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“It Was Biblical”: 35 Horrible Experiences People Have Gone Through That Still Make Them Cringe
Pain, sadness and loss are some of the big emotions that come up when someone asks about bad experiences. But chances are, you are a lot more likely to encounter that horrible, grating feeling of embarrassment on a “regular” day. But as they say, comedy and tragedy are a matter of perspective.
Someone asked “What’s the most uncomfortable situation you’ve ever had to sit through?” and netizens detailed the worst experiences they went through. So get comfortable as you read through, brace yourself for the second-hand cringe and be sure to share your own stories below.
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#1
We had a farewell party for a colleague who was leaving our workplace and during her goodbye speech in front of everyone including our bosses, she started talking about how stressful the job was, didn't get much support, wasn't able to take proper breaks and that no job is worth the mental stress.
Needless to say, the room fell in awkward silence and our boss's face looked uncomfortable.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago (edited)
We had an "all hands" meeting at the large aerospace company I worked for. It had to be held in the company plane's hangar to accomodate everyone. A corporate VP proceeded to tell us how the entire site was being offshored to two foreign countries machinery and all and how we'd all shortly be out of jobs. In the meantime they would bring foreign workers in for us to train on how to manufacture our products. One guy raised his hand and asked, "why in hell would you think that I want to train someone to take my job?" The reply from the VP was, "Don't you want the company to succeed?" Two thousand people in a cavernous airplane hangar and you could hear a pin drop.
Felipe Souza 1 year ago
I don't know if bosses are getting dumber, or if they were always like that.
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Evelien Stijger Martens 1 year ago
A lesson should be learned by the boss and she had it of her mind. Good for her.
Two Cat Studio 1 year ago
I wish I had done that when I retired. Just to show how I allowed myself to be taken advantage of, when I left, they broke up my position into THREE. SEPARATE. DEPARTMENTS. BECAUSE. THEY. COULDN'T. GET. ANYONE. ABLE. TO. DO. WHAT. I. DID. EVERY. F*****G. DAY. FOR. YEARS. I still have nightmares about the workload and it's been 25-years! People, work-life balance truly is the most important aspect of any career AND. KNOW! YOUR! VALUE!
Karina 1 year ago
Hope you heal enough to put that BRUTE FORCE you clearly have in plenty full upon your self and your dreams. You deserve it ❤️
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#2
At my nans house I used to sleep in her bedroom on a sofa bed, there was a curtain separating my section of room from hers. When I was 14 and staying there for some time, I came upstairs to bed one evening after playing xbox, and got into bed. I then hear the unmistakable sounds of them boning and dirty talking eachother. They hadn't heard me come up so I had the awful decision to make, either sit through this absolute pain for however long it lasted, or try and sneak across the incredibly creaky floorboards back downstairs without letting them know I overheard them.
Somehow (God was with me that day) I managed to sneak back downstairs, played some more xbox for a couple hours while contemplating my mental scarring, then went back to bed.
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
There's actually no reason for this to cause mental scarring unless you want to view s e x as something dirty and unnatural. Nana was still sexually active as she deserves to be. OP did the right thing to sneak away to allow privacy, but the lack of personal space is just unfortunate circumstances.
Bored something 1 year ago
We all know that grandparents have sex, it doesn't mean you want to hear it. Or hear anyone else going g at it either.
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Per-Ole Sjuve 1 year ago
How on earth OP managed to find two choices in that scenario is beyond me. The only one I would think of would be loud screaming and throwing myself down the stairs or out a window, whatever happened to be the closest.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
I'm with you on the throwing myself down the stairs hoping i hit my head hard enough to cause amnesia
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Verena 1 year ago
Well, the older kids raised in these tiny workers homes alongside our dikes, 100+ years ago, had no choice. These workers had several children. Nowadays the cute cottages are sold for a fortune to tourists.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
Before going into care i lived with some family and there were lots of kids in a small house but we never heard anyone doing anything. They must have waited until we were all out.
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Not me but a friend who worked in tech support. A client complains that, whenever the phone on her desk rings, weird character strings appear on her screen. He goes over there, she uses a basic landline and a word processor, no connection between the two.
Then, while he is there, her phone rings. She reaches over to it, leaning her huge bosom over the keyboard and of course, a string of characters begins to populate the word processor window.
He had to explain it to her.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
I misunderstood this at first. I was picturing these weird character strings on the caller ID screen and her just never having had it or something? Lol but the computer screen makes a little more sense since she’s leaning over it to answer the phone. But that must’ve been an interesting chat
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
I remember reading this on the website "Tech Tales". The IT tech just had to adjust her chair so she could reach for the phone and her huge bosom would not hit the keyboard. He put down in his work report that the problem was the chair was not high enough for her and not the real reason to save that lady from embarrassment.
#4
So are you two dating?’ He said yes at the same time I said no, to which his friend told him ‘I told you you didnt ask clearly enough’.
#5
A new boss was hired for my department at work, and a high level woman from corporate was brought in to show him the ropes.
My new boss was a sleazy little weirdo. He sort of looked like Beans from “Even Stevens” crossed with Mads Mikkelsen. He kept awkwardly trying to flirt with this incredibly professional and visibly uninterested woman who was just trying to do her job by teaching him how to do his.
Things reached peak weirdness on her last day.
There we stood, my new boss on one side of the room, our guest on the other side, me in the middle doing some work.
New Boss: Well, are you ready to go to lunch? Corporate Woman: Yes, just let me run to the restroom first.
New Boss: Oh, why, you gotta POO-POO?
I have never in my entire life wished that I could turn into a puddle of liquid and slide out of that room, Secret World of Alex Mack style, than I did at that moment.
Fun Fact: He was fired a few months later, but that’s another story for another day.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Somehow I started saying "go to the little librarian's room" and now half my department says it. Confuses the hell out of their families. Lol
Szzone 1 year ago
Alex Mack wow I feel like me and my brother are the only other people who ever watched that.
Laurie Schmid 1 year ago
He does not need to know if anyone at the office is taking the Browns to the Superbowl.
Robert Maybeth 1 year ago
"Pardonez' Moi, I must transport myself to the dumper and off-load a super-sized cargo into the water device. Who wants to come with?"
Marcellus II 1 year ago
I think I would laugh loudly and quite forcedly. You cannot be reprimanded for an 'involuntary' action like falling over or laughing!
#6
I had to tell an acquaintance/friend that his 15 year old son was sending me highly inappropriate (and illegal) texts. I’m a 41 year old man.
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago (edited)
It's not uncommon for teenaged girls to do this with older men they have crushes on. Why is everyone so surprised when a teenaged gay boy does the same? The solution is the same in both scenarios: the adult person shuts it right down by texting "This is inappropriate. I am deleting these images (if they sent any), and blocking you." and then informs the parents. (That wording and those actions are VERY important, because if you say anything other than that, it could be taken out of context, and if you keep any images, you now possess child porn. Informing the parents also covers your a*s, so that it never looks like you were trying to hide anything.) Also, in cases like this, you can't worry about if the boy is out or not -- you can get into serious legal trouble if you conceal anything. If you think the parent will react badly to finding out their son is gay, have a gay youth shelter on standby.
Shane Kane 5 months ago
This. Excellent and eloquent answer. You have to make it abundantly clear in writing with copies and a recorded call or visit with the parents. Also notifying your local PD would also be appropriate ( former PO ) with all the aforementioned content.
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Gracie Mae 1 year ago
had a friend's son do that with me--set him straight in short order and told his mom, who happened to be my best friend. not a conversation i wanted to have...he was barely legal to boot!
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Oh, you are a good friend, I am sure he was .. grateful to your expose of his son but.... he had to approach him from all aspects?
Chris B 10 months ago
Why not? I have phone numbers for my niece's friends parents and random friends of family for contacting them.
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#7
When I was about 16-17, I used to get really bad rashes under my breasts. It was painful, itchy, and gross. So I went to a dermatologist to help determine what was going on.
I've always had big boobs. But I was kinda introverted, shy and *very* self-conscious about my body. So, I was in the examination room, naked from the waist up, waiting for the doctor.
In walks the doctor, followed by about six interns or medical students. Nobody had asked me if it was okay to have a crowd staring at my breasts! While I sat and squirmed uncomfortably, the students all "thoughtfully" looked at my breasts. It was pure hell.
This was in the 70s.
I started using cotton-only bras and--surprise!--the rashes cleared up.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
I hate that! Normally, doctors have to ask the patients if they want to bring students in to see a procedure or special case. But, the privacy at the doctor's have become worse and worse. Respect the patient.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 1 year ago
It was the 70s. Different times. It’s the reason those rules are in place today
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Cee Cee 1 year ago
In the 70's I went to local birth control centre to get a coil fitted. I was asked if medical students could observe. I agreed. Similarly some 15 years later I allowed students in for my cervical smear test. Not to ask is a gross invasion of privacy and if it happens to me my next step after kicking them out would be a formal complaint to my local NHS Trust.
realenancy170 1 year ago
I had a similar experience at a free clinic for birth control in the 70's. The doctor asked if he could bring in students, I said yes. He introduced me by my first name, told them to applaud me and cracked jokes to me through my exam. It was a funny lighthearted experience thanks to his wisdom!
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Harlan Bleiler 1 year ago (edited)
I’m a male, but Same thing happened to me in my young 20s, but to my lower region. And of course the interns were female, I said “F*** it, for science” and just dropped my pants but it was very uncomfortable
Donkey boi 1 year ago
During a particularly, shall we say, "energetic session", I suffered an injury to my member. At the (University) hospital, the doctor asked if they could get a few students in to have a look because they 'don't get many cases like this'. I don't get shy or embarrassed, so I agreed. For the record, 20+ is NOT a few. Needless to say, with that many people involved, I got amazing treatment (and a fantastic scar).
BookFanatic 1 year ago
I had a follow up with my breast surgeon and she walked in with a male high schooler who was job shadowing. I'd most likely have let a female student stay...but no teenage boy is going to see my girls. I don't care if it's for "educational purposes."
Nano Iders 1 year ago (edited)
In 2022 I messed up two fingers from my left hand at work. Very nasty cuts, lots of blood. My boss took me to the hospital were they cleaned the wounds while he took care of the paperwork. Anyway, I needed stitches so they scheduled the procedure for later that afternoon. I was assigned a room and a bed. The time came and they gave me an hospital gown to wear in the operating room. Fine I thought, but when I put the thing on I realized it was too short standing up, so when I laid on the stretcher to be taken to the OR the gown slid a little up and my "equipment" got out. I was embarrassed and amused at the same time. The nurses (all female) didn't seem to care. So they paraded the things through the hospital halls, they parked the stretcher in the OR with my balls aiming directly to the open door where people passed by. It was awkward but I thought it would be a funny anecdote to tell.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
In the UK, today (not 1970s) there is an investigation on the treatment of women during preganancy and birthing. It goes beyond embarressment, it's about the total disrepect, intolerance, and trauma. This is pure hell then and now.
PSimms 1 year ago
The time I had to have a stent removed from my kidney, which they remove by going in through my, er, johnson. The doctor came in and there were two other medical people there, and whereas I am on my back with my legs up on stirrups like it's a gynecological exam, The doctor asks me if I mind if some medical students join us, I say okay and four of them file in. The room is now crowded and I looked around and looked at the doctor and said," maybe there's some passing tourists who would like to come in for a look."
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
I had the same stent removal as a woman. There were about ten heads on the other end bobbing up and down for a better look! 🤣
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David 1 year ago
Some interns saw my intestines. Had an operation to remove a cyst from my gut area. On a follow up visit - saw two photos in the doctor's file on me. Polaroids because this was back in the 70s. One is closer up showing my intestines sitting out on top of my belly. Weird but interesting. The other is from a bit farther back and I can see several other gowned people behind me looking on. Asked the doctor about it and he sheepishly mumbled something about doctors in training. Basically my case was interesting but AFAIK he never asked me or my mom for permission to use me for show and tell. I probably would have been okay with it. I'm not shy in that regard. But the fact he didn't ask was kind of annoying.
#8
I'm a dental hygienist.
I had a patient that was flirting with me pretty heavily and telling me how pretty my eyes were. I'm used to compliments and got good at brushing them off, so I managed that this time.
I kind of forgot about him he rebooked 4 months later for another cleaning.
This time, he was more forward, saying how I'm young and beautiful.. and then he straight up asked me for an affair WHILE HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE IN THE FRONT LOBBY WAITING.
I politely declined and finished my work, informed the Dr's about it, and he was promptly banned from our office.
Danni 1 year ago
Why is that her responsibility? She did everything as she should after being harassed by a stranger. She has no reason to involve herself further.
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Julie Walker 1 year ago
Who brings their wife and kids with them to the dentist? Sounds like a control freak!
#9
Alright everyone buckle up. Years ago my editor assigned me to do a story: an old civilian air command guy had died and his kids were going to spread his ashes from a plane over the lake where he helped find a downed aircraft decades ago. Nice local human interest piece. Two kids: son and daughter, both adults. The whole flight aspect was organized by a local, well-meaning family friend, let’s call him Jeff.
I drive to the tiny regional airport, walk to the tarmac and the son is there already. We shoot the s**t with the pilot and the son and Jeff when the daughter arrives. She’s extremely obese. The pilot and I realize we have a major problem. The pilot and Jeff and the son talk, then the son goes over to talk to his sister.
The wailing that came out of this woman, when told she couldn’t scatter her dad’s ashes because she was too fat, is burned into my brain. It was biblical. This woman was shrieking and sobbing and we could do nothing but watch as she collapsed on the runway and had a complete meltdown. I blame Jeff for not thinking ahead.
Robert T 1 year ago
Or Dave. Dave is a responsible for a lot of stuff too.
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John Mosley 1 year ago (edited)
I thought everyone was getting a faceful of blowing ashes for sure.
H G 1 year ago
Uhhh, should Jeff now ask every customer if they are obese, or.... "I am obligated to inform you that the weight limit on the helicopter is...." ???
Nina 1 year ago
I don't think you want to scatter ashes from a helicopter 😅
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Mario Strada 1 year ago
Next time, charter a 747. GA aircrafts have very stringent weight and balance limits. I know of air accidents created by a heavy bag put in the hold unbeknownst to the pilot. As bad as I feel for the daughter, I presume she'd be even more upset at crashing into the lake.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago (edited)
Just take the son and daughter. Jeff and the reporter don't need to be present. That's a few hundred pounds left off right there.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
It has to balance in the plane too though I think. Not just total weight. Has to be distributed.
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She, they all should have received a form that states fixed weight allowances.
#10
Every instance of my friends getting yelled at by their parents while I'm just standing there watching awkwardly.
Or vise versa.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago (edited)
It’s even more awkward when you walk in just after everything happened and you have to pretend that nothing happened
JB 1 year ago
I disagree. Sure, it’s awkward when you walk in and you could cut the tension with a knife. But standing there watching your friend being yelled at is way worse.
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
Damn parents from the 80's, i use to know that, they loved to yell in front of friends.
shanila.pheonix_ 1 year ago
or when ur friends parents yell at them in a language they think u don't know when you actually fluently speak that language, or vice versa. happens a lot to me
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Yep, I (🇨🇦) remember a friend getting yelled at by her dad in French. He was speaking stern French words and she was, in English, whining “Dad nooooo! Whyyyy?! Noooo I don’t want tooooo….” It turned out he was trying to get her to ask me to leave but didn’t want to say it in English, and I was only 6 so my French wasn’t good enough to understand yet, so awkward feeling when I found out 😅
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Dumb teenager 1 year ago
It’s worse when it’s perants fighting with each other or with siblings because there’s no escape. With friends you can just go to there place, or vise versa. When it’s your family fighting and you’ve got nowhere else to go you basically just have to find the furthest room to hide in for the next few hours / until it’s over, put on music to drown out the noise and hope like hell that you don’t do anything to p**s anyone off so you don’t end up involved.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Or watching your married friends fight. In a small apartment. Where you're a guest for the week. I finally retreated to the bathroom to at least give them a semblance of privacy.
Robert Maybeth 1 year ago
Oh yes awkward as f@ck, apropos of nothing I see his dad appear from nowhere, dad makes a gesture and they quickly vanish around the nearest corner. My pal re-appears and he is in tears, telling me "I think you sh-should go home now". Felt bad for him.
Veronica Monell 1 year ago
Oh gawd I remember this in the 90's!!! Parents actually yelled and were violent af then yikes.
#11
In the cinema. I interlocked my fingers with the kid sitting beside me for a full minute.
Turns out, he wasn't my kid.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
I had a lady next to me stroke my thigh during a show once, before she realised that her partner was sitting on the other side of her. At least she apologised.
Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago
I grabbed the arm of the man next to me after the girl-in-the-closet jump scare in The Ring. I apologized, just mortified, and he just said, "Its okay. That was scary!"
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PFD 1 year ago
I was stroking my wife's hand at one point during labour. Suddenly discovered it was the doctor.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
I had my infant in my arms while standing in front of my seated mother in law. She reached out to pinch my baby's diaper, but wasn't actually paying attention to her reach, and instead fully groped me from front to back. I said "That's not my kid's butt." She stopped doing diaper pinches after that. ************************************ I was sitting across from her and my partner and started rubbing his foot with mine. She said "That's not partner's foot" I stopped playing footsies unless my partner's feet were the only other feet under the table. ************************************ My Mom once smacked my dad's a*s when he was bent over a cooler at his work. It wasn't my Dad's a*s. She stopped smacking asses at my Dad's work.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
I am horrible but it made me think of that scene in the Simpsons when Ralph says to chief Wiggum: " she touched me on my special place". Sorry. 😅
SleepSycho 1 year ago
One time my dad saw a work colleague at hotel they were both staying at, so grabbed him from behind and gave a him a joke humping. Woulda been funny but it was the wrong person--so it was hilarious! (To me at least)
#12
Helping my friend pack up her stuff when leaving her husband. While he sat on the couch and cried.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
"Eh sir, could you please go cry in the corner? I have to pack the couch now."
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Marnie 1 year ago
Oh man. This brings back a bad memory. When I was 19 I worked for moving company doing packing. We were out at a house one day, packing up the belongings of the woman of the house's elderly mother. She was being kicked out of the house. I heard the couple arguing and the guy saying some s**t, I don't remember exactly, but he was blatantly reiterating he wanted the mother gone. The mother was very, very sweet to us, but who knows what went on. He might have had a good reason to kick her out, or maybe he was an a*****e. But in any case, it was extremely uncomfortable.
M Kovacs 1 year ago
I did that. Worse, helping her move back in when it all went to s**t, why he took her back I'll never know.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago (edited)
My kids' father and his GF. Every family member's birthday... Move out, move in, move out.. for years.. and then they decided to have their own kids.. still move out, move in, but i stopped talking to them.. and so did my kids who are now teens...
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Miles Mawyer 1 year ago
Oof. I had a similar experience. I ended up staying with her husband, trying to keep him calm. I see her at work the next morning and she said "well, did he burn all my sh*t?" He did. Well not ALL her stuff, but A LOT of her stuff.
Parmeisan 1 year ago
This one reminds me of a similar event that should not have been similar at all. A friend of mine L (female) had another friend B (male) who had several times in the past attempted to elevate the friendship to a relationship, and each time been rebuffed. They had been friends for probably 10 years at this point. 2 or 3 other times during that period, B had started getting weird and controlling with her. Like, she wouldn't reply to a text for a while (she did this with all of us, getting a response in 24 hours was normal for her) and he would get huffy about it. Over time that behaviour would ratchet up until she had to have a big talk with him about it. He'd get better... and eventually get worse again. Finally, L had enough and decided she had no choice but to remove him from her life completely. She wanted me there as a witness and in case things went bad. It was just like a breakup, even though they had never dated. Incredibly awkward.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
not me, but my mom--every time my sister would break up with a guy, they would call her crying about how much they loved my sister and wanted to know what they could do to get her back--THESE WERE GROWN MEN! (Not saying men shouldn't cry, but damn, grow some balls & handle your business yourself, and leave a poor 70 yr old woman alone!)
Shane Kane 5 months ago
Brutal but you are a good person for helping your friend. Not all those situations turn out with the man crying so fair play to you. Sláinte
#13
Maybe not the ‘most’, but I once had to sit through an hour of my incredibly sleazy and abusive ex-boss crying in front of all of us staff, and contain my urge to laugh.
Apparently he was feeling super ‘depressed’ and ‘stressed’ from how hard his life was. All the while embezzling money from us, forcing us to work without supplies or even electricity/internet, and blaming us for lack of productivity or income.
For an hour I strained to hold it all in while he sobbed like a hypocritical little b*tch in front of us. I later found out afterwards that everyone else was doing the same.
Most staff quit the workplace after this and the whole business went under from the boss’s shady money antics.
Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 1 year ago (edited)
Even Scrooge knows he likely would have made more money with electricity. This person is worse than Scrooge.
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Kel_how 1 year ago
Tbh, I'm not really sure why you held it in. If he was doing all of that s**t, he should have been laughed out of the company.
Gypsy Lee 1 year ago
How about hypocritical little jacka**? Ever notice how most insults imply the person was "behaving" female/like a girl? - Have you ever met a girl? Remember the girl a few posts above who had to endure being ogled by strangers as a young woman; if she had said/done anything to shut that down she would have been labeled a b**** as well. She endured. Make individuals own their behavior instead of trying to insult them for behaving "like a little girl". A little girl would have handled it better. (Sorry for the rant, I'm just tired of it.)
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
Better than me. I have little to no control over my laugh, especially if it's one of scorn. It's not subtle, either. I can be heard across a busy store.
#14
We were getting internet installed when I moved to the town I live in. I was 16 at the time. I had surgery the day before and was bleeding slightly off and on and kept a hand in my pants to prevent the material from sticking to my wound.
Anyway I thought the internet maintenance guy had left. I went to the living room and turned on the tv. It immediately was on some kids show. He walked back into the room and saw me with my hands in my pants.
In his view it could only possibly look like I was touching myself to kids shows. The silence was horrible as he slowly crept back out of the room.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
I'm slightly stoned and this slayed me, lol. I'm mortified for you but lord it's funny
🩶🩷Marvin HoG🩷🩶 1 year ago
Reminds me of a story Jackie Chan told years ago about how he was in a plane under a blanket. He had injured his finger not long before, or something to that effect, and was massaging it. Along comes a stewardess to check in on him. Her eyes go wide and he realized he was massaging his finger UNDER the blanket in his lap so she thought he was rubbing something completely different lol! He quickly pulled it out and went "OH NO, I WAS RUBBING MY FINGER!"
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Oh gawd! He would not have believed your 'excuse truth' either. Something neither will never forget
#15
That would be the time in college that I got invited to a surprise birthday party for two of my other friends who shared a birthday. The party was very nicely planned with cake and presents for them, but I honestly shouldn't have even gone... because, as some of the people at the party belatedly remembered, the party was being held on the day of _my_ birthday. I ended up third-wheeling a birthday party on my birthday. All the while some of my friends tried to forcibly include me in the festivities even though it had obviously not been part of the original plan.
I was able to at least leave early, but my friendship with that group was never really the same afterwards.
E.V. 1 year ago
She could've mentioned it was her birthday the day of the party and skipped it saying she had other plans lol
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
I can kind of understand wanting to go to someone else’s party instead of trying to make your own. She probably just didn’t think anyone would come to her birthday, especially given there was another party planned on the same day, and didn’t want to waste the day alone. Sounds like if the friends had kept their mouths shut everything would have been fine.
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MacintoshID 1 year ago
I have one of those birthdays that always around the same time of year for Mother's Day. Majority of my birthdays from ages 4-19 were forgotten by the entire family (even my parents) because they had other things to plan for. I still hate my birthday decades later.
jenjie.newt 1 year ago
Ugh I hada worse surprise sleepover birthday party once, it was a big group of girl friends that I was slightly included in. One of them invited me to the surprise party and then FORGOT, so I showed up all excited and they announced to the whole party they didn't know how/why I was there. Still cringe.
Delta Dawn 1 year ago
If these are real friends they would have remembered or done a better job of not making it awkward, and it wouldn’t have drastically affected the friendship. Let these jerks go and move on!
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
I once spent my birthday with a girl who had gotten me fired. She spent the whole evening talking about how she really wanted to be friends with this other girl. Then topped off the night upset I wouldn't give her my last few dollars so she could take a cab while I took the subway home. Judy- I'll never forget you, you selfish wench!
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
SIL did something similar to me -- a big whopp-te-do party for her son-in-law's birthday. I was visiting from out of state and was invited to watch him open presents, eat cake, etc. His birthday was still about 5 days away. My own birthday was 10 days away, after I got back . When I mentioned this to SIL and got a blank look: "So what..."
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Awful experience maybe in hindsight you should have reminded them when they told you of their plans and let them 'repent' their loss!
#16
I was looking at my moms phone cause she wanted to show me some pictures from what she did that weekend. I swiped one too many times and came across one of her nudes. I felt my soul jolt out of my body seeing that s**t
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Few years ago i was in my wife family and during dinner her step-mother just explained how funny it was at night when my wife's dad was drunk, put his headlamp around his genitals and pretending to be a firefly around the dark room.
Melissa Harris 1 year ago
Was she druck when she dropped that massive overshare?
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Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
this is when you give her a 20 minute introduction the "hidden" folder and another 4 hours of lecture on sharing nudes.
Debbie 1 year ago
Never scroll on someone else phone. And if you have pictures that are not for everyone to see, don't hand out your phone. There can be more photos that are private and various reasons. If you want check something out,n your body, sometime a picture makes it easier to look, to zoom in. Pictures of chats or a personal document. Pictures sent by others (again, don't have to be sexy pictures but in general, if people share something with you). My phone is a sort of diary and my kids don't need to know about the family politics or me complaining to someone about my ex (their dad ).
#17
A few years ago I went on a weekend girls trip with a friend. Her marriage was rocky and she needed to get away. Her husband dropped us off at the airport and picked us up after the trip, and we chatted casually in the car on the way back to their house. Everything seemed normal. Unbeknownst to me, he had specifically told her that if she went on this trip, he would leave her. Midway through the drive he told her he had a group of people at their house for her "intervention," and that her car was already packed with her belongings and to get out. (I don't think he knows what an intervention is, but whatevs.) So now I'm stuck in the backseat watching their marriage dissolve. We get to their house and people are standing on the front porch observing. The couple starts arguing in the driveway and I just wanted to leave so badly, but I needed my suitcase from the trunk. I had to interrupt them to ask him to open the trunk. And then my car was blocked in by the vehicles from the "intervention team," so I had to interrupt again to ask how I could get out. It was so, so awkward.
Bored something 1 year ago
If you were a good enough friend to trip with you should be a good enough friend when the shot hits the fan and they need moral and other support.
Hugendubel 1 year ago
uhm , your friend probably needed somewhere to stay ? You just been on hols with her? I mean you just wanted to get away ?
Anne Roberts 1 year ago
He shouldn't have been able to do that legally. Of course, she probably didn't want to stay under those conditions.
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago
Why were so many people involved or being so rude to start with?I think she was lucky to leave him
#18
When i was a kid, we were on holiday and decided to go to a church. While we were there i decided that i would be funny if i would slap my dad's a*s with both hands. So i ran in full speed to maximize the impact of the slap. I ended up slapping a stranger who also happend to walk next to a woman with a stroller in his hands which made me think it was my dad. It was even worse that my parents saw it as well.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Awkward stuff happens when kids are around, that's no biggie. The funniest ones are when adults are embarrassing.
Carole Gleed 1 year ago
Years ago my mum without looking linked arms with who she thought was my dad to cross a busy road and rushed him over to the other side,turns out it was a little old man who was most indignant as he didn’t want to cross in the first place ! my dad was the other side roaring with laughter.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I don't know of any Americans that say "Bum" unless it's referring to a homeless person. We say Butts or A*s most of the time so don't blame that one on us!
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I was at a wedding and the best man went off the rails during his speech at the reception. It was your stereotypical drunken rambling but it was the guy’s second marriage so he was talking about his first wife and how he’s good at most things except relationships, etc. People were audibly groaning and booing the guy and telling him to sit down. It was a truly Michael Scott moment. So awkward.
Serial pacifist 1 year ago
More of a Between Two Ferns moment in my opinion with Zach Galifianakis spurring him on in his mind.
Pandemonium 1 year ago
In my defense, at least I didn't tell everyone about my affair with Wife #1. That would've been tacky
#20
Was at work and we were in a conference room about to have a meeting. Not sure what the meeting was about but my coworker "JT" thought he
It was a good idea to go around and ask us if we have ever cheated on our spouse. (He seemed to enjoy being on the cusp of being sent to HR)
I wasn't married at the time so I said no. Every one says no. "BH" says yes. Now BH is a 60 something woman who's as wholesome as Mr. Roger's. Her voice is so soft. She was my first trainer when I started. She would talk and I'd get lulled to sleep..I had to drink 3 cups of coffee to avoid passing out. I hate coffee.
So when she says yes every one turns and looks.. JT is excited he's like, "Ooohh, how many times? With who?" She says, "All the time, in my mind of course."
He asks this lady who had worked at our agency in the past and left. She had just come back. JT asks her if she's ever cheated.
She says no. "But my boyfriend constantly cheats on me. He doesn't even try to hide it. He brings them to the house. But what am I going to do? I can't afford to live on my own so I just sit there."
JT is speechless. The rest of is don't know what to do or say. It feels like we're just sitting there for so long. Finally JT starts the meeting and we just start talking about our audits. It was so uncomfortable and sad.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Yeah no problem improvising a wildly deranged story at that point.
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 1 year ago
Thankfully I wasn't there but some @sshat once thought it would be a great ice breaker at work to have people tell about their worst childhood experience - literally the second person told how she was SA by her dad and brothers and then started crying. HR was super pissed off at the @sshat.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
I am sorry for that poor person who went through that, but I am absolutely glad it happened to that @sshat! Hope they learned from that!
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I hate ice-breaking exercises, especially pointless between people who already know each other, but a nightmare for introverts. More than happy to talk about work, never happy to talk about myself, so stay off that subject.
J. Oliver Scott 1 year ago
I would have ambushed JT with a reply that implied to the group he and I were cheating with each other, would have shut down that inappropriate conversation fast.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I wasn't married, so I didn't have a spouse. Therefore I could not have cheated on him or her. So, no.
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#21
We had a business meeting with a big client. We’ve done work with them before and now we had to present our progress and if good, we’d be in big business. I presented first and all was good and nice. Next was my colleague. He had nothing. Like “dog ate my homework nothing”. What followed was an hour long rant from our big client at my boss and the colleague who screw up on how much time and money was wasted on this investment, how insulting this was, that they gonna cut their loses, never do business with us again and potentially sue us. Only for them to turn to me and say “no hard feelings, we liked your presentation”. Afterwards we three sat in the car back to the office in complete silence.
Cee Cee 1 year ago
Didn't your boss review the presentations in advance? Failing to do the basics says much about his/her management skills.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Honestly, not always. I’m the head manager of my department. Sometimes myself and a couple other heads of departments will have a similar meeting like this. My boss knows we all run our departments and expects us to perform properly in meetings, and if we’re not prepared he expects us to step up. It’s not high school, he’s not here to hold our hands and make sure we get our jobs done. It’s OUR responsibility to get our jobs done and run the departments, and ask him for help when we need it.
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#22
Having my friends mom drive me back to my parents' after we totaled said friend's car ripping it around through a corn field. She couldn't even like form full sentences, she just kept repeating different iterations of "... what were you *thinking?!*"
Mrs.C 1 year ago
Jackasses. Farmers don't plant crops for you to tear up. That's someone's lively hood.
David 1 year ago
I promise I'm not a grammar nazi but my brain is giggling at the mental images of someone's hood dashing all over. (livelihood)
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Charles McChristy 1 year ago
Something similar happened. Was headed to a concert with a friend when he decided it would be the perfect time to pull a gas run. Well, he was super obvious about it, creeping around the car with the nozzle putting his finger over his mouth to say "shush". When he tried to drive away the attendant jumped through the window and took the keys. The cops showed and he was arrested. I had to drive his car back to his parents house and his mom had to drive me home whilst repeating different iterations of the same thing.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
Not always teenagers. There are some adults who don't think. My sister-in-law told me of her male cousin who is in late 20s and still acts like an idiot.
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Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Usually, when someone asks "What were you thinking?", the more accurate version would be "WERE you thinking?"
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Ruining someone else's car AND tearing up a corn field? Douchebag of the year award definitely goes to OP here.
#23
2 situations.
1st I did to myself. Long story short I didn’t get my suit fitted in time for my brother’s wedding and it was WAY too big. I looked like a fool and have never been more embarrassed. Him and his wife give me deserved s**t (all jokes, no bad intentions) but good lord I will never forgive that
2nd was recently when I went to see my cancer doctor for routine appt and while I was waiting a nurse came in to do quick vitals. She walked in and I politely asked her how her morning was and her answer was “my adult nephew was found unconscious last night and now might not live through the day”. Almost broke my neck with that verbal whiplash.
Bewitched One 1 year ago (edited)
Well to be fair, as someone who worked in healthcare for 12 years, the nurse shouldn’t have brought her personal life to work with her. I get she was going through stuff, but people asking that question are usually just being polite. Even if your day has been s**t, don’t bring up your personal troubles. Even if she didn’t want to lie she could’ve just said “eh, it’s going”. I’ve been to work after literally fist fighting my ex and being thrown across the room, etc and have used that line many times but still never brought that s**t upon my patients. 🤷🏼♀️ leave your personal life at the door when you arrive. Leave your work life at the door when you leave.
Debbie 1 year ago
Sometimes it doesn't work though and the bucket overflows. Humans aren't machines.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
Oof. Working in healthcare, you always act professional, smile and say all’s good, even if you are dying inside. That poor nurse should have been able to take the day off or at least do non patient facing work.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Agree she should’ve been able to take the day off. But also, maybe working kept her mind off things. It always helped me to stay busy so I don’t think too much about the situation
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CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago
My default on this when i don't want to lie and say "fine" or "good" or whatever is to say "no comment but I appreciate you asking".
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Oof. A new nurse at my oncologist's office was complaining excessively about her "tennis elbow" while administering a pick line for my TERMINAL CANCER treatment. I was sympathetic, but really?!
MacintoshID 1 year ago
That nurse had no right to make you feel bad like that. She should have done her job and moved on. Sorry for her problems, but it isn't everyone's problem or issue. Learned that many years ago and to this day, chose my words very carefully when I am upset or worried about something.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
I'm going against the grain, but I've had the same Oncologist and his head nurse for almost 7 years. We've gotten to know each other REALLY well in that time and this is 2 people that have literally seen me inside and out. I've watched my Doctors kids grow up sharing pictures and videos and about his in-laws, he knows about my cats and he and my nurse hugged and comforted me when I broke down after Mom died. I've seen his Nurse plan her wedding and photos and gave advice when she adopted her first 2 cats. They both have called and checked on me throughout my chemo and after Mom was hurt, when I was her caregiver and after she died they sent flowers and cards to her funeral, which I have pictures of them. They BOTH know more and have shown more care then most of my siblings and unfortunately that isn't a lie. Basically they've become like family and have seen me at my best and worst and I wouldn't ever trade that for a "Professional" relationship.
#24
It was my senior year of high school. I was sitting in the library during a study hour with two girls in my class, I’ll call them Amy and Jane. Jane and I were actually fairly close, Amy didn’t really interact with us much outside of class but we got on with her well enough and neither of us had any other friends during study hour.
Jane had told me, just the day before, that she was pregnant. She was feeling a lot of mixed emotions about the whole thing. My high school had a very high teen pregnancy rate (there was a daycare in my school) and somehow the topic of another pregnant girl in my school came up.
Amy went on and on about how stupid it was to get pregnant in high school, how teen mothers aren’t good mothers, and that they’re just throwing their life away. Jane and I were both sat there, knowing she was pregnant. Finally, when Amy was done with her rant, Jane just looked at her, said “Amy, I’m pregnant.” She got up from the table and walked out of the library. Then I had to sit there with Amy for the rest of the hour and it was one of the most awkward hours of my life.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
Back in the early 90's there was a church close to my high school that ran a daycare for the students with kids. Everyday during lunch hour, when the weather was nice, you would see their playground packed with students and their kids. There was one girl in our friend group that had 3 kids, all with different fathers by the time graduation came. She had her first when she was 14, saying that girl came from a troubled home would be putting it lightly. Things were WAY different back then, so our group and a couple of the Mom's (my Mom was a widow with 6 kids and one of my besties was divorced with 3) did the best we could to help her out. Unfortunately, even though my Dad was dead and we were poor, I had the most stable home out of almost the entire group. Since my house was the one everyone usually stayed at when they had trouble at their own homes, we were kind of limited in what we could do. Lacey is a hair stylist and nail technician now, the kids are all grown up and doing great. I'm so damn proud of that girl and how far she has come!
E.V. 1 year ago
Apparently having a daycare at the school didn't deter the other teens from having unprotected sex.
Ada Hunter 1 year ago
honestly, that’s not always it. i have two friends who are teen moms, one who got pregnant with protection, and another who got pregnant even though she took plan B.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
Amy wasn't wrong, even if she perhaps could have said it more kindly. I've watched teen pregnancies and the motherhood that follows and it is tough on the parents. Often the single mom but both if the father is also involved. I got married at 24 and it was still rough having a kid in my mid 20s. So many expenses, huge demands on your time.
Bonnie Edwards 1 year ago (edited)
in 1990, I went to college with a boy who had only emigrated from that part of Columbia which had major amounts of guerilla activity (4 years earlier). We were both 18 at the time. He told me that if he was still in Columbia, he would've been married with at least 2 children by then, as the average life expectancy was around 35yo for both men and women. People had to have children early, if they wanted to see their own grandchildren. I could see the need for day cares at high school. For me, sex ed was babysitting. Mum also gave me this 'hilarious' toy that looked like a very large white contraceptive pill, approx 10cm across. It was labelled 'contraceptive'. When you pressed the button in the middle, it played a recording of a baby screaming... effective.
Ada Hunter 1 year ago
daycares in high schools aren’t super uncommon. we have one that’s also a preschool.
Ken Schroeder 1 year ago
Had to be a red state. I lived for a while in Kansas, and that year, all but three high school graduates had to hire a sitter. Apparently, this was Not a Big Deal.
#25
My cousin's wedding... His brother doing the best man speech.
He started it off with "You know what they say when a brother is the best man... No friends" and it spiraled downhill from there. It was so bad even their mother was trashing the best-man brother's performance to me best time I saw her.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
Got to love a terrible best man’s speech. Watching the last series of Married at First Sight Australia, there was a classic. Best man told a story of groom eating 3 day old chicken at a festival and ended with the punchline to the bride, so no matter how bad you taste, he’ll still eat you…..
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Our entire wedding party was our siblings and their spouses. Thirty-seven years later, all the couples are still couples.
#26
A joint therapy session with me & my therapist and my ex & his therapist. We all just sat there after I’d made a few points and waited for my ex to talk. After a while, it was so unbearable that I said “I don’t think this is working”.
Turns out my ex (and the therapists) thought I was talking about my marriage. Which…was also correct, but I was talking about the joint therapy. So I kind of accidentally ended my marriage that day, even though it wasn’t finalized for another year or so. I’m still embarrassed about it.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
I similarly got engaged out of an unintentional statement, in a restaurant with parter and their parents... Awkward and still living the consequences.
Radius Gogo 1 year ago
What? How? Would you please tell us the full story?
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Sunny Day 1 year ago
I was given a kitten when I was 15. He looked just like the older cat we had, so I named him Junior. It never occurred to me that the family friend who helped my parents get the kitten was named Junior. All the adults thought I'd named the kitten after him, and he even got a bit choked up over it. I kept my mouth shut and you are the first people to know the truth.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Kind of you to let him think that if it made him happy, since his believing you named your kitten after him didn't harm anyone (the cat sure didn't care (grin)).
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PenguinQueen 1 year ago
Isnt the whole point of therapy, communication?! It's a crucial part to life and all kinds of relationships
Janine Hunt-Jackson 1 year ago
Don't be embarrassed about something that turned out for the best!
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
Oddly enough, I accidentally started a relationship with a guy who later swore I told him I loved him...I know I didn't, but that's why he pursued me? Thankfully I found out early enough that I was able to get out of it easy enough!
#27
Family dinner with my brother and his high school girlfriend about twenty minutes after I had accidentally walked in on them. My brother kept sending me glances that said "please don't tell mum and dad." I kept that secret until I was an adult, I mentioned it to mum randomly one day and she just goes "oh, you poor thing! That must have been so traumatic! I had no idea!"
#28
An autistic boy with a fixation on the Vietnam War sat next to a Vietnam veteran. I realize the boy couldn't help it, but his mother sure as f**k could've.
Woundwort42 1 year ago
He probably kept asking probing, awkward questions. Think Sheldon with James Earl Jones
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ScootyPuffJr 1 year ago (edited)
Maybe the kid was a bit rude or blunt, but I wish people would understand not ALL Vietnam veterans have PTSD and triggers!! My dad was a pilot for over 2 years there, even got shot down, and he'll happily chat with you about any of it. I hated it when friends would assume my dad had issues when they'd find out he'd been there. Not bashing anyone with PTSD whatsoever, but don't assume.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
It's not just about PTSD. Old soldiers in particular just don't want to be reminded of the horrors they've seen & in many cases, rarely talk about that time.
Load More Replies... PenguinQueen 1 year ago
Unless the Vet had a problem with it, it's non of anyone's business. Most people are understanding of people with Special needs and mothers can't always 100% of the time control every single social encounter their child engages in every single day. But each situation can be a learning opportunity for everyone and how we react and respond to one another as human beings is what matters
Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
Yikes. I've seen vets with PTSD getting those kind of questions. Waiting until they finally break and express how inappropriate it is is not a great idea. You've already done the damage by that point. Also don't recommend telling war vets with PTSD being triggered by a stranger's kid that it's a "learning opportunity" for them. No parent can stop their kid from doing things that are harmful to others, but you don't have to pretend that harm isn't done
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Barbara Deskins 4 months ago
my brother could never talk about that war. I can't imagine someone asking probing questions. I am sure he would have gotten up and left
#29
We got free tickets to a small time comedian. We live in rural Nebraska. So we show up to the comedian at a local "club" and they have rappers opening for them.
So there was a bunch of middle aged/older white people in what you would imagine farmer clothes to look like in a club that seemed like it was trying to emulate what us hicks would think a big city club is like with two black dudes on stage dropping n-bombs mother-fers. Sort of a toned down gangster rap. And the crowd just sat and watched politely.
It wasn't terribly uncomfortable but was one of the most surreal experiences of my life.
Leah Brown 1 year ago
Little did you know that Farmer Brown down the road secretly jams out to Gangsta Rap music all the time while he plows his fields.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Farmer Brown gets his ho's to plow *his* field.... Yo.
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It would be interesting to hear this story from the perspective of the two black dudes.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I want to know who the "small time comedian" was, that may have made it worth while.
Evan Connolly 2 months ago
My dad used to be a drummer in a band. Once his band was doing a performance for the Mormons. He said they all dressed nice and they were all quiet and attentive during the performance. He wasn't sure if they actually liked the performance, but they said that they did.
Madeline Sommers 1 year ago
I’m a tiny woman. I’m small and it probably doesn’t help that I walk around in sweats and oversized hoodies. But I listen to Ghost and sleep token, and heavy metal… but you would never think that’s what’s blasting in my headphones if you look at me.
#30
Was at a cafe alone, sitting a table. I saw my friend's brother, let's call him Matt. I hadn't seen Matt in maybe 5 years at thia point but figured I would say hi. Matt sat down ans proceeded to have a weirder and weirder convo. What started as a rant about his favorite Assassin's Creed game (bad social etiquette but not too weird) eventually morphed into government conspiracies. Couldn't get out of their fast enough but also didn't want to be too rude so sat through it for about 20 minutes. Told my friend and she was like "Oh yeah Matt has veen going through some stuff. Definitely don't recommend talking to him."
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
*takes notes* Don't talk about Assassin's Creed to casual acquaintances. Hmmm a lot of stuff makes sense now. That being said, I loved Odyssey but perhaps I loved Origins more. Hard to decide. I haven't played Mirage or Valhalla yet, but I expect I will eventually. Looking back on the earlier games, I would have to say that the weakest part of the games are that they can tend to be repetative, but I personally don't mind that too much....
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Valhalla is okay; The combat is a bit better, but that's about it. Overall Odyssey is better. Origins is my favourite, but I would have liked a bit more tomb delving. I've just started replaying Syndicate, because I found it at the back of a cupboard at the weekend and couldn't really remember it. Black Flag remains a firm winner, but we all know that that's not for the Assassin's creed aspect.
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Woundwort42 1 year ago
I've been working my way through Assassins creed since Covid, they're chock full of conspiracy stuff, especially the hidden collectable extras. I'm up to Black Flag so far
John Mosley 1 year ago
How is it that the people with the most bizarre ideas are also the most vocal about them?
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
I love listening to people like matt. I usually meet them on the bus, waiting on the bus and at hospital appointments. Conspiracy conversations are my favourite. I don't believe any of it but i love listening to others opinions on it
#31
I was visiting my cousin's house. For some reason, her mom was asking her about her childhood and if she had any trauma or something like that. What followed was my cousin lowkey trauma dumping while clearly still mad at my aunt for some parenting failures. Both were trying to stay polite-ish but dear god it was so tense and awkward. Aunt kept deflecting just about anything the cousin said too. Couldn't really leave the room because cousin was blocking the only exit.
Afterwards, Aunt asked me if I had any grievances. I kept my mouth shut.
Vicky Phenny 1 year ago
Based on my own parents, someone looking for ammo to punish their kid years after the fact by dredging it up then blaming their victim for being traumatized.
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Nikki Gross 1 year ago
One of the funniest and most true ways that I've heard someone used to describe the holidays with family is that, "It looks like Norman Rockwell on the outside, but inside it's like the Nightmare On Elm Street." For some reason that has stuck with me for years, at times after I was grown up that would pop into my head during the holidays when my family still got together.
#32
At church, 4th of July, and our pianist who thought she could sing (she couldn't) singing Lee Greenwood's I'm proud to be an American in the most god-awful high-pitched voice for the entire song. (She was using head voice the entire time for those in the know.) My husband and I were literally sitting there in shock, heads bowed, totally embarrassed with second hand embarrassment for her. This was about 20 years ago and we still talk about it around the 4th of July to this day. Had to be the longest few minutes of our lives.
Dragon mama 1 year ago
I am this person. I have a terrible voice and I know it, but I LOVE to sing and I enjoy lifting up my voice in praise, so I sing loud and proud if I'm feelin' it. I do at least have the sense not to do a solo with a mic, though, so marginally better, but I've created lots of cringe moments. My kids made sure I knew lol
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
I had a pt who thought she was going to be a famous Christian singer. It's all she talked about. I encouraged her to join the choir. But for some reason the pastor didn't have room. Then she brought in her "album." Dear Lord! How do some people become so delusional? Well, I suppose it's bc their stupid psychiatrist encourages them to join the choir. I'm about 90% tone deaf, and my poor ears!
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Was at my Dad's uncle's funeral this spring. A son in law who has been a music teacher and "student of music"... All of my life? Thought it acceptable to accompany his niece playing the violin... With the church's pipe organ. She was standing beside a baby grand, and this man can play piano beautifully. I have no quirky euphemisms. It was just awful and embarrassing.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
I would really love to learn propper singing. I love to sing, but I too use often that „head voice“. I know I do it, but I can‘t controll it, really. Sometimes I get it right, but it‘s more chance then anything else…
alloutbikes@yahoo.com 12 months ago
The bible says make a joyful noise unto the Lord. It never says we have to be on key.
bernie bulk 1 year ago
sounds like that fat sheila who trashed the national anthem at your football grand final...cant remeber her name...if there was ever a time for a random american shooting...that was it
Pollymere 6 months ago
We once sat through 7-10 year olds in an "orchestra" playing Mars or Jupiter from the Planet Suite. It was hideously bad and uncomfortable but we just kept telling ourselves it would end soon. We all clapped enthusiastically at the end through sheer relief. Until the Headteacher decided they should play the whole thing again as an encore...
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Who goes to a church that preaches that garbage? Flag waving is not Christianity.
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My baseball team was at a hotel and we loaded like 30 guys in an elevator and it got stuck. We were packed in there unable to move for like 2 hours.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Yuck. Elevator must’ve smelled like sweaty jock straps for a month.
Load More Replies... Steve 1 year ago
Considering the elevator's max rating of 2500 lbs., it sounds like that baseball team was a bunch of idiots.
Melissa Harris 1 year ago
Likely got stuck because they over weighted the capacity. 😭
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Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago (edited)
Anyone almost panic, want a wee, try to sit on the floor ... that is a lot of big men in any sized elevator. 30 of one team is such a close atmosphere the lift might have dropped not just stopped with so much overloaded weight.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Who doesn't know that an elevator doesn't carry that many people at once.
#34
A couple of years ago my business partner wanted to get massages (something I really, really don't like) and she found a special for two. However, it was clearly meant for like, romantic twos. It was at a "spa" that was really just a converted house and the "massage room" was like the size of my bathroom. Small.
There was no sort of privacy between the beds and I am hugely conservative in that regard, whereas she was quite happy to rip all her clothes off in the room (no underwear even).
It was insanely uncomfortable and as soon as the massage was over, I got dressed and went to the bathroom. They still had to do a facial but I just did it in my actual clothes, no thank you.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
I would hate that. Massages are my worst nightmare I hate people touching me. I would've had a panic attack and hopefully that would scare people off from inviting me again
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
I feel exactly the same. But when my husband, who adores massages got us one i didn't want to be rude and said I'd give it ago. Awful experience and i don't like being naked in front of people either.
Load More Replies... Mario Strada 1 year ago
My wife once took me to a salon because she was convinced I'd enjoy a facial. At the time I didn't really know what that was, but I humored her. I left feeling like I sparred a couple of rounds with Mike Tyson. It was among the most uncomfortable experiences I have ever had (in that context).
Samantha 1 year ago
Mario Strada, I know exactly what you mean. My daughter paid for me to have a Facial. I likewise hated it - the lady constantly massaging my face and neck felt so weird and uncomfortable to me, not in the least bit relaxing. I couldn't get out of there quick enough.
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Hugendubel 1 year ago
I (woman) was traveling in remote China , staying in a hotel - phone goes - offering a massage - and i am like oh yes that would be super. Knock on door, a heavily made up lady with glitter outfit looking me up and down with that look ...
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Accidentally agreed to a date, went with it anyways. I just wanna preface this by saying I was kinda out of it when I agreed to it. I was looking for a partner for a dance cover. The guy that was supposed to be my partner asked if I was gonna watch the Thor movie at the cinema, I said smth along the lines of having no money for it. He said he'd pay, and for some reason, my brain went "well..you dont have an excuse to say no now" so I just said "ok" ?? Afterwards I thought "oh s**t I just agreed to go on a date."
Went to meet with him to talk about the dance cover then went to the movies after the talk. The entire time, throughout the whole movie..he just had his arms around me, no no.. not having his arm over my shoulder, as in he was hugging me..closely. It felt so awkward, I didnt really know the guy, we've barely talked. I tried setting myself free from his grasp but he pulled me back in anyway.
"Why didnt you just leave?" Idk. I have a tendency to just be frozen went put in r e a l l y uncomfy situations with worse experiences than that date, so thats my guess as to what going through my mind at the time.
After the movies he asked if he can come escort me out the mall and I said no twice cuz he insisted and then I left. After all that I msged him when I got home and said that what he did was inappropriate, he said sorry and he made some excuse about being a lonely guy and I cut him off after that.
Now that I think about it, he probably thought because the dance cover was spicy for the genre that I was giving him a sign or smth? I never flirted at all with the guy when talking to him.
Btw I was also around 18 or 19 at this time and the dude was like 27 or 28.
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Oh dear God something similar happened to me. I somehow mentioned to a friend a movie that was in the cinemas that I was interested in seeing and he just casually goes I've got tickets, wanna come? And my dumbaß says yep. Well, I showed up in jeans and a sweatshirt and he showed up in a suit (I'm not exaggerating) and with.a.rose. I wanted to die then and there...
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
Thank you all the dear people who also do not know what a dance cover is! So she was looking for a dance partner? To do some imitative choreography? Why? Professional dancers don't usually get their romance wires crossed this quickly. Was this for TikTok?
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Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
I'm not proud, just old, had to look up "dance cover". Wikipedia says: "Cover dance is the act of replicating a dance choreography, particularly from Japanese idol or Korean idol music acts."
Amanda Moore 1 year ago
I've known people like this that even though they were older it was actually their first date ever so they were extremely awkward.
Gypsy Lee 1 year ago
His age; he knew what he was doing and it had nothing to do with a spicy genre. He's just a perv who would use any excuse to manhandle and grope. You're lucky you got away without something worse happening. AND, lots of women freeze when put into those situations. We get "Comply!" "Submit!" "Don't be a b****!" beaten into us from day one, usually by guys just like him, except title it "society". I don't believe most guys understand that so many men do behave like predators that it has become normalized, and when women/girls resist they're labeled difficult/similar. - The fallout is far worse for her than it will ever be for him. When that behavior becomes unacceptable, only then will women not feel like prey. (I know not all men and not all women - but at this point in time I shouldn't have to even mention that to avoid being trolled by certain individuals, but here we are)
What do you think ?
JB 1 year ago (edited)
Sitting with my siblings after our parents divorced, hearing dad’s side of the story after our abusive egg donor had been bitching to us all for years about his affairs. He’d never had one, it was all her. She even instigated swinging with mutual friends (who we knew) but after she spent the night with the friend’s husband, declared she would be too jealous, couldn’t stand the idea of dad with the wife, so he didn’t go through with it. She carried on an affair with the husband for several months behind dad and her friend’s backs. The friends divorced over it. But that wasn’t the worst. All of us had some doubts about our youngest sibling’s paternity; her coloring was so different to the rest of us and at least two of us knew mom was carrying on with a teacher at our school; he had similar coloring. Dad went on to explain he wasn’t sure about ANY of us! He followed up with “doesn’t matter, I loved you from the moment she told me she was pregnant. You’re all mine, no matter what.”
VOTE if you live in the USA 1 year ago
At a Catholic-run retreat for engaged couples. There were about 10 couples. We all sat in our chairs in a round circle facing each other. The counselor has us share what we wrote in our journals based on the prompt we were given. My husband mentioned to the group a past relationship. This relationship was no big deal. I knew about it, it wasn't a big relationship in my then-fiance's life, zero problems. But the counselor needed to lead a discussion so she decided to zero in and try to create drama about this past relationship where there was none. Insinuated I was jealous, or not over it, and why didn't I want to talk about it if it really was no big deal? So uncomfortable to try to shut this conversation down in front of a bunch of people without looking like I'm the weirdo. Spoiler: that was in 2006 and my husband and I are still happily married.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I went through an engaged encounter before my (now) husband and I got married. I thought it was an excellent things for most people, evidently lots had never talked about money or kids or stuff that important. And NO ONE made us tell personal stories. If we wanted to share at appropriate times we could but we certainly didn't have to. I recommend it to people, Catholic or not (the retreat we went to wasn't strictly Catholic, open to everyone I think). And my husband and I have been married 28 years!
Load More Replies... Mrs.C 1 year ago (edited)
Saw an acquaintance while dropping my kids off at school. Knew she was going through a divorce and asked how she was doing. She trauma dumped in a HUGE way in the drop-off line. SA, DV, Child A, PTSD, Custody battle, Military deployments...the whole shebang. It was graphic. We were not friends- had had maybe 10-12 brief, small talk conversations. Don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I have this weird addiction to awkward silence, I often find myself in a situation and my brain says ‘hey, keep quiet, see what happens’, I’ll then happily sit in a silence that others will be willing to end. You’ll be surprised what people will say to make an awkward silence come to an end.
Adam S 1 year ago
We used to have some space in a shared office next to a much larger organisation. There wasn’t any barriers and they sort of took us under their wing as often there would only be a few or even just one of us in. We’d join them for lunch sometimes, etc. One day it’s someone’s leaving presentation, I’m the only one in so I mooch along for a biscuit and glass of warm prosecco. The leaver starts to list all the reasons she left, ending on the phrase “some of you will go on to do great things - but it won’t be here”. I happen to be standing near the CEO, all eyes on him so I can’t really slip away. Haven’t figured out whether being an outsider made it more or less awkward to watch but I wish I’d WFH that day!
martin734 1 year ago
When I was 17 and at college (UK college is not university) I had a boyfriend who was just over a year older than me at 19. One weekend I stayed over at his house while his parents were away for a few days and on the Saturday afternoon we were a little busy on the sofa when his older sister and her boyfriend walked in. It was extremely awkward to say the least especially as his sister had come over to her parents house to have some privacy with her boyfriend away from her flatmates and his parents and was planning on doing what she had caught us doing.
Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)
So both siblings were using their parents house as a bang pad. 😭 Keep it in the actual bedrooms. His folks could have come home early instead!
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Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 1 year ago
My brother passed away at 40y/o. My phone broke and I couldn’t afford a new one at the time so I decided to use his. I didn’t want to wipe his phone and lose all his pictures and videos so I had the unfortunate task of going one by one and deleting all his nudes, his current girlfriend’s nudes, and after a lot of scrolling I found that he still had some nudes of his ex. That was not a fun time. The girl pics didn’t bother me so much it was having to look at my brother’s pictures that traumatized me
Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
In toys-r-us in the early 2000’s with my then boyfriend, now husband. My husband is only 5’2” and was in his early 30’s at the time wearing baggy shorts, a t-shirt and baseball cap. I walk up to him and put my hand on his shoulder lovingly and say ‘hey babe!’. An identically dressed 12 year old boy turns around and yells ‘MUM!’ and runs off. I legged it to find my bf and as we were hurriedly leaving the boy and his mum were with a security guard searching for me. We still laugh about it.
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
In middle school, a girl asked me to be her girlfriend, and I said yes, despite having zero interest in her romantically, because I wasn't sure how to say no, and I was flattered. She wanted to kiss me, and I didn't say no to that either (again didn't know how, didn't want to offend her. She wasn't pressuring me, I was just socially anxious). We ended up spending a lunch period with her in my lap sucking hickeys into my neck, and I hated every minute of it, which was even more awkward, because she seemed to be having a good time. We continued "dating" (it was middle school, it doesn't really count. We never even met up outside of school) for a month, before she broke up with me because she wasn't ready for a relationship. Never been more relieved. She was very nice, there just wasn't any spark on my end. I think she might consider herself straight now.
JB 1 year ago (edited)
Sitting with my siblings after our parents divorced, hearing dad’s side of the story after our abusive egg donor had been bitching to us all for years about his affairs. He’d never had one, it was all her. She even instigated swinging with mutual friends (who we knew) but after she spent the night with the friend’s husband, declared she would be too jealous, couldn’t stand the idea of dad with the wife, so he didn’t go through with it. She carried on an affair with the husband for several months behind dad and her friend’s backs. The friends divorced over it. But that wasn’t the worst. All of us had some doubts about our youngest sibling’s paternity; her coloring was so different to the rest of us and at least two of us knew mom was carrying on with a teacher at our school; he had similar coloring. Dad went on to explain he wasn’t sure about ANY of us! He followed up with “doesn’t matter, I loved you from the moment she told me she was pregnant. You’re all mine, no matter what.”
VOTE if you live in the USA 1 year ago
At a Catholic-run retreat for engaged couples. There were about 10 couples. We all sat in our chairs in a round circle facing each other. The counselor has us share what we wrote in our journals based on the prompt we were given. My husband mentioned to the group a past relationship. This relationship was no big deal. I knew about it, it wasn't a big relationship in my then-fiance's life, zero problems. But the counselor needed to lead a discussion so she decided to zero in and try to create drama about this past relationship where there was none. Insinuated I was jealous, or not over it, and why didn't I want to talk about it if it really was no big deal? So uncomfortable to try to shut this conversation down in front of a bunch of people without looking like I'm the weirdo. Spoiler: that was in 2006 and my husband and I are still happily married.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I went through an engaged encounter before my (now) husband and I got married. I thought it was an excellent things for most people, evidently lots had never talked about money or kids or stuff that important. And NO ONE made us tell personal stories. If we wanted to share at appropriate times we could but we certainly didn't have to. I recommend it to people, Catholic or not (the retreat we went to wasn't strictly Catholic, open to everyone I think). And my husband and I have been married 28 years!
Load More Replies... Mrs.C 1 year ago (edited)
Saw an acquaintance while dropping my kids off at school. Knew she was going through a divorce and asked how she was doing. She trauma dumped in a HUGE way in the drop-off line. SA, DV, Child A, PTSD, Custody battle, Military deployments...the whole shebang. It was graphic. We were not friends- had had maybe 10-12 brief, small talk conversations. Don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I have this weird addiction to awkward silence, I often find myself in a situation and my brain says ‘hey, keep quiet, see what happens’, I’ll then happily sit in a silence that others will be willing to end. You’ll be surprised what people will say to make an awkward silence come to an end.
Adam S 1 year ago
We used to have some space in a shared office next to a much larger organisation. There wasn’t any barriers and they sort of took us under their wing as often there would only be a few or even just one of us in. We’d join them for lunch sometimes, etc. One day it’s someone’s leaving presentation, I’m the only one in so I mooch along for a biscuit and glass of warm prosecco. The leaver starts to list all the reasons she left, ending on the phrase “some of you will go on to do great things - but it won’t be here”. I happen to be standing near the CEO, all eyes on him so I can’t really slip away. Haven’t figured out whether being an outsider made it more or less awkward to watch but I wish I’d WFH that day!
martin734 1 year ago
When I was 17 and at college (UK college is not university) I had a boyfriend who was just over a year older than me at 19. One weekend I stayed over at his house while his parents were away for a few days and on the Saturday afternoon we were a little busy on the sofa when his older sister and her boyfriend walked in. It was extremely awkward to say the least especially as his sister had come over to her parents house to have some privacy with her boyfriend away from her flatmates and his parents and was planning on doing what she had caught us doing.
Melissa Harris 1 year ago (edited)
So both siblings were using their parents house as a bang pad. 😭 Keep it in the actual bedrooms. His folks could have come home early instead!
Load More Replies... Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 1 year ago
My brother passed away at 40y/o. My phone broke and I couldn’t afford a new one at the time so I decided to use his. I didn’t want to wipe his phone and lose all his pictures and videos so I had the unfortunate task of going one by one and deleting all his nudes, his current girlfriend’s nudes, and after a lot of scrolling I found that he still had some nudes of his ex. That was not a fun time. The girl pics didn’t bother me so much it was having to look at my brother’s pictures that traumatized me
Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
In toys-r-us in the early 2000’s with my then boyfriend, now husband. My husband is only 5’2” and was in his early 30’s at the time wearing baggy shorts, a t-shirt and baseball cap. I walk up to him and put my hand on his shoulder lovingly and say ‘hey babe!’. An identically dressed 12 year old boy turns around and yells ‘MUM!’ and runs off. I legged it to find my bf and as we were hurriedly leaving the boy and his mum were with a security guard searching for me. We still laugh about it.
FaceTime Audio 1 year ago
In middle school, a girl asked me to be her girlfriend, and I said yes, despite having zero interest in her romantically, because I wasn't sure how to say no, and I was flattered. She wanted to kiss me, and I didn't say no to that either (again didn't know how, didn't want to offend her. She wasn't pressuring me, I was just socially anxious). We ended up spending a lunch period with her in my lap sucking hickeys into my neck, and I hated every minute of it, which was even more awkward, because she seemed to be having a good time. We continued "dating" (it was middle school, it doesn't really count. We never even met up outside of school) for a month, before she broke up with me because she wasn't ready for a relationship. Never been more relieved. She was very nice, there just wasn't any spark on my end. I think she might consider herself straight now.
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