Sometimes your left with only one choice: turn your head and simply wonder why some people do the weird crap they do.
Human beings have the profound capacity to disregard logical thinking and do what feels more emotionally ideal.
Moments like that are absolute torture for the one's still clinging to reason. They're stuck observing what look, to them, like cartoonishly unproductive decisions all around them.
At times, the head-scratch inducing behaviors are vestiges from the past. Sometimes there based on myths or misinformation.
Whatever the underlying cause, these Redditors are at their wits' end.
cantthinkcantsleep asked, "What doesn't make sense to you?"
JUSTICE
"When people don't want the world to become a better place because they had it hard so now everyone until the end of time should have it just as hard."
"Because that's somehow fair or something."
-- Jauxerous
Psh, I'm Fine
"People will drive in rain, at night, in a black vehicle, without headlights on." -- ItalicisedScreaming
"The government can't track you if your lights are off" -- sond1369
"Or walk around at night in dark clothes in the middle of the road, nowhere near a crosswalk. You're going to get yourself killed!!" -- thedoomdays
But it's So Heavy!
"How airplanes fly."
"Yeah, yeah, Bernoulli's principle, lift, air moving fasting over the curved part of the airfoil, etc. I understand the principle involved."
"But seriously, it's a metal tube with flat sticks that somehow make it stay up!"
"Confession: my father is a glider pilot, I've flown in them since I was a child, and it still makes no sense. Must be magic."
Bit of a Leap
"How Dick is short for Richard" -- sarahkatie123
"Richard = Ric = Dic = Dick." -- MissDynamax
"This is the biggest pile of bullsh*t I've ever seen. According to this logic you can turn any name into anything." -- HitomiSato
"For a female version: Margaret = Peggy" -- crazydisneycatlady
Wait Til You See Me Do It
"The fact that we cut down bird's houses to make birdhouses." -- Dhriti05
"The bird doesn't know what's good for it. It will sit in our tiny cube houses instead." -- SuperSaiyanTrunks
I Gotta Turn RIGHT NOW
"Why people don't use their god damn blinkers. It is literally positioned next to the steering wheel to be as convenient as possible to flip on and off." -- hwell_w_t_f
"Or people who hit the brakes then use their blinker. Like, yeah, thanks for warning me you were gonna slow down." -- Narge1
What a Time to be Alive
"The f*cking moon being exactly the right size and distance between us and the sun to appear the same." -- TheWestwoodstrangler
"Pure chance. Seriously, we are so goddamn lucky to be alive when we are (at least in respect to the size of the moon). If the moon were a bit bigger or smaller we wouldn't get full eclipses." -- Hanif_Shakiba
Must Be Loving Social Distancing
"Handshakes. Do we really still need to check if your business partner has a dagger hidden under his sleeve?"
"And people are disgusting! Not washing their hands after using the restroom and all. (Women equally as bad as the men I've heard about.)"
-- MissDynamax
Obligations > Feelings
"People who won't go visit someone very sick (this is more pre-virus days) but will move heaven and earth to make it to their funeral."
"Hey when my time comes, come visit me when I am still able to recognize you and talk about the old times. Don't drive all night in a blizzard in a beat up car with bald tires after working all day to attend my funeral."
-- kendebvious
Magic Secrets
"Wifi. How is the internet just flying around in the air, waiting for a device to grab it?"
"Honestly grammar. I can do calculus fine but could not tell you wtf a clause is."
The Human Capacity for Self Delusion
"When you give someone verifiable evidence that they're wrong, but they don't believe you because they don't feel like it."
"And I'm not talking about something that could be doctored or is ancient history, I'm talking about things like a certain law being on the books, and showing them it on a state or federal website, and they still don't believe you."
"How Terrible. Welp, Best of Luck."
"When you give evidence of a door cam of package theft with the thief's face on full view, ad they can't do anything about it. O well. Just put a glitter bomb outside." -- ElucidMid_
"The police is and has always been an establishment dedicated to enforce a government's wishes." -- PeterPorty
More Magic
"Electricity. No matter what age I've studied it in school (and I'm now in college), I always can't wrap my head around all the concepts of it. Like, why the hell is electricity even a thing? Where and how do charges come about and work?"
-- 1regit
GiphyVery Non-Secret Codes
"How all information online even what you're reading here is just a bunch of 1's and 0's." -- short_n_curlies
"When you think about it, all stored information is coded. Language is a code. DNA is a code. Perhaps the universe itself is stored information in some sense." -- SuzQP
Got Us This Far
"Why America can't have the same measurement system as the rest of the world." -- purpleBarny
"Because it would be expensive and difficult to change every road sign in the country to metric." -- AnCearnaighMor
"We actually tried once in the 80s when I was in elementary school. They taught it for a few months and then gave up. I assume after people realized how much it would cost." -- GaryNOVA
All About the Kids
"People call it a 'cold' if your temperature goes up, shouldn't it be called a 'hot'?" -- Dhriti05
"Nah, it's called the cold because your body feels cold. More relatable and easier to explain to children." -- Paxelic
Priorities
"How people care more about dying and starving animals than dying and starving people." -- AbbyRayne01
"Because animals are viewed as innocent beings who can do no harm and only want to be loved while humans are viewed as flawed, selfish, and evil, therefore the suffering of humans is justifiable in their eyes." -- MariachiBandMonday
A Dose of Sense for Ya
"I never understood wind." -- WnderMut76
"Materials heat up/ cool down at different rates."
"The quickest example of this is the land and ocean (ocean is slower). When the sun comes out, the land (or whichever material gains heat faster) heats up quickly but the ocean heats up slowly."
"The air above the land becomes hot, but the air above the ocean is cool. Since hot air is less dense than cold air, it rises, and the air over the land moves over to the air over the ocean, while the cool air above the ocean rushes in to fill the space."
"The warmer air is now over the ocean and cools down, while the cooler air warms up. This creates a cycle of air motion that you feel as wind." -- neumonia-pnina
Do you have something to confess to George? Text "Secrets" or "
Redditor Eyeso-pain- wanted to discuss everyone's scandalous moments of pride without care, so they asked:
"Redditors, What’s the most nsfw thing that you have done and don’t regret?"
Just telling a cold, hard truth is my mic drop.
Felt good.
Let's Chat
Pay Me Season 4 GIF by The OfficeGiphy"Talked with my coworkers about our salaries."
ThaBossnian
"In all seriousness in the US under the National Labor Relations Act you have the right to discuss your salary with your coworkers and (legally at least) HR can't do a damn thing about it."
elementus
Hey Ladies
"This is tame but funny. Worked at a call center with other cubicles all around me. I went online to try and interpret a dream I had the night before. I typed in what I thought was Dreammoods, which is a dream dictionary but I must have skipped a letter because nude Dream girls started popping up on my screen and I could not get them to stop. It was rapid fire pop ups of Naked dream girls. LOL. I died."
RedHoneyBadger6
Smoking Hot
"I was living with my sister and her husband while in college (they lived just a few blocks from the school) one day while they were gone my gf came over wearing a sexy outfit. We were in the living room, making out furiously. She had just taken her skirt and top off and I heard a key in the lock."
"I was still dressed and booked it into the kitchen like I was grabbing sodas from the fridge and engaged them in conversation while standing in the doorway between the kitchen and living room as she quickly got dressed out of sight."
"She looked smoking hot in that outfit, and that was the sexiest thing she’d ever done until after we got married."
Storyteller678
NDA
"Slept with a hotel guest all over the hotel and it was caught on camera, including on the clock. Because of the NDA we all had to sign, and their post on Instagram about how marvelous the hotel was to their following, I got away with it. But it was a funny meeting where my remediation was 'don't ever freaking do that again... but nice job.'"
DrJOsterman
Some outfits make magic.
I like Home Depot
Heart Love GIF by Lowe's Home ImprovementGiphy"Had sex on the dishwashers in receiving at Lowes, with my fling at the time. That fling and I have been happily married for 12 years."
glittereddaisy13
Let's Play
"Went to a pro dominatrix. I apparently didn’t regret it since I’m seeing her tomorrow as well. Honestly it was a lot more chill than I expected. She was more than happy to just talk. Genuinely seemed like a nice person which put me at ease. I think it was mostly what I expected..."
Project_Legion
It Was Fun
"Was flirting with this person at work for a really long time but never did anything because work relationships are just too much drama. One day the power went out and I used a flashlight to get to the water machine in the big, infrequently used storage room that it was kept in."
"I’m sitting at a desk in the corner, reading my phone in the mostly dark, enjoying the quiet like a weirdo when she wanders in. We talked a bit and joked that it would be fun to go in the closet and have sex and if we thought anyone would find us. It was fun and no one found us."
Nippon-Gakki
48 Hours
"When I was in the army I decided to take a bus home from central Texas to northeastern Pennsylvania. It was a 48 hour trip. Somewhere south of Washington DC a woman gets on the bus and sits next to me as it's the only available seat. We start talking and hit it off."
"Later that night when it was nice and dark we sneak into the bathroom on the bus and get it on. We were supposed to get together later in the week but plans fell through. I heard from her once after that when she mailed me a letter with a photo of us someone took for us. I never heard from her again."
solemn_penguin
Plus 2
Ariana Grande Singing GIF by The VoiceGiphy"My fiancée cheated on me 2 weeks before the wedding. I shagged both of his brothers no regrets."
rowenaravenclaw0
As savage as that move is... should y'all be married?
Do you have any stories to get off your chest? Let us know in the comments below.
Redditor unripenedboyparts wanted to hear about the horrors we've all been witness to, so they asked:
"What is the creepiest thing you’ve seen in the woods, or in the mountains, or in deserts, or caves, or in small towns, or in big cities, or in hotels, or in remote or rural areas, or while asleep, or home alone, or while on large bodies of water, or while on an aircraft or a nautical vessel?"
I don't camp.
I don't hike.
I don't do wilderness.
And this is why...
Textures
Life Smash GIFGiphy"Coming out of anesthesia from open heart surgery, every time I closed my eyes I could see a perfectly formed brick wall inches from my face. I could see the texture of the bricks through the paint, the mortar, all in perfect detail. Every time I changed rooms, the wall would change colors."
GlobalPhreak
The Wolf
"I was up north. Far North British Columbia, Canada working in a (oil) rig camp out in the woods. I was working as a cook, I went out one afternoon for a smoke on the back deck. It was about 2 o'clock n the afternoon. It was a very quiet, still winter day. It was snowing those kind of big snowflakes that make it look like the world is moving in slow motion."
"So as I was standing there smoking, just staring off in the distance not looking at anything particular... you know looking left right, up down at my feet whatever. I felt something looking at me. Then I looked straight ahead. About 30 feet or less in front of me was the tree line of the forest, and directly in front of me in-between two trees I see the most gigantic wolf I have ever seen."
"This thing sitting looked like it was the size of a man standing. It was massive, sitting there and just staring right at me. We locked eyes, then I looked away for a split second and then looked back and it was gone. I don't know, it just gave me the weirdest feeling. It was definitely like, "hey.. I see you, I could eat you... butttt I won't, k byeee"
"Something I'll always remember."
vatersgonnavate
It’s absolutely unnerving...
"I live in a really remote part of Alaska. I think the scariest thing I’ve ever encountered is how silent the woods/tundra can be in the dead of winter. I’m talking like 'I feel like I am about to go insane' quiet. It’s absolutely unnerving. I become hyper aware of my heart beat and my breathing sounds like a f**king airplane taking off."
"And I know a lot of people will say 'it’s because a predator was near by' nah man, some places up here just have nothing. That’s what really freaks me out. I am absolutely alone in this one spot. I could drop dead and no one would ever find my body."
idontcareilikedogs
The Sow
"I rounded a corner in a trail in the Appalachian Mountains and came face to face with a sow black bear and her cub. Same situation, we locked eyes, she seemed to convey - look dude, I can un alive you in a second, but I’m not about it today so just be patient while I dig these bugs outta this hillside. I sat and watched this bear and cub for prob 20 mins at a safe-ish distance."
m0992104
Who Are You??
Video Games Gamer GIF by Call of DutyGiphy"There must be wilderness dwelling gamers out there, because I found a pile of xbox games in the mountains. Like two dozen in a pile in a remote location."
LittleBkGuy1
Those gamers are sneaky.
It Flies
David Choe Love GIFGiphy"Hallucinated a flying whale alongside the night time flight from Alberta to Ontario when I was 12. It was snow white, seemed friendly enough. Roughly the size of a blue whale."
jakebreakshow
Onto the Rocks
"It happened when me and my parents were on vacation to some place near Spain when I was still little. We went to a little beach at some coastal town where I then immediately jumped into the sea with my swimming goggles on. I then crawled on to some rocks and walked around until I noticed a crab sitting on the rocks."
"I then traversed them carefully while trying to catch it, but it kept crawling away. This continued until I then followed it to a point where the little bay I was in ended and the open ocean began. So then little me decided that it was a good idea to jump into the open water to see if there was anything cool down there. I then jumped in, and I was immediately hit with the cold temperature of actual ocean water."
"But the worst part was that even with my goggles on, I couldn't see anything down there. I was met with a giant black void. No fish, no plants, no rocks. Nothing. I then immediately turned around and began swimming back as quick as I could. And since that moment I haven't gone beyond the shallows ever again."
Successful-Seaweed12
Orbs
"This was almost a decade ago; I live in a town outside of Phoenix, AZ. It was late in the afternoon as the sun was starting to set. I went out in the backyard to smoke a cigarette and play fetch with my dog. As I was throwing the ball I noticed a small orb shoot from the ground directly into the sky."
"A few seconds later another one followed, and another, and another, and another. It didn’t stop for a few minutes. At first I thought it was a Roman candle but I just couldn’t hear but you’d normally hear them fizzing as the fly. I couldn’t hear anything. It was dead silent. To this day, I still don’t know what those were."
ThurSTIII
Appendages
"When I was a kid in the early 80's my parents had a house they rented out to people. We were cleaning it out after a set of unsatisfactory tenants and I was going through the kitchen cupboards making sure they were empty. I saw a mason jar tucked way back in the corner of one of the top shelves so I hopped up on the counter, stretched my arm, grabbed it and hopped back down. When I looked at the jar I saw a finger floating in a clear liquid. I set it down on the counter, walked out of the kitchen and called, 'Mom, I found a finger!'"
Narmer_3100
Jiggles
earthquake GIF by James CurranGiphy"I was on a fishing boat just off the Pacific coast and there was an earthquake. The water jiggled a bit as we heard a boom and a quick shake. Only time I was on water during an earthquake."
teebpix
This is why I don't fish. Not even on dry land.
Do you have any bizarre experiences to share? Let us know in the comments below.
