All families are different, but there is a distinct trend of dads letting kids get away with minor misbehavior as long as they don't tell their moms.

A recent Reddit thread asked people, in honor of Father's Day, to recall the times their dads let them get away with something and added the dad mantra: "don't tell your mother."

1. What kid wouldn't love a secret midnight video game sesh?

One night when I was about 8, after I had gone to bed, my Dad was playing a Nintendo game, Legend of Zelda I think. We had both been playing it but we were stuck. He finally found a secret passage, paused the game, and came upstairs to wake me up. He told me he figured out where we were stuck, "snuck" me downstairs in a blanket (I'm sure my mom knew), and I got to stay up after midnight on a school night, hiding under a blanket, to see where the hidden passage went. It was a silly little incident, but very memorable. - Strongdar

2. Covering a mess with furniture... classic dad move.

I was with my dad and we thought it was a good idea to start a small fire, on the porch, the wooden porch. It was made of mostly paper and we made sure to scatter the embers and everything but after we went inside and to bed, the wind must’ve kicked up because we came outside the next day and there was a giant hole burned into the porch. My dad just told me,”hey don’t tell your mom, I’ll get it fixed”, he the proceeded to cover it with a small table. She found out anyway and we’re pretty lucky that the house didn’t burn down. - who_is_this

3. Learning to drive can be fun if your dad's cool.

I took both kids out at around 13 to show them how to drive. Just in big empty parking lots or in the neighborhood but they loved it and I enjoyed a little secret with them for a while. - ohiojeepdad

4. You can always count on a dad to let you watch a movie that's a little inappropriate.

Dad and I used to rent a movie each week for when mum had dinner with friends. Usually things like star trek or action films. One day (I was about 11) he came home with Blade. We got about 10 minutes in and he turns to me and said "don't tell your mother about this, let's just say I forgot to get it this week". Of course I agree.

Fast forward 7ish years, dad blithely drops at the dinner table the fact that we watched blade when I was about 11. Silly dad thought there was some kind of statute of limitations on this... - checkoutmyaasb

5. Just some casual kidnapping.

We forgot my passport during vacation and were already at the border station when we noticed. My dad then said that we won't turn back but that he will "figure something out". Turns out he smuggled me successfully across 3 Border crossings without my passport. Before we arrived at home, he told me not to tell my mom about this. - b778av

6. This dad "accidentally" got his teen son hammered.

It was my weekend with my 15yo son, we had divorced when he was 10. We were at a pool party BBQ at my friend's condo complex and I had brought a couple sodas for him. The dude cooking the chicken overcooked it and was dry, and another friend had pilfered one of the Dr. Peppers so my son needed something to drink, I suggested he go back to the condo and find something in the fridge.

Then he pointed at the plastic pitcher with about a glass left of margarita, I said OK but don't tell your mom. I figured he would just take a mouthful to wash down the food but nope, he pounded the whole thing. I was like OK, well there wasn't that much in there so no biggie.

I said "damn dude didn't think you were gonna chug the whole thing!" He was like "what, is there alcohol in it?" I was like "yeah duh it's a margarita". He said "but you guys used to make us kids margaritas when you had people over the house!" I said "yeah, virgin ones with just ice and the mixer in the blender, not the adult version with tequila in it!"

Well next thing you know he's super chatty, actually talking to all my friends like a normal outgoing person instead of his usual teenage introverted small talk.

Problem was it was Sunday and I had to take him back to his mom's that evening. I was planning on getting bitched out about it, or she would find it hilarious, honestly it could have gone either way with her I could never predict how she would take it.

Luckily she was out when we got there and I told him to just go to his room and take a nap, he already fell asleep in the car on the way there. She was none the wiser, I think some time later he eventually told her about it and she did find it funny after all. - timsstuff

7. Yeah, don't tell your mom about anything involving bottle rockets.

My dad, brother, and I went out to these dunes near where I live with bottle rockets. We each had an empty milk jug and each took like 20 bottle rockets for ammo. Then, we ran around launching bottle rockets at each other. I was the youngest, which made me the hardest to hit, so I won the rocket war. But yeah, mom never found out - themonkery

8. Cute.

When my wife's at work, i will take my daughter (4year old) out for breakfast, then we will go on a small adventure around a shop of her choice and pretend whatever she wants, last time we went to a car parts shop and rolled tires around as we were freeing the rollings from monster, so far my wife doesn't believe her when she later on grasses me up. Tbh its the only thing pre-Covid i miss doing - ReaperWright88

9. Letting your kid climb on the roof is quite a choice.

Dad was putting new roof shingles on. I was probably 3 maybe 4. I asked if I could help. He said if I could climb the ladder sure. I was always climbing so that was no issue. Climbed right on up and started handing him shingles. It would have been a "don't tell your mother" moment had she not come home from grocery shopping. After several back and forth of "Where are you" and "Up here mom" she figured it out and flipped out. "WHAT IS HE DOING ON THE ROOF?!" - LordWisePhoenix

10. This dad shared junk food with his kids.

I have always worked in restaurants and get home late nights. On Fridays I treat myself to takeout. Not just any takeout, the bad stuff... Cheese fries topped with Gyro meat, steak nachos with guac. Always a large, always with a big bottle of beer they sell singly. When my girls were little they would sneak down late at night and we would munch bad food and watch really bad funny movies with all the swear words in. - Astrochef12

11. No one loves Jackass like a dad.

My dad used to wake me up at night when I was in middle school to watch Jackass with him. We would be absolutely wheezing with stifled laughter while my mom snored through it all. Thanks for jogging this sweet memory loose in my head, it's been a long time. - lbklmn

12. You can always count on a dad for secret Carl's Jr.

When I was in middle school I was the only one willing to go shopping groceries with my dad, he didn’t want to go alone and my mom was at school studying her master’s. None of my siblings wanted to go with him. We used to go to Carl’s Jr., have a big breakfast, and then we went grocery shopping. Nobody knew, not even my mom, until years later. He would also let me buy any cereal I wanted.

That’s actually how I learned how to buy good fruit and veggies, how to order meat and fish, etc. When my siblings found out they were angry bc “they would’ve gone if a big breakfast was on the menu”. My mom just laughed. Nowadays they sneak to have breakfast together before going grocery shopping since we’re all grown up. - vickyaage

13. Kind of yikes, kind of cute.

In high school, everybody was always busy at work or clubs, so I was the first one in my household to get home nearly every single day. Dad was having money troubles that he didn’t want to disclose to anyone, so he paid me $5 a month to take the bank statement letter from the mailbox and hide it from my stepmom until he got home. It was the closest thing I got to an allowance. - Treeflower77

14. A dad and his kid playing hooky together.

one day I decided to pull a sick day at school and came down stairs and saw that my dad was making a coffee, I asked him what he was doing and why he wasn’t at work and he said I could ask you the same question. We stood in silence for a moment and he said I won’t tell your mum if you won’t. We had a good laugh about it and he let me have the day off - bluej1375

15. Ah, the old "catnip" defense.

My sister was maybe 10 or 11. My dad was very worried and had been waiting all day for us to come home from school. When we got home he pulled her aside saying he needed to have a serious talk with her. He said to her “I was looking for a pencil, and found this in your desk” and pulled out a plastic baggie filled with some dried plant material.

She said, “oh, catnip?” He thought it was pot. We would make little cat toys with catnip and the bag had ripped so she put it in a ziplock bag. He sighed a huge sigh of relief and laughed and told her he thought she was doing drugs and asked her not to tell our mom. He was so embarrassed! - lilarose8

16. This dad got caught in the act.

My parents helped me out with rent during college. They’d send me a check every month for $800 which was honestly really nice of them. My mom usually does it but for whatever reason my dad did it once and spelled my name wrong on the check. Like “Alicia” instead of “Alissa” so it wasn’t just a spelling error but also changed the sound of my name a bit =|

I didn’t notice until I was at the bank in line at the teller already and I called my parents. My dad literally said the words “don’t tell your mother about this” and didn’t realize my mom was on the other line 😂 to this day he says he was just distracted and in a rush...

College was over a decade ago but my mom still plays the “at least I didn’t forget what our daughter’s name was” trump card now and then... - WeddingElly

17. Dads can always be counted on to be more lenient about letting their kids into the "South Park" universe.

When I was younger my dad and I would always go to the movies together, it was our thing. I always looked forward to it. Also, when I was about 11, we would often watch family guy or South Park together; certainly not age appropriate, but nothing to terrible I don’t think.

However one day he took me to see Team America: World Police when it came out (made by the guys who did South Park). I think he realized his mistake during the puppet sex scene, and immediately after said “don’t tell your mom about this”. RIP Dad, love and miss you! - dbuck79

We've all got a few pet peeves: little annoyances that drive us up the wall even though they're technically not harming anyone.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to share the normal, everyday things others do that get under their skin. The results prove that we're all a little neurotic. Here are 19 of the best.

1. Getting cut off in conversation is the worst.

Starting to say something in a conversation just for someone else to cut you off and then you not being able to get in what you wanted to say before the topic changes. - OriontheLionheart

2. At least pick a side!

Walking super slow down the middle of a grocery aisle. Grrrrrr! - Mulatto4Gelato

3. Wine mom culture is weird on so many levels.

Mamabear needs wine, or any variation. Its so tacky - dontniceguyatme

4. When did this become so widespread?

People making excuses for their s***** behavior, and expecting every to just ACCEPT their s***** behavior. “That’s just how I am” and “Hi I’m James and I’m an a**hole, so get used to it” - ffrankiewaterss

5. It's called misophonia and it's a nightmare.

I get bothered by the sound of other people eating. Mostly the chewing part. When it's otherwise silent in the room and that's the only noise, I hate it. - ChicoBroadway

6. People who work in service hear the same jokes all day long.

"Oh that must mean it's free!" Am a cashier :/ - emil199

7. Words have meanings!

“I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less” - lqssynshpritx

8. But how else are you supposed to let the world know you're blessed?

BLESSED. IM BLESSED, WE'RE BLESSED, blessed written in cursive on a piece of wood somewhere, all of it. - idreamofweeniedog

9. If you don't have a filter, maybe it's time to get one.

"Sorry I have no filter" no sweetheart, you just want an excuse to do/say whatever you want.

I'm looking at you, mother. - definitelynotthefbi

10. Yikes.

“Omg I have crackhead energy!”

No you don’t. Your sense of humor is just screaming at random times and thinking it’s funny. - viking162

11. The real pandemic.

People adding apostrophes to words that are plural words, eg. ‘taxi’s’. - awkwardorchid1

12. There's never a reason to slam!

As someone who lives in an apartment complex - people who slam their doors like they're trying to knock them off the hinges. I've been so tempted to knock on their doors and politely explain to them that a door closes just as well if you close it softly. - DeathSpiral321

13. Shots fired.

The terms “girl boss” or “mompreneuer”. No, you’re part of a pyramid scheme...... - typicalsoccermom

14. Crazy that people are STILL doing this.

Not covering their sneeze in public places - RunsWithApes

15. This is literally not how it works.

When you can’t get pregnant and someone says “ well if you quit trying then it will happen” - rachmed78

16. Anxiety central.

"So what do you think you're going to do for work when you're out of school"

...oh my god, I'm struggling with this every day and you're making me freak out and now I have to save face and come up with something cool and probably end up lying to you just to change the subject.

I'm never mad at the person, it's an honest question. Just the sudden spotlight on me I can't handle haha - whiskey_agogo

17. Foot-dragging is the worst.

Dragging. Their. Feet. I cannot f****** stand this s***. My upstairs neighbor isn't just incredibly heavy footed, this bastard drags them. We are ALL aware we live in an old wooden building but he just doesn't give a fuck. Same as those sons of b****** who are out on the sidewalk dragging their feet. Pick em up. Please. - rosycheekedcarcass

18. Can't talk to people who say, "can't adult today."

The phrase "adulting" or "can't adult today" - mojowal

19. Sometimes jokes flop.

“It’s just a joke”

Well if I didn’t laugh it wasn’t funny, so don’t try guilting me to recover from the blow to your ego. - hamburgerinmyss

We're in the middle of a global health crisis, a recession and a revolution to fight police brutality and systemic racism, but cramming a bunch of unmasked, chanting and cheering people into an arena for a Trump rally is a top priority for our president.

On Saturday, Trump held a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma for his particularly enthusiastic supporters. People were preparing all week, some with some especially heavy musical theater energy:

While 6,200 people showed up to hear the president speak, that number is still pretty disappointing for a venue with a 19,000 person capacity, even during a pandemic.

While some blamed protesters for the empty arena, others reported that TikTok teens and K-pop fans were able to troll Trump's attendance numbers by reserving tickets to the rally while having no intention of actually going.

To add some salt to Trump's wound, in 2012, "The Wiggles" were able to sell out the same arena. Granted, there wasn't a pandemic in 2012 but we're talking about "The Wiggles" not Taylor Swift...

So, here are the funniest Tweets we could find about Trump's empty Tulsa rally. Enjoy!

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Everyone has very different relationship with nudity, with some embracing and considering the beauty of nudity, and others considering it crass and inappropriate.

Of course, context is crucial when it comes to discussions of nudity. Most people would agree that a public train ride isn't the right place for someone to bare it all, and yet many appreciate and recognize the role of nudity in art.

While putting on pants before a guest comes over is a given, covering up a painting featuring nudity is a completely different judgement call.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a woman asked if she was wrong for letting her parents see a nude painting that her boyfriend is working on.

AITA for leaving a nude painting out when my parents came over?

So this sh*t was honestly so crazy to me. Also this is a new account cuz my brother knows my main reddit and would show this to my parents!

OP shared that she moved in with her boyfriend a few weeks ago, and the family came over on Father's Day to see the apartment.

So my boyfriend and I moved in together a few weeks ago. And today my parents and brother came over for Father’s Day to see me and my boyfriends new place.

I cleaned and made a really nice lunch and was super excited for them to come and check out the new place!

OP's boyfriend is an artist, so they turned one of the bedrooms into his studio, and his most recent painting featured a naked OP.

We ended up getting a two bedroom apartment because my boyfriend is an artist and needed a room to turn into an art studio. And recently he had decided to paint a nude photo of me. Something I was ok with and it was honestly really pretty and a great painting. The painting was also not fully complete and was just out in the open in his closed art studio!

When the family came over, OP gave them the full tour - including the studio where her nude painting sat.

So my family comes over and I’m giving them the tour and when it’s over they asked to see the art studio. They honestly love my boyfriend's usual art and wanted to see how we set up the room. With my boyfriend's permission I let them in.

Both OP and her boyfriend had forgotten that specific painting was there, so when OP's mom saw it and freaked out, it was a complete surprise.

We had both honestly forgot that painting was even there but that’s not even the point. They walked in and my mom immediately gets pissed and points at the painting. She said “what the hell is that?” I said that’s a painting my boyfriend is working on and moved to turn it around. I wasn’t embarrassed or anything but I was annoyed she was freaking out.

OP, not seeing the big deal, ended up arguing with her mom about how it's their house, and they can keep that painting up if they so choose.

We ended up getting into an argument and she accused me of having no couth or respect for them. I reminded her that she wanted to see the room and that it was my house and even if I wanted to hang it up it’s not her business. To be honest I didn’t even understand what we were actually arguing about! It was idiotic.

Eventually, OP's dad got involved and claimed she was disrespecting her mom.

My dad accused me of disrespecting my mother by disagreeing with her and my mom only got more angry and called me a whore. They left in a rage and it was honestly so disorienting!

The visit ended poorly, and now OP's parents are complaining to the rest of the family about the argument.

They are now ranting to the rest of my family that I’m lose and disrespected myself by even letting him paint me or them by having it in the open for them to see. I still do not even understand what the hell is going! Am I the as*hole!?

KangarooCrackers thinks OP's parents are being uncultured.

Have your parents ever been to a museum?? It’s like they’ve never seen artworks of naked bodies before. NTA. It’s a painting, AND it’s your home.

SnooRadishes8650 thinks the painting must be well done, if OP's parents could immediately recognize her.

NTA your parents are over reacting, it must be a really great painting if they could immediately tell it was you!

Chrrodon would understand OP's parent's perspective if the painting was sexually overt, but since it's just a nude, they think OP is in the right.

NTA If the painting was otherwise decent in manner, just a nude then there's nothing bad, it may be bit different if you'd be in the painting with a rubber duck in your a*s or something like that.

Throughout centuries artists have painted their wives, girlfriends, mistresses etc. There's nothing wrong with that.

procedureszone102 completely understands why OP's parents wouldn't want to see a naked painting of her, but thinks they grossly overreacted.

ESH (But mostly them) It's perfectly understandable that your parents would feel uncomfortable seeing a naked picture of their daughter and you caused that discomfort. However, they WAY overreacted. It should have been a "Whoa, wish I had seen that. Ha ha." But they exploded like maniacs.

APTRGAGNR thinks OP's parents need to grow up.

NTA For several reasons:

1. It's a private art studio. It shouldn't have to subject itself to their 'standards'. It's not like you hung it up and pointed it out to them.

2. It's your house, you can do whatever you want. If they don't like it, then they should leave.

3. It's ART, not porn. He's painting you because you're beautiful, not because you're a whore. The nudity is artistic in nature.

4. They're your parents, they've seen you naked before, it shouldn't phase them by now.

If they can't handle seeing their daughter portrayed as a model, then they should expunge themselves from the art world all together.

Advanced_Lobster thinks the way OP's parents talk to her as an adult is a massive red flag.

My dad accused me of disrespecting my mother by disagreeing with her and my mom only got more angry and called me a whore [...]They are now ranting to the rest of my family that I’m lose.

Red flag alert! An adult daughter disagreeing with her parent is NOT disrespectful. A parent calling their daughter a whore is 100% unacceptable. Parents telling the rest of the family that their daughter is loose is 100% unacceptable. NTA.

While the internet varies with their assessment of the situation, the general consensus lies in favor with OP and her boyfriend. Hopefully, her parents will get out of their own way and realize a painting making them uncomfortable is no reason to poison a relationship with family.

The only thing more embarrassing than being in high school and gossiped about by fellow students is being in high school and gossiped about by teachers.

It turns out that the people in the teachers' lounge have ~the tea~, and chat amongst themselves over coffee just like their students.

Teachers dished on the rumors they heard about students that turned out to be true, and they vary from the criminal to the just plain weird.

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Girl was supposedly hooking up with the band teacher. Never heard any proof, band director left. I moved away and years later met a friend in a pub on a holiday visit. The two of them walked into the place together and I looked him dead in the eyes as he was coming in...he kinda froze and then awkwardly came over to say hello. They had one drink and then left. -carnegiehall

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When I was teaching middle school (8th grade mathematics) a young lady transferred mid-year, very quiet and very low-achieving, probably at a 3rd or 4th grade level in all subjects. Rumors quickly started to spread that she had a baby and had to leave her last school, which is how she wound up at ours. Turned out, she had TWO babies by two different young men, one of whom was 20 years old (she hadn't yet turned 14 when I found out).

Her aunt just openly told me all of this at conferences... said her niece was a really good mom though. My Lord, that poor child. -delta-vs-epsilon

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I teach High School English.

One morning I was walking down the hall and I overheard some random student tell her friend "OMG Jake and Sarah were having sex in the stairwell yesterday and got caught by a teacher!" then they both broke down in giggles.

I know this was true, because I was the teacher who caught them. -Possibility-Born

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There was a girl in 9th grade who was supposedly paying boys 20 bucks to blow them in the bathroom.

This turned out to be absolutely true.

She was busted with three guys doing this.

She later solicited me and I immediately got admin involved. -Mordanzibel

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There was a party another teacher's son was at. Their son had sex with a classmates mom which lead to that classmate's parents getting a divorce. -​​​​​​hzhuikov

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The rumor was that prior to Christmas break, he brought a gun to school and had a hit list with students and teachers on it.

Not only did it turn out to be true, but the school decided not to tell the teachers. We found out about a major security breach and a potential school shooter from our kids. -SalemScout

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I became friendly with one of my students in study hall a few years ago. We would chat about mythology, video games, literature, and other “dorky” topics most other students didn’t have too much interest in. One day he wasn’t in class, and he came up in conversation. One of the students asked me if I knew about his past, and I’m like, “ Not really, I figure he is just a quiet guy who likes to read.” So it turns out he was bullied in middle school and one day had a nerdrage on his tormentor and attacked him with scissors shouting about how he was going to take his eyes. From what I understand it was pretty brutal. The bully transferred schools and most of the other kids left my student alone. It didn’t change how I viewed him, but I did notice after that how the other kids treated him. I’m not saying that we’re afraid of him but not many people, even other gamers and geeks associated with him. I always thought he was very friendly. -dream_monkey

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It was true, the kid's dad DID get caught going into funeral homes and cutting out body parts to sell on the black market. -Dtr4goat

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During my first year of teaching I had a 10th grade student who suddenly in the spring was put on emergency expulsion for 10 days. I was really shocked because this student was great! She was chill, very involved in the school community, a cheerleader. I had even written her the recommendation to be eligible for the cheerleading team. Admin gave zero explanation for her sudden removal. I knew nothing until I had overheard little bits and pieces. Apparently, she had gotten caught having sex with her boyfriend in one of the locker rooms at school. Out of the blue during her expulsion she emailed me and asked me to shut down any rumors or sh*t talking about her. Of course I had already been shutting those conversations down and continually told my kids to mind their own business and focus on themselves, so I assured her I was handling it. I think this situation really f*cked her up and she wasn’t really the same afterwards.

The next year she ended up running away from home with another boy and she was a missing person for quite some time. Out of nowhere earlier this year (her senior year) she pop’s up in my classroom, she’s heavily pregnant, and starts talking to me and ultimately asks if she can wait in my room until her mom comes to pick her up. Completely baffled, I let her sit at my desk and notify admin, asking if she still goes to the school and if she was still on the missing person’s list. Thankfully she was no longer on the missing person’s list and she did go to the school, but through online classes. It was wiiiiiiiild. Definitely one of the more bizarre things that have happened as a teacher. -birdy_22

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Obligatory "not a teacher," but my junior and senior years were wild.

One started junior year. Girl was really into our one teacher. Like love letters, making eyes at him, staring after class, the works. The rumor was that she was sleeping with him, and everyone thought she was just really stalkery and that he'd be too smart to bang a student. Nope. As soon as we graduated they moved in together and he left his wife and kids (his wife was pregnant when the affair started). He went back to his wife for a year, but she found out he was still screwing the student and paying for her apartment, so she kicked him out.

The other was that my "best friend" was pregnant. She hid it until the last month and tried to say that I was actually the one pregnant. I was a virgin and as it turns out the guy that knocked her up was a guy I was dating at the time. He had kept pressuring me for sex and I turned him down because I was "saving myself", so he went to her. Lost a best friend and a boyfriend at the same time. -Theopenope

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"Yeah the police is going to scout our school for a few weeks because one of our Russian-speaking kids is working as a lookout&courier for the bratva to scare them off doing even more insane shit"

We all debated whom of our dozen russian-speaking kids it could be and we were pretty sure which one...

Turned out it was true... this 12 year old little girl was a drug courier for the local bratva... -RandomVideoMachine

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Not a teacher, but there was a rumour at our school that a guy got paid £1 to eat his his own sh*t. No-one believed it, until the video circulated, and the video ended with the guy asking for his £1, and the guy recording just going 'Nope'. The kid was nicknamed 'Sh*t' for the next 4 years of school. Beyond brutal. -​​​​​​haywhat

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Apparently this dude was f*cking animals, but it was just a rumor, until I was told by my mentor that he wouldn't be in class anymore because apparently he was "going away for perverted acts with animals." My teacher's words, not mine. -The_Local_Boy

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You keep hearing about students touching themselves under the desks. You tell yourself it can't be, you pretend it's not true. And every year you find out that it is. -AlHorwitz

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I knew a girl, a junior, who was in love with a janitor.

Apparently she had a breakdown during a lunch period about how she couldn't be with him or something. He must have had a crisis of consciousness or something. Apparently nothing ever came up of it, but they were supposedly close. She ended up moving to do homeschooling and the guy never returned the next year. -Rimefang

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Girl was selling nudes via Snapchat, if a guy screen shot it and sent it out she had enforcers who would hustle them for more. I found out because two of my students were involved, one enforcer, one unlucky kid who had been sent a screenshot.

The enforcer was brilliant actually, he played it to me as though it was his friend who had been pressured into sending a nude and then an ex shared it to everyone. I was totally on his side and reported it, it wasn’t until the other kid confided in me panicked cause his dad would kill him about this that I realized what was up. There was so many awkward conversations with parents. It was awful.

Told my non teacher friend the story, and he was like damn, gotta appreciate that entrepreneurial spirit. -cutestuff4gf

Most of us are well aware that reality television isn't exactly "reality," but how much of it is actually completely fake?

Especially with family shows that focus on the dynamic between parents and children, or teenagers and strict parenting habits, it's hard not to watch reality TV and wonder how much of the drama the producers were orchestrating. Most of the time people who participate in a reality show either volunteer themselves or are "discovered" and offered a significant amount of money to essentially humiliate themselves on TV. While reality shows can definitely be entertaining, you don't often hear about what goes on behind the scenes and what happens when the camera crew leaves. Other than the stars of "The Bachelor" who are now all selling Instagram sponsored content, are reality television cast members ok? We need more memoirs!

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "People who were on show like Supernanny, World's Strictest Parents, or Scared Straight, what was the experience like? And what was the aftermath?" people experienced in the world of reality television were ready to share...

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my friends family was on nanny 911 they said most of it was staged and the nanny didn’t actually have any affect on the family - catslovepot

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I don't know if this counts but I was on an episode of MADE on MTV (if anyone remembers that show)... It was my senior year of high school, so about 7 years ago. People gave me crap about it forever and still do. I was made into a "screamo" singer, the experience is interesting to say the least. The money and flight/trip to NYC though at 17 years old made the whole embarrassment worth it. Plus I work in the broadcast business now so it really opened up a lot of doors and showed me a career I LOVE. Seeing kids now that were in my shoes, so fascinated by entertainment media makes me so genuinely happy. - BLONDEBITCHH

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A coworker was featured on SuperNanny. They had a pretty good experience filming and were so excited for their show to air that they hosted a watch party. I’m sure you can imagine what’s next-the way the show was edited made the parents look SO bad—like, neglectful bad—and made the kids (who were pretty wild) look even worse. It ended up being a pretty awkward watch party. - shan_diego

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My brother was on a show called Violent Children: Desperate Parents and honestly they were brilliant. I wasn't part of this whole experience because I was in University at the time, but my father and my brother both were in this show and the show staff were honestly brilliant. Here in the UK, especially Wales where my family lives, mental health is not really a thing the poor have access to and my family are definitely working class. This show gave my brother and my father access to mental healthcare they would have never have been able to access themselves and made quite a large difference in both their lives. They continued to support my family for almost a year after filming with offers of more mental health help, and both my father and my brother are happier people today because of this.

One thing I will say is the only reason we were featured on this show was out of pure desperation. There was basically no other way that my father could imagine getting help, given he'd spent almost 8 years fighting with the NHS to get my brother psychological help, all to basically no avail. My family were made into entertainment for the masses so that we could access something fairly basic. Something about the whole experience doesn't sit right with me at all. - kn100

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My younger siblings, mother, and then step-father were on a program in the UK called Mum's On Strike in the mid 2000s.

The premise was that the mother would be sick of doing everything around the house, and would be whisked away to a luxury spa for a weekend, leaving the clueless father in charge of trying to take care of the household duties.

A lot of the conversations and scenarios were faked. I supposedly visited them for the weekend, but I did multiple different shoots across a few hours on the last day of filming, then went back home.

They'd cause fights between the siblings by purposely creating situations where one was favored over the other, so the others would throw a tantrum.

There was a shoot on location in our local town center, and they encouraged my little brother to run off into all sorts of different shops, causing hilarity as my step-father tried chasing after him with two other children in tow.

Mealtimes were a bit of a farce as well - as it was a weekend, my step-father had to cook a traditional roast dinner. The production company intentionally supplied incorrect ingredients to make sure my step-father looked like an idiot. They filmed my reaction to him trying to add beans to the roast a few different times, so they could pick the best one. In the end, after they'd got all the footage they wanted, they sent one of the production team out to the chippy to get us some actual edible food. - Henry1691

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Like 3 years ago, I lived in a big 5 bedroom house with 4 other friends in college. The house was in an episode of Supernanny. We found out because our nice neighbor literally gave us a signed headshot from Jo Frost as a gift out of the blue. He literally told us “ I think y’all would like this more to than me and get a kick out of it.” It made our week and we found the episode online and watched it. I asked about the family to the neighbor as our house was rented out and owned by a property company. He told me after the show the parents fought all the time, lost all of their money due to 2008 crisis, and lost the house to foreclosure. The picture stayed on our mantle for three years and I thought about that family everytime. - ColinMustSmash

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Friend of mine worked on Nanny 911 in nyc. Nothing on that show happened unless the producers ok'd it. They would come up with scenarios and plot points to film. You don't just shoot TV shows like that and hope that something magical happens. They created every "issue." - Jonlife

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My friend was on Supernanny, they don't actually do anything, it's just acting, he and his brother are still exactly the same as they were before. - screaminXeagle

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One of my friends in grade school was on nanny 911 as a kid (maybe around 5 years old). There were a lot of kids in her family and one of the biggest problems the nanny had with their household was safety. She baby-proofed the entire house and lectured them on safety precautions they have to take in their lives to ensure that the children wouldn't get hurt. She even gave them all helmets to wear whenever they rode bikes or 4 wheelers. After she left, a lot of the safety precautions went out of the window and later my friend told me that they still had the helmets but they were all sitting in a dusty corner. -k_d_t-

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I had a friend on worlds strictest parents. She was approached by a producer late one night at a McDonald's, because she was 15, drunk, and wearing a stolen police hat. Apparently the producers hang around looking for kids there a lot. Anyway she did her parent swap, was moderately wild, came back and decided she wanted to be a chef. I don't think she finished at culinary school, she had a baby at 19 and is a great mom to two kids now. - Philieselphy

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I was on supernanny, my siblings and I were out of control kids and my parents frankly didn't know what to do. I liked being in front of the camera for the most parts. Its like a mini time capsule I sometimes watch every once in a while and witness how cringe I was. Nanny Jo Jo set up this reward chart for when we were good. Heck, once they even filmed me in time out ha ha. - Samlikeawesome2

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I know the super healthy family that was on the episode of wife swap with the chicken nugget kid. His dad ran a fitness gym and did boot camp with my parents. After that wife swap episode, their family did not change at all. My mom said that we had them at our house for dinner one time and the son ate all of the food he could get because his parents never let him have the kind of food we served at their house. They’re doing really well now, the son is going to a really good college and the daughter is a star track athlete. - amspams

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My cousin was recruited for the Jerry Springer show Halloween Edition a few years ago when she was 18. They found her on facebook! Flew her and her two friends to New York, gave them shopping money, put them up in a swanky hotel and drove them around in a limo. In exchange, she had to pretend to be the mistress of her guy friend, who was “dating” the other friend. They had them cat fight on stage and everything. I was a bartender at the time, and I literally watched my cousin on the Jerry Springer show on the big TV at my bar with all of my co-workers. - plasticbagsinthewind

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I went to college with someone who’s family was on extreme makeover. It financially ruined them and I think they ended up homeless for a short while because of it. He told me his parents say how much they regret being on the show every day. I didn’t press for more info than that. That show was entirely trauma porn and sounds like it did more damage than not - sweaterhorizon

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I had an employee who worked for me that was on the Strictest Parents show. They’re from a small town and his parents had I believe 5 kids. He’s a cool kid hard worker and total party animal now. I’ve seen a lot of kids who’ve grown up with strict parents become absolute party animals once out the house. - Cavin0433

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Family in my neighborhood was on, I believe, Nanny 911. We lived in a gated community, which I think often fosters a grossly entitled and cliqueish community. The family basically became the hot gossip and they were openly shamed and ridiculed. Within a year they had sold their house for significantly less than they paid and moved a town over to escape the communal ostracism. - CSandiego

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my Grandma was on hoarders. Me and my cousin were around 6 at the time and we had been driven over to see her. The whole camera crew and stuff was there. They had just finished up, and we were amazed by how clean the house looked. We didn't get taken there often because of it, but we knew how messy the house was. A couple of the guys told us to just play and run around the house, even jump on the bed. It was likely for some post-cleaning "omg it's so much better everyone is happy look even the kids are scene", but it was just fun for us to run around. - TheAdvertisement

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When I was 7 I was on Supernanny. My mom told me the day before and I was annoyed but was so set on not letting Jo change my behavior. Also, there was a scene where my 11 year old sister "was talking to older boys sending her death threats". They staged it and paid her something like $25 to act it.

Also they made my older sisters seem like ungrateful bitches when it was all played up. Quite obviously as well. - SlendermanTruck

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I haven't seen anyone talk about World's Strictest Parents, which I was on in 2011. My family was selected to be the "strict parents" part of the show. They basically showed up at the church my dad preaches at and asked people who they would recommend to be on the show and they recommended our family. We did NOT want to be on the show lol. But you get paid a little bit so we went with it. We went through psychiatric evaluations to make sure we weren't psycho, then got okay'd to be on the show.

For me, it was a great experience. I was a senior in high school who wanted to go into broadcast production, so I hung around with the producers and watched the process. They sent the two "bad kids" to us, and they stayed with us for 4 days. During the 4 days, the producers had events planned that would annoy any lazy teenager really like "make them do yard work at 2pm on a hot day" or "make them build a shed with basic tools". My parents were really not strict ESPECIALLY compared to other parents on that show, so the producers had to cause a ruckus most of the time to get some conflict going. This included them planting a porno DVD in the boy's suitcase then making my dad go through his stuff the find it.

In the end, we became really close with the two kids and had a good time with them. I still talk to the boy today and he's doing well. The show didn't change them really, but they definitely appreciated the experience and advice my parents gave them. - Socialeprechaun

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We had MTV come to my old town to film an episode of ‘Made’. It was a girl who aspired to be a punk rocker. All the kids who were already deep into that genre didn’t like her much and thought of her as a “poser” as they said. Even though in the episode they made it seem like everyone was accepting of her new style.

In the finale scene where they had their made up talent show, one band member was shown as being super late to the show and everyone thought he wasn’t coming. It was staged. He was there on time. The producers just told him to wait in the back till the last minute. I guess for a cliffhanger before a commercial break or something. It’s all fake. - Prudent_Resolve

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I went to elementary school with a kid that was on super nanny. They found him jumping in those big red balls at target and was like "yo, you wanna be on our show?"

Basically they had him act out on purpose for a nice 10k (or somewhere around there) check. - AbuBee

Most of us have at least one story that was utterly humiliating and devastating at the time, but we can now look back on and laugh. In many cases the funniest and most absurd anecdotes are too real to laugh about in the moment, but live on as hilarious tales.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared experiences that weren't funny to them at the time, but they now look back on in laughter.

1. From lurkinredditter:

One time I was hooking up with this girl for the first time in the back seat of her car. I was going down on her, and I noticed that she was REALLY wet. Almost too wet.

I didn't think much of it and kept going. At this point, I noticed the taste of blood.

"F*CK."

I tried to keep my cool and evaluate the situation by kissing slowly up her belly so I could take a look. That's when I noticed a trail of blood that I had just made all the way up to her belly button.

I shot up and gave her the most concerned look of my life, but here's the twist:

I saw blood dripping down from my face. It was mine. I got a nosebleed.

Her cloth seats were stained.

2. From mmolla:

Me and my friends got robbed once and my friend handed over his wallet then remembered that his ID was in there and what a b*tch it is to get a new one so he started arguing with the robber to let him take the ID out and they get into a full back and forth argument over it robber eventually opens his wallet and is trying to slide the ID out of the plastic sleeve thing and is having trouble.

My friend snatched the wallet from him slides his ID out and hands back the wallet. We were all terrified at the time but looking back we laugh about how stupid that was. The whole scene could have come straight out of a sitcom.

3. From SWSU:

Parents just got their divorce finalized. Dad ended up leaving and it was just me and my mom at home. I tried to think of something to lighten the mood and give a silver lining, but since I was like...8 or so the only thing I came up with was “At least we aren’t moving...”

Needless to say that’s when I learned for the first time that we were moving.

4. From VictorBlimpmuscle:

One time when I was in 7th grade math class, the teacher asked a question that I actually knew the answer to, so when he asked the class which of us knew the answer, I enthusiastically shot my hand up, but he didn’t call on me.

However, the girl he did call on got it wrong, so when he asked the rest of the class who could give the correct answer, I not only threw my hand up this time with even more fervor than the first attempt, but I accompanied it with a deal-sealing “I know!” as well. This time he did call on me, and just as I went to triumphantly announce the proof of my mathematical prowess...I sneezed, the force of which caused me to blast the loudest fart I had ever produced in my theretofore young life.

As I turned 12 shades of crimson in the mortified embarrassment that only a 13 year-old kid who just farted in front of roomful of other merciless 13 year-old kids could feel, and said roomful of vengeful little bastards already roaring in laughter at me, my shame was only further deepened when the teacher, stifling himself from bursting out fits of laughter as well, confirmed to me and the rest of the class, “That’s not the right answer either!”

5. From mbell49:

I had an unbelievably busy couple of weeks with work. Thinking of so many things I ended up accidentally closing my car keys in my trunk. Called and waited for CAA (roadside assistance). They got there, I realized my car wasn't even locked.

6. From shallowblue:

Broke up with my girlfriend of the time and after a long and tearful goodbye I turned from her room and fell down a flight of stairs, actually hurting myself quite badly. Insisted I was okay and hobbled out the door and her life forever.

7. From CaliAv8rix:

I very briefly worked as a princess at childrens' birthday parties. Snow White, Cinderella, standard stuff. One day dispatch called me and told me I'd be playing Hello Kitty at a party. I didn't even know that was an option! But okay, fine. I go to pick up the costume and it's this giant fuzzy suit with a steel hula-hoop in the middle keeping it round and a giant head with some mesh in the mouth that I can barely see out of. This was going to be a long hour.

So I get to the party and it's outside in this family's backyard. I do all my schtick - face painting, balloon animals, magic tricks, but there's still about 15 minutes left to kill so I ask the kids if they want to play a game. The kids have some random made-up game where you throw a ball and tag the tree and run back to a certain point or whatever, so I say fine, let's play. Now what I couldn't tell from the poor vision out of the mesh costume head was that the yard we were in was situated at the top of a very steep hill. I went to catch a ball and suddenly everything was spinning. I was rolling (the hula hoop kept it's shape, so my feet never touched the ground, I rolled like a giant fuzzy ball) down the hill. The giant head flew off and I landed at the bottom in a giant bush. I could see tiny heads peering over the side of the hill. Finally I heard a mom yell "Are you okay?" "Yeah..." "Do you need some help?" "...Yeah."

It took three dads to roll me back up the hill because my center of gravity in this giant ball wouldn't allow me to climb back up this massive vertical hill. The head was dented, there were twigs sticking out of it. Half the kids were laughing, the other half were sobbing. I walked straight through the kitchen and out the front door without bothering to say I was leaving and see if I'd get a tip. I wanted to leave so badly I attempted to get into my Saturn with the suit still on, but that wasn't going to happen. I had to change awkwardly behind my car and left as quickly as possible. Horrifying at the time. Thankfully this was pre-smart phones so it wasn't all over YouTube the next day. Although now I think I'd like to see it, it's pretty hilarious in retrospect.

8. From lizaverta:

Fifth grade graduation, I was selected to present some award to one of my teachers. No one told me anything about it, so day of I get called first out of the five or so that were being given, and I really confusedly stood up. They had said something about how these potted little trees at the front of the room were part of the award in the preface, so in the absolute silence of that room I meekly walked to one of the trees, picked it up pot and all, and carried it onstage to the teacher at the podium.

The stage was set up so that I had to go all the way to one side, up a short set of stairs, and back to the center. When I finally arrived at the podium, I put the tree down and a little dirt spilled out. The teacher standing at the podium finally mercifully broke the silence after another few seconds, hugged me and said something about her award being hand delivered, and I went back and sat down. Assumedly beet red.

9. From Psycho_Potato:

I was walking down the hallway talking to my crush when suddenly I had to fart.

For some stupid reason, my 10 year old self thought it would be a good idea to interrupt her, stand in front of her, say "Shhhh, watch this" and fart.

Except it wasn't a fart. That's right. I interrupted my crush, got her attention, and then pooped my pants right in front of her, and then ran off in embarrassment and shame.

10. From HomeDepotRun:

I bought a vacant house that was filled with junk. I was cleaning out the basement and found a poor dead cat the previous owners must have left to die there alone. I didn't want to touch it so I called animal control. They came out right away. I showed the guy the cat under some debris. The guy picks it up with tongs and we all find out it is a stuffed animal!! He started dying laughing.

But at least my shame was only with one guy I would never see again. Right? To my complete disbelief, one of my best friend's Dad was literally outside the front of the home checking water meters since he also worked for the city and the animal control guy told him all about it. Now both of them dying laughing and now all my friends would definitely find out. We still have the stuffed cat years later and laugh.

11. From sfgayarea:

I had an ex girlfriend call to tell me she had chlamydia. I was totally shocked. Called every single one of my ex partners because it seemed like the responsible thing to do. It was super embarrassing.

I went to the doctor and took the pee test but, because I was the only person who could have given my ex chlamydia, the doctor gave me the antibiotics on the spot so I could start taking them. They made me totally nauseous, one of the worst experiences of my life.

A week later, a friend tells me that my ex girlfriend read her test wrong. Her chlamydia test said “pending” and somehow she assumed that meant positive.

So, long story short, I never had chlamydia. Not funny at the time but now I laugh when I think about how ridiculous the whole situation was.

12. From SuzQP:

I stopped by the Dick's Sporting Goods shop where my son worked during his college years. Waiting around for him got boring, so I decided to try out one of the the treadmills on display. I had never been on a treadmill in my life, but really, how hard could it be? I hopped up on the one with the key in the...ignition?Whatever and turned it on. WHOOSH! I flew off the end of that thing like I was traveling backwards to Hell and knocked over a poor woman browsing the sweatpants. We disentangled ourselves and decided we were both unhurt while my son, who witnessed the whole stunt, watched, shaking his head, from the back of the store.

You know what made it somehow even more embarrassing? That I had my big handbag over my shoulder the entire time. Just...who treadmills with a purse?

13. From Paulius2444:

My and a co-worker were on a conference call. Basically the entire multinational IT team discussing some project coming up with some corporate bigwigs.

So we're told what we need to do, and one of the guys from Holland (I'll call him Bjorn) goes off on one complaining about the workload. He goes on for a solid 20 minutes complaining and just talking in circles...but the thing was, this project wasn't optional, we had to do it no matter what, everyone was in the same boat and he actually had one of the lightest workloads having the fewest users to support.

After his tirade is over, the focus switches to the UK team and we're told what we need to do. We basically just say "Okay, understood."

I mute the phone, turn to my co-worker and say:

"You see how much f*cking easier it is to just agree to something instead of wasting everyone's time b*tching? It's not like we've got a f*cking choice. Just get the f*ck on with it. Is it just me or is every conference call like 10 minutes of useful info, followed by 45 minutes of Bjorn bitching."

Then my co-worker chimes in "Yeah, all he does is f*cking whine...'I'm Bjorn, I've got to do some f*cking work for once. It's less than everyone else, but I'm going to whine about it for f*cking hours'. Every time. "

"Guy's a twat. I've seen how many tickets he does a week. What he calls a busy week, I call an average Monday morning...but it's the way he'll keep whining about something that we can't change. Doesn't matter that it affects everyone, doesn't matter that we've no choice but to suck it up and get on with it, he just talks in circles."

"Yeah, and why moan about it? It's not like the company's going to say 'Okay, we'll cancel a multi-million pound project because fucking Bjorn wants to spin in his chair all day."

Then...we notice the call has gone completely silent. I look at the phone and see the mute button isn't lit up. I shit my pants and, for some reason, mute the phone like it will erase the last minute of conversation. There's dead air for what felt like an eternity, then we hear:

"Ummm...UK, did you say something?"

Me and my co-worker just stare at each other in horror. The company CEO is on the call, so it the main head of IT.

At that moment, the UK IT Head, whose office is just down the hall, boots the door open, barges into the room making cut throat motions and mouthing "YOU'RE NOT ON MUTE! YOU'RE NOT ON MUTE"

We just stare back in horror and say "We know!"

Then the call goes "Errr....okay, let's carry on."

At that point we see that the UK IT Head is actually trying not to laugh and we figure we can't be in that deep shit... then the call goes on like nothing happened. Bjorn, uncharacteristically, stayed silent.

We didn't get in the sh*t for it. No-one complained and our Boss wasn't pissed at us because we were basically saying "This is our job, we have to do it so there's no point bitching" and Bjorn never complained (probably because he knew we were right).

Now, we laugh about it...but when we realized the phone wasn't muted and the call went silent, we nearly soiled ourselves.

14. From PunkRockMakesMeSmile:

When i was in 6th grade, I won the class spelling bee. I knew it wasn't a big deal because I knew no one cares how good of a speller anyone is, but though I was an eager reader, I was a poor student and I had a subdued pride that I had won, and that I would go onto the school-wide spelling bee with an opportunity to showcase before the whole school that I was good at something.

My second word was 'plaid'. When it was given to me, it just sounded like a nonsense syllable. I just shrugged and figured it was probably the past-tense of 'plod' and rattled off my assumed spelling without thinking.

It took a split-second. I was standing there before a catholic school assembly, half of whose students were wearing plaid jumpers. The meaning of the word clicked the very moment I had repeated the word, and the scope and ridiculousness of my error crashed into me instantaneously. My eyes went wide as dinner-plates, and I positively screamed in incredulous, self-loathing outrage. It was like this:

"Your word is 'plaid"

"Plad, P-L-A-D, pladNOOOOOO" Then I kind of half-crumbled, writhing around while still standing, kind of a knees-bent, hunched-over posture, and tearing at my hair with both fists. I slunk off to the sides, the first person eliminated, and struggled to hold back tears, still showcased before the entire school as I was.

My sister still gives me sh*t about it when we're having a jokey disagreement about anything as a go-to argument-finisher, "F*ck you, spell 'plaid' whydon'tcha"

15. From Freakingdangoldarn:

When I was in 8th grade cooking class I ate too much cookie dough and had to sh*t really bad. With only 15 minutes of school left the teacher made me argue with her for 5 minutes to be able to go. After realizing all the bathrooms were locked during class time I tried to leave since I lived right down the street and the principal stopped me. While trying to explain that i really had to sh*t I ended up shitting and completely ruining my khakis. Also funny thing is that runny sh*t really shows up in khakis so while waddling home just as school got out everybody could see I sh*t myself.

16. From brandnamenerd:

The timing of my mother's death.

She was notorious for wiggling out of conversations when she was younger. She'd slip some no-meaning answer in to placate you but you'd never get to talk about whatever it was bothering you.

We hadn't spoken or seen one another in years and I knew she was ill, my brother confirmed and I decided on being the bigger person to bury the hatchet, and got a ticket for a hurrah and hangout. Some jokes about a lot of missed conversation.

We were due to fly out on Monday, she died the Saturday before we were to fly out. She was always good at getting out of conversations.

17. From Eternity_Incarnate:

I tried to dance with a girl at my senior prom, and accidently launched her into the floor.

18. From naai:

Went on an overnight camping trip in Yellowstone. Found some bear tracks (grizzly) and fresh scat on the trail to the campsite. Once we got to the campsite, we found it had been trashed with both leftover food and garbage by the previous visitors and that bear(s) had been digging through it. We turned back towards the trail to exit the area and go sleep in our car instead, but we ended up running into the bears.

Decided not to get too close and head down the other trail instead (it ran into a main road in the park due to the map). Ended up having to climb over three mountains to get to the road. It was well past midnight, and some nice park employee picked us up, drove us back to our car and gave us tips how not to get caught sleeping in it. It was really unfunny at the time considering the weight of the gear and the howling of the wolves after dark, but a year and a half later it's a great story.

19. From heirloomlooms:

My mom once slapped me and my two sisters all in one motion.

20. From Reddit_Bork:

I was at a family farm working one day as a young teen. I had a friend with me, and we had just finished up what we were doing. Right at that time, the tractor was pulling a loaded wagon past. We had two options. Either catch the wagon for a lift or walk back most of a kilometer. We went for the wagon.

We ran down a small hill, then jumped a rail fence. Or should I say, he jumped the fence. I almost cleared it. My pants caught on an extended knot and did not let go. My momentum upended me. My pants were still stuck on the fence. I continue to fall until my pants and underwear catch around my knees, with me hanging upside down about 18 inches off of the ground, completely unable to do anything to free myself. My friend laughed so long at my little "Free Willy" routine that by the time I and my now ripped pants got free and dumped my bare ass on the ground we got to walk all of the way back.

Here comes the pun.

You don't have to be a dad to love Dad Jokes. Stupid, so-simple-it's-brilliant wordplay is an art form that was developed by dads in cargo shorts and perfected by millennials on the internet. Here are 28 of the most puntastic and punderous pearls that will make you say, "I see what they did there."

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Megan Fox has been trending on Twitter after many people think she deserves an apology for the way Hollywood and fans treated her after she was fired from "Transformers."

Fox's audition for Michael Bay's "Transformers" involved her washing a car at his house while he filmed it. That doesn't sound like a very professional audition even for Hollywood's standards, but things got even more strange after she was fired, claiming that Bay,"wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for."

Bay later said Spielberg is the real reason Fox was fired, although Spielberg later denied that theory. In response to Fox's insults of Bay's work environment, crew members published an open letter that described Fox, "When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option."

In 2011, her co-star Shia LaBeouf said that Fox's feminism clashed with Bay, “Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael, who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women" and, “Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it.”

Now, a clip from 2009 where Fox describes how Bay dodged the inappropriateness of a 15-year-old drinking in a bar with an even more inappropriate scene has people demanding for a Megan Fox comeback. Justice for Megan!

Yikes, that clip is so awful. Jimmy Kimmel laughing about a 15-year-old being forced into a glorified "Girls Gone Wild" wet T-shirt contest and essentially saying, "don't we all lust after teens and not vocalize it?" No, Jimmy, No!

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“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

-George Carlin

If you're just not feeling work today, we get it. Some days it's really hard to do the whole adulting thing. Between boring meetings, micromanaging bosses, and backstabbing coworkers we could all use a break. These memes perfectly sum up how we're all feeling about going to work in 2020.

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If you haven't experienced it yourself, you've likely heard: people living in major cities, smaller cities, and even popular suburbs have been complaining about an uptick in fireworks this year.

While it's normal for there to be an increase in colorful explosions during the weeks leading up to the Fourth of July, many have taken to social media to write about how much more extreme this year is, and it's not in people's heads.

With the social restrictions presented by COVID-19, a lot of public events have been cancelled and the sales of fireworks from suppliers to civilians have exponentially grown this year, with many customers buying them for the first time, and bigger, more professional grade fireworks being exchanged and set off.

Still, the non-stop boon of gigantic explosions coinciding with global protests against police brutality, and a steady flow of filmed police violence in response to the protests, has also caused some to wonder if there's a more nefarious government conspiracy behind the fireworks.

The arguments and varying fireworks discussions online have been as constant as the explosions themselves, but there's one thing everyone seems to agree on: there are too many fireworks going off before the Fourth of July.

Here are 25 tweets about the non-stop fireworks that will hopefully make you laugh, or at least nod your head in exhausted agreement.

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“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

– Robert H Schuller

2020 is a year that will go undoubtedly down in history. We've made it this far so we might as well keep going and see what the universe has in store for us next. Are zombie mosquitos coming in August? Radioactive chipmunks in September? Nothing would be shocking at this point. These hysterically accurate memes perfectly nail living life in the chaos that is 2020.

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Everyone loves a wedding, but some are much more cringe-inducing than others.

A recent Reddit thread asked wedding guests to share the most embarrassing things they've seen brides and grooms do at weddings. From inviting Mickey Mouse to the first dance to leaving guests without food, here are the strangest.

1. Who doesn't want their wedding to remind people of being a tourist in Times Square?

You know those slightly off-looking Mickey and Minnie mouses you see in NYC? Yeah, they showed up for the first dance because the bride loved Disney.

The entire room was forced to watch bride and groom dance alongside a deformed Mickey and Minnie, and halfway through they switched so the bride was dancing with Mickey and the groom with Minnie. I’ve never seen such a strange combination of stifled laughter and horrified stares. - ry1216

2. He was keeping it informal.

Not the couple, the Pastor kept saying "Our Heavenly Father, Daddy God," while marrying them. - S-D-J

3. What if God was one of us?

In the middle of the service the minister’s cell phone rang, he answered, it was God, God wanted to talk to the groom, conversation lasted a couple minutes, then the ceremony continued. - Theseus44

4. This wedding sounds equally fun and terrible.

Groom changed who his "Best Man" was and didn't tell the original BM until the start of the ceremony.

Bride & Groom asked a guest to bartend the reception AT the reception

Groom "dirty danced" with his step-mom (full hands on ass).

Bride & Groom hauled their wedding party up to do a choreographed dance to Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights' but didn't give them any pre-warning or teach them the dance. That song is 8.5 minutes long.

Wedding was at a scenic boarding school campus during the summer. Guests were told dormitories were complimentary to stay in. Guests were not told there would be no bedding provided or A/C in the building. Groom later emailed everyone who stayed in a dorm asking for money.

Same Bride & Groom chose another friend's wedding reception as the right setting to yell at a 3rd pair of mutual friends for not including them in their wedding party. - yet-another-dave

5. This bride made guests pass around a microphone and announce their favorite thing about her.

The wedding itself was fine, pretty boring but fine. Then we get to the reception. We were told we had to sit down as soon as we got there, some people found it weird but I've only been to one other wedding before this so I didn't think anything of it. The Bride and Groom then make a huge dramatic entrance and everyone awkwardly clapped for them as they strutted around the room with actual crowns on their heads.

The Bride then gets the microphone and hands it to her mom and asks her to say something she loves about the bride. She then tells her mom to pass it on and says she wants EVERYONE in the room to say one thing they absolutely love about the bride. Not the bride and groom, not their relationship, just the bride herself. It was super awkward. - MiceRekei

6. Honestly, the truck stop probably had better food than 80% of weddings.

It’s a tie between my sister breaking her knee (seriously) at her own wedding dancing to the cotton eyed joe and my stepsister having her reception at an honest to god truck stop while 6 months pregnant. In her defense, the food was good but WOW was it weird walking through a gas station in formal wear.

So my stepsister was engaged before she got pregnant but they moved it up so she could be on her husbands insurance when the baby was born. For some unknown reason she latched onto this weird ass truck stop restaurant my family goes to sometimes for late dinners (since it’s open 24 hours). The food was buffet style: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, salad, etc.

We did have a private room which was VERY weird that it existed. The only way to get into the restaurant is to walk through the attached gas station. It felt VERY redneck considering how non-redneck my stepsister typically is. I officiated that wedding though so I guess I can’t judge too harshly - letsgopond215

7. Patriotism is the foundation of any good marriage (???).

At the beginning of the reception, we all had to stand up and sing the national anthem.

To be clear, this was in another country I'd never been to a wedding in before, so I thought "ok maybe this is just a tradition I've never heard of before here!" Then I told this to other people, and they were all like "no, that's just really weird."

Also, at that wedding the father of the groom ended his speech with what I'm sure he thought was an amazing joke, on how it's easier to build a bridge to Hawaii than to understand what a woman is thinking. It would have been awkward enough had the man not also been standing between his ex and current wife as he was delivering it. - Andromeda321

8. This sounds like no fun at all.

The bride got drunk and sat on some other dudes lap for two hours and flirted with him while the groom sat by himself at the head table with a defeated look on his face. - Samhamwitch

9. Well at least this sounds like it wasn't boring.

They sang their vows to each other.

Neither had a singing voice.

Vows were generally bat sh** crazy, like submissive in the bedroom, and not asking about where she was going.

The autotune microphones were a terrible idea.

Their vow songs shared a chorus and it was awful and they expected the guests to sing along with the chorus.

The vows singing lasted 20 minutes.

Pure cringe. - loony-cat

10. You can take her singleness, but you cannae take her freedom.

Bride entered to Braveheart soundtrack blasting on boom box. Civil service that lasted a few minutes starting at around 1 pm. She leaves to same blasting Braveheart soundtrack. The mother announces that the reception starts at 5:30 pm. There is no food and no bar, but trays of dessert bars will be served. We are also told the venue is locked until then so there is no place to wait!

My girlfriend and I leave with a crowd of people to across the street to an Irish pub for drinks. A bit of a party breaks out there. We all get told to knock it off and come wait back at the venue in the hall. So we sit in the hall on the carpet for a few hours without drinks or dinner.

Bride and groom arrive and enter the venue to an “honour guard” of floor hockey players wearing hockey jerseys and holding sticks above their heads like swords at a royal wedding. More Braveheart music of course.

Place emptied out pretty quick as people either left to go back to the pub or to the fast food place a bit further away. Our dinner was lemon squares and a can of Coke from a vending machine in the lobby.

Funny stuff. - 5lipp3ry

11. Painful!

Invite all their facebook friends and expect 700people and like less than 100 show up - Strangerdanger8812

12. Has there ever been a bridal musical number that wasn't cringe-inducing?

The bride decided to sing as she walked down the aisle. She was not a particularly talented singer, and she was singing over a Carrie Underwood song so we could all hear the original vocal track. She finished walking about halfway through the song and then stood there and sang the rest of the song at the groom and all we could do was sit there and watch. - reflectorvest

13. Oh no, not a bridal nosebleed!

They began the wedding with the groom playing an out of tune guitar and singing to the bride. They were sitting on chairs in front of everyone, legit 400 people, and the bride was clearly uncomfortable which made everyone else uncomfortable. That wedding also included a foot washing ceremony, and when the bride put her shoes back on she tripped on her dress and fell flat on her face. They hadn’t done the vows yet and the ceremony stopped for 20 minutes to deal with the nosebleed she gave herself. - reflectorvest

14. This person saved the couple from embarrassment.

Not the bride and groom but the bride’s father. I was the best man.

They married young after she fell pregnant, it wasn’t planned, but they clearly loved each other and it was the right thing for them to do in their eyes (both Christian).

Anyway, come the wedding day I’m sat next to the brides father at the reception and I can see he’s looking at his prepared speech repeatedly.

I can see phrases like ‘not ideal’, ‘would’ve preferred not to welcome you into the family in these circumstances’ etc. Just before the groom gets up to give a speech, the bride’s father excuses himself to nip to the loo leaving his ‘speech’ behind. I’m not ashamed to say I swiped it and then pleaded ignorance when he returned. In the end he stood up and muttered a few words about love and then sat down.

I never told the groom and I’m happy to say they’re still happily married 20 years later. - St0rmStrider

15. You'd think the groom would've given up after one try...

At my cousin's wedding, they did the thing where the groom removes the bride's garter and tosses it to all the single guys. I guess none of the guys wanted to be next to be married, because once the groom tossed the garter, no one grabbed it. It just landed on the ground a few feet in front of a crowd of motionless guys. The groom tossed the garter 3 times before one guy halfheartedly picked it off the ground. The bride wouldn't look at any of those guys for the rest of the night. - ManOnThePaperMoon

16. Someone caked grandma!

When I was at a wedding of my parents friends, the groom tried to throw a decently sized piece of cake at the bride who moved out of the way, the cake ended up hitting my 76 year old grandma. We all had a good laugh. But we were all cringing at the same time at the missed cake attempt. - airsoftrules1

17. This was crafty.

The ceremony also was the "Name Reveal". They changed their last name because they didn't want to be stuck to their heritage and didn't want anything to hold them back.

Turns out they changed their name thinking they could erase their mountains of debt or at least hide from it. Turns out you can't live under two legal identities.... - MKE_Links

18. Sounds fun...

I went to a wedding with my ex a few years back. It was one of his fraternity brother’s wedding, and apparently the bride’s parents were ridiculously conservative. So conservative that they have super-edited versions of every song the DJ played, including bleeping out the word “shots” from “Shots” by LMFAO.

Also, it was a dry wedding, so this rendition of the song was almost too on the nose... - getyourhayneson

19. Yoga pants bride: that's a new one.

Bride shows up almost 2 hours late to her own wedding. Southern California in an open field no water no shade. She shows up and wants to get married in her yoga outfit. the groom shut it down and when she refused to change her clothes the groom decided to leave her looking stupid and they never got married. - toxictribe

20. Sounds painful?

Instead of throwing rice (or confetti, or sprinkles, or anything like that) the bride and groom asked their friends to save all their empty Juul pods and throw those as they walked down the aisle. The friends obliged. - marble-falls

21. Letting your guests go hungry is the height of cringe.

Flew away in a helicopter at the end but there were only appetizers for food - The_Height_of_Folly

Stories about people who go missing often have tragic endings. But sometimes, it turns out it was all a misunderstanding.

A recent Reddit thread asked people who went missing to explain what really happened to them. Some chose to leave their homes voluntarily and others were just kids who didn't tell their parents where they went — while others are a little more complicated. Here are 16 of the most interesting stories.

1. This person had a mental health flare-up.

I developed a serious mental illness. As a result I went from getting a graduate degree to being on the streets the next spring. There was a Facebook page “Have you seen [my name]”

I was on the streets for about 8 months.

Sleeping on benches. The cops pulled a gun on me for asking strange questions. Someone put a gun to my head while I slept. I was beaten with blood everywhere a couple times. I would never fight back. I was arrested for sleeping on a bench. That being said many people were very kind to me. People would buy me a meal fairly often.

Finally I was deemed incompetent to stand trial for a minor (non violent) charge and got help and saw a psychiatrist that actually asked me questions and cared about me. Before that they would hold me 2-3 days and release me without even asking any questions. I remember occasionally sleeping in the park across from the White House. Weird to be within that distance of the president of the United states while homeless.

At one point the secret service took me to the hospital for being strange there. [not a delusion]

I haven’t been homeless for a few years now. Live with a roommate. See my doctor every month. Just needed some help and compassion (and meds). Life is pretty good now. - gingeronimoo

2. This person took a break from their family and the family thought they died.

I rejected what my family was and from 19 to 21 went missing. I had a 1970 impala and worked in a different town for under the table money. When I wasnt working I was exploring states and areas with the car. When I returned alot of people heard I had died in a car wreck in North Carolina. Come to find out it was a person with my first name and attributes. My grandmother was heart broken but nobody went up to confirm if it was me. - vadermaybelater

3. This person ran away as a kid and didn't get caught for a week.

I ran away from home when I was like ten with a friend. Rode our bikes to another state and lived under a bridge for a week. It was a relief when they found us.

I had some cash but not much. My friend eventually resorted to a couple of trips to the local grocery and shoplifted a few candy bars when the cash ran out. That is how we got found. He was spotted on his return trip from one of those supply runs.

I feel guilty about that to this day. Also because he came from a seriously abusive family and really caught it when he got back. His dad was so awful that his younger brother committed suicide a few years later because he was afraid to show his dad his report card. Kid was 9 years old when he did that. - Shroomtune

4. Thank goodness this person was found.

I once felt so hopeless and alone I decided to just do absolutley nothing and see what would happen. I was so depressed I went to sleep and just kept sleeping and sleeping and sleeping. After days I hadn't eaten or had any fluids and I closed my eyes and fell asleep only this time I wouldn't wake up for six whole days. I woke up on the floor in a puddle of urine and I was hallucinating and walked outside and blacked out.

I woke up in the hospital three days later. I almost died from dehydration and kidney failure, and apparently people had been knocking on my door/trying to find me for over a week not knowing I was home in a catatonic state all along. I was found outside my home by police whom were responding to a missing persons report filed on me that same day. The doctor said it was the strangest suicide attempt he'd ever seen and that I had simply lost the will to live and would have died the next day had I not had that moment of lucidity and staggered outside where I was found. - Impossible-Affect-56

5. Missing baby alert!

I went missing for a couple of hours only when I was 3 or 4 years old. (I do not quite remember since I was so young.) I lived in a small town where everyone knew each other, so I was allowed to go play outside alone and could go as far as the end of the street without any trouble. There was a lot of children my age on my street, but I did not know all of them yet.

I had gone to play with a friend, and we decided to go play with my friend’s neighbour’s daughter. I didn’t know her, but my friend did, so it was alright. I was always happy to make new friends!

The three of us ended up in the girl’s basement since it had been transformed into a playground and was paradise for kids. We had been playing for a little while when my friend had to leave. I stayed and continued to play with my new friend.

There was loud music on, and her parents were in the basement with us to watch over us. We continued to play for a while. The dad then went upstairs to get some water, and someone knocked at the door.

I had been missing for some hours, and, when my parents had gone to get me at my friend’s house and had found out I wasn’t with him anymore, they had started to look for me.

My friend had told them where I was, but since we were all downstairs and did not hear when they knocked at the door, it had led my parents to believe that nobody was home anymore.

When I stepped outside, all the neighbours were out looking for me, along with the police. - f-tk-pt

6. This kid was technically kidnapped by a parent.

Mom decided to run off with me, lmao. I was 9ish. I didn’t see my dad for 6 months. I don’t even know what happened or why we left. She was in the hospital and I don’t know why. It was fucked up. Ended up in a different school and the kids hated me for some reason.

Don’t have a single pleasant memory from that time. My mom was barely taking care of me, so I had to learn how to do things on my own. My parents have never explained any of it to me and we never talked about it. I stayed up all night just sitting and staring at a wall. I wasn’t warned before we left or anything. I was picked up from school and told to pack up. Hm. I am just now realizing that this isn’t exactly “healthy”. - probgonnakms

7. This person's mom freaked out because of a clerical issue.

When I was in Singapore, must have been primary or junior high school in the early 80s, we had camping trips that took us to another part of the island with no radio, TV or cellular. I was clear that I was going on this trip to my mother, she even went to the store with me to get supplies.

I was out of contact for the entire week, I was clothed, sheltered, time of my life. I came back to civilization to see my picture on all the TVs on the MRT. She thought the week after. Oof - strengr

8. When gone fishin' becomes gone missin'.

I was about five and staying at my grandparents’ 500 acre farm for the summer. My cousin, who is 8 years older than me, was going to the pomd to fish with his friends. I wanted to go but he said I had to ask my mom first. She was in the living room with all the other grownups and I was afraid she’d say no, so I lied and told my cousin I had permission.

Went to the pond and had a blast until we heard my grandfather on horseback calling my name.

To my credit, I fessed up to lying when they started yelling at my cousin for letting me come along with them without checking with my mom first. - ExGomiGirl

9. This person's mom missed a note.

I went “missing” for two days last summer. I decided to spend the summer in Colorado, where my boyfriend was moving. I knew my mom would never let me go so I left her a note that said, “I’m spending the summer in Boulder with BF, I will be home before fall quarter. I’ll call you in two days when I arrive! Love you!”, and she DIDN’T SEE IT.

Unfortunately, a combination of an old phone that constantly died and back country travel (with limited service) made it so she couldn’t contact me for two days. The women filed a police report and almost killed me when I finally called her. - iwillwhenineedit

10. This kid hid in a cupboard and gave their parents a heart attack.

Fell asleep in a cupboard when I was about 4 years old.

Slept for a solid 10+ hours and my parents enlisted the police and the neighbours to search the local area for me.

They were not amused when they found me. - monstera25

11. Custody battles can get ugly.

Wasn’t a missing person per se but when I was around 9 months old me and my sister went up to our dads house for the weekend as per usual but her refused to bring us back for like 2 weeks and the worst part was that what he was doing wasn’t kidnapped because he refused to sign the divorce papers so he still had full custody instead of partial. (All of this comes from my mom and grandparents) - ryanWM10310313

12. This could have ended badly.

Only missing for about 5 hours, brother, mom, dog and myself went for a walk on what we thought was just a little turn around trail, turns out it was a HUGE trail that was over 200 miles long. We were barefoot in swimsuits, found about 15 miles away from where we started on a gravel access road around 9 pm... the police and equisearch had been called out, it was kinda nutty. - kaymo93

13. It all worked out for this person.

I was out with my friends. I have a mental illness with some psychosis and I felt trapped, like the world was closing in on me and I couldn't tell anyone. I took off my shoes and left them on the car and walked for maybe four hours around town, ended up at the train tracks thinking that I should lay down on them. Ended up walking back to my friends' house instead. When I got there, the cops were talking to them and everyone was so relieved. I'm afraid I put them through a few of those scary situations. The nice thing is they are very understanding and cool people and we are all friends still over a decade later - harlequinnx

14. Interesting parenting tactic.

Between the ages of 13-16 my mom would kick me out of the house, then call the cops and report me missing. This happened so many times that I became a "regular" at the station. - burntpudding

15. Risky choice from the teacher!

When I was somewhere between 5-7 years old, I went to a small Catholic school in a smaller rural town in Upstate NY. I still took the bus to and from school, but the way home became very convoluted, and involved me taking a bus from my school to a public elementary school, getting on another bus and riding that around for awhile, then transferring AGAIN at a similar school. I was supposed to navigate this all as a little kid, but that was the 80s/early 90s I suppose.

One day the second bus left without me and a couple other kids (who I didn’t know). So someone (no clue who, but they worked/were associated with the school system or bus system I believe) drove us all home in their car.

I don’t know why my mom wasn’t notified but all she saw was me NOT getting off the bus.

As a parent now, I can’t even imagine how she felt.

She picked me up from school from there on out. - Summergrl5s

16. And finally, this person managed to escape from some creeps.

My story is a doozy. When I was 14 I had a very toxic friend. My toxic friend met a guy on aol and started “dating” him. He said he was 19, she said she was 18. One day she asks me to go hang out with him so she wasn’t alone and wanted to run away with him. It was SOL week (required standardized tests in the US), I was so on board to run away. I threw all of my stuff out of my window and told my dad I was going to study at her house.

He met us in the next neighborhood over and took us out. He brought a friend for me even though I wasn’t interested at all. When we got to his town my friend told him we were only 14 and we’re running away. He said he lied too and was actually 28 but wanted her so he was ok with us being runaways. We spent the next few days hiding in the Appalachia’s and eating what she had packed for running away. The other guy who was meant for me was frustrated because I wanted nothing to do with him and was just following my friend.

He ended up dropping us off at a hotel he rented so we could shower and sleep in a bed. Later he came back and brought a bunch of people to have a party in the room. The cops were called and my friend and I assumed it was because we were runaways so we fled the cops on foot and got separated. After a few hours of walking aimlessly through a town I didn’t know I went to a gas station and asked to use their phone to call my parents. It was a long distance call so they said no and I asked if they could call the police instead because I was a runaway.

The ladies there were really nice and listened to my idiotic story and gave me water and food because I was so dehydrated. The police came and arrested me because apparently running away is illegal, didn’t know that. I sat in a holding room while they grilled me about who I was with and how I made it there. I didn’t want my friend to get in trouble so I used fake names of the guys we ran away with. My parents and whole family showed up and cried and held me.

I was so apologetic about everything and just wanted to go home. My parents forgave me immediately and sent me to therapy when I got home. The girl I ran away with stayed with the guy and came home after she was a few months pregnant and rejected by him. I cut her out of my life at that point realizing her toxicity. It took me a couple of years to realize how much danger we had put ourselves in and the stupidity of running away with 2 guys off of the internet.

TLDR: 2 14 year olds ran away with 2 28 year olds from the internet. Neither died but one got pregnant, both returned home. - kellylicious3

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”

-Leslie Nielsen

These comical memes will tickle your funny bone and get your morning started off on the right foot. Even if you accomplish nothing else today, at least you had a good laugh.

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All signs point to 2020 being a full-on nightmare of a year which means this summer probably isn't going to be the carefree pool party some of us (and our Instagrams) had hoped for.

We're in the middle of a pandemic, a revolution to fight police brutality and systemic racism, mysterious fireworks are going off every night in major cities, we all somehow forgot about murder hornets, and aliens are probably very real. And don't forget all the celebrities who have canceled themselves in quarantine with bad takes and black-and-white filtered cover songs...it's hard to keep up.

If you had told us 3 months ago that by June we couldn't leave our homes without a mask and you had to stay six feet away from everyone you know while we all reallocate our unemployment money to donate to worthy causes, we probably would've tried to find a time machine. However, despite forgetting what it's like to wear pants and see our friends and family away from Zoom, most of us still haven't yet lost our sense of humor. Twitter is full of conspiracy theorists, trolls, and problematic opinions but it still thrives with its most crucial content: jokes.

Here are some of the funniest June tweets we could find from women who are definitely done with 2020. Enjoy!

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It's difficult to get 200,000 people to agree on anything, but these jokes are so funny that they bring hundreds of thousands of people together. These 25 tweets from the first half of 2020 have united the masses in laughter with their hot takes on high school football, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and more.

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Whether you love your job or hate it, nobody likes getting fired. But as the saying goes, "when God closes a door, he opens a window," meaning one rejection can pave the way for something better. Although let's be honest, that's not always true. Sometimes God just closes a door and now you're in the dark, eating store-brand ice cream and googling "unemployment benefits."

Comedian Ian Karmel shared a story of getting fired from The Old Spaghetti Factory for the way he served a cup of tea. He asked people to share their own stories of the "dumbest reason" they've ever gotten fired.

Many, many people had their own firing stories to share. Hopefully God opened a window for these people the way he did for Karmel, who is now co-head writer at The Late Late Show With James Corden.

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The internet is alight with another trending #Karen video, except this one has caused more disagreement and discussion than many.

The current Karen video making the rounds took place in Seattle, and shows a man named Karlos Dillard following and confronting a white woman after a tense encounter on the road during his Postmates shift.

In the video, Dillard alleges that Karen flipped him off in traffic, almost caused him to crash, and called him the N-word. He also claims she started to follow him but reversed course when she realized he was filming.

After the encounter on the road, Dillard followed her home and got out of his car to call her out. The exchange resulted her crying and screaming that she has a Black husband (causing #IHaveABlackHusband to quickly trend on Twitter), before claiming Dillard was physically attacking her.

A full fourteen minute video posted to his Instagram shows her crying and him attempting to confront her behavior after following her home, while neighbors watch. A few neighbors backed Dillard up, claiming they had witnessed Karen's behavior, while another man eventually came outside to urge Dillard to leave the scene.

At the end of the video, the woman reveals her name is Lia, and tearfully apologizes and claims she "loves humanity" while denying she was trying to start anything.

A lot of people on the internet were quick to condemn Lia's meltdown, while backing Dillard up for confronting their encounter.

A lot of people were stuck on the fact that she yelled about having a Black husband before breaking down, as if that would explain away the encounter.

Still, others thought the story had holes in it, and noted that Dillard was confronting Lia more about getting flipped off, and didn't directly ask her about using the n-word, which would be the worse offense.

Some people weren't so quick to believe him, and noted that he makes videos for a living and that following someone to their house felt extreme.

Others dug up old videos of Dillard that suggest he used to be a Trump supporter, which caused people to doubt his motives for putting Lia on blast, especially since he was quick to start selling T-shirts about the encounter.

It wasn't long before Dillard posted on his Instagram to address claims he was a Trump supporter and using this video for clout.

In the posts he doesn't overtly share who he voted for, but rather claims people were revictimizing him by bringing up old social media posts.

While the discourse around this particular video is far less cut-and-dry than the ones clearly showing a full instance of racism, the ambiguity in itself has sparked some fascinating conversations around boundaries, racial dynamics, and viral content.

Millennials grew up, had a lot of opinions about the world and got brutally roasted by Boomers. Now, Gen Z is growing up, having a lot of opinions about the word, and brutally roasting Millennials...

Either way, Millennials are unfortunately still the most unpopular generation to be right now. First, they were the entitled, lazy, parents' basement-dwelling generation. Now (according to Gen Z) they're a bunch of maladjusted late 20s and early 30-somethings who are scared of adulthood (or "adulting"), constantly drinking wine, watching "The Office", referring to their dog's Instagram account as "doggo," and defining themselves by "Harry Potter" houses.

Gen Z is known for dancing on TikTok from the comfort of their parents' huge houses, but apparently they've been doing a lot more than just dance. Turns out, they've also been roasting Millennials who weren't yet savvy enough to join TikTok, but now that millennials have discovered the comments, it's time to admit that they are...hilariously accurate.

So, here are the funniest tweets about things Millennials love from Gen Z. Enjoy!

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