It's hump day, and even on a short week, we need a little positive pick-me-up. Let's start with: it's nice to know the universe isn't always working against us.
There is good out there. if we are willing to allow ourselves to focus on it, it may change our lives.
u/cukatie2983 asked:
What's the happiest fact you know?
Here were some of those answers.
50. Every Villain Is Lemons (E.V.I.L.)
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The fact that we are still here and have progressed as far as we have is evidence that humanity's capacity for good has so far outpaced humanity's capacity for evil.
49. That Sloth Life
Young sloths are so dopey and incompetent that while climbing, sometimes they will grab hold of their own arm or leg instead of a branch, and fall out of the tree.
48. Oh!....M.
My work colleagues and I love collective nouns and we make them up for things if one doesn't exist. My team of engineers is called an Ohm.
The ohm is defined as an electrical resistance between two points of a conductor.
One member of my Ohm is an actual train conductor in his spare time. This makes me incredibly happy.
47. It's Time To Reverse Climate Change
Scientists estimate about 5 more years until we'll be able to harness power from fusion nuclear reactors that can provide a lot of cheap and clean energy. So that picture on Reddit's popular page about the iceberg melting? We can reverse that damage.
46. A Drop More Energy, Optimism, And Perseverance
One of the happiest facts I learned was in the book The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch, that all problems are solvable, within the laws of physics. That there aren't any physical limitations between one state and another, and the only thing keeping you from solving any problem is knowing how to.
45. My Life
Life is like a "choose your adventure" book. You get to pick if you stay in bed all day or go out and seize the day.
44. AWWWWWWWWW
I asked my wife to marry me. She said yes.
She showed up to the wedding, walked down the aisle, spoke her vows and said "I DO".
Every day I wake up in the morning and she's sleeping next to me. I breathe a little easier. Super happy it wasn't all a dream.
I know that sh*t sounds sappy but it's the fact of my life.
43. YAYAYAYAY
When mammals are happy they do these things behavioural scientists call "joy jumps" which is just like straight leg bounces. They have seen that behaviour in rats a lot and use it to make sure that the tests they are doing are not harmful. Humans do joy jumps as well, more commonly as young children.
42. Honestly The Best Fact
My 9 year old son likes it when I pick him up and spin him around a bunch, hang him upside down by his ankles, flip him over my back, etc before putting him down on the couch.
My 7 year old daughter likes scissors and glue and dinosaurs and birds.
Both children are special needs, and cannot walk or talk. For the first several years, we weren't sure if my son would make it. The fact that they can now communicate what they like (and dislike) is a very happy thing.
41. The Happiest Happy Metal
There's a metal band called Freedom Call, and they're the happiest metal band you've ever heard. In pretty much every instance where they could be singing "heavy metal" in their lyrics, they sing "happy metal."
40. I'm Worthy Of This Love
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This isn't really a fact but more so a thought. Think about all the times you've fallen in love with a stranger for 5 seconds, that feeling of love for even a brief moment is something that brings you joy. Now, think about how often that happens to you and you'll realize at some point, you've been that stranger to countless people who you don't even know. Makes me smile.
39. Star Stuff
You are composed of the same stuff that stars create. You are 1;1 the same ratio of elements as what is created in most stars, and we're composed of all of that material. It makes me feel really connected to the universe when I think of that.
38. The New Renaissance
That humankind advanced more in the past 130 years than any time before that. In like the equivalent of a second, if a day was human existence. Chances are pretty good this will happen again as we continue developing. Pretty amazing, inspiring.
37. Growing On Me
That people who are given their second choice of something rather than their first end up happier with what they have than those who think they got the perfect thing off the bat. In other words, you can grow to love something, sometimes even more than the thing you thought you originally wanted.
36. Nom Nom Nom
A baby Seahorse will make a high pitch, excited squee after finding its first meal.
35. Life Mates
Albratrosses mate for life. Typically, an Albatross will be alone for long journeys through 7-10 months of the year, mostly living off of fish caught in the open sea and small islands they stop by on their journey. Each year, the Female and Male Albatrosses return to their home island to see each other. They click their beaks together and nuzzle, recognizing each other as a symbol of their love.
34. 143
Mr. Rogers always weighed 143 pounds throughout his adulthood. He equated it with I (1 letter) Love (4 letters) You (3 letters). 143.
33. Happiness At All Costs
Scientists say that if you're having a panic attack or just anxious fake a smile or laugh and your brain will think you're not stressed anymore and the panic will stop.
32. Neo With A Heart
Keanu Reeves donates millions to children's hospitals without telling the world about what a good deed he's doing. He's genuine such a nice guy and I respect his personality as much as his acting career. It's also nice to know he genuinely loves his profession. It's amazing what he's done considering all the tragedy in his life.
31. This Is Why We Don't Deserve Dogs
Dogs can smell your feelings and learn to respond accordingly.
My dog is super supportive of anyone who is crying in her vicinity. She goes over and cuddles them and tries to get her head on their chest and whatnot. Everyone, except me. If I start to cry, she goes and hides under the bed. She's lucky I love her so much, the damn mutt.
30. This Is For U, Hooman
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Cats only meow to humans and not other cats, because humans talk they think meowing is a similar way of communicating so humans understand.
29. Bye Bye Bad Games
EA is probably going to lose their rights to Star Wars very soon.
28. The 90s Didn't Kill Us
The hole in the Ozone Layer is healing, and is expected to completely disappear in 2050 <3
27. Bb
My wife is 8.5 months pregnant. I saw my baby's face (not just profile) from the sonogram yesterday. Seeing your child's face (especially for the first time) is an amazingly beautiful moment. But it's also very hard to put into words.
26. Our Alien Friends
Milky way and andromeda galaxies will collide in the future. Just imagine seeing a night sky when those two connect to each other.
25. Universal Donors
O+ blood type helps people with A+, B+. AB+, O+ blood types.
O- blood type helps people with A-/A+,B-/B+, AB-/AB+, O+/O- blood types.
SPREAD THE WORD!!!
24. Tourist Dream
There is a post office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, because every citizen is entitled to receive mail via the USPS.
They get junk mail and Amazon packages, just like everyone else, and it's frequently taken down by mule, since vehicles can't go down there (easily). Sometimes it's flown in via helicopter.
If you go there, you can send yourself a post card from the post office down there and it will be stamped "sent from the bottom of the Grand Canyon" or something similar (I forget the actual stamp).
23. Keep Smiling
"Otters hold hands to keep from drifting apart,"
"Elephants react to us like we react to puppies,"
And "Swans can be gay,"
Are the three biggest responses in this thread. If you're just checking in, prepare for that.
But! Someone, somewhere, even if it's a stranger whose eye you happened to catch, is hoping you're happy right now. Even if it's just me, not knowing you or your life, I hope you're smiling. :)
22. Big Libra Energy
That the good always comes with the bad and vice versa. Learn to enjoy the negative times for they are what make you appreciate the good times.
21. Oh Mister Grape
Grape the Humboldt Penguin who lived in the Tobu zoo in Japan fell in love with a cardboard cutout of an anthropomorphic Humboldt Penguin that was installed in his habitat as a cross promotional event for an educational children's wildlife show. https://imgur.com/a/UcazouO
Grape would offer Hululu (the name of the character of the cutout) rocks and fish, and would spend all his time near her. When the promotion ended and all the cutouts from the show were to be removed from the zoo Grape was allowed to keep Hululu in his habitat.
Late in 2017 Grape's health began to deteriorate due to his advanced age. Grape kun was sent to a local animal hospital when it became clear there was nothing more the zoo could do for him, the zoo sent Hululu with him. Grape the Humboldt Penguin would peacefully pass away in his sleep of old age next to his fictional penguin wife.
There exists fanart of Grape-kun and Hululu. https://imgur.com/a/u4rURqP
20. Are We The Next Dinosaurs?
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That regardless of how badly we might fuck the Earth up with our selfish, short-sighted bullsh*t, life will go on. We're barely a speck on the planetary time scale, and that really needs to be more widely acknowledged and embraced.
Sometimes I wonder if the best legacy that we can hope for is to be the next fuel source that the new civilizations will fight over once they start digging underground.
If we wipe ourselves out, I sincerely hope that whatever species rises to dominance examines our moldering foundations and says: "Damn! Those guys really fucked things up! Let's not do that, okay?!"
19. Whoop!
Honeybees make a "whoop" noise when they bonk into each other. If that isn't the cutest sh*t you ever heard, I don't know what is!
My girlfriend and I love bees. I bought her a bumblebee stuffed animal when we first started dating a few years ago and we went bee crazy ever since. So much so that when we bump into each other, we both go "whoop" and laugh.
18. The Exponential Rise
Since the first animation was created to now has been a span of 200 years. However, it took us 20 years to go from 2-D hand drawn games to the Virtual reality games we have today, and spatial (3-d area movement) games were created in only about 10 years of that time. Makes me happy because you can just imagine how games in 20 years will be way better than what we even have.
17. Communication
Deaf babies will sign gibberish to their deaf parents at about the same time that a normal baby starts doing baby talk. It's really well documented that they are developing communication skills, just in a totally different way. It's adorable.
16. Dilation
That the pupils in the eyes get bigger when we gaze at someone we love.
I had to test this out for myself, so I went over to my dog Levi, and stared into his eyes in bright daylight and sure enough they widened, as I'm sure mine did too. :)
15. The Creys
When The Office employees sing 9,986,000 minutes to Michael Scott for his goodbye, that was an actual surprise for Steve Carell. His reaction was genuine.
14. People Having A Better Life
Every year for the last 20 years, more and more people around the world are being lifted from abject poverty.
And each it seems to compound.
This is why I donate to Wikipedia.
13. MOAR ENERGY
All of the solar energy the entire Earth receives comes from a spot on the sun the size of a postage stamp. Happy? Yes! Maybe eventually we'll be able to harness moar!!!
12. The Best Ewok Roles
It may be fiction, but it's still great. In Star Wars episode VI, after everything was finished and the Death Star went boom; a lot of the rebels were given an emotional support Ewok.
11. A Good Señor Woofer
My dog always pick up on my mood and will sit with his back in front of me to protect me. He doesn't even know from what. He also protects me when he is scared himself. Like new years eve. He shows me if he is annoyed or in pain. I pick up on his mood in seconds. He sleeps in front of the bedroom entrance or door to the balcony. This is also for protection. He is a mental guard dog and I love him so much.
10. We Aren't Killing Everything
Some of the animals removed from the endangered species list in the last few years due to population increases
- American Alligator
- Southern White Rhino
- Siberian Tiger
- Panda
- American Grizzly Bear
- Gray Whale
- Stellar Sea Lion
- Gray Wolf
and there's more. :)
9. Natural Eradication
The New Guinea worm, which burrows into the skin and needs to be slowly pulled out by twisting it around a small stick, is on track to be the second human disease in history to be eradicated thanks in part to the Carter Center. Cases went from 3.5 million per year in 1986 to 28 cases in 2018. This will be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and the first to be eradicated without medication (as there's no cure) but pure education and water filtration.
8. Little Bunny FooFoo
In rabbit culture, it is considered extremely rude to pass directly in front of a relaxing rabbit without booping it on the nose. Rabbits passing each other will touch their noses together, it's how they say hello.
Rabbit social behaviors are a fascinating part of what makes them such good pets.
7. The Final Frontier
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I guess it is not inherently happy but it makes me happy thinking about it: both voyager 1 and 2 now as of 2018 are flying in interstellar space. No matter what happens to humanity now, no matter if we all perish tomorrow in a nuclear holocaust, there is still those two pieces of us floating through the stars just waiting to be discovered.
Who knows, maybe someday billions of years in the future, long since humanity has reached its end, some space faring race will come across a silly little robot looking thing the size of a school bus carrying with it a shiny little golden disk with drawings etched on the exterior of the disc showing how to play it.
Playing it, the aliens will be greeted with Bach, Beethoven, Chuck Berry, and different music from around the world. Also, they will have a small assortment of pictures showing our long dead little world. They will have soundbytes of different human greetings, and samples of our mathematics. It isn't really a lot, but it is still a small snippet of humanity floating through the vast emptiness of space just waiting for someone to find it and learn just the smallest bit of our story. We made our mark, and as small of a mark as it is, it still could very well outlast us by eons.
6. Taking Life Into Our Own Hands
A man named Jarrett Adams spent 10 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He spent that decade researching his case and studying the law in the prison library and was able to have his conviction successfully overturned in 2007. He then went to college to earn a Bachelor's degree and attend law school, which he graduated from in 2015.
He went on to take a case for a man wrongfully convicted 1990 and was able to get his sentence overturned as well based off wrongfully identified DNA from a hair sample the FBI gathered at the scene of the crime.
Adams now continues to find cases similar to his and uses everything in his ability to prove wrongfully convicted individuals innocent.
5. Cats Have A Staff
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Cats also domesticated themselves! They saw rodents were mostly around humans because of food storage like grains. So cats basically moved in to get to the rodents.
4. The youngest
When you were born, you were, for a moment, the youngest person on earth.
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2. You Are My One And Only Albatross
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Albratrosses mate for life. Typically, an Albatross will be alone for long journeys through 7-10 months of the year, mostly living off of fish caught in the open sea and small islands they stop by on their journey. Each year, the Female and Male Albatrosses return to their home island to see each other. They click their beaks together and nuzzle, recognizing each other as a symbol of their love.
1. Birds Are People Too
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Green-rumped parrotlets actually give unique names to their children that they keep for their entire lives. In cases where the chicks were replaced and given to another set of parents, names given to those chicks were more reminiscent of their adopted parents than their birth parents. This indicates that different families have unique ways of giving names with slightly different sounds. All this meaning that the naming process is a learned behavior rather than being something biologically instilled, thus the parents are literally naming their children.
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?"
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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
For many childhood memories are overrun by living nightmares.
Yes, children are resilient, but that doesn't mean that the things we see as babes don't follow us forever.
The horrors of the world are no stranger to the young.
Redditor -2sweetcaramel- wanted to see who was willing to share about the worst things we've seen as kids, so they asked:
"What’s the creepiest thing you saw as a kid?"
Serious Danger
"Me and my best friend would explore the drainage tunnels under the Vegas area where we grew up. These were miles long and it was always really cool down there so it was a good way to escape the heat of our scorching hot summers. We went into this one that goes under the Fiesta casino and found a camp with a bunch of homeless people."
"Mind you we are like 11 years old lol. And we just kept going like it was nothing. It wasn’t scary then but when I look back at it we could have been in some serious danger. Our parents had no idea we did this or where we were and we had no cellphones. We could have been kidnapped and never have been found."
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Waiting for Food
"I was at a portillos once when I was 12 and I was waiting with my little brother at a booth while my parents got our food. This guy was standing with his tray kind of watching me then after a couple of minutes he started to walk over really fast not breaking eye contact with me."
"He was 2 feet from the table and my dad came out of nowhere and scared the s**t out of him. He looked so surprised and just said he wanted to see if I’d get scared or not. He left his tray full of food near the door and left. My folks reported him but we never went to that location again since we found a better one closer to home."
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Captain Hobo to the Rescue
"When I was a pretty young teen, my friends and I were horsing around in San Francisco and started hanging out to smoke with some homeless guys. Another homeless dude came up and began aggressively trying to shake us down for anything (money, smokes, a ride, drugs- all of it) and wouldn’t take no for an answer."
"We got in over our heads and could tell this guy was now riling the other 2 guys up and they were acting like they wanted to jump us. Some grandfather-looking old homeless man appeared out of nowhere and yelled at us to get the f**k out of here- nice kids like us don’t belong down here at this hour!!"
"Captain Hobo saved our lives that night. My parents sincerely thought we were at a mall all day lol."
FartAttack911
Survival
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"I was 7 and survived the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. Witnessed the wave rise way above the already massive palm trees (approx. 40ft?) and my family and I watched/heard the wave crash into the ground from a rooftop."
faithfulpoo
These Tsunami stories are just tragic.
On the Sand
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"We were a group of kids who went to swim in a local lake. And there was a dead body on the beach with their hands raised and their legs bent unnaturally that local police just took out of the same lake. I've never put my foot in these waters again."
oyloff
Be Clever
"I was walking to school and I was about 5 or 6 years old and some guy pulled up beside me in his car and asked if I would get in. He also offered me sweets to do so. I said no. The creepy bit was when he calmly said ‘clever boy’ to me, then drove off. I’ve never even told my parents or anyone else about this as it would most likely freak them out."
OstneyPiz
Bad Jokes
"Dad's side of the family pranked me by burying a fake body on our back property and had me dig it up to find valuables. Was only allowed to use a lantern for light. They stuffed old clothes with chicken bones. Sheetrock mud where the head was... Random fake jewelry as the treasures... I was like maybe 10 or 11.. I remember digging up the boot first and started gagging because it became real at that point."
Alegan239
YOU
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"Woke up to find my little brother staring at me in the dark, asking, Are you really you?"
PrettyLola2004
Siblings can really be a bunch of creepers.
No one should talk to others in the dark though.
