Some people tend to make negative assumptions prematurely, which can then backfire on them after learning later about the context of various situations.
However, there are times when their observations are correct.
Curious to hear of what strangers online default to doing, Redditor littlelaraslife asked:
"What do you immediately judge as trashy?"
Some people walk around like they own the place....trashy.
Literally Trashy
"Littering."
– Orenge01
"Especially cigarette butts."
– rexbannerman
Flying Crumbs
"People who talk loudly while eating and giving no care to the food projectiles flying out of their gullet."
– hippiebossbarbie
Lack Of Self-Awareness
"People with zero manners and no self-awareness. Like when you’re walking past a group of people that are taking up the entire sidewalk and they all just expect you to be the one to move out of the way. Or when someone gets irrationally angry at a fast-food/retail worker for a simple mistake"
– magicalmarshmallows
Kids Unleashed
"People with young kids who aren't paying attention to them in public and letting them do whatever."
– MorrisMossHair
Untethered Mongrels
"People with dogs who aren't paying attention to them in public and letting them do whatever. It's not cute that your dog put their paws on the counter at the coffee shop, it's repulsive."
– AcademicCounty
There are those who hold themselves in high regard–a solo endeavor.
It's A Status Thing
"People proclaiming they have 'haters.'"
– dicksandhelicopters
Invisible Backstabbers
"I have a friend from the military who is 35 and has two children and I had to mute her Instagram stories bc they were all videos of her talking about her haters and people 'talking sh*t.' I’m convinced there never were any."
– Mcgoobz3
Their Conversations Are So Important
"People who walk around with their phones on speaker."
– rt312410
No one ever said being a parent is easy. The same goes for being a kid.
Zero Parenting Skills
"Parents who don't discipline their kids AT ALL."
– donald_duck765
Borderline Abuse
"Counterpoint: parents who scream at, curse, belittle, strike and otherwise treat their children with disdain when they don't magically behave like adults/programmed automatons. Makes me sick to see it and being a teacher I've seen how much damage even 'low key;' abuse and neglect can do over time."
– Rhaski
Smoking
"Parents smoking around their small children."
– ToothbrushGames
People who blast the music loud enough on their bluetooth headphones on the subway are annoying as heck.
But then I get concerned for their health.
Cranking up the decibels loud enough to the extent where its audibly overpowering the sound of the train car speeding along the rails just can't be good for their ears.
The price of lobster used to be dirt-cheap because they were so plentiful. In fact, it became known as the "poor man's protein" among European settlers and it was often fed to the imprisoned and the enslaved.
But times have changed – lobster is pricey and considered a high-end meal. If you've ever heard someone complain about poor people on welfare who are enjoying a nice meal once in a while, you might want to educate them.
People shared their thoughts with us after Redditor Seraphina_Renaldi asked the online community,
"What is classy if you’re rich, but trashy if you’re poor?"
"Being..."
"Being on a first name basis with a judge."
UpinSmokeMC
A spot on answer. They do they there are two justice systems: One for the rich and one for everyone else.
"Wearing..."
"Wearing a bathrobe all day."
tomw_n
It's the difference between looking lazy and looking... well, like Hugh Hefner.
"Someone else...
"Someone else raising your kids."
CompetitiveVanilla14
Haha, isn't that the painful truth?! We all felt that one.
"If a poor person drinks..."
"Drinking in general. If a poor person drinks someone will say, 'No wonder they're poor, they spend all their money on alcohol.' The rich won't be judged for it if they decide to spend hundreds of dollars on a bottle of scotch because they're rich."
vercetti87
This is very true. Many believe that the poor should not be allowed to enjoy the finer things in life.
"Casinos."
"Casinos. The biggest disparity is looking at the people in the high stakes areas that are roped off, and compare them with the people waiting in the breezeway for the bus, after they have blown their monthly income."
VariousCricket4695
Casinos are depressing. They're not like the movies at all.
"Getting money..."
"Getting money from the government."
poxxy
If you are rich it is called a bailout. If you are poor you should work harder. Love how that works.
"If you live in..."
"If you live in a tiny home it’s ‘eco friendly’ but if you live in a trailer you’re trash."
Kamisquid
This is spot on. Trailers should not have that stigma attached.
"Buying..."
"Buying old cars."
[deleted]
Those classy rich folk buying all of the ‘98 Grand Ams!
"Moving..."
"Moving around a lot."
jellyjoenut0301
I don't think moving around as a kid is ever luxurious. It's just romanticized.
"Minimalism."
"Minimalism. Can you really call yourself a minimalist if you’re just too poor to afford stuff?"
-oaktown-
Being poor, minimalism is very useful. It's also the only choice.
It's quite the world we live in, and the wealth disparity can be a lot to take in.
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Trashy behavior rears its head when we least expect it.
It could be at the store, on the street, down an alley, on public transport, or even in your own home. Regardless of the setting, we know it when we see it.
In those moments, all we can do is turn our heads, ask ourselves if we indeed did just see what we think we saw, and then try--as hard as possible--to move on with the day.
Some Redditors shared their most memorable observations of low-brow behavior.
rburgundy69 asked, "What is the trashiest thing you have ever witnessed?"
Often, drugs are at the heart of the moment.
Of course, we understand that drug use, for many, is not some haphazard choice, but the symptom of a legitimate disease.
But there are some cases where it just seems like a whole other level of bizarre.
Read the Room, Man
"Knew a guy who bragged about doing drugs while visiting Auschwitz. Like he talked about it like it was some accomplishment and would bring it up anytime someone talked about traveling"
-- Wildhogs6531
Wasn't the Plan for That
"Friend of a friend of my roommate came over. Saw the computer duster bottle I use to legit clean my computers of dust. Excitedly says 'you do this too?!' and proceeds to huff a lungfull of computer duster."
"Was not expecting that and was not invited back"
-- oynutta
Many people shared examples that took place in a common setting: retail stores.
Walmart was an especially popular site.
Unequal Labor
"I watched a family in front of me where the mom was struggling with three really ill-mannered children while trying to check-out. Dad is just playing some BS game on his phone while she is overwhelmed and then asks for twenty bucks."
"While she finishes checking out he immediately walks over to a scratch lotto ticket machine and blows all of it. Then comes back and asks for more before she has even realized what he did. I just instantly thought 'that guy is trash.' "
-- farmerche
Three Step Process
"Morbidly obese woman in an oversized Moo moo dress was browsing clothes at at Belks department store. She stops between two clothing racks, spreads her legs and drops a deuce. A large steaming pile. She then casually looks at clothes for a few more minutes and wanders out of the store."
-- Carbon1te
Public Restrooms?
"I was buying some beer at the corner store and a woman was outside it peeing on some trash while talking loudly on her cell phone saying 'my pu**y is out!!' "
"I also saw a dude shitting against a tiny little tree in the middle of the day outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It's very busy there."
-- SkronkHound
"A public breakup outside Westfield mall in White City."
"Hoo boy. It was so loud and bad that I asked my boyfriend at the time if we should call the police for help for them. He didn't want to get involved."
-- Astoriana_
Nothing to See Here
"I worked retail for a while, one day we had a lady bring in a bag of clothes to return. When she pulled them out and laid them on the counter, roaches scattered everywhere."
"She acted like nothing happened."
Mind Your Bins
"You know those drop off bins where you can leave clothes and household items to be donated to homeless people? A girl I went to college with would throw her trash in those things just because she thought it was funny."
"There's literally a trash bin right next to it, but she threw her trash in the donations anyway. She would also talk about it with pride, as if it was the most hilarious prank of all time."
-- RowRowBooty
Trashy Trash
"Quite literally trash. I work at a target and I have to say, people will literally throw trash onto the ground because walking 100 feet to the nearest trashcan is too inconvenient."
"I have found everything from fast food, to masks, to even used baby diapers."
-- Kitsune257
Mannerless
"I work in retail so I have plenty of stories on this. Buuut it would have to be a lady walking into the store and slamming the door closed (on purpose, the door closes slowly on it's own) Behind her was a man in a wheelchair who was also wanting to enter the store."
"The lady slammed the door behind her besides holding the door open for him. It looked like she did it on purpose because of the way she was walking (looked confident/proud) along with the proud expression on her face. Someone that the man was with did rush to the door to hold it open for him, thankfully."
-- -Zuine-
As Good a Spot as Any
"While visiting Florida, my girlfriend and I went to the local Walmart. On our way out we saw a hot pink party bus pull up and an entire wedding party exit."
"They then proceeded to have the wedding ceremony in front of the store."
Keeping It All Trapped In
"Woman in Walmart spraying herself with lysol in her arm pits and down the front of her pants, then put the can back and drove off on her rascal." -- FireMaster2311
"Walmart shoppers are a different breed." -- Tokzillu
"I... it was bad enough that she did this on the armpits and in public and with a product she has not purchased... but there is nothing about Lysol that makes me want to spray it anywhere near my vagina." -- AeolianMelodies
Other times, the trashiness comes at night--with alcohol. Leave it to the liquid courage to bring the boldest, most upsetting behaviors out of even the most responsible among us.
Always Lock Your Doors
"A group of people I used to work with went out bar hopping. The one closest to management level had to pee."
"She couldn't wait the 20 yards to the next bar, found an unlocked car, pulled up her mini skirt and peed in the passenger seat."
CRINGE
"My cousins and I went to a random girls quince ( a 15 yr olds birthday) and the girls mom was soooooo drunk. She was on the floor with her ass hanging out, literally her pants were below her butt cheeks, trying to be sexy."
"The poor girl was standing there with the face of embarrassment begging her to get up."
-- Owlfu**33
Stacking Up
"I saw a drunk 20 something pretty blonde chick once take a sh** in a bush behind the Fresh Slice in Central City."
"Her friend tried to stop people from seeing, but she was drunk too so she fell down on the shi**er friend."
"That wasn't a great night for them I think."
Everyone's Fighting Their Own Battle
"Walking home late on a Saturday night in a town centre, turned a corner and there was a guy getting it on with his date over a wall while her friend was sat next to her puking all over herself"
Keep your head on a swivel out there, people. You never know where or when you'll be forced to witness a thing you'll always wish you hadn't.
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The word "trashy" usually describes something that is vulgar, tasteless, or immoral.
Redditor shaunZfrenzy asked people, "What is the trashiest thing you have witnessed?"... and responses ranged between humorous and depressing. People can do "trashy" things, like fight publicly or wear inappropriate outfits, that we can get a chuckle from. But many circumstances we would describe as "trashy" can also be linked to a person's finances, mental health, and can even result in tragedies like child abuse.
20. This enthusiastic car lover
"A dude with his pants down vigorously humping a parked car. The Tenderloin is a wild and lawless place."
18. These types of "parents"
"Parents that do drugs with their kids, sometimes preteens, with the excuse they're going to do it anyway, they may as well do it at home. This includes alcohol and cigarettes in addition to harder drugs. My sister got her son addicted to meth and he shot himself as a result. It is my opinion he would have never done the drug without her intervention. He was 17."
17. There's an epidemic of this behavior
"Anti-vaxxers pretending to be nurses on Facebook to make their fake alternative 'facts' more valid, somehow."
16. The sketchiest super stores
"24 hour Walmart parking lots after midnight, it's a congregation of drugs, misfortune and piss."
15. At least they're owning up
"I saw a dude absolutely destroy a bathroom by throwing up all over it, and then make out with a girl right after.
I really hope that girl didn't taste my puke."
14. Do you feel itchy?
"I got lice as a kid because I stayed the night at a kids house who had lice because they were new and I was a friendly kid. The parents did nothing to prevent the infestation and all their children had horrible cases of lice. The entire elementary school ended up with lice within two or three months of them being there. My parents still refer to the kid I was friends with as 'the lice queen'. I hope those kids turned out okay with that level of negligence."
13. This horrifying bathroom scene
"a male prostitute dropped his pants next to me at a urinal and spewed a rope of anal beads out his ******* while he urinated smelly piss"
12. This shameful transaction
"I sold weed when I was younger. I went to take an oz to a guy that normally bought dimes. He got a nice tax return, he said. I get there and we're smoking and he's asked me to call about other drugs too. In his living room was his girlfriend and their under 6 month daughter in a baby seat facing the wall. There was a case of whip its in the middle of the floor and cartridges every where. And I mean a case of boxes of them. He tells me his daughter is blind so he got even more money.
I was ashamed of myself and just wanted to leave."
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"My wife and I are getting divorced because she had someone else's baby. Then she moved out, we filed for divorce, finally got our court date to finalize, and she showed up pregnant with a different guy's baby. We had three kids together so by the time our divorce is final I'll be responsible for only 60% of the babies born during our marriage. While that is a majority, it's also a shockingly low percentage."
10. This dramatic cat fight
"Two girls in my old high-school got into a fist fight over a guy they were both sleeping with. The police on campus tazed them when the wouldn't stop/were on the ground rolling around. When they got them off the ground one of the girls screamed that 'You can't taze me! I'm pregnant!'"
9. I think you're on to something here
"I knew a guy who would microwave two chicago town mini pizzas, then use them as the bun for a burger.
I was that man. University was not a proud time."
8. And that lady didn't get punched?
"a lady at target spit on another lady's baby after wiping her mouth"
"That sounds like a good way to get knocked the **** out."
7. These parent's didn't have their priorities straight
"Watched a couple gamble away the money they were supposed to spend on their kids shoes for back to school"
6. This adaptable shopper
"One time I saw a woman who instead of wearing a shirt just pulled up her sweat pants past her breasts while shopping at a grocery store"
5. Parents who should be in jail
"Parents smoking meth in front of their children, leaving drugs laying around and having their baby eat an amphetamine pill but not take her to the hospital because they didn't want her taken away, and both parents were already convicted felons."
4. A foul mouthed dad and a burning house
"At a bonfire party out in the boonies as a teenager. People starting pulling the wood siding off the house to burn. And the kid whose place it was, his drunk dad would come out every once in a while and berate his son in front of all his friends, calling him a ******* *** etc. Dad didn't have a problem with everyone feeding the house to the fire though."
3. This trashy shish kebab
"My neighbor using an old syringe as a fork for their food."
2. These trashy lovers
"Two people boning in a dumpster enclosure (the brick walls containing a large haul away dumpster) behind a fast food restaurant."
1. This fearless bus rider
"An absolute legend of a woman on a bus in Brabant in the Netherlands.
10:00 in the morning and our middle-aged hero finds herself on the bus home after what must have been the party of the year. She was wearing a shirt, but no pants. Just fishnets. Basically butt naked, standing on the bus, casually shooting the shit with the driver"
People Share The Trashiest Halloween Costumes They've Ever Seen
If Mean Girls has taught us anything, it's that any costume can have a sexy version. Mario and Luigi, carrots, and even Barney the Dinosaur have been given the "sexy" treatment. And believe it or not, they can get trashy sometimes. Who would've thought?
u/Rusty_Walnut asked: We're coming up on the spooky season. What's the trashiest/most eye brow raising "sexy" costume you've ever seen?
Noodles?
I found a "Sexy Can" costume once in a knock off Halloween store. It was a garbage can, obviously styled off those grey metal ones. The lid was a hat. The rim had "Sexy Damage" to show off boobs.
This same "Sexy damage" was spotted all over the costume to show off various patches of skin. The weirdest thing was the wig of fake noodles that came with it.
Who said cockroaches can't be sexy?
GiphyActually went to a party where this was the theme, some of the highlights were: sexy balloon, sexy plague doctor and sexy plague victim (couples costume), sexy mitochondria, and sexy cockroach.
mmm yeah baby make some of that ATP for me
oh your electron transport chain is so hot mmm
Best response ever.
A friend and I had a competition one year to see who could pull off the dumbest sexy costume... She made a mean 'Sexy Dumbledore'.
Sexy Dumbledore would definitely be the head master.
But like....why tho?
This one isn't sexy but it happened at work and was so baffling that this guy got a suspended from work by HR
We were told NOT TO WEAR COSTUMES. We were simply not allowed. No big deal, we're all adults and it's a professional work environment. Some of my coworkers dared another absolutely stupid coworker to wear one anyways. This guy really wanted to wear a costume anyways. He comes in the next day dressed as a Vietnamese rice farmer.
Doesn't sound so bad. Sam is Vietnamese anyways, and it sounds like a culturally enlightening experience to see how a Vietnamese rice farmer looks. Only Sam came in wearing his business work clothes and the only thing different was a yellow piece of paper cut out in the shape of a mask with two slants drawn where the eyes should be. He also made a hat out of newspaper. He was laughing so hard for the first few hours of the day and we were laughing too but only because we were all completely thrown off by what we were seeing. He didn't need a mask at all, let alone a yellow one.
Needless to say, he got fired shortly after for doing other stupid s**t.
ALWAYS too soon.
GiphyRight after Steve Irwin died, a guy I know went as a stripper version of Steve, and his girlfriend was a sexy stingray. It was too soon.
My brother got a stuffed animal stingray, got clothes to fit the Steve Irwin look, then showed up at the party with the sting ray attached to his chest and bloody spot on his shirt where it was attached. He reprised the costume two years ago.
EDIT: I remember now, he decided to do the costume after the South Park Hell on Earth episode.
Um....
I worked at a brokerage firm back in 2002 when the post 9/11 tech bubble market had gone all to hell. Like down 40 or 50%.
One of the admins came to work as a beauty queen. Her sash said, "Ms. NASDAQ."
She wore a torn sequined dress, run laced stockings, had fake blood all over her, a black eye, a couple teeth blacked out, disheveled hair, and a broken tiara.
I cannot explain why I found it so incredibly sexy. I guess because it fit her personality and sense of humor so well.
I cannot for the life of me remember her name, but I sure as s**t remember that costume.
Woof.
My work used to do a costume contest for Halloween every year. People always wore business appropriate costumes. Until one year a guy wore a skimpy and tight "slutty catwoman" outfit with his balls hanging out and d**k
Then he threw a big fit when they wanted him to change. That was the last year they allowed costumes.
I'm shook.
GiphySuper low effort, but one year I dressed up as the Greased-up Deaf Guy (from a couple episodes of Family Guy). I literally bought and wore only a pair of white briefs and a tub of Vaseline.
If you actually committed to greasing your whole body up I wouldn't call that low effort.
Nope.
My old co-worker dressed up as a slutty Adolf Hitler. Yup... tiny mustache, olive drab uniform top (with red swastika armband), an extremely short olive drab skirt, fishnet stockings, black boots with stilletto heels, and an olive drab military hat. It was... horrible.
Unfortunately, she was hot and everyone kind of wanted to bang her so...
That's just plain extra.
My dad once dressed as a priest and put what was supposed to be the tail to a sexy devil costume under the robe of his costume so it looked like he had a huge red-tipped boner.
He said he got some nasty looks from people walking down the street where all the bars were that halloween night. And yes, he was completely wasted.