People Explain Which Commonplace Things Are Way More Dangerous Than Anyone Thinks

A Reddit thread offered a list of the sleeping giants lurking beneath our daily lives, threatening death at every turn.

That's pretty dramatic. But truly, the responses will make you think twice about even leaving your bedroom.


Most of the responses appear to come fro experience. The person overlooked the danger for their entire life, as we all do. Perhaps they never even knew about the danger at all.

But then the lurking threat reared its head. The person faced grave danger because of a strange medical condition or dangerous accident. And from that moment, the danger appeared wildly obvious despite being overlooked for so long.

This Reddit thread offered a place to share the knowledge.

hastily_named asked, "What's way more dangerous than most people think?"

Do Not Underestimate Thousands of Gallons an Hour

"Water currents. Rip tides in the ocean and eddy currents in streams. We have some river canyons with signs describing all of the ways you can die in the river and people still die swimming there."

-- hafilax

Hands Free, People

"Walking down stairs with your hands in your pockets. Never ever do it, especially not drunk. A fall down even 1 or 2 stairs with no hands to catch you can break your neck."

"I've seen a video of a man tripping and falling down 4 stairs, hitting the top of his head on the wall and dying right there in the stairwell."

-- MikMakMarowak

Lurking in the Walls

"Mold. It can be poisonous, make you hallucinate and eating it can seriously mess with your body." -- biastuna36508

"Can confirm. I had a friend who lived in a mold-infested house for the first part of the fall 2019 semester. They went in and tested the place once they found out there was mold; her bedroom had something like 30,000 times the background amount of mold in the air."

"She basically doesn't remember anything from that semester, and she had a lot of serious health effects for a while after she moved away. It can royally screw you up." -- McChickenFingers

You Never Know

"Not getting regular check-ups. I almost died because I had a in internal hemorrhage that was slowly killing me."

"I was so depleted of iron and blood that the nurses thought my vitals were written in wrong because I should have been dead. I needed 3 pints of blood in one sitting."

-- evanjw90

The Real Version is Grim

"Being knocked unconscious. Lots of popular media makes it seem like a minor thing that an average person can shrug off after a short period."

"In reality, if you are ever knocked out, then you have suffered brain damage. It's possible there might not be any lasting effects, but it's a serious injury and you 100% need to see a doctor if it ever happens to you."

-- Calliophage

Let it Out!

"Blocking your nose when you sneeze. Though it's rare, you can damage blood vessels in your eyes and nose, you can rupture your eardrum, and you can even have an aneurysm." -- chenafe124

"Dad sneeze = healthy sneeze" -- TeemuKai

"My dads friend did this at the office and just dropped dead next to his desk. I never held in a sneeze after hearing that, and I tell everyone I love not to either." -- 4ngeldust

Tension Flares

"Towing a stuck car with a chain, there is a list of people who have died from having the chain come through the back window and kill them." -- smartlikehammer

"If there's one thing I'll always stress, its a real tow rope. Endless uses, not that expensive, you'll probably only ever need to buy one, they won't smash your skull in if they break." -- southernsquelcher

A Numbers Game 

"Driving, like you see the statistics of car crash deaths but i don't think you ever truly realize how dangerous it is to simply drive somewhere since it is such a routine thing." -- Packathonjohn

"Driving tired, sleepy." -- _Duh_Vinci_

"Life on the road would be safer if 5-year mandatory retests were a thing, and not just for seniors." -- tashkiira

"When I was learning to drive, my uncle made very clear to me this: Don't worry about what you might do nearly as much as what some other idiot on the road might do. Just be patient and assume other drivers are sh**." -- ArcadianBlueRogue

New Policy: No Biting

"Bites from other human beings are actually really dangerous due to infection rates." -- RustyCopal

"A friend bit me once. I turn into her every full moon." -- vampiressprey

"My mom got drunk and bit my dad. He had to get a tetanus shot. To give some more details, they were in Disneyland when it happened." -- SusieSlaughter

"Super Food"

"Eating a lot of spinach. Believe it or not people have had kidney failure from 3 spinach smoothies in a day. This is due to the high levels of oxalic acid." -- yeahbuddy186

"Ugh now all night long I'll be wondering if I'm spinach poisoned." -- shatteringopal

"Popeye's gonna die soon." -- AdmiralAckbar66

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I want to know about the inner workings of Comcast!!

I loathe them!

Oh Dear

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I used to work in tech support for Citi Bank. The people working there are not intelligent. My favorite interaction went like this..."

"Banker - How do I type the upside down I?"

"Me - Ma'am, that's an exclamation point."

slappy_mcslapenstein

The Crappy People

"In every CS job I’ve ever had: we will bend over backward to help a nice person. We will expedite any complaint, give maximum compensation, and harass other areas of the business for you."

"We will do the absolute bare minimum to help a shi**y person and if you’re really bad, we will do everything in our power to make sure you get nothing but what you’re legally entitled to and it will be a process to get that."

11catsinahumansuit

"I don’t work in CS but 100% the same for us in IT a nice person will get new stuff while a shi**y person will get questionable secondhand crap that will take 12 months to fix! I will make sure that you wait as long as humanely possible to have anything fixed!"

Sharp-Demand-6614

Go to Holiday Inn

"If you ask for a supervisor calling Marriott you will just get another person who is not a supervisor, but say they are."

cryptnificent

"Yep. I've seen this done numerous times across multiple industries. Usually, it only involves an actual sup if it's a genuine problem or if they want to make a point."

"The last job I had was in towing junk cars. Two of the inside buyers, one male, and one female, would bounce that sup card around constantly. Idk how no one ever put it together. We'd get repeat callers and repeat sellers so I don't know."

ItsBobFromLumbridge

Heartless

"Worked at a contracted call center for Centrelink. The manager told us to deny as many emergency payments as possible and they would back us no matter what. They were actively working towards a culture that despised the callers and churned staff to get heartless right-wingers who hated the poor."

Rizza1122

"I feel ya. My best mate is a quadriplegic. Centrelink denied his disability pension because he wasn’t disabled enough."

Less-Storage

Go to Home Depot

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"I worked at Lowes. I didn't know anything about anything in the electrical department yet that's where they put me without any training."

Eattherich187

Not training people is not just a Lowes thing.

There are too many unqualified people doing too many things.

Switcharoo

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"Can confirm it's an unwritten policy for deli departments in Coles Supermarkets to change the written expiry dates on their tickets so they can sell out-of-code products at full price."

REDDIT

A Little Sunshine

"I worked at a call center for the billing department of a major internet and cable service provider. We were authorized to give up to $90 credit per customer on their bill but only as a last resort. Always remember to be nice to all customer service workers. You never know just how much they can help with a friendly attitude."

Axel_Dunce

"Former call center employee here. Highly accurate. Use your manners, and well fix your issue. Anything else, just makes us want to take longer, and you won't get a credit. Just because we are authorized, doesn't mean you'll get the credit for being an a**hat. haha. I've been verbally abused a few times for asking them not to swear at me. Lol."

Ok-Ad-7247

LELU

"I worked for a major telco company for many years in something called a ‘LELU’ which stands for Law Enforcement Liaison Unit. This 'unit' is pretty self-explanatory, but it essentially is a team who worked directly with the police/FEDS to monitor people's information for things such as obtaining communications history of call logs, SMS loss, etc."

"However, most importantly, the software we used, we as agents could directly see all your SMS texts, including MMS and their explicit imagery of whatever you were sending. This would include sexting, naked images, family photos, and everything. There were instances where people abused this position by stalking or 'monitoring' their SO’s comings and going’s."

MidniteMischief

Cookies!!

"I worked at a cafe chain called 'The Cookie Man,' 95% of their cookies arrived in cardboard boxes layered with bubble wrap. The last 5% arrived as pre-made dough that we would bake on-site to make the place smell like fresh cookies."

"I also worked at a cupcake shop. It's literally just packet mix that you add eggs and oil to before baking/piping pre-made icing onto. Don't waste your money on these places, 90% of these chain shops are the same and most are severely underpaying their workers (this is for Australia btw). Just purchase some packet mix from the supermarket and call it a day."

Frequent-Selection91

Look in the Back

"I was a Store Manager for a very large grocery chain and I can tell you that 95% of the time when customers complain to the manager, we may be professional and show empathy, and even resolve the problem."

"But then we usually just make fun of or talk crap about the person who complained to the other employees. And when a customer is really rude when we go 'look in the back' for something, we legit just stand around and talk to other employees, and make zero effort to look for the item."

A_Womans_Thoughts

From the Box

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"I once worked at 'the area's premiere day spa'; the mimosas were made with Sunny D and not real orange juice, and the wines came out of a box."

SailorVenus23

Sunny D and champagne?!?!

What in the name of Lucifer?

Who does that?!

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