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People Are Sharing The Things Their Partner Did That Immediately Made Them Realize, 'I Could Never Marry This Person'
Choosing the person you want to spend the rest of your life with is such a big decision, and occasionally, your significant other can exhibit behaviors along the way that can really open your eyes. So, when Reddit user u/iwishiwasacargirl asked the question, "What did your partner do that made you instantly realize you could never marry them?" In r/AskReddit, I knew it would be full of some big realizations: 1."He talked about his brother's pregnant wife 'being fat and letting herself go.' She was eight months pregnant and was basically all belly. It was a weird and disgusting thing to say but also very untrue." —u/hockey_chic 2."After a few months of being pretty normal, it became clear that she was jealous, suspicious, and very clingy. She tried to put her foot down about me having female friends, which I've always then she became resentful when I even hung out with guy friends. She also made it seem like if we stayed together, we would inevitably have to move to her home country of Japan, and I would end up working for her father, who was a successful entrepreneur." —u/MesWantooth 3."They were yelling at me that they were 'the catch' in the relationship. All I was catching was raising an adult person who hoards, mistreats two cats, refuses to work, and funds smoking habits with payday loans." —u/T3rminallyCapricious 4."He demonstrated a very poor work ethic after assuring me that he'd get his shit together, and then he bought me a mug and flowers on my birthday and treated that like some Herculean effort." "These two events happened back to back, and my future flashed before my eyes — I envisioned myself as the main breadwinner while he struggled to hold down a job, and I predicted he'd eventually default to buying me a card on my birthday or forgetting altogether. I was never going to be happy like that, so I cut my losses." —u/rice_rice__baby 5."He told me what he saw as our future. We would move to Hawaii, he would grow weed in our basement, and I would work. While our relationship was already not great before then, I realized that this future he described made me nauseous." —u/gothamsnerd 6."This happened in my early 20s. He told me that when he gets home late from partying (like 2-3 a.m.), he wakes his mom up to cook him food. I had always heard that a guy treats you as well as he does his mother. Nope!" —u/Gigi0268 7."He insisted on buying me a G Wagon once we got married because he needed a wife driving a G Wagon. I didn't even know what that was, and when I Googled it, I was shocked it was the price of a house. He also had about half a million in debt in student loans, credit cards, a car loan, etc." "I said we should focus on paying his debt first and even suggested a plan, but he said he'd rather have fun and look good. Broke up with him the next day. And I met my husband a few weeks later. We got me a $7k Toyota that works great and are investing in our future." —u/Reasonable-Cookie-88 8."She tried to guilt me into spending several thousand dollars on a vacation. Their family had money and decided to take a spur-of-the-moment international vacation. All of her expenses would be paid by the family, but I would be out at least $5,000. Technically, I had the money, but I was working 50 hours a week when she was working maybe 15. I was saving for our future." "She went no contact while on the vacation, and that made it pretty clear it wasn't going to work. She had just finished college, and the deal was when she finished school and started her career, I would take a part-time job and go back to college. Less than a month later, she met somebody else." —u/Corey307 9."I was working crazy hours at work for a short period and housesitting for his family while he was on holiday. He got mad at me for not texting him during my 15-minute 'lunch break.' I texted and called him morning and night. He told me that because of this, I was 'neglecting' him and that I 'wasn't missing him enough.' This was just the tip of the iceberg. Thank god I ended that engagement." —u/Mission-Average-9873 10."He played a game on his phone while I poured my heart out about how I had been struggling with my mental health and taking care of myself. I didn't really have the wake-up call until I stayed at his place for two weeks with my cat while I was very sick with a mystery illness that lasted about four months..." "He didn't clean the entire time I was there, leaving dishes to pile up and surfaces to be sticky and grimy. One night, I got so fed up that I spent from 2–5 a.m. deep cleaning the kitchen, only taking breaks to throw up (from the illness). When he saw that I cleaned in the morning, his only response was, 'I don't know why you picked the kitchen to clean — my room is messier, and I would have slept right through it.'" —u/twentytinyhearts 11."Changing his personality drastically when he was with his friends. He was loving and romantic in private but would be disrespectful in front of his friends (like, 'Woman, you are here to serve me'). He was full of values with his family, especially about gay rights (his uncle being gay), but the first one to laugh and tell anti-gay 'jokes' with his friends." —u/judrawanne 12."We got into a conflict while he was driving, and he pulled some sketchy driving moves to 'show me how angry I'd made him.'" —u/ExtremeToucan 13."In university I had a friend who passed on tragically and unexpectedly. She had a not-so-secret crush on me, which made my girlfriend at the time jealous. Upon hearing the news, my girlfriend's response was not that of sympathy or grief, but only smug indifference and schadenfreude. Totally awful." —u/Ecstatic-Hat-3377 14."I had a bad reaction to antibiotics and ended up in the hospital. I drove myself there and home. They spent the next three days on coke with friends (each day saying they'd be home that night just to come up with an excuse like their ride left already or something equally ridiculous.)" "Their reasoning? There was nothing they could do anyways, so did I expect them to just sit there and stare at me? No apologies, nothing. In that moment, I realized that they would never be someone I could count on in a serious situation." —u/LambdaLibrarian And finally, here's one that needs absolutely no explanation: 15."Finding him fucking my roommate in my bed two weeks before the wedding pretty much made up my mind." —u/rowenaravenclaw0 Was there a moment when you realized your significant other just wasn't the one? Tell me your story in the comments. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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6 hours ago
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Red Flags That Made People Rule Out Marriage
Choosing the person you want to spend the rest of your life with is such a big decision, and occasionally, your significant other can exhibit behaviors along the way that can really open your eyes. So, when Reddit user u/iwishiwasacargirl asked the question, "What did your partner do that made you instantly realize you could never marry them?" In r/AskReddit, I knew it would be full of some big realizations: "He talked about his brother's pregnant wife 'being fat and letting herself go.' She was eight months pregnant and was basically all belly. It was a weird and disgusting thing to say but also very untrue." "After a few months of being pretty normal, it became clear that she was jealous, suspicious, and very clingy. She tried to put her foot down about me having female friends, which I've always then she became resentful when I even hung out with guy friends. She also made it seem like if we stayed together, we would inevitably have to move to her home country of Japan, and I would end up working for her father, who was a successful entrepreneur." "They were yelling at me that they were 'the catch' in the relationship. All I was catching was raising an adult person who hoards, mistreats two cats, refuses to work, and funds smoking habits with payday loans." "He demonstrated a very poor work ethic after assuring me that he'd get his shit together, and then he bought me a mug and flowers on my birthday and treated that like some Herculean effort." "He told me what he saw as our future. We would move to Hawaii, he would grow weed in our basement, and I would work. While our relationship was already not great before then, I realized that this future he described made me nauseous." "This happened in my early 20s. He told me that when he gets home late from partying (like 2-3 a.m.), he wakes his mom up to cook him food. I had always heard that a guy treats you as well as he does his mother. Nope!" "He insisted on buying me a G Wagon once we got married because he needed a wife driving a G Wagon. I didn't even know what that was, and when I Googled it, I was shocked it was the price of a house. He also had about half a million in debt in student loans, credit cards, a car loan, etc." "She tried to guilt me into spending several thousand dollars on a vacation. Their family had money and decided to take a spur-of-the-moment international vacation. All of her expenses would be paid by the family, but I would be out at least $5,000. Technically, I had the money, but I was working 50 hours a week when she was working maybe 15. I was saving for our future." "I was working crazy hours at work for a short period and housesitting for his family while he was on holiday. He got mad at me for not texting him during my 15-minute 'lunch break.' I texted and called him morning and night. He told me that because of this, I was 'neglecting' him and that I 'wasn't missing him enough.' This was just the tip of the iceberg. Thank god I ended that engagement." "He played a game on his phone while I poured my heart out about how I had been struggling with my mental health and taking care of myself. I didn't really have the wake-up call until I stayed at his place for two weeks with my cat while I was very sick with a mystery illness that lasted about four months..." "Changing his personality drastically when he was with his friends. He was loving and romantic in private but would be disrespectful in front of his friends (like, 'Woman, you are here to serve me'). He was full of values with his family, especially about gay rights (his uncle being gay), but the first one to laugh and tell anti-gay 'jokes' with his friends." "We got into a conflict while he was driving, and he pulled some sketchy driving moves to 'show me how angry I'd made him.'" "In university I had a friend who passed on tragically and unexpectedly. She had a not-so-secret crush on me, which made my girlfriend at the time jealous. Upon hearing the news, my girlfriend's response was not that of sympathy or grief, but only smug indifference and schadenfreude. Totally awful." "I had a bad reaction to antibiotics and ended up in the hospital. I drove myself there and home. They spent the next three days on coke with friends (each day saying they'd be home that night just to come up with an excuse like their ride left already or something equally ridiculous.)" And finally, here's one that needs absolutely no explanation: "Finding him fucking my roommate in my bed two weeks before the wedding pretty much made up my mind." Was there a moment when you realized your significant other just wasn't the one? Tell me your story in the comments.
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2 days ago
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People Are Sharing The Creepiest Urban Legends In Their Hometowns
Since the dawn of time, people have loved a good spooky story. I don't have the research to back up that claim, but I have to assume it's true. From campfire tales to sleepover fables told with flashlights held under our chins, our obsession with keeping ghost stories and urban legends alive has never waned. And what better way to cement these stories in our minds than to immortalize them on the internet? Reddit user the2cousins posed this question to the AskReddit community: "What local urban legends did you have in your hometown when you were growing up?" And another user who has since deleted their account asked, What is your hometown's creepy urban legend? BEWARE!!!! The answers are positively spine-tingling. Read at your own risk! 1."In Pawleys Island, SC, there is a legend that 'The Gray Man' will appear on the beach before a hurricane and that whoever he appears to will have their home spared." — u/alwaysapirate "If you see him, you know everything around your home and all your neighbors are fucked. Ever seen a picture of a house standing on a block of splintered debris after a hurricane? Now that's going to be your neighborhood. It's like a curse of Survivor's Guilt."—u/ZarquonsFlatTire 2."I live in San Antonio, TX, and we have the legend about the haunted train tracks. Some time ago, a school bus got stuck on some train tracks. The bus driver jumped out, but the kids got hit by the train. A lot of streets around the tracks are named after kids who supposedly died on the bus. But if you park about 10 or 20 feet away from the tracks and put your car in neutral, the kids' ghosts push you across the tracks so you won't get hit. Don't forget to put baby powder on the back of your car so you can see their handprints. I went with my brother and girlfriend, and I was laughing, saying it wasn't real, and the car stopped on the tracks. My brother told me I shouldn't have been saying mean things." —u/doc_moses 3."In the Bahamas, there are blue holes (sinkhole-like caverns in the bottom of the ocean floor), and legend has it that mermaids live deep down in the caves. If an unlucky diver were to go too deep and find one, they pull you down and ask you a question: Do you want to eat fish for dinner? Or conch? If you answer fish, they hold you down in anger until you drown. And if they think you're lying, they may drown you anyway. It's one of those myths that was worth scaring children with. Annually, many divers get pulled by the currents in the blue holes and drown. They're very unsafe for weak swimmers. But kids love jumping from the cliffs into them." —u/pirateOfTheCaribbean 4."When I was in fourth or fifth grade, there were rumors that an older kid in my town had found a severed hand in a jar in the woods. I can't remember an adult ever talking about it, but the consensus on the playground was that it was the work of a mysterious and violent motorcycle gang. It was a huge deal to the kids in the area, and I stopped playing in the woods as a direct result. I forgot all about it until high school when I learn that one of my friends, who lived through the woods in an adjoining neighborhood, had actually been the one to find the mythical hand. "It made the whole thing seem even stranger. But still sort of dreamy and odd. Last chapter; kitty-corner across the street from my house was a dude who lived with his mom and drove around in a big ass car with a 'Have you hugged your funeral director today?' bumper sticker. Turns out, he actually was an assistant funeral director. He was cutting the hands off of some of his cadavers to remove their jewelry. The hands were stored in jars in his basement. Except for when he occasionally dumped the backlog in the woods behind his house." —[deleted] 5."One of our streets was haunted. On a windy October after midnight, a teen couple parked on the side of the road. Their friends drove by at one point and saw them talking and listening to the radio. The next morning, their car was in the same spot but looked like it had been hit from all sides. And the kids were nowhere to be found. No trail of blood, no tracks, nothing. Completely disappeared. They say if you park where the kids were parked for seven minutes after midnight and tune to the same radio station they were listening to, you can hear the last minutes of their lives." —u/big_ander 6."There's a church called the Water of Life church in Plano, TX, a suburb of Dallas. It has no real windows, and if you go there at night, there's always one or two cars parked in the entrance, and really spooky choir music is audible. The doors are all metal, and the 10-inch square windows on the doors have that shatter-proof wire mesh in them. Keep in mind that this church is not in a bad area. The rumor is that a woman walked into a nearby convenience store covered in blood, and said they tried to sacrifice her." "There are mentions online of it being some kind of cult. A Google search reveals creepy videos from inside, mentions of the 'pastor' being a former televangelist fired for being a whack-job. Very weird. Another Redditor posted that a member of this church amputated her child's arms because 'God told her to.' This really seems like some fucked-up cult, operating in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. Scary shit, since I lived within a block of it back when I was a kid." —u/AllanJH Related: I Really, Really, Really Hate Myself For Laughing At These 57 Hilariously Unfortunate People 7."I lived near Statesboro, GA for a time, and there was a legend about the old abandoned slaughter house on the aptly named 'Slaughterhouse Road.' The slaughterhouse had been built sometime in the '20s, and operated through the mid-'40s before a fire ran through the place, killing a number of the employees. The legend was that the fire had been started by the owner when he found out his young bride-to-be wanted to break off the marriage in favor of her childhood sweetheart. "Among the dead reported were the woman and the presumed sweetheart. The owner himself effectively vanished off the face of the earth after the fire, making the case technically (he'd be long dead now) still open. The building has long stood abandoned, with no power, phone, or access to the topmost floor. Yet this hasn't prevented phone calls to 911 cropping up from there, as well as strange sightings of a woman in the windows along the top floor where the offices were." —u/Kabukikitsune 8."In Hawaii, we have many urban legends. My favorite is Pele, the fire goddess. At night, if you are driving and come across an old woman wearing white, you have to give her a ride, or bad luck will come your way. My dad was in his early 20s on the Big Island, driving through the Chain of Craters road, which, due to being in a national park, has almost no street lighting. With his friends, they came across an old woman in white. They let her in the backseat and drove back to the camp to drop her off. She got out, and when they turned around, she had disappeared. To this day, my dad SWEARS it was Pele." —u/ldeponte 9."I'm from Leicester, MA, and we have the Spider Gate Cemetery, aka 'the eighth gate to hell.' So much shit goes on there. There's supposedly a satanic altar if you look for it, and a second cemetery that, if you find it once, you can never find it again. They say if you walk around Marmaduke's tombstone ten times, then rest your head on it and say 'speak to me,' he'll speak to you. They also say that if you pass through the main gate too many times, you'll be transported to hell. My sister and I spent a summer trying to find everything, but couldn't." —u/harry_waters 10."I'm from Michigan, and we have this thing called 'The Melon Heads.' They say if you go down to this bridge and do a dance, these people with oblong heads will attack you." —u/Bonifaz_Reinhard "If anyone wants the full story, I've got you. I used to live on the same road as the 'melon heads' and took people down there all the time. There once was a man named Doctor Crow who lived with his wife in a house down Wisner Road. Doctor Crow experimented on kids with hydrocephalus (hence the large heads). He was a nice man trying to find a cure, but he had some questionable methods of experimentation. He kept the children in cages, and some experiments were seen as cruel or torturous. Mrs. Crow, on the other hand, was the nicest lady imaginable; she would feed and nurture these kids, basically like a second mother. One day, the husband and wife got into an argument, and Doctor Crow pushed his wife into a cabinet, and she split her head open and died. This caused the children to go crazy. The next time Doctor Crow opened up the cage, the children swarmed him and killed him. After they killed him, they ate him and discovered a love for human flesh. The children escaped and now live in the woods around Wisner/the Holden Arboretum. This is the story I've always been told." —u/Might_Be_Novelty 11."In my hometown, there's a legend that one of our high schools is haunted by a girl who died by suicide in the school. There were reports of green ooze dripping from the ceiling, and the hallway was supposedly covered in fog every day. That fourth-floor hallway has been closed off for decades. Some hear a girl sobbing near the hallway, some see her waving at them from the balcony, and some even see a girl jump off the balcony but vanish before she hits the ground." —u/SwegTestica7 Related: 26 People Who Had Overwhelming Gut Instincts They Couldn't Were Right 12."I live in Southern California, about half an hour east of the cities, in the foothills. It's very rural with lots of steep rocky hills and dry brush. We have a legend about the blue people, a cult that lives deep in the foothills. They never come out during the day, so their skin is super pale and tinted blue. They will leave one of their own lying on the road out in the rural areas, and when a car stops to help them, they'll surround the car, and that person and the vehicle will never be seen again. I once got lost with very little gas out in the foothills at night, and this story freaked me out so much I had to keep convincing myself it was just a story." —u/snugginator 13."I grew up in Ohio. There's the legend of Tinker's Hollow. It's said that Old Mister Tinker, a miner, haunts the site. He can sometimes be seen riding his horse and buggy, and if you go under the bridge, you can sometimes hear his buggy pass overhead. It's said that you can see his green eyes glowing, and he'll lead you to his gold if you talk to him. Mr. Tinker was an alchemist. He made a special non-rusting metal that has never been duplicated. There are tombstones around town that were made with his Tinker's metal; they're pretty neat. Unlike anything you're used to seeing in a graveyard." —u/jessika_anne 14."I'm from a suburb of Seattle. There's a myth that if you travel from Federal Way to Tacoma on foot or bike at night, you'll begin to notice that little things start to get weird. Usually, you'll feel as if you're just stuck in the same 500 foot stretch of land that just repeats over and over again forever. Then paranoia sets in. The last thing is that you start to see shadowy figures chasing you on foot. I thought it was stupid when I heard it in the seventh grade until I tried it. I noticed a few shadowy figures out of the corner of my eye looking at me, and at that point, I peeled out and drove to my girlfriend's in downtown Seattle. Would never try it again. I had an intense paranoia I couldn't get rid of and night terrors for days at a time." —u/SoundersAcademy 15."In Wichita, there's a bridge, Theorosa's bridge. There are a few versions of the story, but most of them say there was once a woman who had a child, and she threw the baby off the bridge into the water to be rid of it. Full of grief and regret, she then jumps in after the baby and drowns herself. Supposedly, if you go to the bridge and yell loudly that you have her child, she will appear and drown you in the river." —u/StephenHawkings_Legs 16."About 100 kilometers from my hometown, there is a First Nations reservation with elders who tell stories of the 'little people.' Basically, they are tiny people who used to live in the caves around the lake in the old days, and if you see them, it's very bad luck. My grandmother visited the caves back in the '90s and took some family pictures. In all of them, you can see ghostly-looking little people all over the background. She took around five photographs, and every single one of them strangely disappeared except for one, which shows a ghostly figure holding a baby and a drum." —[deleted] 17."I have the perfect story! This is giving me chills as I remember it. In my hometown, there was this massive grassy area, a couple square miles. This area was also often very foggy, to the point where you'd find it hard to see far in front of you, meaning if you got lost in the fog, you'd just have to keep walking until you reached the edge. Kids at school would always tell ghost stories about the fields and the fog, and the horrible things that happened to the people who got lost in it. There were stories of people who got turned around and around and died in the cold and stories of terrible monsters in the fog. The whole grassy area was scary enough, and the stories made it scarier. As a consequence, most of us were too scared to go into the grassy area alone, or at night, and stayed away. I found out when I grew up that this area had real abductions in the past. "Real, no shit, abductions of people. Obviously not from a supernatural being, but I find it wild that as kids, we knew nothing about the reality of it. The legends and ghost stories kept us away from a possibly dangerous area. I feel like this is something the adults started to keep kids from being abducted." —u/staycalm_keepwarm 18."I've got one from Arlington, WA. There was a house on a busy stretch of highway, but the road ran through farmland, so the house was still very secluded. Growing up, a lot of different people had lived in this house, but they all left because of hardship that made them unable to afford it or a death in the house. Eventually, the house was left abandoned. Here's the creepy part. During the three years it was unoccupied, the rightmost upstairs light was on every night. Never a car in the driveway or a person in the yard day or night. My friends and I went to explore it one night, and as soon as we got to the door, the light went out. We promptly left. The year I left for college, somebody bought it, so I don't know what became of it." —u/saxmodeman88 19."The wolfanannies (sometimes referred to as heebies) of Winston-Salem, NC, back in the '60s. Basically, some type of animal was draining the blood out of penned-up chickens and rabbits along a road called Ebert. It was all reported in the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel newspapers. We used to go out to this abandoned rock quarry at night where it was supposed to frequent, but we never saw it, which made me wonder if there was anything to it. Went to the public library in the mid-'70s and looked the stories up on microfiche, and there were probably 20 articles or so with interviews with witnesses, law enforcement, the whole deal. There's nothing on the internet about it, but it was a big deal back in the day." —u/callmestupid 20."I grew up in the city with the famous Lindley Street haunting; the home was located 5-10 minutes away from me. The urban legend was that an innocent family experienced poltergeist activity, in addition to their family cat speaking like a drunken sailor, cursing in a perfectly articulated voice. I saw Lorraine Warren (a paranormal investigator) speak a number of times, and she always said the cat would talk to anyone who was near; it never shut up. There are a few policemen in my town who continue to swear they saw the cat speak. During the '70s and '80s, the urban legend was that if you went to the house, you would easily be able to see poltergeist activity occurring. However, since the house changed hands there have been no reports of activity, and the current owners respond as if they don't know what anyone is talking about when asked about the haunting." —[deleted] 21."I grew up in San Bernardino, CA, and downtown, the major theater that puts on plays and whatnot is the Sturges family playhouse. It was built in the '20's, but it was originally a middle school. A fire burned everything except the theater, which they turned into the Playhouse. There's a legend that the ghost of a kid named Joshua (who died in a football accident when the school was still there) haunts the theater. People have heard voices and seen orbs of light, but the most common thing is to find the pictures in the room at the top of the stairs suddenly hanging askew. My brother and I had firsthand experiences with the ghost." "I was helping my brother clean up after the run of a play he was in, and the director asked us to get a can of paint from the room at the top of the stairs. I, of course, really didn't want to, but my brother and I went anyway. The only people in the building were my brother and I, the director, and her wife, both of whom were at the opposite end of the building putting props into the back of their pickup truck. We get to the top of the stairs, and the door is locked. Now, this is a two-inch-thick solid oak door with knobby brass handles. My brother and I were wondering how to get into the room (because there is only one way in, through that door). The door makes a loud 'WHAM!!!' like someone on the other side got a running start and rammed their shoulder into it. Needless to say, we were scared shitless and got the director, who gets the keys and opens the door. NO ONE IS IN THE ROOM. EVEN CRAZIER, EVERY SINGLE PAINTING ON THE WALL WAS TILTED. There was no way anyone could have been in there, and especially no way anyone could have escaped." —u/archeantus1988 And finally, a reminder to take all urban legends with a tiny (or gigantic) grain of salt: 22."There's a guy who rides his bicycle all over my town. People used to say that he had been arrested a bunch of times for assault and had maybe even murdered someone. I was so afraid of him growing up. As it turns out, he grew up in my town and came back to take care of his sick mother and just sort of lost a couple of screws after she passed. He's an incredibly kind man who does a lot of charity work for the town, but you know how kids talk. I like to think of him as the old man in Home Alone. Just goes to show everyone has a story, and isn't always what they seem." —u/talbottron Have you heard any of these urban legends before? Or have any of your own you'd like to share? Tell me in the comments! Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity. If you love spooky stories, you'll love the upcoming horror film The Ritual! Based on the true notes and findings of a real-life exorcist and the multiple exorcisms of Emma Schmidt (aka Anna Ecklund), it's sure to horrify you. Check out the trailer here: Also in Internet Finds: 51 Wildly Fascinating Photos Of Disorders, Injuries, And Variations In The Human Body That I Cannot Stop Staring At Also in Internet Finds: 19 Things Society Glorifies That Are Actually Straight-Up Terrible, And We Need To Stop Pretending Otherwise Also in Internet Finds: 27 Grown-Ass Adults Who Threw Such Unbelievable Temper Tantrums, Even The Brattiest Toddler Couldn't Compete
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5 days ago
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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Things They've Ever Done For Lust, And It's Relatable But Also Hilarious
The things people do for love can be surprising — but when it comes to lust? That's a whole different story. People will jump through hoops, or even rings of fire, just to get laid. It's a universal experience: giving in to our deepest desires for a fleeting moment of satisfaction. Sometimes it leads to laugh-out-loud stories; other times, to major regret. Dimensions / Getty Images, Viktoriya Skorikova / Getty Images A recent thread on the r/AskReddit subreddit asked users to share the stupidest things they've done for lust, and the responses did not disappoint. From driving for hours through snowstorms to hooking up with strangers in parking lots, lust often overrides logic in ways that are as wild as they are relatable. And in some rare cases? These impulsive decisions have even led to lasting relationships. Here are 19 of the most outrageous things people have done in the name of lust: Elegant couple in love. 1."Alright, I fully expect no one to believe this story, I was almost 20, I worked at a pizza restaurant. I met this woman nine years older than me, and we immediately clicked. She was hot, wild, adventurous, married to this tatted barbarian-esque dude about thrice my size." "She started meeting me at my work on my lunch breaks for Went on for a month or two, until she developed this idea for me to switch to a delivery driver in order to have time together at her house. Since I was the opening shift manager, this would be a pay cut for me, I explained. She said I'd 'make it back and then some in tips and other frivolties' (I'll never forget that sentence, lol). So I started doing deliveries. It turns out she was only one of many, many people ordering delivery. I only got to show up at her house ONCE being employed there. Bad plan, didn't work. And then I myself had an idea. I quit, started a night shift job at a warehouse, but kept the pizza joint's shirt, pizza delivery bag, and car decal. The pizzeria owner was pissed that I'd 'lost' these things and said don't come back. Soon after, I was going to a different pizza joint, ordering her a pizza, and then it a couple times a week. Long story short, the husband eventually started to wonder why the [redacted]'s pizzeria guy was delivering pizzas from Domino's. I was confronted. I was threatened. I was grabbed by the pizza-shirt and yelled at. He took away my decal and my pizza bag. All in all, it was a very patient and measured response, all things considered. But that's not the wildest part. She divorced the guy the next year, and we got engaged. Resulted in six years of a crazy, manic life of ups and downs. Ugly divorce at the end. Moral of the story: next time you watch a porn where the dude shows up to deliver a large sausage pizza, look for the pain behind his eyes." –u/crowmagnuman 2."A girl that I was dating woke me up by calling me whenever she got home from the bar with friends. She had a few drinks and was with another frisky lady friend, and was begging me to come over for a threesome." "I got dressed and drove across town at 2:00 a.m. as quickly as I could…only to find them both passed out in different rooms, with little recollection about the phone call. It was a very disappointing drive back home alone." –u/El_mochilero 3."Drove from Long Island to Boston in a blizzard so bad that I only crossed Northeast Connecticut and Massachusetts successfully by slaloming in the wake of semi-trucks the whole stretch of I-84 and the Mass Pike. Totally worth it, she's my wife now." –u/CanisArgenteus 4."Listened to all of her podcasts so I could have 'things to talk about'…ended up coming off as a full-blown creep who knew way too much about her. Definitely not worth it. –u/turkishdad3 5."I had all my papers ready to attend UBC, but instead followed a girl I'd met on Skype to Finland. She ended up banging a few friends of hers in our apartment. I still live in Finland, though." –u/HatHuman4605 6."I once confessed to a girl as we were walking down the road how much I was in love with her and how very, very badly I wanted her. Almost on cue, we came up to an old train track that had been asphalted over, but you could still see the bulge of one of the railroad spikes. She said, 'If you pull that out, you got it.'" "That night, I came back with a sledgehammer, and it still took several hours to get it out. I showed up at her house around 3 a.m., and her roommate just sent me right into her bedroom. I woke her up covered in sweat, grime, rock dust, and blood, holding out that railroad spike with a face-splitting grin. Best night ever!" –u/JoeMojo 7."Met a woman at a parking lot to go have sex out in the woods. Basically, I was willing to risk having my organs harvested to get a little something something. And it was worth it. The sex was phenomenal. We hooked up off and on for a couple of months, and to this date, I still have all of my original organs." –u/thecountnotthesaint 8."This girl randomly messaged me on Facebook to hang out. We weren't friends on there, were never friends IRL, and never had the same friend groups. All I knew was that she lived in my town and was friends with a girl I went to middle school with, and she looked familiar. That's it. When she randomly messaged me and asked to hangout, I was in an Xbox party chat with my friend, so I was just messing around not taking it seriously and said, 'not unless you want your ass ate, lol' she said 'OK, lol,' and then I met up with her, parked down some road, and got in her car. I had never eaten ass before, so I ate her ass for like 20 seconds and then stopped, put it in, lasted maybe 45 seconds, and then was like 'welp, guess I'll see you later.' She chuckled and said bye. By the time I got home, she had messaged me 4-5 times saying, 'Oh btw, I have herpes, you might want to get checked.'" "Around the same time, a random dude messaged me and asked if I was with her (I honest to god had no idea she had a BF, I knew literally nothing about her and it didn't say anything on her FB profile or else I wouldn't have done anything with her), and was saying, 'she has herpes and didn't tell you.' I obviously got freaked out and blocked both of them and sprinted to my bathroom and began vigorously and ferociously scrubbing my junk for legit 30-45 minutes, hoping I was good. I later deduced her boyfriend, after discovering she wasn't coming home, logged into her account, saw the messages with me, and then started messaging me on both accounts to scare me as revenge for sleeping with his girlfriend. My friend that I was in the Xbox party with dubbed me 'Facebook Herpes' and we kept that as an inside joke until the end of our friendship." –u/itsLustra 9."Bailed on all of my friends and family during family day after basic training in the Army to hook up with this chick who was pretty much the biggest walking red flag. If we'd gotten caught, I could have ruined my entire career. As it was, she ended up trying to baby trap me because her goal was to fake an injury and get kicked out after I knocked her up so she could still get Army benefits. She ended up doing the same thing a few weeks later to another guy, but he actually knocked her up." –u/ADegenerateWarlock 10."Let my ex pour maple syrup all over me in an attempt to fulfill his food fantasy. So. Fucking. Sticky. But we did have a REALLY good laugh." –u/darksideradtownusa 11."We both lusted heavily for one another and worked in the same building. We had sex in a room where the lights were off, but the door didn't lock. We finished. She left first. I waited a few minutes. In that brief interval, someone walked in and flipped on the lights…and I had to awkwardly say something about 'just getting up from the chair after resting my eyes' to get out. The first week of scratching that itch, we took two-hour lunches for three days…raised some eyebrows in her office, so we had to stop that. Totally worth it. Mid-20s when it happened, and it was electric." –u/Brennerkonto 12."I let a guy I met online have sex with me in a FedEx parking garage, and then we continued across the street in a Panera bathroom. 10/10." –u/Elfie_Elf 13."Moved cities to be closer to her. Saw her once when I moved back, and she definitely either forgot we were supposed to meet up or didn't give a shit about it. We went from talking every day constantly to not talking. On the bright side, I'm back in my home city, and life has improved significantly." –u/Pimpdaddypepperjack 14."Stayed with a person who legitimately hated me because sex was excellent, A1, impeccable. Absolutely not, would not do again. I have since been with equal and better partners, so the staying was just for naught." –u/More_Weird1714 15."In university, I had a crush on my limnology TA. I joined a group that decided to do a polar bear plunge in a lake in Algonquin Park in November just so he could see me in my bathing suit and maybe get some ideas." –u/Camemboo 16."Flew to another country to go to a rave with a very beautiful woman who was barking at me in the comments of my last Reddit post. Absolutely worth it. Even though long-distance didn't work out in the long run, I came away with tons of incredible adventures and stories." –u/the_Ex_Lurker 17."I went to Cuba some years ago with my family, and some girl was giving me eyes while I sat with my parents watching a show. I excused myself and sat beside her, where she suddenly stuck her tongue down my throat. We were making out when I distinctly remember her hugging me around my waist. We later went to the nearby stairwell and had sex. I woke up the next morning, hungover and missing my phone and a fair bit of Cuban Pesos (which were in my pocket). I also got crabs. Not worth it." –u/5fives5 18."Hooked up with a girl when I spent a few months in Japan. Went out with her often and eventually started falling for her. I arranged for her to come over to where I lived shortly after I went back home. Paid for her flight, had her stay with me, bought everything for her when she was here, and by the time she left, I thought we could maybe start a long-distance relationship. About a month later, she suddenly tells me she met someone else and proceeds to ghost me. This was back before smartphones and social media became the norm, so it was really hard to contact her in general. She had no internet presence, and the only way we contacted her was through Messenger and her email." "Five or so years later, I was cleaning out my email inbox and stumbled onto old messages between us and decided to email her just for the hell of it. Interestingly enough, she emailed me back but only to tell me she's married and never to contact her again. All in all, no, not worth it." –u/hoobanostank 19."There's a lot to list, but I think my worst judgment was when I was about 18. I was talking to this girl I met online, and drove about 25 miles to see her in the middle of the night. This was back when I had to print out maps from MapQuest and she lived deep in the hills above Hollywood." "We're hanging out outside her house smoking cigarettes, and then she tells me that the house across the street is used for filming and that it's open. The thought of being mugged or murdered in that house came across my mind, but I had a huge thing for goth girls at the time, and she was the first I'd had a chance with. So I decided to say fuck it and take the chance. Looking back, I can't say if it was worth it, but it did play out in my favor. She was on her period, so we didn't smash, but I got to get a BJ/HJ overlooking Hollywood in a house I still can't afford. I've been committed for a long time, but if I were single now and something like this came up again, I wouldn't willingly walk into a situation that can quickly turn against my favor and odds of survival for some strange reason. I'd just offer to pay for a room lol." –u/PeeTee31 Have you ever done something a little misinformed in the name of lust? Share your stories in the comments below! Note: responses have been edited for length/clarity.
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Shocking Lab Results Medical Workers Can't Forget
Medical workers are the unsung heroes of our society, and they often deal with some truly bizarre, shocking, and traumatic things on the job. Sometimes, their stories sound too wild to be true. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses, doctors, and anyone working in the medical field were at the forefront of a global pandemic that claimed millions of lives. But even outside of dire circumstances, their job involves witnessing some truly shocking stuff. During a recent Reddit deep dive, I came across this post in the r/AskReddit sub from one user who asked medical workers to share "the craziest lab result you've seen in a patient." Some of these entries are truly terrifying. "Sent a patient for an ambulatory sleep study when he was referred to us for suspected sleep apnea. He was very tired and apathetic when he came in. His test came back with an Apnea-Hypopnea Index of 127, with the longest apnea episode lasting 77 seconds, essentially meaning he was stopping 127 times every hour." "Called him back in urgently to start a CPAP trial, moved to VPAP, and last I had seen him, he was happy, cheerful, and about 35 kilograms lighter than when we initially saw him."–u/HaruDolly "Older woman with a pulse rate of 8. I figured the pulse oximeter was sh*tting the bed, as they often do, so I told my coworker to take it off the patient and put it on me, to check if it was the machine acting weird. The coworker put the pulse oximeter on me, and it showed a normal, healthy pulse rate almost immediately. My coworker and I looked at each other, looked at the patient, looked at each other again, and just went 'oh fuck.'" –u/Mysterious_Bag_9061 "Not a lab, but I had a patient walk in for an Electroencephalogram (EEG). We chatted the whole time. Super nice. Started the EEG. They were having a seizure every 30-40 seconds and had no idea. They drove there." –u/Nomofricks "Blood pressure of 280/186 on a pregnant patient in the field (I'm an EMT). Terrifying." "As a lab tech, I've seen quite a few. The highest glucose I've seen was 1750, the highest accurate potassium was 7.9 (the rule of thumb is 8, and you're big dead, hemolyzed samples make it shoot up, so it's likely not real, but that one WAS). I learned our lactic acid analyzer only goes up to 40; that guy unfortunately didn't live long. I've seen a urine sample with so many crystals, I couldn't see anything else. My most recent was an 89-year-old man with what appeared to be a LOT of very healthy-looking sperm in his urine sample. I was shocked at the quality and quantity of them." "I had a 10-year-old boy come into the emergency department for his diabetes. The finger-prick result was so high it wouldn't give a measure, which means it was ridiculously high. Parents were saying, 'He's always thirsty, but we only give him orange juice that has no added sugar. And McDonald's shakes.' For anyone not aware, both these things may as well be pure sugar for someone with diabetes." –u/Binda33 "Not a specific lab result, but one time I had to process a blood sample where the plasma looked like strawberry Go-Gurt. Ideally, it would be almost clear." –u/Popular_Emu1723 "Internal medicine resident here. Our clinic often has patients who get lost to follow up. A patient came in just under two years after his last appointment, where it was revealed he had a ferritin of 1. I repeat, ferritin of 1. Poor guy also had hemorrhoids and said he was bleeding every day; continuous fatigue — no kidding! Nothing to replenish your hemoglobin stores! The crummy part is that the ferritin was a lab from a while ago, and he never followed up for intervention; we're on track now, though." "As a lab scientist in Australia, brown snake envenomation always provides interesting results. Had one 22-year-old male who went into Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation following a brown snake bite and died with a haemoglobin of 22. He was a Jehovah's Witness and refused a transfusion." –u/thumpingcoffee "The record WBC (white blood cell) count I've seen on admission was 185,000. (Acute Myeloid Leukemia)." "A sodium of 555. Yes, you read it right. We looked at him. He replied, 'I don't feel so good,' and dropped dead. I'll never forget it as long as I live." "Reading a bone marrow aspirate and found what ended up being Histoplasma capsulatum. Everyone related to hematology was in my office that day. Many extra slides were pulled and stained for personal collections." –u/hopingforchange "A tortuous, herniating stroke. The brain was twisting clockwise from the left temporal region and herniating through the foramen magnum. Symptoms were headache and dizziness for 45 minutes." "A genetic test that came back XY on a patient with a clear vulva and no penis. We sent another blood test to a different lab to confirm there was no error. There was no error. The child was male, but had a vulva and no penis. Gender is truly a spectrum." –u/WhatsInAName8879660 "I was the doctor covering a psychiatric hospital on the night shift. At the tail end of the shift, around 6 a.m., nurses from one of the Old Age wards called me saying one of their patients had been complaining of chest pain since midnight, but they didn't want to reach out at that time as they didn't think it was so serious to disturb me." "Got a call from the lab tech that my patient had 'Blue-Green crystals of death.' The tech said that when those show up, death is usually imminent. The patient passed about an hour later." "I'm not a med tech, but I am a phlebotomist. I had a child with blood that was so thin, it looked like a Halloween prop. When I dropped off the sample, the med tech did not believe me when I told them it was real and not just me covering up some sort of mess up. I don't know what that child's hemoglobin was, but it was scary low. Low enough that the same med tech was surprised they were alive. I have never seen blood so thin before in my 11 years on this job. It was red-tinted water." –u/zombae788 "Worked in hospice for a time. Joint visit with the RN. Patient's pulse oximeter was 18%...awake, completely oriented, talkative — not short of breath or any other symptoms. The highest it went. The entire visit was 25%...we kept trying it on ourselves, different fingers. The nurse even tried toe readings on us, which were all normal. We straight up told the patient and aren't sure how you are awake and talking to us, but we don't think you'll be with us a whole lot longer. Patient and family were extremely understanding — lived another 18 hours talking and visiting with family, ultimately passing in their sleep." "Heart rate of 0 when a man was sitting up and talking, then after a few seconds of 0, he paused and stared, we were dumbfounded, figuring the leads were bad, then after 17 seconds, he came back and finished his sentence, Heart rate back to normal." –u/cporterriley
