People living in friendly neighborhoods are lucky. They have the comfort of having a familiar face asking how your day is going.
One might even help out in a time of need, no questions asked.
"What is the most WTF thing happened with your neighbor?"
Whatever happened to delivering cookies to a neighbor or asking to borrow cooking supplies? No one knows.
Between Two Crazies
"FBI raided my neighbor to the left, and the neighbor on the right came over asking if I could give him clean urine so he wouldn’t get fired at work. He also bragged about being a bank robber in Reno. I tried to look it up but didn’t find anything. I just wonder why he would say/do these things lol. Definitely don’t live in that neighborhood anymore."
– TheMoonDays
Creepiness Underfoot
"stopped to have a casual chat with our downstairs neighbor when we first moved in. all normal small talk, until he mentions that his bedroom is directly under ours, creepily smiles, and goes into detail about everything he’s heard."
– HazelnutSoup
Too Close For Comfort
"When my husband and I were dating as teens he lived in a duplex with a mom and a daughter my age on the other side. I ended up working with the daughter. One night she told me her mom’s bedroom was on the other side of the wall from my boyfriend/now husband’s bedroom."
"One day the daughter told me at work that her mom always listened to us having sex. I just stared at her. How do you even respond to that?"
– Pea-and-Pen
Unannounced Visitor
"I recently had a neighbor show up at the end of my front walk and freak the f'k out at my fiancée because the phone company told her that she owes them almost $300 bucks and that the equipment was at our address."
"Barring how insanely irresponsible it was of the phone company to casually give away our address, we proved to her during a tour of our house that we don't have any equipment from that company. She read the company the riot act and apologized to us. We're now all friends who mutually hate the phone company."
– mxmnull
What's Mine Is Not Yours
"Military husband married to non-English speaking wife:"
"Husband was deployed, wife would frequently invite her extended family over to their house and her guests would block ours and several other neighbor’s driveways with their vehicles. When we asked them to move because we needed to leave, they asked 'can we park in your garage?' Uhhh, NO."
– SuperShineeCoinToss7
You would think these types of occurrences would happen only on TV.
Why Security Cams Are Important
"A long while ago the woman a few houses down from us passed out in the alley by her garage. it was late at night and she was known to be a heavy drinker. the guy who lived next door to her came driving through the alley not long after she passed out and, well, he was drunk as well and hit her thinking she was a trash bag left outside, she didn't survive."
"he decided to park in his own garage and run inside like nothing happened. my StepMom came home from her shift at the hospital soon after all this, SM saw the woman in the alley and got out to check on her. THEN the guy comes out of his house freaking out, asking what happened, and claiming SM hit & murdered this woman."
"obviously SM ignores him and calls the police, dude still tries to convince the police that SM ran the woman over. it would have gone on much longer if the neighbors across the alley didn't have security cameras. the whole incident was recorded and the guy was quickly carted off to court. apologies i dont remember how/what he was charged with, this was a very long time ago."
"f'king crazy man, thanks security cams!"
– qhloae
Busted
"In one of the small culdesac neighborhood's I grew up in, turns out one of the neighbors was involved in human trafficking and sex trafficking of minors and was finally raided by the FBI. There were so many cops when I came back home from school."
– Mirror1rorriM
Crazy Starts Young
"Terror of a 10yo girl next door ended up dumping gasoline out of a lawn mower can on another neighbor’s 10yo boy and threatened to set him on fire. This little girl has also used the other neighbor’s credit card for door dash and phone games, screams at her parents constantly, is always truant, and most recently I saw her climb out her window and grab door dash off the porch and climb back in. She’s an absolute menace"
– Special-Emu3
This Could've Ended Badly
"I got drunk one night, stumbled home from the bar…my key wouldn’t unlock the door so I opened the living room window crawled in and passed out on the couch. Found out the next morning it wasn’t my house."
– JDB6986
Garage Gas Leak
"They were running some sort of chop shop out of their garage. I was told they jack hammered through their garage floor to get to the gas line before the meter. Apparently they did a poor job and they caused a gas leak which led to an explosion that sent their garage door flying out into the street."
Lost Daughters
"She broke into my apartment with a baseball bat searching for the 2 girls that lived here before me."
– Prestigious-Piano-48
Never Upset Mother
"A few years ago the mom of some of my friends shot and killed their dad and cut him up and put him those plastic storage totes. My friend came home from vacation had to break into the house through a window found the totes called his mom and asked her what it was, he response was 'its your father call the police.'"
– No-Juggernaut2968
Panties Pilferer
"In college, the guy in the dormroom next to mine got caught stealing panties out of the communal laundry room."
"They interviewed him in his room, with cops, and saw an open box in the corner of the room with a collection of panties - labeled by owner's name."
"He was arrested."
– Ganglebot
Lab Gone Wrong
"Underground meth lab blew up and basically sunk their house."
– iboughtmars
What is up with doors and neighbors? Read on and find out.
Getting Unhinged
"Someone stole his front door in the middle of the night. No, really. Someone went out of their way to somehow unhinge the doors and flat out take his entire door."
"Edit: this was in SF 5-6 years ago. No they never found out who did it. I don’t know how they got the door down either. Neighbor put up curtains for privacy until he was able to get a new one. Nothing else was stolen, just the door to his house."
– Shrek1onDVD
Special Delivery
"Shortly after my neighbor moved in I hear this banging in my door at like 2am."
"Get up and answer and my neighbor is standing there, topless, holding a door trying to convince me that I dropped it when I came over to meet her dogs."
"Turns out she has a sleepwalking problem, pulled her bedroom door off the hinges and brought it to me in her sleep."
– warboy3
I, fortunately, lived in a relatively fine area, but our family wasn't particularly close to any of our neighbors. My parents kept to themselves as we were the only Asian family in the neighborhood.
But last year during the pandemic, we put our house on the market as my parents prepared to move back to Japan.
As I was hauling some stuff out into the rollaway dumpster in the street, our next-door neighbor approached me because she was worried about my parents. She thought they had passed.
When I assured her they were still very much with us, she was very relieved and said, "I see your dad watering the flowers and your mom getting the mail sometimes. They seem so sweet."
Since this was just around the time COVID-19 vaccinations were starting to become available but were still hard to get, she asked me if my parents were vaccinated yet and offered to make them available if they weren't. She was a nurse at the hospital my dad went to when he suffered a heart attack.
Because my parents were vaccinated by then, I thanked the friendly neighbor I never knew I had for her sweet gesture.
My story is not a WTF moment, but it was one that served as a humbling reminder that there is still plenty of kindness in the world.
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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
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"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
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"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
Giphy"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.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
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.
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.