Did you know that you can say practically anything you want online? Unfortunately, some people do exactly that. Fortunately for us, they are pretty bad liars, so when we see through their obviously farcical stories, the results can be hilarious and cringeworthy. That’s exactly the type of cringe post that Totally True Story on Instagram collects.
Some people may be trying to boost their egos by fishing for likes and compliments online. Others may be trying to get ahead or even scam readers by weaving elaborate tales.
Common sense is a useful sense to hone, especially when you spend time online. These funny little fabrications tend to be about as harmless as it gets. Your common sense can also help you see through dangerous scams, fake news campaigns, and other trickery that runs rampant in the Wild West of the Web.
To play the devil’s advocate, it could also be (however unlikely) that some of these stories are, in fact, true. Are there any where you think the internet got it wrong? Let us know in the comments below each pic!
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This has done the rounds so many times with the airline changed each time
I first saw this in Peter Cook's autobiography. I'm prepared to believe his version involving him (in a hotel) did actually happen; all the others are just stealing the anecdote.
Tip for self-important people: If they didn't say, "OMG, you're ..." or they didn't Tony Hawk you and tell you look just like you, they either don't know who you are, or don't care. Most likely both.
If you are old enough, you will have received this in your work email from THAT coworker. The subject line started with Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: .
Many years ago, my dad and his boss were visiting stores. The boss did the “Don’t you know who I am?” thing and the clerk responded similarly to this gate agent. Then the boss said “Since you don’t know who I am, I’ll tell you. I’m the guy who used to sign your paychecks. When you still worked here.”
Well, that boss turned out to be a Richard Cranium.
Load More Replies...I think I read this on Not Always Right originally, but idk if that's the original
Could happen. Our classes had smartboards and Wifi, and sometimes when we were tired, the teachers would stop teaching for the rest of the period and let us play a song or see a funny video on the screen though not the dancing part. Might happen if your teacher is crazy enough
My high school band director, who was the best teacher I've ever met, had a period where he could not get us to concentrate. He pulled out the tape player ('80's, you know. I'm old) and played "In the Mood" but it was chickens squawking in time to the music. For whatever reason, that worked, and we were able to get it together for the rest of the period. I'd completely forgotten about it, until I read this.
OMG.I love The Chicken Singers doing In the Mood! Now it's in my head. 🐓🐤
Load More Replies...Yeah, I've had a similar experience in college Latin. We played Scattegories instead of class. Our campus was in mourning due to car accident which killed 3 well known students.
Why is this a "that happened", this is 100% plausible in college. heck while rare in high school its not even unbelievable there. yet college this is pretty common, as they are instructors not high school teachers. They manager their time and the lessons and can alter them as they see fit, to an extent. They are just like you a much of the time did not want to wake up and be there, so many act human and just like their student and can be a blast to have mentor you.
My high school math teacher actually had a tendency to drift off into philosophy and the deeper meanings of fairytales. It turned out to be much more useful in life than detivation
this one's just funny, pretty sure it's not begging for attention or anything
And it's actually believable. Maybe the pizza guy is a bit superstitious or otherwise was just weirded out by the line. Honestly, if I was delivering pizza and saw something like this, I might just stay on the other side of it, too.
Load More Replies...This one is plausible. Maybe the pizza person thought it was a religious/cultural thing and didn't want to be disrespectful.
Really, it could even be as simple as pizza person saw a line on someone's property and assumed it meant that it should not be crossed. Maybe they were afraid of getting shot if they did something wrong on someone's property.
Load More Replies...Don't care if it's true; it's funny story-telling. Alternate theories are even funnier.
Reason this could be true....there is a gross line of something on the ground, you do not want to step in it either to not get it on you, or because you worry its there for a reason and do not want to mess it up. Easier to avoid it, they are not paid enough to deal with s**t....so just leave it be and you will get your food.
Do you think these stories are nonsense or do you think they might be true? This post is a great opportunity to hone your common sense and "BS radar" to see whether you can see through sketchy online stories. But do you think that being online makes people lie more or less?
On the one hand, anonymity and distance may provide cover for people to feel like they can get away with more. On the other, the potential for your message to be seen by hundreds or even millions means you're much more likely to be held accountable. It turns out that that's exactly what the experts say - it depends.
How f*****g ripped must op be. Each of her individual muscles must be bigger than my head (if she was real ofc)
Nope, 4'11" and I can have that look. Stand up straight, look like you have confidence, and most men will leave you alone, or be polite. Look timid, and the beasts come out.
Load More Replies...Funniest cat call I ever saw is I had a friend who had a somewhat goth style even when going to work. Sits on a subway across from a group of teens. One of them sings, "Duh dadah duh" and they all snap twice. Don't know how they timed it so well; I can only guess they've seen her before. She was caught between being furious and laughing.
I was walking across my university campus and three guys were all staring at me. I mentally went "ugh" but then one of them said "We LOVE your t-shirt!" (It was a Monkey Island shirt!). So I told 'em where I got it. (eBay).
This is realistic, and a smart rizzer will match the comment to the woman. You can literally see this in action on yourtube and the different comments different types of youtubers get. A rizz towards susu.jpg will be different then toward pokemane. If you see a pretty, airy woman, pick flowing dress, bow in her hair, all smiles...you will give a different call then you would the dark sexy goth twirling a knife and growling at you as she walks by. Dude seen her walking, judged the situation and did the right call. See no that happened here, heard call just like this.
Honestly, believable. My sister worked at a fast food place, and this guy rolled up with a condom on his head and wouldn't accept his food till he was called daddy. Ya'll they were 16- 20 years, he had to have been 60. They banned his card so he couldn't order again.
Again... my wife would TOTALLY say this. She always jokes like that. I hope she's joking anyway. (*checks bathroom... sees dirty-ish tub*) Yeah, she's joking.
There is a reddit group full of woman just like this, if this is her then this is her and 100% believe she would say it, and that it may garner that reaction from another jaded lady.
Just do NOT complement women! Saying complements to women makes you be the creepy guy! Just don't do it! Clearly for this woman receiving a complement upsets her!
Yeah, security guards at Target. You must be dreaming.
Load More Replies...You know, I could've believed this one until the security guard pops up and yells "you!". They expect us to believe that a target security guard is going to remember every face that's been banned?
Unless they were married before this happened and he knew how her ex looked
Load More Replies...So this happened yesterday but you've been married to the security guard for 3 years? Or did you happen to marry the security guard from Target and your ex for some reason came back to see both of you at the same time?
This one...does seem untrue...something about it, yet I have witness more far out starts to relationships, that this could be true.
Much like with real-world relationships, our willingness to lie depends greatly on our environment and our relationship with the people we're talking to. "We find that communication in the inside world tends to be more honest online, and this is in part because those messages are recorded and come from people that we will have future interactions with. We don’t want a reputation as a liar, and it’s easier in some ways to get caught in a lie online (just ask any politician caught in a scandal in the last decade)," Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication, told Stanford magazine.
So why is it that we sometimes feel like it's easier to tell fibs on the internet? Well, for one, there's the fake news we can sometimes be bombarded with, which will shake our trust in the information we see online. But how about when we read something from individuals instead of news sources?
Sometimes the story is better than whether it's true or not
Load More Replies...Ngl I would totally do this if I thought I could get away with it. But most of my religious family members are cool.
I’m an Atheist and I can totally see doing this just to p**s some holy roller off ~ this is plausible.
You get the right group, I can totally believe it. Plus, where do you think that OP got their sense of humor from? Dad.
PlUSIBLE? I remember there was an aita asking since a religious aunt was doing irritating stuff and thinking she was a witch she just blessed or ordained the aunt as a witch and made that aunt freakout run away and complain to all her family...
People like this exist, families can be horrible. See no that happened here, just sad toxic families which is common.
I’ll join you I can’t stop laughing at the mere thought of it
Load More Replies...Religious people have so many weird ideas and if you mock them with humor they flip out.
My mom would never have done this. But her mother would have been infuriated by this - because someone else had thought of it first.
They dip a stick in “holy” water and flick the water at you.
Load More Replies...Doubt it, mom would not bring you to church then have you do this. Unless you only went there to do this, which in that case moms a sick woman for doing this. So, yeah i do not buy this one as no Christian would do this at their church, if it was a place they actually went every Sunday or whenever church is these days.
I forgot and put my cap back on in St. Peter's and some Italian guy shook his finger at me. I didn't get torched so...
Idk if I've already said this but you have an AWESOME username
Load More Replies...If Heaven is full of jerks and holier than thou @holes , and Hell is where gays go please put a good word in for me as want to party with you.
Is it weird i feel like thats gonna be similar to how i come out...
like, the really stupid (and beautiful)instinctive part of just saying (in that case) 'Hell apparently'
Load More Replies...This is a poem i wrote about my coming out story. please be kind: "Everyone says that growing up is good but im not on the same page because lately I've been feeling like I'm trapped in a cage. I can't be me I can't be free. It's a weight on my chest I want to say it but being queer gives you so much to fear. I said it and I hoped you would open your arms and pull me into your warm embrace but I will never forget the shame on your face. You were so cruel, treated me like a fool. So I stepped back in and sat back on the bin in the corner. Sometimes it's lonely but in the hours of the night when there isn't any light I can be me. And I finally feel free. "
None of these are "that happened", all of these are plausible. People these days need more human interaction, too much seems strange to them if these are that happened to them.
This one could be true, I did a little digging and his dad is a dentist
this is 100 percent true though? chris evans' father bob is literally a dentist lol
This sounds plausible, and I’ve experienced similar situations. E.g., my friends randomly invited their new next door neighbors to a barbecue, and they turned out to be Gary Sinise and his family, just renting a quiet family home for the summer, just as Forrest Gump was released.
That is so cool! What an awesome experience that must've been!
Load More Replies...Honestly, this one can be looked up - at least I assume it can be - so I'm willing to believe it.
Hancock explained when people might be more likely to lie online: "Communication from the outside world, however, is from sources that we’re unlikely to engage with again, and so there are little to no reputation costs for people to lie online. These lies include sock puppets [false identities], follower factories, purchased likes, propaganda bots and fake news. So, the degree to which we can trust messages online is really the degree to which you know the source."
There is a conflict here and she would not be able to represent the wife without the husband agreeing.
There's no conflict. OP didn't represent the ex-bf in a prior case. There's no rule that says "you cannot have met the opponent previously". Otherwise good lawyers would get kicked off cases because the opponent "thinks they ride the same train in the morning".
Load More Replies...You know, I kind of agree with you on this but it doesn't state just how far in school she was. Though, I suppose it could've been left out to make it more believable.
Load More Replies...I don't know about this one. I can believe that he called her a nerd and broke up with her. I can even believe that that could have made her more determined to prove him wrong so she could get through law school. But then to be lucky enough to defend her ex's ex-wife? That's the part I don't believe. That would be a pretty big coincidence.
This would be conflict of interest, so this one is for sure a that happened.
What happened to the days when you started by trading a thumb tack for an elastic band and kept trading all the way up to a house with a swimming pool?
I did that once and no one would take all the old stuff, so our group ended up with a broken pallet, I think a wagon, an antique table, and various other weird things that we then all had to carry around with us. Another group got a bike at the end, and I think someone else came back with a queen size mattress.
Load More Replies...Could have happened, until someone using an antique cello to pay a juggler 🙄
y'all, nobody comes up with this stuff on their own. this one's real.
People in the comments must be old or sheltered, this is very plausible. I volunteer my time facilitating art and craft events. And trading of this sort for items and services is pretty common. I primarily operate in the inner city and there is not much money, nor are those chasing art as a dream overly worried about it. trade and conmanship is common. many talented people whose talent is yet to be discovered out there, can get awesome things if you know the right people at the right time. We do not know the details of the trades, yet the oddly make sense to me even without.
Yeahhhhhhhh, I think this probably actually happened, I can see a teacher / professor saying this as their introduction.
Most of us teachers do much quirkier icebreakers than this. This is mere borderline eccentricity.
Nah, bears in zoos have got a pretty sweet life and they know it so this wouldn't happen. If one escaped it would likely want to explore the rest of the zoo, it's probable that they'd just be shot/tranquilized but they would probably follow the zookeeper's if they have food.
True, but the question is whether they can, not whether they will. Also, zoo animals do escape and roam the town periodically, notably ostriches, peacocks, and probably kangaroos. And just yesterday I saw a video of a hippo almost going for a stroll.
Load More Replies...Plausible. My speech teacher was afraid of squirrels. She was not impressed with whoever gave her the Ice Age toy.
Another college one, guessing not many people went if they think is is a "that happened". College is fun, instructors are a blast.
I'm scared of bears too. They can also swim and climb, but the UK has been empty of wild bears for around 1k so it's not so bad.
I would like to thank you for not referring to the baby boomer as "Karen". That is my given name and cringe every time I see a video or read a story naming the jerk of the story "Karen". Kudos for tipping the teen, I am sure it made their day and in turn ruining it for the bully boomer.
Yes! It must me so annoying for you, I'm sorry. I know a few really nice Karens. And it's a pretty name, too!
Load More Replies...I wish it was true, it would be so satisfying :( just like pizza
Load More Replies...Secret millionaire exposed! People barely have enough to buy 2 dozen eggs and she...well
lol ok sure, why not...some people do have more money then sense and do put it where their mouth is. one look online can see a big support for the average retail worker, more plausible if op worked retail previously, yet has a better job now and a chip on her shoulder. i would like to think fake, but I see opinions of this level..i am sure at least one would act on it...though pretty sure they would make a video and post it to youtube if they did so, seem to be the meta..so idk, maybe.
Why is it assumed that all "Karens" are boomers? Most of the ones I've encountered are in their late 40s to early 50s. That would make them Gen-Xers.
I think this was taken from notalwaysright.com That website posts allegedly real story submissions from people that work public facing jobs. This story sounds VERY familiar and I'm 90% sure I read it there first
I can actually believe this...after some of the things my son has gotten into trouble for saying at school....
my little brother is a savage with his mouth... it's actually crazy
Load More Replies...I could believe this.. Isn't what she said something that Bart Simpson says? With The Simpsons being on Disney+ (at least it was the last time I checked) the kid could've easily picked that phrase up and not even know what exactly she's saying.
Yeah yeah, and I miraculously got transformed into a cheeseburger superhero
Yup, totes believe this..if they said people laughed and clapped i would even believe that for this one as well. A little bit of the right youtube channels and you would have a beast of a little girl ready to take on the best of them We do not teach woman to be meek anymore, most entertainment for kids these days will encourage girls to keep their edge, not dull it. And dialog of this nature is modern, so yeah, see no reason this would not happen, and a few young ladies around would likely cheer for this....little girl sounds bad a*s, i would cheer.
My husband can be a sh*t sometimes, but we never really fight. When he gives me grief, I will also yell "Suck my a$$". He puts his hand over his mouth and yells "I can't breathe". We both laugh, crisis averted and we go about our business.
However, it all comes back to the motivations guiding the person behind the screen. Use your common sense - if it's too good to be true, it probably is. It is then quite likely that someone's trying to pull a fast one over you or, at the very least, boost their own ego.
Hancock explains: "It’s easy to forget, but (most) people lie for a reason, and simply because a person is using a phone or a computer or a tablet to communicate doesn’t make them more or less likely to lie. Instead, it’s all about goals and motivations."
I had a teacher that said, the war of independence was won by the British, on account they were fighting themselves (forgone conclusion) and they were only American after the fight was finished. The joke roll continued until the end of the lesson 😂
I find it funnier knowing the guy shouting the phrase was likely using an American accent which has preserved a centuries' old British accent
Load More Replies...Well, I live in Wyoming, and seeing a man riding a horse down the street would not be unusual. He wouldn't be yelling about the British, though. More likely yelling that the cops took his beer.
Load More Replies...Don't know the place enough to know the people, feel horses are a thing and people are a thing..put them together and maybe this could happen. People are people, so. i have done silly things in public, and had people reply. Positive and negative lol. So, maybe....the lie here I feel maybe the today part.
Lie. Even professional American voice actors suck at doing accents from Britain. And they're paid for their work.
Actual true story: Based on your comments, I really appreciate the way your brain works.
Load More Replies...Yeah - like know the words to We didn't start the fire.
Load More Replies...I'm not gonna lie, I think I might believe this one. 7 yo are some of the most savage creatures on this earth.
Can confirm. Source: I have a 7 year old
Load More Replies...My kid isn't so rebellious, but I can totally otherwise picture him doing this, right down to song choice. (Except he'd be singing the "We didn't start the virus" version.)
I call b.s.. Even Billy Joel can't remember all the words to that song, and he's the one who wrote it
Who says the kid is singing correctly?
Load More Replies...Possible. I see this kind of nonsense on an everyday basis from my siblings but mostly replaced by lines learnt from movies
When I worked at the daycare, we took the 2-3 group out on one of those days that the weather can't decide to rain or not. So it starts drizzling, and we're getting the kids lined up to go back in. I called the ones across the yard that we have to go in, because it's raining. One of the girls in line said that it wasn't rain. It was just God spitting at us. I don't think she wanted to go in.
Sometimes light rain is called "spitting". Perhaps she heard an adult say this, and thought they meant God was spitting at them? It's funny how kids minds work.
Load More Replies...I 100% believe this. On my Dad's side of the family, being called a smart-a*s is a compliment. Used to get me into a world of trouble until I learned to put a reign on my tongue. 🙈
I mean some jerk once said something like “girls cant be good at chess” or some dumb@ss s h i t and I responded with “good thing I’m non-binary then so that was fun
Most of these have been quite believable. If you think otherwise, you're probably quite the pessimist
Load More Replies...As someone who works in retail, this is an absolute possibility.
I believe this, worked at a high end furniture store, would answer the phone in my receptionist voice, it would be my dad on the other end asking to speak to me, and just like flipping a light switch, i would use my regular voice. He would get mad, saying, don't do that! Not that i had much choice, the store didn't have caller ID.
I've told that u have a teaching voice, a meeting voice and a regular voice. Never knew I did it until someone pointed it out to me.
Ah, but do you have an Authority voice for stopping children and pets from misbehaving? (I accidentally automatically used it on a couple of young boys running around and play sword fighting in a store. They stopped and apologized. I was shocked!)
Load More Replies...This is believable. I went to visit my surly 16 year old niece at the donut shop where she works and hearing her sound happy and chipper with the customer in front of me was truly frightening.
it's true..I was told I was using my business voice with my MIL this week and the woman finally listend....in call centers it's like reverse UNO card....
My daughter has used 'customer voice' on me to let me know I was being annoying. In retrospect, she was right.
underpaid retail workers bonding over their hate of life...yeah that's totally never happened, like every second of every working day. There smiles are 100% real and that is totes not the same voice one would use with a small puppy....because they actually like the puppies. Yup this sound very very fake, retail worker are very very happy, and life and server you, because you are of course always right.
"Everybody clapped" = I don't believe it. "I was the only person who laughed at it" = been there, done that. I had a bad habit of making jokes at random strangers because the situation cracked me up, but I learned the hard way that often, once the second someone isn't sure that you're joking, their ability to process a joke is 100% irretrievably gone.
I would do something like this. What makes it believable is that nobody else joined in.
True story: Whoopi Goldberg took her stage name because of her extreme flatulence. (Her friends called her "the human whoopee cushion")
I was with them until the extended laughter...
Load More Replies...My partner for a science assignment on atoms and elements made a Michael Jackson joke (helium) and did this same thing- I had to explain it to the teacher because she didn’t get it and he was laughing too hard
But the money saved there goes to ER bills. We were on a hike with Mom and blind step-Dad. There was a tree branch sticking out that slanted up close to a 90°angle. Mom was under the higher side. Not needing to duck for herself, she was so distracted by the scenery she didn't think to move over or have him duck. Whack, dead center into the branch. It does give us a good laugh now, though (wasn't seriously hurt, thank goodness).
This one makes sense. Like how tall people don’t automatically remember that their short friends can’t reach things (my 6’2” great aunt has many times asked my 5’6” grandma to get something from a 7 foot tall cabinet)
Load More Replies...My friend Chris and his wife are both blind - he through an accident, she since birth. Whenever I go over there at night time the electric lights are on because "anything else would be f*****g weird"
My local Starbucks had two tip jars out and one said "Lord of the Rings" and the other said "Harry Potter". You voted for your favorite one with your tips, it was actually awesome. I actually tipped extra because I wanted LotR to win (This was before the JKR snaffu)
Load More Replies...At an amusement park, one of the workers was holding a staff to get on a flume ride; you had to be taller than the staff to get on. My son initially failed to get past, but I had to straighten up real tall to get past him. I asked him, "don't you ever want to pound the staff on the ground and say, 'You shall not pass'?" He broke up and said, "Thank you! EVERY -- SINGLE -- DAY but they told me to stop." I jokingly comforted him, "I understand, I understand..."
No Starbucks closes at 3:00 PM, like ever. My ex husband and my daughter work @ a Starbucks (different stores) and the earliest they close is 9:30 PM ~ what a weird thing to lie about.
Sundays and holidays are often different hours where I live and even Starbucks will close early here for holidays. Just because it doesn’t happen where you live doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen anywhere.
Load More Replies...My mom and I went drive thru at Starbucks and the employee said "Hello, this is Superman what can I get you?" and my mom replied "This is Wonder Woman, I'd like ____ " and he was so delighted and told us at the window that my mom was the first person to acknowledge it for days.
Ewww! The coffee joke is absolutely the best, but hearing my dad say "it's like making love-". No. No. No.
I know a coffee close to a water that was the paralegal for the local judges and lawyers for like 18 years and got my boyfriend out of jail in like 2 days when he was scheduled to be sentenced to 180 days in jail in 3 days time. Also you spelled strong coffee wrong. If he wanted something more watery & weak tho he could have just went and picked up a grey rock or driven his car to a club.
This is a Monty Python joke. The original was about American beer and much funnier.
I had a boss say this about bad beer once. He said "It's like making love in a canoe." Then after I didn't say anything, he said, "Aren't you gonna...ask me why it's like making love in a canoe?"
I feel like this is only unrealistic to introverts lmao. This is relatively normal extrovert behavior, at least to me. I would totally flirt with someone by asking them to teach me how to make pancakes.
As an introvert, you're probably spot on with this assessment. Though as someone unattractive, it's also annoying that you guys always seem to find cute people who find you cute too.
Load More Replies...Years ago, one of my college professors would occasionally ask us (very small class) if we wanted to hang out at his place after class. One student said she couldn't that night, she was having dinner with her boyfriend. I asked her how they met. Turned out they were neighbors at their apartment complex. She came out on her balcony, saw him grilling a steak on his balcony, and, purely as a joke, she said, "Wow, that smells good! Can I come over (she'd never met him before that night)?" He said "Sure!" Apparently they hit it off well enough that they started dating after that.
omg, I thought this was cute...Then I read the link in the search bar....I am so stupid! I literally thought 'totally true stories' That are 100% true, meant they were ACTUALLY true!
The cute new neighbour already knew how to make pancakes. And how to make new friends...
My cousin moved into a new house. Wanted to open a bottle of wine so she went over to the neighbour to see if he had a corkscrew, he did, so she shared the wine with him. They're married now!!
I was home alone one day while wife was shopping. I hear a knock at the door, open it and there stands a girl about five years old. She asks, "May I have a piece of candy.". Now I am starting to freak out and say that we don't have any while looking to see if our neighbors are watching. She replies, "It's in the glass bowl on the table. The lady gives me some when I come over." Yes I brought the bowl to the door and said she could have all she could carry.
Ignoring the legitimacy of this story, I think it makes a good bit of sense for the police to escort someone from a dangerous part of town at night. Especially if she's a small youngish girl. It would be pretty dangerous to just leave her there alone as long as it isn't a regular thing.
Load More Replies...Err pretty sure this might be possible. There are many different states and country where cops might do this, esp if it's a slow night. Depending on country 20 ish year old cop is possible?
isn´t 20 a bit young for being an active cop? Probably means mid-twenties.
Wait-- you mean this thread isn't a Reddit? Now, that IS unbelievable.
Load More Replies...Yes they will. I've been driven home twice. Once after a car accident and once because i was hammered and just asked a cop who was at the convenience store.
Load More Replies...I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that so many people from the states regularly forget that not everything happens in the states. There’s a whole world beyond your borders, ya know. For example: the legal age in Canada is still 18.
In the vast majority of states the minimum age to become a police officer is 21.
Dream or no, i like the thing i have read, cause harry potter reference
Load More Replies...That's what they call serendipity; "The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way..." Recently I turned on the light and the doorbell rang. Thinking, how could that happen? I turned off the light and tried again. As I pressed the light switch the second time, the doorbell rang again. Obviously, the perfect timing was just by chance but for that moment it was just like the light was working the doorbell.
Plausible. Although it’s obvious the other guy was just a quick thinker and decided to take advantage of the freak situation.
No, you're an idiot of course. Because only an idiot would think anybody else would believe that.
Unfortunately, I can believe these ones. There are some abusive, delusional, control freak mother's out there that will do and say terrible things to their own children. I sadly know from personal experience.
Same here. My mom would pull something like this. Of course everyone in my family (including her mom and brother) always say she is a psychopath... I'm like yeah I know, I've had to live with her for 40 yrs
Load More Replies...i'm straight, but most gays are honestly the sweetest people i've ever met
Load More Replies...Honestly this is very similar to what happens when you put my choir class on a bus
Not gonna lie, during homecoming week at school they play this song in between classes and it's just a true American anthem. This is very possible.
Yeah I think it's believable. I would totally join in if someone started singing this song.
Load More Replies...I was stuck in gridlock traffic one summer day and I was just singing and shimmying along to the radio with my windows rolled down. The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" came on and the guys in the truck next to me shouted over and asked what station I was on. I told them and they turned their radio over to that station. They proceeded to turn up their volume to the highest it could get and sang along with the song as well! We were all having a great sing-shimmy-along and when the song came over to the "Da-da-daaa! Da-da-daaa! Da-da-daaa! Da-da-daaa!" part, we each took turns as we pointed to one another and sang it for all we were worth! The next song was Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" and we belted it out just as heartily, even though we stumbled on the lyrics on that one occasionally! We entertained the people around us, also stuck in that horrible traffic. I remember my spontaneous musical moment every single time I'm stuck in traffic or when I hear either of those songs!
Okay... to quote Channing Tatum (Jenko... or Schmidt... whichever one he played...): "F**k Glee."
Also works with boomers chiming in during the acapella part of The Doobie Bros.' "Black Water" which starts with " I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland "
It's okay, though, because Anonymous is obviously a serial killer and uses the dog to lure unsuspecting young men into her suburban home of death. True story.
This reminds of that song "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy from 1974. Angie catches a young man peeking in her window. She lures him inside and, GO LISTEN TO THE SONG ON YOU TUBE. Go Angie.
Load More Replies...It was 100% believable until the very end, which I’m assuming, and kind of hoping, is complete and utter b******t.
A soldier got charged for it for getting a severe sunburn. Urban legend amongst soldiers I imagine.
Nope, used to happen all the time in the 70's. Not so much hickies, but definitely sunburns. Absolutely getting written up if you can't perform your duties.
Load More Replies...Completely true. I got a papercut once, got thrown into Leavenworth Prison for 5 years for destruction of government property. When I got out, a huge parade was thrown for me, I got promoted to the youngest Admiral in the Navy, and February 30th is an official holiday bearing my name.
You can be charged for Sunburn in the Australian Army because it's a "Self-Inflicted Wound". Source: 4 years in Australian Army.
I got a sunburn and they wanted to take my rank for destruction of government property
Yeah, and Marines used to get court martials for destruction of government property for getting a tattoo. Oh, and I'm the tooth fairy.
A friend got in a bar fight with some army guy and won. The army came after him for damaging government stuff.
this happened I was the security guard 💯💯 edit: omg this comment blew up I'm crying laughing at the replies
i'm the bass player from another emo-ish band. can confirm, gerard wouldn't shut up about it
Load More Replies...He is picked up a 5 year-old and hummed a song to him. Sounds like a creeper to me.
*gasp* HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY BELOVED GEE WAY!!!! KILLJOYS... ATTACK!!!! (edit: /j lol)
Load More Replies...Wow, a 5 year old retaining that much information and then being able to tell their story decades later? A-maz-ing! 🧐🙄
This is cute and if it's real I will be so happy *emo tears*
Oh really? They are a sass queen, a dog lover, a unicorn man, and a princess fro fro.
Load More Replies...Speaking of being allergic to things... Just two weeks ago I found out I'm allergic to ants(just like my mom). I looked like a fricking balloon. It took two days for the swelling to go down and I was still left with the itchy bug bite. Yuck. It is literally the only thing I know that I'm allergic to.
The good news is: no yard work or gardening for you!
Load More Replies...Why would someone demand a food they're allergic to?
Load More Replies...Only thing implausible with this is that he met Eric Clapton's girlfriend.
Why did Geo. Harrison divorce Patty Boyd? She gave him the clapton
Load More Replies...I developed a sulfur allergy in my late teens, no more raw onions for me! I can't eat them at all, and even smelling them gives me sneezing fits, wheezing in my chest, and itchy skin. Also can't take any MEDICINE with sulfur/sulfa in it. Found that one out the hard way.
When is Bored Panda going to make a list of "50 times customers bought odd combinations of things at the market"? Golden opportunity, BP! I'll start: once I was behind a lady who was only buying like six cans of sauerkraut and a pack of Depends.
I was at Wal-Mart buying a box of tampons for my significant other... while in the line, I grabbed a thing of tic-tacs. The girl, who wasn't paying a lot of attention, rang up the two items and said "Is this all for you?" I said "No, only the tic-tacs are for me..." She stopped, looked in the bag, and cracked up laughing. :D
If it was a grown woman who wrote this, the 17 is not important, the fact she is getting across is that it was a minor.
This could be true too. I've read a lot of fanfiction and some of them are my emotional support stories I go back to every once in a while
I can see it. Many times the fanfics are BETTER than the o'fic.
Load More Replies...I'd be thrilled to meet some of my favorite fanfiction writers. I'd love to geek out about all the things!
Load More Replies...The share the same interests and sense of humor. This could definitely happen.
I need to look this up. Was it all of the Caribbean or "just" Puerto Rico? Also given PR's government corruption and who was president of USA, I don't doubt that quite a bit is still not fixed
The media prefers to focus on crimes in black neighborhoods compared to white neighborhoods as it generates more attention and therefore money for them. There, fixed your s****y headline for you
Load More Replies...The most unbelievable part about this story is the beginning. You see, I work in a car parts, repair and service store and I know for a fact that not all batteries are the same. If I had to guess a tractor battery is pretty big and beefy and it would certainly not fit into most cars, but what's even worse is that it probably doesn't even have the right voltage! All car batteries are different, you put one in that is too low or too high in voltage, that'll f**k up your car
I believed you till you said that different cars used different voltage batteries. Unless you are talking about the main battery pack of a EV or hybrid the battery is going to be 12 volts, and even then most EV's and hybrids will have a secondary 12 volt battery. Depending on the tractor it probably uses a Group 31 battery that while large could fit in some cars as long as it was not the type with threaded stud terminals.
Load More Replies...Tickets to the superbowl are $$$$$ no thief is going to spring for them to rob your house
That's what I was thinking. You're unlikely to get a decent return on that investment.
Load More Replies...It would sound more plausible if they got to the Super Bowl and found out the tickets were fake.
While the story may not be true, for the people who have problems with a tractor battery starting a car, assuming your car battery isn't 100% dead you can even start them with AA batteries (I saw this years ago on a show about outback survival). Here is an article confirming it: https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/jump-start-a-car-with-aa-batteries/ As for tractor batteries, they're 12v just like a car battery though it's possible (even likely) they'll have higher amperage than a standard car battery. But that doesn't matter. It'll start the car just fine. Unless we're talking the monster tractors that is, in which case I dunno. I've never seen the batteries things like the really huge John Deere's use.
this reminds me of a story someone told me. How this random dude, and a bunch of his friends would aimlessly call the police about a missing/ stolen car even though there was not a missing car. Then eventually, after two months, went and stole a really nice car from a rich persons drive way. When that person called the police they hung up thinking it was another fake call. I didn't think it was real, but what do I know.
The lack of knowledge of electricity, and specifically ohms law, in this post is amazing.
I love how people are getting into the logistics of using the battery as a self-confessed thief says they did...
"Hello, and welcome to Standing Up school...I have failed all of you as an educator."
You know, I could believe this if it wasn't for the whole every customer after falling down like dominoes was written.
Why not? We do stupid stuff in a group. It's not embarrassing if everyone does it.
Yeah... no way in hell someone serves in the navy and doesn't know what "bust a nut" means. Plot twist: it actually has perfectly clean origins, but only SOUNDS 'adult.' (if you tighten a nut too zealously, you can't untighten them.)
One of the dumbest things I have ever read. Idiot child who thinks that grown ups are stupid, & have no idea what it means. If they didn't, you wouldn't even be here.
It's a week most schools have (or maybe it's just in the US?) Where they give their students a chance to dress up and have fun with different themed days (Ex. Soccer mom vs. Barbeque dad). Usually, it falls on homecoming week. Always a ton of fun. Hope this helps!
Load More Replies...Sadly, the signs for f***ing Norway are mush obvious than the signs for regular Norway.
Um a 13 year old acting like a decent human being? Fake news. (Meant to add /s, know some lovely children myself)
Eh, my kid is 10 and is very open about his outrage about the hate that Chris from Mr.Beast is getting. He feels awful about how they are treating her because she is trans and will stand up for her if people start talking shℹ️t. Some kids understand more than we give them credit for. Many do not… but there’s some.
Load More Replies...Call me crazy, but if this is true (IF it's true!)...I dunno, maybe DONT grind on strangers and agree to go home with them when you don't bother to get their name or even see what they look like?
And then the old lady was attacked by members of a rising third gang and went into the hospital in a coma, and the two heads of the existing rival gangs put their differences aside to team up "For Grandma!" and took down the new gang. Then they realized they were actually the same all along, and the gang wars stopped, and the old lady woke up. And the credits start to roll over a freeze frame of the former gang leaders hugging it out because this sounds suspiciously like the first half of a movie from the 80s
I worked at a prison for a pretty good while. The only guards that worked there that were never harassed were the women. Especially the older ones. Every once in a while you would have some dumb kid coming in who didn’t know this rule and he’d end up with a black eye or busted lip the next day. During riots I would see the biggest baddest guys run up and stand around one of the older female guards. A lot of it has to do with the respect you give the inmates but even being respectful wasn’t a guarantee that a male guard would be treated ok.
I know that that's a joke and all, but fun fact: a lot of people in the US do prefer Coke made in Mexico because the formula is different -- it's made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup or something. It comes in glass bottles and says "Hecho en Mexico" and sometimes it's hard to find.
Correct. That was what I thought he was getting at before it went off the rails. My Alamo theater has Mexican Coke on the menu.
Load More Replies...Have they never tasted coke with real sugar before? My dad gets mexico coke because of cain sugar I think
it did have coke in it however if you drank a bottle of the original coke i doubt its the cocaine rather the 131 year old coke that made you sick
It actually didn't have coke in it. Coca-Cola and cocaine were both by-products of the coca leaf. Original Coca-Cola *may* have given very slight side effects that were similar to taking a very low dose of cocaine (reports vary), but it never contained cocaine itself.
Load More Replies...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting... so i dont feel like it, bye bye :(
as a Slytherin, I call bull. it would be a backhanded compliment, or something snarky.
Come on guys, pls leave some customary witty comments on this one. I feel so alone.
What kind of school you all went to? My art teacher simply gave a premade painting for us to recreate
One where the teacher does their job? Not every teacher is the same. Just because that happened to you doesn't mean it happens everywhere
Load More Replies...That's just cruel to the dog. You have a problem with your neighbor? Deal with it like a big kid and don't hurt their dog.
Used properly, they aren't harmful. Don't go blowing with all your might into the whistle. One single gentle whistle is enough to set the neighborhood dogs off. Which I do. Every time my downstairs neighbor goes outside. Because she's really mean to everyone in the neighborhood. She yells at kids playing in the alleyway. She yells and people walking dogs. Lose your ball over her fence? Kiss it goodbye. She's miserable and unkind and I'm that kind of petty. One little toot sets off one dog, and the rest just take off from there. EVERY house around us has dogs.
This totally could have happened. I had labor contractions for 48 hours and during that first day my doula made me walk around the block and get coffee. My water hadn't broken yet, though. It's not always like the movies. And sometimes they don't let you eat at the hospital, so stopping for pancakes makes sense.
First babies often take 24+ hours to be born, so technically you could eat out. However, when the waters break, it isn't just a whoosh and they're all gone (as others would attest) it's drip, splot and messy, so doubt the 'restaurant' would be happy to have her there. Mucus plug however.....
I can believe this. My mom went grocery shopping while she was giving birth to me (very early on ofc but still)
One of the kids my mom used to work with was born in a mcdonalds bathroom
Most colleges have a minimum number of credits that a student has to take in all core subjects for a student to be accepted. In the past, requirements were lower, and many students started college without finishing high school. My father did that, but that was in the 1950s.
Twist: the class prefects were trying to fish out who had their phones
It was a wholesome story and then you had to say this /jk
Load More Replies...ayyyyyyyyy hi!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i hope no one downvotes me for getting off topic. i did it bc this is the bottom of the extended list lol)
Load More Replies...I was *so* proud, but my senility means I can't remember what she said either.
I'm renaming this article: Silly and amusing tumblr stories to pass your time
Yes some of these are probably fake. But I dont understand the mentality of ppl online that if something has never happened to you, OBVIOUSLY it could NEVER happen to somebody else. Weird and funny things happen all the time. One time I was in a house the day someone died there. The coroner's ring tone went off. It was Don't Fear the Reaper. It was morbidly hilarious. You probably don't believe me.
Like your story btw. Don't know if it's true but I love it so I'm chosing to believe it, simple 😜
Load More Replies...This one time, I was browsing Bored Panda and I didn't get the "please disable your adblocker" pop up, and I didn't have to reload the page 4 times before I could get rid of it. I pinky swear.
Everyone in the comments "You're FEMALE??? Impossible, because I'm not. FAKE!" Why the f**k does everyone say this s**t is fake it's perfectly plausible. I seriously wanna go back and grill all the people shouting fake to justify why it's fake
Half of these are actually quite plausible. I've had weird s**t like this happen to me before. Some are obviously fake (like the airline one or the target ex) but the salt line and the dentist? Could happen!
People online tend to not believe all of the weird s**t I eat. Once someone actually did research to try and disprove me mentioning that I ate a whole lemon as a kid and came up with 'well it isn't good for you' which was kind of a given I think
I would eat lemons when I was a kid too. My mom would cut them up in slices and I’d sprinkle a little bit of sugar on them. I’d eat the whole thing. I still like to do that.
Load More Replies...My life is full of stories like this, so, idk I'm reading this like, "wait, does no one believe me?" - maybe some of these aren't true, but most are quite plausible in my world, if not totally normal. So...maybe only boring people find these unbelievable??
I'm renaming this article: Silly and amusing tumblr stories to pass your time
Yes some of these are probably fake. But I dont understand the mentality of ppl online that if something has never happened to you, OBVIOUSLY it could NEVER happen to somebody else. Weird and funny things happen all the time. One time I was in a house the day someone died there. The coroner's ring tone went off. It was Don't Fear the Reaper. It was morbidly hilarious. You probably don't believe me.
Like your story btw. Don't know if it's true but I love it so I'm chosing to believe it, simple 😜
Load More Replies...This one time, I was browsing Bored Panda and I didn't get the "please disable your adblocker" pop up, and I didn't have to reload the page 4 times before I could get rid of it. I pinky swear.
Everyone in the comments "You're FEMALE??? Impossible, because I'm not. FAKE!" Why the f**k does everyone say this s**t is fake it's perfectly plausible. I seriously wanna go back and grill all the people shouting fake to justify why it's fake
Half of these are actually quite plausible. I've had weird s**t like this happen to me before. Some are obviously fake (like the airline one or the target ex) but the salt line and the dentist? Could happen!
People online tend to not believe all of the weird s**t I eat. Once someone actually did research to try and disprove me mentioning that I ate a whole lemon as a kid and came up with 'well it isn't good for you' which was kind of a given I think
I would eat lemons when I was a kid too. My mom would cut them up in slices and I’d sprinkle a little bit of sugar on them. I’d eat the whole thing. I still like to do that.
Load More Replies...My life is full of stories like this, so, idk I'm reading this like, "wait, does no one believe me?" - maybe some of these aren't true, but most are quite plausible in my world, if not totally normal. So...maybe only boring people find these unbelievable??
