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Stereotypes We Need To Get Rid of Immediately

The word “stereotype” supposedly comes from the days of printing presses, where commonly used groupings of words would be set aside and reused over and over to print up frequently occurrences and such.

Now it’s come to mean basically anything that a particular group can’t seem to shake, and it’s annoying.

What stereotype annoys you? from AskReddit

Reddit’s got some tea to spill for ya.

1. Cheerleaders

That high school cheerleaders are always stuck-up, shallow, and mean.

I definitely wasn’t part of the “in” crowd in high school, but I got to know some cheerleaders through various extra-curricular programs.

Sincere and smart girls who never hesitated to greet me in the hallway.

– p38-lightning

2. Asians

That, because I’m Asian, I’m a math wizard.

Boy, I break my calculator out if the number is greater than 5.

– gizmosbutu

3. Dwarves

That because I’m a dwarf I must have a really loud personality, fun at parties, and basically be the jester in a group.

Nah I’m just an awkward introverted nerd like the rest of you b**tards.

– Usidore_

4. OCD

That people are surprised when I tell them I have OCD because I’m not a neat freak or like to keep things clean and orderly.

Instead I get crippling obsessional disturbing thoughts that I can’t get rid of no matter how much I compulsively challenge them.

– WeenisPeiner

5. The mentally disabled

The “This person has a mental disability, therefore should be treated as a baby 24/7”

– FryingPanZ

6. Mafia glorification

the mafia stereotype!! Hate it when mafia culture is glorified and loved on italians, russians, and germans but on Pakistanis or middle eastern cultures its terroristic and barbaric.

mafia culture is nasty to began with but when people hear that my family used to be part of the mafia, they immediately link it to terrorism, like no bro, it was all drugs and theft.

– Siyah-Hidayat

7. Men

That men are more about chasing the rabbit than actually catching it.

Like, come on, I can’t play those stupid flirting games, just let me be in a happy relationship with a woman I enjoy spending time with and love already

– maciej_telecaster

8. Snobby Professors

That English professors are all a bunch of elitist snobs who would never stoop to the depths of reading anything that doesn’t come in a Penguin Classics edition.

Go poll a bunch of English professors on what they’re reading and you’re far more likely to hear Harry Potter or Twilight than you are Hamlet or War and Peace.

And you can’t even begin to imagine how much scholarship in English departments is focused on pop fiction, graphic novels, fan fiction and other supposedly “low brow” forms of entertainment. I still haven’t met an English professor who likes Fifty Shades of Grey though. There are some lines we won’t cross.

– schnit123

9. Southerners

I had a teacher who was in mensa, absolutely brilliant.

He joined the military and was consistently mocked for his thick southern accent (would say things like ‘fur’ instead of fire or ‘ ‘ul’ instead of oil), despite being one of , if not, the smartest person there.

So, he taught himself a northern accent and now it dominates his regular speaking.

– TheCoach_TyLue

10. Interracial relationships

White guy yellow fever.

My wife is Canadian/Chinese. I cannot express how much it annoys me that people will reduce my very deep rooted love and life changing, powerful relationship with my wife, the mother of my child, to me simply “having yellow fever” because I’m white and she’s Asian.

– LesPaulOnceAndForAll

11. Gay men

Gay men are feminine

Yes, there are plenty of gay men that are more feminine, there are also just as many gay men that are masculine, but most are somewhere in between.

But at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter, being masculine or feminine isn’t what makes someone gay, it’s who they are attracted to

– loganah76

12. Asian men

Asian men aren’t manly and are never portrayed as having sex appeal, at least in American Cinema. Im not asian but this one actually really annoys me. I was watching some old Kurosawa movies and I was thinking man you never see manly asian types like the ones in these movies in American cinema.

[…] Something happened in the old days and all of a sudden asian characters in movies were laundry workers, old, or a servant of some sort. If the character was supposed to be positive or masculine they would just cast a white guy in yellowface. Its insane.

– Rackbone

13. Women

All women want flowers and/or jewelry. Uh, no. Cut flowers turn brown and nasty, which is depressing. And although an attractive but modestly priced bracelet or pair of earrings will always be a hit with me, I’d rather a man buy me a new water heater or set of tires for my car if he feels inclined to spend a large sum of money on me. Don’t even get me started on poetry. Unless I have expressly shown interest in a particular poet, save it for your previous girlfriend.

I don’t say this to suggest that I’m typical, only that a man should get to know a lady and not just assume that everyone with two X chromosomes wants the same thing, which is an unfortunate assumption I encountered over and over during my dating years. I wouldn’t dream of giving my husband a fishing rod, for example, or a tie, since those aren’t the things he’s into.

When your loved one says they like this thing and don’t like that one, believe them.

– nakedonmygoat

14. Quiet people

Being quiet means you have nothing to say or contribute – typically I have a lot and most will add value, but I don’t feel the need to fight to say it.

– Mephistepheles13

15. Australians

When i visited America more than one person said i, an australian, am descended from criminals.

I mean, sure, my dad once stole a goat and my mum once stabbed a guy after he stole her goat.

But beyond that, it’s a harmful stereotype.

– youjustgotzinged

Personally my least favorite stereo type is Sony.

Which busts the stereotype my mom holds that says I’m funny.

Which one is your pet peeve?

Tell us in the comments.

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These Neighbors Took Petty to a Whole New Level

My parents moved a few years ago and while there were several reasons, one of them was that they lived next to an absolute lunatic who lived to antagonize my dad.

Among the things this man did for spite were erect giant floodlights that pointed right into their yard all night and buy a chicken which he had classified as a therapy animal to get around city ordinances so it could make a bunch of noise and bother everyone.

Neighbors can be nightmares.

What’s the most petty thing a neighbor has done to you? from AskReddit

Here are some other tales from Reddit.

1. The Carcass Killer

I had a neighbor, who I had never met, continue to throw dead animal carcasses in my yard. This went on for several months. Rabbit. Rabbit. Possum. Squirrel. Raccoon. You name it. One day, I witnessed him doing it and this was how I determined who was actually performing this strange act. He was probably in his 60’s. He opened his garage door, walked out with a pitchfork and something dead on it, then proceeded to yuck it in my front lawn.

I waited until that night, picked it up and hurled it onto his car’s windshield.

He never did it again. My other neighbor, who I eventually met, said he had some feud with the previous owner of my house. I guess he never realized I wasn’t the guy he feuded with.

– sump___erson

2. The Worst Woofer

A dorm neighbor was a huge d**k and didn’t care for anyone in the suite. So he did something like tip over his sub woofer, turn the music up and left for the weekend. The entire crew could feel it from our beds. I guess he didn’t know that RA’s have keys to the rooms. Maybe he also didn’t know that you could get ejected from dorms.

F**k you Bosco. You turd.

– GirlsPMYourSpreadAss

3. The Loser Litigator

Not me, but what the woman who did live in our house did to her neighbors.

We moved into a house up a long shared driveway. Our neighbors are an elderly couple and she has dementia. Sometimes she doesn’t know where she is or what she is doing.

The new neighbor came over one sunday night to ask if he could put his wheely bin in the end of the drive so the rubbish truck could back up the drive to empty it as it would save him trying to move it to the road. I said that was no issue. Turns out the old resident had her lawyers send the elderly couple a cease and desist letter over putting the rubbish bin in the driveway the first week after she moved in. No knock on the door and ask to stop or talking to them. Straight to get the lawyer involved.

We also found out she got upset about the neighbor with dementia wandering onto her driveway. Remembering she had dementia and didn’t know what she was doing. So she put a chain across the driveway to stop her wandering into her property. The chain was fitted and hung at about 8 inches off the ground and the first time the elderly lady wandered over she tripped on it and fell face first onto the drive, knocking several teeth out and breaking her hip. She spent some time in hospital and before she even got out of hospital, the elderly neighbor had a knock on the door from the police with a trespass notice…………

All the neighbors were ecstatic when she left and we moved in. I met the woman once and she seemed Ok. But what sort of piece of s**t acts like that towards neighbors?

– Amockeryofthecistern

4. The Salty Surveyor

He’s salty about a land survey that was done decades before I moved in. We have a decent neighborly relationship in general, but when I moved in he tried to convince me that a whole section of my yard was his. Fortunately, the previous owner had warned me he might try this.

Now we rent the house out. Every time a new tenant moves in, he walks the property with them and tries to move the property line again. Very petty, and so consistent!

– pachatacha

5. The Trashy Treasure Hunter

I was at this neighbourhood treasure hunt when I was around 11. It was in a big park with lot of trees and rocks, parking lot and a community centre next to it.

Me and my neighbours kid both figured out final clue and sprinted towards the finish, only for me to ‘accidentally’ bumped by his dad and fall.

Still salty about it till this day

– f__h

6. The Queen of the Streets

I had a neighbor who literally thought she owned the actual street and had some big beef with my landlord (she’d sued him several times for things that never made any sense).

My landlord installed cameras because she took him to court so often and he needed proof that she was making stuff up.

She would mark down the time that I or any friends of mine arrived at or left my house and would sit in her driveway watching us.

Once, my landlord was going out of town and told me I was welcome to use his grill and have friends over (he lived next door to me). I did so, inviting maybe 5 friends, max, and we had a nice, mellow cook out. No loud music, no drunken debauchery or anything like that. True to form, the nosy neighbor called my landlord and told him that she was calling her lawyer and threatening legal action over our small party. Thankfully my landlord had footage of our gathering and deemed it all totally fine and completely within the bounds of what he’d invited me to do.

She sucked. F**k you, Sandra.

– Violinist-Rich

7. The Counselor

Lived in a neighborhood for about a year that was also home to one of the city council members. This bitch would send notices to everyone for anything she didn’t like and she’d try and sway the council to crack down on those she deemed the “worst” offenders. We earned a spot at the top of her sh**list because we put our garbage cans at the curb in the afternoon rather than the evening. None of us were going out after dark and dealing with rats springing out of the cans like tiny, flea-ridden missiles.

We didn’t stop because legally, we weren’t doing anything wrong. She was a stickler for making the neighborhood look fabulous even though most of the houses were in sh**ty condition and as mentioned earlier, the entire city had (probably still has) a really bad rat problem. So every week, we’d get a new notice from her, though she always tried to say it was from the council as a collective. Yes, she hand delivered that s**t.

– rarestereocats

8. The Fruitful Foot

We were sort of that neighbor a few years ago. We were in the process of building our new house and had everything staked out before any of the groundwork started. I guess our neighbor thought we were too close to their property and had some city official come out to measure and in the process delayed our contractor.

Turns out we were 1 foot further away from their property than necessary and so, without even bothering to ask, our annoyed contractor picked up all the stakes and moved them 1 foot closer to the neighbor

– RxHumdinger

9. The Poo Pointer

People in the building were complaining that he didn’t pick up after his dog. All of the apartments except mine were accessible behind a security door. Mine opened right onto the porch.

One day I came home from work and saw he wrote this HUGE note in thick Sharpie that said, “Clean up after your dog!”

He must have told the neighbors it was me, and left that note so that they could all see it really was me. To prove his point.

Except it wasn’t me. It was him.

– waterbottlejesus

10. The Shady Shader

He had a tree in his yard that threw a lot of shade on my side, which eventually killed everything that was growing there.

So I spent a lot of time and money to plant a beautiful shade garden. He watched me the entire time, asking questions about the plants and how much they cost.

The following spring, he cut the f**king tree down.

– darkpixie1

11. The Buttpicker

Water people were out checking meters. Water guy asked me where our meter was – showed him where it was at.

Buttpicker neighbor comes out of his house hollaring to the world that was HIS METER and I was not to touch it. We shared the in-ground meter thingie, two separate meters. Water guy had a good laugh and instructed the neighbor that it was indeed where my meter was, neighbor was embarrassed at his own behavior and went back into his house but watched us for a bit.

They were sort of weird. Always remember that they smelled like dirty bedsheets. #andersonisland

– frenchkids

12. The Poor Pluggers

Mine was a downstairs neighbor and they would constantly switch the drier plug to our outlet to charge our unit for drying their clothes.

– Notsodarknight

13. The Trash Bandits

Stolen my green trash can. What the f**k am I going to do? Go up to them and accuse them of doing it? They only had one, but I knew they f**king did it, but what if I was wrong?

Would have been mortifying. Just unbelievably petty and shady

– 10Cinephiltopia9

14. The Big Dog on the Block

My upstairs neighbor (in an apartment) was peeved that I contacted the office about him and his loud wife. I had no contact with them directly.

So this grown man waited until I took my 15 year old, blind, dying of cancer dog outside to relieve himself, and he came out to loudly bark and growl at my dog to scare him since he couldn’t see.

Luckily, my dog didn’t care, but what a petty thing to do.

– Ok_Eye_3511

15. The Misguided Guardian

Called CPS on my family because we took a family vacation with our two older kids and let our youngest with special behavioral needs and violent outbursts spend the week with my mom.

They did movies, swimming pools, children’s museums, a food truck festival, and a fireworks show together in that time.

He had a blast, and the rest of us got some badly needed respite.

Neighbor thought it was blatant favoritism and reported us.

– bubblegum1286

Kinda makes ya want to just move out to the wilderness, doesn’t it?

What’s your worst neighbor story?

Tell us in the comments.

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People Share Good Questions to Ask Strangers

Let’s get to know each other!

Hmm. How to start. Maybe Reddit has some ideas!

What is a seemingly mundane question you can ask somebody that will tell you a lot about their personality? from AskReddit

These questions are brilliant. I’ll provide my answers one by one, then you do the same in the comments.

Ready, go!

1. “You mean what you say.”

Favorite compliment they’ve ever received.

It tells you a lot about what people think of themselves, and what they tend to value.

– howdidthishappen2850

2. I agree with your friend.

How would you describe the internet to a caveman?

It will show you how they look at what the internet is used for. For example, some might say it’s a source of information, or it’s a way to connect people who are far away.

I know one person who said they wouldn’t explain it to a caveman because they wouldn’t go back in time without AC.

– not_a_library

3. Night, generally.

Do you prefer night or day?

– featoutsider

4. Pay off debt, go from there.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

For me, it’s a non invasive way of listening to people’s attitudes on finance in general, and also how they feel about the rich.

– Johnny_Vinyl

5. Honestly? Leftover pizza.

What are you having for dinner tonight?

It’s really cool to hear about what people like, what their culture is like (because food is a huge part of that), and generally just how they live.

Expensive or cheap? Quick or elaborate? Adventurous or safe?

– ShiraCheshire

6. A place without scarcity.

I had a TA ask me in a get to know you activity “What my vision was for a perfect world?” And I said round lol

– American-Dragon88

7. Being a child.

What was the last thing you did that gave you child-like joy?

– mntucker10

8. Flying, hands down.

What super power they want. – _-_bort_-_

9. Always return the cart.

My husband used to work for bed bath and blah blah.

He told me part of his job was to put carts away. He said that was his favorite part about the job, wasting time walking around the parking lot finding carts and putting them away. He got to be outside, chill by himself, not have to deal with other worse tasks etc. Of course this story only came up after I gave him some s**t for not putting the cart back one time.

This story was his elaborate rationale for not putting a cart back and to prove he was in fact a nice normal compassionate human. Normally, a fastidious cart returner, I started to leave my cart. Thinking I was actually being nice and even more compassionate than ever before! I probably only did it 2-5x until I realized, he’s just an a**hole. Who has now made me into an even bigger a**hole. I now get to think about how much we are both assholes in our own ways every time I return a cart.

– tigglewigglekiggle

10. Pterodactyl.

What’s your favorite dinosaur?

In my last year of college, I took a prehistoric history class and was loving it. I (a history major) commuted by light rail to school and would end up spending the hour or so on the train congregating with other history majors.

One day, I asked this group, “what’s your favorite dinosaur?”

Most of the people gave answers like velociraptors or that they hadn’t really been interested in dinosaurs since they were kids, which was fair enough.

But one guy said, “I don’t believe in dinosaurs” and that the earth was 6000 years old. This was a guy that was studying history, for the sake of teaching children history, and he was denying that most of the earth’s history didn’t exist, despite learning otherwise in the classes he was specializing in.

I lost a lot of respect for him that day, and now, having a favorite dinosaur is a barometer test of mine.

– Jibabear

11. Probably less likely they’ll get stuck.

My girlfriend’s dad always uses one interview question that makes or breaks a possible hire. “Why are man hole covers round?”

The goal isn’t to know the answer it’s to show that you are willing to critically think about a problem before you say you need help.

– SoftwareCycle

12. Sure it is, that’s why we make so many stories about it.

One I saw on a dating-site of all places (I forgot the name of it) was:

“Do you think the concept/consequences of a post-apocalyptic world is, in some ways, interesting?”

And it really resonated with me. It shows whether a person is interested in abstract thinking and imagining. Most people on the site voted no. I even had a conversation with someone who was like “no? Why would you want the world to end?!” – I don’t, but the idea of how it would be like, how the world ended, what society looks like afterwards, is interesting.

I probably don’t match up well with anyone who would vote no to that question.

– SuiTobi

13. Falcon, probably.

“if you could be an animal, what animal and why?”

Young and old, it’s a fun question that tells something about a person. – Eschew_Verbiage

14. Grilled cheese. Tacos fall apart too easy.

Grilled cheese sandwich, or a taco..who wins in a fight?

– shartnado3

15. !!

Did I just see you digging through the trash?

– TillikumWasFramed

Apologies if you haven’t played Stardew Valley and have no idea what that last one was about.

Now you answer!

Pick your favorite(s) and share your responses in the comments, please!

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Strange Questions That Will Help You Learn a Lot About Someone

First dates are intimidating. You want to get to know someone but you don’t want to go about it wrong, right?

Luckily, there are some great conversation starters you can try, courtesy of Reddit. Even more luckily, we can practice right now.

What is a seemingly mundane question you can ask somebody that will tell you a lot about their personality? from AskReddit

I’ll give some sample answers based on my own opinions, and you do yours in the comments.

Let’s test how just how insightful these queries really are.

1. Cults, probably.

Wow, coincidently just had this conversation earlier today and my friend proposed:

“What topic could you give a 30 minute presentation on with no preparation?”

I thought it was genius.

– theGrodon

2. Muppet Treasure Island

“What do you know Tim Curry from?”

– WhichSpirit

3. A falcon?

My father-in-law went on a job interview about 10 years ago and absolutely nailed the interview, as he was being shown around the office a high level person in that company who normally wasn’t there just happened to be there that day.

After they were introduced he asked my FIL what kind of animal he would be. My FIL said he panicked and picked bear (he’s a bigger guy) and the other guy said something along the lines of “that’s a little to aggressive maybe this isn’t the job for you”.

So he didn’t get the job but I guess it worked out because he’s got a pretty good job now and if I was him I wouldn’t want to work for someone who hires people based on what animal they think they would be.

– Darth_dubj

4. He stares into your soul.

Does Mike Wizowski blink or wink?

– legeume

5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

What book would you like to live in?

– jealousofhiscat

6. With my teeth.

Got this one in an interview once:

How do you go about eating a muffin?

Learned a lot about muffin anatomy that day. It was a bakery after all.

– b_o_p_g_u_n

7. Call an emergency biologist!

Fav question I heard in an interview; what would you do if you came home and found a penguin in your freezer?

It ends up not only being an ice breaker, but a good personality tell.

– strongerone

8. For me it would be beer and failure.

It’s not a single question but by the second or third date with a guy I would ask him to go bowling.

As it turns out there’s many ways to play the game. Do they take it too seriously and get competitive or angry if they don’t do well? Does he act disinterested or bored of the game? Do they try to teach me how to play or do they just try to be goofy have fun with it? Do they order two pitchers of beer and get totally smashed?

In my opinion you can learn a lot about a person by the way they approach bowling.

– Billlliejean

9. Usually nothing.

Ask them what they like to cook for breakfast.

– BrainstormingNetwork

10. I freelance mostly, so, I call in sick to myself all the time.

In a job interview, ask your prospective supervisor how much vacation time and sick days they took last year. This is great because both extremes take pride in their answer and so will answer honestly. The no/low vacation boss is proud of how hard she or he works, but really it’s bad if they don’t take time off. They’re coming in when they’re sick, they’re not recharging by taking vacation, and the expectation — even if unstated — is that their staff should follow that example. You’ll feel guilty every time you call in sick or take vacation time.

You want the boss who says “I always take my vacation time and encourage my staff to as well. I called in a couple times last year when I came down with a cold.” Good boss.

– regular_gonzalez

11. Hosting live shows.

One of my standard job interview questions is “Tell me about something you like doing that you’re good at”.

I don’t really care what the answer is. I just want to see passion, effort, and creativity.

– ThadisJones

12. Yes, I’m not a monster.

Do you put the cart back when you’re done shopping?

– Dunsparces

13. Sold something on eBay.

What’s the last thing you did for the first time?

– Tmadred

14. WHERE?!

“Ooh squirrel!” – then check to see if they get excited at the prospect of a squirrel.

– moshritespecial

15. I plead the fifth.

where were you the night of the murder?

– Gretchiemations

Alright, now it’s your turn!

Pick your favorite(s) and give us an answer!

Leave it in the comments, please.

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Times When the Customer Was Definitely NOT Right

The saying “the customer is always right” has to be one of the most frustratingly misconstrued idioms in history.

Originally, it meant simply that if the customer said they wanted thing A, you shouldn’t try to convince them they want thing B. Just sell them the thing they want, make them happy, and get your money.

Simple enough. It definitely should NOT mean that whatever a customer happens to spout is correct.

Because. I mean. Just look at this:

What is the dumbest question a customer has ever asked you? from AskReddit

You’re not gonna believe some of these. Or maybe you will.

Either way, get ready to roll your eyes and laugh out loud.

1. What’s the problem?

-Can you photoshop some pictures for me?

-Sir, this is a bookstore.

-Yeah, but I see you have a computer right here.

– Baldulf

2. You prevented something unbearable.

I worked at REI a few years back (large outdoor sporting goods co-op, just in case you haven’t heard of it), and we sold bear spray (pepper spray for bears).

A woman came in with her two kids one day and bought a canister because they were going camping.

She gets to the front door, then comes back to the register as an afterthought, and asks if she’s supposed to just spray her kids from head to toe with it.

– jra312

3. Size does matter.

I very briefly worked at a Wendy’s some years back and I was working the drive through.

A woman ordered two meals, one with a small drink and one with a large.

As I handed her the drinks she asked, “which one is the large?”

– Citizenerased1989

4. That’s what I want too.

Worked at a fried chicken place. Lady calls and says that her daughter is going to order. His daughter sounds about 5 years old and orders 500 pieces of chicken.

I say ok laughing. The mom gets on and asks how long. I tell her that her daughter just ordered $1000 dollars in food. Does she really want that. The lady goes nuts screaming at me asking if I think her daughter is dumb.

Me “so you want 500 pieces of chicken?”

Her “My girl wants what she wants, make it and stop making fun of her”

Me” It is going to be at least an hour and 1000 dollars”

[…]

She shows up 10 mins after looking for her chicken. I explained to the manager about the call. She freaked out when the cashier told her it was over $1000.

The lady refused to tell us how much chicken she really wanted while the little girl stood there screaming she wanted 500 chickens.

5. Can’t fix what you can’t see.

This was few years back, customer (very chill guy) called in saying he recently bought a new MacBook Pro and it’s not working.

I asked him  “What happens, when you press the power button”

he said ” I don’t know where that is”.

– Velcrous

6. Something’s fishy about this.

About a decade ago, I used to work doing customer service for a power company in Texas. As you can imagine, a great number of my calls involved late bills and disconnections. And it’s not like the company was ruthless – due to Texas regulations and the general PITA of disconnecting/reconnecting someone, it generally required being 3+ months overdue to actually get shut off. So it was hard for me to work up much sympathy for anyone who was disconnected for delinquency.

But the absolute best was the guy who called up screaming at me about his power being off, because he’d just bought a whole load of rare exotic saltwater fish who have to be kept temperature-controlled. And (of course) he was totally unwilling to pay anything towards his bill either, because he’d spent his money on the fish.

So yes, I DID say exactly what any reasonable person would be thinking at that point.

I feel bad for the fishes tho.

– APeacefulWarrior

7. Bills come due.

Ughhhh there was a girl at work who drove me nuts about this.

Her: OMG I’m soooo scared! I don’t know how to use my credit card!

Male Co-worker: What do you mean you just swipe it.

Her: I didn’t know I had to pay the bank! How do I read this statement? I’ve never used a credit card before.

Co-worker: It says payment due.

Her: Nooooo but how do I pay? Omg I’m so scared can I just give them 10k? Is that enough?

Repeat for half an hour.

Keep in mind our office is a pretty big well known organization and her job involves verifying important information.

Because she was also flirting with the guy I wasn’t sure if she was legitimately stupid or faking it because she thought it was “endearing”

– Anvirel

8. I’m sorry, are you five?

“Can you aerate that for me?”

He wanted me to stir his apple juice. Technically his word choice was applicable, I guess, but wtf, dude? He had a straw ready in his hand and he could damn well have aerated that juice himself. I admit it took me 2 seconds of staring at his serious face before I reached for a straw, unwrapped it, and stirred his drink. I did it all without breaking eye contact with him, and he was satisfied.

Also I think about him now every time I stir or shake my chocolate milk to make it frothy.

– becauseusoft

9. Right is right.

I used to work in IT and one of my jobs was to support some of the security software we offered to customers. We had a package for secure data transfers and people often had to call up to be taught how to use it.

I was helping a woman use the software over the phone and I had a Remote Assistance connection to her PC so I could see her screen.

Me: “Okay, so find your name in the list of users”

Her: “I’ve found it! What do I do now?”

Me: “Right click your name, and then choose log in from the menu”

Her: “Is it my right, or yours?”

– Hoonterr

10. The embodiment of entitlement.

I’m a cashier at a grocery store and one time I had a lady ask me of I could “tell everyone else to let her go first.”

Like, she expected me to force everyone who had been patiently waiting in line to let her cut them. It wasn’t like she only had 1 or 2 items either; her cart was packed.

– Arii797ros

11. Maybe he’s not a strong reader.

I work at a small outdoor restaurant that sells wings and fries. Nothing else, just those two things (as far as food goes).

About a week ago, a man walked up to my counter, took a menu, proceeded to read the entire thing in front of me, and then put down his menu to ask, “Can I get a cheeseburger combo?” After taking a minute to wipe he ‘wtf’ expression off of my face and telling him no, we only sold wings and fries, he says, “What about a hot dog? Let me get a hot dog!”

My mind was blown after that conversation.

– ThePirateYar

12. You’re too sweet.

Customer: Where’s the sugar?

Me: What?

Customer: I ordered sweet corn, this is just corn.

– literalmirmaid

13. Case closed.

Back when I did tech support, I received a call from a customer with a peculiar keyboard problem. It seems that he was having trouble with the shift key.

When he typed a letter with the shift key pressed it gave him the upper case letter, but when he typed a number, it didn’t do that.

Didn’t do what?

Type the upper case number.

I had to break it to him gently.

– donut2099

14. Very poor judgement.

Working at callcenter, asking people to pay their old bills. Naturally some responded angrily.

‘So this is what you do all day? You just call people who haven’t paid their bills?’

‘Yes.’

‘So if I paid my bills you’d be out of the job?’

‘If everybody paid their bills, then yes.’

‘Ha ha! Good. You just f*cked up by telling me this. I’m going to pay my bills right away. When you’re unemployed then see how you like getting calls about your bills!’

The futility of eradicating a job that relies on the existence of poor people by making me poor escaped them.

– Lon-Abel-Kelly

15. Knock on wood.

Worked on a Christmas tree farm over winter break in college.

One time I had a lady ask me, “so, what are these trees made out of?”

– PM_ME_CRAFT_BEER

16. Just plane wrong.

I fly private jets. Once we were flying east early in the morning so the sun was directly in our eyes.

A passenger was sitting directly behind us on the jump seat. He leaned forward and asked “is there any way we can just climb and get above the sun?”

No.

– StrykerATL

17. This is VERY alternative medicine.

Once, while working at an eye doctors office, a woman was upset because we were charging her to make new lenses with an updated prescription and asked “why do you have to make new lenses, just inject some more medicine in the ones I already got?”

– Danwhodonit

18. This guy’s running on low.

I was working at a car battery store, when a customer came in with a receipt for a battery he had bought a couple weeks ago, asking for a refund. I asked him if he had the battery with him, so that we could take the battery back and refund him the money, when he said, “No I don’t have it anymore, I put it in a car I just sold.” Confused, I replied, “You want us to refund you for a battery that you don’t have anymore?” He responds, just as confused, “Yeah well I don’t have the battery anymore, so why should I have to pay for it? You need to refund me.”

He did not leave the store happy that day.

– GrantRusticus

19. Gotta love modern conveniences.

I work for a major wireless cell carrier in the US.[…]

“How do I make a phone call?”

Me: “Just press the application labeled phone.”

“Where?”

Me: “On the phone.”

“Right here? The one that looks like a phone?”

Me: “Yes.”

“Nothing is happening!”

Me: “Normally when you want to make a phone call and you don’t have any contacts programmed into the phone, dialing a phone number is required.”

“If I wanted to waste time dialing numbers, I would have stuck with my land line!”

– quartpint

20. How does it know?

Gas station.

“Hey, the bathroom door is locked. Can I get a key?”

“There’s no key, if it’s locked there’s someone in there”

“How does it know?”

“How does… what… know… what?”

“How does the bathroom know someone is in there?”

“People…. people go in and then they lock the door while they’re using it.”

[5 second pause]

“Ohhhh”

– SenorBeef

21. It’s time they were party trained.

“What do you mean I can’t bring my 6 month old baby into the nightclub?

[Click.]”

22. The cycle continues.

“Yes, I understand I haven’t paid my credit card bill in 3 months. But why can’t I use my card?”

“Because you haven’t paid your bill in 3 months.” repeat

– nolooselips

23. You don’t have to apologize. We know we’re dumb.

I worked in a heritage park in Ireland and we had a group of Viking re-enactors in one weekend, putting on a really good show of crafts, games and a trial.

This American (sorry) tourist came up and asked us “Do you guys have reservations for your Vikings like we do for our Indians?”

24. Well, there’s your problem.

Customer screaming: “MY NEW CAR’S BACK WIPER DOESN’T WORK!!!”

we walk outside, look at back window

Me: you don’t have a back wiper blade.

– Proxy12345

25. A prehistoric appetite.

Working at a museum where the main attraction is the dinosaur exhibit, we sell a lot of cheap products aimed at children. And we sell a lot of them.

Especially “Dino Eggs.”

A grandfather (I presume) and his grand-daughter (once again, I presume. And hope.) came into the shop, always busy, always cramped. And he picks up a Dino Egg for her.

Hands it over. Pays quickly. “No bag, no need.” Lovely, simple transaction.

But just as the till drawer has closed and I am pulling out his receipt to hand him, I’ve seen him in the corner of my eye tear open the packaging of this “egg”, smash open the lovely plastic shell and taken a big shard to his mouth.

He begins to chew, turns slowly to me and only then does he think to ask, “Is this edible?”

“No…!” I gasped. “No, sir. That… that’s not edible. You really shouldn’t eat that.”

The little grand-daughter’s face sinks further watching her grandpa spit out bits of plastic into her broken dinosaur egg. A fake dino-egg designed to be immersed in water so that the rubbery-dino toy on the inside can “grow and hatch.”

I gave him another. Well, I gave it to his grand-daughter. Best to keep it away from him, he was clearly ravenous.

– ParrotChild

26. Everything the light touches is yours.

I work in a liquor store whose inventory is 80% wine. You literally have to walk past aisles of wine to get to the hard liquor near the back.

I was in the scotch aisle in the back of the store when a customer approaches me, looks me me dead in the eyes and asks “Hey, where do you keep the wine at?”

I took a few seconds to react, not sure at first if the guy was f*cking with me or not, but upon inspecting his sincerely frustrated gaze I arrived at the conclusion that the man was indeed serious.

I responded by simply pointing behind the gentleman and then sweeping my arm from one side to the other like I was showing my lion cub all of the land that would one day be his to rule.

– theoutlet

27. Harry who?

Today a customer asked me if I was the same Harry as the Harry she spoke with yesterday.

My name is not Harry and I wear a name badge at work..

– El_Capitano_MC

28. Freaky fast and just plain freaky.

I work at jimmy johns. All jimmy johns have a sign that says free smells. Had a lady come through the drive thru one day while me and my manager are running it. She asks about the free smells after her order and my manager tells her okay you can pull up. She gets to the window, gets her food then proceeds to look through the bag. She eventually looks up all confused and asks where her free smells are? My manager jokingly says “oh yeah come inside and you can smell all you want for free!” She then says “ok *sshole!” And then speeds off.

To this day i have no f*cking clue what she though would be in that bag.

– blowin_Os

29. Again, American tourists making us all look bad.

My dad used to work at Windsor Castle, built in the 11th century, home to the Queen and nearly 1,000 years old.

An American tourist saw a plane flying nearby, and walked over to him.

“Why’d they build it so close to the airport?”

– robinthebum

30. Time zones are fascinating.

Spoke to the tour guide at the lodge I stay at (wild game lodge) and he said he had been asked:

Do giraffes hunt in packs?

If it’s October back in the USA, what month is it here? (South Africa)

– Ze_k_best

31. The life of a bike messenger.

“I worked as a bike messenger for a legal service for years. I made so many ‘super special hot rush’ deliveries to locked or completely empty offices.

The worst was being told to ‘stay dry out there.’ Too late, bruh, I’ve been wet since 8:30 and its unlikely I’ll dry off until 7.”

32. Please return the magazines.

“When someone brings a magazine they took from the waiting room into their appointment room, then leaves it there after the appointment is done.

Even though they’re headed directly back to the waiting room to pay.”

33. Time to do some detective work.

“When someone doesn’t write their name on a test or paper, leaving me to try and figure it out based on handwriting.”

34. Fix it!

“When someone says, ‘I was sick of my hair, so I did it myself. Now fix it.

And if you can’t fix it the way I want it due to the massacre I performed, it’s all your fault.’”

35. A major no-no.

“At a piano bar:

Setting a drink on the grand piano and inadvertently knocking it over inside the case so that it ruins the soundboard.”

36. That’s really rude.

“Deciding not to buy something and just leaving it on any random shelf.

Extra demerits if it’s left in the wrong temperature zone and has to be thrown away (like that ice cream someone left on the pasta shelf).”

37. The delivery blues.

“When someone lives in a gated community and doesn’t leave an access code in the delivery notes.

Then, when they don’t answer their phone.”

38. Clean it up, people.

“When people expect their grass to be cut/mowed but have hundreds of stuff all over it and expect me to spend my time tidying up too.

I’m not there to tidy up after you! Oh and dog sh^t too. I don’t wanna go blind. Pick your dogs sh^t up!”

39. The bait and switch.

“Baiting and switching.

I work in fashion and I sell for a lace company. When we get orders , people give us a standard to follow. When the bulk order is done you present it to the customer and they compare it to the standard . If it matches , you ship it . If it’s way off you have to re-handle it.

Some people present bulk yardage that is really from the original sample dye-lot so it matches the standard but the bulk may actually be off. Once it’s shipped people generally don’t question it unless it’s drastically off.

It’s a cr*ppy thing to do.”

40. A useless mess.

“People shredding coasters, peeling labels off of bottles, or breaking tabs off of cans and throwing them all over the floors and tables.

If you’re old enough to drink, you should be old enough to manage your own hands and not make a useless mess that someone else will have to clean up.”

41. Gimme that number.

“Someone telling me they need a specific part for their vehicle without giving me the VIN number to look it up.

The customer gets angry and proclaims, “They’re all the same! Don’t matter what vehicle it is!””

42. Sorry, it’s closed.

“Driving around the road closed sign and being pissed at me that they have to turn around, because yes, the road is actually closed.”

43. Don’t waste their time.

“Calling and ambulance only to refuse to transport once paramedics arrive.

It’s a waste of time and resources. Sometimes multiple times a day.”

44. That’s mine!

“I’m a barista.

Plenty of people will take drinks that were meant for someone else, even if they’re very clearly marked.

Gets on my nerves every time.”

45. That’s really gross.

“Eating immediately before your dental cleaning.

Come on people! You’re going to a dentist. Brush your teeth for us!”

If you’ve had a day that’s made you feel like not the sharpest tool in the shed, I hope these stories have boosted your esteem just a bit.

Have you had an experience like this?

Tell us about it in the comments.

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Times When the Customer Was Definitely NOT Right

The saying “the customer is always right” has to be one of the most frustratingly misconstrued idioms in history.

Originally, it meant simply that if the customer said they wanted thing A, you shouldn’t try to convince them they want thing B. Just sell them the thing they want, make them happy, and get your money.

Simple enough. It definitely should NOT mean that whatever a customer happens to spout is correct.

Because. I mean. Just look at this:

What is the dumbest question a customer has ever asked you? from AskReddit

You’re not gonna believe some of these. Or maybe you will.

Either way, get ready to roll your eyes and laugh out loud.

1. What’s the problem?

-Can you photoshop some pictures for me?

-Sir, this is a bookstore.

-Yeah, but I see you have a computer right here.

– Baldulf

2. You prevented something unbearable.

I worked at REI a few years back (large outdoor sporting goods co-op, just in case you haven’t heard of it), and we sold bear spray (pepper spray for bears).

A woman came in with her two kids one day and bought a canister because they were going camping.

She gets to the front door, then comes back to the register as an afterthought, and asks if she’s supposed to just spray her kids from head to toe with it.

– jra312

3. Size does matter.

I very briefly worked at a Wendy’s some years back and I was working the drive through.

A woman ordered two meals, one with a small drink and one with a large.

As I handed her the drinks she asked, “which one is the large?”

– Citizenerased1989

4. That’s what I want too.

Worked at a fried chicken place. Lady calls and says that her daughter is going to order. His daughter sounds about 5 years old and orders 500 pieces of chicken.

I say ok laughing. The mom gets on and asks how long. I tell her that her daughter just ordered $1000 dollars in food. Does she really want that. The lady goes nuts screaming at me asking if I think her daughter is dumb.

Me “so you want 500 pieces of chicken?”

Her “My girl wants what she wants, make it and stop making fun of her”

Me” It is going to be at least an hour and 1000 dollars”

[…]

She shows up 10 mins after looking for her chicken. I explained to the manager about the call. She freaked out when the cashier told her it was over $1000.

The lady refused to tell us how much chicken she really wanted while the little girl stood there screaming she wanted 500 chickens.

5. Can’t fix what you can’t see.

This was few years back, customer (very chill guy) called in saying he recently bought a new MacBook Pro and it’s not working.

I asked him  “What happens, when you press the power button”

he said ” I don’t know where that is”.

– Velcrous

6. Something’s fishy about this.

About a decade ago, I used to work doing customer service for a power company in Texas. As you can imagine, a great number of my calls involved late bills and disconnections. And it’s not like the company was ruthless – due to Texas regulations and the general PITA of disconnecting/reconnecting someone, it generally required being 3+ months overdue to actually get shut off. So it was hard for me to work up much sympathy for anyone who was disconnected for delinquency.

But the absolute best was the guy who called up screaming at me about his power being off, because he’d just bought a whole load of rare exotic saltwater fish who have to be kept temperature-controlled. And (of course) he was totally unwilling to pay anything towards his bill either, because he’d spent his money on the fish.

So yes, I DID say exactly what any reasonable person would be thinking at that point.

I feel bad for the fishes tho.

– APeacefulWarrior

7. Bills come due.

Ughhhh there was a girl at work who drove me nuts about this.

Her: OMG I’m soooo scared! I don’t know how to use my credit card!

Male Co-worker: What do you mean you just swipe it.

Her: I didn’t know I had to pay the bank! How do I read this statement? I’ve never used a credit card before.

Co-worker: It says payment due.

Her: Nooooo but how do I pay? Omg I’m so scared can I just give them 10k? Is that enough?

Repeat for half an hour.

Keep in mind our office is a pretty big well known organization and her job involves verifying important information.

Because she was also flirting with the guy I wasn’t sure if she was legitimately stupid or faking it because she thought it was “endearing”

– Anvirel

8. I’m sorry, are you five?

“Can you aerate that for me?”

He wanted me to stir his apple juice. Technically his word choice was applicable, I guess, but wtf, dude? He had a straw ready in his hand and he could damn well have aerated that juice himself. I admit it took me 2 seconds of staring at his serious face before I reached for a straw, unwrapped it, and stirred his drink. I did it all without breaking eye contact with him, and he was satisfied.

Also I think about him now every time I stir or shake my chocolate milk to make it frothy.

– becauseusoft

9. Right is right.

I used to work in IT and one of my jobs was to support some of the security software we offered to customers. We had a package for secure data transfers and people often had to call up to be taught how to use it.

I was helping a woman use the software over the phone and I had a Remote Assistance connection to her PC so I could see her screen.

Me: “Okay, so find your name in the list of users”

Her: “I’ve found it! What do I do now?”

Me: “Right click your name, and then choose log in from the menu”

Her: “Is it my right, or yours?”

– Hoonterr

10. The embodiment of entitlement.

I’m a cashier at a grocery store and one time I had a lady ask me of I could “tell everyone else to let her go first.”

Like, she expected me to force everyone who had been patiently waiting in line to let her cut them. It wasn’t like she only had 1 or 2 items either; her cart was packed.

– Arii797ros

11. Maybe he’s not a strong reader.

I work at a small outdoor restaurant that sells wings and fries. Nothing else, just those two things (as far as food goes).

About a week ago, a man walked up to my counter, took a menu, proceeded to read the entire thing in front of me, and then put down his menu to ask, “Can I get a cheeseburger combo?” After taking a minute to wipe he ‘wtf’ expression off of my face and telling him no, we only sold wings and fries, he says, “What about a hot dog? Let me get a hot dog!”

My mind was blown after that conversation.

– ThePirateYar

12. You’re too sweet.

Customer: Where’s the sugar?

Me: What?

Customer: I ordered sweet corn, this is just corn.

– literalmirmaid

13. Case closed.

Back when I did tech support, I received a call from a customer with a peculiar keyboard problem. It seems that he was having trouble with the shift key.

When he typed a letter with the shift key pressed it gave him the upper case letter, but when he typed a number, it didn’t do that.

Didn’t do what?

Type the upper case number.

I had to break it to him gently.

– donut2099

14. Very poor judgement.

Working at callcenter, asking people to pay their old bills. Naturally some responded angrily.

‘So this is what you do all day? You just call people who haven’t paid their bills?’

‘Yes.’

‘So if I paid my bills you’d be out of the job?’

‘If everybody paid their bills, then yes.’

‘Ha ha! Good. You just f*cked up by telling me this. I’m going to pay my bills right away. When you’re unemployed then see how you like getting calls about your bills!’

The futility of eradicating a job that relies on the existence of poor people by making me poor escaped them.

– Lon-Abel-Kelly

15. Knock on wood.

Worked on a Christmas tree farm over winter break in college.

One time I had a lady ask me, “so, what are these trees made out of?”

– PM_ME_CRAFT_BEER

16. Just plane wrong.

I fly private jets. Once we were flying east early in the morning so the sun was directly in our eyes.

A passenger was sitting directly behind us on the jump seat. He leaned forward and asked “is there any way we can just climb and get above the sun?”

No.

– StrykerATL

17. This is VERY alternative medicine.

Once, while working at an eye doctors office, a woman was upset because we were charging her to make new lenses with an updated prescription and asked “why do you have to make new lenses, just inject some more medicine in the ones I already got?”

– Danwhodonit

18. This guy’s running on low.

I was working at a car battery store, when a customer came in with a receipt for a battery he had bought a couple weeks ago, asking for a refund. I asked him if he had the battery with him, so that we could take the battery back and refund him the money, when he said, “No I don’t have it anymore, I put it in a car I just sold.” Confused, I replied, “You want us to refund you for a battery that you don’t have anymore?” He responds, just as confused, “Yeah well I don’t have the battery anymore, so why should I have to pay for it? You need to refund me.”

He did not leave the store happy that day.

– GrantRusticus

19. Gotta love modern conveniences.

I work for a major wireless cell carrier in the US.[…]

“How do I make a phone call?”

Me: “Just press the application labeled phone.”

“Where?”

Me: “On the phone.”

“Right here? The one that looks like a phone?”

Me: “Yes.”

“Nothing is happening!”

Me: “Normally when you want to make a phone call and you don’t have any contacts programmed into the phone, dialing a phone number is required.”

“If I wanted to waste time dialing numbers, I would have stuck with my land line!”

– quartpint

20. How does it know?

Gas station.

“Hey, the bathroom door is locked. Can I get a key?”

“There’s no key, if it’s locked there’s someone in there”

“How does it know?”

“How does… what… know… what?”

“How does the bathroom know someone is in there?”

“People…. people go in and then they lock the door while they’re using it.”

[5 second pause]

“Ohhhh”

– SenorBeef

21. It’s time they were party trained.

“What do you mean I can’t bring my 6 month old baby into the nightclub?

[Click.]”

22. The cycle continues.

“Yes, I understand I haven’t paid my credit card bill in 3 months. But why can’t I use my card?”

“Because you haven’t paid your bill in 3 months.” repeat

– nolooselips

23. You don’t have to apologize. We know we’re dumb.

I worked in a heritage park in Ireland and we had a group of Viking re-enactors in one weekend, putting on a really good show of crafts, games and a trial.

This American (sorry) tourist came up and asked us “Do you guys have reservations for your Vikings like we do for our Indians?”

24. Well, there’s your problem.

Customer screaming: “MY NEW CAR’S BACK WIPER DOESN’T WORK!!!”

we walk outside, look at back window

Me: you don’t have a back wiper blade.

– Proxy12345

25. A prehistoric appetite.

Working at a museum where the main attraction is the dinosaur exhibit, we sell a lot of cheap products aimed at children. And we sell a lot of them.

Especially “Dino Eggs.”

A grandfather (I presume) and his grand-daughter (once again, I presume. And hope.) came into the shop, always busy, always cramped. And he picks up a Dino Egg for her.

Hands it over. Pays quickly. “No bag, no need.” Lovely, simple transaction.

But just as the till drawer has closed and I am pulling out his receipt to hand him, I’ve seen him in the corner of my eye tear open the packaging of this “egg”, smash open the lovely plastic shell and taken a big shard to his mouth.

He begins to chew, turns slowly to me and only then does he think to ask, “Is this edible?”

“No…!” I gasped. “No, sir. That… that’s not edible. You really shouldn’t eat that.”

The little grand-daughter’s face sinks further watching her grandpa spit out bits of plastic into her broken dinosaur egg. A fake dino-egg designed to be immersed in water so that the rubbery-dino toy on the inside can “grow and hatch.”

I gave him another. Well, I gave it to his grand-daughter. Best to keep it away from him, he was clearly ravenous.

– ParrotChild

26. Everything the light touches is yours.

I work in a liquor store whose inventory is 80% wine. You literally have to walk past aisles of wine to get to the hard liquor near the back.

I was in the scotch aisle in the back of the store when a customer approaches me, looks me me dead in the eyes and asks “Hey, where do you keep the wine at?”

I took a few seconds to react, not sure at first if the guy was f*cking with me or not, but upon inspecting his sincerely frustrated gaze I arrived at the conclusion that the man was indeed serious.

I responded by simply pointing behind the gentleman and then sweeping my arm from one side to the other like I was showing my lion cub all of the land that would one day be his to rule.

– theoutlet

27. Harry who?

Today a customer asked me if I was the same Harry as the Harry she spoke with yesterday.

My name is not Harry and I wear a name badge at work..

– El_Capitano_MC

28. Freaky fast and just plain freaky.

I work at jimmy johns. All jimmy johns have a sign that says free smells. Had a lady come through the drive thru one day while me and my manager are running it. She asks about the free smells after her order and my manager tells her okay you can pull up. She gets to the window, gets her food then proceeds to look through the bag. She eventually looks up all confused and asks where her free smells are? My manager jokingly says “oh yeah come inside and you can smell all you want for free!” She then says “ok *sshole!” And then speeds off.

To this day i have no f*cking clue what she though would be in that bag.

– blowin_Os

29. Again, American tourists making us all look bad.

My dad used to work at Windsor Castle, built in the 11th century, home to the Queen and nearly 1,000 years old.

An American tourist saw a plane flying nearby, and walked over to him.

“Why’d they build it so close to the airport?”

– robinthebum

30. Time zones are fascinating.

Spoke to the tour guide at the lodge I stay at (wild game lodge) and he said he had been asked:

Do giraffes hunt in packs?

If it’s October back in the USA, what month is it here? (South Africa)

– Ze_k_best

31. The life of a bike messenger.

“I worked as a bike messenger for a legal service for years. I made so many ‘super special hot rush’ deliveries to locked or completely empty offices.

The worst was being told to ‘stay dry out there.’ Too late, bruh, I’ve been wet since 8:30 and its unlikely I’ll dry off until 7.”

32. Please return the magazines.

“When someone brings a magazine they took from the waiting room into their appointment room, then leaves it there after the appointment is done.

Even though they’re headed directly back to the waiting room to pay.”

33. Time to do some detective work.

“When someone doesn’t write their name on a test or paper, leaving me to try and figure it out based on handwriting.”

34. Fix it!

“When someone says, ‘I was sick of my hair, so I did it myself. Now fix it.

And if you can’t fix it the way I want it due to the massacre I performed, it’s all your fault.’”

35. A major no-no.

“At a piano bar:

Setting a drink on the grand piano and inadvertently knocking it over inside the case so that it ruins the soundboard.”

36. That’s really rude.

“Deciding not to buy something and just leaving it on any random shelf.

Extra demerits if it’s left in the wrong temperature zone and has to be thrown away (like that ice cream someone left on the pasta shelf).”

37. The delivery blues.

“When someone lives in a gated community and doesn’t leave an access code in the delivery notes.

Then, when they don’t answer their phone.”

38. Clean it up, people.

“When people expect their grass to be cut/mowed but have hundreds of stuff all over it and expect me to spend my time tidying up too.

I’m not there to tidy up after you! Oh and dog sh^t too. I don’t wanna go blind. Pick your dogs sh^t up!”

39. The bait and switch.

“Baiting and switching.

I work in fashion and I sell for a lace company. When we get orders , people give us a standard to follow. When the bulk order is done you present it to the customer and they compare it to the standard . If it matches , you ship it . If it’s way off you have to re-handle it.

Some people present bulk yardage that is really from the original sample dye-lot so it matches the standard but the bulk may actually be off. Once it’s shipped people generally don’t question it unless it’s drastically off.

It’s a cr*ppy thing to do.”

40. A useless mess.

“People shredding coasters, peeling labels off of bottles, or breaking tabs off of cans and throwing them all over the floors and tables.

If you’re old enough to drink, you should be old enough to manage your own hands and not make a useless mess that someone else will have to clean up.”

41. Gimme that number.

“Someone telling me they need a specific part for their vehicle without giving me the VIN number to look it up.

The customer gets angry and proclaims, “They’re all the same! Don’t matter what vehicle it is!””

42. Sorry, it’s closed.

“Driving around the road closed sign and being pissed at me that they have to turn around, because yes, the road is actually closed.”

43. Don’t waste their time.

“Calling and ambulance only to refuse to transport once paramedics arrive.

It’s a waste of time and resources. Sometimes multiple times a day.”

44. That’s mine!

“I’m a barista.

Plenty of people will take drinks that were meant for someone else, even if they’re very clearly marked.

Gets on my nerves every time.”

45. That’s really gross.

“Eating immediately before your dental cleaning.

Come on people! You’re going to a dentist. Brush your teeth for us!”

If you’ve had a day that’s made you feel like not the sharpest tool in the shed, I hope these stories have boosted your esteem just a bit.

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People Talk About Stereotypes that Annoy Them the Most

Stereotypes are lazy. Especially the ones about certain groups being lazy. I guess those are actually…ironic, maybe?

In any case, almost everybody has some kind of stereotype they have to deal with at some point in their lives, and most people have a pet peeve.

What stereotype annoys you? from AskReddit

Here are some groups that would very much like you to start thinking of them in more nuance, please – via Reddit.

1. Colombians

That all the colombians can think about is drugs and coffee.

WE HAVE A BIT OF CULTURE THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE ANY OF THAT, CARIÑO!!!

– Heyo_guys

2. Married Couples

Ball & Chain of marriage trope, and along the same line, the idiot dad trope.

Why can’t we normalize marriages that are happy with partners that each have their own flaws and strengths?

– Ender505

3. Autism

If you have autism you are either mentally challenged or have a special ability

– redpokemaster06

4. Black people

Black people liking fried chicken.

EVERYONE LIKES FRIED CHICKEN!

– smallz86

5. Germans

That Germans have no Humor.

The only problem is, that I always feel like telling people that this stereotype is annoying just confirms them in their stereotypes.

– anspitzerhino

6. Extroverts / Introverts

As an introvert, people think all extroverts are annoying attention seekers and all introverts have no friends and are shy

– Reddituserrdr2

7. Southerners

All Southern people are backwards, racist hillbillies.

– Garnetsareunderrated

8. Women

Not a kid person= cold-hearted monster. It’s pretty awful when women say it to other women.

Also, the whole “all women must be supportive of each other” narrative. There are people out there who just always want to climb higher than everybody else and will willingly destroy anyone they view as an obstacle. Gender is irrelevant.

– BroadViewRationalist

9. Expensive schools

the expensive schools are good schools, i live in colombia and i study in the best school of my town, the school is destroying himself

– juanitoelpro

10. Blondes

The blonde mean girl stereotype. Or dumb blonde. Or anything with blondes being lesser.

– Petalfrost

11. Programers

That being programmer means you’re good at everything related to computers (hacking, hardware, etc.).

H**l, even the different subcategories of programming are different. Being a game developer is very different from being a software developer or a web developer.

– KodeBenis

12. Alabamans

People from Alabama all know how to work on trucks, are as slow as molasses, and talk about “them new-fangled computers,” like it’s some foreign concept.

The last time I traveled out of Alabama to meet with family, I heard some people mocking me (both strangers and family) about my accent. It gets annoying real fast.

– OpenLocust

13. Wives

That women/wives are nags, the one thing they ask for help with, their partner just doesn’t do it and then god forbid she ask again for help with it.

– ASMRemma

14. Texans

Being from Texas, I hate those stereotypes.

I can’t tell you how many times I meet people who were so disappointed I didn’t have stories about riding my horse to work/school and living on a ranch.

I live in one of the biggest cities in the country, in the 21st century for crying out loud.

Why do so many seemingly intelligent people from around the country think it’s the Wild West here?

– CH11DW

15. Italians

That Italians are easily provoked to anger.

P**ses me off so f*&%@ much!

– coolidge_fan

Remember, everyone is different. We all suck in our own beautiful and unique ways.

What stereotype are you most sick of?

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Stubborn Myths That Just Won’t Go Away For Some Reason

Did you know that the surface of Neptune was once all water?

I didn’t either, because it’s not true. I just made it up. But if I slapped that on a meme it might just spread around enough that a handful of people carried it around with them as though it were fact.

That’s why it’s important to check up on things before you spread ’em. Otherwise you end up with these:

What is a common myth that has been debunked but too many people still believe? from AskReddit

Debunkers of Reddit, do your thing.

1. You have to wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report

There’s no law governing how long you have to wait before notifying the police of a missing person. It’s nonsense. File a report as soon as you suspect the person is missing or in danger.

Do you know how many wellness checks officers go on in a day? Call it in man…

– grammar_oligarch

2. We only use 10% of our brains

You actually use 100% of your brain.

Each section is responsible for controlling different functions of your body. For example, the Prefrontal Cortex controls, thoughts, memory and behavior.

The Parietal Lobe controls language and touch.

The Occipital Lobe controls, visual processing and the brain stem controls basic functions such as breathing and maintaining your heart rate.

– CrotchWolf

3. Shaving makes hair grow back thicker

When I was learning how to shave, I remember this one being debunked in a teen magazine.

What they said made sense. A new hair grows with a kind of pointed tip. When you shave, you cut off that part. So what is now growing is middle of the hair which is thicker.

I would also add, I started shaving before my hair was fully grown in (moving from per-adolescence to adulthood) and hair continues to come in thicker over time. So it has more to do with when females often start shaving compared to having reached full maturity.

– OctobersAutumn

4. Your hair and fingernails grow after you die

It’s mainly an optical illusion.

Your skin decays and shrinks, causing hair and fingernails to look like they’ve grown.

– CasinoKitten

5. The War of the Worlds radio broadcast caused mass panic

We all know the story: Orson Welles broadcast War of The Worlds over the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). But people only tuned in part way through, and heard the radio announcing that machines were landing in the country and were advancing and attacking. People panicked in the streets and thought aliens really were invading. There was hysteria on the streets, people were looting and traffic jams banked up as people tried to escape.

But it turns out, that isn’t really true. It turns out barely anyone actually listened to the broadcast, and the few that were listening knew it was Orson Welles and knew it was just a broadcasting of War of the Worlds. If there was anyone that did tune in and mishear it and panicked, it was nowhere near the hundreds and thousands that have been reported in this myth.

– LittlestSlipper55

6. Lightning never strikes in the same place twice

Yeah, that would basically invalidate lightning rods.

And I think that park ranger who’s been struck by lightning 6+ times would tend to disagree with that notion.

– MrLuxarina

7. NASA spent millions on space pens when they could have just used pencils

Before the Space Pen was developed, NASA used pencils in space (expensive custom-made mechanical pencils starting with the Gemini missions) and the Soviet space program used a mix of regular pencils and grease pencils […].

Both programs were aware of the potential problems with graphite dust, and both were dissatisfied with the writing quality (pencil smears a lot more easily than ballpoint ink, and grease pencil smears if you look at it funny), but they took their chances with the least-bad available options.

And once the space pen was developed by a private company, both space programs bought a bunch of them.

– Gyrgir

8. You swallow 8 spiders a year in your sleep

It was made up to prove how misinformation can spread so quickly over the internet.

– Dr_McKay

9. Vaccines are linked to autism

Debunked decades ago. The sole proponent lost his medical license over it.

Yet every anti-vaxx mom apparently knows someone whose friend’s cousin has a child who turned autistic after the measles vaccine and somehow not a single one has met this alleged autistic child but the story is of course 100 percent true and vaccines are terrible.

– whereismyporcupine

10. Everyone in the Middle Ages was literate

The study that influenced the idea determined literacy by the prevalence of books written in Latin, which only the upper class knew.

Most peasants could actually read and write in their own language.

– luke56slasher

11. We only recently learned the Earth was round

By around 500 B.C., most ancient Greeks believed that Earth was round, not flat. But they had no idea how big the planet is until about 240 B.C. when Eratosthenes devised a clever method of estimating its circumference.

He realized that if he knew the distance from Alexandria to Syene, he could easily calculate the circumference of Earth. But in those days it was extremely difficult to determine distance with any accuracy. Some distances between cities were measured by the time it took a camel caravan to travel from one city to the other. But camels have a tendency to wander and to walk at varying speeds. So Eratosthenes hired bematists, professional surveyors trained to walk with equal length steps. They found that Syene lies about 5000 stadia from Alexandria.

Eratosthenes then used this to calculate the circumference of the Earth to be about 250,000 stadia. Modern scholars disagree about the length of the stadium used by Eratosthenes. Values between 500 and about 600 feet have been suggested, putting Eratosthenes’ calculated circumference between about 24,000 miles and about 29,000 miles. The Earth is now known to measure about 24,900 miles around the equator, slightly less around the poles.

– JohnDax

12. 95% of the ocean is unexplored

It depends how you define ‘explored’.

People throw this figure around like 95% of the Earth’s ocean surface is just a huge blank spot on the map, or like there’s plenty of space for a surviving population of plesiosaurs to live where we just haven’t checked.

Neither of those things is remotely accurate.

– green_meklar

13. Fad diets are the most effective weight loss method

No, calorie deficit is the one responsible for weight loss no matter the diet.

– vox_verae

The more you know!

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People Discuss Debunked Myths That Just Won’t Go Away

It was Mark Twain who once said “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

A point that’s all the more poignant when you consider that actually it was probably not Mark Twain who said that.

Just goes to go how confusing following the truth can be, like in these cases:

What is a common myth that has been debunked but too many people still believe? from AskReddit

What does Reddit have for us to debunk today? Let’s find out.

1. Albert Einstein failed math as a kid

This myth originated due to a misunderstanding of grading scales.

Einstein’s primary education took place in Germany, where the grading scale went from 1 (best) to 5 (worst).

His secondary education was in Switzerland, where the grading scale went from 1 (worst) to 6 (best).

His scores in math and science were excellent at all stages of his education.

– sillybear25

2. Dogs see black and white

Most placental mammals are dichromats with two types of cone cells in their eyes. They’re descended from tetrachromats with four retinal pigments, but we believe that two were lost during an era when mammals were primarily nocturnal and color vision was less useful at night.

A branch of primates including apes and, specifically, us mutated up a new pigment, different from either of the ones that were lost, getting us back to trichromatic vision. (Our L and M, or red and green, cones are very similar, with one being a mutation from the other that proved useful to have exist in parallel.)

It’s why hunters wear orange vests and tigers are bright orange despite living in jungles.

To prey species, they both look green like vegetation.

– ThePowerOfStories

3. Lemmings are suicidal

they were filming a disney nature documentary where the producers herded them off cliffs and the misconception stuck

It’s been debunked but you ask someone about lemmings and see what they say.

– graeuk

4. The tongue has “taste zones”

Not only was this one a myth, they TAUGHT us this in school.

I remember coloring in the different sections of the tongue various colors.

– MattieMcNasty

5. Handling a baby bird will make the mother reject it

Most birds don’t have a significant sense of smell. So put the nakey baby back in the nest!

Now, sometimes mother birds will push a sick or otherwise terminal chick out of the nest, so when people try to put it back she goes “Hey, thought I got rid of you” and does it again.

But that’s not because of you, she just knows something you don’t, so take that babe to a rehab rescue and hope for the best.

But a lot of the time the little squishy beans just wiggle out of the nest, so feel free to put them back in. No harm done.

– AlwaysWantsIceCream

6. Bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly

Except they obviously can.

I think bumble bees perfectly exemplify the fundamental misunderstanding that laypeople have of the scientific process and the difference between a law and a theory.

A scientific law is a physical description of what we observe under specific circumstances. A theory, on the other hand, explains why we observe different phenomena when at least one variable isn’t controlled for.

So it isn’t that “bumble bees shouldn’t be able to fly”. It’s that they fly as a result of a different set of variables within the mechanisms of flight.

– Dynasuarez-Wrecks

7. Direction of a toilet flush depends on the hemisphere

The design of toilets direct water in a specific way, the Coriolis effect would never change that, but even in more passive drainage systems, the internal flow of water and geometry of the basin will be much more significant than that of the Coriolis effect. This is true even if water sits still for long periods of time.

Under very specific scientific conditions, with a flat, perfectly circular pan and a centralized drainage hole, many days after filling the water the Coriolis effect can begin to govern the direction of the water as it’s emptied, but this is not exactly practical. We do see the effect in weather patterns of course though, so that’s something.

– CanFjord

8. Blood is blue before being exposed to oxygen

Seriously tho, I was told that everyone’s blood was blue on the inside when I was younger, and I honestly don’t know why my Mom thought that.

Maybe it’s just one of those things that you only believe because your family has been saying it since your Grandma’s Grandpa’s Grandma’s Grandma’s Grandpa or something like that.

– Rand0mWe1rdGuy

9. The tryptophan in turkey makes you tired

The reason you always feel tired after a Thanksgiving meal is because your body is spending all its energy digesting your big meal.

– LiquidMetalStarman

10. It’s dangerous to swim after eating

There’s no reason that should be dangerous.

However swimming after drinking alcohol puts you at a substantially higher risk of drowning.

– Scrappy_Larue

11. Mammals have alpha males and beta males

The researcher who wrote it himself not only said that this cannot be used to interpret human behaviour in any way, but he even proved his own findings wrong in a later study, because this behaviour only applied to wolves in captivity (so, a constantly stressful situation)

– JuFo2707

12. The McDonald’s “hot coffee lawsuit” was frivolous

Lady melted her vagina and only wanted to get enough for bills.

They wouldn’t even do that.

– Tenebrousoul

13. Electromagnetic fields cause nausea

A lot of people in Sweden believe this despite research attributing it to the nocebo effect.

– hampan97

14. Ted Bundy was a very popular playboy

That goes into a bigger myth that people with psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder are these cunning manipulative geniuses.

Ted bundy abducted girls in a busy af park going by the nickname ted and only got so many girls because cops didn’t communicate across state lines at all and there was virtually no video surveillance.

By definition these people have god awful impulse control, delusions that they can control people, and terrible control of their behaviours. They have awful control of how they act when they get emotional, and people like Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Wayne Gacy, ect. All got caught because they were genuinely suffering from arrogant , very dumb, and poorly planned behaviors.

– Antispam1432

It’s always nice to find out you were wrong!

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People Who Used To Be Atheists Share Their Conversion Stories

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian community and around high school essentially started a very slow “deconversion” process that eventually led to my comfortable adoption of the word “atheist” several years later.

I’m very familiar with what it’s like to go from a believer to a non-believer, but I have often wondered what it must be like to go the other way, and even whether it could happen to me at some point.

Former atheists of Reddit, what made you turn to religion? from AskReddit

So why do the skeptical find themselves entering the fold? Let’s hear from some self-professed former atheists of Reddit.

1. At death’s door

I wouldn’t say I was ever an atheist as most would describe. I never actively denounced religion or Christ. But I never really thought of it a whole lot growing up or thru my 20s.

Almost two years ago I set next to my grandfather basically my father as he was the one who raised me while he passed from a long battle with cancer. He was on hospice for 2-3 days at home before he finally passed. I was there right beside him the whole time. The whole experience was so profound. One thing that stood out to me was how he kept calling for his mother and reaching out like he was trying to grab her hands.

She had passed about 7-8 years prior. He would call to her screaming her name. This was steady for 2-3 days before he went.

I know without a doubt there has to be an afterlife after that experience. She came to get her son. And I have no doubt she was in that room with us. You could feel her. The whole family could.

– jb_run29

2. The experience

Not me, a friend of my parents. He suffered a minor heart attack during a business trip, and the moment he arrived at the hospital, he got a massive heart attack.

He was clinically dead for about 2 minutes before he was brought back.

He hasn’t told anyone what he saw, and whenever someone asks, he just says “I really don’t want to talk about it”.

But from that day on, not a Sunday goes by that he doesn’t show up for mass.

– TheDangerHeisenberg

3. Regaining control

I was raised Catholic and was very strong in my faith until I was 26. I don’t think anything took me away from God, I just got busy and wouldn’t go to church, or wouldn’t pray more and more. Then, I found myself agreeing with some atheist thoughts.

It’s weird because the more I parted from the God, the harder life was, and the harder life was, the more I parted from God. It was like a terrible positive feedback loop. By the age of 32, I stopped calling myself Catholic and life was the lowest (loneliness, finance issues, depression, health, anxiety, relationship issues, etc).

About a month before my 33rd birthday, I surrendered my life to God. I told God, I can’t bare the load on my own. I thanked Him for everything and prayed for strength, wisdom, and to guide me on His path. I felt like God told me He was with me through all my suffering and never left my side. He was just kind of waiting for me to come around.

I have been praying again daily. I’m not exaggerating, so many things bad things reversed and I feel better. I’m going to church for the first time today in… years? I like having God in my life—much more peace and happiness.

– Environmental-End115

4. In honor of her

My great uncle was a lifelong atheist til his wife of 50 years died.

She was always begging him to go to church and he would never go with her. When she died he was so devastated he started going to church to feel closer to her. That naturally resulted in him converting.

He loved and missed her so much that he was willing to believe anything that would reunite them. He was a tough man but her death broke him.

He always gave me sh*t for not going to church and it annoyed me but I respected how deeply he loved my aunt. On occasion I would go with him and he was grateful I humored him.

– valerieswrld

5. The how and the why

To be honest? Because I separated the “how” and the “why”.

I accept science explaining the “how’s” (evolution, Big Bang, etc), but they never explained the “whys” for me (and, as an objective tool, science was never intended to explain it regardless).

Religion and science answer different questions, and both are incredibly fulfilling to me.

– Jforest99

6. The phantom radio station

My sister became born again later in life. I had always believed in God but didn’t really have a relationship with him. She became so pushy and changed so much it turned me off to the whole idea of christianity.

She had a son who I was very close with and for a few years after he turned 13 lived with my family. Unfortunately at 17 he got into drugs and ran away. For months we didn’t hear from him then one day he popped up at my sister’s house. Pretty much completely worn down. He looked and smelled terrible.

On my way out to my sister’s I was at such a loss on what to do that I prayed out loud to God to help guide me. I decided to find a worship station and there was a sermon playing that felt like it was directed right at me. Everything that preacher said felt like he was talking to me. A commercial came on and as an inpatient person I looked at the station number and decided to go back in a few minutes…I went back and that station was nothing but static. No music, no sermon it just didn’t exist.

I tried going up and down thinking I mixed up a number but still nothing. I know have a much close relationship with God. Not a full fledged every Sunday at church relationship but a good one.

– littlefootrac

7. Hope is good

I’m starting to realize that it might be actually incredibly good for humans to believe that everything will be ok. Like, in general. Having a purpose and believing that there is a point produces positive brain chemicals.

I’m getting into a specific religion now, including aspects that I don’t necessarily believe are true. Take prayer for example- it doesn’t matter if there’s a beardy dude in the clouds taking notes. It’s not the point – regularly contemplating community and loved ones is a good thing to do. If you need to frame it as talking to a fella in the sky, well then do it to it. To me, faith is more about believing that living a certain way is the best way to live. Whether it’s true or not is besides the point.

That being said, religion is not an excuse to treat others poorly. If someone uses their religion to treat other people poorly, I still look at them the way I look at anyone that treats people poorly.

– lovegiblet

8. Overcoming addiction

I was raised Christian, became an atheist in college and was atheist for more than a decade, but became a Christian again about three months ago.

I fought a war against everything I hated most about myself and lost. When I had lost all hope of ever being able to overcome depression and addiction, I tried praying and, to my great surprise, I received an answer.

In that moment I surrendered my life to God. I will never be able to explain my experience, I don’t have scientifically conclusive evidence, but I will never doubt that God is real after what I experienced. I have overcome my addiction and depression and, while I still have a long way to go, am doing much better than I ever dreamed possible.

– CitizenReborn

9. Less a believer, more a student

Instead of being a Christian, I chose to follow the teachings of Christ. That changed my entire opinion about religion.

I was an atheist throughout college. My major was Philosophy/Religion. Most of what I learned, I used to justify my atheist beliefs. The more I studied, the idea of a creator became more and more intriguing. The ontological perspective just makes practical sense to me.

I dont think I believe the way most people believe, but that’s okay. I’m happy with my worldview and it gives me purpose and meaning. It inspires me to be a better person. No matter your beliefs, if you are striving to do that, and whatever helps you do it everyday, must not be so bad.

– headrons

10. Practices are bigger than truth

I was raised atheist but have always been very open minded. A friend invited me to their church one day. It was a pretty progressive church but also they were serious about faith.

I decided to participate fully in the church for a year regardless of my belief.

As I took part in the practices of christian faith I realized they were as true and something can be true. In the sense that with discernment and rational thinking participating in the Christian faith leads to being a more forgiving, loving, other-centric way of living.

The actual stories in the Bible may be historically true or not true, who really knows. But the practices are bigger than historical truth. They are a deep truth that rattles down in the part of my soul that expands beyond my personal awareness.

So I got baptized and committed to Christianity flaws and all ?

– zakmcdonald

11. The slow dawning

I was staunch atheist who hated all religion until I had a professor (also an atheist) who convinced me to respect people’s religion.

Around the same time I had a lot of Muslim friends and started learning about Islam and came to appreciate a lot of the “why” behind the practices. I tried fasting and joined in some daily prayers and appreciated the benefits of it.

One day as I was joining in the prayer I realized I was praying and I felt a connection to God that I’d never felt before in my life. I realized I was a believer, and the rest is history.

– cpleasants

12. Finding light

Depression.

I’ve been going to church for a little over a year now and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my entire life.

– Foxtrot4321

13. The struggle

Raised atheist, and born gay.

My ex boyfriend taught me all about the Gospel and how Jesus died for me on the cross, all about God’s love and all about Christianity. We stayed together for a bit over a year (my longest relationship), and now we’re not together anymore, because he believes homosexuality is something that can be “resisted” like any other sin.

I’m still lost and confused, but I’m clinging onto my faith more than ever right now because it’s all I have left that’s keeping me up

– rattboy74

14. I agree with the lifestyle

I realized that in my ancestral region of the Maghreb (tamazigha), virtually everyone identifies as Muslim. The idea of atheism just doesn’t process in their minds.

Therefore, I converted to Islam, not because I believe in god but because I agree with the lifestyle.

I enjoy fasting for Ramadan, praying (meditating) 5x/day, abstaining and giving back to the community, et al.

– freedrako

15. Weighing the options

The philosophical answer: I could no longer defend the decision to choose “lack of evidence” over “actual, tangible, and profound impact in my life.”

The religious fanatic answer: I found a religion that’s right for me (Buddhism).

– fonefreek

It’s important that people be allowed to follow the truth where it leads them and to find happiness. So long as your faith is not used as a weapon, I say live and let live.

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