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Andre Agassi, one of the greatest ever male tennis players (and husband of Steffi Graf, one of the greatest ever female tennis players), wrote in his autobiography that “I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have”.
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There’s a huge world out there full of adventure…and uncertainty.
I love traveling in the U.S. and in other countries but you have to know how to be aware of your surroundings, or else you might end up in a very compromising position…
Then again, sometimes things are just totally out of your control and you fall into some bad luck for no reason at all.
Traveling can be a crapshoot, ya know?
AskReddit users weighed in with their stories of travel gone wrong.
“Went to Paris with my buddy for the night in September. Trouble at the hostel around midnight. No place to sleep. Bar/club hopped until about 4.
Froze my ball$ off while I slept at a bus stop until we got chased out by a couple of cops. Spent the rest of the night in front of an ATM on top of a heat vent. Took the first train back in the morning. Cr*ppy night, great memory.”
“Thrown in jail for a night on an island in Thailand (Lanta) because I was working illegally (bartending at my hostel without a workers permit) and they were asking 30,000 baht (1,000 USD) in order to let me go.
I said nah because I wasn’t about to pay that, especially knowing they would take less. They were just being greedy knowing I was a young American kid and trying to take advantage of me.
I got out of it by staying in jail for much longer than needed in order to drive the price down (total of about 16 hours). Eventually paid 6,000 baht (200 USD), and even got a ride back to my hostel from the police. Overall, very civil extortion and bribery to be completely honest.
Got roughed up a bit in the beginning but never really hurt or anything.”
“I decided to travel with a friend of mine for Spring Break. I flew to Venice a day before him. Next afternoon I randomly ran into him on the street, when he told me he had lost his wallet in London and had decided to fly to Venice anyway. He had no phone or way to contact me so it was an act of God he found me and didn’t get stuck without money in Venice.
Later on in our trip we got separated on our way to a train station in Rome. He freaked out and instead of looking for me, smuggled himself onto a train and hid in the bathroom. We found each other again on the plane out of Rome and we were both furious at each other.
The guy is a cartoon character and made that trip fiftyfold more stressful than it had to be haha. But at least he’s lucky. We also had no money the whole trip because I had to pay for everything so we were constantly hungry. He spent the last night at Heathrow because I only had money left for a single train ticket back to London.
Our friendship didn’t quite survive that ordeal.”
“I took a road trip solo across the US. It turned out that my 17-year-old car was not up to the task, and it died on the side of the road ~5 hrs from home.
I had to hike down the highway until I found a farm where I could get the number for a tow truck, and then I got towed to the nearest town, a couple miles away. I was in contact with my family the whole time (this was when I still lived with my parents), and eventually my grandparents decided that they would drive down in two vehicles and give me their spare car.
After I got that car, I managed to get through the rest of the trip without any major problems (aside from one flat tire that i was able to get replaced easily), up until the third last day of my trip. I still had about 1000 km (600 miles) to go, and I rear-ended another car, totaling my grandparent’s vehicle.
Again, I was extremely lucky. I was only about 2 hours from my brother’s place, so he drove out to get me and all my stuff, and then I spent the night with him and took a greyhound home.”
“My husband I have such a history of bad travel luck that it’s a running joke.
Our first big trip together was to Taiwan, during typhoon season. We got trapped overnight in Taroko Gorge due to a landslide and had to replan several activities due to weather closures.
Six months later, he crashed a motorbike in the Philippines, breaking his collarbone. It’s taken two surgeries, but he’s perfectly fine now. Unfortunately, it happened on the 3rd day of our trip to a place that required a boat to get to any nice beaches, and he wasn’t able to get in and out of the boats. So we ate and drank a lot at local restaurants.
This February, we found out I was pregnant 6 days before a long awaited trip to Thailand and Malaysia. We’d been planning it for 18 months. The first few days were great, but after a long day in the sun, I got very sick.
Long story short, due to low blood pressure, I fainted through a glass door, shattering it and landing in the glass. I sliced through the tendon in my hand and was unable to use it for the next six weeks. Then the morning sickness started. I spent a lot of time in hotels while my husband did all the fun things we planned (I insisted).
We’re a little hesitant to plan any future travels.”
“I was barely three weeks into a planned 9-month RTW trip. Started off in Peru, hiked the Inca Trail and came down through Bolivia into Chile. Spent 24 hrs on a bus from Calama to Santiago. When I got off the bus my legs buckled under me. At first I thought it was just muscle fatigue/cramps from sitting cramped so long on the bus.
Went to the hostel but later that day I fell down on the floor and couldn’t get back up again. I didn’t have any strength and had to crawl back to my room. Luckily there was someone in the dorm and they called an ambulance.
Got to the hospital and was having trouble describing what was happening to me… luckily there was a doctor there that spoke some English and said I most likely had Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Spent the next 10 days in the hospital in Santiago as my strength kept getting worse and worse.. I couldn’t open a bottle of water or even squeeze toothpaste. No pain though so it felt really weird.
They put me on immunoglobulin therapy. I was supposed to travel with a girl through southern Chile.. hadn’t met her before other than talking on the phone. Luckily she had given me the name of a local contact and I was able to get in touch with her and she came and visited me in the hospital. Ran up a $300 bill on the phone using the Internet (this was in 1998).
At the end of the 10 days though my strength was finally starting to return but still very weak. Needless to say, being paralyzed meant an end to the trip. Had to go back to the US where I spent two months in physical therapy. I still couldn’t run or jump.
After two months I decided to try to resume my trip, at least partially… doing 3 months instead of the original 9. I went back to Chile and Easter Island, then continued on to South Africa and spent a month on an overland safari truck going up to Nairobi.
I think being outside and active helped me get better much faster than moping at home. Even when I got back from the trip I wasn’t 100%… took another 6 months or so. Now I’m fully recovered and haven’t had any relapse.”
“Currently in one.
Bought a Chinese knockoff Honda Win 110 in Hà Nội. Drove to Ninh Binh. Drove further to Dong Hoi… But the engine busted two days ago. Got a new engine for about 80 Euros or 2 million Dong.
Started yesterday at 4 in the afternoon to make it to Đồng Hới. Drove 40 kilometers. Engine died every 10 kilometers. Dies uphill. Neutral and 1st gear are almost impossible to get in. Drove back to mechanic who gave me the new engine.
His store was closed at 8PM when I arrived there. Went to the hotel across the street where I slept the day before.
Then he showed up. He was a little bit embarrassed that he did not fix it correctly. Hotel staff gave us a room (gf and me) and huge plate of food for 8 Euros.
Now I am sitting and waiting for the motorcycle… in a small deserted town between Nịnh Bình and Đồng Hới.”
“Got so badly sunburnt in Thailand every time I smiled my face bled.”
“I stayed in a really sketchy hotel in Cairo, with mice running along the skirting and bare wires protruding from the wall just above my pillow.
After a couple of days I wanted to find out whether the wires were live, so I touched them together and shorted out three buildings.”
“Parents got mugged in Colombia.
My brother and I were about 50yds ahead of them and heard my mom scream in panic. Sprinted back, just in time, to see her swing her purse around and connect.
Guy went down hard thanks to the $1200 Nikon in her purse.”
“In Ecuador my wife’s bag was stolen, she lost all three of her passports.
In Botswana, I was hitching a ride in the back of a truck which ran off the road. In Morocco my train derailed. In Israel, my friend fell down a mountain and was taken to hospital by helicopter.
But in every case, everything turned out fine. Traveling is awesome!”
“My family took a trip to Sudan (To visit my Dads family). My brother came back with a sever rash all over his back.
The rash persisted for a few weeks, and the doctors had no idea what it was. Then, we were at the park one day and he started complaining about the rash to our mom, saying it starting to hurt more.
She ignored it, thinking he must have rubbed it on something by accident, when he feel to the floor screaming with pain, and literally hundred and hundreds of flies came flying out of a single hole at the base of his neck. He was 8.
Apparently some sort of African fly had laid eggs (or more likely cocoons or something) in his back when we slept. They hatched when we were back in England.
Scary.”
“Flew with China Eastern Air to visit family in Hong Kong.
The businessman seated in the aisle was a rude as$hole that constantly made displeased faces at me. He wouldn’t even f*cking stand up when I needed to get past him to my window seat (f*cking bizarre). He clearly knew I needed to get past him, but made me climb over him, glowering at me as I passed.
The seats were concrete, the air was stale, and the food was stand-up-comedian level inedible: dry rice and sh*tty, bland fish. There was no in-flight entertainment and they announced that no electronic devices were allowed at any time.
I only brought my phone with me to keep my occupied, so I was SOL. So all I could do for hours was just try to force myself to sleep as to not be conscious of how awful this all was.
On my return flight back to Japan, the airline decided that they couldn’t let me fly without having a ticket booked to leave Japan. I explained that I have flown into Japan almost a dozen times without a departure ticket and it has never been an issue.
They did not care and insisted that it was illegal (it’s not) and they would deny me entry (they wouldn’t). By the time I jumped through enough of their idiotic hoops to get on board, they decided that 1 hour was not enough to make my connecting flight in Shanghai, so they would have to book me on another flight tomorrow and charge me a few hundred more dollars for that.
I flipped them off, went down the hall to Cathay Pacific. I gave them money, they gave me comfortable seats, pleasant crew, good food, in-flight entertainment, and no f*cking bullsh*t.”
“Atlanta.
Downtown was really nice. Olympic Park, World of Coke, a very good Aquarium, and blah, blah, etc.
Outside the perimeter was like running the gauntlet in the post-apocalypse. I had a guy come up to me, pull up his shirt showing a revolver in his pants, and say, “Hey, white bread, you got fi’ dollas fo’ a hit?”.
I still tell myself giving him $20 while my daughter went pee in the worst gas station bathroom her or my wife have ever seen wasn’t a “mugging”.
I’m certain if our car happened to break down there we would have all 3 died terribly.”
“Traveling in Indonesia, we had just landed in Jakarta and after one night we were headed to an ‘idyllic’ surf spot (near Cijulang) that was meant to be a quiet paradise according to the lonely planet guide.
We had done extensive planning for the trip, although we seemed to have missed that we arrived just as the biggest Muslim festival of the year (ede) was finishing that included some of the only public holidays in the year.
The bus travel from Jakarta to the South Coast took an extra 6 hours, nearly doubling the time due to the traffic on the road.
We arrived and couldn’t find a hotel, being followed by the local mafia that make hotels charge more when they direct you there. Managed to find a suitable place in the end.
Unperturbed the next day my friend and I (the third friend was throwing up all day due to bad food in Malaysia a few days earlier) tried and reach this ‘idyllic’ spot. We find out the only way to get there is along this windy track and the best way is on the back of a moped.
So my friend and I (who are both over 6 foot) get this local to drive us there on the back of his moped. This seems like a bad idea already, until we arrived at a bamboo bridge which when driven across with 3 people ends up with a moped falling over. Luckily we didn’t fall in so kept going to this beach.
We arrived to the lovely spot only to find about 15,000 locals that had the same idea
We were the only white people there, also the only people over 5’10. People stared at us, asked to take pictures with us and were generally just confused when they looked at us.
All in all it didn’t go great but IMO that’s what makes the difference between an adventure and a holiday”
Have you ever had any bad experiences while traveling?
If so, please tell us about them in the comments.
We’d love to hear from you!
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I’ve never been woken up in the middle of the night by someone in my house or a person peeping through the window or anything like that.
But it seems like a lot of people have had genuinely hair-raising experiences while being snapped out of their slumber.
It’s a big, scary world out there…and you never know what’s lurking in the darkness…
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about scary things that have woken them up out of bed.
“The night I watched the movie The Conjuring, I woke up to my bed shaking and all the clothes hanging in my closet rattling like crazy. Took me quite some time to realize it was an earthquake and not the devil come visiting.
When I was in my final year at high school, I had trouble sleeping at night with my final exams approaching. I think I dozed off for a bit and suddenly woke up to see a person’s face staring in through my window grill.
I was in such a panic I literally couldn’t move or scream. Luckily he saw me wake up and escaped.”
“Once i woke up because i heard music playing from the kitchen and i thought maybe mum forgot to turn the radio off.
I went through the dark hallway to the kitchen to turn the radio off but when i was standing in the dark kitchen there was no music playing everything was as quiet as always at 3am.”
“The worst was when the neighbor boy, 9 y/o, came banging on our door and ringing the doorbell at 1am.
His mom and stepdad were fighting, stepdad hit mom and had her on the ground with his hands around her neck trying to choke her. We’ve never had to call 9-1-1 before that night.
This poor little boy had his 2 y/o sister in his arms with a completely dazed look on his face. While my mom was on the phone with 9-1-1, I sat the boy down and made sure to tell him that he was incredibly brave and no matter what anyone tells him, he did the right thing by coming here.
Even sadder is they had just moved here from across the country that week and he knew no one.”
“When I was 18 I’d broken my leg, so I was sleepingon the sofa downstairs.
Woke up to a guy climbing in the window directly over my head. I’d obviously left the window open a crack and he’d seen an opportunity.
As scared as I was, I’m fairly sure I scared him too as he screamed and ran away after I hit him with my crutch.”
“My sister had an all white clown doll that hung from the ceiling on a little swing. In the summertime, we slept with our doors and windows open to get the cool air in.
When I woke up one night hearing some tapping against her window down the hall. If i sat up in bed and look down the hall, and I could see into the front of her bedroom.
So I did, and I see this f*cking clown swinging back and forth against her window, back lit by the street lamp, but clearly staring directly into my soul like it was all it desired in this world.
I didn’t sleep well that summer.”
“I heard someone quietly trying my front doorknob late at night (I wasn’t quite asleep yet).
I checked with my roommate later, and it wasn’t them. It happened once or twice more, but I never got to the door quickly enough to see who it was through the peephole.
Nothing ever came of it, and I live somewhere else now.”
“Camping is so terrifying.
I went once and woke up to the sound of something EATING inside my tent. I couldn’t even move and just laid there in fear listening to a creature eating in complete darkness 5 ft away from me.
Turns out it was just a hedgehog eating our hot dogs.”
“My dog barking because “cops” were banging on the doors and windows of our airbnb, flashing their lights into each and every room.
Called 911 and she told us to not answer the door because she doesn’t see cops in our area.”
“My dog decided to hop onto our piano and started walking along the keys in the middle of the night.”
“I had an industrial size rat dying from rat poison come thru a panel in my closet and up into bed with me at 2 am.”
“I had a large camel spider run over my face at about 3 am.
That was not a pleasant sensation.”
“I woke up with chunks of teeth in my mouth and severe abdominal pain (probably swallowed some tooth).
Then, I looked across the room and there was a pool of blood on the opposite side of the room. After quickly spitting out the rest of the teeth bits, I went to the bathroom and was shocked to see my ENTIRE face was bleeding, but from a deep cut in my chin and not from my missing tooth.
I realized that I had sleepwalked, then decided to fall asleep while standing on the other side of the room and did a belly flop straight on the floor, and then somehow after all of that, got up again and WALKED BACK INTO BED and fell asleep for a few more hours.
I had to get a new tooth from a student doctor that I’ve never gotten fixed. I also ended supergluing my busted chin together because I couldn’t afford stitches.”
“On a camping trip with friends in a state park. In the middle of the night our tent is woken up by the sound of gun shots. It is illegal to go hunting in state parks, so we weren’t sure if the shooter was hunting animals or just shooting a gun randomly into the woods.
Gun shots grew louder over the next hour, so it seemed like the shooter was getting closer to our campsite. A state trooper helicopter started flying overhead with a spotlight trying to find the shooter.
We eventually heard a bunch of cop cars up the hill from our campsite, and heard the state troopers get out and order the shooters to drop their weapons, and they brought the shooters into custody.
The next morning we asked the people who ran our campsite what happened. The people who lived in the house up the hill had apparently done a lot of meth, then decided to use cars driving down the main road as target practice.
There were rvs and trees in our campsite that had bullet holes in them. Luckily none of the bullets hit any campers, or caused any of the cars to go off the road, which would have sent them hurtling down a mountain side.”
“The sound of my front door handle jiggling and the door being opened.
My dog launched off the bed and slammed into the door while snarling. He’s never acted like that. I called him back to me because I knew it was my roommate coming home.
Roommate came out of his room and asked what was going on. Apparently he’d forgotten to lock the front door.”
“A few years ago at 6am some random night, my mom burst into me and my brothers room and says “your dad has just had a heart attack, keep the dogs in here” before she proceeded to try and direct the ambulance to our house by giving directions over the phone and turning on all the lights.
The hospital is a 45 minute drive from us so getting back to sleep wasnt gonna happen.
He survived and is pretty much completely back to normal now.”
Now we want to hear your creepy stories.
In the comments, tell us about a time when you were genuinely scared.
We’d love to hear from you!
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A lot of advice is a dime a dozen and not that helpful, but every once in a while in life you’re smacked upside the head with GREAT advice that you hang on to forever.
Maybe it came from a parent, a sibling, a boss, a teacher, or even a complete stranger.
When you hear it and it sticks with you, you know it’s valuable.
Check out the best advice that AskReddit users say they’ve received.
“My grandpa told me this after I had moved into with my girlfriend and said living together was coming so easily:
It’s not the person who is easy to live with, it’s the person you can’t live without.
We’re married now.”
“My dad told me a story about a time he bought some firewood. He paid for a cord of wood, but the guy only dropped off half a cord.
When he went to the guy’s house to confront him about it, the guy pulled a gun on him, so my dad left.
“The lesson,” he taught me, “is that when you are dealing with crazy people, always leave them feeling like THEY owe YOU. That way, they will go out of their way to avoid you.”
I have used this advice several times in my life.”
“Nobody has any idea what’s going on.
A lot less people actually have their sh*t together than you might think, but in reality everyone is just really good at faking it. Usually, they may have a true grasp of one or two things at best.
That advice made me a lot less anxious about doing things like trying new hobbies, giving presentations, or applying for jobs I know nothing about, because I know very few people are actually qualified to judge my performance.”
“My step-dad once told me:
If there is a problem and you know the solution, you can solve it, so stop worrying about it. If there is a problem you can’t solve, then there is nothing you can do, so stop worrying about it.”
“The meaning to life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
Yet everybody rushes around in a great panic as if It were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves”
“When you find a place you like to work in, make yourself indispensable.
I’m a waitress and for the last 3& 1/2 years I’ve worked in a place I love to be in. There is no job there I turn down. I clean the toilets, I can run the potwash, I’ll do the hoovering.
If cuts ever have to be made, my name will not be on the list.”
“There comes a time when one must risk something, or sit forever with one’s dreams”
“I’m a 45 yo woman.
As a teen my dad told me to go after what I wanted… College, jobs, clubs, a guy I was interested in, any goal.
He said if we all just sat around and only took the opportunities that fell into our laps we would all be miserable, so don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. Rejection can be survived, but there are some regrets from which you’ll never recover.
This has served me well professionally and relationship wise. My amazing husband only asked me out because I made sure he knew I was interested.”
“Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard”
-College professor in my life drawing class when I got frustrated about not being as talented as other students in class, I buckled down and got my B and beat the class average by the end of the quarter.”
“You are an idiot to focus on things you cannot change, instead of working on things that you can change.
That changed my life a lot.”
“The reason a lot of us experience anxiety is because we are idle or unhappy.
The best advice I ever got was from a random stranger. “Anxiety some times isn’t a bad thing it’s our bodies way of telling us to get in gear, and to press forward to give our life meaning and fulfillment” I went back to school quit my old job and it actually worked.
I have been Anxiety free for 2 years.”
“My grandmother was walking with me down the hall when I was in 3rd grade and noticed I was walking with my head down. She said, “always keep your head up high, and your shoulders back”.
I’ve done it ever since, and to this day I get compliments on how well I carry myself, and how much confidence I exude.
Every time someone says that, I’m taken back to that moment in time with my grandmother.”
“Every day you’re either getting better or you’re getting worse.
And the choice is yours.”
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
That was my dad’s consistent line when I was growing up. Now I’m a thirty-something father, relatively successful in life, and that line is the consistent theme for me.
If I’m going to put effort into doing something, I will do the best job that I am capable of doing. Everything from home renovations, work projects, cooking a meal, to reading bedtime stories. Giving less than my best effort to the task at hand is doing myself a disservice, and the people I am working for.
That’s not to say everything has to be perfect all the time, sometimes your best effort is just getting the job done. But half *ssed attempts at anything mostly just lead to disappointment, and more work when you have to re-do the thing.”
“Go a week without complaining about others and yourself.
Actively stop yourself for a week and see how your outlook changes.”
“The world doesn’t care about you and it’ll leave you behind unless you try to make something of yourself.
The world isn’t cruel, it’s just apathetic.”
Do you remember the best advice you ever received in your life?
If so, please share it with us in the comments.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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You never know when you might find a loophole.
It could be at your job, somewhere out in the business world, or maybe something completely random that you happen upon by accident.
But when people actually DO find loopholes…look out, because they’re gonna use ’em!
Here are some pretty interesting stories from AskReddit users about the loopholes they found AND used to their advantage.
“Microsoft used to have (still might for all I know) online training for videogame retailers in order to train store employees on current and upcoming products that they could sell.
The training gave points for each video and knowledge quiz you took, which could be exchanged for free games, computer hardware, store gift cards, etc.
By signing in under a random Gamestop store ID number (which was posted online), skipping the video, and brute forcing the knowledge quiz, was able to rack up a whole bunch of points and get several XBox games and simple computer hardware for essentially nothing.
Never worked a day of retail in my life.”
“The soda machine at a dorm I lived in had a weird glitch. If you put in five cents more than the asking price and pushed the product select button, the machine would empty all of its change out at once.
We did this a few times and got $20-40 each time!”
“1 Credit Card point for every dollar spent.
But up to 5X for every dollar spent abroad.
I’ve been on a 6 year “holiday” abroad and they haven’t brought it up.”
“I was visiting a hospital on a daily basis for many weeks ( premature twin babies) but they didn’t do multi-use discounts. “There’s the hours you were here – pay up” type of thing. And it was costing something like £5 – £10 per day
Until a few days in I realized that the hospital had only recently appointed the car parking company and they haven’t yet installed the “arrival time” machine at the car park entrance but had only put a temporary machine in the Hospital lobby . . . . which you were meant to use on your arrival.
And from that day on I got my “arrival time” ticket when I was leaving and only paid minimum stay.”
“This pizza place local to us had a glitch in their online ordering service for a while. You could technically combine 2 deals of 50% off. One was 50% off for any XL pizza of an order that was normally $30 or more, and the other was 50% off on a XL Pizza, with two 2-liter drinks, wings, and cheese fries at regular price.
If you put both of these coupons in, you only paid for the wings, cheese fries and pop which would be about $18. With delivery charge + tax it would be about $25. Plus 2 Extra Large Pizzas for literally free.
Normally this would be $70+. Any other coupon you could not combine, but this one worked together for some reason. For some other reason it would mark 50% off 2x on each pizza.
We discovered this when we were ordering food the day we moved in. Feeding our friends that helped us move in. We thought it was a 1-time thing. Tried it a few weeks later and it worked. We did this at least once a month for the year or so we lived there.
We always gave the driver a $10-$20 tip and he knew what we were up to. The place never said anything about it for years. Eventually they updated their site a couple years ago, and we had moved out by then.”
“Had intermittent anemia in college that I was trying to improve. But the blood work was about $100 each time.
I started donating blood and if I was too low they’d turn me away and I’d keep trying to up my iron. If I was high enough, I got to donate to a good cause.
Win win!”
“Opened an Amex credit card and the introductory offer was 10% cash back in restaurants for the first year.
I worked for a sh*tty chain restaurant as a server, so I would just stack a few of my large cash tables and put them on my card, then pay it off every week.
Made an extra $20-$30 a shift.”
“There was a summer where I got free chipotle all the time. I had a gift card that had like 2 dollars left on it. I hadn’t updated the app yet so it still had the “use my gift card and pay the rest in store”.
However either the computer at the store said I already paid the full amount ahead of time or I always came in during a time that they were swamped so no one ever asked me to pay.
They also never charged my gift card. I got away with it until the app made me update it.”
“Coming to school 3 hours late.
I found out that as long as you have a parent’s note, you could come in late unlimited times. The only restriction is that after 15 days missed for a class, you’d fail it.
So, at the beginning of the year I pressured my guidance counselor to move my two study periods to period 1/2 and a blowoff class (which I didn’t need the credit for) to period 3.
Came to school at 10-10:30am every day my senior year opposed to 7am. Extra 3 hours of sleep, bringing fast food into lunch, and avoiding the hectic metal detectors made it well worth.
Props to my grandma for writing 140 late notes for me at the start of the year. That my friends, is how you play the system.”
“The Starbucks subsidiary Teavana (now out of business) would let you use your Starbucks rewards (“stars” or whatever they’re called) to get loose tea by the ounce.
However, there was an error in their point-of-sale system that only deducted 1 reward point, no matter how many you spent in a given transaction.
My wife and I spent 32 rewards on a couple pounds of the most expensive loose tea they had. She checked her rewards balance the next day, and holy sh*t, she still had 31 reward points left.
So we drove to a different Teavana and got a bunch of loose tea from them, and then another, and then another. We were in Los Angeles, so there were a lot of Teavanas within driving distance.
At retail price, we took a thousand bucks or so of free tea off their hands before the loophole was closed.”
“My school had uniforms, it was kinda strict with those… but nowhere in the rules it stated that girls should wear the female uniform and boys the male uniform.
Sooooooo, I bought the male one and wore it. A lot of teachers wanted to give me detention, but when I went over the school rule book and sh*t, they had to stay steaming mad because I was not breaking any rules.
They assumed it was implied, but the only think stated was that the uniform was to be worn properly, be clean and fit well, but that’s it.
By the time I graduated, a lot of students were doing about the same sh*t I was.
That rule changed shortly after my generation went off to university. sorry kiddos, maybe you will find new loopholes to give the inspector an aneurism.”
“The Mc Cheapy.
McFlurries were like 4 bucks. All it is is ice cream in a cup with some shots of topping. They don’t even mix it.
So we asked for a soft serve, 30c, two shots of toppings, $1, a cup and a spoon (free).”
“Not me, but my dad.
He was building a deck on their house. If the deck attaches to the house, you need a permit to build one in our city, since it’s considered an addition/improvement. If the deck doesn’t attach to the house, it’s a free-standing structure, and you don’t need a permit.
So he built the deck right up against the house, but it doesn’t actually attach to the house, so he didn’t need a permit.
All he had to do was add a few extra posts under the side of the deck nearest the house.”
“Years ago, Burger King sold mugs that you could refill for free any time at all. With soda or even shakes.
My friends and I would bring a single mug, go in and get a chocolate shake, go back to the car to move the contents to another mug, go back in and repeat until all of us got free chocolate shakes.
We did this regularly for about two years of high school.”
Now we want to hear from you.
In the comments, tell us about the various loopholes that you’ve discovered and exploited.
Please and thank you!
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Some people get really energized by spending time with other people and talking and discussing just about anything.
Well, there is a whole other group of folks out there who are the EXACT OPPOSITE. Being around a lot of people drains them and makes them feel totally exhausted.
I like to think I’m somewhere in the middle, but the older I get, the more I think I’m leaning towards the second option from above…
AskReddit users opened up about why they enjoy spending time by themselves.
“I’m a bit of a weirdo and I like being alone because I don’t have to explain why I said something or did something.
I feel like when I’m around people that I have to significantly “tone down” my personality, which can get pretty exhausting.”
“I like to be alone with my thoughts.
I am a deep thinker and like to have time to figure things out on my own.”
“I have really sensitive hearing. I wear earplugs but it is only a dampener.
I have noise cancelling headphones but it is only a dampener.
And people are loud.”
“I am my own best friend.
I don’t have to explain or justify myself to anyone else. I can do what I like, with whom I like. If I want to play on my PS4 for 20 hrs there is no one telling me to stop.
Having been married then divorced for nearly 40+years being on my own is a blast. I also just love being at home. I don’t miss working, as that was very stressful being around people and all that entails.
Now I can invite people into my space when I want to. Being retired is the most awesome thing.”
“People are nice until they become exhausting.
I don’t want to be rude but i have learned over the years that when i am done socialising i am done socialising and there is really no point in me continuing to socialise if i cant draw no enjoyment out of it.
I wont be no fun to be around any longer anyway.”
“At first it was quite uncomfortable, but over time it became tolerable, and eventually preferable, for me.
It’s as if the longer I’m in solitude, the more of it I want.”
“Because I have to sort my feelings and thoughts out which is crucial to me.
In order for me to live with people, I first must have a control over my own thoughts and emotions and be in tune with myself.
Just like there is a world outside, there is one inside of us, experienced through blissful loneliness.”
“I like to be alone because I can’t control my emotions, so if I shut people out, no one can get mad at me.
It’s a win win situation and also social anxiety is a big issue.”
“I enjoy the quietness and the ability to plan my whole day as I see fit.
However, after a few weeks it gets old. I’m married with kids, but travel a lot for work. I’ve been on the road for over a month.
I miss my wife and kids running around. We are all introverts, so we plan our day and do our thing together, sometimes just me and the kids.
It’s perfect.”
“Because I really don’t like people.
Have you ever really sat and listened to people? Some complain about everything, others brag about how great they are.
It’s just annoying as hell.”
“For a lot of us who grew up in abuse, alone is the only time you’re really “safe,” and that association sticks even after you leave the abuse behind.”
“One reason is that I’m lazy as hell. Another is because my old friends are irreplaceable.
Obviously I’m not going to find any exactly like them, and also there are plenty of good people around to befriend. But growing up with a group of friends from what seems like diapers to High School, you just can’t compare.
Moving away from my childhood town was difficult, especially because I wasn’t planning to and it was sudden. Two years later? We’ve all already drifted apart like most HighSchool friends do.
And it just sucks knowing we’ll all never be around each other again.”
“I am an extroverted introvert. I care about people. I have good social skills. People exhaust me, and social settings are terrifying/manageable/exhausting.
I want to live alone in an empty desert, and be visited weekly by a loving old friend, attend dinner parties with interesting people every other month, and host a raging bash quarterly.
That would do nicely…”
“Mainly because I’m heavily introverted and have a fair bit of social anxiety, grew around people constantly judging me and basically grew sick of it
But I like the freedom of just being able to do anything I want and be myself, being around other people for long periods of time, even just talking, is really mentally exhausting for me.”
“Because that’s all I’ve ever really known.
My mother was a caregiver for my father when he was in hospice for two years so when she wasn’t working full time, she was at his side keeping him company and making sure he was well-cared for and not being abused.
When he was going through multiple surgeries before ending up there, I was at the hospitals a lot as a kid and did spend some time at the hospice, usually alone in the lobby reading or drawing.
Eventually, I begged my mom to just let me be alone. The hospice scared me. It smelled like death and the old folks really made me uneasy. She started either leaving me home alone or dropping me off at the library for the entire day on the weekends starting at the age of 9.
So I just got used to being alone. Once my father passed a year later, she allowed me to spend my summers home alone while she worked and I just got very comfortable with isolation and mostly silence.”
“Because my world is far more interesting than the one I am forced to inhabit.
It only exists inside my mind, but so do the majority of ideals which structure up our world. They only exist because people demand they do.
In less than 100 years I will be a footnote in history, I’d rather spend that time doing things I enjoy than sacrificing my happiness on the altar of cultural demands for sociability and niceties.”
“Because I can completely be myself, and a lack of people make my senses less likely to overload. Also not being around people all the time helps you stay healthy and not catch all kinds of contagious illness.
My father used to get sick quite often but ever since he’s retired he hasn’t been around many people and their germs so now he hardly ever gets sick.
I can do things at my own personal pace. No one is going to complain if supper is an hour later than it usually is. It will still be delicious. No one is going to criticize my taste in music, TV shows or movies.
Or make fun of me for collecting dolls and stuffed animals. And when I’m working on a craft or hobby, I don’t have to worried about being too focused to pay attention to others, or have them interrupt me.
Interruptions are the worst!”
How about you?
Why do you like spending time alone?
Please share your thoughts with us in the comments!
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It’s always pretty scary to be woken up by something that goes BUMP in the night.
Almost 100% of the time, you know it’s just the house creaking or your cat rummaging around, but every once in a while…something sinister is going on.
Have you ever been woken up by something scary in the middle of the night?
Take a look at these stories from AskReddit users.
“I don’t know if it counts but we were in the field in Camp Pendelton, CA and sleeping in just our mummy bags under the stars and I woke up in the night for whatever reason and my eyes focused on the next guy over in our circle who had one of the largest spiders I’ve ever seen in the wild sitting on his forehead, maybe getting warm or something.
Freaked me the f*ck out, I flicked it off of him and zipped my bag all the way up so there was just the breathing hole and used my boonie cover to plug that and just breathed through the little vents.”
“Tornado Siren.
In the midwest they test them once a month and you get used to it. But holy hell when it goes off at 3AM your subconscious mind dumps adrenaline into you. I thought i was going to have a heart attack.
Like literally 29 year old about to have my wife call an ambulance.”
“A silhouette of a small child at the end of my bed that whispered my name in a demonic voice.
It was my daughter.
I don’t care what people say, kids are creepy af in the dark.”
“A brick being thrown through my window by my *sshole nextdoor neighbors at the time.”
“My wife and I were separated and I was sleeping in the basement apartment of our home.
She woke me in the middle of the night to come upstairs. There in the kitchen was an intruder sitting calmly at the table. My wife left me alone with this person at 3 am. I was shaking scared that this person would snap and get violent.
Turns out he was stoned out of his mind and my wife had forgotten to lock the front door. She had left to call the police. I found out later that she had found him in my son’s room.
There aren’t many things scarier than funding a stranger in your house in the middle of the night.”
“When I was in Iraq, I was woken up multiple times by gunfire or an explosion.
You’d think one of those instances would be the most scared I’ve ever woken up, but you’d be wrong. That dubious honor goes to my wife farting loud enough to make the dog bark about two weeks ago at 3am.
That was, hands down, the quickest I’ve ever shot awake, trying to mutter “…the f*ck kind of apocalypse is this?” around my heart, which had crawled up my throat and gotten a death grip on my uvula.”
“In college, my friend and I lived on campus kind of out on the edges, near the animal units (think lightly forested, set back from the main road a bit).
One night she knocks on my door and silently motions me to her room, eyes wide. We slept with our windows open because of the gorgeous night weather. Outside her window we hear a high pitched wailing.
After staring at each other for a couple minutes, we stupidly decided to go out with flashlights, expecting to find a woman, injured and wailing. We found nothing, and didn’t sleep soundly, but the next morning found a dead bunny.
Their injured screams are strangely human and I’ll never look at a bunny the same way.”
“My husband was on a work trip and he was supposed to come home on a Friday while I was at work, so I was home alone for a week.
No kids, no pets. They decided to comeback early and just drive in the middle of the night home. I was already on edge from staying home by myself. Next think I know, I hear my front door open, and I start to panic bc it’s 3 in the morning and someone is in my house!
I finally figure out it was him, but I didn’t sleep the rest of the night. He said he didn’t want to call/text me bc he didn’t want me to wake up. About a week later, our neighbor, who we call “Meth Head McGee” tried for break into our house in the middle of the night while he was high.
He had a small meth explosion in his house, so he came running over to ours trying to get help. Hearing him wiggle the knob and kick the door was terrifying!”
“Woke up terrified when my hair which was tied in a bun came undone slowly carefully and intentionally like someone did it.
Turned around and saw shadows dancing on the wall and when I blinked it disappeared.
That room was full of nightmares.”
“My landlord, drunk off his *ss and shouting at me that I had no right to be there.
I was 19 and alone because we were mid-move and my parents were still at the old house. I was also sleeping naked.
I was so f*cking terrified. He finally left and later denied it ever happened.”
“I woke up to the sound of gunshots a few buildings down.
3 people were killed.”
“I heard static, like from a radio in-between channels.
The static lasted about 30 seconds and then I heard the opening lines of the Gettysburg Address. “Fourscore and seven years ago—“ that whole bit. It scared the sh*t out of me and as soon as I sat up, it stopped.
I have no idea where it came from or how.”
“January of 2020 started off with a bang for me. At 6 a.m. the boiler in my house exploded. 1,100 lbs of metal blew itself about 10 feet across my basement into a large metal wardrobe, reducing them both to unrecognizable heaps of shrapnel.
It literally sounded like a car bomb going off underneath me, and shook my entire house. Grabbed my daughter and we noped out of the house as fast as we could.
We were extremely lucky to get out without injury, and I never want to wake up like that again.”
“When I went cycling and camping alone in Saguaro National Park, Tucson AZ, which maybe wasn’t the smartest thing to do by yourself.
I was in my mid twenties and went specifically to look for and photograph animals, namely snakes, so I had no fear of creatures. I set up camp one night in a gravely area, and was woken up in the middle of the night by footsteps approaching my tent in the gravel.
What scared the living sh*t out of me and kinda, sorry if this makes me sound like a p*ssy, put me off camping alone forever, is that it really sounded like something very heavy and bipedal. Like a crazy person coming to murder me. Or sasquatch. It appoached my tent with slow, heavy footsteps crunching in the gravel. I didnt hear any other sound, no breathing or rustling of clothing.
Just crunching gravel. There were just two footsteps not four. It came right up to the tent, then walked away, slowly. I have no idea what it was, and it may have been a mountain lion, they can walk pretty stealthily. But the thought of a human being walking around in the desert at night and slowly approaching me while I slept is what scared me the most, not the thought of an animal or monster.
I wanted to call out “hello?” but was literally paralyzed with fear. I didn’t sleep again that night, but came out at sunrise to find zero evidence, and just carried on with my trip without incident but have not been camping alone since.”
Have you ever been woken up by something in the middle of the night that was really scary?
If so, please share your stories with us in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear your creepy tales!
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I knew a guy back when I was younger who wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.
He ended up taking a trip and he got arrested.
And he ended up in jail.
IN MEXICO.
Yeah, he said that was quite an adventure…and it sounds pretty terrifying to me.
In the spirit of that memory, let’s check out some interesting stories from folks on AskReddit about their travel horror stories.
“I took a late train into Paris at the Gare du Nord station and didn’t have enough money for a hotel or hostel that particular night. I did however get used to “roughing” it a few other times so I was just going to sleep at the station or something, didn’t plan it out too much.
Anyways, I get to the station and the one thing about the Gare du Nord is it’s not in the best section of the town. Also, they close the train station for about 6 hours so you can’t stay there.
I get outside the train station and there is nothing but bums and some crazy guy in the street drunk off his *ss yelling and throwing bottles at passing cars. I say f*ck this and start walking down the street trying to find a place I can post up and sleep for the night.
I am carrying my large backpack and its obvious I am a traveler/tourist. I head one way and spot some people and that start looking at me as if I am gold. So I stop and turn around and walk quickly back to the station, to where people were.
Eventually I start heading down another street and it’s not looking any better… by this time its about 3am and the drug addicts and drunks are in full control of this area. I go back to the station and decide to tough it out near the guy who is yelling at passing cars.
I post up in a corner near a McDonalds and I am so tired I am battling myself to keep one eye open on everything in front of me. Homeless people are staring at me and I am getting the feeling something bad was going to happen. Then a giant f*cking rat jumps around me near my backpack and I jump up, said f*ck this, and started walking up another random street.
Exhausted and my body shutting down I crash on a bus stop bench on a quite street, somewhere. I closed my eyes but never slept. After a few hours I walked back to the station got on the train and got the f*ck out of there.
“Getting stuck in Manila airport for 8 hours. It was supposed to just be a quick stop over.
Some kinda crazy storm started, the power kept cutting in and out, none of the food stores took card as payment, there were no ATMs, the advertised free Wifi wasn’t working, they changed our departure gate three times (and we only figured this out because we kept asking staff why our flight wasn’t listed on the gate’s TV).
None of the staff seemed to give a flying f*ck about anything (some even seemed to be taking a nap at their station- leaning on counter tops or leaning back in chairs with their eyes closed), the ONE toilet block they had for the entire terminal had 4 cubicles (one was being used as a storage closet though).
And then as I was waiting in the f*cking huge line for this toilet, word spreads down the line that the water is now not working and the toilets are all out of order. So everyone just keeps using them, and piling more and more paper and waste into the bowl.
Needless to say, the food on the actual plane sucked and I’m never flying with Phillipine Airlines ever, ever again.”
“A few months ago when i was in Italy i decided to go read at the beach nearby.
It ended up with me there nearly everyday we didn’t have anything planned. I should mention i was a 23 year old girl in the middle of rural Italy and the italians are very open about how they think and feel.
I was followed home and nearly run off my bike by one man, found a guy watching me in the bushes, asked out by random old men nearly every day, had a guy masturbate in the bushes near by.
Though i loved my time in italy it did ruin it slightly.”
“A cousin of mine bought cocaine from a street dealer in Ibiza, turned out to be some sort of laxatives.
Him and 4 friends spent 3 days sitting in communal toilets.”
“Signed up for a three day trip to Amsterdam that said it had good accommodations in the center of the city.
It actually turned out to be a boat that was docked in a canal nowhere near anything. It was the middle of winter and there was no heat on the boat.
The sewage system malfunctioned and leaked everywhere on the second day so the boat stunk. There was nowhere to even buy food nearby so I spent most of the trip huddled under a blanket feeling cold and hungry and wishing I had the energy to walk into the city.
“Saw a dead woman on a train platform in Varanasi, India. She was covered in a very sheer cloth and it was clear that rigor mortis had set in, so who knows how long she had been there.
All the locals acted like it was perfectly normal. No one batted an eye and they all just stood there waiting for their train. When i told one of the men that worked on the platform that there was a dead woman there, he looked at me like he could NOT be bothered to care.
Although there were some very interesting things in India, i will never, ever go back.”
“Seoul, South Korea (2010)
lost my passport
got robbed by my taxi driver (later called by Seoul police, they got the taxi driver and my passport)
hotel was in a different part of the city then advertised
had a rice bun thrown at my head by an old lady outside my hotel, twice
got yelled at by a US serviceman while at the DMZ gift shop. I’m American, but wearing a “communist hat” according to him. When did the SF Giants beanie become communist?
got super drunk, almost got hit by a cab (I admit that one is all me)
got yelled at by some Korean teenager for some unknown reason. I was just staring at the city skyline. He tapped me on the shoulder and just screamed at me
taxi cab driver fell asleep while waiting in traffic on the way to the airport. got yelled at for waking him up
police at airport thought my tattered (i had been travelling a lot at this time) passport was fake.”
“My husband and I were traveling by rail around Europe. We got on a train from Nice to Pisa. We’d heard lots of stories about people getting robbed but figured the American tourists in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts a couple cabins down would be the most likely victims.
We sat up chatting for awhile, and after we crossed the Italian border, we decided to lay down – not to sleep but to just get comfy. The last thing I remember is the door sliding open and then shut again and suddenly getting super sleepy.
I fought the sleepiness as hard as I could but just couldn’t fight it anymore. The next thing we know, we’re pulling into the station in Pisa, and our backpacks were out of place. They hadn’t gotten anything really important, since that stuff was buried down deep in our big packs, but they’d gone through my husband’s wallet and stolen my handbag out of my smaller pack.
Unfortunately for us, all of our money was in my bank account, which we no longer had access to. We had to ring my husband’s parents in Australia and get them to deposit AUD 500 into his bank account, since he still had his card, which was unfortunately only about USD 250 at the time.
That’s all we had to travel on from Pisa to Bologna to Munich to Brussels to London, where we finally visited his brother.
It was quite an adventure.”
“Went on a 3 week holiday with my SO to Brasil and was robbed after 2 days by 4 guys with knives in broad daylight on the Copacabana.
We had nothing on us but a few Real (about $10). People who saw it happen did nothing and it ruined the rest of our vacation because of fear it could happen again.
Such a shame for such a beautiful country.”
“Went to Paris.
Gypsies EVERYWHERE, constantly coming up to me, pretending to be deaf or mute, giving me things that I declined, but still they insisted that I paid for it, stuff like that.”
“Many years ago on the way to UK we had a brief stopover in Dubai.
I was around 9 years old, first time flying and really suffering air sickness. We debark the plane and the heat hits me hard. I stumble from the steps to the tarmac and proceed to vomit foamy water.. inches away from the toes of a security guy armed with a machine gun.
I was scared witless and couldn’t move. My family apologised profusely and dragged me onto a waiting bus. Granted this fellow didn’t change expression or even move from my sad puddle, but damn, we were green travellers and had never seen guns before let alone potentially pissed off a gun owner.
I still cringe when I remember the look in his eyes and my mothers white face.”
“Sometime in the mid 80’s.
I was in my early mid-teens. Arrived at the Munich train station early in the morning. My family was with me, including my brother and uncle Rob. Rob is only a couple years older than I. We needed to wash up a bit and hit the restroom while my parents wait outside.
The restroom was empty except for us. A older guy walks in and waves. Uncle Rob waves back thinking folks sure are friendly in Munich. Guy then gets between me and Rob and starts mast*rbating. My brother and I run out. Rob did not realize what was going on.
I yelled for him. He figured it out real quick after that. Told my mom and grandma what happened. They laughed it off. I guess today they would have said something to a cop. Back then….laugh at potential r*pe situation.”
“Bangkok – red light district,got lured upstairs to a strip club by a ‘No pay for anything, only one drink’ line, having been told specifically NEVER GO UPSTAIRS IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT.
Bough the drinks, eventually noticed we were the only ones in there. Forced to hold a balloon so a stripper could shoot a dart out of her v*gin* (managed it on like, the fifth attempt).
Went to leave, suddenly surrounded by fat strippers and the manager demanding £80, threatened to bring pimp in, paid, got followed out by pimp. Sh*t my pants.”
“College graduation present: Euro trip beginning in Istanbul, on to Izmir/Efes, then to Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, and Paris. After two in Istanbul, I was flying to Izmir and started feeling some pretty serious back pain—I assumed it was from sleeping poorly or something else minor, but by the time I landed and picked up the rental car, the pain was unbearable and I was on the verge of vomiting.
Thankfully, the Swissotel was understanding enough to let me check in at 10AM, and then I vomited as soon as I walked into the room. By this point, I assumed I had a kidney stone, but I was not sure how to get emergency care in Izmir, Turkey.
I hailed a cab and the hotel concierge told the driver to take me to the hospital, but where I ended up was not surprisingly less than ideal. It took two hours to see a doctor, and she felt my stomach and moved my legs before declaring there was no kidney stone.
I was squirming uncontrollably so they finally gave me injections of some sort of pain medicine, which helped, but it certainly wasn’t morphine. They sent me home (not actually home, of course) with a pack of syringes and vials of the pain medicine.
I woke up in the middle of the next night in excruciating pain again, so I contacted a relative back in the U.S. who had a business connection in Izmir. At this point I must note that every Turk I actually interacted with was VERY nice and hospitable. The business contact picked me up on the first day of his vacation (while his family waited on him before they all left for a trip) and took me to a more advanced hospital (comparable to U.S. standards) and translated for me all day.
Turns out I had a 7mm stone lodged in my kidney that was revealed in a CT scan at this hospital. It was too large to pass, so I had to catch the next flight back home to have it surgically removed.
Thankfully, Delta waived the additional change fees and rebooked my ticket home. Additionally, Hotwire reimbursed for all of the prepaid reservations after I provided a medical reference for the issue.
Missing Italy (what I was most looking forward to) and Paris sucks, but I couldn’t risk my health.”
Now it’s your turn!
In the comments, tell us about YOUR travel horror stories.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Depending on who your role models were when you were growing into adulthood, you might’ve received great life advice when you were a kid in school, or maybe at your first job, or maybe from your parents.
Heck, maybe you even got great advice much later in life.
It’s different for everyone and it’s good to remember that you can get some nuggets of useful wisdom at any point.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
Here’s what people on AskReddit had to say.
“I was in a pretty negative place in college, being quite cynical and sarcastic and really insecure with myself, so much that I was ragging on friends and generally trying to build myself up by putting other people down (you know the type, the friend who thinks he’s busting chops but really is kinda just being a d*ck).
My well-liked, popular roommate/friend noticed this and sent me this little bit, which I always hang onto:
“Immediately stop picking on peoples weaknesses, do what I do, expose their qualities and strengths, it makes them feel good about themselves and you too for noticing. When you make people feel good when you’re around, they are going to remember that feeling whenever you show up, you’ll be well received and missed often. Plus don’t you want your friends to feel good about themselves?”
It made me re-visit the way I’d been treating people around me.”
“”Use your vacation hours, and don’t be afraid to call in sick every now and then either”.
No need to work like a dog and ignore your benefits to please a boss who doesn’t notice. Vacation/staycation days are gems that everyone should take!”
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it.
Changing the way one phrases things can have an incredible effect.”
“My current boss says something as a joke that has helped me a lot more than he realizes.
I am a mechanic but am not always the most confident (even when I know what I’m doing).
He says “only one way to fix it, fix it.” Weirdly enough it always makes me focus and remember there’s no secret trick he knows that I dont, just got to do it.
Applied that to other areas of my life and it helps so much more than I would have thought.”
“Marriage shouldn’t be a 50/50 split.
It should be a 60/40 split where both are trying to be the 60%.”
“During my first internship, I was super keen to please my supervisors and was an eager little brown-noser. Anything they would ask me, I would respond with an enthusiastic yes and rush to do that, even with mindless things like, typing out someone’s meeting notes, going out to buy office stationery, and even served coffee to some guests a couple of times, no matter how much I hated doing it.
Two months into the internship, the boss called me for a catch-up and bluntly described me as ‘servile’ to my face, and said that with my attitude, I would never grow professionally.
He said, “it doesn’t matter if you’re an intern or a manager, if you do not get over your habit of wanting to please everyone, you’ll never learn or achieve anything of value.” Though I was shaken then and even hated him a little bit, I eventually came to realize the truth in his words.”
“Don’t worry about whether or not you “belong” somewhere, or if you’ll fit in.
Do your part, respect and support others.
If you do that and people don’t accept you it’s their problem not yours.”
“When you’re being too harsh on yourself, imagine if the person with those issues is one of your friends.
Treat yourself like you’d treat that friend.
That helped me be way kinder to myself than before.”
“Do your future self a favor.
This relates to prepping for the next day (clothes ironed, lunch packed) to saving money to making healthy choices.
It makes for easier decisions and a better life.”
“”Pick a failure.”
Sometimes the only options available involve some sort of failure. That’s ok. Just pick one, own it, and move on. There’s almost never an instant, magic solution without long term consequences.
That rare time there is, learn to really embrace it.”
“Don’t be an idiot.
It changed my life. Whenever Im about to do something, I think, Would an idiot do that?
And if they would, I do not do that thing.”
“Save your money and always live within your means.
As someone not working now, having some stashed away has kept our family afloat.”
“Nobody’s looking at you.
They’re worrying about how they look.”
“Learn to say no.
This is especially helpful for codependents. Any kindness you pass onto others will be far more genuine if you’ve taken care of your own needs first.”
“I went to work in construction right out of high school.
Before my first day my grandfather told me, to be successful, keep your ears open, your mouth shut, and constantly outwork the person next to you.
I lived that advice and it has served me very well.”
How about you?
What do you think is the best life advice you’ve ever received?
Talk to us in the comments!
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Usually, “ghosting“—when someone ends a relationship by ceasing all communication—occurs between friends and romantic partners, but it rarely happens between an employee and employer.
One Redditor, however, says it happened to him when he worked at a food shop.
To begin with, the place wasn’t that great for employees. It had a high turnover and, while this guy had been there a long time and pretty much knew how to do everything in the store, he knew it wasn’t the best job. But it paid the bills.
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He was responsible employee, and when he went home for college break, he let the manager know his schedule. When he made plans to come back, he learned he was being ghosted.
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The guy thought about ways he could exact his revenge. He had a few things in mind, but he didn’t want to get into trouble himself.
As they say, “revenge is a dish best served cold,” so he waited. He also took care of himself in the process and found another job. When he was settled, he squared things up with his former employer.
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He never forgot the ghosting from his old boss, and while he doesn’t know the outcome of his actions, he did know his employer’s personality well enough to know that things wouldn’t end well. Of course, none of this would have happened if his former boss had done the right thing by facing him and telling him he was no longer employed.
Some folks on Reddit have encountered this before.
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Even some people who REALLY know what they’re talking about.
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And this person should really check the state laws. Because money.
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Either way, some people would totally bounce to another employer for not very much.
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Have you ever been ghosted by an employer? How did it make you feel? Did you try and get revenge?
Let us know in the comments below!
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