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“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Each time we do something, we have a vague idea of what is going to happen next, and we even prepare for a few possible outcomes.
But life does not always go the way we expect it to.
Newton’s third law explains physics but there is also the lesser known law of unintended consequences that shows up in our everyday lives.
You might call in to work and pretend to be sick, thinking the worst that could happen is a scolding from your boss. But would you ever expect that your coworkers actually fall sick and then blame you for it?
These surprising reactions are small but quite noticeable — a chain of events that feels impossible to predict.
Stories about such weird cause-and-effect moments were shared on Reddit, showing that even the simplest actions can lead to the most unexpected results.
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#1
In Oslo, Norway there is nothing stoping you from just entering a bus or tram without a ticket. There is, however, frequent ticket controls.
So one day on the bus from work, the driver anounced over the speakers, that since it was christmas and all she would like to advice us about a ticket control on the and a station 3 stops ahead.
About half the passangers rushed off on the next station.
As she started driving again she announced that there in fact was no control and thanked the rest of us for paying for tickets.
Alexandra 1 month ago
I have absolutely no problem with ticket control and no patience with people who think they can travel for free, since they mess up the prices for people who do pay for their travel.
StretcherBearer 1 month ago
I wish we had a functional mass transit here in the US. a functional government and health care would be nice for Christmas.
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Robert T 1 month ago
I accidentally didn't buy a ticket for the train in Portugal. I walked onto the platform and the train was about to leave, so I got on, assuming I could buy a ticket on the train, as I hadn't seen a ticket booth. Turns out you can't. Ticket inspector either didn't speak or didn't want to speak English and let me go (I did offer to pay). On my way back, I discovered the ticket booth was in the station building which I had neatly bypassed as the road I was on came onto the side of the platform! Ticket was only a couple of pounds for a 20 mile or so trip.
Earonn - 1 month ago
The tragedy of the commons. Self-declared "good people" will steal from the common goods because they can, and even say they're "clever" for doing so. Until the common good cannot sustain itself any longer, and it becomes more expensive or stops. Clever trick by the bus driver, well done.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
This was true in Köln too as I recall. I always bought a ticket since I didn't want to be the foreigner who got cought.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
I used the Rennes Métro multiple times (day ticket) and never saw any sort of control. There's apparently a gate that you have to put your ticket in to pass in and out of the Métro. In the stations I went to, one could just walk around the gate and take the stairs. 🤷 Oh, and the train back to Vitré? No checks. The time I went down to Nantes? I thought I was going to be checked, but halfway along the conductor got off the train, didn't get back on again, left him on the platform. Dunno if that was a mistake or what. I would always buy a ticket, but it was bizarre how little effort is being put into checking that anybody actually does...
Rick Murray 1 month ago
Side note: In France, buying a ticket isn't enough. Despite having a time and date clearly printed on the ticket, there's a little machine you have to find and feed the ticket into that will...stamp the time and date onto it. If you forget that very crucially important step, people will act like you have no ticket despite holding a rather expensive ticket in your hand. Ask me how I know... 🙄
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KatSaidThat 1 month ago
Yoof in my area have discovered you can easily barge through the double gates (TFL underground) which is annoying. Brit Transport Police cottoned on to this as well and hide behind a column and information board when groups are coming through. It's hysterical to watch a couple get caught and the others go back down to the tube. 😆
Sarah 1 month ago
Wish English trains did this. After an injury I commuted first class. I knew there were people taking up first class seats who didn’t have one. Or the classic.. those who are standing.. when train takes off, notice there’s a spare first class seat in carriage and just comes in and sits down. It really angers me
Norfolk and good 1 month ago
Train travel is extortionate in the UK and the quality of the service keeps getting worse with late/cancelled trains due to staff shortages, when the train does arrive it's often so crowded you have to stand which also means that you can't get to the toilet assuming that it's not out of order anyway. Despite this, the CEO for Network Rail makes nearly £600k a year and they paid out nearly £165million in bonuses last year. But you're angry at a poor person taking up a seat in first class rather than standing for two hours for some reason. First class shouldn't even exist.
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#2
Some years ago in Phoenix, Woman A stole the purse of Woman B from a shopping cart. Within a half hour, Woman A began slamming the credit card at a nearby mall. While still going store to store, she was descended on by an army of agents and officers. It turns out that Woman B was on the FBI Most Wanted list. Not only was the thief arrested in glorious fashion - but her information was used to capture the fugitive within the day.
Maim 1 month ago (edited)
I'm trying not to be a downer, but I find it hard to believe that this was the FIRST TIME this incredibly wanted woman's credit card was used. They would've gotten her much sooner. So I call BS on this one.
megabeth 1 month ago
I was thinking how stupid the fugitive who called her shite in stolen was, is....
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Dragons Exist 1 month ago
Well, she still stole a credit card and tried to use it, so hopefully still goes to jail
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KatSaidThat 1 month ago
Some of most wanted fugitives have been amongst the smartest people. It's petty theft criminals that are not that smart.
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In Japan, 30 squirrels escaped the Zoo after a storm.
In an effort to retrieve the missing squirrels, they set up traps to capture the squirrels.
Later on the headlines:
"Huge Success: 38 squirrels out of 30 missing were captured.".
Glix Drap 1 month ago
What about the poor 8 who were living a life of freedom? Anyway, who keeps squirrels in a zoo?
Robert T 1 month ago
There are many species of squirrel and some of them are endangered or non-native. They did the right thing. The UK has been overrun by non-native grey squirrels and it has put the native red squirrel population in danger.
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Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
"And this is Ken, Sakura, Yuri, Yugi, and four others. They have always been here"
Billo66 1 month ago
I'm sure the Aussies feel the same about Kangaroos in the states :)
Load More Replies...Cause-and-effect is not an abstract idea, there is actual research behind why a small action can have unintended ripple effects.
Sociologist Robert Merton’s study on unanticipated consequences can help explain why these everyday stories make so much sense.
He believes that actions often have results which are not anticipated by us, and the cause is mostly driven by factors such as ignorance, error or immediate self-interest.
For example, sometimes taking a wrong turn on the road or being late for work can actually save your life when you later find out that there has been an accident on your usual route.
#4
My high school English teacher was convinced this girl had plagiarized, but couldn't prove it. As a result she contacted a couple of the colleges this girl was applying to and told them she had plagiarized. Fast forward to two weeks. The teacher is giving us an assignment with a "sample paper" that had earned her an A when she was in college. A couple girls entered it into the reverse search and found out the teacher had plagiarized the paper in the first place. We went to the principal and she had to confess to all of the students (she cried and cried). It was one of the only times I've ever felt good about seeing someone cry.
JoMeBee 1 month ago
Wow, kinda goes to show that when someone is outwardly obsessed there is often a personal reason... I hope the teacher didn't s***w up the girl's options for college...
Black Cat 1 month ago
Yes, like when someone accuses their partner of cheating and it's them who is unfaithful. A projected guilt thing.
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Lila Allen 1 month ago
This teacher should have been fired if she directly contacted colleges over a student's work in her class. That violates privacy and is an immediate termination. Secondly, the accepted way to handle that is to conference with the student and talk to them. It's always clear whether they actually wrote it or not.
Laserleader 1 month ago
I never cheated in my life, but the one time a teacher accused me of it in 6th grade Geography, she went ant told the other teachers at lunch. My math teacher took me to the hall to confront me and said "I know what you did in Geography." I was so horrified I fainted and had to be sent home. Teachers making false accusations ruin lives, while students cheating only hurts themselves.
Dragons Exist 1 month ago
Reminds me of how many professors use AI detectors to try to detect AI, despite the fact that they don't look for AI (they can't), they just look for text that's "too advanced" (one of the detectors said, when given the Declaration of Independence, that there was a 99.9% chance it was AI)
Michael Largey 1 month ago
It would be effective only if the teacher had written a letter of recommendation for that student to that college and wrote later to rescind it. They do pay attention to that.
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#5
Brother-in-law went to purchase beer from local store. Finds a case of beer and brings it to the counter. He's young-looking, so they card him. The cashier hands back the card, and tells him the total, "27." My brother-in-law responds "No, 25." The cashier changes the price to $25. My brother-in-law accidentally thought the cashier was asking his age, and corrected him. And the cashier thought my brother-in-law was correcting the price. He said it with such confidence that the cashier gave him the discount without another word :D
#6
Needed a day off work so I claimed I had food poisoning from the dinner I ate with colleagues the night before. So the lie didn't backfire I had to stick with the story and told the same thing to whoever asked, including those colleagues. When I emailed work saying why I wasn't in, just under half the people i ate with claimed to be feeling unwell that day too and agreed we should never revisit that restaurant. Two of them even went home that afternoon due to ill stomachs. There was nothing wrong with me or the food.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Indeed it is, but then so is the temptation to climb onto the "sickness" bandwagon :)
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Dragons Exist 1 month ago
I wonder how much is power of suggestion and how much is "oh, someone got sick from the food? I wonder if I can lie and say that I *also* got sick from it to get a day off"
#7
I called in sick to work when I was in high school, and the next time I saw my manager, she had called off for like 3 days, blaming me for making her ill... I was faking, all my symptoms were made up.
Some effects can be positive, but sometimes a small mistake can also lead to big setbacks — like oversleeping because your alarm did not go off, causing you to miss an important meeting.
Experts believe that even proper planning and assessing all kinds of risks cannot account for every possible outcome. There are always hidden variables and unpredictable paths, labeled as “unknown unknowns.”
For example, even when you leave your house at your usual time every day, a massive pile-up can block your route eventually delaying you at work.
These kinds of events are sometimes also referred to as “black swans” — events that are unpredictable “because they lie outside the realm of usual experience.”
#8
A girl I was sleeping with told me she was pregnant with my baby. I told her I was infertile (I'm not) so it couldn't be mine. She admitted she was sleeping with a couple of other guys too and it turns out she wasn't actually pregnant, she was just trying to trap someone.
I saw her at the mall a year later with what I assume to be one of the other guys and a new born... poor sap.
Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
Reminds me of my ex. After our first I got a vasectomy. 3 years later she got pregnant again. I’d had the foresight to be tested after the vasectomy and was firing nowt but blanks. Ended up that she’d had a long running liaison with one of my friends. It’s good for the kid too as his real father has a few genetic anomalies like early baldness and susceptibility for testicular cancer. So that prepared him.
sfgothgirl 1 month ago
"It’s good for the kid too as his real father has a few genetic anomalies like early baldness and susceptibility for testicular cancer". Uhhhh, you sound pretty gleeful that an innocent child may inherit these traits, unless I'm misunderstanding something?
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#9
My dad worked at a lab in Germany for a year during college and helped write an article for some German science journal. When he later got back to the US, he took a course for medical terminology in German for some easy credit. On the final they had to translate some articles from abroad... one of the articles was the one my dad co-authored.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Maybe neither is this: During WWII my father worked for the Air Ministry. He created (hand-calculated and hand-written) tables of components. Fast forward 50ish years. I was sent, as a consultant, to an areo-space industry. I discovered (by accident) my father's tables. Soon after, I was promoted.
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So one day many years ago, I'm sitting down at dinner with the rest of my family when the phone rings. My Dad casually answers the phone with a "Hello, Sergeant!" and glares at my brother. Now, my Dad is an EMT in town, and he's very friendly with most of the local police and fire/ambulance volunteers. My newly 18 brother upon hearing my Dad answer the phone turns to my Mom and says, "Mom, I'm really sorry but last night I got pulled over and got a speeding ticket". A moment after this my Dad hangs up the phone, and explains it was just an army recruiter looking to get in touch with my brother. My Mom explains to my Dad what just happened, many laughs were had, and my brother had his license taken away for a bit.
UnclePanda 1 month ago
My first week with my first car on my first time to go home for lunch, I peeled out at a stoplight. By the time I got home, my dad knew. Small towns!
Chrystina Sumpter 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I grew up in a small town too. Never had to talk about where I had been, what I had been doing or who I had been with since everyone that saw me had already called in and reported my activities.
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Austzn 1 month ago
Am I missing something here? I don't think you take a license away from an 18 year old unless you are the government.
Pedantic Panda 1 month ago
Believe the parents did it as a punishment perhaps?
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7th grade. Faked sick to stay home from school and my mom gave my some Advil. Turns out I had developed an allergy to Advil (and any ibuprofen), and my face/throat swelled up. My mom was out and couldn't make it home, so my neighbor had to take me to the hospital to get a Benadryl shot. That was nice.
Karma for faking sick? Maybe. Did I do it again during high school? You betcha.
Seadog 1 month ago
I get e kick out of doctors not listening to me when I tell them I'm allergic to neoprene and steroids. It's not a deadly reaction but it does take time to get over single dose or contact. More than one doc has not believed me. It's priceless seeing them panicked look on their face when they see the result of their bullheadedness.
Some of these stories can also be explained through the chaos theory which says that even tiny causes can set off a chain reaction.
One of the popular examples is Play-Doh. Manufactured by a soap company in the 1930s, it was originally meant to clean coal dust off wallpaper. But kids turned it into a creative toy, eventually forcing the company to rework it. Now, it is being used by millions of children around the globe. The manufacturer probably imagined a hundred ways the material could be used, but never this.
The chaos theory basically reminds us to always expect the unexpected, even in simple or predictable situations. There are a lot of variables at play, it is impossible to fully know how things will turn out and also because, life is full of surprises.
#12
One day in high school our teacher got sick, so they sent a substitute. It was hard not to notice that he had a giant squint.
One moment, he stopped lecturing and said: "You! Throw out that chewing gum".
FOUR students stood up to do it.
Agfox 1 month ago
I recall reading that in ancient China, cross-eyed men were employed to watch games in gambling dens because patrons could not be sure who they were observing
GalPalAl 1 month ago
Didn't realize that squints came in sizes and don't understand this port at all.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
Because of the squint, none of the students could tell who he/she was looking at. And an uppie because ...
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Something similar to this happened my freshman year of college. After a writing assignment in an English class the professor came in and turned his back to all the students. He stated that someone in the class has blatantly plagiarized on their paper and he demanded that after class that person come meet with him in his office to discuss the matter. If the person showed up then he would be lenient with their punishment. I noticed everyone's eyes get wide and dart to each other. I knew I didn't plagiarize so after class I gathered my things and headed out of the building. On my way past the professors office I noticed a line of 20 students waiting to see him.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
SomeONE in the class has plagiarised. And 20 students don't realise that 19 others are waiting in line? Either made up, or his peers are very stupid.
Mimi M 1 month ago
They aren't stupid if they did plagiarize. They are playing it safe.
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KatWitch57 1 month ago
Education was attempting to fight plagiarism a long time before there were websites to help them. What any teacher "should" know *now*, is not the same thing as what any teacher might have known 20 or more years ago.
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Similar: big career deciding theoretical electrical engineering exam. Everyone was lazy during the semester, so everyone was sweating apart from a few that actually did well. Half way through the prof exclaims "may the young man in the back who's reading off his cheat sheet please stand up and hand in his work." before everyone could turn their heads two guys were standing up.
UnclePanda 1 month ago
I looked up once to see the second lowest grade in my class cheating off of the lowest grade in my class. I just sighed and shrugged.
Sue User 1 month ago (edited)
I took a history class that had several books to buy. Being poor, i bought the main text. Turns out we had a test that was soley on the smaller one. By then the book was sold out. During the test, noticed some guy cheating off me.I wanted to tell him i didnt even read it but karma, haha.
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OneHappyPuppy 1 month ago
That's one hell of an exam, cheat sheets or none... I never passed it, hell, I switched universities over it ..
#15
In my general bio class the professor gave us a take home quiz and told us to treat it just as if it was in class. No books, internet, or collaborating. A couple days later he asked that anybody that had cheated come to his office to talk to him and they could figure something out but if they didn't confess and he found out they cheated they would be really sorry. Around 50 people ended up going in and admitting to cheating on the quiz. He really had no way of knowing if anybody had cheated but he was the department head and had a big influence in writing the committee letter for pre-professional students and nobody wanted to risk pissing him off.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 month ago
My highschool German teacher was a formidable character. He never needed to raise his voice, but still you wouldn't dream of forgetting your books or skipping an assignment. If you did, he had a little booklet you'd have to memorize ... something ... from, but the urban myth was that it was completely empty. Because nobody dared finding out. He was the best teacher I ever had.
JL 1 month ago
If nobody wanted to risk pissing him off, maybe they shouldn't have cheated in the first place.
Saeyoul Akiyune 3 weeks ago
Maybe it shouldn't had been a "take-home quiz", lol
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I got pulled over in a parking lot for reckless driving when i was 17 or 18. I received an ultimatum from the officer after getting screamed at. I would either be written a ticket or the cop himself would come to my house and talk to my parents about my driving. I chose going without a ticket, since I'd already gotten 1 or 2 before then. I knew I'd be in worse trouble if I didn't confess. I called my mom and told her, which resulted in a severe punishment.
Turns out my parents already had plans that night so they didn't even get home until late. I still don't know if that cop showed up, however my friend saw an officer leave the development.
TL;DR ratted myself out for reckless driving to my parents before the police officer did. parents never came home.
Adam Zad 1 month ago
I had a student whose mother was in the local police. He drove a Corvette and was on his way home one night. Just a few blocks short, he got pulled over by a motorcycle cop from said local police. Cop walked up to the driver side window, folded his arms across his chest, stared down at my student for, maybe, ten or 15 full seconds before saying "I'm gonna tell your mother" and walking away. "WHAT??!!! NO!! WAIT! COME BACK! Give me ticket! Don't tell my MOTHER!"
BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
How reckless were you being in a parking lot? Sounds like you should not have had a license.
LookASquirrel 1 month ago
Might have been snowing. I still do that as an adult if it's empty. 4WD truck. Don't do it in your mom's Chrysler Pacifica. Watched one burn because they got stuck and wouldn't stop trying to get out🤦🏻♀️😂
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#17
Not me but my girlfriend probably about 4 years ago. She was supposed to go to work, but wanted to come see me. I told her no constantly to go to work, but to no avail she came and saw me. She told her boss that she couldn't come because she was in a car accident. guess what happened a week later when we were driving to her house....
megabeth 1 month ago
Have to be careful when you lie to not jinx yourself! If you're using a death as an excuse make someone up! You don't want to feel bad when you're aunt suddenly dies for real the next day!
ILoveMySon 4 weeks ago
My mother said her grandmother died; she did a week later.
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David McKendrick 4 weeks ago
Some guys phoned the school to say they couldn't make the exam because they were many miles away and their car had a flat tire. The professor said they could make up the test later. When they came to do the test they were put in separate rooms. There was only one question on the paper. Which tire was flat?
#18
I was on a plane once, and we were preparing to taxi. They had already asked several times that we all turn our phones off. The pilot then comes on the intercom and says "Our equipment is showing that there are still 3 cell phones turned on in the aircraft." The guy next to me freaked out and frantically did a battery pull on his phone. Such nonsense. Very effective, though.
KatWitch57 1 month ago
I'm gonna say it, and risk the downvotes; I spent nearly 40 years of my life never using a mobile phone, let alone on a plane. I survived this.
Bored Sailor 1 month ago
Hopefully OP said such nonsense as the pilot has no way of knowing that.
Seadog 1 month ago
That was proven long ago but they insist everyone have them off or in airplane mode so you can't make a phone call unless you use their expensive airphones. If aircraft was that sensitive they'd never make it anywhere as the first microwave transmission they flew through would completely disable the plane.
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Iberia Cooley 1 month ago
We had a pilot that thought he didn’t have work that day and so we had to wait for him to get to the airport and plane. It took so long that when he finally got there the flight had to say 3 times to put our phones on airplane mode
#19
An ex-boss of mine was a key player in the implementation of ACH deposits for paychecks at Westinghouse back in the mid 80's. The morning this new and exciting payroll perk was announced, he had dozens of distraught Westinghouse old-timers lined up outside his office. It seems these men had all worked at Westinghouse for decades and never told their wives they ever got a raise (or at least very much downplayed their year over year salary bumps). Sheer panic had set in.
Chrystina Sumpter 1 month ago
This has nothing to do with being a SAHP, it’s about a dishonest and untrustworthy spouse. I represented a woman whose husband had a portion of his salary automatically deposited in a savings account she knew nothing about. He also maxed out his employee contributions to retirement and 401K, again without her knowledge. The rest of his paycheck was deposited into the joint account and he told her that was all he was making. So she was working full time and taking on a ridiculous amount of overtime in order to cover bills. Once we got her fair share back and established child support on his true salary, she was able cut her hours and still keep the family home.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
For those of us who didn't know (like me), ACH deposits, or Automated Clearing House deposits, are electronic payments made directly into your bank account through a nationwide network of financial institutions. More casually referred to as direct deposits.
Aileen Grist 1 month ago
In the late 70s when I was married the first time, the place my husband, his father and sister all worked at gave out wage envelopes with the amounts written on in pencil, so that they could be rubbed out and changed. When his fatheer died his mum was amazed at how much he earned.
KatWitch57 1 month ago (edited)
In the UK Child Benefit was always paid to the mother. It was silently acknowledged that men would not tell their wives anything about their income and children needed to be protected financially.
#20
This happened about a decade ago. Hanging with friends around a Bon-fire when I drunkenly decide to be jealous and obnoxious towards my bf of that time. We get into a huge fight bc I'm being really jealous about one of his coworkers and will not back down from my argument that he should not have her phone number in his contact book (oh young stupid love). Well, I storm off into the woods cursing, he is following, while everyone else is by the fire drinking. In the middle of him trying to console me, we hear a loud POP sound and people screaming, panicking. We run back to the fire and some people are screaming, some are crying and some are just looking dumbfounded. Turns out, one of the guys put a huge branch on top of the fire and was standing and then jumping on this branch to break it. Well, it broke, he fell into the fire and covered everyone with hot coal and molten plastic (from his clothes)! Everyone around yhe fire was burned in some way or another. And he was covered in first and second degree burns on his back am legs. My sister had burns all the way up the front of her legs to her lower thigh and her left foot has a scar where a coal must have set and burned her. Pretty much everyone at the party was burned besides my boyfriend and myself.
**TLDR: My drunken jealousy saved me and my boyfriend from possibly getting burned during a party**.
amy lee 1 month ago
What an idiot. I'm sorry everyone else had to suffer from him being an idiot
ILoveMySon 4 weeks ago (edited)
A girl purposely threw a can of HAIRSPRAY in a bon fire when I was a teen. A poor girl suffered third degree facial burns.
Kerry Borthwick 1 month ago
It was a mistake jesus Christ have u ever accidentally done something stupid that unintentionally caused harm
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#21
Back in high school our cell phones were suppose to be turned off and put away in our locker. This emo girl decided "to pass out" in the washroom..that was like the third time she pulled that stunt to get out of class..ambulance and all..after she was found the teacher ran back to the class and asked if anyone had a cell phone on them to call 911 and that we would not get in trouble..out of 15 girls 10 of them pulled their cells outta their pockets.
Papa 1 month ago
Back in the 70's it wasn't unusual for a teacher to need a knife for something, and ask if anyone had one, and several of the boys would offer theirs. We weren't supposed to have them, but no one seemed to care.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
I taught in a super rural school district and we had an adjustment to the " no weapon policy" that if it was in a pocket and not used as a threat that knives were " tools" because so so many farm kids would work before school and forget the dropped their work knife in their pocket. Would have had to suspend practically the whole school on the regular if we had hard core enforced that.
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I'm so old, these techie things weren't even an issue when I was in college.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
If it happened repeatedly and she never had medical issues I think it's reasonable to say she was doing it to get out of class.
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#22
I was playing video games in the back of my world history class in 10th grade, I hear the teacher call my name, so I walk up and hand them my ds. They were asking me for field trip money I said I'd bring that day. We just had a staring contest for a minute before I said "wait. Here's the money.".
#23
That reminded me of a day in my seventh grade English class. Someone made an envelope out of a page of paper, wrote take one on it, and put sticks of gum in it. It was passed around to the entire class.
The teacher saw a person or two chewing gum, and said something to the effect of "You guys know it's against school policy. Throw the gum out now and avoid trouble." The entire class gets up and tosses out their gum. The teacher was very surprised. The look on her face was priceless.
Rinso The Red 1 month ago
If it helps, people often confuse "priceless" (having not price, in the sense of being beyond price) with "worthless" (having no worth).
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I was sitting in a class at boot camp when the company commander (CC) snuck in and started trying to catch someone doing something stupid.
I had noticed him, and was starting to doze off. The CC slammed his fist down on the desk of the guy behind me and yelled, "WAKE THE HELL UP!!"
Three people, myself included, bolted straight up and apologized. We all had to pull double watch for two nights =-/.
Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
Those classes were hell. Seems like they should’ve been heaven. Chairs, fans, open windows, cool, etc. But it was a trap as we were so exhausted that as soon as we’d stop moving, we’d fall asleep
Billie Jackson 1 month ago
Women's dorm, basic training: We had a big inspection coming the next morning. At lights out, one girl was still arranging her shoes. The dorm guard headed her way, so she mumbled something, then said "Amen" before hopping into bed. Didn't get in trouble.
#25
I once worked for a single owner business where the owner was a complete jerk. That wasn’t too bad, I didn’t mind him being a total jerk. He’d often make fun of people and I’d laugh with him. But then he screwed me on a commissions check. He said that since he was the guy who introduced me to the client I didn’t deserve the commission.
So I started stealing from him. From *him* not the business. He was the kind of guy that kept a ton of personal things at work. So I started taking a cigar or three here, a bottle of booze there. He’d catch it and get pissed off and would rant at me and then be a bigger jerk to everyone.
Then, one time, he was a total jerk and was threatening to dock everyone’s pay for it. That night I took it all. All his booze, all his cigars. His diamond watch, a 1911 with two mags he had in his desk. And more things I can’t remember. I think I even took the roll away desk and the his chair as well as the video camera he has on his bookshelf to film his room.
Next day he sends out a notice to everyone that he knows who had been stealing from the company. He had film. And if they would come forward he’d not have them arrested. Half the office confessed to stealing from the business.
So he bluffed and caught ½ the office.
Tobias Reaper 1 month ago (edited)
and the award for the thing that didn't happen the most goes to
Geoffrey Scott 1 month ago
Managers being 'rough and tough': Worked for an auto parts mfg. We worked 7 day weeks, occasionally 12 hr shifts and when housekeeping was done and all scrap rework done we had several chairs on the line we sat in if there was a gap in the paint line due to no stock, etc. One day we came in and all chairs were gone, "we can't have you guys just sitting around". So a couple co-workers and I went upstairs to the office when they were at a meeting up front and removed every single chair from the desks(about 4), put 'em on a pallet and put them on the highest rack in the warehouse. LOTSA drama over that. Once our chairs returned theirs miraculously reappeared. (Union shop)
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Tobias Reaper 1 month ago
they should change the title of this to that happened because these totally happened and are not made up
BrunoVI 1 month ago
And yet, they're all so petty and mundane. I've got a few to tell but wouldn't for privacy reasons, but these make me feel like I'm Forrest Gump by comparison.
Load More Replies... Sarah 1 month ago
Wish English trains did this. After an injury I commuted first class. I knew there were people taking up first class seats who didn’t have one. Or the classic.. those who are standing.. when train takes off, notice there’s a spare first class seat in carriage and just comes in and sits down. It really angers me
Tobias Reaper 1 month ago
they should change the title of this to that happened because these totally happened and are not made up
BrunoVI 1 month ago
And yet, they're all so petty and mundane. I've got a few to tell but wouldn't for privacy reasons, but these make me feel like I'm Forrest Gump by comparison.
Load More Replies... Sarah 1 month ago
Wish English trains did this. After an injury I commuted first class. I knew there were people taking up first class seats who didn’t have one. Or the classic.. those who are standing.. when train takes off, notice there’s a spare first class seat in carriage and just comes in and sits down. It really angers me
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