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“I Really Wish I Was Making This Up”: 44 Unbelievable Moments That Made People Question Reality
As much as we value individuality, some situations feel so clear-cut that it seems only a lunatic could have a different take on them. But, for better and oftentimes worse, people are full of surprises.
So when a Reddit user asked the internet to share the weirdest moment during which everyone else around them acted like it was normal, thousands replied.
From family dinners and pool parties to college classes and work meetings, I understand that being part of a community means accepting opposing opinions, but come on!
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#1
Got in the bus in South London and some dude dressed up like a 1990s wizard wearing a starry cape, gown, hat AND had a cat riding his shoulders got on the bus. He waved his wand over the Oyster card reader, it bleeped and he sat down. This dude had disassembled an oyster card, got the chip and inserted it into a wand!! Apparently he's quite well known around there and that's his normal outfit, yes the cat normally rides on his shoulders on the public transport and in the shops.
kissmychakram 1 month ago
He sounds fabulous. Would love to know where in South London this Wizard rides the bus.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 1 month ago (edited)
He used to hang around Sutton town centre. This was 20 years ago. The robe was velvet. And yes, it was a real life black cat. :)
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Ace 1 month ago
The Oyster card just contains an rfid chip, quite straightforward to cut it out and put it in an object of your choice.
amy lee 1 month ago
Shhhh. Let me believe there's a wizard wondering around and I will bump into him on the tube.
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Saltypepper 1 month ago
Sounds like bob ,bob would ride everywhere on his humans shoulders. Watch a street cat named Bob, if you wanna know the story ,it's a true story.
Joy 4 weeks ago
Bob passed away but is immortalised in bronze in Islington Green Park in London.
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Karl der Große 1 month ago
There used to be a guy who hung around Telegraph Ave / UC Berkeley who wore all black, including a type of peaked hat and flowing robes. He had a raven who sat on his shoulder. It was 100% legit of a costume - it looked tailored and not handmade. Still the coolest.
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#2
We have a local superhero in our town. Polarman.
Goes around dressed in full costume all the time and helps out people around town. Really nice guy. I think he's on disability or something so he can't work but he still wants to make the world a better place.
The best part is new people seeing him for the first time and everybody else just being like "oh that's just Polarman".
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
If his secret sexual identity is leaked, then he'll be know as bi Polarman
#3
Panama papers. The elite 1% were all hiding their money and had 1000s I’d high ranking officials names on it. The news ran with is for one day and then dropped it.
Skogsrået 1 month ago (edited)
Cause the rich elite decided to bury this along with the poor reporter that was murdereɗ for exposing them.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
This really annoys me!! We’re constantly being told about scroungers living off social security and benefit cheats etc, but these folks with more money than they know what to do with get away with it precisely because they are so rich and powerful. I’m much less inclined to begrudge someone poor £100 they’re not strictly entitled to than the millions each of these was avoiding paying in taxes.
UKDeek 1 month ago
This is why taxing the ultra wealthy will never work, because there are so many mechanisms now for the ultra wealthy to hide their income from governments.
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Lorraine R 3 weeks ago (edited)
Luigi is a mur derer and a coward. Didn't even confront the man, just snuck up and shot him in the back. Then he ran away. No principles or courage at all, just a sneak with a handgun.
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The divide we see in these stories can be seen on a broader level, too. For example, an analysis of over 13,000 Britons found that most of them feel disconnected from society.
The results paint a picture of growing skepticism and mistrust, particularly among younger people. The research found that only 7% of 18–24-year-olds think "most people can be trusted," compared to 21% of those aged 75 and older.
Financial insecurity was also one of the strongest predictors — among those with an income under £10,000 ($13,000) per year, 63.5% said they felt disconnected from the society around them.
#4
Out at a restaurant with my wife and her family.
My mother in law starts choking on her food. No one does anything. So I go to help. Did basic first aid years ago.
5 hits to centre of back. Nothing. She is now foaming at the mouth.
Go to try Heimlich maneuver, on third thrust this huge lump of lamb comes up and lands in her plate.
Her husband, son and other daughter look at me, say nothing and carry on eating their food.
I sit down look at my wife and feel like I am in alternative reality. Did that just happen? Was it really that inconsequential?
To this day only my wife acknowledges what happened and that I saved her mum's life in the middle of a busy restaurant.
I twitch when I think about it still years later.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
Well done to you for stepping up. Very few people that die of choking needed to.
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
A lot of people die because they run out of the room or to the restroom. Don't die of embarrassment.
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Robert T 1 month ago
Plot twist: The rest of the family had been waiting years for this to happen and now despise you for saving her!
LookASquirrel 1 month ago
I just texted my mom to remind her that she saved her niece at a BBQ when she was around 12 choking on a piece of chicken. this would be the 80's so everyone was sitting around the fire in lawn chairs, you know the ones, and she suddenly jumps up and starts stomping her feet in place with her hands on her neck/chest. My grandpa noticed first but wasn't as fast as my skinny mom who was at least 10 feet away. Luckily my mom worked for Head Start (pre school) so had extensive CPR training. It was so scary and took seconds that seemed like forever to register but we sure didn't just go back to business as usual.
Esther Tan 1 month ago
Only his wife acklowledges what happened? What about the mom? Did the mom say nothing too? He is very descriptive with the mom when she was choking, but he's not telling anything about the mom after he supposedly "saved" her. I think there's more to this story.
#5
The president of the Untied States says some really awful [stuff] and yet we all keep on keeping on like this is normal. Any other president would be crucified for many things, but here we have actual hateful speech and it's just swept under the rug after a "Oops he did it again" news cycle.
Patricia Steward 1 month ago
Not really, from what I've read. There were shenanigans.
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Skogsrået 1 month ago
He is normalising hate, hate speach and violence against anyone that is against him or what he does.
Ozymandias73 1 month ago
I just don't understand the thought processes of those that "follow" him. I say follow b/c it's pretty much reached cult status. He had no previous government background, is dumb as a box of bricks, has absolutely no tact or public manners, and the list goes on as how much an insufferable human he is but yet, so many people practically worship him. It's baffling .And then, elected him AGAIN!!
Michael Largey 1 month ago
He validates the bigotry, their ignorance, and their shallowness. That's all they need or want.
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Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
I found out how he does it... they say it would be WORSE if someone else was president. My MAGA 88+ father in law got red faced mad when saying the other choices would destroy America as if it wasnt already happening. The religious people use hate and fear and terrifying with unknowns.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Sometimes I feel like the little boy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
arthbach 1 month ago
Some of us as shouting, "What?! You are going to allow your elected leader to talk and behave in this way?! Are you crazy? Do you actually believe what he is saying is good and true?!"
Upstaged75 1 month ago
Believe me, most of us are shouting the same thing. Unfortunately his idiot followers seem to be able to shout louder for some reason. He's disgusting and I'm ashamed to live in a country like this right now.
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Jane Doe-Doe 1 month ago
Also, can you imagine any other world leader tweeting the same nonsense as he does? , utter garbage
Dave Baxter 1 month ago
It was destined to go horribly wrong when we started electing politicians for their personalities, & ignored their weak & confusing grasp of what politics actually entails!
#6
There was a gas leak in the building where my first morning college class was held. The class still met. There was still a strong gas smell, so I questioned the safety of the situation. The teacher mocked me for being concerned and sarcastically said that he wouldn't take attendance if anyone wanted to leave. I was the only one who did. I had to text my husband to confirm that I was being reasonable.
Robert T 1 month ago
The reason they put scent in gas is so you can smell it because it is so ****ing dangerous!
Marianne 1 month ago
Yeah, just like when there's a fire alarm in our office building, the first thing that most colleagues do is discuss if we should evacuate or not. You can do as you like, but I'm off, gooybye!
Teresa Spanics 3 weeks ago
I would do the same thing in any building regardless if I worked there or not!
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Jan Rosier 1 month ago
Had the same happening. Strong diesel smell all over the school (heating system by fuel oil, over 30 years ago, something went wrong with delivery), still everyone called me silly to leave. 20 minutes later and the rest of the school came running out, gagging, coughing, nauseous.
Fire Singer 1 month ago
Never question your instincts when it comes to safety. I came home once to my lights on and didn't remember leaving them on when I left. Called my dad and uncle to come check things out before I went inside. I forgot my light was on a timer so it ended up being nothing but I NEVER regretted being safe before being concerned about being called silly or scared.
Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 1 month ago (edited)
As a retired Fire Captain, if I had responded to that location, and found that situation, me, the professor, and the dean, would have had a "Come to (insert deity of choice" meeting". And then, I would have had the Fire Marshal contact them to schedule monthly "safety evacuation drills". Until they got the point.
Joe Russo 1 month ago
That's asinine. I worked for a few years at a lab in a university. We smelled a strong gas leak, ran through the whole floor yelling at people to evacuate, and got the hell out. A truck backed into a gas line, and it was incredibly dangerous that this happened next to the lab. They put in huge steel and cement barriers the next day. Run ffs.
Americans also trust each other less than they did a few decades ago. According to the Pew Research Center, the share of adults who say “most people can be trusted” declined in the country from 46 % in 1972 to 34 % in 2018, and an identical 34 % said the same in 2023–24.
This matters because levels of social trust seem to go hand in hand with many features of a healthy society, creating a "virtuous circle."
Trust makes it easier for people to work together to solve problems. It benefits the economy because it's related to confidence that other people will respect contracts, repay loans, and behave honestly. Plus, higher trust is associated with better-functioning democratic institutions.
#7
I remember being invited to a pool party in the fourth grade. I having a grand time until I went in the deep side and started drowning. I remember everyone staring at me while I was screaming and flailing my arms. My dad was the only one who jump inside to save me.
Long story short...I hate people.
NetworkMan 1 month ago
It's this new media generation, too. I say that as part of that generation, but the number of people who see something bad happening and pull their phone out to start recording is insane now. Get your phone out and call for help, not record someone's worst moments.
CP 1 month ago
This isn't anything more than humans being humans. This person assumes everyone recognized a person was drowning and all decided to not help. The one thing everyone says about drowning is that it is hard to recognize. A person may feel like they are flailing their arms and being obvious when it doesn't look the same from an outside perspective.
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Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Drowning doesn't look like you think it looks. Someone who has the energy to scream and lift their arms above the water isn't drowning, they're panicking. Drowning is quiet and scarily fast.
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
A young boy died of drowning in the pool of a display home in Australia two days ago. He managed to climb the fence and drown, before his dad even had time to react.
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Biofish23 1 month ago
Drowning people can't scream. I point this out not to discredit OPs story, I believe this child got scared in a pool and yelled for help, but because people need to realize drowning is silent. If someone can yell, they can breathe,and although they might be in distress, and in danger of drowning when they tire out, they are NOT drowning. People who are actively drowning are silent because they can't get a full breath, there is also usually very little splashing.
Fire Singer 1 month ago
I will never forget being in a pool at a hotel with my mom, I was 38 years old so not a kid. But we were just chatting and next thing I know a woman near us pulls this toddler up out of the water and the poor kid is spitting and hacking and the woman is asking for the kids mom as it wasn't her child. The mom came over and took the kid and all was fine, but it was so quiet and no one knew this poor kid was drowning except thankfully that woman was right there to see it. I never even knew it was happening.
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TiNaBoNiNa 1 month ago
Humans have 3 reactions: fight, flight, or freeze. While everyone else froze, OP's Dad reacted with fight.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
If your child doesn't know how to swim, you warn him about dangers like the deep end in advance and even then monitor him every second he's in the pool.
Ashtophet 1 month ago
I was never more alert than when my kids were in a pool or the ocean.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Sometimes people freeze up, not believing this is really happening. I tend to freeze up when something unexpected happens.
#8
In India, they regularly marry girls forcibly to someone whom they don't want to be married to. And everyone is like, this is how society works.
CP 1 month ago
Reminds me of a commenter on here that said "EVERY marriage is worth saving". They even capitalized the word "every"
Nova Rook 1 month ago
Do the men want the marriages or are they also pushed into it? Can the male just say no to the families?
Laserleader 1 month ago
Culturally, the men dont always want it either. But due to Caste and wealth, the families have to make sure they stay pure and inbreeding happens far more than people admit
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 1 month ago
One of the saddest things is that India is FAR from the only place this happens. It wasn't that many years ago that it happened in the US and UK. Arranged marriages have been with us since marriage was invented. Long enough - long enough to get rid of this sexist, perverted practice everywhere.
Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
To be fair, that's how it was in high society in a lot of Europe until the 20th century.
Novlette Williams 1 month ago
To this day. Happens more in European nations that India. Look at the royal families of Europe.
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Liklik Snek 1 month ago
It always baffles me how much we accept just because "everyone does it".
Toika Gao 1 month ago (edited)
And they consider some people "untouchable" becauset the don't originate from some stupid deity. But some westerners still flock to India to soak in their "wisdom".
Roxanne D'souza 4 weeks ago
To be fair, not all of us Indians believe in the caste system. It's a very specific group of people within a certain religious group. I have friends whose ancestors definitely have had these beliefs and I'm not even Hindu, and we get along in the normal manner possible. As an example, my aunt married into a family that was strictly vegetarian and her MIL would give us separate utensils and cutlery because she didn't want our "meat cooties" or whatever. Meanwhile, her adult son (my uncle) would come over and eat meat at our place without his parent's knowledge. We all respected the rules of their home though.
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Pretty much every time I see anyone else parent. They ignore bad behavior when it's cute, and reinforce it by laughing. It blows my mind. This is why my two nephews (and soon my niece) all need speech therapy. Their mom leaves them with their grandparents who think it's just ADORABLE that they say "My need to go bafroom." So they giggle and applaud this life changing developmental issue which could have been fixed with mild correction and actual education.
The oldest one is so tired of being teased for it, and so frustrated by being unable to correct it that he now has anger issues and is in 3 kinds of counseling a week.
All because you thought it was cute.
Luke Branwen 1 month ago
I have more of the opposite experiences. A child does something innocent, mildly annoying at most, then the parent turns to them and goes "Stop doing that or I'll beat you / slap you / [any other threat of physical violence]" with the most hateful, exasperated expression on their face. Do these people even LIKE their kids, or did they multiply only to check a box on some imaginary "societal expectations bucket list"?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Extremes are not good. Moderation is a thing.
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Angela Corvaia 1 month ago
I was lucky to have speech therapy as a child. I said ‘Hangabuggas’ for handburger and my little child mind could not hear the difference. Thank you for helping a little 6 year old. Speech therapy is life changing.
Red5 3 weeks ago
Same for me but work different words. I had a lot of problems with S's, along other things. A school year with speech therapy one a week and while I still sometimes get my tongue twisted up on things, it really made a huge difference. Now I actually use my voice for my career so maybe even bigger than I've thought about before today.
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Tyke 1 month ago
I correct my son... but just couldn't when he called eye lids "eye lips"... I started calling them that too instead
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
Thanks to my youngest grandson, stomach pain will forever be a belly lake.
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I would go off on anyone who did that by asking them if they have the money to pay for the speech therapy and anger management therapy that the child/children will need when they start school!
Earonn - 1 month ago
but rewarding it with laughter would eliminate the motivation to correct. Don't tell me that self motivation is always stronger, because if that was true, we wouldn't have any addicts.
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#10
There's a guy who rides a motorized bicycle through my neighborhood dressed like a circus ringmaster. It has been going on for 6 weeks now.
Not a motorcycle or a moped, a bicycle with pedals with a 2-stroke engine attached. Goes around 29 mph? It is loud. I can hear him coming for a few minutes, so at least 2 miles of sound carry.
Black tailcoat. Top hat. Puffy white shirt. Scarlet vest. Maroon and gold vertically striped slacks. One time I saw him check the time on a gold pocket watch. Another he puffed on a corn cob pipe.
Every morning at 7:15 he is headed north, every night at 9:45 south. 7 days a week.
I think, "where is he going dressed like that with such punctuality?" "Surely nowhere around here would allow him to dress like that, and he has no backpack, pannier, or other means of transporting a wardrobe change." "He must work 3rd shift, south of town from 10-7, that's 8 hours and an hour lunch." "But 7 days a week?"
I tried following him at night, because I assumed he was heading to work, and following him home would have been creepier than the already super creepy following to work. I had to do it in a car because like I said, he can book it on that motorized bike. I lost him in 2 turns. He runs stop signs, I don't.
The next night I was waiting in my car ready to go. I had 'The more you ignore me the closer I get' by Morrissey cued up. He was late. Super late. Rounding 10PM now. Then I see his flashy white headlight. He must have ran out of gas; he is pedalling, but I was so amped i tried anyways. He was moving at around 6 or 7 mph. I couldn't stay behind him, but I know my every route in, out, and through my neighborhood, I've lived here for 21 years and run 3x a week, so I'm like an atlas of this block. I lost him at around 5 turns. To be fair he saw me about 8 times, he may have gotten scared I was stalking him, probably because I was.
But last night, oh last night, I followed him the whole time. He was back to motor power, and ran every stop sign and red light on the way. I was catching up to him slowly at 30, so that's why i assume he is going 29. He can't lose me now. I have his scent. This is it. I will finally know. After 6 weeks closure.
Anyways he works at Walmart.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Yeah, working at Walmart would obviously be the creepy part.
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Parmeisan 4 weeks ago
It would be more effective, too. Does he actually work at Wal-mart, or did he just stop there to buy something on his way home from work? Or he went to a public place to lose the stalker. He probably works at a circus or theatre or museum or something where he needs to be in-character all day and why not just wear your uniform to travel. This solved nothing AND is gross behaviour.
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 1 month ago
Reminds me of a dude I've seen at my university a few times who dressed like a noir fantasy villain - dramatic black coat, white shirt, top hat, and a cane with a raven skull at the top. What a madman. I genuinely love weird people (mainly because I'm very weird myself but I don't have the confidence to be visibly extravagant)
Ashtophet 1 month ago
I wish I had been visibly extravagant more often when I was younger!
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Glen Ellyn 1 month ago
Reminds me of a former neighbor I called "pajama man." Nearly every day he sat outside on his front step with his "Big Gulp" drink and cigar, wearing his pajamas and slippers. But the most memorable moment is the day I saw him riding his bicycle, in his pajamas, of course, while holding a nake-d inflatable doll under his arm.
Brian Droste 1 month ago
Could he be mentally challenged where he can ride a motorized bike but can't drive a car? Plus he could really like circuses so he dresses up as a Ringmaster?
#11
Was at a staff meeting where the president of our company casually mentioned that she spits on her neighbors dogs when she walks past them. No one reacted, not even a glimmer of emotion on anyone's face. Thought I must have misheard or was going crazy until later in the day when a colleague privately brought it up to me and mentioned how insane it was.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
Sometimes when people say things for shock value just ignoring it is the best choice
Earonn - 1 month ago
If the president of a company says things for shock value, it should be mentioned. In the form of "do you have a mental breakdown right now or why are you saying this?"
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou
LookASquirrel 1 month ago
I'm an asśhole with no filter. I've been fired for less. I would have questioned her. Ask my husband. I have no filter sometimes and no tolerance for animal a***e or a***e of vulnerable people/children. This is how people like Trumpstein get into power.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Good for you! We need more people keeping the åssholes in check.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
Find another job. Whether it’s true or whether that person just made it up for shock value—I wouldn’t want to work for someone like that.
Joy 4 weeks ago
I was in a Teams mtg when a colleague, a senior consultant, started talking about something or other and started to cry. On camera. In front of everyone. Of course we did absolutely nothing and when she stopped, we continued the meeting without even referring to it or asking if she was OK. Odd doesn't even cover it. I couldn't get it out of my mind. Did this person really breakdown on camera? Yes they did. The only person who privately acknowledged this W*F moment was another colleague who checked with me that she hadn't imagined it. Humans at work are weird.
#12
I went to the cliffs of moher in Ireland on a tour bus and three different guides warned us not to climb onto the ledges because those cliffs often have “shelves” or edges that have no support to them.
We get off the bus and there are signs everywhere saying not to climb onto the edge. The wind is so strong I’m standing at an angle. What do my peers do?? They get on the cliff for a picture.
Girl had the gal to ask me if I was afraid of heights and then claimed not to have notice all the signs.
So many tourists have died for similar reasons but I was the only one who was worried.
Janissary35680 1 month ago
I could not get within ten meters of that edge under any circumstances. My legs would simply refuse to move.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
This is known as survival instinct. Good choice on your legs part. Honestly the number of idiot tourists who end up at the bottom of those cliffs really speaks to Darwin's accuracy
Load More Replies... Hugo 1 month ago
Those paths look dangerously close to the edge. I'm sure bits of cliff crumble away from time to time.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 month ago
Those paths were probably a few hundred meters from the edge at one time!
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Julie Thigpen 1 month ago
Been to the cliffs of Moher way before the advent of smartphones and influencers. No one was climbing on the cliff’s edge for pics back then. It seems with the evolution of “internet clout”, people have lost their d****d sense of self-preservation for pics and upvotes.
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
It's like the giant canyon high and two and a half feet wide Crack at the Grand Canyon. Everyone stops over or around it, knowing that falling into it would be death. No signs at the time, but later they gated the area off.
Aileen Grist 3 weeks ago
We live near Beachy Head in the UK - same thing - don't go near the edge, these are chalk cliffs and are nice an white because the edge drops off regularly. Then there's he people who go there to jump off too.
#13
I was at a bakery on a random weekday afternoon when about 20 pirates (Like full on puffy shirts, eye patches, bandanas, weapons. I'm not exaggerating here, full on pirates) walk in. The swords and daggers all stayed sheathed and they all ordered some food and coffee in full on pirate-talk and then left. After they all cleared out, everyone else just kind of shrugged and went about their day. It wasn't "Talk like a Pirate" Day. I assumed they were cosplayers/LARPers but it was a weekday around 3pm. Pirates gotta eat too, I guess?
Bill Swallow 1 month ago
A simple "Ahoy, mateys! What be the occasion?" would probably have gotten an enthusiastic answer.
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 1 month ago
There's one small local ComicCon-like convention where I live. The venue is near a shopping mall and in the afternoon that day, most of the attendees go to the mall to grab something to eat. I always imagine how those people feel who have no idea that con is taking place, suddenly surrounded by anime characters, Jedi knights, furries, etc. 😅
Lila Allen 1 month ago
You should be at Dragon Con in Atlanta. Watching the few " normal" hotel guest wander amongst the 40,000 of us who are cosplaying is epically hilarious. In 2009 there was a wedding party who was, presumably, out of state. They were mildly alarmed the entire 3 days each time I'd see them out in the common areas.
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Cindy Brick 1 month ago
If there was a local Renaissance Festival, they may have been coming from there... we have all sorts of odd creatures wandering around when the Ren Fest is going on.
Roni Stone 1 month ago
If it was around the Tampa, FL area, it was probably Gasparilla, our wonderful pirate "invasion". Great fun and literally lasts for days. Groups of pirates and wenches wandering around in stores and restaurants. And a few parrots on the shoulder, too. Aaargh!
Earonn - 1 month ago
Larps are often running longer than just for the weekend. Honestly, I would find that slighly remarkable, but not crazy. By now we should know what larpers are.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 month ago
Maybe Captain Blackbeard and crew were tired of hardtack and rum and decided to dock for some good food and coffee before returning to plundering the Seven Seas...?
Huddo's sister 3 weeks ago
This reminds me of one of our end of school dress up days, the last week of year 12. We had an '80s' day and two of my friends came dressed in 1880s costumes. I don't think one person acknowledged that they were dressed completely different to everyone else. It was just like 'well that's typical behaviour for them'.
#14
I was deep in a line at cedar point and a girl passed out and started seizing. Everyone, including her friends, just looked at her. I crawled under the lanes to get to her and climbed up and yelled for the new people joining the line to go back out to the front and tell a staff member we had a medical emergency. They just started at me. I was finally yelling “this is not a joke get help!!” and they eventually turned back. Everyone just stood around nonplussed. EMTs finally arrived. I feel like everyone was too afraid to do anything out of embarrassment and not wanting to “make a big deal” or something? Dunno. She had heat stoke, btw.
Anonymouse 1 month ago
I have heard that you should NEVER say, someone get help, instead say you in the red shirt - call 911, you in the blue dress notify the site emergency crew, if you specify someone they generally help - this avoids the bystander effect. Like I will remember this in an emergency, lol
Lila Allen 1 month ago
100% correct. Give specific jobs because otherwise each person will think another is doing it
Load More Replies... Verena 1 month ago
For all US-readers: In Europe, always call the emergency service with 112 in case of severe health problem. They are no commercial business and part of the health service. Costs are covered by monthly fees every citizen pays and taxes. However, be sure to have a travel health insurance in case expensive transportation is necessary. For locals transportation by helicopter or plane are included, for tourists often not.
Erin Van Atten 4 weeks ago
Thank you for being so clear in your reaction to this post!
Load More Replies... Verena 1 month ago
Always pick one person in a crowd, point at that person and tell them to call. If seizure means epileptic episode, then you cannot do much. Give the person space, don't hold them down, do not put anyting their mouth. If seizure means anything else, check breathing and heartbeat. Start reanimation and point at a person to go look for an AED. In Europe, put the phone on speaker, the 112-person will help you an and talk you through it. Just back from my yearly company EMT training.
Pferdchen 4 weeks ago
For the European Pandas: Cedar Point is one of the top amusement parks in the world and has 18 roller coasters. They also have a high speed carousel, which we learned the hard way. There was no line. We rushed past the warning sign without reading it. We were the only ones on it. I think the operator heard us laughing about how tame it was and really let it loose - we were literally hanging on for dear life 🤣 Subsequent rides were fun but no comparison to that first ride.
Jane Doe-Doe 1 month ago
Yes bystander effect, I read that if you need help for any serious reason don’t just shout ‘ help me’ , point to someone and shout, for example, ‘ you in the blue coat call the police now’ you are more likely to get a reaction
Cla Ida 3 weeks ago
Tbh I had a friend in uni who often had seizures, we knew about it, knew it was fine and would only last a few minutes, so after the first few and following his explanations and instructions we just kept acting like nothing had happened. It felt weird at first but he insisted it was just part of his life and nothing bad ever happened. If the friends didn't react, I think it might be due to something like this -however here it was an awful coincidence.
#15
I was on vacation in Spain and my husband and I were sitting outside eating lunch. A lady was crossing the street and a motorbike hit her. The lady HUNG ON TO THE FRONT OF THE BIKE like a ninja.
The driver slowed down, shoved her off, and kept going like nothing happened.
We went over to make sure she was ok. She was fine, just shaken up. I mean obviously. We couldn’t believe the guy left like that.
#16
Circa 2010.
At the cafeteria of a very large office building, I was about to put a bagel in the conveyor toaster oven when I noticed other people had shoved their muffins in there and got them stuck.
Then the muffins caught on fire.
The people responsible for the muffin-fire were smiling and laughing at the smoke and flames. I jumped in to pull the electrical cord and blow out the fire. An audible “awww!!” came from the disappointed muffin crowd.
I have brought up this anecdote in job interviews to differentiate myself from other candidates (whom may be of the muffin-fire mindset). Seems to work.
Bill Swallow 1 month ago
... I see what you did there. Well done. (VERY well done, if they caught fire.)
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
Maybe they were hoping the office would burn down so they could go home?
#17
I heard someone reading the instructions on their microwaveable food say “Pierce film four times with a fork.” Simple enough right? He went on to question if that meant four holes with one prong of the fork or 16 holes all together. A gal interjected that some forks have three prongs and maybe it’s supposed to be 12 holes. The guy said the three prong fork would make bigger holes and maybe the film should be pierced five times with the four-pronged fork. At this point I feel like I’m having a stroke. Then they start looking for two different styles of fork to test the holes they make. I had to leave and find my coworker to ask if I was still alive.
Janissary35680 1 month ago (edited)
This is seriously, seriously funny. I would have a hard time keeping from making some completely off-the-wall suggestion like "What if we used a pitchfork?" just to see where it would go.😂
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
I know! I was rolling reading this one, having known some people who were just that literal.
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Brian Droste 1 month ago
I eat a lot of TV dinners. The instructions say slit film with knife. I usually just poke the film with a fork three or four tmes. If anyone is curious, it is a four pronged fork.,
#18
I used to work as a paramedic.
We got a call at a local hotel lounge and when we got there a large guy was out on the dance floor. No pulse. We started our cardiac arrest protocol right on the dance floor. The music was still blasting, the lights dim and the waitstaff was still serving drinks. It felt like we were part of the floor show.
But it could have been worse, at least they all quit dancing.
UKDeek 1 month ago
I can remember attending a cardiac arrest in a bingo hall many years ago. Whilst me and my crew mate were performing ALS on the unfortunate individual, the manager approached us and asked us to keep quite, as it was a national game that they couldn't pause and it was distracting the other people. He was dismissed curtly, and we ensured we made as much noise as possible after that...
Lila Allen 1 month ago
It does help you keep time when doing CPR. Interestingly Another One Bites the Dust also does
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pam magney 1 month ago
catholic church dduring mass. woman dropped over in the pew the husband calls for help , the paramedics come in and treat the woman and then wheel her away to ambulance. the priest never batted an eye, mass continued . no mention of the ongoing drama. sigh.
Suby 4 weeks ago
When I was a kid, our old priest told us we had to pay attention to mass and nothing would stop it, even if a b**b hit the back of the church. (This was in the 70s when the memory of air raids was still very much alive.) Of course, from that moment on, we kids all waited for a sudden explosion every mass, but we were disappointed.
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Barbara Deskins 4 weeks ago
my dad had a stroke in a bingo hall. People complained that the game was paused
David Sandiford 4 weeks ago
I went to the funeral of a neighbour. We were in the waiting room while the previous funeral took place in the chapel next door. Suddenly we heard a commotion and saw someone lying on the floor of the chapel being given CPR. Our funeral was delayed and the guy didn't make it. We later found out he was a celebrity, the football (soccer for USAliens) player Peter Osgood.
#19
I was in Plano Texas at a 4 way intersection in the right most left turn lane. Driving an 18 wheeler.
I had a bluetooth headset on and my mom was talking , most likely complaining about work.
Across this giant intersection i see a small green Honda approaching from my left making a right hand turn. Really slowly. All of a sudden her drivers side door opens and she rolls out into the crosswalk.
The car continues to slowly roll down hill. Another lady crossing the road rushed over to help the 1st lady up out of the road.
So there stands these 2 tiny Mexican women and me in my truck watching her car slowly and steadily roll down the hill picking up speed.
This white man with a earbuds in his ears and a cord running to what i guess was his cellphone in his pocket slips as pretty as you please into her little green Honda, steered it into a parking lot and then he hopped out and left. Didn't speak a word to either woman just bebopped off into the sunset as if his walk had never been interrupted.
The driver got in her car and left. The other lady walked on.
Mom realized i hadn't been listening and said 'what's going on' and all i could say was 'i don't know what i just watched but man have i got questions.'.
Kelly Scott 1 month ago
That's like when my mom and I had just gotten into my car in the supermarket. The parking lot was on a hill and while we sat there, a cart came rolling by us all the way to the supermarket doors, reversed, rolled partially back up the hill, back down the hill, a little way back up the hill, and finally down to the supermarket where it stopped. I was laughing so hard I couldn't drive for 15 minutes.
Mimi M 1 month ago
Momentum carrying it up and down or defiance of the laws of gravity?
Load More Replies... Verena 1 month ago
In this country the number of traffic incidents has risen due to people blocking their ears and start to live in their heads. Often the eyes as only connection left with the outside world are planted on screens. Not only pedestrians do that, but people operating vehicles, too. I just don't get it. Don't plug your senses when participating in traffic.
Rebecca O’Donnell 3 weeks ago
The description of the people involved just rounded out the story, like a novel.
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Boat tour.
Tiny catamaran 6 hours away from the nearest island (Kauai).
Rain storm.
Enormous waves that were like 3x the size of the boat.
Everyone was cheering for 6 hours like it was a rollercoaster.
I was terrified.
Danger Muppet 1 month ago
This reminds me of The 13th Warrior when they're on a long ship in a storm. The Vikings are all laughing and the Arab is scared and looking at them like they're crazy.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
In fairness it's highly likely the vikings can swim and it didn't occur to them that the Arab had not been taught
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Day Andie 1 month ago
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship."
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I had a boss who committed medical malpractice regularly.
It took me longer than I would have expected of me to realize he didn't just have "a streak of bad luck" but was grossly incompetent.
Nobody else cared really, often not willing to see instances of negligence, wrong decisions being made. Even telling me "he's a nice guy" or everything was fine, I was being unfair/crazy. After living through nearly a year of gaslighting, shrugging and several instances of me trying to convince people above my paygrade to care I did give up mostly and then quit.
He's still working.
EDIT: for all the people saying the same thing in
comments/pm:
Of course I reported him.
Listing American institutions doesn't help much for cases outside of the US.
#22
I went to a wedding the other day where the entire ceremony was spent with the priest talking about how everyone is going to suffer in hell. Everyone else was acting like it was the most romantic thing they’d ever heard, and even like grabbing each other’s hands and cuddling up and smiling at each other, and I was visibly dumbfounded. Is that a normal thing that happens at weddings? Am I the weird one for not being turned on by being told I’m a horrible person that deserves to suffer in hellfire?
Phantom Phoenix 1 month ago
I'm sure the priest thought he was doing his best, sharing the "Good news" to convert the heathens who wouldn't usually enter a church.
Ace 1 month ago
Religious people (some, at least) are weird and completely illogical. You don't believe in the supernatural? Right, what if I threaten you that a supernatural being is going to send you to a supernatural t*****e camp for the rest of eternity? What, you still won't believe in the supernatural?
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🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 1 month ago (edited)
Yes, apparently we all do. But if you pay them lots of money, you get time off the time spent in hell and eventually get into heaven. So remember folks, get lots of money and then give it to the man in the robe. Otherwise it's just a lot of burning and pitchforks for you.
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Went to a wedding at a strict Baptist church. Bride was a very fair-skinned red-head and so she wore a slightly off-white dress (so not blindingly white and a better complement to her fair skin - it was a lovely and modest dress she looked beautiful and appropriate for a conservative church wedding).
Apparently the color of her dress sent the church-ladies tongues clucking and eyebrows were raised - and so the Pastor made what I can only describe as the "Virgin Guarantee Announcement." During the service and to the entire congregation - he said, "I have had many conversations with Beth and Jim, and I can assure you that Beth is as pure as the God-driven snow."
Later, the bride's father gave a toast to the happy couple in which he told the new groom to "Be gentle tonight."
This was in 2010. No one batted an eyelash, I almost threw up my church punch and cookies.
ETA: Couple is married and has four children under the age of 6. I am not judging their religious beliefs - I was raised Catholic - I have just never been to a wedding in which the bride's virginity was validated by the Pastor.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Being as pure as the God-given snow should speak about someone's heart, not their v****a.
Ripley 1 month ago
Absolutely! And no one seems to be questioning whether the groom is "pure". 🤮
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 month ago
Elderly men obsessed with the se.x life of a young woman. Oh, why am I not surprised?
Lila Allen 1 month ago
In this case it was the church LADIES who were gossiping and the pastor spoke out to get them to stop saying bad things about the bride because she wasn't wearing white. It's still horrible, but in a lot of these moments it's the women who are the driving force behind the shaming
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Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
More amusing church story: a recent baptism of my mom's friend's daughter involved the usual: trying to dip the baby's head in the holy water. However, this little kiddo was so clingy to mama that the priest ended up dropping the book in the holy water. I made a little joke about it after.
Anonymouse 1 month ago
Sure beats those cultures where it was either physically checked or consummation witnessed!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
That’s…..not really a good way to look at it.
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My tour group and I were staying over night at a hotel in Singapore Airport earlier this year. In the middle of the night, my roommate and I were awoken to a deafening fire alarm. We instantly bolted out of bed, grabbed passports and wallets (not even our shoes) and sprinted out of our room (on the 6th floor). We located the exit stairwell at the end the hallway and just ran for it. Alarms are still going. In the hallway we passed other tourists who were just standing there. There’s a fire WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? We descended all 6 floors in less than a minute and burst out into the humid Singapore night. It was eerily quiet. We went round to the main entrance, still no one. We went back in the building and talked to the receptionist who seemed completely oblivious to the situation. Oh there was a fire alarm? Oh that’s ok. After ages of waiting it turned out it was a false alarm and someone had been smoking in their room.
Through the whole ordeal I kept thinking of all the stories in the news about people trapped in burning buildings. It was amazing to me how no one seemed to act in a time of danger. We later ran into one tourist couple from our home country who were also outraged at the situation.
Kelly Scott 1 month ago
I worked in Kinko's which was located on the first floor of a nine-story building. The fire alarm went off once and we did our best to get people out of our store. The ones in the computer room absolutely refused to leave and finally my manager told me to let them burn but to get the hell out. When the fire trucks arrived, those guys forcibly lifted these last remaining customers up by their shoulders and threw them out on their asses. No, they did not land gently. But honestly, how dumb can you get? A fire alarm goes off and you just ignore it? I'm amazed some people live to the age they are.
Kit Black 1 month ago
How sad is it that I am surprised to learn that your man acted like a sane human being...
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
There are enough false alarms that people don’t believe it when it’s a real fire. Don’t take that chance!
BookFanatic 1 month ago
I lived in a high rise apartment building for a few months. Fire alarm goes off late one night. I grab my shoes and my bag and hike down 16 flights of stairs in my PJs. Receptionist stares at me and says "what are you doing?" and tells me it's a malfunctioning alarm. How TF was I supposed to know that? Hiked back up 16 flights of stairs because the elevators shut down. Alarm went off twice more that night and I finally just pulled a pillow over my head and ignored it.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 month ago (edited)
Your response was appropriate. Don’t lose it. Protocols work when you follow them all the time.
Teresa Spanics 3 weeks ago
I always evacuate whenever the fire alarm in my building goes off even the posted drills. We had a bad fire in an apartment on the fourth floor of my apartment building that gutted that apartment on March 20th of this year (2025). That was the only time that I had turn around due to thick black smoke getting into the stairway due to someone leaving the fire door open. I was trapped on the fifth floor with an elderly man with a cane and an elderly lady who had a cane with her, but when back to her apartment to get her walker. Once the fire was out, I was able to tell the firefighters about the couple on the fifth floor next to the elevators. When we got out, there was fire trucks from at least three stations, police cars, and ambulances. We all went to four different hospitals depending on bad our conditions were. I spent the night on oxygen along with three others. In the morning, we were released and a taxi took us all back. BC (British Columbia) Housing paid for the taxis.
Kylie 2 weeks ago (edited)
As a hotel night staff I can affirm. As soon as the alarm goes off the phones start ringing at front desk non stop. "There's an alarm do we have to leave the room?" In my head I'm like No, just stay there and fry. Meanwhile I'm trying to do all the protocol stuff which I can't do because the &^%$ phone keeps ringing. Then you have guests asking you to turn off the alarm. Nope, only the Fire brigade can do that AFTER they either have a fire under control OR confirm it's a false alarm. And after all is well you have guests complaining they were 'woken up for nothing". Uhuh.
#25
This was almost a decade ago. Right after we pulled the plug on my dad, I cried. Couldn’t keep it together and practically had to be left alone to get the tears out. I am not a crier so it felt awkward after when I left the room and regrouped with my brother and mother and loved ones who were there. Immediately after the whole day was so freaking surreal. We went out for lunch and everyone else carried on conversations like we weren’t just there to say goodbye to my dad. Like it was any typical day with a typical lunch. My beloved dad is gone, but hey, this sandwich is alright. Did you enjoy your soup? Dessert? Sure, let’s have dessert. When I got home I logged on and played games with my friend states away and just nonchalantly said my dad passed away, and kept on playing. In my head I just wanted to yell at me for going along with the flow. At the same time it dawned on me how the world kept spinning, didn’t stop in that moment or even slowed. The day moved onto the next and to the next like any other. All too surreal even when I think back on it.
Child of the Stars 1 month ago
Grief can make us behave in very odd ways. When my niece was k****d in a car accident, my dad showed absolutely no emotional acknowledgement of it for a long time, but he avoided any mention of it. Then suddenly, about 3 months later, he broke and started sobbing and saying how much he missed her.
Earonn - 1 month ago
The problem is that people watch movies and then expect a certain behaviour from people with grief, trauma, PTSD, autism etc. And woe to whoever doesn't behave like in the movies! They are accused of not grieving, not having been victim of the crime (or wanted it) and all such s**t.
BookFanatic 1 month ago
We stopped for burgers after my dad died, and later that night I went to a movie with some of my aunts and uncles. Grief's a weird thing.
Laserleader 1 month ago
I traveled to help my father with my grandfather's funeral, and the whole time I was dealing with being a mediator between him and my aunt and the pastor I just stayed logical, even at the viewing. Halfway through my speech at the memorial it suddenly hit me and I started crying when I talked about the one time I got to go to the circus with my grandparents.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
My mother died eight years ago, and we had the funeral at her church, then came back to the house with the extended family. I was expected to hang out with everybody, and I was going to; but I stepped out to another room meaning to just sit on the couch and catch my breath. Well, I really conked out and just fell into a sound sleep for two or three hours. I felt embarrassed for doing something so weird.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Shock is a very real thing and it can take a while for the reality to seep in and connect.
Luke Branwen 1 month ago
Different people deal with grief in different ways. When my grandma, who was like a parent to me since I was born, died, I more or less just... carried on with my life. Didn't even cry, but I totally wish I could. It was a very strange period.
Otto Katz 1 month ago (edited)
We were in the limo on the way to the cemetery, practically turning into the drive, when my older sister started talking to my dad, the grieving widower, about the 3 new piglets she just got. About how big and fat they were.... I shot daggers at her, willing her to stop. She didn't. 'thank goodness the drive to the graveside was short. She was dead 3 months later, oveřdose. Whether accidental or intentional we'll never know.
Barbara Deskins 4 weeks ago
I was informed at 11am that my 97 year old mom passed. She was in hospice, so we knew it was coming. I clocked into work at 12.
#26
I lived with my mother for a little bit, we never really saw eye to eye and it was a stressful situation for everyone involved. Anyway, I ended up going to Thanksgiving dinner at my father's and I got a call from my grandmother saying she was kicking me out (she owned the house, but it was just my mother and I), I spent some time couch surfing and living in my car before I got the news my mother [passed away], and for a few months after any time I talked to family they confirmed my mother was dead.
I never went to the funeral, my cousin called me and told me when it was and where but never sent out a paper invite or even a text. But anyway, a year later my grandmother called me to say she missed me and that she wanted me to come to dinner that day. I agreed, and after that she warned me my mother was going to be there just before she hung up. But sure enough she was there, alive and in the flesh. I asked my mother about [it] and without missing a beat she says:
"Arby's has great swiss dip sandwiches".
Any questions were ignored and everyone went on like absolutely nothing happened. I had no texts, no one to admit they lied, and no witnesses other than me because I'm an only child. I'm not entirely unconvinced that I dreamed it all.
Ogidi Girl 2 weeks ago
Wow, this is more plausible to you than the possibility that OP was hallucinating?! The entire family who confirmed it were all narcissistic and in on hurting OP? Just wow.
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#27
One of my coworkers(bob) will regularly pull a knife on another coworker (John). John teases bob and plays it off as a joke when bob takes the knife out.... this happens so regularly that it’s just accepted as normal... it’s starting to feel normal for me too...
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Technically it is called menacing. However, it would require John to press charges and it seems John is not concerned
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#28
I'm starting to wonder if I'm crazy that I think it's a big deal every time news comes out about another data leak or a website or app hoarding and [misusing] our data. No one does anything, stops using anything or even cares an hour later.
We have no privacy anymore and there are no consequences ever for someone mishandling personal information.
But no one seems to care.
And now people seem to be intentionally letting it happen to them. Millions of people have gone out and bought devices to bring in to their home to listen to their private conversations.
Why does no one cares about this?!
Earonn - 1 month ago
I guess, once your health care company loses or sells your data, people feel that the horse has escaped, so no sense in closing the stable door.
Zac 1 month ago
yep. my identity has been "stolen" so many times through so many data leaks that its basically worthless now. like great, you know my bank routing number, go ahead and send me a few dollars that you can steal if it makes you feel good, aint s**t in there for you or me otherwise tho. no point in getting stressed over it when its happened every year for the past 20. my SSN is already being bid on on the black market and s***s going for cheap so why should i care if it gets stolen again?
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Billo66 1 month ago
Steal my identity? Boom! Now you're on disability with cancer and 7 cents in the bank. You also live in your parents basement. Welcome to America!
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Yeah if someone steals my identity good luck to them
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
If something happens enough times, people start to think it’s normal and no big deal. In the middle ages, there were frequent public éxécutions, and decapitated heads would be put on display. Dozens of them. And people thought that was normal.
Urbangirlatl 1 month ago
We care, but we also feel powerless to do anything about it, so there is no point getting wound up.
Angela Corvaia 1 month ago
I am gonna get grief for this if anyone is reading….From The Sound of Music….”What is going to happen is going to happen, just make sure it doesn’t happen to you”. Any comments? Very fatalistic but why?
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago (edited)
There's a certain point when most/everyone's data being available is virtually the same as no-one's data being available, or so it feels. I'm just one in a crowd of billions. And there are such advantages to having devices that for most people they outweigh the relatively small chance that their identity might be stolen, or their mundane conversations used maliciously
Pferdchen 4 weeks ago
I still wonder about Philip Agre, author of an essay titled "Surveillance and Capture." It "deals with privacy and surveillance issues made possible by our constantly evolving technological age." He was also known for his writing about ethics (or lack thereof) in the computer industry. He went off the grid in 2008, though why isn't known. As far as I'm concerned, the technology today is the stuff of a STASI wet dream. I wonder if OP has a cell phone.
Pseudonym For An Author 1 month ago
I learned today that google used Google docs data to train their ai models. Which I s a huge problem for me because THAT IS WHERE I WRITE MY NOVELS and apparently they could steal them if they wanted to??????
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
a) wanting privacy isn’t about having something to hide b) our details are constantly being sold to companies so that no one misses a ‘shoppable moment’, i.e. whenever we’re vulnerable some business can exploit that fact (e.g. Instagram sold the moment a teenage girl posts and then quickly takes down a selfie to a beauty company, there are no depths to which these tech companies will not go)
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A few years back I liked a girl and she invited me to her youth group. Everything was going fine, until the pastor said "Alter call" and then everyone walked up to the front and started rolling around. I really wish I was making this up, there were even people holding down other people as they were shaking/rolling. Afterwards we all went to Pizza Hut and acted as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Billo66 1 month ago (edited)
My Mother is very religious. We went to church constantly. Tent revivals, all that. As a kid we learned about Jesus and christmas and Gods love. When we went into the "grown up" church, suddenly this loving God I learned about wanted to burn me alive forever if I didn't act right. We didn't roll around or anything particularly strange but dämn. That's like tellin a kid to open your gifts right or Santa will come back down the chimney and eat you. I'm agnostic now.
Laserleader 1 month ago
My religious mom used to "speak in tongues" at church and I thought it was real when I discovered she was speaking Swahili and saying things like "god is good" (she's a super white New Yorker who only speaks English). I almost believed it was real, but then she told me she spent four years preparing to be a missionary to Africa, where she learned the phrases.
Fire Singer 1 month ago
A friend of mine told me about going to this church camp as a kid (she later learned it was essentially a cult) and they were taught to speak in tongues. She said people would just start doing it and everyone was in awe and she was confused because she never felt "compelled" to do it. So she had to learn what sounds to make and fake it hoping it would make sense later. It never did.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 1 month ago (edited)
Check out Wikipedia articles "Spirit possession", "Religious ecstạsy", and "Holy laughter". This example is probably connected with the last.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
It's called Holy Rollers. It's part of the evangelical tent revival movement in the US. They truly believe that if you roll on the ground you'll be filled with " the spirit"
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Chich the witch 1 month ago
Thanks but I'll stick with dancing around a bonfire at midnight :)
#30
At a vacation (family+friends and their families), we were chilling by the pool when one of the grown men asked my sister and her friend to take a photo for his son so "he would see what he's missing" (they are quite developed and get a lot of unwanted attention). The problem was that 1. The girls were very uncomfortable 2. They were 16-17.
They were sitting in the pool, telling him that "let us go back to the apartments to get dressed and put some makeup on maybe" and this man said that "nooo, the main focus is not gonna be on your faces". With all the parents sitting around and hearing this. I was the only one who loudly started telling the girls that they are not obliged to do this and kind of got them out of this situation. Later I heard that other parents said >I< made the situation uncomfortable.
Day Andie 1 month ago
Pretty sure the girls were uncomfortable before you spoke up. I'll bet they were glad you did, but too uncomfortable to say so. Most girls in that situation just wish they could instantly become invisible.
Load More Replies... Cla Ida 3 weeks ago
Honestly I wish this person had been there when a creep in a restaurant asked me to straighten my back to see my b***s better when I was 15, and my parents just told me to do what he asked so that he'd get away. It's been 13 years and I still feel sad that my parents let me down like this.
#31
I was in my apartment when a tornado hit the building. Went through a long night of being evacuated to a nearby building that was also hit by the tornado and the ceilings were literally falling down around us and trying to go back to my apartment to get my dog. When law enforcement finally let me go get my dog and car before permanently cutting access the property off, all of my windows were shattered in the car and there was a random cat who had taken shelter in my car.
My phone was [put of battery] and I didn't know how to get to my parent's house (had just recently moved cities) because the highway was cut off due to the damage. I got lost and in the middle of nowhere driving to my parent's I knocked on someone's door to ask for directions, sobbing and covered in blood from the glass in my car.
Finally got to my parent's house that morning, bloody with a random cat and my dog and I was panicking. My dad uncomfortably laughed and said, "wow, that's crazy. Well, see you after work!" Kissed me on the head and left like there was nothing wrong.
I was actually kind of mad the first person I thought I could rely on didn't take me seriously, but then I was questioning if I really was just overreacting. Looking back I think he was just in shock.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 month ago
OP did not keep the cat- they said they think it was a neighbors lost in the chaos and they gave it to a shelter.
Marlene Ricker 3 weeks ago
Your father acted like a complete a$$hole! You had every reason to expect your father to be shaken up by your ordeal! Why is everyone focusing on the cat? That's a nice part of the story but not the most important part!
#32
I was waiting for my Chinese takeout by the door when I heard the whole restaurant go "OOOOOO". Outside was an elderly lady who had fallen and couldn't reach her walker. So I rush outside, grab her walker, and and tell her to take her time, and ask if anything hurts. Then I hear a lot of footsteps running towards us (I'm ground level on my knee talking to her). I look up and see people with blood all over their face and ripped bloody clothes running towards me. I still had her walker and was ready to swing for the fences, LITERALLY zombies running at the old lady on the ground! It happened really fast but they stopped immediately when I sprang up with a weapon. Apparently these high schoolers were filming a zombie AND Zombie Pirates movie, and were hanging out at the 7/11 nearby when they saw her fall.
I legit thought i was in the twilight zone. First I was annoyed that no one inside did anything except stare at her, but its just my luck that I happen to be there and be the one to help, thus getting swarmed by the end of the world. I helped her inside and as quick as the zombies arrived, they were gone, and the rest of the day I was waiting for the hidden camera man to reveal himself. No one acknowledged ANY of it, even though everyone saw it through the windows. No one said anything to me for the next 10 minutes until my food was ready.
I went to the liquor store after.
#33
I don’t know why but I was thinking about this today. There’s a guy at work with a pretty messed up combination of personality traits. He has severe anger issues. He’s an alcoholic. He’s in financial debt because he lost a high paying job years ago but overspent on his house and lifestyle, before landing at my workplace making far less money. Basically walked in the door disgruntled as [hell]. He is extremely possessive of items that are company property, but that he uses in daily tasks. Like, to an obsessive compulsive level. If it’s “his”, then you basically can’t touch it. Stapler, pen, PC, you name it. He creates conflict constantly. Yells at people, swears at people, slams and throws objects around when he’s on a tirade. I’ve had a few run ins with him because we share responsibilities, but everybody in the building at one point or another has had an issue with the guy.
I mean, if you looked up the description on narcissistic personality disorder, he fits it to a clinical level. Dude is just horrible. So life is going along, drama and conflict every day. Different people are having problems with him every day. The usual. And then one of my coworkers tells me in passing, that a couple days prior the guy was joking about bringing a gun in and shooting up the place.
And I was just like........... wait. Say that again. So my coworker tells me the story and how it came up, and the guy said, “maybe I should just bring a gun in and shoot up the place.” And laughed.
I was just in shock. I mean, here’s this guy who has every red flag imaginable, making a verbal statement “joking” about bringing a gun into the workplace and shooting people. How is this not getting reported to HR? Blew my mind. So I sent a super detailed email to my boss basically profiling the guy, actually copy/pasted the FBI’s warning sign list and pointed out all the red flags, and then what he had said. I’m still surprised to this day he wasn’t fired immediately, which might be a bit naive but I sincerely am. Can’t say for sure how the company handled it, but his behavior definitely got toned way down afterwards. Dude is still a powderkeg, but it’s amazing how a person can straighten the appearances of themselves out when they’re at risk of losing something they need. Still blows my mind that everybody was so desensitized to his that they didn’t seem to care about what he said until I reacted to it though.
Kelly Scott 1 month ago
After 9/11, our manager got an envelope with pasted letters on it, just like the memos said not to open. He opened it and white powder fell out. I bet he never opens an envelope like that again. He was whiter than the powder which turned out to be baby powder.
Ogidi Girl 2 weeks ago
"I’m still surprised to this day he wasn’t fired immediately" umm... that may have pushed him over the edge and caused an INCIDENT
#34
At my ex's house. She lives with her parents and 2 other sisters, her son, her brother and the daughter of one of her sisters.
This was a heavy dynamics family and hige fights used to spark over the stupidest things. One night during dinner my ex parents in law started insulting my ex in the table and everyone just kept laughing and eating as if nothing. My ex was crying but still eating. Her son is mentally and physically disabled, still is the sweetest kid you cam ever get to know, he sat between her mither and I. I loved the kid. Her mother stands up after my ex kept ignoring her rage, picked a glass of soda and threw it at the kid. No one batted an eye and started yelling AT THE KID. I stood up, grabbed my plate and threw it like Captain America throws his shield in the direction her parents were sitting. The woman sat down again and calmly resumed eating. 5 minutes later they were all telling jokes, having a beer and lauguing together.
Until this day I do not know what the [hell] was wrong with them.
Zac 1 month ago
one of the reasons i dont date is other people families. when i was in hs my exes mom slapped her in the face hard enough to make her lips an nose bleed, yet i was the one who was in the wrong when i pushed her old a*s b***h mom to the floor. i dont get people.
#35
It's almost 10am, the storm Karen is on the way, I've heard nothing from my boss on whether she'll make us go or not (I asked at 5:31am), and my co-worker wrote me to ask if I'm at the office because she's "getting ready to leave to go to the office".
They're acting as if nothing's going on, as if it's going to just magically disappear. It hasn't started raining yet, it's actually quite sunny, that's true, but the rain is forecasted to begin at around 11am and by the time I'd be clocking out, the streets through which I'd have to pass to get back home would be flooded. Also, I'd be stuck on the highway under blinding rain.
I forgot I could post an update right here: I ended up not going to work, it's almost 4pm and my boss never answered me. My co-worker did go to work, and my boss would live in her office if she could so she's definitely there as well. I think the heavy rain will be hitting my area by nightfall, but I still don't regret my decision.
I'm expendable to the company, but not to my family, my loved ones and myself. It's hard working with two people who put their jobs before their own well-being and health which makes you look lazy when you take care of yourself as I am, but their opinion of me and even my job is not worth my life.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
To business people, you are a resource to be used. They don’t see you as human.
Hassel Davidhoff 1 month ago
100%, you're a "human resource", it's written on the tin. Yet people will give their a*s away and instead shït through their ribs for the rest of their lives, to appease some dumb company in exchange for a paltry sum of money. Gods, I truly hate unregulated capitalism
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My wife and I did a trip to the US and one night we just wanted a simple pizza and beer dinner. So we went to a restaurant. They kept trying to get us to order a larger pizza because we ordered a salad and small pizza to share.
After 40 minutes we got the pizza, which was enormous, but it was the wrong one. We were starving and didn't want to wait 40 more minutes so we ate it anyway. The waiter came by and asked how it is, and I said "oh its good, but its not what we ordered."
He said he'd make us a new pizza right away. We said no thanks, we'll just eat this. He insisted, saying one of the pizza's will be free. We kept refusing because we probably weren't going to finish this pizza because it was so huge and we were flying home the next day. It would be a waist.
Five minutes later the hostess comes by and offers the same thing. We refuse. Then the cook. We refuse. Then the manager. We refuse. The four of them were really nice about it, but it just won't end and we're trying to eat out dinner.
We felt insane because we kept telling them, "we're not going to eat it, its just going to get throw out." and they keep looking at us like we ARE insane and saying, "but you'll HAVE it. You'll have YOUR pizza."
We finally get the bill, and the waiter polity say, "sorry about the mix up again, we removed the beers from your bill" I thanked him and tipped despite the mixup.
On our way out the hostess proudly gave us our pizza, now an extra large. We took it because we didn't want to fight on our way out, and it was left untouched on the dresser in our hotel room the next morning.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Next time give it to the staff at the desk for the hotel. They will very much appreciate it
Kitty 🥀 4 weeks ago
I would never accept food from a customer. I’d be too afraid it was laced with laxatives or something. People are messed up, and you can’t assume all people have good intentions.
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Apatheist Account2 1 month ago
Nice Freudian slip there - two pizzas would definitely "go to waist", mine anyway.
Zac 1 month ago
the reason is because companies like google and yelp hold businesses hostage. one bad review of "they gave me the wrong pizza and wouldnt fix it 1/5 stars" is literally enough to tank a business. we had someone post false 1 star reviews on our business a few months ago and we had to spend literal weeks going back and forth with google to prove they were false and have them removed. all the while that they were up, our business was down. even to this day, ive heard people reference "well i didnt want to use you guys to start with because of your bad reviews" but ike taht was the only bad one we everhad, it was false and it was removed but our business still suffers because on of our employees ex gf was upset he was dating someone else so posted a fake review. its been 6 months and we still feel the effects of it.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
I almost never do reviews, unless something is spectacularly good or spectacularly terrible. I’m sick and tired of being badgered to review every dămn thing. Businesses should stop doing that.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
This is business-think in the U.S. Huge portions. And treat the customer like an angry god who must be appeased under threat of death.
Hassel Davidhoff 1 month ago
^ That right there might just be, hands-down, the BEST description of customer service roles and behaviors in the American restaurant world.
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Jeremy James 1 month ago
I've worked housekeeping. We're not above taking leftover food or drink when cleaning a room, but generally only things that are sealed. We've seen a little too much of the disgusting side of human behavior in these rooms to trust anything open.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 month ago
The pizza you left in the room probably got thrown away. The cleaning person wouldn't know how long that pizza was in there. So she probaly threw it away. So it got wasted anyway.
#37
I nearly got run over by a 4wd when crossing the street. No one around me batted an eye or hesitated while walking despite the car coming through. I got very distressed, quite visibly, but everyone was so normal. For a second I thought I had imagined it.
Lumen Papulus 1 month ago (edited)
Or just another dreamer sucked into her phone. I remember this video of a girl driving a bicycle on ROAD in the WRONG LANE with AIRPODS and watching her PHONE. She literally bumped into a by then stationary car coming the opposite direction.
#38
Probably when my ex manipulated me into thinking I was crazy and there were very clear signs she was out cheating but she just said I was being controlling and paranoid. Turns out she was cheating and likely had been for a very long time.
Bianca Van Deventer 1 month ago
This is called gaslighting and it is a narcissist's favourite thing to do to someone they claim they love
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
Having to deal with family narcissists, they do actually enjoy manipulating others. I found this out when my own mother not only laughed and smiled about my childhood pain until I was in tears, but then gloated about how she made me upset on purpose to my brother.
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Ogidi Girl 2 weeks ago
I swear if I hear 'narcissist' one more time! So sick of all this pop psychology.
#39
I showed an acquaintance a video of an old friend that moved away a few years ago. That friend had a very distinctive laugh. The acquaintance I showed it too proceeded to laugh like him the rest of the night like he had been laughing that way his whole life. He kept it up for months. He stole someone's laugh.
#40
Pretty minor, but my husband works at Starbucks, and one day when he was off we went up there so he could pick up his tips or something like that. In the meantime, one of his colleagues was making me a drink while dealing with the rest of the normal crowd of customers.
Waiting at the end of the bar, my husband comes around the corner after having left the back office behind the counter as a woman dressed in business clothes picks up like three cups of coffee, and, being polite, my husband asks, "would you like a tray for that maim?"
She looks up and sort of snarkily says, "No thanks, I own a business." and turns on her heel and walks out the shop. My husband just shrugs and says "alright, have a good day" after her.
All the while im standing there in the middle totally at a loss as to what her comment had to do with needing a tray? I heard it clear as day. "No thanks, I own a business"
Nani??? I really thought the way my husband reacted and the way she just went about her day made me doubt for just a second if i was losing my mind, and if there was something im missing here that correlates her owning her own business to whether or not she needed a carry out tray.
When we left, I had to ask my husband what the heck that was about. he just shrugs and says that a lot of times people who go to starbucks are so entitled they offer up strange information like that all the time, even if it has nothing to do with what was asked. He treated it like it was a normal thing, but i was like blown to the twilight zone.
Philly Bob 3 weeks ago
Maybe she was gonna drink them all in the car! :) Owning a business can do that to ya.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
People who own businesses tend to think they’re superior to everybody else on the planet; and they like to make sure everybody knows they own a business. To the point where they share that information even when the conversation is on a completely different topic.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
I would guess that as a female business owner in particular she would be used to people doubting her abilities, level of expertise, and actual seniority, and over time this has made her defensive to anything she perceives as being critical of her abilities. So that "would you like a tray?" becomes "are you sure you can carry that by yourself?", and she defaults to saying she's a business owner as a way of asserting her capability.
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#41
I was on a highway with my friend for our trip from San Diego to Vegas. It was beautiful early morning - and then on the other side of the highway there was this car crashed into the highway bridge, ablaze with bright fire and huge pillar of smoke rising from it. Everybody passed around it as if it was just another Tuesday.
Janissary35680 1 month ago
Car crashed into the highway bridge... ablaze with bright fire.. huge pillar of smoke rising... Checks out. Must be Tuesday again.
Laserleader 1 month ago
What do you expect people to do? If everyone stopped to look it would cause a traffic jam and prevent emergency vehicles from getting there. Not the same as watching somone choke to death or have a seizure on the sidewalk.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
🏆 If you don’t see any emergency vehicles, call 911. If you do—mind your business.
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#42
I was working in the the United Arab Emirates. One night, I walking on a busy boardwalk with a lot of people from all over the world. This south Asian guy was standing by a lamppost, not really doing anything, when an SUV pulled up and four Emirati Arabs got out, grabbed the guy and threw him into the back and then drove off.
They didn't yell, didn't show any police badges, the guy barely fought back. Nobody said or did anything, even though the street was crowded full of people.
Janissary35680 1 month ago
I saw something similar happen in the arrivals terminal at Dahran International Airport the day I first arrived in The Magic Kingdom. I recall seeing similar incidents on at least two more occasions during my five years in SA.
#43
I was walking to school and approaching a crossroad. i was 20 meters from the crossroad and a very short fat person in a yellow robe with a pointy hat walked over the road and nobody looked. just me switching between staring at the fat wizard, the other people on the sidewalks and softly saying "what the hell". Now i don't or if it is a part of a religion or just a role player but that caught me of guard.
Marianne 1 month ago
Back at my uni days, we had a self-proclaimed vampire in our semester. He was thin and tall and bald, he always wore black nail polish and red eye shadow and he always wore black eccentric clothes. When the sun was out, he used a black umbrella to avoid the sun rays. (And not a normal umbrella, but one of those like the vampires in "Nightmare before Christmas".)
Luke Branwen 1 month ago
Two posts in a row about a wizard - a thin wizard is "sooo cool", but a fat wizard is "what the hell". Yeah, that's nice. /s
Sly Schlang 1 month ago
This wizard had no bike and the robe was yellow. Now what if there were stars on the robe that cannot be Seen in yellow
Load More Replies... Pseudonym For An Author 1 month ago
Try using “horizontally privileged” it sounds less like your making fun of their weight (i call tall people vertically privileged and short people like myself vertically denied)
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
Vertically challenged (I'm 4'10", I've heard all the jokes.)
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I was at my highschool best friends house for a little smoke get together. There was about 5 people and I knew all of them. Her mom was hanging out with us and she 100% is the “I’m your friend before I’m your parent” type. I’m probably the only person that thinks the mom is a horrible person for the things she has put her kids through.
So anyways, she goes to bathroom and 20 minutes later scream/calls my friend -her daughter- to help her. had it been anyone else I would have treated it like an emergency but her mom is dramatic so no one except My friend moves. She goes into the bathroom with her and it’s another 20 minutes before my friends back. Someone asks what was wrong with Her mom, She nonchalant says,
“a tampon was stuck in my mom so I helped her get it out.”
It took me a solid minute to process it and everyone was having small talk about the method of getting the tampon out. She used her hands and got it out herself because her (overweight) mother couldn’t reach. everyone was completely chill with it so I just sat back and wondered for the rest of the night and then years if that was weird or not, never wanting to ask anyone about.
Skogsrået 1 month ago
If she couldn't get it out cause of overweight then how did she get it in?
Upstaged75 1 month ago
With the applicator? They're easier to put in than to take out.
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alchemilla vulgaris 4 weeks ago
You are young. The time will come when your parents and relatives will need your help for the most basic of personal hygiene. And after the very initial unease, it will be just as natural as it was for them to change your nappy (diaper if you live across the pond). Having said that, yes, asking your teenage daughter to remove your tampon is uncommon.
#45
I'm living it. Social media is making people act differently. No one cares about the truth, only attention and likes. Everyone (with the exception of very few) is living in a fantasy reality they created in their mind. People are delusional to the point where it seems as if there is no more common reality at all. A simple example: my car is making a funny noise. I've been to the dealership 6 times and they insist there is no noise. I could upload a recording and everyone on here would agree there is a noise. I could give you 100 more examples, I feel like I'm going insane.
#46
The normalizing of psychological conditions, where instead of treating them we reenforce them.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago (edited)
Like the demented ramblings of the current President of the US?
#47
I’m from Australia so had never had this situation happen.
I was in Vegas at the time and didn’t realize they had open carry laws. I was in a department store lining up at the counter when a very intimidating lady walked in with a pistol strapped to her waist for everyone to see. I literally ran thinking she was about to hold the store up and knocked over a bunch of bollards where we were lining up. Once I realized no one was running away I had to act all cool like I was running back like I had left my wallet in the change rooms.
Miriam Insidecor 1 month ago
There is zero reason to carry guns around. It's a disgusting culture.
#48
I witnessed the SpaceX launch while I was at a trashy country concert. Not normally my cup of tea, but my friend had free tickets and was really excited about it, so I figured why not have a good time with good friends, ya know? About halfway through the show everyone in the crowd is pretty trashed, and we're right in the middle of it. My friend and I notice a bright light in the sky, which slowly turned and grew in size, in the midst of an iridescent cloud. It moved like nothing else I'd ever seen before. We tried pointing it out to some of the other concert goers, but no one seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary. My friend and I were convinced we were either hallucinating, being attacked by aliens, or both. Didnt learn until the next day about the launch. Mildly disappointing, would have loved to be abducted by alien overlords while at a trashy country concert.
Binny Tutera 1 month ago
Saw a satellite launch happening above my house. Several lights all in a row, then they suddenly start flying off in all directions! Didn’t know what was going on. Googled it and found out what it was. Felt a little foolish, but it was crazy.
#49
My grandmother passed away 3 years ago, and ever since then my grandfathers house has been basically falling apart because he won’t take care of it. I understand and kinda excuse him because he’s getting older, and I know he’s depressed because of losing his wife. But my uncle lives with him, and he is just ignoring it too.
The roof is falling in in some places, my grandpa’s dog was never house trained and so she pees and poops wherever she wants, and they don’t even clean it up. The floors and carpeting are now ruined because of that, and they don’t care to even do anything to fix it.
My Aunt, mom, and I go over once a week to try and clean up a bit, but it’s like plugging a leaking dam with a finger. I’m willing to bet the house will actually fall down in the next 10 years.
We’ve tried talking with my uncle and grandpa about this, and my grandpa actually said, word for word, “everything you’re telling me is true, but to be honest I just don’t care.” And my uncle, who is broke and unemployed, knows that when my grandpa passes, he’ll be really screwed with a house you can barely live in. But he just doesn’t seem to care enough to do anything about it.
My mom, aunt, and I seem to be the only ones in our family who are concerned about this situation.
I don’t know why everyone is just ignoring this...
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 1 month ago
Because your grandmother spent a lifetime enabling them. Not doing anything and getting more and more used to the fact that they can just live without doing anything to help themselves. The fact that you are turning up to help with little bits probably just reinforces their world view.
TiNaBoNiNa 1 month ago
Depression is a disabling disease, but you still have to accept help and get treatment. (Speaking as someone who has it.)
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
You may be able to call social services in your area, as an elderly person is living in an unsafe situation.
#50
I was 13 years old, I had to give some papers to an old couple that lived right next to our house. When they saw me in front of their house, they invited me to come in to eat some cake. Then, a man, in his 40s, came in with a girl I thought was his daughter. She looked 14. They sat down at the table with us, and when she would stand up, he would grope her or slap her between the legs. She would just laugh about it with him, whereas the old couple would completely ignore it.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Basically everyone was ignoring a sexual a*****t and it doesn't sound like the OP did anything either
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In a peak “Florida Man” move, my uncle, who lives there, almost [passed] when he flipped an airboat that he was driving down his street. Not on a body of water. On the street in front of his house.
Even now when he’s fully recovered it seems like I’m the only one in the family who recognizes how ridiculous it is that this happened.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
One argument again universal health care in the UIS is that we could not possibly afford Florida.
#52
I was at a horse race last year and saw a bright green streak shoot across the sky directly in front of me. I mean BRIGHT green, then it flashed into a ball and vanished.
I said "whoa...did you see that?", and nobody saw it. I'm looking around the crowd and nobody is behaving like they just saw anything remarkable.
The local news confirmed that a bright meteor had been seen over the city, but somehow an entire grandstand full of people missed it directly in front of them.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Gamblers pay little attention to anything that can't cost them money.
#53
I was in Milwaukee, didn't know I was filling up gas in a bad part of town. After coming out of the bathroom to a guy arguing with the cashier, a guy was waiting at my car asking if he could use my phone, in a threatening "let me use your phone" as opposed to "can I use your phone?" Anyways, I told him I don't have one so he starts confronting me as to why there are chords in my car so I must have a phone, I'm getting scared, when an SUV pulls up and yells "anyone tryna party" that guy was like "hell yeah" gets in and they drive off. I guess they saved my life?
Hassel Davidhoff 1 month ago
JFC, that's odd and frightening. And a good argument for driving an electric car.
#54
Ok so once i went to take a train to another city while i was in another part of my country. the train wasn't that full but It was still early so the train was starting to fill up. I noticed that everybody had put their bag next to them on another seat, thus taking up a whole seat. I had to ask someone to put their bag on the ground so i could sit. I got some to weird looks and an audible sigh before he finally put the bag down. Not much later the train was getting packed, but no-one asked someone else to put their bag on the floor. So eventually the train left and people were just standing there. So people were taking a 20 minute ride while standing. I was like ??? Are you guys stupid?
TiNaBoNiNa 1 month ago
Plus, the seat hogs weren't cognizant of their surroundings or polite enough to free up a seat.
Philly Bob 3 weeks ago
They are, they just don't give a rat's aśs. They say us Philly people are rude. We can be rough around the edges but a big majority of us aren't rude.
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My little step-brother's girlfriend made him delete all his social media, doesn't like him seeing his friends (or spending time with anyone that isn't her), and basically controls his life.
Our parents don't think twice about it, and just think they need to work things out amongst themselves. I've been trying to get him to leave her for like a year now, but she's got him convinced no one else will ever love him so he has no choice but to stay with her.
Never Snarky 3 weeks ago
That gf is an abu*er. Run fast, very fast. It only gets worse, much worse. I was married to one. I was lucky to get out alive.
#56
When I was a freshman in homeschool in biology class, some guy was showing this snapchat video of a cat getting kicked across a backyard. Everyone was laughing except me.
#57
Very first day working a new job at a bank. One of the supervisors accidentally armed the safe with his keys inside. Only the branch manager knew the password to open the safe and the branch manager already went home. Everyone very calmly discussed ways to break into the safe and retrieve the keys and gave several options of how they could do it without triggering the alarm. Eventually they got in, got the keys without triggering the alarm, and everyone went home.
DeoManus Argentem 1 month ago
Doesn't sound very "safe" - how did the supervisor even get it open in order to leave something inside without the code? And why didn't the manager give them the code over the phone (just change it the next day) if he was unable to come back? I understand timelocks, but then how did the random employees manage to open it so easily? Weird, indeed.
#58
Went to my friend’s company Christmas party, he works there not an owner or anything. Party is at a nice hotel and starts in lounge area with about 50 people, mix of men and women. Pretty normal, open bar, friendly people. Then the owners say this part of the party is over we are moving to a private bar upstairs. Bar is all red lit, a group of women come in dressed in black lingerie. They bring out easels and canvases and start painting. Four different women in lingerie just painting as everyone drinks. While the fifth woman puts on a contortionist performance totally out of sync with the music that’s playing. The paintings arent of the party or guest and the women clearly don’t know how to paint. This goes on for two hours before the party officially ends and the women leave.
#59
On my wedding day, we told people to stand up to make us kiss. One drunk guy decided to change things up, ran up to the head table and gave my husband a huge kiss on the lips.
Nobody seems to remember this but us.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
“We told people to stand up to make us kiss” - what? Is this normal at a reception?
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I don't think so. Never seen it myself. Maybe they were just trying something other than the traditional clinking of glasses?
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#60
Working at a pub, welcome a family of 4, one of which being a very baby.
20 minutes into their visit, I hear a loud thud. I look over to see the mother pick the baby up off the floor. Dad isn't looking up from his phone. Sister takes no notice. Baby isn't even crying.
I can only imagine how often that poor baby is dropped.
Upstaged75 1 month ago (edited)
I believe it's missing the word small. As in a very small baby. Or young maybe?
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#61
I was sitting outside an antique shop with my mother, just people watching with her. This guy dressed in a white shirt, white shorts, and white tennis shoes crossed the street to where we were sitting and turned the corner that was next to us. I watched him the entire time. He was super distinct because of his clothes and the fact the he was talking into a bluetooth the entire time, and he seemed pretty frantic to whoever he was talking to.
When I turned back to face the street, the EXACT same guy was walking towards us. He was talking into a bluetooth, saying the same frantic things, and doing the same movements as the other one. I watched him turn the corner in shock. It was like time rewinded for a brief second. I asked my mom if she saw the guy, and she said she did, but only once. She thought I was messing with her.
This was about 2 years ago, and I've never really been able to let it go. No one else noticed, even though it was a really busy street. I know this sounds fake but I promise it isn't.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 1 month ago
Yes, that's my guess. Twins having an argument.
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#62
I was in a fabric store about 20 years ago. It's usually a female-dominated area. I was waiting to check out. There was an older customer checking out. This obviously sketchy homeless-looking guy comes in and starts talking to her about her car, and how he has hubcaps just like that that he wants to sell her (Sounded like he was stalking her). I say, loudly, to that woman that if she waits for me to check out, I will go out to her car with her and wait till she leaves. SHE GOES OUT WITH THE GUY!!! The cashier acted like this didn't happen, I was livid. This was before cell phones, and by the time I got outside both were gone. I still worry about this lady.
#63
I went to mexico for new years one year. They had a firework display. They didn't have the huge fireworks like we have in the US in some areas. But it was still a pretty good firework display. Anyways, the fireworks fell over and some of them started firing into the crowd and for some reason the crowd acted like it was normal. I was trying to find somewhere to hide and everyone else was just standing there.
#64
This happened just last week. We were out at a concert when the fire alarm started going off. Everyone just went about their business. Meanwhile the wife and I were wondering if [this is the end].
#65
When I was 15 years old, I was at the local movie theatre with a group of friends. After the movie we walked to the ice cream shop next door, then proceeded to sit outside and eat our ice cream. A teenage boy was walking out of the movie theatre when a fully tinted black SUV pulled up to him. 4 men dressed in all red and masks grabbed this teenager, slammed his head against the wall, and threw him in the trunk as he screamed at the top of his lungs. Our friend group was watching this unfold and immediately called the police. Luckily, one of our friends got the license plate.
The weird part of this all was that, of the other 15+ people that witnessed this act, no one reacted at all. When we called the police, we told them what happened, where we were, and the license plate, make, and model of the vehicle. They refused to send a police officer to take our statements because we didn’t know the cross street of the movie theatre. To this day (14 years later), I still wonder if it was a prank, a g**g initiation, or if the teenager is still alive.
Senjo Krane 1 month ago
Couldn't the police find the address of the theatre? this one seems a bit off to me.
#66
It was during Desert Storm. The aviation unit I was assigned to had set up in northern Saudi Arabia just a few miles from Iraq. The air war was still going on and it was maybe a couple weeks before the ground phase started. Anyway, I’m staying in one of those big army tents with a group of other guys. I wake up around 0200 with all kinds of crashes and booms going on. It sounds like artillery landing all over the place. I’m fixing to grab my M16 and dive under my cot when I notice a couple of my tent mates who’d been on duty standing in the middle of the tent chatting like nothing’s going on. Turns out it was just one of the two big rain storms Saudi Arabia gets in the springtime and it was all just thunder.
#67
I was a volunteer MC at an event and this kid came up on stage so I was like aw cute he wants to be on stage. He then walks to the edge of the stage and sticks his arms out, so now I'm thinking he wants someone to get him off now. He proceeds to trust fall forward off the stage and the guy recording catches him. Not a single person reacted, not even the camera guy was phased...
#68
I don’t know if this counts, but I experience this with my seizures. When coming out of them, I’m really disoriented and confused. The last time it happened, I remember wandering around my house and a ton of EMTs were there (someone has called 911 thinking I was alone) and at one point they asked me who the president was. In my mind, I thought about how Obama was technically President still but Trump had won the race and out loud believed I’d said the correct answer. I’ll never forget the looks they gave me. I’d apparently said “to celebrate the joy”.
There’s been lots of times where I think I’ve said one thing and I’m totally wrong, so people look at me like I’m crazy. Weird disconnect.
#69
Allegedly during the movie Push, they filmed much of it in Hong Kong. There's a scene where a character is kidnapped at gunpoint and thrown in a van. They didn't get permits or block streets, so there were no extras. None of the bystanders on the streets reacted to the kidnapping.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 1 month ago (edited)
The fact that there was a full film crew filming it probably gave the game away that it wasn't real.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
Yeah, except when film crews don't have permits (in my home country at least, I would imagine also in a large metropolitan city like Hong Kong), one of the prime considerations is to not draw attention to the film crew so as not to get fined for not having permits. Typically this would be absolute minimum crew of perhaps 3 or 4 people, very little, low profile kit. Very very unobtrusive on a busy Hong Kong street.
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A few years ago I (19 at the time) found out I had a sulphite sensitivity (didn't always have it - adult onset). At Christmas, we'd have wine with dinner (most wines have sulphites in them) and I drank a glass. Within minutes, something felt *off*. My tongue and lips were tingling and I could feel my airways closing up. I starting wheezing, but it felt like my chest was being squeezed and no amount of coughing/wheezing made it better.
My dad, who has asthma, grabbed his inhaler (the blue emergency one) and it seemed to help a bit. I drank some water and went to bed as normal. The fact that my parents weren't more concerned about my difficulty breathing was odd. I went to a doctor sometime later since it happened on more than one occasion. He didn't refer me to an allergist or anything but wrote me a script for an inhaler "in case it ever happened again".
Since then, I've learned about sulphite sensitivity a bit more and have tried to eliminate them from my diet, which has helped. My parents think it was that particular wine that set me off and that it was a one-time thing. Looking back, it seems weird that they were so calm about it, even though I probably should've went to ER (aren't you not supposed to share inhalers/prescriptions - since I could be allergic to something in that?!).
Dav Carro-Ripalda 4 weeks ago
They were so calm because your father had atshma, and a blue emergencies inhaler, so probably it has not been the first time experiencing breathing difficulties. And they know the best is to remain calm.
#71
I was in Medellin, Colombia and I’m sitting on a public outdoor stairway near a street having a smoke. I’m watching people walk and traffic and people carry on with their business.
The street I was facing was pretty busy. Suddenly I see a bus, that had plenty of room behind it to casually switch to the right lane, speed up, jet in front of, and cut off a taxi cab that was probably going 40, slam the brakes on and come to a screeching halt...at the bus stop. Meanwhile the cab, who had to react to the bus driver, rear ends the bus- not enough to do serious damage- but it was pretty loud.
I start cracking up because the bus driver stops there every time. Like that’s a part of the guys routine. To me, you’d think he’d just casually switch to the right lane and glide into the stop. But apparently that was just me because everybody else was looking at me like I was some nutcase just laughing out of the blue. Oh how I love South America.
#72
I made out with a friend of a friend, and both now act like it didn’t happen. So I act like it didn’t happen, so it didn’t happen.
#74
The 2016 presidential election where the democrats blatantly cheated, the republicans elected a failed reality show actor, and 99% of the people don't seem to have a problem with either of those things because they have an R or D after their name.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
You can cheat and still lose. But the OP offers no "blatant" specifics.
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UKDeek 1 month ago
Big one for me was about 10 years ago. I was on a caravan holiday with the family, having breakfast one morning when we heard screaming. Looked out of the window to see a large tent opposite on fire. Several other people were just stood watching this tent blazing away with a women screaming that her two children were inside. I rushed out, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the fire box and put out the fire, whilst these three men just stood and watched me, collectively commenting they would have done the same if they knew where the fire box was (it was a very large, red fibreglass box marked "FIRE" in the middle of the campsite). Both children were safe, and no harm was done apart from a melted tent. The mother was very thankfull, and the children drew me a very nice picture (they were only young, about 5 / 6 years old). I hate to think what would have happened if I'd have not been there that day...
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
I was in a church softball league with an ex-g/f's family and her uncle had a heart attack on the mound while pitching. All these idiots did was tell each other to gather in a circle around him and pray. I was the one who ended up call 911. He didn't make it. I still wonder had they called 911 right away or if I shook myself out of being stunned at people praying while someone was dying and called them sooner myself if that would have been a difference in him making it. And the only people that thanked me for stepping up actually and doing something were his son and my ex.
Nova Rook 1 month ago
You did well and the seconds lost likely had zero impact.
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A few weeks ago at work somebody emailed me to ask what my email address was so they could send me an email.
Little Bit 3 weeks ago
I think the most bizarre thing I have ever seen was a few years ago when I took my kids to the beach. Across the road from the beach was a fish and chip shop. A car with five guys in it (all in their late teens/early 20s) pulled up outside the shop. They all sat in the car for a few minutes then they all got out. Two of the guys had a fist fight on the pavement. Then they all got back in the car and sat there for a few minutes. Then three guys got out of the back and had another fist fight. Two guys got back in the car and one of the guys who was in the front got out and had another fight with the other guy who hadn't got back in the car. Then they got back in the car and drove off. At no point was there any yelling or even speaking. I wish I'd filmed it because it was just so surreal.
UKDeek 1 month ago
Big one for me was about 10 years ago. I was on a caravan holiday with the family, having breakfast one morning when we heard screaming. Looked out of the window to see a large tent opposite on fire. Several other people were just stood watching this tent blazing away with a women screaming that her two children were inside. I rushed out, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the fire box and put out the fire, whilst these three men just stood and watched me, collectively commenting they would have done the same if they knew where the fire box was (it was a very large, red fibreglass box marked "FIRE" in the middle of the campsite). Both children were safe, and no harm was done apart from a melted tent. The mother was very thankfull, and the children drew me a very nice picture (they were only young, about 5 / 6 years old). I hate to think what would have happened if I'd have not been there that day...
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
I was in a church softball league with an ex-g/f's family and her uncle had a heart attack on the mound while pitching. All these idiots did was tell each other to gather in a circle around him and pray. I was the one who ended up call 911. He didn't make it. I still wonder had they called 911 right away or if I shook myself out of being stunned at people praying while someone was dying and called them sooner myself if that would have been a difference in him making it. And the only people that thanked me for stepping up actually and doing something were his son and my ex.
Nova Rook 1 month ago
You did well and the seconds lost likely had zero impact.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 3 weeks ago
A few weeks ago at work somebody emailed me to ask what my email address was so they could send me an email.
Little Bit 3 weeks ago
I think the most bizarre thing I have ever seen was a few years ago when I took my kids to the beach. Across the road from the beach was a fish and chip shop. A car with five guys in it (all in their late teens/early 20s) pulled up outside the shop. They all sat in the car for a few minutes then they all got out. Two of the guys had a fist fight on the pavement. Then they all got back in the car and sat there for a few minutes. Then three guys got out of the back and had another fist fight. Two guys got back in the car and one of the guys who was in the front got out and had another fight with the other guy who hadn't got back in the car. Then they got back in the car and drove off. At no point was there any yelling or even speaking. I wish I'd filmed it because it was just so surreal.
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