that my fiancé and Megan must really miss each other. Several other people began referring to them as “work wife” and “work husband”. Then someone suggested that my fiancé and Megan should “renew their vows” when everyone is back in the office.

Her fiancé played along with the vow renewal jokes:

Mark just played along and joked that they would be registered at Office Depot. I left the living room in tears while he continued, oblivious to how I was feeling.

She told him she was embarrassed and hurt, especially because their own wedding had to be postponed:

I confronted him after the call and said I felt humiliated. Our wedding was supposed to be in September but we’ve had to postpone it and it’s not clear when it will be safe to reschedule. And here he is talking about renewing his vows with someone from work?

He tried to calm her down by downplaying the whole thing:

Mark explained that it was just joke and not a big deal. He tried to show me some joke article his office had been passing around about how teleworking is ruining work wife relationships. I said the term “work wife” itself is offensive and humiliating because I’m supposed to be his wife.

But she told him to tell his co-workers the joke is over:

I demanded that at his next meeting he needed to publicly apologize to his office and tell them that he will NOT be “renewing his vows” with Megan because he is ENGAGED to marry someone else. I said he also needs to tell his office that they need to stop calling him and Megan work spouses.

He doesn't want to kill his coworkers' fun:

He says he can’t do that because it will be embarrassing and hurt his reputation at work with his colleagues. I said “oh, is it hard to feel embarrassed? i would never know what that’s like. ” He called me an asshole.

Now that I’ve cooled down a little I need to figure out if I overreacted.

She also added in a later comment that the plans for the "vow renewal" seemed to be very real:

They were actually planning out how to do it. Like where in the office to hold the ceremony and reception, etc. My fiancé was fully onboard planning. Meanwhile I have to nag him constantly to help me reschedule our actual wedding plans.

So is she the a-hole in this situation? No one can really agree.

Reddit's armchair a-hole arbitrators are actually divided about who's at fault — but they all agree that the whole "work husband"/"work wife" thing is annoying at best.

WebbieVanderQuack voted "everyone sucks here," saying:

I think the whole "work wife" thing is disrespectful and silly, but you did overreact to what was obviously a joke. He's not literally going to be renewing his vows with anyone or registering at Office Depot. And forcing him to tell everyone that they "need to stop calling him and Megan work spouses" is going to make a mountain out of a molehill, and give everyone the impression that you're a difficult person. Just ask him to stop joking about it.

Jessica11k says the woman who wrote the post is the a-hole in the situation, but only because of her demand that her fiancé announce to his colleagues that he and his work wife are no more:

This is weird, overkill, and embarrassing. Also, doing this type of thing at a meeting could get your fiance in trouble with HR or something. Don't make him do this.

Still, they agree that the fiancé is going a little overboard:

I am completely on your side that the "work wife" thing is weird as f***. Common, yes, but also deeply confusing and often damaging/offensive to the ACTUAL wife/relationship.

I think you were totally in-bounds to put an end to this. I simply think you did it wrong...

Thebookthiefstardis also voted "everyone sucks":

He shouldn't have laughed it off as a joke when he saw that your feelings were being hurt. But your insistance that he should clarify at their next meeting is a bit of an overreaction, especially since you know that they basically don't interact out of work. He can deal about this more calmly, and can easily get them to stop without being all in their faces about it.

You both really need to talk to each other once both of you have calmed down.

Leviosa_wingardium says no one involved is an a-hole, and communication is key:

The “work wife” thing makes me gag and I don’t find it cute or amusing particularly between people who are indeed taken. (I would not be cool with this either.) if it offends you he should respect that regardless of whether it’s just a joke to him.

RoanDragonKing also agrees that she overreacted, but the husband should stop the whole "work wife" thing:

you did overreact a bit. But knowing how uncomfortable it makes you, he should be willing to quit playing along with the work wife thing (a dumb concept anyway but i digress)

And mynamesnotmolly points out that maybe the root of the issue is the wedding postponement and the fiancé's lack of interest in planning:

I can see from your post and your comments that having to indefinitely postpone your wedding has really shaken you up. There’s nothing wrong with that; it’s heartbreaking and frustrating.

I don’t think the issue is the joke. I think the joke was a catalyst for the real issues of you feeling hurt and abandoned. That’s what you should be talking to him about.

At least we can all agree that the whole "work wife" thing is cringe-inducing.

On to the next pressing world issue!

For women in the public eye, all it takes is one photo for pregnancy rumors to start. Kourtney Kardashian had to set a fan straight when they decided she was expecting based on just an Instagram post.

In two photos on her Instagram page, Kourtney is wearing an orange bathing suit and posing for the camera. She's standing up in the first:

And laying down in the second:

Instead of letting her read her book and slowly step out of her very artistic-looking white chair in peace, a fan sommented, "SHE'S PREGENANT" with two party emojis.

Kourtney decided to respond, saying:

this is me when I have a few extra pounds on, and I actually love it. I have given birth three amazing times and this is the shape of my body

She added some smiley emojis and called it a day.

Fans quickly jumped to Kourtney's defense. Some said she didn't even look pregnant.

Others pointed out that the most ridiculous part is that Kourtney doesn't look like she's carrying "a few extra pounds" at all.

Even actress Katherine Heigl jumped in, saying she was "disturbed" by the unfair expectations people place on famous women's bodies:

It is pretty insane to think Kourtney actually looks pregnant.

One fan blamed the unrealistic expectations created by photo-editing.

And another took it one step further, saying the Kardashians themselves are the ones who set these impossible physical standards day after day:

Others just lamented the fact that celebrity pregnancy speculation is even a thing.

Well said. Let's all worry about our own uteruses!