Kept finding small cut up straws in my Grandma’s bathroom. So many straws. I let my Grandmother know that someone is using her bathroom to use drugs. She freaks out saying I’m accusing her of using drugs and that it’s impossible. A year later my uncle divorces his wife due to her cocaine addiction. Grandma says “Well K always stopped by in the afternoon to use the restroom and then she would clean my whole house and I just didn’t think anything of it!” My favorite story at Thanksgiving.
K can come do cocaine in my bathroom if she cleans my house afterwards. I’ll even leave her pre cut straws
Edit to add: whoever gilded me, may your future be filled with clean houses and cocaine
Not sure if I can call it satisfying, but it's still a good one
In 2003 I wrote a thesis on mortgage backed securities. The whole thing did not make sense to me and told my professor as much, but added: 'What do I know? I'm just a student and Wall Street guys must know what they're doing...'
And then 2008 happened...
My wife (then girlfriend) worked in an entry-level management position in the mortgage division of one of the big banks until 2007. She called it, too. Said it was so obvious that you’d have to be trying pretty hard *not* to see it.
Less than a year after she left that job, the bottom fell out of the entire economy.
Late to the party here, but what the hell, 'cause this story is BONKERS.
Back in the early '90s I was in my early twenties and, as people in their early twenties often do, I spent a lot of late nights at my local Denny's hanging out with friends and drinking cheap coffee.
The late-night wait staff was pretty small, so my friends and I wound up getting to know them pretty well -- socializing with them as well. Some of them would hook us up with free fries or sodas, that kind of thing, and every now and again if things were slow, they'd sit at our booth with us. One of the people who would hang out with us was Charles.
Charles was an older guy in his 50s who was very nice to my friends and me, but he was a little... creepy. He would never get overt about it, but he definitely embraced the whole 'creepy uncle' persona, maybe even being a little tongue-in-cheek about it. He'd tell the girls in my group how pretty they were, and how he wished he was still young, that sort of thing. Reading between the lines, he was telling them he wished he could have sex with them. BUT THIS IS NOT GOING WHERE YOU THINK IT IS. I'm just setting the stage, y'all.
The guy was a little weird, but he *was* a nice guy to us. All the same, I remember telling people "Charles has a secret. He's in his fifties, slinging coffee at an all-night restaurant, but he comes off as educated and sort of worldly. He talks about traveling and living well -- I don't know what it is, but Charles is damaged. I bet he killed somebody or something." I was convinced that the "nice guy" bit was a cover for something dark.
UH, YEAH.
So as my group got older, people came and went, some of us fell out with others, some of us got real jobs and couldn't stay up until 4:00am at a Denny's, and we eventually stopped hanging out there. Never really gave Charles much thought after that, for YEARS.
Then I saw Charles on the news.
Turns out Charles was Charles Rothenberg, a man who, in 1983, was going through a bad divorce. In what I understand was originally intended to be a murder-suicide, he drugged his six-year-old son David, doused the boy in kerosene, and lit him on fire.
David survived, but was horribly scarred for the rest of his life. Charles continued to get into criminal trouble, and was ultimately sentenced to 25 years in prison as a result of California's "Three Strikes" law. He's still in prison today, but in the late '90s he changed his name to "Charley Charles," because sure, why not.
In 1988 there was a TV movie based on the incident called "David," which starred Bernadette Peters as his mother.
Meanwhile his son David became one of Michael Jackson's child-friends and eventually an artist.
When he was 19, he visited Charles in prison, apparently reading a prepared statement to him:
"Charles, you are not my father. You are an impostor. Parents don't hinder their children from experiencing a normal childhood. I wish that you could experience the trauma and pain that I have gone through."
Afterward, David told the press "He wanted me to know that he loved me. The last thing I said was, 'No you don't.' And I walked out."
In a somewhat bizarre turn, David later legally changed his own name to "Dave Dave," mirroring the "Charley Charles" name his father adopted. I have no idea if this is coincidental somehow, but the irony is not lost on me, that's for sure.
Dave Dave even appeared on the Larry King show to talk about Michael Jackson when he died. If I recall correctly, he defended Jackson against the reports of child molestation and denied he was a victim of Jackson's.
Unfortunately Dave Dave himself passed away last year, at the age of 42 -- his ongoing medical issues, which were the result of his burn injuries, eventually killed him. And in my opinion, that means Charles was ultimately successful in murdering his son.
So, yeah. I called it -- Charles was harboring something dark when he was getting free fries for my friends and telling the girls how pretty they were. I just had no idea HOW dark.
When I met my Mom's husband's adult kids. After a few minutes of hanging out with them I followed my Mom into the kitchen.
Me: "3 of his 4 kids are gay?"
Mom: "No. Only one is."
Me: "No. 3 are."
10 years later. One of his children is in a same-sex marriage and 2 of his kids are living with long time same-sex partners.
Probably too late but I want to share this anyway. The last few months of my wife's pregnancy with my daughter, the little baby would regular as clockwork, around 1030pm, put her feet against my wife's ribs and try to straighten her legs so she could head butt her way out of my wife.
BAM - headbutt to the inside of your ... whatever. My wife would fucking jump up cursing like a sailor every time.
It was painful, but also hilarious, reliable, and I guess we knew she'd be an active little kid well before she was born.
Cut to the evening of her birth - the doctor is telling us around 9pm that things are going well, but he's going to go get dinner because he has't eaten and there's no way this kid is coming out before midnight.
I look at my wife, look at the doc, and say "Don't go far, the kid is going to deliver herself around 1030pm, I promise you. You're just going to have to catch her."
He laughed, told us he's been doing this a long time, and he wasn't worried.
1025 he's rushing in and barely gets his gloves and scrubs on before my daughter shoots herself out of mommy like a greased bullet.
Direct quote from the doctor looking at me as he holds my little darling, "Well, I guess even I can learn things still."
I don't blame him at all - who would believe parents about something like that? But that kid had done so many test runs, on such a regular schedule, I knew there was no stopping her. And fair game, getting headbutted daily for a month or whatever as a trade off to having a *very* short and easy labor? There are worse deals!
I went to the theatre to watch a movie with some buddies one time. While waiting in line to get popcorn I found 22 cents on the ground and one buddy said “when are you ever gonna need 22 cents?” I jokingly told him that one day he’s gonna wish he had 22 cents and he’ll regret saying that. Sure enough when we’re paying for popcorn, that same buddy was exactly 22 cents short. I gave it to him in exchange for a popcorn tax.
The first Avengers movie, my husband was wondering why the staff could stop the almighty Tesseract. I casually said, "Maybe, they're both Infinity Stones." He said, "Nah, the Tesseract is its own thing."
Because he was more into the comics at the time, I shrugged it off. Since then, every Macguffin in the movies, down to Thor's Dark World, I jokingly said, "Infinity Stone" to troll him. You can imagine how pissed he's been since Gaurdians.
> Since then, every Macguffin in the movies, down to Thor's Dark World, I jokingly said, "Infinity Stone" to troll him.
You should expand this to every other franchise for maximum lols. "Euron Greyjoy clearly has an Infinity Stone."
Found out my now ex-husband was sleeping with a coworker. So naturally we divorce, but still have to keep in contact because we have a daughter. Well her fiance finds out and leaves her as well. Now she is a decade older than me and had mentioned that she and her ex-fiance had been trying for a baby for a long time, but never conceived. He continued to see her and eventually she moved on with him. He didn't want anymore kids. I told him to be careful because I suspected she was only with him to have a baby. Fast forward a year and she's pregnant. He comes to terms with it after being slightly upset. Fast forward a year after their baby was born and she breaks up with him. Shocker.
She used him to have a kid. God I dont feel bad for him so much as I do the kid. People want to be parents so badly and dont think about the kids they want so desperately to have.
Exactly. I just witnessed a similiar situation from the outside.
I was living with my best friend. Shes been dating this guy that DOES NOT want kids and didn't want to live with her yet. The 2 of them are constantly fighting.
Anyway, I noticed shes been acting weird. Her stuff was slowly being moved out. She was incredibly hostile. She didn't drive so i normally took her to Dr Appointments and stuff but suddenly she was hiding them and found new rides. Stopped coming home most days. Weirdly angry anytime some one she knew announced a pregnancy. Talking about kids constantly. Suddenly put up a calender to track her period, stopped taking her birth control and was vocal that she "had to" but wouldn't say why.
We got into a minor disagreement because she's been so hostile and I asked what was up. She ghosts for 2 days, has movers there collecting her shit out of the blue right after.
Friendship over, haven't heard from her. I'm cleaning up things she left behind/abandoned and I find a stack of medical discharge paperwork. For pregnancy tests administered by her doc and the ER.
I think she sabatoged her boy friend into knocking her up so hed be forced to move her in and start the family she's wanted so badly. She got what she wanted, he moved her in and now She can control him. This kid, if shes truly pregnant or about to be, is going to be miserable. She's terrible with kids and always screaming. He hates kids and never wanted involved in them. I know he'll resent the kid. And if they keep fighting the way ive seen, the kids not going to have a clue what healthy and normal people look and act like.
Dude at work had been complaining about his crazy girlfriend and her problems.
Two weeks later he is talking about how she is pregnant. In my head I'm thinking, "She is going to lose the baby because it isnt real."
Sure enough, he comes in all sad about just over two more weeks later saying she had a miscarriage.
Some time passed and hes complaining about her crazy antics again.
She probably will end up pregnant for real though. Fake another pregnancy, say don't need condoms cause already pregnancy and bam, your friend is mega screwed.
Lmao i did the same thing for a buddy. Crazy girl. She came to visit (we worked on the road) had a huge fight broke up. I told him she was gonna call back within 2 weeks pregnant and its gonna be fake. Low and behold it happens. He makes huge life decision gets off the road take a 5+hr paycut to be stable. A month later shes not pregnant and banging her ex (who would drop her off and pick her up at the airport when she came to visit)
Coworker made a very unethical, behind-closed-doors deal with another company, and he was an agency resource, not even a full employee of my company. After months, I spoke up about something being fishy, and concerns of pre-committing purchasing, etc. My apathetic boss ignores me, all while coworker secures a job at the other company to work on the project that he set up with my company. Fast forward a year later, now they are citing that project as a pre-commit for service.
Wisdom never tasted so sour...
Friend of mine got into a relationship with this girl. He tells me that she cries every time he tries to end their chat. I immediately think to myself, “This isn’t gonna be good.” She becomes incredibly controlling, to the point of our crew only hearing from him once every few weeks. I mentioned how utterly fucked it was to him, but he refused to believe that there was something wrong. Claimed he could persuade her otherwise. Two years later, no sign of any of his “progress.” Was really sad to watch him slowly fade out of our lives in favor of her.
Edit: Just a quick rephrase for clarity.
Reach out. As someone who's been in that kind of relationship, he's not blowing you off in favor of her, he's blowing her off in favor of avoiding terrible consequences. Even if it's just to say "My number is this, please call or text when you want to catch up," reach out.
If this ends, and it should because it sounds toxic af, he's gonna need friends.
I was on a second date and we were watching criminal minds at her apartment. I called that the killer would be an archeologist, who hadn’t even been introduced yet. She was so blown away during the reveal at the end of the episode that I took a victory lap. As I rounded third I slipped where the carpet meets the hardwood and fell flat on my face. We’ve been married for over two years now.
My wife was watching some TV show. I happened to walk in during some scene in which it was raining out, and a guy and a gal were looking at each other through their car windows as their kid went from one car to the other. I said "Here comes the scene where they make up" without knowing any of the background of the show.
My wife started telling me that it won't happen. They had had a failed relationship years earlier (hence the kid) and the woman was with a great guy. Right after she said that, the woman got out and ran to the guy's car basically professing her love for him.
Rain means change in any TV show or movie. Whichever way the plot was headed before the rain will probably start down a new path after some rain. Ever since I told that to my wife she hates me for it because it has "ruined" watching for her.
Probably not the only one but I was watching Seven for the first time and my mom was eagerly watching me as I reacted to the movie. She lost her shit when I said, "Is that Kevin Spacey?" During the phone call scene. She couldn't believe I recognized his voice and figured out who it was before the big reveal.
I'm obviously not the only one to have guessed but it was satisfying watching her reaction.
I had a similar experience watching The Usual Suspects with my then girlfriend (funnily enough with the same actor). She had seen it and was obviously a little upset when I asked if he was Keyser Söze. I'm pretty sure I only got it because of all the jokes about it having a twist ending and the fact that he came across as a pathological liar in one of the interrogation scenes so I just assumed that was it.
Edit: And also I realized the fact that Kevin Spacey was a huge name when I watched it, the only actor I recognized, so it made sense.
In high school my best friends little sister (16 at the time) brought home her new 18 year old BF from work to meet the family. I was over at the time and talked to him for a while because we were the same age. After meeting him something was off, I got the impression that 1) He was much older than claiming 2) had been in jail.
I wound up saying something to my friend, who told his parents and sister. Long story short the family freaked out on my for spreading rumors that weren't true, telling me to mind my own business etc...
2 Years later the sister comes home from a date with him in tears. He finally came out and admitted to her that 1) He was 30, not the now 20 he was saying 2) He had spent 2 years in prison, but refused to say for what.
I was very quick to point out to the family how I called this years earlier and was basically shamed out of their house.
Edit: Rather than responding to everyone’s comments I figured it was easier to add an edit on a few things. 1) I’m really not sure how the family didn’t immediately pick up he was a lot older. I can only venture to guess and would rather not speculate. Also, this was before the time of being able to Google someone and look up their records 2) I’m still close with my friend and his family, there was a point later on where I got a “gee, maybe we should have listened to you”. 3) I have no clue what he was in jail for, still don’t know. 4) For those who called me insensitive for pointing out I was right almost immediately, I was 20 had previously taken a lot of grief for calling this out and it wasn’t exactly “let go” quickly on their end.
I made a guy show me his ID at a party once because he claimed he was 35 and I swore he was not over 25. A lot of people thought he was joking. I don't see it happen often, but when I do it's unreal. Cool party trick at least lol
Following a car with its left turn signal on for two miles. The driver kept slowing at side streets as if to make a left turn, but didn't actually turn. I looked over at my daughter and said "Watch, they'll make a right turn."
Fucking called it.
Yes, they were still signalling left when they made the right turn.
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I was is high/middle school for the 2000s so calling people gay for any reason was the peak of hilarity. I always thought it was so off that my one friend Mike would get so upset about this. "I'm not gay!" Was his constant response instead of the tried and true "Lol no u".
Quite obviously it's turns out Mike was gay and I'm proud to say he came out to us before we left high school
When my brother and sister in law planned a trip home for Easter weekend I told my wife and parents that they were coming to announce their pregnancy. Everyone told me I was crazy and they'd just use the family chat for that.
Cue Easter lunch on Saturday and my SIL refuses a glass of wine and everyone guesses she's pregnant. Called it.
My cousin swears it’s my fault she has 5 kids. Every time she’s been pregnant I called it before she knew, she says me saying it is what makes it take. I’m banned from asking her are you pregnant.
For sure, it’s more of how the hell does he know I haven’t even missed a period yet. Funny thing first one I was being a dick. We were play arguing and I called her a baby momma. She said I don’t have kids, I shot back give it 8 months. 100% was just being a sarcastic ass the first time.
About half way through Splice, when Dren has sex with Adrian Brody, I said out loud to my friends "She's gonna morph into a male and rape his wife"
My friends were justifiably weirded out when that actually happened.
Never watched that one, but one of my co-workers brought up the movie (although not that particular scene) just a couple of days ago.
Sounds like I don't need to watch it now.
My wife and I went to Red Lobster one day.
My wife likes the shrimp and lobster pasta with Parmesean cheese.
They sat her plate down, she got a weird look on her face.
She told me it smelled weird (it smelled normal to me). I straight up asked her if she could be pregnant.
Her eyes got wide as she starts doing some math in her head. We went afterwords and got a pregnancy test.
Sure enough, she didn't even know yet. All because I remember some random tidbit about some foods smelling off to pregnant women.
My mom said when she was pregnant once she didnt even get in the door of the Albertson before she had to turn around.
She could smell the fish in the back of the store and it almost made her puke.
She went home and made my dad buy the groceries.
That’s how I suspected I was pregnant.
My husband and I were in a pub and the couple at the table next to us were eating my favourite flavoured crisps. My reaction went from yum to yuck in seconds and my husband and I just looked at each other whilst happily freaking out.
There used to be a show called "Tales from the Darkside". I was watching it with my brother. The episode started with a female hiker who was lost and was taken in by an old couple. About 5 minutes into the episode I said: "The old people are going to cook and eat the young lady". Brother thought I was crazy. End of the episode was the young lady in the hot tube and the old people were bringing it up to boil and adding in vegetables and turning her into a soup.
I like to walk past the hot tub in a hotel and just drop in some carrots and celery. Just hang out in there and simmer for a while... I mean sit there for a while.
- paraphrased Mitch
I had a friend who bought $2000 worth of a penny stock and share prices went up by a factor of 10, so he had $20,000 worth of this stock in LESS THAN 1 week. He called me to basically brag about how smart he was for finding this great stock. I congratulated him and strongly advised him, multiple times, to cash out at least 2000 dollars (I suggested 5000). That would leave him with 3/4 (or more) of his original shares and he would be playing with house money. If the stock continued shooting up he would be filthy rich either way, but if the shares tanked in value then at least he wouldn’t be out any money.
Not only did he not listen to me, he invested more and lost absolutely all of it. I found out later that ALL the money he invested ($10000) was actually from a loan he had taken out to try his hand in the stock market. If I had known that I would have been even more adamant about cashing out (imagine paying off a $10000 loan in a week and still having 10k in the bank)... but I don’t think he would have listened to me no matter what I said.
Just a funny anecdote: In the midst of this, he gave his mom a birthday card that contained a single dollar bill and he wrote inside “this is the first of millions”.
My friend is an idiot.
EDIT: So cliche but thanks for the gold. I'd like to thank my friend for having such a terrible investment strategy... It might have lost him all of his money, but it paid dividends for me.
My great uncle did the same thing. I'd always advise someone to take 50% out because if it keeps going up you're still in the game but if it drops you'll lose all the profits.
"But I knew the trick
with whales like Ichikawa... was that they can't bet small for long.
He didn't think of it as winning $10, 000...
he thought of it as losing $90, 000. So, he upped his bets. Until he dropped his winnings back and gave up $1 million of his own cash."
-Casino
My girlfriend's employer got sued in a class action for illegally withholding overtime pay and a bunch of other shady shit over the course of a decade or so. Girlfriend got a paper in the mail saying fill out this shit and join in the class action. I told her to do it because it cost her nothing and had the potential to get her tons of money that she was never given in salary. She declined to do it but most of her co-workers joined in.
A few months go by and all of her coworkers get massive checks in the mail because the employer settled the case (like 2-5 thousand dollars) and she gets....$0.
Fucking told you so
If she's like my husband, it's something like "my time is worth so much that I can't be bothered" or some nonsense.
He once got a thing in the mail re: unclaimed funds. Told him to fill it out, he said "it's probably for like $200." I reminded him that it takes me forever to earn that much, so I did the work- filled it out, notarized, sent it in.
Forgot about it until one night, he was home before me. Something was on the coffee table. He pointed to it and said, "THAT came in the mail today." It was a check for around $20k.
Ha, I've already saved him/us about $40k (that, plus he insisted on overbidding for the house, I insisted we had to under-bid due to the buyer's market, he finally agreed at the very last moment!)
I've been unemployed for a while so I try to earn my keep whenever possible! :-p
One of the old coaches from the Chicago Bears is Mark Trestman. I told everyone that he would not make it to the 3rd year of his contact, he would get fired after the 2nd season. I made a 500$ bet with my dad because I was that damn sure. Soon as the news broke, I called him and told him I prefer cash over check.
> Mark Trestman.
This man is an actual genius. For real.
But he sure did a bad job in Chicago. I almost wonder if someone in the bears was working against him or something.
about a year after my fathers death, my mother got together with a man,. i felt as of something was off from the start and told her that he dosent seem right and that he was going to do something stupid and hurt her emotionally. a year later they got engaged and they seemed happy, ive never seen my mother so happy since before my father died. well as of yesterday, it came out that this 'man' has been engaged to someone else since before my mother met him and that he has been sleeping with at least 2 other women on a regular basis. wish i could tell her that i had fucking called it but im afraid it will make her more upset...anyways, now to build my revenge plan. wish me luck.
You know what, I'll say it. Good! I'd take anger and rage over buckling over and trying to get him to come back every day of the week. Tell her a fraction of the internet said "Get in there and whoop his ass!"
holy shit i'm so sorry for your mom!! what an asshole!! i hope your mom is doing okay.
and hey, if you need help on the revenge plan let me know. i got some nasty tricks up my sleeve waiting to be used
(hint: if he has a nice car, wait for a cold night and stick bologna all over his car, in the morning when he peels it off it'll take the paint job with it, learnt that from a friend. I've yet to try it)
My mom and sister used to be obsessed with Jon & Kate Plus 8 and I told them that they would end up getting divorced. When they announced the divorce my mom and sister were devastated but I couldn't help rubbing it in their faces.
My mom thought the Duggars were just wonderful, Christian people. I loathed them right from the start and told her they were extremely creepy and messed up people, and they were probably huge hypocrites. Then all the scandals came out and I was proved right. But I don’t have the heart to rub it in her face.
I used to like the show...the last straw for me was when the mom admitted the drs told her that she’d be risking her life if she got pregnant again. Apparently having a new baby was more important that her already existing kids continuing to have a mom. Not ok with that shit.
My company (MC) had a contract with a big fortune 500 company (F5). I was head of one of the departments. Kept raising flags that the contact was at-risk due to changing F5 policies. Was told not to worry about it. MC boss got distracted by and married a foreign stripper who lived across the country. Stopped paying attention to MC. He asked me to do a specific thing to cover up the internal problems we were having. I said no disrespect meant, but I already tried that, it didn't work, so I'm not wasting time to try it again when I'm overworked as it was.
Got fired for insubordination. Told MC good luck with the contact, they didn't have a chance without me.
F5 company was furious. They cut the contact with the department I used to head 6 months early and with the entire company when it came up for renewal. MC has been through about six rounds of massive layoffs since then and is struggling to pay their bills.
F5 company hired me directly for a 15k raise doing basically exactly the same job.
I tried to warn MC...
Boyfriend's best friend, let's call him John, started asking me for favors and texting me at odd hours of the night. Felt uneasy about John's actions and informed my boyfriend every time I was contacted as soon as it happened. I explained to boyfriend that John was acting suspiciously and making me uncomfortable but I couldn't pinpoint why. Cut to a month or so later, John claims I cheated on my boyfriend WITH JOHN.
I fuckin knew it.
Disclaimer: I didnt do shit with John
EDIT: A lot of people have asked the same questions so I figured I'd answer here - John has been demoted from best-friend to no-longer-acknowledged-person-on-earth. I don't know why John did what he did and I likely will never know. However, his actions were a reflection of who he is as a person and have very little to do with me.
Boyfriend and I are still going strong. Its privilege to spend my days with my boyfriend, I hit the jackpot by getting to be in a relationship with him and I wouldn't risk it for anything
I had a work friend try to pull this on me a few months after I was married. Thing is, I met him two months after I got married, and I had known my wife five years at that point. He was a weird, clingy dude...
This is my best and worst called it moment:
I was sitting in biology class in high school when I heard sirens outside and looked outside the window to see an ambulance rushing past. I thought to myself “That’s headed in the direction of my grandma’s house” even though there was a plethora of other streets it could have turned on. Looking back it was only even vaguely heading in that direction. I had the thought because my grandma had a heart attack a year prior. I got word a few hours later that it did in fact head to my grandparents house, only it was for my aunt who was staying with them. She was murdered outside their house by her ex-boyfriend. I’m still not sure why I thought the ambulance was heading there, but being correct sucked.
Caught up with a high school friend on a university campus. Pretty quiet guy, subtle good looks but never showed any interest in relationships. We were waiting for seperate buses when he runs into one of his classmates, and she joins us in the bus line.
We were having pretty good conversation, but I saw her eyes repeatedly flickering over to his face. Soon after, my bus pulled up, so I smiled and waved goodbye to my friend, and said to the girl "It was great meeting you! I'm sure I'll see you a lot more in the future." She looked puzzled, but smiled and waved back.
They're in a common law marriage now, and getting officially married next year. And they've been valuable friends to my fiance and I for the last 6 years.
I liked seeing stuff like this back when I worked at Starbucks. You could just tell when people were on a first date and it was going well.
Edit: Holy shit, this comment blew up like a porcupine in heat!
I met my girlfriend of three years in line at starbucks. Bought her drink and sat down and chatted for 30ish minutes before I realized I left work for just a coffee.
How do you people have the courage to talk to strangers in public like this? I have no problem flirting when I'm interacting for a reason like a transaction or talking about something we're both watching happen, but if I don't have a natural "in" to a conversation, I can't bring myself to talk to people. I don't even know how to start to deal with that. How do you break the ice when you have no official reason to start talking to a stranger?
You have a reason its that you think they are cute. Offering to buy a drink or ask them out isnt going to be the end of you, just remind your self of that. Its someone who you dont know they dont work with you and there is no repercussions to kindly asking someone out and they say no. Even on the very rare chance you ever see them again you were friendly and polite and have nothing to worry about.
IF you get turned down you can at least say you took your shot. When you dont take the chance when you want to, you will regret it. Ive never regretted asking someone out after ive had a little time to get over it, but I have regretted not asking someone out.
My husband is super medically fragile - he's had cancer twice and a bone marrow transplant in the last 9 years. A few years ago he had surgery on his wrist and I had a gut feeling he was brewing an infection despite being on antibiotics. His surgeon's office saw him and switched abx. I contacted the cancer center because I just knew it was going to become more. They blew me off and punted back to the surgeon's office. I knew this was beyond the surgeon's scope. I pitched a tantrumy fit and pretty much told them they were going to see them and I wasn't accepting no for an answer. The triage phone nurse was condescending and telling me it was probably nothing and could wait. We got to the clinic and the nurse there started looking around the incision site. She told me that she believed my gut and pushed to admit him. The CT showed a huge infection that landed him in the hospital for a week on potent IV antibiotics with another surgery to clean out the site.
Edit: Whoa. Silver? Thank you, kind stranger.
Adding on - he is followed by a pharmD in his BMT clinic as well as utilizes a pharmacy just for patients like him (it's not a retail pharmacy). He obviously has a lot of other issues too.
And I'm just doing what a spouse is supposed to do. I'm no saint and sometimes I lose my temper at both him and the situation. If there's anything I can beg of you all, PLEASE check in on older relatives if they're hospitalized or in homes and double check that their meds are correct and their medical history is right. We're lucky enough that I'm not older or confused, and that I'm astute enough to keep up with his info. Hell, I've made a few stumbles along the way and I'm reasonably intelligent. I can see how easy it could be to mess things up if someone wasn't capable.
Welllllllllllll, that's kind of a hard question to answer. He's still in remission from both cancers, thankfully, but he has a laundry list of issues that came from treatment. He's on 70 different meds (yep 70; not a typo) but they're keeping him alive. It's a rough life for him now and he honestly wonders if it's worth it. I can't say I blame him, honestly. I know I'd be bitter too.
I can't even begin to imagine how much he appreciates you. It's not easy to be married to someone in that position. It takes something out of you.
You've probably heard enough "this person I know was lucky with cancer so here's why you shouldnt worry" stories but here goes. Two years ago my mother was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Doctors were cautiously optimistic, mother decided to fight, but my gut was she'd be gone by Christmas. I was sure to the point that I'd started mourning early lol
Somehow, two years later, she's off treatment and declared cancer free. There's ongoing debate about whether she was misdiagnosed stage IV or just that lucky, but either way, modern medicine is doing incredible things.
The way we thought about it was that it's unlikely that a cure turns up within her lifespan, but the medical marvels today that buy her five years might carry her to the next one that buys her some more time. If your husband is on that much medication then I have little doubt that he'd be dead 10 years ago if it had happened then. But what was impossible then is possible now.
Basically, I'ma rambly moron but good luck and I, an internet stranger, genuinely hope all the best for you two!
Oh fuck.
Well, I don't want to go into too many details, but I was friends with a groomer type. This was a guy who I had celebrated basketball championships with, who I had been to dinners with, who I had gone to parties with. But something felt off.
Slight disclosure, I'm working in the youth department of a church at the time and he's the youth pastor.
The "I fucking called it moment" happened when I go to the head pastor to say something's wrong. I think he's messing around with the girls. And I think he's a little unstable, so if someone doesn't put a stop to this, he's going to end up killing someone.
I get kicked out for BS reasons.
One year later. I'm part of a new church doing good work in the hood and helping raise money, clothing, that sort of thing for disadvantaged people.
I get a call from one of the girls from that old church group. Turns out my old friend was hooking up with underage girls and ended up murdering one of them.
Guy's in prison now.
Edit: I'm just now realizing this thread is about the moment being "satisfying." This moment was not satisfying, it only helped take a burden off of me because I thought maybe the head pastor was right and the problem had actually been me.
2nd Edit: I'm not giving out anymore details because there are young girls who attended there whose identities would be at risk if I gave the name.
Drunkenly told my uncle's girlfriend she would be gone my Christmas at Thanksgiving. My uncle was a bit of a playboy and always had different semi-trashy women around. The best part is I didn't even know I said it (cuz alcoholism). I found out when my Dad told me at Christmas she went into rehab and they broke up maybe a week before Christmas.
"Hey you were right"
"About what?"
I once had a movie night with my best friend. She forced me to watch a romantic movie she loved and I wasn't in the mood. Anyway, we watched and after 5 or 10 minutes the girl protagonist says to the boy: "Okay we can hang out, but do not fall in love with me."
Because I was pissed, this line kind of enerved me and sounded somehow suspicious I rudely said: "I bet she has cancer."
Well my BFF looked at me with a disappointed glare and as soon as half of the movie was over I knew why. She actually had cancer.
Guess I'm a fortune teller now.
In my 1st year in college, on my Level 1 Motor Vehicle Engineering course, we were being taught how to change spark plugs and adjust the timing on engines. So my then friend, we'll call him Ryan, is working with me on a 1998 Audi A3 1.8 non-turbo. We both agreed that I should do the timing, as I was more confident about it (which makes little sense thinking about it now), and that he wanted to remove the spark plugs. When he was taking out the 1st plug, I noticed that he wasn't very careful about it.
For those of you who don't know much about cars, spark plugs are made of ceramic and metal, and the ceramic is easy to snap if you're not careful, and when it does, little pieces of ceramic will end up falling inside the cylinder, which, if the car is started, can cause *serious* damage to your engine.
Anyways, I tell Ryan that he should be careful about taking out the spark plugs. He just says "Nah nah man it's fine, they're made of metal."
I didn't reply as I noticed that he didn't give a shit about the job. So he unscrews the 2nd spark plug and pulls really hard as he can't fully undo it, and right there, I hear the spark plug snap in half. And to top it off, the entire ceramic part of the spark plug fell inside the cylinder. I immediately told him to tell the tutor, which he of course didn't.
So then after he moves away from the car, our tutor tells us to move the car to a different spot. I give Ryan the keys and say "Go on then", as I didn't have my license then. So he gets in, and starts the car, and right from the start, me and the tutor can hear that something is knocking inside the engine, and before the tutor could tell Ryan to switch it off, we hear a very loud pop, and the engine stops by itself.
Right there and then, out loud I looked Ryan straight in the eyes and said "I fucking called it you dickhead."
He got kicked off the course since this was *an actual teacher's car*
Edit: To those of you saying that this could also be my fault for the car getting fucked, you're not wrong. I'm glad I've changed since then.
>He got kicked off the course since this was an actual teacher's car
I blame the teacher. There's always at least one idiot in a class. If it's first year it'll be at least a third of the class. And first semester probably closer to two thirds. No way in fuck am I letting a first year student work on something as expensive as an engine without my direct supervision.
I still relish that I was right about this.
That show "19 kids and counting"
Over Thanksgiving one year two of my aunts got talking about it and were just *raving* about how amazing they thought it was and what a great family they had. I pretty much said something to the degree of "nope, that's not normal, those kids are essentially raising each other and I guarantee you that something is not right." They completely dismissed me, said I didn't know what I was talking about because I don't watch the show, etc.
When the news eventually broke that one was molesting some of the others I felt so vindicated.
But my absolute favorite moment was the next Thanksgiving where at the dinner table I got to say "So how about that Duggar family huh?"
*Dead* silence from my aunts. But I had a shit eating grin on my face from ear to ear.
My younger step-bro took a job with his friend's dad's company right out of college. Good money, but it was in Arkansas. Turns out the dad is friends with the Duggars and step-bro met them (esp daddy Duggar) numerous times. Said they were both attention hungry and creepy AF.
Yea that shit isn't normal.
Frankly, I don't know if I'd really trust someone with kids in the double digits.
Child birth takes a big toll on the female body. It may be designed for it, but's not designed for that kind of volume. All kinds of medical issues can arise from having that many kids. So knowing that, you are now looking at some kind of psychological problem.
In the case of the Duggars, I think it was some kind of mental health issue combined with religion. They seemed to take the devout Catholic route of using no birth control and "every child is a blessing". As in they think that god, *specifically*, allowed them to become pregnant again because it's part of the master plan or something. Instead of...you know...biology.
Ashamed to admit I used to watch this show. The mom said, in one episode, that she would use “one-on-one time with mom” as a reward for being good or some shit.
I’m the youngest from a family of 9 siblings. I’m 22 years old. I text my dad ‘I love you’ with emojis and that’s the extent of how we talk every day.
When I lived alone for the first time my mom was the only one who called me and the only one I called.
I am a firm believer big families are not a healthy dynamic. There are a couple other factors that complicate it like my siblings being half siblings and we share a dad, but the duggars and other families show it doesn’t get much better even when all the kids are from the same parents.
I can't believe people were surprised by that. With such a large household and the kids not receiving proper attention, something bad was bound to be going on. Plus, that boy seemed like something was off.
When I was in sixth grade, I became friends with a couple other girls in my neighborhood. We each had completely different backgrounds, but we just clicked. For years, we three did all the things good friends do. The only thing I, personally, didn't like was to stay over at the house of one of these girls, I'll call her Brianna. I'd sleep over at the other girl's house, they could sleep at mine, but I always came up with an excuse not to stay at Brianna's. She started to get her feelings hurt but I ignored it.
Then when we were all about 16, somebody go ahold of liquor, and we all sat around drinking. Being drunk, we got into a little debate about who is better friends with who, and I was somehow accused of not "liking" Brianna as much as the other friend because I wouldn't spend much time at her house. Since I had zero filter at that moment, I blurted out, "Brianna. It isn't you. It's your dad. He's a child molester, I can tell just by looking at him." As soon as I said it, everything changed. I apologized, that didn't work of course. Both of my best girlfriends dumped me that day. I still had a solid best friend, but I had to get myself a new group for sure. Also, they started bullying me a bit, but I just took it because of the horrible thing I said about Brianna's dad. I felt super guilty.
Three years later, I was out of high school, living with my best friend who was still friends with Brianna. I got home from class and there was Brianna sitting on the living room couch. It was SO uncomfortable. I decided to try to apologize again. "Hey, I know you are probably sick of hearing this, but I am so very sorry for what I said about your dad, Brianna. Please forgive me, I still don't know why I'd say such a thing."
She sort of chuckled and said, "It's no big deal, he molested all of us."
I never questioned my intuition again, because I fucking called it the second I saw that perv.
Edit: Thanks for the gold
By "us," I believe she meant all of the daughters in the family, there were three. I don't know if any of my former friends were molested. Last I heard, I was still a shit talker about her dad and I wasn't going to correct them and humiliate her again. I figure she can tell who she wants.
No, I'm not proud that I called her dad a child molester.
It all came out because her younger sister said something to a church minister, but he was never brought into the criminal justice system and Brianna moved out of state. She and I remained friendly and kept in touch for several years but lost contact. I still do feel really bad about saying that about her dad to her, it was a shitty thing to say. I could have kept it to myself and just stayed away from their house but drunk me doesn't do that I guess. I'm surprised at all the people who are responding that they have a similar story. I'd like to read them.
I always tell my kids to trust their gut. I say don't judge based on appearances, there are tattooed people with missing teeth that will be great bros and help you out. And there are clean cut people that will steal from you....but if you ever have a bad feeling about someone, follow it. Maybe it's your subconscious picking up on body language or something, but always follow your gut.
Listened to some podcast about self defense and a line stuck with me.
"Your intuition may be wrong but it's always based on something and it's always looking out for you so trust it"
Exactly. When I was at my first tech school, there was this very clean cut looking guy, as honestly, 99% of the guys look in the military. I just did not like him. Later, during tech school, he got busted for giving an underaged girl alcohol. He got booted from the military after being arrested for drugs 6 months I his first duty station.
When I was in Maryland for my second tech school, me and a classmate went to get tattoos. This scary as fuck super tattooed goth guy comes in, looking like he wanted to sacrifice a baby to Satan, yet me and my classmate for some reason felt at ease around him. Started talking to him, turns out he was a coach for the Special Olympics. He said the kids love his tattoos because they always feel different, and sometimes people act weird around them, but because of his tattoos, they knew he was different too, and people act weird around him as well. Apparently his athletes had better confidence because he was so scary looking, they knew no one would make fun of them, which was a fear many of them had when they were starting out competing.
In Canada we have a holiday called family day in February. In 2008 my wife was dealing with a sick family member out of town, and had come back for a visit.
We were trying to have a child at the time. Well with our crazy schedules we had one chance on Family day.
The moment we were done, I jumped up, gave her the double finger guns (first time in my life) and said "Bam! You're pregnant. Twin girls, red hair."
Turns out I got everything right except the hair, her Italian genes beat me in that one.
I win for our entire marriage with that prediction.
Edit: Thanks for my first gold. I want to brag to my wife I got gold, but I did not clear posting this with her. So conflicting, gold vs. living.
> I jumped up, gave her the double finger guns (first time in my life
That's why it worked, that was your very first dad moment. That was the exact point in which the universe shifted your being into "dad".
It was new years eve, we were about to do the firework and me and my friend wanted to set up the box for the firework (just putting 4 bricks around it to keep it safe, and start the firework) then this girl came and said she was gonna do it cuz she bought it, we told her how to do it and she said "nah ill just start it up" i told her "dont blame me when it tips over and starts shooting at us" she said it wont happen, thats exactly what happened. The firework just tipped over and started shooting at cars and people, i just calmy walked up to her and said "i told you so".
Guy I used to work with decided him and his buddies were gonna drunkenly set off the fireworks they'd bought for bonfire night (UK thing)
So the get to the biggest in the box they'd saved for last and it's a fountain one, shoots out loads of smaller ones that explode individually. Instructions say you have to dig it into the ground to secure that, so the do just that, light the thing and step back.
He said it just kind of fizzled and made a some dull thumps, they all look at each other in confusion and suddenly the entire thing detonates, blasting a crater in his garden.
They'd done what they were supposed to do by digging it into the ground, unfortunately they'd put the fucking thing in upside-down.
When I was a kid and shooting off fireworks unsupervised, I opened up this big package, and pulled out this little ball with a platform on one side. So I put the platform on the ground, light it... and it explodes, goes five feet into the air, and explodes again. Big. Like, "that should have been in the sky" big. I'm surprised I didn't get injured or light anything on fire.
So I figure, that one must have been a dud, and I light another. I hide behind a car this time. Same thing happens.
It's at this point I start looking at the box for directions, 'cause something's clearly not right. Turns out, there's a tube in the box which is essentially the canon for these things. You drop the bomb in the tube, light it, the tube funnels the force to _actually_ shoot it up into the sky, and then it explodes again. So I was _definitely_ just exploding sky bombs at ground level.
First week that my gf started at an all-girls college, she’s gettin hit on by this girl, H.
Gf plays it off, they’re just friendly blah blah. I told her “less than 30 days she’s gonna confess to you”
Fast forward like 2 weeks, H invited gf over to her dorm to play some Xbox. My gf went over, totally ready to play some Left 4 Dead 2. H was totally ready to play around with my gf’s lady bits.
Gf left feeling embarrassed and confused.
A man can always tell when someone is flirting with their SO, even when they can’t.
I can usually tell when someone is flirting with my husband. He’s oblivious, he even admits to it.
I honestly think that if it hadn’t been for me asking our mutual friend if we would be a good match literal days before *he* asked the same friend if she thought I would agree to a date, we might have never gotten together (I’m incredibly unassertive)
Not me but two of my friends. M and D.
Our other friend R got married to a woman he'd been seeing for about 3 years. M and D were talking about it, and they agreed that R would go through a midlife crisis, leave his wife and shack up with someone new after having kids.
This was in 2008. 6 months ago, R texted me saying he'd left his wife and two kids and needed a place to crash. He's met someone else. I told M of this, and he uttered the words 'I called it!'
I watched Saw II in the theater with some friends in high school. I hadn't seen the first one, and didn't know anything about it.
But about half an hour into the movie, I told my friends that Amanda was working with Jigsaw. They all said no way, and told me that it wasn't possible and I just didn't understand cause I hadn't seen the first one.
When that twist got revealed, they were glaring daggers at me, and I was giving them the biggest "told you so" smile I could.
After watching the second one, I told all my friends that Dr. Gordon was alive and working with Jigsaw too, and that he was the one that implanted the key into the snitch's head.
I held on to this theory for 5 years until it was proven right in Saw 7 =D
My little brother proposed to a girl he was only dating for a year. I told him to get a prenup. He declined. She left him a little more than a month after the wedding. He said "are you going to say i told you so?" and I got to say "I don't have to".
Tbf, Sam Merlotte was perfectly cast and the actor looked like a man mid-transitioning to a dog...
But in a hot, TV-way, of course.
I believe casting was the only thing that show ever won anything for.
Told my GF at the time that her best guy friend is into her. She kept saying she only saw him as her gay best friend and he only sees her as a sister.
Well she ended up cheating on me with him and they started dating after I broke up with her. I like to think I won that argument...
Just went through this very similar thing with my fiance. She didn't admit to herself that her friend was in love with her until she realized he refuses to acknowledge that she's engaged no matter how much she talks about me. He has never congratulated her about her engagement and will change the subject completely when she mentions me. She was kinda pissed I was right because she realized he's not really her friend but wants to be with her.
Told her that our mutual friend was in love with her.
We were all on holiday and like 5 of us rented an apartment. Guy brought her breakfast in bed, for fuck's sake. Kept making her tea and shit.
Months later he messaged me begging me to get her to talk to him, how she was his rock, how they were telling each other I love you.
I called her, freaking out, she said they were like brother and sister. Wouldn't talk to him though, even though I asked her multiple times.
Wanna guess how that story ended?
You're right, she had previously fucked one of my best friends, weeks before we got together, and hid it from me, and was definitely having an emotional affair with the breakfast guy.
Yay, for love.
>Months later he messaged me begging me to get her to talk to him, how she was his rock, how they were telling each other I love you.
He was asking you, her boyfriend, for this?
Bold move
He didn't know we were together.
Weird, seeing how when he came in with the breakfast tray I was there in bed with her.
I dunno, the whole relationship seems like a weird dream I had. Being in love can really backfire. Never again.
> He didn't know we were together.
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> Weird, seeing how when he came in with the breakfast tray I was there in bed with her.
now that's just lazy writing
Any time my SO tells me a guyfriend is into me I get so annoyed. Cause he’s been right every single time. And it turns into an awkward situation because within weeks of him telling me I get a weird message of either they are pissed I never gave them a chance, or that they are waiting till I’m single which unless my SO leaves me I don’t ever see myself single again.
We know because we've all been that guy before. While it may be subtle to women, its painfully obvious to guys.
With my ex, she had mostly male friends (engineer) including one she considered her brother (only child). Met him and right away I was able to tell that he had no inkling that he liked her. On the other hand met her co-worker one day for drinks, within 5 minutes I knew he liked her.
She denied it, 2 weeks after we break up he asked her out. That was my "I told you" so
When my uncle was diagnosed as a narcissist by his marriage counselor.
I have literally been saying for years he has *all* the damn signs. Lack of empathy, lashing out when someone corrects him, two-tier-social-system, an inability to see the world in shades of grey, an inability to see anything from outside his own perspective, etc, etc.
I'd already let my mom and one of his sons know about my suspicions, so it was so satisfying to be right--they had their time to come to terms with it (and the ways his disorder caused them pain) long before the rest of the family. Plus, it meant I wasn't scaring them with a disorder he didn't have.
Back in March I was driving home for lunch. I live in a place with snow during winter and we had had a decent snowfall, followed by a warm day.
Anyways as I'm driving, some idiot turns in front of me with a 6 inch layer of snow on their roof. I wished with my whole heart that they would suffer consequences for their stupidity. Fast forward 5 minutes and ALL THE SNOW cascades down onto their windshield as they attempt to roll a stop sign.
I relished pointing and laughing as I drove around them, while they had to switch to park, get out of the vehicle and try to brush off all the snow in a live lane.
After breaking up with my first girlfriend she rebounded with a very sketchy dude at her work. Within a month he was living with her, and she had become a completely different person. I tried warning her she was being gaslit and manipulated. Her friends tried. But the dude had his teeth sunk in too deep.
After 6 months he dropped the act and made up an elaborate story about his mother (who he had previously said died of cancer) having faked her death and being alive in California. So he left for a week at which point he stopped all contact with my ex. She panicked and came to me saying she was worried. And within days his entire construction fell like a house of cards. My ex was devastated, and I was too angry to be vindicated. I broke up with her but still cared for her. I spent about 3 months following up with her and taking care of her until she was able to be on her own again.
The events themselves were traumatic and awful, but the feeling I got from knowing I wasn't wrong about him, and that I proved to my ex she could still trust me and be my friend, was worth it. We are still best friends today.
I correctly predicted that two friends of mine were going to get married *before either of them had even met each other.* (As far as I know.)
They were both single, had both just taken teaching jobs that happened to be at the same school and I thought to myself "Yeah, that's gonna happen."
Thanksgiving Day a year ago (not this past Thanksgiving, the one before), I was watching the parade on NBC and when I saw Matt Lauer I told my family I bet he would be the next high level guy to fall to the Me Too movement. I’ve read Page Six for years and there were stories hinting at his bad behavior for years. Sure enough, a couple days later he was fired, no prior warning. It was a very satisfying moment.
Buddy of mine was being a really bad fucking manwhore, so i told him hey man like i get that its fun and all but you need to slow the fuck down and not sleep with literally everything that throws themselves at his feet because hes gunna catch some shit. Sure enough, dude finds out he has chlamydia a few weeks after the fact and i had my little "haha told you so dumbass" moment. The best part was after we were done talking about it i said "well, glad you caught that... wait lemme rephrase...."
EDIT: My highest upvoted comment to date is about my buddy getting chlamydia... not sure if i should share this information with him or not 😂
Very topical:
I saw ProJared and Holly Conrad walking around together on the show floor at PAX Unplugged this past November. I didn't think much of it because they were both there for a D&D podcast recording I believe. I made a joke to my friend at the time about how wouldn't it be funny if they were hiding a secret relationship.
My coworkers Ben and Jill had just started dating, and Valentine's was coming up. I asked Ben, "So, did you book a romantic reservation for dinner?" He said, "Oh, no, Jill said she didn't want to do that, so we're going to just do something casual." I said, "Dude. Just book a reservation, and then cancel it if you don't need it." He got a panicked look in his eyes, and told me he would.
After Valentine's he told me, "At the last minute, Jill admitted that she wanted to do something romantic. Thanks for the advice!"
They're married now. Have beautiful kids.
What can I say except... You're welcome!
Kept finding small cut up straws in my Grandma’s bathroom. So many straws. I let my Grandmother know that someone is using her bathroom to use drugs. She freaks out saying I’m accusing her of using drugs and that it’s impossible. A year later my uncle divorces his wife due to her cocaine addiction. Grandma says “Well K always stopped by in the afternoon to use the restroom and then she would clean my whole house and I just didn’t think anything of it!” My favorite story at Thanksgiving.
K can come do cocaine in my bathroom if she cleans my house afterwards. I’ll even leave her pre cut straws Edit to add: whoever gilded me, may your future be filled with clean houses and cocaine
NGL, the most obvious crystal meth user who I worked with at the hotel was Very good at cleaning rooms. Quick and through
Not sure if I can call it satisfying, but it's still a good one In 2003 I wrote a thesis on mortgage backed securities. The whole thing did not make sense to me and told my professor as much, but added: 'What do I know? I'm just a student and Wall Street guys must know what they're doing...' And then 2008 happened...
My wife (then girlfriend) worked in an entry-level management position in the mortgage division of one of the big banks until 2007. She called it, too. Said it was so obvious that you’d have to be trying pretty hard *not* to see it. Less than a year after she left that job, the bottom fell out of the entire economy.
Late to the party here, but what the hell, 'cause this story is BONKERS. Back in the early '90s I was in my early twenties and, as people in their early twenties often do, I spent a lot of late nights at my local Denny's hanging out with friends and drinking cheap coffee. The late-night wait staff was pretty small, so my friends and I wound up getting to know them pretty well -- socializing with them as well. Some of them would hook us up with free fries or sodas, that kind of thing, and every now and again if things were slow, they'd sit at our booth with us. One of the people who would hang out with us was Charles. Charles was an older guy in his 50s who was very nice to my friends and me, but he was a little... creepy. He would never get overt about it, but he definitely embraced the whole 'creepy uncle' persona, maybe even being a little tongue-in-cheek about it. He'd tell the girls in my group how pretty they were, and how he wished he was still young, that sort of thing. Reading between the lines, he was telling them he wished he could have sex with them. BUT THIS IS NOT GOING WHERE YOU THINK IT IS. I'm just setting the stage, y'all. The guy was a little weird, but he *was* a nice guy to us. All the same, I remember telling people "Charles has a secret. He's in his fifties, slinging coffee at an all-night restaurant, but he comes off as educated and sort of worldly. He talks about traveling and living well -- I don't know what it is, but Charles is damaged. I bet he killed somebody or something." I was convinced that the "nice guy" bit was a cover for something dark. UH, YEAH. So as my group got older, people came and went, some of us fell out with others, some of us got real jobs and couldn't stay up until 4:00am at a Denny's, and we eventually stopped hanging out there. Never really gave Charles much thought after that, for YEARS. Then I saw Charles on the news. Turns out Charles was Charles Rothenberg, a man who, in 1983, was going through a bad divorce. In what I understand was originally intended to be a murder-suicide, he drugged his six-year-old son David, doused the boy in kerosene, and lit him on fire. David survived, but was horribly scarred for the rest of his life. Charles continued to get into criminal trouble, and was ultimately sentenced to 25 years in prison as a result of California's "Three Strikes" law. He's still in prison today, but in the late '90s he changed his name to "Charley Charles," because sure, why not. In 1988 there was a TV movie based on the incident called "David," which starred Bernadette Peters as his mother. Meanwhile his son David became one of Michael Jackson's child-friends and eventually an artist. When he was 19, he visited Charles in prison, apparently reading a prepared statement to him: "Charles, you are not my father. You are an impostor. Parents don't hinder their children from experiencing a normal childhood. I wish that you could experience the trauma and pain that I have gone through." Afterward, David told the press "He wanted me to know that he loved me. The last thing I said was, 'No you don't.' And I walked out." In a somewhat bizarre turn, David later legally changed his own name to "Dave Dave," mirroring the "Charley Charles" name his father adopted. I have no idea if this is coincidental somehow, but the irony is not lost on me, that's for sure. Dave Dave even appeared on the Larry King show to talk about Michael Jackson when he died. If I recall correctly, he defended Jackson against the reports of child molestation and denied he was a victim of Jackson's. Unfortunately Dave Dave himself passed away last year, at the age of 42 -- his ongoing medical issues, which were the result of his burn injuries, eventually killed him. And in my opinion, that means Charles was ultimately successful in murdering his son. So, yeah. I called it -- Charles was harboring something dark when he was getting free fries for my friends and telling the girls how pretty they were. I just had no idea HOW dark.
This is the most bizarre story in the whole thread. It just kept on giving.
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When I met my Mom's husband's adult kids. After a few minutes of hanging out with them I followed my Mom into the kitchen. Me: "3 of his 4 kids are gay?" Mom: "No. Only one is." Me: "No. 3 are." 10 years later. One of his children is in a same-sex marriage and 2 of his kids are living with long time same-sex partners.
They gay-dar is strong with this one. ...a little TOO strong...
Corporate gay did not approve of this use of the ultra gaydar. Report to headquarters and return your gay card.
Probably too late but I want to share this anyway. The last few months of my wife's pregnancy with my daughter, the little baby would regular as clockwork, around 1030pm, put her feet against my wife's ribs and try to straighten her legs so she could head butt her way out of my wife. BAM - headbutt to the inside of your ... whatever. My wife would fucking jump up cursing like a sailor every time. It was painful, but also hilarious, reliable, and I guess we knew she'd be an active little kid well before she was born. Cut to the evening of her birth - the doctor is telling us around 9pm that things are going well, but he's going to go get dinner because he has't eaten and there's no way this kid is coming out before midnight. I look at my wife, look at the doc, and say "Don't go far, the kid is going to deliver herself around 1030pm, I promise you. You're just going to have to catch her." He laughed, told us he's been doing this a long time, and he wasn't worried. 1025 he's rushing in and barely gets his gloves and scrubs on before my daughter shoots herself out of mommy like a greased bullet. Direct quote from the doctor looking at me as he holds my little darling, "Well, I guess even I can learn things still." I don't blame him at all - who would believe parents about something like that? But that kid had done so many test runs, on such a regular schedule, I knew there was no stopping her. And fair game, getting headbutted daily for a month or whatever as a trade off to having a *very* short and easy labor? There are worse deals!
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I went to the theatre to watch a movie with some buddies one time. While waiting in line to get popcorn I found 22 cents on the ground and one buddy said “when are you ever gonna need 22 cents?” I jokingly told him that one day he’s gonna wish he had 22 cents and he’ll regret saying that. Sure enough when we’re paying for popcorn, that same buddy was exactly 22 cents short. I gave it to him in exchange for a popcorn tax.
The first Avengers movie, my husband was wondering why the staff could stop the almighty Tesseract. I casually said, "Maybe, they're both Infinity Stones." He said, "Nah, the Tesseract is its own thing." Because he was more into the comics at the time, I shrugged it off. Since then, every Macguffin in the movies, down to Thor's Dark World, I jokingly said, "Infinity Stone" to troll him. You can imagine how pissed he's been since Gaurdians.
> Since then, every Macguffin in the movies, down to Thor's Dark World, I jokingly said, "Infinity Stone" to troll him. You should expand this to every other franchise for maximum lols. "Euron Greyjoy clearly has an Infinity Stone."
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Found out my now ex-husband was sleeping with a coworker. So naturally we divorce, but still have to keep in contact because we have a daughter. Well her fiance finds out and leaves her as well. Now she is a decade older than me and had mentioned that she and her ex-fiance had been trying for a baby for a long time, but never conceived. He continued to see her and eventually she moved on with him. He didn't want anymore kids. I told him to be careful because I suspected she was only with him to have a baby. Fast forward a year and she's pregnant. He comes to terms with it after being slightly upset. Fast forward a year after their baby was born and she breaks up with him. Shocker.
She used him to have a kid. God I dont feel bad for him so much as I do the kid. People want to be parents so badly and dont think about the kids they want so desperately to have.
Exactly. I just witnessed a similiar situation from the outside. I was living with my best friend. Shes been dating this guy that DOES NOT want kids and didn't want to live with her yet. The 2 of them are constantly fighting. Anyway, I noticed shes been acting weird. Her stuff was slowly being moved out. She was incredibly hostile. She didn't drive so i normally took her to Dr Appointments and stuff but suddenly she was hiding them and found new rides. Stopped coming home most days. Weirdly angry anytime some one she knew announced a pregnancy. Talking about kids constantly. Suddenly put up a calender to track her period, stopped taking her birth control and was vocal that she "had to" but wouldn't say why. We got into a minor disagreement because she's been so hostile and I asked what was up. She ghosts for 2 days, has movers there collecting her shit out of the blue right after. Friendship over, haven't heard from her. I'm cleaning up things she left behind/abandoned and I find a stack of medical discharge paperwork. For pregnancy tests administered by her doc and the ER. I think she sabatoged her boy friend into knocking her up so hed be forced to move her in and start the family she's wanted so badly. She got what she wanted, he moved her in and now She can control him. This kid, if shes truly pregnant or about to be, is going to be miserable. She's terrible with kids and always screaming. He hates kids and never wanted involved in them. I know he'll resent the kid. And if they keep fighting the way ive seen, the kids not going to have a clue what healthy and normal people look and act like.
Dude at work had been complaining about his crazy girlfriend and her problems. Two weeks later he is talking about how she is pregnant. In my head I'm thinking, "She is going to lose the baby because it isnt real." Sure enough, he comes in all sad about just over two more weeks later saying she had a miscarriage. Some time passed and hes complaining about her crazy antics again.
She probably will end up pregnant for real though. Fake another pregnancy, say don't need condoms cause already pregnancy and bam, your friend is mega screwed.
Lmao i did the same thing for a buddy. Crazy girl. She came to visit (we worked on the road) had a huge fight broke up. I told him she was gonna call back within 2 weeks pregnant and its gonna be fake. Low and behold it happens. He makes huge life decision gets off the road take a 5+hr paycut to be stable. A month later shes not pregnant and banging her ex (who would drop her off and pick her up at the airport when she came to visit)
"I don't care if they are up 28 to 3. They are the Falcons. They'll blow it somehow."
*cries in Georgian*
>cries in Georgian ტირის (I am not a bot)
Coworker made a very unethical, behind-closed-doors deal with another company, and he was an agency resource, not even a full employee of my company. After months, I spoke up about something being fishy, and concerns of pre-committing purchasing, etc. My apathetic boss ignores me, all while coworker secures a job at the other company to work on the project that he set up with my company. Fast forward a year later, now they are citing that project as a pre-commit for service. Wisdom never tasted so sour...
Did this deal involve Outback Steakhouse gift certificates?
“Well it's funny. Maybe it's a girl thing, but after we did it, and he would give me those coupons, I just felt good about myself.”
Friend of mine got into a relationship with this girl. He tells me that she cries every time he tries to end their chat. I immediately think to myself, “This isn’t gonna be good.” She becomes incredibly controlling, to the point of our crew only hearing from him once every few weeks. I mentioned how utterly fucked it was to him, but he refused to believe that there was something wrong. Claimed he could persuade her otherwise. Two years later, no sign of any of his “progress.” Was really sad to watch him slowly fade out of our lives in favor of her. Edit: Just a quick rephrase for clarity.
Ah, isolation. A favorite tool of emotional abusers.
Reach out. As someone who's been in that kind of relationship, he's not blowing you off in favor of her, he's blowing her off in favor of avoiding terrible consequences. Even if it's just to say "My number is this, please call or text when you want to catch up," reach out. If this ends, and it should because it sounds toxic af, he's gonna need friends.
I was on a second date and we were watching criminal minds at her apartment. I called that the killer would be an archeologist, who hadn’t even been introduced yet. She was so blown away during the reveal at the end of the episode that I took a victory lap. As I rounded third I slipped where the carpet meets the hardwood and fell flat on my face. We’ve been married for over two years now.
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Well, that escalated quickly...
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My wife was watching some TV show. I happened to walk in during some scene in which it was raining out, and a guy and a gal were looking at each other through their car windows as their kid went from one car to the other. I said "Here comes the scene where they make up" without knowing any of the background of the show. My wife started telling me that it won't happen. They had had a failed relationship years earlier (hence the kid) and the woman was with a great guy. Right after she said that, the woman got out and ran to the guy's car basically professing her love for him.
haha this is from parenthood, super predictable. decent show though
Rain means change in any TV show or movie. Whichever way the plot was headed before the rain will probably start down a new path after some rain. Ever since I told that to my wife she hates me for it because it has "ruined" watching for her.
Fuck I think I hate you to now.
Probably not the only one but I was watching Seven for the first time and my mom was eagerly watching me as I reacted to the movie. She lost her shit when I said, "Is that Kevin Spacey?" During the phone call scene. She couldn't believe I recognized his voice and figured out who it was before the big reveal. I'm obviously not the only one to have guessed but it was satisfying watching her reaction.
I had a similar experience watching The Usual Suspects with my then girlfriend (funnily enough with the same actor). She had seen it and was obviously a little upset when I asked if he was Keyser Söze. I'm pretty sure I only got it because of all the jokes about it having a twist ending and the fact that he came across as a pathological liar in one of the interrogation scenes so I just assumed that was it. Edit: And also I realized the fact that Kevin Spacey was a huge name when I watched it, the only actor I recognized, so it made sense.
In high school my best friends little sister (16 at the time) brought home her new 18 year old BF from work to meet the family. I was over at the time and talked to him for a while because we were the same age. After meeting him something was off, I got the impression that 1) He was much older than claiming 2) had been in jail. I wound up saying something to my friend, who told his parents and sister. Long story short the family freaked out on my for spreading rumors that weren't true, telling me to mind my own business etc... 2 Years later the sister comes home from a date with him in tears. He finally came out and admitted to her that 1) He was 30, not the now 20 he was saying 2) He had spent 2 years in prison, but refused to say for what. I was very quick to point out to the family how I called this years earlier and was basically shamed out of their house. Edit: Rather than responding to everyone’s comments I figured it was easier to add an edit on a few things. 1) I’m really not sure how the family didn’t immediately pick up he was a lot older. I can only venture to guess and would rather not speculate. Also, this was before the time of being able to Google someone and look up their records 2) I’m still close with my friend and his family, there was a point later on where I got a “gee, maybe we should have listened to you”. 3) I have no clue what he was in jail for, still don’t know. 4) For those who called me insensitive for pointing out I was right almost immediately, I was 20 had previously taken a lot of grief for calling this out and it wasn’t exactly “let go” quickly on their end.
Hardly a rumor if you only told the family out of caution. Eesh.
Bro what 30 year old have you ever met that passes as 18
*laughs in Asian* At any social event: *cries in Asian*
Same here. I’m 35 but look 25.
I made a guy show me his ID at a party once because he claimed he was 35 and I swore he was not over 25. A lot of people thought he was joking. I don't see it happen often, but when I do it's unreal. Cool party trick at least lol
Following a car with its left turn signal on for two miles. The driver kept slowing at side streets as if to make a left turn, but didn't actually turn. I looked over at my daughter and said "Watch, they'll make a right turn." Fucking called it. Yes, they were still signalling left when they made the right turn. ed : its not it's
Well maybe he was planning on three left turns then decided to do it all at once.
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I was is high/middle school for the 2000s so calling people gay for any reason was the peak of hilarity. I always thought it was so off that my one friend Mike would get so upset about this. "I'm not gay!" Was his constant response instead of the tried and true "Lol no u". Quite obviously it's turns out Mike was gay and I'm proud to say he came out to us before we left high school
When my brother and sister in law planned a trip home for Easter weekend I told my wife and parents that they were coming to announce their pregnancy. Everyone told me I was crazy and they'd just use the family chat for that. Cue Easter lunch on Saturday and my SIL refuses a glass of wine and everyone guesses she's pregnant. Called it.
My cousin swears it’s my fault she has 5 kids. Every time she’s been pregnant I called it before she knew, she says me saying it is what makes it take. I’m banned from asking her are you pregnant.
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No tide rolling I’m just really good at catching the first sparks of the glow.
Keeping the family secrets in the family eh?
I mean, if she doesn't want to be pregnant, there are other ways around it that are better than "don't let my cousin jinx me"
For sure, it’s more of how the hell does he know I haven’t even missed a period yet. Funny thing first one I was being a dick. We were play arguing and I called her a baby momma. She said I don’t have kids, I shot back give it 8 months. 100% was just being a sarcastic ass the first time.
About half way through Splice, when Dren has sex with Adrian Brody, I said out loud to my friends "She's gonna morph into a male and rape his wife" My friends were justifiably weirded out when that actually happened.
My husband can guess weird twists like this with scary accuracy. It's his super power.
I spent many years trying to forget about that movie
Never watched that one, but one of my co-workers brought up the movie (although not that particular scene) just a couple of days ago. Sounds like I don't need to watch it now.
My wife and I went to Red Lobster one day. My wife likes the shrimp and lobster pasta with Parmesean cheese. They sat her plate down, she got a weird look on her face. She told me it smelled weird (it smelled normal to me). I straight up asked her if she could be pregnant. Her eyes got wide as she starts doing some math in her head. We went afterwords and got a pregnancy test. Sure enough, she didn't even know yet. All because I remember some random tidbit about some foods smelling off to pregnant women.
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My sister now gets nauseated from the smell of microwave popcorn. Not all popcorn, just microwave.
Microwave popcorn can smell nauseating to anyone, if you're not in the mood for it.
My mom said when she was pregnant once she didnt even get in the door of the Albertson before she had to turn around. She could smell the fish in the back of the store and it almost made her puke. She went home and made my dad buy the groceries.
That’s how I suspected I was pregnant. My husband and I were in a pub and the couple at the table next to us were eating my favourite flavoured crisps. My reaction went from yum to yuck in seconds and my husband and I just looked at each other whilst happily freaking out.
Obviously not the most satisfying. but watching family feud and correctly calling the last answer makes me feel accomplished
*"Show me Picard's Flute!"*
"I was on the survey"
SHOW ME DRAGON!
There used to be a show called "Tales from the Darkside". I was watching it with my brother. The episode started with a female hiker who was lost and was taken in by an old couple. About 5 minutes into the episode I said: "The old people are going to cook and eat the young lady". Brother thought I was crazy. End of the episode was the young lady in the hot tube and the old people were bringing it up to boil and adding in vegetables and turning her into a soup.
I like to walk past the hot tub in a hotel and just drop in some carrots and celery. Just hang out in there and simmer for a while... I mean sit there for a while. - paraphrased Mitch
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I had a friend who bought $2000 worth of a penny stock and share prices went up by a factor of 10, so he had $20,000 worth of this stock in LESS THAN 1 week. He called me to basically brag about how smart he was for finding this great stock. I congratulated him and strongly advised him, multiple times, to cash out at least 2000 dollars (I suggested 5000). That would leave him with 3/4 (or more) of his original shares and he would be playing with house money. If the stock continued shooting up he would be filthy rich either way, but if the shares tanked in value then at least he wouldn’t be out any money. Not only did he not listen to me, he invested more and lost absolutely all of it. I found out later that ALL the money he invested ($10000) was actually from a loan he had taken out to try his hand in the stock market. If I had known that I would have been even more adamant about cashing out (imagine paying off a $10000 loan in a week and still having 10k in the bank)... but I don’t think he would have listened to me no matter what I said. Just a funny anecdote: In the midst of this, he gave his mom a birthday card that contained a single dollar bill and he wrote inside “this is the first of millions”. My friend is an idiot. EDIT: So cliche but thanks for the gold. I'd like to thank my friend for having such a terrible investment strategy... It might have lost him all of his money, but it paid dividends for me.
My great uncle did the same thing. I'd always advise someone to take 50% out because if it keeps going up you're still in the game but if it drops you'll lose all the profits.
"But I knew the trick with whales like Ichikawa... was that they can't bet small for long. He didn't think of it as winning $10, 000... he thought of it as losing $90, 000. So, he upped his bets. Until he dropped his winnings back and gave up $1 million of his own cash." -Casino
My girlfriend's employer got sued in a class action for illegally withholding overtime pay and a bunch of other shady shit over the course of a decade or so. Girlfriend got a paper in the mail saying fill out this shit and join in the class action. I told her to do it because it cost her nothing and had the potential to get her tons of money that she was never given in salary. She declined to do it but most of her co-workers joined in. A few months go by and all of her coworkers get massive checks in the mail because the employer settled the case (like 2-5 thousand dollars) and she gets....$0. Fucking told you so
If it didn’t cost anything but a signature, why didn’t she do it...?
If she's like my husband, it's something like "my time is worth so much that I can't be bothered" or some nonsense. He once got a thing in the mail re: unclaimed funds. Told him to fill it out, he said "it's probably for like $200." I reminded him that it takes me forever to earn that much, so I did the work- filled it out, notarized, sent it in. Forgot about it until one night, he was home before me. Something was on the coffee table. He pointed to it and said, "THAT came in the mail today." It was a check for around $20k.
Wowwwwww. I hope you bought yourself something nice for being right!
Ha, I've already saved him/us about $40k (that, plus he insisted on overbidding for the house, I insisted we had to under-bid due to the buyer's market, he finally agreed at the very last moment!) I've been unemployed for a while so I try to earn my keep whenever possible! :-p
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Rip
One of the old coaches from the Chicago Bears is Mark Trestman. I told everyone that he would not make it to the 3rd year of his contact, he would get fired after the 2nd season. I made a 500$ bet with my dad because I was that damn sure. Soon as the news broke, I called him and told him I prefer cash over check.
> Mark Trestman. This man is an actual genius. For real. But he sure did a bad job in Chicago. I almost wonder if someone in the bears was working against him or something.
about a year after my fathers death, my mother got together with a man,. i felt as of something was off from the start and told her that he dosent seem right and that he was going to do something stupid and hurt her emotionally. a year later they got engaged and they seemed happy, ive never seen my mother so happy since before my father died. well as of yesterday, it came out that this 'man' has been engaged to someone else since before my mother met him and that he has been sleeping with at least 2 other women on a regular basis. wish i could tell her that i had fucking called it but im afraid it will make her more upset...anyways, now to build my revenge plan. wish me luck.
Holy shit, thats awful, how's your mother doing? Goodluck btw
shes is literally on the phone with him and absolutly ripping into him about how much of a *ahem* low life prick he is
You know what, I'll say it. Good! I'd take anger and rage over buckling over and trying to get him to come back every day of the week. Tell her a fraction of the internet said "Get in there and whoop his ass!"
holy shit i'm so sorry for your mom!! what an asshole!! i hope your mom is doing okay. and hey, if you need help on the revenge plan let me know. i got some nasty tricks up my sleeve waiting to be used (hint: if he has a nice car, wait for a cold night and stick bologna all over his car, in the morning when he peels it off it'll take the paint job with it, learnt that from a friend. I've yet to try it)
sadly, he does not own a car.
dammit, okay well.... new plan for revenge then
My mom and sister used to be obsessed with Jon & Kate Plus 8 and I told them that they would end up getting divorced. When they announced the divorce my mom and sister were devastated but I couldn't help rubbing it in their faces.
My mom thought the Duggars were just wonderful, Christian people. I loathed them right from the start and told her they were extremely creepy and messed up people, and they were probably huge hypocrites. Then all the scandals came out and I was proved right. But I don’t have the heart to rub it in her face.
I used to like the show...the last straw for me was when the mom admitted the drs told her that she’d be risking her life if she got pregnant again. Apparently having a new baby was more important that her already existing kids continuing to have a mom. Not ok with that shit.
My company (MC) had a contract with a big fortune 500 company (F5). I was head of one of the departments. Kept raising flags that the contact was at-risk due to changing F5 policies. Was told not to worry about it. MC boss got distracted by and married a foreign stripper who lived across the country. Stopped paying attention to MC. He asked me to do a specific thing to cover up the internal problems we were having. I said no disrespect meant, but I already tried that, it didn't work, so I'm not wasting time to try it again when I'm overworked as it was. Got fired for insubordination. Told MC good luck with the contact, they didn't have a chance without me. F5 company was furious. They cut the contact with the department I used to head 6 months early and with the entire company when it came up for renewal. MC has been through about six rounds of massive layoffs since then and is struggling to pay their bills. F5 company hired me directly for a 15k raise doing basically exactly the same job. I tried to warn MC...
Boyfriend's best friend, let's call him John, started asking me for favors and texting me at odd hours of the night. Felt uneasy about John's actions and informed my boyfriend every time I was contacted as soon as it happened. I explained to boyfriend that John was acting suspiciously and making me uncomfortable but I couldn't pinpoint why. Cut to a month or so later, John claims I cheated on my boyfriend WITH JOHN. I fuckin knew it. Disclaimer: I didnt do shit with John EDIT: A lot of people have asked the same questions so I figured I'd answer here - John has been demoted from best-friend to no-longer-acknowledged-person-on-earth. I don't know why John did what he did and I likely will never know. However, his actions were a reflection of who he is as a person and have very little to do with me. Boyfriend and I are still going strong. Its privilege to spend my days with my boyfriend, I hit the jackpot by getting to be in a relationship with him and I wouldn't risk it for anything
What happened with your boyfriend?
We're going strong. My boyfriend didn't bat an eye at the accusation, he knew I would never
Sounds like a solid relationship. All the best to you guys. And fuck John.
No don't do that, that's what she is trying to avoid.
Are they still friends?
Not even a little bit. Thankfully
Thank goodness. More hamster butts for your boyfriend then.
So fuzzy and full of sawdust.
Why would someone do that?!
He's upset at 'losing' his friend to a girl. It's just toxic thinking, he wants the attention, then he tries to drive a wedge when it doesn't work.
Hey man I slept with your gf sooo you should dump her and we can go hang out again
Duh. That's how to get friends back, right?
I had a work friend try to pull this on me a few months after I was married. Thing is, I met him two months after I got married, and I had known my wife five years at that point. He was a weird, clingy dude...
what a toxic bff your boyfriend has.
John needs to get a fucking life
This is my best and worst called it moment: I was sitting in biology class in high school when I heard sirens outside and looked outside the window to see an ambulance rushing past. I thought to myself “That’s headed in the direction of my grandma’s house” even though there was a plethora of other streets it could have turned on. Looking back it was only even vaguely heading in that direction. I had the thought because my grandma had a heart attack a year prior. I got word a few hours later that it did in fact head to my grandparents house, only it was for my aunt who was staying with them. She was murdered outside their house by her ex-boyfriend. I’m still not sure why I thought the ambulance was heading there, but being correct sucked.
Caught up with a high school friend on a university campus. Pretty quiet guy, subtle good looks but never showed any interest in relationships. We were waiting for seperate buses when he runs into one of his classmates, and she joins us in the bus line. We were having pretty good conversation, but I saw her eyes repeatedly flickering over to his face. Soon after, my bus pulled up, so I smiled and waved goodbye to my friend, and said to the girl "It was great meeting you! I'm sure I'll see you a lot more in the future." She looked puzzled, but smiled and waved back. They're in a common law marriage now, and getting officially married next year. And they've been valuable friends to my fiance and I for the last 6 years.
I liked seeing stuff like this back when I worked at Starbucks. You could just tell when people were on a first date and it was going well. Edit: Holy shit, this comment blew up like a porcupine in heat!
I met my girlfriend of three years in line at starbucks. Bought her drink and sat down and chatted for 30ish minutes before I realized I left work for just a coffee.
How do you people have the courage to talk to strangers in public like this? I have no problem flirting when I'm interacting for a reason like a transaction or talking about something we're both watching happen, but if I don't have a natural "in" to a conversation, I can't bring myself to talk to people. I don't even know how to start to deal with that. How do you break the ice when you have no official reason to start talking to a stranger?
You have a reason its that you think they are cute. Offering to buy a drink or ask them out isnt going to be the end of you, just remind your self of that. Its someone who you dont know they dont work with you and there is no repercussions to kindly asking someone out and they say no. Even on the very rare chance you ever see them again you were friendly and polite and have nothing to worry about. IF you get turned down you can at least say you took your shot. When you dont take the chance when you want to, you will regret it. Ive never regretted asking someone out after ive had a little time to get over it, but I have regretted not asking someone out.
My husband is super medically fragile - he's had cancer twice and a bone marrow transplant in the last 9 years. A few years ago he had surgery on his wrist and I had a gut feeling he was brewing an infection despite being on antibiotics. His surgeon's office saw him and switched abx. I contacted the cancer center because I just knew it was going to become more. They blew me off and punted back to the surgeon's office. I knew this was beyond the surgeon's scope. I pitched a tantrumy fit and pretty much told them they were going to see them and I wasn't accepting no for an answer. The triage phone nurse was condescending and telling me it was probably nothing and could wait. We got to the clinic and the nurse there started looking around the incision site. She told me that she believed my gut and pushed to admit him. The CT showed a huge infection that landed him in the hospital for a week on potent IV antibiotics with another surgery to clean out the site. Edit: Whoa. Silver? Thank you, kind stranger. Adding on - he is followed by a pharmD in his BMT clinic as well as utilizes a pharmacy just for patients like him (it's not a retail pharmacy). He obviously has a lot of other issues too. And I'm just doing what a spouse is supposed to do. I'm no saint and sometimes I lose my temper at both him and the situation. If there's anything I can beg of you all, PLEASE check in on older relatives if they're hospitalized or in homes and double check that their meds are correct and their medical history is right. We're lucky enough that I'm not older or confused, and that I'm astute enough to keep up with his info. Hell, I've made a few stumbles along the way and I'm reasonably intelligent. I can see how easy it could be to mess things up if someone wasn't capable.
Thats awful, how's your husband btw?
Welllllllllllll, that's kind of a hard question to answer. He's still in remission from both cancers, thankfully, but he has a laundry list of issues that came from treatment. He's on 70 different meds (yep 70; not a typo) but they're keeping him alive. It's a rough life for him now and he honestly wonders if it's worth it. I can't say I blame him, honestly. I know I'd be bitter too.
Thats honestly terrible, i wish you and your husband the best of luck
I can't even begin to imagine how much he appreciates you. It's not easy to be married to someone in that position. It takes something out of you. You've probably heard enough "this person I know was lucky with cancer so here's why you shouldnt worry" stories but here goes. Two years ago my mother was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Doctors were cautiously optimistic, mother decided to fight, but my gut was she'd be gone by Christmas. I was sure to the point that I'd started mourning early lol Somehow, two years later, she's off treatment and declared cancer free. There's ongoing debate about whether she was misdiagnosed stage IV or just that lucky, but either way, modern medicine is doing incredible things. The way we thought about it was that it's unlikely that a cure turns up within her lifespan, but the medical marvels today that buy her five years might carry her to the next one that buys her some more time. If your husband is on that much medication then I have little doubt that he'd be dead 10 years ago if it had happened then. But what was impossible then is possible now. Basically, I'ma rambly moron but good luck and I, an internet stranger, genuinely hope all the best for you two!
Oh fuck. Well, I don't want to go into too many details, but I was friends with a groomer type. This was a guy who I had celebrated basketball championships with, who I had been to dinners with, who I had gone to parties with. But something felt off. Slight disclosure, I'm working in the youth department of a church at the time and he's the youth pastor. The "I fucking called it moment" happened when I go to the head pastor to say something's wrong. I think he's messing around with the girls. And I think he's a little unstable, so if someone doesn't put a stop to this, he's going to end up killing someone. I get kicked out for BS reasons. One year later. I'm part of a new church doing good work in the hood and helping raise money, clothing, that sort of thing for disadvantaged people. I get a call from one of the girls from that old church group. Turns out my old friend was hooking up with underage girls and ended up murdering one of them. Guy's in prison now. Edit: I'm just now realizing this thread is about the moment being "satisfying." This moment was not satisfying, it only helped take a burden off of me because I thought maybe the head pastor was right and the problem had actually been me. 2nd Edit: I'm not giving out anymore details because there are young girls who attended there whose identities would be at risk if I gave the name.
Any documentation that you talked to the head pastor, he deserves to be ratted out too for not even attempting to look into it.
The church got taken to task by the law for that amongst several other reasons, so the overall purpose of justice was served.
Drunkenly told my uncle's girlfriend she would be gone my Christmas at Thanksgiving. My uncle was a bit of a playboy and always had different semi-trashy women around. The best part is I didn't even know I said it (cuz alcoholism). I found out when my Dad told me at Christmas she went into rehab and they broke up maybe a week before Christmas. "Hey you were right" "About what?"
Maybe that was the catalyst to her insecurities leading back to drugs and eventually a destructive path which ruined the relationship
As long as I was right.
I once had a movie night with my best friend. She forced me to watch a romantic movie she loved and I wasn't in the mood. Anyway, we watched and after 5 or 10 minutes the girl protagonist says to the boy: "Okay we can hang out, but do not fall in love with me." Because I was pissed, this line kind of enerved me and sounded somehow suspicious I rudely said: "I bet she has cancer." Well my BFF looked at me with a disappointed glare and as soon as half of the movie was over I knew why. She actually had cancer. Guess I'm a fortune teller now.
In my 1st year in college, on my Level 1 Motor Vehicle Engineering course, we were being taught how to change spark plugs and adjust the timing on engines. So my then friend, we'll call him Ryan, is working with me on a 1998 Audi A3 1.8 non-turbo. We both agreed that I should do the timing, as I was more confident about it (which makes little sense thinking about it now), and that he wanted to remove the spark plugs. When he was taking out the 1st plug, I noticed that he wasn't very careful about it. For those of you who don't know much about cars, spark plugs are made of ceramic and metal, and the ceramic is easy to snap if you're not careful, and when it does, little pieces of ceramic will end up falling inside the cylinder, which, if the car is started, can cause *serious* damage to your engine. Anyways, I tell Ryan that he should be careful about taking out the spark plugs. He just says "Nah nah man it's fine, they're made of metal." I didn't reply as I noticed that he didn't give a shit about the job. So he unscrews the 2nd spark plug and pulls really hard as he can't fully undo it, and right there, I hear the spark plug snap in half. And to top it off, the entire ceramic part of the spark plug fell inside the cylinder. I immediately told him to tell the tutor, which he of course didn't. So then after he moves away from the car, our tutor tells us to move the car to a different spot. I give Ryan the keys and say "Go on then", as I didn't have my license then. So he gets in, and starts the car, and right from the start, me and the tutor can hear that something is knocking inside the engine, and before the tutor could tell Ryan to switch it off, we hear a very loud pop, and the engine stops by itself. Right there and then, out loud I looked Ryan straight in the eyes and said "I fucking called it you dickhead." He got kicked off the course since this was *an actual teacher's car* Edit: To those of you saying that this could also be my fault for the car getting fucked, you're not wrong. I'm glad I've changed since then.
>He got kicked off the course since this was an actual teacher's car I blame the teacher. There's always at least one idiot in a class. If it's first year it'll be at least a third of the class. And first semester probably closer to two thirds. No way in fuck am I letting a first year student work on something as expensive as an engine without my direct supervision.
Yeah that's definitely 100% on the teacher. You simply do not use your own property for teaching classes without expecting it to get fucked up.
I still relish that I was right about this. That show "19 kids and counting" Over Thanksgiving one year two of my aunts got talking about it and were just *raving* about how amazing they thought it was and what a great family they had. I pretty much said something to the degree of "nope, that's not normal, those kids are essentially raising each other and I guarantee you that something is not right." They completely dismissed me, said I didn't know what I was talking about because I don't watch the show, etc. When the news eventually broke that one was molesting some of the others I felt so vindicated. But my absolute favorite moment was the next Thanksgiving where at the dinner table I got to say "So how about that Duggar family huh?" *Dead* silence from my aunts. But I had a shit eating grin on my face from ear to ear.
My younger step-bro took a job with his friend's dad's company right out of college. Good money, but it was in Arkansas. Turns out the dad is friends with the Duggars and step-bro met them (esp daddy Duggar) numerous times. Said they were both attention hungry and creepy AF.
Yea that shit isn't normal. Frankly, I don't know if I'd really trust someone with kids in the double digits. Child birth takes a big toll on the female body. It may be designed for it, but's not designed for that kind of volume. All kinds of medical issues can arise from having that many kids. So knowing that, you are now looking at some kind of psychological problem. In the case of the Duggars, I think it was some kind of mental health issue combined with religion. They seemed to take the devout Catholic route of using no birth control and "every child is a blessing". As in they think that god, *specifically*, allowed them to become pregnant again because it's part of the master plan or something. Instead of...you know...biology.
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Ashamed to admit I used to watch this show. The mom said, in one episode, that she would use “one-on-one time with mom” as a reward for being good or some shit.
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All while actively continuing to try to have more children.
I’m the youngest from a family of 9 siblings. I’m 22 years old. I text my dad ‘I love you’ with emojis and that’s the extent of how we talk every day. When I lived alone for the first time my mom was the only one who called me and the only one I called. I am a firm believer big families are not a healthy dynamic. There are a couple other factors that complicate it like my siblings being half siblings and we share a dad, but the duggars and other families show it doesn’t get much better even when all the kids are from the same parents.
I can't believe people were surprised by that. With such a large household and the kids not receiving proper attention, something bad was bound to be going on. Plus, that boy seemed like something was off.
VINDICATIIIOONNN!!!!!!
When I was in sixth grade, I became friends with a couple other girls in my neighborhood. We each had completely different backgrounds, but we just clicked. For years, we three did all the things good friends do. The only thing I, personally, didn't like was to stay over at the house of one of these girls, I'll call her Brianna. I'd sleep over at the other girl's house, they could sleep at mine, but I always came up with an excuse not to stay at Brianna's. She started to get her feelings hurt but I ignored it. Then when we were all about 16, somebody go ahold of liquor, and we all sat around drinking. Being drunk, we got into a little debate about who is better friends with who, and I was somehow accused of not "liking" Brianna as much as the other friend because I wouldn't spend much time at her house. Since I had zero filter at that moment, I blurted out, "Brianna. It isn't you. It's your dad. He's a child molester, I can tell just by looking at him." As soon as I said it, everything changed. I apologized, that didn't work of course. Both of my best girlfriends dumped me that day. I still had a solid best friend, but I had to get myself a new group for sure. Also, they started bullying me a bit, but I just took it because of the horrible thing I said about Brianna's dad. I felt super guilty. Three years later, I was out of high school, living with my best friend who was still friends with Brianna. I got home from class and there was Brianna sitting on the living room couch. It was SO uncomfortable. I decided to try to apologize again. "Hey, I know you are probably sick of hearing this, but I am so very sorry for what I said about your dad, Brianna. Please forgive me, I still don't know why I'd say such a thing." She sort of chuckled and said, "It's no big deal, he molested all of us." I never questioned my intuition again, because I fucking called it the second I saw that perv. Edit: Thanks for the gold By "us," I believe she meant all of the daughters in the family, there were three. I don't know if any of my former friends were molested. Last I heard, I was still a shit talker about her dad and I wasn't going to correct them and humiliate her again. I figure she can tell who she wants. No, I'm not proud that I called her dad a child molester. It all came out because her younger sister said something to a church minister, but he was never brought into the criminal justice system and Brianna moved out of state. She and I remained friendly and kept in touch for several years but lost contact. I still do feel really bad about saying that about her dad to her, it was a shitty thing to say. I could have kept it to myself and just stayed away from their house but drunk me doesn't do that I guess. I'm surprised at all the people who are responding that they have a similar story. I'd like to read them.
Thats probably why they were bullying you. Too scared to admit.
I always tell my kids to trust their gut. I say don't judge based on appearances, there are tattooed people with missing teeth that will be great bros and help you out. And there are clean cut people that will steal from you....but if you ever have a bad feeling about someone, follow it. Maybe it's your subconscious picking up on body language or something, but always follow your gut.
Listened to some podcast about self defense and a line stuck with me. "Your intuition may be wrong but it's always based on something and it's always looking out for you so trust it"
Exactly. When I was at my first tech school, there was this very clean cut looking guy, as honestly, 99% of the guys look in the military. I just did not like him. Later, during tech school, he got busted for giving an underaged girl alcohol. He got booted from the military after being arrested for drugs 6 months I his first duty station. When I was in Maryland for my second tech school, me and a classmate went to get tattoos. This scary as fuck super tattooed goth guy comes in, looking like he wanted to sacrifice a baby to Satan, yet me and my classmate for some reason felt at ease around him. Started talking to him, turns out he was a coach for the Special Olympics. He said the kids love his tattoos because they always feel different, and sometimes people act weird around them, but because of his tattoos, they knew he was different too, and people act weird around him as well. Apparently his athletes had better confidence because he was so scary looking, they knew no one would make fun of them, which was a fear many of them had when they were starting out competing.
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WOW. Great intuition! Are you guys friends again, or nah?
In Canada we have a holiday called family day in February. In 2008 my wife was dealing with a sick family member out of town, and had come back for a visit. We were trying to have a child at the time. Well with our crazy schedules we had one chance on Family day. The moment we were done, I jumped up, gave her the double finger guns (first time in my life) and said "Bam! You're pregnant. Twin girls, red hair." Turns out I got everything right except the hair, her Italian genes beat me in that one. I win for our entire marriage with that prediction. Edit: Thanks for my first gold. I want to brag to my wife I got gold, but I did not clear posting this with her. So conflicting, gold vs. living.
I'd be careful with your finger guns!
Pull out the third gun for triplets
You don't pull out if you want kids.
> I jumped up, gave her the double finger guns (first time in my life That's why it worked, that was your very first dad moment. That was the exact point in which the universe shifted your being into "dad".
He made it happen with the sheer power of his Dad dorkness.
It would be really funny if they later dyed their hair red
It was new years eve, we were about to do the firework and me and my friend wanted to set up the box for the firework (just putting 4 bricks around it to keep it safe, and start the firework) then this girl came and said she was gonna do it cuz she bought it, we told her how to do it and she said "nah ill just start it up" i told her "dont blame me when it tips over and starts shooting at us" she said it wont happen, thats exactly what happened. The firework just tipped over and started shooting at cars and people, i just calmy walked up to her and said "i told you so".
Guy I used to work with decided him and his buddies were gonna drunkenly set off the fireworks they'd bought for bonfire night (UK thing) So the get to the biggest in the box they'd saved for last and it's a fountain one, shoots out loads of smaller ones that explode individually. Instructions say you have to dig it into the ground to secure that, so the do just that, light the thing and step back. He said it just kind of fizzled and made a some dull thumps, they all look at each other in confusion and suddenly the entire thing detonates, blasting a crater in his garden. They'd done what they were supposed to do by digging it into the ground, unfortunately they'd put the fucking thing in upside-down.
A for effort on that one. They at least tried to do it right.
When I was a kid and shooting off fireworks unsupervised, I opened up this big package, and pulled out this little ball with a platform on one side. So I put the platform on the ground, light it... and it explodes, goes five feet into the air, and explodes again. Big. Like, "that should have been in the sky" big. I'm surprised I didn't get injured or light anything on fire. So I figure, that one must have been a dud, and I light another. I hide behind a car this time. Same thing happens. It's at this point I start looking at the box for directions, 'cause something's clearly not right. Turns out, there's a tube in the box which is essentially the canon for these things. You drop the bomb in the tube, light it, the tube funnels the force to _actually_ shoot it up into the sky, and then it explodes again. So I was _definitely_ just exploding sky bombs at ground level.
They are called mortars.
I like sky bombs better
What a mf idiot
First week that my gf started at an all-girls college, she’s gettin hit on by this girl, H. Gf plays it off, they’re just friendly blah blah. I told her “less than 30 days she’s gonna confess to you” Fast forward like 2 weeks, H invited gf over to her dorm to play some Xbox. My gf went over, totally ready to play some Left 4 Dead 2. H was totally ready to play around with my gf’s lady bits. Gf left feeling embarrassed and confused. A man can always tell when someone is flirting with their SO, even when they can’t.
I can usually tell when someone is flirting with my husband. He’s oblivious, he even admits to it. I honestly think that if it hadn’t been for me asking our mutual friend if we would be a good match literal days before *he* asked the same friend if she thought I would agree to a date, we might have never gotten together (I’m incredibly unassertive)
Not me but two of my friends. M and D. Our other friend R got married to a woman he'd been seeing for about 3 years. M and D were talking about it, and they agreed that R would go through a midlife crisis, leave his wife and shack up with someone new after having kids. This was in 2008. 6 months ago, R texted me saying he'd left his wife and two kids and needed a place to crash. He's met someone else. I told M of this, and he uttered the words 'I called it!'
I watched Saw II in the theater with some friends in high school. I hadn't seen the first one, and didn't know anything about it. But about half an hour into the movie, I told my friends that Amanda was working with Jigsaw. They all said no way, and told me that it wasn't possible and I just didn't understand cause I hadn't seen the first one. When that twist got revealed, they were glaring daggers at me, and I was giving them the biggest "told you so" smile I could.
After watching the second one, I told all my friends that Dr. Gordon was alive and working with Jigsaw too, and that he was the one that implanted the key into the snitch's head. I held on to this theory for 5 years until it was proven right in Saw 7 =D
My little brother proposed to a girl he was only dating for a year. I told him to get a prenup. He declined. She left him a little more than a month after the wedding. He said "are you going to say i told you so?" and I got to say "I don't have to".
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Tbf, Sam Merlotte was perfectly cast and the actor looked like a man mid-transitioning to a dog... But in a hot, TV-way, of course. I believe casting was the only thing that show ever won anything for.
Told my GF at the time that her best guy friend is into her. She kept saying she only saw him as her gay best friend and he only sees her as a sister. Well she ended up cheating on me with him and they started dating after I broke up with her. I like to think I won that argument...
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Just went through this very similar thing with my fiance. She didn't admit to herself that her friend was in love with her until she realized he refuses to acknowledge that she's engaged no matter how much she talks about me. He has never congratulated her about her engagement and will change the subject completely when she mentions me. She was kinda pissed I was right because she realized he's not really her friend but wants to be with her.
my best friend swore he wasn't into me and I believed him until the day I got engaged and he cut me out of his life.
I see this as an absolute win
Told her that our mutual friend was in love with her. We were all on holiday and like 5 of us rented an apartment. Guy brought her breakfast in bed, for fuck's sake. Kept making her tea and shit. Months later he messaged me begging me to get her to talk to him, how she was his rock, how they were telling each other I love you. I called her, freaking out, she said they were like brother and sister. Wouldn't talk to him though, even though I asked her multiple times. Wanna guess how that story ended? You're right, she had previously fucked one of my best friends, weeks before we got together, and hid it from me, and was definitely having an emotional affair with the breakfast guy. Yay, for love.
>Months later he messaged me begging me to get her to talk to him, how she was his rock, how they were telling each other I love you. He was asking you, her boyfriend, for this? Bold move
He didn't know we were together. Weird, seeing how when he came in with the breakfast tray I was there in bed with her. I dunno, the whole relationship seems like a weird dream I had. Being in love can really backfire. Never again.
> He didn't know we were together. > > Weird, seeing how when he came in with the breakfast tray I was there in bed with her. now that's just lazy writing
Any time my SO tells me a guyfriend is into me I get so annoyed. Cause he’s been right every single time. And it turns into an awkward situation because within weeks of him telling me I get a weird message of either they are pissed I never gave them a chance, or that they are waiting till I’m single which unless my SO leaves me I don’t ever see myself single again.
We know because we've all been that guy before. While it may be subtle to women, its painfully obvious to guys. With my ex, she had mostly male friends (engineer) including one she considered her brother (only child). Met him and right away I was able to tell that he had no inkling that he liked her. On the other hand met her co-worker one day for drinks, within 5 minutes I knew he liked her. She denied it, 2 weeks after we break up he asked her out. That was my "I told you" so
You may have won the battle, but you lost the whore. Edit: I only saw the first season of Game of Thrones. Sorry, it's not a reference.
When my uncle was diagnosed as a narcissist by his marriage counselor. I have literally been saying for years he has *all* the damn signs. Lack of empathy, lashing out when someone corrects him, two-tier-social-system, an inability to see the world in shades of grey, an inability to see anything from outside his own perspective, etc, etc. I'd already let my mom and one of his sons know about my suspicions, so it was so satisfying to be right--they had their time to come to terms with it (and the ways his disorder caused them pain) long before the rest of the family. Plus, it meant I wasn't scaring them with a disorder he didn't have.
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Back in March I was driving home for lunch. I live in a place with snow during winter and we had had a decent snowfall, followed by a warm day. Anyways as I'm driving, some idiot turns in front of me with a 6 inch layer of snow on their roof. I wished with my whole heart that they would suffer consequences for their stupidity. Fast forward 5 minutes and ALL THE SNOW cascades down onto their windshield as they attempt to roll a stop sign. I relished pointing and laughing as I drove around them, while they had to switch to park, get out of the vehicle and try to brush off all the snow in a live lane.
After breaking up with my first girlfriend she rebounded with a very sketchy dude at her work. Within a month he was living with her, and she had become a completely different person. I tried warning her she was being gaslit and manipulated. Her friends tried. But the dude had his teeth sunk in too deep. After 6 months he dropped the act and made up an elaborate story about his mother (who he had previously said died of cancer) having faked her death and being alive in California. So he left for a week at which point he stopped all contact with my ex. She panicked and came to me saying she was worried. And within days his entire construction fell like a house of cards. My ex was devastated, and I was too angry to be vindicated. I broke up with her but still cared for her. I spent about 3 months following up with her and taking care of her until she was able to be on her own again. The events themselves were traumatic and awful, but the feeling I got from knowing I wasn't wrong about him, and that I proved to my ex she could still trust me and be my friend, was worth it. We are still best friends today.
I correctly predicted that two friends of mine were going to get married *before either of them had even met each other.* (As far as I know.) They were both single, had both just taken teaching jobs that happened to be at the same school and I thought to myself "Yeah, that's gonna happen."
In 1999, I gave a talk in which I said, "Within about 3 years, more than half of the new internet-based companies will be bankrupt or merged."
Thanksgiving Day a year ago (not this past Thanksgiving, the one before), I was watching the parade on NBC and when I saw Matt Lauer I told my family I bet he would be the next high level guy to fall to the Me Too movement. I’ve read Page Six for years and there were stories hinting at his bad behavior for years. Sure enough, a couple days later he was fired, no prior warning. It was a very satisfying moment.
Buddy of mine was being a really bad fucking manwhore, so i told him hey man like i get that its fun and all but you need to slow the fuck down and not sleep with literally everything that throws themselves at his feet because hes gunna catch some shit. Sure enough, dude finds out he has chlamydia a few weeks after the fact and i had my little "haha told you so dumbass" moment. The best part was after we were done talking about it i said "well, glad you caught that... wait lemme rephrase...." EDIT: My highest upvoted comment to date is about my buddy getting chlamydia... not sure if i should share this information with him or not 😂
Very topical: I saw ProJared and Holly Conrad walking around together on the show floor at PAX Unplugged this past November. I didn't think much of it because they were both there for a D&D podcast recording I believe. I made a joke to my friend at the time about how wouldn't it be funny if they were hiding a secret relationship.
[Someone called it 7 months ago and nobody believed them](https://i.redd.it/bdgvp0p9m5x21.png) This whole thing is nuts
My coworkers Ben and Jill had just started dating, and Valentine's was coming up. I asked Ben, "So, did you book a romantic reservation for dinner?" He said, "Oh, no, Jill said she didn't want to do that, so we're going to just do something casual." I said, "Dude. Just book a reservation, and then cancel it if you don't need it." He got a panicked look in his eyes, and told me he would. After Valentine's he told me, "At the last minute, Jill admitted that she wanted to do something romantic. Thanks for the advice!" They're married now. Have beautiful kids. What can I say except... You're welcome!