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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.

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People Reveal The Weirdest Thing About Themselves

Reddit user Isitjustmedownhere asked: 'Give an example; how weird are you really?'

Let's get one thing straight: no one is normal. We're all weird in our own ways, and that is actually normal.

Of course, that doesn't mean we don't all have that one strange trait or quirk that outweighs all the other weirdness we possess.

For me, it's the fact that I'm almost 30 years old, and I still have an imaginary friend. Her name is Sarah, she has red hair and green eyes, and I strongly believe that, since I lived in India when I created her and there were no actual people with red hair around, she was based on Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo.

I also didn't know the name Sarah when I created her, so that came later. I know she's not really there, hence the term 'imaginary friend,' but she's kind of always been around. We all have conversations in our heads; mine are with Sarah. She keeps me on task and efficient.

My mom thinks I'm crazy that I still have an imaginary friend, and writing about her like this makes me think I may actually be crazy, but I don't mind. As I said, we're all weird, and we all have that one trait that outweighs all the other weirdness.

Redditors know this all too well and are eager to share their weird traits.

It all started when Redditor Isitjustmedownhere asked:

"Give an example; how weird are you really?"

Monsters Under My Bed

"My bed doesn't touch any wall."

"Edit: I guess i should clarify im not rich."

– Practical_Eye_3600

"Gosh the monsters can get you from any angle then."

– bikergirlr7

"At first I thought this was a flex on how big your bedroom is, but then I realized you're just a psycho 😁"

– zenOFiniquity8

Can You See Why?

"I bought one of those super-powerful fans to dry a basement carpet. Afterwards, I realized that it can point straight up and that it would be amazing to use on myself post-shower. Now I squeegee my body with my hands, step out of the shower and get blasted by a wide jet of room-temp air. I barely use my towel at all. Wife thinks I'm weird."

– KingBooRadley

Remember

"In 1990 when I was 8 years old and bored on a field trip, I saw a black Oldsmobile Cutlass driving down the street on a hot day to where you could see that mirage like distortion from the heat on the road. I took a “snapshot” by blinking my eyes and told myself “I wonder how long I can remember this image” ….well."

– AquamarineCheetah

"Even before smartphones, I always take "snapshots" by blinking my eyes hoping I'll remember every detail so I can draw it when I get home. Unfortunately, I may have taken so much snapshots that I can no longer remember every detail I want to draw."

"Makes me think my "memory is full.""

– Reasonable-Pirate902

Same, Same

"I have eaten the same lunch every day for the past 4 years and I'm not bored yet."

– OhhGoood

"How f**king big was this lunch when you started?"

– notmyrealnam3

Not Sure Who Was Weirder

"Had a line cook that worked for us for 6 months never said much. My sous chef once told him with no context, "Baw wit da baw daw bang daw bang diggy diggy." The guy smiled, left, and never came back."

– Frostygrunt

Imagination

"I pace around my house for hours listening to music imagining that I have done all the things I simply lack the brain capacity to do, or in some really bizarre scenarios, I can really get immersed in these imaginations sometimes I don't know if this is some form of schizophrenia or what."

– RandomSharinganUser

"I do the same exact thing, sometimes for hours. When I was young it would be a ridiculous amount of time and many years later it’s sort of trickled off into almost nothing (almost). It’s weird but I just thought it’s how my brain processes sh*t."

– Kolkeia

If Only

"Even as an adult I still think that if you are in a car that goes over a cliff; and right as you are about to hit the ground if you jump up you can avoid the damage and will land safely. I know I'm wrong. You shut up. I'm not crying."

– ShotCompetition2593

Pet Food

"As a kid I would snack on my dog's Milkbones."

– drummerskillit

"Haha, I have a clear memory of myself doing this as well. I was around 3 y/o. Needless to say no one was supervising me."

– Isitjustmedownhere

"When I was younger, one of my responsibilities was to feed the pet fish every day. Instead, I would hide under the futon in the spare bedroom and eat the fish food."

– -GateKeep-

My Favorite Subject

"I'm autistic and have always had a thing for insects. My neurotypical best friend and I used to hang out at this local bar to talk to girls, back in the late 90s. One time he claimed that my tendency to circle conversations back to insects was hurting my game. The next time we went to that bar (with a few other friends), he turned and said sternly "No talking about bugs. Or space, or statistics or other bullsh*t but mainly no bugs." I felt like he was losing his mind over nothing."

"It was summer, the bar had its windows open. Our group hit it off with a group of young ladies, We were all chatting and having a good time. I was talking to one of these girls, my buddy was behind her facing away from me talking to a few other people."

"A cloudless sulphur flies in and lands on little thing that holds coasters."

"Cue Jordan Peele sweating gif."

"The girl notices my tension, and asks if I am looking at the leaf. "Actually, that's a lepidoptera called..." I looked at the back of my friend's head, he wasn't looking, "I mean a butterfly..." I poked it and it spread its wings the girl says "oh that's a BUG?!" and I still remember my friend turning around slowly to look at me with chastisement. The ONE thing he told me not to do."

"I was 21, and was completely not aware that I already had a rep for being an oddball. It got worse from there."

– Phormicidae

*Teeth Chatter*

"I bite ice cream sometimes."

RedditbOiiiiiiiiii

"That's how I am with popsicles. My wife shudders every single time."

monobarreller

Never Speak Of This

"I put ice in my milk."

– GTFOakaFOD

"You should keep that kind of thing to yourself. Even when asked."

– We-R-Doomed

"There's some disturbing sh*t in this thread, but this one takes the cake."

– RatonaMuffin

More Than Super Hearing

"I can hear the television while it's on mute."

– Tira13e

"What does it say to you, child?"

– Mama_Skip

Yikes!

"I put mustard on my omelettes."

– Deleted User

"Oh."

– NotCrustOr-filling

Evened Up

"Whenever I say a word and feel like I used a half of my mouth more than the other half, I have to even it out by saying the word again using the other half of my mouth more. If I don't do it correctly, that can go on forever until I feel it's ok."

"I do it silently so I don't creep people out."

– LesPaltaX

"That sounds like a symptom of OCD (I have it myself). Some people with OCD feel like certain actions have to be balanced (like counting or making sure physical movements are even). You should find a therapist who specializes in OCD, because they can help you."

– MoonlightKayla

I totally have the same need for things to be balanced! Guess I'm weird and a little OCD!

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Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.

Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?

But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.

It would be so great to be sure there is something else.

But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.

Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:

"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"

Sensations

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"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."

PeachesnPain

Recovery

"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."

"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."

"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."

good_golly99

Take Me Back

"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."

"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."

rayrayrayray

Free

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"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."

TooReDTooHigh

This is why I hate surgery.

You just never know.

Shocked

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"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."

Admirable_Buyer6528

The SOB

"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."

"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”

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Colors

"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"

Hannah_LL7

"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"

huntokarrr

The Fog

"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."

"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."

Fluffy-Hotel-5184

Through the Walls

"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."

"She's quite alive and well today."

Hot-Refrigerator6583

Well let's all be happy to be alive.

It seems to be all we have.

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Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.

The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.

Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.

Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:

"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"

Redditors didn't see these coming.

Shiver Me Timbers

"I’m always cold now!"

– Telrom_1

"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."

– r7ndom

"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."

– mr_remy

Drawing Concern

"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."

– dee-fondy

"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"

"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."

– LizardofDeath

Unleashing Insults

"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”

"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."

– alanamablamaspama

Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight

"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."

– KeltarCentauri

"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."

– KatMagic1977

"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."

– Jaew96

These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.

Shopping

"I can buy clothes in any store I want."

– WaySavvyD

"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."

– ganache98012

No More Symptoms

"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."

– colleennicole93

Expanding Capabilities

"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."

– Ramblonius

People Change Their Tune

"How much nicer people are to you."

"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"

– LiZZygsu

"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"

"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"

– awholedamngarden

It's gonna take some getting used to.

Bones Everywhere

"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."

– Princess-Pancake-97

"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."

– bekastrange

Knee Pillow

"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."

– snic2030

"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."

– Strongbad23

More Mobility

"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."

"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."

– dma1965

People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.

But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.

That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.