15 People Share What Happened After They Caught Their Spouses Cheating

You might think we live in a romantic world, but the numbers don’t lie. A staggering amount of people cheat on their significant others.

In this AskReddit article, people who got cheated on share their horror stories about what went down.

1. That one stings

“Had a really close group of friends who would always prank each other. One of my mates found out the Facebook password of another, so while on Skype the whole call – included myself, logged into his Facebook account (being 7 people) to make a stupid status. At the same time my partner of 5 years was messaging him on Facebook about how good sex was last night and about meeting up again.”

2. Sketchy

“Me and my girlfriend were long distance and she had a habit of going quiet sometimes. She’d been texting me for the last few weeks but had made excuses not to come visit.

I went to a party that my friend had organised. I met a friend of his who told me he had a new girlfriend. I was surprised he hadn’t mentioned her, so I asked who she was. This lady introduced me to my girlfriend. She’d told everyone that we broke up, and had been dating my friend for about a month. She didn’t bother to tell me.”

3. Surprise!

“Walked in on my girlfriend while she was having sex with another guy. “What are you doing here?!” she says. “You gave me a key, remember? I ended up not working today and wanted to surprise you.”

15 years later she reaches out, leaves me a message that she’d like to talk. I figure she’s doing some 12-step thing or something and wants to make amends.

Nope. She wanted to try and sell me on Amway.”

4. Caught in the act

“Came home early. They were fast enough to get dressed but not in a natural state of being, if that makes sense. It was obvious something was just going down. Very cliched “got walked in on and tried to play it cool” like you see in tv. I asked him to leave and he did.

We argued, she tried to lie but soon confessed. It wasn’t the first time she cheated but it was the first time that I caught her in the act. Everything in the past was just texts and stuff. She said that she never slept with the other people and it was just pics and flirting. In retrospect, that may not be BS.

We divorced, both remarried. Not friends by any stretch, but civil.”

5. Bad homecoming

“Mt St Augustine erupted in Alaska in 1986. They had to evacuate all planes out of Elmendorf AFB due to ash in the air. This sent my unit home from Korea 3 days early. I got home at 2 AM and there was a guy sleeping next to my wife in our bed.”

6. Nice guys finish last

“Not me but a medical resident who I met on rotation recently. One of the nicest guy I ever met, super intelligent and hardworking, and training to be a trauma surgeon by humble as they come. He had been married for 2 years to his wife. One night he gets off a 30 hour call early and heads home to surprise his wife with some flowers and her favorite dessert (it was the anniversary of the day they first met). Only to find her in bed with a random dude.

He was so exhausted and confused, he didn’t know what to do and just left and went back to the hospital. I saw him at 5AM, sitting in the parking lot, hunched over crying. He didn’t even have his phone with him, he was just sitting there. Man, nothing breaks your heart more than seeing a grown man cry, it’s not something you see often. We called his dad up and he came and picked him up, the guy ended up taking a leave from his residency. Turns out, it wasn’t the wife’s first time sleeping around. Hope he gets back on his feet, he will make an amazing physician.”

7. Hurts like hell

“Long story short, I suspected something for a few months. Like an idiot, I opened her phone while she was asleep and found exactly what I was looking for, like you always do when searching through someone else’s phone. Even with all of the texts right there to see she still lied about it multiple times. She eventually admitted to it but downplayed it heavily.

She told me about two nights ago that he asked her out on a date and she said “I had to say no” and was visibly sad about it.

In the process of getting a divorce now. Hurts like hell.”

8. “Jennifer”

“College girlfriend and we lived together for a year after I realized she would always have her phone on silent or just plain ignore calls from “Jennifer.” One day I write down the number and call it a week later. It ends up being her other boyfriend who she had never broken up with before she came to college. Neither of us knew about each other and she had being visiting him when she went home to see her parents on some weekends and breaks. Broke up soon after and her mom said that sometimes you just have to accept things and how I owed her an apology for breaking up with her. It gets worse but that was the gist.”

9. Brother ‘fessed up

“Dating this girl a few years back and I became really good friends with her brother just because he appreciated my help during a difficult time for their family (their father had abruptly passed away).

2 years into the relationship the brother contacts me and asks to meet up for coffee and a serious conversation.

Apparently HE caught his own sister with another guy (mutual friend of ours) and this sh*t had been going on for like a year.

As soon as he found out, I was told.

Broke up with her. Still friends with her brother. Go figure.”

10. Dread

“Things had been a little shaky as I was working a lot and felt sapped when she wanted to go be social with friends so I often stayed home.

I wanted to do something nice for her for Valentines day so I sent her friend a text asking if there was something that she may have mentioned she would like to do. As I was waiting on that text I was in another room I saw her phone buzz with her friend’s name. The number was below the name and since I had just sent her a text I knew they didn’t match.

There are very few times my blood has been that cold and feelings of dread.

I called the number with my phone and it rang and rang before going to voicemail. Needless to say it was the other guy.

I confronted her about it and she said she was waiting to leave and had a bag packed in case I found out. She had no intentions of trying to work things out so a month later she had moved out.

I made a decision then that I could be broken up and miserable or that I could choose to be happy and be open to a relationship if it was available. I’ve since remarried and have two beautiful boys with my amazing wife.

Regardless of the sh*ttiness and horror in these stories there is always the opportunity to be happy. If you’re reading this thread because it happened to you or just from morbid curiosity : choose to be happy. Be the person that you can be proud of and move on to better things.”

11. Ruined vacation

“On family vacation, I picked up his phone because I was bored and the kids were playing on mine. Saw a message to some girl describing the sex he and I had the night before. Spent the rest of the vacation fighting via text while trying (and failing) to act normal.”

12. That’s not good

“Her phone went off and she asked me what it said. I looked at it and it said, “I wanna bend you over and spank you.” “

13. Over and done with

“Found my wife’s notebook. Written on the first page was a 10-step plan detailing how she was going to leave me for another guy.

I turned it into one step.”

14. Shit happens

“Woke up to her on her phone with hearts scrolling in Facebook Messenger.

We were married 7 years at that point. 2 kids.

It was my birthday.

Edit: I won’t feign total innocence: marriage is hard. I was working and in school full time so she could be a stay at home mom, which was our goal. She realized she wanted something else and moved on. Shit happens. Roll with the punches.”

15. That’s a lot of messages

“Caught my now ex husband. Something was way off, I was 6 months pregnant with our second child and my best friend at the time was also off. Picked up his phone at 2AM when it went off and found a secret password locked messenger (GO messenger?) Password was his birthday, real winner. I found over 7k messages along with photos, some insinuating I was present with either one of them while they were messaging.

I was upset and woke him up- he locked himself in the bathroom and pulled the attempted suicide card. There’s another year of trying to work it out shenanigans after this incident but I’m so glad that chapter in my life it over.”

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People Reveal What Names Have Been Ruined For Them Forever and Why

Names are one of those rare things that can be ruined forever just because of one person. I’ll keep mine to myself (I have several) but I know exactly where these AskReddit users are coming from.

1. Mackenzie

“I’ve met so many Mackenzies and all but one of them have been huge jerks.”

2. Elsa

“Elsa. two years before the movie came out I was browsing baby names and wanted an old-time classy girls name that wasn’t used much anymore… Brave took Meredith off the table for me, but I though Beverly could be OK (my grandmother’s name) But then a customer (sweetest old lady) came in with the name Elsa and I was SOLD.

Frozen came out while I was Pregnant. Luckily I had a boy, because I didn’t find another girls name I liked as much.”

3. James

“When I was in 1st grade there was this troubled kid named James that would fight all the other children, steal things (like their lunches), and even started a fire in the bathroom. In hindsight, he probably needed a lot of help – but back to the point of OPs question. My GF suggested the name James for our upcoming son. Yeah, I had to put a stop to that one.”

4. Nevaeh

“Nevaeh. Ruined by EVERY mother who names their kid this including “It’s ‘heaven ‘ spelled backwards” EVERY time they tell you their name. Like, yeah, I got that in 2007 when the trend started.”

5. Hahaha

“My name, which I’ve had for 33 years, is Michael Scott. I was a supervisor for ~20 employees at a call center during the height of a certain TV shows popularity. I hate my name and all cringe comedy.”

6. Daniel

“Daniel.

I work with the special ed population. I’ve met a lot of different types of kiddos, most of which are awesome. However, Daniel was a pain. He always got what he wanted. He was conniving and charming when it benefitted him. He would upset other students so they would hit him, and then he would report them for hitting him. He thrived in chaos. Trying to work with him, he was a nightmare. We all said a little prayer of thanks when he didn’t show up for school, bc we knew we’d be having a calm day.”

7. William

“William because it was the name of my husband who cheated on me for 5 months after barely two years of marriage. It stung more when I found out he started the affair three months after I had a miscarriage.”

8. Lots of these around

“Am a nurse in L&D. We still hand write out the names on the bassinets. I swear to God I write out a name with -ley, -lei, -leigh, -lee, -lynn, -lin, -linn, or -line AT LEAST once a week. The ones that pissed me off the most were Bristolynn and Finley. Like why? It’s so hard not to cringe at some of the names people give their children.”

9. Connor

“Connor. Two Connors in my high school were absolute jerks. Another was a crazy stalker. And another burned down his own house with his mom in it, so I’ve heard. Only met one nice Conor (without the double n). Connors are certified crazy.”

10. Two of ’em

“Ashley -> Every single one I’ve met is a self absorbed cow.

Lydia-> crazy self absorbed family member who has single handedly broken up the family.”

11. Isis

“My name, which is Isis; it’s pretty self-explanatory. It sucks because every time I hear my name called out, I either hear people whisper around me or I often get stared at. I don’t want to go through the hassle of changing my name legally, so I guess I have to suck it up and live with it.”

12. That’s too bad

“Brett.

That’s my sons name. my own sons name was ruined because my wife was f*cking a dude name Brett. And to top it off, my son’s name was chosen partially because it was one of the few we could come to an agreement on and is partially based on the dude she was f*cking (her co-worker’s son).”

13. All of them

“Jaxon. They’re all assholes I’m an elementary school teacher and I have seen the evidence. ALL of them.”

14. Good old Dick

“Richard, specifically ones from Northern ireland. The first one f*cked with me emotionally, the second one gave me chlamydia. No more Richards!”

15. Ben

“My ex’s name is Ben and it was a bad breakup. Every single tv show has a character named Ben. I hate it.”

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10 Women Share Their Creepiest Encounters with “Nice Guys”

For having the name “Mr. Nice Guy,” the guys in this article don’t really live up to their title.

In fact, they’re pretty shady dudes who put on a nice front in order to get things from people. We all know guys like the ones the AskReddit users are talking about here.

1. Creeper

“When I was in college, there was this guy that hung around my friend group. No one actually knew which one of us brought him in, so maybe he just decided to crash, who knows. But he was creepy. He hit on ALL the girls in the group aggressively and whine DAILY about how we should just give him a chance to show us “how a lady should be treated”. We usually just rolled our eyes, although a few of the guys took him aside on separate occasions and told him to knock it off.

He also went way over the top in a lot of ways. He’d bring the girls flowers or memorize their favorite candy/soda/snacks and present them as a “token of his great affection” (yep, he called it that). He had a bad habit of insisting, like legit would not take no for an answer, on walking the women wherever we needed to go. Myself and my best friend at the time both told him his behavior was creepy.

There were three women in the “core” group, and five others who were close enough that they’d show up at LAN parties or whatever we were doing. He asked every single one of us out at least 50 times. Every single time we said no, he’d go off on this awful tirade about how women didn’t want nice guys, and how we should just be open to the possibility of him being “the love of our lives”. It did not matter how many times we told him we were not interested, not attracted, or IN RELATIONSHIPS.

Sophomore year, a new girl joined the group. For whatever reason, she liked our Nice Guy. A lot. Weird. But he wasn’t in to her at all. A few of us started using his own BS rhetoric against him when he began whining about her not leaving him alone. It was pretty gross.”

2. Swooped in

“Anyhow, nothing ever happened and I got a boyfriend until I was 23 at which time we broke up.

This is when Mr nice guy swooped in showing up at my house with flowers and gifts unannounced. I never gave him my address….he asked MY MOM. Then he would notice I posted I had a cold on Facebook and would show up with cold medicine and soup. Which would be nice if I had ANY interest in him but I didn’t. He would look where I checked into on FB and COINCIDENTALLY just be there. I felt bad being like “dude STOP” because my mom invited him to every family function and I didn’t want to make things weird.

It hit the pinnacle when he got a job where I worked just to be closer to me and he told everyone we were dating. Spoiler alert- we were definitely NOT. I flipped out on him and told him he was creepy and that after all these years he never took the hint after me never answering his calls/texts or taking him up on his relentless attempts to take me out to dinner. I quit my job and moved, blocked him on everything and had a firm conversation with my mom about keeping him away from me. She was upset and made excuses for him but ultimately obliged.

Years later I’m now married with a baby and he still relentlessly pursues me if he sees me in public.”

3. Dodged a bullet

“I was friends with a coworker. We had hung out a few times socially after work and got along well but it never really occurred to me to wonder if he was interested in me. At that point in my life I did not get a lot of male attention, and honestly was pretty cringey myself, but that’s for a different thread.

Anyway we were walking side by side and I guess he went to put his arm around me. It surprised me (like that ‘someone is tapping you on the opposite shoulder’ trick) and I turned abruptly. He took it as incredibly rude, gave me an angry lecture about leading people on and how disgusting you make someone feel when you literally flinch from their touch, and called me a b*tch. Uh… sorry for my reflexes?

About a week later another friend came to me at work to let me know that guy was telling everyone I was a whore who was sleeping my way through the department. Nice!

The dumbest part was that I probably would have gone on a date with him if he’d asked–I just had no idea he was thinking along those lines. Bullet dodged!”

4. Creepy client

“I have a client who hits on me. He knows I am married because he mentions it. He also lashes out verbally if I say things he doesn’t like, which is truly scary. He is 55+, never moved out of his parent’s house, and spends his mom’s money for everything. She is in her 80’s and works two jobs to pay for his toys. One day, she came in with him to see if there was anything we could do to get his bills lower since she is struggling, and he started lashing out at her. “Shut the F*ck up. SHE ISN’T TALKING TO YOU!” and “YOU’RE STUPID!! SHUT UP!” I felt honestly worried for his mom.

Anyway, he would purposely let his insurance lapse so he would have an excuse to come in and sign a form so he could talk to me. He was very blatant about it as well. He always threw his mom under the bus for not “paying his bills” but then would talk about how he bought this or that and then would say “I know I should’ve paid that insurance, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to come say hi to you.”

One time, he said he couldn’t come in until Saturday to sign the form and asked if I could make arrangements to be there on the weekend instead. I told him we were closed. My coworker, and elderly man of 60+ said he would be here if I had the forms ready. The guy got angry and said he wanted me to be here on Saturday, alone, and that I should cancel my plans and be here no matter what. My mind got stuck on the “alone” part and I told him I couldn’t do it but that I would be back on Monday (with a full staff, just in case).

One day, he called to use his mom’s credit card to pay his bill. I didn’t answer the phone right away because I had another client with me. He keeps calling over and over and over again. Finally, after the client left, I picked up the phone and he started yelling at me. I asked him why he was so upset and he said “I COULDN’T GET YOU ON THE PHONE TO PAY MY BILL SO I USED THE MONEY TO BUY BASEBALL CARDS!!! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! NOW I CANNOT PAY MY INSURANCE! THIS! IS! YOUR! FAULT!!” then slammed the phone down on me.

Just this past month, his vehicle broke down, so he had to go buy another one. His mom went with him. He had insufficient credit, so his mom had to buy it under her name. I told them I could not add the vehicle to the policy since the vehicle was not titled to him. We would have to cancel the policy and she would need to put it on her insurance plan, which was with a different agency.

Finally! I was free!

Until he came in last week to sign the cancellation form, a document that is time-stamped. When he arrived and I didn’t have the form already printed out, he went off on me right there. ‘YOU SHOULD’VE HAD THIS FORM READY!” and claimed I was being incompetent. I told him it was a time-stamped form and that the document is not generated until the client is sitting in front of me and ready to cancel because it has to be signed that moment. He signed the form and stomped off. I felt relief that I wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore until he came back in the door and said “Btw, let me know when you break it off with your husband! I might have to come back and get insurance from you again.”

I let me husband know everything, just in case.”

5. Not a good approach

“He wanted to impress upon me what a good guy he was, and he was also too scared to ask me out like a normal person. He killed two birds with one stone by having his “split personality” tell me it really wanted to kill me, but Nice Guy was bravely holding it back because he liked me so much. Obviously I fell head over heels immediately. Not.”

6. A story from a guy

“I worked with a gay guy for a 5 month period. I was only at the job temporarily and he was nice and wasn’t weird at first. I am sure he was interested because he kept commenting on my body, like if I would scratch my arm he would mention that I was ‘showing my arm and flexing.’

I made it known I wasn’t gay at all and he didn’t take my declines nicely.

I eventually moved back home as the temp job was over with. I had to make up a lie about getting rid of my phone and deleting my social media to focus on my life. Blocked him on social media but this was before you could just easily block someone’s number. He would text me randomly even though I told him I ‘got rid’ of my phone. Really gave me chills even having to remember something from years ago.”

7. Sounds like a psycho

” “Nice Guy” who worked down in HR. (Was completely incompetent too but that’s another story.)

Anyway, he’d come up with excuses to come see all the single women in the building. He’d stand too close to you. Sometimes he’d stand in your doorway and just stare for a while without saying anything. Always very creepy when you’d look up and there’d he’d be.

He liked to ask incredibly personal and invasive questions. He’d complain to anyone who listened about how women just didn’t want a “nice guy” like him. He faked being into several different religions trying to pick up a “good girl” because he didn’t want a smoker or drinker (despite being both those things himself) and wanted a virgin who wasn’t a “fatty” because he was a “man not a whale” (he was tubby himself.)

He also believed that if he met up with a group that had women in it, those women were dating him. And he’d get very mad if said women paid more attention to another man in the group than him, sometimes just get up and leave.

One Friday a group of workers were going out for drinks after work. He invited himself along, so one of the women in the group said, “See you there!” He decided this meant they were dating. Then when she didn’t pay attention to him much during the night and talked more to her new, male coworker – he just got mad and left without a word.

Nobody knew what happened to make him leave. Until the rumor mill started up because he told everyone that his female coworker had “cucked” him (his fancy word for cuckolding) that night.”

8. The dangers of online gaming

“In college, I played a lot of online video games. I posted on forums related to these games often. One guy, we’ll call him Bob, decided to show me how careless I’d been with my personal information. This lead to a phone call, on a number I never provided, during which he told me what dorm I lived in, at what campus, as well as information from public records regarding my family. On this call he told me how easy it would be for him to get there. This was quite frightening, and when I put him on blast publicly for it, he stated he was “trying to show me how careless I’d been” and prove a point so I would be more careful and how he was just trying to protect me.

Years later, I went to a group meet-up with a bunch of people from this forum with a guest I knew already, and he called me, on the same number (should’ve changed it) to ask me to wait for him outside, because he knew what I looked like. My guest and I met up with everyone and pretty quickly left.”

9. The waiter

“A waiter at a restaurant left his number on my bill and asked me on a date. I was single and agreed because we had mutual friends who vouched for him and he seemed nice.
Night of the date, he shows up to my house absurdly overdressed (there was a vest involved) with a single rose that he presented to me. He took me to a basketball game, and the second I sat down the stranger to my left just says “Oh, you must be L! We’ve heard so much about you.” Turns out the two people sitting to my left were not strangers but in fact HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. We then go to dinner, he turns white as a ghost and excuses himself to the restroom for maybe 30 minutes. At this point I start to worry and get the check. He then comes back looking incredibly unwell and I say, clearly you’re ill, don’t worry about taking me home — I’ll grab a cab. He wasn’t having it and insisted on taking me home because he had another “surprise” planned for me. There’s a road that has famous views where I live, and he took the road to one of the lookout points, parked the car, and turned on Cheek to Cheek by Frank Sinatra. He got out and asked me to dance with him, and I said we should just look at the view. Then he proceeded to vomit absolutely everywhere. I shrieked and jumped back into the car to avoid him vomiting all over me. He takes me home and then calls me an hour later to tell me it was the best night of his life.

I tried to tell him I wasn’t interested but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. He claimed I would never find anyone who treated women like queens the way he did, said I would never find anyone more chivalrous, and dropped off a letter at my home in the middle of the night that contained the most horrible things anyone has ever said to me. He also had a major affinity for three-piece suits and porkpie hats. Fun times.”

10. Sounds stable

“A guy tried to take my phone and use it to text my then-boyfriend that we were over. When confronted, nice guy said my boyfriend didn’t treat me right, or else we wouldn’t be doing long distance this was during college, and he was 1.5 hours away by train.

When I obviously got mad, he called me a b*tch, a whore, and an idiot for not realizing what I had in front of me. Cue 3 days of emo/angsty facebook statuses with me tagged in them. I block him. He cries about why we aren’t friends anymore, I ask him to give me some time and we can try again. 1.5 days later, dick pic. When I didn’t respond to that, he sent me a long, handwritten letter about how perfect my body and how he would treat me like a princess, especially in bed.”

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12+ People Share Weird Family Quirks That They Have

Every family is weird in their own way. They have their own particular quirks that don’t make much sense to anyone else.

In this AskReddit thread, people share the strangest quirks that their family shares.

1. Card tricks

“We always get each other cards for holidays and birthdays, but we make them the stupidest or most unrelated card possible. Like my mom gave me a card for my 18th birthday that was all about how she was proud of the strong black man that I had become… I’m white.

My mom had gallbladder surgery and me and my brother got her a bunch of “It’s a girl!” balloons. Lots of confused nurses asking us if we were looking for the maternity ward.

We also try to get weird things written on cakes. “Sorry About the Test Results” was one that we thought was hilarious. “It was only a mole.” was another. A lot of people don’t get it. I have tried extending it beyond my family. I got my friend a “Happy Bat Mitzvah” card for her wedding. She was really confused and told me that neither her or her husband were Jewish (they also weren’t turning 13).

However, in college I had an Australian roommate and he had to have his appendix removed. I pulled the same stunt and got him a bunch of “It’s a Boy” balloons. He said it was the funniest s*** he had ever seen. All those balloons and confused doctors and nurses.”

2. You’ve been warned

“The double-clap butt-slap warning.

For quite a while, my large family found it highly entertaining to playfully slap each others’ butts. It was somewhere between football players’ “we swear this is manly” and “that actually kind of hurt a little”.

Well, we decided that fair warning was in order, so that we had a chance of evading. This consisted of clapping twice. Sometimes a fast clap, clap and tap in what felt like one smooth motion, but probably looked spectacularly ridiculous. Sometimes a slow, meaningful clap…clap… Wait for it… SLAP.

We started just randomly clapping twice without a clear shot, hoping the other person would forget about it by the time we had a chance. We had to set what amounted to a statute of limitations on the time from first clap to slap. 5 minutes, if I remember correctly.

By then, we’d clap just to watch our siblings jump. Endless entertainment. We still do it now and then. The oldest is over 40, youngest mid-twenties, and the next generation (17 down to infant) has no idea what to think of it.

I could probably think of dozens more, but this one came to mind first.”

3. Sounds kind of stressful

“About 25 percent of my family has hearing loss, and can’t hear certain frequencies. So we are always yelling at each other.”

4. I like the sound of that

“If we are all at home together we sit down twice a day for an hour to drink tea. At 10 am and 4 pm. The retirees do this every day.”

5. Bloodlines

“My grandad was a very forceful character, and also a very bright man. Whenever anyone did anything smart he’d say “He/she got that from me.” He died ten years ago, but we still reference that when something good happens, but through osmosis it now has spread to non-blood relatives and inanimate objects. My cousin’s kid does a good drawing? Yup, got that from Opa Herman. My cousin’s wife gets promoted? Clearly thanks to Opa Herman. My car goes through the MoT no problem. Opa Herman!”

6. A good one

“Whenever we drop someone off at their house at night, we have them flicker on and off the front porch light to signal they are okay (in case of an intruder).

Edit: I realize this isn’t necessary effective. That’s why it’s more of a quirk or tradition.”

7. Alex Trebek would approve

“Jeopardy every night. We always set it to record because sometimes we don’t have time to watch it when it airs. Now we don’t give the answer in the form of a question or keep score, it’s not that extreme, but the person that gets final jeopardy gets high fives. When I’m away at school my mom texts me the final jeopardy question so I still get to play a little when I’m away.”

8. Good dogs!

“Once my younger sister stopped believing in Santa (around 15 years ago) my parents starting making our Christmas presents from dogs that we knew – our dog, our cousin’s dog, our neighbor’s dog.

I think on this particular Christmas Eve, Mum and Dad were delirious and thought it would be funny, and it has stuck. My parents now have 3 chickens and they do all our Christmas shopping each year, apparently.

Edit: to clarify – the presents were made out to be given from dogs we knew. They were none the wiser as to what they got us.”

9. Imitation

“My brother and I were born in Scotland but immigrated to Canada at a young age. Neither of us have accents like our parents, but over time we have learned to imitate to perfection. Any time we are joking with my parents, mocking them or asking for something we use thick Scottish accents and slang. Also talk to our dog STRICTLY with an accent.”

10. FHB

“When more guests arrive than expected, mom uses a secret code for me and dad, that is- FHB (Family Hold Back).

This is done so that we eat less, and the extra unexpected guests don’t run out of food.”

11. G’night

“You have to say goodnight to everyone in the house before you go to bed. If they’re already asleep, you have to say it outside of their door just in case they may still be awake to hear it. I never thought anything of this until I spent the night at my ex’s house and I wanted to say goodnight to his roommates. I seriously thought everyone did this.”

12. Bad singing

“Any time it is someones birthday we purposefully sing as badly as we can. It is hilarious. My mom usually ends up aggressively coughing because she thinks that is funnier than singing.”

13. What’s that smell?

“At Christmas we sniff the presents before opening them. I don’t know why and most of the time they just smell like wrapping paper. It’s been going on for over 20 years now.”

14. Put that in the Mctainer

“Until I was 23 I thought Tupperware was called “Mctainers” instead of containers. My parents still have never justified why they have always only called them that to the point I still slip up and call them Mctainers regularly.”

15. Traditions

“We bring a sock monkey everywhere we go on vacation and take pictures of it in front of monuments, signs, etc. My mom is really the one keeping the tradition alive though.”

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15 of the Most Desperate Things People Have Done When They Had No Money

There’s nothing fun about being broke. Except for the moment when you finally get some money. But until then, you’ve gotta get creative to make ends meet.

These AskReddit users have been there, and they were nice enough to share their personal stories about the brokest things they ever did.

1. That is pretty bad

“I’d almost ran out of money in my bank account with no overdraft and it got so bad then I wanted something to eat from the supermarket so I picked a banana. But then had to put it back and pick up a smaller banana cause I couldn’t afford the bigger banana.”

2. Scraping by

“I had just started a new job after barely scraping by with my old one. There was a lapse in paychecks so I was super-extra-broke. At the orientation for the new gig they had snacks – granola bars, chips, fruit, etc. – so I stocked up. Grabbed a few when people weren’t looking or tried to be the first in/out of the room so I could sneak more into my purse.”

3. Desperate

“I remember one time when I was little my mom went into a Wendy’s or something like that and grabbed some crackers and ketchup for me and my brother to eat from the condiment section. That was pretty bad times. I’m just glad I can barely remember it. Lol.”

4. Pretend camping

“Told the kids we were going to pretend to be camping for a few days. Lit candles, cooked food on the grill, opened the windows at night and took cold showers for 3 miserable days to get to the next payday because my now ex was terrible at handling money and we didn’t have enough to pay the damn electric bill.

Kids thought it was great.”

5. Dumpster diving

“I’m pretty sure that for about 4-6 months around the time I was 8, our meals were coming from my step-dad dumpster diving at the local Safeway. At one point I can remember him breaking down emotionally when we came home one day and someone had left three bags of groceries in our driveway right before Thanksgiving.”

6. Hard times

“I was homless in Las Vegas for a summer after a series of ridiculous events, capped off by the guy I had paid 3 months advanced rent to getting arrested for fraud and the landlord kicking us out.

I managed to get room key cards for several of the hotels in Las Vegas that people had thrown away. Then I’d stay up all night, and sleep in one of the chairs at the pool during the day. You had to show a key card to get into the pool area, but once you were in they didn’t pay much attention that what you did. The pool at the Paris had a handicapped bathroom you could lock, so I’d “shower” in there.

I managed to survive through the summer on about $20 without stealing or begging. It probably helped that I was an early 20s white guy in decent clothes, I got away with a lot.”

7. Rough

“Sold plasma twice weekly to pay for food. Got my student id renewed a month after I was kicked out of school because it doubled as a free bus pass I still cant believe that worked. Popcorn was an intergrel part of my diet at the time because it was dirt cheap.

Summer 2011 was rough but now im much better off.”

8. Flat broke

“Put a paper plate in the sink to be washed.

Was at a friend’s house for D&D and we had some BBQ before hand. Getting cleaned up and I, on reflex, put my paper plate in the sink. Later that night, my friend noticed and says, “Which of you broke mother f*ckers put this in the sink?!”

It was me. I was the broke mother f*cker.”

9. Shoes!

“When I was in college I found a pair of thrown out shoes in front of an apartment. They were soaking wet but otherwise new and were my size. I took them home, washed them in the sink, dried them out, and wore them for two years.

I was that broke my shoes had holes in them, so I wasn’t going to let free shoes go away….”

10. Good tip

“Restaurants typically have huge trash bags that take a long time to fill up. This means that dumpster diving is almost guaranteed to be disgusting. But did you know that if you wait till the end of a shift (10am, 2pm, 6pm, 10pm, and 2am) most places will have emptying the trash as an end-of-shift duty? And if you keep an eye out, you can grab food off the top of the bag that’s still pretty much fresh?

Because I know that.”

11. Gone fishin’

“In college, I would go fishing to catch trout for dinner. Not because it was fun, but I wouldn’t eat otherwise.”

12. Roughing it

“Lived out of my car and bought a $10/per month gym membership to Planet Fitness just so I could shower every day.”

13. Leftovers

“When I was a waitress, if someone didn’t want to take their leftovers home, I’d hide in the freezer in back and eat the remaining food left by strangers.”

14. A bad memory

“I ate a $1 can of cold “chunky” soup with a plastic spoon, while sitting in my car in the WalMart parking lot, in mid-winter in the dark, crying because I was poor and new to the area and had no friends. That was a Christmas Eve to remember.”

15. Act of kindness

“Was buying tampons from the dollar store and my card was declined. Nicest cashier ever just told me it’s okay and to go ahead. Super embarrassing.. I’m still a regular at that location.”

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15 of the Creepiest Things Train Conductors Have Seen on the Tracks

Conductors have a lonely, and sometimes creepy, job. When you’re speeding through desolate areas in the middle of nowhere, you’re bound to see some things that are pretty out of the ordinary.

Conductors on AskReddit shared the creepiest things they’ve ever seen on the tracks.

1. Mountian lion

“I’m an engineer now but as a conductor I was walking my train one midnight lacing air hoses getting the cars (freight) ready to pull. I noticed what I thought was a dog or coyote about 100 yards away. No big deal, I have a big aluminum and steel stick with a hook for cranking brakes without having to climb onto the cars.

Then I notice it kind of tracing along pacing me, I could see the glow of its eyes watching me. Later as we’re ready to depart I’m out in front of the engine opening the track switch to get on to the main line. I’m in the engine’s headlights and I hear my engineer say quietly over the radio “calmly walk up to the engine, if I blow the whistle, run”. I’m thinking oh jeez it’s just that coyote, no big deal and I keep working but he starts flashing the cab lights so I think maybe there’s a manager stalking us so I go up there. He has me close the nose door and points out a giant mountain lion perched up on a berm 20 feet from where I was, casually sprawled out staring dead at us. This was northern Iowa so pretty uncommon.

That and a bunch of junkies and drunks around the yards.”

2. Stalked

“I was a young Transporation supervisor trainee for a railroad. It was my first month in intercity Detroit. It was about 3:00am and I had to help inspect a train that was having trouble moving (it was winter and the brakes wouldn’t release). The guy I was training with dropped me off at one end of the train and I started walking towards the locomotives. About 20 cars into the train I started hearing foot steps on the other side. I would turn my lantern off and wait a few seconds and they would stop. This repeated for about 10 minutes as I walked towards the locomotives. It eventually stopped when I met up part of the train crew.

I’m sure it was nothing. Probably a coyote or stray dog. But I was freaked out.”

3. That is bizarre

“Most bizarre, a prize Weimaraner dog that was off leash ran in front of a train and was hit. EMS was called because we thought the dog walker was hit as well. Turns out he was just hysterical because he was convinced the dog (which wasn’t even his) wanted to commit suicide because his sister from the same litter had just passed away a few days before.

Random, birds get hit and get stuck. Removed a giant turkey buzzard from the locomotive and walked away. When I returned about fifteen minutes later, the corpse was gone. I’d like to think someone made a very nice train kill soup.”

4. Close call

“130 AM in Riverside California. A very clearly drunk man squares off against my train and then opens his arms like he is accepting what is about to happen. Fell over and got out of the way just, and I mean JUST before we hit him. Thankfully I have never hit someone… but that was the closest I have ever come.

Its not the hit or the recovery, it’s the nightmares months later.”

5. Big wreck

“Lived next to tracks. Big rig tried to rush across the tracks to avoid waiting. The trucker was fine as the train ran right through the middle of the trailer. It was filled with those 10¢ paper folders. Looked like a skittles commercial. Rainbow explosion!”

6. Whoa, this is crazy

“Not an operator, but this totally counts: my best friend lives on a rural private road that crosses two of the most active rail lines in my part of the state. There have been at least 3 accidental deaths from auto-train collisions, but a year ago, two cars crossed the tracks right before a train. The first car had a middle aged mom in it. She speeds over the tracks. The second car had her son and his girlfriend (mid 20’s) the second car darts in front of the train and is obliterated.

NTSB, sheriff and BNSF arrive to investigate. The mother is hysterical saying “he was right behind me the whole time” they originally thought it was just another unfortunate case of someone trying to outrun the train, until they discovered the mom and son are from a city over an hour away. No one locally knew them. They didn’t have permission to be on that private road… And then they found that the girlfriend had been dead for hours. They suspected the mom was helping her murderer son try to find a dump spot to dispose of the body.”

7. Nightmare material

“Not an engineer, but worked at a bowling alley that the tracks through town ran directly behind. One of my nightly jobs was emptying trash. (The dumpster was right across from the tracks. Started hearing the train coming, and the engineer was on the horn. Suddenly there was a very loud crunch, and brakes being hit. A few moments later, I see a destroyed car being pushed by the train, and I could very plainly see a woman in the car. Evidently the crossing arms failed, and the driver didn’t stop. I had nightmares for a few years after that.”

8. A story from Africa

“In 1985 my wife and I were traveling across Tanzania to Lake Tanganika when the train struggled to a halt going up a grade in the night. We were the only non-Africans on the train. People started yelling to close the windows. Thieves had put palm oil on the tracks, stopping the train, and were on the roof trying to rob people through the windows. There were a lot of armed soldiers on the train and the thieves quickly disappeared into the night. People walked along and poured sand on the tracks so the train had enough traction to climb the grade paste the oil.”

9. Very strange

“Saw a body wearing a thick coat in the middle of the tracks. We put the train in emergency but we didn’t stop in time. The conductor got out to see if the person was still alive and it wasn’t a person at all.

Someone put a coat on a deer carcass and put it between the rails.

Weirdest sh*t ever.”

10. Too close for comfort

“Not a locomotive engineer but a train rider (I’m an electrician riding the train for quality control). Coming back from quebec city we are riding at approx 50 kph. On a winding curve around a hill we see a lady on a dog sled with her 4 dogs caught on the track. Before I even saw her the engineers were standing up, screaming obscenities and honking the horn and emergency horn. She managed to pry her sled free and drag the dogs out of the way within mere feet of us hitting her.”

11. What a way to go

“Not an operator but… a girl tried to “moon” an oncoming train. She was struck and killed. Her parents tried to sue for dangerous conditions.”

12. Yikes

“My dad is a firefighter/paramedic in the chicagoland area and he’s had plenty of calls where someone jumps in front of the metra and he says it looks like spaghetti sauce because there’s pretty much nothing left of them afterwards.”

13. Bodies

“Not a train operator but was riding the train through San Jose CA and there were dead bodies on the tracks. The operators assumed they were killed and left there in relation to gang violence.”

14. Story from dad

“My dad was a train driver for most of his life. We live in the Netherlands where towns are really close by each other so a train would go back and forth multiple times a day, sometimes evn every hour.

So early one morning, he spots a person sitting near the train tracks. You can’t really stop a train so he radios it in for others to keep an eye out. On the return trip, he slows down as he passes the spot and notices the person is wearing pyjama’s. It was still very early at that point. On the following pass up again, he slows the train down to a crawl and, for sure, the perso. is still sitting there. So dad stops the train, announces to the early morning commuters that there is a slight technical problem, and gets out to talk to the person. Turns out the person was a patient of the nearby mental institution and was going to plan to commit suicide by train. So Dad convinces him not to and takes him back to the institution. He apparently said something like “Hey, are you missing a patient because I found him or her” – I don’t remember the gender. He gets back to his train, announces the technical issues are solved and continues working for the day.

My dad was a great guy!”

15. Terrifying

“The early morning sun was just starting to come up and we came around a corner in town to see a garbage bag laying on the rail about 100 feet after a crossing. My conductor makes a joke about how I better not hit the trash. I start whistle sequence and as I do my final horn I see that garbage bag move and look up. It was a guy sitting on the rail in all black waiting to kill himself. I dump it and just stare at this guy as we barrel down on him, and the whole time he just stares right back at me. When he disappeared in front of the nose of the engine it felt like an eternity, I actually thought he jumped out of the way. Until I heard him hit the cattle guard. Died in the hospital latter that day.”

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These 20+ Food Facts Will Speak to Your Soul

There are facts, and then there are truths. These are food facts that echo deeply in your soul, despite not being logical or “scientifically proven.” Science, schmience.

Here are 23 food truths that will resonate on the deepest level:

23. This mac and cheese is vastly superior to those other versions of mac and cheese

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22. Gatorade from this bottle tastes better

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21. Clearly, the superior chicken nugget

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20. Other people’s food tastes better

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19. Avocado is a tricky beast

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18. Night cereal > morning cereal

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17. Not all water tastes the same

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16. Glass bottle Coke is the best

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15. This is the best way to hide a meal that was “fine”

 

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14. Restaurant ranch is better

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13. Clearly, these are the best cookies

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12. The best Mexican food comes in this container

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11. This is the only way to eat string cheese

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10. Sliced fruit is the best way to eat fruit

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9. Same day spaghetti is good. Next day spaghetti is better.

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8. There’s no such thing as too much garlic

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7. Spinach, man

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6. This Coke may be even better than Coke from a glass bottle

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5. Cut your sandwich into rectangles? Blasphemy! Everyone knows triangles taste better.

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4. M&Ms are good. Mini M&Ms are better.

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3. Forget the cups. Holiday-shaped Reese’s are the best.

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4. Oreos with white frosting are for amateurs

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1. Those fries at the bottom of your bag? They’re the best ones.

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You knew all this already, though – right?

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12+ Memes That Lazy Folks Will Appreciate

Are you lazy and not afraid to show it? Does your free time consist of eating, sleeping, drinking, and then starting the whole process over again?

If so, these memes were made just for you. Enjoy them (when you’re not sleeping, eating, or drinking…).

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Happy relaxing!

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This Explanation of What It’s like to Be a Billionaire is Sure to Make You Feel Poor

We’ve all dreamed about what it would be like to have all the money in the world (or all the money we would know what to do with, at least), but how many have actually sat down and visualized what that would look like? Well, one Tumblr user took it upon himself to show everyone what it would be like if you suddenly had a billion dollars.

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The Tumblr user, known as The Last Meme Era, said about the post,

Basically I guessed that most people probably don’t have a clear concept of what a billion dollars actually is, and if I could put it into practical terms that are easy to understand, people would be shocked at just how rich the world’s wealthiest people are. Hopefully people might be moved to become more socially engaged if they had a better picture of how society distributes economic resources.

Read on and ponder what it really means to be a part of the elite 1%.

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The post received a lot of attention, so one year later he wrote a follow-up where he added even more details.

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What do you think?

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These 18+ Dating Memes Are Painful, Funny…and Painfully Funny

Dating is rough…and it only gets worse the older you get.

It’s tough out there for a single guy or gal, but at least there are funny memes that help you laugh at your situation! Like these!

1. The whole time

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2. Adorable is good!

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3. Super fun though!

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4. I mean, they did

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5. Pfft, “studies”

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6. 😬

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7. Yup, real

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8. No news is good news?

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9. But on the up side, food.

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10. So we’re on the same page, right?

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11. Ugh, don’t do this

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12. But Sicily, huh. That’s nice

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13. Gross, pda

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14. 15…must be tough.

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15. YES. That’s it.

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16. But, like, sweet cookie

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17. They’re around…somewhere

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18. They’re putting themselves out there!

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19. Hey – those are all fish. So technically…

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20. But you’ve got a big bed!

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Now it’s time to go have a good cry…

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