Let's be real. A lot of the time, attending a wedding without a date sucks. But does that mean it's okay to bring a random Tinder date to someone's big day?

That's the question one bride is asking after her brother did just that. The bride posted on Reddit's "Am I the a-hole?" forum, seeking advice about the situation.

The woman explains that she only wanted people to bring serious partners as their guests:

I swear, this sounds fake. My brother has subjected me to a sitcom plot.

My third wedding anniversary was this week. My wedding was absolutely beautiful and I am so happily married to my husband. With regards to guests, I explained to my family that we really only wanted serious partners to attend as plus ones, i.e. spouses and fiancé(e)s, to keep numbers manageable and make sure we didn't have random exes in various photos.

Her brother asked for permission to bring his "girlfriend":

Liam messaged us shortly before the wedding asking if we could extend that rule to include his girlfriend, as he would be the only immediate family on his own. We agreed. I had some vague idea of him having a girlfriend, but given how busy we both are and that we are both bad at keeping in contact, I didn’t know or question too much.

The "girlfriend" and the bride got along, and the brother is still dating her to this day:

The wedding was lovely and went off without a hitch. Rose was a very sweet girl, very intelligent and kind and absolutely gorgeous, and she and Liam seemed like a very cute couple. We spoke very briefly about their relationship, meeting at university, together for a year and a half, and so on. There were a few cracks made about the wedding giving Rose some ideas, and that was really it. I had no reason to interrogate them, of course.

Recently, the bride figured out the truth:

Fast forward to this week and Liam and Rose are visiting my husband and I for dinner and drinks. We’re relaxing on the porch, a little tipsy, and Rose mentions Liam’s gift to celebrate three years together. Cue my surprise. Rose immediately realizes she fucked up and Liam is cracking up. I say I thought you were together more than a year at my wedding? And Liam replies no, me and Rose matched on Tinder two weeks beforehand and I invited her to your wedding as our first date. Apparently mostly as a joke.

She's not happy:

I told him he absolutely should not have done that and that he had really hurt my feelings bringing a total stranger along to an important event for me and for our family. He replied that, with my reasoning, he had done nothing wrong as Rose turned out to be a long term partner and not a random ex – my point is, he had no guarantee that would be the case. However, he thinks I am being unfair being mad at a situation that ultimately turned out absolutely fine, and I’m not sure if he’s right or if I’m justified.

Now she's wondering if she should cut them some slack:

There is no chance of me cutting contact with Liam or Rose over this argument; just looking for outside perspectives and judgements. Am I being unfair?

Surprisingly, the people of the internet can't really agree on whether one or both of the siblings is wrong.

People served up a variety of answers to the bride's question. Revwog1974 thinks both siblings are in the wrong:

ESH [everyone sucks here] - Your brother did a crappy thing 3 years ago that worked out ok. He was wrong then, but he’s right now.

I feel sorry for Rose. Can you imagine going to a family wedding for your first date?

And being told to LIE about your relationship?

OilSeeYouL8r says no harm, no foul:

YTA [you're the a-hole], you're turning it into a sitcom plot, not them. He didn't want to be the only person without a date, you had no idea how long they'd been dating, you asked no questions, now 3 years out you get to be in on the romantic joke. The water is well and truly under the bridge dont be a Dick about it

HarleyDanger agrees:

NAH [no a-holes here]. You’re brother was wrong three years ago, but you’re upset at the prospect that it could have gone wrong. It didn’t.

Seems like you’re making this a sitcom, not your brother. It was 3 years ago; you need to move on. There no point getting angry at something you can’t change.

Tiamat_fire_and_ice is team bride:

It was OP’s wedding and she was very clear. Why shouldn’t she be irritated that her brother completely disrespected her rules? I’m not saying she should hold on to those feelings but he wasn’t respectful of her. You shouldn’t treat someone’s wedding as a joke.

And mm172 points out that she gave permission for the girlfriend to attend:

ESH [everyone sucks here] - though as you said, not on a super-serious level. If you really only wanted serious commitments on the level of spouses and fiance(e)s, you should've just told Liam no. And while he should have respected your request, his point about being the only immediate family member without a date is not entirely without merit, which is presumably why you didn't fight him on it.

They continue:

At any rate, you all like Rose, and she's apparently sticking around for at least the foreseeable future, so I'd work on letting it go until you genuinely are able to see the humor in it.

Kirstemis pointed out that it could be way worse:

Even if they were married before your wedding they could be divorced now and she'd be the ex in the photos. It was three years ago. Forget about it.

So the general consensus is that nothing bad happened, so the bride should probably let this one slide.

Good thing everything worked out!

Marriage is a huge decision — and not everyone nails it.

Sometimes, you end up hitched to the wrong person despite how great they may have seemed. A recent Reddit thread asked people to share the moment they realized they were married to the wrong person. The responses will make you feel relieved that divorce is an option.

1. "Giant collection of flip-flops"?!?!

When she begged me with tears in her eyes to get rid of both my cat that I'd had for 8 years at that point and the dog she and I had adopted together because she "hated them". I said no to that and less than a week after that she said she was unhappy with us but agreed to couples counseling.

Two weeks after that we both went on separate vacations for a week. When I came back everything she owned with the exception of her giant collection of flip flops was gone.

I took it pretty hard but hey, I kept pets and while 2020 claimed the cat the doggo is still with me, and I'm in a much happier place now. - amalgamas

2. Sometimes, you're just too young.

I knew a few months after getting engaged. But not for anything he did. It was me. We were young (I was only 20) and I called it off- but I didn’t want to break up. I told him I had called it off and he was so upset I took it back. As I walking down the aisle months later, all I could think was “what’s the worse that can happen? We get divorced?” And yeah. We obviously did a few years later. I wish I could have met him 5 or 10 years later in life because he is the best person ever. We are best friends now but only best friends and I curse young me for f****** that up. - catsbluepajamas

3. You can't just cut people off from their friends.

The day of the wedding, I knew, which was solidified the night of the wedding when we were at the hotel.

My best friend happened to be a dude. We were (and still are) as close as brother/sister. He was my dude of honor at our wedding.

That night, my new husband told me, "You're never to see him again. Ever."

I left and drove back to my apartment mad as hell that he'd even dare, and left him 4 months later when he came back from a walk and told me that he was going to throw himself in front of a bus and kill himself, except he wanted me dead first.

Walked out and never came back. - LurkyMcLurkering

4. These two clearly weren't compatible.

When hé drove me home on our wedding night and went back to the party. - Hholly1818

5. Oof.

When I found pictures of him cheating and thought to myself, that this wasn’t even the least of our issues. - magz_qqrj3

6. Little late for that...

When she said she didn't like family life, our kids were 4 & 6 at the time. - Canine_RezQ

7. That's messed up.

When my ex wife told me I was “broken” because I had a mental breakdown. - EDora_Gaming

8. What a psychopath.

Just after we said "i do" when he said if i didn't stop smiling he would punch the smile off my face - princessbooboo3

9. Sounds like a great person.

When my ex picked me up an hour late leaving me in a heavy rain then blamed me for it, that wasn't the most significant event but it was a point that made me really start analyzing the relationship. - AnnoyedGrunt31

10. Hope the kid's okay.

I dont fit this perfectly but I do have a story.. about 3 years, and one kid into my relationship, I gifted her a promise ring. Something inexpensive til I could save up for the ring I wanted to propose with. Every couple argues of course, and we were no different. But after she got that ring she started using it in our arguments. Taking it off and throwing it at me, or away, or in the woods... she was using it to hurt me and It just kind of clicked. If she would do this ring like that, she would do the same with a wedding ring. And I realized I would be stupid af to follow through. - MrBurns1619

11. Wow, he fake-killed his friend just to get out of your birthday?!

2 years in when he didn't come home on my birthday and then told me some story about how he was at the hospital all night because his friend had a heartattack and died. I felt awful for him....until I saw his friend very much alive the next week. - cdncabingal

12. How did this not come up earlier...?

The next day, when he wanted to use our wedding gift money to go on a honeymoon and I wanted to use it as a deposit on an apartment so we could move out of my mother's house. - Safia3

13. Oof.

When I realized I was much happier away from home working for weeks at a time. - unimportantsoliloquy

14. Yikes.

When I told my wife my depression was getting out of control and I was considering taking my own life. She turned the conversation back to herself. - el_dude_arino

15. Holy hell.

When he dragged me by my legs back into the bedroom to force me to get ready to leave on our honeymoon cruise, even though I had spent the night throwing up and didn't want to go. - BeachBum666

16. That's terrible.

When he left me on the floor of our bedroom balling my eyes out begging him to not go meet up with another girl two weeks after our wedding. - graceyx789

17. At least it was mutual.

Wedding night. We both got so f'ed up that we didn't consumate the marriage. Divorced 4.5 years later. - robot_dan

18. This person wasn't surprised their marriage ended.

I knew when we got engaged it wasn’t going to work. We had good times but it ended and I knew it was going to end for the reasons it did. - theginger_buffalo

19. This sounds rough.

Told my mom the night before [the wedding] I didn't think I should go through with it. She said then don't. I did it anyway and stuck around through a loveless marriage for nearly 10 years. It wasn't horrible, but it was lonely. I wish younger me was as courageous as older me because I just didn't have the courage to say no when he asked me to marry him. - BreakingGaia

Another day another reason to laugh. These wacky memes are just the pick-me-up you need to start your morning off on the right foot. Each one was chosen for one reason, and one reason only, to make you chuckle.

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Most of us have had a job where the boss has a seemingly arbitrary set of rules that don't seem that serious until someone gets fired one day for bringing blue M&Ms into the office before noon...

Getting fired is never fun, but it stings especially when the reason you're out of a job is something laughably ridiculous. Shout out to my boss at Quizno's who fired someone for eating the stumps of the bread that were already going into the trash. It was fine to eat the bread stumps, but if you put mustard on the stump then it was considered a "sandwich" and then you were "stealing." Any job in customer service usually comes with a long set of forbidden behavior, and defending yourself against a rude customer can often lead to firing, even though the customer is usually not "always right."

Especially if you work in a state that doesn't even require employers to give their employees a reason for firing them, bosses can really get out of control. Of course, a healthy work environment usually has some boundaries, but not allowing staff to have ketchup in the office kitchen because you personally hate ketchup is a little intense.

So, when a recent Reddit user asked, "What is the pettiest thing you've seen someone fired for?" people were definitely ready to share their tales of trivial reasons why people got fired.

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I used to work at a Chili's restaurant and we used to have to roll silverware after each shift. 50 silverware rolled in napkins. No one liked to do it. Well one day all of the servers got called into the dry storage area. The manager had found a tray of silverware that someone had hidden so we wouldn't have to roll any. I forget what the ultimatum was but the manager was going to take it out on all of us if someone didn't confess. Finally one guy stepped forward. I still don't think he did it but he took the blame and was promptly fired. - Extrasherman

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I saw someone get fired because they had alcohol at work. It was a gift from a vendor and they just had it in their drawer still sealed. All our sales team would receive wine, beer, liquor as gifts from vendors and some had it displayed in their office. Obviously they just didn't like this person. - quimby15

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My friend got fired after 4 days because he couldn't get the VCR working so his bosses kid could watch a movie in her office. - skimone

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One of my co-workers went on vacation and her flight back was delayed, making her late for work when she eventually got back. They essentially forced her to put in her two weeks on the spot. A week later when she was too upset to go to her "goodbye lunch" held by her boss, she was told that day was her last day for "not being a team player". - Swell-Fellow

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Working in the hell known as a "call center" in West Mifflin, PA: Saw one woman working, not feeling well, had no time left, so couldn't call off. Within a few hours, she had used up all of her allotted 'break time" (15 minutes), and her supervisor wouldn't permit her to leave the floor for the bathroom again, so she threw up - all over her computer. She was fired for "Destruction of Company Property." TRUE STORY. - casualLogic

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I actually was fired yesterday from my pizzeria after 5 years because I asked for two days off for a family event, and a surprise day with my girlfriend (obviously just said family event). I came back every summer from school and they would ask me if i could come back and help, I always did because I love the customers.

After I was told no, I ended up trying to switch with someone else, like we normally would do. My boss found out, didnt like it, and fired me after 5 years. Kinda dumbfounded to be honest. - [deleted]

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I was dismissed from a firm after two days because they guy who hired me didn't like the hockey team tshirt I had on. Ended up taking the firm to court and won a large settlement. Stupid kid. He ended up getting fired (saw on his linkedin page) - limits660

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My ex got fired because of mayonnaise.

She was a middle management type at our local NPR station. Had been there for a few years. New station manager got hired, and the guy HATED mayonnaise. Viscerally. He banned it from the employee refrigerator. She had a mini fridge in her office, so everybody started storing their mayo in there. He saw it one day during a meeting in her office. Started screaming at her, accusing her of "belittling" him and fired her on the spot.

She was well-compensated in arbitration. But she still lost her dream job, all the same. - ChillingMarmoset

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Happened to me in a internship:
"You talked to my wife yesterday, she said you're cute. Get your stuff and f*ck off"
Well, erm, ok, I'm 16 and your wife is like 50 ... but, more free time until summer holidays end, not going to argue with you. - Quinn_Dexter

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I was let go after 2 years for not being a “cultural fit” for the company. I worked in the accounting department, this came after I had a big deadline coming up and I opted to stay behind and work, rather than going to a co-worker’s birthday lunch. My supervisor forced me to go anyway, which took 2 hours and I was unable to meet my deadline. A few weeks later, I transferred someone over to their correct associate in the department and she started screaming at me (in front of her supervisor and my supervisor) telling me I wasn’t a team player, that I should have taken the call even though it wasn’t my region. After that, the same morning the department manager calls me in and says “It just seems like you put your work before people, therefore we don’t feel like you’re a cultural fit.” She literally meant because I opted to work as opposed to socializing that I was being let go. Oh, but they still wanted me to stick around to finish the financial quarter to help keep their numbers up. I agreed under the condition I get my full bonus for that quarter. - Kristaboo14

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In the 80's, I worked at a grocery called "Schnucks". Management was obsessed with shrink and became crazy with employees eating damages or anything in the bakery. Some guy was fired for eating a few M&Ms from the cookie area. Another was fired for eating an old glazed donut.

Instead of quitting with notice to leave for college or whatever, people started eating donuts in front of management and being fired on the spot. Quitting became "Eating the Doughnut". - relish-tranya

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A guy I worked with applied for a new job, while on company time. A few minutes later he got an "out of office" reply from the person he sent his resume to - it was our boss - who was out of town but had posted a job opening to eventually replace the guy who was looking for a new job. - brewerintexas

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I worked at a bookstore that had a cafe in it. We all got free coffee in the beginning, then as the company started to fail they took that away and we had to pay like 45 cents and also for the milk in our coffee.

The top brass came down hard one day and questioned everyone on if they paid for the milk in their coffee. Everyone didn't but said they did, except one honest fellow. He was an exchange student from China and was the nicest kid you'd ever meet, worked really hard, and they fired him on the spot for stealing milk. It was over our bosses head and everyone was so upset. - crystalhorsess

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I worked in a bar when I was 19 and they told me to go home and not come back tomorrow because I didn't ask for a guy's ID before giving him his second beer. I assumed someone had already checked, if he was asking me for "another Heineken". Also, dude was at least 50, grizzled old biker type with a scraggly grey beard. - TheThrowUpMonster

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My mom was fired for being two minutes late. - [deleted]

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Using the copy machine for personal use rather than for business purposes.- Back2Bach

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It was my first job. I worked at a nursing home, serving the residents dinner and cleaning up afterwards. My boss was never really a nice person, but I was just happy to have a job so I didn't complain. I had been working there for about seven months when I got injured. I slipped in a puddle of water a resident had caused when they knocked over their glass. I ended up breaking my arm. I told my boss what happened and that I would be out of work for a bit so my arm can heal. It would be hard to do my job when my dominant arm was broken. She fired me on the spot. Her reason, I'm far too fragile and a good employee wouldn't get hurt on the job. I guess she wanted someone with bones that didn't break... - broadwayrocks

Our parents and grandparents may be older and wiser than us in many ways. But technology is not one of them. Take it from someone who regularly Facetimes with my mom's eyebrows and forehead while my dad yells from off-screen "I can't see her!"

Someone asked Reddit: "What are your parents' technology fails?" These 23 people share their parents' and grandparents' funniest failures to understand or operate phones, laptops, and other modern technological devices:

1.) From pseudosara:

I once gave my mom a cd, and she told me all the songs sounded the same. I then found that her cd player was on track repeat.

I also had to explain to my mom the concept of throwing away a computer file.

2.) From playblu:

My mom can get on the internet for hours at a time, but when she's done, she backs out of it - clicks to go back one page, over and over, until she's back at her Yahoo mail start page. I've told her she doesn't have to do that but she insists on it.

3.) From [deleted]:

For a long time after I introduced my father to gmail, he thought that I had invented it, because my name starts with g.

4.) From magicmuds:

I helped my mom purchase a new computer monitor. I suggested she give her old one to Goodwill. She said "oh, I don't know, what if some identity thief gets ahold of it". I tried to explain that her monitor doesn't store any data. I think she is still dubious, the old monitor still sits in her computer room.

5.) From guitargirl07:

My mom was pissed off at my brother and I so she took our Xbox. Fortunately for us she took the sub woofer instead.

6.) From 2inchesOFury:

My mom bought a monitor and a usb flash drive, and expected it to be a fully functionally computer.

7.) From hzsfre:

My parents were on a road trip going from Texas to Canada listening to an audiobook on a CD. After about 14 hours, my mom got embarrassed and confessed to my dad that she had no idea what was going on in the book, since some characters had seemingly come back from the dead without explanation. My dad, also embarrassed, had been unwilling to admit he had no idea what was going on either. They arrived at the hotel and went to sleep.

The next day, they discovered the CD player was on shuffle, and had been listening to the chapters out of order.

8.) From Ahhotep:

It took weeks to explain to my parents that if you used Facebook, MSN, or any other form of online communication, the entire internet could not see what you were writing. That you were semi-privately contacting your friends, who you had consciously added, not shouting into the void. A random paedophile could not just drop in on your conversation.

My mum to this day thinks that the "favourites" list on her browser (Internet Explorer, too...) is everyone's favourites list. Every couple of weeks we have a conversation along the lines of "I saw this really interesting website, so I put it on favourites, you should look at it!" and I have to explain that I am not on her computer and as such have no way of knowing what she's talking about.

9.) From sneezen:

not really a fail, but my mother always double-clicks links. that freaks me out. you only need to click one time! my dad recently signed on facebook and is adding people who have the same name as him.

10.) From Hraesvelg7:

I tried to get my grandmother to play Wii Sports to get her doing at least a little activity.

"Ok, now move your hands to play, grandma."

"Move my what? What button do I press?"

"No button, just move your hands around."

"What button is my hands?"

"You don't need to press any button, just move your hands like your playing tennis."

"I don't understand your weewee!"

11.) From sirreally:

My Dad picked up his own TV remote control off his coffee table and asked me if it was my new phone.

12.) From betterwithmusic:

My Mother searches "Google" on bing to get to Googles home page so she can search for something

13.) From Bisphosphate:

Helping my mom fill out a form on the computer. She nearly gave her signature with an actual pen. I intervened.

14.) From foulBachelorRedditor:

My mother only uses the computer 10 minutes at a time because she thinks if it is on any longer it will catch a virus/overheat

15.) From street_fighting_man:

My 59 year old mom tried to take a picture on my iPhone by placing her eye directly over the lens on the back of the phone (like an old school camera). She was blinded momentarily.

16.) From barrymacockenya:

My mother watchers standard definition on her $1700 LED television.

17.) From mkay0:

My mother- FB status as a search engine.

18.) From bluefeesh:

I get annoyed with my mom every single time. She won't just let me do it, she insist I show her. It usually goes something like this:

"Double click your web browser. Double click. It's not opening because you didn't double click. Okay type it in the address bar. The thing at the top. No don't use bing to search for it, just type it in. Now sign in. No you have to sign in first. You don't have to read everything, it's just spam. I don't know who sent it. Click delete at the top. IT'S AT THE TOP. Sweet Jesus."

19.) From linds360:

My father has been writing emails to me in all caps ever since he began writing emails. He says they're "more clearer" that way.

tl;dr my dad has been screaming at me through the internet for years

20.) From BHMtheMAN:

My mom once bought my dad a smartphone. He turned it off by accident, and didnt know how to turn it back on. He then threw a huge fit, and yelled at my mom, telling him that the stupid thing broke on him already. My mom then scolded my dad repeatedly for breaking it within the first day of getting it. During there arguement, I walked over, held down the power button, and turned it on... they traded it in within the next week.

21.) From squidgemo:

My mom still "signs off" her voicemail messages as if she's writing a letter: "Love, Mom"

22.) From amirahfusion:

When I went away to college in 2000, I tried to teach my mom how to use email and aol instant messenger to keep in touch. I would often get emails that just said "hi" and IMs that had a whole email typed out...she always seemed to confused by the whole thing.

Fast forward to my second semester. My dorm had particularly shitty food, so we would all get excited on days they had food we liked. Before dinner one evening, I set my away message to be something like "Yay grilled cheese and tomato soup night!". After dinner I went to work on homework with some friends. When we all got back to my dorm room to hang out I noticed that I had a bajillion IMs from my mom. The convo went something like this:

Mom: Hey how are you?

auto response: Yay grilled cheese and tomato soup night!

Mom: That's nice honey. what are you up to this weekend?

Mom: You there?

Mom: Where'd you go?

auto response: Yay grilled cheese and tomato soup night!

Mom: I know that, why are you telling me that?

Mom: What's going on??

Mom: Why aren't you answering me?!

auto response: Yay grilled cheese and tomato soup night!

Mom: What the hell is going on up there??

Mom: Are you on drugs??

Mom: ANSWER ME!!

auto response: Yay grilled cheese and tomato soup night!

Mom: That's IT. I'm driving up there right now.

omg, it was so funny! I called her cell...she was crying and screaming at me and on her way up to campus (about 1.5 hrs away). At this point I am absolutely cracking up, as are my friends in the background. my mom keeps saying, "I knew it! you're all high!! I can hear you and your stoner friends laughing!" I finally get ahold of my stepdad, who luckily thought this was hilarious, and he convinced her that everything was fine and to come home.

I printed out the convo and had it up on my door for the rest of the year. Oh man, it was hilarious how much she flipped out over that away message, heh.

23.) From ElCato12345:

A friend of mine used to receive an email a couple of days before his birthday every year. Grandma could not grasp the concept that it didn't need time in the post!

High school reunions can definitely be either an anxiety-inducing nightmare of weird small talk while nursing the melted ice from a mixed drink, or a surprisingly fun time catching up with old friends.

While five-year reunions are more popular now, the stakes are pretty low when there have only been five years since graduation, considering most people are just starting their careers. The pressure feels more "on" at the 10-year-reunions, or at least the drama is heightened by movies focused on impressing your former classmates. While most people get nervous before seeing the people they knew when they were teenagers, the reality of a reunion is that pretty much everyone is usually in the same uncomfortable and nostalgic boat. The people who remained close will usually congregate toward each other, the old "cliques" often remain the same, and everyone who radically changed and actually has something to "show off" usually just doesn't show up.

Still, once the open bar is flowing it can be a pretty interesting scene. So, when a Reddit user asked, "What are your worst High School reunion stories?" people were ready to share.

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Just had my five year this past July. There were a few golden moments, but the best was when the 'popular girl' came to talk to me. I had seriously never spoken a word to this girl in my life, nor had she to me.

She said, "I don't even know why I came here, everybody hated me in high school. I was such a b*tch. Sorry, by the way."

Still not sure if she was apologizing to the right person, but I appreciated it on behalf of my fellow nerds. She really was a b*tch. - awyeedracomalfoy

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I went to high school with John Mayer. He did not bust down the double doors. - MrDNL

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I got an e-mail about my ten year reunion from a guy I couldn't quite remember. I had to look him up on Google. Turned out he was big time into furries and plushies. He had some interesting convention pics. Learned something new that day. - suddenlysimon

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Not my story, but my dad's: He went to his 10 year high school reunion with my mom. Throughout the entire night, everyone would walk up to my mom and start conversation with her thinking that they had gone to school with her. She would have to introduce them to my dad.... - lahaina1

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A friend of mine went to our 10 year and noted that I was listed as deceased in the program. Not sure how or why that happened, but I'm just going to leave it at that. - unplayed_namer

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For our 10 year, and from the stories I've heard from the previous years 10 year, there was actually fist-fights between people still holding a grudge against others. Mainly over stupid things like "you were a d*ck to me in high school" etc - geneom45

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This girl from my class that was somewhat cool with everyone but decided to run with the older boys in high school. Comes up to us and says, "Hey guys, yea I know I got fat." It was like Jenna Jameson just slapped us across the face with her t*tty. We didn't know whether to be appalled or applaud. - [deleted]

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When my dad went to his 30 year reunion, a woman he hadn't seen since graduation came up to him.

Her: "Hi Steve. Remember me?"

Him: "Hey Pam! How are you?"

Her: "Oh, I'm good. We have a 29 year old daughter I have her phone number if you want to call her." - isisis

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I conned half the class to switch bars got hammered drunk. Crisis averted - McWitt19

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At mine, I got hammered andthrew up in the jack in the box parking lot. Just like high school. Classy. - becksway

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Five year reunion was held six years after we graduated. One guy spent the whole time getting drunk and freaking out that his GF told him she was pregnant. That was nine years ago, they have three kids, live together and are listed on FB as engaged. I'm not missing much by skipping the fifteen year. - lalalinoleum

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My 10 year was terrible. With the exception of maybe 3 or 4 people who actually moved on and did something with their lives, everyone else married each other and had kids already, working the standard boring dead end jobs. It was good catching up with them, but as soon as the liquor started flowing, it was like we were back in HS again. Same cliques, same party attitudes, these people are sh*t - [deleted]

13.

my 5th year reunion... I completely missed. I was about 6 months out of chemo and I went out with a couple cute girls from the office. One of the girls knows the bouncer at the place we were headed so we jump the line and I hear "HEY OLD_USER_NEW_NAME! WHERE YOU BEEN BRO!" I am anything but a bro. Anyway-- not really the point. An hour or so later when he and the rest of my class mates get in-- 5 of them get into my face "why didn't you come to the reunion bro?" "Where were you?" I took a shot of whiskey and laughed at them "Out with beautiful and interesting women...sorry...bro"
and then I went to go dance with two beautiful women I didn't have a chance in hell of hooking up with... but it was way better than spending a night with my tea party high school associates. - OldUserNewName

14.

I was not popular in high school, as I was the only kid in a wheelchair, and people stayed away from the "weirdo" (I was a bit of a wierd kid).

Fast forward to June, my 10 year anniversary. My friend from high school (really one of the few that I still talk to) and I decide to go to our reunion. It was at a newly reopened bar in the city (Chicago). I called ahead of time to see if it was accessible (I never do, but I wanted to be sure it went off without a hitch.... since I had decided to go). So we all get into a car (my girlfriend(also in a chair), me, my friend, and his partner), and drive down there. We get there a little early, and wait outside. Finally we get in, and find that the party is upstairs in their party room. Wheres the elevator? There isnt one, I am told.

Rather than give them any more of our business, we decide to leave, as I am pretty furious that I was given false information over the phone (it wasnt just "sort of" inaccessible... there were 2 flights of stairs!). I called a few other friends from my post high school life, and we had a nice get together that evening on the fly. - nene7070

15.

Went to five-year reunion after being away and not having any contact with my previous classmates. In the course of going around and saying hi to all, I met a girl who was nice but shy all throughout high school. She was with some older guy.

"Hi Derpina! How are you? What have you been doing since you got out of highschool?"

Derpina- "Well... not much...I have 3 kids..."

"Really? Wow that's great! And this (turning to the guy) must be the proud father."

Derpina- "No...not really..."

Not Proud Father- "I'm just kinda the stand-in"

Derpina- "...There are two other guys that are their dads..."

I was a little shocked...time to move quickly past this subject. - [deleted]

Balancing career ambitions with the demands of a relationship can be incredibly hard.

In an ideal world, the careers of two partners would complement each other, and no one would have to forgo their dream job in order to keep a relationship intact. However, things aren't always that simple, and oftentimes couples have to make massive compromises around who gets to pursue their ambition.

It can be easy for resentment to build up if one partner feels like all of the financial responsibility falls on them, or conversely, if one partner feels like their career goals are always shafted.

In a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, a woman asked if she's wrong for telling her husband he can't accept a dream job that puts her career at risk.

AITA for asking my husband to turn down his dream job for my career?

I’m going to be vague for privacy reasons, sorry.

OP shared that she's the primary breadwinner, and has a growing career in a niche field.

I (33F) am the breadwinner of our household. I have multiple, highly specialized degrees for a niche industry. I make 200k+, with potential to get in the 600-M’s range. My company has not been hit that badly by COVID, so most of us have kept our jobs, but we’re held to strict standards.

Her husband has broader work experience, quit his job right before the pandemic hit, and recently landed an interview at a company he's really excited about.

My husband (36M) has a broad degree/work experience. He quit his job right before COVID hit, hoping for a better job in the meantime, and I was supportive. He spent a ton of time applying to various jobs, and finally landed an interview at Organization X.

This is his dream job, in almost every imaginable way (I can’t be detailed). However, it’s paying about 65k a year, which would be fine except this job directly puts my job stability at risk.

While this is his dream job in all of the ways except the salary, the nature of the company directly puts OP's work at risk.

My company and this org. are adversarial, at best. My field is extremely secretive, and if clients discovered my spouse was working for a competitor, I would be permanently tainted. I wouldn’t be able to get a job in the industry forever. I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise you, it absolutely is not.

In fact, OP knows for a fact that if her husband takes a job with this company it could put her entire career at risk.

She likened it to him working for TMZ while she works to protect the privacy of celebrities.

It’d be like if I worked in protecting the privacy of celebrities, and he worked for TMZ. If he tapped my car, got into my work devices, he could use that to advance his career, and any trust I have in this field will be gone. Even if I trusted my husband not to do that, my clients and company don’t. Worse, b/c my background is so specialized, this is the only field I can work in.

OP asked her husband to drop out of the interview process and look into applying at other companies, since she is sure she'll lose her job if he takes it, and they can't live on his salary alone.

I asked him to drop from consideration for this job, since if he got it, we’d lose my income. 65k a year cannot support us in this city. Plus, he does not have to work for this organization. Even if the job market is awful right now, his background gives him access to a wide range of jobs, but I only have this one, niche field.

He was extremely angry, and said I was “selfish and only cared about money.” I told him that if he wanted to go back to school for an advanced degree or just be unemployed for a while, I would support him, but taking this job isn’t possible.

Her husband got angry and claimed her request was selfish, and moved forward with the job application process behind her back.

He continued the process behind my back, and got the offer. He wants to accept it, b/c he says his career needs to take priority and that I wasn’t being a supportive wife.

Now, OP feels betrayed and like she's been forced between a rock and a hard place.

I feel so betrayed, and I’ve contacted all relevant higher ups in my company to inform them. I notified them as soon as he got the interview, b/c it’s better coming from my email than from a background check.

OP ended up giving her husband an ultimatum: he could take the job and move out, or he could turn it down and they could stay together.

I told him he could decline the offer, w/me watching him physically decline it, or he could accept the offer and move out immediately. I would pay for him to stay two weeks at a hotel, and we would begin divorce proceedings. My company is willing to take care of all of my legal fees.

Now, OP feels awful, she still loves her husband but can't afford to lose her entire career when they can't subsist on his salary.

I feel f*cking awful. I still love him. I moved decisively, b/c this was the best way to cut my losses, but it still hurts. He called me heartless and cold. It’s true that I was prioritizing my career over his, but it felt like the only option at the time.

FirmCampaign8221 thinks OP is just doing what she has to do, and the circumstances are unfortunate.

NTA Some are saying you've decided your job is important than your husband. They're ignoring that he seems to have decided a job offer is more important than your entire career. I was ready to call you the a*shole considering we frequently see people unnecessarily prioritize their career over their spouses when compromise is possible. However he's refusing compromise.

To address the people calling this a trust issue - it doesn't matter if she trusts him. Her company and her clients don't. He knows this and chose to pursue this job anyway. If she doesn't trust someone who's willing to destroy her entire career for a single job I don't blame her.

Men aren't usually the spouse making career sacrifices for the greater good of the couple. I don't know for sure but that could be something he's struggling with.

I think the fact that he’s not considering the fact that his wife makes more than 3X what he will is stupid. It’s like cutting off your entire face to spite your ears.

Millennials_RuinedIt doesn't understand why OP's husband would put their relationship and her career on the line for a fraction of her salary.

Be happy that your wife is successful in her career and is willing to support the both of you. This is the 21st century get that macho bullshit out of your head.

Either find a job that doesn’t conflict, or go back to school so you can.

I couldn’t imagine throwing away my marriage for a 65k a year job. Maybe if it was 650k he MIGHT have some justification but even then it would be sh*tty.

I honestly hate people bringing up toxic masculinity but this is a prime example; being unable to sacrifice something small for your wife who contributes so much. I hope he figures out this job and it’s pathetic 65k a year is worth his marriage. Time for him to get head out of his own a*s but it might be stuck at this point.

Sleepypastel thinks OP's husband has already proven he isn't trustworthy.

It's a trust issue anyway. He already went behind her back. Who's to say he won't go behind her back to steal information? I hope she goes through with the divorce, I have a feeling this guy will completely destroy her career without caring, then when she's been unemployed and depressed for too long, he'll dump her and throw her out the house. Op needs to protect herself.

Readingreddit12345 took speculation a step farther, and wonders if OP's husband's job partially offered it to him because of her.

NTA - And I wonder if Organization X will still want your husband once he becomes your ex?

Mahliki thinks OP is NTA, especially since she warned her husband.

NTA - you told him from the beginning that if he took this job it would end your specialized career. He went ahead with the application behind your back.

Regrettably, he put you in the position of choosing between him and your career. I think you made the right choice, you clearly resent what he's done and I can't see that getting better if you lose everything you worked for.

While it seems a lot of strangers on the internet understand where OP is coming from, that still doesn't solve the fact that her husband has shown himself to be stubborn about this situation. Hopefully, he comes to his senses, so she doesn't have to move forward with a divorce.

Before they were our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, our family members had fulfilling, colorful lives. And yes, those lives probably included—(sorry)—"romance." Maybe even a fling with someone famous. So don't forget to ask Grandma at your next family reunion about who she dated before Grandpa. She may have been a lot more rock and roll than you ever gave her credit for.

In several threads, people share stories of their close family members who have hooked up with or dated celebrities. Here are 21 stories from people who were one degree of separation from fame:

1.) From corona_kid:

My grandma did one of the beatles in the 60s

-edit: it was paul, and she has his number

-edit 2, story time- in 1961 my grandma dated paul, for 3 weeks then they broke up on good terms, and stayed in contact... she got his phon number in like 2008 and they hang out sometimes when shes in england, ive met him twice, hes pretty nice.

2.) From horsewitnoname:

My grandma is from Memphis and fucked/dated Elvis for a while before he became mega famous. She has tons of pictures of them together and has told me tons of anecdotes that I have only seen in a few other places.

3.) From Nurgle_Marine_Sharts:

Johnny Depp asked my mom out at a bus stop around the time when he was getting famous from 21 Jump Street. I would not have been conceived if she had ghosted her bf to go on a date with Depp.

4.) From coffee-jnky:

My mom dated Macho Man Randy Savage. She went on one date with Steve Perry. (From Journey) My favorite story though is that she used to hang with Willie Nelson and smoke it up with him. She still goes to Bandera all the time. I didnt get details, thank goodness, but from the gist I get, she had a pretty good time with Randy Savage but wasn't all that impressed with Steve Perry.

5.) MrQuickDraw:

My grandma banged Mick Jagger in 1969.

6.) From makko007:

My Dad dated Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes from The Walking Dead) in Highschool. He defines her as “a very nice girl.” Truth be told I don’t think he remembers much of that relationship, but she came to our house party once when I was a kid and she was always really nice to me and my sister

7.) From drunkenmagnum24:

My grandmother dated Jimmy Carter. Not sure how physical things got but I've read a few of the letters he wrote. I only post this because I can't think of any other reason I would get to bring this up.

8.) From Mbarton2010:

My Wife’s grandmother dated Ted Bundy. Said he was a wonderful and charming guy.........

9.) From readyfredrickson:

My Nana was in a serious relationship with Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash.

10.) From madiison1461:

My mom had sex with David Lee Roth, she said he smelled like sour milk and put his dirty hat on her head.

11.) From snorlaxisahomophobe:

My sister f*cked Drake. I walked into her room like 10 years ago and she was Skyping him, I waved to him and said hi and he showed me the studio he was sitting in because I was skeptical. Pretty cool. I guess they met up after his show in the city we lived in at the time and then never spoke again lol

12.) From fireplay1:

My grandma kissed Tom petty

13.) From crappy-mods:

My sister drunkenly kissed Keanu reeves on the back of the neck. She will never live it down and Keanu was cool when I met him

14.) Cassie_JaD3:

My mother had a one night stand with Conan back in early 2000’s. They met at a bar somewhere in Texas and he bought them a hotel room.

15.) From RFEngineer:

My Aunt went on a date with Jimmy Buffett. She said he picked her up, stopped at a gas station, bought a jar of pickles and then drove to the beach. They ate pickles and he took her home.

16.) From hiiamrob:

My aunt was married engaged to Van Morrison briefly. Here they are together on this album artwork. No interesting stories that I could remember. They were in love but given he was always gone so the challenges that come with fame, his personality quirks documented in many places, and my aunts young age at the time (20) it didn't work out. I was told that he would play guitar for the fam on Christmas get togethers.

17.) From KingTobia_II:

When my mom’s aunt died they were going through her stuff and found a picture of her sitting on JFK’s lap. No one knew anything about it.

18.) From NardClump:

My mom had a dinner date with George Clooney in the 90’s. She didn’t really say much apart from the fact that he’s an interesting and charismatic guy but she honestly didn’t think he was going to blow up.

19.) From laurieb16:

My aunt kissed Gordon lightfoot in a bathroom at one of his concerts. I’m guessing there was probably more but she didn’t elaborate.

20.) From Neonlazerthunderbutt:

My uncle is a ski instructor in Northern California and had a coffee date with P!nk

21.) From sacredestsecret:

My sweet nana, who typically only has nice things to say about anyone, was once set up on a date with Chuck Norris through a friend of her cousin. My siblings and I found out shortly after the wide circulation of Chuck Norris facts started so we couldn't wait to get the details. She told us, "he was a lovely man, but honestly a bit of a bore."

While our entire lives are shaped by small moments, there are some moments that more overtly set off a chain reaction that changes the entire course of our existence.

A shift as simple as leaving your house a few minutes later, or popping into a store that catches your eye, can completely transform the course of your life, and in some cases - save it.

In some cases, these moments are the result of a simple small decision, while other circumstances feel a bit more cosmic.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the "butterfly effect" moments and decisions that altered the course of their lives.

1. From TheDevilsAdvokaat:

About 20 years ago I was watching a tv show about a guy in Australia who feeds the homeless. At the end they interviewed a few of the homeless who all said he was great, and their names flashed up on the bottom of the screen.

One of the guys had the same name as my brother, who I hadn't seen for about 15 years. I looked at the screen, squinted...and there under the dirt and grime was my brother, who was an addict and lost touch with us years ago.

I called the tv program and got the name of the feeder guy, he contacted my brother and passed on my phone number. A couple of days later I got a call and told him he could come live with me. And he did.

He moved in at my place, then the next morning went up the road to get a newspaper to look for a job (this was about 2000. Came back and he'd found someone advertising for English teachers in China. He asked me what I thought...I said, what have you got to lose?

So off he went. And loved it. Kept telling me to go too, so six months later I quit my job, sold my car, moved everything I wanted to keep over to my older brother's place...and left for China.

I was there for 18 years. I met a girl, got married, bought an apartment, had two kids. Then the Hong Kong troubles came and I moved back to Australia a few months ago.

And it all started from watching a tv show and seeing a name I knew.

2. From Rockima:

I went to Amsterdam to meet up with friends.

On the way back there was a train at the station, but the display didn't show information. I decided to ask a random guy who was entering the train if this was the right one. It was and we start chatting.

Holy sh*t this guy is a perfect match for my mom. I asked him he would like to date her. He agreed, because of the unique condition.

They had a relationship within a month.

Lived together within a year.

11 years later still together, married for 4 years.

All because of a broken display.

3. From rhett342:

I was supposed to go to a U2 concert with this girl I was friends with, her boyfriend, and a couple of other people. I had a knack for getting good seats at shows so it was up to me to get tickets. She went nuts and accused me of trying to break into her house to clean her carpets while she was in Croatia so I kept the tickets (they hadn't paid me yet) because I still wanted to go but not with them because they were really good seats.

I went to a street fair in town a couple of weeks later and ran into a girl I was friends with from high school who loved U2. I sold her a ticket and she asked if she could bring a friend which just made me think "woohoo, I'm selling another one of these really pricey tickets!" The girls show up at my place day of show and her friend smiles as she is walking in. I saw the smile and knew that was it, I'm going to be spending the rest of my life chasing that smile.

Well over 20 years, a couple of kids and dogs later, and as soon as I finish typing this I'm headed to bed to snuggle up next her.

Tl:DR I met my wife because one of my friends went nuts and accused me of trying to clean her carpets while she was in Croatia.

4. From Tovarishch:

Mine is about how I met my wife too!

I joined the military two years after high school. Didn't have any other options because of the recession, didn't want to go into insane debt for a degree I didn't even know if I wanted. So I'm sitting there in the contract office looking at the options they're offering me and it boils down to 5 years or 6. I spent about 30 seconds on it and decided to do 6 because the bonus was a little better and I'd have guaranteed employment for a little longer.

I go through my training, two years worth, and get sent to Germany. Everyone in my group who has the 6-year option got sent to Germany, the ones who chose 5 were split between Germany, Georgia, and Maryland. I do two years in Germany where I make some anonymous online friends who share similar interests. I move to Georgia to do my final two years and one of them mentions that she works on the post I now live on. I suggest that we do a meet up since I know that she and another of the online friends are dating. We do and have fun so we continue to hang out. Eventually one day she says she's going to bring along a friend from a club she joined on her college campus.

This girl and I hit it off, and after I get out of the military we move to Texas and get married. Her best friend comes to the wedding and meets one of my best friends, and they hit it off and end up getting married. My wife and I have a kid, and our best friends live about 15 minutes away...

All because of a 30 second decision I made in a crowded office in 2011.

5. From Augustane:

It all started with the first week of my college freshman year.

It goes:

I drunkenly wandered into a frat party one night and thought “Oh f*ck, they have a fire pit, that’s cool.”

I joined that fraternity, drank a lot of beer, got the freshman 15, and looked like sh*t.

My roommate suggested that I start boxing with him to get in better shape and to get girls (hint: got 0).

A year later I had my first sanctioned amateur boxing bout

Two years later I won an amateur U.S. national championship

Thanks to that, I became the captain of my college boxing team and dipped into coaching new people

Realized I really f*cking liked coaching and teaching people new things

Decided to try becoming a teacher and get my masters in education (Applied with a 2.7 gpa lol)

Holy sh*t, I’m a f*cking teacher now.

Can’t imagine a more fun and fulfilling job

All of this because I was really drunk and liked that one frat house with a fire pit. So yeah, moral of that story...I have a fire pit in my back yard now.

6. From Lachwen:

After high school, I attended a community college for a few years. I'm rather introverted and am not good at making new friends, so for most of my first term I basically didn't interact with anyone.

I had a two-hour break between two of my classes, so I started hanging out in the cafeteria because it had chairs and food. One day I saw a guy rocking a blue fedora (this was before the fedora-wearing neckbeard stereotype really became a thing, and also this particular guy is not and never has been a neckbeard in any way) and I complimented him on it. We chatted a little bit and he invited me to join him and his friends who also spent their free time hanging out in the cafeteria.

Fedora Guy and I dated for a little while, but ultimately we weren't a good fit long-term, though we have remained good friends. The big thing, though, was that he introduced me to an internet discussion forum he was part of. I joined that forum and became a very active member in that community, and made a lot of friends through there.

Several years later, I was feeling pretty trapped in where I was in life, working a retail job and barely making ends meet, with no resources to go back to school and no marketable skills to look for other work. A couple from the forums (who lived a good 600 miles from me) offered to let me move in with them and they'd support me while I essentially tried to restart my life. I took them up on their offer, moved from Oregon to California, met a guy I really hit it off with, and am now married and working a job that gives me a great deal of satisfaction.

All because I said "Dude, I like your hat" to a stranger in the cafeteria 15 years ago.

7. From cookiebinkies:

In November of 2018, there was a huge blizzard right around Thanksgiving. My college didn’t close for the blizzard so I went out early to get some hash browns from the dining hall before my psychology exam. I ended up falling and getting a really bad concussion and had to reschedule my midterm.

The day after (or maybe two days after), I ended up taking a triple dose of my panic attack medication because benzos and concussions make you really confused. I knew something was wrong so I went to the ER and nobody believed me that the overdose was by accident.

So at the psychiatric inpatient, I was prescribed some antidepressants. Nurse reassured me that the good mood was just not being depressed. Instead I was actually manically happy and high.

Got serotonin syndrome-muscle spasms, muscle atrophy, seizures, fever that didn’t go down with tylenol so had to use an ice bath, coma for a bit.

Quit college because I couldn’t even feel hunger, went home, did physical therapy, therapy, and got antidepressants because serotonin syndrome ruined my ability to make serotonin. Took a dna test and found out I metabolize SSRIs at double the pace. In the meantime, got to meet tons of nurses and doctors and discovered I wanted to be a nurse. Started volunteering emt and even got to deliver a baby. Got a full ride to college for nursing too.

So wanting blizzard/class + hash browns = concussion -> overdose -> inpatient -> serotonin syndrome -> quitting college for multiple treatments -> finding my true passion, going back to school, and delivered a baby!

8. From Shogus00:

WWII: Some guys are looking for volunteers to go join a group that goes behind enemy lines. No one volunteers. They randomly select my grandfather. Everyone that didn't join that group in that camp was killed on frontlines.

9. From botatoes:

I couldn’t afford college, so I applied for a naval ROTC scholarship. The recruiter told me an engineering major would have a higher chance of acceptance, so I applied for the scholarship with a chemical engineering and got it. Because of this scholarship, my choice of college was significantly narrowed down to colleges that accepted me, I applied FAFSA for, had a NROTC program and engineering program. I had one college to choose from.

The navy thing didn’t work out because I didn’t do it for the right reasons but because of it I ended up going to school in Michigan in the engineering school. Without this whole ROTC thing, I would’ve never gone to Michigan and would’ve never chose an engineering major.

Chemical engineering didn’t work out. I failed physics 1 and organic chem 2 (barely passed the first one). Didn’t know what I was doing, on a ton of loans for out of state tuition and poor as shit. I signed up for whatever free food opportunities and one was them was free lunch with a grad student program. The purpose of the program was for the grad student to convince undergrads to pursue grad school. The grad student I was paired with convinced me to give computer science a try. I did, since it was fine if I sucked at physics and chemistry.

Had to do summer school to catch up on classes since I switched my major and the overlap between chemical engineering and computer science wasn’t too big. Got a job as a summer camp counselor at the university for high school and middle school students. The professor that ran the camp also gave me a job as a TA for the remainder of my time in college. No longer poor as shit during school. Still a ton of loans.

The professor also got in contact with a recruiter at Microsoft saying I’d be a great candidate. Got scheduled for a screening interview. Studied my ass off. Got a real interview. Studied my a*s off more. Got an internship. Graduated college. Went back full time. Now living in Seattle, a city I absolutely love, loan free and no longer poor as sh*t.

I have absolutely no idea where I would’ve ended up if I didn’t try for that ROTC thing since computer science/engineering was as far away from what I wanted to do as I could’ve imagined.

10. From lizetta9:

Was studying abroad in Salamanca, Spain where I met this random student at a bar and chatted with him for about 30 minutes. I friended him on Facebook the next day (this was the early days of Facebook and I was young and excited about social media). I went on to live in a different city for a few months, then went to Madrid, Spain for the summer. Decided to click through to “friends in Madrid” on Facebook (again, young and excited about social media) on the day I arrived. Saw this student from Salamanca was my only contact in the city and decided to message him.

He invited me to drinks with friends that night, where I met this random German dude who invited me to his birthday party the next day. I went because I didn’t have anything better to do. I ended up dancing with the random German dude’s brother, who was there visiting just for his brother’s birthday. After the dancing (and some talking, etc.,), the random German dude’s brother and I realized we had a serious connection. We maintained a long-distance relationship from Germany to Spain, then Germany to the USA for a year. We’ve been married over 8 years now. We had both arrived in Madrid the day before. Up until that point that 4 day window in Madrid was the only time we had ever been in the same country at the same time.

11. From biscuitboy89:

When I was 19 I was working a sh*tty retail job and had an awful store manager that was a really nasty guy. One day I snapped and had enough and stormed out. I never came back.

I felt guilty as the store manager only scheduled two people on at the end of the day, so with me gone it was just him and my colleague who was about to leave for the day...on his last ever day.

The colleague stayed on an extra hour or two on his last day to cover for me and I guess because I'd left abruptly, agreed to work a few extra shifts until I was replaced.

My replacement was a woman whom later became his wife and now they have two children.

If I hadn't rage quit that day the likelihood is they never would have met and those kids would never exist!

12. From j_kyuu04:

TW: Suicide

A couple of years back, I was terribly depressed and suicidal. In my mind, no one would care if I die, I'm just one dot in this vast universe. I'm just a burden. Feeling all this pain, in this hell... I'm better off dead. I was already planning my death( the hows , what, where). I didn't have a set date yet. I was planning to cut ties from people and all that but I knew that whenever I felt like it's time, I would do it. I was ready.

Suddenly, before the end of the school year (that same year), one of my classmates did it. Wouldn't go into detail about how but it was on our campus and some of my classmates saw him. Everything stopped for a while. Exams got canceled, classes were canceled for that entire week, we had to undergo some sort of class therapy ( we have at least one case of suicide per year.). There, my brain went into a glitch. Idk but I was just floating watching these people grieve.

Slowly, it came to me...that the world will never stop for you. But for the people who loves you and cares for you? Their worlds will change. I am not even close with this person yet somehow, like a ripple effect, he affected me.

He was a very active and happy guy on the outside and no one would ever suspect he was suffering. During that time, I learned that several of my classmates were suffering from depression (and other forms of mental illness) too. It's just that we're so isolated and confined within ourselves that we didn't notice it. I sort of felt like...I wasn't alone. After that event...I felt guilty, I felt that I have to at least try, for him. I owe him my life, tbh. If that didn't happen, I probably would've ended it, never graduated and all. Wherever he is, I hope he's happy.

13. From prestoneric:

When I was 6 I was riding my bike and a bee was chasing me. I ended up ditching my bike in the middle of the road in front of a random house. A guy came out and helped me by swatting the bee away and getting me back on my bike.

His daughter came out to observe and we introduced ourselves and became good friends. When I was 8 I moved away and only saw her one other time over the next 10 years. When I turned 18 I got my driver's license and decided I was going to see if she still lived in the same house. Drove an hour and it turns out she did still live there. For those of you thinking that we got married and lived happily ever after - nope.

We did end up hitting it off and I was head over heels in love with her. She moved three hours away to Chicago for college, so I applied to college in Chicago and moved with her. Spent 1 semester there before I ran out of money. Ended up joining the Navy to support us, but once I got out of boot camp she decided that she wanted to stay in Chicago and a month later it was too difficult for us to have a long-distance relationship.

Fast forward 6 years, I get stationed in Washington state, meet the girl of my dreams, ACTUALLY understand what it means to fall head over heels in love with somebody. Married for going on 9 years now, two kids, awesome life.

I never would have met my wife if I didn't join the Navy. I never would have joined the Navy if I didn't move to Chicago and go broke. Never would have went to Chicago if it wasn't for the girl. Never would have met that girl if it wasn't for the bee that chased me off my bike.

I f*ckin love bees.

14. From Canadian47:

Not me but one of my flight instructors. He was supposed to fly Senator Heinz but was unavailable. That particular flight (while trying to determine if the nose gear was down properly) had a mid-air collision with a helicopter where everyone died.

*IF* my instructor had taken the flight (he was very experienced) as he was supposed to and managed to land safely, Senator Heinz probably would have beat out GW Bush for the Republican nomination and therefore the presidency. As Heinz was a moderate, the 2nd Iraq war might not have happened...

15. From madeupgrownup:

I saw a cool witchcraft shop across the road from a gaming shop I went to semi-regularly. Convinced boyfriend to come with me.

The owner is nice, we get on well, turns out he loved tin soldiers etc when he was a kid and is thinking about starting a new business. I introduce him to the guy who runs the gaming shop. Three months later the gaming store closes due to sky-high rents. Wizard and the game store manager come up with a plan for an amazing game store with all kinds of tabletop and war games.

Three months later they hold an event to advertise and scope out customer base. Boyfriend and I go and help organize, meeting people and making friends. One year later the new store opens and it's awesome. I become a regular. I have a best friend and many other friends, place becomes like a second home.

Three years pass. BF and I realize we don't want the same things in life, we break up but are now besties. Later I realize that I am in love with best friend from game store. I confess. He feels the same. Turns out we fell for each other and were both too scared to say anything while I was still in a relationship. We date. 4 months later he proposes and it feels right so I say yes. Everyone including ex-boyfriend are thrilled for us.

16. From saffkips:

I think I was around 8 or 9 when I befriended a street cat. My uncle and I were checking out the house that we were renovating and since I was a kid, I was out the streets chilling and saw an old dirty orange cat. I took the cat and cleaned her up and fed her. We played for about three hours before my uncle told me we had to go. I left the cat and left.

We moved in a couple of months later. Now, unbeknownst to us, the area had a bit of a mice and snake problem. Fortunately for us we never had much of an issue on that part. Our neighbors weren't so lucky.

A few years later when we had the place renovated again, we found the orange cat and her kids living inside our ceiling and they were the ones killing the mice and snakes. They also caught some of the cockroaches too.

It's been years now and the orange cat I unknowingly adopted has now died but her legacy still lives on because one of her kids moved into my apartment with me. My place is the only mice free one in my street.

And that's how I helped start the biggest gaming store in the southern hemisphere *and* met the love of my life by walking into a witchcraft shop.

17. From user_is_name:

Sorry about this sad story but here it goes. When I was about 5, our family was planning to go to our village to celebrate festive season. Dad was a doctor and he thought it would be cool to buy a new car before going. He called his friend's dealership and they sent 3 cars for viewing.

We ended up liking one car and we kept that but my silly sister left her favorite shoes in the car and kept crying over it. She was like 2.

Next morning, dad said that why don't you guys take the new car with the driver and leave and I will swing by the dealership, pick up shoes, drop off the old car and get there by train. Mom reluctantly agreed and our driver took us to our village.

Dad decided to leave the next day but that night fighting broke out between two rival groups and few people were shot, dad had to operate on those all night, saving lives. The next morning, being too tired, he decided to skip going to the dealership and join us directly.

The family of the gunshot victim being grateful offered to drive my dad in his old car to our village. The driver was idiot or tired or whatever, he drove the car into a ditch, causing injuries to him and dad. Injuries weren't bad but it lead to my dad having a heart attack and passed away 10 days after :(

18. From ItchyBradPitt:

My best friend and I were going to get breakfast and then ride to an event together one morning. She was running late, so we decided to meet at the diner and drive separately instead of meeting at my house and leaving her car there. After breakfast, I got in a wreck and the seat where she would have been sitting if she had ridden with me was totally smashed. She would have died if she had been on time for breakfast.

That same wreck caused me to miss an important deadline. I was planning to move out of state, but was injured in the accident and ended up staying put for several more months to recover. While I was recovering, I started dating a guy. If I'd moved as I had planned before the accident, we might never have started dating. He ended up being really bad for me, but when we broke up, my rebound guy ended up being a real winner. We've been married for 13 years and have two amazing children.

19. From Tall_Mickey:

This woman I know was living with some guy and one night, years ago, they were watching a local public access TV show on cable. She said to her squeeze, "This is so sh*tty; WE could do better." She had a video background, so they did. They ran it a weekly show for years with a volunteer crew, with the woman as a producer. Relationships were formed among the volunteers, at least one child was born and a couple of marriages. One of them was mine; I came on as a volunteer toward the end -- and ended up marrying the woman who was producing.

The show was science fiction fan-based, and a bunch of them got together to found a convention for San Francisco fanzine publishers. Thirty-five years later, it's still sustaining itself as a con, moving from city to city every year.

All because my wife saw a bad public access TV show and made a decision.

20. From adidapizza:

This girl that I had a crush on posted in a Facebook group for buy/sell/trade in a small college community about looking for a boyfriend. It was deleted in less than 5 minutes by the admins for being against the rules.

I saw her post in those 5 minutes. I messaged her. We started dating, fell in love immediately. We moved across the country together.

Over 6 years later I’m still living in the state we moved to together, even though we broke up a year after arriving. I think there’s a good chance I’ll spend the rest of my life here.

But that’s not all. Because of her I got connected to another Facebook group for drug reform jobs. Through that group I found my first job in cannabis, something that’s led directly to my next 3 jobs (including my current job) and may be my entire career.

To quote one of the most romantic movies of all time, "Mawwiage. Mawwiage is wat bwings us togeder today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam wifin a dream… And wuv, twue wuv, will fowwow you foweva."

There's more to mawwiage then just twue wuv, as married people on Twitter are quick to explain. Holy matrimony is much about the day-to-day problems like taking out the garbage than it is about love and support. Here are 100 hilarious observations you're going. towant to send to your spouse immediately.

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Taxi drivers (and uber drivers) have truly seen and heard it all.

Counterintuitively, there is something about climbing in the backseat of a stranger's car that causes people to let their guard down and spill their secrets. In some cases, the anonymity of the driver creates a purgatory where passengers feel safe shedding emotional boundaries, but also, a lot of people are just plain drunk.

In a popular Reddit thread, people who drive taxis and Ubers shared the weirdest conversation they've overheard.

1. From Devpeacock:

I was an Uber driver for about a week. I had this lady get into my car and I could tell something was wrong. I asked her how she was and started her trip. Soon after she got into my car someone was calling her. She was MF’ing a storm up about her broke a*s boyfriend. Then was fired up, saying that he didn’t come home last night with her new car. He’s meeting with his probation officer this morning, he can’t miss it. I start to realize that I’m driving this chick to go look for her car because her sh*tty boyfriend stole it.

As I arrive at the Municipal Building she’s telling me I can pull over wherever. My city is medium size, but the parking is all over the place. This poor woman was late for work because of her dead beat boyfriend. I could not let her walk around aimlessly looking for her car. So I offer her ten minutes of my time to drive around looking. As we are driving she’s telling me all about this scum bag. She’s trying to call him, leaving him voicemails. Finally, this dude calls back!

They are yelling at each other. He was trying to tell her that he was getting her tire fixed because of a rock. Afterward, I’m feeding her Miss Independent alter ego telling her she deserves better, he won’t ever change. About eight minutes goes by and we find her car! We started hooting and hollering. I pull up in front of her car and wait to make sure it’s hers. She unlocks her car, opens the front door and quickly slams it. I see this chick run to the back seat open the door and then start beating someone up! In my head I’m like oh dude you deserve that sh*t!

As watching in awe, I see her drag another chick out of the car by her hair. Sh*t was crazy, I still get this weird adrenaline rush thinking about it. I’ll never forget that look Miss Independent has when I asked how she was. She nodded, got into her car and drove off.

2. From Jshuffler:

Two Pikachu cosplayers planning to beat someone up.

3. From Anonaggus:

I drove a bus, but I think this still applies. Some girl was talking on the phone about a guy she was with and how he kept putting it in the wrong hole and she didn't know if he was lying to her about it being an accident.

4. From schoolsbelly:

Two drunk dudes I picked up coming out of a San Antonio Spurs game. Nice enough guys, I even stopped and went through the Whataburger drive thru for them. After the initial chit chat they settled in and started talking random stuff. Then they start talking about one of theirs bachelor parties which sounded like had happened pretty recently. Normal drunk bro type talk about the strippers and drinking and how their buddy brought way too much blow.

Say what now? Then the story gets pretty graphic with the bachelor talking about blowing coke off the strippers and the strippers blowing coke off of him and then blowing him and then having a threesome. Then he starts talking about how he's been f*cking the stripper on the side ever since the bachelor party but how after he gets married he's totally going to straighten up. I'm pretty sure they had totally forgotten that I was even there until I pulled up at their apartment to drop them off. Got a $20 tip and a chocolate milkshake from Whataburger.

5. From mybreakfastiscold:

My friend is an uber driver. He picked up a fare in Atlantic City, at one of the casinos, 4am on a Sunday morning, headed to NYC. Two middle-aged guys, trashed, dressed well but their clothes were a little messy and they had no luggage. On the way up they told my friend about how they had been there since Thursday, and were gambling and clubbing and shit. Well, about two hours into the 3-hour drive, the one guy interrupts the other guy's rant about whatever and says, with a shocked face, "Oh no, we forgot Stephanie!" and the other guy goes "What... Oh sh*t, we left her at... Oh no. I dunno, where is she?"

My buddy, the driver, said "Oh no, not Stephanie! Should we go back for her?" since, you know, that would just about triple his fare...but they didn't want to go back. The one guy called her, and she answered, still at the bar they left her at. She had lost track of time and thought they were at the bar, or gambling at the casino. All three of them had gone down to AC together, so the two guys asked my buddy to go get her after he dropped them off. He said she should probably just call for another uber, but he gave them his number and would pick her up if she called...they tipped him well. Stephanie never called.

6. From llewkeller:

Passenger, not a driver. The best taxi ride I ever got was from a Sikh driver, from San Francisco to SFO airport - about a 15-minute ride. It was about 5:00 in the morning, and the guy was an absolute scream - like a stand-up comic - almost Robin Williams pace - funny observations on traffic, flying, families (I was with my wife and kids), etc. I wish I'd been able to record it. I wondered at first if he was on drugs, but I don't think Sikhs do that. Best ride ever.

7. From ___Magnitude__:

"I had my first dp last night. It was way easier than I thought it would be" - girl

8. From RollingRock60:

The first time I ever used Uber, I was in St. Louis on vacation with my wife. We have never been there, and weren't really familiar with the city. Anyways, we are driving with this guy who I think was from the middle east heading into downtown when we saw the Arch. We both started talking about it, and were excited that we were so close. The Uber driver starts telling us facts on the Arch.

"The arch was constructed in France and delivered here as a token of friendship in 1844." I look at my wife with a questioned look and he continues, "A lot of people don't know that, that is why it faces exactly east towards the Statue of Liberty." Now we both know that this guy is completely full of sh*t. We let him continue because, well it was fun. "It's amazing that when it first came over here, the elevator was built inside of it and it was hand driven by 15 men at a time by using a pulley system." We still have no idea if this guy was f*cking with us or if he actually believed what someone once told him.

9. From Spinnak3r:

I was neither the driver nor the passenger in this situation, but my friends and I witnessed the whole thing. It’s not a conversation per se, but it’s still the best thing I’ve witnessed involving taxis or Ubers.

I grew up and still live in a pretty well-known college party town. My buddies and I had been hanging out at my ' house, drinking some, and decided to head down to this place to get some late night burritos. By then it was getting close to 2am when the bars would close.

So we get there, some of us get food, some don’t. We all perch on the ledge of the big window in front of the restaurant. This place was on the corner of a real busy intersection at the heart of a neighborhood that’s entirely students.

A popular student bar was directly across the street from us, and we noticed this 60+ year old woman in a really short skirt floating around the door to this bar. Soon, people start trickling out when the bar closes. It becomes clear she’s trying to snag a young buck who’s too drunk to know better.

This goes on for a few minutes until the last group of guys comes filtering out, and they have a straggler. She bags him. We can see the dude can barely stand.

A cab pulls up and she pulls open the door to let the poor guy climb in first.

Then, before she can climb in, the cab driver speeds off and makes a fast U-turn in the intersection. The windows were all down in the cab so we can actually hear the passenger screaming as they circled around as passed by us, “what are you doing?!” the cab driver shouted back “I’m doing you a favor!”

Meanwhile, the lady is chasing after the cab waving her hand in the air as if he accidentally forgot her.

We just sat there for a second amazed the driver did the guy such a solid.

10. From laterdude:

"I'm glad Kurt Cobain committed suicide. It shows he's no phony and had the balls to do what he sang about."

11. From BSGBramle:

I wasn't the driver, but the passenger.

I got in the taxi I ordered from the train station to my house, and there was a small carnival we drove past.

The Taxi Driver and I had been chatting (the usual small talk, when he is working too etc) and suddenly we passed this carnival and the guy started talking about how they were shutting the carnival down as two 7 years olds had been kidnapped the day before, and the police had no leads, and how its horrific to think that still happens, and he doesn't even want to think of the poor girls.

Got home and looked into it. Non of this happened, nor had it ever in the towns history.

12. From ImJustSo:

Well, my pick up calls me and says her mom wants to meet me first before she'll let her daughter get in with a stranger. So then I actually have to get out and introduce myself, convince her I'm not going to rape and murder her daughter. After about 2 minutes of me turning on the charm, it turns into an almost "first date" where you meet the girls parents. The mom loved me, gave me a cheek kiss and sent us off.

Then me and the daughter flirted all the way to the club she was getting dropped off at, she gave me a kiss on the cheek too.

So that's it. Just a slightly strange, wholesome, fun encounter.

13. From ColdNotion:

So, I used to drive a van service for my university, which was mainly boring, but sometimes got interesting on the weekends when people were getting shitfaced. Anyhow, I'm cruising down a side street one quiet afternoon shift, when this huge dude steps out and signals me. He's standing there with four of his friends, all of whom are equally giant, and was asking if I could take them across campus. Now, even though I had only talked to the dude for a few seconds, it was clear he was high out of his mind, and that his friends were even further gone.

Also, did I mention they were in costume as the Village People? Because they were.

So, naturally, I think this is too good to pass up, and I let my dispatcher know I'm taking an unplanned pickup. Meanwhile, these four massive guys (seriously, all of them were at least 6 feet), start folding themselves into the tiny van seats. As we pull out, one of the guys starts freaking out, and is telling his buddies he drank too much, and thinks he's going to die. Now, he didn't look that bad, but I was in no mood to clean puke off the floor. Fortunately his relatively sober, told me all was well, and reminded his buddy that he had been drinking O'Doul's (non-alcoholic beer, for those of you who don't know).

Now, I'm relieved, but the uber-high dude behind me is having trouble processing the fact that he's not about to meet his maker. He knows he drank a lot, and that it tasted like beer, so the idea that he might not be drunk isn't sticking. He and his buddy have this fantastic back and forth, that starts with an explanation of how you can make beer without booze, and ended with some borderline heartfelt assertions of bro love. Now, I'm struggling not to lose my shit throughout this whole exchange, but things were starting to calm down as I pulled over to drop them off.

It was as they were getting out of the car that one of the other guys, up until this point passed out in the back seat, chimed in: "Wait, why the f*ck did we buy a rack of O'Doul's?"

14. From BigRedWun:

I was on my way to pick someone up when I get a text message from them saying "I'll give you head for a free ride". It was a guy, I am also a guy. They cancelled shortly after.

15. From Rabbi_side_tit:

I was the uber passenger and the driver scooped me and a friend up. We were riding and he said sorry guys I'm in a conference call and had a head price in. We were like no problem man and we just talked to ourselves but he would chime in and chat with us. Toward the end of the ride he says sorry I have to chime into the meeting.

Now I was thinking he would say some business stuff like 4th quarter projections are down or something. He say "alright everyone we need to calm down this isn't the first time someone has killed themselves in our organisation. It's a shame what happened to Frank but we need to get out in front of this and put our PR team on this" I just looked at my friend like wtf and then the dude dropped us off.

16. From rnilbog:

Three that stick out:

I gave a ride to a large Jamaican man who was on his phone the whole time with his earbuds in so he could gesticulate wildly, and constantly referred to himself in third person. He was a rapper, and the whole time he was talking with someone about how awesome he was and how he turned down a $400,000 recording contract because it wasn't enough, and how in 3 years he would be dating Rihanna. I looked him up afterwards and found a couple articles from 2 or 3 years earlier about him being a promising rapper, but nothing since then and certainly nothing indicating he was anywhere close to getting big.

I had one guy who was taking a couple calls from a Craigslist ad he put up. He said something about how his aunt worked for an insurance agency, and if they signed their name on this life insurance policy, they would get a check and they could split it with him once they cashed it. After 2 or 3 of them declined, he asked me if I was interested and I told him I didn't want to commit whatever kind of fraud he was proposing. I thought about trying to report him to whatever bureau covers that, but his plan seemed so stupid he probably got caught anyway.

I picked up this high schooler who, after a couple minutes, started talking about how he had gotten arrested, completely unprovoked. He was quick to point out that it wasn't anything violent, it was for white-collar crimes. What? He starts telling me how he got busted on tax evasion from selling guns or something. The whole time, I felt like this was a weird thing to unload on your Uber driver. Then on the way, we had to stop by a bank so he could deposit a check or something. He said it would only take 30 seconds.

After significantly more than 30 seconds had passed, I started to get concerned. His mom had requested the ride, and I didn't even know his name. Was I the getaway driver or something? After a couple minutes of looking around and listening for police sirens, he comes out normally. There was traffic the rest of the ride, and I wanted nothing more than to drop this kid off and get out of here.

He kept talking about how he's not a bad person, and didn't hurt anyone. But eventually, I dropped him off and had to take a minute to compose myself. I feel like there's a good chance he was f*cking with me, and later while hanging out with his friends was like "lol I totally convinced my Uber driver that I was some hind of psychopathic criminal" but it was a very unsettling experience.

17. From powdog:

I ubered a few times for extra money. I picked this girl up outside a frat house around 10:30 on a Friday. She got in the car, and said to me “OMG you’re my savior I just HAD to get out of there”

Soon after she gets a call and it goes like this:

“OMG yeah when he told me I freaked out and just had to leave.” “I mean, it’s curable so it’s fine but I have to tell [so-and-so] and [so-and-so]....”

Girl talked about getting an STD on the phone while in my front seat.

18. From SupremeWizardry:

Buddy of mine drove Uber for a couple of years.

Good looking woman in a slim black dress, seemed relatively normal on a Saturday night.

After talking for a bit, she alludes in a not so subtle manner that she's an escort. She likes the music he plays, he's a nice guy, makes her laugh. She ends up offering him a hundred bucks cash per ride if he is willing to be her exclusive pickup and drop-off guy when she sees clients.

Super tempting, also pretty illegal. He almost said yes, but turned it down. Later he read the Denver PD has been actively tracking Uber/Lyft drivers who've been making arrangements with pimps, prostitutes, and drug dealers. Way easier to avoid suspicion when you're just the passenger.

19. From mkhpsyco:

He picked up some couple, both of them in their early 40s, from a bar. He's super outgoing and talked with them the whole way. Somehow the topic came up that he's never done shrooms, but has tried LSD and Pot, so the guy says that they should swing by his place first.

They get there, and the door is locked, and he doesn't have his keys, so they're trying to get into the house somehow, and he has a dog flap door. So my brother gets on his hands and knees and crawls through the door and unlocks it. The guy goes in and grabs some stuff, and then they go to the woman's house. He drops them off, and they invite him in.

Some background, this is Utah, and my brother is just getting over his first marriage which didn't even last a year. They are talking about it, and the woman asks if he's never seen a "real woman's" tits before, flashes him, and they all just continue talking for a while. When my brother is going to leave, they tip him. His tip... $100 and a bag of shrooms.

He later showed me videos of him doing shrooms while he was with a friend who was sitting him. Kinda not an overheard conversation, but a very odd sequence of events for a kid who is just barely leaving the LDS Church.

20. From augustwes:

I once picked up the owner of the company I was driving for along with a friend of theirs. Very late night, very drunk. We stopped to get them some gyros for the ride home which was about a half an hour. The gyros were devoured in about 2 minutes which left plenty of time for the full on sex that went on for the rest of the ride home. The smell of gyros and lady on lady sex for 25 minutes was interesting.

Housekeeping staffs keep the hotel experience glamorous for the guests, and reckon with the carnage guests leave behind when they check out.

In a shockingly gruesome Reddit thread, hotel workers shared the worst thing they've discovered in a guest room on the job, and It waaaay nastier than a guest accidentally letting the chocolate that was left on their pillow melt.

Warning: these tales contain dead bodies and lots of bodily fluids.

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Dead body. We noticed a smell on a Saturday, but we'd been having problems with our central air system and didn't think about it. Come Monday one hall smelled horrible. A maid grabbed all the managers when she tried to open a room and smelled something crazy. He'd been dead in there like three days, but he'd had a chain on the door and we can't cut it until the Do Not Disturb has been on the door at least two days at our hotel.

I will NEVER forget that smell. We had to replace carpet, the bed, paint the ceiling, everything. Ugh. -melissarose8585

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Worker here.

A teenage wrestler peed in the trash can. Another one took a bag of chips, threw them all over the room and stomped on them.

In a separate case, a pee pad for when they wet the bed. Soaked.

Also, a tampon in the freezer.

I hate people sometimes. -PaigeJade

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We've had things brought to us that they find in the room - everything from dentures to porn (no one ever claimed any of those).

We're a pretty small boutique hotel so we don't honestly see any horrible sh*t, but one group did manage to smother half the room with vomit. They had twin beds and put the garbage can in the middle of the beds. Well, they must have missed every f*cking time because there was puke on the beds, the floor around the trash can, all over the floor in the bathroom. F*cking disgusting. This is why we take your credit cards!

A lady also once got drunk and tried to "pull a prank" by peeing in the back of the toilet. Well, she broke the whole f*cking toilet and owed us $500. -I_AM_NO_MAN_

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I work at a Hampton Inn at the front desk. We had one particular lady check-in to a room, and we knew from the get-go that she was particularly odd. She mumbled so badly that it was near impossible to understand her. She stayed two nights and changed rooms after the first night. In both the rooms, the chords for the AC unit were cut, so the whole unit had to be replaced. The peephole for the rooms had gummy worms taped over them to block the view. The lights in the bathroom were covered by a wooden board and duct taped to lower the amount of lighting. To top it off, there was mail everywhere: hundreds of letters she decided to leave on the floor.

Either that or a dead body. A guest decided to commit suicide in one of our rooms to make the cleanup for his family easier I assume.

tl;dr - worms and a dead body

5.

I used to work at a front desk in a Marriott hotel that accepted cats and dogs. One of our jobs was laundry.

There was a couple with two dogs staying there for three months on a long-term job assignment. The bitch was in heat. No, no, I'm not being mean and calling the woman a bitch. The bitch, their female boxer...was in heat. I pulled the sheets out of the laundry to wash them and OH MY F-ING GOSH. Blood was all over the sheet. I wasn't supposed to throw sheets out but was supposed to leave them for the housekeepers, but I threw the lot of sheets out that the 'in heat' sheet was touching. Not only did I throw them out but I double bagged them and walked them to the dumpster directly. I was so angry. -Anglophiiile

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Working the late shift once on a full night, I had an old man come up to the front desk to tell me he had thrown up on the elevator. It was all over the door, on the floor, dripping into the crack to the elevator shaft. I had never seen so much! The valet went home for the night so it was just me. It was a real hoot to clean up... -Neutroniks

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I was a cleaner in a motel (first summer job ever) and was told to go strip all the beds down in one of the apartments. As I pull off the duvet I see a massive blood stain in the middle of the bed which had soaked right through onto the mattress. I kinda freaked out coz I was only 15 at the time and there was a LOT of blood. Pretty sure it was a middle-aged couple staying in that room too... -vintage_wine

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Most disgusting? Giant dump in the sink. Like... I don't think this was a one time thing. They had to have been pooing there the entire week they stayed with us.

Weirdest? Two jars of smooth peanut butter smeared all over the ceiling. -shattered_wavelength

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My Mom cleaned hotel rooms when I was younger. A few years ago she told me of a man they (the girls who cleaned the motel) used to call "The Vaseline Man". When he arrived, everything would be clean. When he left, everything would be covered in Vaseline; tv remote, bed, bathroom... On one particular evening, while walking out of his room he informed my Mom that he'd left her a Coke in the side table, unopened, but even that was coated. -​​​​​​ktchnmama

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The pub I used to work in when I was 18 had a nice mini-hotel above it (well, just three rooms). We had a very pleasant middle-aged stay one night. When she left, the cleaner went up to clean the room and found four empty wine bottles and two drafts of a suicide note in the bin. Really bizarre - especially the thought that, if she had gone through with it, one of us would have found her dead body that morning. We had her contact details, so we made up excuses to ring her occasionally over the next couple of months to make sure she was OK. -jguazu

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I worked at a hostel for 3 months and boy do I have some stories just from that short time...

The entire 48-bed hostel was booked by a group from abroad. They arrive, make food, go to bed, and leave the next morning for some touristy activities - all good so far. My boyfriend and I go to clean the rooms and bathrooms. I grab the bin bag from the tiny, open-topped bathroom bin (you know the type, just a little one for cotton buds, empty shower gel bottles, etc.) and what do I see? Piles and piles and sh*t-covered toilet roll. Apparently in their home nation you cannot flush toilet paper because the plumbing can't handle it, but NOBODY had told these guys that you can do it here. Back there the bins are DESIGNED for it - much bigger, totally covered, etc. So for a good few days we were cleaning sh*t-stained toilet paper out of bins. And obviously the foreign water and food had done bad things to their insides... -Lillaena

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Similar to someone else, there was also a dead body found in our hotel. A suicide. Every time I vacuum over the large patch of carpet that was replaced, there is a little voice in my head saying, "you're vacuuming over his dead body spot." -goldenkite

It's hot as hell outside. You're sweating. The AC is cranked to the max. You're wearing your bathing suit and eating a popsicle. Yet, somehow your mind starts to wander into fantasies of flannel, hoodies, and pumpkin spice lattes. Yes, technically it's still August, but screw it. Go ahead and embrace the madness. Ignore the haters and let your freak-for-Fall flag fly. Everyone who's totally over summer and already ready for Halloween will relate to these hilariously too-soon Autumn appreciation memes.

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Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Are you completely clueless when it comes to making relationships last? Well, you're not alone. If you're single, chances are you're more than a little fed up with the dating scene. While there may be a shortage of eligible partners, there are still plenty of laughs to go around. These hilariously relatable memes are the perfect match for anyone who's single right now.

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Before your day gets ruined with whatever fresh hell life decides to throw at you, take a moment to laugh at these delightfully wacky memes. No politics, no hate for our fellow humans, just some dumb jokes to make everything a tiny bit better this morning.

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Need a laugh today? Well, you're in luck, we've got 26 of them right here. If you're looking for a morning pick-me-up, look no further. These memes are funny, silly, and definitely relatable. So, kick back, relax, and get ready to giggle all of your morning grumpiness away.

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Adele has broken the internet with an Instagram post again. Unfortunately, this time, it's because of a cultural appropriation controversy.

People are accusing the singer of cultural appropriation because she posted a photo wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and Bantu knots in her hair.

Adele was celebrating Notting Hill Carnival, an annual event celebrating Caribbean culture in London, where there's a large Caribbean diaspora.

People were confused.

They couldn't believe Adele would post a photo wearing a hairstyle that has Black origins, after so many celebrities have been called out for doing just that.

Comedian Becca O'Neal saw things from Adele's side.

She's not the only one who had a laugh at the pic.

Many jokes were tweeted.

And Adele was compared to another British woman who infamously tried and failed to wade into Jamaican cultural waters.

Some are offering free career advice.

Many compared her to Tom Hanks' son Chet, who recently came under fire for speaking in a Jamaican accent.

People are saying maybe they should link up.

The Twitterverse really went with this fanfic.

But on a serious note, a lot of people were offended to see a white woman like Adele wearing Bantu knots, a hairstyle with roots in Africa.

Some questioned Adele's judgment.

And pointed out that if she hadn't worn this hairstyle, the look would've been much less controversial.

Many were disappointed.

As the website Naturally Curly explains in an article about the style, Bantu knots "are worn by African women of certain cultural groups with a sense of pride and are a strong representation of women in the community wearing a natural hairstyle passed down from generation to generation." But:

Of course, as happens with Black culture too often in the fashion industry, the hairstyle has been used on runways of almost exclusively white models, on non-Black celebrities, has been renamed "twisted mini buns," and magazines have even given credit to these non-Black people as inventors of the style or listed it as a 'new' trend (Side eyes Kardashian and Jenner clan.) In fact, there are many people today who still see Bjork as the person who brought the style back in the 90s.

Still, some people professing to be Jamaican and/or Bantu said they weren't offended.

They protested that Adele's outfit and hair were indicative of appreciation, not appropriation.

And others said Carnival isn't restricted to one race:

Wherever you fall in this debate, one thing is clear: Adele has somehow become one of the most controversial stars on social media.

When you've been doing the same job for a while, you start to pick up on things that the rest of the world might not know — and sometimes, those things are pretty interesting.

A recent Reddit thread asked people to name the "industry secrets" within their field that the general public might not know about. It's safe to say every industry has its quirks.

1. Sneaky, sneaky.

Former [major fragrance and bath retailer] associate here. The scents they “discontinue” will come back with a different name and new marketing. They’re just recycling the scents. - xyenz08

2. Well that's great to know.

Used to screen resumes for small companies. Job "requirements" are more of a wish-list situation. Never let some unchecked boxes deter you from applying - you have no idea what the applicant pool is like. The biggest boon, especially at small companies, is someone who legitimately cares. - TwoPesetas

3. This isn't surprising, but it's good to know.

Former aircraft fueler. Don't check your pets in kennels. Especially in summer or winter. They are submitted to some very harsh environments, left on belt loaders in the sweltering heat right next to a running APU that's loud enough to deafen human ears, let alone a dog's. It's terrible. I always feel so sorry for them.

[Some major airlines] will destroy your luggage. They get overloaded on carts, fall off on the way to the plane, and are left there to get run over by tankers and yes, fuelers, and rained on, then dragged to the edge of the ramp to sit all night while you arrive at your destination and wonder where the hell your bags are.

If your departure is delayed, 90% of the time it's us (the fueler). Look out the window to the right side if it's a small plane, left side if it's a really big plane. If there's a truck sitting under the wing, we're the reason you're late. Sorry. - KingBadford

4. Well, it's still the cheapest...

The cheapest bottle of wine in the restaurant has the biggest markup. - ralimar

5. Puke!!!

If you're someone who purchases bulk nuts, grains, etc. Just know that those bins are probably rarely cleaned, and even when they are "cleaned", odds are they were just rinsed out/wiped down to look clean.

I used to be a bulk buyer at [a food store] and when I took over our bulk department had no cleaning logs or sanitizing procedure. The bins had moths/insect colonies and mold in them. Our store was opened nearly 5 years prior. - Scrubbadubdoug

6. Pink mold?!

This is similar to my previous job at a nursing home: the ice cart. The nursing home patients would get ice water at the beginning of each shift and the cooler that the ice is dumped into, was never ever cleaned. There would be pink mold and other stuff in it. I would try my very best to wash it without being asked or required (in the shower room) but we didn't have good cleaners for edible surfaces. - aTravelersDaughter

7. Good tip.

As a Software Engineer, double your delivery date for a product in anticipation of an over eager Project Manager trying to get promoted. - rykuno

8. Interesting.

Federal HR here, if you put the words from the vacancy announcement about what you need to qualify in your resume you’ll almost always be qualified, we search for those words instead of reading an entire resume.

let me clarify that we, or at least I do and those I train, will continue to scan the resume for similar experience/words and not discount the entire resume immediately. After over ten years of working for HR you learn what you’re looking for and how to do it. Some are easier than others. I know of some Hr folks who totally just say non qual if it’s not exact. - GiraffesAreReal06

9. This isn't super surprising.

Nobody uses bots to inflate metrics more than the most major players in the entertainment industry. All the numbers are fake, including sales. - lewdite

10. Oh, is that it?!

It costs about $200,000 to put your own book on the top of the New York Times bestseller list. All you have to do is buy a lot of copies yourself. (And if that bestseller status helps you sell more books, you can make that $200,000 back by selling the big stock of books you've collected.) - theocalhoun_

11. This could've easily gone the other way.

I used to be in a sales role. One of my customers was a milk bottling plant. I was somewhat surprised that they were putting the exact same milk in both organic and non-organic cartons. Turns out all of their milk is organic, but in order to not miss out on the sales of non-organic milk, they just bottle them differently and sell them at different prices. - atworkwasalreadytake

12. Great tip.

Construction boy here. If your windows or sliding doors are tough to open and close. 9 times out of 10, we put your own dish soap on tracks and the thing works perfectly. It take 5 minutes and we charge 150. Dish soap people, its better than wd40 sometimes - lyckadese

13. Well that's comforting.

Structural engineer here. Everything has a chance of failure. It's too expensive to build everything to be 100% safe - pychomp

14. Your kid will probably be fine.

Amusement park ride operator here. If your kid is crying and you want us to stop the ride, even if we want to it’s not gonna stop immediately. The carousel will spin a few more circles or the ship will swing a few more times before stopping. The only exceptions is the emergency stop which will absolutely f*** up the ride for a while if we press it. Hence we only use it in actual life threatening situations. The best thing you can do is try to get your kid to calm down as the ride comes to a stop and no, yelling “Stop the ride” at us does not make it stop any faster. - WhatUsernameDoIPut

15. Incredible news for transcribers.

In Microsoft office, word specifically, you can upload recorded interviews and it will transcribe it and ever have speaker one and speaker two, three and four! Basically, eliminating a huge annoying part of the job. - AMW024

16. Very good to know.

The guy who shows up at your house to make repairs is usually the guy who decides how much to charge you. Standing behind him while he works cost extra. Treating him like s*** cost extra. Being nice to him can save you a lot of money - coolreg214

17. Reading is important!

I’m a teacher. If you as a parent will read with your child often and early, your child will thrive in school. I’m talking daily books read together from newborn to about third grade. Every single day. No teacher can replace that. - twitching2000

18. At least they don't get thrown out...

The kind donations people give hoping they go directly to the clients in shelters actually end up at the Salvation Army or Goodwill to be resold (even though we’re instructed to tell them that won’t be the case) and this is done before the clients are even given the chance to decide if they want some of the donated stuff. - stefstars89

19. Librarians are more chill than you'd think.

A lot of librarians will waive your fines if you have an excuse and you don’t ask too frequently, even large fines. Also, librarians DON’T CARE about your fines and aren’t judging you. Please come back. We personally have more fines than you. Librarians are ALWAYS overdue with their books. - itsmeEloise

20. Losing weight is a constant struggle, not a one-time thing.

Weight loss industry. This might be obvious, but most of our business comes from return clients after they've gained their weight back (and then some). To be clear, the plan isn't rigged to make you gain it back, but the fact that it happens easily as a result of dieting keeps us in business. - responsible-hedonist

21. T-shirts are keeping music alive?

I’m a musician. It’s not really a secret but 90% of of our revenue is from merch. Spotify plays, show guarantees, etc, everything is menial in comparison to shirt sales. In fact, a big reason bands tour as often as possible is because we can sell more shirts when we’re in front of people. - loocaswoodland

22. Air travel security is an illusion.

As a former TSA worker airport security is alot of theater. TSA is constantly failing plain cloths inspections. I worked with a guy who got fired because someone showed him an ID with a picture of Micky Mouse on it and he let the person through because he wasn't paying attention. - Askafishy

23. Yikes.

A huge portion of online reviews, ratings, social media presence, etc that you see for any given company are fake, paid for, or done by multiple accounts controlled by us. This includes [...] fake reviews about how great it is to work there so that the million negative reviews don’t crush their page.

I’m not saying it’s every company out there, but it’s been a lot of the ones I’ve worked for. - PauseAndReflect

The world is a chaotic, disorienting, and scary place right now, and if you spend any extended amounts of time online then it's likely to compound any feelings of anxiety you were already feeling.

So, in hopes of giving you a moment of laughter and levity, I've compiled 25 funny tweets from this past weekend.

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Posting on social media means that your thoughts and jokes could reach anybody...including your parents in the other room. Some grownups stumbled upon their kids' Twitter accounts and did not like what they saw within the 240 characters. Here are funny confrontations that will make you think twice before you post about your thirst.

1. The dad who replied:

2. The mom who busted her son for smoking:

3. The dad who did not get the joke:

4. The dad who wants his kid to tweet less, date more:

5. The mom who printed out the evidence:

Happy Birthday! Sorry I couldn't get real titties but.I hope you enjoy it anyways!

6. The mom who did not approve of cursing:

7. Neither did this dad:

8. The mom whose life could be "ruined":

9. The impressive mom who found her daughter's Twitter through Reddit.

10. The mom mocking the lingo:

11. The mom who dragged her daughter for lack of followers:

12. The mom who assigned some reading: