Stock Photography Models Describe The Most Unexpected Place They've Seen Their Photos Used
January 13 | 2021
As someone who creates online content daily, and has worked in social media for the last decade or so, I've seen a LOT of stock photography.
I work with it every day - and honestly I've wondered more than once how the model would react to knowing how their picture was being used.
<p>One Reddit user asked:</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/" target="_blank">Stock Photography Models: What is the Strangest/Most Unexpected Place You've Seen Your Photos Used?</a></p><p>Stock photography models kind of know their images are out there for whatever, but sometimes that "whatever" gets really interesting. </p><p>R.I.P. to the college brochure guy's social life. It's going to take him decades to live it down. </p>
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But Can I Get Hired?
<p>I ended up finding myself on one of those "Now Hiring" posts on Facebook... for a company I was trying to get hired at. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibfl60?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Pandrome</a></p><p>You should tell them that means they have to hire you, or it's false advertising.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gichpgs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">StewartTheHuman</a></p><p>"Have you previously worked as an employee for [company]?"</p><p>"Well, it's complicated..."</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gid6zm1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheRealMandelbrotSet</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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Also Used
<p>One of my friends did a shoot for a university showing him sitting with an advisor looking confused/concerned. </p><p>It was to be used for the financial/debt advice brochure - and it <em>was</em> used there. But it was <em>also</em> used in the sexual health brochure! </p><p>It's a good one to roll out on special occasions!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibc7cc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">djaw1</a></p><p>Similar thing happened to a guy I worked with. </p><p>He was an older, very put together attorney. One day I was watching TV and saw him sitting with his head in his hands looking terribly distraught. </p><p>It was a commercial for ED medication.</p><p> I asked him about it the next morning and he said he had done some stock video shots for commercials years back and often pops up in all kinds of ads.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gid1rcz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">thepeanutbutterman</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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I'm A Painting
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<p>When I was 17 a friend of mine asked me if I could help him model in some pictures he was working on for a project for college. We used our other friend's attic and he took a couple of pictures of me in a suit in front of a typewriter. </p><p>He really liked one of the pictures and he ended up asking me if I would be okay with him having it be part of a small gallery show he was doing at the local coffee shop.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>They often had a small show and then put up the work to decorate the place and if people were interested they could buy them. I told him that I didn't mind and it was cool seeing my picture up at a place we went to so often.</p><p>Well, my picture ended up actually being bought ... which we did not expect at all.</p><p>So, there is someone out there that has a framed picture of me possibly decorating their wall or mantle, which is strange for me to think about.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gib26c2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">-eDgAr-</a></p>
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In Every Wal-Mart
<p>Not me but my best friend: He did a photo shoot in some construction-worker garb and a hard hat. </p><p>We live in North Carolina USA. I'm on a business trip in Chicago, and I stop by a Walmart for some supplies. </p><p>I'm in the men's work clothes isle and there's my buddy prominently on the wrapping of 50ish packages of work shirts. </p><p>It was a weird "wait, where am I?" moment. I knew he did some modeling, but not specifics.</p><p>I sent him a pic, he had no idea it had been used. The guy is in every Walmart in the country and had no idea.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibj7j8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">stubbssammarium</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Homeless Youth
<p>Not me, but a friend of mine.</p><p>Her boyfriend was a photographer, and he took several pictures of her standing against a wall wearing a blue windbreaker. I should mention, this woman was in her late 20s/early 30s, but she could easily pass as a teenager. </p><p>One of her boyfriend's pictures of her ended up on a billboard in Russia somewhere advertising a charity for homeless youth.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibowdr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SimonCallahan</a></p>Keep The Contract
<p>This question reminds me of the guy who sat for a picture, and then forgot about it. </p><p>Years later, he recognized his picture on a jar of freeze dried coffee, which was not in the terms of use for the picture. </p><p>He ended up suing after the company tried to lowball him and winning a crazy amount of money.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibnj49?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">bombaderogato</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>Holy sh*t! I looked it up! That's a lot of money. And f*ck nestle for trying to lowball him!</p><p><em>"A legal dispute with Nestle USA ensued, during which Christoff, 58, declined the company's $100,000 settlement offer, and Nestle USA turned down his offer to settle for $8.5 million. "I never gave my consent," he said to Chen. "We had a contract that spelled out the terms of the agreement, but there was just no follow-up on it. "I filed it away, and the contract sat there for 18, 19 years and -- I save things, which I guess is obvious. And no. They never had the permission." Last week, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered Nestle USA to pay Christoff $15.6 million for using his likeness without his permission and profiting from it. The award includes 5 percent of the Glendale-based company's profit from Taster's Choice sales from 1997 to 2003."</em></p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/giciz60?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BrownEggs93</a></p>
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A Smoky Eye
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ0ODIwNS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0OTAxNTc5MX0.rHuTroOGiD_1YRZWTxW-0toBvS2p5hUkcvHt9Yfc4xU/img.gif?width=980" id="75469" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="bb09a8e1c0e82cc5a2867964a72424f6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />fashion makeup GIFGiphy<p>I had a girlfriend who modelled part time. </p><p>Most of her work was for specific things and I only seen it because she showed me. But she did have a few model release generic headshots so when I was travelling Asia I saw a few makeup ads with her face on it. </p><p>It was just a picture of her with smokey eyes and I seen it before so I had a pretty big wtf moment seeing an at least 6 year old photo of my girlfriend on makeup ads on the other side of the world</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/giblhon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CharlieTuna_</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Had They Contacted Me In The First Place
<p>Not a stock photo (as I didn't upload it to my account, only on my website) but years ago a shot I took of my nails ended up being lifted off my site and used in a manicure brochure from China. I'm still wondering why... it was professionally shot and edited, but the nail art was hardly that!</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>Another time, a model I shot for a girly site (think suicide girls but more on the burlesque side) found our photo on a designer t-shirt, sold in stores internationally... we both sued separately, myself for the image rights and herself for personal damage due to what was written on the shirt. Don't know about her but I ended up getting a decent amount -definitely more than I would have asked if they had contacted me in the first place.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibo42d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">analucylle</a></p>
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Action!
<p>A coworker of mine was a firefighter in his earlier life (I worked with him after he was retired). </p><p>At one point the station he worked at did a photoshoot for something (he doesn't remember what, I've always hoped it was a calendar but can't find proof). Years later a friend of his was in a toy store and found his photo on the packaging of a firefighter toy.</p><p>He posed for a photo shoot, and years later ended up being an action figure!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibr8m4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">dbdew</a></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-1x1" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Slack Party!
<p>Not the same, but as a remote teacher (long before quarantines), all of our teaching material includes stock photos. </p><p>One teacher pointed out that the same girl appears in many of the stock photos. Here she's a scientist. Here she's at the beach. Here she's riding a bike in a park. </p><p>It became a game to find her in our materials and we'd have a little celebration on Slack every time she was discovered.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gicv8dl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">anon00000anon</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Clearance
<p>There was also this guy in Germany or somewhere in Europe, who ended up on packs of cigarettes. Like they have the smoking kills and rotten lungs etc. on the packs. So this guy was lying in a hospital bed, passed out with tubes in his mouth and I think he posted this pic of himself on facebook or something. Some designer stole that photo and put it on the packs. The guy himself said he had never smoked in his life and it was some unrelated medical operation. I think he sued and got paid.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JiggerKoller9952/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JiggerKoller9952</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Tailspin
<p>My dad was a professional photographer back in the '80s & '90s and would do a small amount of commercial work. He would sometimes get me and my sister to 'model' in some of these pics. He did a job for a new small video game store called GAME that just opened in SE England back in the early '90s. He used me and my sister in a bunch of pics for their original advertising which at the time was just for this small shop. Obviously, the company hit it big time and opened up all over the country. A few years later while at Uni, me and my mates are in shopping in our local store. Low and behold there was a picture of a younger me playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the in-store display. I'd completely forgot about the pics and was slightly in shock, while my friends thought it was the greatest photo ever.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/everton1an/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">everton1an</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibq20x/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Hairy situation
<p>My nephew did some stock modelling when he was younger and ended up in an ad for a drug that delays early-onset puberty. That was certainly a surprise when I came across his face in a magazine.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Inevitable-Elk-3072/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Inevitable-Elk-3072</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Muddy morals
<p>A plumbing company used a picture of my muddy boots on their website. It was a picture I posted on Facebook years ago. The company is half a country away and never contacted me. They just found my picture online and used it. Huh.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ACRVasquez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ACRVasquez</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gibk2su/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Pop(off)corn
<p><br>I once was offered free popcorn and movies for a year if I did a shoot for a movie theatre in Maryland. I was 16, so I thought "heck yeah!". The theatre closed down three months after that, so I never did get to use my year of popcorn and movies.</p><p>BUT I did move to Florida for college and a few years in went to the local movie theatre..... and there I was. Passionately munching on some popcorn, pretending to laugh at a movie. I guess one movie theatre company bought the other theatre out, which included image rights.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Wait880/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ok_Wait880</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gicqxty/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Thifty gifty
<p>Early last year (pre-serious COVID) I was at my local thrift store and found a picture frame with a picture of my sister and brother in law. Apparently, they had donated it without removing the picture.</p><p><span>Naturally, I bought it and gave it back to them as a gift.</span></p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MathManiac5772/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MathManiac5772</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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I'll ketchup later
<p>not me, but my dad is a photographer who spent quite a bit of time in stock photography. I remember one day we were taking a walk around the village together when he just stopped and whipped out his camera. There was a big splodge of ketchup on the floor, and apparently, that required photographing. He told me a few years later that that photo had sold quite often, become one of his most popular. Of course, being an indescribable splodge of ketchup, we've not managed to actually identify it in use anywhere yet.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Qyro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Qyro</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kro215/stock_photography_models_what_is_the/gic5lt7/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_17" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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That doesn't mean they're not awesome.
<p>One Reddit user asked: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/" target="_blank">What's the best low paying job you've ever had?</a></p><p>Consider this article our love song to those crappy jobs that didn't pay much, but made up for it in laughs, snacks, ability to avoid the public, etc. </p><p>So this one's to you, summers spent as a pool lifeguard in a small town. My bank account may have been empty, but my tan was flawless and my hamstrings have never again reached that level of definition.</p>
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Thanks, Netflix!
<p>Movie store. Free rentals. Netflix was just starting to take off, so it didn't get busy ever. I got to watch movies all day and drink free slurpies.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipgr53?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Gingerchaun</a></p><p>Same. Free movies before they were "released" and work consisted of bs'ing about movies and playing Gameboy. Best job ever for being 17.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giq2tqj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PreppyNotYuppie</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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<p>Same, but I worked at a mom and pop's rental store kind of like Blockbuster.</p><p>I was always popular because my family and friends wanted the new releases that came out. So I'd hold them for people - and people always had giant smiles when they came in.</p><p>That's one thing I loved about working there. People were always happy when they came in.</p><p>Kids got their movies and games, adults would browse for theirs and get pumped if something new was in. Popcorn, candy. All cash. RIP good ole days</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqb5q2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SunsetDreams1111</a></p>
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Living History
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ0NDA4Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MTQ0MDcwOH0.9VyZGPNVlQ9qA62mpZaaFPWW6sloaQwFRjbPuSn_xr4/img.gif?width=980" id="57d61" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="538733f410afe1bf669a0682aa139ce9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />night museum GIFGiphy<p>Working at a small local museum. Basically did tours for local kids who didn't care or the elderly who knew more about the stuff than I did. On my first day, my high school history teacher (who helped me get the job and previously ran the place) gave me a tour and pointed out one interesting thing in each room. When I asked if I needed to learn about the rest, he just laughed and said I would.</p><p>Every single tour I did for the elderly someone would get super excited and talk nonstop about something they recognized "hey this signed used to hang at the old mill..." "oh my god, this looks just like the nurse uniform I wore in WW2" "this portrait is my grandmother". </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The next tour I'd just mention the stories the previous tour told me about. And even if I didn't have much to discuss about the museum, they loved just chatting.</p><p>So I got paid to parrot the previous tour or just smile through rooms of the current tour talking. I even had one tour where I spent most of the tour just chatting about fantasy novels as an older lady just wanted to talk. Two weeks later, she returned while I wasn't working and dropped off a bag of books for me (her old books that she knew her son and grandkids didn't want), a sizable donation to the historical society, and a nice long write up as the last room held an old uniform that was misidentified. She was part of the exact unit it came from and gave the museum director a corrected page with the right unit name and a short description of some of the notable places they had served.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giq1ocx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">LibrioMancer</a></p>
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My Current Job Is Much Safer
<p>I worked as a bike courier to up my allowance. I was super fit, riding my bike for more than 1500km per month. On the downside I got "run over" by cars three times.</p><p>And that's not to mention the suddenly opening car doors. Those got me twice. </p><p>One time was bad: My bike was destroyed beyond repair (the frame was bent), I had muscle contusions, a ripped tendon in one of my hands, injured joint capsules, abrasions all over the body ... I couldn't even walk without painkillers for two weeks. I was exempt from sport for two or three months. That sucked.</p><p>Luckily enough I suffered no permanent damages. My current occupation as a software developer is much safer and <em>much</em> better paying, but I think fondly of that time.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipf3q3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">_cnt0</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Whole Job Was To Press A Button
<p>Ski lift operator at a ski resort. </p><p>Got paid minimum wage , but the whole job was to press a button if someone fell, which a lot of people did. </p><p>I would just see some clearly inexperienced people get wrecked while getting off, stop the lift, roll my eyes, maybe help them if it's going to take a while, start lift again. lol</p><p>It came with sweet perks like free snowboarding and half price for food. Also my coworkers were a bunch of dope snowboarding hippies</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipnrpk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Snowfreak2507</a></p>Sweet Trouble
<p>Working at a theatre.</p><p>We were all young, had our own cash and places for the first time, and got into all kinds of trouble. Very fun!</p><p>Plus, free movies and snacks. Pretty sweet.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipiemn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">NillaBeans</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipiemn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Seconded, working at a movie theater was great. Tons of free movies (sometimes before official release), usually fun people to work with, unlimited access to tokens for the arcades, etc.</p><p>I'm genuinely thinking about working at one again when I retire just for the enjoyment.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqqa0c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Tak_Jaehon</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>This was going to be mine!</p><p>Early in my management career I was a projectionist, I got to break down/build films. Nothing better than sitting in the booth and putting together a film while listening to music. Then after it was built testing it to make sure there were no bad splices.</p><p>Also my theatre was extremely slow, so we'd have a lot of downtime to just mess around.</p><p>We did a LOT of late-night movie viewings.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqbj50?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">dawrina</a></p>
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Front Desk
<p>Night shift at a hotel front desk. </p><p>I spent the night by myself, chilling and watching movies on my phone. Hardly anyone ever checked in at night and when they did it was just a five-minute process. I was also allowed to snack on the food in the kitchen. </p><p>I had to make breakfast, and would get to eat that as well every morning. I'd have a big Texas cinnamon roll and some milk just about every night lol. </p><p>It didn't pay much, but for someone who enjoys spending time alone and not dealing with the public much, it was great.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giq3p13?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">booneisthemoon</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
<p><br>As someone who is currently on my nightshift at the front desk, I can confirm it is great however prolonged amounts of time in it can cause health problems from messing up your circadian rhythm.</p><p>Also sometimes, like right now, it can get really boring. But can't complain much when I'm getting paid to browse Reddit.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqg2gh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sammy_Jacks</a></p>
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Barista
<p>Being a Starbucks barista actually isn't bad. </p><p>Out of all the food service industry jobs I've had, they had the best health insurance plans and you didn't need to work 40 hours minimum to qualify for it. That left me open to waitress and make more money while still getting health insurance and free coffee! </p><p>The work was fun too.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>I liked the hustle of making all the drinks and I'm naturally very good at small talk and memorizing the little details of regulars lives so I could pick up the convo next time. The customers were generally very nice and tipped well. We often made about 2 dollars an hour (which was split based on weekly hours worked so the more you worked the more you got) which ain't bad.</p><p>Of course we got plenty of Karens - especially in the summer when our town flooded with tourists - but even then the regulars would understand and commiserate with us (often loudly while stink eyeing whatever tourist is hassling us) on how rude city folk are.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipiozm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Accomplished-Today</a></p>
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Borders
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ0NDA4Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MDE4ODc1Nn0.bDn1lQfsGIRD4UbIsoSQDn0gYzTPsmPVMiPRRplaZqk/img.gif?width=980" id="b4a6a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ed95484a392f2d904c0aa7bbcfb4a757" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Books Lol GIF by UdGGiphy<p>Borders Books. Dang I miss that company. </p><p>$30 gift cards a month to buy books in addition to the employee discount. Also you could "borrow" up to two books at a time to read and return in salable condition. Pretty good bonuses and incentives for a retail job. </p><p>And it was nice working with employees (and having customers) who were book lovers.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipq3os?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">pink_kryptonite</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>This what I came here to say! I spent just under 4 years there; their final years. All I did was read and get ARC copies of books. I love to organize and talk books. I don't remember $30 gift cards each month but I do remember it always being minimum wage with no benefits or sick time.</p><p>I have all the job perks now, but sometimes I go back to that job in my mind. I loved when someone enjoyed my recommendation and would come back.</p><p>I always had books checked out in my name and half the time would buy them to re read. Oh and coffee all day....sigh.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqkb1g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eclecticmuse</a></p>
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Blueberries and Ice Cream
<p>I worked at a blueberry farm where I worked inside the blueberry store. </p><p>They sold homemade blueberry baked goods, homemade blueberry jam and other jams, blueberry (and other flavors) ice cream, and blueberry knickknacks and trinkets. The owner's daughter who worked with me was fun and we just manned the cash register and served ice cream. </p><p>I worked there for three summers during college, made a sweet $8/hr and got a bowl of ice cream every day. Best job ever</p><p>- <a href="I worked at a blueberry farm where I worked inside the blueberry store. They sold homemade blueberry baked goods, homemade blueberry jam and other jams, blueberry (and other flavors) ice cream, and blueberry knickknacks and trinkets. The owner’s daughter who worked with me was fun and we just manned the cash register and served ice cream. I worked there for three summers during college, made a sweet $8/hr and got a bowl of ice cream every day. Best job ever" target="_blank">why___me</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Work Sucked, But...
<p>I worked in the warehouse part of a furniture store when I was 17. </p><p>I was the youngest and the other guys were in their early 20s. We just goofed off, told jokes, and had fun. When we actually worked, it was hard due to assembling furniture and unloading trucks, but the rest of the time it was a blast.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/gipippu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SecretKGB</a></p><p>This. Working at a furniture store was my first job. I didn't like the work, but we had such fun.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giqeftn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">deaconofthedeep</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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And No Boss!
<p>Bike rickshaw (pedicab) in Austin on 6th street. </p><p>Ferrying around drunks all night is so entertaining and was such an easy way to meet girls. Got to see fights, people falling over, and hilarious shenanigans almost every night. And no boss! </p><p>Best days were game days and could make bank from the rich alumni between the beer gardens and stadium. Husbands always paid you to take their wives ahead and they could stay back and drink beer.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ku1tz8/whats_the_best_low_paying_job_youve_ever_had/giq2h5j?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Jzzlbbr57</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Just Another Manic Monday
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA4Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MzE1MTI2NX0.uLIdcpGxmMjO7x1_tRq5onvj_Gt_mbYPHuC9MBe2fbU/img.gif?width=980" id="68e10" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="57b02cc25b32f6542c4649f2bb7a1538" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />monday GIFGiphy<p>It is more likely for anyone to have a stroke on Monday rather any other day, because of the stress that comes with the beginning of a new week.</p><p>in this link it also says that the most common weeks are around holidays too.</p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/git1tlp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nobodyrealyO_o</a></p><p>My father had a heart attack on an early Monday morning. The wonderful people at the hospital told us that they get the most heart attack and stroke victims at - I think - 9 o'clock in the morning. Thankfully it was minor and he is now happy and healthy!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giulcdy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Thatkid11235</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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<p>Woah, this is 100% accurate! My father had his stroke on the Monday after the Easter weekend, right when he wanted to get up for work.</p><p>He hasn't been to work since. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giv0bkx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">anna-gla </a></p><p>Holy crap. I had what I believe was a seizure earlier this morning. It's Monday. </p><p>This scares the sh*t out of me. I live alone with my dog in a house with lots of hardwood stairs as well. Nobody to really check on me. </p><p>Terrible cell reception, you have to go to a specific spot on my property for a good call. My fear is that I'll die, and nobody will find me for weeks or months.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givge89?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BrownShadow</a></p>
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Lobster Face
<p>Lobsters pee out of their faces. From right under their eyes. </p><p>also you'd be wrong to assume they do it to.. actually pee. In fact they pee into each other's face to communicate, or before a fight, or before some hot sexy time.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girsaah?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">andreyzudwa</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Before You Dig
<p>I located utility lines for awhile. You honestly have no idea how much infrastructure is underneath you. Get your lines marked before you dig. There is a decent chance that there is a major electrical or fiber optic line running through your back yard, not just the lines to YOUR house.</p><p>when they are marked:</p><p>Red-electric</p><p>Green-sewer</p><p>Blue-water</p><p>Yellow-Gas</p><p>Orange-communication</p><p>orange with a dot on either side- fiber optic</p><p>any color in a diamond with parallel lines- duct run, lots of lines in one trench.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispbew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ekolanderia</a></p><p>It's funny because my dad and I went to put a fence up and had the lines marked. Put a auger right through a communication line because they marked it like 4' off lol</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gitb8oi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SPYK3O</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Can't Vomit
<p>Horses can't throw up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">keelyshobbrook</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Neither can rabbits or rats.</p><p>That's why most modern rat poisons are emetic. Other creatures (cats, dogs, human children, etc.) that find and eat the poison very quickly become violently sick and vomit up most or all of the poisonous material, significantly reducing the risk that they will be harmed by it. </p><p>Rats, however, cannot be sick, and so the poison stays in them and kills them off.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisrrl7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">McChes</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Wait, what do horses do if they eat something bad? Do they just have strong stomachs?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gitzggh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">DirtySoapFlakes</a></p><p>Lol no. They die. </p><p>Horses can be pretty ridiculous about randomly dying, especially with colic, which is basically a horrible horse tummy ache. I knew one horse that would colic if you didn't feed him his special food at the exact same time every day 3 times a day.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giulwu1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">aveindha25</a></p><p>My Aunt's horse died from eating moldy bread because you are right, horses cant throw up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu1ver?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">the_obmj</a></p>
Um ... Australia? Things OK Down There?
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA3OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNTU3NTY1M30.Ab8Yf_cnjZ2hO_lNNCtwPON-DnH4F0h-OIzyCwV5qKw/img.gif?width=980" id="c9248" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="da2b9a500fc90c168674c39b69df2cef" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />platypus GIFGiphy<p>Platypuses glow when they're exposed to UV lights.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giseiw1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">False-improvement-56 </a></p><p>Bioflorescent... they are steadily found more and more examples that do the same thing. I think Tasmanian Devils and Wombats were both captured recently.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">InanimateCarboRodAU</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Tassie Devils do... kind of.</p><p>It seems to only happen to those animals in captivity?</p><p>The belief is that these (primarily) nocturnal creatures are expected to be seen by daylight in zoos and as a result they absorb too much UV radiation from the sun and when in the dark they re-emit and it shows up better under UV light.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giukvxp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FiligreesDaddy</a></p><p>Wombats glow on their noses! </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giut67i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">so_it_goes17</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Netflix
<p>Netflix was founded before Google</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ItzBlossom05</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Even better: In 2000, Netflix offered itself for sale to Blockbuster for something like $50 million. Blockbuster, convinced that Netflix was a flash in the pan and that people would always want to rent disks, declined.</p><p>This was before streaming was even an idea in the mind of Reed Hastings; streaming was still a very, very new technology at the time and most people were still on dial-up modems, so it just wasn't feasible. Still, things would be certainly different today.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giumvt8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SpaceForceAwakens</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Default Mode
<p>Your brain prefers to default your mood back to one that you've made comfortable for yourself. So you can literally train yourself to default back to being sad, or being happy, or being anxious etc.</p><p>Unfortunately I don't have expertise in exactly how to do that. </p><p>Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would be helpful and maybe a type of therapy called Gestalt therapy? But I'm no expert on any of this stuff. </p><p>I have 2 friends who are counsellors and a sister as well. So maybe I could ask them.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispttf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stevieeer</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
A Man-child Changes History
<p>This one potentially changed the course of history.</p><p>Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire was the ruler of Germany during WWI. Though technically a constitutional monarchy at the time Germany, and its military especially, operated more like an autocratic monarchic state. The top ranks of the German military relied on the personal patronage the kaiser for career advancement. </p><p>Thing is, he was a bit of a man-child. So instead of a jump, "how high," situation, it was more like "here's a dress, it'd be funny if you marched around."</p><p>In 1908, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_H%C3%BClsen-Haeseler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Field Marshal Dietrich von Hulsen-Haeseler</a> was the top ranking German officer and was only 56 years old. He died that year of a heart attack while marching around for kaiser dressed in a tutu and a feathered hat. Presumably because of the stress and embarrassment of the situation. </p><p>Had he lived, <em>he</em> would've commanded the German military in WWI. Instead, they entered the war led by Generals who had risen to the rank without ever actually commanding an army in the field. They were untested jesters in war. It didn't go well. </p><p>And that is my useless fact of the day!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girwjt2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PurveyorOfUselessFacts</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Spirit Carbon
<p>Ancient Europeans believed that if they ground up the bones of their greatest warriors or sacred animals and mixed them in with the iron when forging a sword, the sword would contain their spirits, making it stronger. </p><p>Little did they know that by adding in the ground up bones they were introducing carbon to the mix and creating carbon steel, which <em>is</em> much stronger than simple iron. </p><p>So they <em>were</em> making their swords stronger by adding the sacred bones, just not in the way they thought they were.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu00bx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Equivalent-Floor-607</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Brain Bag
<p>I just learned this yesterday. After an autopsy the brain is put in to the body instead of back in the skull. </p><p>It's very hard to fit the cap back on the skull with brain put back in place. The better fit without the brain makes the head look better after the autopsy for sake of the family.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisx5j0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">itsyourgirlbobby</a></p><p>All innards removed are put into a bag, in the abdominal cavity, and then the corpse is stitched up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu1xxw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">elegantpun</a></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-1x1" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Saying goodbye to 2020 was big for a lot of people. Like big big. Bigly big.
So when one Reddit user opted to ring in 2021 by talking about things people no longer care about, people took the opportunity to get some things off their chests.
<p>The question:<br></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/" target="_blank">What do you just not give a fuck about?</a><br></p><p>spawned some gloriously heartfelt rants. Seriously. Get it together recipe people... or LEAD with the recipe and then tell us your story. </p>
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We Just Want The Recipe
<p>The forty-seven paragraphs of bullsh*t before the recipe.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrtuaw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Th3yl1v3w35l33p</a></p><p>I read somewhere that those paragraphs and paragraphs are for the purpose of keywords/SEO. You have your nana's legendary pasta sauce recipe, but it's in a sea of other crushed tomatoes and garlic pasta sauce recipes.</p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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<p>You have to add in that nana was from Sicily, ran through a meadow of basil, oregano and always went with papá on trips with their pigs to hunt for truffles. You remember your mom and nana preparing fresh pasta growing up and even sneaking the vintage Chianti all the while Sinatra played on the record player in the living room.</p><p>Anyway, for my Tostino Pizza Rolls you need:</p><ul><li>A paper towel</li><li>A microwave safe plate</li><li>Pizza Rolls</li><li>A microwave</li><li>Toaster Oven**</li></ul><p>**Optional for crispy exterior</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghs6or4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">DaveyJonas</a></p>
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<p>God, isn't this real.. It's always on my phone in a hurry and I had to go back to the recipe only to have it refresh to the top. I then re-begin my hunt between the ads, the giant story and the 1 million comments of "that's awesome! we love you! i tweaked it this way. do you like me?" </p><p>Just... Give... Me... The f*cking recipe. Was it 1 tbsp of butter or 2?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghs4kxq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">y-aji</a></p><p>This is such an underrated comment. </p><p>Look Sarah, I don't give two sh*ts about how your mother set the table "just so" every night for family dinners when you were little, and that you now recreate that for your two sons who don't eat gluten and are homeschooled. </p><p>Can I please just have the damn recipe for your roasted parmesan potatoes so I can move on with my day? Thank you!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghs23tw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Krystology</a></p>
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Best Seller
<p>A book being a New York Times best seller. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrd0p4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">LuckyPrompt44</a></p><p>Not that hard when they have a bazillion categories. </p><p>I know a "bestselling" author. He is really just a rich kid that grew up with some legit physical handicaps. But his rich parents hired a ghost-writer and she put together some come-from-behind inspirational life story. </p><p>Well the rich parents have a charitable foundation that bought enough copies to put the book in the bestseller list in some small category. And now you have a bestselling author who does motivational speaking.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrzwxy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Funkshow</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Drama
<p>98% of drama that happens between people who have no part in my life</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghr9h1p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MoronGoron52</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghr9h1p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>I have a friend who likes to tell me every bit of drama happening with her vast extended family every time we hang out. </p><p>I just nod politely for hours and when she comments that she wants to write a book about her family I don't say, "dude, no one wants to read that." </p><p>I just bite my tongue, nod, and plan to avoid our next get together. They're a family friend so I don't want to burn bridges, I jut don't initiate the hang outs anymore.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrwwi5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SecretBattleship</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Aging Has Its Benefits
<p>What people think of me when I make a decision that only affects me.</p><p>I used to care a lot. As I got older I became so much more apathetic to it. </p><p>Sometimes people begin to notice the apathy and then they just stop displaying their dissatisfaction towards you since it's clear you don't care anyway, which is sweet.<span></span></p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghr8ump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">artificiallyselected</a></p><p>Mostly seemed to kick in sometime in my early 30s. From talking to friends they for the most part stopped caring around the same time.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrnajw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ritabook84</a></p><p>I once saw a post that proposed that basically everything from birth to about age 30 goes in the "finding out who are" bucket and literally everything after that point is "doing that on purpose" which seems to hold up, lol.</p><p>I like combining it with my grandma Chickie's advice: growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.</p><p>And that's why my car is decorated with stickers and plushies, a rainbow wheel cover I crocheted myself, and a clusterf*ck of "good luck charms" from friends and family hanging from the mirror. </p><p>Does it make my car look like it belongs to a 16yo girl instead of a 34yo man? Probably. </p><p>Do I give even a single measly f*ck about that? Absolutely not! </p><p>It's <em data-redactor-tag="em">my</em> car, I can make it look like Lisa Frank puked all over it after being dared to chug 47 rainbow margaritas if I want to 😂</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghu757v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SyntheticRatking</a></p>
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They're My Team
<p>My superiors' opinions about how I lead my subordinates. </p><p>I've been in the Army for 8 years, and I've found that leading with fairness, friendliness, and for lack of a better term, love, inspires more cooperation and success than enforcing loyalty through rank and command.</p><p>My superiors call this "being their friends" and putting myself in a position to be manipulated. </p><p>But frankly, I've never experienced that, and I don't give a f*ck if they don't like it.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrh6ar?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TezPez3000</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>My dude, your brand of leadership was the only leadership I respected when I was in the Navy. People in leadership positions in the civilian world don't really understand it, either, but morale is more important than that horrible strict discipline you try to force on people.</p><p>I'll work harder for a boss I can tell to f*ck off than one who barks orders any day of the week.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsa11f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">auroratheaxe</a></p><p>My supervisor is like this (Air force) and I'd follow him to hell and back.</p><p>Sure I get pissed off about something I think is stupid but in the end, I can differentiate between him being my boss and friend. Hell, we do golf outings with our small shop and bbqs.</p><p>I've never been happier with the people I work with and I hope to be as good as he is when I get more peeps under me.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsgh1o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">shamrocksmash</a></p>
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But What If You Don't Want To Go To The Pub?
<p>Alcohol</p><p>I'm from Ireland and nearly everyone's social life or sporting events revolves around alcohol consumption and I'm just like no thanks.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghre3wm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Surebegrandlike</a></p><p>I'm from Scotland, and it's daaamn hard to find something to do to socialize that isn't seriously compromised without alcohol.</p><p>Dinner is one (but what do you do after?) and I'm enjoying meeting people for lockdown runs. But on a rainy December Saturday, what the hell do you do if you don't wanna go to the pub?</p><p>I do drink myself, but I think the lack of cafe culture and (understandable) lack of outdoor activities drives a lot of the social and health problems we have here.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghri0wf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">black_sky_thinking</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Tribal Warfare
<p>Sports. I've never understood why people get so emotional about their teams. The relationship some people have with it, and their passion for something that has basically no real-world impact, has always been weird to me.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrbuew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">catchingsignals</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrbuew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>I am a sports writer. I can answer this question, the answer is tribalism. Being part of a family group, while struggling against other outside groups.</p><p>Humanity's favorite thing to do is to separate ourselves into little groups and fight each other. People are by nature xenophobic, and sports is a perfect alternative to civil war or a religious crusade. </p><p>Jerry Seinfeld had a comedy routine where he observed that rooting for sports teams was just "rooting for laundry", as the players change on a regular basis. And to an extent he is correct, but the organization remains, and we are a part of the one we choose to love, and we are a family and an in-group with like minded fans, and f*ck those guys over there. </p><p>Sports is the last place where tribal warfare is not only accepted, but encouraged.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghs9m8y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RaiderDamus</a><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>That explains why people DON'T like sports. I think it's a rejection of tribalism in favor of actual achievement.</p><p>Tell me about something YOU did that you are proud of? I get that - it's something about YOU. </p><p>I also understand if you're bragging about (or proud of) something a team or group you are <em>actually a part of</em> accomplished - you participated.</p><p>But going on and on about your city's team simply because it's attached to your tribe? It doesn't click for me.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsu0w3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">fsr1967</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsu0w3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>I was looking for this and I'm disappointed by how far down I had to look.</p><p>The point about tribalism makes sense, but it's depressing. Do we not have enough things to be tribal about?</p><p>Plus I'm not a fan of how rich white guys essentially buy and sell 18-year-old kids from marginalized backgrounds (economic or otherwise) and then gladiator them until their brains are spaghetti.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsu842?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">brownidegurl</a></p>
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Scratchy Scratchy
<p>Minor scratches on your car's paint. I've known several people who will absolutely lose it over a scratch the size an eyelash. </p><p>It always makes me always wonder what it must be like caring so much about something so tiny. What other bull must they lose their minds over?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrg9sn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SleepyConscience</a></p><p>I agree with you here. I'm a hardcore car guy and don't actually care if mine get dinged or scratched. It's a 4 thousand pound object that was created to get driven, do people really expect no wear and tear?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrpdmu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">schassis408</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghrpdmu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>I don't get that, either. I thought it was normal wear and tear and shows you use your vehicle? I have a ton of scratches on my car, and most of them were probably created by either me or my S/O. </p><p>Still a good car.</p><p>And our older car was in this really bad hailstorm once where the hailstones were as big as golf balls and baseballs. It has some dings in it from that. Kinda like a souvenir.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghsh5kx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TieDye_Raptor</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Work ...
<p>I'm ready to retire so I am trying to get let go because IDGAF about this job anymore. </p><p>I've been doing my job as poorly as I can force myself to. My employer is huge and cutting staff. I've got a reasonable chance at getting a "Go Away" package worth several months pay. </p><p>Barring that, they almost certainly won't fire me for cause so I can still collect unemployment. So far they are keeping me around. I'm literally failing at failing.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/koid6g/what_do_you_just_not_give_a_fuck_about/ghshc5v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">RealMcGonzo</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Sometimes it kind of trips us out that humans developed out in nature with the rest of the animals, especially when you consider how defenseless we are, relatively speaking.
Maybe that's why lots of people who have been in deep woods situations say it brings out something primal in them. Things get weird in the woods, and your body picks up in it quickly.
<p>One Reddit user asked: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/" target="_blank">Deep woods hikers and campers, what is the strangest or scariest situation you have come across?</a></p><p>Things get weird. Things get real weird. </p><p>Lets be honest, deep woods adventures were never high on my to-do list ... but these responses just un-sold the idea totally. I'm very okay never believing I was about to be murdered by a wombat.</p>
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A Pale Floppy Hairless Thing
<p>I was a teenager and just up and decided that I wanted to stay at my great-uncle's hunting camp one night. It's deep in the woods, bordering state forest land. There are gravel roads through most of the mountains in my state, and they're very convenient if you want a camp away from people but still have it be reasonably accessible. The last two miles of the road to his camp are totally washed out, so the last bit of my trip would be on foot, but I was in the mood for a wood stove and a late night walk. The moon was out, and though it wasn't full it was good enough to see by. So long as I wasn't under tree cover, it was set to be a beautiful night. I told my dad where I was going and hopped into my tiny 2002 Hyundai Accent and drove off.</p><p>I eventually got to the turn-off and started into the mountains. I had about 45 minutes of driving in the darkness left until I'd eventually reach the right fork which would take me to the non-descript dirt road that acted as the camp's 'driveway.' There are dozens of roads that crisscross and connect to each other (and often themselves) in any given section of state forest land. You can very nearly cross my state using only mountain roads and Amish country. Driving is one of my hobbies, and I know huge swaths of forest by memory. And so I knew that when I reached a certain turn that I would begin following a creek down into a narrow valley, the road steep enough that I would need to reduce gear. The Accent only had 2nd gear to help where 1st would have been better, so occasionally pumping my brakes was necessary to keep a safe speed. People tend to go way too fast on these gravel roads and then go sliding off into the trees when they have to evade or slow down. I was going about 24mph when I gently applied my brake and checked my rear-view mirror out of habit. And there was some pale, floppy, hairless thing on all-fours running about ten feet behind my bumper, washed in the red of my brake lights and partially obscured by the trailing column of dust from my tires and the vibration of the rear-view mirror attached to the windshield.</p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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<p><br>It was like my heart stopped. I almost ran off the road right there. I jerked the wheel as I slammed the brakes and skidded a bit, but that loping <em>thing</em> suddenly closed the distance to my rear bumper in a heartbeat. I released a truly horrified shudder and hit the gas out of reflex, which of course meant that the tail lights were no longer illuminating the thing. I cannot accurately describe to you just how quickly I went from perfectly content to the greatest state of terror I have ever experienced. I was gripping the wheel so tightly I could no longer feel my hands. My entire body was trembling. I was trying to drive with my peripheral vision while mostly glued to the rear-view, only occasionally stealing glances back to the twisting road before me. I could see hints of motion somewhere in the darkness. I almost ran myself off the road again, and I literally had to order myself aloud to look at where I was going so I didn't kill myself. My body was thrumming. I was probably going 40mph now. The road straightened out, and the tree cover thinned a bit, creating patches of pale light. My eyes were adjusted to the brightness of the headlights, so this wasn't much. But it was enough to catch glimpses of that receding fleshy form still behind me. By the next bend I could no longer tell if the creature was still following me.</p>
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<p><br>I did not stop at the road leading to the camp. I did not stop at the next one, or the one after that. I kept driving for another hour, taking an incredibly inefficient and winding route that eventually led me out of the forest on the opposite side of my home. I had chosen roads that were steep, for instance, because maybe it would slow the thing down and it wouldn't be able to catch up as easily. What I did next was truly irrational though. I drove for yet another hour on the interstate, then doubled back home using regular roads through the various towns I had passed along the way, making big loops and redundant turns.</p><p>I had not been interested in horror in general up until this point. This experience awoke something in me. To this day I will go on night drives and never not feel scared. I was also a fairly skeptical person by nature, so this was also a deeply disturbing experience on a whole other level.</p><p>And like four months later I saw a picture of a bear with mange on the internet and suddenly everything was perfectly clear LOL.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi22djh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ValkyrProper</a></p>
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Santa
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTIxMDE3MC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyODUxMTk3M30.3xSLCV4AmOU7MPyRDh4RxF_YoP3UkSuQqtCDj3X1h_M/img.gif?width=980" id="f9551" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="03e99eeb9d0d98a60c55521ca7a2051c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />santa claus smoking GIFGiphy<p>My family used to go camping with a few groups of friends when I was a kid. </p><p>I remember one Christmas when I was about 5 we were camping out in the bush. There were 9 kids in total at our campsite. We were allowed to wander through the bush. The parents would give us a walkie talkie to tell us when to come back to camp and we never wandered far. </p><p>Anyway, out of nowhere an unfamiliar voice came over our walkie talkie. It was a man's voice. He said he was Santa and that he was trying to find us to give us our presents and he asked us to look for him.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>We all ran back to our campsite all excited that Santa had talked us. The walkie talkie was taken off us and we weren't allowed to go anywhere for the rest of the trip.</p><p>We were pretty devastated at the time. But I understand the seriousness and creepiness of it now looking back as an adult.</p><p>I still can't be 100% sure if it was a creep in the woods or just one of the parents testing us. But I would think that if it was a test from our parents, we would have been allowed to go for walks in the bush again but we weren't.</p><p>And on subsequent camping trips we were never given a walkie talkie again. If we wanted to go for a walk at least 1 parent always came with us after that</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi2cd1g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">XX_jammin_XX</a></p>
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He Did Some Meth And Then...
<p>This wasn't really deep woods camping, because my friends and I were staying at a designated campsite in a state park. The camp is in what is normally a peaceful valley.</p><p>It wasn't peaceful this time. Instead, a crazed gunman did some meth and fired some shots down the side of a mountain into the valley where I was camping.</p><p>In the middle of the night (I want to say around 1 am) I'm woken up by the sound of gun shots. Two of the other friends in my tent also woke up. It sounded like the gun shots were getting closer and closer over the course of a half hour. </p><p>It went from "that sounds far away" to "that sounds like a bullet hit something in camp." </p><p>Like I said, this was a state park. Hunting is illegal, which either meant some reckless hunter was ignoring the law and hunting after midnight, or some deranged lunatic was just walking around shooting into the woods.</p><p>Neither were good scenarios.</p><p><br>Friends and I stayed low to the ground, afraid that a stray bullet would come into our tent. Eventually we began to see spot lights crossing over the roof of our tent as some state troopers in a helicopter began searching the area for the suspect.</p><p>An hour after we first heard the gun shots we heard some police sirens on the main road above us - remember, the campsite was located at the bottom of a valley. There were shouts of "Drop the weapon! I said DROP the weapon!" A few more gun shots, the sounds of some frantic scrambling and shouting instructions, then eventually silence.</p><p>The next morning, we went to ask the campsite managers if they knew what happened last night. It turns out there was a guy who lived in a house that was higher up the side of the mountain, above the main road.</p><p>He did some meth that night, and decided that it would be fun to fire his gun at any cars that passed on the main road. The state troopers arrived and arrested him.</p><p>There were bullet holes in some of the trees around camp, and in one of the RVs that was parked in one of the neighboring camp sites.</p><p>I'm really relieved that no one was hurt or killed by the gunman. Especially after seeing how close those bullets came to going through some of the camper's tents.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1m146?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GingersaurusRex</a></p>
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Never Heard A Thing
<p>Woke up after camping in the Rockies to find cat prints the size of softballs encircling my hammock. </p><p>I never even heard a single noise that night and the prints were no more than fifteen feet away. Luckily, I didn't have any food that piqued it's interest.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1iptv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CukeL18</a></p><p>A similar thing happened to my friends and I while camping and drinking the night away in the Oregon Cascades. </p><p>It was somewhere around 1998 so we were rocking a disposable camera taking drunk photos all night long. About two weeks later we got the film developed and there was a cougar in about 1/3rd of the photos. </p><p>We were completely oblivious until that sobering moment when we saw the photos.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1xxsy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Ace-Ranger</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1xxsy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>I've recently been watching my cat hunt mice, because he's showing me all the holes I need to fill in to stop them from getting in. </p><p>He has a bell on his collar, but it's like he can just... turn it off when he enters hunting mode. He'll go from being a big galoot to moving completely silently.</p><p>Imagining him being ten times bigger and hunting <em>me</em> is extremely unsettling.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi229fi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">chinchillazilla54</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Blair Witch Prank (We Hope)
<p>Walking a section of the Appalachian Trail with a couple of buddies when we happened across a bundle of sticks. The sticks were made into a figure, kinda similar to the ones from the <a href="https://img.cinemablend.com/cb/f/5/7/9/8/a/f5798ab2cd760731bf998c8232e9e175c451a77ea2e39a19db2271720c06e1f5.jpg" target="_blank">Blair Witch Project</a>. </p><p>It was obviously placed there by someone, as it was dead-center on the middle of the trail, leaning against a rock. I thought it was cool, so I grabbed it and put it in my backpack.</p><p>Anyway, we finished the hike and set up for the night in our camping spot. We were all pretty wiped out from the long day, so after dinner we retired to our respective tents and conked out for the night.</p><p>The next morning, I was the first one awake, so I got up to make the coffee, and what did I find? An identical bundle of sticks to the one we'd found, sitting atop the pile of charred wood from the previous night's fire.</p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
<p><br>First thing I did was check my pack, and sure enough the one I'd picked up was still there.</p><p>Each of my friends swore they didn't put it there, and I obviously said the same. It was weird because we were all adamant about not putting it there ... but I can never be sure one of them wasn't f*cking with the other two of us.</p><p>The thing that messes with me is the bundle I found in the morning was almost an exact replica of the one we found on the trail earlier.</p><p>I find it hard to believe one of the other guys could have made such a close replica without being able to model it after the one in my pack. And it's not like either would have placed the one on the trail beforehand for us to stumble upon, as it was FAR out in the middle of nowhere.</p><p>I want to believe one of them pulled a prank on the other two because the alternative scares the sh*t out of me.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1ntqw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DoItAnyway54321</a></p>
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A Freight Train
<p>The scariest thing I have had happen so far was a Moose came crashing through my campsite in the middle of the night. It sounded like a freight train crashing through trees. </p><p>The crashing woke me up in the middle of the night. </p><p>In the morning light I could tell that it had ran right by my tent. They don't have great eyesight and I was about 2 feet from being trampled to death by 1,000lbs of moose.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1xt8d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Minyaden</a></p><p>Yikes! That's scary as hell! Moose will stomp you till you stop moving just because they feel like it. They can be real a-holes!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi4qlja?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SkinnySusan</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Death By Wombat
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTIxMDEwMC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyODAzMjk1N30.Q9ffjSkNIzW15xQTvW9M39Ef-CTDBMUGitzKHcq2nr8/img.gif?width=980" id="7d801" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="92f7106daae5185a13e18b35fe39fbc3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Digging Gold Digger GIF by Brookfield ZooGiphy<p>Guide camp in Victorian bushland. Girl guides are a paramilitary exercise in the British tradition.</p><p>My troop was competing in a camp competition. We were the furthest from the mother house, down the hill and out of sight of every other campsite.</p><p>One night we were all dead asleep in our tent. The group was a total of 8 pre-teen girls. We heard snuffling and loud grunting around the tent. </p><p>Then the tent started to move and shake. This was an ex-army 8 person tent built with wooden beams and something was <em data-redactor-tag="em">shaking the f*cking tent.</em></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-1x1" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>One beam started to come loose and 2 girls made a run to the motherhouse. The rest of us tried to keep the tent up while screaming as pre-teen girls do.</p><p>We then heard a louder thud, louder screaming, and someone yelling "get up! get up! get up!"</p><p>By now we'd woken half the campsite.</p><p>Turns out a family of wombats was upset we were in prime grazing area and was pushing the annoyance away. The thud was one of the girls tripping over a wombat in all the panic.</p><p>So that's the time I thought I was going to die by a wombat.</p><p><span>- </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1wcqz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">paperconservation101</a></p>
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Do You Live Here?
<p>10 years ago when I was a skinny little 17 year old I was hiking the rural side of a levee with a friend who was even scrawnier than I was. </p><p>It was a long, long, walk Into the woods and for about an hour or more we hadn't seen anyone else. Just trees and foliage. We finally stumbled upon a huge <em>nest</em> looking area. It was so random and out of place, so we investigated. </p><p>There was paper and cloth everywhere, torn magazine pages, old clothes, cans, everything piled into one huge mess. We assumed maybe people drove their truck out here and dumped their trash, so we just turned to leave but in that very moment we saw a tall rugged man wearing all black staring right at us. </p><p>He was maybe 6ft3, had shaggy unkempt hair, and looked dirty and disturbed. He stood 15 feet away, and he was just staring and silent. </p><p>My friend didn't say something so I said "Hi. Do you live here....is this your stuff?" </p><p>And he only nodded yes and then we slowly backed away and left. He just stared at us until we could no longer see him anymore and then we picked up speed to get back to civilization.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi276um?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">HugoTheCreator</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Glad To Miss That Trip
<p>This happened to some friends of mine in Sydney, Australia. When we wanted to go underage drinking we would buy a case of beer or bottle of spirits and hike about 4kms into the bush to the middle of no where to drink without worrying about getting into trouble. Would sleep in a sleeping bag under the stars in summer and be fine.</p><p>So one afternoon my friends, without me this time, headed off with beer to the usual camp spot we'd use. Being young and stupid no one checked the weather forecast otherwise they'd have know heavy rain was on the way.</p><p>In the middle of the night 5 drunk teenagers left the camp site to shelter in caves near by. The caves sit high up overlooking a large fork in the Hawksberry River. </p><p>Soaked from the rain and cold, they started to dig a fire pit. Unfortunately they dug up human remains, were too drunk to return home and so they spent a miserable night in the rain waiting for dawn stuck in a cave with a corpse. </p><p>Didn't dare stay anywhere near the caves after that.</p><p>The police investigated and discovered the remains were an very old aboriginal burial site and were relocated to avoid being accidently disturbed again.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi1s3vc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Znarl</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Step Stool
<p>Was somewhere in the middle of the White Mountains in the summer when I walked into what looked like a scene from a horror movie.</p><p>A person with zero hiking, camping, or other experience had gotten themselves in trouble - big trouble. It was around 7am when I found the campsite. </p><p>First thing that hit me was the eerie stillness, until I noticed the shredded tent under a tree, and the desperate looking human figure covered in blood, whimpering quietly. I put my bag down, grabbed my kit and went over to the person - they looked like they had just lost a knife fight with a 4 armed man. </p><p>Deep slashes from one shoulder to hip, single punctures up and down his back, and hands and forearms full of what looked to be defensive cuts. I patched him up the best I could, gave him water, checked my map and high tailed it to the closest road (this was before cell phones were super prevalent and barely worked in the mountains). </p><p>Thankfully, the road was very close by - less than 2 miles, and I was able to flag someone down. They took off and I waited for assistance to arrive.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>It took about an hour until rescue arrived, and I led them to the still unidentified individual (he was not very talkative when I helped him out) - I was sure he would be dead before we arrived, but was wrong.</p><p>I assisted rescue bringing him out, and took them up on their offer to head into town and get cleaned up. After cleaning up and getting myself situated at their station, I went on my way, leaving them my number to call to let me know what was up with the person we helped out.</p><p>I got home 3 days later, and there was a message on my machine. The story was that the guy I found decided to go camping one day and heard that he had to keep food hung from a tree to keep bears away.</p><p>Well, he did that, but put it almost directly over his tent, and not high enough.</p><p>The night before I happened upon the site, a bear had used the tent, and it's occupant, as a step stool in attempt to climb the tree to get to the food. The guy had woken up to four black bear paws sinking into his body, shifting to reach up.</p><p>Dude survived, and swore to the hospital staff that he was "moving to the city and never going into the woods again."</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kq1hv0/serious_deep_woods_hikers_and_campers_what_is_the/gi29zs4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CowboyFleeborg</a></p>
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