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“What’s Something That’s Happened To You That Sounds Fake But Unfortunately Isn’t?” (50 Answers)
Despite the old saying that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, we tend to disbelieve movie-like stories that people share from their own lives. These things just don’t happen to the average person, we reason, even though it does have to happen to someone.
So one netizen asked the internet to tell their stories of experiences that don’t sound real but actually did happen to them. From impossible coincidences to perfect tragedies, people shared their tales. So get comfortable as you scroll through and be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own experiences below.
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#1
My grandmother prevented the neighbor boy from kidnapping our next door neighbor.
Our house was the bus stop. I woke up sick that morning and didn’t go to school. Grandma was the neighborhood grandma and kept an eye on the kids that were at the stop every morning. She was watching the girl at the corner (she was the only one riding that morning), looked back and she was gone. He was dragging her accross our backyard with a knife to her throat. My grandma ran at him screaming and throwing rocks at him while i called the cops. She won citizen of the year in our city.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
Who tf wakes up one morning and just decides to abduct a neighbourhood kid in broad daylight?
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Never underestimate the will of an old person to kick your a*s. This woman is a legend. I also remember, years ago, reading about an elderly woman in the UK who foiled an attempted breakin at her home by beating the s**t out of the robber with her CANE as he was trying to come in an open window. I think she broke his arm. That and her description of him made him really easy to nab. Don’t ever just assume that, because someone is old, they’re automatically also weak. Chances are greater than you think that they are way tougher old birds than they look—-not to mention the fact that so many older people are keeping fit than before, and many of them also do strength training. They could be as fit, or even a lot fitter, than the average twenty something.
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#2
Not me but my uncle. He was in Jamaica when his wife who was doing fitness classes, died due to a perforated bowel from a meal at the resort and the authorities drove him to an ATM and told him he's going to be suspect #1 if he doesn't pay them and he'll never have his wife repatriated to the US.
He complied and they took him back to the resort, unbeknownst to him, T-Pain was also there and caught wind of the situation and worked magic with his connections to keep my uncle safe and bring my aunt home for a funeral, as well as providing his bodyguard protection to my uncle.
To this day, almost two decades later, they will video chat on holidays like Easter to talk and in my view that man is a saint to our family. Anytime he's in town they'll meet backstage before one of his concerts and they'll have a big hug. One time he met his family. I will never forget the kindness this man has shown over DECADES, it's insane
Edit: sharing a pic of T-Pain hugging my uncle [https://i.imgur.com/4wFcqda.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4wFcqda.jpg)
Edit2: Yes, that is my Uncle. And I want to call out that in 2007, T-Pain was **23 years old** when he did this selfless act. In my opinion that just amplifies the character he holds himself to that you see in his actions throughout his entire life. What an awesome man.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Haven't heard of T-Pain in a very long time. Good to hear he's a good guy!
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
Yea. I've heard something before about him being a pretty decent person. I also think it's pretty nice that he actually has a really good singing voice. I've only heard him actually sing one though. The majority of what he does, at least that I've heard, is auto-tunned, which I've heard he mostly does because people liked it in his music.
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2x4b523p 2 years ago
Wait you can die from perforated bowel after eating bad meal?? New fear unlocked.
CultOfBambi 2 years ago
Maybe a fishbone or sharp bit of lobster shell? I'm guessing it's pretty uncommon or we'd have heard about it more.
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Mumma Cass 2 years ago
Hahaha it just proves how old I really am! When OP said 2 decades ago, I thought T-Pain was around 15yrs old. Just did a quick search on him and he a few years younger than me!! (S M H) Lol. I must say Uncle and family are blessed to have met T-Pain and making sure Uncle was safe.
#3
I was visiting London with my grandpa and we were riding in a small public bus. And on this bus there happened to be a dwarf. A young schoolgirl (probably because her mother told her to) approached her and offered up her seat to the woman but she rudely yelled " What, because I'm a dwarf!? I've been a dwarf my whole and I've managed just fine without any help!" And the poor girl sat down all red in the face. But awhile later at another stop a woman stood up and before exiting, she tapped the dwarf on the shoulder and said " I'll be getting off now. My seats empty if you'd like to take it." But just as she started to carry on the woman cut her off and yelled "No! Not because you're a dwarf! Because you're a human being deserving of respect! And I must say you were very rude to that poor girl when she was just trying to be nice! And I hope that when you're getting ready for bed tonight, Snow White kicks in your door and kicks your f*****g a*s!" Then she got off leaving the dwarf standing there wide eyed and slack jawed while the rest of us were sat there just looking at one another.
Mark Williams 2 years ago
This is literally a bit from Billy Connolly the Scottish comedian. You can find it on YouTube. Funnily enough it’s called dwarf on a bus.
arthbach 2 years ago
Billy Connolly tells the story better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7nsAMwl1T4
SuperChicken 2 years ago
OMG! That is too funny. Thank you for sharing... and, "God,let this true."😜🤣🤣🤣
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teenytabs 2 years ago
Maybe this woman acts this way because people keep referring to her as, "The dwarf."
#4
In 2012 I lifeguarded at a beach in Delaware. I was talking with a lady who was drinking a glass of wine on the beach. While telling her she was not allowed to do that, Dave Grohl walked behind me. I was/am a massive fan and knew he would vacation at this beach, but never assumed I would run into him. In the moment of being absolutely star struck the lady goes “oh you’re a fan of Dave I see?” Barely able to talk I said “yes, he is a reason I got into drumming.” She then said “oh he’s my son, you should go say hi!”
I let her drink the wine and I was able to talk to my music idol for a solid 20 minutes. One of the best days of my life.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Why aren't people allowed to drink a glass of wine peacefully on the beach?
Eve Forbes 2 years ago
Sometimes it’s the glass: if it breaks and the shards get dropped you can end up with people getting cut up badly.
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Jaya 2 years ago (edited)
So she was allowed to do something that others aren't allowed, just because her son is a great musician and really cool guy and you got introduced by her? This is basically what corrupt politicians do, just on a super small and more innocent scale.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
It’s what everyone in the right circumstances do. Life isn’t fair and rules are never, ever applied equally & consistently. Which is a good thing when it comes to considering each individual situation, but also a bad thing when it comes to discrimination. We’ve all been on both sides of getting away with breaking a rule and being overly punished for breaking a rule. If it was my job to patrol the beach & enforce this particular rule, the baseline is no one drinks. Those who get caught doing so can either be fined or reprimanded or told to keep it lowkey or told nothing. It would come down to my assessing the situation, their attitude & manner and making a call that’s best for the overall situation. In this case I’d let her casually & responsibly continue doing what she was even if she wasn’t the creator & star of a documentary based off her awesome book.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
Drinking and swimming don't mix. You may be planning to just sit safely on the beach. But plans have been known to change after that fourth glass of wine.
Fussy1 2 years ago
After my fourth glass of wine there is no way I'd be able to sit safely on the beach. I'd be sprawled face down on my beach blanket! Wouldn't even notice the high tide. Lol
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Amina Hays 2 years ago
Yet another example of not holding "celebrities" (she wasn't even a celebrity, just his mother) to the same standards. If that had been just a regular person, they would've been kicked off the beach.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
Yes she is. I know more of her than him. https://www.fromcradletostage.com/
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Because some idiot will drink 7 glasses of wine, and then try to swim and have to be rescued.
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
I live in an area where anywhere people tend to drink in public you find way more litter and public urination.
Richienotsorich 2 years ago
You reckon DG's mum was gonna pi$$ on the beach?!
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Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
What bothers me more is the "Ah, you're related to a celebrity! In that case the rules don't apply to you" attitude.
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#5
I was dragged out of a tent in my sleep by a pack of dingos on Fraser Island in Australia.
I woke up to a weird feeling at my feet and saw that they were chewing on my toes through the sleeping bag. One of them was standing on my hips/stomach, staring me in the face. Now, I'm not a fighter, but I hit him such a punch on the side of the head....like, a perfect right cross to his cute lil face. He went flying sideways which spooked all the others (about 4 or 5 of them) and, with a few kicks from my bagged up legs, they scuttled away. I went back into the tent to find my then gf still asleep and snoring away.
The next morning, I went over to our tour guide fella, massive Aussie dude named Tony, and told him what happened, and he asked "Didja see which one it was?"
And funnily enough I did. He had a yellow and blue tag in his ear (they're all tagged on the island) and I remembered because they're the Wicklow colours, where I'm from. And Tony just said
"Aw yeah, that c**t"
I ended up punching quite a bit of wildlife in my year there, but Australia definitely started it
Bored something 2 years ago (edited)
And people doubted Lindy Chamberlain. The dingos at Uluru were also known to be aggressive to kids but noone listened to the local indigenous community then.
Robyn Ward 2 years ago
That's the problem right there.....unfortunately no-one listens to what the locals tell you...
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I visited that island when I was a kid, and a dingo on the beach tried to run off with my dad's backpack, brazen as you please. When Dad grabbed the bag they ended up having a tug of war before the dingo gave up and wandered off. They're not the least bit scared of humans.
Deborah Stuart 2 years ago
I agree! They're responsible for a lot of deaths every year in Australia!
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Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
Why do dingoes have to be friend shaped?! Like I would have definitely hesitated to punch them there :/
Barbara Marsh 2 years ago
I know a few people who have them as pets. They are really intelligent but a bit stubborn, so they need to be trained really well. They can also jump really high, so you need tall fences. One of my friends always finds her on top of the fridge! I once had a dingo/Australian terrier cross - looked like a dingo but terrier sized.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
A few years ago in the same place dingos jumped up in the back of a camper and dragged a toddler outside by his head. The father had to chase them down the beach to get his kid back. The boy was injured but he recovered. The dingos on Fraser Island are dangerous because they're not afraid of people. They're smart too. They somehow knew to jump up on to the back of a truck and open the tent to get to the kid while 2 adults slept there. Scary!
Kristy Marion 2 years ago
They very rarely attack humans. It usually happens in places like K’gari, the island in this story, where they have become used to humans and more importantly get fed by the tourists. There have been several attacks on children on K’gari. The dingoes that attack get culled.
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I'M A SHOUTY MAN (they/she/he) 2 years ago
Oh, it is terrible on K'gari at the moment. So many people have been attacked, and some have died. If you ever go there, Don't. Feed. The. Dingoes!!!!!!!
MellonCollie 2 years ago
What I find so surprising is that if they know this particular dingo is such a c**t, and seeing that the dingoes pose such a treat, is there nothing that can be done?
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Had routine stomach surgery in 2015 - thankfully ended up being keyhole, so minimal scarring/drama and the view that I’d be home in 1-2 days max. 2 days later still in hospital, I wasn’t well. Tachycardia, temperature, swelling etc. but got up that morning, had a shower and got dressed as the nurses said it was normal after some surgery to be a little off. Mam had tried telling them (she’s a RN and midwife) that she thought I may have an infection. She was accused of being neurotic. Later that day, started to drift in and out of consciousness whilst they eventually did an emergency CT Scan. Turns out the surgeon had nicked my bowel, I had a 2cm rip in it and was dying from sepsis. Parents were told to say goodbye to me as staff physically ran me through the hospital in my bed and straight back into theatre (I’m talking medical drama style). Nurse had hold of my hand and ran next to the bed, telling me she’d better see me at the other side. They had to fully open me up. Ended up with a 8 inch scar down my stomach, a 3litre wash out, 40 staples, a drain and 2.5weeks in hospital whilst I fought against septic shock and my organs shutting down. Morphine pump, blood transfusions, antibiotics out the wazoo…….. Told me that as I already had PCOS and now I have huge internal scarring, that the predicted infertility was pretty much a 99% certainty now and if by some miracle I fell pregnant, I’d lose the baby/be unable to carry to term. Aside from some scarring on my bowel which can be painful occasionally and the scar down my stomach, I’m tip top now! And I conceived twin girls naturally 4 years later 😊♥️♥️ Survived sepsis, had children and I’m now happier than ever 👏🏻
David A Paterson 2 years ago
So are bad surgeons and unsympathetic nurses.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
A medical staff's worst nightmare: careless surgeon doing a "routine" procedure. If you're gonna be a surgeon, the routine is: Don't assume you can go fast b/c you know whaty ou're doing. And that's why I'm in research. Safer for all of us.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
mom should sue the hospital for the cost of the medical bills, because if they had listened to her, none of that woulda been necessary.
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
Typical, women - especially mother- are not taken too seriously by doctors
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Sunshine Lady 2 years ago (edited)
One night I felt horrible abdominal pain. It was like period pain, but like 10 times stronger. My boyfriend said we should go to ER, but I said no, I thought it was just my PMS. 2 hours later I finally said ok. After 3 hours waiting for ER, 3 different doctors couldn't decide what's wrong, gave me some painkillers and sent me home. In the morning I went back there, because the pain was still strong. Same thing as previous night - painkillers, go home. In the evening I went back there with the same pain and they decided to hospitalize me. Next morning they performed appendectomy. 2 hours later my doctor was explaining to me that I had my appendix infected, because a ruptured ovarian cyst full of blood almost killed me. Also they removed something from my ovary and sent it for histology. 1.5 months later I went for ovariectomy and my right ovary was removed. My doctor explained that I may never have kids. I was only 21 back then. 10 years later I have 3 beautiful kids!
Sunshine Lady 2 years ago
Also one miracle happened - in the beginning of my second pregnancy doctors showed me that I have two ovaries. Previously I've been on several checks that showed only 1 ovary. After the third pregnancy my gynecologist showed me that my right ovary is ovulating.
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Kiss Army 2 years ago
I'm so glad you survived! My brother went in for routine gallbladder surgery on September 9th - it should have been outpatient surgery - he had every complication you can think of and was in the hospital for exactly at month. He passed away last Monday on October 9th, which was one day shy of the tenth anniversary of losing my dad.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
My coworker had bowel surgery, came home to heal for a few weeks. Called on Friday to say she'd be in on Monday. We never saw her again. Something ruptured, she went septic, into a shock coma, and died that same night. We miss you, Beth.
#7
I lived in a small quiet town and my house was in a cul-de-sac so all the neighbors knew each other and we all got along well.
One night when I was about 12 years old, I was babysitting my baby brothers (twins). It was bedtime so we were laying in my mom’s bed watching a movie to wind down. Suddenly they both start whining that they want chocolate milk. I was super annoyed because I just wanted them to go to sleep so I could be off the clock, so to speak.
Just as we walked through the doorway and out of the bedroom, I heard what sounded like firecrackers going off in the bedroom we just left. I peeked my head back in the doorway and heard a couple more. It sounded like it was coming from the closet which was about a foot away from me at this point. I called my mom and told her what happened and that I was scared. We didn’t go back in the room until she got home.
Once she was home, we discovered several bullet holes throughout the bedroom- in the walls, in the closet door, and one in the corner of the tv- so we called the cops. They figured out that our neighbor had been doing some target practice in his garage (and drinking) and his garage wall faced our house. So the bullets entered my mom’s bedroom through the wall, just a few inches above her bed, which had no headboard. Right where our heads had been while we were lying there watching the movie.
If those little buttheads hadn’t bothered me for chocolate milk at that exact moment, things could have been very different.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
This is also why houses shouldn't be built from what sounds like cardboard.
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lily jones 2 years ago
This person calling their brothers 'little buttheads' after a brush with death is what makes the story believable
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
This is why idiots who misuse guns should have their heads held in a pail full of water for at least thirty minutes.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 2 years ago
Yeah. For all the people doubting it - that's why we live in the UK. No guns, and also, no, you could definitely not shoot through how our houses are built unless you have a tank. Seriously America. I've been on about the paper houses for years but you shouldn't need to be told about guns on this level of stupidity. This is not something kids should have to grow up worrying about. You're literally making yourselves a 3rd world country with your access to guns and lack of access to healthcare. Land of the free my a*s.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Bullets are not stopped by walls unless it's the bloody Tower of London, people.
Hey hey hey 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure a reinforced concrete wall would have stopped bullets. Even baked clay bricks would have stopped non-armour piercing bullets.
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#8
I broke my humerus while sitting stock still at my computer desk. Bone cancer had eaten through it and it chose that moment to just snap in half. 0/10 do not recommend Edit: just to answer some questions— I did not realize I had cancer at the time! This was how I found out. I had my elbow resting on the arm rest, so I imagine the pressure was what finally did it in. I am okay now, almost 10 years in remission!
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
My hubby found out he has bone cancer when he coughed hard and broke a vertebra. Sounds b******t, but it's totally true. And he's in chemo. So .... weird sh*t will happen.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
A locally famous guy here had pancreatic cancer. He had a wicked sense of humor. So many people wanted to come up & hug him or shake his hand. He warned them hat would never never get over the sound that his bones make when they break. He did beat the cancer. Passed away naturally 9 years after being diagnosed.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 2 years ago
Well this is absolutely freaking terrifying. I'm curious to know if you get any kind of pain / warning signs? You'd think your bone basically disintegrating would hurt or at least feel weak but it sounds like you get no warning at all? That is horrific, I'm so sorry.
Momica98 1 year ago
I injured my hamstring by incorrectly lifting a large bag of cat litter from the bottom shelf at the store. The pain got so bad that I had a bunch of scans, missed work and couldn't get around without a mobility aid. So one night after taking a painkiller and muscle relaxer, I tripped on the bathroom rug and fell on my side. The extent of the pain was masked by the medication, but I wondered if I had perhaps torn the injured hamstring. My husband helped me to bed. When I woke up the next morning I knew something was very wrong. I hadn't moved an inch during the night and couldn't get out of bed. Husband called 911, had a traumatic ER experience (treated like a d**g seeker), had emergency surgery on what turned out to be a broken hip. And that's how I found out I had osteoporosis at the age of 28.
Angie Falzarano 1 year ago
Congrats on the 10 yrs. I'm celebrating 5 yrs breast cancer free. Cancer survivors stand up and be counted.
#9
I was riding my bike around my apartment building as a kid. Ran into some bullies from school.
Now as a kid I had a problem with shutting up, I had no idea how, so I pissed them off.
So I was riding my bike as fast as possible to get away from them (They were also on bikes) when I got something on the ground and went flying.
A few things to note
1) I was a tiny little girl like 70 pounds tops.
2) I was poor, so my bike was used, a bit rusty and most importantly, missing handle bar grips
3) the combination of speed, my weight, and whatever I hit, launched me more up than forward.
So I hit something, the bike fell on its side, and then I fell on the bike.
Felt like it knocked the wind out of me and I knew it had to be bad because one of the bullied pedaled away as fast as possible, the other one helped me home and saying that this doesn't make us friends on the way. Left our bikes where they were. I didn't care, my mid section hurt where I landed.
Got home and my mom turned to greet me and practically screamed that I was bleeding.
I looked down and realized that I was bleeding a lot from my stomach and fainted.
I woke up at the hospital later to find out that I had landed on to a bike handle which has impaled me through my mid section about halfway through me
Missed my organs just barely and left me with a neat scar and a story no one believes until they see the scar.
Robert T 2 years ago
Not sure about that, as the general advice is that if you are impaled on something, to leave it in. By helping the person up, they could have killed them.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I believe it. Docs see strange sh*t and sso do farm kids. I'm both. You can't beat haying season for WTF accidents.
New Everywhere 2 years ago
You read the story about the guy that had both of his arms ripped off by farm equipment and he still managed to get himself help?!
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Oooh my cousin has a wicked scar on his cheek from falling & being impaled on a handlebar with no grip. Went straight through but didn't mess up his teeth.
RajunCajun 2 years ago
my ex has a aunt that happened to but, a bit lower. she had to have reconstructive surgery on her V. So now the whole family is deadly scared of tricycles. I only found out because the family through a fit when I tried to get my son a tricycle.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
Something similar happened to my mom, except it was from her sitting on the handlebars while another kid rode the bike. Her mother told her to not do it and she did anyway. The bar didn't go into her stomach but actually went into her throat, punctured it a bit, and she was covered in blood.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
similar thing happened to my little brother when we was kids 8-11yo, we used to build ramps to launch off (as all good GenX'er's did,It was mandatory 😆)....he landed wrong and now has a circular scar above his belly button, fortunately didn't do too much damage or go too deep....the next week I knocked myself out doing same ramp didn't come round til I got carried home (200yrs ish) by one of the older lads (I still remember his name "lee whall"
SuperChicken 2 years ago
Wow, that's pretty scary and I'm very happy that you're alive. Albeit a bully, kudos to the kid for taking you home.
#10
3.5 years ago, I had 3 guys try to rob me. I was very fit then and had trained in jiu jitsu and muay thai. In the end, I put two of them in the hospital and all three were arrested. I walked away with really bad bruises and cuts, a concussion, and possible broken ribs. During the fight I got hit with a crow bar. Well, when I went to have my ribs scanned, they ended up finding cancer. Stage 4 of an extremely rare cancer that only about 80 people have. I never had any symptoms and my blood work was excellent. Doctors said I had about 1.5 years to live but I'm still going!
Big GreenTurtle Mamma 2 years ago
Well done you, though I'm so sorry about that diagnosis. Stay strong, sending you much love. Cancer is a beeach. XX
Animal lover 2 years ago
Blood tests do not work a lot of times. 2017 had Uterine cancer, no sign in blood, body had post memopause blood flow, that's the only way they found it. 2023 breast cancer, blood test never showed it, but annual mammogram did
#11
My childhood best friend's mom passed away by drowning. My best friend then died a couple of months later by being hit by an 18 wheeler on the side of the road, her father then died a few months later from throat cancer. Lost my entire second family in under a year due to unrelated incidents. It's been 7 years and I'm still not over it.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
I'm very sorry for you've been, and are still going through.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
Let it take time. It may be forever. Everyone grieves at their own pace.
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That's so sad and horrible for both the ones who died and the ones who were close to them.
Lynn Morello 2 years ago
WOW, Most people can't even handle losing one family member, I sincerely feel for you losing so many.
Janet Graham 2 years ago
I don't think you ever 'get over' that deep of a loss. You will get beyond it or past it, but first, you have to go through it. And you will.
#12
In 1986 my parents planned a trip to Disney in FL, a random man tried to kidnap my half brother by snatching him and running. He was tackled, my brother was safely returned to us and nothing happened to the guy as he disappeared into the crowd. Fast forward to 1989, in Ohio at a pop up circus in a field, I was given change to go get a popcorn. A man dressed as a clown approached me and after several long minutes of small talk grabbed me. Bystanders saw the ordeal and a random man with exquisite side burns chased down this man who had thrown me into his pickup truck and gunned it. Mr sideburns and another man were able to pull him from the vehicle and stop the truck as it rolled into a parking lot and hit several parked vehicles. I was fine other than some forehead scrapes from hitting the dash. The clown was not a circus performer or associated with the circus. He was an opportunistic predator.
I can’t even say either of these events were the worst part of my childhood. Also, f**k clowns.
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
As a child I wasn't afraid of clowns as such but could never understand the appeal. Now the older I get the more I have developed a dislike of them..
𝕶𝙖𝙩𝙚 2 years ago
i use to be afraid of them (a ton of killer clowns were around my area when i was 8) but now i really like them but that's probably because i love icp !
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Yeah, I don't buy it. Cool story, but I doubt it really happened.
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Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
There were four of us that hung out together. We grew up & parted. One of the group died years ago in his 20s. His mother had told people it was an unknown medical issue. Then 2 years ago I go to an estate sale at the one guy's parent's homes. My one buddy is seeing the stuff & our other surviving buddy comes to shop too. We got to talking. Our late friend had killed himself. Not only was he molested by our scout master but the priest from our church too. Why, why was he singled out? We all had those baby faces & would have been prime targets. This guy had no father. The three of us had mean, alcoholic fathers who were all combat vets. They had reputations for taking matters into their own hands. It would never be a police matter. The perverts would have suffered greatly & disappeared.
#13
Years ago, I broke my right foot. After 6 weeks in a boot, I was leaving the orthopedist office boot-free. Just me and my own two feet, raw dogging the ground. I was so excited to drive home, now that I was out of that damn boot.
And then on the way to the car, I stepped off the curb, rolled my left ankle, and broke it.
ShayXie 2 years ago
oh nooo...I'm finally (almost) free after two months in a boot on my right foot. Last week the boot slid on an actual cricket, forcing me into a slo-mo half-split then ended with me toppling over and landing on my left knee. I've been icing and keeping it elevated and babying the s**t out of it, because I'll be dammed if something happens to my left side too. For the love of the gods.
Pandapoo 2 years ago
You slid on a cricket? Sorry, I had to laugh. One of my bosses tripped on an acorn when we were walking back from lunch. He never lived that one down.
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Kind of like the time I was picking my car up at the body shop after a fender bender. I picked up my keys, got in my car, and promptly backed straight in to another car. My dad was with me, as he had given me a ride there. I don't think I've ever seen him so disappointed in me before or after. He literally banged his head on the steering wheel of his car when he saw what I'd done. I had to leave the car at the body shop and take the ride of shame home with him. :) Thankfully I'm much more careful in my old age.
Ropre 2 years ago
That sucks! I broke my ankle, tibia and fibula last December three days before Christmas. They splinted me up and I had to wait two weeks for surgery because of Christmas and New Year and then I was off my foot for almost four months. When the doctor said I could walk again I was terrified. I said to him...."But I feel like if I step on it it's going to shatter" and he said it was fine....after I got home I realized I probably insulted him by saying that! lol
Fussy1 2 years ago
Very similar injury 10 years ago, I was terrified to be given back my 'naked' leg/foot. Even with physio and using a therapeutic pool 5x week for 7 months I would still go down the stairs (18 of them) on my bum every morning! I know it sounds silly, but my brain could not get around the fear.
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Leesa DeAndrea 2 years ago
Something similar happened to my brother. Last day of school one summer, he fell and broke his wrist. Had to wear a cast. Got the cast off and a few days later he tripped & fell. Broke the other wrist. Poor kid. What a crappy to start to summer for him!
#14
there’s a lamb that hates me and goes out of its way to kick only me when i visit my fathers farm.
afia kooma 2 years ago (edited)
My ex and her border collie(!) was herded of a field by a matrone sheep and her cronies. They could not go there without me , because she would step into the path and do a sheeps " thou shall not grass" and then litteraly run them of.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Not too surprising, sheep can be vicious animals when they want to be.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
That's a funny one hahahhahha. The revenge of the lamb......now I wanna see a movie like that hahahaha
Upstaged75 2 years ago
A friend of mine had her ribs broken when a ram decided to randomly slam in to her while she was minding her own business in the field. Apparently he didn't like the look of her. We felt terrible for her, but could not stop making sheep jokes for the next 6 months. :)
#15
I was born in the early 80s, and during that time they took newborns away to the nursery to be cared for away from the parents. When it was time for my mother to leave the hospital, they returned her baby to her and before my parents left, they needed to change the baby’s diaper. Well, when they removed the diaper they saw that the baby that they had was a girl when my mother had given birth to a boy. The hospital tracked down the parents who had me and got the babies back to their rightful parents. Some crazy s**t.
Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
I wonder how many times this has happened in the past? If I had given birth, I’d probably use a sharpie on the baby’s foot just to be sure! Also with the rise of those home DNA kits, it’s easier to find out now.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
In the US, they tag the parents and the baby. You don't get your baby unless the tags match. You don't leave the nursery with your baby unless the tags match. There were some big payouts due to stolen and switched babies and hospitals adopted strong measures. That being said, I still memorized some of my son's features at birth and double checked when they brought him back to me after some procedures.
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Perfumista Perfumista 2 years ago
If the other baby had been a boy they would never have known. Mom might even have been accused of infidelity if the features were way off when the baby was older.
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
In 2000, after I had my oldest, a nurse left a friend of mine alone in the nursery, holding my baby. My friend had only said she was there to see me, but I had asked not to have visitors. But the staff had no idea if this person was really a friend. She could have been anyone. And they gave her my baby, and left the area. She told me it would have been so easy to just walk off. She couldn't believe it.
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Frightening. I certainly hope the administration was contacted. 😬
Load More Replies... BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
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Annik Perrot 2 years ago
I had 4 kids in the 80s, and even taking the baby to the nursery for a few hours so the mother could get a little sleep wasn't an option. I breastfed them, though.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
Makes you wonder how many times this happened and they didn't catch it.
Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
When my mum was in hospital after giving birth (don't remember which one of us five), there was a lady that in the morning was given a boy while she had a girl (babies were only taken away at night where we live unless baby needed extra care or mother extra rest, then baby was cared for separately)
#16
Slept with a boyfriend for over a year (unprotected) and found out he had hiv. Been tested for twenty years straight and I’m still negative.
Edit: woke up to a huge reaction, never expected this. I’m going to answer some things here. Yes he knew and didn’t tell me. His plan was to act like I gave it to him. I thought there was no way I didn’t have it so for several years I was in the mindset that I had contracted it. When I was 18 I started getting tested twice a year and have been negative every test. I don’t think I am Finnish or Nordic I should check that out someday. There are so many horrible things that are in this thread, I’m surprised this was even seen. Thank you for concern everyone.
Tessa Dawn 2 years ago (edited)
He should be in jail for attempted murder
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RajunCajun 2 years ago
if he know and you can prove it, he can be put in jail.
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Haley Hansen 2 years ago
My grandma was a visiting nurse and once accidentally stuck herself with a needle that she had just used on a patient with AIDS. she freaked out, obviously, terrified that she would get sick and eventually leave her two young children behind. She never contracted HIV and is still kicking (and nursing, actually, 40 years later) :)
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
He sounds like the type who would still claim OP gave it to him and that's why she didn't have it, because it "transferred" to him.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Why are Nordic people mentioned here? I don't think they are immune, or are they?
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
1% of people with Northern European ancestry have innate resistance to HIV infection. It's to do with inheritance of a mutation in a gene involved in cellular receptors-one of the genes that codes for receptor function is mutated so the virus can't bind to the cells, and therefore can't reproduce. The mutated gene (CCR5) is seen in Scandanavian people more commonly than other groups.
Load More Replies... Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
You can have unprotected sex many times with an HIV+ person and not get HIV. You can also have unprotected sex once with a person with HIV and get HIV.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
His plan had been to tell her SHE gave it to HIM?! I’m trying not to but I keep finding myself hoping he suffered terribly. 😰 Then again, I think I should hope he was killed by a bus before he actually DID infect anyone.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
While I was in Army in Hawaii they had a soldier who was HIV positive. He was given orders to notify any & all partners that he had HIV. However there was also this moronic push by certain people that people with HIV had exceptional rights & should not have to disclose it. This guy had sex with 5 married women & gave them HIV. Back then the Army did not cave into the civilian social pressures. He was convicted of sexual assault & disobeying orders.
#17
my 16 year old brother put a cocked and loaded gun to my head when i was 11. the cops came and found an airsoft gun with an orange tip and claimed that was the weapon, despite me denying it all night. i found the real gun a couple months later in a coat closet wrapped up in a scarf. those cops sucked at their job.
Karma Black 2 years ago
Mine would've. He was, and is, proudly an evil human being. No contact for four years now after he told me I'm only alive because he was kind enough not to grind me under his heel. I thought only movie villains talked like that until then.
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PixieVonBehr 2 years ago
One of my brothers has severe behavioural and anger issues and his mission growing up was to hurt me as much as possible. Very thankful to be in the UK with our mega-strict gun laws. Honestly, the BB guns he did acquire were traumatic and painful enough.
Jan Moore 2 years ago
When I was in college my friend had POS boyfriend. Talking to him and some others in their car he pointed a 44 magnum at me head. My Dad being a cop, I said that my Dad always said never point a gun at anyone unless you intend to shot them. POS pulled the trigger.
Willy B Hardigan 2 years ago
44 point blank to the head and u survived I DONT THINK SO
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Josh Dorsett 2 years ago
That is effed up!!! Treat every firearm real or otherwise as if it were loaded, keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire, be aware of what is beyond your target. and DO NOT POINT YOUR WEAPON AT THAT YOU DO NOT INTEND TO DESTROY.
#18
I have a tech company, and we are not in the best financial situation. We had a very big contract awaiting signature, well it won't get signed because the person responsible for the project was one of the 5 casualties from the Titan submarine ....
Alex Martin 2 years ago
I heard that the deal just imploded. Everyone was crushed.
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Tim Quinlan 2 years ago
Too soon guys - remember there was a teenager on that thing against his wishes
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
Since you’re apparently the arbiter of these things, the least you could do is to tell folks on what date they may make jokes and avoid your consternation. Simply wagging your finger isn’t effective; provide helpful data.
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BPisaddictive 2 years ago
I wonder how many deals were never made since many of the original Titanic passengers were some of the most influent and affluent of those years
#19
I was lying on the beach in the sand when I heard a soft thud next to me. I sat up and saw a half eaten peanut butter sandwich lying next to me in the sand. Wondering where it came from, I looked up and saw, to my surprise and horror, a flock of seagulls descending upon me and the sandwich one of them had just dropped. It was a mad frenzy of them fighting me and each other for the sandwich and me fighting them to get away. The whole thing was over in five seconds.
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago
I'm so sorry, but this one made me laugh... a lot... just imagining this person looking up and seeing a flock of seagulls descending on them... still makes me laugh!
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
And I ran, I ran so far away/I just ran, I ran all night and day/I couldn't get away
PFD 2 years ago
My dad was once walking through Hastings old town and suddenly grunted and fell to his knees. A seagull had dropped a lump of rock-hard dried fish the size of a bag of sugar right on his head. (He was ok, just a bit dazed.)
Pandapoo 2 years ago
An osprey dropped a mullet on the car in front of us once.
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Phil Boswell 2 years ago
My wife had half of her sandwich stolen from her hand by a seagull in Weymouth back in July. We always thought it was exaggeration but this bird swopped down from nowhere and her hand was empty o.O
tee-lena 2 years ago
I worked at an outdoor restaurant at sea world in California. Standard practice was to simply replace(for free) food that the sea gulls took.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 2 years ago
Seagulls are beautiful... when flying. But they can be the worst scavengers, too. There's a National Park off the coast near where I live, Islas Cíes, that is full of seagulls. They've even learnt to open the excursionists' rucksacks to steal their food. They eat anything, they'll fight anybody to get their food. They'll hurt you if they can and you are in the middle. Do not leave your bags unattended, and avoid them as much as possible.
MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
In france I was going to get ice cream and the friend that I knew who lived there, told me to "be careful". Not knowing what he meant by that, I went to get ice cream, and saw that every 3 minutes or longer, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS WOULD ATTACK A RANDOM PERSON with people with food (like me) at even more of a risk! Thankfully I didn't get attacked myself, but it was stressful.
Celena Camps 1 year ago
Reminds me of when my daughter was about 3. We were sitting on a log by the beach. She had a cracker in her hand. The bird flew down and took off with the cracker. Scared my daughter
#20
A huge tree branch fell through the roof in my bedroom during a storm and about a minute after that a couple raccoons fell into my room.
Tempest 2 years ago
In an old house we were living in, an extremely agitated stray cat once fell through the ceiling (there was a space between the roof and ceiling where small animals would sometimes shelter in) into my parents bedroom. It was so freaked out and started running around the room trying to find a way out and none of us could touch it for fear of getting scratched/bit and had to let it find its way out on its own (we opened all the windows and doors to the outside).
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Totally not the point, but I love your username, it's the title of my favourite Shakespeare play!
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#21
Was in a relatively mild car accident. EMS recommended xrays just to be safe. I argued a bit but ended up relenting. Xrays lead to a CT and a kidney cancer diagnosis. Doctor said I would've been dead inside a year if it hadn't been found.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
Similar happened to my husband back in 2015. He was playing football (we live in the UK, so English football), went in for a tackle and was kneed badly in his lower abdomen, tearing the mesenteric artery and almost bleeding out internally. He was saved, but in the process, it was discovered he had kidney cancer. It was a truly terrifying time for us all. Without almost dying then, he wouldn't have known about his cancer until too late to save him. Thankfully, and thanks to the incredible NHS, he survived both. He was even back playing football again within a year!
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
Same happened with my cousin. He fell at work and hurt his shoulder. Guess what--shoulder cancer! Who knew there was shoulder cancer?
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MacKenzie Moorhouse 2 years ago
Kidney cancer is called the “accidental cancer” for a reason….it’s usually found when being scanned for something else. 7 year survivor here!🙋♀️
BPisaddictive 2 years ago
A friend of mine found out hers a little after giving birth to her 4th child when she went to have plastic surgery of the abdomen. She also was told kidney cancer is very often found while checking something else
Load More Replies... Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
Two girls I knew ion college had enlarged lymph nodes discovered by chance. One in nursing lab & the other from a sports injury on campus. They both were in the early stage of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Both made full recoveries.
Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
My mum had a shadow at the bottom of her lung X-ray, got it investgated and turned out to be kidney cancer. Despite the negative prediction of 6 months, she lived another 2 years (she had several health concerns cancer the least of them). Still, more astonishing was a story in the newspaper around the same time. The vet of an aquatic theme park received a brand new machine to make an echo of a pregnant dolphin. He tested it out on himself and had to hand over the care of the animals to someone else while he underwent treatment for kidney cancer.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
By a fluke of things I ended up getting an Ultra Sound, and then they recommended a CatScan, THEN said I should have an MRI - They weren't saying why, but after the MRI they sent me to an Oncologist - seems I had a small lump of cancer on my left kidney. Was told it would never have been found until it was easily stage 4 or 5. Dr. said that when they find something life altering by accident it's called 'an incidental loma'!! Sure glad I had that 'slight' twinge of gun pain that I wanted checked out. Was a life saver. Our guardian angles do step in and help us many many times and ways!!!
#22
Not mine but a friend’s story When she was about 5 or so she was at CVS with her dad when someone robbed the store. While the robber is pointing a gun and yelling at everyone to get on the ground, her dad, being an Asian man born in Asia, says “Happy Halloween” because he thought it was a costume. This happened in November.
lunitavet 2 years ago
My husband born and raised in a northern european country, is not familiar with halloween because the holiday does not exist as such in the country. He is always asking me when is it, or if it has already passed. so this story is totally believable for me. I just hope this one didn't had a bad ending.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If the dad goes into Walmart, he'll be saying that all the time and year round.
BPisaddictive 2 years ago
Halloween did not exist in Italy until about the last 10/15 years. Candy producers introduced this tradition, mainly. We have our traditions about the dead persons, of course, and we remember the departed on Nov. 2nd. In some parts of Italy, parents would bring their kids presents and candies telling them their dead grannies were sending them. A way to keep in touch
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
Twice in my life I have allowed my politeness to distract. I've open the door at two businesses I was at over the years for armed robbers. One was at a family restaurant that got robbed just after a group of us left. When I heard the description of the guy I realized I held the for him. Many years later I was at a convenience store in MD & held the door for a teenage boy coming in behind me. He changed his mind & left. A elderly woman behind him said he was carrying a rifle & walked over to a car & drove off.
#23
I wrecked my bike in the summer after 7th grade and had to be mercy flighted, broken bones, quite severe concussion…. I forgot 90% of seventh grade and struggled in 8th, but a weird side effect was that I could music. Before I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, couldn’t hear when notes were the same or different, completely tone-deaf, and after the accident I could. I sang in my college choir for four years.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
Why do we use the word “syndrome” to describe GOOD things? (Sorry; just wondering out loud.) (But if anyone knows, by all means, enlighten us, please!)
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Starwolf54509 2 years ago
Anything is a verb if you're determined enough... right?
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Same thing happened to me after I tripped over a brick, but could not break my fall in time because I had garbage bags in each hand. The first part of my body to hit the ground was the right side of my forehead, followed by my left knee and then the rest of me. I bruised my kneecap, so you can just imagine how hard my head hit. I had 4 months worth of concussion. After recovering from the concussion, having previously been unable to carry a tune in a bucket I could sing in tune no problem and harmony, no problem. I always had a very quiet singing voice. Not now. I can belt it out and I now have range. I looked it up and it can happen if you hit your head hard enough in the right place. It can happen with music, math or art.
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago (edited)
I lost my singing voice from coughing due to 5 bad upper respiratory infections in 13 months (not needing hospitalization but needing good drugs fast within 2 days of showing symptoms) Doctors couldn't explain it. I had my flu AND pneumonia shots. That was a weird year medically- the upper respiratory infections; wasp sting on chest while driving to doctor; hitting my leg on a car door getting out, causing a sub-dural hematoma that took WEEKS to go down; oddball shoulder issue- not major but still needed to see doctor; during a rare non-sick time- tried to give blood and the medical person hit a nerve putting the needle in AND taking it back out- I needed a sling for over a week til it calmed down and some other oddball things I've forgotten. Nothing too bad, just one thing after another. My doctor's office started joking with me about the medical issue of the month, or week- I'd ask if I'd get a prize from them next time.
Janet Floyd 2 years ago
I'd so love to acquire singing ability. My cat slapped me for singing once. My cat.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
I know someone who just had brain surgery. There was a complication so things were scary. When they came to, they could not speak. The spouse gets a phone call later on from a relative. She sounds great, I just talked to her on the phone. WTF? Yes, very odd. She could talk on the phone but not face to face. She is getting over that now.
#24
When I was in elementary school we went on a class trip to one of those old colonial towns to see how life was back then for settlers.
During lunch break I went to the bathroom and a man paid me to take pictures of me in the bathroom. I was really excited to get money.
Next thing I knew I was in a police car scared out of my mind that I was in trouble. I kept apologizing to the cop while my mom tried to calm me down. I remember crying all night that my principal would hate me because I made the cops come.
What an odd memory.
New Everywhere 2 years ago
Even worse when you come to during (had been drugged) and the shitbag whispers "this was your idea" before you pass out again. I feel guilty even saying that. Wtf.
Load More Replies... RajunCajun 2 years ago
if that happened to my little girl, you would not need to call the cops, I would make sure he never did anything like that again.
Susan Raskin 2 years ago
That's not an odd memory, that is trauma. Creepy man takes advantage of a young, naive, child who is confused thinking this was something people do,then finding out people don't do such things. then her shame in realizing this was "bad" behavior and now she thinks she's in trouble and feeling ashamed and the principal will hate her. Lastly the gossip and misinformation must have been horrible for her self-esteem and sense of worth.
Cyndi Hafele 2 years ago
Not so odd, well, odd that it happened, not odd that you would remember.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
Oh! I just posted the same thing! You’re from MA, too?
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I was working and felt like I broke a rib. It went away but I off handedly mentioned it to my doctor. She was super concerned and ordered a bone scan. It was stage 4 cancer.
Stygtand 2 years ago
My dad was invited to particepate in a research program about diabetes and how it affects the kidney’s. He was asked to pee in a bottle for 2 weeks. After that they needed to do a biopsy of one of the kidney’s. They took it and found out he had cancer in that kidney. The other one was fine.
Nikki Gross 2 years ago (edited)
Starting in 2017 I spent a year with back pain that just progressively worse and my doctor only ordered x-rays and that was it. In December he finally ordered an MRI for a Wednesday, then I get a call on Thursday telling I needed a CT scan on Friday because the nurse said that there were "shadows" that they wanted a better look at but the tech for the CT slipped and told me there were masses on my MRI. The following Monday, I'm told I have a rare form of cancer and my entire spinal cord, left hip bone and abdominal region are covered and full of tumors. I thought maybe I had slipped a disc or two or pulled something really bad, not that it was cancer though. Please everyone pay attention to your body and don't take any excuses from your doctor until you have answers
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Pretty grim. "The good news is your rib's not broken. The bad news is ..."
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
I think this is the third story (so far) in which someone got a surprise cancer diagnosis. I had no idea it happens that often! New fear unlocked. 😞
BPisaddictive 2 years ago (edited)
I feel you. I'm a cancer patient and in these last 4 years I've learned that the best way for not having bad surprises is prevention. Abdomen ultrasounds are very helpful at least for your internal organs and are non-invasive. Other exams like mammograms that involve xrays should be less frequent and the virtual mammograms and colonscopy are x-rays free. Believe me, the more you check yourself the less fears you have. Always with a doctor's advice of course, and take part in screening programs whenever you can
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Grace Note 2 years ago
My mum broke her hip, didn't fall or anything and not sure how she did it but she had osteoporosis so her bones had very little density. Had an op to replace the hip and it was standard to do a biopsy. Found bone cancer. Unfortunately it was small cell cancer and was already in her lungs and other places. Stage 4, she was dead less than six months later but at least we knew so we had the chance to be with her.
#26
I won an art competition with my painting judged while hanging upside down. When I told them, they tried telling me I was wrong till they realised I had painted it. TBH, it was a school competition.
Nay Wilson 2 years ago
Yep, I think the person who painted the picture is going to know that it’s been hung upside down
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Some paintings look better the other way up.
Load More Replies... PFD 2 years ago
Mondrian's New York City I has been hanging upside down since 1945. The mistake was only discovered last year, and they can't rehang it because it might fall apart (it's made with lines of tape).
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
That's almost, but not quite, hilarious!
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
I hope they didn't say "Oh, rotated that way, we don't like it as much" and took back the award.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
pmsl I read that as if the painter was actually hanging upside down as the painting was being judged....we all make sacrifices for our art 😆😆😆
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Arthur C. Clarke, I think, wrote a story where someone brought Shakespeare to the present and enrolled him in a Shakespeare course in a university. Shakespeare failed the course.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
ngl, I thought OP meant they painted the painting while they were hanging upside down.
#27
I got hit by lightning while driving my car down the interstate. Completely killed the computer system and totaled the car out.
Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
This is Jake from StateFarm...what kind if coverage do you have...lol
Phoenix 2 years ago
No, no, go with AllState so you're better protected from mayhem... like lightening.
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Kandice Heiple 2 years ago (edited)
This happened to a boss of mine in Maryland while the DC sniper was still at large and he thought the car got shot. He said his back windshield exploded and he thought "oh c**p this is the end!". He pulled over and ducked down then when the cops came they were the ones who told him his car had been struck by lightning
Upstaged75 2 years ago
That was a really scary time for us. They told us not to walk in a straight line when you were in a parking lot (where most of the shootings happened) because it would be harder to shoot you that way. So it looked like everyone was drunk, weaving around while they walked in to the store. :)
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rumple slunkskin 2 years ago
Ooh this happened to me, it also melts the tires. I always heard they explode, but nope, they melt. I hated that car, but it didn't deserve to go out like that.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
myself and a childhood friend (we were both around 9-10yo) were on this old wooden field gate looking over the fields at the storm clouds,was one of the that has no rain but humid....next thing we knew was a bang and flash between us (no more than a few feet apart from each other) of lightning, absolute blinding flash but I recall the bolt,we ran like the clappers to my house which wasn't far... absolutely terrified yet my mother had made apple and blackberry crumble with custard (I remember so clearly,wow)....not long after (I don't know if it's related) I developed a cataract in right eye,the side of the lightning,which then evolved into retinoblastoma (eye cancer) which is usually only found in babies and toddlers even then it's very rare,like I say I cannot say the lightning was the cause
Andy Cran 2 years ago (edited)
damn that random lightning...I do have a second lightning story of similar circumstances, again featuring my good self and bizarrely another female (first was a childhood friend, second was my ex-wife),we both loved a good thunderstorm (I still do) so my wife and I were observing one from the comfort of our bedroom window,got a good clear view of the proceedings...all of a sudden BANG !!! lightning had struck in the road/path Infront of our house...blew us both back across the room (natural instinct I guess rather than any actual damages)...we both made sure we were ok etc ...want to add: first strike was in the daytime, second strike was at night
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BoredPamda 2 years ago
My friends and I were road tripping through South Dakota and got hit by a dust devil. We saw it coming and my friend who was driving didn't have time to stop, so he merged to the right lane and ended up in the left lane again after it threw the car a bit.
MightTinyIrish 2 years ago
Had an electrical transformer explode, wires hit my car and the one behind. Killed everything in my car. A long and complicated story, but scary!
#28
My dad forcing me to eat my pet squirrel. I grew up lonely in a rural area. I made friends with a squirrel and the little guy got tame around me. Like I could sit in the bench swing and he would climb down and I would pass him a granola bar. He actually begged with his hands asking for the food. Well one day my dad was cooking fish and drinking beer with his friends. Well the see me in the bench drawing and the squirrel comes down. They shout what am I doing. I said just chilling with my little bud (I was 10m). They make a joke about my dad raising a Disney princess. He gets angry and goes inside. He comes back outside and next thing I know is the bench I was in is being knocked over the squirrel bails and then boom. Little bud is shot with bird shot. His friends were laughing til this. He then tells me to wait by the fryer will he proceeds to clean the squirrel and then deep fries it in front of me and makes me watch. I see the eyes of what was my friend exploding in the oil. He cooks it til it was done. He then Infront of his friends demands that I eat it. I say know but he grabbed me by the collar and pops me three times. He then tells me the squirrel got off easy. He could do a lot worse to me. I eat my friend that literally had just been feeding and laughing with thirty mins ago. His friends alot lost their composure. Many left and a few threw up at this sight. It was not a good day. So yeah again being made to eat a pet
Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
I sincerely hope he's not a part of you're life anymore. Completely inexcusable behavior on your "father's" part.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
They might be right about the Disney princess part. Disney princesses who were friends with animals were mostly deprived of love and care or had an evil parent in their lives. I can't imagine the trauma of a child who had to go through this. That's not a dad.
Brainmas 2 years ago
The fact that no one reported the abuse pisses me off more than anything else. Dad's friends were upset, but not enough to actually help.
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
Hell one of them should of knocked him out for hitting his daughter. They didn't have the balls to report it nor whoop his a*s. Should of done both. Probably where a bunch of a holes too.
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Yeah so I hope your father gets whacked to death by squirrels
MR 2 years ago
And not one of the adults there stepped up. They're all hot garbage. Wtf is wrong with people.
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
People are too scared even when it is a child getting hurt. People aways day this until it comes down to it. And then they run and hide or don't say s**t. I see it a lot an I usually say something. But people are so scared at what is gonna happen to them. Part of why what is going on in country is going on. Sick
Load More Replies... Nay Wilson 2 years ago
This is horrific. I’m so sorry 🙁 I hope the friends were proud of themselves, their jokes and heckling is what made this happen 😡 poor OP. And poor, poor squirrel
parmadillo 2 years ago
seems the father played quite a large role in making this happen…
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I was hit in the head by a bowling ball on a trampoline. 911 hung up on my cousin because they thought it was a prank.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Normally emergency doesn't hang up on you even if sure it's a prank? Because of the outside chance of it being real (like here)?
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
There have been documented cases of 911 call handlers berating callers and terminating calls because they believe it's a prank. Some call handlers are very poorly trained and managed.
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Justine Ludeman 2 years ago
So, what is the rest of the story? Now I want to k ow the story from beginning to end.
Carole 2 years ago
Here you go: Cousin’s brother found it in the woods. Sat it on the springs to clean it off and take a look. I was getting up and going to walk home when older brother of cousin swan dove onto the trampoline. Bowling ball bounced and hit me in the back of the head as I was standing up. Had enough force to flip me over. I could feel my arms touching the mat, but I visually saw them still in the air. Knocked me out for a bit. EMT blew my vein trying to get IV in. Stayed strapped to a back board for over 6 hrs as they performed X-rays and tests. Pretty nasty concussion.
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 2 years ago
This is waaay too dopey not to be true. Who could think of a stupid prank like this? It HAD to have happened; kids aren’t smart enough to come up with a story like this.
StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
I don't understand why your comment was down voted. 911 operators hanging up on callers is absolutely 100% illegal. And the ones who do, should be sued!
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TheReader19 2 years ago
I remember when my cats dialled 999, lucky the operator laughed it off.
Fairytails From Other Worlds 2 years ago
There were car thieving drunk teens driving in our yard, going as close as possible to our patio, over and over again. Wrecking stuff and being a menace, and also being a threat to children. I called 112 (EU equivalent to 911). This went on for about 45 minutes. I called again and they hung up on me. The police arrived 1,5 hours later and of course the c*nts had split at that point. What a joke the emergency call was.
#30
When I was 3-5 my mom married my little brothers dad. She was working basically all the time, and also trying to balance out school. After she had my little brother, his dad started getting... hostile towards me. For context, I was living with my mom, twin sister, little brother, step brother, step sister, and stepfather (now he's an ex stepfather). His daughter was awesome. His son was a completely different story. So, my ex stepfather abused me, just about every day for 2 years. I didn't know what to think about it because I was so young. He used to beat me with his belt, lock me in the attic, make me drink beer. He left me in the woods. But, he was smart enough to hit me where the marks wouldn't be seen by my mom. He did give me a black eye once by punching me in the face. He always screamed at me. He scared me. Every time his kids did something wrong he blamed me for it and he beat me for it. I hate him. And every time I go down to my bio dad's house I'm scared I'll see him again. I'm scared he will try to do it again. His son, who was around 10-12 at the time used to groom me. He and I shared a room, and he made me touch him at night. And every time I said "I don't want to" he'd break something, or say I hit him, or lock me in the closet. All of those getting me beaten by his dad. I'm 16 now and I'm still trying to get over it. I'm hurting. I wish I could go back and change it. I had my childhood stripped away from me because my mom had bad taste in men, and that's unforgivable. She doesn't believe the scars he left. She negates what i say and feel, just so that she can feel better about herself. I have panic attacks whenever I smell a certain type of alcohol now, and I have panic attacks whenever I smell weed. I'm claustrophobic too, and I hate being alone in the dark. Thank you for listening. I had to get it out there in a way that I'm comfortable with. Tldr; my ex step-dad abused me and his son groomed me when I was 3-5 years old, and my mom still doesn't care. Update: I've been going to therapy for a few weeks now. The only reason for that being I have pnes (ptsd related non epileptic seizures. Basically if I have a panic attack it could cause a seizure.) My therapy is tbcbt, or, trauma based cognitive behavioral therapy. The only reason my mother is allowing me to do this is because A. I almost died because of a seizure (caused by my current stepfather because he hit me and held me in a headlock after screaming at me) and B. So that I could stop pissing her off by not wanting to be around her. Both my mother and current step-dad are abusive. I can't do anything about it. As a 16 year old, I can't legally move out unless I get emancipated in the state of PA.
Brainmas 2 years ago
If the therapist is aware of the abuse, it should have been reported to authorities. There are confidentiality rules, but also some mandatory reporting laws when it comes to minors. I don't remember exactly what the rules are with this, but that step-dad and -brother should be locked up.
Tamra 2 years ago
You are correct, any licenced therapist is a mandated reporter for child abuse.
Load More Replies... tee-lena 2 years ago
Even Pennsylvania has homeless shelters. I used one to get away from my abusive adoptive family. OOP, I'm sorry your family sucks. It's not fair but you can get through it. Before you turn 18get your birth certificate and social security card it put them in a hidden, safe place. Maybe have a friend hold onto them for you. Take photos and other keepsakes with you when you go as you most likely will not be able to go back and get them. If you're allowed a job do direct deposit at a bank that your parents do NOT use. If you don't have money when you turn 18 then either go to a homeless, or women's shelter if you're female. Call 211 or text your zip code to 898-211.its free and they provide help with housing and such. Good luck and have a virtual hug if you need one. I know it's scary to cut family off but it's worth it when they are abusive shits
Xenia Harley 2 years ago
Call CPS. You would maybe be of an age where the agency may help you live more independently. When you can, go NC with your mom. She sucks as do the step dads.
IamMe 2 years ago
At the very least, 16 is usually the age that CPS allows the child to choose which family member to live with. Maybe, Dad or a grandparent might be a better option.
Load More Replies... Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
I hope they allow you to get a job so you can save money and move out the day you turn 18. And I hope you're able to find peace and healing some day. Hang in there.
Lee Banks 2 years ago
Teachers can be wonderful resources. My kindergarten teachers helped my mother and I get out of the house. Fourth grade helped her kidnap me, when it was evident he would always have unsupervised custody visits. When we finally got out of shelters, sixth grade principal helped us forge new ssn and full identities. If there's even one you can trust, talk to them. Most teach because they actually çare.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
So sorry you had to go through this. I hope you get all the help and support you need and live a good life.
StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
Contact the police!! This is so wrong! You CAN do something about it! Things can get better!
Mario Strada 2 years ago
Remember that these days we have phones with cameras and the ability to record audio. Heck, Amazon sells cameras disguised as anything you want. I have one that looks like a working pen. Use something like that to record interactions, even if it's a state with consent, the recording allows the victim to generate a paper trail. "At such day, step-dad sais "so and so" and so on. The person with the better paper trail and evidence usually wins.
DetongLhamo 2 years ago
You can do something. Call CPS, the cops, speak to someone at school, tell the parent of a friend. You must not tolerate this another day. Good luck x
#31
I (15 at the time) was traveling in a foreign country with my sister (26). We stayed at a local hotel. My period came and I got a little bit on the sheets the first night. Housekeeping came and cleaned as usual, nothing mentioned. A few days passed and when we were checking out, they asked to see our passports again. I guess we thought they just needed to double check their guest registry to update it. Once the passports were in his hand the front desk person (male) got really angry with us and began yelling at us for "making mess" in the hotel. At first we had no idea what he was talking about because we are very tidy travelers. He just kept yelling that we "made trouble" for him. He then proceeded to ask housekeeping to bring out the evidence and guess what, they proceeded TO BRING OUT THE UNWASHED SHEETS (wtf?). No idea where they had stored it. A nice young Australian couple witnessed the whole thing. The lady muttered "it's just a few spots, can't you just wash it?" He yelled at them to stay out of it and they fell silent. He even asked who made the mess (my sister said she did). 15 year old me felt like I had done something criminally wrong. My sister "paid him for the sheets" and got our passports back so we could leave.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
unfortunately some men in society out there still believe women should be hidden away or banished when they menstruate or that it's evil and unacceptable 😡😡😡
Lydsylou 2 years ago
Or they just believe we should 'hold it in' which is equally ridiculous
Load More Replies... Animal lover 2 years ago
That's what is so hard being female. Unexpected situations happen and we have not control over it. It is not like we planned it and it is so embarrassing. I feel for you
My O My 2 years ago
Yes! And they still happen when you are in your 30s. That's just the way it is
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Apart from it being a scam to extort money from you, it's a demonstration of the primitive ignorance, superstition and fear around simple biological facts like menstruation that persists in some countries who like to think themselves 'civilised'. (You should have asked to speak with his superior, although not in a 'Karen' way.)
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
Men need to be fully educated on periods and FORCED to experience the electrical pain simulation.
#32
I was thrown off a motorcycle on the interstate when I was 22 months old. Yes, MONTHS. My parents thought I was dead because my head was ripped open (skull too) but took me to the hospital anyway.
ETA: This happened in the Midwest US on an interstate.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
My parents did, only it was the autobahn and I was about 18 months old.
Load More Replies... Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
I was about 2 or 3 when I first got on a motorcycle. My mom was so worried that she insisted on me wearing a plastic football helmet. Was only around the neighborhood we lived in. Different times. Doesn't justify it and I wouldn't let my son so it today but I still remember it.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
I have ridden my motorcycles in all kind of weather and terrain. I have always been hard-core about that, but carrying a baby on a motorcycle? There aren't enough bungee cords for sale. Maybe in a sidecar? But even at that I would be paranoid AF. Is it even legal? TBH, I could see strapping a baby seat on a really big bike like a GoldWing or similar. Those are land ships on 2 wheels, and with a baby seat, not that much more dangerous than a car, but still way out of my comfort zone. EDIT: When I was in Taipei (Taiwan) for work, I saw entire families riding scooters. Mother with infant in arms, father driving with toddler on handlebars and kid in between mom and dad. It was actually quite a normal sight.
Ryyde Cade 2 years ago
When my mom was pregnant with my brother, she was riding on the back of of bike with stepdad , they were speeding and hit some loose gravel - they were okay mom had to blue on her lower back, when bro was born he had blue marks, birthmarks same place
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
This is so sad. I'm glad your okay and I hope you didn't have lasting affects. It really is a miracle you where okay. Some people shouldn't have kids. Like your kids are suppose to be treated like humans. They deserve love and safety. And I do know in lot of countries this is normal for them to get around and that makes me sad too.
RajunCajun 2 years ago
WTF......22 months old on a motorcycle. how long ago was this? now you get walked to the car with the mother in a wheelchair and if they don't like the look of the safety of the car you will not be released from the hospital.
RajunCajun 2 years ago
just to add, all I know about the baby stuff is just in Maryland. also you have to take a "do not shake your baby class" before you can bring the baby home.
Load More Replies... #33
My sister almost got arrested at the White House because she sat down in the line outside to get in. She only did that because her feet hurt. Apparently it’s illegal to sit down at the White House because it’s considered a sit-in protest. She was 12.
teenytabs 2 years ago
In my haste to read this, I read White House as "Waffle House" and thought that really was unbelievable, lol.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
Our right to peacefully collect and protest isn't even acknowledged any longer never mind protected. If we can't have the first amendment, they can't have the 2nd.
Jacob Stone 2 years ago
I find this hard to believe, because even if she was protesting, it's legal because it's peaceful, and is protected by our rights.
#34
My grandfather has been married to 3 women in my lifetime : 1. my dad's mom, to whom he was married when I was born and divorced when I was a year old so he could get with #2 2. my step-grandmother, who he married immediately after the divorce from #1 and who I've considered one of my grandmothers my whole life - he divorced her when she was diagnosed with schizophrenia around the time I was in my early 20s 3. his current wife, who he married when I was in my early 30s, and who I have never met and have zero plans to Here's where the unbelievable but true part comes in: Each of these women have a photograph of themselves holding me as an infant in the hospital when I was born. #1 makes sense. #2 is a bit tacky - he wasn't divorced yet so I'm not sure what the vibe was. #3 though - none of us know why or when she was there, we didn't even learn about this woman's existence until they married 30+ years after the picture in question was taken. I was a very distinct looking baby thanks to being severely post term (born more than 2 weeks past my due date), so the photos are easy to verify. I've been no-contact with him for almost 20 years for many reasons, including this one. He's a f*****g piece of work. Tldr: grandpa's a ho, brought his wife and all his sidepieces to the hospital when I was born and there's photo evidence.
María Hermida 2 years ago
This is one of those stories that makes me feel "what the f**k is wrong with people?", but which are sooo weird they can't have been made up. Grandpa was a piece of s**t, but a very organised and secretive one.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Sounds a bit like my Dedushka. He’s currently married to a woman in her 20s. He’s around 70.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I have a friend who married a VERY rich old guy. (old enough to be her father) To be fair they really did seem to be in love. He got sick and died, and now she's a 40-something year old rich widow. I'm not sure if that worked out in her favor or not, but I wouldn't be complaining if I was her. ;)
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 2 years ago (edited)
What the hell does a “post-term baby” look like? WHY are they “distinct-looking”? What does an extra two weeks in the oven do to a baby’s looks? This is so weird that I’m not sure I believe that a baby who was cooked a tiny bit longer than others looks different from those others. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Hokay; I’ve googled to hell and back and can’t find ANYTHING describing babies looking different if it’s been awhile since the due date. By the way, it’s only after 42 weeks, not “a couple weeks,” that it’s considered “post term.” Also, since due dates can’t be predicted but rather only estimated, it seems the due date isn’t hard and fast anyway.)
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
I'm trying to figure out grandpa not getting married for the first time until she was born.
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nia not long 2 years ago
There's a picture of my grandfather and all the of his wives including my grandmother around him. I think it was in my great-grandmothers kitchen. WILD. He out lived them all too. (Nothing malicious other than he was a player)
BPisaddictive 2 years ago
1st question: how old is the OP? 2nd, which age apparently shows wife #3 in said photo? Are their ages compatible? I'd guess granpa married a younger woman
#35
When I was young I swallowed a game token and it got lodged in my throat. Thankfully just before it got stuck I let out a muffled scream. My dad was downstairs watching TV. He heard the scream and came running upstairs. He found me choking and attempted the heimlich maneuver. Unfortunately it didn't work. So he picked me up and rushed me into the bathroom. Lifted me upside down and my stepmom began hitting me on the back while she was calling 911. I swear it felt like forever but the token came out and fell in the toilet. I'm sure they must have been shocked to see what I had been choking on this whole time lol. If it hadn't been for my dad's superhuman hearing and quick thinking I don't know if I would still be here now.
BPisaddictive 2 years ago (edited)
I've never given whole chocolate/candy balls to children under 8/10 years, but always cut at least in half. I still bite them in half before chewing them and I am 63. The same I think should be done with very elder persons
#36
I got punched in the face by a kangaroo when I was 13.
Tempest 2 years ago
I know it’s a random picture of a kangaroo but that face and posture sure looks like it would punch you and have no remorse. 😂
Nic Exists 2 years ago
yeah, our wildlife is violent. we have kangaroos crushing gallon drums with their arms.
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
My sister gotten bitten in the face by a horse when she was little, made a perfect 4 scar on her face.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My sister got bitten by a cassowary! Don't think she got a scar though.
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 2 years ago
American wildlife is scary. Australian wildlife is cute, and a little bit stupid.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Don't they actually just kick you? I thought their hind legs are what they use most for defense. Seems like that would pack more of a punch than the forearms.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
The legs are more for balance (along with the tail), they use them to stay stable when they use their arms. They have been called boxing kangaroos in media and drawn as such in cartoons.
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RosenCranzLives 2 years ago
There are some 'roos I'd expect to see punching out a lot of us. https://a-z-animals.com/blog/jacked-kangaroo-just-how-strong-are-buff-kangaroos/
#37
I was chased down the street by an angry chicken.
María Hermida 2 years ago
This is kind of funny... when you are not the one being chased, obviously. My sister and I were chased down a hill by angry geese, which appeared out of nowhere. That was forty years ago, but even today, I won't go near them, just in case.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Geese are living evidence that dinosaurs walk among us. They are violent screeching murder machines with feathers.
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Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
I'm sure it was terrifying at the time, but this made me laugh.
tee-lena 2 years ago
Apparently they can be mean. My adoptive family used to raise chickens and when their oldest went to the coop the chickens would attack en mass. Every single time! Which was daily as taking care of them was his chore. They hadn't raised them since before I got there thank goodness
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smugdruggler 2 years ago
One of my daughters had chickens as pets, and two of them she helped out of their eggs so they imprinted on her. They both turned out to be males, and once they were grown they protected her like dogs. They wouldn't let her boyfriend anywhere near her. They would chase him round the house attacking him and force him out of the building. Funny af to watch, he was terrified of them.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
My uncle had chickens when mom and I lived with him. The rooster HATED me. My mom wanted to kill it. One day it went after me (I was 4) pecking at my calves. My mom came out screaming in her bathroom "kill it! Kill it!" My uncle chased her in his PJs yelling "don't kill it! Don't kill it!". My grandmother opened a window and started screaming incoherently. My grandfather got a big rake. Suddenly I got angry, stopped, turned around and kicked that rooster as hard as I could. It left me alone after that.
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
My ex-girlfriend's Grandpa used to have a big white rooster that hated me and would chase me from the car to the house every time we went there. He didn't chase anyone else.
Ryyde Cade 2 years ago
Im afraid of chickens - ducks and geese too but chickens freak me out - y I don't know - this justifies my fear
WalterWhiteSavannah 2 years ago
Having had chickens growing up i find this anything but hard to believe. Roosters ate the real a******s, but some chickens can be pretty aggressive too.
#38
I was in a weird love triangle. This was back in like 2007. I was into a girl, but her near-inseparable best friend was into me. I wanted to go out with the girl, but she felt weird going out with me while her best friend kept talking about me, and said I should go out with the best friend first and let her get me out of her system...so I did that. It went ok but no chemistry. Went out with the first girl and there was major chemistry, but still withholding. It became more and more where it was always the two of them coming on outings with me (and sometimes ditching me) until the day they told me they both decided to date each other.
Jaya 2 years ago
That logic though, lol. Dating her to get it out of her system? What will be harder for this girl: her ex who she's still in love with who dumps her to date her best friend, or a random boy who she's in love with but who has shown zero interest in her and is now dating her best friend. Such a hard one... /s
Jane Hower 2 years ago
All girls are 'BI', just have to figure out if they are 'polar' or 'sexual'!! hehe
Emma Claire 2 years ago
I feel like this was perhaps a dream someone has chosen to share as real life from the way it is written.
#39
I was cuffed and thrown in the back of a cop car after being accused of stealing cars, while walking through a bowling alley parking lot.
I was 12.
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Did they make you turn out your pockets, to see if you had stolen cars in there?
Robin Roper 2 years ago
My son's (age 20, 1/4 Asian but totally white looking) car was surrounded by 10-12 police all with weapons drawn, then placed face down on the ground and handcuffed in the parking lot of our favorite sushi restaurant. Someone thought he looked like a man who had killed his wife a few hours prior in a very public place and then fled. The man was over 50 and my son looked nothing like him. An college buddy happened to be leaving an Arby's right next door and didn't know it was my son on the ground with many guns pointed at him, took a lot of photos because he thought the whole scene looked "cool." We now have those photos as souvenirs of the mistaken identity - "Oh well, we're sorry" was about all he got.
michael Chock 2 years ago
When it comes to skills, the only difference between a kid and an adult are adults have had more time to practice. If you want to be a 12 year old car thief you can do it! Reach for the stars.
VioletHunter 2 years ago (edited)
In many countries children that age are not legally liable for anything and certainly cannot be arrested. The age of criminal responsibility is between 12 and 14 in most countries on the planet with some notable exceptions, such as the UK where it's 10 and some US states where you could literally arrest a newborn baby.
Load More Replies... Willy B Hardigan 2 years ago
Shut up not everythings racial i got harrassed by cops constantly growing up. Im white in Australia
#40
My cousin beat my aunt to death then put a towel over her face and sat down and ate dinner. My other cousin had a welfare check and they found him watching tv with her body in the kitchen.
Edit: this happened about 10 years ago in Florida. My cousin is mentally unstable. Due to a car accident that happens to him when he was in his teens and has been on medication his whole life and I guess the older he got the worse he got. He was in his late 40’s when he killed my aunt. I guess they got into an argument and he snapped and beat her to death. Then cleaned up and put all the evidence in the attic but left her lying on the kitchen floor with the towel over her face. He’s been in a mental institution ever since.
Tempest 2 years ago (edited)
An uncle of mine who was suffering from a plethora of mental health disorders used to constantly get into physical fights with my grandma, his mom. He used to shove her and throw random objects at her all the while she was trying to calm him down. My family who were living with my grandma moved out due to his unpredictability (my siblings and I were really young and my parents were afraid for our safety). He was constantly in and out of hospitals for psychiatric treatments. In the end he was found dead on the floor of his room due to an incorrect drug or drug overdose. And it was my poor grandma who discovered him. She was never the same after that. No matter how troublesome and dangerous he was, he was my grandma’s youngest child and she couldn’t get over his loss. I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing he passed away, but I truly believe if he was around much longer someone else would have ended up dead, probably my grandma (and my story would have been similar to OP’s story).
Ms.GB 2 years ago
The covering of the face usually indicates it's someone the victim knew, it's an act of shame.
DumYum 2 years ago (edited)
Or she was beaten beyond recognition. Or her eyes were open and watching him.
Load More Replies... StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
I have a mental illness, and I would NEVER do something like that to someone. I would force myself to walk away if I were to ever get that angry. It is sad that he went through all of that, but it still doesn't excuse what happened (not that anyone is saying it does.)
Bambi 2 years ago
Not all mental illnesses are the same and also, they come about in different individuals in varying degrees of "seriousness"..
Load More Replies... Raindeers 2 years ago
This is the most terryfing life you ever wanted. Imagine you have a child you love but they lost control and while you need to take care of them with all your love, they just take you for granted. The aunt in this story has no option but to care him for her life. And what the child did..
#41
My epidural failed during the emergency c-section (I likely had listeria, my temp was 103+ and then the monitor for baby’s heartbeat went quiet type emergency) I had the epidural in place for awhile before, when we thought vaginal birth was still an option. No one in the OR believed me when I started telling them, then YELLING at them that I was numb anymore. It happened after they had gotten through all of the parts of me to get to baby, so I asked my husband if baby was out. He said yes and the tiny control I had left departed and I was screaming at everyone that I could f*****g feel them and their metal paddles in my body! RN by my head reassured me it was “just pressure” so my dumb self decided I was gonna gtfo. I planted my feet on the table and tried to lift myself to scoot away from the ppl who in my mind were now torturing me. Husband says it looked like a seance or a magic trick where the person covered by a sheet levitates off the table/bed. I made a huge mess, too, since I did it kinda fast. Sent a bowl full of bloody gauze flying up to hit the ground, tools clattered….I remember the poor anesthetist got yelled at while trying to give me propofol, then lights out finally.
María Hermida 2 years ago
The poor anesthesiologist??? All the "professionals" in the OR should be expelled from the medical profession, the m***********s. Not only did they fail to do their job, but they refused to believe the patient was obviously in pain. Don't they have eyes? Those people are a danger for every patient under their care.
MR 2 years ago
Women, especially WoC, are the least likely to be believed when it comes to pain issues. Wholeheartedly agree with this. If a patient is feeling pain, believe them first. Better to find out later they were lying than to literally continue to hurt them.
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Tamra 2 years ago (edited)
Something similar happened to me. Had to have an emergency C-section, and had an epidural. It began to wear off during the procedure and it felt like someone had lit my guts on fire...burning, searing pain and this deep, visceral *tugging* at things that were meant to be inside me. It was horrific.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Giving birth is traumatic per se, but it looks as if some doctors are working hard to make it even worse. Why are so many women not believed or accused of exagerating? How does a man, even if he is a doctor and has all the diplomas in the world, come to the conclusion *he* knows what *the pregnant woman* is feeling? What a bunch of arrogant m***********s. I have to say I've seen the same arrogant attitude in female doctors, not so often though.
Load More Replies... Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
I don't know. But it is awful. Is truly awful you should have to worry about dieing or your child dieing in this day and time when you yourself know there is something wrong with your baby and or yourself. They wouldn't like if they were treated so disrespectful and them being women who have had children I just don't get it.
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Marcia Konings Goedegebuure 2 years ago
I feel you, I have had the same experience. I felt the first cut, and said so. The gynaecologist said it wasn"t possible. They continued, when they finally believed I could feel everything they couldn't stop anymore because my sons heart rate was to low and mine to hogh or something like that. Needless to say it was so traumatizing we didn't try for another child.
ChimeraBubbles 2 years ago
There was that story fairly recently where a nurse was stealing pain killers in a ob-gyn setting (can't remember exactly). Women were telling the doctors they could feel everything happening during procedures and weren't believed. This was going on for months! I think about 4-5 months before it was found out, but not because they believed the female patients were in pain. It's insanity that hundreds of women weren't believed and for such a long time!
Jj321 2 years ago
I had a c-section because my daughter was breech. It was NOT an emergency at all. I got ny spinal block. I expressed concern that my left side felt really weird and right felt normal. I repeatedly told anesthesiologist i could still feel. She repeatedly told me that some sensation remains with a spinal block. Her and the nurse kept discussing how nervous I was, which, I wasn't. So, they started the surgery m once my doctor got half way over, I felt it and began to scream. He told anesthesiologist to fix it, she repeatedly said I was just being nervous. Her and my doctor got into a bit of a screaming match before she finally put me under general.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
WTF is wrong with people?? Do they enjoy seeing patients in pain?
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I had 3 C-sections and during the 2nd the spinal anesthesia wasn't enough. Spinal anesthesia is done only in the beginning and can't put more anesthetic during the surgery. So for more than 30 minutes I was feeling more and more of what was done on me. They gave me some painkillers, but it was still awful. When the 3rd baby was about to come I called to verify the anesthesiologist is not the same, she was fired several months after my case. I was hoping they will just put me to sleep under full anesthesia, but the anesthesiologist was continuously saying "Just five more minutes".
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
Damn if doctors would just freaking listen. But you know they aways think you be lying. Sometimes you have to go to drastic measures for them to believe you. I have similar stuff happen to me about 3 times. An all of it had to with child birth also. First time lady believed I wasn't in labor. It like I am up walking around like I am starting to have a lot of freaking pain. Like past an cramp feeling to the feeling of my back an belly being in constant pain. Was in the hospital to stop my birth because it was beginning early. Nurse tells me to set down instant pain. Throw up everywhere. Then finally a lady with sense comes in feels my belly and it was like muscle tight. And but it was to late to stop now. Had baby at 7mons pregnant. Didn't know why till like3 yr later when I had my 3rd child. Was sent home at 33weeks at 4cm. Oh but when your water breaks babies will just come. Okay ......sent home at 35 weeks sent home because doctor says my water ant leaking an I was faking. The next day I had her my water had broke early in morning almost had her at home. Was all the way dilated was crowning. In the ambulance they wanted to know why I couldn't stay still. And I was trying to stop shaking. Be glad I ant screaming at you. Get to hospital nurses haven't even looked at me going really slow and over her and I'm like this must be some kind of joke. I then say it is coming and there all like what and then get into action she crowning a nurse delivered my baby. The doctor wasn't even there until it was over. Then he proceeded to stick his whole hand up my vag after I gave birth, because he said to push again for after birth and then screamed for to stop. So....I don't know. And then last baby everything was fine had epidural. Had baby. Baby isn't breathing right. I tell the nurse 5 times oh wait until I'm done cleaning the room and doing this and that. I'm like so my baby don't matter. So finally after 6 time when my husband said something women finally did something. Then I keep telling them something is wrong I can't feel my legs it almost been an hr. Oh that normal. Oh that the epidural. And I'm like I no it not. Oldest daughter see me like this. P**s me off so much I was shacking couldn't stop. Apparently I was really pale and there was blue starting to show up under my nails. And there where signs of shock in my eyes as well no one checked. But someone had got the doctor. Had to rush iv fluid think hyperglyman or something. Something to do with losing to much blood. Got birth control was unexpected pregnant like 3 months later. and landed in the hospital like 3 months later. Laying in hospital bed thought they where gonna let me freaking bleed to death huge clot after clot. I was like uhhh. Yeah how many much can still come out of me. Finally gave me dnc. Then was gonna let me leave the hospital after I'd had a baby in August went into shock because of blood loss then had a miscarriage that I tryed to prevent like 5 months later. I td them I'm not leaving unt il you give me a blood transfusion I am not going home to take care of a small baby a 1 yr old and 5 yr old to pass out and something bad happening to my children while my husband is out trying to take care of us. B******t. Sometimes I know they work long hour and extra but some lives could be prevented from dieing if you would just watch and listen to your patience. Sad
#42
I was almost killed by a bug?
I was bitten by a flea or a tick, unsure of which. A couple weeks later I passed out in a Walmart, and woke up after emergency surgery with a hole bigger than my fist in my abdomen under my left ribs. MRSA man, I do not recommend.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
My brother had it. Two weeks in the hospital and 5 surgeries. I thought I was going to lose him.
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Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
If anybody thinks it would be weird to die to a bug... mosquitoes have historically been one of the most dangerous things to humans on the planet
María Hermida 2 years ago
Didn't it hurt like hell? Didn't you have any other symptoms, like high fever, weakness, etc? This kind of stories never cease to amaze me. That must have been dreadfully painful, and look dreadfully infected.
tee-lena 2 years ago
I've got fibromyalgia so those symptoms mean nothing. I has an uti that we thought had healed. It did not. I ended up spending six days admitted to the hospital with an infection(not MRSA) all the way to my chest. I was on copious antibiotics. I'm not saying they've got fibro but I'm constantly in pain and I'd never know so maybe it's normal for them
Load More Replies... HurlWurk 2 years ago
I had MRSA on my skin... In my crotch. I fully understand the original Hellraiser movie and the concept of exquisite pain. The only way to stop the knife edge itchy feeling was near scalding hot water for several minutes, pain so bad my nervous system just shut down,followed by cold water. This would give me ~30 minutes relief from the itching
Robin Roper 2 years ago
My son is in his 3rd year of treatment of Tick Disease (Borrelia, Babesiosis, & Babesiosis). He's had it for many years as he never had the "bullseye" rash. It's been hell! Ticks are nothing to be ignored.
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
I had a staph aures infection once, in my face. In the hospital for a week getting pumped full of antibiotics. The doctor said when he released me that for the first few days he wasn't sure I was going to make it.
#43
I got bitten by a penguin… On my neck. No, I wasn’t doing anything stupid at the time. The penguin was standing on a table for photo ops (as an animal ambassador for a zoo) and it went for my wine glass as I stood next to it. Moved my wine glass out of the way, and got nipped on my neck for my troubles.
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
I'm just curious as to whether OP turns into a were-penguin when the temps fall below freezing or not.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
Hey, he's had a long day at work with a bunch of (likely) stupid humans, he wanted a drink!
michael Chock 2 years ago
And now I don't ever feel cold, in fact I like it. Some times I will sit in my chest freezer for hours, with a deep hunger for mackerel...
Jaya 2 years ago
Well, alcoholics are know to get agressive when you try to take the booze away from them, lol.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
I think it's fair to say the same about anybody and anything 🤨
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Tiffany Wilson 2 years ago
I got bit on the stomach by a duck at the zoo my mom used to work at. Through the fence too.
#44
I was sitting outside on my friend's patio gazing up at the stars. My friend says "ya know, I've never seen a shooting star before." Almost immediately, a shootong star gleams across the sky as if she commanded it to happen. IS THIS REALITY WTF
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"ya know, I've never seen a check made out to me for a billion dollars before." Well, if it worked for her, it's worth trying.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
That’s not weird at all. When you’re in a place where you can actually SEE the stars (not in a city filled with light pollution), you can see shooting stars one right after another, and often several at once. That’s why this isn’t time for the “Twilight Zone” theme; there are sooo many shooting stars that they’ll appear regardless of the words you use!
Mario Strada 2 years ago
Shooting stars are far from rare. When I lived outside the city I saw them all the time, some pretty big too. "Shootong Stars", those are pretty rare.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Had that with a spacecraft. Friend said "I haven't seen a spacecraft in a long time" followed immediately by the appearance of a spacecraft. Shooting star times can be predicted, sort of, at the right time of year if you're lucky.
#45
That on Valentine’s Day 2008, my boyfriend cheated on me, but I couldn’t confirm it. Two days later, on the 16th, I came home and he was high AF. Long story short, I caught him in a lie and he admitted to cheating on me. We had been together for 4 years. The next day, on the 17th, his dad was over our house (we lived together) building a fire pit. We rented a house from his dad, and his dad was fixing it up trying to “flip it,” for a quick profit. I was inside packing my s**t because uh, well, he got caught/admitted to cheating on me and I was out. While packing, someone banged on the bedroom window. I ignored it (some friends had spent the night so I thought they were all in the backyard goofing around). A few minutes later another knock and then pounding. I walk through the house to the back door to say to them to stop banging on the door, and I see my boyfriend/soon-to-be ex-boyfriend on the phone, pacing, screaming “Dad!” I look at his Dad, and he laid out on the floor, snoring and unconscious and the people who had stayed over are just standing there in shock. I ask what happened, and he said his dad was sweating a lot, sat down, his arms locked up straight out in front of him, and then he fell back. I monitored him closely, waiting for the ambulance. Then he stopped breathing. I ended up doing CPR on him for over 10 minutes which was literally exhausting. It was working for a while, but then, before the ambulance got there, he exhaled into my mouth and I just remember tasing cigarettes and then he went really limp, his eyes were still open but there was no life behind them. I kept doing CPR because everyone else was there watching and I didn’t want to be the one to announce what I knew had just happened. The ambulance FINALLY arrived, they did the shock paddles on him several times. Nothing. He was pronounced DOA at the hospital, and I did not leave my ex that day. Stayed three more years (wish I hadn’t, but how do you dump someone the day their dad has a heart attack and dies right in front of them).
Alexandra 2 years ago
I have my CPR-certificate and the first thing my instructor said was that CPR just keeps circulation going, it doesn't restart a heart and so anyone needing CPR should be considered already dead. CPR is useful though to keep this circulation going until the ambulance arrives.
Eunice Robertson 2 years ago
You're right. I was working a shift on the ambulance and called to pick up a heart attack victim. I did CPR all the way to town, about 20 mins. Her cheeks were quite pink. Got to the hospital and was declared DOA. I was pushing the blood around her body.
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Karen Grace 2 years ago
I think sometimes they'll do it anyways just so family knows everything was tried.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
They only use defibrillators when there's still a heartbeat, albeit a poor, erratic beat. The don't restart hearts that have stopped beating, they stop hearts, briefly, with the hope that they'll pick up a more functional rhythm.
digitalin 2 years ago
I literally just called the ambulance for someone with a heart attack last week and they used a defibrillator. I know they are used to re-set heart rhythms, so maybe they were desperate or maybe it sometimes works. But either way, the experience was very close to what this person is describing.
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Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
You are brave. No I don't think you should have stayed with him,but I know why you did. Tbh I would have done the same from guilt. I can't believe they just stood there but it don't surprise me. But it is sad
HolyDiver 2 years ago
I call BS. They do NOT use shock paddles like the movies. I had the unfortunate situation of having to do CPR on my elderly neighbor who's oxygen tank ran out. I did CPR till paramedics arrived, which seemed like forever. His eyes were open, he shat himself and I broke ribs. The paramedics immediately bagged him and took over CPR. He passed in the hospital. The paramedics said I gave him a fighting chance but once they get to CPR stage, it is actually common to not recover.
UKDeek 2 years ago
I was still using manual paddles to defibrillate patients into the late 2000's, and these were slowly phased out for the safer adhesive pads, which are significantly safer to use, so it is wholly believable that the OP did witness EMS staff using manual paddles to defibrillate. Sadly, only 8% of people survive out of hospital cardiac arrest, and figure is normal 'adjusted' to remove patient's where life support isn't started by EMS, so the figure is really a lot less than 8%.
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 2 years ago (edited)
AED will not restart a heart once it has completely stopped because that's not what it's designed to do. If this is done after the heart stops, it's just for show.
UKDeek 2 years ago
Not quite right - you only defibrillate a patient if their heart has no output (no pulse), and if the heart has some electrical activity - either ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia... what a defibrillator will not help with is if there is an absence of electrical activity in the heart (asystole) shown as a flat line on the monitor.
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#46
My manager told me not to hire my best candidate for a job because she was female.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Not surprised that manager said that. But manager was probably lying.
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Mike D 2 years ago
I've hired quite a few people and our process was to go through applications with no names, pictures, gender, race, ages, etc, just education, experience, skills, and abilities and selected the best candidate. Then no interview, just a job offer. A couple of times a person wouldn't work out but not often and never due to gender, race, or age. No interviews saved a lot of time also.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I had a principal who told me that he'd never hire a black teacher. Guess who got in trouble (for something else) and came to me for help? Guess who didn't get it?
Meami 2 years ago
Back in the day when I was an art director, my manager wouldn’t let me hire the best candidate for a job because he was gay. I had to hire this other guy who was a psycho and I ended up firing him after he threatened another artist. The sad part is that I could fire someone but not make the choice on who I could hire. Still pisses me off years later.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
This is me, completely unsurprised. I grew up in the 70s, but thinking that people like that had stopped existing sometime during the 60s. That wasn't the case. People's racism, misogyny, xenophobia and general intolerance do not surprise me anymore, but still make me feel slightly nauseous.
#47
Because an adult didn't believe me that something was wrong I almost had my leg amputated at the age of 14.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
I feel for you...had similar when I was a child (because all children lie 🤨 was a very popular mindset during the 70's 80's )
Diolla 2 years ago
Almost died age 11 from peritonitis, because the doctor told my mom that my appendicitis was jut a belly ache, and just give me some painkiller. She threatened him to make him call an ambulance. Hospital said I would have died that day if they hadn't operated on me. I did have fun in the ambulance though because of the massive dose of morphine they gave me.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I had a gymnastics accident my freshman year of high school. My mother's second husband refused to take me to any doctors or PTs because "I was so focking fat I should have known better" and deserved the pain. I'm now 47 & have lumbar & cervical stenosis which effects me when I walk, bend, stand, sit, lift, basically anything physically harder than lying on my left side in bed.
#48
Brother was murdered by his wife who then killed herself a few months later. No answers. No investigation. Just chaos in our lives.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
I get the "no answers" bit (there will likely never be a fulfilling anwer to "why?", especially with the culprit dead), but how was there no investigation? I can imagine several posible scenarios, but
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
Yeah, this one cries out for additional details.
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#49
My mom found out my dad filed for divorce five minutes before my birthday dinner started when I was turning eighteen. Mans waited last second because he didn’t want to pay child support 😂 My mom was cooking my birthday dinner and I was down the road at a friends house celebrating before I went home. Mom went to get the mail and found a letter from an attorney saying he found out my dad filed and wanted to be her lawyer. Mom peeled down the block in the minivan and pulled over to the side of the road where my friends and I were outside and announced it to me. Dad came home five minutes later to just me and no mom. He was like hey time to celebrate! With a bunch of presents and stuff. It was so awkward
IamMe 2 years ago
So, some random lawyer, sent a letter to the mom, offering to represent her? Before she knew, or got any official paperwork? Sounds weird. Does that normally happen?
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
Yes it does. I got letters from attorneys after my ex filled for divorce, and ones when i got a speeding ticket.
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 2 years ago
? I don’t see the word “funny” in this post. Was it maybe in an earlier version and it was edited after you read it but before I did? If that’s the case, what did it usta say?
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ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Mom was understandably upset, however I don't think I would ruin my son's birthday. As a parent, I believe in protecting my child...even as an adult. Then again, I didn't experience this scenario.
Fluffy mommy panda 2 years ago
You are good parent that cares it sounds like. I have heard and seen parent do stuff like this. Because they don't stop to think what there child feels and it just bring more trauma to children. Or teenagers make them feel like they don't matter. And we all make mistakes but think outside the box with your kids how do they feel.
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Sienna Kuhlström Ahlgren 1 year ago
Some of our neighbors that me and my brother had literally grown up with went through something similar. The oldest kid was graduating high school and had a party in the backyard. It’s tradition for the dad to have a speech and instead of praising his son for graduating he proudly announced that he had been having an affair for years and that his gf was pregnant with his child. He then just up and left. I cannot understand a parent taking such an important milestone as a graduation or birthday of their kid to announce they’re breaking up the family. Like wait a couple days or something??? Mom in this story shouldn’t have told the kid immediately. Probably ruined the entire birthday for them.
Historyharlot93 2 years ago
After I was rear ended in a car accident, and was standing with the police and the other driver giving info, a lawyer pulled up next to the scene, jumped out and handed me his business card. Then he jumped back in and drove off since he was blocking traffic. I thought stuff like that only happened in comedy routines.
#50
I shat my pants in a carnival ride (the bullet) whilst wearing cargo shorts and diarrhea was slung out of the leg of my shorts and rained down on the unsuspecting patrons below. Shut down the entire area. Nobody got funnel cakes. My dad made me ride in the back of the truck home without bottoms on and I don’t like wearing undies. Edit: To add more context, I was 14 at the time and was raised in rural Alabama. The carnival coming to town was a whole city wide ordeal in my 1A high school. Less than 50 in my graduating class for reference. I was the “s**t slinger” for years, and some people in my friend group still bring it up. I’m 31 now. Similar s****y situation while hunting and wearing coveralls while leaning back against a tree in the “invisible chair” position doing my business. It partially landed in my coverall bibb on the back, and smeared up my back as I put them on. Had to ride in the back in 20 degree weather. Not fun either.
The Short Lady 2 years ago (edited)
An astonishing number of redditors seem to lose control of their bowels randomly.
CV Vir 2 years ago
I’ve met a lot of people who find food safety rules to be an absolutely life-changing piece of knowledge, in that they don’t have diarrhea every week any longer.
Load More Replies... RajunCajun 2 years ago
Driving one morning I suddenly discovered I was not going to make it and needed a toilet now. I remembered there was a construction site down the road and they had a port o potty. I get there and lucky for me the place is empty, so I got out and did the tight butt walk from my truck to the potty. I almost did not get my pants off before my back end exploded, and at that time I saw there was no toilet paper. No big deal, this place is empty, I will just take off my jeans and bare a*s walk back to my truck and grab a roll of paper towels from the back. As soon as I opened the door to the potty I see the construction site is now full of people getting ready for their day to start or eating breakfast. I think well c**p just own it at this point so I just slowly walked to my truck while seeing guys out of the corner of my eyes just slapping each other and pointing at me and not saying a word. I got my towels and walked back. then as the door shut, the yard exploded in laughter.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
It was just a couple months ago that I read a collection of these types of stories; they’d been voted “best,” and were remarkable! They were all very funny (aside from the horror, I mean), too. I can’t for the life of me remember where it was; I keep thinking it was Vice, but they don’t seem the type to be into those sorts of stories. Perhaps it was a men’s site? I’m kinda thinking that’s what it was. (And iDO remember all the stories were from males.) Any chance you know what I’m talking about? I think this story belongs there with the other masterpieces! (And good for you going for the paper towels despite the audience! 🫸🏻🫷🏻)
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Janet Graham 2 years ago
The worst thing I ever did was wet on my shoe when peeing in the woods. Mom grew up using an outhouse and showed us some great methods to keep ourselves clean when there were no facilities. But, there is no controlling the runs, so just avoid carnival food!
#51
When I was 10 years old, several people in my neighborhood were attacked by a deranged squirrel that was missing part of its tail. One day, my dad was at work and my mom was running errands, so myself and my two other brothers (aged 14 and 7) were left home alone. I was in the kitchen and my 7 year old brother was playing on the back porch.
Suddenly, a squirrel that was missing the tip of its tail started attacking the kitchen window, about 10 feet from where my brother was playing. I ran outside to caution my younger brother but it was too late. The squirrel had already bitten a chunk out of his finger, which was squirting blood, and was running up and down his arm while my brother screamed his head off. I grabbed this insane, bloodthirsty creature with my BARE HANDS and chucked it into a tree.
By now my older brother had come to see what was going on. I told him what had happened, and because this took place in small town Mississippi, he of course had full access to the family gun cabinet. He got a gun, went outside, and shot some random squirrel that was NOT missing the tip of its tail. I told everyone that it was not the same squirrel, but no one listened to me.
The story of my brother’s heroic actions went around town and he was even written about in the town newspaper for saving the day. Absolutely no mention of me or my heroism at all.
#52
Right after getting my tumor removed and my tonsils taken out, a couple days later I notice I’m swallowing a lot more than normal, go to the bathroom and just start spitting blood. And not like little drops, I mean I help my mouth open over the sink and it was just a constant stream. Went to urgent care, coughed up a blood clot about the size of a baseball, blood in my stomach- The scabs from surgery opened. So now I’m terrified of eating or drinking red foods that would show up when I spit or such. I’m not normally queasy about blood, but I think the fact it was my own and it was a lot was concerning
Debby Keir 2 years ago
A 'not insignificant' percentage of people have a significant bleed post tonsillectomy. It can be very severe, but, certainly in the UK, you get a printed 'handout' with what to look for, and when to call out the ambulance.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
My stitches opened after tonsillectomy requiring a second operation, so I'm told.
#53
Many years ago, I was walking my pug early in the morning. Sun wasn’t quite up yet. I was walking him along a main road. Across the busy road was a junkyard with rotties in it guarding it. All of the sudden I hear heavy breathing and look and a rottie got loose somehow and was full on galloping toward us across the busy road. Just as I was going into “I’m protecting my pug, I’m taking this hit mode”…. a car comes along and full force hits the dog. Maybe 40 mph because the driver most likely didn’t see him since it was mostly dark out still. The dog flew 3/4 of the way down the block. Cops came, driver stopped. Dog wasn’t dead but I’m assuming it died eventually. It’s such a wild story to me when I’m telling people, but I’m so thankful that car accidentally stopped us from being attacked.
#54
I met Pearl Bailey on a dirt road in Oklahoma and she asked me for directions. Apparently had an old friend in the area
Nay Wilson 2 years ago
For those people who don’t know, Pearl Bailey was an American singer and actress who was most active in the 1960’s and 70’s
Limey Cheesehead 2 years ago
I met Pearl Bailey in the 80's at Union Station in Chicago. From what I remember she was nice.
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#55
I was almost in a shooting at a target. Was with my mom and dad about to go shopping for Christmas gifts (I think for my sister she was at gymnastics when this happened). My parents park the car and as we get out this guy lighting a cigarette stops us and says “hey there’s two people over there with guns drawn I would get back in your car and shop somewhere else”. We left, got dinner and saw lots of emergency vehicles that night. The next morning there was an article about the parking lot shooting at the target we were at I can’t remember but a few people died. When this happened I was sad I couldn’t go to target but now that I really understand the situation I feel so bad for the people and families who are affected by it. I can try and find the article of the event if anyone is interested in reading about it. I’m hoping the guy who warned us that there was guns is doing ok and living a great life and I hope the families affected are doing well and I’m hoping they know how much this even that injured or took away a loved one of theirs is still something pulls at the heart of others.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Pleeeeeeese!!!!! Use full stops. Separate sentences! They won't charge you extra. It's impossible to read!
Jj321 2 years ago
This is from reddit. Reddit likes to reformat for you while on mobile.
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Mario Strada 2 years ago
When you post something about a firearms shooting at a store called "Target" you need to be extra careful with punctuation and syntax or it can get very confusing real quick. "I was almost in a shooting at a target" is probably clear to people in the USA, but my Italian brother would be very curious why "shooting at a target" would be an unusual or dangerous thing.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
That's OK. I'm from the US and thought the same thing. People need to capitalize proper names.
Load More Replies... Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
Why didn't the guy call the cops? Kudos to the action he did take, I just feel like he could've done more.
Tsdey 2 years ago
maybe he did and was trying to help others stay safe until the cops arrived
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Spittnimage 2 years ago
You should've used a capital T for Target the store as opposed to a shooting target; took me a while to figure out what was being said.
#56
a friend (joe) introduced me to his best friend (matt) back in high school. I married his friend (matt). Matt committed suicide less than a year after we married. 5 years later i’m married to the original friend (joe) and pregnant with our first. edit for clarification
#57
One time when I was a kid, I was laying in a sunbeam on the floor on a lazy Sunday. So my dog came up and peed on my face.
J Marcus 2 years ago
@BetterBitterButter, this might be the best comment ever on BoredPanda. hahahaha!!
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I got stranded at 18000 feet on a 20,000+ mountain due to weather. Nobody except the person with me knew where I was and had no emergency beacon or communication device. No other people on the mountain. Had to wait it out until next morning to hike back down to safety. That's the short story. Do not recommend.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
Next time, take precautions. Always let someone know where you are going, and roughly when back, have a beacon, and comms.... That was nearly evolution in action.
#59
I have a misdemeanor on my adult record for skiing out of bounds.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Don't do this, seriously. People who drive off the trails are absolute a******s! They disturb the wildlife, destroy the plants under the snow that are conserving energy for the next year, cause avalanches/get trapped in them and get injured, causing very complicated missions to rescue them.
Ace 2 years ago
Be aware that outside of North America there's no real concept of "out of bounds" skiing. Off-piste, or 'backcountry' skiing is allowed anywhere unless it's specifically prohibited and marked, e.g. as a protected wildlife zone.
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#60
I rescued my father from the Sinaloa Cartel outside Guadalajara in 2007. He was there on business launching a broadcast satellite and had a major heart attack. Was taken to a small clinic and held for ransom by the cartel. Machine guns, private jets, pockets full of cash…got him back and he lived another 10 years to see his grandsons born!
Mario Strada 2 years ago
I get the feeling there is more here than just "I rescued my father from the Sinaloa Cartel".
#61
I got banned from Canada for a year.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Usually a five year ban. The web lists sixteen reasons including espionage, membership of a banned organisation, war crimes, driving drunk, carrier of infectious disease, excessive demand on health services, broke and unemployable, providing false information, family member of a banned person.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
DUI? It's a felony in Canada. IF you commit a crime that's a felony in Canada - no matter what it is in the US - you will get banned or kicked out.
#62
You know those big Fun Slides you ride down on the rug/carpet thing? When i was 8 the worker giving the push accidentally stood on my carpet and I went flying down all three parts and bumps of the slide on my back and arms. Ended up blistering and bubbling all over my hands and arms. Worst skin burns of my life and almost passed out. Next day on boardwalk, seagull crapped on my head.
Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
They so do. Had a fish and chips lunch with my sister at an outdoor cafe across from a beach. Seagull swooped and grabbed a chip straight off my fork. Was waiting for a replacement fork, cos claw germs, and not looking at my plate, another seagull swooped down and stole the half a fish I had left at the time. Bastard.
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Jeremy James 2 years ago
One morning, I woke up, fed my cat and got ready for work. All of my housemates were either out or still asleep. So I leave the house and start walking and here she comes, my first human interaction of the day. Just as I'm about to ready a smile and say "hello," she freezes, looks up, and then fixes me with a look of absolute horror. "Ugh," she screamed, "That BIRD just POOPED on me!" Her tone was almost accusatory, but I was just the witness. I knew then that it was going to be a beautiful day.
#63
I was sitting on a sidewalk, heard some little pop noises like a squirrel was dropping nuts from a tree or something. Then a huge tree branch fell on top of my friends and ME. I was basically stuck under it, my friends were able to get out and had to lift it off of me
#64
I cut myself open (by accident) with a spoon.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
At the right angle a spoon can be pretty sharp
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Lemon 2 years ago
i used to constantly get small cuts on the inside of my mouth from spoons, i dont know why but it's stopped now
#65
I was once on a date and he got up to go to the toilet, after 10 minutes I started to worry if he had left so I sent him a text and he replied asking me to come to the toilet. I found it strange but decided to go to the toilet, when I went in I was hit with a smell that I had never experienced. He then told me that he had food poisoning and he had sh*t his pants and been sick all over himself (This was only our second date). I then had to ring his mother and she had to come and drop off some new pants for him and had to take him home. We had already ordered food so I had to pay because he had to leave, he never rang me back after that.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
When I was 18, I arranged a first date with a guy I'd met online. While he was driving down from LA to Orange County to see me, (about an hour drive,) my roommate offered me my first ever glass of champagne. As it turns out, I have some sort of allergy. By the time my date arrived, I was losing it at both ends and my face was red like a lobster. This man, whom I'd only just met, drove me to the hospital and slept in his car in the parking lot until I was released the next morning. There were several, much more successful dates with him after that. To this day, I think that's the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.
#66
When I was around 11 or 12, I woke up in the middle of the night with a pretty strong pain in my head, but got back to sleep pretty quickly afterwards. When I got up that morning, I had dried blood on my hand (where I felt my head), and a big cut across my forehead and eyebrow. Didn't own any cats at the time (if it happened now, my cat would deffo be the prime suspect lol), didn't have any random posters over my bed... I really can't think of any logical cause. Spooked me out pretty badly but nothing unexplainable or scary has ever happened since.
Anne Jones 2 years ago (edited)
When I was a kid I woke up in the night and felt like my nose was running. I had a cold at the time. I was half asleep and just drifted off again. I was woken in the morning by my older sister screaming. It turns out my nose wasn’t running, it was a bad nose bleed. I was covered in dried blood, all over my face, my pillow etc and looked like I’d had my throat cut.Poor sis got a shock. 😝
Caligo(he/they) 2 years ago
similar thing happened to me, and when i realized it was blood, i walked to the bathroom, and blood dripped from my face to the floor and stained the hardwood. blood stained hardwood was hard to explain to my parents-
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I got hit by the McGruff the Crime Dog house boat while sitting in my car at a red light.
#68
When I was about 6 years old I was at Dairy Queen with my Mom and brothers, Mom needed to change the baby’s diaper so she asked this guy sitting at a table near us on the patio to watch my 4 yr old bro and I. She had seen him around before and thought of him as a friendly neighbour… A few weeks later he was on the news, it was [Clifford Robert Olson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Olson) I imagine he must have been smirking and thinking “Jesus Lady, you’re lucky they’re a bit young for my taste”
María Hermida 2 years ago
So, your mum asked A RANDOM STRANGER to watch her two little kids???! She "had seen" himm before and "she thought" he was friendly, but she didn't know anything about him. And yet, she left her two little kids with him. For god's sake! Don't people have brains? Don't they read the newspaper or watch TV????
#69
2 weeks ago I dropped a grill propane tank on my foot. Yesterday I had my whole big toe amputated .
#70
I was gassed and robbed on a train going through Serbia in the winter of 1996 when we were at war with them. All they got was a 20£ note.
#71
I got made redundant from an extremely busy job where I was desperately needed, and moved into a non existent job in another department. I spent around 3 weeks doing absolutely nothing on a daily basis and had zero work to do, ever. I would fill my days by walking round the building talking to people, sitting for hours on end in the staff canteen looking at other jobs, and sitting in my car, before eventually getting myself fired on purpose so I could escape it
Ervin Conn 2 years ago
Why would you want to "escape" it? Sounds like the perfect job! Start a degree and have all the time you need to study.
Steve 2 years ago
Yeah. Because schooling is so affordable here in the States.
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The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Sounds like a finance thing. The wrong department was better at getting funding.
#73
I won a bicycle out of honeycomb cereal when I was a kid. My dad's response when I showed him the little piece of paper with the word 'Karate' on it: "You little s**t.". Handlebars broke off while I was in the air on a jump, wiped out when I landed, but luckily no scars. I woke up once when I was a kid, went into the bathroom, and had an alligator in there. No, it wasn't Florida. My dad had got a couple caiman's the day before and one got out. He was (for a while) a herpetologist and we traveled around Texas fairs with a 40' logging trailer filled with snakes and lizards. He was outside dressed like Steve Irwin (this was years before the legendary Mr. Irwin) getting people to go inside, while I gave tours. Fun stuff. I also had to help pull a 23' reticulated python off him at one point, and help him recapture an 18' king cobra we had. I guess most of the cool stories in my life revolve around my dad, who was just an epic man, who did everything every little kid wants to be when they grow up, and died a broken man due to alcohol and lost love :(
LeMurierBonjour 2 years ago
What has winning a bicycle got to do with a piece of paper that had the word karate on it? Why did the dad call OP a little sh1t? I have no idea what this paragraph is about.
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
Just guessing, maybe the paper was a lottery ticket like thing? I'm assuming the response was out of love and disbelief than anger
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They didn't catch my son at birth.
Tempest 2 years ago (edited)
Sounds like that. Babies straight out of the womb are extremely slippery and most often widely trashing about and screaming their little lungs off. Also in the final stage of the delivery the baby is essentially ejected out of the mom as she continues to push so the doctor/nurses have to have a good grip on the baby. The doctor who delivers usually immediately hands over the baby to a nurse as the doctor has to check up on the rest of the delivery (e.g.: deliver the placenta, repair an episiotomy, etc) so it’s possible for the baby to slip off during this stage too if the doctor-nurses team isn’t well coordinated. Some of the doctors don’t even look at the baby during this time as they’re hyper focused on the mom’s condition.
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Because it makes me imagine the baby shooting out of mom like a torpedo and whizzing right past the doctors and nurses as they all try to grab it. LOL!
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My father passed away when he and my mother were visiting another country. There was a national holiday going on (in that country), so we could not transport his body back to the US for another week. For that same holiday reason, my mother could not book a trip back home in-country - I had to make the plans from the US. This was before the internet, so I had to go to the airport and make the arrangements in person, since it involved multiple airlines and special circumstances, and the US embassy helped. I had his death certificate faxed to me, and it was all in a language I couldn't understand.
#76
Nearly almost certainly died in a parasailing accident when I was young. Was up there with my mum. There was others out doing the same thing and our ropes nearly got tangled. I vividly remember my mum panicking before being a total badass and steering us out of a disaster.
#77
My wife had a miscarriage right after our wedding. Spent wedding night in the ER.
#78
When I was 9 I tripped over a log playing tag in the dark and fell into the middle of a small bonfire we had goin in the yard after grandmas funeral. I had both my knees and hands directly in the coals and it took me a few seconds to realize where I had fallen. Felt a sharp pain in one of my hands and got up and walked out. Only my left hand got burnt black the rest of me was totally fine. Healed up good, now I just have a tiny scar with a little black dot embedded in it. Luckily my nerves were seared so it wasn't even very painful and the subsequent blisters that covered my hand after all the black was scraped off just kept reforming until the skin healed We were poor so my parents didn't take me to the doctor or even bandage it or nothing so it was a small miracle it healed so well
María Hermida 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry to say this, but your parents, apart from being poor, were totally, I don't know what to say, heartless? I understand doctors are expensive, but... aren't there at least pharmacies where you can get some ointment for pain and to prevent infection? Come on, it sounds as if they couldn't care less. It *is* a miracle you didn't get a dreadful infection in those untreated blisters. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but in my opinion, this is akin to child abuse.
tee-lena 2 years ago
When there is no money there is no money for meds. It may suck but it's probably not abuse.
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#79
A stripper once told me I reminded her of her son.
#80
I was in a movie with Halle Berry.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
My brother was an 'extra' in Zulu, and I was an extra in 'Agatha', back in the 60's
#81
Survived two plane crashes (both were DeHavillands)
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
De Havilland advertising: 'Sure, they crash a lot, but they're survivable'.
Penny Hernandez 2 years ago
I once flew in a DeHaviland Twin Otter and had a seat across from the door. I amused myself watching the rain coming into the cabin from the space where the door didn't meet the floor of the cabin.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Dash 8 in Canada? In most of the world De Havilland lost its separate identity in about 1963. So could be an antique.
#82
I was briefly kidnapped in Malaysia
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Glad it was brief. You hear about foreigners being kidnapped in Malaysia.
#83
I got third degree burns from French fries as a baby🤦🏻♀️ They got dropped on my arm and my dumb baby brain panicked and pancaked them to my upper arm.
ChimeraBubbles 2 years ago
Oh no, I laughed. But I can just imagine the classic baby reaction of hit what you don't like.
#84
I got asked to their bedroom by all my female bosses. I had 7 and literally all of them did that.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
All seven - me neither. But just one - on a business trip. Yes, that happens. (Answering on behalf of an imaginary friend.)
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GirlFriday 2 years ago
My father is one of 29 children, and I have 165 first cousins on my dad's side. My father was raised in a polygamist community and his father, who had nine wives when he died, was most likely murdered so someone else could gain control of the "Prophet's Seat" in the cult. My dad's mom left that cult when his dad died and took the five children that she knew were hers, she had seven babies, but babies were taken away after delivery to be raised in the community so she couldn't prove which of the other two were hers. My dad's oldest brother went back to run the cult when he grew up
Caroline Yates 2 years ago
I've never contributed to this, so no idea if this will actually work! I knew my dad went to the same school as Sr Paul McCartney... Liverpool tech. Dad was a man of few words, and not until clearing out his bookshelf before a house move, and found his old yearbook kind of thing that showed the classes and the participants names, did I discover that they were in the same class! Upon asking dad about that (he was also a muso, played in a lot of 'almost made it' kinda bands) that he then said that he was mates with Paul's brother, Mike, and they used to jam at Paul's house, with Paul playing guitar in the toilet for acoustics. Dad kept that one under wraps for decades! Apart from deciding to go home early after a gig at a local tavern when he was "too tired to play rhythm guitar for the next guy coming up on stage" (Eric Clapton), he's forgiven!
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Most of real life is way weirder than fiction. Makes me think we read fiction to take a nice break to "Normal", LOL.
Shankshaw Redeemer 2 years ago
I was hit in the head by a track and field discus (a real one made of some kind of metal). It hit the ground and then kept going until it knocked me out cold. I was about 11 or 12. I had a concussion. I'm convinced that blow is a contributing factor to my horrible migraines. I still can't believe my middle school teachers were just letting kids play with that kind of stuff during recess. I could have been more seriously injured. And props to the boy who carried me quite a long way to the nurse's office, whoever you are!
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
My mother tried to press charges against the 19 year old guy who got me pregnant when i was 13 years old. The police department told her if she pursued it they would take all of us away and charge her with child neglect. My mother was a single mom and worked a lot and this guy was always on my route home from school and his 21 year old brother was messing around with my best friend of the same age. 30+ years later, this guy had married his high school sweetheart that he denied in front of me that the baby was his. My son started getting messages from her saying that 1. she believes she is his real mother 2. that I have built a hidden tunnel under their house and I am sneaking in to sleep with him. So many other crazy things. My son has never met these people and he is over 30 and out of nowhere he starts getting these crazy messages. I guess the wife has severe undiagnosed mental issues. My son was extremely upset by the whole thing.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
So many of these were heartbreaking I can't finish.. I'm so sorry for everyone here with the cancer stories especially. 2/4 of my grandparents have it as I speak (1 for the 4th time)
Ayesha Aleena 2 years ago
My 7 year old cousin has suffered from UTI ever since she was born. Last year things got better after a surgery. Just a month ago she rammed into a pillar in my uncle's house while rollerblading, causing a deep vaginal tear. The doctors suspect a violent crime and informed the police. Of course my uncle and aunt came clean about it. She's doing better now but doesn't cut down on her rough playing tendencies.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
My great-grandfather was a merchant marine who disappeared in Panama during the riots. He was a Walton and we think he might be related to the Walmart Waltons.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Sounds fake but Fortunately isn't in this case. I have always had short-sightedness and one foot was longer than the other making getting shoes difficult. Following the death of my three year old daughter I had a mid-life crisis. The amazing thing is that during this mid-life crisis, over a period of just a fortnight, the eyesight in both my eyes improved by one dioptre. My feet became the same size. And I grew three centimetres.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I was in middle school at the time this happened. I woke up hard after a nightmare, and realized I couldn't move my head. Threw stuffies at my sister to wake her up & get our mom. Fast forward to the ER, 3am, and I'm given a sedative & have my neck snapped back into place & had to wear a foam collar. Again, in middle school. Turns out, I jerked my head so hard from the nightmare that I gave myself whiplash.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
My father is one of 29 children, and I have 165 first cousins on my dad's side. My father was raised in a polygamist community and his father, who had nine wives when he died, was most likely murdered so someone else could gain control of the "Prophet's Seat" in the cult. My dad's mom left that cult when his dad died and took the five children that she knew were hers, she had seven babies, but babies were taken away after delivery to be raised in the community so she couldn't prove which of the other two were hers. My dad's oldest brother went back to run the cult when he grew up
Caroline Yates 2 years ago
I've never contributed to this, so no idea if this will actually work! I knew my dad went to the same school as Sr Paul McCartney... Liverpool tech. Dad was a man of few words, and not until clearing out his bookshelf before a house move, and found his old yearbook kind of thing that showed the classes and the participants names, did I discover that they were in the same class! Upon asking dad about that (he was also a muso, played in a lot of 'almost made it' kinda bands) that he then said that he was mates with Paul's brother, Mike, and they used to jam at Paul's house, with Paul playing guitar in the toilet for acoustics. Dad kept that one under wraps for decades! Apart from deciding to go home early after a gig at a local tavern when he was "too tired to play rhythm guitar for the next guy coming up on stage" (Eric Clapton), he's forgiven!
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Most of real life is way weirder than fiction. Makes me think we read fiction to take a nice break to "Normal", LOL.
Shankshaw Redeemer 2 years ago
I was hit in the head by a track and field discus (a real one made of some kind of metal). It hit the ground and then kept going until it knocked me out cold. I was about 11 or 12. I had a concussion. I'm convinced that blow is a contributing factor to my horrible migraines. I still can't believe my middle school teachers were just letting kids play with that kind of stuff during recess. I could have been more seriously injured. And props to the boy who carried me quite a long way to the nurse's office, whoever you are!
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
My mother tried to press charges against the 19 year old guy who got me pregnant when i was 13 years old. The police department told her if she pursued it they would take all of us away and charge her with child neglect. My mother was a single mom and worked a lot and this guy was always on my route home from school and his 21 year old brother was messing around with my best friend of the same age. 30+ years later, this guy had married his high school sweetheart that he denied in front of me that the baby was his. My son started getting messages from her saying that 1. she believes she is his real mother 2. that I have built a hidden tunnel under their house and I am sneaking in to sleep with him. So many other crazy things. My son has never met these people and he is over 30 and out of nowhere he starts getting these crazy messages. I guess the wife has severe undiagnosed mental issues. My son was extremely upset by the whole thing.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
So many of these were heartbreaking I can't finish.. I'm so sorry for everyone here with the cancer stories especially. 2/4 of my grandparents have it as I speak (1 for the 4th time)
Ayesha Aleena 2 years ago
My 7 year old cousin has suffered from UTI ever since she was born. Last year things got better after a surgery. Just a month ago she rammed into a pillar in my uncle's house while rollerblading, causing a deep vaginal tear. The doctors suspect a violent crime and informed the police. Of course my uncle and aunt came clean about it. She's doing better now but doesn't cut down on her rough playing tendencies.
TMoxraaaar 2 years ago
My great-grandfather was a merchant marine who disappeared in Panama during the riots. He was a Walton and we think he might be related to the Walmart Waltons.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Sounds fake but Fortunately isn't in this case. I have always had short-sightedness and one foot was longer than the other making getting shoes difficult. Following the death of my three year old daughter I had a mid-life crisis. The amazing thing is that during this mid-life crisis, over a period of just a fortnight, the eyesight in both my eyes improved by one dioptre. My feet became the same size. And I grew three centimetres.
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I was in middle school at the time this happened. I woke up hard after a nightmare, and realized I couldn't move my head. Threw stuffies at my sister to wake her up & get our mom. Fast forward to the ER, 3am, and I'm given a sedative & have my neck snapped back into place & had to wear a foam collar. Again, in middle school. Turns out, I jerked my head so hard from the nightmare that I gave myself whiplash.
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