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You may have heard that the best way to get over a past wrong is to forgive the perpetrator. But as with most things in life, that's usually much easier said than done. No matter if we need to pardon ourselves or someone else.

To explore these difficult situations (and hopefully learn a thing or two that would help to deal with them), let's take a look at a few Reddit threads (one and two) that asked people what bitter experiences do they remain salty about no matter how much time passes by.

We can't escape our past. It will always be there, following us like a shadow. If only accepting it would be as simple as flicking a light switch.

#1

"What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life I entered a competition where you had to be the first to type the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. I did it first with seconds to spare and was disqualified for not using the 'correct' lyrics. They apparently wanted the Americanised lyrics. I'm Scottish. The song is Scottish. I will never not be angry when I think about it.

aerohail , Calum MacAulay Report

N Gregory
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, this is making me feel second hand anger. Ignorant competition organiser. Grrrrr

Nimues Child
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rules like this by rigged competitions suck. At my first Poetry Slam, I drew the first slot. I went out and f***ing CRUSHED an improvised poem on the topic in rhyming iambic pentameter. Audience goes wild. There's a pause and hushed whispers backstage and the MC comes out to change the rules to make it easier for the rest of the field - no rhyming or strict meter necessary. It turns out they had promised a local celeb victory in this contest and the rest of us were just fake filler to make it look legit. I have never again done another Poetry Slam, but I did LOVE it when she lost her job as a noted columnist in a major city paper because of plagiarism.

SGH
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Want to know more about this one

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Giddyfish
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a hill to die on.

Purple Gerbil
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to a nightclub on halloween dressed as a zombie. There was a prize for best dressed and me and my friends were pretty much the only people dressed up (aside from a couple of girls wearing devil horns). The nightclub changed the competition to the girl with the biggest boobs instead!!!

Milan
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once i did not win contest about how good you know Friends sitcom, because questions was created for language dubbed version and i reffered everything to original english version. Few questions i “missed” and was third 🤮😀😀

JillyMack
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fellow Scot sharing your anger here!

MCathenaE
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have every right to carry this grudge to your grave!

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    #2

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life That I’m required to have a masters degree to be a full librarian while someone who has never spent a day in a classroom, whose CHILDREN have never spent a day in a public school classroom can be appointed Secretary of Education

    thelibrarygirl , Pierre Bamin Report

    Nora12
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those who don’t know this comment is clearly referencing Betsy DeVos the U.S. Secretary of Education appointed by Trump. You can see just a sample of the bad things she did here https://www.eclectablog.com/2018/12/the-top-five-worst-things-betsy-devos-has-done-since-she-took-office.html

    Mrs. Jan Glass
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She has nothing to do with education and everything to do with turning education into another MLM for her and her family. She's disgustingly unqualified.

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    Nimues Child
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who are in the cabinet should be required to have actual experience and success in the field they will be overseeing. Just sayin'.

    Furmama0501
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! I actually have a BA in Library Science. And DeVos is a garbage person!

    Mary Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    DeVos, like many Trump appointees, was there to sabotage the department she was overseeing. Because Republicans hate government, period.

    Moya Satterwhite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her family ran a pyramid scheme, you don’t need brains for that.

    Frannie Kaplan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you cab have a criminal record and be in the highest positions of government

    Julie C Rose
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like “Trump being a corrupt piece of garbage” goes without saying.

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    #3

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life The fact that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 against a woman who saved the most children in the Holocaust. That pisses me off like nothing else.

    anon Report

    Agfox
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The award was shared, the other recipient being the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), so OP needs to be pissed with the Panel as well

    Wintermute
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I mean, it would make more sense to be mad at the Nobel Prize selection committee since they're the ones who gave out the award. The others still did good work in the world and have no say in who gets the award.

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    Hadley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK, but he won it for his activism on climate change, back when many people laughed at him for his ideas on global warming, which turned out to be true! I get it that you wanted that lady to win, but you can't say Al Gore also didn't deserve it.

    Emma
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She rightfully deserved to win too

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    Judes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are far more controversial recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize than Al Gore. I'm not going to write their names because they're likely to start a fight.

    Gary Moss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right, because trying to save the planet is no big deal.

    Whodathunkit
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    3 years ago

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    His efforts were self-serving.

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    K O
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea but imagine how many children of the future would be saved if the majority had actually listened to Al Gore because we all know he wasn't wrong

    Al Padilla
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's one unfortunate fallacy here. That is the assumption that Gore actually understands what he's saying. This is akin to movie stars voicing opinions on public health measures, like vaccinations. They are not specifically trained in the field, nor do they have the necessary smarts to be trainable in the field, or even to understand a dumbed down "executive summary" of the talking points. There's an old saying among gastroenterologists, sh*t floats.

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    Mary Rogers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And think where we would be if people had actually listened to Al Gore. It sounds to me that both were deserving but Gore's activism was and still is more relevant to our current challenges. Why did they wait so long to nominate this woman, who also deserved recognition?

    Julia Mckinney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Irena Sendler was 1 of 181 people nominated. There is no way to know if she was one of the finalists until 50 years after the nominations. One person was nominated 48 tiomes and never won an award.

    Cuppa tea?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Nobel prize for scientific and other achievements - which are actually measurable - is awarded after years or decades, why Peace Price cannot be awarded let's say after 10-15 years minimum?

    Jeff Bunn
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fact that they shared the Nobel Peace Prize that year is perfectly okay with me!! Gore did a lot of fantastic work on Climate Change!! We wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are today without Gore and his work!!

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    #4

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was a kid, my a*****e neighbour ran over my cat who was sleeping under his car. I begged and cried to just let me pull him out but he refused. He wasn't even sorry afterwards. It still hurts 20 years later

    Just_Red_00 , Lucas Metz Report

    Panda Kicki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so sorry for you and I hope that bastard get the carma they deserv

    Diemond Star
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too and I really believe that karma is a b...h!!!!!!

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    Luna
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I expressed The anger I feel in my heart towards that man then this comment would be deleted by bp. That poor kitty

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's completely f****d up. What a horrible human being. I'm so sorry about your cat.

    Paul C.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So sorry for you, I seriously don't know what damage I would inflict on someone who did that to my girl.

    Logan Garwacki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once I hear about someone that hurt or killed a pet nothing can change my opinion about them.

    Cactus McCoy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bad persons will always be bad persons. I hope he will get what's his.

    Brian Shelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like people who do stuff like this to animals should be able to be arrested and charged with murder, and the fact that they can't makes my blood boil. I can honestly say that if someone ever purposely killed my dog I would 100% being going to jail myself for murder.

    Terry Butler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went temporarily insane about 20 years ago when a down-the-road neighbor (didn't know him) let out his two vicious-acting, unleashed dogs while I was walking mine on her leash. They barreled towards us, snarling and barking. Just in time, I scooped up my sweet, chonky beagle and screamed at the guy that I would k#$@ him if his dogs attacked mine. I meant it! Luckily, he didn't press charges for my threatening him. I never saw them again, walked a different way. This was in a small subdivision.

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    Iapetos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a c**t, you think you can maybe shoot him?

    Liv
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cruelty to animals... Denotes total lack of empathy, and a violent nature. People like that should be committed.

    Emerald Ocean
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That jerk! I’m so sorry! Losing a pet hurts like heck!

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    #5

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life We used to play Candyland all the time at the babysitters. One time I drew the Snow Queen and the babysitter said "it's too early for that card," and made me put it back in the deck and draw again." Her daughter drew the Snow Queen a few turns later and the babysitter lit up like "oOOooO Snow Queen!!!" and moved her piece. I was 4, but will never forget.

    mizzbates , John Morgan Report

    Ria De Gooijer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know the babysitter of course but I don't like what she did

    AmAndA_Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah I lost at Scattergories once because my dad refused to admit my answer of "earwax" for something sticky that starts with E was wrong. Being the "man of the family", he just couldn't allow himself to lose a game based on intelligence. I'm still mad.

    Lizzy Crit
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm still salty my state of Euphoria got voted out. It says "states", it doesn't say "US states", of which exactly zero begin with E. I can still list them all in alphabetical order, thanks to second grade mnemonic device and brain that can't forget song lyrics

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    Featherytoad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A grown a*s woman cheating at a game of Candyland with children. Sigh.

    Suck it Trebek
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you cheat at board games when you are little you will grow up to be an absolute piece of trash human being.

    Kristel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I made a fake “mom moves to end” card so no matter who drew it, I’d win. Of course, we didn’t enforce it but the kids kept that card and still laugh about it today. They’re teenagers now.

    Jessi Evans
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This could be a villain origin story.

    El Dee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kids remember unfairness..

    MaryAnn Ryan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kids know injustice when it unfairly takes the Snow Queen card!

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    #6

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life So in the 4th grade, a teacher made me stay after school to finish a project I had forgotten about. Now in my household, having to stay after school for whatever reason usually ended up in a beating because you messed up and embarrassed the family. Nine year old me left the classroom an hour later absolutely terrified, tearing up because I knew when I got home I was going to get beat. The next day the teacher pulled me in front of the class, told me to never make a scene like that again and basically called me a cry baby. I've never cried in school before and I was only 9 years old - you'd think she'd question why this kid was so terrified to go home? A few months later one of my brother's teachers realized something was not right, and we were taken out of my dad's house immediately. It's a small town so I know she must have heard why. I hope she took it to heart and never treated an ab*sed kid like that again. Part of me hopes it's still on her conscience after all these years, but I recognize that's not healthy.

    anon , lazywhiskey Report

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How awful. I hope you had/have a happier life after being away from your abuser.

    Andreas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is the word "abuse" censored now?

    JillyMack
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was about 6 years old, my class were to bring in 5p for collection for Guide Dogs (this was about 1982). I couldn't find mine in my school bag. I was a disorganised, messy kid at that time, so my school bag was full of random stuff. The teacher made me stand up in front of the entire class, while she took every single thing out my bag to find this 5p. Everything she pulled out, she laughed at it and encouraged the class to laugh at it too. It was like one of those classroom nightmares you have. I'd never felt humiliation before and there it was. Horrible woman.

    Katie Lutesinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a teacher who repeatedly humiliated me in front of the class too, just because she personally disliked me. I was eight or nine years old at the time, and after a year of this sort of bullying I very matter-of-factly informed my mother that I was going to kill myself. Whereupon she immediately pulled me out of that school. The teacher, however, was never punished. You can bet your life I'm still angry about that. If anyone reading this meets a retired Australian schoolteacher named Tracey Webb, please punch her in the face and say "that's from Katie". I'll happily slip you a few bucks.

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    Random Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That woman shouldn't be a teacher, you don't publicly shame kids like that for any reason.

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God no. It's awful enough when you're an adult, but if it happens when you're just a kid it can and does leave far more serious emotional scars.

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    Lousha
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was about 8 when one day we had a paining assignment in school. Everyone had a small bowl of water on their bench for the watercolour. When we finished, the teacher, a bitter, miserable old maid sent a few kids to the restroom with all the dirty bowls to wash them. One of them was this short, pudgy little boy I was rather sweet on. He came back with the bowls clean, but his hands were covered in paint. Nobody told him to wash his hands too... The teacher grabbed him and dragged him in front of the class, angry, and forced his hands up, telling us to look at how dirty they are. He started crying and whelped "What a humiliation!" which sounded odd from a small boy so everyone started laughing even harder. I was also little and didn't know how to stand up against a grown up, but I was livid and felt the injustice like it was done to me. I hated that woman forever after that, and am still ashamed for not trying to stop her.

    Kelli
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While there are some truly great teachers out there, I tip my hat to you all, sadly, there are these types too. I have had them both. I am with the poster in hoping this woman has nightmares over her own behavior.

    Dan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Abused is censored?

    Béla Kun
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bad ppl usually don't ponder the ramifications of their actions.

    CindyLouWho1209
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. They have no self awareness and no conscience. I once had a fifth grade teach that would continually humiliate a boy in our class, putting him in a corner where two doors adjoined, calling it the "playpen." I was so embarrassed for him and to this day I know that how she treated him was wrong, but felt helpless to do anything about it. The year was about 1969. I often wonder where he is now and how he turned out. 😥

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    Breezy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WTF is with some teachers....it is never okay to purposefully humiliate a child! I just don't understand what is possibly going thru their minds when they do this...ugh

    Sweetpotato314
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a teacher who, when told I would get a beating if she made the phone call home that she was threatening to make, said, "Good. You deserve a beating." My crime? I wet my pants because she wouldn't let me use the bathroom. School was brutal in the 70s.

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    #7

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life I used to work for a pretty evil tech company in tech support. I was miserable only because I couldn't seem to get promoted. I got an offer at a place only 10 minutes from my house. Same pay, free parking, and happiness. I put my two weeks' notice in at my current job, and they were suddenly falling all over themselves to give me the promotion I had so wanted (specializing in web tracking software, which I was really good at). I agreed to stay on if they would promote me to that position. I was young and naive, of course. They f****d me. I declined the other job offer, and then they denied me the promotion after I'd jumped through a bunch of hoops to qualify for it. I rage-walked out of work that day. I rage-walked 9.85 miles. I was furious.

    CursesandMutterings , Arif Riyanto Report

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have got a contract written up before you turned down the other job. Hindsight is a wonderful thing lol.

    Frannie Kaplan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They probably fit have a contract. Companies write them to benefit themselves

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    WoodenLion
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my dad left a job. the place he left offered him a lot more than his new job to stay with them. he told them he should have been making that already - and left for the new job.

    N Gregory
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lesson learned, but it should be writ large that you NEVER accept a counteroffer from your current employer. (Caveat - if you adore working for them, it's a genuinely awesome place to work, and you're only leaving because you have to relocate for your partner's job, and their counteroffer is 100% remote working in your new location, go for it - that's not a "counteroffer we could have made ages ago but were too lazy/cheap/crappy to implement", it's a "we'd rather not lose you, and you'd rather not go, so let's see if we can offer an alternative solution".

    Shane S
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let this be a lesson to others, get it in writing.

    Suck it Trebek
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always get promises in writing with employers.

    Paul Richards
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, even if they hadn't screwed you that way, there would have been retribution later. never negotiate with a company if you give your notice. just leave, and charge the s**t out them later with consulting fees if you can

    Deb Dedon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never, ever believe those last-minute offers. If they're real, they'll happen without the possibility of losing you to another company.

    Omi bub
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many times I've Experienced management acknowledging how hard I am working whilst implying that if I really work like a dog I'll get a promotion- which then never appears.

    Béla Kun
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A programmer friend walked in his bosses office, every year, and told him he needs a week off because he is looking for another job, he always got a raise, he did this 4 times until he said that his pay is now enough.

    Aussie panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on your industry and how replaceable you are. Programmers are in a great position. But it’s a great strategy.

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    Monica Sargent
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a lot of rage. I've rage walked 13 miles twice and 14 miles once.I feel you.

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    #8

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life I have a mom friend. Our kids don't play together anymore because I am convinced her son is a budding psycho. He would come over to play with our kids, and purposely break toys, he took all our kids lego figures and pulled the heads, bottoms, hats off and threw them around our basement. We are pretty sure he took a bunch home, as we can't find about ten of them. We went to a water park with each other, and their son vanished. We were all yelling and running everywhere looking for him, we were in the middle of making the place go into lock down when he popped out from hiding. He was hiding the whole time watching his parents freak out. The breaking point for me was this; We used to walk our kids to the library together. I pushed my youngest in a stroller, as the hills in our neighborhood are too much for her little legs. One day her son asks if he can push my kid. I tell him sure, but be careful. He takes off with the stroller, running full speed up a hill, we are yelling for him to stop, and he's laughing, not slowing at all. He reaches the top of the hill, stops running, and shoves my stroller with toddler inside it down the hilly road. Thank god the stroller veered left and hit the curb and didn't speed down the hill through the busy intersection. I was done after that. The other mom thinks I'm super uptight and that her kid is an angel. Ugh.

    intoon , anniespratt Report

    Joe Reaves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the penultimate sentence explains exactly why he's like that.

    Donald McLeod
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The word penultimate doesn't get used enough. It's such a great word. Like insouciance.

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    Zedrapazia
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With that neglect, this mother is currently forging the next big serial killer or school shooter there

    DrLivingstonipresume
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a dear friend with a son EXACTLY like this. The most evil 7 year old I have ever met. His parents were wonderful and he had a stable and loving home life but he was just evil to his core. My friend tearfully confided that he came out of the womb like that. Some of the worst things he did: -at 2 he shoved a kid off a slide and laughed while the little boy cried with a broken leg at the bottom -at 3 he choked his infant sister nearly to death. Twice -He was kicked out of 2 public schools and 3 private schools from the ages of 5-6 for being violent (stabbed a teacher in the hand) -by age 7 he had murdered a hamster and the family puppy. I watched him corner and berate my 6 year old and raise his hands to her as I raced across the room to save my daughter. She was terrified. I apologized to my friend and explained that we couldn't be friends anymore. She understood. It's been 10 years. I hope they commit that monster.

    ChickyChicky
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be so, so heartbreaking to have a child like that. It's rare, but it can be the way the kid is wired.

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    Cat Palmer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read this thinking "he's just being a thoughtless kid, don't be so hard on him", then got to the end and - yeah, you don't want that kid around yours. Apologies for doubting your judgement.

    Terry Butler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When your child doesn't want to play with another child, doesn't want them to spend the night, etc., listen to your child and don't push them to maintain that friendship. There may be something sinister going on, or some offense may have happened already, that your child just can't share with you now. You may find out the truth years later. Trust your child.

    Béla Kun
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it would have been my toddler, the mother of that kid would still have ringing in her ear from the yelling at she would have received.

    Moya Satterwhite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When he has his first kill, maybe she’ll change her opinion.

    Patsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She won't. Her "darling angel would never hurt a fly".

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    Kate
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't care that it's not my kid and that his own mother was right there, I'd have smacked that little a*****e into next week.

    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The other mom will have the surprised pikachu face when she is arrested for her kid's felony.

    Shawn Gula
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to babysit an 8 yr old boy like this( twice only). My 3 yr old was playing in the sandbox that had a wooden fence around it and the boy was standing on it with the spade my husband had just laid down 2 seconds before and was poised to not just smack her with it but was holding it so it would have more chopped at her kinda side ways! My husband stayed close to him cause we realized the kid was off as we called him the Daumer boy and literally only looked away for those 2 seconds. My husband yelled DON'T YOU DARE and grabbed it from him. Daumer boy tried to say I wasn't going to do it but the look on his face said otherwise. Made him sit on the front porch until his mom came and told her we need to talk. She literally backed into the corner of the front door and said with her hand to her chest, face bright red," What did he do now?" ShknewNEW her boy was likely a future Daumer

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    #9

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was in middle school, I played the flute and had a mullet. My flute teacher was one of those amazing teachers who stood up for me when I was bullied (I had a teacher and a bully who woulf hit me, call me names etc.) and really got me to look up to her as a person. I was also very good at the flute. 2nd chair to a girl who had been playing for years. Final concert comes around, this solo would have made my f*****g life. 20 measures. All to myself. Front row. I practiced every day as soon as I got the music. F*****g K*LLED the audition and the girl hadn't practiced at all. But I lost it to her. I'm a level headed guy, maybe I played off tempo or skipped a measure or something. But as I was runner up, I had to practice the part just in case the girl was absent. But as I was practicing in the sound proof room, I noticed I could hear my teacher and a bunch of girls talking. 1st chair girl: "Why didn't he get the solo? He is doing really good." Teacher: "I can't let some funny kid with a mullet be the only person people look at. Its a good song, I don't want him to ruin it." I dropped flute after that. Its one thing to be a guy who overcame the bullying for being a male flute player. Its another thing to have your role model undermine a passion.

    anon , Joonas Sild Report

    Sa Ruuu
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the time the Chinese put a cute little girl to sing their national anthem or something at the Olympics and it turned out she was lip-syncing. The real little girl who sang was deemed not "cute" enough to stand out in front of the crowd

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How devastating. I hope you eventually took up the flute again.

    Breezy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    who the hell gives a f*** about a mullet, when this kid obviously has the passion and talent..ugh

    Terry Butler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a true lover of the arts - or of children!

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    Liv
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate that our appearance, and specially being considered stereotypically beautiful is so, so valued in society and media.

    SillyPandaBunny
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are a lot of teachers who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children

    MsLou
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This story really hit close to home. I am so sorry that this happened to you, my friend

    I’m A Pan-Duh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's horrible, I playing the flute with lots of acne, short hair, and look like a male sometimes even though I identify as a Demi-Girl, know that you looks don't matter but it's how well you play that matters. I really hope you have had some other Ba**ss flute solos and hope you still play the flute. We flutes have to stick together(:

    Mando
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m still salty about the time my music teacher in elementary school took my “dog tags”. Our mascot was a bulldog, so we had a school currency for good behavior. Once you earn them they can’t be taken away. So she gave them out to a few of us and said she didn’t want to see them or she would take them. Well we weren’t allowed to get up ( from the carpet), and I didn’t have pockets, so I hid them in my fist. This woman called on my to come up to the front of the class and answer a question. Then she saw a hint of them in my fist and took them. Still mad about it.

    Sue Denham
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That must have hurt terribly. I'm sorry for your pain.

    Nimues Child
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should have papered her office with pictures of Ian Anderson in all his non-conformist glory. This teacher was absolutely wrong. I wish you hadn't dropped the flute. I'd jam with you anytime!

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    #10

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life One time I took a piece of cake to school as my lunch food. It was all I had for that day. One idiot decides because it's cake I have to share it. I explain that it's all the food I brought for this day and thus will not be sharing, he suddenly gets up and smashes his hand into my cake. I try to protect it but I was too slow. It also happened after the cafeteria closed so I had nothing to eat that day. I am still mad about that and hope that guy has a terrible job now and is unhappy. not that I hold grudes or anything

    Indian_Queen , k8_iv Report

    Cactus McCoy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    May his cake always be salty.

    Pumpkin Spice
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope that every time he ties his shoes, one shoe is always tighter than the other.

    H Wiley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was small child to begin with. Parents were struggling, so a bit food insecure. I put my lunch on a table, went to buy my milk. When I got back, my lunch was on the ground and had benn stomped on. I cried to a teacher, who said " this is why they pick on you". I picked my food off the floor, tried to eat what i could, but wasnt very hungry anyway.

    no thoughts, just frog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i hope every time that guy eats a dorito, he stabs the roof of his mouth.

    Pronostico Tormentas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's probably got a tiny, useless d**K. Karma.

    Mark Kelly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know it's a myth that you always have to share. Kids should actually be taught they don't always have to share. What rate does anyone have anyone else's property?

    blahd zhahd
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry, but I would have had to thrown down at that point. Some times a MF'er needs to learn a hard lesson.

    Sinead Kenny
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok Anniespratt - PLEASE READ THIS 🥰 My daughter same thing, they called them the terrible trio. My daughter and another girl (in said trio) where pretty normal but i had the third one over for tea when my daughter was about 5. I'd just redecorated and this little 'miss attitude' wouldn't let up with anything and my daughter got to point where she came and sat with me in front as she didnt know what to do This 5 yr old girl RANSACKED my hous, i mean she ripped my daughters bedroom apart, she terrorised my dog and locked him the downstairs bathroom and told no one (god knows what she did in there with him but he is placid and when i found him he was shaking on the floor) last straw was - id just decorated my living room and bought a carpet i saved a yr for - silver, it swayed when you walked on it. DD and friend where sat at a kids table in the room with the pizzas I'd handmade with them and started playing up and looking at me when i said calm down and pushing it. We literally locked

    Sinead Kenny
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eyes and she sat on the kids table, from her chair and i said 'no tables are for eating not sitting on'?? My dd said please don't je**ica this is all new stuff and mummy loves this carpet. Within milisecond She sat her full weight on the table and dragged a glass pf blackcurrant across it and covered the floor. I swear she grinned while she did it. Turns out her ma n pa are backward and couldnt give a s**t about her and drop her where they can... Hated her for a bit but when I learnt her behaviour clearly stemmed from them to and what I now know I can totally get why she did what she did. I do not in anyway condone it but I'm more understanding of her now and i actually feel sorry for her.

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    #11

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life My parents kept talking about getting rid of their piano but weren’t ready to. I said that since it was the one from my childhood that I grew up playing, and I didn’t have one, I’d like to have it. They could let me know when they were ready to part with it. They said it was too much of a pain to move (we lived a block away. You could have literally rolled it out the back door and up the street) and they didn’t want me paying a mover. So I said no worries, I’ll wait as long as you like. This went on for a year. It came up almost once a week. I’d ask if I could just come get it. They said no they weren’t ready. No worries. They’d bring it over sometime. Then one day I came over and the piano was gone. I asked what was up and they said my cousin, who lives 3 hours away, had been looking for one for her daughters, so my dad had loaded it up into a truck he rented and personally delivered it. My parents claimed they didn’t think I was interested in it.

    Auntie_Ahem , Jordan Whitfield Report

    Huddo's sister
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why my grandfather insisted on putting people's names on things they wanted as inheritance- he had been told by his mother he would inherit a particular piece of furniture, until right before her death she game it to an auntie of his.

    pebs
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is not nice, but in any case, since she was still alive, she had every right to change her mind and to give it to whom she wanted.

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    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *And that was the last day I visited...or made an effort where they were concerned*

    Nimues Child
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Three times I offered (heck, begged) to take in a piano my parents wanted to get rid of. All three times it went to someone else. They knew I was a dedicated musician and more. But, no.

    Moya Satterwhite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope you cut them all out of life, they obviously don’t deserve you!

    Makajha Banjjjak
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm guessing that's not the only messed up story that happened in that house

    pebs
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To put it in my mother tongue, I will say that "i tuoi genitori sono delle vere merde".

    aj B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And people wonder why they don't get calls from their children. "Well lets see I can apparently tell you something once a week and you will ignore it, why should I waste breath on speaking." Guarantee this isn't the only time parents have decided their kid speaking is unimportant.

    Theora Fifty-five Johnson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Mom did this with stuff; she give it to a friend of some friend she wanted to make points with. ick.

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    #12

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life During fifth grade kickball I was wrongfully called out because this sh*thead kid was blocking the base. We work for the same company now, different departments. I can't help but give him the side eye when I see him in the hallway. I'm 40.

    LadyGingerGiant , Samuel Hartman Report

    Nimues Child
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because of my height, I used to be able to blocks shots cleanly @ basketball. In some games, I would get called (for a foul) every single time because that ref firmly believed that girls could not physically do that without fouling. Still burns me.

    A.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You need to bring a kickball in for Casual Friday one week. ***snicker***

    Moya Satterwhite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just make sure to let everyone know he’s not trustworthy.

    #13

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life My mother once deliberately scheduled a family trip to Disney World so that I couldn't go.

    blueeyesredlipstick , Craig Adderley Report

    whodunnitfan2013
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like something my narcissistic mother would do.

    ZombieGirl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine too....and has every Christmas for years with my siblings and not me

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    Chich
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Make sure you pick a nice nursing home when the time comes.

    Mrs. Jan Glass
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My family would schedule Disney trips and skip big family events to go for the 4th time that year, driving right past my house as they did. When you prioritize Disney over extended family, don't wonder why I'm not making time for your kids' graduations and weddings now.

    Monica Sargent
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my gosh. I felt this. My mom got me all dressed up for picture day at the elementary school I attended with my older brother. I was feeling so pretty. I was a block away from school when I realized I had forgotten the envelope with the money she gave me to pay for the pictures but I'm early enough to go back home and make it to school on time. On the way home I run into my mom and my brother walking down the street together clearly not headed to school. She smiled at me and said, "Do you want to go to Sea World"? I burst into tears and said, "Yes". I didn't have the agency to ask them why they would go suddenly without me and not consider my feelings.

    Paul C.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's nasty on a lot of levels, because not only are you missing the fun, it must mess with your mental health as to what she perceives is wrong with you to require this "punishment".

    Id row
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother once called me selfish for not going to the surprise b-day party she was throwing for my older sister. Sister and I have the same b-day, 8 years apart.

    Momma Stu the Clownfish
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother planned a family reunion with her entire side of the family and executed it well. To this day half of my “family”still seems surprised when I’m “not here anymore”…. High five for the narc mom club!

    Dorthe Schou-Nielsen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad and stepmom did the same. It was during my exams, but since my stepsister, stepbrother and his girlfriend didn't have exams they were free to go. I felt even more left out when I accidentally found out that the vacation was for two weeks.

    Monica Sargent
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Parents that do that kind of stuff, or play favorites, have no idea that their kids remember everything. Sometimes it takes 15-20 years to exact you revenge.

    Hoodoo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our mum's probably knew each other. Narcissistic as hell & jealous if anyone ( me especially) got kudos for something. I'd joined a school science group she didn't like. M' dad intervened & allowed it. Few days later, she jabbed a broom stick into the spokes o' my bike as I rode by. I broke m' wrist.

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    #14

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life In Reception (First Grade for non UK based people) we were in a circle and the teacher (Mrs Brown) asked us to go around the circle and for everyone to name a fruit. When it got to me i said 'Sharon Fruit' (which is also called a Persimmon), Mrs Brown told me not to make up names if i didn't have one and everyone laughed at me even though it is 100% a real fruit. That was probably 20 years ago and i still get annoyed about it now.

    QueueJumpersMustDie , Inga Seliverstova Report

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter has just discovered persimmons. Not something I have ever bought coz I hate the texture of them and they are expensive. Never heard them being called Sharon fruit before.

    Joe Reaves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm having the opposite experience to you. Someone I follow on Quora has a hatred of persimmons and I have never had a clue what they were. I figured maybe they were a US thing we don't get. I had no clue they were sharon fruit!

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    Heidi Norwig
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a teacher and I am sorry to tell you that many times my colleagues either dismissed something a student said because the teacher themselves didn’t know about it or made up things when students asked them something they didn’t know… it’s sad.

    Huddo's sister
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is sad, teachers should be honest when they don't know something or at least correct without putting the student down. The closest I've come is when we were talking about types of meat for some reason in class and one boy said 'pig'. I corrected him and said that's the animal but the meat is pork, ham etc. He insisted it was just called pig when his family cooked it and I realised they probably cooked a whole pig in a pit. Rather than still argue, I obviously said I understood now and we moved on. Teachers need to show students that there are times people, even teachers, don't know something and how to respond when it happens.

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    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just imagining what she'd have done if you'd said "Kumquat"! LOL

    Beeps
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mrs Brown probably would have told her to go wash her mouth out with soap! 😆 🧼

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    Shane S
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate it when authority figures can’t admit they don’t know it all

    Logan Garwacki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not exactly the same but, me and one of my friends in first grade were doing a competition on who can write the most numbers the quickest. Then after a test I started doing it. Then another kid decided to do it too. Then the teacher saw and took only my paper and said "just because he did it doesn't mean you can too." Then throw the piece of paper away. Also I was in 1st grade so the competition really mattered to me.

    Grace Noyes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm still annoyed FOR my son because his junior high English teacher, for God's sake, told him that incorporeal wasn't a real word when he used it.

    Phil Green
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course, teachers are always, always right and no smart-arsed kid can possibly know stuff like! A real teacher would have questioned their own knowledge.

    Frannie Kaplan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even ignorant people go on to become teachers

    Lou Cam
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a similar experience naming extinct animals in Primary 2 (second grade) and I named a woolly rhinoceros. I was laughted at by my teacher who said I must be confused because it's a mammoth not a rhinoceros I said both had existed. The teacher then got everyone to join in laughing. Gets me raging just thinking about it.

    Lousha
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a similar feeling when in the third grade my teacher misspelled something on the blackboard. So I put up my hand and politely told her that she made a small mistake there. She started yelling at me that I'm the student and she's the teacher and I should mind my own business. I was very good at spelling and I was 100% sure I was right - which I was - so I told her again that that word is not spelled like that and I was just trying to help. She yelled some more and shut me up. Later we had a paper on spelling and this word was in it. I spelled it correctly and she docked my grade and "corrected" it to the wrong spelling. She just couldn't even entertain the idea that she might be wrong and a measly little child could know SOMETHING better than her. It still makes me mad.

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    #15

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life During dinner time as a child (around 6-9ish) my 3 siblings and I would have to finish our plates then ask our Mam for permission to leave the table, presumably to go do some dumb 6 year old stuff. One time we had pasta and tuna (my favourite) so i wolfed it down in record time, strolled into the living room with my head held high and my chest puffed out, to inform my mother that It was time for me to be excused to go play Cool Spot on the Sega Megadrive. As she followed me back into the dining room my plate was miraculously full of pasta and my older brother's was completely spotless, and despite my pleading for her to see reason my brother got to go upstairs and claim the Megadrive for himself and I had to sit through another helping of inedible pasta (since he had diabolically covered it in enough salt to dry up my tears). I later found out that he had "paid off" my younger brother and sister to back him up with the promise of listening to his new Busted CD. To this day I feel as though i harbour resentment towards him for his betrayal.

    Glutes4DSloots , Yasser Hernandez Report

    Chich
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After your carefully planned and executed revenge just lean close to his ear and whisper "pasta"

    Nimues Child
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Upvote for this comment's diabolical beauty.

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    Hadley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Forcing kids to finish all the food on their plates is abuse. Plain and simple.

    malenchki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad used to do this and I still have issues with eating. I always have to remind myself I don’t have to finish everything and being full is fine. He was an a*s

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    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Spawn of Satan sibling of mine tortured me endlessly, but never in front of my father. But he slipped and one evening at dinner I took a sip of milk only to discover he had filled my glass half full of SALT. I started gagging and he started laughing. When my dad figured out what he had done, he forced him to drink some. Then he ran because he knew he was in serious trouble. Not from my mom though....never from her even when he kicked me in the face because he wanted my place on the couch. I was 7 and had just gotten home from having my tonsils removed. She refused to believe he did it, and she never took me to the doctor. 30 years later I brought her the X-rays and medical report before I had sinus surgery that stated my nose had been broken. She didn't say a word.

    Aussie panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well this sounds truly terrible but the one you should be angry at is your mum because clearly she never held your brother to account…

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    Bobby
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the time my sister pooped in the bath tub and blamed it on me. We were very young, this night actually be my first memory. Anyway she blamed me, mom believed it and I got some kind of punishment. My sister just came clean to my mom 30 some years later and we all laughed about it... now

    Atopher Bot
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You gotta take the plate with you. I had to take mine to the sink every time...

    Sanna Söderström
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hide some tuna in his curtain rod, sit back and enjoy!

    Susan Thomas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On the other hand, two servings of your favorite dinner!

    JP Purves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mother was over controlling and I wonder what other cruel things the brother did to him.

    Gina Rautenbach
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have taken your plate with you. My A*s of a sibling did the same.

    TJ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d be buying him pasta and tuna cans and salt for every birthday! Yearly reminder.

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    #16

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life My family went on holiday without me three years in a row when I was a teenager. Aged 16, my mum booked the holiday for when I was sitting my GCSEs so couldn't possibly go. She says we'll go somewhere good the next year. Next year rolls around and she books it for the week I have my AS levels and my driving test (test was booked 3 months in advance as waiting lists were so long). Following year she booked it for when I was doing my A levels. I was royally pissed that one week I could do with my mother's support she was gone. My friends had parents bringing them revision snacks and celebratory dinners after exams and I was home alone. Worst bit was my mum's a teacher so she knew when the exams would be and shouldn't have been going on holiday during term time herself.

    here_involuntarily , goodmood77 Report

    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See if you can pick up a bunch of postcards from exotic locations and send them to her periodically saying "having a lovely time in xxx without you". :D

    Stannous Flouride
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once bought a bunch of unused post cards at a second-hand book shop and write notes and addresses on them and when I was traveling someplace would hand them out to other travelers at the airport along with a dollar and ask them to mail them when they got where they were going. It was just a prank but I think it would work well for the OP.

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    Jodagoatisagoat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so ready to give OP a hug. Who's with me?

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I felt the opposite. Year 11 & 12, I took the excuse I was studying, not to go on family holidays, because I reveled in being home alone. It wasn't even that wanted to throw a party or anything, I just wanted to have some distance from the chaos of a family of 6 and cook my own meals etc.

    P B Wilson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would never speak to her again

    Moya Satterwhite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cut her out of your life. Hard but she’s really sick.

    Susan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This should be a lot higher on this list!

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is psychotic. My mom is the opposite, she tries to make sure to accommodate everyone and make sure everyone is there.

    Laura Gillette
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, some people should not be allowed to be parents.

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    #17

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life when I was like 8 years old I came into possession of a comic book. I don't remember what it was, all I can remember is how excited I was to open it up to read it. I had an older cousin who was around 14 and he demanded he read it first, even though it was mine. We got into a huge fight about it and for some reason all the adults who were around said I should share with him and let him read it first, so I begrudgingly let him. I sat across from him as he read the comic, and I swear he took his sweet a*s time. He took forever reading, and I waited patiently for him to finish. As soon as he finished, he got up, walked it over to me, and just as I reached out to read it, he ripped it up and shred it into pieces while laughing. To say I was pissed is an understatement; if I had a knife on me at that exact moment I swear I would have stabbed him. This was over 30 years ago and anytime I run into the same cousin I say hi but immediately mutter to myself "you comic book ripping motherf**ker..." It's insane how much these little things stay ingrained in us.

    orange_cuse , miikalaaksonen Report

    Random Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP's family must be full of assholes, why would they make the younger kid give their book to the older cousin? In my family the 14yo would be told to let the kid read in peace and stop acting like a toddler.

    Luna
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To destroy something an 8 year old finds so much joy in. That cousin sucks. If it helps you can borrow one of mine :))

    Pumpkin Spice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any book. Any book gets soiled, and I will be committing homicide.

    A Jones
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I made too many mistakes letting folks borrow books. I never saw some of them again, and one of my siblings destroyed my artbook despite being a sprouting artist themselves. I still have the same book. I had to fix the spine that went missing. I have a great track history of caring for my things too. I was too forgiving in the past. :(

    Robin Roper
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd not even say hi - what a total a*****e!

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once again the fallacy that everyone should share their stuff. Kids should be taught they don't always have to share their stuff.

    Ruth Hempsey
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 77 and still feel salty about a green stuffed elephant my Mom tossed out when I was about kindergarten age, 3 or 4. I loved it, and never forgot, still regret my heffalump. I have quite a few more grudges festering due to a long life, har har, but that was the first.

    Mortague
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very similar story. Got my first comic when I was ten. It was on the living room table when my mom shouted to clean it up. So I put it in my room on my desk. Mom comes in the room and rips it up, shouting that she said I needed to clean it up. Ten year old me: it's on my desk, where should i have put it. She looked at me with a look that said I was right but ahe just turned around and left. 42 years old now and I have other comics and also a therapist.

    Hobby Hopper
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some kids are just little psychopaths. I had a couple of cousins try to poison me and laugh about it when we were all kids.

    Bree Piper
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Half a century ago (not an exaggeration) Mom gave each of us kids a candy bar. I didn’t want mine right away, so I put it in the fridge for later. My sister wolfed hers down, spied mine, and went crying to Mom. KNOWING Sis had eaten hers, Mom MADE me split mine with her! I said I didn’t want it then, and just threw the whole thing at Sis, who then gobbled it all up. We’re in our 60’s and I still remind her sometimes.

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    #18

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life I once got a 2 hour after-school detention because someone in my class with the same first name as me didn't do their maths homework. I explained that it wasn't me, I showed her my completed homework **THAT SHE HAD MARKED AND RETURNED TO ME LESS THAN 45 MINUTES EARLIER**. The c**t just gave me an extra detention for arguing.

    Slow_Toes , ivalex Report

    FreshGanesh
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ego teaching! It’s a real problem.

    AmAndA_Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got Saturday school once because I told a guy I was dating I'd smack him if he teased me for wearing a skirt on Valentines Day. It was cold. He teased me. I jokingly, lightly hit his forearm. He even explained we were just playing around. We got in trouble for "fighting". Another time, we had to record our band auditions on cassette tapes and turn them in. I went from first chair to last chair. I asked why. Was told I never turned my tape in. I went to show him and my tape had been knocked into the graded tapes bin. He didn't believe me. The new audition was on the tape. Not like I had time to grab it, run home, record myself, then bring it back. I had to stay last chair for weeks. Got picked on like crazy because I'd dropped so far down.

    Sweetpotato314
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Teachers like that should be fired. Some of my first bullies were teachers, and I have some serious triggers from c**p like this. I had a teacher accuse me of plagiarism because she couldn't believe I wrote my essay. She couldn't prove I hadn't, but she didn't believe a poor black kid from the hood could write that way. For the record, I went on to become a journalist before eventually becoming a teacher myself.

    Boredpandahatesme
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    6th grade teacher lost my report, said I didn't turn it in,found it but then said it was already too late and I got a zero.

    Laura Gillette
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't understand why some people become teachers. Some teachers really seem to hate kids.

    James G. Currie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if it were me, I'd've walked to the Principal's office, right then and there, complained and explained I am NOT going to be punished for someone else's blunder, and if that means a Suspension, so be it. I was (and still am) an occasionally angry little c**p stirrer.

    Aroha
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh this unlocked a memory: about 30 years ago in school the class bully stole my folder so I took it back. And i got detention for "stealing" it. It didn't help that my name was literally written on the first page.

    Bec
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got detention for asking to use the restroom b/c that was her dumb*ss rule. It was the last class of the day and I was paranoid about having time to go before getting on the bus so I said ok give me the detention. At detention I wanted to work on actual homework but she required that we copy pages out of the dictionary for punishment - so stupid.

    The Redhead
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my 7th grade English class we had a sub one day. At the start of the class the bulk of the class was pretty rowdy, I sat quietly at my desk the entire time (I was the shy relentlessly bullied outcast) literally no one to talk to. Well the sub gave the majority of the class after school detention including me (none of the preppy kids of course got detention). I went to her quietly and said I was just sitting there she said she hadn't noticed what I was or wasn't doing so I had to go to detention too. 27 years later and the thought of it still makes mad.

    James G. Currie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, I'd've been in more trouble the following day... I seriously likely would have simply gone home at the end of the day without showing up at detention.

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    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have escalated it to a suspension by telling that teacher where she could shove her detention and then walking out of class. 3 days off is better than 2 hours of detention.

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    #19

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life This trivia quiz I was a part of, at a nearby social club. Eight-year-old me was the kid in my team, and our team was tied with another one for the top prize. The quizmaster said, "now you folks need to sit down quietly. Just raise your hands if you know the answer to this tie-breaker question; don't just shout it out." He asked the question. I knew the answer. I raised my hand. Someone in the other team shouted out the answer instead. They got the points and won. No one even stopped to look at me. Screw you, idiotic quizmaster. EDIT: Someone asked me what the question was. It was "2nd October is celebrated as Mahatma Gandhi's birthday all over India. But which other prominent leader was also born on the same day?" (The answer, as most Indians will know, is Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister.)

    connectmc , Taylor Wilcox Report

    2763MilesAway
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stuff like this happened to me all the time. People added rules that everybody but me didn't follow and they just ignored said rules.

    Boredpandahatesme
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    8th grade spelling bee. The word was Rotary. I was told I was wrong, the next kid spelled it exactly the same way and won.

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At a trivia night I went to there was a question "What can you do to ensure you get maximum juice from it?" My mum and I said 'heat it in microwave' but another member of our team was a pastry chef and said "roll it on the bench" (which is also true but not as good) so they only wrote that down. Only the microwave answer was considered correct, so we lost the point. Still annoys me.

    Random Anon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good job from this "educator" teaching the kids, it's wise to bend the rules in your favour than following them.

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's like when you see a person doing the same thing you've been called for by the cops in front of the cop and not getting punished

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    #20

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life In elementary school I drew a picture of a dolphin with his hole spitting water out of it. My teacher was completely sure that they didn't had any hole, and shamed me in front of the class. I saw a lot of national geographic documentaries and knew that it was a mammal and needed to breathe. To this day I'm angry about it

    imadamastor , Magda Ehlers Report

    Katie Kerg
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm confused as to how she became a teacher without having passed middle school

    Laroo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My niece had an English teach who insisted 'don't' was spelled 'do'nt'. Sometimes stupid people slip through the cracks.

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    Sa Ruuu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That teacher didn't have a dolphin phase as a kid and it shows

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well she can go blow it out her hole!

    Moya Satterwhite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does it seem that none of the teachers check reference books. Don’t they have reference books?

    Terry Butler
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reference books only work for people who have humility and curiosity.

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    Dre Mosley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had something similar happen to me years ago in high school Apparently, this one teacher didn't realize that Puerto Rico is a US territory and laughed at me condescendingly when I stated that it was. SMH.

    Andy Frobig
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess I was lucky that I had no respect for authority; I'd call BS on my teachers pretty frequently. I bet my 6th grade teacher that Queen Elizabeth had more than three children. (This is in the US, but for some reason my mother and sisters have always been crazy about the British royal family.) Prince Edward was a teenager at the time, so the queen had had four kids since before I was born. After I won the bet, my teacher said, "well, my encyclopedia said she had three." I said, "then you need a new encyclopedia." The same teacher thought "AD" in a date meant After Death. To me, the fact that someone is teaching in public schools sometimes means that person has a giving heart, but usually it's just indicative of a series of bad decisions.

    That nerd Zoe ️‍🇺🇦️‍
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also thought it meant after death (I'm not a Christian) BUT IN MY DEFENSE I'm still a teenager so-

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    Jihana
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once had a discussion with some classmates about the length of a sheep's tails. They all insisted sheep have naturally stumpy tails. I even went to the school library to find some pictures of long tails, but there were no books with pictures of sheep at all. Other than my classmates from the city I've seen sheep before, but it wasn't until years later that I learned that sheep get their tails docked.

    Rod
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of my 4th grade teacher who told me that the lifespan of mussels is about 6 hours (in between 2 high tides), the school is like 2 miles from the Atlantic Ocean in SW France.....

    Grudge-holding Treefrog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my 6th grade teachers sent me to the principals office for arguing WITH ANOTHER STUDENT about if humans were mammals or not. She also told us the Bubonic Plague was a punishment form God because people were sinning. She was awful

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    #21

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life I took an amazing job opportunity that increased my salary by 40K a year. It was an at-will contract. 30 days after I took the job, I was called into HR, told they were letting me go, and offered no explanation because they weren't required to. I have no idea what I did or didn't do, was not given any specifics, and still get mad just thinking about it. I got another job about 3 months later for around the same salary in a lower cost of living area. It all worked out in the end but I am still f*****g salty about getting fired with no explanation.

    wittyname83 , Alex Green Report

    rspanther
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the boss told me I was fired because I didn't seem happy, my 80year old mothers health was getting worse, my brother just had cataract surgery, and I was just diagnosed as diabetic. So no I wasn't very happy at the time. He then lied to the unemployment agency about why he fired me, thought I was going to lose my unemployment benefits. To find out that I was fired so he could hire a friend of his, who he ended up firing because he didn't like her attitude. Hmm maybe it wasn't her attitude that was the problem, peter, A H. It's been 3 years and it still pisses me off.

    Powerful Katrinka
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Assuming that this took place in the US, this is what "at will employment" really means. I think that it's outrageous.

    Sweetpotato314
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially when companies demand two-weeks notice from us, but they can fire us for any reason (that isn't protected) at the whim of management. It's ridiculous. One of the few benefits of being a teacher where I work is a strong union and contracts. I wouldn't go back to the private sector without them.

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    Aran Lindvail
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know where the poster lives, but here the legal people strongly discouraged HR from giving out any reasons at all because the former employees might sue if they did. Still sucks, but probably just company policy.

    Chris Kane
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like nepotism to me. Perhaps someone important wanted to give their kid a job so you got kicked. sorry buddy.

    Sheena Leversedge Wood
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    America? the employment laws there seem barbarically lax

    Dre Mosley
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately, they don't have to tell you why you're being let go. You may have done nothing wrong(or at least nothing that violated the Employee Handbook). Someone with power may have simply not liked you for some reason.

    The Frenchiest Fry
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    3 years ago

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    Surely that's illegal??

    High Mamii Melo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not here in the US. It’s “at will” employment, meaning you can leave the company for no reason and the company can fire you for no reason. Age discrimination, racial discrimination…even if you can prove it you can’t sue because it’s at will. You sign it and accept it when you are hired.

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    #22

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life Seven years ago, I interviewed with a company. I had four phone interviews and two in-person interviews, including a panel interview to present the projects they assigned to me during the interview process. F*****s ended up ghosting me.

    MetropolisPt31 , Kindel Media Report

    Paul C.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bet they used the stuff in your presentation. Probably did the same to others, you're better off out of it.

    RafCo (he/him)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never ask people to present work directly related to what they will be working on. It creates an incentive to steal their IP.

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    Sander
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a known scam to get free stuff done, especially in graphic design jobs.

    Cat Palmer
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had an interview with a company and gave them some work samples which they kept "for their records". They offered me the job, then said they liked me so much they were going to offer me a more senior role instead, and then they stopped answering my calls and I never heard from them again. Yes, I'm still mad about it five years later!

    Julie Rod
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a demo-lesson, a try-out, to teach in a charter school. The principal and vp were there. It was a 30 minute lesson. They both got up and left about 10 minutes in. I looked at the other teacher, like what now? They never came back, never got back to me. They could have at least said thanks for coming in. I have been on many interviews and demos as a teacher and that never happened before or since. So rude! Still salty!

    JayWantsACat
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did I write this? I literally had the same experience. Each subsequent interview moved up the organizational chart. They literally told me I was perfect for this job and had me actually come visit the office and meet the General Manager....only to then hear nothing. I eventually called them to see what's going on and was told they went with someone else. Thanks for wasting my time and not even bothering with the courtesy of turning me down.

    Mohammad Ammar
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's so mean, and companies should be publicly shamed for it.

    bill marsano
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty much the case that whenever they ask you to do stuff free to prove your skills they're going to screw you. Never known it to fail.

    Shelli Aderman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t work for free. Even in an interview!

    Frannie Kaplan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow after 2 you say no. Presentations are fine but only under exam conditions

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    #23

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life A few years ago I ordered the Shrimp and Chicken Gumbo at Cheesecake Factory. It wasn’t until a few minutes into my entree that I noticed they forgot to add the shrimp. Well when we told our waitress, she started to accuse me of having eaten all the shrimp and was being very abrasive. Didn’t replace the order. Didn’t bring out any shrimp. A few minutes go by and we hear someone from a nearby table complaining to the same waitress and demanding their gumbo be remade because they asked for no shrimp. Pretty obvious the waitress got our orders mixed up but nope, the only logical explanation was that I picked out and ate all shrimp and was only complaining to get my meal comped. I still can’t go back...

    PM_ME_UR_B**BSICLES , RODNAE Productions Report

    Chich
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a local restaurant where the manager got all pissy because a group of us dropped by in the middle of a slow afternoon for coffee. We had called ahead and explained that was all we were looking for and whomever answered said it would be fine. Been 5 years and I have never gone back.

    Mary Bricklin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I stopped in at a local restaurant once. It was a hot day and I wanted to get something to drink. The minute I stepped in, everyone just stared at me like I was an alien beaming in from outer space; customers and staff. No one even talked to me until I finally just sat down at a table. Never went back to that place.

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    Meg Curry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At Cheesecake Factory, I still had half a plate of food left. I'm talking plenty of fries and only a half eaten burger. The burger squirted sauce on me so I went to the bathroom to clean up. I come back and the waitress had taken my plate of food. When she came back I asked if she put my food in a to go box and she looked at me like I was stupid and said "No?" I told her that I still had plenty of food and only went to bathroom because the sauce squirted on me. She said "You should have let me know then." B***H. IT WAS BUSY AND I WANTED TO PREVENT STAINING. I asked for a manager and they said the same thing she did. Again, half a hamburger and plenty of fries. I told them I wouldn't pay full price for half a meal and they threatened to call the cops. Never going back to Cheesecake Factory. Assholes.

    FreshGanesh
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why downvoted? You should have had them call the cops. You paid for it and never implied you were finished. I mean, if that happened in my restaurant, the server would be retrained. After apologizing and after offering you a new comped meal.

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    Nora12
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That waitress should be fired what she did could have been very dangerous if the other person who ordered the dish without shrimp did that due to an allergy.

    JMC5003
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hadn't even thought of that. Puts a whole different spin on the incident.

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    Mrs. Jan Glass
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had an a*****e at a bookstore accuse me of stealing and returning books. it was a college bookstore that was struggling after the big B&N had moved in, so we were all gung-ho about supporting our indie shop. So was I, until the owner got testy with me when I was returning a book we hadn't used that week in class. "We ended up not needing it after all," I explained, "and I need the extra twenty bucks more." "Or you're lying and are just trying to scam me," snapped the owner. I was blown away that he actually openly accused me of lying. I literally had the unread book WITH RECEIPT right there. The shop closed less than a year later.

    SillyPandaBunny
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She could have killed that other person if they were allergic

    Praegard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is the time to stiff the server on her tip

    JP Purves
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very poor customer service. It would have cost them very little to take back your plate and bring you the correct order. Also, who orders gumbo and asks for no shrimp?

    StarlightPanda!
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was at McDonald's and realized they hadn't given me my McNuggets. So I went back in and kindly let them know. I was very courteous despite the fact that THEY messed up MY order. So what happens? They tell me they definitely gave me the nuggets but "whatever."

    StarlightPanda!
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always check my food from now on. Although I don't go there anymore really.

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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cheesecake Factory sucks anyway. Went there one time many years ago. Ordered fettuccine alfredo with chicken. Had 4 bites of chicken. Went ahead and had dessert. You guessed it, cheesecake...the thing they're named for...it didn't suck but it wasn't anywhere near what I was expecting considering this was supposed to be their main thing.

    RafCo (he/him)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's cheesecake factory. Disappointment is part of the charm

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    #24

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I moved and had to leave the high school I was at I found out one of my teacher thought I was a smoker which is why they were always sh*tty to me. No, my clothes just smell like s**t because my parents and brother both chain smoke and there was nothing I could do about it at the time.

    Voxcide , Irina Iriser Report

    Riani Kivela
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I relate so much! I developed what I later found out was asthma at 16. Suddenly I couldn't run or exercise like I was used to. I went to my pediatrician who told me that she knew I was smoking and she had no help for me until I quit. I told her that my parents smoked, I had never even tried it. She told me she knew I was lying and she wouldn't see me again about my breathing until I quit smoking then ended the visit.

    Kallen Kneeland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a pompous @$s! I used to think it was only male doctors who refused to believe their patients, but now I see it's all of them. To be fair, I imagine they DO see a lot of liars, but there must be some way they could figure out truth from fiction!

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    Ele V
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok let'say that you did smoke...What gave them the right to be s***ty to you cause of that????? Like excuse me?????

    Margrete Sonnenberg
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is more than just smell to tell if someone is smoking. Yellow fingernails, Really Yellowish brown teeth, bad breath, older than you look, etc.

    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It can take years for some of those to develop though. That may not be as obvious in a young person as it is in, say, a middle aged person.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mum and dad thought I smoked weed when I was in my teens coz I always smelt like marijuana. Most of my friends and boyfriends smoked it but I never touched the stuff. They never believed me. Didn't try weed until I was around 22.

    El Dee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, why should the teacher treat a kid badly if they smoke? Sure, if they are breaking a rule doing it but to treat them badly ALL the time? Teachers are the worst bullies..

    JP Purves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even if you were a smoker, that is no reason to treat you poorly.

    Gina Rautenbach
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL- My mom use to smoke so when my teachers asked why is smell like smoke I would say that- when my mom asked I would say it was my friends or i cant smell anything {I did smoke}

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    #25

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life My 7th grade English teacher accused me, in front of the class, of having copied a short story that I had written. It wasn't even loosely based on anything I had read prior to that, it was just well written. That episode led to a lot of mistrust of teachers thereafter. Its been about thirty years, but I still get steamed up when I think about it.

    1boxfox , craftedbygc Report

    Reilley Easton-Smith
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can write really well, and teachers used to get at me for using technical language. Annoyed the living daylights out of me. So many just didn't believe that someone my age can do what I can. (For context, I'm in my early-mid teens)

    Bored Birgit
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your talent is a gift - and nobody can take it ever away from you.

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    Kristy P
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used the word "row" to describe an argument in an essay & was marked down because it was "not a word" (other than to "row" a boat) . I have since learned it's more of an "English" thing & not an "American" thing. Still peeved.

    Jill Bussey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have posted this before. I was accused of plagiarism in secondary school over a poem that I had written. The teacher never checked with me, nor did they check anywhere else to see if they could find it. No, they just rejected it out of hand and it was never published. You think I am bitter? Yes, it was 50 years ago. I never forgave her.

    Monika Rhodes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in primary school and I knew I could write stories, teaches told me I couldn't have wrote it myself because it's too well written. She forced me to stay after the bell and write something else, she got a shock of her life and at least apologised.

    Bored Birgit
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could prove her wrong, AND she apologized. That is quite satisfying.

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    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had 2 English teachers that did that. They were really pissed when I won a STATE Journalism Award.

    Jerry Lane
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in college (Syracuse University) in the 1980s I did a paper on Beat Generation writers. Because of connections to a major prominent English professor that my mom knew (they grew up together in Utica, NY and stayed friends to the end of their lives) I was able to interview any and all of them who were still alive. He knew everyone on a first-name basis. He is dead now so I think it is safe to tell his name: Albert Cook of U of Buffalo and Brown University. I was accused of lying and cheating and making it all up. I was 17. F*ck that professor! Dr Cook called up that professor and tore him a new one! I got the A but I can’t forget the humiliation.

    Emily Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had wrote a paper on Lord Byron and had another teacher proofread it before turning it in. English teacher thought I plagiarized it.

    Swastik34
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My teacher shouted out my name for plagiarising content. She also claimed that kids of my age don't present such well written paragraphs. When I managed to convince her it was original, she just scoffed and told me to write more childlike.

    Random Anon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I learnt early on to tone down the "smart-a*s" just so to avoid these drama. I'm not one of the more privileged kids in public school. So in their eyes, I shouldn't be hitting too high. It may sound unjust but it worked for me since I can cut classes to work or sleep in or what not, and they didn't bother as long as I don't bring the average down and I never did. I think there are only 3 teachers that knew what I was doing. They were the types that enjoyed intelligent discourse, while the rest not so much to say the least.

    Snowfoxrox
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in 4th grade I was reading and writing at college levels. I had teachers accuse me of plagiarism frequently. They really hated it when I started writing my reports on odd and rare medical diseases. I loved reading my grandmothers nursing texts books. This was pre-internet, so they had to do their own research to verify what I was writing.

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    #26

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life Live in a community with an HOA. Was member in good standing, owed no dues or anything. Property manager didnt get pool pass mailed to me. 2 weeks into pool season, I'm pregnant. Manager says "its in the mail." I try to go to the pool to use it. Pool guy will not let me in. Prop manager says I cant go in until the pass arrives at my house even though she admits it is me on the phone, I have ID, and it is 2 weeks into pool season. Threatens to call the cops on me for being hostile. WTF.

    anon , Lara Report

    Praegard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Will never understand why people buy property governed by HOA. One personality conflict and your entire time in that house is miserable.

    Lisa H
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a townhouse complex with an hoa. My next door neighbor (who is fully compliant with the rules, just hates the hoa and I don't blame him) will occasionally ride his bike in the complex (which is not allowed) while holding a beer in one hand (also not allowed) and ride by one of the board member's house and cheers her. She gives him a dirty look every time, but he still does it. He's my hero😁

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    Deb Dedon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I would never buy property that involves a HOA. HOA's are magnets for petty dictators and power trippers.

    FreshGanesh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If someone here is defending larger, community HOAs, they need to do some self-reflection. Luckily I live in a city that limits HOAs to TICs and condos. My TIC HOA consists of 5 people in total because we own a property with three flats. My friend is in a subdivision HOA & currently suing them so he can install a solar roof. That the HOA prevents this even though no neighbor objects is utterly backwards. Screw your curb appeal!

    Sa Ruuu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My HOA recently upped the monthly price from about $175 to $700. SEVEN HUNDRED. Because we live in a high fire risk area, the fire insurance was raised. And instead of looking for alternatives, they decided everyone has to pay that price. Already started house hunting

    Snowfoxrox
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meh... HOA ... First rule of house hunting.. NO HOAs!!! I dunno why ANYONE would want to give someone else jurisdiction over their property!

    Luna
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HOA in my neighborhood complained about the house’s color, how it was “unnatural”. When inquired about it, they said that the house was black, when it CLEARLY blue, a color that is allowed by our neighborhood’s HOA. It’s incredibly dumb.

    The Frenchiest Fry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What does being pregnant have to do with anything?

    NotCoffee
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You get uncomfortably warm, just by existing. If you’re far along, your back is hurting just by existing. A pool does wonders for both. It wasn’t a loss of fun when the prop manager was a jerk, it was a denial of physical relief. Very annoying, and I’d def be super salty about it.

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    Nubmaeme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is my Number One deal breaker. i won't even look at a house that has an HOA with it. If they are not paying my mortgage, they get no say in what I do with my property.

    Just_a_gay_cat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry if this is rude or something, but what is HOA, I understand it's some kind of restricting thing but it would be nice if someone explained it

    Bored Turtle Princess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Home owners association. So far as I know l, these things are only in the USA.

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    #27

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was a senior in high school, I wanted to be a National Honor Society officer. I was also in the marching band. The lady who in charge of NHS was also the librarian, and I spent my 5th period every day working in the library. Because I was already in NHS, she had me helping her doing a bunch of the stuff that an officer SHOULD have been doing (organizing records, keeping track of everyone's service hours, etc.) When it came time to choose officers for the following year, I thought "Hey, I'm a shoo-in, right? I've literally already been doing the job." Nope. She decided not to let me be an officer because she didn't think someone in the band could have the time to really perform the duties, even though I'd been doing it for six months. Turned out she had some vendetta against the band because she thought we got too much special treatment. F**k her.

    scottevil110 , Ron Lach Report

    LinkTheHylian
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was once offered the chance to apply for a paid position I'd been doing as a volunteer for a charity. They had been training me for months and told me to apply, but they had to consider others because of what they called "fair competition". I thought I'd get it, I'd been with them for over a year, but my job role switched about 6 months in as they needed someone in this other role. In the end they chose someone else, and I left because I wasn't going to work for free after being offered a paid position. Joke's on them, though, as a few months after I left some of the management were caught embezzling funds to buy personal items like laptops and TVs.

    Bobby
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had the exact same thing happen to me. The manager of the building I worked at loved me. He called me after the interview he sat in. He was one of three people at the interview. The other two were his boss and some hr person. He said he was sure I had it and was already working me into the paid staff schedule. Then an hour later called to say they went with someone else and he had no idea why

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    Michelle C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My salty moment is that years ago for my birthday my mom would always get me an ice-cream cake, know DAMN WELL that I DESPISE ice-cream cake. For 3 years she did this and would be happily eating the cake, on MY birthday, and thinking it's cute. WeLLLLLLLL on the 4th year she came out again, the whole family there, singing happy birthday with a lit up ice-cream cake. By then I had enough, I got up and snatched the cake and chucked it out the front door and it landed upside down in the yard. After my mom yelled about it for a minute and the rest of the family laughing about saying that it was a long time coming...I got in my car and went out with my friends. That was the last time she got me an ice-cream cake.

    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother was a teacher at my very small high school. She didn't always agree with them, or me. I was in National Junior Honor Society but got blackballed for National Honor Society. Evidently, at that time, no one in Florida had ever been blackballed. Since I hated my HS, I was proud of that. I then went to college in my senior year.

    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope you conveniently lost ALL the records, causing her to have to create the entire year's data from scratch...

    JP Purves
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another example of adult school politics adversely impacting children.

    #28

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life My mum bought herself a laptop on my 13th birthday, and got me a mug.

    facesosunny , Porapak Apichodilok Report

    Littlemiss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is me, having to save like hell to help pay for an expensive birthday gift I wanted Turns out, my parents used my money to pay for my gift. I paid for my own present.

    Lisa Clace
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother donated $ 10,000 to the Catholic Church. She knew I was a single mom struggling —- I was going to school and Cleaning houses to get by.

    Bored Birgit
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. Poor you. The catholic church is rich as f..k. Your mother does not act like a christian person. Bible definitely says: give to the poor.

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    Zero
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did that mug "spill" onto the laptop later?

    Boredpandahatesme
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because my mother "had to deal with a 2 week old infant" on her birthday the year I was born every GD year I'm reminded of it so "you can deal with whatever I get you".

    Aline Cahill
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My eldest was born 2 weeks before my birthday, I'd never think of doing anything like this. She gets lots of presents, sorry you went through this

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    Mrs. Jan Glass
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was my ex-boyfriend. I started mentally checking out when he bought himself a fancy new car stereo a few days before my 21st birthday, and then just mentioned in passing that I could have his old car stereo because the one in my car "sucked." Just tell me louder that you DGAF about anyone but yourself, dude, much less your girlfriend.

    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oops, sorry about the full mug of water that just soaked your uninsured laptop, Mom!

    Julie Evans
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Horrible and hurtful. Would be pissed off too

    Tess Bradley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother got herself a boob job for my 8th birthday...

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    #29

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was like 6 or 7 I went to McDonald's with my grandmother and my teenage aunt and uncle. My grandmother bought my uncle a full meal and made my aunt and I share a small fry.

    Folksma , Polina Tankilevitch Report

    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was 15 I went to visit relatives in North Dakota. As a little bit of background information, that side of my family is from a group of people who are called the Germans from Russia. They went to Russia to farm the lands because at the time the soviets needed more farmers for their country. My family immigrated to Canada about the time of the fall the last czar. These people were generational farmers from The Old Country. When we had dinner at one of their houses the men were served a nice meal in the dining room while the women and kids ate in the kitchen when the men were done. As a teenage girl who grew up in So Cal this just completely burned my butt! (Luckily my mother was quick to calm me down so I didn't say anything to embarrass her or grandfather.) All of this to say that sometimes our older generations are coming from a very traditional background where the men were given preference over the women and children.

    Just a ray of f'ing sunshine
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a side note, my family is from the Odessa region. This is when Ukraine was still a part of the USSR. I'm not trying to be dramatic here, but when this war first started I wondered if I had distant, distant relatives there still. Even though I have never met them and have no idea who they are, it kind of puts a different spin on the whole atrocity.

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    Pronostico Tormentas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wins the prize for my St awful grandma EVAH

    Steve Kenney
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would be pissed about that too.

    #30

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life The sh*tty Hobbit trilogy. Instead of returning to Middle Earth for a three hour tale recounting Bilbo's adventures to Lonely Mountain, they 'adapted' a ~300 page book into a gaudy, soulless trilogy in order to make three times the money. Shame on them!

    BarcodeNinja , Jeff Finley Report

    Paul C.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not many times films are improved with follow ups. Terminator 2 is very good, but should have stopped there, I think. Same with Rocky. Toy Story is about the only one that seems to get better and better.

    Artie B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure about the others, but Toy Story 4 is garbage. It literally goes against the entire theme of the previous movies. 3 was perfect and should have been the end.

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    Kisses4Katie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it crazy that I love the book *and* the movie?

    Autumn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, I quite liked the films. They're definitely not as good as the original trilogy but they're not bad.

    Zedrapazia
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It might be just me, but I actually liked them. Wasn't a fan of the Hobbit book tho, probably because it was aimed at a younger audience than LOTR.

    Stephanie Chapman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm still mad that the movie "Return of the King" didn't include the Hobbit uprising. The marauders ripped up the party tree and were taking over the village!

    Hobby Hopper
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fans have done edits, pulling in parts of all 3 movies to make a single movie which follows the book better. I think the one I watched was the Maple Films edit. I highly recommend it.

    Powerful Katrinka
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huh. I thought that Peter Jackson did an incredible job with the trilogy, which I've probably read at least 12 times. The Hobbit? Not so much.

    Adrian
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always watch the film first. The book is almost always better than the film. Read the book first and the film inevitably disappoints.

    oddly_informed_raven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    always read the book first so you can make fun of the movie and annoy everyone else in the room.

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    Alan Williams
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't go to Matamata in NZ to view the Hobbit film set then. Overpriced c**p. I went because my son wanted to see it. He loved it but I did think - what was the fuss about. IMG_1224-6...d-jpeg.jpg IMG_1224-6431b8a1ae5cd-jpeg.jpg

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    #31

    Like most kids, I was obsessed with Harry Potter. Annoyingly obsessed. I would talk about it all the time and correct people on things they got wrong. I guess I was kind of like Hermione. Anyway, I mention this because it was basically a dominant personality trait of mine to anyone who knew me. I see my dad once a year at Christmas. When I was 11, my cousin Robert (who doesn't like Harry Potter) got the LEGO Hogwarts Castle from my dad, and it was wrapped in Harry Potter wrapping paper. I got costume jewelry. I still remember how bitterly jealous I was when I watched him open it and then move on to the next thing, totally uninterested. After we finished opening presents, I went into the kitchen and fished out the Harry Potter wrapping paper from the trash can and kept it. I think I still have it with the rest of my Harry Potter stuff in the basement. Edit: added words for clarity.

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    Sheena Leversedge Wood
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh that's so cruel. stupid thing, when my dad remarried, my Christmas presents became rubbish. I was into horses and computer games, and in the past I'd had things like a megadrive, a gameboy and so on (didn't get horse stuff, even though we had horses, as my dad didn't really know anything about them, but knew that was a thing I was into) when he got married I started getting stuff like avon perfumes and talcum powders, as an outdoorsy, computer game enjoying teenage girl. it was rubbish. pre remarrying. I got stuff related to my hobbies. after remarrying. generic "girl stuff"

    Sheena Leversedge Wood
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and it's not like I have particularly fond memories of my dad. he wasn't a nice person. but at least the presents before were relevant to my interests. things like computer games, meccano, photography stuff (He was into photography too, and had a dark room, so he got me an SLR, and lenses and so on) and then she came along and it was like he couldn't be bothered to think of things I'd like, buying presents was her job, and she didn't really know me in the same way, so just got me toiletries.

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    #32

    After throwing a massive party and paying for flights and accommodation for our entire extended family for my Brother when he joined the Navy, my mother refused to pay £15 for my official University Graduation picture. On my 21st Birthday, she volunteered me to to taxi all my relatives to the restaurant/bar where my party was held. After making about eight 10 mile round-trips, I waited at home for 2 hours until my cousin finished work to drive me to my own party. When I moved to the states, my parents organised a big family get together as a Bon Voyage party. It was catered like a wedding where you have to make your choice of meal ahead of time so the caterers knew how many of each thing to make. She forgot to order a meal for only one person out of about 50. Can you guess who didn't get to eat?

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    Pumpkin Spice
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bite your mom and tell her that it wasn't your fault, since you didn't get a F*****G MEAL

    JMC5003
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Geez. I'm so sorry your mom treated you so unfairly! I hope you've made a wonderful life for yourself in the states. Don't look back - you CAN choose your own family! : People who love you for who you are and wouldn't dream of treating you that way. : )

    #33

    Third grade. We had a contest to redesign the American flag, and I was an artsy kid, so I was all like "I'mma win the S**T out of this contest." I made a construction paper American flag, with one large star on top on a field of the deepest, most beautiful blue you've ever seen, perched atop thirteen columns of vertical red and white stripes. (Yeah, basically Captain America's chest.) I was *so* proud. Then *Beth* wins the contest (with me in 2nd place) with a flag that is basically our current flag, but instead of stars it has a teddy bear with sunglasses. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE MY CLASSMATES, MY TEACHER, OR MOST IMPORTANTLY, BETH

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    N. K.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Katrhyn obviously holds a grudge against teachers, lol.

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    #34

    My eighth grade math teacher graded our homework, which we went over together in class. I completely f****d up a concept we just learned and as a result got every homework question wrong. I told my teacher this and she said something to the effect of “too bad. You should’ve done it correctly. Take the zero.” About a month later, we started another new concept and I made sure every question was answered correctly. Upon grading the homework, a classmate of mine said something to the effect of “Ms. LastName, I got every question wrong because I messed up the concept.” The math teacher then said “Don’t worry about it, I won’t grade today’s homework.” This was the first and only time she didn’t grade our homework. I hope she rots in hell.

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    Nimues Child
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Consistency, thy name is NOT this teacher.

    #35

    Senior year of high school I was accused of snitching to the principal about the senior prank (I didn’t; everyone just sucked at keeping it a secret) and was booed at graduation rehearsal. Like, really? F**k you guys.

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    Laroo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah but the people that boo-ed probably peaked in high school and the prank is probably still the highlight of their lives 10 years later.

    #36

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life Once my third grade teacher was asking us about state abbreviations. She got to Florida and I raised my hand and said 'FL'. She told me I was wrong and that it was 'FA', and at the time I thought teachers were infallable so I took her word for it. Fast forward to sixth grade geography, state abreviations comes up, and I write 'FA' on a quiz, which obviously turned out to be wrong. I was so mad at my third grade teacher for misleading me, and to be honest it's something I think about more often than I should.

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    #37

    I was at a golf tournament in high school and had just bought some expensive pro v1 balls for the first time ever. I was practicing on the putting green with 3 of them when I see one kid pick up my ball. I approach him and say that's my ball, and he's like no it's mine. There was no convincing this kid that it was mine, so I just angrily let him have it. We ended up playing in the same group that day, and when he hit it in the rough, easily findable with a little effort, I made sure to stomp it deep down into the ground so he couldn't see, then when he had to re-tee and take the penalty stroke, I walked back to that spot and picked up the ball. I'm still salty at that kid to this day, and I don't know why

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    Tess the ferret
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least you got it back 🤣

    SPARKLING WATER
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever someone takes my ball by accident when I'm putting it is one of the most awkward things going up to them and asking for your ball back

    JMC5003
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe you feel a little guilty? Yes, you got your ball back. Yes, he was an a-hole, but you seem like a guy who values honesty, and you kinda stooped to his level by pushing the ball he played into the ground. I'd bet that's not really your normal m/o to handle a situation like that in that manner and, even though you feel justified and probably were justified, it makes you feel a little uncomfortable when you think about it. But what do I know. : )

    #38

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was 7 years old my cousin Aaron tricked me into giving him my beautiful holographic Alakazam card and gave me some lame matte-a*s Gyarados card instead. He refused to give it back to me too. I thought I'd forgotten about it until probably 15 years later when Pokemon Go was a thing. He posted some pretentious edgy Facebook status along the lines of, "I think I'm the only person who doesn't care about Pokemon Go." Yup, Aaron, you're the ONLY ONE! And now I'm mad again.

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    #39

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life When I was in elementary school, I had finished the worksheet we were given and quickly became bored. So naturally, I pulled out my compass (for geometry — not the one that tells directions), and started spinning it on my desk. The teacher got pissed and confiscated it, saying that I “could have it back at the end of the day.” I never got it back and was nervous to approach her about it. This was nearly 15 years ago.

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    Pumpkin Spice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She. She stole your compass??? I'm not a geometry person, but I AM an artist, and god damn, the good ones are expensive. May I please beat her up?

    #40

    In the first week at my first job, a coworker asked me to do something after my boss asked me to do something else. When I told him the boss wanted me doing something else, my coworker yelled very loudly saying how I should never talk back to him. I had anxiety around that guy from then on, and after that I always seemed to be on his bad side. It took me years before I learned that he had legitimate mental issues and I didn't do anything wrong.

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    #41

    My mom called me one day and asked me to take care of her three dogs... They lived 60 miles away. Said I would. When I asked her for how long she said for the week. She, my dad and my brother were at the airport getting to board their plane to Hawaii. I still have never been.

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    Pumpkin Spice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This just gets worse and worse...

    Scotira
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How irresponsible can you be to organize something like this the last second before going on vacation?? I wouldn't have the time or space to look after one dog never mind three 😳🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    #42

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life In the fourth grade, a teacher asked me* what the freezing point was, I said 0 degrees, thinking celcius. She told me I was wrong, it's 32 degrees. It's been 15 years and I still hold on to that hate. Edit: a word

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    Robin Roper
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This proves some teachers are idiots.

    #43

    The week before Christmas in the year 2000, we did a quiz in maths class rather than actual maths. I'm 13 at this point, just for clarity. In the sports round, one question was "who did England lose to in the Euros this summer?" which was dead easy. I wrote down "portugal and romania" and we moved on. Until it came to marking, where it was confidently announced that Romanian was the only correct answer, they had to take first answers only, so we didn't get the point, DESPITE THE FACT ENGLAND LOST TWO F*****G GROUP GAMES. Like if Romania had been a knockout game, fair enough, but the two games held exactly equal importance, and the question wasn't who they lost to last or anything like that where there was even a hint that they meant that 3rd game. Basically the people doing the quiz didn't have a f*****g clue and I was robbed I have no idea why this angered me so much or why I even remember it, but yeah, I'm still mad, however stupid that is

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My classmate in TAFE got a question wrong for one of her assessments. Instead of writing 2 minutes, she wrote two minutes. It wasn't the lecturer that marked it, it is an online questionnaire. Thankfully the lecturer amended it. She thought it was ridiculous. Which of course it is.

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    #44

    When I was in 5th grade, I sold candles door to door to cover the cost of joining one of the local rec football teams. We could either sell $150 worth of candles or pay $75 straight up. One of the team dads donated a brand new gas grill from his company to whoever sold the most candles. I was determined to get that grill and sell it for $200+. I hustled my a*s off and sold around $450 in candles, which was about $150-200 more than the 2nd place person. Won the grill. My parents would not let me sell the grill on craigslist. Basically forced me to sell it to them for $50. It felt like robbery. Tldr; my parents owe me $150 from 5th grade. Edit: Just to clarify, my parents did not constantly steal from me throughout my childhood or anything. They provided very well for me. This was just a one time thing.

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    #45

    First grade, there was a test and one of the questions was "How long does it take to fall asleep"? One of the answers was "15 minutes" and one was "1 hour". I selected an hour, and I got it wrong. I thought it was so stupid. "Oh, yeah, I'm so happy for you, and all the people who don't spend an hour staring at the ceiling before passing out." *golfclap*.

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    LinkTheHylian
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More poorly worded than stupid. On average it takes a person 15 minutes to fall asleep. Individually is obviously going to be different.

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    2763MilesAway
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But everyone takes different amounts of time to fall asleep??

    #46

    Remember the Balloon Kid debacle? Where that family falsely claimed that their son had gotten in to giant helium balloon and was floating around in the sky? We watched that newstory live in class in high school. I said out loud that this was stupid, there's no way there's a kid in there. And the whole class ridiculed me for that, calling me insensitive. Joke ended up being on them. That was 8 years ago and I'm still salty. EDIT: There's a few people posting some information that point to the balloon hoax being true after all. I'll look into that information to see how it sways my argument, but the main point of my comment was how my classmates thought the boy was in the balloon and yelled at me for saying that he wasn't. And then they were proven wrong.

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    LinkTheHylian
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was not true. Whoever was saying otherwise is an idiot, a liar, or the kid's parents.

    #47

    A friend of the family used to bring gifts to us when he came in town to visit yet he would always forget about me. My cousin got this doll that I had wanted for ages. It was the Little Mermaid in her pink dress and I was so in love with it. She didn't even like the Little Mermaid! He didn't bring me a gift yet she went around bragging about how she got a doll but she really wanted the Pocahontas doll instead.

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    Laroo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your parents are a-holes for allowing their friend to treat you like that.

    #48

    I was in a game show/play thing when I was in elementary school. It was probably 1st/2nd grade. I don't remember what the game show was called, but basically one of us would get asked a question and provide an answer. The "panel" of 3 other kids would then have to guess if we were correct or wrong. I was asked a question, which I also don't remember, BUT I remember that I answered, quite confidently "President Garfield." Everyone started laughing thinking that I was referring to the grumpy cat. So they all said I was incorrect and the "host" gave them all credit. The correct answer was President James A. Garfield. Which is who I was referring too. Still salty, will probably still be salty for the rest of my life.

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    #49

    I was jumped by five kids in fourth grade, and then my school solely punished me by trying to expel me. The kids parents tried to sue. It was a huge deal. I'm still pissed off that I got in trouble for being jumped, while the other five kids walked away. Why did the kids parents try to sue? I don't know.

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    Pumpkin Spice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "You ganged up on a child? Well done, Billy! Oh, they're still alive? Ugh! I guess we'll have to press charges!"

    Tina Zimmer
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same thing happend to my youngest son. He was jumped in the boys restroom and he beat up the instigator and the school tried expelling him for bullying. Turns out the kid my son beat up was the vice principals nephew.

    Sheena Leversedge Wood
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have had many detentions and a few suspensions and threats of being expelled for BEING BULLIED. because they count being a victim of bullying they can't be bothered to stop as being "disruptive in class"

    #50

    7 years ago, I used to do a sport competitively. Our school had 2 teams, A, and B team, basically equivalent to Varsity and JV. I had a pretty good chance at making B team. Heck, it was something that was accepted by most of the players. Like it wasn't a question of *if*, it was a question of *when*. As in people were asking me for my jacket size in preparation for ordering a team jacket and stuff because we all knew I was basically a shoo in. The team captain decided to pick a new guy for the last spot. I was pretty upset, but she brushed me off with some excuse saying she wanted to give him the experience or something. Anyways, turns out later she'd had a crush on him and wanted an excuse to spend more time with him. I guess they're together now so it worked out for her. So the NEXT year, I tried out again. And this time she ended up making most of the members freshman. When I asked again, she said since she was graduating next year, she wanted to give the freshmen as much as experience as possible competing before she left them. At that point I was pissed since I told her this was ALSO my last year and I was also graduating and she just played dumb. Turns out she just had a personal dislike for me from the get go. She saw me as competition for the guy she had a crush on, so she figured the *less* time I spent around them, the bigger her chances were. Anyways, I was pissed that I didn't make the team, so I worked my a*s off. I couldn't compete in team divisions so I focused on individuals. I ended up placing 3rd in individuals (higher than anyone else on the team). And I just made it really obvious that I totally deserved to be on the team, but f*****g politics kept me off. Raised a lot of uncomfortable questions as to why I wasn't on the team, because usually you want the best people on the team...of course she lied her a*s off and told people it didn't seem like I had time to dedicate to team training or something, and she wanted freshman who had a more flexible schedule. F**k you Karen. You f*****g b***h.

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    Nimues Child
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It sounds like there was no adult in this decision making process? Just the team captain?

    HeatherDPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why the hell was a student picking team members and not a coach??

    Ariel Strong
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is just some Disney Channel original movie type s**t...

    #51

    When I was in grade 8 we were doing a debate unit, which started off with a mock city Council on why or why not a new condo building should be put up across the street from the north side of the largest park in the city (also in our neighborhood). I was for the building being put up as one of the 'designers/engineers'. I was feeling pretty confident in that my arguments were heard by the community (classmates) and most of them were coming around. Then about 5 minutes before lunch one of my classmates who always seemed to get her way began arguing against the building being put up. Her argument that the building being built on the north edge of the park (coincidentally a very busy street as well) would obstruct the view of the sun rising and people wouldn't be able to 'sit on the bench and soak in the beautiful sunrise'. Queue me about to say that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, thus concluding that the building wouldn't obstruct her precious view in the middle of a city. Before the words left my mouth, my teacher interrupted saying, 'Very nice point to end this debate, time for lunch.' I remember stewing the whole day thinking about how stupid my classmate would've looked if I had brought up the point. Still salty, have moved on though.

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    #52

    In 4th grade we had a multiplication math test. I knew my stuff so i was confident in 100%. I got it back with a 99%. The only one i got "wrong" was 6x4. I knew it was 24 but there was the ever-so-slightest line from my pencil that made my 4 look like a 6. Goddamn it I wanted that 100%. Its been 25 years and I still think about that on occasion.

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    JuneMidnights
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you make a 4 look like a 6 with one line?

    JMC5003
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A line above the peak of the 4? It was handwritten, I'm assuming.

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    #53

    My ex left me with no explanation, twice. We got back together and pulled the same s**t on me. I'm over the relationship, but I'd love to know why. That s**t eats me up inside some times.

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hear Never ever by All Saints playing in the background.

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    #54

    I tied for first place in a chess tournament my senior year of high school with my best friend. We each had 4 wins, no losses, and one draw. Our one draw was to each other. He got the first place trophy and I got the second place trophy.

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    #55

    "What Are You STILL Salty About?: 30 People Share Their Worst Injustice Moments In Life Kid on my brother's little league team wanted to borrow my jp velociraptor hand puppet I got for my birthday in '96. He never gave it back, and when I asked at school he denied it all.

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    #56

    I had perfect attendance in 9th grade, until one day in the final month of class I was marked absent! I got home and my mom yelled at me for skipping but I was so confused because I hadn’t skipped any classes! I had one absence that year.

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    #57

    Being stiffed $900 worth of pay. I was working for a bitch who owned a cleaning company and she drove a E-Class Mercedes Benz Sedan. Found out she had a history of stiffing pay from her employees. E.L., F*ck You!!!

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    #58

    My brother sold my Gameboy color and copy of Pokemon yellow to GameStop when we were kids. I love him but I'll never let him forget

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    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother sold harvest moon to get money to pay for a trip to the US. I know technically it was my mums game and she gave him permission to sell it. I was still upset though coz I love that game. At that time it costs over $600 to buy the game second hand. Thankfully there is now such thing as emulators.

    Triangle Moebius
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember kids: downloading emulated games isn't illegal, running them is. If the gov can't prove you ran the games you downloaded (which they can't without a warrant), they can't arrest you. https://www.emulatorgames.net/harvest-moon-roms/ Also just to make it clear, romhacks are illegal and so are uploading ROMS. Just not downloading them.

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    Dancing Armadillo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wasn’t very good at video games, I was always Luigi.. and would die quickly. Then I would have to watch my brother play Mario for another 30 minutes.. so when I bought my first video game (Battletoads), I was determined to beat it. I played daily.. I was so close. Then one day the game was gone!! My brother traded it to another kid for a different video game. His reasoning- he beat that game months ago... I was so sad. My parents didn’t really care.. when I told them. They just said you have other toys.. why don’t you go play with your dolls... still salty! Hindsight- my brother has a dead end job (still playing video games) and I have a successful career.

    #59

    In elementary school i had a math question that was “using the fewest bills possible make $655.74”. Well i said six $100 bills a fifty and so forth, well my teacher said i was wrong because there is a such thing as a $500.... come to find out theres less then 100 $500 bill in circulation in Canada....

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    LinkTheHylian
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When did OP go to school? Wiki (I know... not 100% reliable) says the $500 Canadian bill was withdrawn in 1938. They wouldn't stay in circulation for long after that.

    Logan Garwacki
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the schools not in the us is it.

    #60

    When I was in Grade 7 we had an art project where we were to recreate a famous art piece and do a write up on the history, importance etc. I put in a lot of effort/time making a clay version of The Thinker. Come grade time, everyone sees their piece and grade. I got a B because mine "exploded in the kiln." Fast forward to the last day of Grade 8 and I had to pick something up off her desk. There's my Thinker, mostly in tact (the arm was broken off and sitting next to it). A little f****d that the only criticism she had to justify the B was it exploded in the kiln.

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a teacher steal a drawing I did. The thing is if he asked I would have given it to him.

    Pumpkin Spice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You made a replica of a statue made by a famous artist, and didn't even get an A?!

    #61

    Went to a bake sale in middle school, the girl running it told me a cupcake was $1 so I gave her a five. She gave me back THREE ones. I told her so and she stared blankly at me and then said, “yeah, I gave you three one dollar bills.” I don’t know if she was a moron or just wanted to steal from me but my inability to confront people when I was younger really f*cked me over there. Wherever that girl is, f*ck her.

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    Cerise Hood
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It could have been an honest mistake.

    Mikyo-chan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know how stupid you have to be to think that 5 - 1 = 3.

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    Seedy Vine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's when you grab a second cupcake!

    #62

    Pissed at my old company for firing me and hiring someone at half time to do my job rather than just cutting my hours.

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    #63

    I saw this one guy litter out of his car window and I Confronted him about it. He turned crazy on me yelling something about police raping dogs... So I backed down. Now everytime I see litter I kind of hate myself for not picking up his trash or keeping on him about throwing trash out and making someone else take care of him. So I'm salty about myself for being a pussy everytime I see litter.

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    Logan Garwacki
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People should not litter! What you did was right.👍

    Stymied Egan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Backing down in this case was smart. Crazy may be fake, or real. You confronted him and most people would not do that. Good for you!

    Seedy Vine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quietly take down their license plate and report them instead.

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    #64

    A company contacted me about interviewing me for an internship and then rejected me after that. I wasn't even planning on applying to them.

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