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People Share The Fastest Way They Have Seen A Happy Crowd Turn Sour

People Share The Fastest Way They Have Seen A Happy Crowd Turn Sour
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How rare is it nowadays to see someone get booed off a stage (and I don't mean "BOO-URNS")?

Believe it or not, it still happens in many different situations.

Watching an excited crowd turn sour is a fascinating social event, and these Redditors witnessed some of the best.


Redditor A-random-Person123 asked:

"What is the fastest way a room of happy people turned sour you've witnessed?"


The DRAMA.

"When I was a kid, there were about 6/8 families in our area who were a good group of friends."

"Regular holidays together, kids all close friends too and in the same classes at school etc."

"The backstory was that one of the families kept noticing money going missing from a drawer in the master bedroom."

"They had an older son who was getting the blame but was denying it."

"Fast forward a few weeks and it's their younger kid's birthday, and everyone is at their house."

"Usual script was the kids party would be late afternoon, then in the evening the kids would end up playing games in some bedroom as the adults had a few drinks."

"Kids were happy because we got to stay up late with all our friends, parents got to have a few guilt free drinks."

"This night was going as normal until we're all shuffled out and home earlier than usual."

"We got the full story the next day."

:Once the kids were out of the way, the owners of the house had turned on their tv and pressed play on a video.:

"On screen there was cctv of the bedroom where the money had been going missing."

" Clearly in the video you could see the wife of one of the other couples, sitting in that very room, going into the drawer and taking money."

"Apparently they switched off the video, said 'what you saw is exactly what it looked like' and asked that couple to leave."

"Everyone else left shortly after."- FumbleMyEndzone

No one likes a wet suitcase.

"I was on a Chicago to NY flight."

"We all get on the plane, but were delayed taking off due to a heavy storm going on."

"About 20 minutes in, everybody was still pretty calm until the pilot announces they're working on getting our baggage loaded, because it's been sitting on the tarmac this entire time."

"The entire plane looks out, and sees all our luggage just sitting there in the pouring rain uncovered, and starts freaking out."- Pakeeda.

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Meschugener.

"Party at a woman's house."

"Everyone talking and happy."

"They mention a local business burned down."

"Drunk guy yells 'must have been Jewish lightning!"

"The entire party goes silent, awkwardly glancing between him and the hostess, who just so happens to be Jewish."

"The man looks around, thinks for a moment, and realizes his mistake."

"They didn't hear him! "

"So he yells louder, 'MUST HAVE BEEN JEWISH LIGHTNING!'- CriticalHitKW

That's horrible.

"Back when I waited tables, guy walking to his table, had a massive heart attack, and hit the floor."

'EMT's said he was dead before he hit the floor."

"I've never seen a restaurant go so silent so quickly."- vtncsc

Wooow.

"My friend used to work for a company that has always promised out IT department a trip to Hawaii for working through a couple of rough years without pay raise and on the flip side we won't get any personnel cut."

"It was a verbal promise that once we are back to profitable, the IT department would get all expense paid trip."

"Back around October of 2015, they were gathered in the largest meeting room for a meeting with the president."

"There were snacks, drinks, pizza, etc."

"It was assumed that it was a celebration for a good year and they'd get the promised trip."

"It was a mass layoff since IT has been outsourced."

"All credentials were locked during the meeting and everyone was asked to leave the premise right after the meeting."- Contivity

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What an a**hole.

"The President of our company got completely plastered at our Christmas party."

"His speech started off funny because he was slurring hard and he was playing on it."

"Then he started talking about how he came from nothing and became something."

"Then he proceeded to tell us how if it wasn't for us working so hard and keeping our clients happy, he wouldn't have been able to accomplish building his mega mansion for him and his family, nor would he have been able to afford his new Benz."

"Awkward muttering, followed by him directing us to 'drink up & enjoy, because due to budget cuts, the future Christmas party/bonus budget is cancelled from here on out'."

"Many of my coworkers relied on that bonus."

"No one was impressed."

"Except for 1 person, the rest of us quit within the first few months into the new year."- ApolloniaTheGreat

Hypocrites are the worst.

"I made the mistake of playing Scattergories with my mother."

"She said 'no Foreign words, you have to use English words'."

"Fine, fair enough."

"She then called out someone for using a foreign word (I can't remember, it's been 10 years)."

"He took off the points."

"The next f*cking round she used three foreign words."

"I called her out on it and she said it was no big deal, it was just a game."

"I argued that not only had SHE set the rule, but that she already called someone out for doing it."

S"he called me a f*cking a**hole and left the room."

"The Thanksgiving family time was over as pretty much everyone decided that was the time to leave."

"Total time from game start to end of the family time? "

"6 minutes."- thematgreen

Oh NO.

"I was watching Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon' in a movie theater when it came out in the early 1970's."

"The projector died during a fight scene."- Hotel_Arrakis

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Yikesy.

"Was on a team. about 15 people)for a special project for a regional Internet Service Provider. During the bi-weekly team meeting the manager was super pumped about how far ahead of schedule we were due to some new processes we came up with.

"After about 20 minutes of atta-boys, the manager concluded with telling us all we were being laid off in the same tone of voice she used for the whole meeting issuing a bunch of praise."

"Most of us awkwardly laughed for a couple seconds thinking she was joking."

"She was not".- SoggyShake3

You wanna start a riot or something?

"I worked at a casino for a couple of years and the joke is totally true."

"How do you piss off 500 old people?"

"Yell 'BINGO!' - Lytnin

That's just wrong.

"3 hour safety training at work, rewarded everyone with pizza."

"You could go one of five days- Monday-Thursday everyone got pizza after, everyone who went Friday got ham sandwiches."

"Blasphemy."- hails224

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Oh my goodness.

"Was with a missions team in El Salvador."

"Our evening meeting was waiting on one of our leaders to come downstairs before we began."

"It had been a great day; we visited the artisan's market and a new ministry startup."

"I remember it clear as day."

"The scene frequently replays in my mind."

"He sits down at the table."

"Suddenly, his head falls to the table and lands on his arms."

"Our other leader begins to shake him, but he is unresponsive."

"For what felt like forever we were trapped in that room listening to CPR."

"They laid him down in the only doorway."

"Eventually, one of my friends and I were able to lead everyone out without getting too close to the leaders."

"I'll spare the details, but long story short, I believe one of his aorta had burst."

"He was dead within minutes."- deja_blues.

Whoops.

"My family drove up to my grandma's house for her 90th, give or take a couple of years, birthday."

"She had the family and neighborhood over."

"My sister brought her boyfriend, but she was called away for a group school assignment because of her incompetent classmates."

"Anyway, her boyfriend had to fend for himself."

"My grandma's neighbor first introduced him as 'Bob" with two O's'. "

"This was a harmless joke/we all know he has a crude sense of humor."

"Everyone goes on eating and talking and then Bob (again) tells a story about a huge deer he saw (grandma/neighbors live in woods)."

"He proceeds to tell us how gigantic the rack on the deer was and addresses a relatively new neighbor and newer girlfriend and says, 'just like your girl'."

"I didn't turn the room sour but it was definitely uncomfortable."- cvanwaggy

Yikes.

"I went to a leaving party for a member of staff I used to work with."

"We were all dancing and having a good time when suddenly one of the SENIOR members of staff was outside and started shouting at a young member of staff and threw a chair at him."

"We all rushed to wear the argument was going on and he walked in really upset and the manager walked into the room and asked everyone what we were looking at."

"No one could say a word we was so shocked."- KallMeKhaleesi

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Well.....f*ck.

"I entered a bar and ordered a beer."

"The music was quite loud so I decided to fart."

"Then I looked around and saw everyone was staring at me."

"Then I realized I was listening to my mp3 player."- Privatnik1

"Womp, womp..."

"When I joined them."- Harshmelloo.

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The meeting no one wants.

"Tell them the meeting was to let them know the company they work for is filing bankruptcy, going out of business, and they've all just lost their jobs."

"Then start handing out papers explaining how to go file for unemployment checks and food stamps."

"R.I.P. Montgomery Ward, Circuit City, and hundreds of other examples."- Allureana.

"Company I worked in about a year after high school, they made & shipped telecom parts, wiring, phones, etc."

" I worked in the warehouse part."

"About 6 months after starting, there were rumors of a reorg happening in the company & possible future layoffs, people were a bit on edge to say the least."

'The union reps & some managers came in to quiet people down, told them layoffs weren't going to happen, don't worry about anything, everyone's doing a great job."

"3 months later we get called into a big lunch meeting with our manager & union rep - sure enough, that day was the last day for most of the people in attendance."

"Company was shutting down our location to move operations offshore & save money, so almost 230 people total were being let go with severance."

"Funny part was that they told everyone they didn't have to stick around, they could work for a couple more weeks until the place closed or could leave now & their severance wouldn't change regardless."

"Also had a lot of guys coming up on retirement who were basically forced into it because they couldn't afford to relocate to another state to work."

"Most of the people at the lunch meeting didn't eat, just got up, handed in their stuff & left on the spot."

"Management acting surprised was probably the best part of it, since there was still work to be done & I doubt they had enough people to finish it before the 2 week shutdown was done."- pmw1981.

There's one in every family

"My sister."

"Every frickin' time it's my sister."

"Doesn't matter how big or small it is, you even annoy her just the tiniest bit, and she explodes."

"And her moods are contagious."

"Just like a massive fart that moves swiftly and so horrible that everyone wretches at."- eh176.

Sometimes you don't realize how good you had it.

"Mines pathetic compared to others ."

"At school, we found out the teacher we hated the most wasn’t in so we got a sub."

"Everyone was so happy."

"Turns out, the sub was the most evil sub we had."

"We’d had him before."

"The whole class was peed off for the whole lesson."- CloKaboom.

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No Laughing Matter

"I was just hanging outside a Milk tea shop with a group of six people and was being pretty quiet because it was just one of those off days."

"Now my group of friends are HILARIOUS, they’re literally the funniest people I know and I love them so much, but someone took it too far."

"One of them just so happened to wear a LONG scarf that day and started messing around with it, throwing it around my other friends and whatever. "

"I was still distracted by my phone and didn’t really get much context for what happened next when I look up to see one of my friend’s faces just drop."

"Everyone else was laughing, having the time of their lives and I turn around to see the owner of the scarf tying it around her neck like a noose and putting the other end on a tree branch."

"Now, this was after school and our school has a pretty big reputation for being stressful and having a lot of mental health issues so I did not take it as a joke."

"I immediately tell her to stop that because it wasn’t funny and that we’re out in public."

"She takes one end of it off of the tree branch but it was still tied around her neck."

"Everyone except for one other person was still laughing at it and kept joking about it when I just stopped and got their attention."

"I told them that it was not appropriate at all and that that was not something to joke about."

"One of them decides to tell me to calm down or something along those lines and I said that people struggle."

"He then says that he was one of those people to which I answered, 'I understand that you deal with it through comedy and that it’s a coping mechanism, but not all people can cope like that and you have to understand that'.”

"Silence."

"I sit back down and take my phone back out."

"No one talked for a solid minute or two."

"The owner of the scarf apologized later, it was very sincere and I know she won’t do it again."- EarlyMorninTea.

Um, what?

"I straight up yelled shut the f*ck up and all the 1st graders cried."- AnbuEric.

Know your audience.

"Walked into a room n yelled you bitches ready to lose all your money."

"But it was literally a meeting for feminists who all looked at me with such hate."

"The room I was looking for was a floor up."

"Most embarrassing moments ever."- The_internet_messiah.

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"We were joking around before class and one of my boy friends decided that he was going to put on mascara."

"He said 'Oh I’m so beautiful' we were all having fun and then with out thinking I said 'if your so beautiful you wouldn’t need that makeup'."

"The whole room went silent for a few seconds."

"There were many girls around."

"I don’t know why I said that."- Th4tAppleGuy.

Things can turn on a dime... especially in a large crowd.

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Old Wives' Tales People Still Believe For Some Reason

"Reddit user the_spring_goddess asked: 'What is an old wives tale that people still believe?'"

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The old wives' tales.

They are the stories of legend.

I think we all need a big DEEP Google dive though.

Where did they originate?

WHO ARE THE OLD WIVES!

You don't hear about them as much anymore.

It's like science and logic are suddenly a thing.

But they sure are a good way to keep your kids and their behavior in line.

Redditor the_spring_goddess wanted to discuss the tall tales we've all been fed through life, so they asked:

"What is an old wives tale that people still believe?"

"Wait an hour to swim after eating."

What a crock!

So many summer hours wasted.

I want revenge for that one.

Say Nothing

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"An undercover cop has to tell you he's a cop if you ask him."

LonelyMail5115

"Pretty much most advice when it comes to cops are old wives tales. I’m not even a cop but most of the advice you hear is pretty off."

I_AM_AN_A**HOLE_AMA

Say Something

"That you have to wait 24 hours to report someone missing."

Severe_Airport1426

"I really think this one is important and should be the top regardless. As it’s a piece of advice that needs to be relearned and the only way to do that is through awareness."

crappycurtains

"This used to be true. I think they changed it after some guy named Brandon went missing back in the '80s or '70s. You used to have to wait 24 hours if the missing person was an adult because they had 'a right to be missing' and then everyone realized that was stupid and stopped doing it."

AlbinoShavedGorilla

Body Temps

"That drinking ice cold water after eating oily foods will solidify the oil and permanently remain in your body. I informed my coworker that if your body temperature ever reached that point, you’d have bigger problems than weight gain."

chriseo22

"Oh, I have a cousin who 100% believed this. One of those guys who believed every early 2000s internet rumor and old wives tale. One night I chugged a big glass of ice water after dinner and he started freaking out and saying my guts were gonna harden."

"I sarcastically told him to drive me to the hospital if that happened. Obviously, nothing happened and the next morning I said something like 'Thanks for being on standby in case my guts filled with hardened oil.' He just walked off muttering under his breath."

apocalypticradish

Arms Down

"When I was pregnant, I was told by young and old alike that I should NOT raise my arms above my head or exert myself in such a manner because it could cause cord strangulation to my unborn sons and daughters."

Fatmouse84

10 Years Actually

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"Chewing gum stays in your stomach for 7 years."

REDDIT

"I remember accidentally swallowing a piece of gum when I was a kid in like 1995 and just accepting my fate like welp, gonna have this in my stomach til high school I guess."

Gecko-911

I was so afraid to sallow my gum when I was young.

This tale is haunting.

High/Low

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"You can tell the sex of the baby by how you carry."

LeastFormal9366

"Pregnancy certainly wins awards for the most old wives tales. So much absolute BS was repeated to us by everyone we talked to."

IllIIIlIllIlIIlIllI

The Cursed

"If you’re a woman and you wear opal jewelry but opal is not your birthstone (October), you’ll never be able to have children, or will be widowed, or just generally have bad luck or something. You can counteract this by having a diamond in the same piece of jewelry as the opal, though."

"I have a nice opal ring that my parents gave me years ago, and I’ve had other women give me this 'advice' unprompted more than once when I’ve worn it. I have absolutely no idea where it started, but I’m pretty sure this little chunk of silicate rock has no concept of what month I was born in, let alone of how my reproductive organs work."

SmoreOfBabylon

Stay In

"Going outside with wet hair will make you get pneumonia. Or an earache. Or maybe arthritis. Depends on which old wife you listen to."

"Jokes on them - I haven't blow-dried my hair in decades and usually leave the house with wet hair in the morning. On winter mornings, the tips of my hair get frozen. No ear infections or pneumonia or arthritis yet."

worldbound0514

Dreams and Facts

"You never make anyone up in your dreams you've seen everyone in your dreams somewhere else before and never make anyone up entirely."

"How would you possibly prove that to be true? My partner adamantly believes this and tells me this 'fact' whenever I have a dream about someone I've never met before."

mattshonestreddit

"My late wife used to tell me that before she met me she would have dreams of standing at an alter on her wedding day but could never see the guy's face, no matter how hard she tried. After meeting me the face was filled in with mine. Don't know if it's true but one of those things I like thinking of every now and then when I miss her."

Darthdemented

Cracked

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"Some people still believe cracking knuckles causes arthritis."

Choice-Grapefruit-44

"There's a doctor (Donald Unger) that cracked his knuckles a couple of times a day for 60 years, but only on one hand, just to prove it. Both hands remained exactly the same."

MacyTmcterry

I love my knuckles.

Do you have any tall tales to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.

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Far too many workers are unhappy with their job duties, workplace dynamics or company culture.

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Some people stand firmly stand behind their beliefs that everyone would benefit from therapy and that therapy is life-changing.

It's because of the totally life-changing truth bombs their therapist had dropped during their sessions.

Curious, Redditor anonymiss0018 asked:

"What is a little bombshell your therapist dropped in one of your sessions that completely changed your outlook?"

Communication Issues

"'If you don’t have these problems with any other person in your life, why do you think you’re the problematic person in this one?'"

- maggiebear

"I love this. I have a 'friend' who I always seem to run into misunderstandings with. Every time we had a conversation, it somehow turned into a debate even if it was me talking about my day. The conversations were never easy."

"I always evaluate myself first and take into consideration his critiques. He was very good at convincing me that I was contradicting myself or wasn't good at communicating my thoughts."

"I NEVER had this issue with ANYONE else in my life. I kept trying to figure out where the miscommunication was coming from. In the end, I just minimized contact and now I don't run into this issue."

- chobani_yo

"I read this quote somewhere once (and probably have it a bit wrong): 'It's a waste of time arguing with someone who is determined to misunderstand you.'"

- Reddit

Emotional Regulation

"'You can’t control your emotions, but you can control what you do with them.'"

"At the time, I was a young adult who had learned zero healthy emotional regulation skills (only suppression and shaming) growing up, so this blew my mind."

- lil_mermaid

Tough Relationships

"'It sounds to me like you are trying to convince yourself to stay with your girlfriend. I'm not so sure it should be so difficult.'"

"At the time he said this, I remember it was like he said, 'The earth is flat.' I thought he was crazy when he suggested relationships don't need to be difficult. But eventually, I started to realize I was trying to change myself to stay with this person rather than just being who I am."

"It took me three more months to finally break up with her but from that day on, I vowed to never again abandon myself just to be with someone I had convinced myself was better than me."

- metric88

High-Stress Situation

"I was at a high-stress time, and I asked her how people live like this."

"She replied, 'Oftentimes they have cardiac events.' She said it as an urging to care for myself as much as possible."

- KittenGr8r

The End of Alcohol

"I was struggling with my alcoholism, and we were discussing how I had been cutting back."

"She asked what I would consider success, with regard to my drinking."

"I said I wanted to get to a point where it wasn't interfering with my daily life. I wanted to just be able to have a glass of wine at holiday dinners or family gatherings."

"She simply asked me why. Why was it important for me to drink at those times?"

"It was as if she'd turned on a light. Alcohol had always been a key ingredient in every family function, for my entire life. When I smell bourbon, I think of my uncle. When I smell vermouth, I think of my dad. Alcohol ran through almost every happy childhood memory."

"But, even more than that, I was very afraid of the explanation I'd have to give when family and friends asked why I wasn't having a drink. I had tried to quit before but failed. What if I admitted my problem, only to fall off the wagon?"

"When she asked why I didn't want to completely quit, it was the first time I saw that last part of the big picture. I'd be willing to drink myself to death in order to avoid being scrutinized, or judged for possible future failures."

"That was the day I quit. I've been sober since May 6th, 2017. 2,407 days."

- sophies_wish

Acceptance vs. Enjoyment

"'Accepting something doesn’t mean you have to like it.'"

"That took away a lot of my inner conflicts about situations because I could accept a situation without expending energy internally fighting against the injustice of it."

- alibelloc

Emotionally Immature Parents

"You are not responsible for your parents' emotional wellbeing. They are independent adults who have been on this earth for many more years than you."

- SmokedPears

Not So Lazy

"'Why do you think you're lazy?' Then she listed off all the things she knows I'm doing for my family, my job, and my life."

"It kind of blew my mind when I struggled to come up with an example."

"She also described family dysfunction as water. Some families are messed up in a way that everyone can see the huge waves across the surface. Others are better at hiding it, but there's still a riptide that you can't see unless you're also in the water."

"It made me realize that trying to keep the surface from ever rippling doesn't erase what is happening underneath."

- flybyknight665

The Harm in People-Pleasing

"'Why do you make people more comfortable when you are uncomfortable?' when talking about people pleasing and fawning."

- ERsandwich

Agree to Disagree

"'Stop trying to get everyone to agree. When you need everyone to agree, the least agreeable person has all the power.'"

This really changed my outlook on planning family events."

- freef

Grieve and Start Anew

"For context, I had a major TBI (traumatic brain injury), seizures, strokes, and all around not a fun brain time when I was 28."

"They said, 'You have to grieve the loss of yourself.'"

"Most people wanted me to go back to how I was. The f**ked up truth is that part of my brain is dead. The person everyone (including myself) knew died. I needed to grieve the loss of myself."

- squeaktoy_la

Multifaceted Identity

"They told me that my job and career is just a way to make money; it's not my life or identity. That took a lot of pressure off me."

- unfairpegasus

Breaking the Cycle

"They validated me."

"'You always talk about not wanting to do to your daughters what your mom did to you. You worry about it so much in every interaction you have ever had with them."

"But your children are 19 and 21 now. They are happy and healthy and they trust you because you’ve never abused them in any way. So I just want to validate for you that you really have broken that cycle of violence."

"You did that. And you should be proud of it. I’m proud of you for it.'"

- puppsmcgee74

The Grieving Process

"I was constantly bringing up how I felt like a completely different person after my mom died... like there was a marked difference between before and after her death."

"But once, she was asking about my hobbies, I got really into describing all the things I loved to do or at least used to do before I got into a deep depression."

"She was like, 'Wow, you seem very passionate.'"

"And I just sat there like, 'Well, I mean, I can't change what I like to do, they're still fun to do.'"

"And it's like she knew when to take a step back, because it was like, wow, I may be super depressed about my mom passing, but I'm still me. I'm still my passions and those don't go away."

"I don't know, maybe it only makes sense to be, but it really started getting me back on track."

- Hannibal680

Sharing the Load

"I've never really had friends. I've had colleagues and classmates and housemates and people who have hung out with me, but I never really felt close to any of them."

"And I did that thing you see on here sometimes; I stopped reaching out to see if I would be reached out to, and I wasn't, which I took as confirmation that they didn't really want me around, or at the very least, that they wouldn't mind my absence."

"I was talking to my therapist about people I'd been close to in college, and she told me to pick one and talk about him. So I did. After I shared some basic stuff like his name and his major etc., and a couple of anecdotes, she asked me what else I knew about him."

"And I couldn't answer. It wasn't really a broadly applicable bombshell, but she said, 'What else?' and I started crying because I realized that for as simple as the question was, my inability to answer spoke volumes."

"I've never had good friends because I've never been a good friend. I'm withdrawn and reserved and I always made others do the work to drag me out, without ever extending my own friendship in a meaningful way in return. If I wanted to have meaningful relationships with other people, I would have to build them."

"I'm still working on this, but I'm trying to make more offers and extend more friendliness to others in my daily life."

- Backupusername

The discoveries in this thread were incredibly touching and profound; it's no wonder these were lasting concepts for these Redditors.

It's important to keep ourselves open to inspiration and insights from others, as we have no idea how their experiences could help us, or how we could help them.

Aerial view of a church in a small town
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There's something comforting about living in a small town.

It's characterized by close communities where neighbors know each other by name and there is an abundance of kindness extended to others.

Gift-giving is a commonality, as is the sharing of recipes, and people going out of their way to help each other in a time of need.

The pace of living in small towns is also a striking contradiction to city life, where crowds of people go about their busy lives without much interaction.

Curious to hear more examples of what small town living is like, Redditor official_biz asked:

"What's the most 'small town' thing you've witnessed?"

These are positive examples of a tight-knit community.

Live Updates

"We have a village Facebook page. Every time the ice cream man drives into the village, the entire page goes ballistic. People send live updates of where the van is and which direction he's heading. The ice cream man has started accepting DMs so he knows which streets to go down."

– PyrrhuraMolinae

Brush With The Law

"I’m from a town of less than 2,000 people. When I worked at the grocery store there people would often drop off stuff for my family members because they didn’t want to drive all the way down to our house. I no longer live there but recently got a call from my daughter. She had been stopped for speeding and handed over her license and insurance which happens to be in my mother’s name. The officer goes 'Hey, you’re Donnie’s granddaughter! I ain’t gonna write you a ticket but I’m telling Donnie when I see him tomorrow cause we’re going fishing.' She replied 'I think I’d rather have the ticket.'”

- Reddit

Roadside Catchup

"The traffic on the 'main street' of my town is so sparse, two drivers going opposite directions can stop and talk to each other for a few minutes without causing any problem."

– anon

When things go wrong, people take notice without incident.

Bank Robbery

"A guy robbed a bank and everyone knew immediately who he was and the teller got mad at him."

– AlexRyang

"A local bank was robbed and one of the tellers told the police to bring her a yearbook from about ten years earlier and she would be able to point the robber out. He had been in the grade before hers in school."

– Strict_Condition_632

Wise Woman

"When I worked at the bank in town there was an older lady that had worked there through 5 mergers."

"She knew everyone, there was a young guy yelling at me one day. She walked out of the back and he immediately quieted. She went off about telling his grandmother that he was treating young women like sh*t. She also said that if he didn’t straighten up not one girl in town would ever marry him she would make sure of it."

– ilurvekittens

Intoxicated Local

"Town drunk was paralyzed and used a motorized wheelchair to get around. I was driving home one Saturday night and said town drunk was passed out in his wheelchair doing circles almost directly in the town square. Had to call his brother who came and picked him up on a rollback truck. Strapped him down and drove off into the cold dark night."

– DoodooExplosion

Grazing Over To The Bar

"In my former small town, there was an older guy who'd lost his license after getting a few DUIs. Every day, he would ride his John Deere lawnmower to the corner bar around 3PM and sit around watching TV and sipping his beer well into the night. Then he'd head the couple miles back home on his mower. He even had a little canvass shell he put on when it rained or got too cold."

– brown_pleated_slacks

It's not surprising how small town people behave differently than those who are from metropolitan areas.

Welcoming Committee

"I lived in a small town. When I moved there, people would ask, 'Whose house did you buy?'"

–MoonieNine

"Move to a small town. 30 years later, you are still the new guy."

– impiousdrifter

"I lived in a small town for most of my childhood but I wasn't "from there" because my grandparents weren't from there."

– raisinghellwithtrees

"Worked with an older guy, relative of the owner of the business, he was 73. I asked him if he was a local, he said 'no his parents moved here when he was two.'"

– realneil

A Busy Day

"Lived in a town of about 5,000: A woman walked into the DMV on a Friday, saw that there were 3 people ahead of her and left to come back another time when they weren't so busy."

– KenmoreToast

Who Let The Dogs Out?

"My dogs got out while i was working. the police called my niece's elementary school (she was a 5th grader) to get her to round them up and take them back home."

– mediocrelpn

"There was a small kennel behind the police station for runaways. They called us saying they had our dog, and moments later our dog showed up home. He broke out of jail."

– Worried_Place_917

While life in a small town sounds appealing, I don't know if I can ever live in one.

I'm so used to life in big cities, I think it would be quite unnerving to adjust in a neighborhood where everyone literally knows your business.

I would be paranoid.

And I'm sure the same could be said of life in the big city.

Would you consider making the switch to life in a different setting?