15 People Reveal the Most Awkward Things They’ve Ever Seen – Or Been a Part Of

There’s nothing better than an awkward situation. Well, as long as it isn’t happening to you! So sit back, read up, and enjoy living vicariously through these intensely awkward moments.

#15. We slowly and quietly left.

“Went into my girlfriend’s dorm to chill. We saw that her roommate was fully under her covers probably watching some TV show, so we said “hi” and laid down and chat for a bit.

She probably had her headphones on really loud or something because then we hear a vibrating sound while we were talking.

Neither of us address it and just go “ah ha ha, what’s that sound?” After 10 minutes or so it gets heavier and it looks like she’s moving under the covers. Then we addressed it to each other and decided rather than letting her know loud and clear that we’re in the room, we just slowly and quietly left.”

#14. She cut the cake right there.

“Oh boy, oh boy do I have a story. My cousin was turning 30, so we were all(uncles, cousins etc, about 30 people) meeting at my grand parents house to celebrate and cut cake. An hour or two before we all made our way there, some of us coming from that far away, my grandfather had a heart attack. Before I got there, EMTS had come and gone and grandpa was pronounced dead. While waiting for the funeral home to come and collect the body, we all crowded around and left offerings/said prayers (traditional in my culture) and it was all very sombre. My 30 year old cousins mum(eldest daughter of the deceased), however, has some problems with narcissism, so while we’re all praying she insists that we must still cut her daughters cake and sing happy birthday. She set up a stool to hold the cake OVER MY GRANDFATHER’S CORPSE and made her protesting daughter cut the cake right there while we all sit around the body and cake singing happy birthday through barely contained tears. They used this big-ass butcher knife too and the whole time all I could imagine was somebody slipping and impaling grandpa. Honestly the absurdity of it all kind of distracted from the sting of grieving, so all in all it kind of worked out alright.”

#13. While working on math homework.

“my junior year of high school i was at my tutor’s house. in the middle of the session her husband called her to tell her their dog had died while he and his friends were camping. she started profusely crying on the phone and, once she hung up, instead of asking me to leave said that she was glad i was there to take her mind off of it. i guess i’m glad i could help, but god i’ve never been so uncomfortable while working on math homework.”

#12. The last time I went there.

“I would go to a 2nd language tutor once a week & she was married to a cop. One day I arrived for my session & it was very clear that they were in the middle of an argument & she had been crying but urged me inside anyways & started going over the lesson. He then walked into the room, stood over me & told me to leave whilst she told me to stay. They then started arguing over me. It was very, very uncomfortable.

I left & that was the last time I went there. To be completely honest I have often thought back & wondered if I should have said something to someone… but to who? And what..? That something ‘felt’ off? I’ve been curious if they stayed together or if they broke up.”

#11. Alarmed and horrified.

“A group of three ladies that I recognized as regular customers were shopping. Three of the ladies are sisters but there is a significant age gap between oldest and youngest, maybe 10-15 years. The youngest sister was carrying her newborn who was a bit fussy, and at various points, she would hand the baby off to the oldest sister.

My newish coworker came up to chat with/help them and to fuss over the baby. Not knowing these women, she assumed that the oldest sister who was helping with the baby was actually the baby’s grandmother (rather than aunt) and commented good-naturedly on how sometimes babies just want their grandmas and grandmas know best sometimes.

This was, of course, the exact wrong thing to say because:

Oldest sister was of course dismayed at being an aunt being mistaken for a grandma
All three sisters were shopping for something for the youngest sister (who was still adjusting to her post-pregnancy body) to wear to their mother’s funeral. The baby would never see their grandma and here’s this saleslady waxing on about how important grandmas are.
The three sisters burst into tears which of course set the baby off as well, which caused everyone around to stare. They were still staring when the middle sister (not being flooded with post partum hormones or the adrenaline that comes from being mistaken for your sister’s mom) eventually was able to explain the situation to my very alarmed and horrified coworker.”

#10. They just looked shocked.

“Not my story but a family friend.

He’s a school principle, and he goes to a wine festival and on his way home (slightly drunk) on the train he runs into the parents of a boy he used to teach. They get to talking this and that when my family friends asks how the boy is…

The parents just look shocked and say “he passed away last year… you were at the funeral… you spoke” .

He apologised profusely, but I think that’s the most awkward story I’ve ever heard.”

#9. I’ll never get that image out of my head.

“In college I lived really close to my grandparent’s house so they gave me a key and told me to “Stop on by anytime, don’t worry about calling.” So I did. My grandma was giving my grandpa a bj in the living room. I ALWAYS call now. It’s been 10 years. My grandma’s favorite marriage advice is to “keep it spicy”. More power to them I guess but I’ll never get that image out of my head.”

#8. Teenage me.

“Teenage me didn’t have a car yet. I went to go ask my mom if I could take it to go get ice cream with my sister. Got to my mom’s room and she was crying really hard. Her best friend’s son who was my age and I had been familiar with growing up had just committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. I don’t know how I could’ve been that heartless, but I still asked to go get ice cream.

Edit: spelling”

#7. The stink eye.

“Attended a memorial/funeral in Japan for an American sailor. His wife was there, and his ex-wife was there also, and his Japanese “wife” was there as well. It was rumored that there was also another girlfriend but if there was, she didn’t show. The best part was the poor dude giving the eulogy talking about what a great person this guy was while these three women are giving each other the stink eye.”

#6. It was my mom.

“I was on a road trip (passenger) and sexting with my girlfriend. During the steamy conversation I got a text saying “Please stop somewhere and get some sleep tonight, don’t try to do the whole trip in one day”. I assumed it was another text from my girlfriend, so I replied “well judging from how horny you made me, I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep”. It was my mom.”

#5. They weren’t taking chances.

“I was visiting my girlfriend (now wife) in college one weekend. We went to a party and I ended up having WAY too much to drink and blacked out. We get back to her dorm room and both fall asleep (I’m definitely in her room next to her at this point).

I wake up on the floor with a bunch of blankets on me and a trash can next to my head. Must have been getting sick? I stand up to crawl back in bed to my girlfriend, but there is a woman with different color hair in her bed, and the sheets are different, and the shit on the walls is different too. That’s when I panic and sprint out of the room, but I’m still super drunk and I tripped on the blankets on the floor and fall flat on my face. I walk out into the hallway with a bloody nose and I’m out of breath. Girlfriends room is right across the hall.

I walk in and she is sitting on the bed pissed. Apparently I got up to pee an hour earlier and never came back. She went looking for me and couldn’t find me. She talked to the girls across the hall the next day and apologized on my behalf. They both apparently just laughed and said it was fine.

Their account (according to my wife): I just barged in the room complaining about something when I sat on the bed and realized that person wasn’t my girlfriend. I apologized to them and said I was lost and that the best thing to do when you’re lost is to stay put. So I sat on the floor waiting for my girlfriend to come find me, fell asleep, and they put blankets on me. Didn’t get sick, but they weren’t taking chances.

Edit: definitely haven’t gotten that drunk since.”

#4. Through the drive-thru.

“I was working as a bank teller. My allergies were going nuts. In fact everyone was. We all came into work eyes red and sneezing. Apparently the pollen count was at a record breaking high. Anyways we opened up and I help the first customer of the day. It went something like this.

Me: “Hi, how are you doing today?”

Her: “ I’m actually not feeling so good”

Me: “oh, I’m sorry. Is it your allergies? I know me and my coworkers are feeling it pretty bad”

Her: “no, I had a miscarriage this morning”

Me: “……..I’m sorry”

This was all through the drive through. I feel bad, I wish I could have comforted her a little bit, but I had no idea what to say.”

#3. Completely uncontrollable.

“I was at a Starbucks on my commute, waiting for my drink and people watching. I watched a young mother and her toddler, clearly justtt started standing holding onto the back of the chair, and had this silent moment of being charmed by them. The mother took her foot off the bottom rung and stood up to get a stir stick and WHAP, the child went slamming face first into the floor.

There was a moment of silence and then SCREAMING. There was a splatter of blood, panic, the mother screaming for an ambulance.

And I.. started laughing??????????????? It was completely uncontrollable. I wasn’t finding anything funny, I was completely horrified and yet I couldn’t stop flat out guffawing. I was covering my mouth, hysterically laughing this throaty laugh nearly in this woman’s face. I couldn’t keep it down, my face was in a horrified expression but it just kept happening. The tension in that room before I left – easily the most awkward experience of my life. I have no idea what the heck happened.”

#2. They failed to mention it.

“One Halloween I was walking with a group of friends to one friend’s apartment. I don’t remember how it happened, but they got a little ahead of me. I figured it was no big deal, we were entering the apartment complex and I had been to their apartment before.

So I get to the apartment door and knock. Nobody answered, but I knew they were expecting me any second so I just opened the door and went in.

There was nobody in the living room, so I headed to the kitchen, where I scared the crap out of some guy I’d never seen before. I turned around and ran out of his apartment, apologizing all the way.

He followed me out a bit slower and asked me what had happened. I explained, and he said he didn’t know my friends, but was just moving in.

And that’s the story of how I barged into a stranger’s apartment dressed like Velma from Scooby Doo. I texted my friends and found they had moved to a larger apartment within the complex recently, and failed to mention it.”

#1. I pretended I was asleep.

“When I was 11, my family had a BBQ & they invited some friends who had kids that imo were “super cute”. I was a hot mess of a tomboy so I high tailed into the shower thinking I had time before they arrived….boy, was I wrong.

I got out of the shower in my towel to hear the boys already serving their plates. I quickly go into my room. Now this room didn’t have a lock & my room was the unspoken-designated kids room to eat in & play, I hear their footsteps coming closer & I duck into closet. I’m in a towel, hair frizzy, water dripping on to closet floor…I hear the boys sit on the bed, turn on tv & eat delicious BBQ.

Then, I guess, my mom & aunt notice I’m not there & that’s not possible since I love food I shoulda been first with my greedy ass. Search begins…The boys don’t even bother to leave when their mom came in to tell them to help find me…instead they open closet door to find me. (Now I assume it was a sarcastic attempt in searching lol) I panicked when they reached the closet and pretended I was asleep…they shook me to ‘wake’ me up and told everyone I was asleep in a towel in the closet. Commence house wide laughter, even the boys were laughing!! I still feel the awkwardness and that was like 30 years ago haha.”

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This College Student’s Small Act of Kindness Took a Turn We Didn’t Expect

There’s a reason why we have so many phrases and sayings about how important it is to treat someone kindly.

It’s because, well, it’s important. We don’t have much in this life, so it’s our duty to perform little acts of kindness whenever we get the chance.

No one’s life is without struggle. Every single day, someone you know is having a rough time for one reason or another.

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And in those times, simple acts of kindness can make all the difference, even if it seems like no big deal from the outside.

That’s the lesson that came home to roost for Kent State student Mackenzie Mauller after she decided to buy coffee for the person behind her in the Starbuck’s drive thru lane. She left without thinking too much about it, and was shocked to find a letter in her mailbox later that day.

Mauller tweeted about her experience and how it really reminded her that spreading kindness can have unintended consequences.

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The letter read:

“Thank you for the coffee! I rarely go to Starbucks and treat myself, but the last couple of months have been a bit of a struggle. My father just passed away and he was also my babysitter. My family and my children have had a really hard time. This morning my babysitter called off sick and I had to take the day off work. I decided to buy my kids breakfast and get myself coffee with total guilt because I am going to become a stay-at-home mom for awhile.

Since I was not planning on going this route in my life, I was not emotionally and financially prepared to quit working. I cried when I found out you were so sweet to buy my coffee and thrilled to see you a couple houses down from where I live. I felt it necessary to know that what you did for me was more than just a coffee. It was something that turned my whole day around, put tears in my eyes and a smile on my face and I feel so grateful.”

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Go out and spread your own smiles, people. You never know when something small to you will be more than just a coffee to someone else.

h/t: Someecards

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Twitter Users Reveal the Fun, Quirky Things Their Partners Do

When you are in a relationship with someone, you see a side of them that no one else gets to see. Oftentimes, this includes all the weird little quirks that make them, well…them.

Twitter users shared the quirky things their partner does for them, and I think you’re gonna enjoy all of these.

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10 Problems Only Left-Handed People Have to Deal With

You don’t have to be a left-handed person to understand the struggles they go through on a daily basis. I mean, why do you think Ned Flanders opened The Leftorium on The Simpsons? BECAUSE HE KNEW.

Here are just 20 of the soul-crushing things the lefties among us have to deal with all the time.

1. Coffee mugs don’t care about you

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2. Silver Surfer hand

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3. What a shame

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4. Can openers are evil

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5. Torture devices

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6. Dealing with these desks

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7. Painful

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8. This needs to be upside down

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9. Video games are impossible

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10. The Great Zipper Conspiracy

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How People with Bad Vision See the World Without Their Glasses, as Demonstrated by Oil Paintings

If you struggle with poor vision, then you are all too familiar with what it looks like to see the world through a blurry lens. But those of us with perfect vision might not realize just how different of a perspective it is.

And that’s why South African artist Philip Barlow took it upon himself to create beautiful oil paintings that depict what people with bad eyesight see every day when they remove their glasses.

Take some time to study these, they are fascinating.

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These 20 Photos Will Give You a Fresh New Perspective on Everyday Things

It’s always important to see things from a new perspective, even if just for a little while.

So, in the spirit of that attitude, take a look at these incredible photos and the accompanying captions and remind yourself to look at things with a fresh eye, to keep an open mind, and to look below the surface.

1. A peeled leaf of aloe vera

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2. A firework shell cut in half

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3. The inside of a guitar

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4. The inside of a Redbox machine

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5. A bowling ball cut in half

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6. The underside of a lily pad

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7. The inside of a cactus

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8. The inside of a green wall

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9. A nearly hollowed out turtle shell

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10. Up close shot of marijuana

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11. Extreme close up

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12. Raindrops on a Toyota Prius

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13. Shipping container cut in half

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14. The skeleton of a 28-foot anaconda

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15. This is what a whale’s blow hole looks like

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16. Golf balls cut in half

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17. Eyeball stitches after a cornea transplant

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18. Tires from high in the sky

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19. Toothpaste cut in half

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20. Pearls cut in half

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This Woman Tweeted About Her Male Stalker and the Replies She Received Are Frightening

For women out in public, there is always a risk of being harassed, yelled at, or worse. Recently, a woman in New Jersey shared this tweet and it opened the door for other women to share their disturbing stories of being stalked. These are important stories and it’s vital that they are heard. This is the tweet that started the discussion.

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And the responses poured in.

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Be careful out there, ladies. And remember to always look out for each other. That goes for the good men out there, too.

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People Are Riveted by this Man’s ‘Dark Family Secret’ that he Shared on Twitter

A Twitter user recently asked her followers to reveal a deep, dark family secret that they learned as an adult. In return, she (and all of us) were treated to a story that is simply amazing.

This is how it all began.

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And this is the response she got from one guy that no one will forget anytime soon.

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Other Tweeters weighed in after reading the incredible story and offered their thoughts.

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You Are Not Allowed to Enter These 10 Forbidden Places

There are many places around our mysterious planet that are too treacherous for humans to enter.

These 10 spots around the globe are full of intrigue…but don’t attempt to venture there. Beware!

1. Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Norway

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In the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. If there was to be a catastrophic disaster, this place would preserve the world’s food crops and would restore the plant kingdom on Earth. It was built with that scenario in mind and can withstand earthquakes and explosions.

2. Ilha Da Queimada Grande (Snake Island) – Off the coast of Brazil

This place is called Snake Island for a reason. The island is located off the coast of Brazil and is known as the only place in the world that is home to the endangered venomous golden lancehead pit viper. The island is closed to protect the snakes and any human that would be unlucky enough to cross paths with them.

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3. The Catacombs – Paris, France

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A small part of these tunnels beneath Paris are open to the public, but 99% of the 170-mile long labyrinth full of skulls and bones is forbidden because people will almost certainly get lost and possibly never be found.

4. Poveglia Island – Italy

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This island was originally used to house victims of the plague during the reign of the Roman Empire. Rumor has it that the ground is made of 50% human ash because of how many bodies were dumped and burned here. In the 1920s, a mental hospital was built on Poveglia Island. It is illegal to visit and they say human bones still wash up on the shore.

5. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Ukraine

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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place in 1986 and the entire area was abandoned. There are certain areas of Chernobyl people can visit, but a 19-mile zone is strictly off-limits because of high radiation levels.

6. Mausoleum Of The First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huang – China

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This terracotta army of soldiers wasn’t discovered until 1974, and entry to Qin Shi Huang’s tomb is not allowed. The tomb here still hasn’t been excavated because researchers believe whatever is inside would not be able to be preserved by current technology.

7. Ploutonion At Hierapolis, aka Pluto’s Gate – Turkey

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This site was once dedicated to the Roman god of death, Pluto. The cO2 concentration inside the gate was measured and researchers found that the gas inside pools and the bottom and forms a “deadly lake” when the temperature drops at night. The cO2 level would be enough to kill animals and humans.

8. Area 51 – Nevada

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There are a million stories surrounding the super-secretive military base in the middle of the Nevada desert. One thing is for certain: the public is not allowed to enter the premises. The U.S. government actually denied the existence of Area 51 until 2013…so you know there’s a whole lot of top-secret experiments and tests going on there.

9. Surtsey – Iceland

A huge volcanic eruption that began in 1963 and lasted for three years formed the island of Surtsey. The land is now used only for scientific experiments. Scientists who work on the island are not allowed to bring any kind of seeds with them, lest their work be disturbed.

10. North Brother Island – New York

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This 13-acre island is located only three miles from Manhattan, but no one is allowed to enter. The island has a dark past and is currently abandoned. More than 1,000 people died when a boat caught fire near the island in 1904. The island then housed Riverside Hospital and Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, the first person in the U.S. known to carry the disease. North Brother Island was abandoned until the 1950s when it became the site of a center to treat drug addicts. Today, the island is a bird sanctuary full of crumbling buildings that is off-limits to the public.

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Meet the Woman Who Changed the Lives of World War I Veterans by ‘Restoring’ Their Faces

World War I changed the way wars would be fought for years to come. An onslaught of new weapons and technology made the battlefield more brutal than ever before. As a result, millions of men across Europe and America, if they were lucky enough to return home, came back with terrible injuries.

One person who attempted to right these wrongs was an American woman named Anna Coleman Ladd. She was a sculptor who moved to France with her husband in 1917 and founded the “Studio for Portrait-Masks”. Ladd created masks for men who had been horribly disfigured in battle to give them some semblance of normalcy for the rest of their lives.

Take a look at these photos of Ladd’s incredible work during World War I.

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Take a look at this incredible video that showcases Ladd’s work.

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