I don't know about you, but I am definitely the kind of person who gets easily disgusted by many things. While I do think that it's a pretty commonplace thing to be easily grossed out, some people are more affected by it than others. For me, it's anything food related.
Turns out, a lot of people feel similarly. Thanks, Reddit. Rainbow_crusader asked:
What is something that utterly disgusts you?
Clearly, I’m not alone with the food-related disgust.
Literally my least favorite thing in the world.
“Food that's in the sink when you clean/wash the dishes after eating.”
“I used to be a dishwasher in a few restaurants as a teenager. I don't care if I'm homeless I'm never doing that job again.. the worst was at the retirement home.”
Ew, people actually do this?
streaming tv show GIF by HULUGiphy“I used to work as a janitor and it gave me a new perspective on the public for sure.
People who leave pee or sh*t on the seat. Making it pretty much unusable for anyone sitting. Accidents happen, but you can at least wipe things down with toilet paper for most things. You're washing your hands after anyway, hopefully, so it's not gross to clean up your own mess.
In the past, I may have blamed these incidents on kids or someone disabled who couldn't help it, but seeing who comes in and out first hand I now know it's mostly able-bodied adults and even my own co-workers.
These are also the same people who put their boogers under tables and on walls and spit their gum in the urinals and water fountains knowing full well it's not going anywhere until I pick out.
And a habit that is a double whammy for me because I'm also getting into environmental protection: throwing cigarette butts absolutely anywhere except a bin or tray. And no, an empty plant pot someone placed by their door or a bowl left on the table is not an ashtray (good god the places I used to clean those things out of). Not only was your mouth all over it, but when it degrades (slowly) it contaminates the soil and nearby water sources with microplastics, carcinogens, and other chemicals that have proven to stunt the reproduction of plants, microbes, amphibians, and fish. Oh, and it causes fires on roadsides. Plus it just looks trashy and stinks!
This stuff disgusts me so much that I've ended relationships over it, I am just not compatible with anyone who has the mindset to leave their bodily fluids and trash on things other people use with no thought."
Be kind to your furbabies.
“For me I'm especially peeved by people putting their pets through needless stress or endangering them because something is "cute". Obese pets, pets displaying stress behaviours (lots of lizards do "cute" things if they're terrified), taking pets on car rides where they're loose in the vehicle just for the hell of it, letting inappropriate pets "play together" (like someone getting their snake and dog to stay on the couch together). It's horrible.
A girl in a group I'm in killed her pet snake recently because she dropped it in the car, it tried to hide & got crushed under a plastic panel.”
The worst kind of people.
“People who are nasty to service staff and retail workers. They make me feel sick.”
“I (18 F) work a retail job where lots of older people come in. Today alone:
A creepy old man called me sunshine. Another creepy old man called me sweetheart. Another one called me darling. A man tried to guide my movement past him by moving his hand towards the small of my back (I stepped aside so he didnt touch me). Too many men winked at me.
This is in an 8 hour shift. The worst one (besides the ballant sexual harassment) is "smile, pretty girls smile."
Hate my job, can’t wait to leave it.”
Speaking of gross people, here are a few that definitely won’t be getting good karma anytime soon.
Please don’t do this.
Lying Mohawk Girls GIF by CBCGiphy“Cheating on a spouse and home wreckers who go after married people almost exclusively.”
“Hate this too. Had someone text me asking for someone else and when I said wrong number she kept texting me if I wanna hook up even after I mentioned I was married. Had to block her because she kept texting and calling insisting my wife would never know. If we hooked up since she was from out of town. Supposedly the guy who gave her the number was from tinder.”
As a mentally ill person, this is disgusting.
“There's a current trend on TikTok where people are pretending to have mental health issues and various cognitive disabilities for internet clout.
Once such trend is to fake Dissociative Identity Disorder, and create a number of quirky alters with tropey backstories straight out of the worst young adult novels.
It's honestly disgusting that people are doing this and profiteering from it. Mental health has been romanticised far too much, and this takes it to a new level in which people actually feign it as some kind of sick role play fetish. It's f*cked up.”
They need to stop making these shows.
“Those addiction shows where they show drug addicted people injecting themselves with a needle. I always get the shivers even thinking about it. Even now.”
“Why aren't they helping them instead?”
If you’re the type of person who engages in these things, maybe consider stopping? Just a suggestion.
Too many kids.
Animated GIFGiphy“People that randomly father kids with no means of support or care about the child itself."
“And the most ignorant part is the fathers that get angry at the fact that they have so many kids. Like it's the kids fault that they are born and like it's the women's fault that they just keep getting pregnant as if he has no part in it. You think by the 5th kid he'd get the picture that sex = kid you have to spend money on."
Watch out for your surroundings.
“People with no common courtesy. Like people who walk extremely slow in large groups or can't take 2 seconds to hold the door open behind them. Makes me mad.”
“People at the grocery store who feel the need to check every line item of their 25-mile-long receipt whilst standing in the middle of the exit door so nobody else can get out.”
There IS no point to it.
“Racism, I honestly do not understand the point of it. What does anyone get out of it other than sadness and hatred for each other. I pity those who are set on the idea that they are better than one another in every way just because the other are of different colo(u)r.”
Humans can be pretty gross. The world can be pretty gross. But it’s up to us as individuals to take the steps needed to change and grow.
Let’s make the world a better place. Also, stop faking mental illnesses. That’s just weird.
People can be so cruel sometimes. Some of the things that come out of certain peoples' mouths can only make you ask, "who the heck hurt YOU?" Honestly, hearing cruel things about yourself tend to be just projecting from their own insecurities. So if you've dealt with sh*tty people, know that you aren't alone.
u/NicolasDelg asked: [Serious] What's the cruelest thing that's ever been said to you?
F*ck that.
I have body issues. I don't wanna say it's because of how I was treated as a child/teen but that was definitely a part of it. The hardest impacted words came from my mother: "if you stop gaining weight now maybe you could grow into your weight", "you think a good man wants a fat girl?", "fat girls get practiced on for a man's real/future girlfriend/wife", "the only men who actually like fat girls are perverts", "people are only friends with the fat girl to make them look better"
Not until I turned 18 did she ever mentioned health as a reason for me to lose weight. Just the type of guys I would attract and the reasons my friends kept me around.
I'm 22 now, lost 115 pounds and am in a healthy weight but I still look in the mirror and see an obese girl that no one will love. bk
Who says that?
Giphy"You make life miserable."
I've been told that by two different people within a few years of each other as a teenager. One of them was my mother and the other was my sister's friend. It really messed me up and affected my ability to form relationships. I try to be as nice as possible while still keeping a distance because I think that any less-than-nice thing I do is making the lives of others miserable. I think I'm finally going to get help for it soon.
What the hell.
"This is your fault, all you did was stress him out." About my father's suicide.
Um, what?!
When my father found out that the man I had planned a wedding with had never broken up with his girlfriend before me, and that he was planning a wedding with the other girl as well, I was crying from the depths of my soul. Those of you who have cried like that know exactly what I mean.
My father looked me right in the eye as I cried and said, "it's because she actually went to a university and you're just in community college".
Awww.
GiphyWhen I was in like 3rd grade I was told that I was, and I quote, "The most annoying person in the grade".
It wouldn't be a big deal if someone told me I was annoying now, but boy, my 9 year old feelings were demolished.
Trigger warning: self harm.
When I was in high school some folk found out I was cutting myself. They followed me on my walk home telling me I should cut deeper and told me I should let them watch the next time I done it. They then decided to throw rocks and stones at me when I ran away. Sh!t sucked, but I'm a million times better now and haven't self harmed in years! I hope those guys realise what a sh*tty thing that was so do to someone and have grown up but I hope to god they haven't had to go through any of that sh*t.
What a sh*tty child.
"You're ugly and no one will ever love you"
My "best friend" told me this in the playground. I was eight. Guess how that helped my self-esteem?
Ouch.
Giphy"You're my least favorite sibling."
There's more context behind it, but that stung a little.
Glad she's your EX-wife.
Little back story: My ex wife had a cocaine and drinking problem, among a myriad of emotional and mental issues.
She was home alone with our new born (he was 3-5months old at the time). She blew up my phone while I was at work one day because she "just can't take a crying baby".
I told her to check his temperature, make sure he's in a clean diaper, make sure he's not hungry, or to try and soothe him down for a nap. Told her to call me back if there was a fever, but for everything else that's just normal parenting.
She told me I'm a horrible father and I don't deserve to have a kid.
Even though logically I knew she was wrong, it still hit me like a ton of bricks.
That mom has serious issues.
I was spacing out in the car once on a long ride; I think I was eleven or twelve. My brother, mother, and I had left my father two-ish years prior and were staying in a domestic violence shelter.
Mom was explosive and violent and all-around volatile, and she liked to start fights in the car because we couldn't leave.
So I'm ignoring her ranting and she finally stops and just stares at me in the rear-view mirror and says "You have eyes like your father. Sh*t-colored eyes. Sh*t-colored eyes with nothing behind them at all."
What a d-bag.
GiphyI was begging for help, telling my boyfriend that I really hate my life and I want to kill myself and he replied with
"Don't be r****ded, just get over it already."
I'm sorry that happened.
There used to be a bunch of girls that didn't like me at school, I think this was 2-3 years ago now. They called me duck, ugly, weird, etc. I didn't really care about those insults. One day they said: "You don't belong anywhere." It wasn't cruel per se, but it stuck with me and I still believe that lie sometimes. I get scared that it's true and that I'll be an outcast everywhere for the rest of my life. The bullying has stopped, I made friends, but all the time I just suddenly feel lonely in the crowd and I feel like the girls were right. I really, really, hope they weren't.
What the F*CK.
I was told by an a**hole on YouTube that my grandmother deserved to die for being related to me and that she sucked and it was a "good" day when she died. Never wanted to throat punch someone as much as I wanna throat punch him.
A**holes.
GiphyAll through out my high school and middle school career my dad and step mom told me " You're just like your psycho mom". Both of them knew I had negative feeling to her, both of them knew all the awful things she did to me a kid. Both of them didn't care.
That's messed up.
"How's your father?" - a girl (young teen, a little younger than me at the time) when I came back to school after my father died. She knew it.
People Share Which Questions They Wish People Would Stop Asking Them
Asking questions is a great way to get to know someone. However, there are some questions that are waaaaay too personal for you to want to answer.
It's even worse when you've insisted people not ask you this question anymore, and they still do it. These Redditors know that struggle and are revealing the questions that make them grind their gears.
Reddit user Master-Salamander asked:
"What is a question you wish people wouldn't ask you?"
The Real Struggle
"What do you do for a living?"
"I got fired 6 months ago from my job and despite a few interviews and lots of applications, I'm sh*t out of luck so far. Now suddenly nearly everyone I meet is super interested in what I do for a living, I swear they would never ask that before. I hate having to tell people I'm unemployed."
– Fiesta_machine
Tall People Probs
"How's the weather up there?"
– Elle0312
"My friend, who's also 6'7" responds with, "Do you play mini-golf?"
– ExtraMediumGonzo
Awkward
"What happened to your neck?" I have a big scar at my throat, had my thyroids removed because of cancer. It's never fun to tell the story and people are all like "oh sh*t, I'm so sorry" after that. Definitely a way to kill the mood!"
– lizztastic_chick
Ignorant AND Sexist.
"As a single dad, I wish people wouldn't ask me about my son's mother. 9 times out of 10, they just want gossip."
– ImInJeopardy
"My mother died when I was a child, people made idiotic assumptions about my fathers ability to parent. "Feed the kids, you know they don't eat at home", "honey do you wanna talk about girl things?", "oh what's the name of your maid? I know you can't keep a house this clean".
– mulemary
That's Personal
"I am married and we have one young child"
"Is he going to get a brother/sister anytime soon?" ... or some other variation, especially from someone you barely know or just met."
"Listen, everything about having kids is personal, from the act of procreation to the impact on your life to the financial considerations. Not to mention the feelings about it from the parents, which may not always be aligned. Like please, I told you my kid's name and how old he is, now you wanna bypass superficial acquaintance small talk and go right to deeply personal plans for our life? FOH"
– Birdamus
A Tough Interview Question.
"Are you a felon?"
"I made a mistake a few years back while defending my little sister. I have a final job interview today after a series of interviews for a web developer position and I'm absolutely dreading answering this question."
– barricuda
"This isn't entirely the same but it is more similar than it seems. Someone was applying to work for my father and they hadn't worked for quite a long time which was why they couldn't find a job. It turned out that they had been the primary caregiver of a relative the whole time and when my father heard this he hired them on the spot. Even an employer can sympathise with someone who has sacrificed for their loved ones."
– keeperkairos
Seriously, Don't Ask People About This
"When are you going to have children?" Or variations of that question."
– Glitch_in_the_pink
"I used to be polite and now I start talking about all of the tests and treatments we have gone through to still have no children."
"Well Martha, if you didn't want to hear in detail about my ovaries and my husband's motility, why did you even ask?"
"I always hope it will shock them out of asking someone else such a personal and sometimes painful question."
– WhisperingDark
Think Before You Speak
"I've had a speech impediment since I was able to talk. I stutter on words at seemingly random times, really no specific pattern or sound, when I get nervous or pressure is really high. As a kid I couldn't string more than a few words together, but through school and into college it got much better. As an adult I really don't have many issues in normal conversation, but I absolutely hate having to introduce myself in a group setting (conference meeting, etc.). I seem to stutter on my name 90% of the time. It's pretty embarrassing."
"Anyway, the question I hate is when someone asks, "Did you forget your name?" Ugh. I don't know what kind of rock they've lived under, but it completely turns me off from that person for years. Mostly it's meant to be a harmless joke, but if they'd simply put one and one together they'd realize how thoughtless the comment was."
"Anyway, that's it."
– asha1985
Stop
"Why are you wasting your time doing [something that I enjoy doing]?"
– poopellar
"Why are you wasting time worrying about what I'm doing?"
– wifi12345678910
A Sensitive Topic
"How is everything going with the adoption process?"
"I put on a brave face and answer optimistically when in reality the process has not been going well. I know people are genuinely interested and don't mean harm, but it's a tough question to answer without breaking down."
– hblank1218
Sounds Like Paranoia
"Are you a psychopath? Have you ever killed someone? Please don't kill me!"
"Girl. We've been hanging out and talking together in class for months now. The people in our school are nice to me, therefore I am chill and nice with them. I have 3 friend groups and am very social with everyone. Also, why tf would I kill anyone? What benefit would I get out of killing someone? I'd feel like sh*t afterwards, so what's the point? Chill, you're worrying yourself over nothing."
– SarcasticPsychoGamer
You Don't Know Their Story.
"Don't you ever want to meet your real parents?"
"Yes, I'm adopted. No, that does not mean I consider my parents to be my fake parents or some dumb shit. My "real" parents are the ones that have been there for me, supported me throughout my life. Not the ones that donated their genetic material."
– Jpysme
F*ck MLMs.
"If I want to be a #bossbabe and be my own boss. Or to try their new weight loss coffee. F*ck MLMs, man."
"I should also add that when people ask me if I'm feeling better today, it really pisses me off. For context, I have a couple of chronic illnesses and I am never feeling better because they will never go away, thanks for asking, Karen."
– IndigoandOleum
That Must Be Infuriating.
"When I was pregnant sooo many people (almost everyone, even people I barely knew) asked me if it was planned or not and if I was happy about it. How do people not understand how deeply personal a question that is? On a superficial level you are asking me what happened while I was having sex, on a more serious level you are asking if the best thing that ever happened to me was a mistake, even insinuating that I'm too dumb to not get pregnant..."
"Literally one person, out of friends and family and coworkers, just said "oh congratulations!" when he (a coworker) found out. Everyone else gave me a worried look and said "are you happy about it?" Wtf?"
– seizethedayepileptic
So Hypocritical.
"Why is it taking you so long to graduate? And why can't you work a REAL job during grad school? F*ck you for those questions when you ask them every month or so. Grad school takes a longer time than a Bachelor degree, and takes up every moment of free time I have with research and writing. A REAL job is why I am going to grad school in the first place, and I am supplementing as much much as I can with the 3-4 jobs I have any given semester."
"Then: oh you aren't gonna get paid enough right out of grad school. You better start applying to Taco Bell. From the same people too ashamed and complaining I don't have a REAL job while in grad school. Excuse me but food service is a REAL job, it just doesn't pay as much as my critics want. But now suddenly it's acceptable. From people in my family, and I'm the first to go for a graduate degree. Freaking hypocritical."
– anonthrowaway1984
Gone For A Reason
"So what happened with you and Ex?"
"...Seriously? She's my ex for a reason, dipsh*t. I don't want to talk about her."
– ok_z00mer
Um...Huh?
"I am an identical twin and one of the worst questions people have asked me is " How do you know that you arent your sister""
– cringey_mac_cringe
Seriously?
"If you're pansexual, does that mean you like PANS??"
"n0. IT DOESNT. pan means ALL. all-sexual!! All genders!! aLL."
– SkylarsHereBoi
I Can See The Absence Of Color
"Classmate: hey can u get blue"
"Me: Gets purple"
"Him:wtf are u retarded"
"Me:no I'm colorblind"
"Him:okay then what color is this (pulls out black marker)"
"Me:black"
"Him:dudeeee ur not colorblind"
"Fml"
– Stippomode
Why Do You Care?
"“Why are you so quiet?” When you just genuinely don’t have as much energy as usual, so you’re talking slightly less."
– frickinheckmyguy
I used to get that one all the time! It made me want to be even quieter!
Which questions would you add? Let us know in the comments below.
People Share The Fastest Way They Have Seen A Happy Crowd Turn Sour
How rare is it nowadays to see someone get booed off a stage (and I don't mean "BOO-URNS")?
Believe it or not, it still happens in many different situations.
Watching an excited crowd turn sour is a fascinating social event, and these Redditors witnessed some of the best.
Redditor A-random-Person123 asked:
"What is the fastest way a room of happy people turned sour you've witnessed?"
The DRAMA.
"When I was a kid, there were about 6/8 families in our area who were a good group of friends."
"Regular holidays together, kids all close friends too and in the same classes at school etc."
"The backstory was that one of the families kept noticing money going missing from a drawer in the master bedroom."
"They had an older son who was getting the blame but was denying it."
"Fast forward a few weeks and it's their younger kid's birthday, and everyone is at their house."
"Usual script was the kids party would be late afternoon, then in the evening the kids would end up playing games in some bedroom as the adults had a few drinks."
"Kids were happy because we got to stay up late with all our friends, parents got to have a few guilt free drinks."
"This night was going as normal until we're all shuffled out and home earlier than usual."
"We got the full story the next day."
:Once the kids were out of the way, the owners of the house had turned on their tv and pressed play on a video.:
"On screen there was cctv of the bedroom where the money had been going missing."
" Clearly in the video you could see the wife of one of the other couples, sitting in that very room, going into the drawer and taking money."
"Apparently they switched off the video, said 'what you saw is exactly what it looked like' and asked that couple to leave."
"Everyone else left shortly after."- FumbleMyEndzone
No one likes a wet suitcase.
"I was on a Chicago to NY flight."
"We all get on the plane, but were delayed taking off due to a heavy storm going on."
"About 20 minutes in, everybody was still pretty calm until the pilot announces they're working on getting our baggage loaded, because it's been sitting on the tarmac this entire time."
"The entire plane looks out, and sees all our luggage just sitting there in the pouring rain uncovered, and starts freaking out."- Pakeeda.
GiphyMeschugener.
"Party at a woman's house."
"Everyone talking and happy."
"They mention a local business burned down."
"Drunk guy yells 'must have been Jewish lightning!"
"The entire party goes silent, awkwardly glancing between him and the hostess, who just so happens to be Jewish."
"The man looks around, thinks for a moment, and realizes his mistake."
"They didn't hear him! "
"So he yells louder, 'MUST HAVE BEEN JEWISH LIGHTNING!'- CriticalHitKW
That's horrible.
"Back when I waited tables, guy walking to his table, had a massive heart attack, and hit the floor."
'EMT's said he was dead before he hit the floor."
"I've never seen a restaurant go so silent so quickly."- vtncsc
Wooow.
"My friend used to work for a company that has always promised out IT department a trip to Hawaii for working through a couple of rough years without pay raise and on the flip side we won't get any personnel cut."
"It was a verbal promise that once we are back to profitable, the IT department would get all expense paid trip."
"Back around October of 2015, they were gathered in the largest meeting room for a meeting with the president."
"There were snacks, drinks, pizza, etc."
"It was assumed that it was a celebration for a good year and they'd get the promised trip."
"It was a mass layoff since IT has been outsourced."
"All credentials were locked during the meeting and everyone was asked to leave the premise right after the meeting."- Contivity
GiphyWhat an a**hole.
"The President of our company got completely plastered at our Christmas party."
"His speech started off funny because he was slurring hard and he was playing on it."
"Then he started talking about how he came from nothing and became something."
"Then he proceeded to tell us how if it wasn't for us working so hard and keeping our clients happy, he wouldn't have been able to accomplish building his mega mansion for him and his family, nor would he have been able to afford his new Benz."
"Awkward muttering, followed by him directing us to 'drink up & enjoy, because due to budget cuts, the future Christmas party/bonus budget is cancelled from here on out'."
"Many of my coworkers relied on that bonus."
"No one was impressed."
"Except for 1 person, the rest of us quit within the first few months into the new year."- ApolloniaTheGreat
Hypocrites are the worst.
"I made the mistake of playing Scattergories with my mother."
"She said 'no Foreign words, you have to use English words'."
"Fine, fair enough."
"She then called out someone for using a foreign word (I can't remember, it's been 10 years)."
"He took off the points."
"The next f*cking round she used three foreign words."
"I called her out on it and she said it was no big deal, it was just a game."
"I argued that not only had SHE set the rule, but that she already called someone out for doing it."
S"he called me a f*cking a**hole and left the room."
"The Thanksgiving family time was over as pretty much everyone decided that was the time to leave."
"Total time from game start to end of the family time? "
"6 minutes."- thematgreen
Oh NO.
"I was watching Bruce Lee's 'Enter the Dragon' in a movie theater when it came out in the early 1970's."
"The projector died during a fight scene."- Hotel_Arrakis
GiphyYikesy.
"Was on a team. about 15 people)for a special project for a regional Internet Service Provider. During the bi-weekly team meeting the manager was super pumped about how far ahead of schedule we were due to some new processes we came up with.
"After about 20 minutes of atta-boys, the manager concluded with telling us all we were being laid off in the same tone of voice she used for the whole meeting issuing a bunch of praise."
"Most of us awkwardly laughed for a couple seconds thinking she was joking."
"She was not".- SoggyShake3
You wanna start a riot or something?
"I worked at a casino for a couple of years and the joke is totally true."
"How do you piss off 500 old people?"
"Yell 'BINGO!' - Lytnin
That's just wrong.
"3 hour safety training at work, rewarded everyone with pizza."
"You could go one of five days- Monday-Thursday everyone got pizza after, everyone who went Friday got ham sandwiches."
"Blasphemy."- hails224
GiphyOh my goodness.
"Was with a missions team in El Salvador."
"Our evening meeting was waiting on one of our leaders to come downstairs before we began."
"It had been a great day; we visited the artisan's market and a new ministry startup."
"I remember it clear as day."
"The scene frequently replays in my mind."
"He sits down at the table."
"Suddenly, his head falls to the table and lands on his arms."
"Our other leader begins to shake him, but he is unresponsive."
"For what felt like forever we were trapped in that room listening to CPR."
"They laid him down in the only doorway."
"Eventually, one of my friends and I were able to lead everyone out without getting too close to the leaders."
"I'll spare the details, but long story short, I believe one of his aorta had burst."
"He was dead within minutes."- deja_blues.
Whoops.
"My family drove up to my grandma's house for her 90th, give or take a couple of years, birthday."
"She had the family and neighborhood over."
"My sister brought her boyfriend, but she was called away for a group school assignment because of her incompetent classmates."
"Anyway, her boyfriend had to fend for himself."
"My grandma's neighbor first introduced him as 'Bob" with two O's'. "
"This was a harmless joke/we all know he has a crude sense of humor."
"Everyone goes on eating and talking and then Bob (again) tells a story about a huge deer he saw (grandma/neighbors live in woods)."
"He proceeds to tell us how gigantic the rack on the deer was and addresses a relatively new neighbor and newer girlfriend and says, 'just like your girl'."
"I didn't turn the room sour but it was definitely uncomfortable."- cvanwaggy
Yikes.
"I went to a leaving party for a member of staff I used to work with."
"We were all dancing and having a good time when suddenly one of the SENIOR members of staff was outside and started shouting at a young member of staff and threw a chair at him."
"We all rushed to wear the argument was going on and he walked in really upset and the manager walked into the room and asked everyone what we were looking at."
"No one could say a word we was so shocked."- KallMeKhaleesi
GiphyWell.....f*ck.
"I entered a bar and ordered a beer."
"The music was quite loud so I decided to fart."
"Then I looked around and saw everyone was staring at me."
"Then I realized I was listening to my mp3 player."- Privatnik1
"Womp, womp..."
"When I joined them."- Harshmelloo.
Rachel Dratch Snl GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphyThe meeting no one wants.
"Tell them the meeting was to let them know the company they work for is filing bankruptcy, going out of business, and they've all just lost their jobs."
"Then start handing out papers explaining how to go file for unemployment checks and food stamps."
"R.I.P. Montgomery Ward, Circuit City, and hundreds of other examples."- Allureana.
"Company I worked in about a year after high school, they made & shipped telecom parts, wiring, phones, etc."
" I worked in the warehouse part."
"About 6 months after starting, there were rumors of a reorg happening in the company & possible future layoffs, people were a bit on edge to say the least."
'The union reps & some managers came in to quiet people down, told them layoffs weren't going to happen, don't worry about anything, everyone's doing a great job."
"3 months later we get called into a big lunch meeting with our manager & union rep - sure enough, that day was the last day for most of the people in attendance."
"Company was shutting down our location to move operations offshore & save money, so almost 230 people total were being let go with severance."
"Funny part was that they told everyone they didn't have to stick around, they could work for a couple more weeks until the place closed or could leave now & their severance wouldn't change regardless."
"Also had a lot of guys coming up on retirement who were basically forced into it because they couldn't afford to relocate to another state to work."
"Most of the people at the lunch meeting didn't eat, just got up, handed in their stuff & left on the spot."
"Management acting surprised was probably the best part of it, since there was still work to be done & I doubt they had enough people to finish it before the 2 week shutdown was done."- pmw1981.
There's one in every family
"My sister."
"Every frickin' time it's my sister."
"Doesn't matter how big or small it is, you even annoy her just the tiniest bit, and she explodes."
"And her moods are contagious."
"Just like a massive fart that moves swiftly and so horrible that everyone wretches at."- eh176.
Sometimes you don't realize how good you had it.
"Mines pathetic compared to others ."
"At school, we found out the teacher we hated the most wasn’t in so we got a sub."
"Everyone was so happy."
"Turns out, the sub was the most evil sub we had."
"We’d had him before."
"The whole class was peed off for the whole lesson."- CloKaboom.
Fo GIFGiphyNo Laughing Matter
"I was just hanging outside a Milk tea shop with a group of six people and was being pretty quiet because it was just one of those off days."
"Now my group of friends are HILARIOUS, they’re literally the funniest people I know and I love them so much, but someone took it too far."
"One of them just so happened to wear a LONG scarf that day and started messing around with it, throwing it around my other friends and whatever. "
"I was still distracted by my phone and didn’t really get much context for what happened next when I look up to see one of my friend’s faces just drop."
"Everyone else was laughing, having the time of their lives and I turn around to see the owner of the scarf tying it around her neck like a noose and putting the other end on a tree branch."
"Now, this was after school and our school has a pretty big reputation for being stressful and having a lot of mental health issues so I did not take it as a joke."
"I immediately tell her to stop that because it wasn’t funny and that we’re out in public."
"She takes one end of it off of the tree branch but it was still tied around her neck."
"Everyone except for one other person was still laughing at it and kept joking about it when I just stopped and got their attention."
"I told them that it was not appropriate at all and that that was not something to joke about."
"One of them decides to tell me to calm down or something along those lines and I said that people struggle."
"He then says that he was one of those people to which I answered, 'I understand that you deal with it through comedy and that it’s a coping mechanism, but not all people can cope like that and you have to understand that'.”
"Silence."
"I sit back down and take my phone back out."
"No one talked for a solid minute or two."
"The owner of the scarf apologized later, it was very sincere and I know she won’t do it again."- EarlyMorninTea.
Um, what?
"I straight up yelled shut the f*ck up and all the 1st graders cried."- AnbuEric.
Know your audience.
"Walked into a room n yelled you bitches ready to lose all your money."
"But it was literally a meeting for feminists who all looked at me with such hate."
"The room I was looking for was a floor up."
"Most embarrassing moments ever."- The_internet_messiah.
Fail Oh No GIF by The Great British Bake OffGiphy"We were joking around before class and one of my boy friends decided that he was going to put on mascara."
"He said 'Oh I’m so beautiful' we were all having fun and then with out thinking I said 'if your so beautiful you wouldn’t need that makeup'."
"The whole room went silent for a few seconds."
"There were many girls around."
"I don’t know why I said that."- Th4tAppleGuy.
Things can turn on a dime... especially in a large crowd.
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People Divulge The Most Upsetting Thing Someone Has Ever Said To Them
Words can hurt more than they are intended to. Something that may have been a passing comment can really stick with someone. Through these Redditors stories, hopefully you'll be reminded to watch what you say. You never know what'll end up messing with a person's head for the rest of their life.
Reddit User CatsInSpaceSwag asked:
What is the most upsetting thing someone has ever said to you that sticks with you to this day?
Whatchu gonna do?
"I was laughing out aloud at some sh*tty banter between friends when I was in middle school. And one of them suddenly said to me, 'don't laugh, your teeth are ugly'. I struggled with even smiling with my mouth open right through college because of that one a**hat's comment."
"People are thoughtlessly unkind, whatchugonnado."
Harsh words.
Giphy"My grandfather, on my dad's side, once told me that I will never amount to anything."
"My alcoholic uncle once told my brother something like: "<brother> is just a lazy piece of trash and I'd consider it successful if he's not homeless." We think he thought he was talking to someone else in the moment, he was drunk. And he drank himself to death a couple of years later so we can't really ask."
"But it was a fairly spot-on prediction really. My brother finally sobered up and got his life together in his mid-twenties, but until then he wasn't that far from being homeless. Still a shitty thing to say about a kid."
Waaaaay unnecessary.
"Every time my mother was angry at me I would hear:"
"Why didn't you die instead of your sister??!!"
"My sister died when I was 11. I heard this all of the way up to 15-16..."
Wise words.
"You're ugly, who would want to date you?" That was the day my self-esteem died."
"So I'm in my late 30's and overweight. 3 kids too. Not a fantastic body. Maybe a solid 5 on a good day. I use to think that about myself then one day I was like "ehh who gives a f--- anymore". And it's almost like that's when the interest in me started. When people flirt with me I'm looking around like "you lost"?"
People do want to date you. People do find you attractive. Most people are afraid to say anything or act on it"
What an awful person.
Giphy"A former best friend called me after we had a huge blowout fight and told me that she wished my disease would eat me alive. I have an autoimmune disease that was killing my kidneys and I was losing the battle."
"She made the call while I was on my way to bury my father."
Insecurity starts young.
"It was in school and I was about 11 or so."
"The cool boys played "Run away from the girls" in the breaks. While I always wanted to also be hunted by these pre-pubertarian girls, I was never chosen huntworthy."
"Well some day I ran around for whatever reason and happened to cross path with one of the cooler boys getting hunted."
"He looked me in the eyes and said: "You know, they don't want to hunt you right?"
"I just said something like "I'm not playing with you right now." and slowed down, sat on a bench and waited for the break to end. It still hurts me when I think back to that."
Harsh.
"I went shopping with someone a few years ago, and I have a nerve condition that is incurable so my legs are weak and I can't walk very well. People stare a lot. And that someone said to me "can you at least try and walk properly? It's embarrassing".
Burnnnnn.
Giphy"Ashley is the pretty one, Rob is the smart one, I don't know what you are" - my mom talking about my siblings and I."
"You: "Dad is the thoughtful one, you're not..."
That's really uncalled for.
"You're such a sweet guy, but I have a career planned. You would just get in the way."
"I reflected on that for a couple hours and realized it was true. Now I avoid making friends out of fear."
I mean....same.
"You know everyone just pretends to like you, right?" -Not-friend
"I was about 13 years old at the time, so yikes. This was said to me the day my young teen world started to crumble, my "friends", a group that I had spent most of my childhood years with, kicked me out of the group and I found myself all alone. Over 10 years later I still have trouble realizing when people actually like me or enjoy my presence. Most of the time I assume they're just being nice."
Yeah, f*ck that guy!
Giphy"My personal favorite is my coworker saying he had a bad dream because he dreamed he was me. F*ck that guy."
"Just come to work one day and lie about a dream you had that you were him!"
That's so insulting.
"For me it's recently. At work I had some concerns about staff. I tried to talk to the manager and she ignored my concerns and said I am "mentally ill and slower" and should go see a doctor. My concerns meant nothing apparently."
"I've been told awful stuff but I'm not sure it just hit a chord. It's made me second guess everything I've ever done. I'm looking for new work but it's hard. Like I'm beyond insulted. I've had friends commit suicide and have mental illness. I couldn't be more offended."
What a horrible friend.
"Once my gay friend brought me as his "date" to this party. I didn't know this, but he was eyeing his bff's straight older brother whom I'd never met. Older brother took about one look at me and asked me out."
"I didn't say yes, didn't hook up with him, didn't even kiss him ever, but gay friend ripped me a new one over the phone about it and said that I was interfering with his friendship with bff (Wtf). The comment that I'm not gonna forget was "you're a f*ckup who destroys everything she touches". Which, ok..."
Oh no.
"It was what he didn't say."
"I finally had the guts to tell him I love him. I had been wanting to for a while before he left for deployment. He didn't say it back and left."
"No answer is still an answer I guess. Sorry that had to happen to you."
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