This Revenge Story Proves You Shouldn’t Mess With Someone’s Christmas – Even if They’re Family

It’s fair to say that every family does the holidays differently.

You might do Santa up big, or play him down (or ignore him totally). Everyone might buy each other all of the gifts they can afford, or you might draw names from a hat to keep things less expensive (but still loving). There might be so many kids that you just stop buying for everyone period, because it costs a crazy amount of cash.

Whatever you decide when it comes to gifts, as long as your entire family is ok with it – or gets ok with it – you should still be able to enjoy the holiday together.

It’s about family, after all, not presents…right?

That’s what this guy thought, at least, when he and his father agreed that it was no longer necessary for everyone to buy for everyone else’s kids, only their own parent/siblings – great news for OP (original poster), since he was the only childfree dude in the bunch.

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Here is the cast of characters (I really appreciate this guy’s way with words!)

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Things begin to go awry when OP hands over his Nintendo DS, goes to get a drink, and hears trouble brewing.

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No one else is concerned about the situation, but the stepsister eventually wanders in to “handle” things.

Spoiler alert: she handled nothing.

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6 months later, the stepbrother calls with the news that OP should really buy Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

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They have a discussion about it that really doesn’t go all that well.

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And ends with OP thinking they understand each other, and that now no one is getting gifts.

But of course that wasn’t all, because then his father called.

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The same sort of conversation happened, with OP expressing continued disinterest in impressing the kids.

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In the end, OP agrees to buy small gifts and bring them to Christmas.

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OP promises that the kids will definitely enjoy his gifts.

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Enter Christmas, with not 1, but 4 gifts under the tree for each of the four children. He’s excited and can’t wait, so he encourages the kids to open his gifts first.

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The parents agree, and of course, the kids do love their gifts.

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Then all hell breaks loose.

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Then, the beautiful parting shot.

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Here’s your TL;DR if you skimmed up until this point.

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Do you agree with how this guy handled his stepfamily?

I have to say, I do think this guy could be nicer about his nieces and nephews, because they’re family and also just because they’re kids, and really don’t deserve this kind of judgment.

That said, gifts should be optional and no one should be forced to buy them if they’re not moved to do so, right?

Tell me your thoughts on the topic down in the comments!

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Unique Things People Collected and Shared With the World

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind why we love to collect things – coins, books, rocks, figurines, records, what have you – but there must be some reason that so many people lovingly gather certain things to display in their homes.

Sometimes those collections go beyond the average, too, and that’s when they really become interesting, if you ask me.

Here are the really different collections kept by 17 different people.

17. Ok I have questions about this one.

Like…why? And how?

Over the past 15 years my dad collected 1,785 bowling balls and built a giant Bowling Ball Pyramid from pics

16. Alphabets made from beach stones.

This is one of several alphabets assembled by Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff from stones collected at the beach.

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15. I can see hanging onto these for a rainy day.

Or for the inevitable apocalypse.

Collection of reference seeds found in my Grandad’s attic from mildlyinteresting

14. These extremely cool “punched” state quarters.

I mean, if you thought they were cool before…

A year ago, I started staying in and peircing state quarters, instead of going out and getting in trouble. Here is my collection so far. from pics

13. This is super cool.

I would love to see all of the birds that came!

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12. The crows never forget.

So, better friend than foe.

Inspired by an old reddit post. I started feeding bar nuts to these crows that are regural to the patio of a bar I work at. My collection of gifts finally started after 3 months. from pics

11. This looks like something out of a horror movie.

I don’t like it.

The product of 15 years collecting shedded antlers from the woods. from pics

10. That’s something worth keeping.

It would make you smile every single day!

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9. For what purpose?

Just to fill a barrel?

Since the late 80s, my office has been collecting used staples that were removed from documents that needed to be microfilmed/scanned. Here is that collection. from pics

8. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.

These are seriouslycool!

My grandfather’s pencil sharpener collection i inherited from mildlyinteresting

7. Happy Birthday!

Also, that’s a LOT of tires.

Our tire sticker ball turned 6 today from Damnthatsinteresting

6. I bet it’s not really about the rocks.

It’s about finding the rocks.

Perfectly round rocks found on the beach. Bonus: egg rock, triangle, and taco rock. from interestingasfuck

5. Those belong in a museum.

Not everyone is so lucky to live where these can be found.

Some of my favorite arrowheads. Amazing little pieces of history collected on our private property in southern Arizona. from interestingasfuck

4. He’s even color-coded them.

How endearingly dorky.

This is my Periodic Table of Elements with actual elements! from mildlyinteresting

3. Just picking it up here and there.

That’s a lot of walks on the beach.

2 years of collecting sea glass. from mildlyinteresting

2. He must really like apples.

I can respect that, but maybe they disappeared for a reason!

This man’s collection of lost apples varieties. from mildlyinteresting

1. He’s accomplished more than I have in my whole life!

This kid is going places.

I’m 14 and here is a picture of me and my chess medals from MadeMeSmile

 

I guess I collect books, but not really on purpose. I would like to collect dogs but I don’t have enough land. Or money.

What do you collect? Tell us in the comments!

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Inexpensive Items That People Claim Drastically Improved Their Lives

There are some things we buy and we know that they’re frivolous.

Other items we expect big things from (because maybe they came with big price tags) only to be disappointed, the thing relegated to the back of a closet where we don’t have to look at it and be reminded.

Then there are the times – rare as they may be – when we buy something inexpensive that we want to try, and our lives end up the better for it every single day.

These 16 people claim these items – all less than $50 – drastically changed their lives for the better.

16. I hate cleaning it and putting it away though.

A non-stick electric griddle. You can cook a bunch of stuff on that thing.

adding to the list:

A coffee maker and a knock off Yeti tumbler. You can save a crap ton of money that way.

15. Anyone else want to jump ship?

Affinity Photo on sale for 25$, I could leave Photoshop and the whole Adobe Creative suite nonsense behind me. No more monthly payments. Just these 25$ once and I won the thing.

Other thing was a used line tool for architects for 3€ (normal price is 25€), making comic panels never was easier

14. If you don’t already have one.

Pocket/Swiss army knife or multi tool

I have 2 that I keep on my at all times and use them pretty much daily

13. The longer the better (heh).

3 metre long charging cable.

I got a 10 ft USB extension cable to a friend who was recovering from surgery at a hospital. He told me that was the best present he ever got, his words “in my life”.

12. It is revolutionary.

Electric toothbrush.

Speaking of oral care, I bought a tongue scraper on amazon 8 years ago on a whim. I can’t believe I wasn’t scraping my tongue before. The amount of plaque that I get off with that thing every morning is astounding and my breath is so much better now.

11. As someone with a bad back, this sounds nice.

Something called “the helping hand”. Its basically a litter picker (which was actually invented for the disabled btw).

I am disabled and a wheelchair user. My occupational therapist gave me this years ago to help me get things out of high up kitchen cupboards etc.

I still have it and it has been a life changer!

10. For the writing nerds.

This one mechanical pencil that I bought in high school or earlier. I’ll graduate college soon which means I’ve been writing with the same pencil for somewhat 10 years. It fits perfectly between my fingers.

I’ve kept a traditional diary since I was a kid and it has become more and more important since hardly anything requires paper and a pencil today. So many memories from the happiest moments to the absolute worst have been written down using this pencil.

I have a few other pencils as well but they don’t feel right and eventually I’ll put them away and return to my old friend.

9. Learned this from my parents.

A butter dish/butter tray. Room temp butter always available. No more fucking with trying to spread hard butter out of the fridge.

8. Is he on YouTube?

About 20 years ago I bought a 3 VHS tape set that showed me this guy, Sepp Holzer, doing pond and gardens and raising animals in a way far better than I imagined. It has been the core of my life ever since.

7. They almost make winters bearable.

A heated blanket, dont know how I ever survived winters before this.

My bedroom is in the attic and it gets cold. Due to how stuff is wired the heating in my room only goes on when it’s cold downstairs, but since it doesn’t get that cold downstairs my heating never starts up.

This has saved me so much cold nights curled up in a ball at night trying to warm up, it’s amazing

6. I didn’t know there was a way to fix that!

Sheet suspenders!

I toss and turn a lot and would have to fix the fitted sheet every morning

5. Omg this is a thing?

Try a heated mattress pad. They are more efficient has the heat rises and gets trapped by the blankets. Most also have a zone for your feet.

4. If that’s your sort of thing…

A $1 corkscrew that I keep in my car.

The amount of times I have been the hero because of this you wouldn’t believe

3. For people without small children.

A coffee grinder. Buying whole beans and grinding them yourself gives infinitely better coffee than buying pre-ground.

2. I like the enthusiasm.

I do a lot of IT-ish things, so I decided it would be a good idea to get a backpack for my laptop. And backpack means IT’S KIT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!! All kinds of pockets and whatnot for all life’s basic concerns.

Stanley 6 way screwdriver? Done. Chargers & battery packs? Yep. Whatever random crap? Probably!

The amont of times I’ve been The Guy with whatever completely basic thing is insane. It’s not like the pack is busting with tools.

1. That’s quite an endorsement.

Rainex

If there is one product I would sell door to door, this is it (please don’t let it come to that)

 

Definitely putting some of these things in my cart to try.

What would you add to this list? I would say a battery jump box to replace your jumper cables!

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Items That Don’t Cost Much, But That People Say Improved Their Lives

When you’re thinking about spending your hard-earned cash on something, many people hem and haw regardless of the price tag. The more we spend, the more we expect our purchase to work out the way we imagined – to make our lives easier or more fun or more colorful or just more streamlined, maybe.

If you’re looking for those magical items – the ones that don’t cost much but are 100% worth the money – these 18 people have some solid leads.

18. Hey, old people things work.

My 9$ pill organizer.

Friends have laughed at me because it seems like an old people thing, but I‘ve finally managed to stick to my meds (yes, ironically my ADHD is so bad I couldn‘t even get that done). To me this was a real life changer!

Bonus points: I‘m the only one who knows which day it is during the pandemic.

17. It’s always the little things.

It’s a small thing: a closet rod installed above my washer/dryer, and extra hangers.

Now clothes get taken out of the dryer and put on a hanger right away rather than end up as a pile on the floor, or in a basket never to be properly put away.

16. Comfortable beds are always worth it.

Fluffy duvet covers

My bed was always cold but now it’s not £12 for single £15 for double.

15. Just like a hotel.

Curved shower rod.

14. Electric kettles come in SO handy.

A rice cooker and electric kettle.

I used to sometimes eat rice and drink tea.

I now eat rice and drink tea all the time!

13. A game changer.

A cheap microwave and coffee maker for my work van.

I have an inverter for my tools that I use to run them.

Hot coffee and hot lunches make a huge difference, especially on bad days.

12. This sounds sensible.

Solar power battery pack. Power went out during the hurricane and I was still up and running for 5 days.

11. A simple solution.

My apartment has like no counter space, in reality only a total of 5 feet spread through three areas next to the sink and stove.

I spent like $15 on a 4 foot table. That now holds all my kitchen stuff like toaster, distiller, crock pot, and instant pot. It has just enough room for all that.

Since it is a common question, the distiller is for purifying water. It boils water then collects the steam and condenses it back to water in a pot on the side. It is the exact same process as how to make stronger alcohol, but this is a higher temperature so it leaves behind solids that I clean out once a week. I like pure water and I get all my minerals from my foods. I enjoy cooking so I choose menu items that get all my minerals.

10. Buy them for cons, keep them for life.

Battery pack to charge your phone.

We’ve all been in situations where having your phone on is super important, and not having to be tied to an outlet is even better.

9. You can’t go wrong.

11 pound capacity digital kitchen scale. For baking, cooking and correctly identifying portion sizes.

It has changed the way I bake. No more trying to make the measuring cup level, or worrying about the compactness of my flour. I even buy the large block of butter instead of the more expensive 1/2 cup sticks because I can just weigh it out. Just put the mixing bowl on the scale and tare after each ingredient

8. All of these are on point.

Gonna sound silly but a good set of three different sized stainless steel whisks. You would not believe how much easier making sauces and eggs are with these.

Also a whiteboard to keep on the fridge, makes it easier to note down what you are low on or out of.

7. Pet owners everywhere rejoice.

A rubber bristled broom. I have two dogs and two cats, and my house is all hardwood and tile.

A regular broom just sends the fur floating everywhere, but my rubber broom keeps it all nice and tidy and easy to pick up.

It works on my area rug and upholstered furniture, too!

6. Cheaper than noise-cancelling headphones.

Earplugs.

They saved my final exams in high school when my sister and her 1.5 and 3yo kids tornadoed through the whole house.

5. Like a bath, but less germy.

Shower chair.

I’ve got a f**ked up back and I initially got it for that but even if my back was fine I’d still have one, they’re so useful.

If you shave your legs, you won’t regret it.

4. I would definitely like to try this.

A wake up light alarm clock. The light turns on gradually and wakes you up gradually rather than waking up to obnoxious beeping. Makes the start of my day more positive.

3. I need one of these.

Hot water bottle. I live in cold Scandinavia and have chronic pain. It gets used pretty much all year around.

I recently backed a Kickstarter campaign for the heat bag. It’s made by the guys that also made the ostrich pillow.

It has a clay core you can boil or put in the microwave. When heated, you can put it into a kind of pillow. Thick, soft and insulated on one side and silky on the other side. It feels amazing and keeps the heat longer because of the insulation.

This thing is amazing! I gifted it to my girlfriend for Christmas and she loves it.

2. A good night’s sleep is worth a million bucks.

Weighted blanket and/or A Good Pillow.

Your sleep quality will improve.

Being well rested has to be one of the few good things to happen to me in 2020.

1. Both will definitely improve your life.

A foldable laptop stand for $15.

Always thought you didn’t need this stuff, how different from without one can it be – but it does wonders for my neck.

Travels everywhere with me now.

Also: a 2mm phone cable. It’s the s**t.

I’ll definitely be following up on some of these, how about you?

Which ones are already in your Amazon cart? Tell us in the comments!

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People Share Photos of Their Unique Collections

One of the best things about people is how unique we all are, with our own strange interests that turn into really fascinating and beautiful things (sometimes). We walk through our lives, gathering the things that bring us joy, and keeping them to look at on rainy days – in reality or just in our heads.

These 13 people have been building their unique collections for a long time, and I’m so happy they decided to share them on Reddit!

13. Wow, that is organized.

I bet grandma had something to do with that.

My granddad’s tool collection in his shed from oddlysatisfying

12. Why am I jealous right now?

Is anyone else?

An array of cake pans collected in the lifetime of my late grandmother taken from a roof top from pics

11. Food-shaped erasers.

How adorable are those?

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10. That is a lot of games.

All I see are dollar signs.

My game collection is finally out of storage! Wife surprised me by building shelves as an anniversary gift today from gaming

9. I bet it brings her joy.

And that’s all that matters.

My aunt has a spoon collection that has a tiny spoon collection right above it. from mildlyinteresting

8. This is seriously cool.

He traveled everywhere!

My grandfather used all of his hotel/motel keys he received from his job as a traveling salesman and made them into a map of the US from mildlyinteresting

7. The things we find…

Little pieces of history buried all over.

My dads little metal detecting museum from mildlyinteresting

6. A testament to failure.

I’m not sure what this means.

Someone had all the failed presidential candidates bumperstickers on their car from mildlyinteresting

5. A tie for every occasion.

I think I like this dude.

My entire bow tie collection, minus the one I’m wearing now! from CoolCollections

4. He’s ready for the apocalypse.

You know who to go to if you need fire.

My dad’s lifelong collection of matchbooks from mildlyinteresting

3. It’s so pretty!

And I’m jealous of all the places she’d been.

My mom collects sand from beaches all over the world… from pics

2. I hope he got money for it.

Or that it’s in storage somewhere.

The Only Remaining Picture of my Childhood Star Wars Collection from pics

1. This is really cool.

I want to know where he found them all.

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I think I need to work on being more interesting!

If you collect something cool, share it with us in the comments!

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Did You Know That Mass Extinction Events Happen Every 27 Million Years?

Right now, we’re in the middle of a mass extinction event, in which we are in danger of losing hundreds, maybe thousands, species of animals forever.

It’s sad to think about, this morbid marking of time passing, of the marks we humans leave on the planet, but recent evidence suggests it’s not a novel event at all.

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In fact, the mass extinction of land-dwellers – amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds – cycles around every 27 million years.

The study also found that these events align with major asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions, which could have encouraged the acceleration of these events, says lead author Michael Rampino, a biology professor at New York University.

“It seems that large-body impacts and the pulses of internal Earth activity that create flood-basalt volcanism may be marching to the same 27-million-year drumbeat as the extinctions, perhaps paced by our orbit in the galaxy.”

66 million years ago, 70% of all species – land and sea – suddenly went extinct in the aftermath of a large asteroid or comet collision.

This study examined the record of mass-extinctions of land-dwelling animals and concluded that they coincided with the extinctions of ocean life as well.

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Until our current mass extinction event, every one previous seems to have happened alongside a catastrophic even like we mentioned earlier, and some events – like comet showers – also appear every 26-30 million years.

The planets also cycle through the Milky Way in the same period of time, the movements creating conditions that would stress and potentially kill off life on Earth due to widespread dark and cold, wildfires, acid rain, and ozone depletion.

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Those massive volcanic eruptions – flood-basalt eruptions – could also have come into play.

“These new findings of coinciding, sudden mass extinctions on land and in the oceans, and of the common 26- to 27-million-year cycle, lend credence to the idea of periodic global catastrophic events as the triggers for the extinctions.

In fact, three of the mass annihilations of species on land and in the sea are already known to have occurred at the same times as the three largest impacts of the last 250 million years, each capable of causing a global disaster and resulting mass extinctions.”

Ramptino adds,

“The global mass extinctions were apparently caused by the largest cataclysmic impacts and massive volcanism, perhaps sometimes working in concert.”

What do you think about this information? Could an extinction event be coming sooner than we had anticipated based on this new theory?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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People Who Collect Cool and Unique Things

People love to collect things. Things that are small and innocuous, like paper clips, and other things that are harder to find and store, like vintage record players. Anything you think of, there’s probably someone out there with a collection of it.

Even so, I didn’t really expect to find pictures of people who collect these 16 things, but here we are…and I’m not mad about it at all.

16. Some of these are hard to imagine.

I guess seeing is believing.

This collection of objects swallowed by children from mildlyinteresting

15. I’ve never even found one!

This must be the luckiest person alive.

My four-leaf-clover collection (plus a couple five-leafers in the middle). from mildlyinteresting

14. I really want to hold these.

Surely I’m not the only one.

Marble collection from the 1800s. All made from polished semi-precious stones. from mildlyinteresting

13. This is very cool.

She’s definitely a catch.

My girlfriend cleaning her monopoly collection from pics

12. I could stare at this for hours.

Definitely going on my bucket list.

Weapons collection from Leeds Armoury, UK from mildlyinteresting

11. I wonder if those sharks are missing them.

He’s like a shark dentist.

My Shark Tooth Collection from mildlyinteresting

10. History lovingly preserved.

This will definitely be worth something, too.

This is my Gameboy mosaic made out of Gameboy games! Note: No games were harmed and all are removable and playable! from gaming

9. This is a very neat idea.

Much better than magnets.

My sand and dirt collection from every place I visit from mildlyinteresting

8. One person’s trash…

These are actually really interesting.

My (87yo) father’s "ugly" golf ball collection from mildlyinteresting

7. My toddlers would lose their minds.

I wonder if you’re allowed to play with them.

The Airbnb that I’m staying in has a collection of rubber ducks in the bathroom wall from mildlyinteresting

6. The history nerd in me just squealed.

Where did they find them all?

Local pharmacy has a display of antique medicines. from mildlyinteresting

5. I bet that’s actually going to be worth something one day.

No wonder he’s so helpful!

I helped my dad alphabetize his vinyl collection… from oddlysatisfying

4. They’re even in an egg carton.

In case you missed it.

I collect rocks that look like eggs from mildlyinteresting

3. This took some serious dedication.

Like hours of work.

My 100% complete collection of every LEGO shield ever made from mildlyinteresting

2. Did she…dispatch them all?

These are all very large.

1. Delicious and kitschy.

I approve.

My history teacher’s presidential PEZ collection from mildlyinteresting

I think I need a collection! Besides books, of course.

What do you collect? Share with us in the comments!

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Weird Events People Absolutely Can’t Explain

Weird things happen every day.

That said, about 99% of those events can, with enough consideration and time and space, be explained by logic and common sense.

The 1% of the time they can’t are where the fears of the paranormal, of roaming ghosts, of invisible hands, and other things that go bump in the night live – and these 14 people with some seriously strange stories.

14. Well that sounds terrible.

I had a sleep paralysis nightmare when I was a kid, where I saw a red-eyed dark figure standing in the doorway. It’s always stuck with me, and I’ve called him the boogeyman ever since.

One day I was browsing Reddit and somebody painted a picture of their “sleep paralysis demon”. It was like the guy had painted my exact dream. And then a bunch of people commented that they had seen the same creature.

It always makes me uneasy to think about.

13. That’s definitely unique.

When I was younger, in elementary school, I used to have the same dream every weekend starting on Saturday (when I would go to sleep) and then waking up in the middle of the night (on Sunday) and throwing up.

The dream was always a bunch of numbers. Not even anything happening just a bunch of random jumbled up numbers all over the place. I never understood why that happened where the same dream would happen on the same night every week and I would throw up every single time.

I always think about it and wonder what it was or if it was just some weird coincidence. Also I would not have any signs of being sick before or after. Maybe someone else has experienced this???

12. Out of the blue.

Both of my lungs collapsed at the same time (almost over 50% collapsed) and I was walking around like I was perfectly normal. Until I decided to go to the ER for bubble sounds in my chest. None of the doctors could figure out why this had happened to me. They didn’t know how I was just up and walking around and laughing

1. I am a 5’7” thin woman. I have heard it is very common in tall and thin men. 2. Yes, it was bilateral pneumothorax, Dr. just couldn’t figure why it happened. 3. I ended up having four more spontaneous pneumothorax within the span of two years. I am still a mystery in that hospital 4. I was aged 19-21 when this was happening. 26 years old now. 5.

They did pleurodesis procedure to get it to stop happening.

Hasn’t happened since.

11. A past life.

I have a vivid memory of being at the Statue of Liberty as a child, on my dad’s shoulders, seeing the skyline of NYC. I remember what we ate for lunch that day, etc. I remember the ferry we took. I’ve always thought about this memory and talked about it, but my family denies I ever went to NYC.

I didn’t go for the first time until I was 23, but strangely enough, when I went, I remembered everything just how it had been when I was there with my dad.

10. Like it was nothing.

When I was in college, a drunk dude fell from a 3rd floor balcony and got up and walked away like it was nothing.

Seriously one of the weirdest/freakish things I’ve ever seen in my life.

9. Maybe it was the cat?

 in my teenage years I lived in a townhome owned by my then-stepdad who freely admitted he thought the place was haunted. He was self employed as a sound equipment installer and often would come and go during the day & my mom worked 9-5 at a law firm. It was summer break, but I wasn’t driving yet. I spent a lot of time outside and this was before the time everyone had a cell phone, so I’d often take our cordless home phone outside with me. I went outside one day, and realized I’d forgotten the phone. When I tried to go back inside to get it, the door was locked. Not the handle – which I may have written off as something I accidentally did on my way out – the deadbolt. The handle freely turned but the deadbolt was engaged. The deadbolt that requires a key to lock from the outside, which I did not have.

I stood there dumbfounded for a few minutes. Nobody else was home, & the only other entrance to the house was a set of sliding doors in the basement that were always locked. What the fuck just happened. I kept trying to open it like an idiot for a while before finally resigning myself to borrowing the neighbors phone & calling my stepdad. He was in town & after asking me if i was sure 1,000 times, came by to unlock the door. I’ll never forget him saying “yep, the deadbolt was completely thrown. I can’t explain that.” I spent the rest of the afternoon inside, trying to recreate the situation. I slammed the door shut so many times in an attempt to get the deadbolt to wobble and lock itself. But it never did, & honestly I didn’t expect it to.

8. Better safe than sorry.

On Reddit one night, I read that thread where the OP hallucinated weird stuff until a commenter suggested that he check for a carbon monoxide leak. The commenter probably saved his life. I went to bed thinking, “Oh yeah, I never did check whether my new house’s smoke alarms also detect carbon monoxide. I need to check that out in the morning.”

At maybe 6 AM, my wife and I awoke to our fire alarms screeching, with a recorded voice telling us carbon monoxide was detected. We grabbed the baby and the dog, piled into our car in the driveway, and called the fire department to check it out. After they tested, they told us no carbon monoxide was detected, but sometimes fire alarms behave unexpectedly when their batteries are low.

This was maybe 5 years after moving into a house that’s new construction, so yes, I was super delinquent in checking it. It wasn’t even the first time I’d read that story on Reddit. Anyway, there is absolutely a logical explanation: an improbable but possible coincidence. But that’s how I ended up spending huge piles of money on a bunch of Nest Protect units, so I could at least get a pleasant phone notification when my alarms’ batteries are low.

7. They didn’t believe her.

This afternoon I had about 30 minutes between class and practice and I drove home to get a snack. When I got there, my mom was at work & my stepdads van was gone so I assumed he was gone as well. The door was locked. Now when you walk into this home, right in front of you to the left is the kitchen, the right is my bedroom, & the middle has a staircase going downstairs. I unlocked the door, came inside, and turned into the kitchen with my back to the staircase. As I was making a sandwich, I heard someone downstairs. I turned back around & the staircase door was open, stairwell light was on, & someone was clearly downstairs.

At the time I thought “wasn’t that door closed when I got here?” but I also rationalized, because my stepdads van was a cargo van & it wasn’t uncommon for someone to borrow it to haul things. So I assumed he was home, his van was borrowed, & I went to the top of the stairs. I stood there, looking down the stairs, eating my sandwich & I almost said something. It was almost out of my mouth, but something stopped me. I still don’t know why I didn’t yell HI JAY down the stairs. Instead I turned around & left, and I left the door unlocked because he was home, right??

When I got back from practice my mom was mad at me because Jay said he came home around 5pm to an unlocked house. He had a lot of expensive equipment in the basement. I was always to lock the door. I tried telling her what I’d seen. He was home at 4. She said he wasn’t. I swore he was. Something was home. My brother believed me, but my mom never did.

6. Who was he?

My dad owned a small garden shop, so I’d stay behind the checkout after school till the shop closed. This was until I see a tall man wearing all black, like a trench coat, walking past my dad and smiling at me before going into a staff only area.

I jump up to stop him, even though I was 7. This back area filled with new shipments. I turn the corner but nobody is there. There was nowhere he could’ve gone.

I ask my dad to check the CCTV after closing, but it’s only shown me jumping up and running, and running out of frame. Weird stuff, never felt comfortable there again.

5. There was ice in her veins.

I lived in a shitty trailer in my early 20s when I was poor with 2 young kids. It had 2 bedrooms, which I’d given to the kids, & I slept on the couch in the living room which was in direct line of sight to the front door. I put the kids to bed around 9pm, and I always locked the door. Always. I still to this day clearly remember locking both the handle & deadbolt & checking to make sure it was fully locked before taking a shower. Eventually I fell asleep. I woke up suddenly around 3am on high alert. As my eyes cleared & I started thinking sensibly… I realized I was staring into the street. My front door was wide open. Not like oh it’s a little open or cracked or I didn’t quite close it all the way and a strong wind came along… it was fully open. Like 90 degree angle here. Plus I had a glass storm door that was fully closed and latched, blocking any wind we might have had, which we didn’t have anyways.

I got up & walked to the door to close it, and that’s when I lost my shit. Y’all. The deadbolt was still in the locked position. It was fully turned to lock, sticking out into the living room air for god and everyone to see. You ever have those moments where you swear there’s ice in your veins? That was it for me. I’ve never been scared like that in my life. In a closed door, you can’t even turn the deadbolt to “fully locked” without it being lined up in the door jamb properly. I knew I’d locked that door. And yet here it was, staring me in the face. I didn’t sleep without the lights on for a week.

4. The sound was so real.

One time when I was little I had a similar experience.

I had fallen asleep on the couch and woke up in the middle of the night, when I got up to go to the kitchen I saw a black silhouette of a woman with a bun and glasses and she went into the kitchen and I heard all of pans fall, i rush into the kitchen no one is there and everything is in its place.

I know I could’ve imagined the figure but I can not explain the sound of the crashing pans and no one else heard it they were all asleep.

3. It was the lady.

My girlfriend got out of the shower and called me into the bathroom to show me the mirror. There was a very strange, distinct handprint placed on the mirror.

I lived alone and she was the only adult that had been to my house in about two years. We each placed our handprints on the sides of the mystery handprint for reference and neither look anything like the mystery print. I still have no idea how it got there.

  • I’ve lived in this house for over a decade.
  • The mirror isn’t newly installed.
  • The mirror is cleaned pretty regularly.
  • I’ve taken many showers and fogged up the mirror and have never seen it.

Not the person I bought the house from but the previous owner, she died in this house.

I was watching my neighbor’s 5 year old kid a few years prior to this and she was eating at the kitchen table. She asked me “Who was that lady that just went up stairs?” There was no lady or any other person in the house.

2. Weirdness usually reserved for twins!

I turned to the other person in the room, who I barely knew, and said “My sister is getting engaged right now,” without having the intent of speaking at all.

He politely asked why I said that, and I had to shake my head and say “I don’t know.”

A few days later I found up that, sure enough, ah that exact moment on the far side of the world, she had said “yes” to Mr. Right.

I hadn’t even known she was dating.

1. He made it happen with his mind.

When I was in primary school (like year 1-2) ;in the cafeteria there was all these cups filled with milk every lunch. Red, green, blue BUT ..only one yellow cup. Everyone would fight to get the yellow cup like it was the holy grail and it had been this way for years.

One night I had a dream that the cafeteria had gotten more yellow cups in, and low and behold the next day…

Hundreds of yellow cups.

I do not like any of these, not even the innocuous ones. I like answers!

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