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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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Infamous Internet Rumors That Ended Up Being True
Reddit user strakerak asked: 'What started out as an internet rumor that ended up being infamously true?'
In 2017, I returned to my office after my lunch break to hear my supervisors discussing Tom Petty. This seemed like a random topic to me until one of my supervisors told me Tom Petty had passed away. He was a huge fan of Petty and spent the next hour or so combing through the internet to get more information.
He came back into the room my other supervisor and I were working in and announced that Tom Petty wasn't dead after all. News outlets had jumped the gun to announce his death, but he was actually still alive.
The next day, I came in to find out that Tom Petty was dead; the news may have been premature, but true.
This is a classic example of the rumor being started on the internet. Sometimes, like with the news of Tom Petty's death, the rumor can run wild and appear everywhere. Other times, the rumor can be seen by just a few people and dismissed. However, a lot of times, these rumors turn out to be true.
Redditors know a lot of internet rumors that turned out to be true, and are eager to share.
It all started when Redditor strakerak asked:
"What started out as an internet rumor that ended up being infamously true?"
The King Of Pop
"Michael Jackson writing the music for Sonic 3."
"He actually did, but was never credited on the game because it would breach his contract with his record label."
– -WigglyLine-
"He did the same when he appeared on The Simpsons. He appeared under a pseudonym, and the Producers said it was an impersonator."
"Only years later they confirmed it really was Michael."
"His singing voice was actually done by an impersonator, though."
– given2fly_
The Truth Comes Out
"In 1998, US Men’s National Team captain John Harkes was shockingly cut from the team right before the World Cup. The coach claimed it was because Harkes wouldn’t fit into his new preferred formation, but rumors flew on the early internet that it was actually because he had slept with his teammate Eric Wynalda’s wife. The rumor was so well-known in soccer circles that Harkes expressly denied it in his autobiography the next year."
"Fast forward 12 years to 2010 and Wynalda admits it’s true. The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did."
– guyfromsoccer
Video Evidence
"The Tim Burton Hansel and Gretel that aired once on halloween in the 80's."
"I heard for years that it was fake but I knew it was real because my dad recorded everything in the 80s and he recorded that. We let a good friend of ours borrow it and switch it over from VHS to DVD and soon after that it made its way on to the internet , and there it is now. I know it's our copy because the tracking in the beginning is screwed up. Still have the VHS."
– Frozenthickness
"There was a similar story with a Nickelodeon movie called Cry Baby Lane. It was supposed to be so scary that Nickelodeon got complaints and denied its existence for years. Someone uploaded a taped copy to youtube about a decade ago."
– PattiAllen
The Movie Business
"That North Korea hacked Sony Pictures because of The Interview movie."
"I worked in the movie business at the time and the account managers at Sony all basically needed to get new identities as all of their personal information got leaked online."
– OldMastodon5363
"My partner worked on that movie and the production bought all the crew 1 year of an identity theft tracking service."
– CMV_Viremia
Keep Away From The Ears Of Kids
"Some banned episodes or scenes of cartoons."
"For example, I remember there was a Dexter’s Lab cartoon where he clones evil versions of DeDe and himself and they swear like every other word (censored of course), and people debated whether it even existed cause they only aired it like once. Now it’s pretty accessible online."
– Spledidlife
Yes, It's True
"Echelon, a massive electronic espionage system by the US and allies to intercept all electronic messages, especially emails."
"In the mid-nineties it was a topic on conspiracy BBS boards. A lot of people in my bubble at the time (mainly uni students in Europe) were including fake threats to the US in the their email signatures as a way to "protest" and "fill the system with false alarms" (obviously useless)."
"Then, in 1999-2000 came out to be true and a lot of security service agencies from UK and other US allies started to admit they were part of the espionage network."
– latflickr
How The Mighty Fell
"John Edward’s love child."
– ACam574
"A reminder that he was cheating on his wife while she was hospitalized for cancer treatment."
– Fanclock314
Ugh...
"Carrie Fisher's heart attack. Some a**hole who was on the same flight was livetweeting the whole medical emergency and justified it by insisting she was just making sure the family was informed."
– everylastlight
It Actually Happened
"Every year around her birthday there was a rumor that Betty White died. When I heard she died, I scoffed, saying that dumb rumor is back.... then saw it on the news. I was in shock."
– Known-Committee8679
"The fact that Betty died literally right before she turned 100 is such a Betty White way to go out."
– Paganigsegg
Big Actor, Small Roles
"I distinctly remember some rumors about the reason why Bruce Willis was taking so many roles in sh*tty movies before it was announced he has dementia."
– KampferMann
"RedLetterMedia did a deep dive on his recent movie activity to try and work out why exactly he was taking part in basically scam-movies. They noticed he had an earpiece in one of the scenes and joked that the director was feeding him lines. I remember they even disclaimed over the rumours at the time, and possible made a follow-up vid when it was revealed to the public."
– CardinalCreepia
What To Do Next?
"That the writer of LOST were making it up as they went."
"Turned out to be absolutely true."
– homarjr
That last one was kind of obvious!
Do you have any to add? Let us know in the comment below.
Whether you're naturally interested in fun facts and trivia or not, it's always nice to know a few that you can pull out of your pocket at a moment's notice as a nice conversation starter.
But there are some fun facts out there that are so weird, people become more preoccupied with how the teller found out that information rather than the information itself.
Redditor Dry_Bus_935 asked:
"What is your 'don't ask me how I know' random fact?"
Nuclear Fail Safe
"You have quite a lot of time, certainly more than ten seconds, to turn back on the main pumps of a nuclear reactor once you have accidentally turned them off."
- egorf
"I'm not surprised. The amount of fail safes, redundancies, and emergency scenario planning for nuclear power plants is insane."
"I toured a nuclear plant and wrote my high school senior thesis on the plans put in place to ensure the Fukushima disaster would not happen at that plant."
"I'm sure the secondary pumps are plenty capable of handling the reactor until the main pumps are repaired or just turned back on."
- Borderlandsman
Happy Cat
"If your cat chews on fresh eucalyptus, they might start hallucinating and fall over repeatedly, leading to a $400 emergency vet bill just to be told she’s just kinda high."
- oddidealstronghold
"And, that's part of why koalas love it. Little stoners."
- littlebluefoxy
Archaeology: Do Not Lick
"Old human bones are very porous, so if you lick them, they’ll stick to your tongue."
- clanculcarius
Sharing is Caring
"A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify: chew the Starburst, not the pigeon."
- OhTheHueManatee
"Instructions unclear. Pigeon unhappy."
- Wild-Lychee-3312
Intriguing Anatomy
"Everyone is here with the creepy crime stuff, and I'm just like, 'A soft fur rat has 22 nipples.'"
- horroscoblue
"Okay, so either they have really small nipples, their nipples overlap, or they have nipples in places where there shouldn't be nipples."
"(I've never written the word 'nipples' so many times in a singular sentence before.)"
- GdeGraaf
'Don't Ask Me,' Indeed!
"Turmeric can be used as clothes dye. It is capable of permanently dyeing cotton cloth even after it has passed through the digestive tract of an adult male."
- SlefeMcDichael
"You s**t your pants, didn't you?"
- PMmecrossstitch
"I'd prefer not to answer that question."
- SlefeMcDichael
High-Risk Survival Skills
"If you ever trying to survive in the Arctic, don’t eat polar bear liver. It is so high in vitamin A, it will kill you."
- WrongWayCorrigan-361
"It's also surrounded by a lethal amount of angry polar bear."
- horanc2
Real-Life Spies
"TV shows and movies go out of their way to make military/intelligence officers look bada**."
"But real-life 'spies,' by design and training, are boring. They have regular houses and standard second-hand cars, they dress down, and they have vague, boring job titles (accounts receivable) as cover, and they do not draw attention to themselves. Most come from specialized academia."
- Ok_Worth_1093
Haunting Reality
"Your muscles can keep twitching for several hours after you die."
- JustDave62
"Also, beards can appear to grow. This is however not because the beard itself grows but because the skin shrinks."
- RRautamaa
"I worked at a morgue for over eight years. If you grasp the hand of a dead body to move the arm, the hand will grasp back, but that's just muscles and tendons reacting to the tension."
- goneferalinid
The Sneakiness of Drowning
"When a drowning victim is revived, get them to a hospital as soon as possible. Drowning is the leading cause of death of kids from the age of one to seven and is ruled as accidental drowning when it comes to secondary drowning or dry drowning."
"Basically, your lungs are full of water despite being revived. Your lungs will absorb the liquid, but not before your body acidifies from high levels of carbon dioxide. The only chance to survive is to have the lungs pumped with oxygen via CPAP machine and time."
"Also, drowning is extremely quiet. You don’t hear the victim go under. And if you see flailing, do not attempt to save the victim otherwise you’ll become another drowning victim. Throw them a lifeline and hope their amygdala realizes that a rope or something is floating near them and grabs on it."
- Dfiggsmeister
Not Everyone's Favorite Chocolate
"Hershey’s chocolate has the strong smell of vomit or feces to some people (me), and that’s because they use butyric acid as a preservative. Butyric acid is the compound that makes vomit smell so bad."
"Edit: Digging further into it, there are some claims that they may not be “adding” the butyric acid, but rather it is occurring from essentially spoiling the milk in their milk chocolate. Either way, the butyric acid and putrid smell remains a part of their product."
- hefewiseman1
"That explains the weird aftertaste I always get! I don’t smell it but their chocolate always has this super unpleasant sharp/acidic aftertaste that I find repulsive. I assume this is why!!"
- PomegranateNo975
Do Not Lick the Asbestos
"Asbestos tastes like chalk. And if you lick it, it has the texture of extremely gritty sandpaper. Which is actually the feeling of microscopic asbestos needles piercing your flesh!"
- TooYoungToBeThisOld1
Mapping Out the War
"Beginning in 1911 in anticipation of the outbreak of WW1 in 1914, two statesmen, one from England and one from France, began visiting locations in France that they believed would be the settings for a number of major battles that would occur during the great war."
"Long bike rides through these future battle zones in the countryside and weeks spent building a foundation for a French-Anglo codebook that would later prove important in helping win the war."
- fjordperfect123
Avoiding Lawsuits > Protecting Patients
"Doctors, or surgeons more specifically, that make too many mistakes during surgery, ie, leaving instruments in patients, frequently gets ‘quietly traded’ to other hospitals where they continue their path of destruction with the patients not being aware of their past record. Hospitals tend to keep quiet about the matter to avoid lawsuits."
- Kittytigris
Bonus Points: Do This While Having Lunch in Your Car
"If you overfill a fast food gravy cup and then put a lid on, it will create a pressurized gravy stream that sprays all over your face and uniform while your coworker looks on in horror."
- thechaosjester776
This subReddit thread was so a roller-coaster of random facts, we've surely all walked away learning something.
But the biggest takeaway might just be: Maybe don't lick so many things.
When we're intoxicated, or even the slightest bit tipsy from having a little too much to drink, our immediate perspective on things is hazy.
But there's nothing like a bit of alarming news or a jarring incident to snap us out of the fog and focus on the moment.
Sometimes alcohol isn't always to blame for our impairment.
It can be a state of mind, like a perpetual numbness from being complacent in life, and all it takes is one shocking moment to rattle us back to our senses.
Curious to hear from strangers online about this type of scenario, Redditor Known_Challenge_7150 asked:
"What’s one thing that sobered you up real quick?"
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These individuals were witness to shocking events that sobered them up right quick.
Bleeding Out
"Got out of a taxi and found a naked man profusely bleeding from his head crawling up the driveway in my condo. Called him an ambulance completely forgot I was absolutely wasted until 45 minutes later when I'd helped him translate and in to an amublance and stepped in my front door."
"Later a few days later learned he'd slipped in the tub and literally crawled out for help. Poor dude. He was fine but I genuinely thought he was going to die there."
– DongLaiCha
Tragic News
"At a bachelor party and we got a phone call that the groom’s father had suddenly passed."
– accountnameredacted
Bottom Of The Barrel
"I went to visit my parents back in July. I was homeless and deep into fentanyl addiction so I lost a lot of weight. My folks could see it. They knew something was up. Anyway, I spent the night and I was getting ready to leave in the morning and I looked at myself in the mirror for a good long time. I finally had enough and told them everything. They took me to detox, from there I went to rehab. Graduated in August and been living with them ever since then. I have 160 days clean and sober."
– Crotch-Monster
A reality check can be enough for some people to snap out of it.
Like Father, Like Son
"Was driving a drunk friend home, he had been on a bender again and was smart enough to call me for a lift rather than try and drive. As I helped in to his house his mother came down the stairs and said 'your as drunk as your father' and went back upstairs. I haven't seen him drunk since then, he still drinks but the thought of turning into his dad scared him out of hard drinking."
– psycospaz
Busted
"Flashing blue lights."
– FiddleOfGold
"This sobered me up just thinking about it."
– redmaple_syrup
Losing Sight
"Woke up to no sight in one eye. I had cataract surgery so just thought one of the lenses had slipped and it was an easy fix. Eye doc says nope, you had a stroke. I loved soy sauce, teriyaki sauce and salty food, which caused high blood pressure, which caused retina damage. Over six months was able to get most of my eyesight back with medication, and all back within a year. Trying to navigate life with one eye was very sobering. Started taking HBP much more seriously."
– MissHibernia
Quitting The Bottle
"Looked up someone I went to highschool with who was an awesome guy. Found out he had been dead for 3 years from alcoholism, at age 33. I made an overnight change. I hadn't started drinking that night yet, 10 months ago. Haven't touched it again since."
– omgtater
These disturbing moments were enough for Redditors to immediately come to their senses.
Unplanned House Guests
"Me and a buddy Woke up in someone’s living room, realized neither one of us knew the people, they were just nice and let 2 drunk guys sleep on their living room floor. We didn’t even say goodbye."
– Oneinsevenbillion75
Serious Health Warning
"Elevated liver enzymes."
"And the knowledge that this sh** was gonna kill me and I just couldn't orphan my family over it."
"So I opted for recovery, instead."
"Clean and sober since June 5, 2009."
– Far_Meal8674
The Joyride
"Grew up in a rural area. The little town hosted dances at the hockey arena, everyone (adults and kids) went and they overserved everyone, regardless of age. I was maybe 16 or 17 and was absolutely sh*tfaced, and jumped in the back of someone's truck with about 8 other people to go back to someone's cottage for after dance drinking. The driver (still don't know who it was) started racing one of his buddies and we whipped around small dirt roads, flying around blind corners on the wrong side of the road, going god knows how fast. It was basically a disaster waiting to happen. It was crazy scary and I was sober and thankful to be alive when we finally arrived."
– foxfood9116
The human psyche is a fascinating thing, isn't it?
How we can automatically focus on something urgent at a crucial time, even after getting buzzed from drinking too much alcohol.
But as we're in the thick of the holidays, it's a good reminder to drink responsibly and stay off the roads if you drive to your celebratory destination.
Cheers. Stay safe. And happy holidays.
The Most Ridiculous 'First World Problems' People Have Heard Someone Complain About
We've all complained or vented about something in our lives which, in the grand scheme of things, wasn't exactly a problem, or is very easily solved.
Then there are those who complain about things that others almost hope will happen to them at some point in their lives.
These are known as "first world problems", as they are problems that pretty much only the world's one percent faces.
From having to fly business class instead of first class, or being served Roederer instead of Dom Pérignon, these complaints are often met with amusement, bewilderment, or even anger.
Redditor jennimackenzie was curious to hear the most absurd "first world problems" anyone ever complained about, leading them to ask:
"What’s the most ridiculous 'first world problem' you’ve seen people get worked up over?"
"Tale As Old As Time..."
"I once knew a mom who was legitimately devastated, to the point of tears/grief, because a doctor predicted her 8 year old daughter's final height to be around 5'2","
"Which wasn't tall enough to get cast as Belle at Disney World."
"That was the child's (and her mother's) only dream in life, apparently."
"Didn't appreciate my suggestion that she could be Minnie or Mickey."
"Lol!"
"Only a face character would do!"- TravelLovingMom
"Must Be Funny, In A Rich Man's World..."
"My boss from about a decade ago was this insanely rich dude who always went to the bank to get fresh and crisp currency."
"He'd call the bank in advance to make sure they had some on hand."
"I think he was a germaphobe."
"He had a trash can that he'd throw $1 and $5 bills in that he thought was 'dirty' and regularly just donated it vs spending it."
"I asked him why he did this and he said it was too much trouble and asked if I wanted it."
"I said f*ck yeah dumped it into my bag and when I got home it was close to $400 in singles and fives.
"Another time, he wanted to upgrade all the computers in his studio, so we went to a store and bought 10 PCs."
"They all had $150 mail in rebates and he wasn't bothered to go through the trouble of mailing them in."
"3 weeks later I received $1500 after spending a whole afternoon filling out all those goddamn forms."- azninvasion2000
Who Wore It Better?
"When I was about 19 years old, I was at my boyfriends family BBQ."
"I was wearing this pretty floral sundress."
"His cousins girlfriend showed up in the same dress and she was SO mad that she went and changed."
"I will never understand being upset when someone is wearing the same thing as you.'
"Did you really think that your shirt you bought off the rack is going to be unique to you?"
"No."- mertsey627
Seeing Red! Or Blue In This Case...
"The blue of the balloons wasn't quite the same as the bridesmaid's sashes."
"Years ago my wife and I attended a wedding."
"It was very low key."
"The dinner was in the dining hall at the university where the couple met, cinder block walls and all."
"It was a Baptist wedding - no booze and very serious."
"The dark blue balloons attempting to liven up the hall were a slightly darker shade of blue than the sashes on the bridesmaid's dresses."
"The bride lost here sh*t and absolutely raved for nearly an hour."
"I can't remember how they finally managed to talk her down."- mechant_papa
See You In Court!
"Rich neighbors who end up in expensive court battles because they disagree about where a tree can be planted or whether the color of a fence fits in with the street’s 'amenity'."
'These disputes get really heated and rack up huge lawyers’ bills."
"The most pathetic part is after the judgement when they are arguing about who should pay the other party’s costs."
"Lots of affidavits filed citing the 'emotional distress' they had to endure, or painting themselves as brave warriors who were forced to take a stand to fight for 'justice'."
"Also lots of pompous litigants insisting that the judge refer to them by their 'Dr' title."
"An absolutely insane dumpster fire of entitled rich people problems."- ElectrocRaisin
It's Always People With Money Who Don't Want To Pay!
"I work in a public library."
"People will get so so mad if they have to be put on a wait list for a book."
"A popular book that just came out."
"Ok our services are not only free but so are the books."
"You’re welcome, a**holes."- Switchbladekitten
A Warm Butt Is A Happy Butt!
"My own."
"We have a bidet toilet seat (Fabulous! Everyone should have one!) and not only does it wash your bum and blow dry it, but the seat's heated!"
"It's shocking how much a heated toilet seat makes the whole process more agreeable."
"Except: We had a power outage and I went to use the toilet and the seat was cold!"
"Unacceptable!"
"This shall not stand!"
"I was really upset because it didn't feel good."
"Then I stopped and thought: This is the most first-world problem anyone's ever had."
"I was really pissed because my heiny was tepid."
"I got over it."- DeathGrover
Holy Matrimony!
"Weddings are a gold mine for this question."
"People get so hyped up over their 'most important day of their life'."
"They'll destroy friendships, go into debt, and have crazy expectations."
"It's not always the couple who go crazy, either."
"Sometimes, it's the parents or another family member who feels entitled to control the wedding."
"It's just a party."
"Be considerate of guests, have plenty of food and drinks, and enjoy it."- magicrowantree
When Fast Food Isn't Fast Enough...
"Having to pull off to the side to wait for a drive-thru order to be brought out to you because your food isn't ready and there's a line building up behind you."- demanbmore
In Case You Don't Think Customer Service Employees Are Undervalued...
"I was working the return desk at a Target next to a military base so I have so many stories."
"One of my favorites was a lady who had her baby shower before revealing the gender and was livid that she had received floral newborn diapers when she’s having a boy."
"It was a huge box of super expensive, all organic diapers, that we didn’t carry and therefore could not return."
"I cannot accurately express her fury and disgust."
"How dare either suggest her boy could wear feminine diapers."
"I suggested she donate them if she didn’t want to use them and she instead threw away the entire box."
"When she left we pulled it out and threw it in our donate bin."
"There have also been multiple times where mom’s order massive toys and when we bring them out to the car they get furious that they aren’t wrapped."
"We don’t offer wrapping services."
"Here’s the thing, if you don’t want your kids to see the toys you got them for Christmas or their bit to day DON'T BRING THE CHILD WHEN YOU PICK IT UP."
'I’ve had multiple women scream and curse me out that I had ruined their kids Christmas by bringing the toys they ordered out to the car like they requested."- clever-mermaid-mae
Happiest Place On Earth!
"I used to work for Disney."
"That in itself should tell you everything."
"However for fun I'll give you two specific stories one form our tech department and one from my wife who worked bookings."
"I specifically worked for their call center to help with technical issues with magic band and the website."
"Suddenly got worse huh?"
"A right of passage call everyone has at least one story of is the 'Dome call'."
"Basically there is a subset of Disney Guest (TM) that believes if it rains at Walt Disney world there is someone that will push a button to encapsulate the whole of Disney property in a dome to keep out the rain."
"I'm not kidding."
"If this button is not pushed they call our tech department to angrily ask why."
"My wife worked booking."
"Pretty much everything including Bibbidi Bobbidi boutique and Pirate's league."
"These two things did roughly the same thing difference being price and theme."
"BBB was expensive did more and was focused on princesses, pirates league did a bit less and focused on mermaids and pirates."
"Lady called up my wife, and got pissed about BBB being booked up (It goes FAAAAST)."
"Karen: 'Im going to give the phone to my daughter and I want you to tell her how you are ruining her vacation by not letting her do BBB'."
"Wife proceeds to explain how pirate's league is so much cooler and how she can be a mermaid or pirate and basically gets the kid to start demanding to their parents about how they want to be a mermaid instead of a princess."- trollsong
The horror!
Being booked into a junior suite at Disney World instead of an executive suite!
It's almost as bad as having no money for groceries, or no food to feed you children...
Said absolutely no one.