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People Share The 50 Worst Things They Accidentally Overheard And Can’t Forget
How people behave when they think no one can hear or see them is often the best window any of us might have into their real personalities. Most of us tend to code switch or at least only share the extent of our real thoughts with people who are close to us.
Someone asked people to share the most disturbing thing they’ve overheard someone say when they didn’t know they were being listened to and the internet delivered. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own experiences to the comments below.
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#1
It was when I was a kid and it was just my single mom and I living in a house together. She had late stage ovarian cancer that was getting worse. One afternoon she told me she was tired and needed to go lay down in her room. Totally common with her condition so nothing struck me as odd. I went to her room with a glass of water to put by her bed for when she woke up, but right as about to turn the knob to get into her room, I was thrown off guard when I heard her voice and it sounded like she was incredibly emotional and sad. There was no phone in her room and I knew nobody was over at our house visiting. It took me a minute of eavesdropping to realize that she was using a tape recorder to record her last goodbyes to me for after she died.
She died two weeks later. I found the tape. This was years ago and I still haven't been able to get myself to listen to it. The memory of being there while she was recording it, and the memory of my naive adolescent self finally realizing that my mom was about to die is just too overwhelming for me still. But I'm glad to know that one day when I'm ready, I will have a recording of her voice to listen to.
thecellardooropens 6 months ago (edited)
Please make copies (even if you don't listen to it). If anything ever happens to the tape. You could regret not doing so.
Heffalump 6 months ago
Add to this: tapes degrade: if you don't want to hear it now, get someone you know to copy it to a lossless digital format.
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S Bow 6 months ago
Same, all I have is a 15 second voicemail that I don't know how to save elsewhere.
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AnnaB 6 months ago
Have it transferred to a CD. Also, you should listen to it one day. She recorded it specifically for you to hear.
Svenne O'Lotta 6 months ago
CD's degrade too, that doesn't solve the issue at all
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silverfish imperitrix 6 months ago
Hopefully she wasn't telling you where she hid her secret millions.
Shane Kane 6 months ago
Ok i was ready to laugh at some funny s**t but the very 1st one was a gut punch. Im so very sorry for your loss. Mom's are everything they are the glue that binds all families. You will listen to that tape when you arw ready. Don't let anyone pressure you into it. D**n man......heartbreaking
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#2
After speaking with my grandpa on the phone before he properly hung up, I heard him commenting to my uncle how ungrateful I was. I had at that point visited every week for a year and cleaned his entire bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, hallway and living room every single god-damned week. Usually bringing some food or dessert with me.
I moved out of town shortly after this.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 6 months ago
Perfect example of LOGICAL Family besting BIOlogical Family. Shared blood doesn't mean shared love, kindness, respect....
#3
So guy at work was on his cell phone. He starts getting louder and louder. Eventually he is basically yelling into his phone.
He was on the phone with his wife verbally a***ing her and yelling about how bad he was going to beat her when he got home.
Security was called. He was fired and the police were contacted about the potential abuse.
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
And now sadly, he will probably abuse her more severely because he'll blame her for getting him fired...
Saltypepper 6 months ago
why do ppl hide comments so no one can see them why even comment if you don't want anyone to else it.
Toothless Feline 6 months ago
It amazes me sometimes how oblivious people can be about how those around them can hear what they say on a phone call. “It’s a private conversation.” Sure, but when you’re yelling into the phone, it’s hard to not overhear.
#4
Heard a coworker plot with her husband to falsely accuse her ex of child a***e. She wanted full custody, she ended up with one supervised visit per month. I wonder who spilled the beans?
Betsy S 6 months ago
Thanks for saving the CHILD! Anyone who would pull this does not have the child's needs in mind.
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S. K. 6 months ago
Good on you. This happens frequently and fathers and children suffer as a consequence.
Angela C 6 months ago
Not to mention actual victims who then have a hard time being believed because of liars like that
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When I was 12 I overheard my stepdad saying to my mum how much better their life would be without me there and how awful I am and how he wishes I wasnt there. My mum just agreed. I wasnt even a bad kid :( did well in school, never got in trouble, I could be a stroppy teenager. He was an awful manipulative violent misogynist and I wish HE wasn’t here.
merlin 6 months ago
Not a good parent who would put a partner over their child. If I was in that situation, it would be my foot up their a**e as i kick them out of my life. My child above everyone else.
Tabitha 6 months ago (edited)
Depends. If he was physically a*****e to her, she probably just nodded agreement to placate him, while actually not thinking that about her child at all. Had she openly disagreed, things could’ve gotten violent. We need more context to judge properly how she reacted. She could’ve just been walking on eggshells while trying to make the best of the bad situation. Until you’re between that rock and hard place, it’s hard to know how you’ll act.
Load More Replies... Giraffe Sitter 6 months ago
For the kid’s sake, I’m glad he wishes the stepdad wasn’t there rather than wishing he himself wasn’t there.
Ashley Schriber 6 months ago
Parents who adopt their partner's contempt for their children instead of doing their d**n jobs and protecting them from that hostility are so f*****g pathetic.
Nils Skirnir 6 months ago
More common than we’d like to think. Especially when financial security and regular s*x are involved
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Vinnie 6 months ago
I wouldn't tell someone "You shouldn't have had a child" - unless time machines have been invented. I'd rather focus on what they can do now. Such as leaving safely.
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I was 14 and I overheard my mother talking with a doctor about my younger sister's cancer treatment, I had no idea she had cancer, she had no idea she had cancer. As soon as she got off the phone I asked her what was going on, she burst into tears, I burst into tears.
My little sister was 8 at the time and had been ill for months, so I helped my parents talk to her, it was very upsetting. We shortly after took her to a clinic 500 miles away, spent a week there, no cancer, no leukemia, misdiagnosed, she had an abscess that caused her symptoms. Easily treated, but I'll never forget hearing the phone call.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 6 months ago
Oh goodness, how awful. Even though it did turn out ok, that trauma won't just disappear.
AnSi Bae 6 months ago (edited)
Yeah, tell your kids stuff even when they are hard. When I was 8 my older brother just disappeared. I had no idea what was happening, we visited him and I had no idea where we were or what was happening, he came home after a long time and I had no idea what was happening. My family was just silent... The whole thing gave me emotional scars. It was about 20 years later my older sister said he went to a boarding school because kids bullied him in school and the absuse was horrible and mostly violent. I had no idea that was happening but I could definitely handle and understand that better then a beloved family member just being gone and we never spoke of him or his situation.
Jasmin Lapan 6 months ago
Sometimes misdiagnosis is deliberate to make profit from the expensive treatment.
#7
I heard half of a phone conversation. A man said into his phone,
"I ain't doin' this s**t; there wasn't supposed to be no security guard here!"
Overheard by me, the security guard. In a bank that had recently been robbed.
PeepPeep the duck 6 months ago
Robbers are so smart, one time we got held up at the drive through bottle o part of our pub. The three girls took as much alcohol as they could carry and cash from the till, and left all three of their personal backpacks by the desk with their wallets and ID in them. So smart
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#8
I work in a hospital. I overheard a doctor telling a 1 year olds parents their child just died. I will never forget the sounds that came out the mother.
Riaan van der Walt 6 months ago
I can only imagine. It was and still is my greatest fear not seeing my son grow up. He is 14 now but still. I was a smoker for 20 years. Last year I had the worst dream ever about dying and not seeing my boy achieve his dreams. Stopped smoking that morning and haven't looked back since.
Eri J 6 months ago
Two Saturdays ago, my one year old cousin was killed in a tragic farm accident. So this one hits home.
Janelle Collard 6 months ago
I imagine that has to be *worst* part about being a doctor: telling families, etc., that their loved one died.
Melanie Linehan 5 months ago
I had a similar thing happen to me. I was a patient in the ER when two teen girls who were hit by a car driven by a teenage boy were brought in. You could here all the comotion, then all of a sudden the most heart wrenching cries coming from the boy that hit the girls, wailing, and pleading for them to tell him they were wrong, and she is still alive. It was a night I will never forget.
Paul Jayne 6 months ago
Indeed. I worked in A&E. A regular patient was brought in, a youngish guy with red hair and a history of heart disease. He could not be resuscitated. Then a woman with a bunch of red haired kids came rushing in. They were ushered into the director's office. It was beyond awful.
#9
I left home at 18, because I lived in a toxic household with conservative Christianity as the excuse and mental illness as the aggrevator. It should come to no surprise, but over the phone, I heard my mother telling my youngest sister that she hoped she became nothing like me.
This hurt for two reasons.
My sister is extremely like me, and to know that she is going through exactly what I went through, or worse in a bid to stop her from becoming like me, hurts. I left that home with so many issues, and I know that not only her, but my other siblings will eventually leave with a set of their own. I'm trying to talk to them frequently enough and alleviate the poison my mom is pouring into their minds, but my youngest sister is already depressed and much more. It's difficult, because they are ""homeschooled,"" so they only have me and other family members. They are totally isolated, as I was, and surrounded with religious propoganda.
The reason for my mom to "love me in her own way" (see: love me when convenient to tout her good deeds to her church and pyramid scheme groupies) is because I'm queer, living with my same - s*x significant other, outside the bounds of marriage.
Forget that I am succesful, am currently pursuing two degrees to further my success in my adult life, and am combating my own laundry list of mental health issues and disabilities. Forget that I succeeded past everything she set me up against. I am queer, and that is a sin.
Despite all of my accomplishments and the work I have put in to make sure that I can help my siblings escape when their time comes (and on some level, make her proud) none of it matters, because I am queer.
PeepPeep the duck 6 months ago
I really hope they dont spend his whole life trying to unconsciously seek validation from them, the parents don’t deserve them
Tabitha 6 months ago
Be extra sure to be there when your younger siblings are ready to leave. Help them get out of that house and get on their feet. If you have a spare room, and your SO is on board, let them stay with you until they’re ready to launch; fulltime employed, schooled/certified/finished with basic training (depending on chosen career path), and have saved enough money for a deposit on a small first apartment of their own (if they didn’t choose the military). You did it first, so you’re the best person to guide them.
Abel 6 months ago (edited)
This sounds like Jehovahs' Witness BS. They do not accept homosexual people...
Betsy S 6 months ago
Lots of cults (religions) won't accept homosexual people. Cults are like that.
Load More Replies... Bradley Curthoys 6 months ago
It absolutely matters, don’t ever let anyone makes you feel like it doesn’t. I hope you’re able to get your siblings out of there.
Billo66 6 months ago (edited)
From everyone: He's gonna be just like his dad. (he was in prison but I was told he was off in the army) at any rate I never met the man. To be fair I did mess up pretty bad selling substances and got to have the orange jumpsuit experience. 0/10 not recommended. From my Grandpa: He's gonna grow up to be one of them ~faggots~ (Because as metioned my dad was awol so it was just me and mom.) I don't know how to fish or hunt but I can cook and crochet :) I guess by the grace of our good lord /s I didn't catch the gays. I still like girls. Sorry grandpa you old ... nevermind.
Cindy Brick 6 months ago
Please don't assume that "all Christians" act like this -- because they don't. This is NOT how Jesus would act.
Nikki Angulo 5 months ago
I know someone who is gay, parents very Christian, parents also very supportive of said child. Because real Christianity is about love not hate.
#10
My family and I were at a restaurant and there was a father and his daughter (we'll call D, for daughter) sitting in the booth right across the aisle from us. D looked to be no more than 20 years old. She talks the whole time about her ex, Chris.
Apparently, Chris was married and D did not give two s***s. She said it was the wife's fault for not being good enough to keep her husband faithful. Welp, Chris was still sleeping with his wife because she got pregnant. When D found out wife was pregnant, D told Chris he had to choose between her and his wife. At first, Chris chose D. Then he found out his unborn child had congenital heart defects. So, he called off the divorce, broke up with D, and moved back in with his wife.
D sits there in silence looking slightly bewildered before saying, "I don't know why he chose her and the r****d baby. So what if it dies? They can always make another one." But that's not the worst part. Her dad breaks his silence and asks, "So, your mom and Chris aren't getting divorced?" YOUR MOM and Chris?! YOUR MOM?! This bat s**t crazy b***h was having a blatant affair with her much older stepfather, made him choose between her and her pregnant mother, and then made sociopathic comments about her unborn brother.
[Edit]: Thanks for the up votes everyone! I would like to clarify a few things. This conversation took place at a Mimi's Cafe in the East Valley of the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. She was 100% white trash from head to toe. My family seriously were expecting a camera crew for a prank type tv show to show up. It's hard to fathom someone that demonic truly does walk amongst us. Also, I'm not positive the man she was dining with was her father. He looked old enough and they had similar facial features.
Mike F 6 months ago
I read this and nowhere did I read that "Chris" is much older. Perhaps he is closer to D's age? The whole lot of them sound like trash worthy of a soap opera.
Papa 6 months ago
I wondered about that too. Apparently OP just assumed the boyfriend/step father was close to the mother's age, but that is not necessarily true.
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Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
Phoenix, say no more. I remember a new story (not even on the front page) about a guy who cut his own p***s off on the front steps of Francis Xavier church in the mid-90s.
Exhausted redneck hippie 6 months ago
This could 100% become a script for a b grade comedic horror film.
PeepPeep the duck 6 months ago
It’s her arrogant attitude towards the entire situation.
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I was fourteen years old and it was the end of 8th grade. I f*****g hated middle school and was picked on mercilessly. As the end of the year celebration we went to one of those putt putt/driving range/batting cage places and my older brother came and visited for lunch. He was like 19 and home from college and it was really sweet of him to do. I also have to note that objectively my brother is very attractive. At the time he was a college swimmer so he was in really good shape and all my friends were gaga about him. When I was in line to get some more food I heard these two b****y girls in front of me go "How does she have such a hot brother when she turned out so bad!" Oof. My poor fragile fourteen year old self esteem. I pretended I hadn't heard them, left the line, and managed not to burst into tears. Teenage girls can be so cruel.
nomnomborkbork 6 months ago
They can be awful! I hope OP's self esteem was able to survive high school.
B 6 months ago
My daughter left school after years of being a bullying victim. She hates all learning institutions thanks to those vile people and the teachers who never did anything about her complaints. It's severely damaged her future prospects. Bullies are some of the most unpleasant humans imaginable.
GalPalAl 6 months ago
Just remember that people often open their mouths and spew whatever comes to mind. Women in particular are conditioned to constantly compare themselves to others and try to make themselves superior by putting others down. NEVER let your self worth be measure by what other people think or say about you. Let it be their problem, not yours. Their opinion really doesn't matter anyway
Beak Hookage 6 months ago
Of everyone who picked on me in highschool, girls were 100% the absolute nastiest. The boys just made stupid gross comments which were very easy to ignore.
#12
On a flight got once I listened for two hours to the old men behind me talk about their recent sexual exploits in Thailand. It was disgusting.
Janet Sparrow 6 months ago
Probably s*x with children. Men go there for that truly disgusting.
PeepPeep the duck 6 months ago (edited)
Yeah it’s so gross, my dad did buy a mail order from filipenes who raised me etc but weirdly in Thailand, he funds some single lady and her son, I got to be honest though, I’m slightly thinking it’s my hidden half brother. My sister discovered all this Thailand stuff while snooping one day cos she’s a little snoop and Sherlock wannabe 😂 she wanted to see what his deal really was with Thailand, and thankfully my dad isn’t one of those gross ones, the lady he sees there is my mums age / older than his mail order.
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Diane Tucker 6 months ago
I hope and pray I would have the chutzpah to turn around and ask them to shut up about it. Ugh!
1LittleGranny64 3 months ago (edited)
Apparently not in the White House or congress…
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#13
A few months ago in the gym, three guys were talking very loudly. I could hear them over my music. The weight room was pretty empty.
One was talking about how his girlfriend was such a b***h for not putting out. He detailed all her excuses then went on to say at least he had his other girlfriend. One of the other ones piped up and said he should just wait until she falls asleep because then "she can't do anything about it." They all cackled and he said he'd thought of that before but now he'd have to try it. Completely vile humans.
T Barth 6 months ago
And then he'll be in prison for räpe once she gets woken up and he wont have to worry about no one " putting out" anymore because he'll be someone's bïtch.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
If she wakes up, if she reports it and if he is convicted. Unfortunately, authorities may not believe her. And these precious witnesses can't tell what they overheard, not knowing her name or anything.
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Ginger ninja 5 months ago
And men wonder why there is a “male loneliness epidemic” and why women choose the bear
Robyn Hill 6 months ago
All of them deserve to have weights “accidentally” dropped on their feet. And other body parts.
#14
"YOURE PREGNANT?! WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU TELL ME THIS NOW?!" Line at Chipotle.
Her> "it doesnt matter. Im having an abortion as we speak. Just took the pill. I would never have YOUR kids."
It was brutal. Completely brutal.
Chuck 6 months ago
Sometimes it just doesn't pay to be the fastest swimmer.
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Ellinor 6 months ago
She said she took a pill, she did the responsible thing. Stop being mean for nothing.
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I was home alone as a 12 year old and my dads friend called the house. I let it go to voicemail and he left a bizarre voicemail about my dad being the best friend he’d ever had. My dad came home 10 minutes later and I told him about the voicemail. Dad tried to call him and he didn’t pick up. It turned out he shot himself immediately after leaving the voicemail- which was a pretty big mental time bomb for me.
Baby Jenks 6 months ago
Do you think guns are the only way to off oneself? Plenty of people commit s*****e in non-gun way y'know.
Load More Replies... x6rkq946s6 6 months ago
It’s awful to even think about this, but if the kid picked up and spoke to his dad’s friend, I wonder if he still would have gone through with it. Like, maybe knowing that the kid would always be traumatized by that conversation would have made him rethink it
#16
Was in the emergency room for 5 hours with a semi ruptured appendix. I was out there so long; passing out and coming to... I thought I was going to die. Turns out there was a greyhound that ran over a mini van with a family inside. Everyone but the driver made it out ok. When they finally took me back I heard a doctor say to a woman “ma’am, I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but your husband didn’t make it”. That wasn’t the part that was bad. It was what happened next.... the woman made a sound that struck me to the core. I’ll never forget it. It’s been almost 20 years ago and it still makes me tear up thinking about it. The sound illicited so many emotions of anger and disbelief and sadness. There’s just something about that sound coming from another human. The wailing, half-sobbing, muttering scream that it was...
Definitely the worst thing I have ever overheard.
Stephanie Did It 6 months ago
It might help to add that Greyhound Bus Lines is a low-cost way to travel in the USA, since we have so few passenger trains. They were hit by a bus, not a dog.
Robin Roper 6 months ago
As a 12 year old and in the ER getting stitches for facial cuts from a car accident and I heard the reaction from a father who was told his young son had died. Turns out, I had been waiting on a gurney in the hallway when they wheeled the son by. Due to some congestion with other gurneys being moved, the one with this young boy was stopped for just a few seconds right by where I was laying. Instinctively, I looked over and say what turned out to be his open head wound and brain matter spilling out. It turns out the father had been driving a pickup truck with the son in the back unrestrained. That my friends, is why no one should ever ride in the back of a pickup truck.
Alex Martin 6 months ago (edited)
San Dimas Hospital when I was in 2nd grade, 7 or 8 years old. My cat scratched me near my eye. Mom was worried so we went to the emergency room down the street. There was a family there. They were told that their daughter had died. I can still hear their screams 43 years later. I read in the paper the next day that their teenaged daughter had been killed in a wreck on the freeway. I pray that I never have to live through that.
Claire Ferguson 6 months ago
I was at my cousin house when the police came to let her know her 23 year old daughter had been killed in a car crash, I will never forget that noise that came out of her mouth.
ILoveMySon 6 months ago
I remember quite well when the police informed my mother of Dad's passing. Horrific for all of us.
Mrs.C 4 months ago
I sat in court with a family while their child's SA*user was on trial. He was found not guilty due to insufficient evidence but the judge said, "This isn't because I don't believe her." The mother held it all together until the defendant and his family left the courtroom and then she let loose. That sound lives in my soul. He was absolutely guilty, but he walked...and they celebrated loudly. It was the most revolting thing I've ever witnessed.
Svenne O'Lotta 6 months ago
Píss off and stop making your mental issues everyone else's problem
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" We dont need to care about him since he's adopted."
I was maybe 10 Vacationing with some family friends at a local summer resort. The family was trying forever to have a baby and after 10 something years decided to adopt a toddler. A year later the woman got pregnant (ended up having 2 more bio kids) and still loved her adopted still the same. The husband however became indifferent to their adopted and spoiled the bio baby rotten and took pleasure in making sure the adopted knows this. He made a lot of jokes of returning the kid since he is not blood related anyways and other comments that were hurtful and out of line.
Soon cousins of the kid started to taunt this poor 4 year old who is confused of why he was being teased (mind you this happened in a 1 day span too). Mom tried to sheild him as much as she can and the husband made a serious faux pas of making that comment in front of 10 other people from church too. he tried to back pedal fast but not before my scary mother - the leader of the friend group ripped him a new one.
He never joined us anymore in gatherings and eventually the whole family moved to another town months later.
Greymom 6 months ago
Mom should have “shielded “ her child by leaving his piece of s**t excuse of a father and not staying with him and having two more of his kids!
JB 6 months ago
I completely understand why you are saying what you’re saying, but the husband’s attitude didn’t change until after the birth of, at least, his first bio-child; so there had to be one of *his* children for her to see how he was going to act. It would have been a shock to observe his sudden change of heart but you’re expecting clairvoyance. Daunting to contemplate becoming a single parent with a toddler and newborn to take care of. You casually throw out what she should have done without the slightest understanding of *her* situation. The logistics of finding somewhere affordable to live. How’s she supposed to work enough to support two under 2? Coparenting; and, and, and. It’s easy to throw out, “just leave”, a lot harder to achieve it.
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 6 months ago
Reprehensible. Wish you could have called Child Protective Services to intervene
Michael Largey 6 months ago (edited)
An ex sent me (quite uninvited) a photo of her and her three children (whom I had never heard of before) with a note on the back identifying which was the "birth child" and which two were adopted. I somehow doubt the three children are treated equally. (As was my practice for almost two decades of these post-dumping letters, I did not reply.)
#18
Standing in line waiting for my Tim Hortons coffee. The girl in front of me was talking with her friend:
"yeah ...so I caught HIV from this dude. Its okay though, it's not like I'm going to die right away"
........I want some of her positivity.
Caffeinated Ape 6 months ago
Thankfully it's no longer the death sentence it was, with modern medicine. The prognosis for an HIV diagnosis has become much more positive in the last couple of decades.
Alexandra 6 months ago
True; but you do need to take a pill or pills for the rest of your life and you will probably be skipping from one medication to another, depending on the stage HIV is in. In any case, you will never be free from it.
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Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
I have two friends who've been living with it for years (one since the death-sentence days). Both are still leading fantastic lives. Things are so, so much better than they were in 1993.
Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
'97 was when the 1st protease inhibitors came out. Until then it was a death sentence with a 24 month life expectancy.
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cj be like 4 months ago
Uhhh in this case, OP, I actually don't think you want some of her positivity
Tutti Trolliet 6 months ago
El positivismo es una corriente filosófica que surgió en el siglo XIX y el optimismo una perspectiva positiva del futuro, de uno mismo y del mundo. Son muy distintas, incluso en ingles...
#19
When I worked at Waffle House the location I worked at was part of the prison work release program. Our grill guy was a convict in for burglary and a few other charges. I'd say he worked there for maybe 6-8 months. Over the course of that 6-8 months he became romantically involved with a customer. Also, behind her back, he was going up to the motel behind us for some steamy times with a few other servers. He was stringing a whole bunch of girls along. The girl who was his "girlfriend" wouldn't believe anything bad about him. She was a very young, sweet, naive girl and I felt bad for her TBH. Me and my fellow older "seen it all" lady servers tried to tell her. But she wouldn't listen.
Anyway, one night the girlfriend was there, and the two of them were in the stock room doing...whatever it was they did in there. I was on my way out the back door to throw some trash in the dumpster and I heard her say "You mean just LEAVE??" so I started to listen. He's trying to talk her into hopping in her van, grabbing her 2 year old and taking off to Alabama with him. Troubled, I headed out front to mull over what I should do. Deep down I thought "surely she's not that stupid".
We got slammed right after this and one of the other complicit servers filled in for him on the grill so he could spend time with her in the closet. I had no time to think about what to do after that. I didn't realize they'd actually done it until the CO that came to pick him up was there, asking where he was. Everyone had disappeared at that point, knowing what was coming, leaving me to be the one to have to tell the guy he escaped. And I was pissed. Beyond pissed. I just stood there, jaw clenched, staring at the prison guard angrily. He knew what I was about to say before I even said it.
"F**k me, they took off"
And I knew what was coming after that. I knew the f*****g news would be there. I knew I was going to be questioned. Oh my god I was so incredibly mad I could've turned into the sun. I was mad at them too. Him for being such an incredible d*****s doing this when he only had THREE MONTHS left on his sentence. Her for being so stupid as to torpedo her life and get her kid taken away. I liked both of them somewhat. Pair of f*****g dumbasses.
So I got questioned and avoided being put on TV (thank god THANK GOD) and the manhunt ensued. All the second shift servers but me got fired or sent to other stores after it was found out what they'd all been doing. Some other things came out about them too so it wasn't just for the escape incident. As to the pair of dumbasses, she was found about a week later in Alabama, alone in a park, because he'd abandoned her. Then a few days later he was found at his dads house. Got 6 more years added to his sentence. She got her kid taken, lost her job and 2 years in prison, which she only had to serve about 6 months of.
Stupid stupid stupid. Everybody in this story was stupid, including me.
Sally Moen 6 months ago
No, OP is NOT stupid. The older you are, the more stories you will have of stupid coworkers doing easily preventable accidents and making dubious choices, all of which cannot be persuaded not to.
Andrew Arons 6 months ago
I think he was just kicking himself for not immediately reporting what he overheard to the cops. If he did, the girl might have avoided losing her kid and prison. But everyone experiences 20/20 hindsight every so often.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 6 months ago
On the Mickey Mouse Club, Wednesday was "Anything Can Happen Day". It's always Wednesday at Waffle House.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
I mean, you DID do the right thing, whether you consider it stupid or not (and believe me, I do understand why you would think this, and I've probably made those own arguments in my head a thousand times apiece). But when you pare away all the camaraderie and other emotional stuff, you did the right thing, and that's GOTTA count for something, no matter how s****y it might feel in the moment. (Too familiar with that one, too.)
#20
Not the worst, but definitely a head shaking moment. I was at the D.C. Zoo with me little girl visiting the gorilla exhibit, when a small boy 10-11 years old turns to his mother and asks, “Mom, it says that we’ve evolved from primates is this true”? Which point his mother scolds him and says “Don’t read that filth! All humans have descended from Christ, not primates! Start reading your bible and stop reading your science book”! I was genuinely stuck in awe for a few minutes as I felt a bit sorry for the small boy.
Roxy222uk 6 months ago
Um? May be she should read the bible herself as I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t claim we’re all descended from Christ.
Angela C 6 months ago
You expect a Christian to actually read and understand the Bible?
Load More Replies... Kristiina Männiste 6 months ago
So Christś mother in this womans opinion was not a human? Virgin Mary was an australopithecus???
Kristiina Männiste 6 months ago
(i know there were more steps between australopithecuses and the modern homo sapiens sapiens but australopithecus just sounds nice😁)
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Fellfromthemoon 6 months ago
I remember The last temptation of Christ being controversial, as in that movie Jesus sleeps with a woman, and Christ must've been chaste. Now this overheard conversation tells me that there is a fraction of Christians who believe Christ participated in enough, ehm, couples' activity to populate the Earth.
Abel 6 months ago
Remember that William Dafoe was Jesus and ended being the Green Goblin. A logical evolution.
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Diane Tucker 6 months ago
Would be big news to the several scientists I know who are also Christians. And the monks and clergy and Christians who pretty much invented science as we know it. Read some history, lady.
B 6 months ago
Some people are so obviously descended from apes. Orangutans, in the case of certain politicians...
Joe Reaves 6 months ago
Orangutans are pretty peaceful and intelligent. Don't slander them like that!
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Sarah Wilson 6 months ago
Pretty certain Christ had no children. Most likely all descendents of Noah if you think about it 😆
Bryn 6 months ago
While my mother (whom I love, don't get me wrong) isn't this bad, she believes the same thing. But oddly enough believes in evolution LOL It's so confusing with her.
Joe Reaves 6 months ago
I mean, the Catholic Church believes in evolution, so it's perfectly possible to be very religious and still pro science.
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#21
My Mother and Father were arguing one night. My Mother had a bunch of pill bottles on the kitchen counter. My bother, sister and I woke up because they were so loud. We got out of bed, watched them arguing. Our Father said to our Mother right in front of us, "go ahead and k**l yourself, but I'm not taking care of these kids". Our Mother looked at us and walked past us and went to bed. Our Father then yelled at us to go back to bed. Our ages were 8, 6, and 4.
Kristiina Männiste 6 months ago
I hope op made the resolve to never take care of his a-hole dad
Gayle Owens 6 months ago
stick him in the cheapest backwoods old folks home and never visit
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Niamh_ie 5 months ago
And it got worse 😢Sadly, he did mean what he said. They divorced a year later. We rarely ever saw our father. She remarried when I was 12 and allowed her second husband to r**e me on a daily basis. Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children. I'm a nurse now I work in a psychiatric hospital. I have one son who is the greatest gift God has given me. I am single, and don't want to date anymore.
Niamh_ie 5 months ago
Unfortunately it got worse Sadly, he did mean what he said. They divorced a year later. We rarely ever saw our father. She remarried when I was 12 and allowed her second husband to r**e me on a daily basis. Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children.
Load More Replies... Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
Let him die alone in a Medicaid nursing home that barely passes inspection. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
#22
I’d been on holiday for about a month, on the other side of the world to my family. I had FaceTimed my Mum and told her what I was up to, found out what was going on back home, just normal conversation. Eventually we said bye and Mum ended the call (or so she thought). She’d just paused it so the audio was still coming through. I heard my little sister ask her “Are you crying?” and Mum said “Not now.” I quickly hung up. I think she missed me and didn’t want me to know she was sad :(.
Paul Jayne 6 months ago
When going through my mother's stuff I found a letter I had written to her when I was a young backpacker in SE Asia. She had kept it for 40 years. I miss her so much.
#23
I was on a cruise and reading a book in one of the lounges. This very upset woman sat sort of behind me, and her husband was with her. She was crying because their vet had some bad news about their dog, and she was trying to call the vet. She told the husband after she got off the phone that she needed 15 min to listen to a song by herself and collect her thoughts. He asked if he could get her anything and she said no, she just wanted to be alone for a minute.
Once he left... she called her BOYFRIEND and started giving him grief about girls liking his pictures on Instagram and how jealous she was and was making plans to sneak off to call him later. S*****g.
PeepPeep the duck 6 months ago
I’m Aussie so I took it as - sḻutbág, an old classic insult
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#24
So after we adopted our baby girl my grandparents came up to visit my mom. I was chatting with them, small talk and whatnot. They were acting uncomfortable, glared at me, snide remark here and there about why did I adopt her.
So I go to use the bathroom but it's already in use. While standing by the door waiting this exchange happened:
Grandpa: Leave it to him to bring that *** **** squint into this country.
Grandma: She (my daughter) is worse than that dam ****** his sister pushed out a few years ago.
So yea, had to pick up my daughter and leave before not being able to control my behavior and beat the hell out of two elderly people.
fyi, my daughter is Chinese. My nephew is African American descent.
EDIT: Oh wow, what taking a day away from the internet will do to an inbox.
So a bit more info (I was in a rush to get my kids to their activities yesterday). My grandparents and I have had a strained but reasonably civil relationship before this. My mom (their daughter) never measured up to what they thought would be a good person. Both my sisters and I think we have an awesome mother and more or less follow in her footsteps as far as morals, outlook, etc. This of course meant my sisters and I never really measured up to our cousins (who were great people in our grandparents eyes).
Apparently both my grandparents were stationed in Pearl Harbor, grandpa as a mechanic and grandma as a nurse. Both witnessed the kamakazi, saw friends die around the airport and in hospitals. According to my great aunts and great uncles (their brothers and sisters) my grandparents came back with a deep hatred of Asians; not just those responsible for their friends deaths but all Asians. During my 7th grade year in school my history teacher was a WW2 and Korean war vet. Being a private school we didn't follow the normal curriculum but rather discussed the major intricacies leading up to WW2 and the world wide aftermath. Basically China and Japan didn't like each other. This has stuck in my mind pretty well after all these years. So for my grandparents to hate all Asians is just SMH.
Anyway to answer a few questions in this edit. That exchange took place in the summer of 2005. My daughter was 1 at the time, she's now 14 and is totally awesome! She also has a younger brother also from China who is also awesome! Yea, I'm lucky as f**k to have them in my life.
My grandpa died about 2 years ago, grandma a few months later. Apparently they took me and my little sister (the one with the African-American son) out of their will. After listening to them back in 2005 I didn't want their money. We already donate to two charities that help Chinese orphans. Any inheritance they would have given us would have gone straight to those charities.
My mother still doesn't know I heard this. She has two sisters that were beloved by grandpa and grandma. She also has/had a multitude of really great aunts and uncles that she lived with more than her parents (grandpa was physically a*****e; probably PTSD after Pearl Harbor would be my guess). My mom turned out to be a great person despite my grandparents. Hell, she went with my wife and I to China to help with our daughter while we were there finishing up our paperwork.
The real kicker in this entire mess? Three of my four grandparents (grandma in this story came here from Germany, grandpa from Ireland) were first generation immigrants from Europe back in the early 1920's; only my dad's dad has a long term lineage here in the states.
I was furious when I overheard their chat but had to stop myself because I knew being dad from jail would be rough and my daughter needed a dad. We had already started paperwork to adopt our son; having even a misdemeanor "beat the hell out of old people" conviction would have stopped that instantly.
Pheebs 6 months ago
Sounds a bit like my grandmother, though she didn’t have anything to excuse her. She loved all of my cousins, even the two by marriage, way more than my sib and I. All because she thought my mom came from a white trash family - she did not, they were just low income due to my other grandparents making poor financial decisions. I think it was made worse by us being a little darker in complexion than most of the fam due to mom’s Mediterranean roots. I may or may not have been called a “latto baby” (mulatto) more than once, thanks to being tan with corkscrew curly hair. My grandfather was a saint, and loved us all equally.
Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
China was our ally in WWII and was already at was with Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. So not only are they racist but they're ignorant racist. Which is probably redundant.
#25
You know that school in Achille Oklahoma where the transgender kid is getting s**t on because she just happens to live in the center of redneckery? I live 5 miles from that town, in a slightly larger center of redneckery. I was at the bar at Applebee's (only place to get a beer and food after work don't judge) and the people across from me were talking about it. Apparently they didn't want their Christian kids to go to school with an "it" from the devil. The "thing" also was special enough to use the teachers' restroom. I some times get culture shock in my own home town. I can't wait to move and never look back.
K Barnes 6 months ago
They must be good Christians... because Jesus taught to hate thy neighbour, didn't he?
Louise Pirro 4 months ago
If a person says they love God but hate their neighbour, they are a liar...info straight out of the Bible...
Load More Replies... Brandi VanSteenwyk 6 months ago
"Achille" -- the name of the town -- speaks volumes in that ONE word. NOTHING can be comfortable there.
1LittleGranny64 3 months ago
There’s no hate like Christian love. There’s nothing that will ever get me back in a church of any kind.
#26
When I was 7 we had two house phones in different parts of the house. I heard the phone ring one time and my parents were both holed up in my dads office and picked up the phone which I thought was weird - I picked up the other phone to satiate my curiosity only to hear some lady screaming at my mom about how bad my dad was in bed and she doesn’t care about him anyway, just wanted to get ahead at work. Was a lot to swallow at the time and an awkward afternoon.
BrownEyedGrrl 6 months ago
Why was it weird that your parents answered the phone? Am I missing something?
#27
Not that much of an accident, but my mom caught my dad having an affair and I overheard her as she was yelling at the top of her lungs while my dad was sobbing begging her to take him back
Never looked at my dad the same way after that
Edit: Just for some more background, I was 16 when this happened, and I'm now 34. My parents are still together.
#28
Was eating at a Joe's Crab Shack several years ago. Our server was a younger black guy. So we're all done eating, restaurant is fairly empty, all of a sudden we hear him clear as day in the kitchen "What? N***a I will knock your m**********n' head off!" Then we see him walk out of the kitchen with a manager, he goes outside for a few minutes to "cool off" presumably. A short time later he comes out with the desserts a couple people at our table ordered and says, all cheery, "So, who had the cheesecake?" It was so weird.
Kristiina Männiste 6 months ago
Isnt that just the normal way how it goes in a restaurant kitchen?
Andrew Arons 6 months ago
No date night is complete without dinner and a show!😜
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#29
Someone describing to their friend how to commit r**e and get away with it. I'm glad I kicked em out of my life, I'm glad you got back into d***s, I hope you o******e c********r.
Janet Sparrow 6 months ago
I really cannot even understand the words with asterisks. I can’t even try.
Sally Moen 6 months ago
d7ug5 aka pharmaceuticals, 0v3rd0s3, c0cksuck3r. There. It's like a puzzle
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#30
Once i was waiting for the elevator in my building and a guy came out of his apartment and screamed into his phone the following quote. Ahem. "I COULD SUCK YO D**K AND I STILL WOULDN'T BE GAY!". We both looked at each other in shock as he receded into his home.
Con O Cuinn 6 months ago
How can you know for sure that you don't like broccoli if you've never tasted broccoli
Caffeinated Ape 6 months ago
Sometimes, you don't even realise the broccoli is an option! But, sometimes you don't need to try it to know that it's definitely not for you, just so long as you don't shame others for having it on their plate! This analogy gets weirder the further I stretch it...
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 6 months ago
The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong,. But that's the smart way to lay your bet.
Andrew Arons 6 months ago
What two consenting adults do in the privacy of a crowded city bus is none of my business.🤪
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I overheard a girl that i basically fell in love with, talking with her friend like "You know, hes cute but i think we will just stay friends".
I overheard that literally seconds before i was going to invite her on a date.
BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
That's fine. So, you've got a friend. Often better than a lover anyways. I find my friends of the opposite gender are some of my most enriching relationships
Anthony Elmore 6 months ago
I don't know that anyone's ever climbed over a mountain by pretending it's not there. Friend of the opposite s*x are great, but right now he doesn't have a friend, he has a rejection (Albeit an indirect rejection). He's got a long way to go before it's any form of enriching relationship.
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Michael Largey 6 months ago
Met a woman who was in avid pursuit of a very good looking friend of mine. We found we enjoyed each other's company and became good friends. When she finally figured out that she wasn't going to get my friend, she informed me that I would do. I didn't.
#32
I once overheard in a bus a woman explaining to her friend that she didn't like that her new BF 10 yo daughter had to live with them because her mom was in hospital, so she had hidden money and valuables in the little girl bag, and was planning to confront her about the "theft" with BF present and get her kicked out of the house.
When that Turbocunt friend asked where the girl would go once she was kicked out ( mom in hosputal and all that), that monster of a woman answered " She can sleep under the bridge or work on her back like her sl*t of a mother I don't give a sh*t, this is MY man and she can die for all I care"
I swear if that poor kid had been with them I would have brought her home with me. I am no maternal by any way but some things and people are just... nightmarish.
Abel 6 months ago (edited)
Indeed. That word is like a treasure! 😅 In spanish could be Turbochocho, and no Panda censor can ban it!
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 6 months ago
I would have gotten off the bus when this woman did, followed her home, and waited for the BF to arrive so I could tell him.
Beak Hookage 6 months ago
Feeling jealous about "sharing" your BF with a CHILD is just so vile. On top of everything else.
#33
Waiting to skype call my long distance girl-friend and before the video comes on the audio peaks up, heard her roommate yell to her "You gonna dump that sorry little boy now?" Yeah she immediately turned off the feed and broke up with me over skype text instead. Nice.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
LDR is a prescription for heartbreak. I know some people make it work, but trust me, they are the exceptions.
Svenne O'Lotta 6 months ago
LDR is obviously not why these people broke up.
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#34
I was in my garage one night a few years back when I overheard my teenage neighbor on the phone trying to convince his girlfriend to get an abortion.
BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
I mean, if they're both teenagers, it probably would be the best thing. A child shouldn't be raising a child. Getting ready for the down votes
iseefractals 6 months ago
It shouldn't be a "discussion" Teenagers shouldn't be having children. That anyone would classify this as "the worst thing they ever heard" pisses me off. Being a parent shouldn't be treated as a right, it's a privilege, and it is not about YOU. It is about the quality of life that you are able to provide for that child, that didn't ask to be here. You think being against abortion is "saving the life of a child" no it's about destroying three lives, so you can virtue signal to paint yourself as being a bastion of morality.
Andi 6 months ago
or it could just be adult heartbreak that a young man and his GF have found themselves having to deal with such a situation at all. No where does it say they were anti - abortion - that's your assumption - other than that i agree with your original sentiment - but calm down friend,
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#35
Brought this up in another thread like a month ago. On my first day of college while waiting on line at the bookstore (I know, I know you should never buy books at the college lol) two girls were behind me on the line talking about a "cute guy in front of them on the line". I naturally took this to think it was me and it raised my ego quite a bit. Until one of them tapped me on the shoulder and asking me to get the attention of the guy just ahead of me on line.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 5 months ago
You habe to ALWAYS look around first, before jumping out of the trench, or you will be shot in the heart...
#36
Two of my best friends in high-school had a conference call about me. I just happened to be with the third friend they called and overheard how they thought I was annoying and I’m only friends with this other person for popularity.
Stopped being friends with them shortly after this.
#37
When I was a teenager, our bedroom doors were nothing but shutters with handles. Way too many times did I have to listen to my (still underage at the time) older sister have phone s*x while I was trying to sleep.
*Edit- FFS, people, I'm female and she's a b***h. Even if she was hot, I'd still want to throat-punch her for trying to get me grounded for "eavesdropping" when I told her to stfu at 2AM, through two doors and down a hallway.
Con O Cuinn 6 months ago
Holy s**t, I am so glad I can't see the comment section that caused that edit.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
Reddit is a trash fire, especially since 8chan/8kun got shut down and those n******s migrated.
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#38
“You poisoned my ovaries, you JEW!” -crazy woman to her friend while they were arguing.
Andrew Arons 6 months ago
First it was Space Lasers and now it's Ovary Poisoning. You gotta admit, the Jews' approach to cartoonish supervillainy has style!🤪
RagDollLali 6 months ago
We've been using an old copy of the 1999 ACME catalog, we really must update soon
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#39
This crazy lady in a pizza shop was talking to herself going on about how she "hates n*****s, jews, fat people..." the list goes on. so I turned around and asked if she was ok. Then I got a "F**K YOU! F*****G GINGER". and that was the end of that. It was lowkey really funny cause everyone gave me that 'I'm sorry' look and then they all silently shamed her. Then she got even more pissed and talked to herself louder. I didn't stay long enough to see if she got kicked out.
Kitty 🥀 6 months ago (edited)
Mental illness is muttering to yourself loudly in public. Being racist/antisemitic/bigoted is just being an a$$hole and has nothing to do with mental health. We need to stop giving these people a valid excuse and shame them like they deserve.
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#40
I guess it wasn’t so much an accident as it was an inevitability, but as I was entering my dorm one day freshman year of college, a girl who was sitting in the courtyard shouted to her friend who was right behind me “THE DOCTOR SAYS NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME, I JUST HAVE AN ABNORMAL NIP**E.”.
Earonn - 6 months ago
Because OP was "in the line of fire", so to speak. The shouter was aware she was there, so it wasn't really "overhearing".
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Pink kitty 6 months ago
Wonder if she was serious or if the friend and her were just pranking the op for their amusement?
#41
When I heard my parents fighting about when my dad had to move out. The fight was loud and started getting violent before I broke it up. Also the day I learned my parents were getting divorced.
Beak Hookage 6 months ago
I know a guy whose parents fought all the time and when his mother finally kicked his useless dad out of the house, he said it was such a relief that there was no more yelling and screaming any more.
Pink kitty 6 months ago
My parents divorced when I was 7. Best day ever! They should never be in the same room together.
#42
Was bartending, on our busiest day, people were waiting everywhere even outside. Family is a little loud and rowdy. A kid about 8 can't be still, him and a guy seems to be about late twenties are wrestling and acting up. Kid is yelling no and and screaming. People are kind of used to them at this point. Suddenly they guy starts yelling I am gonna grab your p***s! And says it a few times. Kid is yelling no! The entire restaurant got dead silent and everyone was jaw dropped staring finally, after a bit too long, the Mother is like "WTF can't say that or act like that" and they all go outside.
Kathleen Pearlman 6 months ago
I believe he meant the appendage on the front of a male. P***S
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As my friend and I were waking through a parking lot, leaving a farmers market, we heard a toddler screaming and shouting, “I WANT A LOLLIPOP! I WANT A LOLLIPOP!” Over and over. The very stressed out looking mother snapped back at him with not only, “You’re never getting a lollipop...EVER.” But follows that up with, “You’re an embarrassment.” Not even you’re embarrassing me, just “You’re and embarrassment.” My friend and I held our lips really tight until we got to our car.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
If I ever find myself tossed in jail for 30 days, I'm pretty sure "parents" like this will be involved.
#44
We had this class in high school that was out of campus so a school bus had to take us, the bus would drop us off and stay there parked until the class ended and the bus driver would drive us back (class was an hour long, bus driver waited inside the bus with the ignition off) , it was finals for that class but I had finished it a day earlier than everyone so I decided to stay on the bus and fall asleep, bus driver proceeds to have the most explicit and dirty conversation with his wife on the phone, stuff like "im gonna tie you up, whip you and f**k you" type stuff, (mind you this class was at 8 am...how h***y do you have to be to have these conversations at 8 am lmao ) , he was oblivious that I was on the bus since I was close to the back. He eventually realized later during the drive back that I never got off the bus since he never saw me get back on but I was there some how.....he gave me a stare of pure shame on the rear view mirror, it was hilarious and weird.
#45
When I was a senior in high school, I overhead two new freshman girls talking about s*x. One of them said she was a virgin, and the other stared at her incredulously and said "You're supposed to take care of that before you start high school.".
Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
There is nothing wrong with being a virgin. There are a lot of consequences when having s*x at a young age, particularly if being pressured into it.
Astrobloom (she/they) 6 months ago
I think this is in the American system where there’s elementary, middle school and high school, and (I had to google this) at age 15 they start high school (which isn’t much better but anyway) hope this helps :)
Load More Replies... Cindy Brick 6 months ago
Gee, I guess I should be ashamed because I was a virgin when I married??
KatSaidWhat 6 months ago (edited)
Out of curiosity - what was that like when you consummated the marriage? Weird or just felt natural? (ETA - there is no obligation to answer even if you do see this, I'm just curious)
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Overheard two girls talking in my dorm building a couple years back.
"Did you get that guys number?"
"Yeah I texted him but when he replied, his texts showed up green, I think he's poor. I don't think I'm gonna respond."
"I wouldn't either.".
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
Just the most recent logical extension of Apple's mentality since the early eighties. They've always courted the moneybags.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 6 months ago
Something to do with having Android and iPhones. I think it means he had an Android phone? Anyway, he doesn’t know it but he dodged a bullet there.
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Day Andie 6 months ago
There are a lot more android users in this world than ios (iphone) users. Of that 30% that do use iphones, obviously some are miserable stuckup bitches. S21-2-Andr...x820-1.png 
Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
I am far from rich (upper lower class/lower middle class) and iphones are garbage. I will only ever have Samsung Galaxy phones. I will die on this hill.
#47
"No I wouldn't ever date that kid. He is ug-ly!" A crush of mine in middle school describing why she wouldn't wouldn't ever go out with me while she didn't know I was walking a few people behind her in the hall. It got a good laugh from everyone else but middle school me did not like that moment very much. lol Also, probably not the worst thing I have ever heard but its all I can remember right now.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
Saw a meme yesterday (possibly here) about how we have to change that to "there are still some fishes left among the trash" and how it's equally applicable to the ocean and dating...
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#48
I was visiting my brother from out of state **(ETA: I'm female).** We went to the store, he dropped me off at his college apartment, and then he and my dad went to run a different errand. My brother's landline phone rang. I went to answer it, but it went straight to his answering machine (this was a while ago- 1999). The message was a male voice saying, "Hey, I saw you just a little while ago with a kind of ugly girl...."
**ETA = Edited To Add. Your frustration at trying to figure out how this made sense in the above sentence is me, a 40+ person, trying to understand some of the pop culture references you gosh-darned kids throw around.**.
CorgiButts 6 months ago
Don't worry about it...I am also *ahem* over 40 and I actually figured it out without your edit, lol
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the ETA warms the cocccccccckles of my genX heart
Joe Reaves 6 months ago
Apparently the young people don't understand that ETA means edited to add and were trying to figure out how estimated time of arrival made sense in that context. OOP considers this equal to her frustration at trying to comprehend the same people's internet slang.
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I overheard my long term boyfriend’s Mom talking negatively about me multiple times when she didn’t think I was around. We have been dating a long time and I try to be as thoughtful as possible. It is what it is I guess. I can’t make her like me or change the way she is.
Senjo Krane 6 months ago
The boyfriend hopefully stuck up for her and stopped talking to that horrid woman
Jan 3 months ago
Maybe the OP is in fact horrible? We cannot know this from this post. 🤣
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One time I was in a stall at a gas station bathroom. This guy charges in and says something along the lines of:
"I can't wait to come over. I'm pretending this urinal is your face.".
Roxy222uk 6 months ago
Honestly, internet pôrn has a lot to answer for. Before then this kind of thing was a very niche kink that a) someone would have to pay for and b) other people would mock if they found out. Now teenage boys are growing up thinking it’s a normal part of a relationship.
Svenne O'Lotta 6 months ago
It really wasn't. Urine is an incredibly common kink.
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Ellinor 6 months ago
Why the downvotes ? If the two are adults and consenting then there is no problem.
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I heard my ex having a “business” call in his office that sounded a lot like cheating....
#52
When I was 9 I overheard my mom telling the maid not to tell the kids that we're eating horse meat for dinner.
Sally Moen 6 months ago
In the US this conversation would be horrific, as horse isn't sold for human consumption. In Europe, its normal to buy at the butcher. I understand its sweeter than beef tho idk. And in context to the overheard conversation, is the implication that the kiddies wouldn't approve of horse?
Con O Cuinn 6 months ago
That's not universal. Plenty of countries where this isn't the norm at all. For example, people were outraged when it was uncovered that certain brands' beef lasagne contained horse meat in the UK and Ireland. And it was widely acknowledged that they wouldn't have been as upset if it had been lamb or mutton.
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#53
I had my son and about 2 months after he was born i was called a lazy mother by my own mother. a couple months later she was on the phone with one of her friends claiming i a***ed my son because i let him cry a bit longer than she deemed necessary.
i was outside her door at 2 am to bring him back to bed. i was 21 and was shell shocked with being a mom so suddenly. didn't find out i was pregnant until i was almost 5 months along. I was rushed into a lot of things.
#55
I was on a bus trying to listen to music. This girls at beside me and was talking so loud I could hear it over my headphones. She said “yeah I’m working real hard to get my daughter back I’ve been clean for over a year! (Pause) extasy (e*****y??) doesn’t count.”
I’m sorry for that girls daughter.
Sally Moen 6 months ago
You hear similar stories from parents either trying to get their kids back or what they did to lose their kids, if you attend NA or AA or SAA or other a*******n recovery meetings. Its not all depressing tho, there's a high success rate for those who stay abstinent .
#56
I was trying on some pants in a changing room. The woman in the stall next to me started talking on her phone: "..yeah I'm trying on a bra, my b***s are hanging right now." 12 year old me quickly changed into my pants and got the hell out of there.
I don't know why but it creeped me out big time.
#57
On a bus.
Guy _ ”yeah I'm moving in front of world bar ... Blah blah ... I'm going to pick up so much ... Blah blah ... Yeah your probably right, that b***h may have given me aids...”.
#58
Guy 1: "Man I can't believe she's 15..."
Guy 2: "Well hey, the younger the fruit, the sweeter the juice.".
Sally Moen 6 months ago
Also, a misquote. But those guys were dum8@5535, hopefully they got dumped
Load More Replies... #59
Guy on his phone as I walked by "well, just shoot him in the f*****g head".
#60
>*”We should just k**l all the skinny sluts so only big beauties are left...”*.
#61
Passed two people on the street:
"... Oh I have the most amazing story to tell you.."
I was in a hurry, so I had to keep walking away, without hearing what was about to be told.
Caffeinated Ape 6 months ago
Don't worry, it was just going to turn out that they were roommates.
What do you think ?
Mari 6 months ago (edited)
I heard a neighbour shouting to my kids and their cousins "Go back to your country!" (they were all little) I confronted him and asked him why he was so mean to say this to little kids. If he had problems, he had to say this to us (adults). He apologized. We are bringing him food or desserts on our religious holidays. He changed his idea and now he is always friendly and shows us respect.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
Thumbs up for confronting him and being so nice to him still. I imagine that's not easy to do and I'm glad your neighbor changed his attitude.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago (edited)
I've heard lots of hilarious conversations on SEPTA trains and buses. I think my favorite is still a guy ordering pizza. He was shouting into his phone and reading off his credit card info. Read it out twice. I wrote down all his info onto a slip of paper with a note that said "cancel this card" and handed it to him on my way off the train.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
oh good peter paul and mary I haven't been on a SEPTA bus since like 1992 and just hearing that first sentence brought back SO many memories...
Load More Replies... Sarah 6 months ago (edited)
1994 , I’m 14 yrs old. Overheard girls from My class chatting with girls from another class. Laughing saying .. let’s do a swap. We’ll swap our re - tard sarah and we’ll take your r****d.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago (edited)
That is so cruel. I'm sorry for you. I once "overheard" a mean comment about me when I was about that age--and I felt they meant for me to "over"hear it. That was extra hurtful.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 6 months ago
I was fifteen. My mum and I had gone to watch my father in the Anzac Day march. Afterwards I went to find him in the crowd. He was talking to another returned serviceman he knew. I heard the other man say, ''Are your wife and daughter here?'' My father replied, ''Yeah, the two fat b it c h e s are here somewhere.'' Far from the worst things he's ever said to my face but that one hurt.
sturmwesen 6 months ago
in the subway, one ca 17 year old to an other while ignoring her toddler: "I am pregnant and *the father* is in prison... [...] I want to do a line (of white powder) ... "What the F...
vy4b62ztwm 1 month ago
I was CSA’d as a child by a family friend/cop. It came out when we moved over 260kms away from there. I reported it to the police and got put through traumatic medical procedures and interviews about it all. I was adamant even at 9 I wanted to charge him. Suddenly it all just stopped. For years my parents who claimed for years they always believed me and always had my back, told me the prosecution decided there wasn’t enough evidence and it was a ‘he said, she said’ situation. Odd, considering I was 3-9 years old when the a***e happened but I didn’t question it. After an a*****e text with my mother (who is a narcissist and probably bi polar and alcoholic and a huge part of my reason for therapy) over not telling her something the second she asked me for it despite working, on a call with my pretty much big sister (cousin who lived with us as kids) it was revealed by accident my mum and dad dropped the case because they were scared of my a****r who had never even contacted him.
Janessa 3 months ago
Dunno if this counts but when I was little, I had a doctor's appointment and thought she (the doctor) told mom either my brother or I was going to die. I was just like "guess I'm dying then." Nope, no one died, apparently, I misheard. I do wonder what she actually meant, though because I never asked mom about it. (for clarification that was 10 or more years ago.)
Mari 6 months ago (edited)
I heard a neighbour shouting to my kids and their cousins "Go back to your country!" (they were all little) I confronted him and asked him why he was so mean to say this to little kids. If he had problems, he had to say this to us (adults). He apologized. We are bringing him food or desserts on our religious holidays. He changed his idea and now he is always friendly and shows us respect.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
Thumbs up for confronting him and being so nice to him still. I imagine that's not easy to do and I'm glad your neighbor changed his attitude.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago (edited)
I've heard lots of hilarious conversations on SEPTA trains and buses. I think my favorite is still a guy ordering pizza. He was shouting into his phone and reading off his credit card info. Read it out twice. I wrote down all his info onto a slip of paper with a note that said "cancel this card" and handed it to him on my way off the train.
Robert Beveridge 6 months ago
oh good peter paul and mary I haven't been on a SEPTA bus since like 1992 and just hearing that first sentence brought back SO many memories...
Load More Replies... Sarah 6 months ago (edited)
1994 , I’m 14 yrs old. Overheard girls from My class chatting with girls from another class. Laughing saying .. let’s do a swap. We’ll swap our re - tard sarah and we’ll take your r****d.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago (edited)
That is so cruel. I'm sorry for you. I once "overheard" a mean comment about me when I was about that age--and I felt they meant for me to "over"hear it. That was extra hurtful.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 6 months ago
I was fifteen. My mum and I had gone to watch my father in the Anzac Day march. Afterwards I went to find him in the crowd. He was talking to another returned serviceman he knew. I heard the other man say, ''Are your wife and daughter here?'' My father replied, ''Yeah, the two fat b it c h e s are here somewhere.'' Far from the worst things he's ever said to my face but that one hurt.
sturmwesen 6 months ago
in the subway, one ca 17 year old to an other while ignoring her toddler: "I am pregnant and *the father* is in prison... [...] I want to do a line (of white powder) ... "What the F...
vy4b62ztwm 1 month ago
I was CSA’d as a child by a family friend/cop. It came out when we moved over 260kms away from there. I reported it to the police and got put through traumatic medical procedures and interviews about it all. I was adamant even at 9 I wanted to charge him. Suddenly it all just stopped. For years my parents who claimed for years they always believed me and always had my back, told me the prosecution decided there wasn’t enough evidence and it was a ‘he said, she said’ situation. Odd, considering I was 3-9 years old when the a***e happened but I didn’t question it. After an a*****e text with my mother (who is a narcissist and probably bi polar and alcoholic and a huge part of my reason for therapy) over not telling her something the second she asked me for it despite working, on a call with my pretty much big sister (cousin who lived with us as kids) it was revealed by accident my mum and dad dropped the case because they were scared of my a****r who had never even contacted him.
Janessa 3 months ago
Dunno if this counts but when I was little, I had a doctor's appointment and thought she (the doctor) told mom either my brother or I was going to die. I was just like "guess I'm dying then." Nope, no one died, apparently, I misheard. I do wonder what she actually meant, though because I never asked mom about it. (for clarification that was 10 or more years ago.)
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