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People Shared Examples of “It’s Cheaper to Be Rich Than Poor”

I know that it sounds counterintuitive, but it really is cheaper to be rich than to be poor in many ways.

Those little things add up and minor inconveniences that wealthier people don’t have to deal with do as well.

Being poor is a grind…

What are some examples of “it’s cheaper to be rich than poor”?

Here’s what folks said on AskReddit.

1. Wear and tear.

“Remote work.

I’m practically saving the equivalent in a minimum wage job from reduced wear and tear / gas / servicing / insurance.

And that’s just the quantitative dollars.”

2. Low balance.

“Ran out of money in your checking account?

Well now you have to pay a $50 fine for not having any money.”

3. Think about it.

“Not being able to pay for medical appointments, which lead to accumulating health issues overtime, which is extremely expensive.”

4. Lasts a while.

“Furniture.

More expensive furniture is often made better and lasts longer so you don’t have to keep buying new.

Same with clothes.”

5. Not an option.

“Being unable to take a day off work is not an option when living paycheck to paycheck.

I respect the f*ck out of the hustlers out there, but also keep in mind that free time and mental health are important to your overall well-being”

6. Risky business.

“Entrepreneurship and investing become dangerous territory.

Risk tolerance is too low when funds are low as well.

Becomes almost as risky as gambling at this point.”

7. Teeth problems.

“Dental care.

If you can afford to go to the dentist even once a year, get preventative care, fix cavities early, and it’s significantly less expensive than more complicated restorations and treatment.

I know way more poor people who just wait there’s a serious issue, and just have a tooth pulled, because that’s cheaper.

I know someone who lost a chunk of jaw bone from a bad tooth and needed a bone graft.

Not to mention, dentists in the US have worked hard to prevent dental care being included in health insurance.

You need separate dental insurance, even though oral health is very much connected with your overall health.”

8. No missed payments.

“It’s cheaper to be “not poor” because you never miss bill payments. Poor people are more likely to have late bills, so they get all the late fees associated with that

It is harder to buy groceries and household items in bulk, thus missing out on savings per unit.

Transportation. Being poor means you might not have a good reliable car (assuming you can even afford one), so your 30-year-old junker breaks down regularly and thus costs more money to upkeep compared to a middle class person’s vehicle. And then, if you can’t afford to fix your car, you no longer have a source of Transportation to get to work, then you get fired….and it’s a vicious downhill cycle

There are soooo many things that are small costs that add up and end up being more expensive if your are poor versus rich.”

9. All about who you know.

“Rich people often have connections and can get things or services for free or reduced rates.”

10. One on top of the other.

“$250 ticket for not having your inspection up to date because you cant afford the $80 for registration.”

11. Free stuff.

“I don’t know how to categorize this but when you have/make a lot of money you end up in situations where you just get stuff for free just for being there.

Colleague can’t make it to the game, so here’s two free court-side tickets.

One of your friends has a house in Tahoe you’re welcome to stay at. Your mentor is a successful entrepreneur and asks about funding your venture when you only wanted advice.

The list goes on. Privilege snow balls like crazy.”

12. It’s very real.

“When I worked for a non-profit making less than $40k/year, I worked 45/50hrs per week, and I paid the following:

paid roughly $60/month for my health plan at work, which was basic prescription coverage for $5/per, and limited dental. Nothing else was covered.

paid $20/month for my bank account, with 21% interest on my credit card, .01% interest rate on savings

had no sick days

had zero benefits as far as rrsp, stock, work from home allowance

spent $80/month on bus passes because I had to work from the office

I now work for a large software company, work 25-35hrs per week, make substantially more money and have the following expenses/perks:

$20/month for my health plan which offers full prescription, comprehensive dental and mental health coverage, massage/physio, etc.

pay $0/month for multiple bank accounts and have 18% interest, .05 interest rates on savings

$50/month subsidy for internet at home

free cellphone

stock purchase plan that offers matching stock purchases and discounts

sick days, flex days, and more than 2x the paid time off

$500/year budget for home office expenses

work from home, meaning saving on transit expenses

The high cost of being poor is very real.”

What do you think are some examples of this?

Talk to us in the comments and share your thoughts with us.

Thanks in advance!

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What’s Something You Did Because of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)? Here’s What People Said.

FOMO means “fear of missing out”, just in case you needed some clarification.

And, whether you want to admit it or not, you probably suffer from it in some form or fashion.

What if I miss that party tonight? What if I don’t go to the club?

The possibilities are endless…

What have you done due to FOMO?

AskReddit users spilled their guts.

1. Wedding story.

“I was hanging with friends at a bar, and accidentally sat down at the wrong table (really dark inside). Started talking to those guys, long story short, one of them was getting married on Saturday, and he invited me to come. The other one was his officiant/future BIL.

So I went. It was at the bride’s parent’s house, so I only knew my bar buddies. It was a lot of fun though, I was glad I went! A snobby chick at the reception was like, oh, do you crash weddings often? No, I replied, puzzled, I do go when I’m invited by the groom, though.

The marriage didn’t last terribly long, but I’m friends with the bride on the FB now.”

2. Don’t know until you try.

“I asked a girl that works at the pet store by my house if she had a boyfriend this week. She does, but I knew I’d never forgive myself if i didn’t ask.

I said “Oh, he’s a lucky guy,” and moved on. I’ve been too afraid to ask before and that sucks.”

3. You hungry?

“When I was a kid the cool, older neighbor kids (also young kids) told me to eat grass. I of course didn’t want to, so they told me they all did and I would be cool if I did. So I picked a big handful and ate it while everyone laughed at me.

Afterwards it came out that none of them had, in fact, ate any grass at all, and, as it turns out, none of us knew what would happen if one were to eat grass.

So I ran home where my old man was in the backyard spraying something with a garden hose or some s**t.

I said “hey dad what would happen if somebody ate a big handful of grass?”

He replied, absolutely deadpan “tell me you didn’t eat grass.”

I said “well no but somebody else did and I was just…”

He said, “Tell me you didn’t eat grass…”

Tears started welling up and I said “well I was running real fast and I fell and when I fell my mouth landed on a clump of grass and my mouth closed on it and I accidentally swallowed a whole bunch of it and… Am I gonna die?!?”

He said “Probably. But go in and drink as much water as you can stand and then I will take you to the hospital”

I ran inside and drank as much water as I could and rushed out to the van where the old man was waving me into the open door. We flew out of the neighborhood, screaming towards the hospital while I cried in the back seat.

Finally, we got to the liquor store down the street from the hospital where the old man said, “nah I’m just messing with you. You’ll be fine.”

And he went in and bought beer and we drove home.”

4. YOLO!

“Ziplines.

I have a fear of heights so I was very nervous about going on them in North Carolina with my friends. They were so supportive though talking about how, “Its ok, you dont have to go we understand” or “Of course you dont have to, I just think you would actually enjoy it”.

It was because they were so nice about it I really didnt want to disappoint them. I had an absolute blast on them by the way. So much fun after the first 5 seconds of terror on the first line haha.”

5. You were busy!

“For my 30th birthday I tried 30 new things.

The list included a pedicure and manicure, fancy Starbucks drink, driving a red Porsche, gambling at the casino.

It was a crazy fun day but I learned that I have a great life without all that stuff.”

6. Couldn’t say no.

“Paragliding in Interlakken, Switzerland.

I still have a fear of heights, but all my friends were doing it so I just had to join.”

7. A good decision.

“I joined my friends in auditioning for the musical in senior year of high school because i just happened to be friends with a lot of theatre kids.

Ended up with a supporting role including a duet and a decent amount of lines.

I still consider it one of the best decisions I ever made. It was a crazy amount of fun.”

8. Ouch.

“Ate ten ants to join my brothers club in first grade.

Said I could only join if I ate ten ants. So I did.

And then he disbanded the club.”

9. Had to do it.

“I went to Easter Island!

I was already in Chile for work when I learned that it was the only place that had flights there. I figured it was as close as I’d ever be, and I didn’t know if or when I’d ever revisit Chile, so I took the leap and did it.

Totally worth it.”

10. No way.

“One of those “mud races”.

Got a skin infection and sun poisoning.”

11. Not for everyone.

“Skateboarding.

I have some friends who know how to skate try to teach me, but I just wasn’t good at it.

Too bad because I think skateboarding is really fu**ing cool.”

Have you ever done anything ridiculous due to FOMO?

Tell us your funny stories in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Share Reasons Why It’s Cheaper to Be Rich Than to Be Poor

If you live a pretty comfortable life, you probably don’t think too much about a lot of things that poor people do.

Like lugging your laundry to a place to get it done while you wait. Or having to repair the same car problems over and over again. Or always renting things instead of owning them.

Those things really add up and make being poor a real grind.

AskReddit users talked about why it’s cheaper to be rich than to be poor. Let’s have a look.

1. Cars.

“I worked in the business/accounting office of a car dealership for 2.5 years. I remember going through files and thinking “Man, I wish I could afford to write a personal check for $28,000.”

And that person who had $28k to spare is going to be paying less overall than the person who makes half that amount in a whole year, who gets forced into a 14%+ interest rate (yes, really. I’ve seen 24% at times) just so they can have a car to get themselves to work when theirs breaks down beyond reasonable repair.

We once had a guy (almost) max out four different credit cards paying for his car, and when our finance director tried to tell him “You’d qualify for a much lower interest rate on a loan with [manufacturer] than the interest rate on these cards,” the guy brushed him off and said “I’ll have all of these paid off in two weeks.”

So presumably he had the money to just hand us a check, but was getting a lot of cashback on these large purchases on his (very high limit) credit cards.

The difference between that and a 24% interest rate on an already used car is just so unfortunate.”

2. Laundry.

“I used to rent this apartment in Manhattan on Thompson St. by Washington Sq.

I’ve also lived in Chinatown, UES, Brooklyn, East New York, and Ridgewood, and always used coin-operated self-service laundry because “why would I pay more for someone to do my laundry?”

Well, The first day I moved to Thompson street I wanted to clean some sheets and clothes—good thing there’s a self-service laundromat across the street. I popped in and filled two medium size machines.

It was something crazy like 30 quarters for each machine and 4 minutes per quarter to dry. All in all it cost me about $45 and 2hours of my time to wash and dry everything. I told a few coworkers who live fairly close-by this story and they asked me why I do my own laundry because it’s more expensive.

The next week I canvassed the 2 block radius of my apartment and found a korean dry cleaners and laundry service. I started bringing my laundry to them, who export it out to BK or NJ, and they bill me $19 and tie a bow on top. I still can’t believe how much cheaper it was and that the self-service laundromats in “nice neighborhoods” are a scam

Poor me would never think a rich move like laundry service would save money over doing your own.”

3. Connections.

“Connections leading to more income.

Best job I ever had was at an engineering firm that got so many applications, if you weren’t referred by a staff member, your resume got tossed.

My dad was drinking buddies with the hiring persons husband so she referred me, hired me and was my supervisor for 2 years.”

4. A luxury.

“Travel.

I used to travel for work, expensing meals, hotels, flights, etc. on my personal card and then expensing them later.

I rack up so many airline, hotel, and credit card points that I can generally do at least one nearly free vacation a year or at least pay for two international flights.”

5. A big one.

“Healthcare.

Medicaid is cheap but isn’t taken everywhere. But my platinum plan costs me nothing (no copay, no deductible, no coinsurance).

Most jobs that have this benefit pay really well.”

6. Loans.

“Borrowing money.

Rich people with better credit ratings, when they DO need to borrow money, don’t pay as much for it.”

7. Interesting.

“Period products.

There’s been a debate in my country whether they should have them freely available in schools for everyone up until their 25th birthday (as we already do with contraception in pharmacies), since 40% out of all 14-25 year olds cannot afford them.

The amount of people saying that “they should just buy reusable pads if they can’t afford the single-use ones etc”…! They completely disregard the fact that one reusable product is more expensive than a pack of single-use pads, which 40% can’t afford already.

Not to mention the “they shouldn’t buy iPhones and make up then”-folks. Some people just don’t know what it’s like to be poor.”

8. True.

“Getting arrested costs way less if you have money.

Paying out of pocket for a lawyer may cost more up front, but if you can’t afford one (or even bail) you will be in a much harder spot. You could easily lose your job if you have to stay in jail until your trial. Court appointed attorneys are often incredibly overworked and will not work as hard to get you a better deal.

Then if you can’t afford the legal fees to seal your record that arrest could prevent you from getting a job that pays well enough to afford a lawyer.”

9. Knowledge gap.

“Growing up without a computer makes poor kids fall SO behind their richer peers.

My friend works as a teacher for inner city high schoolers and most never owned a laptop until the school gave them one for covid. They don’t know how to use the essential applications. At one point my friend literally explained to them how to Google anything they need. They were kind of dazzled.

In comparison, my boyfriend’s son is 9yo (middle class) and literally making spreadsheets and video games. He knows how to Google anything he wants and works a computer as well as an adult.

This gap in knowledge is going to greatly affect poor kids in the future as computer knowledge will be a must in almost any job.”

10. Right on the money.

“Everyone’s gonna say rent vs mortgage, but there’s more to it than just equity.

Another aspect is that there’s an opportunity cost to buying that’s not immediately obvious – and that cost is significantly reduced, if not outright inverted to a benefit, the better off you are.

And that is jobs.

Say you and your neighbor are competing for a job. The job is in another city with a comparable cost of living — it’s not going to be any more or less expensive to live there rather than here.

The job pays 20% more. A significant raise.

Except… you can’t really afford both a mortgage and rent. You need the proceeds from the sale of your current home to buy a new one. And that’s on top of the huge expense that is moving your stuff to another city.

It’s going to be a pretty significant hardship to actually accept the new job. Sure, once you’re there it’s a clear benefit but you can’t actually afford the transition.

Your neighbor, on the other hand, is a bit more well off than you, they have more savings, pay a smaller % of their income in housing. Even though the job is only a 10% raise for them, they can actually afford to move and take it.

They can afford to pay rent and the mortgage for a couple of months while waiting for the house to sell so that they can buy a new one while maintaining adequate reserves.

Your other neighbor on the other hand, makes even more money than either of you and has even bigger savings. Sure, the job is only a 5% raise, but they can afford to just outright buy a new house in the new city and retain the old one, hiring a rental management firm to get in some tenants.

Sure, between landlord expenses and the management company’s cut they don’t even pay for the mortgage from the tenants, but it’s close and they keep on building that equity for very little cost.

You other other neighbor makes more than all of you. He gets a management job at that company for a 10% raise, but the company pays for all of his moving expenses, including 4 months in an apartment while he secures a new house.

He has basically zero cash outlay to move except for the fast food and gas on the drive over to the new city. He doesn’t understand why some people turn down jobs that pay better because they can’t afford to accept.”

11. Can’t get sick.

“Being sick. At least in the USA.

The sick policy is usually more generous the more $ you make and if you’re an hourly employee with no sick days you work or you do not get paid.

If you have to seek treatment or, god forbid, go to the hospital then you better hope you have decent health insurance or it will cost you an arm and a leg.

Many Americans are one medical emergency from total financial ruin.”

What do you think are some prime examples of this phenomenon?

Tell us what you think in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Talk About When They Automatically Gained Respect for Their Teachers

For some reason, I really can’t recall many teachers that really made an impression on me during my school days.

That might be my fault…maybe I didn’t take school as seriously as I should have.

But I know a lot of people out there had teachers that they loved and respected.

What did a teacher do that made you immediately respect them?

Here’s what people on AskReddit had to say about this.

1. Doing it the right way.

“Treated kids with autism + aspergers like actual human beings.

In my school I was in a special needs unit for kids with aspergers and autism called the CDU (communication disorder unit). The kids in there ranged from having mild aspergers to full on severe autism, and as such most teachers treated everyone from there like they had severe mental health problems just because they were labelled as having autism or aspergers even if it was very mild.

But there was one support teacher in the CDU who was genuinely just a nice dude, whether he was talking to kids who had severe autism or just some mild social anxiety he wouldn’t talk extra slowly or call you “bud” or “pal” at the end of a sentence, he would talk to everyone like they were real human beings.

It might seem like a small thing but when that’s how pretty much all teachers talked to you and treated you in every class it was very refreshing to talk to someone who would talk to you based on who you were as a person rather than treating someone differently for being labelled as autistic.”

2. You gotta figure it out.

“Math class, we’re looking at the programming function of a graphing calculator.

I tell him that finding the surface area of a regular polygon is incredibly tedious.

So, we spend the next fifteen minutes writing out a program on the calculator to do the math for me.

The only math teacher I knew that genuinely understood that you cannot write a program to solve a math problem if you don’t know how to solve it yourself.”

3. Like a real person.

“It was small but he told us he was going to be in a bad mood that day because someone stole his bike.

Just treating us like people was something that was rare in that school.”

4. That’s nice.

“A math teacher went to the hospital several times to visit a student who had been seriously injured in an accident.

The teacher offered companionship, free tutoring, and genuine encouragement.”

5. A great guy.

“Told us a joke about his name (before we could) and allowed us to eat during his classes “because kids your age can’t help being hungry all the time”, as long as we did it quietly.

Great guy. His whole attitude made all of us actually pay attention and do our best.”

6. Just don’t make a mess.

“As long as we didn’t make a mess, he let us eat in class and we were all so appreciative. I didn’t realize the reason, but it’s true, at that age you are just hungry all the time and we had cafeteria lunches that were pretty much just junk food that went right through you.

It’s really a small thing, but it raised him in our estimation quite a bit. It demonstrated that he understood his audience and wanted what was best for us. That brings respect.

He was also an excellent storyteller and had legendary tales of the characters he had grown up with in his working-class neighborhood.

These stories were hilarious and such a welcome break from the tedium of high school, he would even do it by request from time to time. Once, I wrote him a personal note asking him to tell one of such stories and he began the next class recounting it.

He could not have pulled this off, however, if he did not come across as an excellent teacher who had a sophisticated grasp of his topic. Otherwise, I think we would have just seen him as a fun slacker we could take advantage of.”

7. A good lesson.

“Math teacher : “I don’t care if you have good grades or bad grades, if you work hard, I will work harder to make you pass”.

He worked hard for me; I passed.”

8. Be yourself.

“He would let us be who we were, listen to our ipod in class, and encouraged us to think outside “the class”.

I gained respect for him when he saw some kids going to skip and he called them into his class.

Told them “if you’re gonna skip class than come to my class and do whatever you want in the back. Rather have you inside the school than outside”

Everyone loved that teacher while the other teachers couldn’t stand him. He had everyone’s respect.”

9. A safe space.

“I had a business studies teacher who used to be a mental health professional.

So she knew the signs when my depression was particularly bad (for example submitting work at 3am) and would always make sure I had eaten and offered me coffee and generally made her classroom a safe space for anyone.

If you’re reading this you’re amazing!!”

10. No excuses.

“English teacher in high school asked where my homework was.

Responded “I forgot to do it” and he said to the rest of the class “Why can’t you guys be like him?

He doesn’t come up with some excuse he just tells me he didn’t do it.””

11. Zany, but good.

“Had an extremely zany teacher who taught Psychology, and had the last name Ward.

Psycho personality (in the best way possible) to fit her name and job. Never met someone who fit their name and job description so well. (Worse, she taught driver’s ed too, on the side.)

She was the type whose zany personality was a big plus; most of her kids loved her, but if you screwed around in her class, she’d eject you from it, with extreme prejudice.

She still teaches, and she teaches very well.

As an aside, there was also this middle-aged woman who was basically a hall monitor and filled in any other position she could think of, as well as handing out detentions or suspensions if she caught you screwing around instead of being where you were supposed to be. Small lady, absolutely no-nonsense and tough as nails. She wouldn’t take sh*t from you, but also incredibly fair overall.

I realized she knew when to bend. My older two siblings hated her because she always caught them skipping class, smoking, or worse. I got along with her very well and never caused her any trouble.

I asked her once about my little brother, and she said he was a good kid and while she’d had to give him detention a few times, she was also proud of him because when he got into a fight, he did it for the right reasons.

My little bro’s a very tall, hulking guy and never hesitated to defend someone from a bully. It got him a few detentions for fighting but apparently she made it clear she was proud of him for standing up for others nonetheless.

I repeated this later to my brother, and he said she was a very good woman, very fair, and that he’d liked her for that fairness, and her sheer guts.”

12. Finish the story!

“Instead of shouting at my loud class for not shutting up before the lesson began, my history teacher decided to quietly tell the story of a pink elephant that wanted to be an astronaut.

After a few seconds, people started to shut up and listen about the pink elephant. When everyone was quiet and listening, he stopped mid-story.

As much as it made me respect him.. WHY DIDN’T YOU FINISH THE STORY FFS! THAT CLIFFHANGER!”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about some teachers that gained your respect when you were in school.

Thanks in advance!

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Fast Food Workers Share the Best Items Not On The Menu

For most people, fast food is a part of our lives.

We keep busy, running from place to place, or maybe the idea of fixing dinner for everyone again just to hear them say it’s gross is enough to send you running to the nearest McDonald’s.

Whatever the reason, most of us find ourselves in a drive thru now and again.

If you’re tired of your old staples and looking for something new, these 16 employees have come up with some pretty amazing offerings that you won’t find on the menu.

16. I’m definitely going to try this at home.

Worked at KFC and the biscuits come frozen. We would put them in the fryer instead of the oven and they were the most delicious, dense buttermilk donuts.

Drizzle on some honey and they are awesome!

15. It’s a mad world.

Made some pretty interesting blizzards at DQ. However a customer ordered the most bizarre item by far. A Chili cheese shake. He came in asking if we could do it as his friend bet him nobody would make one, but if he could get a place to make it, he would eat it.

Ordered a large which was 32 oz. I had the pleasure of making it. However we didn’t get to see the guy eat it. I bet it was gross.

14. Sounds like dollar signs to me.

I used to work at Wendy’s. We poured this special strawberry flavoring that was supposed to be used for a fruity drink into a vanilla frosty.

Stirred it up, it tasted amazing.

13. This sounds delightful.

Former pizza hut employee here.

Take overproofed, unusable dough, rip it up, deep fry for a couple minutes, cover in cinnamon sugar.

Boom. Donut bites.

12. Now I want to work at Wendy’s.

When I worked at Wendy’s 2013 , my favorite lil stoner snacks were a Vanilla frosty Mixed with two pumps of the vanilla syrup for the iced coffee – tased like a Birthday cake milkshake, my

Wendy’s also had breakfast so I would take the premade burritos and fry the contents on the grill – toss out the nasty tortilla on it – add it to the artesian breakfast bun we had – added the hollandaise sauce.

For lunch it would be something along the lines of a bacon cheeseburger with the cheese sauce mayo ketchup & grilled onions. With cheese fries add jalapeños of course. And if I wanted to add any more carbs to my day. I could finish it off with the fish fillet sandwich made extra crispy – chopped up & put over some well done French fries.

The strawberry lemonade – add in some fresh strawberries & blueberries from the salad bar . Literally we would just try and do anything new to switch it up.

11. Brilliant.

Used to work in a concession stand at a movie theater. One of my coworkers would make chicken tenders and mozzarella sticks, stick them in a hot dog bun and slather it in marinara to make a chicken parm sandwich.

10. He should have patted them on the back!

Not exactly unique but I left a tray of wings in the oven for too long, not burnt but clearly overcooked. Made up a “new trial product” for extra crispy styled wings.

Went great until someone came back the next day and asked my manager if we had more extra crispy wings in stock.

9. This Midwesterner approves.

Also used to work in concessions at a theater

Someone cooked a pizza in the oven just enough to melt the cheese & then deep fried the crust in the fryer by holding it with the funnel cake spatula. It was pretty damn good

8. Write! These! Down!

At Taco Bell we had a LARGE secret menu.

Ninja Turtle – Baja Blast and regular mountain dew, looked cool.

Mastodon – Chalupa shell with hard shell instead, coated in nacho cheese. Made like a Gordita crunch.

Mastodon Supreme – See above with an extra shell, loaded with sour cream, lettuce, tomato, the works.

Churro Special – Back when the soft churros were a thing, we used to make dessert burritos with them. Breaking an apple pie, two churros, grilled.

Everything Nachos – Which was literally everything on the line. Meats, cheese, and all the toppings. Right when the XXXL Nachos released we started doing this.

We would make these for drive through people who knew what they were if they wanted them. I miss that place man. Night shifts were great shifts, and we came up with quite a few more before I ended up moving.

7. They should sell this for sure.

When I worked at Pizza Hut we would make the stuffed crust minus the pizza. It would just be a giant ring of cheese and dough.

6. I hope the passengers were the drunks…

Night shift at taco bell was awesome. I always worked drive through cause I was the only one who spoke drunk well enough.

I used to make all kinds of stuff but my favorite was basically just a steak quesadilla but steamed and rolled into a burrito rather than grilled and throw some baja sauce on it

5. A hit, for sure.

I worked at a Pizza Hut.

Instead of shaking the cheese powder on the breadsticks, I’d used the cinnamon sugar normally used on the pretzels on them, which tasted amazing fresh out of the oven and worked well the “butter” that you’d swipe on.

The “butter” added the right amount of salt to make the sugar stand out.

4. How are these people not dead?

Similar to your Everything Nachos, at our taco bell we once created the “Rapture” burrito.

Which included every single thing on the line inside 2 12 inch tortillas, and grilled.

And by everything, I mean everything. Including stuff like empanadas and nachos.

3. Sweet snacks are popular.

When I used to work at a Pizza Hut they had the Hershey’s Dunkers and I thought they were alright, bit too chocolatey for my taste.

But when I would make them I would put down a light layer of cinnamon and about 3/4 of the chocolate topping and then use the icing for dunking instead of the chocolate sauce they had.

2. People would for sure buy these.

Used to work at KFC.

Took scoops of potato and made balls out of them, breaded in the crispy flour/batter and cooked them through on a crispy strip cycle before pouring a little gravy over the top and eating them.

Like big potato gems/ tater tots/ potato meatballs -> depending on where you’re from.

1. I feel like he pitched this idea and got turned down.

I used to be the assistant manager of a Pizza Hut before I had to move. I’d take a medium hand tossed dough, toss it like you aren’t supposed to (lol), and then add teriyaki wingstreet sauce as the base, cheese, chicken, green peppers, and onion.

As soon as it came out on cut table, I’d put the garlic butter on the crust and it would be a stir fry pizza with egg roll tasting crust. It was absolutely amazing and would totally make it again if I could

These sound a little hit or miss to me, but I’d be willing to try at least some of them.

If you work at a fast food or chain restaurant, share your own favorite original item in the comments!

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People Admit What Always Makes Them Cry

Do you consider yourself a cryer?

It’s okay if you are, no judgments here, friend!

And if you seem like a real harda**, chances are good that certain things still make you break down and weep.

AskReddit users went on the record and talked about what always makes them cry. Let’s see what they had to say.

1. Legends.

“When the musicians in Titanic start playing Nearer to My God Thee after saying goodbyes and then joining together till the end.

What a group of legends.”

2. Sorry for your loss.

“My dad passed very traumatically from a house fire.

He kept running back in the house to make sure everyone else was getting out okay, and he was struck and burned by debris. He spent 5 days unconscious in the ICU before his heart failed.

He had a small youtube channel where he would mostly record engines he was working on, and when I miss him a lot, I go to those videos and cry every time.”

3. Great movie.

“The ending monologue of movie The Shawshank Redemption.

“I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border.

I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.””

4. Terrible.

“Can’t Gelp Falling in Love by Elvis.

Was supposed to be the song my sister and her fiancee danced to at her wedding. Instead it was played walking into the church, at his funeral, after he took his own life.

My poor sister was so strong that day, but that song still gets us both.”

5. If I knew him now…

“Thinking about how poorly I treated my dad when he was still alive. He was always trying to find things in common with me to connect with me.

When I found out he liked something I also liked, I just changed my mind and found it uncool. I looked down on the tv shows he liked and didn’t realize until later that he had an awesome taste for quality campy television like The Adventures of Brisco County Junior and other classics from that era of ’90s syndicated television.

If I knew him now he’d be my best friend. I did try to connect with him in the last few years of his life but he had dementia by then and couldn’t follow things I knew he would have found interesting before.

His last words to me were “It hurts” while I held his hand during catheterization on his last trip to the hospital. I was too embarrassed from seeing his pe**s to offer any true comfort.”

6. Always so hard.

“Thinking about my dog’s last day.

She was 17 years old and her organs were shutting down. Before we took her to get put down she was in the backyard eating her food. She walked slowly to us while wagging her tail and we took her in.”

When we got home to bury her I looked over at her dog bowl and there was still a bit of food in it. K**ls me every time I think of it.”

7. The kitten.

“Thinking of that abandoned little kitten I found. I called him Mortimer.

Tried to keep him alive. Bottle feeding him. Keeping him warm, skin to skin. Staying awake through most of the night. Calling in sick day after day to stay with kitty. Emergency vet scheduling with them saying he probably won’t make it.

Kitty didn’t make it. It’s when my oldest cat slowly stalked up to the cat, nudging her nose against Mortimer’s head. Mortimer didn’t move. Didn’t react. I put him in a shoebox with his blanket… So he would not be cold.

Buried him and left a little pebble for a tombstone.

That was twenty years ago.

I’m sorry, Mortimer. I couldn’t save you.”

8. A sad one.

“The end of Homeward Bound.

Especially when Shadow says “Peter! You’re ok!”

Like, they went through all of that and almost d**d multiple times and Shadow was just glad to know Peter was ok.

Gets me every time.”

9. Dealing with grief.

“My wedding song.

My husband d**d in an accident a little over 3 years ago only 5 months after we got married.

All I need to hear is the 1st note of the song and the grief hits hard.”

10. Nostalgia.

“Strategically placed albums from my youth.

If I am half drunk and someone begins to play the album “Four Cornered Night” by Jets to Brazil, I will become uncharacteristically nostalgic, and then openly sob at the idea of how good I was at being 18 years old, vs how shi**y I am at being 38 years old.

Getting old is weird.”

11. Oh man…

“Watching “Fox and the Hound”.

I was watching the part where she releases Todd with my 5 year old daughter. Her with a catch on her voice asking why. Me explaining. Her in tears saying she’ll take him, she’ll take care of him.

Now I cry. Every. D**n. Time.”

12. A happy ending.

“The ending of The Pursuit of Happiness when he finally gets the job.

The struggles leading up to that point makes me tear up all the time when they finally give him the position.”

How about you?

What never fails to make you cry?

Talk to us in the comments. We’d love to hear from you!

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What’s the Most Awkward Way You’ve Seen Someone Try to Flirt? Here’s What People Said.

Some people got game and some don’t. At all.

Actually, I’d say MOST people don’t.

Do you ever watch people try to pick each other up in bars or clubs? It’s pretty painful most of the time!

What’s the most awkward flirting situation you’ve seen?

Folks on AskReddit shared their stories.

1. Hahahahaha.

“I saw a freshman try to flirt during my colleges welcome week. Our freshman dorms are high risers (think 18 and 22 stories).

Freshman guy to three freshman girls. Freshman guy: “what floor are you all on?” Girl 1: ” im on 7″ Girl 2: ” 9″ Girl 3: ” im on 7 also” Freshman guy: “Looks like here we have two 7s and a 9″ Flicks his sunglasses down

It was the biggest train wreck I had seen in a long time. The girls just left. The poor guy was just looked confused.”

2. Very uncomfortable.

“Our dorm sponsored a day at Magic Mountain and I caught a ride with a few guys I didn’t know all that well. Leaving the park that night a car full of girls asked us to meet them at IHOP (guy sitting in passenger seat was frat-tractive).

We did so and our driver, who was definitely not used to this kind of attention, decided to impress the ladies by doing back flips in the restaurant. The first time it was met with “did he just do that?!?” giggles and claps. The second time it was “OK, buddy, enough is enough.”

He did this a dozen times. The last few, when he was sweating and no one was paying him any attention, were so difficult to watch.”

3. That didn’t work?

“A Geek man was trying to impress me, and it sounded like he delivered this line often.

“You see, I’m like Mel Gibson… I know what women want.”

With the cheesiest smile, followed by a “but I’m not as handsome I think.””

4. Can’t believe he scored.

“A guy I know met his girlfriend at a party using the following line.

They were talking and she said “I’m thirsty, I’m going to grab a drink”.

Then he replied “I’ll be your drink” and then they made out.”

5. No, thank you.

“A guy rubbed my friend’s stomach and said “This is where I want my baby to grow.”

It didn’t work on her.”

6. Debbie Downer.

“I’ve seen a guy crash the conversation of two people who seemed to be enjoying talking to each other, and derail the conversation with talk of extreme poverty he’s seen around the world until the girl walked away.”

7. The coat.

“When we were 16, a friend of mine always wore this big, long, brown leather coat. Awful-looking, it was.

There was this girl he liked and, lacking the necessary nerve to strike up a conversation with her, came up with a fantastic plan.

So one day he comes in wearing his big leather jacket. It was a lovely early summer day, and the girl of his dreams is sitting with a crowd of her friends, watching the cooler guys play football.

My friend walks up in front of the girl and her mates and does a loud, theatrical clearing of his throat – ‘AHEM, HEM’. All eyes are on him. I wonder what will happen next.

My friend pulls open his coat, holding it open like some sort of park flasher, and safety-pinned to the lining of the coat are a bunch of pieces of paper which read in heavy black marker ‘YOU ARE LOVELY, LET’S GO OUT?’

My friend doesn’t say anything, he just stands like that for what seems like an eternity, the confident smile on his face being replaced by a look of utter terror. The object of his affections says nothing as her face turns beetroot red, her friends sniggering. After a very long time, my buddy just runs away, mortified.

The next day, the entire school knew about it and he never wore that brown leather coat again.”

8. Weird.

“I have a coworker who texts me at random hours of the night saying “I loved seeing your beautiful smile today….”

I’ll ask him to stop, and he’ll be all sullen for a few days until he resumes his behavior.

It’s pretty awkward, especially since he’s much older than me.”

9. Wow.

“I was sitting in the cafeteria at school minding my own business. A cute girl was sitting by herself in a nearby booth, also minding her own business.

Suddenly, a known neckbeard comes up, sits down in her booth, holds up a cloth to her face, and asked “Does this smell like chloroform to you?” She didn’t really understand and just said “…what?”, but was visibly (and understandably) creeped out.

He didn’t really know what to do, so he awkwardly sat there for a few seconds and then just left.

It was physically painful to watch.”

10. Classy move.

“I used to work drive thru cash register/handing out the food at a fast food restaurant.

One day, this creepy dude pulls up to the window and is straight ogling me as I take his cash. He had just $1 in change, so I handed it back to him. A few seconds later, I hand him his bag of food and tell him “thanks, have a good one!” He smiles. I close the window.

A few seconds later, he knocks on the window. Alright, maybe he wants ketchup or something. Nope. He hands me back the single dollar bill. He says, “You deserve this for looking good, sweetheart.” Creepy smile plastered on his face, he drives away.

I felt like a stripper.”

11. Dancin’ Dave.

“When I lived in NYC I met this guy we called Dancin’ Dave. there are several stories about this guy, but one that fits the topic is the night he ran across a bachelorette party.

Dave would get drunk after 2 beers. We show up at this bar/club on the lower east side and he immediately orders 2 beers and slams them. He then rips off his fleece to reveal a freshly washed white t.

Just as he turns around, he sees the group of girls in the party and starts to dance over. He gets in the middle, does some pointing moves, some booty drops, then kind of settles out dancing with one of the girls.

My roommates and I are loving what we are watching. We see that they are talking and she is laughing. Thank god, because you either get weirded out by dancing dave or love him to death. As the song changes, he hears a familiar tune sang by the Black Eyed Peas and he just couldn’t stop. He dropped to the floor and grabbed her ankles.

One hand on either ankle kind of holding her there. He looks up and yells “I GOT YA ANKLES!” She then laughs, and frees herself from his creep lock and goes back to her friends. Dancin’ Dave comes over to us and say’s he thought everything was going great. We were like wtf, dancin’?! what did you do?! “I grabbed her ankles” he smirked.

It was from that point forward I knew I would never grab a girls ankles.”

Have you ever seen someone flirt in a really awkward way?

If so, tell us your stories in the comments.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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People Discussed Their Most Interesting “Truth or Dare” Stories

Playing Truth or Dare is pretty much a rite of passage when we’re young.

Youngsters do stupid stunts, pull pranks, make out with each other, and do a whole host of other reckless things that they’ll be embarrassed about for the rest of their lives.

Hey, that’s what growing up is all about!

People on AskReddit shared their most interesting “Truth or Dare” stories.

Let’s see what went down!

1. Yes!

“I licked my friend’s armpit and puked all over the tree fort.”

2. Doh!

“I humped a wall because I didn’t know what “making out” meant.”

3. This is Heaven!

“In high school once a girl dared me to lick her feet for a minute straight, poor soul didn’t know the fact that I’m a foot guy.

I did it like I was disgusted by it, she seemed so happy and was laughing like she was actually punishing me, in reality it was one of my favorite moments in whole my life.”

4. Just say no.

“Accepted dare to eat an edible.

I occasionally smoked mild indica, the edible was potent sativa.

I don’t remember much of the night after that, but the flashes I do have involve a lot of shaking, anxiety, and puking.

0/10.”

5. A wild night.

“New Years 2004.

Ended up making out with EVERY female at the table, and nearly had s** with one…but a car crash kinda ruined it.”

6. Not too bright.

“A super good BB g**, shot myself in the hand as a dare.

I couldn’t cry so I just sat there for like 20 minutes, after that went to the bathroom and passed out from the pain.

I was like 14-15 years old.”

7. Uh oh…there’s video.

“I was dared to make hickeys on my nipples with a vacuum cleaner.

Luckily, I wasn’t hurt, but then there appeared a video of the process…”

8. Total creeps.

“I was like 12 at a sleepover and some girl was dared to j**k off a pug.

She did it while laughing hysterically until it came… never hung out with them again.”

9. Whew!

“When I was 8 I dared my brother (age 10) to swallow a marble.

Few days passed and he came running to me to go look in the toilet.

There in the toiled was the marble.

We were amazed.”

10. You get an A+.

“I remember in middle school being dared to show my d**k to a girl who was kind of cute.

I did, and got my first handy as a reward.”

11. Here we go…

“This is a very convuluted, complicated story, with much more to it, but ill keep it as short as I can.

I was dared to cover the head of my d**k with Cayenne Pepper, then close my foreskin over top of it. I was 13-14 at the time and was in a situation that would have looked REALLY bad to my foster parents.

Ironically, about 5 minutes after I did the deed, my foster parents pulled up to the house. So everyone playing scattered, but I had a d**k full of cayenne pepper and it was burning, like a lot. But it gets worse.

My friend that was over for the night decides to do it as well because I look like I’m “being dramatic”. He didn’t use as much as me, but we both were in so much pain and regretted everything. So we decided we were gonna go get cleaned up. Me first because I did it first. Except for one kinda big problem.

My foster dad worked in construction, then go to my foster moms business and would help her until she closed. Then he would come home and shower immediately, then go to bed. He would get angry if you tried to shower after he had gone to bed, cause the bathroom was right next to his room, and the pipes were extremely loud.

So by the time I got upstairs to get cleaned up, he was walking towards the only bathroom with a towel in hand. I had to tell my foster mom I was doing the “pee pee dance” cause I was moving around so much and looked so uncomfortable. I couldn’t tell my foster parents the truth, cause that would involve them knowing that we were playing truth or dare and had a fit.

I went outside to “pee” but actually just left my wang hanging in the cool wind to help with the burning sensation that wouldn’t go away. I also tried to scoop some of it off (yes I used that much, because I’m an idiot, that’s why) but if I touched it too hard it was just burning more and felt even more uncomfortable.

So I got the genius idea to grab two glasses of water, take them down for my friend and I, and we would get cleaned up downstairs in my room, then just dump the cayenne d**k water out the window. Sounds great right?

I get the water downstairs, and my friend is already in my room, using one of my deodorant sticks on his junk to try and counter the burning. So he rubbed his sweaty cayenne pepper d**k all over my deodorant I used for school after gym.

By the look on his face, I could tell he could give less than a f**k about it. I couldn’t really either cause I was focused on cleaning myself up. I hand my buddy his glass, and we clean ourselves up to the best of our abilities, dump out the cayenne d**k water, and then go to bed.

The next morning, we go upstairs for breakfast and bring our glasses up. I went to put mine in the sink, and my foster dad said something like “don’t grab another glass we don’t need any more dirty dishes then we already have”. And so I said “oh no I’m just washing ours before dinner”. He says “why? You just had water right? Its not even dirty”.

And because I have social anxiety and didn’t wanna talk about this any more than I already was, I just said “yeah I guess your right”. We both filled our glasses with water, didn’t touch them, then I got yelled at for wasting drinking water (we had to buy our water from in town cause our well water was salt water).

And yes, I forgot about the cayenne d**k deodorant and put it on at school. It burned and chaffed my armpits during flag football. Worst fu**ing game of truth or dare I ever played.”

Now it’s your turn!

Tell us your “Truth or Dare” stories in the comments.

We can’t wait to hear them!

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What’s Your Wildest “Truth or Dare” Story? People Spoke Up.

Did you ever play Truth or Dare when you were young?

I’m willing to bet that most of the folks who are reading this right now played that game that brought out the worst (and the best, sometimes) in young people.

And I bet you have some wild memories too, don’t you…?

What’s your craziest “Truth or Dare” story?

Here’s how AskReddit users responded.

1. Bummer.

“Best, I was dared to make out for 5 minutes with a boy I really liked.

Worst, he said he didn’t want to play anymore and walked away from the game.”

2. Ouch.

“The worst was when my dumba** friend fell on me while doing the dare of jumping off the table.

Broke his ribs and my foot.”

3. Don’t ever tell her.

“One time when I was around 13/14 I was playing truth or dare with a group of friends and I laughed so hard I pi**ed my pants and all over the bare air mattress I was sitting on.

Luckily it was pretty dark so I don’t think anybody saw the literal puddle of pee next to me, so I mopped it up as best I could with my sweatpants and hoped the rest would evaporate quickly. In the midst of a panic I went and changed into different pants, conspicuously proclaiming “my jeans are actually more comfortable than my sweatpants.”

Anyway, I came back downstairs from changing to find one of my friends asleep with her face right where I had peed. I still haven’t told her and it’s been 8 years.”

4. I can explain…

“One time in high school, a cop stepped onto the bus as I was wearing a girl’s bra on my head like a helmet, like strapped under my chin and everything.”

5. Nice work!

“I licked the school bleachers.

I’m 90% sure I’ve done worse, but I have memory issues so I don’t know if I have or what it was.”

6. Didn’t go well.

“I was dared to suck a guy’s d**k in the bathroom.

He gave me herpes and my mum had to take me to the doctor to get some medicine for it.”

7. Going places!

“In 4th grade we were playing Truth or Dare on the bus.

Someone dared my friend to lick the floor of the bus.

He did it, and I thought about that moment the whole time he was giving his speech at high school graduation.”

8. Good and bad.

“Worst: I was 13 and the dare was to go into a darkroom with my then gf. She broke up with me instead of fooling around.

Best: I was 36 and on a party night with friends one opened up that he had never played truth or dare as a teenager, and he always regretted missing that experience. We spontaneously started a round of truth or dare.

A friend of my mine chose truth and answered that she wants to have a four-some with us. We stopped playing and had a four-some.”

9. Totally worth it!

“The time I was dared $200 to jump off my roof.

$200 and a couple broken arms later, I was rich AND popular.”

10. Good job, guys.

“Watching two idiots use the pen**es like lightsabers and fighting.”

11. Jeez…

“Was at Scouts.

The trapper had just killed & skinned a possum. Dared a boy to eat his eye.

Wasn’t his eye, was his ball. Kid never lived it down.”

12. Whoa!

“NYE, 1995.

I was dared to kiss a guy that all my friends were crushing on & I really wasn’t. I smooched his lips & everyone was like “that wasn’t a kiss.” So I went in deep and hard for a second one. I was 14 and he was 16. We have been together ever since.

He followed me to college, I followed him out of state for work, we moved back home at 25 & 27, got married. Here we are in 2021 still together. It is so bizarre.”

Do you have any crazy “Truth or Dare” stories?

If so, please share them with us in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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What Never Fails to Make You Cry?

I simply can’t watch videos about dogs being abandoned or about to be put down or sick or injured ones.

Why, you ask?

Because they make me cry, okay?!?! There, I said it!

What always makes you cry?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. A beautiful letter.

“My late partner passed away from leukemia at 38 years old. He hid a letter for me in our room incase he didn’t make it. It’s the most beautiful and eloquent thing I’ve ever read.

He talks about regretting not being able to see my hair turn Grey, or seeing me accomplish my dreams. He gives me permission to fall in love again, be messy, and move forward. The level of support is so encouraging.

It’s also a heartbreaking read and I’ve only read it 3 times. I will read it again on the 2 year date of his passing at the end of this month.”

2. Horrible.

“One particular patient I had working in a trauma center. 19 year old girl I’d never seen before, and didn’t know at all.

She was ejected from a vehicle and then crushed because her boyfriend was trying to show off. I was training new staff, and they were at the end of their training so I was only in the room to provide supervision and step in if necessary and I spent the entire trauma holding her hand (on her request) and trying to comfort her and keep her mind off of the injuries to both of her legs.

Her last words were spoken directly to me: “this really hurts. Can I go to sleep?”

I cried for days after. I’ve never had a patient’s death hit me as hard before or after.”

3. Sad.

“I live with my autistic son and when he is with me and not with his mother I have literally no time or energy to think.

When I am alone every future for him plays in my mind and I can’t think of a happy ending. Some day he will lose me and his mom and will be alone in a place for people with special needs.

And I read tons of articles and others how this all is for autistic people like him. It breaks my heart every time to think about him as an elderly person who has a broken heart but can’t communicate it straight.

I hope I will be live long enough to outlive him, I am just 20 years older.”

4. Brutal.

“The scene in Saving Private Ryan when the medic gets shot and d**s on the field with the rest of his group desperately trying to save him.”

5. Pets are family.

“One of my cats stopped eating on Friday, and Saturday we took her to emergency after we got the bloodwork from our regular vet.

Some sort of super aggressive bone cancer, and making the decision to euthanize her is the hardest thing I’ve done so far.”

6. Gone too soon.

“My daughter’s best friend d**d in a car crash a couple of years back.

She was 18.

She’d been coming to our house since she was 4 or 5.

She’d become a part of our family. Even when her and my daughter would have the silly arguments kids have when they become teens and a bit more independent, she’d still make herself at home the next time she was round.

She had a smile that lit up the room.

When I think about the night she died, I cry.

When I think back to the heartbroken faces of 8 teenagers that appeared at our house an hour after it happened, I cry.

When I think about how her family must feel, I cry.

When I think about how her death has impacted my daughter’s life, I cry.

When I think about how her life could’ve turned out, I cry.

Even writing this, tears run down my face.”

7. In recovery.

“I’m a member of a 12 Step program and in meetings we give out chips or keychains for different amounts of clean/sober time.

After giving out multiple years, one year, six months ……. etc etc, the meeting chair will ask if there’s anyone new or “coming back” (relapsed and is returning to the program) who wants to take a 24 hour chip.

When anyone gets up and takes their 24h chip, the room INVARIABLY gives them the loudest applause and cheers and welcomes them back.

The whole room knows how much courage it takes to come back and how scary it can be to get up and walk to the front of the room for that chip. It’s such a beautiful thing to see and it makes me cry every time.”

8. What I missed…

“It’s my kids.

When they were little, my mom had a brain aneurysm, my dad spiraled into a deep depression and they lost their home and business. At the same time, my mother in law has a stroke and my in laws’ finances collapsed and they were on the verge of losing their home too.

So I worked crazy hard to be everyone’s rock. I worked multiple jobs to help out my family. When I wasn’t working, I was taking care of them emotionally and physically. I so drained that i didn’t have much left to give to my kids.

I missed soccer games and school plays and trick or treating and first words and countless other things. Thankfully, my wife was there for them. So they got to experience all the good things in childhood….I just wasn’t there for it. Even when I was physically present, I was exhausted and cranky.

Now they are teenagers and don’t want to be around me. I just want to hold their hands, tell them that I love them and do something fun with them — anything at all, I just want to be with them. But my chance to hold them, teach them new things and experience the amazing joys of childhood with them are long gone. It tears me up inside….I’m bawling on the couch right now typing this.

Yes, all the work paid off. Amazingly, both my mom and mother in law are alive (with physical impairments). My parents lost their house and business but they’re in place that works for them. And my in laws went through bankruptcy but were able to keep their house. I’m glad it worked out. But god….it hurts thinking about what I missed.”

9. RIP.

“I miss Robin Williams.

Remembering that he’s not around anymore always makes my eyes sting a little bit.”

10. Addiction.

“Whenever my addict Daughter gets arrested (4 times in the last two weeks).

Whenever a look at a picture of her. Whenever I remember a memory of her when she was little and she was still my angel. Whenever I try to think of something I could do to help her and realize that I’ve already done everything a parent can do, and it hasn’t helped .

I cry when it gets cold out, and wonder if she is stuck out the night somewhere, cold and lonely. I cry when I look at her 8 year old daughter, that My wife and I are raising. I cry a lot lately.”

11. A sad song.

“Hearing ‘The Living Years’, by Mike and the Mechanics.

My dad is still alive and I hug him whenever I can.

But man, this song hits me in the feels.”

Okay, now it’s your turn.

What always makes you cry?

Talk to us in the comments! Thanks!

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