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Couples Who Became Pregnant After Engaging In A Three Way Share How What Happened After

Couples Who Became Pregnant After Engaging In A Three Way Share How What Happened After

Sometimes you just want to get a little creative in the bedroom spice things up a little! Sometimes, that manifests itself in the form of a little mnage trois. Sometimes, someone ends up with a little extra surprise at the end of it all. 

Here, couples and singles alike share stories of times that their threesomes ended in pregnancy, and how it all went down. If you'd like to read more, check out the source link at the end of the article. 

Comments may be edited for clarity.

I knew a woman who had a threeway and got pregnant but she knew who the father was. It was the man.

Phoenix_Magic_X

I have one with a happy ending!

A couple of friends of mine were in a relationship and, since the guy was infertile, they didn't use condoms. One time, at a massive orgy, a condom used by another guy broke, and the girl got pregnant. She was pretty scared to tell her bf, but he was actually overjoyed - he never thought he'd raise a kid, and now he had the chance.

Several years later, during medical exams, they find out the kid was actually his, apparently a one in a million chance considering his fertility.

They're still together, and the kid is awesome.

7sigma

I know a dude from work who had a threesome with his girlfriend and her best friend. Apparently on more than one occasion. Well guess what! They both got pregnant!!

Edit: they both had the kids. The girlfriend broke up with him and I understand he gets the children some of every week at the same time.

bigbluegoose

Had a friend who had similar happen. His girlfriend got pregnant after a threeway with a different couple. They split, he has come out as MtF trans now, and the other couple have both been to prison since then for drugs.

Abadatha

Wife had a guy friend who was "not gay". He had a boyfriend who was gay. They had a threeway with this girl and "not gay" got her pregnant. " Not gay" asked her to marry him and she said no. She then asked "not gay's" boyfriend to marry her. He said yes. "Not gay's" boyfriend dumped him and married the girl.

Edit: Neither my wife nor me were part of the threeway. I knew NG in passing because I saw him with the gay crowd at clubs we all went to. My wife was friends with NG, G , and the girl.

Hoax13

Probably late to the party...but regardless, my mother was the one who ended up pregnant with me during a threeway. I grew up not knowing who the father was (Given a false story, he ran away etc) - To this day, my mother does not know who out of the 2 is my father.

Threewaythrowawaykid

Not me but a family member we'll call X. Dude was a boring guy in his youth apparently and started up a company with a couple in the USA in the 1980s. It was a pretty open secret that they were a mnage trois but no one really acknowledged it. The wife got pregnant and had a kid and I think things settled down a bit afterwards with them all focusing on the company. Or at least things would have settled down except as the kid grew up it became more and more apparent that X was the father. The boy was the absolute spitting image of X. X's mother was a very conservative lady and apparently it took her close to a decade to even meet up with this boy, she was so outraged with his conception. Last I heard that same company they started up together was acquired for over 20 billion dollars.

Loracfro

I was the guy in an unplanned ffm threesome that got a text message 2 weeks later with the words 'I'm Late'

Edit:

Quick rundown of the night if anyone is actually interested.

Was my 30th birthday. I'd gotten home from work and the girl I was seeing called me. It was around 7pm. She asked about my day and for some reason I led with 'Oh, well it's my Birthday so I'm just having a quiet one in'. Her response was 'Shower, shirt and shoes...you're coming out with me and my girlfriends'.

Spent a couple of hours at her house in her garage drinking because drinking at the club is expensive and the girls wanted to be drunk before they went out. I caught a train with 6 girls into the city (Perth, Western Australia if anyone is curious) at around 10pm. We club-hopped (I spent more on cover charges than drinks). I spent my night at the bar drinking while the girls danced (I am not a dancer...or a club person really) and mostly spent the night with the girl I was seeing. If the girls got hit on when they didn't want to be, they came and grabbed my arm and used me as a buffer. I'm 6 foot and pretty big so there tended to be few people willing to push the issue.

So...got drunk, went back to girlfriends place and because I had work the next day didn't stay the night. Stupidly said I was driving home (about 20 minute) and the two girls in question asked for a ride as they lived near me. Halfway home they asked to stay the night as they didn't want to wake their parents. Drunk me didn't see a problem. They came in, we drank some more on the couch, they began to fool around with each other, and not seeing why I shouldn't, joined in. An hour later and we were all asleep in my bed.

D-Evolve

Not that exciting, but true story. Recently-ish involved in a planned MFMF foursome (using an awesome app for the search), then found out my wife was pregnant a few weeks after. Obviously there's that little voice that says "what if it's that other guy's kid", but we knew everyone involved had taken the standard precautions (as responsible adults would for an arranged meeting of that nature). First ultrasound confirmed that the fetus was too young to have been from that night.

It did become a running joke throughout the pregnancy though, much to my wife's amusement.

bitches_love_brie

Buddy of mine and his two female coworkers. A few too many drinks one Friday night led to office flirting to a 2 minute 3-way in the back of his car, which all 3 of them agree was pretty unpleasant

Few weeks later, they both find out their pregnant (not sure how he knocked them both up), and they're definitely his. They all end up renting a 3 bedroom place together, and from what he tells me they still fool around every now and again, which i kinda believe since they're both pregnant again

justking14

My first son was conceived during a threesome. My partner and I actually met the girl through a website aimed for meeting people to have threesomes. We spoke on the net at first and then sms and then she came over. Stayed for a few days... and then it turned bad, tried to play me and my partner against each other, and then she got back with her ex and asked me to be with them... found out a few weeks later after we stopped speaking to her that I was pregnant. Bumped in to her and her ex a few weeks after that when me and my partner went shopping for our first baby outfit. Loved rubbing it in her face that I was pregnant. She got the last laugh. Turns out she had chylamdia and I got it off her and during labour I transferred it my son who got pneumonia and bad conjunctivitis from it!

supton0412

My ex girlfriend and I were on and off for a while in college. One of her friends got married and my ex was asked to be a bridesmaid. She started to get a little smitten with the groomsman she was partnered with. I think they went on a date or two, but shortly thereafter, she found out he had been involved in a threesome. The couple he was with were trying to get pregnant for years without luck. He was pretty certain the kid was his. This was a deal breaker for her. At the time, I remember being relieved because I wanted her back.

BigODetroit

I became pregnant under these circumstances. We were fairly sure whose it was, but we did a DNA test once baby was born, to confirm.

throwaway574633339

I personally did. I'm actually in the process of miscarrying the pregnancy.

Story goes like this - my ex best friend is polyamorous. She decided that she NEEDED to be with my husband. My marriage was struggling - poly came up in discussions. My husband latched on to the idea. We all began dating. I knew after one interaction that I was not in for it. They both decided it was because I have trust issues, not because I just wasn't interested. They fell in love, I was marked the jealous, prude who was unable to get out of the conformity of marriage. I was ruining the best thing they both had.

Fast forward, my husband and I split up. He goes to live with her. I'm devastated. She and him decide that the only way I can be with him again is if I am poly. I stupidly agree because I'm heartbroken and I don't want to throwaway 12 years of marriage. This time I wind up being the only one dating for now - this was their idea. So I could warm up to the idea. I agreed only thinking that maybe my husband would lose interest.

He did not. He wanted her and I was getting in the way. He began to get really mean, really abusive. I finally relented and said they could date again. They ran like the fucking wind with it. Wanting sleepovers, even though my husband would barely pay me any attention. He was glued to his phone.

She came over one night, after I told her not to. She proceeded to tear into me. When it was obvious that I didn't care, she got meaner and more aggressive and then eventually turned on the tears. My husband comforted her, the two of them decided they should snuggle down in our bed.

Basically, the threesome I participated in was nonconsensual, but sex is sex in my mind. I told them to bang while we were there because it was going to happen one way or the other (or it had already). I got pregnant.

I have since separated from my husband. No longer speak to her. They are dating. They've somehow decided that what they've done is okay and fine. They are dating from my understanding and I'm over here bleeding out the remains of that fucking awful night.

fromyourdaughter

Have a friend (let's call him Mike) who is married to (Sarah) and they had a devil's threeway with one of the Mike's buddies. Sarah got prego. They never had a test or talked about it really they just all assumed it was his. Didn't really matter who's baby it "really" was, Mike was it's father. Everybody that partook understands that and I'm not sure if they're ever gonna tell the kid (Now 3 months) about the situation.

diesdramaticallyDUH

My friend was in an open marriage type deal where they slept with really whomever so long as there was a "hey, meet this person. If you like them as well, we're gonna fuck." WHALE! Needless to say, she ended up getting knocked up from all the threesomes and she came up to me asking me what the chances are that her husband isn't the father. "Well, how many times did the other guy bust in you?" "Only a couple of times." "And your husband?" "Only a couple of times." "You're going to want a paternity test." I stopped talking to them shortly after that, but I assume the child wasn't a bastard based on what everyone told me.

Lawlbringa

My husband and I decided to stop preventing pregnancy, but didn't get pregnant for two years. In the mean time, we both were making 'jokes' about having an ffm threesome... but I was serious and apparently so was he. I figured if we didn't have a baby, we may as well explore that fantasy instead. We were in our mid to late twenties, very attractive, and wanted to just hook up.

I found a sex club in our city, most of the time we are the youngest people there, and we proceeded to have many ffm and fffm hook ups at the club and outside of it.

We decided it wasn't always worth the membership costs to keep regularly perusing the club when there wasn't always someone we wanted to sleep with (poor us, I know). We started fooling with a dating app, and meeting hook ups that way. One of those hook ups was so good that we continued hooking up with her, and dropped our other extracurriculars to continue exclusively hooking up with her.

Two years later, we have a five month old, she was there for the conception (presumably), pregnancy, and for the delivery (which was great, she was so supportive of both of us). She and her primary male partner babysit and we (she, myself, my husband) are still hooking up.

polytriadyo

my friend (guy - let's call him C) was in a relationship. He was in a relationship and one time his GF told him that her girl friend had just gotten over a tough breakup. So C did the kind thing and invited her for a threesome to help her get over it. Except C got a little too enthusiastic, and in the throes of his first threesome, climaxed in the friend's vagina hard, as his gf was being eaten out by the girl. C and his gf broke up 6 months later, he forgot all about it. another year goes by and he finds out he has a little girl from that ONE TIME. He's on good terms with the mother, but never wanted to be in couple with her. He has now married a diff woman, with whom he has another child.

TheSp4rk

I'm a guy, was in university and lived with 6 girls. Some would say that was pretty sweet - I didn't - they were the messiest, laziest bunch of girls, any who, I had a big crush on two of them, so put up with it. Quite regularly we'd chill, watch movies together.. I kinda took it my role to look after them when we'd go out - get rid of letches or some guys by 'pretending' to be one of their boyfriends, and helped them make their escape.

We all would prank each other day-to-day.. so we've done things like run round the block naked, hide in each others bedrooms and jump out or wear a mask late at night and scare each other, good bunch of friends. One evening, we're all together, drinking Tequila and playing spin the bottle and truth or dare.. We're getting slowly more and more hazy, but I remember saying on one of my truths that I had a huge crush on those 2. The next morning I wake up with those 2 girls in one of their beds. I just had my boxers on and were cuddling both of them either side of me. Still in my Tequila haze I look at both of them and wonder what the hell went on last night and why could I not remember probably the best night of my life.

The girls woke up and it was bliss... I thought all my numbers came up on the lottery.. and that peace and harmony reigned over the world. Angels sang. You know, that kind of stuff. Girls said it was the best night ever and it should happen again.. Girls left.. I fantasized for a few hours ;-) and hated myself for not remembering what happened.

A week or two later.. they both knocked on my door.. now remembering I'm a young, permanently horny guy, I thought that round 2 was coming and I was definitely not going to have a single drop of forgetful juice. They asked to talk.. We sat down and they said they wanted to chat about "that night"... awesome I thought... getting turned on by the second. They said they both were pregnant. My ass dropped out of my pants. They said that they both wanted to keep the babies and we could all raise them together, it would be fun they said..

In a flashes of logicality, thinking about dropping out of university, getting a job, supporting 2 babies and 2 mothers and living together, and the horror, yet strange excitement about it all. They said they would go and let me thinking about it.

For the rest of the day I was in a fog - not knowing what to do or how to feel. My horny side was YES! I've gotten together with the two most beautiful, nicest girls I've known. But with awesome power, comes awesome responsibility. I started to rationalize how I could make it all work. But it was going round and round in my head.

That evening the girls get home and we're all sat round the table. The 2 girls are sat there looking at each other. When they blurted out that it was all a joke. All the girls knew I had a crush on these 2.. they set the night up, as they were all drinking water and I was drinking the Tequila. Nothing happened that night but them putting me to bed and them all making it look like something did.

It was a strange mix of having the best prank that anyone has ever done with a slightly depressing bout of damn, I kinda wish it had happened!

Suberiou

I had a friend who was in an orgy that also involved his best friend and his best friends girl. My friend claims to have just came on his best friends girls belly but nobody really believes that shit.

She got pregnant and my friends mom offered to adopt the baby on the basis that she NEVER know her brother is really her father and never knowing her mother as anybody but my friends mom.

Shes about 8 now and looks identical to my buddy but still does t know or suspect her origins. Shes a spoiled rotten brat but also my friends mom is a textbook narcissist.

Its a whole clusterfuck that my friend wants to fix but hes in a legal battle with his mom over identity theft (she used his credit to buy a house) and is a little overwhelmed with all the wtf that needs to be addressed in his family.

dark_lady42

This happened to me.

So I was just chilling with my main bitch, regular Saturday. Went to the park, ran around a bunch, then basically hung out on the couch for a while.

While we were at the park we both noticed this really really great looking female. My girl was really into her, they were running around together while we were playing frisbee. You could tell they were into each other by the way they kept smelling each others assholes.

Anyways fast forward to when we were home on the couch. We see the other bitch walk by the house, so we bring her inside. I gave both girls a full scoop of dry food with some wet food. They ate greedily.

....you can imagine where it goes from here....

wise_northern_reddit

Thanks for reading!

Infamous Internet Rumors That Ended Up Being True

Reddit user strakerak asked: 'What started out as an internet rumor that ended up being infamously true?'

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In 2017, I returned to my office after my lunch break to hear my supervisors discussing Tom Petty. This seemed like a random topic to me until one of my supervisors told me Tom Petty had passed away. He was a huge fan of Petty and spent the next hour or so combing through the internet to get more information.

He came back into the room my other supervisor and I were working in and announced that Tom Petty wasn't dead after all. News outlets had jumped the gun to announce his death, but he was actually still alive.

The next day, I came in to find out that Tom Petty was dead; the news may have been premature, but true.

This is a classic example of the rumor being started on the internet. Sometimes, like with the news of Tom Petty's death, the rumor can run wild and appear everywhere. Other times, the rumor can be seen by just a few people and dismissed. However, a lot of times, these rumors turn out to be true.

Redditors know a lot of internet rumors that turned out to be true, and are eager to share.

It all started when Redditor strakerak asked:

"What started out as an internet rumor that ended up being infamously true?"

The King Of Pop

"Michael Jackson writing the music for Sonic 3."

"He actually did, but was never credited on the game because it would breach his contract with his record label."

– -WigglyLine-

"He did the same when he appeared on The Simpsons. He appeared under a pseudonym, and the Producers said it was an impersonator."

"Only years later they confirmed it really was Michael."

"His singing voice was actually done by an impersonator, though."

– given2fly_

The Truth Comes Out

"In 1998, US Men’s National Team captain John Harkes was shockingly cut from the team right before the World Cup. The coach claimed it was because Harkes wouldn’t fit into his new preferred formation, but rumors flew on the early internet that it was actually because he had slept with his teammate Eric Wynalda’s wife. The rumor was so well-known in soccer circles that Harkes expressly denied it in his autobiography the next year."

"Fast forward 12 years to 2010 and Wynalda admits it’s true. The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did."

– guyfromsoccer

Video Evidence

"The Tim Burton Hansel and Gretel that aired once on halloween in the 80's."

"I heard for years that it was fake but I knew it was real because my dad recorded everything in the 80s and he recorded that. We let a good friend of ours borrow it and switch it over from VHS to DVD and soon after that it made its way on to the internet , and there it is now. I know it's our copy because the tracking in the beginning is screwed up. Still have the VHS."

– Frozenthickness

"There was a similar story with a Nickelodeon movie called Cry Baby Lane. It was supposed to be so scary that Nickelodeon got complaints and denied its existence for years. Someone uploaded a taped copy to youtube about a decade ago."

– PattiAllen

The Movie Business

"That North Korea hacked Sony Pictures because of The Interview movie."

"I worked in the movie business at the time and the account managers at Sony all basically needed to get new identities as all of their personal information got leaked online."

OldMastodon5363

"My partner worked on that movie and the production bought all the crew 1 year of an identity theft tracking service."

CMV_Viremia

Keep Away From The Ears Of Kids

"Some banned episodes or scenes of cartoons."

"For example, I remember there was a Dexter’s Lab cartoon where he clones evil versions of DeDe and himself and they swear like every other word (censored of course), and people debated whether it even existed cause they only aired it like once. Now it’s pretty accessible online."

– Spledidlife

Yes, It's True

"Echelon, a massive electronic espionage system by the US and allies to intercept all electronic messages, especially emails."

"In the mid-nineties it was a topic on conspiracy BBS boards. A lot of people in my bubble at the time (mainly uni students in Europe) were including fake threats to the US in the their email signatures as a way to "protest" and "fill the system with false alarms" (obviously useless)."

"Then, in 1999-2000 came out to be true and a lot of security service agencies from UK and other US allies started to admit they were part of the espionage network."

– latflickr

How The Mighty Fell

"John Edward’s love child."

– ACam574

"A reminder that he was cheating on his wife while she was hospitalized for cancer treatment."

– Fanclock314

Ugh...

"Carrie Fisher's heart attack. Some a**hole who was on the same flight was livetweeting the whole medical emergency and justified it by insisting she was just making sure the family was informed."

– everylastlight

It Actually Happened

"Every year around her birthday there was a rumor that Betty White died. When I heard she died, I scoffed, saying that dumb rumor is back.... then saw it on the news. I was in shock."

– Known-Committee8679

"The fact that Betty died literally right before she turned 100 is such a Betty White way to go out."

– Paganigsegg

Big Actor, Small Roles

"I distinctly remember some rumors about the reason why Bruce Willis was taking so many roles in sh*tty movies before it was announced he has dementia."

– KampferMann

"RedLetterMedia did a deep dive on his recent movie activity to try and work out why exactly he was taking part in basically scam-movies. They noticed he had an earpiece in one of the scenes and joked that the director was feeding him lines. I remember they even disclaimed over the rumours at the time, and possible made a follow-up vid when it was revealed to the public."

– CardinalCreepia

What To Do Next?

"That the writer of LOST were making it up as they went."

"Turned out to be absolutely true."

– homarjr

That last one was kind of obvious!

Do you have any to add? Let us know in the comment below.

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Whether you're naturally interested in fun facts and trivia or not, it's always nice to know a few that you can pull out of your pocket at a moment's notice as a nice conversation starter.

But there are some fun facts out there that are so weird, people become more preoccupied with how the teller found out that information rather than the information itself.

Redditor Dry_Bus_935 asked:

"What is your 'don't ask me how I know' random fact?"

Nuclear Fail Safe

"You have quite a lot of time, certainly more than ten seconds, to turn back on the main pumps of a nuclear reactor once you have accidentally turned them off."

- egorf

"I'm not surprised. The amount of fail safes, redundancies, and emergency scenario planning for nuclear power plants is insane."

"I toured a nuclear plant and wrote my high school senior thesis on the plans put in place to ensure the Fukushima disaster would not happen at that plant."

"I'm sure the secondary pumps are plenty capable of handling the reactor until the main pumps are repaired or just turned back on."

- Borderlandsman

Happy Cat

"If your cat chews on fresh eucalyptus, they might start hallucinating and fall over repeatedly, leading to a $400 emergency vet bill just to be told she’s just kinda high."

- oddidealstronghold

"And, that's part of why koalas love it. Little stoners."

- littlebluefoxy

Archaeology: Do Not Lick

"Old human bones are very porous, so if you lick them, they’ll stick to your tongue."

- clanculcarius

Sharing is Caring

"A pigeon will only eat a Starburst if you chew it up a little bit first. Just to clarify: chew the Starburst, not the pigeon."

- OhTheHueManatee

"Instructions unclear. Pigeon unhappy."

- Wild-Lychee-3312

Intriguing Anatomy

"Everyone is here with the creepy crime stuff, and I'm just like, 'A soft fur rat has 22 nipples.'"

- horroscoblue

"Okay, so either they have really small nipples, their nipples overlap, or they have nipples in places where there shouldn't be nipples."

"(I've never written the word 'nipples' so many times in a singular sentence before.)"

- GdeGraaf

'Don't Ask Me,' Indeed!

"Turmeric can be used as clothes dye. It is capable of permanently dyeing cotton cloth even after it has passed through the digestive tract of an adult male."

- SlefeMcDichael

"You s**t your pants, didn't you?"

- PMmecrossstitch

"I'd prefer not to answer that question."

- SlefeMcDichael

High-Risk Survival Skills

"If you ever trying to survive in the Arctic, don’t eat polar bear liver. It is so high in vitamin A, it will kill you."

- WrongWayCorrigan-361

"It's also surrounded by a lethal amount of angry polar bear."

- horanc2

Real-Life Spies

"TV shows and movies go out of their way to make military/intelligence officers look bada**."

"But real-life 'spies,' by design and training, are boring. They have regular houses and standard second-hand cars, they dress down, and they have vague, boring job titles (accounts receivable) as cover, and they do not draw attention to themselves. Most come from specialized academia."

- Ok_Worth_1093

Haunting Reality

"Your muscles can keep twitching for several hours after you die."

- JustDave62

"Also, beards can appear to grow. This is however not because the beard itself grows but because the skin shrinks."

- RRautamaa

"I worked at a morgue for over eight years. If you grasp the hand of a dead body to move the arm, the hand will grasp back, but that's just muscles and tendons reacting to the tension."

- goneferalinid

The Sneakiness of Drowning

"When a drowning victim is revived, get them to a hospital as soon as possible. Drowning is the leading cause of death of kids from the age of one to seven and is ruled as accidental drowning when it comes to secondary drowning or dry drowning."

"Basically, your lungs are full of water despite being revived. Your lungs will absorb the liquid, but not before your body acidifies from high levels of carbon dioxide. The only chance to survive is to have the lungs pumped with oxygen via CPAP machine and time."

"Also, drowning is extremely quiet. You don’t hear the victim go under. And if you see flailing, do not attempt to save the victim otherwise you’ll become another drowning victim. Throw them a lifeline and hope their amygdala realizes that a rope or something is floating near them and grabs on it."

- Dfiggsmeister

Not Everyone's Favorite Chocolate

"Hershey’s chocolate has the strong smell of vomit or feces to some people (me), and that’s because they use butyric acid as a preservative. Butyric acid is the compound that makes vomit smell so bad."

"Edit: Digging further into it, there are some claims that they may not be “adding” the butyric acid, but rather it is occurring from essentially spoiling the milk in their milk chocolate. Either way, the butyric acid and putrid smell remains a part of their product."

- hefewiseman1

"That explains the weird aftertaste I always get! I don’t smell it but their chocolate always has this super unpleasant sharp/acidic aftertaste that I find repulsive. I assume this is why!!"

- PomegranateNo975

Do Not Lick the Asbestos

"Asbestos tastes like chalk. And if you lick it, it has the texture of extremely gritty sandpaper. Which is actually the feeling of microscopic asbestos needles piercing your flesh!"

- TooYoungToBeThisOld1

Mapping Out the War

"Beginning in 1911 in anticipation of the outbreak of WW1 in 1914, two statesmen, one from England and one from France, began visiting locations in France that they believed would be the settings for a number of major battles that would occur during the great war."

"Long bike rides through these future battle zones in the countryside and weeks spent building a foundation for a French-Anglo codebook that would later prove important in helping win the war."

- fjordperfect123

Avoiding Lawsuits > Protecting Patients

"Doctors, or surgeons more specifically, that make too many mistakes during surgery, ie, leaving instruments in patients, frequently gets ‘quietly traded’ to other hospitals where they continue their path of destruction with the patients not being aware of their past record. Hospitals tend to keep quiet about the matter to avoid lawsuits."

- Kittytigris

Bonus Points: Do This While Having Lunch in Your Car

"If you overfill a fast food gravy cup and then put a lid on, it will create a pressurized gravy stream that sprays all over your face and uniform while your coworker looks on in horror."

- thechaosjester776

This subReddit thread was so a roller-coaster of random facts, we've surely all walked away learning something.

But the biggest takeaway might just be: Maybe don't lick so many things.

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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.

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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.