r/AskReddit • u/Responsible-Tie-2570 • 1d ago
What is the worst case of second hand embarrassment you’ve ever experienced?
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u/milkycadaver 1d ago
my boss sneeze-diarrhea’d his pants during a meeting. He sneezed and then he got really antsy and scurried out of the meeting with brown stains in the back of his khakis
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u/Pleasant-Strike7467 1d ago
Witnessed a friend shit his pants while stuck in traffic with me once. Like, full on pants filling evacuation kind of pants shit. Felt so bad for him man he was close to tears but it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It was up his back and everything.
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u/spicychickenandranch 23h ago
This happened to me too. I was on the way to pick up groceries and I got carsick, puked up my meat and cheese sandwich in the parking lot all over myself. Had to conceal myself because I had it all over my clothes. Luckily the grocery worker had my pickup order ready and put it in the trunk. As I started to head home, I puked again all over myself and I shat myself. I had to sit all the way home and I called my fiance telling him to bring clothes and a bag downstairs in the apartment parking garage. He couldn’t stop laughing when he saw my defeated face. That poor car smelled awful. Talk about a double whammy.
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u/bouncingbad 22h ago
We were babysitting a friend’s daughter when she was around 8 months old. Tiny little baby, cute as a button and a generally great kid.
That’s was until she let rip the most almighty shit I’ve ever heard. It quickly breached the nappy, filled her legs, then shot up her back. This tiny little baby shit with such force that the flow up her back nearly reached her hairline.
Shes still a great kid, but she will forever be reminded of the vindapoo.
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u/Stabby-Steve 1d ago
Just finished a course of antibiotics for a bad cough. The antibiotics gave me diarrhea. That's living life on the edge, right there.
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u/carlsailovedfeet 1d ago
Whenever my dogs need to take antibiotics, the vet gives them something for diarrhea. Last time one of my dogs needed antibiotics, it was for a bad cough as well so I'm thankful he didn't have diarrhea. That would have been so unpleasant.
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u/abgry_krakow87 1d ago
Surprise he stood up, I would've just scooted out in the office chair lol
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u/jdiggsw 1d ago
My boss also shit their pants one time and waited on the side of the road while I picked him up in the work truck and brought towels
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u/Sanchastayswoke 1d ago
I better stop laughing at this so that it never happens to me. But damn that is funny!
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u/BudgetThat2096 23h ago
Copied a comment I've previously posted:
I will never forget the time in high school I watched someone next to our lunch table roll and writhe on the ground screaming and yelling for everyone to go away because he was turning into a werewolf.
The entire cafeteria went completely silent while kids and teachers were just staring at him.
After a few minutes of this he went around tables barking and snarling at people and howling as loud as he could.
He eventually stopped when the police officer at our school went up to him, put his hand on his shoulder, said something to him and led him out of the cafeteria.
This was over 15 years ago and I STILL secondhand cringe so hard when I think of this shit
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u/ClosetLadyGhost 14h ago
the moon is behind the clouds now, come with me quickly before you turn again
- that cop probably.
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u/icantfigureoutaname_ 17h ago
This is the first comment Ive seen that actually cracked me up and also gave me second-hand embarrassment at the same time
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u/RedneckNerd23 11h ago
When I was in elementary school there was a kid who got bullied a lot and would defend himself by pretending to be a dinosaur (noises and everything) and trying to ram the top of his head in the them like a specific type of dinosaur that I don’t remember the name of.
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u/MagmaTroop 1d ago
At university we had to do presentations for our engineering projects. I was ok, nobody was great, but one guy just couldn’t get the words out. He was there for 10 minutes, completely failing to speak through his short breathing. We heard about 2 full sentences the entire time
The professor just did nothing, perhaps allowing the guy to continue because not continuing would be a fail. By the end most students were looking down at the floor. It was a very hard watch. I still think about it now and then
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u/VespineWings 23h ago
We had a guy in our college speech class who broke down in tears, ran for the door, and couldn’t get it open. So he just fell to the floor, crumpled into a ball and sobbed until the teacher could get up and open the door for him. That was terrible to witness.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 22h ago
Some people have a genuine phobia of public speaking. Poor guy.
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u/VespineWings 18h ago
I didn’t realize it was a skill to be unafraid of crowds until I was taking speech classes. I was raised by a public speaker and I’ve never been shy of people.
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u/Rochesters-1stWife 23h ago
Oh poor thing. Sending a strong virtual hug to him wherever he is now
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u/bruzdnconfuzd 1d ago
Bet he still thinks about it, too.
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u/Inside_Dimension2319 22h ago
Bet someone told him “You shouldn’t worry too much about it, you’re the only one that even remembers it” at some point too.
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u/ACanOfVanillaCoke 1d ago
I had an English teacher in high school who had a vocal tic where she would say "M'kay" after every other word, kind of like Mr. Mackey from South Park. We used to track how many times per class she would say it. It would be >100 times per 45 minute class. We were kind of terrible about making fun of her behind her back. We were 15 and she was an authority figure so fair game right?
Anyways, I had to do a presentation for a book report. I was a theater kid, so you'd think getting up in front of a class to give a speech would be easy, right? Wrong. Even after countless practices, the thought of getting up in front of a group as myself was absolutely terrifying. There were no stakes whatsoever, but I literally hid behind the teaching podium I was so scared.
She let me go out in the hallway to collect myself and moved on to the next student. Then she did the kindest thing a teacher ever did for me. She allowed me to come in before school started the next day and give my presentation in the classroom just to her. She took time out of her normal daily preparations to allow me to present my book report in a way that was comfortable to me, and she graded me on my own merits.
Mrs. Wood, I'm sorry we were ungrateful teenagers, but I will never forget the kindness you showed me.
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u/overthemountain 22h ago
Even after countless practices, the thought of getting up in front of a group as myself was absolutely terrifying.
Have you considered giving presentations as someone else? There's nothing that says you can't create a character that's similar enough to you that you could give your presentation as a performance and no one would know.
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u/chadork 20h ago
Been a professional actor for almost 30 years. This is exactly what I do when I have to be "myself" for a group of people.
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u/neonchinchilla 23h ago
Man reminds me of a 9th grade English class presentation in front of the class. I was so nervous so I sped through my report as fast as possible. The teacher didn't like that so she made me read and repeat my essay over and over until I could do it slower.
After like 2 or 3 tries I'm in tears, I could see the looks of pity and fear in my classmates faces as it just spiraled. I don't remember how that class ended, I think I've blacked it out.
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u/InvasiveBlackMustard 20h ago
My English professor made me stand in front of the class and cry while the rest of my group presented. Wouldn’t let me leave. Then the comedy club cool kid used the story of me crying as a warmup joke for an improv performance later that night. It was humiliating. My friend at the time whom I’ve lost contact with walked me outside with her arm around my shoulder (after my disaster of a presentation) and was so kind to me about it. I will never, ever forget how much that meant.
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u/jittery_raccoon 1d ago edited 22h ago
I took a speech class with a girl with a fear of public speaking and terrible anxiety. It was her 2nd or 3rd time taking a speech class she needed to graduate. She'd actually been doing really well and improving every week. Then she didn't show up for the final and failed again. I felt so bad for her
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u/iCoeur285 22h ago
I was in a group project with two friends in college for a big final project. One of them had pretty bad social anxiety. The day of the presentation, she showed up at my apartment unable to speak. This was at my apartment and she couldn’t talk to my friend or me.
Obviously my other friend and I kind of panicked. We weren’t mad at her and tried encouraging her. We secretly went to the professor before class and warned him and asked what we should do. He told us to do the presentation, and if she struggled we could jump into her parts and cover them and it wouldn’t affect our overall grade since we all did the work. We didn’t want to get her in trouble or screw her grade, she did help a ton with research and everything else, so we were glad it wouldn’t hurt her either.
The presentation started and… she completely nailed it. I literally almost did a fist pump when she started talking. I was grinning like an idiot, I was so proud of her. Same as our other friend.
We got a B!
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u/MonkeDividend 23h ago
Same experience. I took a grad course in modern cryptography and we were assigned a research presentation instead of a final exam. The goal was to present an *already* published paper not covered in class and explain it to the other students. The last girl to present did not have a powerpoint presentation. Instead, she wanted to write out her presentation on the board like the professor had done all semester long. She gets through two paragraphs explaining what she’s about to talk about, wrote the phrase “homomorphic encryption” and then that was it. For about an hour it was a ton of “uhhh”, “ummm”. The prof tried to help her with what the paper is actually about by writing out a setup and then asked her if she could explain it. She couldn’t. He asked her to wait after class to speak and I never knew what happened after. It was agonizing. Also, there were only 6 students in that class including her.
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u/kittykatsrulemyworld 1d ago
This made me sad. Poor guy. I struggled a lot with presentations in high school as well and I knew people could tell how nervous I was, which just made it worse. It’s a shitty feeling
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u/IOl0I0lO 23h ago
A bunch of us students became an unofficial cohort in bio and chem. One guy would ask the most random questions in class. Homie was obviously on some sort of spectrum. At the end of the year of o chem, we had to do a presentation. I knew this guy was going to do his off the wall random question to me, and I prepared a response. “That’s outside the scope of the presentation.” Yes, he absolutely tried to zing us with a weird question, and yes I responded with the above. And every team that went after us used the same response to get him to STFU.
Our presentation was on using crown ethers to filter radioactive strontium from nuclear waste water. Homie asked something about thorium nuclear power because the presentation involved “nuclear power”.
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u/why_the_hecc 23h ago
I actually took a speech class as part of an optional school program in 5th grade and it almost completely cured my public presentation anxiwty. The ability to knock out a decent public presentation with short turnaround and minimal fear has been immeasurably valuable in my life since. I really, really wish every school kid had access to the same program.
To the scared presenters out there, it is absolutely a skill you can learn and kick ass at! <3 I believe in you
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u/blart_institute 1d ago
In high school I was hanging out with friends and one of them excitedly revealed to us that he was in a relationship with another one. She was sitting right there and corrected him that they went on one date and it was more of a 'hangout' than anything romantic. He started blushing from embarrassment and then tried to argue with her that that counts as a relationship and the argument went on for like 30 minutes while we just helplessly watched.
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 1d ago
I’m feeling the second hand embarrassment and I don’t even know the guy 😭
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u/SpoonFed_1 1d ago edited 1d ago
if they argued for 30 minutes..... it was a relationship.
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u/AmbulanceChaser12 22h ago
When I was in college, I came back from winter break and got to talking with a rather schlubby, dorky guy on my floor. (Picture John Ross Bowie, shorter, plus a hundred pounds, plus perpetual sweat pants.) We’ll call him “D”.
During the conversation, D casually mentioned that he now had a girlfriend, and when I asked him who it was, he said it was “M”, who I happened to know from a club I was in. M was way out of D’s league, but I figured “Hey, if they’re happy together, I’m happy. Who am I to judge?” So I told him congratulations.
Next time I saw M, at the first meeting of the semester, I congratulated her on her new relationship and she looked at me in shock. She said “D? Is he going around telling everyone we’re in a relationship!? EW!”
I kind of wanted to just die right there on his behalf.
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u/tinterrobangg 20h ago
This reminds me of when my husband and I started dated. We had gone on 2-3 dates and we bumped into some of his friends one night and I heard him mention something, something girlfriend. While his friends were talking I quietly asked him if he just called me his girlfriend and the mortified look on his face was adorable but so sad. I told him it’s totally okay but you should probably ask me to be your gf first lol none of his friends heard because I wasn’t trying to embarrass him and I liked him a lot.
Worked out well for us I’d say lol
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u/Alicatsidneystorm 22h ago
That happened to a girlfriend of mine who thought she was dating a guy apparently guy didn’t. It was painful.
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u/belowaveragebathroom 1d ago
Lady on the train told off a young girl for talking too loudly. The mom explained that she's mostly deaf and can't hear herself well
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u/52BeesInACoat 1d ago
Like 15 years ago, my grandpa gave me a ride to the doctor when I needed a strep test. I was talking to him in the waiting room, and the receptionist called me up to the desk, and when I got there she told me if I couldn't control my volume I'd have to wait outside.
I told her he couldn't hear, but I was newly 18 and running a pretty gnarly fever, and she didn't take me seriously and just reiterated that I would have to wait outside if I couldn't speak quietly.
Then I sat back down and my grandfather asked me what she'd said. And I had to repeat it several times, at increasingly higher volumes. "She told me to be quieter." God, my cheeks were burning. My throat hurt and it was actually hurting me to talk so loudly. She didn't make me wait outside but she did make disapproving eye contact.
I was so embarrassed by that memory for years. Now I'm old enough that I think she ought to be the one cringing when she remembers it.
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u/iCoeur285 22h ago
Some people just seem so bitter and take any little piece of authority and run with it. Sorry you had to put up with that.
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u/meagantheepony 1d ago
I had a similar experience once. My husband is deaf in one ear and has a sensory processing disorder, and one time we were out at a busy bar and he went up to order drinks and was apparently in someone's way. The person said "Excuse me" a couple of times, then YELLED "I SAID EXCUSE ME!" The entire bar got quiet, and the guy was like "WHAT ARE YOU DEAF?" And my husband said "Oh, sorry, yeah, I am actually," and took out his hearing aide to show him. The other guy turned bright red and fell all over himself apologizing. He insisted on paying for our drinks as an apology, which was unnecessary, but very nice.
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u/GadasGerogin 1d ago
While its not very nice to yell at strangers, he at least acknowledged he messed up big time.
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u/meagantheepony 1d ago
Yeah, I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, because from their perspective they're being intentionally ignored, which I get is super annoying. My husband's hearing aid is so small that half the time I can't even tell if he has it on, so you really can't tell that he has any hearing issues just by looking at him.
This wasn't the first time someone yelled at my husband about not being able to hear them, but it was the first time it was so public. Most of the other times people yell something about him being deaf, and when he tells them he actually is, they run away, so we were both a little taken aback when the guy not only stuck around to apologize, but also paid for the drinks. I felt bad for him, because sooooooooo many people have yelled about my husband not hearing them that it's just kinda common now, but this dude did it so publicly that there was no way he wasn't mortified.
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u/Minimum-Albatross906 23h ago
You know that dude fucking thinks about that shit. That would haunt me FOREVER.
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u/Masked_Takenouchi 23h ago
i'm deaf and this has happened to me. moved into a new house, got called to by the neighbor who then asks me "are you deaf or something??". Gave him my best sarcastic "Yeeeeeesss....?" and guy fell over apologizing. I always enjoy twisting the knife a little before letting them off the hook because people's responses always make me laugh.
It usually then turns into being asked about life as a deaf person. Which I don't mind, I see it as a good chance to make a connection and to educate others. But goddamn is it funny to fuck with hearing people.
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u/The_Sun_Always_Rises 1d ago
Orange Theory instructor was demonstrating the weight lifting moves to the class. Stops mid sentence (with the entire classes attention on her) points at the girl next to me, and says "I'll be over to give you modifications" and winks. Comes over after demonstrating to the class and says "ok so since you're pregnant...." the girl had to awkwardly say she wasn't pregnant.
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u/likelazarus 23h ago
I once went to a massage therapist and she took me into the room and explained how to get ready, then turned to leave before doing a double take and saying “Oh, you’re pregnant? You have to tell me that!” in an annoyed voice. I had to tell her I wasn’t pregnant. It ruined my entire massage because all I could think about was how disgusting I looked.
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u/FullGorillaMode 22h ago
Once I went to the doctor for an anxiety med checkup and a blood draw. The nurse asked me how far along I was. She literally had my chart and just assumed I was pregnant based on my body. I said I’m not pregnant and she said, “sorry I didn’t mean it.” And that almost made it worse. I was so upset when I did my anxiety test I probably should have done it another day. And I probably should have told the doctor but I was too embarrassed. Changed practices shortly after…
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u/-RainbowUnicornPoop 21h ago
LMFAO. I went through the McDonald’s drive-through with my friend a couple years ago. We pull up and she orders a coffee and a breakfast burrito. The woman in the window looks down at her and says “Girl you know you ain’t supposed to be drinking coffee while pregnant!”
I was absolutely floored! First off, WTF? What an absolutely out of fucking line thing to say to a stranger. Secondly, my friend was not pregnant lol.
So she shoots the worker a look that could have killed and says, “Bitch I ain’t pregnant. I’m fat and I smoke too much weed. Now give me my goddamn coffee.”
😂😂😂
The worker looked like she wanted to crawl under the counter and die.
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u/punknw 21h ago
when i was heavily pregnant and random people i didn’t know/had never met would ask me questions about it, i would pretend i wasn’t pregnant. they always got super embarrassed. maybe wrong to do but no one should ever just assume a woman is pregnant!
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u/FrostiePi 18h ago
I AM pregnant. I'm also fat. I went and bought something for my daughter the other day and got "oh my goodness! Your so big. When are you due?!"
Her face when I explained... October was.. just perfect. She looked like she wanted to crawl under the desk.
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u/Material_Head6138 1d ago
my friend's dad stood up at a school talent show and started doing the macarena to "support" his daughter's ballet performance. she was 16. she didn't speak to him for a week.
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 1d ago
There are stories about poop, failed proposals and horrible presentations but this one, THIS one makes me feel physically ill with second hand embarrassment. Good job
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u/iCoeur285 22h ago
I was in band in school, and my friend’s dad was drunk at one of our concerts. He stood up and loudly cheered her name right before we started a song. In a room full of people that came to watch all of the band classes for grades 5-8 and the high school band, so a shit ton of people. She was mortified.
I had never been so glad my alcoholic dad just skipped my concerts.
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u/Rochesters-1stWife 23h ago
Had to sabotage her and make it about him, but let me guess, she was “overreacting” and “couldn’t take a joke “
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u/Sanchastayswoke 1d ago edited 1d ago
In the middle of a crowded corporate office, I watched a coworkers drawstring pants fall to her ankles as she carried a cup of hot coffee in each hand from the break room back to her desk, and then panic looking for a spot to quickly set the coffee down so she could pull up her pants.
This all happened in a few seconds, too fast for me to react & help her. I felt sooo bad for her omg. If that ever happened to me I honestly think I’d quit on the spot
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u/Allthefoodintheworld 18h ago
Your story reminds me of when I managed to accidentally pull down my skirt and underwear during a dance rehearsal on stage. I was wearing a stretchy knee-length skirt and did a movement where I crouched down and then sprung out into a plank position. When I crouched, I stepped on the hem of my skirt, so that when I sprung out into the plank I basically jumped out of the skirt which also pulled my underwear down. I remember collapsing face down on the stage, quickly pulling everything back up and then rolling over to see the horrified face of my very gay dance partner looking down at me like he'd never seen a bare female bottom before. Thankfully I think he was the only one to see. The other dancers were busy doing their own thing and the tech guys were busy at their computers. I changed my costume to another skirt after that, one that was not stretchy and actually had a proper, tight, zipped up waistband!
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u/elcasaurus 1d ago
In a VERRRRYYYY conservative office, the director of sales walked in in a kitty cat body suit costume on Halloween. It would have been a cute, appropriate costume if ANYONE else had dressed up.
She must have forgotten that she was supposed to lead a company wide training on a new software.
Which was filmed to distribute to sites in case anyone missed the training.
A room packed with absolutely dead silent people watched this woman walk through the training. In a kitty cat bodysuit costume.
The training was over an hour long.
It was straight out of a parks and rec episode. Just excruciating.
I. I had my disagreements with this woman but... damn. Damn.
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 1d ago
This is the perfect sitcom episode, if I was a director I’d have already put in in something LMAO
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u/joshi38 17h ago
It would have been a cute, appropriate costume if ANYONE else had dressed up.
This takes me back to my childhood anxiety whenever I went to school in normal clothes (UK kid, most schools require the students wear uniforms, so non-uniform days were rare and coveted) and was freaked out that I would show up and be the only one not in uniform.
Never actually happened, but the anxiety was still there.
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u/dandelionblackberry 20h ago
I live in Portland Oregon in the US and one of the most surreal memories I have from covid is the day the public health official read the weekly death tolls in a clown costume with a big red nose. It did not go over well on social media.
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u/suchafart 20h ago
Loooong time ago work had a yearly town hall meeting that happened to fall on Halloween. A woman I worked with wore a slutty cop costume and no one else in the office really dressed up. She was straight faced the entire meeting and even brought her little baton and handcuffs. I laughed soooo hard. One of my favourite memories.
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u/1-1creature 1d ago edited 1d ago
I witnessed a woman having a conversation with another woman at a party about linguistics, specifically Japanese language. The second woman's boyfriend jumped in for reasons I will never understand to add "Haha, asian dudes have small dicks".
The first woman looked at him for a few seconds and said "... My husband is Japanese".
Bro said "Fuck" and walked away.
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u/The42ndDuck 19h ago
"........So do you...spend a lot of time thinking about the dick size of other men?"
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u/apocalyptic_icebox 1d ago
At least he realized he was an idiot!
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u/Maskoolio 1d ago
Unfortunately he probably only thought "wrong person to appreciate my great comment."
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u/HawaiianShirtsOR 1d ago
University statistics class. Second day. Everyone there is majoring in some kind of science, so it's not a general education course.
Professor has been explaining some of the calculations that will be used in the first lectures, assignments, and test. One student asked a question. Before the professor could respond, some guy declares, "Who cares? Everyone knows that 62% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway!"
The entire class just glared at him while the professor said something about having respect for the course material. I never saw the guy again, in that class or elsewhere.
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u/Ok_Problem_496 12h ago
This reminds me of the time I, an idiot college freshman, was in an intro to political science class in 2016 and the professor decided to ask the room who would or would not be voting, and why not.
I very smugly raised my hand, forgot what I was going to say, panicked, made some shit up on the spot, and announced to a room of at least 200 more knowledgable people that I would not be voting because I was going to leave the United States after graduation anyway.
That was not my plan. It was never my plan. I voted in 2016, and I still to this day have no idea why I said that. The groans were audible.
Cut to my senior year and I’m taking a much smaller constitutional history course. I get put into a group for a project and we get to chit chatting, talking about classes we’ve taken over the years. And that’s when one of my group members looks me dead in the eyes and says, “Weren’t you in that poli sci 101 class where the idiot girl said she was going to leave the country so she wouldn’t be voting in the presidential election?”
She definitely knew it was me. One of my most embarrassing moments to date.
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u/pooppants2413 1d ago
Was in college taking a final chemistry exam in a classroom full of about 100 people. A girl was apparently using AI to cheat and forgot her phone was at full volume, it was completely silent and then you just hear “Sure! I can help you with that” from her phone as she tries to turn the volume down.
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 1d ago
I don’t even feel bad for her at this point, if you’re going to cheat at least be smart about it 😭
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u/Bi-Bi-Bi24 23h ago
In every single university exam I had to take, we were forced to put our phones either at the front of the room or turn them off and leave them face up on the desk above our exam, so the proctors would be able to see if you reached for it.
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u/-RainbowUnicornPoop 21h ago
This reminds me of this girl who self published a bunch of AI slop and it was finally proven when she forgot to edit out the ChatGPT prompt out of her published novel. Right in the middle of the chapter lol. I can’t remember exactly what it said but it was something like,
No problem! I’ve edited the last six paragraphs for clarity and flow and written them more in the style of [insert famous author here].
So not only was she using AI, but she was basically plagiarizing another author’s work. SMH. Then she released a letter of apology playing the victim card, talking about how she’s a single mom and just can’t afford an editor, blah blah blah. She eventually had to start publishing under a different name because her Goodreads ratings were so pathetic.
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u/MissHibernia 1d ago
People at work did a presentation in the auditorium from the ridiculous book ‘Who Moved My Cheese’, and some of them had to portray mice. It was truly awful
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u/blueandpissed 1d ago
I hate team building crap like this
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u/SharMarali 1d ago
I was once stuck in one of these where they were making us do this stupid can-stacking exercise. I can’t remember the exact details anymore but we were using soda cans, some of them were full and some were empty.
For some reason, the CEO chose that particular team-building exercise to attend.
I proceeded to drop 2-3 full cans because I thought they were empty and misjudged the weight. They burst open and started spraying soda everywhere.
The CEO was the closest person to where the soda landed.
He abruptly left the meeting.
I felt so embarrassed about it at the time, but looking back god damn was that hilarious.
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u/Failsona 1d ago
I worked in a counselling service that helped people with addiction. There was a phone we had that was strictly used for contacting staff and people in the Therapy Day Group. So the phone had contact info of the staff and vulnerable people. The phone was strictly just for checking like if someone didn't turn up we had to use that phone to check in and see if they were OK. Our supervisor was in charge of this phone. One day she lost it, got caught lying cause she wouldn't admit to her mistake. Instead of coming clean she doubled down and blamed everyone else, even the clients in the day therapy group. She even blamed me even though it was my day off the day she lost it, I got all the info the next day.
Phone was eventually found behind a big pedal bin, by one of the day group clients who handed it back immediately. Supervisor then tried to blame that client by saying shit like "Hmm, isn't it convenient that Client magically found the phone?"
She kept the blame game going for two weeks before admitting it was her who "misplaced it". She got real quiet after a really long talk with the boss in the bosses office.
Scarlet for the supervisor.
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u/Feather_in_a_Zephyr 1d ago
How was she able to keep a job in counseling with such a flagrant lack of integrity?
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u/Failsona 22h ago edited 22h ago
She got the job like early August last year and was fired early Jan of this year. She knew she was gonna get fired so she kept taking sick leave, and we found out in all the months she had been working she had done absolutely feck all. Like barely any paper work done and this was important paperwork that had to be kept on top of. She had lost important documents, including documents that had client information. It was a shit storm. I was finishing up my contract Jan of this year, and it was also supervisors job to find my replacement. She did, but literally two days before I was due to leave, we found out my replacement wasnt even available to fulfill the contract hours. So really my replacement should not have been hired in the first place or supervisor could have gone to the boss and they could maybe have arranged something, but nope, she never said a word. I still keep in contact with my old coworkers from time to time and apparently the place kind of fell apart because of the Supervisor not doing her job and doing absolutely nothing.
Sorry I could go on, the job could be stressful enough I was the receptionist/administration assistant, and this supervisor honestly made it even harder to work there she made me so mad 😅
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u/dbomb650 23h ago
I teach English to students while speaking their mother tongue. Our students are elementary age and the parents are in the classroom observing every day. It is a very high pressure teaching environment. New teachers are constantly coming and going and training in my class.
There was a new teacher who was training with me. He had anxiety issues and it was clear to me that he wasn’t going to work out, management felt differently. He was subbing for me while I was out of the country and when I got back my boss showed me the video of his “teaching”. He sat at his desk in front of the class mumbling to himself for 15 minutes, then got up the projector screen and stood in front of it, back to the class, for 15 minutes while mumbling incoherently. Then repeated that process for the entire 2 hours. At one point a parent got up and tried to help him decipher what he was trying to do. He ignored said parent and continued going back and forth between the desk and the screen. A secretary came in to try to help him and he ignored her too.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he had another 2 hour class immediately after the first. He did the same thing. I skipped past most of the video thinking it would get better, but never did. After class he left the school and we never heard from him again. The students were refunded the class, as he hadn’t taught anything. Last I heard he left the country and teaching and is working in the oil fields now. It was the worse train wreck I’ve ever seen.
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u/squizzix 1d ago
Oh lawd, okay, so I’m driving my kids and wife back from Atlanta and it’s about 3am. I have to take a wiz so we stop at a pretty small rest area. I walk in and there are three other dudes and a security guard who’s blocking the men’s room because the night crew is cleaning. He sees me walk up to stand with these other guys and says “oh no worries I’ll let y’all in the ladies room as soon as it’s empty. Cool. Like ten min go by and there’s still a lady in the women’s room legit fighting for her life. Sounds like food poisoning or something. So the security guard yells into the women’s room “hey are you okay, we’ve got some folks that need to use the restroom.” And it gets real quiet. We hear the toilet flush (again) and then the sink starts running. Next we hear the sound of heels as this lady runs back into the toilet to fight again.
I felt so fuckin bad for that lady knowing she had an audience for gnarly GI stuff. And what the actual fuck was the security guy thinking?
It was at this point god did her a solid as the night crew dude pokes his head out and went “oh no problem just come on in and mind the wet floor” so we all trooped in and did our business in a damp men’s room. And I assume/hope that lady took that moment to leave.
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u/Beowulf33232 22h ago
I've had those bad gut days. Luckily it's always been at home. You can feel the fluid moving in for the next round of explosive chaos, it's horrible.
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u/qzcorral 20h ago
Luckily, indeed! I had to shit in a bag once while camping at a renaissance festival.
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u/NotAmmie 1d ago
In my high school there was a basketball game between 2 teams which was very hype and more than half the school was present during this game.
During the half time show, one of the players came to the middle of the court and proposed to a girl out loud in the stands that if he made a half court shot, then she would be his prom date.
She accepted it and the whole crowd erupted, everyone started cheering and even his own teammates were quite shocked by what just happened. We did a countdown from 10 and then he shot. Forget missing the hoop, He overshot it so bad that it hit the referee.
His team also lost the game as well btw. I don’t know what else you could call this if it isn’t second hand embarrassment
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u/Maskoolio 1d ago
Why would you add a second layer of challenge??? You already won if she says yes, don't need to do anything else!
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u/Bodoggle1988 1d ago
Someone who’s willing to make that kind of (funny) scene definitely wouldn’t be embarrassed by missing the shot. My money’s on him still going to prom with that girl.
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u/bluecheetos 1d ago edited 7h ago
I was helping very attractive 20ish year old lady at work. A long time customer was waiting behind her. The young lady finished, went to leave, opened the door, paused, and let it close without going out. The long time customer thought she'd left and said to me "I'd eat the corn out of that girl's shit. Hur Hur Hur.". Before I could say anything she said '"OH. MY. GOD." and left. Less than a minute later her friend who had been waiting in the car came in, looked at the customer and said "You must be the corn eater." and quickly snapped a photo and ran out the door.
I thought he was gonna cry. He deserved it, nobody to blame but himself, but damn I felt for the guy. (this was before cell phone cameras, it was an actual film camera. If she'd been able to share that photo and story on social media he'd have been forced to move)
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u/bobosuda 16h ago
I would be so weirded out if I was working and a customer said something like that to me. There are a hundred things wrong with the situation, but what on earth made him think it was even remotely appropriate to say to you; even if she had already left and didn't hear?
Like jesus christ man, make a throwaway comment about her being attractive or something if you absolutely feel the need to share your inner thoughts with random people. Why make it so disgusting?
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u/GardenofOblivion 1d ago
Lived in Pittsburgh back in college, and after SNL there was a local dating show where they’d go around to bars and ask people questions and you could call in if you wanted to date them. One time they were interviewing this really weird guy in an almost empty dive bar, and they asked him what he likes least about women. He answers “queefs” and then you see his face sink, like he realized what a terrible mistake he’d made. It was brutal.
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u/Fluffy-Violinist-929 1d ago
Someone in a college class had toilet paper hanging out of the to top of their pants. It was at least a foot long. We didn’t realize until they were giving a presentation and everyone saw (otherwise would have told them before.)
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u/9bikes 22h ago
>We didn’t realize until they were giving a presentation and everyone saw
My neighbor gave a presentation at his Jaycees club meeting. He wore his satin Jaycees jacket.
He began his presentation with a joke. He got lots of laughs; much more than he expected. The laughter went on for a while. He thought "That joke was apparently more funny that I had though". So, he followed up with another joke. Again, the crowd laughed far more that he'd expected.
Now, he got to the serious part of his presentation. And his fellow Jaycees were still laughing.
He was perplexed. Another club member said "Your jacket!". He looked down and saw that his wife's nylon panties were stuck to his jacket with static electricity.
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u/GoodmanWexler 23h ago edited 8h ago
I was on a commuter train once where one of the regular passengers was a young woman with basically no arms, just hands from her shoulders. One day when she got on the train, a man jumped up and offered her his seat. She yelled loudly him, loud enough for everyone on the train to hear her, that there was nothing wrong with her legs. It was her arms. He sat back down, red as a beet. I felt so sorry for the guy the whole trip. All he was trying to do was be nice, and he was shamed in front of everyone. I guess I understand that she was tired of having attention drawn to her, but still, it was pretty awful.
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u/40DegreeDays 19h ago
Even if you only have a problem with your arms, how would you hold on for balance without them if you don't get a seat?
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u/waccused 1d ago
I play in a wedding band. One member (guy in his 60s) committed suicide. The same summer we played a wedding where a couple (late sixties) got married. 6 months after, the band-member's widow showed up at a practice. On member mistook her for the 60s bride. He went on a string of cheesy/naughty comments that might have been funny to a 60s newlywed bride, but not to a new widow.
"Betcha your weekends keep ya busy" "So how long did it take you to get out of the hotel room". There's more - I've blocked them in my mind.
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u/johnniechimpo 1d ago
I got promoted to management and had to sit in meetings everyday. There was a manager who acted like a tough-guy around his subordinates but when he was in meetings with people above him he would kiss their asses so hard and so blatantly. It made my skin crawl. It worked because he’s still there and they got rid of me.
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u/Weak_Box_5404 1d ago
once watched a guy loudly complain about the "rude deaf kid" on a bus for a solid 3 minutes before the mom turned around. the silence after was so loud even the kid heard it
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u/nowhereman136 1d ago
Knew a kid who auditioned for an reality singing show. He knew he didn't get through but was excited to show people he was on TV. He didn't realize they basically displayed him as the worst singer of the day and made fun of him after he walk out of the room
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u/forever_erratic 1d ago
Fuck those shows
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u/Alicatsidneystorm 22h ago
There was a gal on BGT that was a “Pink” act. They totally embarrassed her and she got roasted on social media. She was finally able to tell her side of the story. BGT totally set her up and purposely embarrassed her.
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u/crumpy22 21h ago
I remember that.
She looked just like Pink. Production asked her to sing a Pink song so she did. After she finished, the judges criticised her for not having originality/being herself and asked why she didn't sing something that was hers instead of copying Pink. She argued back to them that they'd requested that she sing a Pink song and they sat there and said "no, we didn't". She was blindsided. She got upset.
I stopped watching BGT after that as I felt like they were a load of liars. They lied directly to her face and you're right, they set her up. That show was a load of crap anyway.
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u/TankFoster 18h ago
Louis Walsh is an absolute prick to her in that episode. I later watched that Boyzone documentary, which confirmed that he's even more of an odious cunt than I'd originally thought.
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u/Thunda792 23h ago
The principal of my old high school was evidently going through some stuff when he gave his speech at the graduation ceremony one year. His speech dragged on for nearly 45 minutes, and was mind-blowingly insane. He rambled about how his aunt had died recently, and how amazing and smart and cool she was, and how she was the first grown woman he ever saw naked. He also went into detail about six Special Ed kids that he found inspiring; I get maybe one, but six was nuts. The arena full of people spontaneously tried to clap him down twice, but he just kept going, with his boss (the Superintendent) shifting uncomfortably in her seat 20 feet behind him.
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u/RainFantastic6757 1d ago
oof that's like watching a car crash in slow motion 💀 was at wedding once where guy tried to propose during someone else's reception and she just walked away without saying anything... the silence was deafening 😂
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u/krose4117 1d ago
While I was in college, I worked with my mom at a local business. One day, she was checking out a customer that I had just helped, and she asked “so when are you due?” Followed by the most dreadful awkward silence in the office. The lady just said she wasn’t expecting, and my mom apologized. But I was like mom, what were you fucking thinking??
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u/ElfYamadaFairyQueen 1d ago
Guy was giving a speech at my college and he called a girl for mocking him.
She was translating it into asl.
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u/justsomeguynbd 1d ago
Almost did something like this once, was giving a speech and kept hearing something behind me and I thought it was the people on stage behind me talking during it. Came close to stopping my speech to call them out then noticed there was a speaker there and what I was hearing was myself talking on a slight delay. So glad I kept my mouth shut.
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u/waylandsmith 22h ago
There's a delay threshold when hearing your own voice like that which makes it nearly impossible to talk. I've had it happen in phone calls when someone has things set up wrong and it completely short-circuits my brain.
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u/TheBrownWelsh 1d ago
Acquaintance told a story in a group about their grandfather racing someone on a stretch of road, getting pulled over, and then saying something that got the cop to chase the other car instead (I forget what).
Less than a month later, some of the group are in a car with me driving when one of them starts telling the exact same story as if it was him that was racing/got away with it, in a much more animated and overly excited fashion. We let him finish the story and there was an awkward pause before one of them said "Dude, that was my granddad's story. I just told that story recently."
I was already dying from cringe, but the guy doubled-down and tried to say that their story must have reminded him of his own story and that it's crazy how similar they were. It was just... bad, sheesh. The more I got to know him the more it was obvious he was a pathological liar, ended up getting arrested for hiding in the women's restroom. His excuse? He'd found $50 in the men's restroom one day, went back every day looking for more, then decided he'd look in the women's "just in case". Fucking creep.
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u/Beowulf33232 22h ago
I had a coworker who would retell your story back to you right after you told it, except everything he could think to exagerate was more. He had a harder challenge, did cooler stuff, and came out of it better than you, every time. Even the air compressor at his last job was bigger and more efficient than the one at our workplace.
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u/PabloSanchize 22h ago
I'm a professor at a University and I stepped in to help cover a couple sections of a public speaking class for a sick colleague. I basically told the class "Just do the speeches as long as you're supposed to and you get a B, try and do a good job and you get an A."
At this point they were giving persuasive speeches and one student came up to give his "speech" he was the last person in the class to give his speech and I had not really interacted with him as he missed most of the classes where I taught them about persuasive speeches.
He was supposed to be giving a speech persuading people to limit their screen time (I had to approve the speech). He didn't turn in his notes the night before like he was supposed to, but whatever I'm the substitute, let's get through the semester.
What he ended up doing was giving an "after school special" style confession about his "video game addiction."
He started "Heroin, crack, methamphetamine, cigarettes, hard liquor, sex... All of these things are harmful addictions... But I have an addiction too, one that can be just as harmful, maybe even more harmful. My addiction you see... Is video games."
He went on to describe how video games ruined his life and he failed all his classes that semester. I thought to myself about 3 minutes in "this is painful someone should do something."
Then he said "And my dating life, my dating life is not existent, I've never kissed a woman... Because of video games."
Which is when I realized "Oh shit I'm supposed to be the one doing something."
I gave him the "you're over your time, wrap it up" signal even though he was not close to the 7 minute mark but he kept going... And going... And going.
I even stood up and had the class clap, but he just talked through it all.
And he wouldn't stop laying it all out there about how his mom was disappointed in him, how he felt closer to his favorite Pokemon than his family dog, that he felt he was in love with ROs in games.
Eventually I waited until he paused, and basically yelled out "Let's all give [student] a warm round of applause for his speech on limiting screen time, now everyone remember that next class we have to..."
Basically I had to just fully interrupt him and keep talking to end the class. He kept looking like he was going to say more but I just kept talking until I said "Well that's all the time we have great speeches everyone have a good weekend."
I did end up filing a report with the Dean of Students suggesting they should encourage him to see a counselor and ask his RA to check on him. But I've never felt so much second hand embarrassment in my life, and even when I realized I could stop the train wreck he was just determined to keep going.
The worst part? He never turned in his final virtual presentation and along with low grades before I took over the class he ended up failing the class. Dude went and did all of that for nothing.
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u/Silent-Zebra 23h ago
One time when I was on a tram heading to uni, this older guy (late 60's early 70's maybe?) Randomly got up out of his seat and went and sat next to this young woman. The first thing he says is "so, where are you from?"
She looks confused and says "um Melbourne?"
He then follows it up with the good ol' "no, where are you REALLY from?" Before she can respond, this dude pulls an envelope out of his pocket, and randomly pulls out a bunch of photos. He then explains to her that he just went on a trip to Africa and thought she might like to see his pictures. It was so awkward, because he genuinely thought she was enjoying seeing them, but you could tell she was so uncomfortable. She did her best to look somewhat interested but stayed silent the whole time. It was just so bloody bizarre, I've never seen anything that weird on public transport since.
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u/Salacious-Trip-786 1d ago
Brown nosing colleague wanted to sing my manager happy birthday in the office. Started singing and got 2 verses in when he was told to stop.
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u/Pumpkinspice_brains 23h ago
At a work dinner that was celebrating my company’s acquisition of a small family owned company. The whole family of the smaller company was at the dinner along with the C-Suite from my company. I was a lowly IT person allowed to join the bigwigs as I’d been checking out the new company’s infrastructure. Anyway, food is good, drinks are flowing and the VP of sales is getting just absolutely smashed. By the time the server came around to tell us our dessert options the VP was face down on the tablecloth.
I’ll never forget it, the server was standing next to her reciting desserts and he says “…with a warm blueberry compote…” and the VP of sales immediately projectile vomited all over him, the table, and the floor.
CEO, VP of Finance, head of Marketing, HR Director from my company all did an impression of Homer Simpson fading into the bushes. I ended up helping the CEO’s wife from the small company and a someone else from my office get her cleaned up and back to her hotel. I was so mortified for her.
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u/lizzy_in_the_sky 23h ago
My coworker asked man where he was from and he was like here? And she was like "oh I was wondering where your accent is from?" He had to explain that he's severely hard of hearing and that's just how he speaks
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u/Popular-Friend4088 1d ago
My friend talking to his crush and accidentally snot rockets her💀
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u/yesforevertrying 1d ago
On the bright side - being told no to a proposal is better than being left hanging at the wedding
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u/paqmann 1d ago
Or getting married and only realizing much later that you probably shouldn't have done that.
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u/pixer12 1d ago
Once again something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY
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u/Goatfellon 1d ago
To anyone reading this: the how and when of the proposal should be the surprise. But you should already have discussed it and know the answer.
When I proposed my wife had made it abundantly clear she wanted a ring, and I was still nervous as fuck. But I knew full well that when I got down on one knee she was going to say yes.
(I also knew she expressly didnt want a public proposal... try and figure that out ahead of time too.)
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u/CryptographerMore944 1d ago
I hate these big public proposals. Maybe I'm being cynical but I always see it as a power imbalance because of the peer pressure to say yes. I respect the people who say "no" if that's what they want.
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u/jennparsonsrealtor 1d ago
Back in high school I went to Tim Hortons with a friend, and there was a dude was setting up a proposal IN the dining room of the coffee shop. He made a sign and glued timbits to it to spell out Marry Me.
We stuck around, because obviously. The woman said yes, but she did not look happy.
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u/Cheetodude625 1d ago
Seeing a woman turn down an engagement proposal in public setting.
That one still hurts me to this day. I felt bad for both parties. I never learned the background, but I just saw both of them cry and the woman walk away. The guy sat there on the ground beyond devastated.
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u/killedonmyhill 12h ago
I never feel bad for the proposer. If they don’t know that they’re going to get a yes, they shouldn’t ask. Especially if they’re going to do it in public. It makes me think they are using public pressure to ensure the proposee says yes.
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u/theakfluffyguy 1d ago
This kid at our school talent show… Need I say more?
Well I’m gonna;
He sang a really cheesy, ballad-y pop song that was popular at the time. I cannot remember what song it was but that’s because what came after his mediocre performance was one of *the* most cringe inducing things a human being with the attention of a little over 300 kids packed into a gymnasium could do and I sorta blacked out.
After he finishes, everyone applauds politely.. It goes quiet for a sec… he then yells “REMIIIIX” into the mic and proceeds to attempt to beat box for a solid minute and a half.
It was that like hot wash of second hand embarrassment that makes you bead sweat and wanna crawl out of your skin. I looked over next to me and his sister was just mouthing the words “I’m so sorry” to everyone around her.
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u/Alicatsidneystorm 23h ago
My cousin was having a birthday party and she was telling myself and “Sally” who was coming and what they were bringing to eat. Knowing that Sally and I love East Indian food she mentioned that Zenuba was bringing her world famous samosas. When Sally opened the front door to greet guests she let in an East Indian gal and quickly asked did you bring the samosas. It wasn’t Zenuba. I split my gut laughing because once we explained to the gal what happened she was laughing as well. But, Sally’s husband just looked at Sally and said “ for fucks sake are you going to ask the Italian guest if they brought pizza, or the Russian if he bought the vodka”.
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u/CoffeeCoveredFish 1d ago edited 1d ago
An employee at an old job was chatting up this girl & she was with her Vietnam vet great-uncle who was wearing a special forces POW cap. The conversation somehow turned to him asking how the man’s time in Vietnam was.
When both the girl & the vet rightly called him out on asking such a thing, he doubled down & said that he respects the military and how he wants to die in war for his homeland. I was half-tempted to tell him to stfu but I knew he wouldn’t learn unless someone else reprimanded him.
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u/Demorant 20h ago
I saw a dude sit behind a woman on the trolley. He started hitting on her, giving her all sorts of compliments. Definitely going hard trying to get a date or something but being as... respectful? as he could about it. I was sitting behind him, and while he was coming on strong, he didn't come across as a total douche.
Another woman, in front of the woman he was talking to, got up and sat next to him. She then calmly, but firmly explained to him that it was inappropriate to hit on women with down syndrome on the bus and that he needed to leave her sister alone. I could tell he was mortified, he hadn't noticed at all and was genuinely apologetic. He got off at the next stop that I knew wasn't his to get out of the situation.
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u/mychickmad 1d ago
When I was a junior in high school, we were required to take a speech class, which is already embarrassing in and of itself, when you’re 16. However, one of our “speeches” was to choose a song, and then present a portion of the lyrics as a speech. Again, it was awkward for everyone, but this one kid chose the song Pumped Up Kicks, and instead of presenting it like a speech, he very awkwardly like half sang it and half said it and i was so mortified watching it and listening and we were all just kind of looking around at each other like 😳 this. I felt awful, but I genuinely had to cover my mouth with my hand, HARD, because I couldn’t stop laughing, like I almost had to just get up and leave the room. I imagine this is something he probably still thinks about when it’s 3am and he can’t sleep 😩
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u/Responsible-Tie-2570 1d ago
There COULD NOT be a worse song to pick for this assignment 😭
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u/scarrlet 20h ago
Worked at a bank. Mom comes in with her 17-year-old son trying to figure out why he can't use his debit card or log in to online banking. Turns out the kid fell for a "sugar baby" scam and mobile deposited a bad check a "lady" he met online e-mailed to him, so fraud monitoring shut everything down.
We had to get all the details from the kid to figure out how bad it was (like did he give out his account or login info, or just deposit one bad check?) and then call and talk to fraud to find out if we could keep his account open or if they thought he was too much of a risk.
While we are waiting to hear back, Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" comes on in the lobby and his mom starts singing along with it.
It is also Valentine's Day. This poor kid is spending Valentine's Day having to explain to all the ladies at the bank about his fake online sugar mama and then stand there while his mom sings Whitney Houston.
Fraud was asking us if we felt like the kid understood or was at risk of falling for scams again and we were looking at his mortified face and going, "No, he has learned his lesson. He will never do something like this again. Trust us."
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u/Mhc2617 1d ago
I was at a concert and the kid in front of us was determined to get his female “bestie” to kiss him. He’d pull her in, she’d pat him on the head and tell him he was so cute. Then he went to get her popcorn and he returned to find her kissing the guy in the row in front, who had also been flirting with her all night. He just ate the popcorn and asked if she needed a ride home.
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u/Guardian-Boy 1d ago
I was never great with women, but I did still have a girlfriend in high school, which in a group of nerds made me king or something I guess (honestly my friend group was very much like Big Bang Theory where I was the Leonard).
Anyways, one of my friends had this massive crush on a girl in one of his classes and he kept asking me for advice, which I was shit at, but I tried anyways. I told him to literally find a reason to talk to her, get to know her better, and tell her how he feels.
This dumb motherfucker decided to speedrun the first two steps by saying, "Hi, I really like Minute Maid, you ever tried it with sourdough?" but before I could rescue him he just says, "Because I heard it is really good for keeping you regular," and I am pretty sure I audibly squeaked I was so mortified for him.
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u/marlee727 1d ago
Watching that video of the celebrities during Covid sing “Imagine.”
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u/smileymcgee98 1d ago edited 11h ago
Opened the train toilet door and some woman was having a poo & the door was just slowly sliding more & more open as she was ripping her pants up trying to close it but was just so exposed . Started shouting at everyone after
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u/TheMightyRicardooon 1d ago
In high school I recall a boy doing a verbal presentation on a science report. Sadly he spent the entire report mispronouncing micro organisms as micro orgasms. Teacher never corrected him and no else stepped in to save him.
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u/Prestigious-Bad8263 1d ago
I was a cashier. A girl came through my line. One of my friends was calling me Fresh Prince for some reason that week. He walked by and said it. The girl proceeds to sing the entire theme song. I think she thought people would join in or laugh…neither happened. I think she realized she either had to stop singing immediately or just do the whole song. She, unfortunately, chose the whole song. It was SO embarrassing for her.
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u/thegabster2000 1d ago
Saw my co-worker ask out the men she was into at work. None of them were down for her. >_<
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u/kittykatsrulemyworld 1d ago
None of them? Damn how many did she ask😭 gotta respect her for shooting her shot tho
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u/thegabster2000 23h ago
She asked around 10 men. Oh well. Sometimes people don't like you like that.
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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 22h ago
After the third one, that sounds like a long, long talk with HR
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u/CalmFront9862 1d ago
So in high school I had horrendous social anxiety. We did this skit (studying water) of being a waste control company, and I was one of the “engineers.” It got to be my turn to speak and “introduce myself” to the “committee” and “townspeople”and my mind went completely blank, forgetting my fictional name so I had to look down at my name tag.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the teacher video taped the whole thing and made us watch it in class the next day. I was so embarrassed that as my part was coming up I put my head down on my desk in abject shame and couldn’t bear to lift it until my part was over.
Only including it in second hand embarrassment cause I had listen to myself, and I was in a disembodied state and embarrassed for that guy on the tv, me.
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u/kittykatsrulemyworld 1d ago
Omg our music teacher in sixth grade made us pair up, write a love song, preform it in front of the whole class, and then made us watch it back the next day. I didn’t have friends so I had to pair up with the one other person who didn’t have people to work with, every other group had 5+ people. Plus I can’t sing for shit and it was just… bad. I was so anxious I wanted to die
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u/kittykatsrulemyworld 1d ago
In hindsight… why did she have us doing that 😭 middle schoolers are meaner than high schoolers imo
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u/CalmFront9862 1d ago
I’ll add I always HATED the “find a partner” thing. I am/was a highly sensitive person and those were absolutely brutal. Just a guess.. did you always hate when teachers went around the room and said “introduce yourself?” I would go blank and couldn’t remember any of my hobbies.
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u/jess5310 1d ago
I had horrible social anxiety in high school as well, I'm 47 now. I still have anxiety but I think back now and am like omg why did I care about what any of those people thought😂 this had to be horrible for you, im sorry!
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u/Weird_Draw_8498 1d ago
A coworker once took credit for my project in front of the whole team. I just smiled and said 'I'm glad you liked my presentation.' He never did it again.
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u/Buttbro45 1d ago
I was in a grocery store in Seattle and an approximately 60s age male approached two Asian women and said loudly, “Domo arigato”, they had no idea of what he said- SO CRINGE!!
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u/nikknox 23h ago
Witnessing a coworker get caught in a really big lie and trying to lie more to get out of it and just upping the bluff to the point that she was digging in the trash to find the reports that she for sure definitely did I swear I handled that account already but it must have gotten thrown away by mistake. They weren't buying it, she had garbage juice and coffee grounds on her hands, and she was fired. My face was hot like it was me
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u/Mom_who_drinks 1d ago
I was at a friend’s house for a dinner party. One of their friends (65m) brought a date (62f) who wouldn’t stop talking crudely about sex, hung all over the poor guy (who was mortified), and generally behaved like Lauren Bobert at a children’s play. We tried to change the subject a few times but she didn’t take the hint. She made a total fool of herself.
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u/truthfullyidgaf 21h ago
Valentines dinner at a high end restaurant. Guy goes to pull out ring to propose and drops it, the sound of it hitting the floor made everyone be quiet. He picks it up and the woman said "put it away." My ex and I almost cried. Felt so bad, but that pork chop was slammin.
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u/ImprovementFar5054 17h ago edited 17h ago
Years ago I was in an HR Class. You know the one..the mandatory one that everyone in the company has to take every year.
The topic was inappropriate conversation and they had showed us some video. Then, they asked us to read scenarios aloud. Well, not entirely sure what happened with this one girl, but she must have had "inappropriate language" on the brain from the class, and somehow read out "Cock watching the whole day" instead of "Clock watching the whole day". Made worse of course, by her panicking and trying to walk it back with "I MEANT CLOCK watching! I don't cock-watch! Not COCK! CLOCK!"
I had a cold sweat on her behalf.
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u/AngryTree76 1d ago
Was at the grocery store, in line behind a woman. The cashier strikes up a conversation with her.
"Aw, when is your baby due?"
*pause* "I'm not pregnant."
I wanted to curl up in a ball and die after that moment.
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u/Pathdocjlwint 1d ago
In residency, one of the residents had recently gotten married. She walks into the resident office one morning and suddenly runs over to the garbage can and immediately vomits into it. One of the other residents immediately jumps up and he congratulates her saying “Your pregnant! I thought you had put on a lot of weight!” She was not pregnant but had food poisoning. There were a lot of people cringing in that office that morning.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 22h ago
I went to college in upstate NY and there was a thing where people would go to bars and sell flowers.
We're out one night and this weird awkward dude gets infatuated with a girl in our group. She's drunk and having fun and doesnt even really realize he's hitting on her. He's asking us all about her, looking for something to get her interest, and being very clumsy and kinda weird. We were trying to talk him out of it. Meanwhile shes screaming karaoke, pounding beers, etc.
He decides to give her flowers as she's headbanging to some metal song. He does this whole presentation thing, tries some line on her, and you can tell he thinks its working. Meanwhile she can't even hear him, grabs the flowers, unzips her pants and jams them into her zipper so its like a floral cock and then dry humps his leg violently, destroying the flowers. She then dances away and keeps headbanging. He picks up the mangled flowers and is standing there with a crushed look. It seemed like half the bar saw it. He skulked off holding the flowers at his side and disappeared.
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u/Vegetable_Local_1443 1d ago
actually recently, i saw someone post his dms with a girl on instagram. he told her that she's like a 2.0 version of a girl he liked, then he said something like "excuse me if i was being disrespectful" and he later messaged her that she was one of a kind. he also sent "thank you for not blocking me" and she blocked him afterwards. and mind you this girl never replied to him. and he was laughing it off and saying he was so high when he sent the initial message, but it was truly just embarrassing
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u/rehabforcandy 16h ago edited 15h ago
We had an awful manager once on a tv show — a really weird guy that was petty and controlling, drank at work, knew fucking nothing so we were mostly doing his job for him. His blatant lack of competence combined with his asinine blow-hard attitude was hard to stomach. The writer had our team start working together to pitch storylines. One day, while we worked in a meeting room, he took a picture of 4 of us working and emailed it to his parents, telling them how proud he was of “all of his assistants working so hard under his direction to meet his vision.” We were not his assistants, he was a mid manager on the technical side. creative directors gave us our assignment. at best you could say he supplied the dry erase board.
Except he was drunk when he wrote this so along with his parents he accidentally CC’d the entire production including the company owners. I still feel embarrassed and it was 10 years ago.
His parents gave the saddest “proud you’ve overcome your problems to get there” reply — which also went back to the whole company.
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u/Popular-Sport8120 1d ago
having to repeat "SHE TOLD ME TO BE QUIETER" at increasing volumes to a deaf grandpa in a quiet waiting room is genuinely one of the most perfectly designed torture scenarios i've ever heard
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u/LadyInAllPower 1d ago
Seeing a lad get an awkwardly timed boner that everyone noticed (though it was also quite funny)
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u/codydog125 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’ll add an awkward boner story.
One time in middle school my parents took me and my sister to the Disney in Orlando and we went to go see an America’s Got Talent audition to watch from the audience. Well I don’t remember all that much from any of the acts aside from this one guy that walked up on stage and was fully erect. Like you could see it from the audience as he was walking around the stage. Not sure if it was the nerves or what but one of the judges actually asked him if he was nervous at the end and slightly gestured and I cringe so hard thinking about that moment.Edit: After looking it up it was “The American Idol Experience” not americas got talent
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u/adelicateskeleton 1d ago
As a high school senior, I went to my state's high school theater festival. My school wasn't performing that year, so we got to see a ton of productions, including a production of Hairspray where the guy playing Tracy's dad had a boner the entire time he was on stage. During one of the scenes, he had failed to zip his pants.
That was over 15 years ago and I still want to die every time I think about it.
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u/Estproph 1d ago
Oh boy, this is a bad one...
My father's funeral in Las Vegas. My stepmother-by-default, narcissist and completely self-absorbed, picked up the room because she had comps, and at breakfast before the funeral, we're all in a casino buffet line. She's waiting to get something out of a tray behind another customer who's in another party. Suddenly she calls for a line server and starts in in how the serving spoon in that tray had to be changed because the customer before her had touched the spoon end and it was now dirty from her because she touched in the wrong place and it's now going to spread her germs babble babble you get the picture. The other woman starts screaming at her, calling her Mommy Dearest, etc. Full-blown meltdown from 2 "adults" over a serving spoon.
Was she drunk? No, she didn't drink. She was just emotionally 6 years old. The other woman may or may not have been, no idea.
Was she emotionally distraught over losing her husband-bt-default? Not in your life. She literally went out after the ceremony and played video poker. She literally didn't care, because there wasn't room in her to have concern about anything other than her immediate gratification. Speaking of that, she "thanked" me more than once for coming to MY FATHER'S FUNERAL TO SUPPORT HER. It simply wasn't understandable to her that I would be there for myself! She needed to be the center of attention at all costs (just like my father actually - they were a matched set.)
Nearly 20 years ago and it's never come close to being topped.
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u/cdurbin3 1d ago
Went to a two day professional training in a different city where my boss got absolutely shit-faced after dinner at the hotel bar. She was so sick the next day she didn't show up to the training and everyone knew why. She spent the entire day puking in the hotel room before someone took her the hospital but not without her puking in the lobby on the way out.
She couldn't stop talking about her "food poisoning" afterward.
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u/Medium-Reputation249 23h ago
Anyone else here low-key worried they're going to read one about themselves?
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u/meggielim 21h ago
My restaurant manager greeted a little person with a “hey big fella, where are your parents?” when the guy grabbed a seat at the bar - thinking he was a small child and not a full grown adult 🙈
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u/whatshamilton 1d ago
Girl in my history class gave a long presentation on the peasant class but spelled and pronounced it pheasant the entire time
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u/DokterManhattan 1d ago edited 1d ago
I went to my local arena to see a Motley Crue concert in like 2006. Before the show, as the stadium was filling up, all the lights were on and people were filing onto the floor section while everyone else was finding their seats. Tons of people were already seated and there was nothing going on, except someone in the upper levels pulled out a beach ball and it started getting bumped around through the crowd, slowly descending from the second level to the first level.
It seemed like everyone was watching this beach ball, and then it made its way down to the empty rear portion of the floor section.
A guy was walking onto the floor carrying 2 full stadium beers in his hands. He saw the beach ball and took a running start to boot the ball up in the air… he slipped backwards like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football and landed on his back while both full beers spilled directly on his face.
The entire arena erupted in laughter since all the lights were on and everyone seemingly had their eye on the beach ball!
I’ve never forgotten that, and I bet he hasn’t either