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There’s nothing quite like being in your own company. It’s a pure judgement-free zone—no pressure to show off, no expectations met by reality, no strange looks given as you’re voicing all the nonsense out loud in an empty room.
And interestingly, some of the most unusual behavior happens while we’re on our own. In fact, the things we do are so random, we don’t really talk about them. Ever. Like doing a remote trace or aligning your feet to the tiles so you won’t die.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of all the odd things we all do but never dare to tell, not even in truth or dare. And you know what? It's better off that way.
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#1
Walking Up A Hill
Kate Priestley 5 years ago
I do that after I've run for the bus. Get on. Sit down. Try to breath through my nose like a normal person.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
if I was breathing normally walking up a hill people would think I am having an asthma attack.
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#2
Appreciating Music
thingjummings 5 years ago
Me : replaying again because the part that hurts me didn't hurt me enough.
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
Yes! I will restart songs if I get distracted in the middle. Some songs are so good they need your entire focus.
#3
Staying Sleepy
Vic 5 years ago
The fear of not being able to go back to sleep is very real!
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
You should do this because if you put the light on, your brain will start to wake up and that's not what you want.
Paolina Mitova 5 years ago
Because of that situation I have time (and the possibility) to read anything on BP. But I do regret the missed sleep... it's now 5:02 am :-(
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
this is I do it while rushing in and out of the bathroom so as to not lose sleep
Humor plays a vital role in younger generations’ communication and media consumption. But Gen Z and millennials are renowned for what’s called absurdist, surrealist, and often dark comedy full of dank memes and observational one-liners.
In order to get this sense of humor, one has to understand the context in which the youngest generations came to live. In the past decade, the world has been bursting with information which is “both more accessible and less reliable,” writes The Washington Post. “Brands pose as a friend on social media to millennial consumers, and the line between real and artificial matters less than it once did.”
#4
Passwords
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I am tempted to write all my passwords down but then I am paranoid that it will get stolen.
Charlotte 5 years ago
Yeah, the people interested in stealing your digital info are generally not the same as the ones who would break into your house, so a single copy in a safe place at home is probably more secure than just using the same password for everything so you can remember it.
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Alyeck Melendez Seda 5 years ago
That is a mistery, if I'm getting the password wrong then how does the computer know I'm using the same one for a new password?
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
No, you do not get to tell me what my password can and can't be. We made you. We restrict your actions and choices, not the other way around. You can give a person a nice set of locks for their doors, but you can't make them lock the doors; that's their choice. Stop encouraging people to pick passwords they'r going to have to write down; it's insecure.
deanna woods 5 years ago
My situation is more that I forgot my old password and realize what it is when trying to set up a new password.
#5
Brain Freeze
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
You know, the one where they're singing, and the music is pretty good. I think they're popular. The song name starts with an 'S'. The song never starts with an S, you're at the wrong end of the alphabet. Two days and ten hours later you sit up in bad and you declare the name of the song to the ceiling.
Tracy Lord 5 years ago
I do the same thing with scrabble/Words with Friends or even Scattergories. I have a decent vocabulary but seem to forget most of it when I'm on the spot.
Honeybuzz 5 years ago
This happens to me when someone suddenly asks for a synonym.
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Baali Venomax 5 years ago
I make lists so I can put them on my mp3 player off my computer collection and take them with me :D
Danial Ketchum 5 years ago
Yeah...thats true but we will remember them if we start the conversation like "Hey whats your fav song mine is _____"
#6
Birthday Greetings
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Right lol. And I would be unable to tell you 4 seconds after reading it what it said!
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Zelda Blue 5 years ago
Or opening a birthday card hoping for money and remembering you are an adult and only get cards now no money.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
OR..... acting like you don't care there's NO money in it as you read it ;)
Vanta Black 5 years ago
What? I open the card, thank them for the money, and then read it. It's usually just "Happy birthday! Enjoy your day!", or "Many Happy Returns" if my stepdad has signed one.
Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
lol. My mom always wants me to read them, even if it just says happy birthday.
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Lemon Garnished Potato 5 years ago
just slip the money to the side and pretend to think nothing of it, read the card and then later when you have time to yourself count the money while chuckling and grinning like a greedy goblin
Another explanation is that such surreal humor is a response to a world that has stopped making sense. According to Andrew DeYoung, the director of 555 and editor on The Eric Andre Show, the Adult Swim school of comedy is designed to “reflect the frenetic distribution of information on the internet.” And that’s why most of their shows are so chaotic and absurd.
Since there’s no time for a narrative joke to be said online, traditional punchline structure doesn’t work. “Instead, things are funny because they are willfully jarring and strange,” writes Rachel Aroesti for The Guardian. Weird Twitter and bizarre dank memes are perfect examples of how millennials break down the joke, decontextualize it, and create utter randomness.
#7
Picking A Song
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That is definitely a hard one but considering the situation I would be in that I had 6mins to live, I would probably listen to Always look on the bright side of life from Monty Python.
Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
I would listen to Hedwig's theme. Or the first 6 minutes of it anyway.
Mollie Burge 5 years ago
that's a little odd, but i respect your decision
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Alyeck Melendez Seda 5 years ago
I would spend those 6 minutes at school since when I'm at school every minute feels like an eternity :D
*The Star Wolf* 5 years ago
I would play a song my whole family would like like Happy so they wouldn't be too sad when I died
Cathleen Morris 5 years ago
I’ll be 73 in a few months ... a few years ago, I got so tired of that question when friends get bored, I decided that my fav song is: “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”
#8
Things Causing Anxiety
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
When the cashier gives you the change by placing notes on your palm and then the coins on top... awkward shuffling around of money ensues.
Barry Wright 5 years ago
Or worse when some cashiers take your change and wrap the receipt around it.
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hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
Ok but what if they get mad. I mean they probably won't. But what if they're thinking mean thoughts about me. Nah they aren't. But WHAT IF?
Shawn LaFramboise 5 years ago
I'm a cashier & I tell people not to rush. If others are in that big of a hurry, they should have left their house or wherever 10 mins sooner.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago (edited)
At the supermarket when I'm trying to pack, and pay, and 1 kid is crying and other kid is calling me and something fall on the floor and I just remembered I didn't paid for the 15 cent bread I gave kid to be quiet, and my conscience is screaming that the line is getting longer and longer and everybody hates me, all happening at the same time. JUST TO LOOK BEHIND ME AND SEE ONLY A TEENAGER LOOKING TO HER PHONE, NOT EVEN WORRIED THAT I'M TAKING FOREVER AS LONG SHE HAS INTERNET.
Magdalena Bone 5 years ago
I always drop it or can get my purse open so I just shove it in my pocket and awkwardly shuffle away...
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
People can just chill the f**k out. I'll be an additional 5 SECONDS.
#9
Standing In The Way
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
If a person is there trying to make a decision or taking too long I just say excuse me please and grab what I want.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Once again I say this, someone is always in front of the cheese.
Lillukka 5 years ago
For me, it's always the milk. What is so hard to buy milk. Just grab the same carton you always do an go away.
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Kent Fishburn 5 years ago
I've actually had an Orthodox Jew push me away from the bacon I was choosing. He didn't buy it, just didn't want me looking.
Anja Schmidt 5 years ago
I sometimes change the corridor and come back later ... take it easy ...
#10
Volume Down
Marcellus II 5 years ago
Absolutely. Less input less distraction. Same reason you ask your passenger to look out at that point instead of keep rattling on.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
It's true. Before I had eye surgery years ago if I didn't have my glasses on I couldn't hear right.
Jolee Hang 5 years ago
Apparently not... *hides in a corner to rethink life*
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Lulu the ©ʟɪᴄᴇɴsᴇᴅ ᴘᴏᴛᴛᴇʀʜᴇᴀᴅ® 5 years ago
I dont drive, but i see my parents do this ALL-THE-TIME!
Harley Hans Hoglin 5 years ago
How about every one in the car leans forward as you go up a steep hill. And you turn down the radio to read street signs.
Jarrod Nichols 5 years ago
Anyone else see the google maps estimated time to your destination as a challenge?
Emily 5 years ago
This is my mom trying to drive in the snow when we were kids. If there was any snow at all she would shout "turn the music down, I can't hear the road!"
#11
Charging Your Phone
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Lulu the ©ʟɪᴄᴇɴsᴇᴅ ᴘᴏᴛᴛᴇʀʜᴇᴀᴅ® 5 years ago
u can always lay on the charger.....Uncomfortable though
#12
Forgetting The Time
Valentin Andronache 5 years ago
Once, I took my phone out of the pocket to check the time, only to look at the battery percentage instead. So I had to take my phone out a second time, only to get distracted by the fact that the battery dropped by 1% and ended up taking my phone out a 3rd time to actually check the time. 😂😂😂 in my defense, I was out with the dog really early in the morning and was still somewhat sleepy...
2WheelTravlr 5 years ago
I just did this yesterday. Picked up the phone to check the time...aaaaaand an hour later I was still wandering aimlessly through about 15 tabs reading about two stroke diesel engines. I have no idea how I even got on the subject.
Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
Or you look at your wrist, then remember you haven’t worn a watch since you got a cell phone.
Microwaved Robot 4 years ago
I check, then I have to recheck because I forgot what the time was the first time I checked, grrrrrrrr...
#13
Security Sensors
Peter Korpershoek 5 years ago
I once got 'caught' by a store manager after the alarm went off, i was 12. I patiently waited right after the sirene, but nobody showed up. I got some angry faces from customers and personnel. I tested the alarm again by swinging my plastic bag trough the gates, it went off again. Nobody showed up... After one minute i started walking back to my bike, and right then someone grabbed me by the neck. He dragged me roughly to a small office where i had to empty my pockets and bag. He checked the receipt and saw that I didn't steel anything. He tested the alarm with my bag, it went off. They seem to have forgotten to remove a tag. I was 19 when i had the guts to enter that store again.
Hans 5 years ago
You should have told your parents, who should have insisted on a formal apology!
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logical fallacy 5 years ago
It's not that I could have accidentally shoved a tv up my a*s, but there's Peter's experience, where they treat you like s**t only to realise the cashier forgot a tag and there's the "prank" of another customer putting a small unpurchased object in your pocket or bag to have fun. Once at a shop I overheard two boys planning on doing this. I wasnt much older than them, so I didn't tell them to stop, but it's left me in perpetual fear.
Anja Schmidt 5 years ago
As A Teen I worked in the supermarket filling the shelves. I needed some filling the wholes in my stomache so I bought a bar of chocolate. I refused to take the receipt @-@ An overly committed young shop detective -sure of victory- asked where the chocolate was from i was chewing. I felt like I had raised an alarm because I was doing something illegal. I couldn´t prove the purchase but the cashier remembered !!! Still trembling and innocent, he couldn't help blaming rules and behavior next time, missing the point that his act was actually ridiculous, I'm happy again with my chocolate in hand back to the shelves.
Charity Slagter 5 years ago
I sometimes set off the RFID detectors in stores. And by that I mean ME- my body. My neighborhood drugstore got so used to it that they would just wave at me and tell me to go ahead and leave.
Elouise Kivineva 5 years ago
I got a false alarm from an anti-shoplifting gate and my friend was still at the cash register. She started yelling at me ”oh God not again”, ”you promised you wouldn’t do this anymore”, ”what did you take this time”, ”you’ll never make bail this time” etc. etc. The other shoppers were wide eyed and I couldn’t stop laughing. Our kids were a wee bit embarassed but they should know better than to go outin public with us 😂
Lolo Caty 5 years ago
I was at a shopping center once and bought a jacket that had pockets in a store where the clothes had security pins (idk how it's called in english). After i payed for the jacket i had to go to other stores too and the alarm went off every single time. I checked every bag i had, and the security also checked the food tags i bought in the supermarket, but we couldn't find anything. I still feel awkward when i think about it, all the people would stare at me angrily. I went home to find a security pin in one of the pockets of the jackets i bought. Someone had cut it from another item they probably stole from the store and hid in the jacket they put back in the shelf.
Nami Tantrum 5 years ago
i had those thing go of because i bought a new SIM card in another store
#14
Sleep Time
Kaisu 5 years ago
It's the best feeling ever, knowing you can have lots more sleep! Like waking up at 7 but then remembering it's the weekend and you can go back to sleep
iblowsheep 5 years ago
not if you lie awake after than unable to sleep again.
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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
The worst is like waking up 2-5 min before the alarm and feeling horribly cheated and cranky
Jolee Hang 5 years ago
True... I have a watch, and my mom controls it from her phone, (I'm sixteen, so she can still do this, even though I have had an ipod for years and am perfectly capable of having a phone) and she used to have an alarm for washing my face at 7:00am and now I get up at 7:00am instead of 6:00, so since my watch is, like, thirty seconds ahead, I turn off my watch alarm, which is too far to reach from the bed, and then by the time I get in bed, my clock goes off ten seconds later. Unfortunately, I get extremely tired in the morning, so I either kept forgetting to ask her to turn it off or when I did ask, she told me it was a bad time. It stayed like that for over a year before she finally fixed it.
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Dynein 5 years ago
Not for me... I struggle with falling asleep, so if I'm awake enough to wonder about the time I really hope it's past 6am. That means I can maybe get up, maybe doze a bit (depending on the exact time and how I feel about getting up), but either way I probably already got a sufficient amount of sleep to function for the day. 3am? Might not fall asleep again (or take hours to do so), then be tired all day and only kinda become awake toward the evening... and then struggle to fall asleep that night because I'm too awake >.< And getting out of THAT cycle will cost me days that I'll spend being tired and unmotivated and hardly able to concentrate. Yippee.
Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
Yes!! I wake up like this every single day!! *Falls asleep at midnight* *wakes up* *3:00 AM* *Falls back to sleep at 6:00* *Alarm goes off at 7:00*
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Dan Oberlander 5 years ago
When I was in the Navy, we had to be up at 5am. Every minute of sleep was precious. One night my roommates alarm clock was going off at 2:30am. Matt, why the hell is your alarm clock going off? His response, “you know that feeling you get when you wake up in the middle of the night and realize you still have a few hours to sleep. I trying to get that.” WTF!?!?
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Know what's horrible? "Please don't be 7am." It's 6:13am. And you're too tired to get up but too awake to sleep more.
#15
Auto Pilot
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
That’s a bit dangerous. Although I have walked to the shops and as I am almost half way home I have thought “I don’t even remember walking to the shops”. It’s like I was just suddenly placed there without knowing how I got there. Does that make sense? Kind of like I was on auto pilot.
Rissie 5 years ago
Nah. Your brain is just dismissing the memory while actually working at normal capacity for the task. If for some reason anything out of the ordinary happen your mind is there at the same speed as if you were not thinking of anything else. It's just the nice constant of "working" on something that suddenly makes you aware you are dismissing a lot. But actually you do the exact same thing all the other times with the necessary info. You remember anything out of the ordinary, the rest is dismissed and filled in by memory when you look back. And on familiar roads there is just so little to do, your mind can do so much other stuff it feels like this.
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James Pointer 5 years ago
I do this riding a push bike, that's why I've chosen so far not to learn to drive. (now 28). I get distracted and don't look where I am going, I'd rather not put myself or others in larger danger
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Or realize you're home without any recollection of the drive getting there (completely sober, BTW)?
MellonCollie 5 years ago
Yep, this has already happened ... or when you drive somewhere, which happens to be a road that leads to several points you sometimes drive to, and all of a sudden autopilot takes over and you start driving to somewhere else instead of your original destination???
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
My husband and I have both, and It's usually to jobs we worked at a long time ago. Haha
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Shaun Coleman 5 years ago
I used to commute to another city. It was 45 minute drive. Some mornings when I got to the office I didn't remember the drive or how I got there! Now that's a WTF!
Logan Slaughter 5 years ago
Short-term memories, registered as unnecessary in the long-term, and therefore dumped.
#16
Spending Time
von Funnyname 5 years ago
I think I woke up sometime in 2009 and now it's 2020 and I haven't the foggiest idea how I got here sometimes.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
But does anyone else find that time goes faster in quarantine? Partner has the radio on cos he hates working at home in silence, and it seems like the news comes on every 15 minutes instead of on the hour as it actually is
Amanda Hunter 5 years ago
I say I don't know what I was doing but I was busy doing it, which is actually true.
Lynn Greyling 5 years ago
It's the same as: And what else can you can tell me...when having a conversation on the phone with a not so close friend.
Rinpai 5 years ago
This is exactly how I react to any question ever. Like you can be asking my name, age, what 0+0 is, anything. I will automatically forget anything upon being asked. But also I have always lived a life where the answer to "what did you do today?" is "slept a bunch, woke up, then suddenly several hours passed idk what happened." "How are you?" Uhhhh "What's your favorite _____?" Uhhhhh "What are you in the mood for?" Uh "How was your day?" Uh uh uhhh "Whatcha thinkin about?" Um uh Idk
#17
Put Your Hand Up
Zophra 5 years ago
yep ,yep, still working, Onto other potential problems...
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Okay, I thought I was weird coz I have never known anyone else to do that. I did that once when my arm was still asleep so I ended up smacking myself in the face.
the redqueen 5 years ago
Wow, I have never seen anyone talk about this! When I was a kid, my favorite was while watching TV, laying on the carpet, in the floor, on my side, to put my arm up in the air and just let it "hang" there- my hubby says that I now do this in my sleep, often. It's a familiar, relaxing, and kinda comforting, all at the same time......
Donna Niedzialkowski-Imbrogno 5 years ago
I never knew anybody else to do this. It’s always right my right arm. I think I have a time or two got it balanced just so and can just forget about it.
Joanne Cresswell 5 years ago
Thank goodness! I thought it was just me - I wake up quite often with both arms in the air. Plucked up the courage to tell my Husband but he looked at me like I was crazy. So pleased this is an actual "thing"!!!
Load More Replies... Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
not only that I put it pose my hand as if I'm a model or something.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I find my arm straight up in the air with my wrist bent when I am asleep. I've woke up at least 15 or so times like that in the last 10 years. A few times as a kud, too. I feel like frankensteins monster when I realize I'm doing it.
#18
Hot Food
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I do this after I blow on it thinking it would be cool enough but sadly it still hot like a mother f****r.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
"hot like a m**********r"; me, in a dinosaur suit because my church is doing a fundraiser, but also my mouth while I'm sitting on the couch while trying to eat a VERY hot pocket.
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Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I do both. First I blow on it and then even though I know it's still way too hot I lose patience and proceed to burn the living hell out of my mouth. By the time it's cool enough to actually enjoy it's gone.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
How about drinking something cold real quick when you realize you put something hot—-temperature or spice—-in your mouth?
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Yep that''s usually my solution because I really want to spit out the food but I don't want anyone to see that.
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Connie Seybold-Resch 5 years ago
I actually blow on cold food sometimes and then think, 'WTF am I doing?"
#19
Just Adult Things
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
My OCD makes me do weird s**t like this :( It can be really tough
Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
Maybe take some comfort from the fact that while it is 'weird' it's also quite common.
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
One time when I was little, my mother injured her back and for over a month I thought it was my fault for not paying attention to how I was walking on the sidewalk and I may have stepped on a crack.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
I remember the rhyme: Step on a crack, break your mother‘s back. Step on a line, break your father’s spine.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
i eat sandwiches really weird: 2 slices of bread, margarine on only one side, 2 pieces of thinly cut cheese. cut in half once. then when i eat it i rip it in half again, take the crusts off, eat the sandwich and eat the bread crusts with crisps. this comment is pointless but oh well
Leonel Roque 5 years ago
You eat sandwiches with only cheese and margarine?
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TESSA ADKINS 5 years ago
I love to do this with my brothers. Then cuz I'm the only one that can stay on their tippie toes for forever, I win!
Jane Alexander 5 years ago (edited)
"Whenever I walk on a London street I'm ever so careful to watch my feet, the bears on the corner are ready to eat the sillies that walk on the lines of the street". I don't suppose you had A.A.Milne s book 'When We Were Very Young' when you were little?
ArianaTheDragonLover_157 5 years ago
idk why, but I do this too! is this ocd or something? I also feel like the same amount of weight always has to be put on each foot.
Barn Owl 5 years ago
I do the same kind of thing, but with my whole body!
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Alone Time
Magpie 5 years ago
*breakfast .....its the first food i eat so it must be breakfast .....right?
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Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
That’s the problem with being an introvert—you have to charge your batteries alone in order to face other people, no matter how much you like being with them.
Jolee Hang 5 years ago
Me: *Wakes you up at 8 on the dot* You got your eight hours, 12 am to 8 am! You never specified that you had to be awake! Also me, five hours later: *bites my sister's (the only person I ever regularly have contact with that isn't my 'superior') head off for jokingly attempting to take a pizza roll.
#21
Walking By
juice 5 years ago
also works when you make awkward eye contact with strangers and don't want to be perceived as rude
Kel Gal 5 years ago
Also when you wave at someone you think is waving at you but was really waving at someone behind you.
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Lyn 5 years ago
I say hi in this situation anyway. I was flattered when someone I didn't know well thought to say hi to me when we passed, so I began saying hi to other people as well. It's one of the easiest ways to build-up good relationships with other people, and you don't even need to have a conversation with them.
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Yes! Or it might just brighten their day. When other people look like they feel awkward I just feel bad for them. I was trying to give them a smile, and we all need those so much right now!
Load More Replies... Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Ahhh yes, the tight stranger smile and slight head nod...know it well :)
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
That used to be me, but since the coronavirus lockdown I smile and say hi to EVERYONE. And I thought I was an introvert. Haha
Tezdon Robinson 3 years ago
its not so much that i dont want to say hello its just that it takes to much energy to say hello.
athornedrose 5 years ago
I do this regardless of who looks or smiles at me because years of paying attention to true crime media has taught me that if you're too friendly looking, someone will follow you home and murder you and if you're too mean to someone, they'll take offense and follow you home and murder you.
#22
Catching Lies
Tracy Danis 5 years ago
Human Resources, I know where you worked, what school you went too, and sometimes why you’re going on vacation, but if I mention it in conversation it would be super creepy because you never told me. I just complete the paperwork.
Living_Shadow 5 years ago
This picture describes me and all the things I hold back from saying to my dad when he yells at us
Mack-doodle 5 years ago
I was looking for thing thing about my plans with my friend on her phone, so i searched up my name, and found a whole group chat, with all my best friends, dedicated to me, about all the things they dislike about me, and it turned out that every single one of my insecurities was right, so i would go from friend to friend, and be like "liliah, you know i think abbie is accusing me of faking depression for attention" to everyone in the group chat, and then check on the chat from time to time, and everyone was wondering how i knew all the terrible things they said about me, and i have not told them, and i know its bad, but honestly, i cant help myself.
#23
Leaving Without Buying
Nea 5 years ago
So often i buy things that will eventually be used like kitchen towels just to avoid this...
Icantdraw 5 years ago
Pack of gum works best for me, way cheaper and completely understandable.
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Me all the time. It always feels weird to leave without buying anything.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
I would go to look for something, forget about it, leave with nothing, question my life choices and on the way back home be like oh c**p I forgot to buy that
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Road trip. You stop at a convenience store for a pit stop. Now you gotta buy something.
Allie G. 5 years ago
The worst is trying to leave a store that has the exit corralled in such a way that you *have* to go through a checkout line in order to get to the exit. Do I sneak through a closed checkout or do I sneak past people in an open checkout? Do I exit through the clearly labelled "Enter Only"? Which looks more suspicious? I DON'T KNOW AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE MY BRAND OF CHEESY POOFS HELP ME!
Baali Venomax 5 years ago
Doesn't bother me. If I dont see what I want, I leave and go elsewhere.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
I had a security guard come chasing after me because I left Lidl through the in door (queue was too long for one punnet of grapes, so I'd put it back) Technically he had no right to ask to look in my bag, but it wasn't worth the fuss. He seemed most put out that I went out through the in.
GumShoe359 5 years ago
If it's a small business and I'm just browsing, I just say 'thank you' and walk out.
#24
Shipping Rates
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
Awhile ago I was looking to buy a único key chain for my niece. The key chain was £5.99 the shipping was an eye watering £17.99. I bought here a little handbag instead.
Debbie Pugsley 5 years ago
Exactly!! If I'm buying all that stuff, why do I have to pay shipping?
Allan Clipperton-Boyer 5 years ago
Canadian problem: Subtotal: $19.54 USD Shipping: $15 USD Total: $34.54
Diana Cartwright 5 years ago
Meanwhile, in Uruguay: 303.33 for the item, 1.313.43 for shipping... uru-5ec74b...841365.png 
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
-or look some more for something you need to get up to the free shipping minimum.
#25
Pee Run
Lillukka 5 years ago
When I was doing nights I did this, and everytime my mum came and started talking. I'm just trying to get to the bathroom pointing at the earblugs and closed eyes. She never learned.
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Isabella Camera 5 years ago
Yeah, but sometimes I even just am too lazy to get up so I stay in bed and then I am completely awake again. :(
Cheryl Fontaine 5 years ago
Yes. It doesn't work, that's why I'm up now at 3:10 a.m. after having gotten out of bed at 12:30 to use the bathroom.
#26
Well Deserved Rest
GirlFriday 5 years ago
This is why I am on Bored Panda right now. I just talked to a client for five minutes and now I must decompress on here for the next 23 minutes.
Microwaved Robot 4 years ago
End Stage COPD, this is my life. Sometimes the rest is more like three days...
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
When you are cleaning the house or studying and decide to take a break to eat in front of the TV.
#27
Just Do Nothing
Animal lover❤ 5 years ago
My brain wants me to do productive things, but my heart wants to play animal crossing
Marcellus II 5 years ago
There's a strange distinction between "me" and "my brain", in several of the items here at the bottom of this list.
Keith Wollenberg 4 years ago
It's more of just an odd way of phrasing it. Many of us have the subjective sensation of there being distinct factions of our consciousness.
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C Hypercube 4 years ago
Ever had something to do for someone and decided to "really get on with the work" but ended up tumbling deeper on online videos or Bored Panda pit for hours and hours, until later that day when you had to tell them that "something really important intervened, but don't worry, I'll take care of it.." Yeah? Me too.
#28
Silent Mode
The Emerald Triangle 5 years ago
Hell you think I actually want my family to know where I am at?
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
OMG, I thought I was the only person in the world that have the phone on silent since I stop use my Nokia 3310.
Enea 5 years ago
This Is how I realised that the alarm can still go off even if your phone is turned off: sitting in the third row of a theatre. Not a movie theatre but the actual thing. Ot started peeping during the play, and while I was wondering which self-important idiot hadn't had the curtesy tp turn their phone off, the main actress stopped acting fpr a second and openly stared at me. It's been 10 years and I still cringe at the thought.
Cathleen Morris 5 years ago
We were at anew church — a huge Texas congregation (several thousand people and multiple clergy!) On the first Sunday after the “summer break” — when everyone gets back after their vacations, we celebrated with a special gathering one Sunday, to honor all the service, & outreach work done by the various church groups. Suddenly, in the middle of the pastor’s presentation, a phone near the front began ringing VERY loudly❗️It continued — ringing & ringing! It went on and on and on, ringing & ringing. People began snickering. Suddenly. the pastor pulled out HIS phone, held up his hand for silence, answered it and then.listened for a moment looking very puzzled. Finally, he said, “Yes. Well, okay. Sure! Thank you very much. Yes, I will.” He stood there for a minute an, in his East Texas drawl said, “That was the Lard, and He said y’all done real good!”
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Hannah Marshall 5 years ago
My phone ALWAYS lives on silent. I have set the main ringtone, and contact ring tones, but I never hear them, bc it's always on silent!
Cheryl Burst 5 years ago
Had it ring at mass last month~~~~~so nervous the damn thing rang twice~~~~felt like I had to go to confession
#29
Childhood Things
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Or leaving a ring around your mouth because you sucked all the air out of a glass for some reason.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
Still do that! My boyfriend saw me and was like “wutdafuq are you doing!?” I thought he had finally seen enough of my weird was going to break up with me.
#30
Sleeping Pose
Nea 5 years ago
Yes, i tried sleeping on my back and could never fall asleep. It ws very uncomfortable.
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elfin 5 years ago
When I was a kid I once woke up turned 90 degrees to the side with my head off the bed and a cat across my neck. I still think the cat did it somehow.
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
I'm sure the cat did. Once in a while, one of my kids does that to me.
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EA 5 years ago
I have straight neck syndrome. And also curvatures in my spine, I feel this post. No sleeping position is comfortable 😂
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
I'm never comfortable either, but I'm also immensely surprised people say to sleep with their neck at a diagonal. I'm 37 and never seen this!
Load More Replies... Lemon Garnished Potato 5 years ago
that but like half my body hanging off the bed whilst I reside in a warm blanket burrito
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Yeah. I always get a laugh at out of people who give extended advice on how to lie in bed or sit on a chair. Our ancestors crossed the plains in horse-draw wagons, with nothing to eat but what they could hunt along the way, fighting off hostile Indian attacks ... and we obsess about lying in bed in a position that might be slightly uncomfortable.
#31
Checking Yourself Out
Heather Reynolds Atwood 5 years ago
Is it bad that this pic makes me feel like I need to check to be sure MY nose doesn't look that big?
#32
Getting A Shower
Kristina Thomas 5 years ago
Without the angry cursing, this is totally my mom. Didn't used to be. But now that she's old she feels like showering is hard work, haha!
WiggleCat 5 years ago
Me: I should take shower soon. (does nothing but watch TV or scrolls through Twitter for the 100000th time just to avoid getting up) ( hours later, it's already midnight or something) Me: ...Well , guess I'll take a shower tomorrow then :D THAT happens to me a lot xD
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago (edited)
I've ended up showering at 2am because I really needed to be somewhere early and I'm so not waking up earlier XD
Load More Replies... Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I swear every time I run the dishwasher my husband HAS to take a shower and cuts it off.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 5 years ago
My husband: You take shower first. Me: You go first, I'm prepairing dinner.My husband: ok, i'm going now. 45 minutes later: Me: I'm gonna shower. My husband enters the shower that very moment. I wait.
#33
Blanket Choice
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
I always put one foot in and one foot out. I remember reading it controlled the temperature of your body.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MONSTERS? THE MONSTERS ALWAYS GO FOR THE FEET FIRST. THEY MUST BE COVERED AT ALL TIMES.
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Obviously not a menopausal woman... 'no matter what the temperature' ceases to exist when you become your own furnace.
Elizabeth Molloy 5 years ago
Get into bed and snuggle down: Mmmm, snuggly ... HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT! ... Throw back covers ... HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT! ... Cooooooler ... pull back covers ... Copy and repeat!
Load More Replies... Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I always have a box fan facing me even in the dead of winter. I have to have air flow. I feel like him suffocating if I don't.
Kate Ford 5 years ago
I always put my body in and think its to hot then put my body out and think its to cold
AliJanx 5 years ago
...and then shake it all about...do the hokey pokey!!!
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#34
Package Tracking
Toast Of Saint Louis 5 years ago
There are hills and mountains between uuuuuusssss🎵🎵
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Mark Johanen 5 years ago
I remember when if you ordered something to be shipped, the order form would say "allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery", and we considered this normal.
#35
Random Things
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Running your fingers along the buttons on the remote...the blue line is the track your fingers take....
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Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Running your fingers along the buttons on the remote...the blue line is the track your fingers take....
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Good Conversation
Marcellus II 5 years ago
Not really. Doesn't have an internal life to retreat into.
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von Funnyname 5 years ago
Almost every phone conversation I have -- thank you years of static machine noise and ignorance to hearing protection.
#37
Under Pressure
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
For me substitute being micromanaged for under pressure. I am not a child. I am not a slacker. You do not have to keep tabs on me the whole time. Just outline what you want done, then leave me TF alone to do it!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
I work well under pressure just don't stare at me while I'm dong it. OR FEEL FREE TO HELP.
I just work here 1 year ago
Come on, I just chip clipped my lips due to above photo and this made me laugh so hard the clip went flying.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
I said I can work under pressure I never said I won't complain and cry the whole time
#38
Checking Yourself Out
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
haha I always think that this is how I would look if I were pregnant.
Hello Dolly 5 years ago
Lol I dressed like Whinnie the Pooh for Halloween when I was pregnant. At first I thought this was a self portrait.
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Marilyn Bojanowski 5 years ago
I actually made a little comic about weird things I do in the mirror, and looking at my belly was one of them!
#39
Forgetfulness
Dan Steely 4 years ago
Every woman I’ve ever dated. Also, exchange food for song and wash, rinse, repeat . . . .
#40
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Alex Firebird 5 years ago
its his face photoshopped into an old painting lmao
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PyroKitty 5 years ago
...photoshopped onto an old painting? yes, yes it is :D
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#41
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
PUSS IN BOOTS!!! the funniest thing is that he is actually a criminal
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Kinda related, do you think normal dogs see police dogs and think “oh c**p, it’s the cops”
#42
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
Yeah I hope the FBI agent doesn't see me look up "Did NASA invent thunderstorms to cover up the sound of space battles?"
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Incognito mode really makes any difference ? I always thought it's a scam.
#43
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
C Hypercube 4 years ago
It happened to me once to miss out on what the other person was mumbling four times in a row, each time replying with "sorry?" The fourth time was really cringey but I had to ask again and blame it on the noise, while sharpening my hearing by 300% and being prepared to read on the lips too, just to make sure it won't happen the fifth time.
#44
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
JK Rowling 5 years ago
Tip: I just remember the word 'cesspool', because 'necessary' has the same 'cess'
Kaisu 5 years ago (edited)
Also this is a good trick: one Collar and two Sleeves are neCeSSary for a shirt
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Nami Tantrum 5 years ago
in german it's always with the endings in forms of increase: im alswas like: how many -re or -er do i have to add again
Dodo 4 years ago
I have a really weird reason for remembering how to spell it. I watch movies with subtitles on, and in The Producers (the remake, not the original) there's a cut-off version, just 'nece'. Since I know there's a double letter in there somewhere, I've got it right every time since.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago (edited)
I always have to stop and think about 'occasion' to remember how many Cs and Ss there are.
#45
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Destiney Torres 5 years ago
so what do they mean i just trying to play my games wait is the cookie monster coming for me is he tracking me ahhh
#46
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Sakib sarar Ananda 5 years ago
and sleeping peacefully, knowing that the 15 minutes turned into 3 hours.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
Me missing school on a Monday or Friday and sleeping so great as never during weekend.
#47
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#48
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Khloe Ness 5 years ago
sibling : you up? me: uh no im not up im just talking in ma sleep so GO AWAY
#49
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Michelle C 5 years ago
When mine gets mentioned it's for messed up stuff...so messed up we even got mentioned on American Dad
#50
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
hispanic! at the disco 5 years ago
Wow! Bored Panda didn't censor the cuss word! That's a first..
#51
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Kate Ford 5 years ago
Or when you know what your going to say and when its your turn you panic and forget the thing you where going to say.
Debster 5 years ago
And you accidentally blend two words together that make no sense....you just make a sound.
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#52
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
deanna woods 5 years ago
There are many reasons why you have to check the refrigerator multiple times: maybe the lighting was off, maybe you looked to fast, maybe you didn't look enough, maybe you weren't paying attention the first time.
Khloe Ness 5 years ago
one does not simply get off computer without looking at 100 more things
#53
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
#54
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
deanna woods 5 years ago
This is me. I bend myself into some of the most uncomfortable positions.
#55
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
One time at the Rain Forest Cafe, we saw a dying fish in one of the tanks. :p
Khloe Ness 5 years ago
i love fish i have a betta he's a dragon scale his name is, well, dragon!
#56
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
#57
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Hannah Marshall 5 years ago
When you use a word, and can't remember its meaning, so you use its synonym to find the meaning.
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago (edited)
Teacher asking me for a synonymous word of the word I don't even know. In Deutsch class . 😱 The moment I close my eyes and wish with all my power to born again, this time in Germany, not in Angola.
#58
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
Fruzsina Sinka 5 years ago
vs me listening to violin concertos on my way to selling drugs and ready to kill
#59
Things-People-Do-Dont-Admit
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
It's apparently a trick to go back into that room to help you remember
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
Never works for me. I just end up wandering aimlessly through the house wondering - I definitely wonder and I wander and wander while I wonder.
Load More Replies... The Emerald Triangle 5 years ago
Or when you're looking for your glasses and realize they're on top of your head.
Dodo 4 years ago
Haven't worn glasses that long, and I recently thought to myself 'I should be wearing my glasses, where are they?' ... I was already wearing them.
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#61
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Mere Cat 5 years ago
They're not random - the "me" with the gun wants to shoot the "me" that wanted to watch "just one" episode.
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What do you think ?
Annabeth Chase 5 years ago
Who else scrolled through the entire thing even though they had a whole ton of things to do?
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
I related to 38 out of 40. I'm normal average person or I should be very very worried. 🤔
Annabeth Chase 5 years ago
Who else scrolled through the entire thing even though they had a whole ton of things to do?
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
I related to 38 out of 40. I'm normal average person or I should be very very worried. 🤔
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