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Quiet Kids Who Shocked Their Fellow Students When They Finally Spoke Up
There are many stereotypes about students – there are jokes, popular kids, nerds, band nerds (special breed), the wild kids, and yeah, the “quiet ones.”
We all joke that the quiet ones are the ones you have to watch out for, but man – never has it seemed more true than hearing about the moments these 17 “quiet kids” finally spoke up.
17. Did he get the bee?
The quiet kid from my grade stood up one day, grabbed a broom, stood on a chair and began trying to swat bees that got inside.
One bee landed on the window where quiet kid proceeded to yell “DIE BEE DIE” and then swatted and shattered the window. He screeched when it happened and then sat back down. Never heard him speak again
16. This is how people become legends, my friends.
In class he asked the woman teacher if he could go to the toilet.
She sternly replied, “You’ve got two minutes, Richard” and Richard says, “Two minutes? It takes me that long to unravel it”.
Teacher goes red and everyone loses it.
15. When you wish you could give her a fist-bump.
One of my students hardly said a word all year until a couple weeks ago. I was trying to get a group of talkative ones under control and she had enough. She yells out “SHUT THE F*CK UP! IM TRYING TO WORK YOU F*CKING A$SHOLES”
Awkward silence followed because I didn’t know how to handle the normally studious and quiet one losing it.
14. Wait, what?
We were having a bullsh%t elective course and we ran out of stuff to do so we wound up having story time. My friend walks up to the front and starts telling us about how he once got pretty badly injured. Basically he was walking into his friends house, slipped on some black ice, faceplanted on it and his front teeth tore off most of his front lip and broke off.
He ran into the house babbling and bleeding (he was like 11 and was missing part of his face so he wasn’t 100% coherent at the time) and his friends mom takes one look, runs into her bedroom locks the door and doesn’t do anything until my friends dad arrives and starts screaming at her. My friend says he still has no idea why the grown adult woman couldn’t handle the situation any better and we all start making guesses and bullshit psychoanalysis.
Cue the quiet kid raising his magnificent head and blessing us with enlightenment: “maybe she just needed to finger herself real quick”
13. Awww, bless.
I was best friends with the “quiet kid” in middle school. It wasn’t so much shocking as the stupidest thing I’ve heard him say. He got this thousand yard stare all of a sudden and just said “I can’t remember what color my dog is”.
12. It’s honestly hard to blame him.
So this one kid, who barely ever said two words, one day, asks the teacher for the time (it was at some after-school thing and there was no clock). The teacher says the classic “time for you to get a watch”, which for some reason was funny to everyone else.
The quiet kid doesn’t laugh. He looks the teacher dead in the eyes, and once everyone quieted down, he says “so are you gonna tell me the F*CKIN’ time, or what?”
We were in like, 7th grade.
11. If you’re into dark humor…
My dad is very quiet, to the point that it makes most people uncomfortable, even me sometimes.
One day, we’re at the park and a woman walks passed us and my dad quickly says “What if I punched that woman in the face and said ‘Sorry I thought you were my wife.’”
10. Living up to the stereotype.
“What if we killed everyone with cancer to stop it from spreading”
9. Ah, those were the days.
In high school, there was this really quiet girl named Grace. She was a pleasant person, but wouldn’t say anything more than “Hi” or “sorry” unless you asked her something. Even then, she’d appear terrified.
It was at prom, and I was in the parking lot of the venue we had prom at. I lost a contact, and had to run to my car to grab my glasses. In the parking lot, Grace was smiling and walking from her car. She looked at me, laughed, and said “Ryan (her prom date) just fingered the f*ck out of me.”
I still laugh about it to this day.
8. That’s one way to do it.
This douchebag kid who constantly fucked with people was in line with the quiet kid and the quiet kids friend. The quiet kid is a bit over weight so when he gets up to the lunch lady and gets his chicken nuggets, the Douchebag says “You dont want extra nuggets big guy?”
The quiet kid out of no where just starts ranting: “No I am all set but what are you up to this weekend? you wanna hang out grab some food maybe f*ck a bit? I like to be on top and you look like a bottom, what do you say wanna f*ck tonight?”
The entire line is dead silent. The douchebag starts getting all pissed off and acting like he’s gonna start a fight and the quiet kid says “Ok fine you can be top baby.”
The douchebag kid leaves to the entire line laughing their asses off at his expense. No idea if the quiet kid was gay or he just knew that even jokingly suggesting the douche kid was a homosexual would upset him more than anything. But I do know he left the line with his delicious chicken nuggets and a huge smile on his face.
7. There must be more to this story.
He started to attack someone in my class with a table when the teacher got a cup of coffee.
That was quite… something.
6. That’s…unsettling.
Quiet guy I work with never said much until he came up to me and asked “What happens when an Eskimo c*ms?” before I get the chance to respond he throws a hand full of ice at me and walks away.
5. He couldn’t let the perfect moment pass him by.
I was in marching band in HS, probably 7 years ago now, and we had this huge muscular guy as our brass instructor. He would always yell at us to “NAIL THESE CHORDS” or “YOU’RE NOT PLAYING LOUD ENOUGH”
There was this little Asian trumpet kid that was so innocent and nice; he barely ever spoke a word. One really really hot afternoon, our instructor was being especially loud, and said “WHY DONT THE TRUMPETS BLOW HARD ENOUGH”
Dead silence across the field as all the brass are waiting for next instructions. Then we hear:
“Why doesn’t your mom blow this d*ck hard enough” from quiet trumpet kid. Needless to say, we all laughed, got push ups and laughed some more.
4. We all have our thing.
In Junior High in the mid eighties the game “Trivial Pursuit” was all the rage. We played it in math class one day and this kid, Gary, who NEVER SAID ANYTHING AT ALL totally spanked everyone else by answering every single sports related trivia question.
He got a lot of attention for it and I believe he walked a little taller after that day. I don’t think I ever heard him say anything else, but I did see him sitting on the bleachers at a few sports events.
3. Deep thoughts.
“72 virgins is nowhere near enough virgins for eternity.
That’s like….a weeks worth of virgins.”
2. At least he’s your friend?
At school, having just shown me the scope for a (supposedly his) sniper rifle: “If the fire alarm ever goes off and you can’t find me, don’t use the doors as an exit”
1. And he became Tolkien?
In high school, I had first level Spanish with this kid who was super quiet.
At the end of the year, we all had to give a speech in Spanish in front of the entire class.
This motherf*cker stood up and gave a speech, not in Spanish, but in a language that he had spent the entire year inventing.
It’s bound to happen to every quiet kid at some point, right? You just can’t keep your mouth shut for another second?
If this has been you, or you’ve witnessed something similar, please tell us the story in the comments!
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Awkward Stuff That Phone Store Employees Have Seen on a Customer’s Device
Any job that involves working with customers is bound to come part and parcel with awkward moments. People are weird, people are coming from all sorts of walks of life, and if people need something from you, there’s no telling what kind of attitude you’re going to encounter.
People who work at stores like Verizon, Cricket, or Apple, though, have the sometimes awkward, always interesting bonus of having access to people’s private devices, though, and they’ve got some pretty good stories out of it.
16. There is no part of this that isn’t a horror show.
I used to be a Specialist at an Apple Store. My favorite story was when I was asked to help out this grizzled taxi driver whose Mac was “slow.” His ENTIRE desktop was covered in naked jpgs of young-to-underage-looking nude asian women.
The driver absolutely did not give a shit that I was seeing all this. All traces of shame left this man years ago (along with many of his teeth). He had no concept of using folders to store his porn, or to organize them in iPhoto. Just covered his desktop in loose icons that were layers thick.
He also showed me the machete he keeps in his coat, because he’s been held up multiple times.
15. Aww, reach out!
I work at a phone dealer so I deal with the same problem. Lots of ass cracks, only one dick, tons of confused faces. However..
I went to wipe one phone one day and it had a picture of my best friend from junior high as the wallpaper. I haven’t seen or talked to him in like 7 years as I’m in a different city and we pretty much lost touch due to different interests etc. I was completely shocked seeing as I was there all day and did not see him and he must not of seen me.
I mean, everyone has a dick or an a$$crack to put on a phone. I had one best friend and there he was on the phone that I happened to stumble across to wipe.
I still haven’t gotten in touch with him to tell him how oddly coincidental that was. Maybe this will happen again and I will see him at a ping pong show in Bangkok in 25 years. Who knows.
14. This is horrifying on so many levels.
Came in one morning to see the opening manager kind of freaking out. I was the opening inventory guy, so there wasn’t really anyone else there other than him and I. He tells me to check out the Genius Room (where the techs work on shit). I walk over, open the door.
The entire place is flooded. Turns out the movie theatre upstairs had an issue with their waste water. A few hundred gallons of literal shit water rained down in the room where all the customer’s exposed electronics are.
Management’s plan for this clusterf*ck?
Have employees clean it up, throw out damaged parts and test all the customer equipment. If the customers computer was hosed, replace it and tell them we couldn’t repair it. If it worked, give it back to them and say nothing. They put notes on the repairs in the system to replace the computer if it ever came back, for any reason.
They then thought it would be ok to send back all the affected parts, without even notifying the receiving warehouse of the fact these parts were covered in waste water.
One of the dozens of reasons I hated working for that company.
13. I feel like this could have been worse.
Likely too late, but I’ve been on the other side of the fence. I had a DVD in my laptop that was an “instructional” video… I was trying to learn some new moves to please my (then) boyfriend.
It’s just my laptop so I leave the DVD in there for days, and one day my computer suddenly shuts off and a puff of smoke appears. Well that can’t be good.
When I take it in they say they have to send it out to get fixed (under warranty). I forgot the DVD was still in there. I return a week later and this poor girl brings out my laptop, goes through the whole boot up thing to make sure it works and then at the very end hands me an envelope and whispers “I believe there was a movie in there as well so this is your property”.
I just said “YUP, there was”. And hightailed it out of there. So embarrassed.
12. That’s…impressive.
It was just a typical Sunday afternoon at the Apple Store. Busy as hell, kids running around, and way too many people demanding my help all at the same time. I was helping someone with something, when suddenly, I hear a sound that sounds like nails on a chalkboard… No. Louder.
My ears had never heard such an unpleasant noise in my life.The whole store – probably 200 people, went from deafening to silent in a second.
I turned around to see what was happening when I see an old man who looked like he was in a WWI trench in his youth, screeching in on a walker with no tennis balls, with his back at about a 90 degree angle.
He ever so slowly made his was to the back of the store at the genius bar. The effect was so permanent it left two trail marks in the custom stone floors from the cutting of his walker legs.
Obviously, this man had to leave, which he did. Only to come back a few days later – welcomed by the same horror and silence.
I decided I needed to see what was going on. So I excused myself and walked to the corner of the genius bar where this man was stationed. He had a white iMac that seemed to be in the process of a data transfer drop off. Okay, normal enough. As I walk by to go into the back I capture a glance at his finder tab – only to find 267GB of the most well categorized pornography I’ve ever seen.
I mean thinks like ratings with stars, actor tags, genre EVERYTHING.
A few days later, the man vanished. Never to be seen again.
11. Sometimes people are awesome.
The other night we got “Nick Caged”.
Every iPad in the store had a different wallpaper photo of that bastard.
Can’t be unseen.
10. What could they say?
Another old couple comes in for a personal setup. They’d already bought their iPad but wanted to come back and have me show them a quick session. Okay.
So I’m going through all the main features of the iPad when I end up with “and here’s safari” where I press the safari icon. What opens up is something like “HORNYMILFCOUGARSXXX.THISISAVIRUS.COM” with some cougar squirting on the camera. I immediately closed it and ended with “well, it seems you’re well acquainted with safari”. They said nothing.
9. That was not a good day for that employee.
One day I was browsing /r/cringe on my iPod and came across a post about a neo-Nazi. In the comments someone linked to the guy’s profile on a weird Nazi forum. I clicked through some of his posts there just out of curiosity to see what kind of shit was there.
Soon after that, my home button quit working so I had to take in my iPod for a replacement.
Some poor Apple employee probably had to see 30+ pages of crazy Nazi fringe material in my Safari history.
8. That would have been the day I quit.
Some kid projectile vomited on an iPad.
Someone had to literally wipe that.
7. I actually didn’t need to know this.
I worked as a specialist in a Flagship store in NYC for about a year. Every night we actually physically wiped down every product with alcohol wipes so that they would be sanitary the next day. I sh%t you not when I say we wore rubber gloves to do this.
The amount of people we had come into the store; many of which were homeless or just plain dirty was astounding. The white keyboards on the desktops weren’t always white by the end of the day.
And on the ipads, you could actually see the layout of the keyboard because of all the finger prints on the screen.
6. I feel like someone narrowly dodged a bullet.
This couple in their late 60’s comes in on a really busy day. I was showing them iPads and such. The man was looking around on Safari – but he was looking up really, REALLY, weird shit. Things like Yucca Valley nuclear sites, the Al Queada homepage – just weird shit.
So anyways, he tells me he wants a 64GB Black Verizon iPad. Well shit, we sold every single one and that was the only one we didn’t have. He was pretty pissed off because he exclaimed he called in ahead of time. I think what happened was the person on phones assumed we had it and didn’t check. So for some reason he insists on calling the store to ask her again, as if that would make them magically appear. Well, too bad, because there are 16 people in the line ahead of him and only one girl on phones (typical weekend). So after awhile I just sell him a different one and go on my way. About 20 minutes later hes still on the phone so he WALKS INTO THE BACK, through the cracked door, THROUGH THE BACK OF HOUSE, and ends up standing behind the girl on phones chair – breathing over her shoulder, without anyone noticing (phone still to ear).
It was crazy, the manager saw and almost didn’t know what to do except say, “uhm, sorry, you really can’t be back here”.
5. Of course she did.
I work at Geek Squad, and as bad a reputation as some of these stores have I think we have a pretty good confident group.
Weirdest thing I have seen was a man using the display computers as an internet cafe machine to bid on a car on eBay and getting annoyed because they reset every 10 or so minutes so as to stop this type of tomfoolery. But after three identical complaints I walked over and opened up the same exact eBay auction for the car and told him he would never outbid me because I have the p/w to keep the computer working ( not exactly true )
He shot me a very disturbed and confused look and exited the store after 2 hours of trying to purchase some old car off of eBay.
But as for porn I had a girl come in with a webpage open and say there is something wrong with my desktop background. When we closed the webpage there was an open folder of approximately 200+ photos she was submitting to Playboy and Penthouse. I really hope they got published. They were well shot and she was absolutely gorgeous.
She totally knew what she was doing and I am pretty sure she liked our reactions.
4. Why are so many people peeing on their phones?
I worked at Vodafone, I have had to deal with:
A man corrupted a brand new laptop within an hour of purchase from viewing bestiality sites
I made a woman cry because we worked out that her phone bill was higher because her husband was cheating on her. Sad.
Dozens of moisture damaged phones. After checking them for faults then casually being informed they had been pissed on.
Probably three times a week “lads” showing me their girlfriend naked.
And finally my favorite after 6 years of service…. a girl filling up her phone memory full with self porn and then offering to pay an employee to sit for about an hour to transfer them all to another phone (years before easy sync etc)
3. Some rules for the road.
I don’t work at an Apple Store, but I’ve been selling phones for 4 years. People have all kinds of weird sh%t on their phones.
I once had this girl who kept coming back with issues, and every single time both screens on her phone would have wallpapers of her f*cking. I’m not even joking. It was a keybo, and had one little screen and one big one. Do the f*ckees know?
If you’re going to ask me to fix your browser, please don’t leave the porn open
One time I had to back up this woman’s phone (she was probably about 50) to one of the store computers. She had about 5 videos of some guy who was definitely drunk singing and doing hula-hoops
A lot of nudes. Everyone has nudes. I have nudes. You have nudes. I don’t want to see your nudes though.
This isn’t really weird, but I think that the 13-year-olds who password protect their phones and their “kissing my boytoy” wallpapers are hilarious. They always seem so cheeky.
2. I am not shocked.
Not an apple employee, but I wiped data on phones for ModusLink, and saw between 300-350 phones a day. While I occasionally saw nudes, the vast majority of pictures were of two things.
In 2nd place, babies…usually newborns. Sometimes they were with their mother who had clearly just delivered them and I felt strange, like I was in the room on this very intimate event.
But in 1st place by a mile, was pictures of pets. People fill their phones with pictures of their pets doing the most mundane shit. One phone in particular belonged housed at least 200 photos of the same cat just sitting there in the same pose (or lack thereof) not doing sh%t, just sitting there.
As it turns out, people really like cats…who would’ve guessed?
1. So is this like a thing?
Some guy who we have never caught comes in every other week or so and puts nic cage’s face on every iPad and iPad Mini in the store…
I don’t know who he is and I hate him for making my job harder…
But damn I respect him.
I mean, I figured most of the answers would have to with porn, but sheesh. Come on, people.
If you’ve worked somewhere like this, share your own best story with us in the comments!
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Hilarious Memes for S-Tier Gamers
It’s the perfect day to wake up, smell the coffee, and boot up your gaming console of choice. To help motivate your regular dive into escapism, here are 10 more memes for the hardcore gamers out there looking for a laugh. Seriously, what would we do without memes?
1. Why does this happen
Even the AI doesn’t want to be my friend. That’s just cold.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
2. That competitive nature
Fess up, we’ve all been guilty of this.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
3. Parents just don’t understand
It’s not a phase, Dad. It’s part of who I really am.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
4. Just one more time
I have to admit it – I’ve 100% done this. Multiple times.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
5. Do it for the honor
It’s always better when it’s a little personal.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
6. Some people have the range
We like these people. We take good care of them.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
7. Peer pressure
C’mon, man… just one more game. It won’t hurt.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
8. Yowch
Poor Ubisoft. They really haven’t come back since Assassin’s Creed, have they?
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
9. That’s fine
Yep, that’s totally what she meant, right? Because, y’know, grenades are an everyday threat.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
10. This
Is easily the best meme I’ve seen in months.
Photo Credit: Cheezburger
Wow, now I really want to find my copy of Raving Rabbids – or maybe I should go for a more soothing game, like Super Mario Sunshine. The thought’s definitely tempting, especially because the beat that drops in Delfino Plaza is undeniably a bop.
What game are you itching to play right now? Let us know in the comments below!
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Phone Store Employees Recall the Weirdest Thing They Saw on a Customer’s Phone
Every job has it’s oddities, I suppose, and sometimes, those could maybe be viewed as perks.
If you’re someone who works for a cell phone company, in a store all day where a lot of your time is spent repairing or troubleshooting customer’s phones, it’s a blessing and a curse to be able to see what’s on them.
These 18 employees are scrolling and telling about the weirdest thing they ever encountered on a customer’s phone.
18. He was proud of that.
one more – a male elementary school teacher who was also a nudist. wanted to learn how to bookmark pages in safari – so i click on safari and its a picture of him skinny dipping into a lake.
no big deal, i close that window and open a new one…
SAME PICTURE. IT WAS HIS HOMEPAGE!
17. Because it couldn’t be him!
Former employee here. Did data transfers a bit, and it’s remarkable the amount of people (not young, mind you) have naked pics of themselves in their iPhoto library. We weren’t supposed go through them, and we didn’t, unless the customer explicitly stated they wanted us to check and make sure every photo transferred. Keep that crap in a separate folder so your friends/children don’t see it.
Once had someone from a site similar to suicide girls come in, and was big on promoting herself and showing off her photos.
And then there was always the random wife who found their husbands porn stash after a transfer and wanted to accuse us of putting it there.
16. That title though.
Genius here, once had to get a disk out of a failed optical drive.
Old Grannies, Young Panties IV
15. What is wrong with people?
My old room-mate was a genius…
He offered to sync some lady’s photostream to her phone… as he did… pictures started popping up from her husband’s photo album of him fucking all these other women…
left in tears…. he called me all bummed… felt so bad.
14. Wow people have zero shame when they’re desperate.
Worked in several different positions at an apple store. All the demo products are on a schedule and wipe every time they restart. Though I have seen people add their business as the homepage. Also seen people pull up that product at best buy or another site.
Since working as a tech I’ve seen a lot of porn, a lot of it self made. Weirdest was a picture on this girls desktop of her on a dog cage wearing only a dog collar.
Weird interaction with the guy who kept asking me how to go to porn sites without getting on their mailing lists. Another with the middle aged guy who had a problem importing pictures, some of them were of him with other guys. (He had the decency to cover my eyes and say “you’re too young to see this”)
Or the guy who swore his phone was broken because he couldn’t stream his porn. (Sorry man, that site uses flash. Was not a good enough explanation)
13. Spoiler alert: your girlfriend doesn’t want to see it.
Worked at best buy and I got a picture of this girl’s boyfriend’s dick over text while I was transferring her contacts.
She wouldn’t stop apologizing.
12. I’m not surprised.
Not Apple, but Verizon.
People would leave their phones and go to do other shopping while we transferred data and such.
I had a co-worker who had 100% accuracy when guessing if someone would have naked pictures of themselves.
It became a game fairly quickly.
11. Someone’s idea of a joke.
I work at an apple store! We see a lot of weird shit. Once when I was a specialist, I went to go demo an iPad mini to someone.
Turn on the screen and BAM, penis as the lock screen wallpaper. They did not end up buying the iPad mini.
10. So much porn.
Once, one of the Experts had a guy come in wanting help with an iMovie project. Not exactly part of their expertise, but Expert (female) wanted to help and no Family Room people were available so she said sure. The guy had 5 hours worth of home made porn that he wanted to edit together into his own home porno.
Another Genius told me that he had a guy come in for his iPad because his data wasn’t working anymore. After a bunch of troubleshooting, it seems the problem lay with his carrier and his outstanding $6000+ bill he had in going over his data limits. What was he doing with all his data? All the gay porn.
And of course, all the obligatory dick, vag and boob pics of SOs while they are standing right there.
9. I guess the daughter doesn’t need to come out now.
I worked as a specialist and was good friends with some people at the genius bar. One time a mother came to pick up her daughters laptop from the genius bar after a data transfer from her old computer.
When the genius’s brought the computer out from the back room she rudely insisted that she goes through the computer while still at the genius bar to make sure everything was transferred.
They started going through the photos and the mother stumbled upon a photo album of a her daughter with 3 or 4 other girls in a lesbian orgy. She immediately closed the computer and left the apple store in tears.
8. The biggest downside of the internet.
I don’t work in an apple store, but I went through the iMessages on one of the store iPhones.
Someone was sending really nasty, mean texts to someone they obviously didn’t like with an anonymous number.
If you’re going to be an asshole, at least own up to it.
7. Noooo worst day of work.
I’ve got some Apple store stories.
I used to be a Genius for a few years and a man came in with a non-functioning iPhone. When I asked him what was wrong he said “I don’t know man, just woke up and it won’t turn on.” Upon further questioning it came up that he had been drinking the night before, and it might have had something to do with his problem.
I started to check for liquid damage thinking he might have spilled a drink on it inadvertently, and that’s when the stench hit me…(as a side note, you need to get your face really close to the phone to look at the liquid damage sensors in an iPhone). What I had only now began to smell was the odor of stale piss.
This dude had somehow soaked his phone in urine and gave it to me to try to get replaced. Needless to say he did not get a new phone. Ruined my day.
6. Folks…why?
I manage a Cricket store. Had a guy come in to pay a bill, turns out I was in the same clinic with him in Virginia a few years back when I was ill. I lingered by the iPhones as he left and he just said, deadpan: “oh hey bruh you might want to wipe that man, I Googled the word “nutsack” on there.”
He was at that phone for 10 seconds, tops. No pictures, he just said hello, walked over to the phone, Googled the word “nutsack” and closed the screen and walked away.
5. Why would she bring her mom?
Former employee. A girl brought in her own laptop because it was running real slow. Hard drive was basically full with all sorts of animal porn.
This girl was like 16 years old, we live in a pretty wealthy area outside New York City. When she returned to pick up the computer, she brought her mother with her. One of those real snooty upper class types.
My friend was actually the genius that worked on her computer and he originally planned to be straight with this girl and tell her she had way too much porn on the ol’ iBook, but with mommy dearest around he just had to tell her that there were “a lot of pictures on the hard drive” along with other issues.
4. What an accomplishment.
Not at Apple, but I work for Sprint. Some guy managed to take a picture of himself without his shirt on with a store phone. He didn’t send it, he took it. Somehow we didn’t notice, but I know it was taken there because the rest of the store was in the background
3. Man that is random.
I’ve seen some weird shit before.
One time someone FaceTimed one of the iPads I was cleaning. Another specialist and I answered it. It was a very large hispanic lady with a shirt not quite covering all of her belly. i informed her that she called a demo iPad (someone clearly logged in with their Apple ID). She asked if we still wanted to talk. We didn’t.
Also, various people who don’t belong on demo backgrounds.
2. Probably a common tale.
I used to work as a specialist in a mall store. One time a man came in, and said that the internet wasn’t working on his phone.
So I said the ol’ “Let’s find out together” line, and I open the dude’s phone. The guy was like a 60-ish aged white guy, I’m a late 20s-aged gal…
I open his Safari, and go to a website. He just didn’t know how to do it. Then he asks me how to search, and the ONLY thing in his history is “interracial porn.”
I looked at his Asian wife, looked at him, he looked at me, and it was the longest 10 seconds of all of our lives.
1. I…have nothing to say.
creative of 7 years, recently promoted to full time customer. my job was to train old people how to use macs, one hour at a time. one lady in particular comes to mind, her husband had recently passed so she came in weekly for lessons, but also maybe to make her mind off things?
A few weeks in a row however, she would bring up iphoto and find a picture of her late husband and start crying. this happened for a few weeks – until one week it was pictures of her and her husband naked in bed – but someone else was taking pictures.
This time it was tears of joy as she explained that it was her SON TAKING THE PICTURES because he thought they looked beautiful.
I am rolling!
I’m also checking the histories and photos on my phone. Just in case.
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Entitled Customers Who Reminded Us Why Selling Stuff Online Is Literally the Worst
The world of online shopping can be a dangerous place.
The entire inventory of the planet is at your fingertips, and you can find some pretty sweet deals. For the sellers out there, it’s a realm of high risk, high reward. Some out-of-line people really believe the world owes them something.
These 13 entitled customers and their unrealistic demands remind us why selling stuff online can sometimes be the worst.
1. Those greedy US artists
What’s wild is that this stingy customer didn’t take the exchange values into account.
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2. What a jerk
So… You want somebody else to do all the work while you still reap half the profits? Sounds totally fair to me!
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3. Owned
This super entitled person came barreling in with the hate, but the seller didn’t let them get away with it that easily.
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4. That’s not how bartering works
If a seller refuses your offer, you typically go up, not down.
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5. Pay for my gas!
While you’re at it, could you get my water bill, too?
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6. You’ve got to be kidding
In what world would any gaming console, plus the bells and whistles, go for $100?
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7. Gucci Gucci, Fendi Fendi
If you can’t afford it, then don’t spend-y spend-y.
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8. Take a chill pill
Didn’t anybody ever teach this person about bullying?
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9. LOL
That’s one way to get back at a deadbeat buyer.
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10. That’s just wild
I wonder what motivated the seriously steep price fall.
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11. Wow, just wow
This seller already had several better offers – but the buyer apparently had a different point of view.
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12. Non-negotiable!
I will never understand why people try to rip others off like this.
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13. An offer you can’t refuse
Nobody is forcing you to buy a microwave, dude. Don’t act like you’re doing the seller a favor by taking it off their hands!
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Well, that was sufficiently rage-inducing. I think I’m officially sworn off eBay and Facebook Marketplace.
Have you ever had a total migraine of a buyer come your way while selling things online?
Share your story with us in the comments below!
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People Who Stuck It to Their Boss – but Still Kept Their Jobs
Unless you work for yourself, chances are that at some point, you’re going to run up against a boss who is kind of bad. The ones who are sticklers for the rules, who apply them without stopping to think about why, or who they’re helping, and honestly? They make going to work every day a slog.
May I recommend that, like these 14 people, you put on your creative cap and figure out how to get that boss’s goat without breaking any rules at all.
14. Being reasonable usually works.
On the flip side, I’m the boss enforcing policy: When I took over the department, the old boss told me that the reason the place looked like crap was because when he asked a sales associate (base pay + commission) to clean or put up stock, they claimed it wasn’t in their job description. The main boss backed them up, calling it a technicality.
I pulled out the description and read out “Other duties as assigned by the Manager” on the last line. Two out of nine quit. My department is now clean and stock is always up. Sales are consistently up. I’m cool with that.
13. Good on her for fighting back.
I used to work at a lingerie store as an assistant manager so I had to dress nice and look professional. All the other girls wore huge heels and always ended up complaining about how sore their feet were at the end of their shift and I always wore flats to avoid having sore feet.
They were still nice, stylish shoes, but they didn’t have towering heels on them. My manager always used to get mad at me for not wearing heels and tried to claim it was part of the dress code. I looked it up and showed her that it didn’t say anywhere that I had to wear heels, just that I had to wear acceptable work attire or something like that and she tried to tell me it was an out of date dress code or something so I would tell her that she should get an updated one then.
Eventually, she brought head office into the argument and the provincial manager was trying to tell me to wear heels to work. I told them they would have to pay me more than minimum wage to ruin my feet. I did not get a raise and no one ever told me to wear heels to work again.
12. Next time, specify a color.
I work at Panera, and we were recently told we had to get non-slip/slip-resistant shoes, else risk being fired.
Rather than buying the ugly black kind all of my coworkers got, I got a bright purple pair of Doc Martens. All of the managers gave me a “ಠ_ಠ are those slip-resistant?”
You bet, motherf*ckers.
11. There’s a feather in your cap.
At my old school, they had rules about hair length (guys), and our teacher got anal about it. The only actual rules were that they couldn’t pass our eyebrows or collar-area.
Being the witty douchebag I am, I used a shit ton of gel to slick up my hair and do obnoxious things with it. It was all raised, so it never crossed my eyebrows or collar.
I got away with it for 2 months, until the principal changed the rules! All just for me
10. A wholesome tale.
My buddy and I came into the office, last day on the job.
We found there was no clause against taking the boxes from the shipping dept and turning them into armor, The Box Knights were born and died on that day.
No door was safe from our attacks.
9. I love her and her knee socks.
I used to work at the Jaws ride at Universal Studios Florida. Our uniform consisted of a blue t-shirt, jeans or jean shorts, white socks, and white shoes. The “unofficial” dress code had all of us girls wearing jean shorts and white knee socks.
One summer, I ended up working the Jaws ride and The Jungle Cruise at Walt Disney World simultaneously. I love Disney, and had always wanted to work there, but I ended up finding it stifling, with all sorts of silly and over the top rules.
At the Jungle Cruise, you wear a khaki shirt, khaki shorts or pants, white socks, and brown shoes. One day, I didn’t have any normal sized socks to wear to the Jungle Cruise, so I ended up wearing my white knee-highs, which looked RIDICULOUS with the Jungle costume. When I got to work, one of my managers flipped his shit, told me my socks weren’t in compliance with “The Disney Look” (the official policies on how to dress at Disney) and made me roll my socks down. It looked like I was wearing little white life preservers around my ankles, and looked more out of place than they looked originally.
I was annoyed, so when I went home, I scoured my Disney Look booklet for the policies pertaining to socks. All I could find was that socks had to be long enough to cover the ankle bone. There was no maximum height. Hell, I could have worn white tights under my khaki shorts if I really wanted to.
The next day, I wore my knee-highs again, as a small act of rebellion. The same manager was there, and he flipped out. He actually pulled me into the office to write me up, but before he could get me to sign the paperwork, I pulled out my copy of The Disney Look and showed him that, while incredibly silly looking, my socks were perfectly acceptable, and that I would continue wearing them like that.
And so I did. I looked stupid, but I didn’t care. Working for Disney wasn’t a pleasant experience in my opinion, and it was very liberating to know that I could at least wear my socks however the hell I wanted to.
8. People latch onto the strangest things.
I worked at a Petsmart 5 or so years ago, in the “Pet Hotel” where animals were boarded while their “Pet Parents” (owners) went on vacation. Everything I did was in the back. No customers ever saw me. Just the dogs and kitties.
But my bitch boss would always get onto me for forgetting my belt. So one day she was particularly mad at me about not having a belt despite the fact that I was picking that shift up last minute for someone who was sick.
I pick up a dog leash, put it through my belt loops, and say “Well, it appears I now have a belt.”
7. And everyone just shook their heads.
Working at Big 5 there was a policy that men had to be clean shaven or have a mustache; no beards or goatees or star-burns.
I can NOT wear a mustache without looking like either a pedophile or an 80’s porn star, but I hate shaving every day.
So I grew out the biggest, creepiest Hulk Hogan stache ever witnessed and wore it proudly for the entire time I worked there.
6. Maybe don’t try this in the military.
In the Navy you must always have a white t-shirt under your uniform. I had a Senior Chief who constantly checked if your t-shirt was not visible and required that it bee seen. I checked the uniform regs and found that while in a working uniform you can wear a V-neck tee.
Started wearing them and he took notice as soon as he saw me. I told him that the regs allowed it. He scowled and his only comment was, “One for the blue shirts” and walked away.
Then he hammered me for every reg violation he could find. Smart asses never win. At least not in today’s Navy.
5. This man is a hero.
I work in foodservice. My job created a rule one day that one’s hair can not touch one’s collar. I have rather long hair, but I always kept it in a braid and we wear hats, anyways. I was informed of this rule about two hours before the end of my shift, and told that I HAD to comply IMMEDIATELY because I was breaking health code.
I politely informed them that no, I was not. This was a store policy — but I would be happy to come in with my hair up the next day. I didn’t think this was unreasonable, it takes a while — not to mention pins/hair product/etc. to keep my hair up.
Not good enough! NOW!! So I punched out for a break, bought rubber bands and floral wire, made 8 braids with the wire woven in, and stuck them in every direction. Boss saw me and began screaming. I calmly told him my hair wasn’t touching my collar.
TL;DR: Long hair not allowed to touch collar, created obnoxious hairdo within regulations.
4. They’ve got no answer for that.
Company dress code allows women to wear open-toed shoes, so long as they are leather. The dress code does not allow men to do the same. A few years back, I started wearing leather sandals during the warmer months.
A few managers mentioned to me that I was in violation of the dress code and I pointed out that my shoes would be considered acceptable if I were a woman and that it’s gender discrimination to deny me the ability to wear something that is considered ok on someone of the other gender.
Haven’t heard any comments or problems since.
3. Ah, the indignant walk out. Love it.
Boss told me “you have to cover X this upcoming weekend, both days, since everybody else said no.” I said “How do you know I’ll say yes?” He said “you have to, there’s nobody left.” I said, “You’re wrong, I’m left. But I quit. Now there’s nobody left.” He was speechless, his expression was priceless, I stood there about 10 seconds and said, “I’m walking away now” and left.
Thank God this happened the day after I had (secretly) secured a better job.
Probably one of my fondest memories.
2. This used to drive me nuts, too.
When I was working at an OfficeMax about 10 years ago, I was the only employee who didn’t smoke. Needless to say, everyone in the building took a 15 min smoke break 2-3 times a shift, and I got squat.
One day, I asked the manager if I could have a “Clean Air Break”, and he was confused. I explained that since smokers can have their 15 min breaks 2-3 times a shift, I should be able to step outside and do the same without having to smoke. Irked my manager, but he knew he had to let me to avoid any discrimination.
1. Using homophobia for good.
Not a job, but a school.
I went to a Catholic college and they didn’t allow members of the opposite sex to spend the night in a dorm room.
I made a huge case that they were discriminating against heterosexuals, and that rule miraculously disappeared the next year.
I tip my hat to these folks!
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Scientists Claim That Driving Tiny Cars Helps Rats Relax
Some days, driving can seem super relaxing and carefree, but other days, it’s definitely not – and it mostly depends on other drivers, not myself.
For rats, though, I suppose they’re always driving their tiny cars in nice, controlled environments. No rat road rage, no people looking at their phones instead of the light turning green…what a lovely world.
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Why, you ask, are rats driving cars? Why does it relax them, and how?
If you’re curiosity is piqued, I invite you to keep reading.
It’s researchers from the University of Richmond, in Virginia, where you’ll find these vehicle-driving rodents, and listen – they weren’t taught to drive just to see if they could do it. Scientists there wanted to prove that an enriched environment could improve their cognitive function, sharpening their ability to learn more complex tasks.
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Dr. Kelly Lambert, one of the study authors, expanded in an interview with IFLScience.
“The findings that the animals housed in a complex environment had more efficient learning in the driving task confirms that the brain is a plastic organ that is molded by our experiences to some extent.
I tell my students that they are accountable for what they do with their brains every day of their lives – more challenging and enriching lifestyles lead to more complex neural networks.”
The study, published in Behavioural Brain Research, explains that the rats were given “cars,” that were basically plastic jars atop electric-powered wheels. They drove forward and steered using a copper bar, a task that’s not hard…if you’re human.
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The rats had to employ a ton of cognitive, motor, and visuospatial skills, and combine them, too, in order to get to their prize – Fruit Loops.
I get it. I would do some crazy stuff for a bowl of Fruit Loops right now, myself.
There were 11 rats involved in the study – six who remained in their standard environments, and five lucky rats who got an “enriched environment” that resembled a rat’s natural habitat, with awesome toys.
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The rats living in the enriched spaces performed better at the driving test, and even retained an interest in driving the car after the Fruit Loops were removed from the equation.
On the other hand, the rats who remained in their standard lab cages showed little to no interest in figuring out driving the cars, or the Fruit Loops.
Hormones seem to be part of the equation. The driving rats poop showed increasing levels of dehydroepiandrosterone – which controls stress – and decreasing levels of the stress hormone corticosterone, which suggests that mastering the skill of driving relaxed the rodents.
The study definitely suggests that, for rats, at least, their environment is tied to their mental state.
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Dr. Lambert, and the rest of the scientists involve, believe we humans could take a few lessons from the results.
“It reminds us that we can use challenging tasks with preclinical animals work to learn more about human challenging behavior and cognitive systems. We also see that the rats had healthier stress hormone profiles with the driving training.
We think this learning task and operating the ROV may be an animal model for agency or self-efficacy – two elements critical for mental health.”
If you’re feeling down and out, unmotivated, or just plain blue, you might want to try giving yourself a new challenge, it would seem.
I mean, it can’t hurt, right?
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Here Are Some Very Cringeworthy Design Fails
Marketing strategies can make or break a business. That’s why there are entire degrees dedicated to graphic design.
Sometimes, an at-home DIY design can take a pretty cringe-worthy turn. Here are 13 facepalm-inducing design fails that sure to make you ask – what the heck were these people thinking?
While we’re at it, here are some more epic fails to tickle your fancy.
1. That’s messy
Whatever she’s having – I don’t want it.
2. Grammar?
Not quite sure how one’s supposed to read this. Every combination I’ve tried makes no sense.
3. Liquids!
Orange milk is my favorite.
Yess milk from designfails
4. Just slightly off
That’s one way to get into the holiday spirit.
5. This is so unfortunate
I guess it makes the library a little bit more exciting.
My local library uses the three last letters of authors names from ShittyDesign
6. That’s unfortunate
Well, at least they’re honest about their product.
Yes, Ew. from designfails
7. This is the future
I can’t wait until we finally splice enough of our DNA with AI to do this.
8. In a quarantined world
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
9. Interesting placement
Not sure what Sanrio was trying to go for here.
The New Hello Kitty Water Cooler Is…..Interesting. from ShittyDesign
10. Thank you, Captain Obvious
Seriously, do people proofread any of this stuff?
Hmm yes, the floor here is made out of floor from designfails
11. Oh no
I guess this is a concert you’ll never forget?
12. What
Are you paying for the napkins?
Would you like your chips with or without chips? from CrappyDesign
13. An entirely different message
That’s pretty nasty placement for a slogan on a door.
Didn’t think about the doors being open did they? from designfails
Whenever times get rough, at least I know that I haven’t quite made a major public faux pas like the ones we see above.
This is exactly why my twitter account is private.
But hey, enough about me… what do you think about these design fails? Let us know in the comments!
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Millennials Will Definitely Remember These Things
Millennials are defined as anyone born between 1981 and 1996. We get a lot of heat for ruining basically everything but really all we want to do is escape from the pressures of adulting by seeking comfort in the memories of our childhood.
If you’re a Millennial looking for a moment of escape, see if you remember these 13 things that contributed to Millennial childhood experience.
1. So satisfying:
Like returning a library book.
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2. Ah, youth:
Field trips = school sanctioned adventures.
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3. I’m parched:
These will go great with our Hercules plates.
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4. Idk about this one:
I remember the texture of these being…weird.
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5. I still miss this:
The best phones have physical keyboards.
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6. The good old days:
Back when the playground equipment could give you splinters for days…
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7. Simpler times:
…and building with these bricks made you feel super strong.
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8. Try blowing on it:
Do you see a scratch?
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9. Why don’t we still have this?
Forget ball pits! I want to race Mario carts!
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10. Ice, ice baby:
Stay frosty.
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11. The evolution of the mixtape:
And the best gift for your current crush.
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12. Let there be light:
There once was a time where not every device was backlit.
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13. I can’t explain it:
But I remember.
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Ah, that’s better. As Millennials we get a bad rap, but honestly, I think we’re lucky. We were lucky to grow up when we did. We got to experience the world before and after the turn of the millennium, and the rise of social media. And no matter how stressful life gets, we’ll always have those memories to keep us going.
Which one of these memories gives you the warm fuzzies? Let us know in the comments!
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