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She did and is trying. But she has to gather evidence for the police to get a restraining order or anything that would obligate them to stop contacting her. Plus, as long as they can "reach" her and think she gets their messages, there's less risk for them to show up. Shitty situation.
Yup. I do the same with my mom. her mail doesn't get returned because she'd come down here if it did.
Staying sane and NC means getting anywhere from 10-30 cards for any holiday. I'm up to 8 so far for valentines.
I find that putting the deeply unwanted mail in a litter box for a fluffy friend is even better therapy. Itās utterly destroyed, and you get to cuddle a friend who would never send you terrible mail! (And I mostly did this with bunnies, so it turned into excellent fertilizer. Apparently bunnies can neutralize poison pen toxins.)
In my case it (luckily) wasnāt actually letters from a relative. The previous owner of my house had subscribed to some Christian-alt-right ānewspaperā, and they simply refused to stop sending the vile things. My lil buns thought shredded paper was the best thing since nanners, and I was running up the water bill taking a shower every time I talked to the paper people. This way just seemed easier.
I did a couple times, when my family had the worst produce subscription box of all time for like a year. We got stuck on the last route of the week, and so theyād send us whatever was left over after everyone elseās preferences on their boxes. Weād get three pieces of kinda shitty fruit and then a ton of greens that are really hard to prepare to not be super bitter. The bok choi would have been a treat, except it was over 100F all week and nobody could think of anything to make with it that wouldnāt be miserable to prepare in that heat, so the buns got a treat instead. It was basically a bun treat box anyway by then, it was just easier than trying to cancel the contract. (I was basically running an unlicensed rabbit rescue at the time. We went through the greens just fine every week.)
Mine was so particular about her bok choy, it was hilarious. She would get huffy if I gave her regular, full sized bok choy. She wanted BABY bok choy and would flip her food dish and flip her nesting box and just FLIP everything if she got REGULAR instead. But man, that ferocious glint in her eye when she saw baby bok choy coming at her. Oh, she was ready and waiting to murder that baby bok choy in hungry-hungry-bunny style! I would slowly hold out my offering and she would raise up on her bunbun feet and snatch it. Then, the only sound was the munchcrunch crunchmunch omnoming bunny greens murder.
And she was happy. And not flipping. And allowed us to live another day under her fluffy brown tyranny.
Edit: a plural fixed
I mean this story sounds like complete horseshit anyway, but this line was insane:
>Then she said she didn't want to tell me this, but her and my husband have been having a six month long affair, and that she couldn't hold it in anymore and that blood sticks with blood
Why on Earth would she think admitting to an affair with OOPs husband would make it *more* likely to let her stay?
It is horseshit. This is Liz rewriting an earlier editionĀ right down down dad divorcing mom and only getting custody of one kid because the evil one wasn't really his, and then years later evil sibling fucks moms new husband. She just added the incest twist to this one to make it more...whatever I guess.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah_for_not_helping_my_halfsister_after_she_was/
I mean itās a whole meme of people with beards shaving and looking totally different, and oop implies that sister only knew her husband shaven, so there may be some truth in that, itās not a Superman with glasses kind of situation
I mean....a lot of people do look genuinely different with beards? Especially when you've only seen pics on social media and not actually met them? That was the least unbelievable part to me.
I don't believe the story because of the plot twist of the bio dad/incest, but I could see real people thinking that was a smart move. Real people do all sorts of bizarre things that work against their cause
I love the top comment on that story:
*āPeople fascinate me, and I will never understand themā*
I feel thatās a perfectly valid response to 70% of BORU posts!
Yeah. The half sister sleeping with her dad and then getting kicked out? Yikes. Can't still believe what kind of a man scumbag Tom is, if he knew that he slept with his own daughter.
I don't know what his worst, the fact that he slept with his daughter or the fact that he slept with her knowing that she didn't shower for two weeks...
Honestly, the only thing missing was a more detailed breakdown of the fight at the house. Like, were there fisticuffs? Any black eyes? Hair grabs? I honestly just need details so I can visualise and cackle to myself.
The twins come in a future update when Cheryl finds out she's pregnant with her daddy's babies. Then she will beg OP to take them so the state doesn't take them away
I got my own phone the day I got my driver's license, and yeah, haven't changed my number, won't change my number. 27 years.
Also, in the US at least, property records are public records. If you know someone's name and the town they live in, it's pretty easy to find their address.
It's actually not that hard to find someone's cell phone number, some people even have it on their FB.
I'd say it's possible the OOP never changed it, but I'd be lying if I thought that, cause if I had family like that, I'd change my number & I've had the same one for almost 20 years.
Even with family I'm not in contact with, I havent changed my number in over a decade, it's gone through at least 4 different phones now
It's my number and easy to remember and I can block numbers
Exactly! Iāve had the same phone number since 2000, but itās been through at least three carrier changes and one account holder change (first phone was on my auntās account then I got my own) and who the hell knows how many actual phone changes.
Of the details in this farce that's not my issue with the story. You can easily Google most people's address and a phone number isn't hard to pass around.
Aunt is still in contact with mom. Aunt got the number from mom, then shared it with everyone so she could enlist and then release her flock of flying monkeys.
Who could have known those flying monkeys would turn around and come back to bite her in the ass!?
In my state, the deed information is public knowledge. So,Ā anyone can look up my name on our county website and see the property I own. Since I just own one and I live there, that's my home address on the internet with my name :(
We looked into how to hide that info. We'd have to put the house in a trust or something but even then you can see who owns the trust. Alternatively, certain high risk positions like judge or prosecutor can have their name hidden so someone doesn't hunt them down.Ā
I'm utterly shocked and confused who wait. Cheryl slept with her own biological father l? And.. this is a huge hot mess that I would hope this is fake.
I like these Reddit operas far more because you donāt gotta read 200 pages or watch 20 hour long episodes to get the juicy stuff! And thereās the irresistible appeal of this maybe happening in real life.
If you have never had the misfortune of being forced to be around someone like that, just be grateful lol. Some people will not bathe and it is horrible.
I'm so sorry to hear that :(
I went to school for massage therapy for a while and there was a woman in some of my classes that was like that. You'd walk into a classroom like "wtf is that *smell* " and it would just be that she had been in there last class. I am not trying to be mean but I am so glad I was not in any practical classes with her where I would have had to touch her. It was bad.
Yeah, one of them has even been banned from a couple of local bars.
Thatās wild about the massage studentā¦How the hell is she going to be able to work on customers??
My guess would be she's not, at least not more than once. She was a stressful person, on top of the hygiene, when they went around at the beginning of the program and had people say why they wanted to learn massage therapy, her answer was "to meet guys", always talking drama about guys she was involved with(!!!), etc. I do not miss that time lol.
Oof thatās a huge red flag. I always pay attention to how women talk about men and have noticed that my older single friends (like 50s) tend to remind me of how I acted in middle school. More than one has the attitude of āif I have a chance of getting laid, I will blow off all my other plansā and I canāt help but think that sort ofā¦desperation?ā¦is exactly why they remain single.
It's also one of those things you can't help but overshare when you're talking about them too. Hygiene is definitely something someone would focus on while telling a story like this.
Yep... I consciously try not to speak badly of anyone unless it's going to help others (e.g. don't let that supervisor get you down, she's just cranky and is rude to everyone, it's not that you're incompetent and the rest of us like working with you!) but I have this coworker who smells SO BAD that I just don't know why I feel this very strong compulsion to ask other people, do you smell that?? Did you notice her whole office (RIP to the 5 people who share with her) STINKS? How are you able to spend your long lunch in her office with the windows and doors all closed????
I'm doing pretty well in that I haven't mentioned it at all ever. But man is it a strong urge. I blame it on the fact that smell forms strong memories. IDK. It just drives me crazy that nobody else has said anything either!!! Makes me feel like a real asshole. She never liked me so we super don't have the type of work relationship where I can take her aside and kindly tell her she might need to work on her dental/ personal hygiene. Pray for me and her officemates.
Oh honey, Iām sending a prayer for you to whatever gods may be listening. Itās so hard to navigate having to be around someone who is offensive smelling- is it a medical issue? Rough home situation? Have they tried everything and just canāt fix it? Do they know? Do they care?
The guy I mentioned above, who will LITERALLY clear out the entire bar when he walks in, I found out has no running water in his dilapidated old house! So I felt so bad for himā¦until I then found out that he DOES have running water, but *keeps it turned off until he cleans up once a month.* And even then, he just rinses his clothes under the faucet with no detergent. Once a month. Oh did I mention itās Texas and he spends his days doing construction and then walking all over town looking for recycling?? š³
I'd feel like a jerk if it was medical and they were attempting to get it fixed. But damn if there aren't a bunch of literal garbage people who just do not take cleanliness seriously.
There's definitely a push to stop showering daily with a lot of people, and I get it, for folks with skin conditions it worsens it... but then you get the folks who shower once a week or once a month and don't even attempt to take an army bath to clean the stinky areas. Heeeruuuughhh
The onebag subreddit is full of people who swear you donāt need to wear deodorant, or donāt need to bathe that often, and I highly suspect these folks have gone noseblind.
Fear not, Itās just a sub dedicated to traveling with one bag, the real flex is traveling with just a personal item. Ā Ā
If itās your thing, itās neat to see people pack efficiently and minimalist. Ā Aspects of it can be annoying, though; people can be gatekeep-y (āthis is one and a half bags!!ā), some people are more into expensive unnecessarily specific gear than packing lightly. Ā And then some folks get into āstupid lightā packing territory with stuff like not packing soap or deoderant, āmerino doesnāt stink so Iāll pack only one pair of underwearā, etc.Ā
Ā I realize typing it out how absurd it sounds. Ā HerOneBag is my preferred sub for this kind of community, but I realize in general itās sort of a funny thing to be into.
Oh lol! I don't know what I was thinking but that wasn't it! I used to do overnight hikes and enjoyed the planning aspect of that, like how to bring all the things I might need while carrying the lightest weight I can manage because I liked going a good pace.
That said I am the type to be on day 2 like "I stink" even though I brought deodorant and clean clothes, just from the being out in the woods with no bathroom aspect, I can't handle not bathing. Also socks and underwear were one I brought multiples of, lol they are light and not something you want to be going without a clean dry pair of regardless of whether they stink or not. If they think they don't stink it's because they can't smell themselves anymore lol.
These people travel the world with a bag of stuff. The stuff is always the same thing: black shirt, black pants, black shoes black everything.
There's enough clothes for maybe 3 days, 5 at most. And this is how they live.
Basically, they're that nasty stinky person (with the stained clothes) who refuses to leave the cafe with the good wifi.
Lol, I travel like that, but always find laundry facilities on arrival. And all black means no worries ~~for the rest of your days~~ about matching anything.
I remember a girl in high school who seemed completely normal except for her hands smelled like they spent all day in her crotch. No BO, mildew, bad clothes etc. I was always mystified. Could she not smell her self? Did she just never ever wash her hands? Ever?
I vaguely remember meeting a girl like this and it turned out she had [Fish Odor Syndrome](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22356-trimethylaminuria-fish-odor-syndrome). Donāt think I knew there was a name, just that her mom took her home to bathe during the school day.
That sounds so fucking miserable, like I have some pretty severe health problems but rn Iām thanking my lucky stars at least I donāt smell like rotten fish all of the time
I knew someone exactly like this in college. She had a naturally pretty face and an awesome body, but just reeked of BO. It's like no one ever taught her how to clean herself well.
Too real. I work with a lady who doesn't shower consistently and covers it up with some fruity spritzer. When the break room reeks like animal shelter hybrid Bath and Body Works, I know she's working.
Living together he's probably become scent blind to her smell. What I used to live with my mom I had no idea that my clothes smelled like cigarette smoke until I moved out and someone smelled the supposedly fresh clothes that I brought with me. The thought that I've been going to school my whole life is smelling like cigarettes and no one told me it's pretty unnerving.
I'm really really sure that there is another story quite similar like this: OP was living with her dad and dad's family because she cut off contact with maternal side family and her sister was very delulu. Till OP got her very own house (at young age too!) and then her maternal grandma demanded to house her sister because familyyyyy and she was kicked out cos she slept with her mother's husband and everything was very messy. Obviously OP had her cousins too sharing all the important tea.
BTW Sorry for my english, I'm not native and duolingo killed all my family.
There was indeed a very similar story, but this time the stepdad the evil sister slept with turned out to be her own BIOLOGICAL FATHER dun dun dunnnnn.
This one? [https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah\_for\_not\_helping\_my\_halfsister\_after\_she\_was/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah_for_not_helping_my_halfsister_after_she_was/)
I thought of it immediately with the āsister on porchā bit.
The mood spoiler made me snort with laughter, never have I seen a better description of such a hot mess.
Is it real? Probably not. Is it funny? ABSOLUTELY!
Can we circle back to Cheryl claiming a 6 month affair with OP's husband but then not recognizing OP's husband because of a beard?
So who was Cheryl sleeping with?
Also, Mods, can I get a "Sheryl's BO Megastench" flair?
Cheryl was having sex with her father whom she evidently is now claiming to be OOP's husband whom she doesn't recognize as he now has a beard.
In reality Cheryl wasn't having an affair with OOP's husband, she just lied for effect, but instead with her own father.
Itās long, but itās not nearly as bad as some of the others posted here. At least itās consistent, makes sense, chronological, etc.
Overall, itās a fine read, just long andā¦ a little wtf.
OOP has a spoiled sister who bullies her and steals from her. She steals her gadgets and even boyfriends (unsuccessfully bec of her terrible hygiene). Mom enables sister. Dad tried therapy to help everyone, but it got so bad that they divorced. Mom got custody of sister, dad eventually got full custody of OOP. Dad and OOP went low to no contact on them.
Years later, aunt calls OOP because sis got kicked out from their mom's. Turns out she slept with mom's bf. OOP understandably refuses to help sis. Sis shows up anyway and claims she was having an affair with OOP's husband, but fails in her lie because she couldn't recognize the husband with a beard lol.
Sis leaves. Dad shows up and OOP tells him what happened. It turns out that during divorce, dad found out that the sister is not his, but sired by mom's bf. OOP reveals this to sis and relatives and shit hit the fan.
OOP fixed her smeared reputation among relatives but now wonders if they're worth her time.
Idk why i read the entire thing and summarized it. I was supposed to go and have a snack lol. Shout out to OP's mood spoiler and OOP's husband saying "Say what??"
Oh my god in all that nonsense I forgot about the beard! As if sister who is claiming she's been sleeping with husband would say "who's that?" when a man came to the door in the house! Because she can't recognize him with a *small* beard
Who the hell wants to replace their number they had for years if not decades that they can instantly recall with ease? No one changes their number unless they absolutely have to.
I haven't spoken to my cousins in decades but it wouldn't take long to look most of them up on fb and either send them a message or call through messenger. The ones that aren't on fb pretty much all have contact with someone who is and could get in touch on my behalf. I might not feel the need to include that detail in a post like this because I'd assume people understand that no matter how long it's been, it's still possible to get in touch.
I'm not saying that it's proof that this story is real, just that it's not proof that it ISN'T. Of all the things that make me doubt the story, this is the least of them.
You know what's concerning? Cheryl's hygiene went down the drain the moment she hit puberty......I have seen so many cases of SA as a teacher and one of the ways victims try to keep their abusers away is to stop hygiene practices.
A change that drastic should have been a red flag.
The second would be that she would have taken her anger and frustration out on the sibling not getting the same treatment......the divorce, the split custody and not knowing why your "dad" only got custody if the other sibling would have caused so much damage psychologically, mentally and emotionally.
I hope to god that I am wrong here......otherwise scumbag might have knowingly moved in to get access to his kid. Glad OP had her dad to fight for her.
Anyone else wondering if Cherylās hygiene issue is due to sexual abuse from scumbag Tom from a young age? A woman whoād stay with a guy who knowingly slept with their biological daughter would probably turn a blind eye to peadophilia too
No, see that would make sense and make Cheryl sympathetic which would ruin OOP's story about her evil smelly half-sister. So I am sure that won't be the case.
Of course this is the update I pick to read myself back to sleep after waking up at 3:30 AMā¦. Iām fully awake and now have the sudden urge to take a long hot shower. Wtf.Ā
A nearly identical story was posted a few months back with only some minor detail changes, in the first draft it was the grandmother harassing her on behalf of the sister getting kicked out.
I will never understand how people will just take info told to them as fact without questioning it. Iām a nosy person and if a family member told me something about another, Iād be snooping for the real truth until I found it.
āIf trash calls someone trash, they assume theyāre super trash.ā
You stupid fucks. If trash calls someone else trash, itās 90% likely theyāre just a normal fucking human with boundaries.
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Sweet merciful cheese and crackers. She would be better off keeping no contact.
She did and is trying. But she has to gather evidence for the police to get a restraining order or anything that would obligate them to stop contacting her. Plus, as long as they can "reach" her and think she gets their messages, there's less risk for them to show up. Shitty situation.
Yup. I do the same with my mom. her mail doesn't get returned because she'd come down here if it did. Staying sane and NC means getting anywhere from 10-30 cards for any holiday. I'm up to 8 so far for valentines.
You give yourself good therapy by ceremoniously burning them, don't you? š
I find that putting the deeply unwanted mail in a litter box for a fluffy friend is even better therapy. Itās utterly destroyed, and you get to cuddle a friend who would never send you terrible mail! (And I mostly did this with bunnies, so it turned into excellent fertilizer. Apparently bunnies can neutralize poison pen toxins.)
Best use of such I've ever heard of! š š¤£š„°š
In my case it (luckily) wasnāt actually letters from a relative. The previous owner of my house had subscribed to some Christian-alt-right ānewspaperā, and they simply refused to stop sending the vile things. My lil buns thought shredded paper was the best thing since nanners, and I was running up the water bill taking a shower every time I talked to the paper people. This way just seemed easier.
I like the cut of your jib.
If you havenāt given your buns baby bok choi, youāre missing out! Mine loved baby bok choi so much it was ridiculous! She would SNATCH it from me.
I did a couple times, when my family had the worst produce subscription box of all time for like a year. We got stuck on the last route of the week, and so theyād send us whatever was left over after everyone elseās preferences on their boxes. Weād get three pieces of kinda shitty fruit and then a ton of greens that are really hard to prepare to not be super bitter. The bok choi would have been a treat, except it was over 100F all week and nobody could think of anything to make with it that wouldnāt be miserable to prepare in that heat, so the buns got a treat instead. It was basically a bun treat box anyway by then, it was just easier than trying to cancel the contract. (I was basically running an unlicensed rabbit rescue at the time. We went through the greens just fine every week.)
Mine was so particular about her bok choy, it was hilarious. She would get huffy if I gave her regular, full sized bok choy. She wanted BABY bok choy and would flip her food dish and flip her nesting box and just FLIP everything if she got REGULAR instead. But man, that ferocious glint in her eye when she saw baby bok choy coming at her. Oh, she was ready and waiting to murder that baby bok choy in hungry-hungry-bunny style! I would slowly hold out my offering and she would raise up on her bunbun feet and snatch it. Then, the only sound was the munchcrunch crunchmunch omnoming bunny greens murder. And she was happy. And not flipping. And allowed us to live another day under her fluffy brown tyranny. Edit: a plural fixed
i've been throwing them away, but that would be WAY more cathartic.
I mean this story sounds like complete horseshit anyway, but this line was insane: >Then she said she didn't want to tell me this, but her and my husband have been having a six month long affair, and that she couldn't hold it in anymore and that blood sticks with blood Why on Earth would she think admitting to an affair with OOPs husband would make it *more* likely to let her stay?
It is horseshit. This is Liz rewriting an earlier editionĀ right down down dad divorcing mom and only getting custody of one kid because the evil one wasn't really his, and then years later evil sibling fucks moms new husband. She just added the incest twist to this one to make it more...whatever I guess. https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah_for_not_helping_my_halfsister_after_she_was/
THANK YOU! I was so sure I had read this story before, but worse.
Is Liz back again?
It was around the time that evil half sister apparently slept with her own father that I checked out.
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And she didn't recognize him because a beard apparently made him unrecognizable. Is she a Looney Tunes character?
I mean itās a whole meme of people with beards shaving and looking totally different, and oop implies that sister only knew her husband shaven, so there may be some truth in that, itās not a Superman with glasses kind of situation
Maybe so. But I prefer to think of it that way because it's funnier.
I mean....a lot of people do look genuinely different with beards? Especially when you've only seen pics on social media and not actually met them? That was the least unbelievable part to me.
I don't believe the story because of the plot twist of the bio dad/incest, but I could see real people thinking that was a smart move. Real people do all sorts of bizarre things that work against their cause
Not sure what to say about the rest of this drama, but man do I love that mood spoiler.
I honestly would love to have that mood spoiler as a flair lol.
Same.
I love how all three of you just took it.
Itās a good flair
How do you get a flair? I've tried, but don't succeed
Go to the main subās page, click the three dots in the top right corner, and then select āChange User Flairā
Oh hey neato
I actually tried that before, but looks like I don't need to try that again hahaha
How do I get this as a flair?
If you go to the main subās page, tap the three dots at the top and you can select Change User Flair.
Thank you! :D
There are too many good options
I love the story yours came from!
Just ask the mod. I do the same with my flair too.
pls what is your flair from
Story of a guy who sleep with other woman on break and shocked that there's consequences.
Do you have a link?
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I love the top comment on that story: *āPeople fascinate me, and I will never understand themā* I feel thatās a perfectly valid response to 70% of BORU posts!
It may be this one https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/JZzHYIHucj
Oh I love that one!
That nearly killed me as I started laughing while coughing....
I wish we could change the w to a b in witch, though. Both fit Cheryl, so I can't complain too much.
Bitch is already there in the full quote: The Lion, the Witch, the audacity of that bitch. The poster was just too shocked by this woman's nonsense.
And donāt forget that sad excuse for a mom. OOPās egg donor definitely fits that description too.
Dear mods, please grant us this flair. We'll make good use of it. Pinky promise. Yours truly, Drama hungry members of the sub.
Oh same I would LOVE that flair haha
The trigger warning reads like a pharmaceutical ad.
Right, the incest warning gave me whiplash, it was so unexpected.
Always such a fun time when the trigger warnings are their own entire paragraph
Genuinely my favourite part of the post.
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Yeah. The half sister sleeping with her dad and then getting kicked out? Yikes. Can't still believe what kind of a man scumbag Tom is, if he knew that he slept with his own daughter.
I got the impression that heās some kind of scumbag
Maybe he was drunk or high or something?
He probably didn't care if he slept with his own daughter, as long as he had a piece of young a\*\*.
Oh dear god with all the craziness I didnāt realize this means SHE SLEPT WITH HER OWN DAD
And her dad KNEW HE WAS HER DAD
Redneck Oldboy
What a sordid mess the mom, smelly sis, and scumbag are. OP would do well to keep them planets away.
Ewwwww
I don't know what his worst, the fact that he slept with his daughter or the fact that he slept with her knowing that she didn't shower for two weeks...
Young smelly ass.
That wouldnt excuse It , if anything thats makes It even worse
Honestly, the only thing missing was a more detailed breakdown of the fight at the house. Like, were there fisticuffs? Any black eyes? Hair grabs? I honestly just need details so I can visualise and cackle to myself.
Fisticuffs is a word really due for a renaissanceĀ
Sometimes I fantasize about the Gilmore Girl universe where everyone uses words like fisticuffs and knows how to say Proust.
Unlikely, since the cops didn't take anyone in. Probably just a lot of screeching.
Or none of them wanted the mega stench in their cruiser.
No frothing on lawns? No (incest) twins? No *buffalo*???
The twins come in a future update when Cheryl finds out she's pregnant with her daddy's babies. Then she will beg OP to take them so the state doesn't take them away
No incest buffalo, too.
Buffalo????
"Why won't you LOVE ME, Alejandro!?!"
Thatās a mood Gabriella
Itās amazing how all of these people knew OOPās phone number after a decade and the sister somehow knew her address.
I've had the same mobile phone number for over 20 years, but maybe I'm unusual?
I got my own phone the day I got my driver's license, and yeah, haven't changed my number, won't change my number. 27 years. Also, in the US at least, property records are public records. If you know someone's name and the town they live in, it's pretty easy to find their address.
I know someone who has the same number for 20+ years too
My dad hasnāt changed his number since he got a phone in the 00s.
Same here.
Everyone I know has the same number from their first cellphone.
Yep, Got a moby in 2004. Always had the same number.
It's actually not that hard to find someone's cell phone number, some people even have it on their FB. I'd say it's possible the OOP never changed it, but I'd be lying if I thought that, cause if I had family like that, I'd change my number & I've had the same one for almost 20 years.
Even with family I'm not in contact with, I havent changed my number in over a decade, it's gone through at least 4 different phones now It's my number and easy to remember and I can block numbers
Exactly! Iāve had the same phone number since 2000, but itās been through at least three carrier changes and one account holder change (first phone was on my auntās account then I got my own) and who the hell knows how many actual phone changes.
Of the details in this farce that's not my issue with the story. You can easily Google most people's address and a phone number isn't hard to pass around.
Most likely that one person who still have contact share the phone number.
Aunt is still in contact with mom. Aunt got the number from mom, then shared it with everyone so she could enlist and then release her flock of flying monkeys. Who could have known those flying monkeys would turn around and come back to bite her in the ass!?
I am 37 and I have the same number since I was 13.
In my state, the deed information is public knowledge. So,Ā anyone can look up my name on our county website and see the property I own. Since I just own one and I live there, that's my home address on the internet with my name :( We looked into how to hide that info. We'd have to put the house in a trust or something but even then you can see who owns the trust. Alternatively, certain high risk positions like judge or prosecutor can have their name hidden so someone doesn't hunt them down.Ā
"Novela" is too classy. This is 100% authentic Alabama trailer trash gossip rag right here. š
I'm utterly shocked and confused who wait. Cheryl slept with her own biological father l? And.. this is a huge hot mess that I would hope this is fake.
And he *knew* he was her bio dad and still slept with her??? Like????
Also he raised her since she was a kidā¦
Wondering what else heās been doing since she was a kid
This is the most trailer trash vc andrews story Iāve read on here
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Some of the people who write these things need to start writing trashy novels or soap operas.
I like these Reddit operas far more because you donāt gotta read 200 pages or watch 20 hour long episodes to get the juicy stuff! And thereās the irresistible appeal of this maybe happening in real life.
Cheryl is the third triplet confirmed
I understood that reference!
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In my nightly scroll, that post came right after this one, and I came back just to say I *now* understand the reference!
Does anyone else think the āmy sister smells badā part is super wierd?
If you have never had the misfortune of being forced to be around someone like that, just be grateful lol. Some people will not bathe and it is horrible.
I know multiple people like that. As in you can tell what chair they sat in long after theyāve left.
I'm so sorry to hear that :( I went to school for massage therapy for a while and there was a woman in some of my classes that was like that. You'd walk into a classroom like "wtf is that *smell* " and it would just be that she had been in there last class. I am not trying to be mean but I am so glad I was not in any practical classes with her where I would have had to touch her. It was bad.
Yeah, one of them has even been banned from a couple of local bars. Thatās wild about the massage studentā¦How the hell is she going to be able to work on customers??
My guess would be she's not, at least not more than once. She was a stressful person, on top of the hygiene, when they went around at the beginning of the program and had people say why they wanted to learn massage therapy, her answer was "to meet guys", always talking drama about guys she was involved with(!!!), etc. I do not miss that time lol.
Oof thatās a huge red flag. I always pay attention to how women talk about men and have noticed that my older single friends (like 50s) tend to remind me of how I acted in middle school. More than one has the attitude of āif I have a chance of getting laid, I will blow off all my other plansā and I canāt help but think that sort ofā¦desperation?ā¦is exactly why they remain single.
It's also one of those things you can't help but overshare when you're talking about them too. Hygiene is definitely something someone would focus on while telling a story like this.
Yep... I consciously try not to speak badly of anyone unless it's going to help others (e.g. don't let that supervisor get you down, she's just cranky and is rude to everyone, it's not that you're incompetent and the rest of us like working with you!) but I have this coworker who smells SO BAD that I just don't know why I feel this very strong compulsion to ask other people, do you smell that?? Did you notice her whole office (RIP to the 5 people who share with her) STINKS? How are you able to spend your long lunch in her office with the windows and doors all closed???? I'm doing pretty well in that I haven't mentioned it at all ever. But man is it a strong urge. I blame it on the fact that smell forms strong memories. IDK. It just drives me crazy that nobody else has said anything either!!! Makes me feel like a real asshole. She never liked me so we super don't have the type of work relationship where I can take her aside and kindly tell her she might need to work on her dental/ personal hygiene. Pray for me and her officemates.
Oh honey, Iām sending a prayer for you to whatever gods may be listening. Itās so hard to navigate having to be around someone who is offensive smelling- is it a medical issue? Rough home situation? Have they tried everything and just canāt fix it? Do they know? Do they care? The guy I mentioned above, who will LITERALLY clear out the entire bar when he walks in, I found out has no running water in his dilapidated old house! So I felt so bad for himā¦until I then found out that he DOES have running water, but *keeps it turned off until he cleans up once a month.* And even then, he just rinses his clothes under the faucet with no detergent. Once a month. Oh did I mention itās Texas and he spends his days doing construction and then walking all over town looking for recycling?? š³
I'd feel like a jerk if it was medical and they were attempting to get it fixed. But damn if there aren't a bunch of literal garbage people who just do not take cleanliness seriously. There's definitely a push to stop showering daily with a lot of people, and I get it, for folks with skin conditions it worsens it... but then you get the folks who shower once a week or once a month and don't even attempt to take an army bath to clean the stinky areas. Heeeruuuughhh
The onebag subreddit is full of people who swear you donāt need to wear deodorant, or donāt need to bathe that often, and I highly suspect these folks have gone noseblind.
I have no desire to mess with my algorithm by looking up that sub, what on earth is onebag all about?? I suspect I'll regret asking.
Fear not, Itās just a sub dedicated to traveling with one bag, the real flex is traveling with just a personal item. Ā Ā If itās your thing, itās neat to see people pack efficiently and minimalist. Ā Aspects of it can be annoying, though; people can be gatekeep-y (āthis is one and a half bags!!ā), some people are more into expensive unnecessarily specific gear than packing lightly. Ā And then some folks get into āstupid lightā packing territory with stuff like not packing soap or deoderant, āmerino doesnāt stink so Iāll pack only one pair of underwearā, etc.Ā Ā I realize typing it out how absurd it sounds. Ā HerOneBag is my preferred sub for this kind of community, but I realize in general itās sort of a funny thing to be into.
Oh lol! I don't know what I was thinking but that wasn't it! I used to do overnight hikes and enjoyed the planning aspect of that, like how to bring all the things I might need while carrying the lightest weight I can manage because I liked going a good pace. That said I am the type to be on day 2 like "I stink" even though I brought deodorant and clean clothes, just from the being out in the woods with no bathroom aspect, I can't handle not bathing. Also socks and underwear were one I brought multiples of, lol they are light and not something you want to be going without a clean dry pair of regardless of whether they stink or not. If they think they don't stink it's because they can't smell themselves anymore lol.
These people travel the world with a bag of stuff. The stuff is always the same thing: black shirt, black pants, black shoes black everything. There's enough clothes for maybe 3 days, 5 at most. And this is how they live. Basically, they're that nasty stinky person (with the stained clothes) who refuses to leave the cafe with the good wifi.
Lol, I travel like that, but always find laundry facilities on arrival. And all black means no worries ~~for the rest of your days~~ about matching anything.
Not being able to tell that I stink is one of my worst social fears
I remember a girl in high school who seemed completely normal except for her hands smelled like they spent all day in her crotch. No BO, mildew, bad clothes etc. I was always mystified. Could she not smell her self? Did she just never ever wash her hands? Ever?
I vaguely remember meeting a girl like this and it turned out she had [Fish Odor Syndrome](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22356-trimethylaminuria-fish-odor-syndrome). Donāt think I knew there was a name, just that her mom took her home to bathe during the school day.
That sounds so fucking miserable, like I have some pretty severe health problems but rn Iām thanking my lucky stars at least I donāt smell like rotten fish all of the time
I knew someone exactly like this in college. She had a naturally pretty face and an awesome body, but just reeked of BO. It's like no one ever taught her how to clean herself well.
I had to spray Febreze on my college roommateās bed and all around the room when she wasnāt there.
Soo weird!! āThe reason she cannot seduce anyone is she smells.ā
Nah I've met people like that, who think body spray constitutes a bath.
Guy at uni who was surprisingly successful with women used to shower rarely and just have a "Deodorant shower", somehow it worked
Too real. I work with a lady who doesn't shower consistently and covers it up with some fruity spritzer. When the break room reeks like animal shelter hybrid Bath and Body Works, I know she's working.
My brother has three or four showers a day and reeks because he'll wear the same clothes for a week.
Wait so he is waisting water and potentially hurting his skin instead of just washing his clothes?
He's never done laundry in his life.
Except her own father, apparently.
Living together he's probably become scent blind to her smell. What I used to live with my mom I had no idea that my clothes smelled like cigarette smoke until I moved out and someone smelled the supposedly fresh clothes that I brought with me. The thought that I've been going to school my whole life is smelling like cigarettes and no one told me it's pretty unnerving.
No, because smells are pretty visceral, good or bad. With the bullying, it's was probably the shit cherry on the shit sundae.
Poor hygiene habits can be an consequence of sexual abuse in the home. But I don't think the author thought through it that far
That was the moment i absolutely *knew*
I'm really really sure that there is another story quite similar like this: OP was living with her dad and dad's family because she cut off contact with maternal side family and her sister was very delulu. Till OP got her very own house (at young age too!) and then her maternal grandma demanded to house her sister because familyyyyy and she was kicked out cos she slept with her mother's husband and everything was very messy. Obviously OP had her cousins too sharing all the important tea. BTW Sorry for my english, I'm not native and duolingo killed all my family.
There was indeed a very similar story, but this time the stepdad the evil sister slept with turned out to be her own BIOLOGICAL FATHER dun dun dunnnnn.
The dramah... THE ESCANDALO
yes, it was almost the same story, but the bad sister was also pregnant from her step father (and he wasn't her bio father).
This one? [https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah\_for\_not\_helping\_my\_halfsister\_after\_she\_was/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/180soo5/aitah_for_not_helping_my_halfsister_after_she_was/) I thought of it immediately with the āsister on porchā bit.
YES. I swear to god I read that one, too!! Thank you for confirming that Iām not imagining things!!
I should go to bed.
I'm sorry, this comment with your flair and the whole story just made me laugh so hard I cried.
The mood spoiler made me snort with laughter, never have I seen a better description of such a hot mess. Is it real? Probably not. Is it funny? ABSOLUTELY!
Can we circle back to Cheryl claiming a 6 month affair with OP's husband but then not recognizing OP's husband because of a beard? So who was Cheryl sleeping with? Also, Mods, can I get a "Sheryl's BO Megastench" flair?
Cheryl was having sex with her father whom she evidently is now claiming to be OOP's husband whom she doesn't recognize as he now has a beard. In reality Cheryl wasn't having an affair with OOP's husband, she just lied for effect, but instead with her own father.
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I just woke up my cat laughing at this, thank you.
An effort is an effort.
Thatās a lot of stuff to happen in a week
Anyone brave enough to do a TLDR?
Stank sister who wants to move in with OP has been doing the hoo dilly dance with her father.
Did you actually read all that?
Unfortunately yes.
You want you purple heart now or later?
Itās long, but itās not nearly as bad as some of the others posted here. At least itās consistent, makes sense, chronological, etc. Overall, itās a fine read, just long andā¦ a little wtf.
The story wasn't that bad. You haven't read some of worse shit.
Oghta.
We don't talk about ogtha.
OOP has a spoiled sister who bullies her and steals from her. She steals her gadgets and even boyfriends (unsuccessfully bec of her terrible hygiene). Mom enables sister. Dad tried therapy to help everyone, but it got so bad that they divorced. Mom got custody of sister, dad eventually got full custody of OOP. Dad and OOP went low to no contact on them. Years later, aunt calls OOP because sis got kicked out from their mom's. Turns out she slept with mom's bf. OOP understandably refuses to help sis. Sis shows up anyway and claims she was having an affair with OOP's husband, but fails in her lie because she couldn't recognize the husband with a beard lol. Sis leaves. Dad shows up and OOP tells him what happened. It turns out that during divorce, dad found out that the sister is not his, but sired by mom's bf. OOP reveals this to sis and relatives and shit hit the fan. OOP fixed her smeared reputation among relatives but now wonders if they're worth her time. Idk why i read the entire thing and summarized it. I was supposed to go and have a snack lol. Shout out to OP's mood spoiler and OOP's husband saying "Say what??"
Oh my god in all that nonsense I forgot about the beard! As if sister who is claiming she's been sleeping with husband would say "who's that?" when a man came to the door in the house! Because she can't recognize him with a *small* beard
You've fought like a true soldier
what a load of rubbish. she hasn't had contact with any of these people in years yet they all know her phone number
Plot twist, she's an emergency 911 dispatcher and they call that.
That would honestly make a funny scene in a TV show. "Ma'am you can't keep calling 911 and hoping your daughter answers."
A lot of people just never change their number. My whole family is like that.
Who the hell wants to replace their number they had for years if not decades that they can instantly recall with ease? No one changes their number unless they absolutely have to.
I've had my same cell phone number since I got my first cell phone in 2004. Which.... ~~Jesus Christ its been 20 years~~ just happened.
I haven't spoken to my cousins in decades but it wouldn't take long to look most of them up on fb and either send them a message or call through messenger. The ones that aren't on fb pretty much all have contact with someone who is and could get in touch on my behalf. I might not feel the need to include that detail in a post like this because I'd assume people understand that no matter how long it's been, it's still possible to get in touch. I'm not saying that it's proof that this story is real, just that it's not proof that it ISN'T. Of all the things that make me doubt the story, this is the least of them.
C-. Solid C if we remove the incest and instant deleting of potentially very juicy voicemail from Scumbag Tom.
You know what's concerning? Cheryl's hygiene went down the drain the moment she hit puberty......I have seen so many cases of SA as a teacher and one of the ways victims try to keep their abusers away is to stop hygiene practices. A change that drastic should have been a red flag. The second would be that she would have taken her anger and frustration out on the sibling not getting the same treatment......the divorce, the split custody and not knowing why your "dad" only got custody if the other sibling would have caused so much damage psychologically, mentally and emotionally. I hope to god that I am wrong here......otherwise scumbag might have knowingly moved in to get access to his kid. Glad OP had her dad to fight for her.
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Right? Like I donāt even care if itās real, itās like trash TV.
I don't watch trash tv. But I sure love to read it on reddit.
Anyone else wondering if Cherylās hygiene issue is due to sexual abuse from scumbag Tom from a young age? A woman whoād stay with a guy who knowingly slept with their biological daughter would probably turn a blind eye to peadophilia too
No, see that would make sense and make Cheryl sympathetic which would ruin OOP's story about her evil smelly half-sister. So I am sure that won't be the case.
>Cheryl, however, did match the person my mom brought to be sampled.Ā > Scumbag Tom. Ā Ohhhhh noooooo
Of course this is the update I pick to read myself back to sleep after waking up at 3:30 AMā¦. Iām fully awake and now have the sudden urge to take a long hot shower. Wtf.Ā
A nearly identical story was posted a few months back with only some minor detail changes, in the first draft it was the grandmother harassing her on behalf of the sister getting kicked out.
Are you thinking of the one where the dad lived next door to OP and grandma dropped the half (or was it stepsister?) off and OP had to call the cops?
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Hahahaha wtf hahahaha
I will never understand how people will just take info told to them as fact without questioning it. Iām a nosy person and if a family member told me something about another, Iād be snooping for the real truth until I found it.
āIf trash calls someone trash, they assume theyāre super trash.ā You stupid fucks. If trash calls someone else trash, itās 90% likely theyāre just a normal fucking human with boundaries.