People Share The Most Embarrassing Place You Could Visit When Wet
The Internet can breed a lot of strange, creative outlets. Digital and classic artists can find a multitude of photo sharing sites to advertise their work, while any number of capable video-sharing platforms can be used to screen upcoming filmmakers newest work. Then there's sites like Reddit, where it all clashes together and you hope for the best. This time, people gathered to creatively out-weird one another to answer Reddit user, r/ozamotazbuckshank's question:
Where would be the weirdest location to arrive soaking wet to?
Maybe Bring A Towel To The Interview
I have actually had people show up for job interviews coming straight from the beach.
That's Miami for you.
Or Maybe Don't Go
The burn ward at a hospital, while telling everyone you see that "you can never be too careful"
What's With The Interviews?
My Microsoft interview, after I planned poorly and biked in pouring rain trying to hold an umbrella over myself (yeah right), showed up in soaking pants and jacket.
That was funny. :)
(I didn't get a callback.)
Sparking A Wet Debate
Baptism
Leading by example.
Every good Christian knows it's better to pre-baptize before the main even to make sure it takes.
Create An Everlasting Legacy
A live Presidential address in the Oval Office.
You would disrupt a President's speech live to the nation, get tackled by the Secret Service, get whisked away to Area 51 on how you teleported into the supply closet, why you were soaking wet and if that is related to the secret of teleportation, and create millions of conspiracy theories, and create a perpetually paranoid US government.
Save Yourself Some Money
One of the BEST locations to arrive soaking wet is a public/private swimming pool that you have to pay to get in to. Take a gallon of water from home and just drench yourself. Get to the front where you have to pay and tell them that you just ran to your car real quick as evidenced by the fact that you look like you were in a pool mere minutes prior.
That IS Oddly Specific
An audition with the Lithuanian ambassador
That's oddly specific
We had Lithuanian ambassadors visiting our school today
Just Stay Off My Test
A college exam.
Imagine walking into a room soaking wet, sitting down in you seat acting causal while everyone looks at you and wonders what happened as you try to not drip all over the test.
Guys, Rule Of Thumb, Dry Off Before An Interview
A job interview. Which I've done.
Live in nyc and drove to make sure I got there super early and parked about 3 blocks away. Figured I'd sit in my car and hang until about 15 mins before the interview time and walk over. 17 mins before the interview the sky completely open up. I'm talking torrential rains. I showed up dripping wet. It was an open office and literally everyone turned to stare at the guy dripping all over the floor. The receptionist just stared at me and said "let me get you some Bounty." In any case, it was a great ice breaker for each of the 4 people I met with.
And yes...I got the job.
Sometimes These Stories Are Real
I was the only person soaking wet on a crowded subway once
Story:
Last summer I was walking from my office to the subway (T) station in downtown Boston. It was gorgeously sunny but then all of a sudden this cloud rolled in and started unleashing absolute buckets of rain. I'm talking rain so thick and heavy it was hard to breathe. I didn't have any rain gear and ducked under an awning with everybody else on the street. I waited about five minutes but it wasn't showing any signs of slowing down and the subway was only like 300 yards away.
I made up my mind to just go for it and as soon as I stepped out, the rain started falling even harder. So I start running with that hunched shoulder thing people do when it's raining. I get to the station and go inside the doors and stand at the top of the stairs wringing out my shirt and trying to get some of the water off me.
Just at that moment, the cloud is blown away and the sun comes back out as if the whole thing never happened. I think to myself "of course..." and just then a train pulls up and hundreds of people are coming up the stairs as I'm going down and everybody is looking at me like I'm some sort of freak because they have been underground for the last 10 minutes at least and have no idea it was even raining. The platform was about 90 degrees so now I look like a dripping sweaty mess and had to stand like that for the whole 35 minute train ride home.
Miserable...
One of my favorite books is "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." It was a key element in unlocking what I could see with my imagination. No adolescent should go beyond sixth grade without knowing it. What else?
"ANNOUNCEMENT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE READING THIS THREAD:"
"MANY OF THE BOOKS MENTIONED HERE ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND IN AUDIO BOOK FORM. GO THROUGH YOUTUBE/RANDOMHOUSE/AUDIBLE/OVERDRIVE FOR ALL THE CLASSICAL GOODNESS YOU WANT."
"It almost totally eliminates the financial/time commitment that many will cite for not picking them up. I listen to books on double speed all the damn time. I am working my way through "A Tale of Two Cities" now."
Meaning
wondering simon cowell GIF by X Factor GlobalGiphy"Man's search for meaning - Viktor Frankl."
Oh Milo
"The Phantom Tollbooth."
"Maybe one of my favorite literary moments…"
"Milo: "Many of the things I'm supposed to know seem so useless that I can't see the purpose of learning them at all."
"Princess of Sweet Rhyme: "...what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."
- wort_hog
Johnny
"Johnny's Got His Gun. It's so intense, but it's so good. Metallica's song One is based off this book. Guy has his arms and legs blown off, goes blind and deaf, and is left to live like that. I only read it once, but it's forever engrained into my memory. It hits you like a freight train."
Brothers...
"Surprised I haven't seen it here already so I'll add it... The Brother's Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. In Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut said it could teach everything that we needed to know about life, except that wasn't enough anymore."
"If the only thing that book did was make you marvel at how people centuries and oceans removed from you in time and place, could experience the exact same emotions about life as you did, it would be worth the read. There's so much more to it, but Dostoyevsky had such a knack for digging deep into universal human experience. And it's just a hell of a good story too."
Classics
diva read GIFGiphy"Speaking as somebody who isn't religious, the literary value of the Bible (and the Hebrew Bible) is severely underrated."
I took a class on it in college, with a prof who'd once allegedly gotten into a bar fight over Beowulf. We would sometimes spend half a class discussing a single verse or two because there's so much stuff going on under the hood."
- dmillson
I know so many of those. And sadly, I'm already behind in my studies. I love books and I'm always on the path to find more to consume. Let me ready my already lengthy list.
WAR
War Shockwave GIFGiphy"All Quiet on the Western Front. Everyone should have to reckon with the reality of what war actually means."
- BigHern
Thanks Teach...
"Night, by Elie Wiezel. It is absolutely heartwrecking , and I hated every moment of reading it, which is exactly the effect it is supposed to have."
"Came here looking for this one. I had to read it back in high school and it blew me away how moved I was by it. Stories like his need to be remembered for all time, no matter how hard it is to get through (emotionally-speaking; it's actually quite an easy and short read). I'm so grateful that my English teacher assigned it."
West
"The Westing Game."
"A Librarian here, such a terrific book. I have gotten so many kids to read it by hooking them with the fact that the reader can play the game and has all of the clues. And good luck as it is fiendishly clever."
All the Good Crazy
"The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Such a great book."
"Oh my god yes. I love this book for being the sex, drugs and rock and roll of the classics world. It is lengthy but has revenge, treasure, plots and schemes and drugs. There is nothing stuffy about this classic."
- skundrik
The "Good"
"The Giver- that book made my 9-10 year old mind really think about what was important in society. It was the first time the idea of "good" things having a negative consequence was presented to me. I think what makes it work is that we are learning how this whole society really works along side a character who has lived in it his whole life."
"As the facade of the utopian society begins to fall away to show devastating consequences of the "perfect life and society" the reader not only feels their shock but the main character's shock. This was a book I read in school 4 times- once in 5th grade and once in 10th for English and then in both high school and college sociology classes. This book written for 9-13 year olds made for great discussions."
Good and Bad of Life
read ford GIFGiphy"The Grapes of Wrath and/or Of Mice and Men. Both are heartbreaking, but not for the sake of being heartbreaking - instead they provide a glimpse of how freaking hard life can be, but also how beautiful it can be."
That is a lot of good advice. And a lot of great storytelling and advice giving. Did anyone miss anything that should be there? And make sure you read anything by Harlan Coben, he's a fav.
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