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Orbitalconfusion , Nihal Demirci Erenay Report

In middle school i would use sharpies to tattoo myself, other kids thought it was cool so i started charging $1 per drawing wherever they wanted. Principal found out and after i wouldn’t stop, she put a ban on sharpies for the entire school. even the teachers couldn’t bring them in. i’m a tattoo artist now.

Final score:

347points

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Random Panda 2 years ago (edited)

Got a career you liked and won against the principal!

122points

I got the Ryan’s Steak House buffets in Louisville, KY to put baby changing stations in the men’s bathrooms back in the 90’s.

middleagethreat Report

Final score:

320points

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Alethia Nyx 2 years ago

Damn good on you.

122points

It's no secret that craving for independence and autonomy is almost wired into us from a young age. After all, one of the very first words we learn in life is "no." But while it can serve us well and help us lead a fulfilling life, it can also awaken the inner rebel within us to loudly protest any request that comes our way. To learn more about our urge to revolt and refuse to take orders from others, we reached out to Dr. Simon Rego, Chief of Psychology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

"It’s not that people don’t like being told what to do," he told Bored Panda. "It’s more about whether what they are being told to do aligns with their particular 'rules' (i.e., beliefs) about things." The licensed clinical psychologist explained that the closer these demands line with our own set of "rules," the less bothersome it feels. However, he added that when others require us to do things that clash with our own belief system, it tempts us to act out (i.e., break the rules), which could potentially get us into trouble.

School dress code. Girls must wear skirts. We lived in the country. Kids had to walk a half mile on a dirt road to catch the bus. Told the school that in cold weather my girls would wear warm clothing including pants. The changed the dress code.

Hogh school wouldn’t let my daughter take auto shop. I talked to the school. They let her in and the following year auto shop was open to all.

These incidents occurred in the 1960’s

Free-Cartographer-26 , billow926 Report

Final score:

297points

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

When I was in 6th grade, in 1971-1972, mini skirts were still in style, and we wore them with knee socks. But when it was really cold, our legs just froze. Now, back then elementary school was still first through sixth grades (junior high was seventh to ninth, and high school was tenth to twelfth). As sixth graders, we were the oldest in the school, so set the style for the younger kids. Being fed up with the dress code forbidding girls to wear pants, all the sixth grade girls decided to break it, and designated a day when we would ALL wear pants in protest. That day came, our legs were nice and warm in pants, the school administrators realized the world was not going to come to and end because girls weren’t wearing skirts, and that part of the dress code was broken. My first act of civil disobedience (but far from last, as I still protest against anything I consider unjust), and it was a heady experience!

17points

As a kindergartner I once fell asleep in the bus. When I woke up the bus was in the garage and I had to yell to get someone to get me out.

So to this day every bus driver in my school district needs to walk to the back of the bus and check every seat before they park the bus.

Seems like a good rule to have.

pikkdogs , Ant Rozetsky Report

Final score:

292points

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Dan Padgett 2 years ago

I did this as an adult. Worked a night shift and fell asleep on the bus home (about an hour away). Woke up in the depot. The driver was nice enough to drive me the 15 miles home.

109points

Back in the day a radio station had a weekly trivia contest. The prize was a free pizza and movie rental.

Somehow my mom figured out which book they were using for the trivia questions. She bought it and memorized all the answers.

Each week we would call in immediately. Sometimes we were the first but even if we weren’t it didn’t matter because other people were usually just guessing. We won almost every time.

Even though we changed up who would actually make the call they eventually figured out we were all from the same household. So they made it a rule you couldn’t win if your family had already won in the last month or whatever.

Up till then, we enjoyed a lot of free pizzas.

cavendar , Kristina Bratko Report

Final score:

256points

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Nor 2 years ago

That was straight up genuis

97points

According to Dr. Rego, if it’s a mild clash with a less important belief, "we may feel a mild emotion (annoyance). If a bigger clash with a more important belief, we may feel a more intense emotion (irritation, anger, rage)." He thinks that the cause for these behaviors is mostly related to how strongly and rigidly we hold our views. For example, "How important is the belief and how flexible are we with the idea that our beliefs are the 'right' ones and the 'only' ones that matter."

Psychologists call this need to revolt a psychological reactance. Essentially, this feeling emerges from our brain’s reaction when there’s a threat to our freedom or any restrictions to our lifestyle. It is especially noticeable when new guidelines are put in place, whether at home, school, or work, often leaving us upset and frustrated. Sometimes, when our psychological reactance gets out of control, we can find ourselves in the middle of heated fights with coworkers and arguments with loved ones, which can create even more troubling problems.

In history class in high school, there was about 10 of us really close friends. We would take every opportunity to make “your mom” jokes. A couple months into class the teacher made us sign a “treaty” promising to stop making fun of each other’s moms. We signed it, and started making fun of each other’s dads.

MoreMegadeth , Shawnee D Report

Final score:

246points

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KJ 2 years ago

Good workaround. I can just image the teacher sighing heavily as they give up.

91points

future-unperson , SHVETS production Report

No sign language during silent lunch punishment

My lunch period was so loud we got put on silent lunch for over a month straight. I decided the only clear solution was to teach my entire table sign language so we could still talk without getting in trouble. Apparently it was "unfair" to the kids who didn't know how to sign, so we had to stop.

Final score:

233points

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KJ 2 years ago

What a stupid rule to enforce, sign language should be taught to all kids, useful knowledge to have.

250points

“No bouncy balls in the bathrooms.”

In middle school we had a school store that sold supplies and these tiny bouncy balls (I still don’t know why).

The bathrooms in this school were narrow and made of brick from floor to ceiling. I discovered that if you threw a bouncy ball in the bathroom as hard as you can it would bouncy until the end of time. Get 3-4 of your buddies in the bathroom with a ball of their own, you now have an epic game of life and death. It became the most popular sport the school has ever seen. People were even placing bets.

When one kid had to explain that his bruises didn’t come from his parents my operation was shut down.

AskMeAboutMyTie Report

Final score:

202points

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K 2 years ago

LOL I feel this. I got bouncy balls outlawed in my HS!

61points

While it’s important to recognize when our rebellious side is acting out, it is okay to believe strongly in things, Dr. Rego argued. However, if you want to become better at handling your turbulent feelings, he suggested it would be helpful to be flexible with your way of seeing things. "In other words, it’s possible that many different beliefs can exist at the same time, without any of them being right or wrong. The more we are able to understand this, the less we will get upset when people don’t share our beliefs and the more willing we may be to consider someone else’s opinion when being told to do something," he told Bored Panda.

"We all have our own rules based on how we were raised and how we’ve experienced life. It’s much easier to manage our emotions by being flexible with our own beliefs than to try to force others to change their beliefs or assume that everyone sees things the way we do," Dr. Rego added.

#10

I used to work for a company that had flex hours, you could work all you want but no overtime. So I would work 4-10 hour days and then take three day weekends. That lasted for about two months before my employer made a rule that we had to be there five days a week.

Then I used to come in at 4am to avoid traffic, skip lunch then leave at noon, and nobody noticed for about six months but they figured out I was not coming back after lunch and changed the policy so I could not come to work until 8am.

So I started working lots of extra time and started banking my flex time and saved up about 430 hours by October (10-hours a week of OT) and was informed by HR that I could not roll it over in the new year, so I scheduled a 12-week vacation. Yeah, they made a new rule over that too.

When COVID hit and I had to stay home, I figured out I could do a side gig, so I got a second work from home job and worked both until I got caught, and they laid me off. After that there was a new rule.

I just like hacking the systems they set up, they were so difficult to work for that I wanted to figure out a way to make it work fo me.

Phat3lvis Report

Final score:

200points

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Alethia Nyx 2 years ago

Errr, you were laid off for having two jobs?? Why? What kind of toxic hell hole was this.

112points

disapearingelephants , Compare Fibre Report

#11

Not a rule but a reminder to "please be respectful to our guest speakers". I was on a Zoom call and I didn't realize my cat umuted me when he stepped on the keyboard. When the guy asked if there were any further questions I said aloud to myself "yeah, can we wrap this s**t up so we can all get on with our lives?"

Final score:

195points

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Lexii M. 2 years ago

I remember joining a work call thinking I was muted, while my little brother was playing the tuba lol

13points

#12

freshman year of high school, I had to give an oral presentation on a random Greek god. this was at a Christian school, for context. I got Dionysus, so naturally I spent many hours researching on YouTube how to act drunk (wasn't much of a partier, so I didn't know) and pretended to be absolutely wasted for my presentation. it was a great success but my teacher unsurprisingly banned Dionysus for the following years. it didn't help that Dionysus was basically the god of orgies and b********y too, if I remember correctly

nadirbahama Report

Final score:

172points

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Call Me Mars 2 years ago

Yep, Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and sex and other things its so funny.

59points

We managed to get in touch with Redditor TheBlackTemplar125 who was kind enough to have a little chat with us. When asked how they came up with the idea to raise this question on the Ask Reddit community, the user revealed that they sometimes go on the platform to read captivating horror stories. One particular tale caught the user’s attention when they noticed an unusual rule that was put in place. You see, someone in that story passed away, so others decided to create a regulation that would prevent that from happening. "That's where my idea originates," they told us.

#13

I graduated with my PhD in April 2020.

As graduation was virtual, they asked us to take a nice picture that would pop up when they read our names off. The email said family that had been integral to your journey could be in your picture.

So I took a picture with my dog and sent it in.

The next day they sent another email that said you couldn't have pets or family in your picture.

I never sent them another picture so they used it.

alpacaification Report

Final score:

170points

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Diana Lucas 2 years ago

But your dog IS family!

125points

#14

No typewriters in class.

I was kind of a s**t kid and while my school allowed us to use laptops, I would play videogames. Primarily Warcraft 3. In class. No sound or anything so I wasn't being a complete nuisance, but I wasn't doing my work.

A teacher told me I couldn't use my laptop.

I happened to have a 1950's Remington Quiet-Riter portable, all-mechanical typewriter. It was anything *but* quiet, with all of the TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA... DING! you'd expect from a typewriter.

After one full day of studiously taking notes and doing my assignments via typewriter, my teacher said I could use my laptop as long as I didn't bring the typewriter to class.

HelpfulCherry Report

Final score:

166points

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Shelby P 2 years ago

surprised they didn't just hand this person a pencil & paper and say no tech...

94points

#15

My high school biology teacher added "briefly" to all of the essay questions on his tests and quizzes because, if I was bored, I would write unnecessarily long answers in really small handwriting just to take up time.

He pointed out the word "briefly" when handing out a test and said to me, "I added that for you." So I made my next answer even longer out of spite.

HawaiianShirtsOR , Ben Mullins Report

Final score:

159points

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Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago

I think this student was particularly clever and not being challenged enough at school?

98points

At the time of writing, TheBlackTemplar125’s post has amassed 40K upvotes and over 16K comments full of entertaining stories of how people acted out and got in trouble. However, the user was surprised to see it blow up as much as it did. "I expected it to get buried among more creative questions," they said. "I just wanted something to read." The user also feels grateful to witness how the community has improved over time: "Ask Reddit has evolved enough so that only original posts will get seen in the hoard of generic posts."

#16

You can no longer skip to the end of training videos at Wendy's.

I completed about 10 hours of this training when it was implemented, after I'd already been working there a year, in about 45 minutes.

Open, skip, skip, skip, skip, do test, rinse and repeat. I was quite proud of my "estimated time 45 minutes, time to completion 2 minutes".

My store which is a franchise location, got a call from corporate like an hour later. I didn't have to redo any of it though.

Thegungoesbangbang , Batu Gezer Report

Final score:

147points

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Whatshername 2 years ago

Stupid corporate. If you pass, you pass.

78points

#17

I had to sue my school district back in high school just to leave special education after fighting it for over a decade.

Special education students now have the right built into every single IEP to attend any standard education class in their grade level or below, earn the associated credits, and also go to both health education and driver's education. They could do *none* of that before the lawsuit.

robexib Report

Final score:

141points

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Emma London 2 years ago

The school district probably got larger government subsidies for special educations kids.

40points

Applesintheorchard , Akshay Bandre Report

#18

"Don't trick your siblings or friends into eating soap."

I would cut bars of dove soap into pieces, wrap them in old candy wrappers, and pretend like they were mints. I was 8 or 9.

Final score:

140points

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Whatshername 2 years ago

Hahaha

42points

Reading through the responses in the thread proves that many people have a naturally rebellious side. How else would they come up with such shenanigans? Well, it's anything but boring to read how their actions make others shake their heads in disbelief, and TheBlackTemplar125 agrees. They told us that reading about others’ experiences and "picturing situations is fun. But people also like reading something to keep them occupied," the user said and added that they find short stories to be a great way to pass the time.

#19

"No makeup".

I went to an all boys school, and apparently this never came up until me and my emo friends rocked up in black eyeliner and lipstick.

DanteWrath , Bruno Bueno Report

Final score:

139points

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

What some adults don’t realize—-or, more accurately, forget—-is that if you totally ban something, teenagers, especially, will double triple down on it because you turned it into forbidden fruit. What the school should’ve done is simply do nothing, unless it got out of hand and disrupted classes. As long as it remained a fad for a few students, it would go out of style as quickly as any other teenage fad.Teenagers go through these phases, where they’re just trying on different styles until they find what suits them best. We ALL did it. When I was young, the newest thing was punk rock. So we had Mohawks, and wore torn tee shirts, big safety pins, and wild colorful makeup, while slam dancing to loud shouted (instead of sung) anti-establishment music. Then we graduated high school/college, put on suits, got jobs, got married, had kids, and took out mortgages. Like every generation before us, we found our own styles, and had our own lives.

8points

CATMONSTER2018 2 years ago (edited)

After covid, my school really went lax on the dress code. some people coming in wearing strapless crop tops and stuff. also TONS of makeup

3points

Leedle_Leedle_lee 2 years ago

same, but we were definitely allowed to wear makeup before.

0points

Carol Emory 2 years ago

Our school had to instill a rule about no make up for boys and no hair dye because we had punk rockers that transferred in. Didn't work though as the cheerleaders fought it because they wanted to dye their hair in green and blue for our school colors during sporting events. We had some nasty bullies though...so many of the punk rockers transferred out after one was attacked and shoved into lockers. I hate that my school treated them so badly.

3points

Verena Abt 2 years ago

Robert Smith got far in life wearing eyeliner und lipstick!

2points

Pjerrot 2 years ago

🤦🏼‍♀️

1point

Shalini Pabreja 2 years ago (edited)

Two words - Kelsey Hightower. If the system is set up to fail you, and the rules ensure it happens; make your own rules as you go along. Guy was rejected for admissions in every good tech school, did a bunch of certifications and got his foot in. Guys now “… an American software engineer, developer advocate, and speaker known for his work with Kubernetes, open-source software, and cloud computing.”, according to his Wikipedia page. Since November 2015, Hightower has worked for Google as an engineer and developer advocate in their cloud computing division. As of January 2022, Hightower is a principal engineer with Google Cloud.

0points

PVR 2 years ago

Sexist rule.

0points

#20

I got our HR box taken away at work because the HR lady threatened not to pay us if we missed a clock in or clock out (in our defense the phones didn't always work and the clock in system was really unreliable) and I printed out the law stating that was illegal, highlighted it, and put it in her box when no one was around.

She threw an unholy fit and tried to figure out who put it in her box, and from them on everything had to be handed in personally lol.

Pollowollo , Tim Gouw Report

Final score:

137points

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E Menendez 2 years ago

Well that's toxic. Hope you and everyone else are at a better place.

91points

Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi , Mael BALLAND Report

#21

My older brother got a curfew enforced at Boy Scout camp when one of the leaders noticed him walking around the area in the daytime with his eyes closed, counting steps. He may have just been practicing being blind, but the adults assumed he was figuring out how to get around at night without lights so he could get into some kind of mischief. Which, knowing my brother, was also possible.

PS: If you're one of those people saying "BUT BUT BUT", you're not thinking like an 11-year-old.

Final score:

130points

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

My kid would 100% do this! 🤣

37points

FartAttack911 , Opollo Photography Report

#22

My junior high made a rule against yo-yos in class after I tried to do a trick and my yo-yo flew across the room and broke a glass beaker set. I’m sorry, guys.

Final score:

127points

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Mozzarella 2 years ago

Ahem. I……………..may or may not have done this

50points

idontcare4205 , ANTONI SHKRABA production Report

#23

Local amusement park added a "no blindfolds on rollercoasters" rule because of me.

When I was in middle school, my friend and I thought it would enhance the overall experience if we blindfolded ourselves on the biggest roller coaster at a local amusement park. We got one of those pictures they take on the ride and there we are, blindfolded in the middle of a tunnel, having the time of our lives. Looking back, we easily could have strangled ourselves or worse because we literally just used scarves tied around our heads. Next year we went back to the same roller coaster and they had added a "no blindfolds or loose accessories" to the list of rules before the ride.

Final score:

118points

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Larry Michael 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure you can actually blindfold yourself with... eyelids. No additional accessories required.

86points

#24

Local jobcenter no longer has working usb ports on public PC's because I found private files on multiple PC's with far too much private information about strangers.

BelthazorDK , Anete Lusina Report

Final score:

114points

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Whatshername 2 years ago

Well done!

26points

#25

I put a croissant in one of those hotel toasters. It soon became engulfed in flames and needed extinguishing. Next day at breakfast they made a sign that said “if you’d like your croissant toasted, please ask a member of staff”

thatbitchlol , Kobby Mendez Report

Final score:

110points

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SewingStaffy 2 years ago

Why would you want to toast a croissant! They are so yummy just warmed

52points

#26

Back in the 1980s we were allowed to pick our own high school classes. My freshman year I picked two gym classes back to back and the school said no one has ever done that before. Only one gym class was allowed to be scheduled after that. I’m kind of a legend.

nuF-roF-redruM , cottonbro Report

Final score:

104points

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Wilko Lunenburg 2 years ago

Why wouldn't they allow that?

31points

#27

The valedictorian speech at my high school now needs to be reviewed by the principle before the ceremony for content and length.

swankpoppy , AliHanlon Report

Final score:

103points

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Spannidandoolar 2 years ago

This needs more information!

81points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#28

Well, I doubt they're teaching the class these days. But when I took "Advanced Programming Techniques Using FORTRAN", our professor added a line to all our projects stating that all programs had to be written in FORTRAN and only in FORTRAN.

When a student askef why he'd added that, he told the class to ask me. I just grinned. I still got a perfect score on the one where I had a FORTRAN shell call an assembler subroutine which did 99.99% of the work. Heh.

HowdyDoobie , wikipedia Report

Final score:

99points

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Stoopham McFernybabes 2 years ago

I’m hoping clever programming person out there is reading this and having a good chuckle. I am not that person.

122points

#29

The school website is no longer accessible out of school hours.

So you know how in harry potter, there are 4 houses and they compete or something like that? Well, our school does that. Every kid is put into 1 of 4 houses and they earn "house points" throughout the school year. At the end, whoever has the most points gets a bonus field trip to someplace cool (previous rewards include Crazy Pins, Sky Zone, and this one place with a bunch of bouncy houses).

Anyways, I was poking around the school website and I found an archive of all the winners over the years. When I scrolled down there was a button that said "Add Points" and naturally, I clicked it.

I was redirected to a new page that had 3 things: a dropdown, a text box, and a button. Select the house, input point value, add points. I added 25 points to my house as a test and saw that it worked. Over the following days, I'd slowly add more points.

Eventually, some teacher got suspicious of my house staying in 1st place for so long (rankings typically change daily--its a very close competition). They checked the logs and saw that there were being points added after school hours.

Unfortunately, they disabled access to the site after 3:00 P.M. on Monday-Friday and you can't use it on the weekends. Sorta my own fault but everything we do on our school computers is tracked so I couldn't add the points during school hours otherwise they would've found out it was me.

Irregular_Chaos Report

Final score:

96points

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Raumpfleger 2 years ago

This might be the worst workaround over a security hole I ever heard about - and I've seen my share! :-D lmao

51points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#30

At my elementary school, I was the third person to break my arm after falling off the track slide on the play structure.

Everyone treated me as if it was all my fault… But what about Ivan and Bobby, huh? WHAT ABOUT THEM?!

BondsOfEarthAndFire Report

Final score:

92points

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Emma London 2 years ago

So was the play structure closed down after the accident or what was the point?

38points

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#31

Not me, but my wife missed a lot of high school for several reasons. She’d go long periods without showing up, but would always make up the work and kept her grades up. Once graduation came around she was told she couldn’t graduate because she “missed too many days.” She argued this because there was no attendance policy in place. She was allowed to graduate after writing one final paper, but they quickly added a new policy after she left.

falconsomething , Emily Ranquist Report

Final score:

41points

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Raumpfleger 2 years ago

Our chemistry teacher hates me to this day for something similar: I missed most of his lessons over the year, so I had to take a final oral exam. I studied two days for it and got an A. When he announced this would then be my final grade, as it was the only grade he had, I replied - as the horrible teenager I was: If I only had known that's so easy, I would have skipped other courses too! I never saw into eyes saying so clearly "I want to kill you right now" ever again.

21points

#32

"No dice or regular playing cards." My friends and I created monsters of our fellow classmates by getting dice games and poker games started at lunch. Soon people were throwing dice in the hall and calling hop bets before class. My best friend and I kept a sheet of those who owed money to the "house" (my part time job money and his chore money). Someone's mom called the principal and complained that her son owed some other students $50 and he keeps spending all his money.

We would still throw dice for a while in the back stairwells or the outdoor area at lunch time. We collected about half of the money we were owed ~$350.

After that we turned to selling candybars and soda from our lockers. That got banned too, but we finished selling our stash. It was a profitable senior year.

philrickleson Report

Final score:

41points

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Mark Melton 2 years ago

I sold bags of oregano.

19points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#33

No stealing from the cash drawer at work or theft in general. I wasn't the one stealing but was managing a hotel when I caught an employee taking $20 out of the cash drawer and putting it in his pocket. I of course fired him on the spot and figured that was the end of it.

Two weeks later a get an unemployment notice from the state showing he filed for wrongful dismissal. I responded back stating he was terminated for theft. A week later they ask me to send them our employee handbook and training materials.

Shortly thereafter I received notice that they awarded him unemployment because nowhere in our handbook or training materials did it explicitly state he was not allowed to take cash from the cash drawer. You would think that would just be common sense but apparently the state of Wisconsin didn't agree.

From that moment on, it was explicitly stated in the handbook and training materials that employees were not allowed to take money or any other property that does not belong to them.

im68guns Report

Final score:

38points

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Andrea Owen 2 years ago

This is one reason why the world is going to s**t. Zero accountability for your own actions and stupid lawsuits.

31points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#34

No playing with the bean sprouts during recess.

Next to the playground at my elementary school, there were 2 or 3 [northern catalpa](https://www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/tree_alternatives/northern_catalpa) trees.

I didn’t have many friends in elementary school, so sometimes I would sit on the edge of the playground and play with the bean sprouts. By play with, I mean I would pick them up off the ground and fully peel them apart, butting any actual beans or seeds in my pockets (I might have the wrong type of tree there but you get the gist)

Anyway, other people gradually started doing the same thing until eventually there were just recesses when a lot of people would just play with bean sprouts the entire time (our elementary school had strict playground rules; no running on wood chips, no playing the game wood chips, no twirling the swings, no climbing on monkey bars, etc).

As more people began playing with the beans, beans would just end up in the school. Like. Everywhere. On desks? Beans. On the floor? Beans. In baskets? Beans. It became a definite issue, and with beans come bugs. As a result, they banned us from playing with the beans

I still did it tho because like- beans 🫘

galaxy_love Report

Final score:

37points

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I<3BanjosephTheDog 2 years ago

I just named my new dog Bean ❤️

10points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#35

At a ballpark I worked concessions at, they had an all-you-can-eat promo day where tickets were more expensive than usual, but concessions around the stadium were free (excluding alcohol). So I worked that day and of course it was chaos, but when the lines started dying down later in the game they started sending some of the hourly employees home, myself included. But of course, I didn't go home. After I clocked out, I stayed in the stadium and got some cheeseburgers and Philly steak and soda and found an empty seat in the crowd for the last few innings.

Next year, same promo, but new rule for staff: if you get sent home early, you have to actually leave the stadium.

SANTAAAA__I_know_him , Pixabay Report

Final score:

35points

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Alexis (he/any neopronouns) 2 years ago

That's a stupid rule

24points

#36

My elementary school was located in the center of the neighborhood, and my 5th grade class was the first to get outdoor trailers for classrooms. We'd ask for bathroom passes and then walk home. Next year they built a fence around the school

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35points

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gellert grindlewald 2 years ago

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#37

A local self-serve frozen yogurt shop had a special for birthdays, where you pay for a small cup and can load it up as much as you want. Typically, the yogurt was measured by ounces and you paid based on the weight.

In high-school, my friends and I (about 8 total) did this for everyone's birthday. We would make towers of yogurt that looked like Christmas trees sitting on a very tiny stand. Definitely over a pound of yogurt each.

On the last attempt, the owner recognized us and immediately told us that we needed to pay for our yogurt. We told her that the rules were as much as we could fit in the cup. She tried fighting us, but being stubborn high-school students, we wouldn't budge.

A couple weeks later, we attempted to get our service again, and they had changed the birthdays to 12 and under. No more ridiculously cheap yogurt for us.

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34points

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Nimues Child 2 years ago

This is why we cannot have nice things....

11points

#38

Back in elementary school I remember there used to be this kid who followed me everywhere and actively tried to hurt me. When talking to a teacher about it they went "oh, he just has a crush on you". The next day I walk up to the kid and shove him into a wall. After that there was literally a rule in that grade " Don't follow other students". That backfired poorly.

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Emma London 2 years ago

Honestly the kind of harassment that's still allowed in schools would require HR, disciplinary actions, firings, lawsuits and even criminal investigations in any workplace.

26points

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#39

Male students are not allowed to wear hair accessories. We had the rule about hair not touching collars, couldn't be past eyebrows, or over the ears. I grew my hair out and just put it up in head bands. After receiving multiple detentions and fighting them and winning, the next year, they made the rule

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31points

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RedPandasStandUprightWithPawsUpToLookIntimidating 2 years ago

Hair spray and wax.

18points

#40

No Pokemon cards at school.

I came to school one day to show off the holographic Charizard I had gotten the day before. Later that day it went missing and I was devastated. The next day another kid shows up with one and I know it's mine. He claims he got it from a pack and his brother can back him up but I didn't buy it and others didn't too. It lead to this whole big thing and the they ended up banning Pokemon cards to avoid future situations like that. It sucked that I was partly at fault to ruin something for others, but I had suffered a great injustice because I knew that was my card.

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31points

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Viola Yarrow 2 years ago

Oh cool I have that card. The guy who I traded with for it ( gave him a mega, not a very good one) is still pissed of at me (6 years ago, I had just turned 10)

7points

#41

"Golf users can no longer return an unlimited # of balls for tokens. "

When I was maybe.. 12ish there was a kids outdoor play area. Go karts, batting cages and indoor was something like a Chuck-E-Cheese, token based games, etc.

You could get a wrist band for maybe $15 and it'd get you unlimited rides, mini-golf and some other activities. Everything else cost tokens.

When you finished golfing you'd get 2 tokens for bringing your ball back. Unlimited golf, $0.50 worth of play value inside. So my friends and I would go there, speed run two golf games and give the balls back. $1 to our pockets.

Later on we started just fishing balls out of the water hazards and turning them in. Subtly at first and then in bulk later. The guys working there didn't care or actively laughed at it.

So we'd have a few hundred tokens.. then we started selling them 5 for $1. We stopped buying the unlimited bands. I'd bike there and earn $25 in a couple of hours. Management eventually caught on and altered the token for ball exchange.

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30points

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Jill Bussey 2 years ago

In the UK, the last ball of a game of crazy golf disappears into a non-returnable cavity located in the shop.

11points

#42

Our company operates on Discord, and a lot of people just made it so their personal discord became their professional discord rather than making a second account.

It made it easy for managers, including me, to invade the lives of their employees by pinging them when they saw a green light in Discord.

I wrote a long email to the directors about the separation of work and home life since we are a complete remote company. I suggested that we make it a rule for people to have a work discord that they log out of at the end of the day so that any messages sent after hours can be dealt with the next day. Since we are a remote company, people are in many time zones, and I don't want to invade someone's evening or early morning when I am in the midst of my work day.

The directors agreed, and it became a thing. It is annoying to juggle two accounts, but it is better than people in different time zones being up in each other's s**t all the time. What I would like to happen is that we use Slack instead, but everyone likes Discord.

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26points

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Chris Kane 2 years ago

Discord for business is nuts imo.

18points

#43

"No more than 4 margaritas per person" on dollar margarita (& beer) night.....In college, some friends and I used to go to a mexican restaurant every Thursday (?) and often on Saturdays for $1 margaritas. As a group, we would go through A LOT....then they put the rule in....then they changed it to $2 margaritas (& $1 draft beers)

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25points

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Lori-anne Hershberg 2 years ago

Well, they don't need to be losing money, they need to pay their bills and buy more stock!

2points

#44

My younger brother was always late to school (small school) and was tardy. He figured out if he just skipped first period and went to second he was counted as being on school and no late penalty because he was at 2nd period on time. They changed this the following year.

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20points

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WarpedThoughts 2 years ago

I did this. Then they put my fav. Class first and Math 😳 second. Always went to Shop in the morning... math not so much.

3points

#45

I used to ride on the bottom area of the shopping carts at our nearest grocery store. I thought it was fun to put my hands on the front of it, sliding them along the ground while the cart was moving (yes, I was gross). One sticky spot on the ground later and my hand was pulled back and thumb went right under the wheel. Crunched my little thumbnail and my mom had to remove it. Anyway, the store put up signs after that saying it’s against the rules for kids to ride in the bottom of carts.

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20points

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Mark Melton 2 years ago

I'm always seeing little red neck kids being dragged along the floor as they hang on to their parents electric scooter. Keeps the floor clean, I guess.

12points

#46

Not exactly a rule, but the fact that you can easily acknowledge your favorite grocery store employee since 2015 is because of me.

The bakery folks invented a one off cinnamon roll "cake" for my kids birthday. I went straight to the store manager and told that dude how much that meant to my kid. And who exactly put it together for us.

Two weeks later, he tells me that my story went all the way up the chain to corporate.

A month later, here's a big ol' box with slips and pens...

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20points

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

That’s been going on for WAAAAAAAY longer than 2015! 🤣

15points

#47

My high school created a rule that no one can graduate early. Mine and my brother's fault.

I'm sure they just want the tuition money.

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20points

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Mark Melton 2 years ago

Wait until you realize that your university is intentionally dicking you around so that you can't get your four year degree in four years, it's going to take you five years and extra cost, for no reason. Just say no to University loans.

14points

#48

The dual major on my degree is no longer offered after I proved it would have been logistically impossible to graduate with it without my specific transfer credits.

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19points

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Carol Emory 2 years ago

I got 3 bachelors in 6 years. Two Science, on Art. None of them I can use right now.

2points

#49

not me but a coworker- the whole company now requires that if you have a lanyard for your name tag it must break away on the back because she got it caught on a top shelf and it choked her

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19points

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Scotira 2 years ago

OMG I hope she's OK now! 🤔 I hate those thingies around my neck so I never use them, but our company has them, too. I'll have to go and check if they break by pulling as they should!

5points

#50

One of my favorite childhood moments sometime in 3rd grade. I got watermelons banned from handball.

Watermelons in our school were when you could duck under the ball in place of hitting the ball against the wall. Only your torso or head were allowed to go under the ball and count as a watermelon.

My fine moment came when I made a diving leap head first on a low hit because I knew my opponent was too far away to recover. Unfortunately I did it face first and I slid along the gritty concrete and skinned half my face off. I had to wear a face bandage for at least a month.

I made it. Everyone agreed it counted as a watermelon. I won that round and had to go to the nurses office. 100% would do it again.

The next day watermelons we're banned and everybody hated me while high-fiving me at the same time.

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18points

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TheHappyBookCat 2 years ago

That's some commitment.

8points

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BonnyDK 2 years ago

I got several state laws passed inadvertently. I went to a state convention and got on a platform committee. I put in four amendments including that teachers could choose any textbook from any company that best suited their curriculum and matched the state standards for their class. We were required to only choose from about 5 mega textbook companies until then that had been highly influenced in their content. It was picked up by Congress people and made into law. 3 of the 4 amendments made it into law. I also was on a state level TEKS review committee and got teaching respect for world culture into Art, Music, Drama, and Dance statewide. I live in Texas.

13points

Giles McArdell 2 years ago (edited)

My son's school had to completely upgrade their server security and student access rights after he wrote a simple little program that just endlessly created files and then got all his class to run it, it took down the server in just a couple of minutes.

9points

Grace DeGroot 2 years ago

When I was in second grade, I got hit by the tire swing in the face when it had like six kids on it, so I got beat up pretty bad. The next day, the tire swing was gone.

7points

Patti Vance 2 years ago

had a biology professor in college who had a rule that at midterms/finals you could bring your book & notes BUT they had to all be contained/attached in the book via tape staples; no loose papers/notes. biology was hard for me so i had done 3x5 cards for notes, not paper notes. so took all my cards, organized by chapter, taped together like long caterpiller, attached to an envelope then stapled to book page so it could be pulled out like an accordian but not loose. prof stood at door, examined & shook each book. got to mine which now weighed a ton & in spite of all the shaking & page flipping nothing fell out. he shrugged, said it was good planning & let it go. next semester i heard the rules had been changed to only allow paper notes limited to 5 per chapter.

5points

Daniel Atkins 2 years ago

Went to a youth camp and they divided the camp into teams based on the cabins they were in and each team had a flag. Our counselor told us that back in the day he and his cabin stole all the flags. So that is what our cabin did. No one knew who did it because we hid our team flag too. Had to make an announcement for whoever stole the flags to return them. Next time I was at the camp no stealing other teams flags was a rule.

4points

Kusotare 2 years ago

A national sports organization started including a form for youth competitors that their parents would assume full liability for any damage caused by their child while competing at the national championships because of me. I burned down the sauna. Nobody knows it was me, and even I didn't know I was responsible until after the fact. I knew that the fire department responded to a fire at the host hotel, and when I saw that the sauna was cordoned off, I put two and two together and realized who the culprit was.

4points

Torsten 2 years ago

When I served in the German Army in the mid-1980s I started a competition on how fast you can go with an "Ilits" 4WD vehicle. After other drives had severe accidents the speed for this vehicle was restricted to 100kph on the Autobahn and 80kph on other roads. My record of 160+kph going downhill on the A8 from Ulm eastbound may stand to this day. ("160+" because the speedometer only went to 160.)

4points

pusheen buttercup 2 years ago

I was told I couldn't sit with my best friend in girl scouts, so I waited till the adults were asleep in the cabin, then she and I snuck downstairs to grab a whole box of sugar and hand it out to all the other girlscouts. They were jumping off the walls for hours!

4points

memyselfandI 2 years ago (edited)

It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you get added to the rulebook. https://images.app.goo.gl/7fi75T1uNxrS5WKP6

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memyselfandI 2 years ago

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Bryn 2 years ago

When I was in high school, I used to print of hundreds of pages of fanfiction. (Sometimes I would remember to make it double sided.) They made a paper limit for students and hid the extra paper. :B Sorry

1point

A. Jones 2 years ago

I accidentally got those white hard retro candy sticks (that look like chalk) banned from school because the way I was eating them in the calf. A teacher accused me of imitating smoking, but I was just eating it like a pretzel stick. I didn't get in trouble, but just a lecture. Like dude, I was 7 years old at the time. smh

1point

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

We have those in Australia, they are called Fads. Originally they were called f**s and even had red on one end to look more like cigarettes. The name changed around the 90s I think.

0points

h to da izzle 2 years ago (edited)

oh i feel it. not exactly a troublemaker but i "invented" a rule in my first place of work. i was young dumb and had not a lot of money. i worked at a youth centre that hosted a lot of harcore concerts and i was there to fullfil my first internship for my job training (in germany there is a training that leads to a title called "Jugend-und Heimerzieher" which is quite an equivalent to a social worker). When these Concerts took place, we were allowed to drink while on the job bc the audience would not be the kids that were usually around. I took that to a pretty heavy level and my supervisor saw the tab the other day and from that day on there was a 3 drinks a night rule for everyone. i finished my internship shortly after and wasn't affected by the rule but a friend of mine that still works there reminds me every time i come visit him.

0points

Catnip Everdeen 2 years ago

I admire all of these people.

0points

Deux 2 years ago

Ah, what do ya know! ANOTHER week old Buzzfeed article directly copied to Bored Panda by the same thieving writers as usual.

0points

PoAngielsku 2 years ago

At least it's not another one of those dumb and obviously fake AITA stories from Reddit that consists of screenshots as well as descriptions for those too dumb to understand the screenshots. And at least it's not full of made up words like "unalived" 🙄🙄. I suppose when they ran out of "I imagined Disney princesses as..." they had no original content so they have to steal from Buzzfeed and Reddit.

0points

Mud spider 2 years ago

My science class has a sign saying not to hit people with textbooks because of me 😂 also my friend and I from across the room would speak in sign language, but our teacher banned it, so out of spite, we started yelling across the room to talk to each other (we could have texted from under our desks or just wait till lunch like any other student) so she ended up moving us next to each other!! I like occasionally causing unnecessary ruckus during class, but I keep it to 1-2 times a month, because too much would annoy the S**T out of the teachers 😂😂😂😂

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BonnyDK 2 years ago

13points

Giles McArdell 2 years ago (edited)

9points

Grace DeGroot 2 years ago

When I was in second grade, I got hit by the tire swing in the face when it had like six kids on it, so I got beat up pretty bad. The next day, the tire swing was gone.

7points

Patti Vance 2 years ago

5points

Daniel Atkins 2 years ago

4points

Kusotare 2 years ago

4points

Torsten 2 years ago

4points

pusheen buttercup 2 years ago

4points

memyselfandI 2 years ago (edited)

It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you get added to the rulebook. https://images.app.goo.gl/7fi75T1uNxrS5WKP6

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memyselfandI 2 years ago

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Bryn 2 years ago

1point

A. Jones 2 years ago

1point

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

We have those in Australia, they are called Fads. Originally they were called f**s and even had red on one end to look more like cigarettes. The name changed around the 90s I think.

0points

h to da izzle 2 years ago (edited)

0points

Catnip Everdeen 2 years ago

I admire all of these people.

0points

Deux 2 years ago

Ah, what do ya know! ANOTHER week old Buzzfeed article directly copied to Bored Panda by the same thieving writers as usual.

0points

PoAngielsku 2 years ago

0points