Being left home alone to fend for onesself against a couple of incompetent burglars might seem like fun and games if you're a character played by Macaulay Culkin in a classic Christmas film. But in reality, being home alone can be a pretty terrifying experience for kids, and quite a few adults. If you weren't already afraid of being home alone, you might be by the end of this post.

Someone asked Reddit: "what is the most terrifying thing you’ve ever experienced while home alone?" These 29 people shared their chilling stories of being home alone (or in many cases, not as "alone" as they thought).

After reading these, you may never stay alone in a house again without at least 5 other people and a german shepard.

1.) From SciFi_Pie:

When I was like 9 my parents were both at work one day and I was chilling at home by myself when the intercom rang (we lived in an apartment block). It was some lady asking if I've ordered a pizza. I calmly told her that I didn't. Then she said, "Oh... Well, do you want a free pizza? Just let me in and I'll give it to you".

9 year old me was f*cking terrified by this. Not because I found the idea of free pizza particularly scary, but because my dad used to tell me really drastic cautionary tales for why I shouldn't open the door to strangers (and other stuff). So I was genuinely convinced that the woman wanted to come in so she could murder me.

2.) From DaleDofront:

One day while I was working afternoons a couple years back I woke up at around 10am and started to watch American Dad before getting up. Next thing you know I hear my back door open. A normal thing in our home since we only use the back door. But no one was supposed to be home yet. I assumed it was my mom and didn’t think anything of it. Then I heard footsteps coming up the stairs as my bedroom was on the second floor. I call out to my mom and get no response. Then my door cracks open and a head pops in. It’s a 30ish year old man with a blonde beard and a big mane of greasy hair who looks shocked to see me. At the time I was about 260lbs 6’3 and 20 years old (m). I was also sitting in only my boxers. Before I was able to realize what was happening he asked “is this the ____ residence” to which I reply “no?” . He makes a swift exit and before I can recollect my thoughts he’s not even in my driveway. Talked to a family friend who is a veteran police officer turns out a man has been pulling this kind of stunt to rob people in nearby towns.

3.) From strebork:

A couple years back I woke up at 3am to see someone walk past my bedroom door, I called out in my just woken up, not thinking haze thinking maybe my boyfriend had come over while I was sleeping but got no response so knew it wasn’t him.

Got out of bed, stupidly forgetting to take my phone or any kind of defensive item with me and went into the front room where the light was on to be met with a random guy staring at one of the walls, I asked him who he was and got no answer.

At this point I’d actually woken up enough to realise I could really be in trouble so ran back to the bedroom, grabbed my phone and ran outside on the phone to the police who showed up within a few minutes. Turns out the guy was mentally ill and to this day neither myself or the police know how he got in.

4.) From MineKing822:

Someone attempting to break in. I have a 75lb boxer and have never seen anyone run as fast as that man did.

5.) From soileilunetoile:

I was about 21 or 22 and living by myself at the time, and I left my window open on a pleasant night. It was low enough to the ground that you could get in if you really tried, but the screen wasn’t easy to take off and I lived in a fairly safe neighborhood so I didn’t even think twice about it. Woke up in the middle of the night because I smelled smoke, and I reached out to turn on my lamp and my hand hit what was very obviously a person. My brain fully woke up at that point, and I realized there was a shirtless man in my bedroom, smoking a cigarette and staring at me. I remember yelling for him to get out, and I must’ve spooked him just as badly as he spooked me because he leapt out my window and took off. I slammed it shut and moved a bookcase in front of it, and when I went out the next morning in the daylight found the screen sitting against the house. Didn’t sleep the rest of the night, and I haven’t slept with a window more than cracked ever since. I also absolutely refuse to live on the ground floor of a building. I don’t know if he was planning to rob me or rape me or both, but it was absolutely terrifying and makes me wonder how many times it happened and I didn’t wake up.

6.) From tankincolour:

I moved into our house a month before my husband did and I was painting our guest room with the windows wide open. I was busy painting, listening to music when I realized it had gotten dark outside. I heard the leaves crunching outside but didn’t think anything of it because we have a lot of neighbors who walk their dogs. When I went to close the windows I saw a man standing in my backyard under the tree maybe 5 feet from our back door staring up at me. I fell to the floor and realized the back glass door was probably open and nothing but the screen which he could have easily just walked into my house. Crawled to my phone and called my husband who then called 911 while rushing home to me. We have a 6 ft tall fence around our yard, this person hopped it to watch me. I couldn’t sleep right at night for months.

7.) From fitzysgal:

My bf worked away from home a lot and I always struggled to sleep on the first night he was away. On this occasion I was woken by the sound of a man shouting and then someone banging on wood or a front door. I jumped up and looked out my bedroom window..... just in time to see a man dressed all in black walking through our garden towards the house. I ran to the front of the house to look out of the front window and make sure he kept going. He did, but he met up with another man dressed in black walking towards my house. I was terrified and called the police, they arrived in a matter of minutes and checked out the back garden but they were gone. Turned out a neighbour had caught them both trying to steal his car and one had escaped through the gardens while the other had run through the roads and they had met up outside my house. I didn’t sleep at all that night and my brother came to stay the next night. I’m so glad I live in an apartment now, much more security.

8.) From hic-et-nunc-:

When I was 19 in my first apartment I had someone knock at the door. I looked through the peep hole and saw this burley, heavy set man who abruptly started screaming to let him in. He was screaming things like he was going to beat my ass, and kick the door down if I didn’t open. I called the cops and as soon as someone got on the phone he started body slamming my door to break in. I was freaking out and crying as they quickly had 5 cops show up within 5+ minutes. As soon as he heard the sirens he quickly walked away and they met him at the bottom of the stairs. Apparently he was after the previous renter but was extremely intoxicated. They arrested him and thankfully he never came back. I ended up breaking my lease and moving out 3 months later.

It was in a very nice neighborhood but it quickly made me wish I was back home with family instead of being on the other side of the United States.

9.) From BrokeWABunny:

I was babysitting a kid who had a video monitor and was told that she wouldn’t wake up while the parents were out and if she did to call them right away. I was watching tv with the monitor set off to the side to keep an eye on her and right around 11, the cameras view shifted a few inches. It then began to slightly jiggle like someone was messing with it. I was squinting at it trying to decide what I was actually seeing, and I kid you not, the whole screen burst to static for a few seconds, and the kid started WALING. She stood up and was screaming in her crib just like one of the kids from the sims. When she didn’t fall back asleep after a few minutes I called mom and she said “okay were on our way home anyway. We think she has nightmares sometimes it’s fine.”

Never again.

10.) From stayawayfrommeinfj:

I work from home, so I’m home alone A LOT. One day I was working, and out of the corner of my eye I noticed some movement in my backyard.

There was a man jumping over my fence into my backyard.

Panicked, I call my then boyfriend now fiancé and tell him what is happening. While I’m on the phone with him, I get a knock at my front door. It’s a woman from Century Link informing me that technicians will need access to my backyard. I tell her someone just jumped over my fence so I think they’re already there.

Way to give me a heart attack, Century Link.

11.) From DismalPomegranate:

This happened to me a couple of years ago. I have also lived on my own a long time so do not get sacred easily!

I had just finished reading in bed and I turned my lamp off and settled down to go to sleep and hugged my cat up close to me. This would be about 1:30 in the morning. I closed my eyes and I head a voice say "Meow" like imitating a cat! My window was open so I though it was just someone being weird outside.

I opened my eyes and in the middle of my bedroom was a small boy wearing a red jumper waving his arm above his head. I leapt up like a god damn ninja and put the light on. and my heart was going mad. Now, nothing paranormal has happened in this house, ever in the entire time I have lived here. I spent the whole night totally freaked out, only getting a bit of sleep when it started to get light outside.

My friends thought this was hilarious when I told them. I was saying there is no way I am living in a haunted house and started googling cleansing, excorsists and whatnot! The next few nights other weird stuff started happening. I started sleeping with the t.v on and as soon as I tried to get any sleep, I would hear freaky voices coming from it, or I would notice shadows dip by the side of my bed. It was dreadful! I actually resorted to saying out loud " I'm really tired, so if you could not haunt me for one night I would be really grateful!". I had never really believed in any of this sort of stuff before, so it was like an entire paradigm shift for me. Anyway, I was going on about this to my friends at work, and one of them asked if I was on drugs. Well, funnily enough I had just started taking this new tablet Montelukast for my asthma. When I got home, read the side effects, a rare one being hallucinations! Stopped taking them, no more hauntings!

Tl;dr Drugs made me see ghosts

12.) From Bobbiejo29:

When I was like 14, I was home alone one night around 10pm stood in my kitchen making some cereal. It’s dark outside and then all of a sudden the loudest sound. Some drunk woman literally launched a hammer through my kitchen window. Was so loud and glass was everywhere. I followed her down the street whilst calling the police. Pretty strange.

(Edit for everyone asking why I followed) - So the reason I actually followed her was because you could see really clearly through the smashed window as it was now wide open. She looked like a very fragile little old crackhead lady that could barely walk or see straight and she started stumbling away mumbling some shit once she had done it. Plus I didn’t really know how the fuck I was gunna explain this shit to my parents if I didn’t have a solid answer haha. But yes, it was a very distressed walk whilst following her. Definitely an action caused by adrenaline too.

13.) From BasicSpeech:

When I was young, I came home from a party in the middle of the night, when my dad were out of town. I started making a midnight quesadilla when I heard someone cough in the basement. I yelled and ran outside, and they took off through the back yard.

Come to find out, my dad’s ex gfs daughter stole her key to our house and came to rob us. She was busted a couple years later doing this to her SIL.

14.) From fireflyfly3:

One evening an explosion at a petrochemical plant (located a mile from my house) blew out the double window in my living room while I was in the room. I definitely thought we were being bombed until I remembered where I live.

I had just let my dog out to the backyard and he was completely traumatized. For the following two months I had to carry him outside and sit in the grass with pieces of chicken just so he would potty.

15.) From Merv_86:

I have been pretty fortunate based on these comments but I was home alone one night while my wife and son were visiting my MIL. I walked back to our bedroom to see someone rummaging through my sons room on the video baby monitor. Immediately grabbed my firearm and yelled to the otherside of the house "I AM ARMED. COME OUT SLOWLY!" Over and over while slowly making my way back to his room. Got there flipped on the light and ... nothing. Searched the whole house pumped full of adrenaline. Finally satisfied I was alone I went back to my room and THE GUY WAS BACK in the room. I took a closer look and I am ashamed to say I was looking at myself. The camera is a live feed on our wi fi and it was steaming on a huge delay. I have never known it to do that and it has not done it since.

Tl;dr went looking for myself and came back empty handed.

16.) From nllmki:

I had the police knock one day while I was alone. The cop had a guy in the back of his car who said we were holding his friend captive.....I showed the cop my ID and explained that it was just me and my husband he wasn't home but they could look if they wanted to and he said no that was ok and then asked questions about my neighbors.

17.) From QueenMountain:

I lit 2 long taper candles for some ambiance while I was playing guitar late at night. I was facing the other direction looking out the window while playing and shortly later turned around and went back towards the candles and discovered one of them was completely gone. The stand was still there, but no melted wax, just a bare candle holder and the other one was still lit and no shorter than it was when I lit them. It was almost 3am and I was so terrified that I got in my car and left and drove to my dad’s house.

18.) ​​​​​​​From Schnauzerbutt:

I was living alone after my ex-husband moved out and the creepy guy across the street who was 20 years older and enjoyed drugs kept trying to date me. He would harass me when I left my house or arrived home and would threaten to rape me.

I had just started dating my current bf and he helped hang up motion detecting lights outside, I started carrying pepper spray and leaving the alarm on whenever I was home. My bf and I also agreed that if I didn't text him for a certain period of time and he couldn't get ahold of me that he'd go to my house and check on things. I also cc'ed him on my work calendar just in case.

It got so scary that my bf actually moved in a lot sooner than we planned because I felt so unsafe. After creepy guy watched my bf move in and saw him puttering around with project cars in the driveway he stopped harassing me and moved away a few months later. I've never felt so unsafe in my own home, wondering if the outside lights were on because of the neighbors cat or because creepy guy was trying to break in.

19.) ​​​​​​​From GoliathBoneSnake:

Not exactly alone. But I was home with my newborn son and someone knocked on the front door.

I was expecting my mother, but she usually comes in through the garage. I thought it was strange, but yelled "come in!" Because why wouldn't I?

Then this cracked out old woman comes stumbling through the door, and asks me for a ride to the nearest gas station. I told her I didn't have a car seat for my son so I couldn't go anywhere.

So she starts screaming "THAT'S JUST INAPPROPRIATE!" And doesn't stop even when I'm telling her she needs to leave or I'll call the cops. After a minute or so, my mother actually pulls in the driveway, the crackhead sees the car and bolts back out the door, and I never see her again.

That night my truck got broken into. Can't for sure say it was the same woman, but I have her description to the cops anyway.

20.) From sleepytimeghee:

Somebody tried to break into the house while I was by myself.

The whole place was quiet and dark at nighttime. I walked past the front door to go upstairs for bed, and the handle suddenly started jerking around like The Hulk was trying to get in. Then whoever it was started to either kick or shoulder the door, and it was making the whole frame jiggle. I completely froze and my mind went blank. Just standing there like an idiot and staring.

My dog bolted down the stairs like it was her time to shine, scrambled on the tile, and let loose the most vicious barks I've ever heard. Whoever it was left. She was a very good girl. I miss her.

21.) From tinknickers:

I was asleep at home alone. When I turned over in bed, I casually opened my eyes a little whilst turning and they were shut again just as quickly. In that split second, I could have sworn I had seen a man stood at the bottom of my bed. I laid still. Awake with my eyes closed. Trying not to act like I was awake and trying to listen for any sound in the room of someone breathing or moving. Couldn't hear anything. I was too scared to open my eyes and look, consoled myself that there wasn't any way someone could have gotten in without me hearing a window smash and fell back asleep. When I got up in the morning though the front door was open. They didn't take anything and left no signs of being there. Was still very very creepy though.

22.) From -comrade-chris-:

A few years ago I was home alone in my basement playing video games when I hear the door that connects my kitchen to the garage creek open and slam shut, but I never heard the actual mechanical garage door open. Then I heard heavy footsteps of someone wearing boots walk the length of my kitchen directly above me. I originally thought, "oh my brother must have forgotten something" as he had left about 5 minutes before that for work so I was about to yell up to him to make fun of him but something in the back of my mind was telling me, "hold on, somethings not right here". So I muted my tv to both hear better and to stay quiet. Then I heard the footsteps turn around and walk back to the door, and again I hear it creak open and slam shut. But again I never heard the actual mechanical garage door open or close. So I slowly walk upstairs thinking maybe my brother just forgot to close the garage door, I slowly open the door to my garage and see that the garage door has been closed the entire time. The only two explanations I can come up with are either something paranormal happened, or someone broke into my house, walked through my kitchen and left without taking anything, while also not letting me hear them open my garage door. In my opinion, both are equally terrifying to me.

23.) From QueenNotASoldier:

I HATE when there's a random noise in the house like a door slamming shut. And the unsettling feeling of not being alone when you've already checked if everyone's gone

24.) From Schnabelverstaerker:

When I was about ten years old someone kept ringing the doorbell for like ten minutes. Was f*cking creepy.

25.) From JimiR74:

A few years back I was home alone during a power storm. I went into the bathroom to take a dump and at the exact time I was shitting I sneezed, well the power went out as well. The house was pitch black and I literally thought I shit myself blind. I couldn’t see my hands so in a panic I was yelling nooooo this cannot be true I was in a panic feeling for the toilet paper to wipe and flush. After completing the task I just sat on the toilet trying to figure out how to tell everyone I know that I literally shit myself blind by sneezing while shitting. After about 2 minutes of complete darkness and dread and panic lightning struck outside and lit up my hallway. Best damn feeling ever

26.) From bloodfields:

I was chilling on the couch, doing whatever, when suddenly a "really heavy person" starts sprinting in our attic. Sounded like steel-toed boots and everything. I'm a really small woman, so I immediately freaked out, thinking there's a gigantic man stomping around my home. Then the screaming starts. Literal fucking screaming, like something from the Exorcist, and there's MULTIPLE voices.

I sneaked outside and cried, extremely shaken, and called the cops. Guess what's in my attic. Not a big rape-y rapist, no. Raccoons.

Also, the raccoons were mating. That's what the screaming came from. I bawled to the cops about horny raccoons.

27.) ​​​​​​​From SilentSamamander:

Sleep Paralysis. Waking up from a nightmare soaked in sweat, with a weight on my chest and completely unable to move. Sometimes I see shadowy shapes or feel there's someone watching.

28.) From threebillboards:

I was home for the weekend from Uni but my parents and siblings were away so was home alone. Our house is quite secluded, with a church and graveyard next door and closest neighbours up the street but quite a bit away. I had all the doors locked and was settling down to watch a movie when the doorbell starts to ring so I go to answer it, no one there. Then the back doorbell rings, no one there again. This keeps happening over and over and it is pitch black outside. Then whoever it was began banging on windows and yelling at this point I’m freaking out so I begin to call the police and yell at the people outside that I’ve called them when it turns out it was a couple of fellas from uni playing a prank on me. I was terrified and reduced to tears at this point but they thought it was hilarious. They did a few more things like that to me over the 2-3 years I was at uni with them, and I always thought they were my friends. I’m older and wiser now to know that they were just cunts.

29.) ​​​​​​​From dazedan_confused:

My mum once shouted my name when I was home alone.

She was in another country, it was midnight, and I live in a 7-bedroomed house.

You would think that by now have heard of all of the ways that somebody could be a god-awful parent, but there are some creative and conniving people out there.

She wants to adopt a teenager so she has a live-in babysitter for her kids.

A woman blew the whistle on her sister's ulterior motive for applying to foster a teenager, and she asked"Am I The A**hole?" whether she's, well, an a**hole.

In a throwaway account with the username FosterFix, she wrote:

I'm a 28F and I have a sister (36F) For the sake of story, I'll just call Jane. Jane is married to "Bob" and they have two kids, boy and a girl. My niece and nephew are wonderful kids and no trouble at all. They fight as siblings do but nothing big. I love them. Now for about two years, I did live with my sister. It was a miserable time that really effected our relationship. She saw me as free labor, money and babysitting. Even when I managed to get a small part time job, she demanded I hand over nearly half my pay or get out. It was hell as she took completely advantage of me. I moved out as soon as I could and we have little contact outside of family gatherings.

Now after I moved out, she started complaining how "She has no help with the kids and never gets a break!" I babysit sometimes but I have made it clear, just cause I am off work, doesn't mean I want an 8 hour day with my niece and nephew.

Here's where the sister hatches a scheme to exploit a teenager in need:

Anyway she started talking about how she wanted to foster a kid. Not a kid, but a teenager. I pressed her for more info on this. She wants to adopt a teenager so she has a live-in babysitter for her kids.

This is her logic: "I want a kid around 16 or 17, you know someone who may have been in the system for awhile. They can share a room with your nephew (she only has a three 3 bedroom house) or sleep in the garage. They can help me with house work, chores, cook and help me with my business.(She bakes and sells cookies) Also babysit the kids so me and Bob can go out sometimes or have some alone time. They'll be so grateful for a home and won't complain. I won't have to pay them at all. And then when they turn 18, I can just sign up for another foster kid! A teenager will be so much easier than a little kid, they will be grateful just to have a roof, food, siblings if they have been separated from their real ones and clothes."

That's gonna be a "yikes" from me, dawg. The sister has really put a lot of thought into how to get free labor from a kid they'll be responsible for caring for. A live-in cook, babysitter, and maid? It's a hard knock life.

FosterFix was disgusted, and told the truth when a social worker asked about her sister's character.

My sister called crying saying that she wouldn't be considered for any adoptions or fosters. The social worker told her that they felt her home and her weren't a good fit. She asked if I said anything and I told the truth. She went off on me, hung up and we haven't spoken since. She has sent some angry texts. A couple family members are on her side. They think foster kids are fucking dogs or something and would be so happy just to have a roof and would gladly do all the housework.

So AITA here?

You'll be excited to learn that the Reddit commenters were firmly anti-slavery.

"NTA (Not The A**hole). You told the truth and saved a teenager from a terrible life of being used and dumped for another, which is no way to treat anyone. It is a foster child, not a slave," NothingSinister ruled.

FosterFix mentioned the indentured servitude issue to her sister, "but her logic is 'it's not slavery. I'm giving them a home, food, clothes and everything else.'"

"She's legit trying to be the evil stepmother from Cinderella and not bright enough to see it," Juggletrain commented.

She's Cinderella's Stepmother mixed with Miss Hannigan, and a little Pharaoh thrown in.

“Everything I know I learned from dogs.”

– Nora Roberts

Dogs teach us so much. How to love unconditionally, to always get excited about the small things, and of course, the importance of naps and treats. We really don't deserve these loving and magical creatures, but I'm so glad we have them. If you're utterly obsessed with dogs, these adorable and hilarious memes will tickle your funny bone.

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Sometimes, despite both parties' best efforts, a marriage just doesn't work out.

While infidelity, money troubles and growing apart are some of the more well-known reasons for divorce, sometimes, people leave a marriage for reasons that are totally out of left field.

A recent Reddit thread asked divorce lawyers to share the most outrageous reasons their clients gave them for exiting a marriage. The responses show that no two relationships are the same.

1. He sounds like a real winner.

To avoid prison. Guy came in saying he was going to be indicted for many things (the list would have been impressive if it wasn't also sickening). So, he wanted to marry his accomplice because he saw on TV that your spouse can't testify against you without your permission and the accomplice had cut a deal. He just needed to get this pesky marriage to his current wife dissolved. - idliketosmitepls

2. Imagine being this popular.

Guy came in and wanted to divorce his wife because he found out that she was still married to some other guy. He then asked me if he needed to tell his “other wife” that he was married to this wife.

This was a free legal clinic and everyone was homeless. - prntoomuch

3. Why get married?!

We handled the divorce for an older man (70s), bc he was cheating and wanted to be with his mistress. Two years go by, he comes back to divorce the mistress bc he's been cheating on HER with his first wife. - beloved_wolf

4. This seems like something they could've worked out.

Wife found photos of her husband dressed up as a ballerina. - beloved_wolf

5. Sounds like maybe his marriage wasn't the problem.

Husband files for divorce bc wife does cocaine. He brings us photos of her with coke [...]. Then admits he took the photos. Then admits he's the one with the coke habit. - beloved_wolf

6. There were probably 1,000 other reasons, too.

Wife filed for divorce bc she didn't want to relocate to a neighboring state for his promotion. - beloved_wolf

7. This can't be the first time that happened.

Couple with "open marriage" both end up jealous and call different law firms, and file separate complaints for divorce within hours of each other. - beloved_wolf

8. That's kind of expensive for a dog, to be fair.

Because she bought a $3500 dog as a surprise and when she sent him the picture he responded with "this kind of impulsive bulls*** is why your family is poor." She was livid at the comment. - MisterBurns313

9. This is not outrageous at all.

She saw him in bike shorts and said she could never be sexually attracted to him again. - ragnarockette

10. "In sickness and in health" didn't apply to him.

A man wanted to divorce his wife (Fault and no-fault type of divorce) because she was diagnosed with cancer. - MIawwwwwwwYOU

11. That sounds extremely annoying, to be fair.

A man filed for divorce because he couldn't stand listening to his wife make the "aah" sound after every drink. Apparently it got to him over the years. - Katie_19_96

12. Aaaaand this is why mental health awareness is important.

Not qualified, but butting in nevertheless with a story my Physician brother told me (his patients tell him everything).

One of his patients got divorced because after his girlfriend and he got married, the girlfriend began bugging him about quitting the meds he was taking for depression and anxiety; because she should "be enough" or some such thing. He eventually did, then later she wanted a divorce because he "wasn't the same guy she married" - imk

13. This couple was clearly not built to last.

After seven years of marriage, a husband (unbeknownst to the wife) started trying to convince their nanny to have a threesome, telling her his wife would be really into it.

He was a Wall Street guy and she was a physician, and the nanny had been with them since their first kid was born four years earlier. The nanny finally made a move on the wife, who told her it was inappropriate. But a few months later, they got drunk, and they had that threesome.

It turned into a regular thing. The husband was totally happy—until the wife said she and the nanny were in love with each other, and she was leaving him for the nanny! During the custody proceedings, the husband tried to argue the nanny was an illegal immigrant, which was ridiculous. In the end, the wife got primary custody. Three years later, the wife and nanny are still together, though they hired a new nanny - blondemathematician

14. In other words, a teenager acted like a teenager.

The 16 year old stepson looked at her repeatedly with “disrespectful eyes.” - thuglifeTyson

15. Confusing.

I had a woman call and say she needed an annulment but couldn’t find her husband, and hasn’t seen him in years. I corrected her that it would be a divorce, not an annulment. She told me they never consummated the marriage so it couldn’t be a divorce. I told her that hasn’t been the law in a long time, and she fought me on it. I asked her how exactly she intended to prove to the judge - with evidence - that her marriage wasn’t consummated, and that got her upset enough to hang up on me. - beccaroux

16. This could grate on you after a while.

My friends parents: because she was tired of the husband being too short (the same height as when they started dating). - StakBakko

17. A sociopath.

He squeezed the toothpaste directly into his mouth instead of on the toothbrush.

This is why it doesn’t hurt to live with someone before you marry them. - bookworm1002001

18. Hope she went on to live a happy life without this a-hole.

30 minutes after the wedding, bride found him having sex with one of the bridesmaids. That story shocked me. It was my step dads client. - ag1el

19. Twice?!

The wife said "He left the fridge open twice" I looked at the guy and just said "im sorry" with an expression - casyoli

Services like 9-1-1 exist so that people can get help in emergencies — but sometimes people use the service for things that are decidedly dumber.

A recent Reddit thread asked 9-1-1 operators to name their stupidest or most annoying call yet. The answers might make us all feel better about the minor inconveniences we've managed to tackle on our own.

1. Starting to think she wasn't really a nurse.

I had a nurse (she told me twice she was a nurse before we confirmed the address)... anywho, the nurse tells me she’s babysitting an infant. So I’m starting to get into baby cpr mode... again, tells me she’s a nurse. I ask her what she’s reporting: “Well, like I said, I’m babysitting this infant and cutting his finger nails. I accidentally cut one too short and it’s bleeding” Did you cut a part of the finger off? “No. It’s just bleeding”. At this point, I can give some basic bleeding instructions. But we literally sent an ambulance to help a “nurse” apply a bandage - LeggyBald

2. Couldn't she have saved this for the group text?

Female caller is screaming her absolute head off on picking up the phone. It sounded like her house was on fire and everyone she ever loved was being murdered in front of her eyes. The issue? She had never been in a hailstorm before and it was scary. - InconceivableWords

3. Google is your friend, dude.

Male 911 caller says he has a question and no emergency. Ok, go ahead. "Yeah so if I'm driving and the speed limit sign says 40 and I'm going 42, is that like....speeding?" ....Yes. "Ok that makes sense, thanks." - InconceivableWords

4. Errr....

Male caller says his friend accidentally shot himself in the leg in the car. After getting a bunch of info, we go down the medical side of things and I get to the question "is the bleeding serious?" - male, "I can't tell." - ok, is it spurting or pouring out? - "I can't see, I need to take his pants off...BRO DON'T MOVE I NEED TO TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS!" - me, what? No, no with his pants ON, I need you to tell me if he is bleeding! Only time I openly laughed on a 911 call. - InconceivableWords

5. The simplest explanation is often the correct one.

Male caller says he's afraid for his life because "the cops have been following him all day". Ok where are you at? *gives intersection* Me: ".......sir that is where the police station is. You realize that they are just going to and from the police station?" Him: "Oh. Ok that makes sense, thanks" - InconceivableWords

6. How embarrassing!

A phone calls 911 multiple times (I think around 7?) with no one talking and no answers on callbacks. A couple times it sounded like there was some heavy breathing and possibly voices in the background. Finally get an answer on the last try and a female who is clearly out of breath answers.

"Hi this is 911 and your phone has called multiple times and it sounded like something was going on. Do you have an emergency?" "OH MY GOD, no.......my boyfriend and I were....engaged in some vigorous activity and the phone must have been on the bed!" She was mortified, lol. - InconceivableWords

7. He sounds like a real prize.

I used to volunteer with my local PD and was helping deliver some goodies to the county dispatch center [...] While I was chatting with one of the dispatchers who was taking 911 calls, they received a call from a man who immediately starts yelling at the operator. Once the man calms down, he explains the situation. Apparently, he had hired a prostitute and brought her to his place. After her services were preformed, he refused to pay her due to him not feeling that she did a good enough job to deserve any financial compensation.

Because she was not reviewing her payment, the prostitute refused to leave the house until she had her money and the man was calling to have her removed from the premises. Long story short, the police were sent to the house and both individuals were arrested after admitting to engaging in prostitution activities. If there is a lesson to be learned here, it’s to not call 911 on your hooker. - b17pineapple

8. Can't argue with that logic.

I was a dispatcher for AAA. I got an emergency roadside call about 11pm. Im getting some information and I ask where she’s located...”I’m directly beneath the moon. They’ll see me.” And she hung up. - InterstellarBind

9. This is understandable.

I work with a lot of police officers. I got ragged shamelessly for calling in a panic one day and yelling incoherently about a car in a parking lot.

I was driving home and there was an SUV that was on fire at an abandoned gas station but somehow I forgot to tell the dispatcher that the CAR WAS ON FIRE and just kept yelling that the car was dangerous and someone could be killed by this parked car....

they finally calmed me down enough to ask why it was so dangerous and I was like "what? It's on fire! It could blow up! Or cause a forest fire!" I could hear the dispatcher rolling his eyes as he told me I should've started with "hey there's this car on fire!" versus "I'm at a gas station and there's this parked car." I was 17 or 18, I know better now. - seventhirtytwoam

10. What a terrible person.

Guy calls in, says he’s parked somewhere he shouldn’t have and the business owners have become confrontational.

“Look, I parked in a lot with signs that said I wasn’t allowed to, right? But I needed a spot and just said screw it. Now the business owners have blocked me in and they won’t let me go!”

“Won’t let you go? Do you see weapons? Have they assaulted you?”

“No. They just won’t let me leave unless I apologize.”

“...could you...do that?”

“I mean, I really don’t want to, I resent being made to by these people, like, it’s just a parking spot, can’t you send the police?”

“Sir I could send the police. I’m not sure how long it will be before they get there. If this is something that can handled with an apology...do you think police are really necessary?”

heavy sigh “F***. No. Guess I’ll f****** apologize.” - zophister

11. At least this solved the problem!

Police officer here, I was once called to a womans house who said she was trapped inside in the middle of winter. I showed up at her home to find that there was a 3 quarter inch of ice stopping her screen door from opening. I opened the door mildly hard and broke the ice to open the screen door - killakam864387

12. What is the right number for losing your car keys??

Where do I begin? Halloween night some lady called 911 because she lost her car keys, said she “wasn’t sure if she was calling the right number.” We’ve had people call asking for directions, reporting a black teen walking down the street; that person got hung up on. Someone called to report a suspicious vehicle on their street and it turned out to be our police car... which was marked. - Thinblue138

13. Yikes.

My friend is a 911 operator in my home town. On Labor Day every year, they get lots of calls asking what time the parade or fireworks start. - froggyjamboree

14. Sad.

A woman called from the big city in our area that was about 11 miles away and complained that her 18 year old daughter wouldn’t go to school. The operator explained that her daughter was an adult and couldn’t be forced to go to school. The mom called back two more times to complain about and and called back a fourth time to say that her daughter had now run away. - Goodeyesniper98

15. Hope she figured it out.

The most recent one was a woman requesting someone respond to adjust her air mattress because she was having difficulty falling asleep. - quack-quack-moo

16. He's getting at least a little bit of coal next year.

I had a kid call once on Christmas Eve, upset because his dad wouldn't let him open his gifts early. That one was pretty cute, the dad was embarrassed but it was one of my favorite calls. - quack-quack-moo

17. Maybe this person just had a lot of love to give!

At 11.59 pm

Unknown: it's really important

Me: what happened?

Unknown: I just want to say one thing and its related to you. It's life or death matter

Me: ok what!!??

Unknown: that I love you

I woke up to take the call thinking it's important and was really tensed when I heard "death" and then when I heard "love" I was straight up pissed, there are actual people in need of help. Usually, I would have ignored but that day I was so furious and wanted to make him feel the same

Me: I'm tracking your location and if the situation was any less than what you just described when the police turn up, they are going to nail your ass in jail!

---Silence---

Me: are you still there?

Unknown: uhh... uhh... I'm terribly sorry. Sorry. Wrong number. It was not you.

Me: okay but if you're gonna still keep talking--- disconnected

Lesson learned I guess ;) - Harsha-a-1729

I hope you woke up feeling phenomenal, exceptional, and motivated this morning. If you're anything like me, however, you just want to crawl right back into bed for the next 3-6 months. Whether you're a morning person or barely even a person in the morning, you'll be able to appreciate the humor in this collection of funny memes.

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Anyone pretending to work from home today will relate to these hilariously accurate memes. Put your Zoom meeting on mute and get ready to laugh your pants off. Oh, I forgot, none of us wear pants anymore.

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Standing six feet away from everyone you interact with has been an interesting adjustment...

Turns out, a whole lot of people have no idea what six feet actually means (and not just men entering their height on Hinge). Some people think six feet is approximately a two mile-wide radius while others will brush by your shoulder and then wonder why you backed away. While it might be awkward, social distancing is critical to keeping case numbers down, and we all must do our part.

However, that doesn't mean anyone has lost their sense of humor. 2020 has been chaotic to say the least with a global health crisis, murder hornets, UFO evidence, and Kanye West running for president. If everything in your life since March has felt like a rollercoaster reel of of sweatpants, Zoom meetings, and upper lip mask sweat, you're not alone.

So, when people started Tweeting "#HowIKeepPeople6Feetaway," a meme was born. Enjoy and stay safe and six feet apart, everyone!

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There's more to "Dad Jokes" than just puns...there's also cleverly put observativions about the everyday absurdities of parenting, and also simply writing down the hilarious things that kids say. Here are some of the best tweets from dads keeping it together over this strange, strange summer.

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While celebrities might have the financial privilege to constantly be waited upon, without paying much attention to the feelings or tipping needs of many servers, servers still hold the power to expose unsavory behavior. And when they do call out celebrities for mistreatment, the masses of other service workers and curious fans take note.

This past week, the TikTok user @JuliaCarolAnn posted a two-part video with the apt title "Rating celebrities I met while working as a hostess in a fancy Manhattan restaurant." It wasn't long before both videos made the rounds and went viral.

In the first video, she rated a handful of celebrities based on how they treated her and her coworkers. While Bella and Gigi Hadid 10/10 received for their kindness to wait staff, Hailey Bieber got only 3.5 for being unpleasant a handful of times, and Kylie Jenner took the cake of bad ratings with a 2/10 for leaving a $20 tip on a $500 bill (which is a 4% tip).

In the second video she gave Josh Peck a 10/10 for being the "nicest celebrity I've ever met," and followed up by giving Kendall Jenner a 4/10 for being standoffish and having other people talk to staff for her. Nick Jonas was apparently very chill and received an 8/10, while Beyonce got a 10000/10 for being gracious and beautiful.

While plenty of people have jumped in the comment section to share their shock, awe, and confirmation, only one of the celebrities has directly responded to their rating (at the time of writing this).

After seeing the video, and how poorly she fared, Hailey Bieber jumped in the comments to apologize for any bad vibes she gave off.

She also followed up to say she hopes she sees Julia again in person so she can apologize.

Julia was quick to respond by saying she appreciates Hailey's self-awareness, and that she'd love to meet again someday.

This ended in a surprisingly wholesome manner, now we just need Kylie Jenner to pay wait staff the rest of that tip.

It's a myth that once you become an adult you magically have your sh*t together. We're all awkwardly fumbling our way through life. And even the most educated and high-functioning professionals are not immune to excruciatingly dumb and embarrassing moments, as a recent Twitter thread highlighted.

A man Dean shared on Twitter that being a highly-educated doctor didn't disqualify him from an embarrassing clothing mishap:

The relatable tweet went viral, prompting other adult professionals to share their own hilarious and mortifying mishaps—clothing-related and otherwise. Here are 25 of the funniest:

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There are a few universally agree-upon codes of conduct for weddings, and one of them is to definitely never wear white...

Stealing the spotlight away from the bride in any form whether that's trying to make a speech that's all about you, proposing to your partner, or making any other big life announcement is definitely never a good idea. However, the oldest law in the book is that you definitely shouldn't wear white. Unless, of course, you're attending one of those weddings where every guest is asked to wear white...

While most families serve as a fun support system on the big wedding day, sometimes tension tends to arise between the bride and her mother, or even worse, her mother-in-law. When a war is about to boil over, that's when the maid-of-honor is expected to jump in. A maid-of-honor is required to be an enthusiastic yet hardcore unpaid intern from the second their best friend gets engagement to the minute the wedding is over. The maid-of-honor doesn't tolerate any nonsense that would ever result in bridezilla behavior, and that includes the bride's mother showing up the wedding in a white dress. This is not your day, mom. Back off!

So, when a maid-of-honor consulted Reddit's, "Am I the As*hole?" about a conflict she got into with her sister-in-law's mother, people were there for her.

AITA (Am I the As*hole) for not letting my MIL attend my SIL's wedding unless she changed her dress first?

(This happened a while ago, no big weddings during a pandemic for me, dw!)

I (24F) was the maid of honor at the wedding of my brother and his wife (my sister in law).

While we were planning the wedding, my sister-in-law mentioned how overbearing her mom can be, and how she always feels bad asking her to stop being an attention hog. I told my sister-in-law that on the wedding day, I'd take care of her, no matter what.

Sure enough, mother-in-law pulls up to the wedding wearing a WHITE dress (something my SIL guessed she'd do). I saw her get out of her car and start walking towards the venue, so I pulled her aside before anyone could see her and brought her in through a side entrance.

I told her that it was inappropriate to wear white at someone else's wedding, and that if she wanted to attend, she'd have to change. I had my SIL give me some of MIL's nice dresses, so I had a few for her to chose from.

MIL flipped out on me. She told me I had no right to ask her to change and that I was being a pain in the a*s on an emotional day. She started crying and went to look for her husband, so I updated SIL & she told me if MIL would rather miss her own daughter's wedding rather than just change her dress, she could miss it.

MIL ended up changing, but made a HUGE deal out of it and went home early during the reception because she "didn't feel welcome". She still maintains that I was out of line. I don't think I did anything wrong, but I do feel really sh*tty for potentially being the reason my SIL wasn't able to enjoy her wedding fully with her mother (even though SIL still had crazy amounts of fun). AITA (Am I the As*hole)?

Yes, technically the "mother-in-law" in this story is her sister-in-law's mother, but let's not let that distract us from the core issue here: don't wear white to a wedding. Of course, people were quick to offer their opinion on this one:

You are the best SIL ever. You saved the bride from having a miserable wedding and reception with wedding photos of her mother competing with her in a white dress. Queen of NTA (Not the As*hole). - salemonadetea

Who the hell wears a white dress to a wedding?! You did exactly and the bride asked you to, don't worry - moderatelysizedjim

I can't believe the mom would try to take away her own daughter's spotlight. You did the right thing (especially since SIL previously mentioned how it bothered her) - arabiangandhi05

You were an angel for your brother and SIL and they will always appreciate you standing up for your SIL. - PadawanPoopyPoop

The fact that your SIL HAD DRESSES BECAUSE SHE KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, shows me that the MIL would’ve ruined their day if you weren’t there. I applaud you. You are one hell of a maid of honor and I would love for someone like you to be there on my wedding day because I know my mom is going to do something like this at mine. (She’s talked about wearing “the white dress she never had” at my wedding, for some insight) Again you are an amazing sister and SIL and even though the MIL is butthurt, she can be butthurt all she wants until she realizes what she almost did was extremely wrong. - Slab231

You did everything right by your SIL, whether it was wearing a white dress or leaving early, or something else, your MIL was going to find a way to create some drama. Better she left early, dressed appropriately, than stuck around and caused a headache for your SIL. - Nixie_D

So, there you have it!

The general opinion here is that the mother-of-the-bride was completely in the wrong, and she shouldn't have tried to steal the spotlight from her daughter. This bride is lucky to have such a loyal sister-in-law. Good luck everyone!

It's only mid-July, but many parents are currently facing the difficult decision of whether or not they should send their kids back-to-school at the end of the summer. Some experts have recommended that schools re-open, citing inadequacies of remote learning, for young children, as well as the apparent lower risk the virus poses for kids under age 18. But as Covid-19 cases continue to rise in most states, and some states are declaring a full-on crisis, many people fear that reopening schools will put kids and their families, as teachers and school staff, at risk. Like everything related to the virus, there's a lot of mixed messages and misinformation out there, making it very difficult for parents to know the best decision to make.

One mom, Aisha Saeed, turned to someone she knows she can trust for answers: her daughter's pediatrician. She shared her "sobering" response on Twitter for other parents to see.

The pediatrician said she has seen "a lot of kids coming in with COVID," despite the rhetoric that "kids are not as affected."

Ultimately, the pediatrician said that choosing to send kids to school will likely result in them contracting the virus eventually, due to the high rate of "community spread."

Saeed added that this response was "sobering" because her pediatrician is someone she knows she can trust to be honest and know the facts.

She said that she had hoped for a different response, that the doctor would "wave the worries away." But that "didn't happen."

Finally, Saeed expressed sympathy for teachers who will have to put their own lives at risk if schools re-open, and/or risk losing their jobs.

She concluded that she is so sorry "that the leaders that be have failed you and all of us.

Here are some responses from parents and teachers. Most of them, like Saeed, are struggling with the fact that this is not an easy choice to make. Sending kids to school may be risky, but for many parents, keeping them at home is also extremely difficult.

Cheesy puns and innocent pranks are often referred to as "Dad Jokes," but children are the future. A new trend among kids is to prank their parents with wordplay, and it's adorably wholesome, especially compared to most TikTok dances.

This mom was alerted by her son to a "serious leak" in the kitchen.

It's impossible to be mad at a kid who loves wordplay. Plus, how many parents can boast that their children can recognize what a leek is?

The leek and its stern expression went viral, with over 62,000 retweets and 340,000 likes. It kicked off a thread of parents sharing their kids' punny pranks.

Milk Gone Bad

Running Water

Silence of the Limes

Leek: Grandma Edition

Walter White Milk

Edward Knifehands

The Smoking Toilet

The hardest part about being a teenager is knowing absolutely everything, and being forced to interface with swarths of older adults who just don't get it. It's a heavy burden to carry - having an innate and superior knowledge of how the world works, and yet someone has to carry it.

Of course, the hardest part of getting older, is realizing that you didn't know everything as a teen, and that many things are unknowable, and also life is inherently chaotic.

As teens, many of us declared our beliefs and tastes as definitive and unflinching, absolutely nothing was going to change our minds, and it was offensive for mom to suggest otherwise. Unfortunately for our teen conviction, time often tells a different story.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the teen beliefs they insisted weren't phases that were, in fact, phases.

1. From GMane2G:

That I’d be the first pro snowboarder/NBA player.

I’m a moderately successful public school teacher.

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Being obsessed with Incubus - Morning View

The irony being that my favourite track was Just A Phase.

3. From ThadisJones:

I went through a Jedi phase in college, triggered because Star Wars: Jedi Outcast had just been released for PC. I grew my hair long and braided the sides, wore brown and gray robes, became vegetarian, carried a light saber, and occasionally mentioned I sensed disturbances in the Force.

My GF at the time was almost completely unaware of Star Wars culture and thought I was developing schizophrenia.

Edit: People seem confused about the Why GF thing: I was a normal person- classes, job, varied interests, reasonably clean apartment, healthy lifestyle, girlfriend- who got overly enthusiastic about one of the best Star Wars PC games of the decade. The rest of my life didn't change just because I started role playing as a member of a fictional religion; sure people thought I was weird but there's always some people who are going to think that.

4. From bowyer-betty:

Well I'd always pictured myself at 80 in Tripp pants and eyeliner. Turns out the pants were too heavy to be comfortable and the eyeliner was just because girls liked it.

5. From -imposter_syndrome-:

I 100% was sure I would be an author. I got a poem published in an anthology at 13, and I signed that sh*t and handed the books out to people at my moms work like I was a celebrity. I carried around a little leather bound notebook and would write god awful angsty poems and short stories. Turns out writing an actual novel that is worth reading is HARD.

6. From ipushthebutton-:

My emo style and music taste. I look back at photos and listen to some of those songs and think to myself, “you dumba*s.”

7. From nom-d-pixel:

My love of music. I could not imagine a time when knowing all about artists and songs wouldn’t be important.

8. From TheDoorDoesntWork:

My desperate need to be a professional comic artist. Turns out I also enjoy work life balance and am fine with just being amateur artist.

9. From Revan_of_Carcosa:

I always thought I'd move to the city and work my way up in tech or finance (oh joy) and have a house in a nice neighborhood with awesome neighbors.

F*ck that.

I now own 100 acres in New Mexico and have an established vineyard with absolutely no neighbors or kids. Just me, my wife, and my rattlesnakes.

10. From b0bscene:

I spent all of my inheritance on a prosumer video camera and other video kit. I was determined to be the greatest cameraman of all time. Now I can't even be bothered to take photos with my phone...and I wish I had that 5 grand too!

11. From H0lyThr0wawayBatman:

Thought for sure I'd be a goth for life. "It's not a phase mom, this is who I am!"

Still love Siouxsie though.

12. From juanLegTapDance:

Being an atheist. I guess more being an obnoxious one. I remember 16 year old me poorly debating a family member that was a preacher. Neither of us were making good points and we weren't going to change each other's minds.

Now, I just don't care. If religion makes you happy, I'm happy for you.

13. From sydmariee:

Being a lesbian. I only dated women up until I was 22. It was.. an adjustment lol.

14. From cloudstrife1191:

I knew that I wanted to spend all of my money on replica rings from the Lord of the Rings movies. My grandmother asked me if I’d really enjoy having something like years down the road. I said “of course I will!!! Why wouldn’t I love LOTR when I’m older it’s awesome. Decided not to waste my money on movie replica crap and I’m pretty glad I did.

15. From Some_Strange_Dude:

My edgy Atheist phase.

In my early teens I got really into watching Atheist Youtubers that would rant about religion and go out of their way to find things to be pissed off about relating to religion or Christianity. I basically thought that religion was the root of evil in society and I would not shut up if I was given the slightest reason to talk about it. One time even "pranking" my local church with a friend by yelling "evolution" and running away like I was somehow part of some grand uprising.

I liked talking and arguing about it, because it made me feel like an intellectual. Like I was somehow way smarter than most people my age because I spent time arguing about complicated questions and therefore knew some truth others didn't. I thought I was doing a service to society by making people realize, and not saying anything was the worst you could do. In reality, I was just a very insecure and shy kid that wanted to stand out somehow and knew way less than I pretended I did.

Safe to say I annoyed plenty of people at my school. As I matured a bit in my mid teens I mellowed out and was able to look back on how stupid I had acted back then and I think it helped drive me to become closer to the type of passive/accepting person that I originally swore to never become. Funny how that works.

16. From MauiMadMan:

The constant urge to have sex.

17. From SupaKoopa714:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic came out in 2011, along with the brony fanbase, and 16 or 17-year-old me at the time went through a brony phase for a while. I just remember going "Huh, there must be something to this whole My Little Pony thing," watched a few episodes out of curiosity, and fell in love. I wasn't as hardcore into it as some guys are/were, but I still thought the show was one of the best things ever at the time. I had two or three MLP T-shirts from Hot Topic as well as a Spike hoodie that looks like someone skinned him and turned him into a jacket, I followed the show pretty regularly, hung out on r/mylittlepony and some other forum (I think it was Equestria Daily, I can't remember), and even had "Brony" in my Reddit username up until I abandoned that account and made this username, which is dumb but not quite as dumb as the old one.

At some point in the break between the 4th and 5th seasons, my interest in the show totally scaled back for some reason and never really returned, though I do admittedly still have good memories of the show and am still a tiny bit of a fan.

And in case anyone's wondering, I can safely say that I never once jerked it to pony porn, or even looked at any for that matter.

18. From ImpaledLuck:

Anime/Manga was peak entertainment that could never be reached, hardcore weeb status without speaking broken Japanese and wishing I was born in Japan. I still am quite a fan of it and watch and read a ton, but I'm no near how disgusting I was in High School and have cleaned up quite a bit, but god damn do I love it.

19. From Terns-a-Plenty:

I live in a reasonably socially progressive place, so coming out as gay in high school was no problem for me. I think probably I even gained a few friends from that revelation. Then it seemed a lot harder to tell people I fell in love with a woman a couple years later...

20. From bensmom2020:

Hating my mom. I absolutely hated her, yes she was flawed but as I have gotten older I understand her more and why she made the life choices she did and just how strong she truly was. I don't think she ever realized how truly amazing she was.

Relationships with in-laws often get a bad reputation for being stereotypically complicated, and the conflicts between a wife and her mother-in-law are usually the messiest...

Mothers tend to defend their children no matter what they do because evolution has tricked us into unconditional love for our offspring, but is it ever a good idea to break major news to your in-laws before your partner has a chance to tell them themselves? Divorce is never easy, and people should be allowed to deal with the chaos of it all in the best way they see fit. If that means telling your mother-in-law that you're walking out because your husband is a lying cheater, then ok!

So, when a recent Reddit user consulted "Am I the As*hole" about an awkward conversation she had while returning some of the gifts she gave her, people were ready to help.

AITA (Am I the as*hole) for telling my MIL (mother-in-law) that I'm divorcing her son?

Reddit, I’m in a conundrum. My soon to be ex “Jack” and I are in the middle of a divorce. Jack is very resistant to the idea, and wants to try counseling. I’m not willing to try again. It didn’t work the first two times I pushed for counseling and when I asked (several times) if we could find a new therapist, he said no.

But now that I’ve got proof he cheated with multiple women, he wants to try counseling again. (cue eyeroll)

At this point, I just want out. We didn’t have kids, and there weren’t a lot of shared purchases. To be honest, I’m willing to walk away with what I brought into the marriage. Ie. My dog and kitchen supplies. I managed to move out right before COVID restrictions started. Upon my moving day, I sent him a text (Quoting)

“I’ve finished moving out. If you find anything of mine that I left behind, I don’t want it anymore, feel free to toss or donate it.”

During mine and Jacks’ marriage his mother gave me a box of knick-knacks. They were Jacks’ Maternal grandmother’s. I never met the woman, since she died before Jack and I met. When we lived together, I put the knick-knacks in the living room, on top of the mantel. When I moved out, I left them behind. They’re not my style and frankly I didn’t feel they were mine to keep since they were Jack’s grandmother’s things.

Last week, I found a box on my front step; it was the knick-knacks. There was a note in Jack’s handwriting saying I’d forgotten them. I checked to make sure that I’d sent the text saying “If you find anything of mine that I left behind, I don’t want it anymore, feel free to toss or donate it.” Sent him a screenshot of the text, and then drove over to his mothers house. If he doesn’t want them, then they belong to his mother since it her family heirlooms.

I intended to only drop the box on her porch and leave, but she met me on the porch and I tell her what’s in the box. She’s confused that I’m bringing them back and starts asking questions. I only say that since Jack and I are in the middle of a divorce, I don’t feel comfortable keeping his family heirlooms, especially since I’ll be changing my name back after finalization. I left right after that, and Jack later texted me, mad that I’d told his mother about the divorce.

I told him that we are getting a divorce and I didn’t want to stay married to him and if he didn’t want to get divorced he shouldn’t have cheated multiple times. We haven't spoke since then, although his mother keeps asking questions

So, AITA (Am I the as*hole?) for telling his mother about the divorce? And would I be the as*hole if I told his mother he cheated?

Of course, people were quick to offer advice. Everyone loves some solid mother-in-law drama.

obviously he's embarrassed for having to explain to mommy how he is a cheating ah who doesn't respect his wife.

congrats on your new life - artistdudemayhaps

If his mother is asking, I’d tell her - stops her having to invent her own reasons / him being able to make something up that paints him in a better light. You don’t need to give her the gory details - especially as you seem to be handling this in a much more mature way (and deliberately less hurtful way) than I would (seeing as how I’d have made an announcement on Facebook with my evidence and tagged his mother in it were this me...) - PoorHuni

You were thoughtful to return the heirlooms.

Your ex probably hoped to wrangle you back into the marriage, but marriage is not a one man show. You did not own him to play along with his fantasies. - deStael

you weren't rude about it and she was bound to find out soon anyways - peachybonsai

He needs to grow up. He cheated, refused to let you out of the marriage the easy way and chose not to tell his family. What were you gonna do? Engage in a back and forth over the Knick-knacks? Throw them out? Option one is draining, option two would probably hurt his mother. Keeping them is not an option. That left you one choice - give them back to his mother. - Etoiaster

You should also tell that he cheated too. His action ended the marriage not you. He should not be able to claim otherwise. - Noctisv020

It's not your fault that he didn't tell his mom about the divorce.

Good luck on the new chapter of your life! Getting divorced is tough, but you'll be much happier once it's all said and done. - KissyKenobi

So, there you have it!

The general opinion here is that she is not in the wrong at all for breaking the news of the divorce to her mother-in-law, and she also wouldn't be wrong to clue her in on his "extracurricular activities." If she happens to find herself posting the receipts to her Instagram as wine-fueled revenge and then hides the post from everyone except her mother-in-law, then that's her prerogative! Go for it!

Most mothers probably wouldn't want to hear the gory details of their son's moral dilemmas, but this mom definitely seems more invested than normal in the divorce drama. Good luck, everyone!

Is honesty always the best policy? Does a bystander have a responsibility to speak up for somebody does something that could possibly harm a child?

These are the important moral questions weighed in the latest juicy "Am I The A**hole?" post, which involves an absurd baby name you'd expect from a celebrity.

A woman is looking for affirmation from the internet that she did the write thing by telling her sister-in-law who had just given birth not to name the baby "Alibi."

Alibi, as in,"an excuse usually intended to avert blame or punishment." Is that a bad name, or the worst name?

She wrote:

Ok so looking for outside judgment because I do feel bad about upsetting her still.

Last weekend I joined a family zoom call where my brother and SIL (sister-in-law) wanted to announce their new baby’s name after spending nearly a month brainstorming. My parents and other siblings were also there along with their SOs.

Anyways, they excitedly announced that my baby niece will be named “Alibi” and pronounced exactly like you would the real word. Everyone’s kind of in shock while they explained the process. Apparently my SIL was reading a book and randomly closed her eyes and pointed at a word on the page, hoping to find a possible name. That word was “alibi.” She said she forgot about it until she kept seeing/hearing that word pop up days after in different ways, in newspapers, on tv, on posters and on radio, etc. She then had a dream where her baby spoke to her and told her its name was Alibi. She said it sounded “beautiful, exotic, mysterious and unique.” They also said the name will have to be pronounced in full (eg no shortening to normal nicknames) because it would take away from the uniqueness.

Alibi is certainly a unique name, and you have to wonder why nobody has used it before.

So yes, it was literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard and I blurted out “that’s literally the worst name I’ve ever heard. Are you guys joking?”

SIL got really defensive and said that I don’t have to like it, it’s not my baby. I said yes of course but Alibi is still objectively a terrible name for a human child. My siblings at this point all agree but my SIL starts yelling and my parents calm us all down and tells us Alibi is a beautiful name for a baby.

Long story short, my brother and parents want me to give a long apology to SIL including a statement along the lines of “I’ve changed my mind and think Alibi is actually a great name.” I’ve apologized for upsetting her but I refuse to do the latter and am currently fighting them on it. I still think that name shouldn’t even be legal as a person’s name. AITA for still fighting this?

She apologized for the hurt feelings, but not for disapproving of naming a baby girl after a criminal law term.

The Reddit Jury was sympathetic.

"Alibi is a terrible name for a child. You've apologised for hurting her feelings, that's all you can do. NTA (Not The A**hole)," judymcjudgerson ruled.

"NTA, parents who give their children stupid names are a**holes," confused_turnip commented. "Naming a child isn't just a parent's right but a responsibility. Anyone who doesn't take that responsibility seriously with names like Alibi, Khaleesi, McKenzee, Paisleigh, etc., is clearly not thinking in their child's best interests."

"It sounds like you had a sincere reaction and are genuinely concerned for the child. As for the long apology, I think it makes sense for you to apologize for offending, but lying and saying you think the name is good is taking it too far," unsurehowtoreddit concurred.

In all likelihood, baby Alibi will be grateful that her aunt stood up for her, because as soon as she starts school, she'll probably be going by just Ali.

"Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese."

– Billie Burke

Generation Z will definitely not understand a single one of these memes. These hilarious jokes will only be relatable for the lucky folks aged 30 and up. See, aging isn't all that bad.

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“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé

Hooray! We live to complain another day. Make the most of this moment and treat yourself to some laughs. This utterly random and hysterically funny list of memes is the perfect way to celebrate making it through another morning.

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“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
― Holly Black

Grab your coffee, score that caffeine rush, and get ready to laugh. Now that you're wide awake, you might as well be entertained. These hilarious memes will definitely put some giggles in your morning routine.

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