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Words are incredibly powerful. With only a brief description, you can feel the soft quilt your grandmother knitted for you as a child or smell the delicious scent of fresh cinnamon buns baking in the oven. Or if you hear something strange, you might suddenly freeze and have to do a double take to ensure you heard what you think you did.

Reddit users have recently been sharing some of the most bizarre and out of touch things they’ve heard other people say, so we’ve gathered the wildest responses below. Enjoy reading through this list that might make you question some people’s sanity, and be sure to upvote the answers that leave you with your jaw on the floor!

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I was talking to my friend Molly in 4th grade and I asked her why she was still wearing flip flops now that it was cold and she told me those were her only shoes- I was horrified! She also had no coat, and we lived in WNC where it got COLD- this was early 70’s when nobody seemed to notice or care about these kids. I gave her my coat and my mom didn’t get mad, she just told me that was nice and got me a new coat. Ever since then I can’t enjoy having nice things when people around me don’t, so I try to share as much as possible, because it’s not right that some have to suffer with nothing, and I taught my daughter (and now my grandkids) that if every single person did ONE kind thing every day the world would be an immensely better place. ❤️‍🩹

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Sinclair13
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I seriously live by the rule to "do one nice thing a day "t's the only thing that has kept me sane. It helps with my depression so much to make somebody else happy.

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#2

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal A homophobic guy I know: "Being gay is a choice."

I said something like - ok, choose to be gay for a day, an hour, a single minute if you can.

Guy - That's easy, I'm attracted to men all the time, I just choose to only like girls because I'm not gay.

Me - Ummm...

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I was chatting to a woman in the grocery checkout line and she commented that she'd lost a lot of weight (it was on topic). Since I need to lose weight I asked her how she did it. She said her husband (now ex ) has poisoned her with antifreeze over a period of time. She barely survived. I wasn't sure what to say, so I said that I didn't think I'd try that method of weight loss. She laughed.

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Katie Lutesinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a guy who was quite large, and years later I bumped into a skinny guy at the supermarket and didn't recognise him at all. His secret to weight loss was a near terminal illness, poor bastard.

Donkey boi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a similar thing years ago. Bumped into a friend I hadn't seen for a few years, first words out of her mouth were, 'Oh my god, you've lost loads of weight! I need to do that! How did you do it?', I just responded with one word, 'Septicaemia!'. For the record, I don't recommend it as a weight loss program.

mSpencer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was being onboarded for a new job so manager was getting copies of my driver's license and other required ID. Looks at the picture, and then back up at me and said "somebody's lost a lot of weight" really loudly. I made eye contact and said "poverty diet"

Ansi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also recommend getting a urinary tract infection that then gets up to your kidneys. 11 days strait with 39-41°C and loose 8 kg, and a little more during the 4 days in hospital. (Went by a mirror and didn't recognise myself. Loosing half of my hair was a bummer though, but you can get a wig for all the money you save on diet products 👍)

Dr Robert Neville
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back in school there was a big guy who came back from summer holidays about 2 stone lighter. Everyone said "wow you look great", he'd been on a 2 week family holiday and day 2 he got dysentery, it had just about cleared up by the time they left.

Šimon Špaček
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not surprised she laughed, laughter is one of the best coping mechanisms ever.

Zaach
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I forgot to eat for 8 days - lost 30 pounds; now, at the end of the day, I have to think whether or not I ate something that day. Had a CT scan, turns out there has been some minor bleeding in my brain - getting old sucks sometimes

Catharina Geerts
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lost a lot of weight due to cancer and everything needed to fight it. I'm cancer-free now and my weight is stable at a decent point. (BMI = 24 if I'm not mistaken)

Sarah
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up going to church with a really sweet old man. He said that when he was a young man he had been very large. He met his now wife for the first time and wanted to have a chance with her so he ONLY ate dill pickles for an entire year to lose enough weight so he felt confident enough to ask her out. They were married for 50+ years before she passed. RIP Ed & Tilly.

Joe Reaves
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My doctor made a similar joke when I lost a lot of weight due to gall stones. I couldn't keep anything solid down at all. He said well, it's not a method I'm going to recommend but at least it's a silver lining? (he was a good guy and we joked around all the time so this wasn't rude)

Robert Beveridge
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have dropped serious weight at times thanks to the Depression Diet (with a Side of Anxiety). Can certainly be effective, but I can't say as I recommend it.

DotC
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a friend who has suffered with a recurring illness for almost 20 years. She was previously very heavy. Early on, I asked her sister “is the big drop for a healthy reason” the sister said no. Meth was so prevalent then so I asked if it was drugs and we were close enough that she told me about the illness. But we are not always comfy asking.

Sophroniel
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I had a condition that meant I couldn't eat for a while and I lost almost 40kg. People were like "oh, you look so healthy!" and I was like "I'm dying!". Had a similar thing happen to a friend from school who was quite big and she was very slim when I saw her years later. I commented and she said "thanks, I got an eating disorder". Since then I have never commented on anyone's weight

Annie Persson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My medications made me lose my appetite, I just never felt really hungry. Lost almost 15 kilos in less than half a year. I have since learned to compensate with high calory foods, like using a mix of whole mil

Puppy Dancing!
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got compliments when I lost weight going from 25% body fat to less than 5%, so yes as a woman with a barrel chest and broad shoulders I was mostly skin and bone with severe muscle loss and people complimented my weight loss. When I complained to my boss about how stupid people were he said I looked fantastic. Seriously was on the verge of death and people saw the weight loss as good even when they knew the actual reason (Pancreatic failure). Society puts bag of bone people on the cover of magazines, on every tv, movie screen and no one measures up because the average is size 16, BMI 28. My doctor thought the weight loss was fantastic because I met the BMI chart for 18. My old doctor said to be at a high enough weight to have my period I needed to be at BMI 25. My mom lost 45 lbs in 3 weeks catching a noscomial C.diff. antibiotic resistant infection. She lost all her muscle and never got it back. Maybe these new drugs in Hollywood for weight loss will make the prejudice worse.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My favorite poison can be found in antifreeze! (Im not a murderer but i hyperfixated on the topic for a couple months last year) but cool! Not cool abt the lady tho

Riley Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is unusual. Women are, statistically, the ones who use poison/drugs as a disposal method. They're also prone to drowning and asphyxiation as their MO, just in case those come up in another post.

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To find out how this conversation started, we reached out to Reddit user AlexanderKeef, who posed the question, "What’s the weirdest thing someone casually told you as if it were totally normal?" The OP explained that he's a case worker and recently had a conversation with a client that inspired him to start this thread.

After being asked how he was doing, the client told AlexanderKeef that he was "planning on putting someone in the hospital" right after their meeting. "I’m gonna go murder this fool. He won’t leave me alone," the client told the OP.

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"Obviously, I was taken aback, as anyone would be!" AlexanderKeef shared. "I would say this is the catalyst for the post. People don’t do things for no reason however, and it’s clear this client felt like they were in a burning building on the 10th floor and had 2 choices of escape: jump out the window or run into the fire. The client is in a safe place now, for the record."

#4

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal A story from a friend - in Colorado, someone once asked, "Could you watch my wolves, I can pay you in weed."

There's a lot to unpack in that question!

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#5

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Husband (30) and I were pushing our shopping cart out of the grocery store when a random man (who honestly looked like dumbledore) looked at my husband and said "take my hat, you're gonna need it, you'll be bald very soon". Obviously my husband didn't take it. It was super odd of him to say because my husband had a FULL head of hair.

Three months later, my husband was diagnosed with a condition that made him lose all of his hair. Weird coincidence.

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#6

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal When I worked retail, a girl I worked with, maybe early 20s at that point, was telling me about her good friend who had just gotten pregnant because she passed out at a party and woke up with a guy on top of her. The girl was now faced with dealing with pregnancy basically completely on her own with no money. My friend/coworker told me this story with a tone of "can you believe this a*****e," but in a resigned way, at the level you might tell a story about someone not holding an elevator, or not tipping on a large bill. When I asked if the girl had called the police, she looked at me like I had two heads. I said, "...because that's r**e?" And she gasped and said "oh yeahhhh!" It was clearly the first time it had occurred to her that it was an actual crime that could be reported and not just something a******s do sometimes that you just have to deal with, so I'm guessing her friend didn't think of it either. That was a depressing day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But, if she hadn't gone to the party, he wouldn't have raped her, so she deserved it. She dressed in revealing clothes, so she was leading him on. Sure she said no, but no means yes. Ok, did I miss any? I was just thinking about this the other day. How many women were declared saints by the Catholic Church, because they killed themselves in order to avoid being raped, or killed themselves after, to avoid living as an impure woman? (For anyone who doesn't get it, the first part was EXTREME sarcasm!)

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AlexanderKeef also shared that, being a case manager, people say strange things to him all the time. But he says it's important to always treat them with empathy, regardless of what they say.

"Judgments only serve as fuel for motivated reasoning and belief perseverance," he explained. "For instance, if I had challenged the client and told them how terrible their motives were, the client would likely rationalize me as just another cog in the system trying to make their life more miserable– to take control away from [them]– because, as [they] may reason, I didn’t actually care about why they felt the way they did. I’d just be following policy like a machine, and machines aren’t human and therefore possess no humanity."

"Why would [they] work or trust with someone without humanity? For [them], their statement wasn’t weird," the OP added. "For [them], doing anything else was weird, because they’ve tried, and probably had bad experiences. So [they] developed learned helplessness and associated those other options we may consider to be reasonable as maladaptive instead. In this sense, the 'weird' things the clients tell me aren’t really weird (meaning objective aberrations of/in thought), but rather what they’ve reasoned to be the most efficient way to get their needs met."

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#7

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I was at a fancy dinner in a country where meat is a central part of the diet. One man, however, was a vegetarian. As this was uncommon in the area, I asked what got him interested in vegetarianism.

He explained that he was once forced to eat other human beings, and has not been able to eat meat since.

It was an unfortunately true story of how he’d been stopped by terrorists in some African country when he was chaperoning a bus full of children on some trip.

Granted, he knew it wasn’t “normal”, but he dropped it so casually as if it were as banal as any other reason to become vegetarian.

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As my wife used to say "I like children, but I couldn't eat a whole one".

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I drew smiley faces on the wooden spoons my mum used to hit us with, she got so angry that she broke every single one on me before she backhanded me into the fridge so hard I lost consciousness.


My husband, relaying a hilarious childhood story. Looked up to see the horrified looks on everyone’s faces and was genuinely baffled about our attitudes.

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Cara G
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah after a few times of beginning a story with "so the second time I saw my mom pull a knife on my dad..." you realize that your childhood may not have been normal and perhaps therapy is needed.

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal “I’ve had 12 DUI’s, 8 concussions and have died twice! Can’t wait til I can drive again. This time I’ll take life more seriously, once I get this ankle bracelet off and my license back.” Idk what was the most alarming part of the sentence.

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The OP went on to note that he has no shortage of examples of bizarre things people have told him. "I know there’s a congeries of ridiculous things I’ve said or done sequestered somewhere in my brain, but what’s interesting, and connects with what I’ve mentioned prior, is that what might be considered weird requires reflection," he told Bored Panda.

"In this way, 'weird' things are cognitive blind spots. We don’t think (unless it’s for comedic effect) what I’m about to say is weird; I’m going to say it. Instead, it works the opposite, we say something we don’t consider 'weird.' We (or more likely, others) reflect on what we’ve said, and then deem it weird," he explained.

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#10

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal His wife was pregnant and he said: "my wife looks like a fat pig." All of us just stopped talking to him.

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AlexanderKeef also shared a personal experience from when he was about 15 years old and visited his brother and his brother's fiancé in California. "I was a very edgy teen, probably the coolest and deepest kid in the Midwest," he noted. "His fiancé had said something to the affect of, 'I’m glad I was able to make it and meet you!' I wanted to be funny and quick-witted (of which I am neither), so I blurted out, 'I’m glad. Now I can close my legs.'"

"To this day, I have no clue what I meant by that, and it haunts me nightly," the OP admitted. "I felt immediately foolish; anxiety expanded in my chest like a balloon, and I wanted to bury my head in the hardwood. This was weird, sure, but I was a kid, and I was suffering from social anxiety stemming from parental abuse. So it makes sense my social acumen was severely lacking (it still is in many ways). Through this perspective, what I said wasn’t really weird, but a dollop of my struggling development."

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I'm standing on a corner in the middle of the city writing a text message. I hear this woman start ranting and raving, I don't take notice until I hear her say "Ya f*****g Jewboy". I look up, and she starts singing "Jewboy, Jewboy" and pointing at me like a kindergarten bully. I'm confused for several reasons - firstly she's well dressed in a business suit and nice hair and shoes, secondly I'm not even Jewish.

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#12

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal That they were doing building work at their home and dug up a human skeleton. They, and their builder, decided it was old and didn’t need any investigation so they tossed it in the dumpster.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really?? Who could be that stu-… oh wait, if there’s one thing BP has shown me is that plenty of people can

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I was discussing a Jeffrey Dahmer documentary with my brother and my dad just nonchalantly commented on how he grew up with Dahmer and played with him as a kid. Turns out my dad's cousin was neighbors with Dahmer and they used to play together when he went and stayed with his cousins.

Another one regarding my dad was when I was watching some TV mystery show and they were talking about near death experiences and the light at the end of the tunnel thing my dad just casually butted in that he had one of those. He got a severe fever as a kid and almost died and seen the light and everything.

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Ample Aardvark
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

David Paterson, I wouldn't call Dahmer a celebrity, more like a, you know, serial killer?

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As far as what the OP thought of the replies to his post, he shared that he was shocked by many of them. "I did enjoy reading them though," he noted. "They were very eye-opening, and reinforced what I mentioned above."

"One response that stood out was a classmate of the poster in training to be an FBI agent," AlexanderKeef said. "During class, they were shooting the shit with other trainees and the instructor who was an agent. He admitted to committing a felony (I think it was a robbery) like he was retelling a story about a time he burned a batch of hot dogs during a BBQ picnic. He was subsequently arrested. He obviously didn’t think it was weird, or he wouldn’t have brought it up. It was lingering in his cognitive blind spot, and for whatever reason (probably the environment he grew up in), this was a normal part of life, and nobody had exposed the event as inappropriate until it was too late."

#14

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I went into a Sally Beauty supply a few months ago looking for nail polish. This very normal looking woman who looked like she was in her 50s, but actually in her 30s..casually asks how my day is going, I said it's great, yours? She does the big sigh while blowing a raspberry...

"So my boyfriend and I are fighting. I just had my birthday last week, turned 32 and he was supposed to take me to get Sushi but he had to take his mom to do her laundry but then after he went to buy drugs I guess so he ran from the cops and wrecked my car into a telephone pole. He's paralyzed and in the hospital. They said he won't walk again and he's been calling and texting crying wanting me to take care of him but I dumped him. I mean, it's over? You're paralyzed and your d**k won't work. Plus you totaled my car and it was impounded and I found out my insurance lapsed and he stole my food stamps. I'm just at a loss. I've got 7 kids with 3 great guys and I have to raise my kids. I can't raise these kids and a cripple man too. I'm like, look I'm a young attractive woman and I've got a good job at sally making almost $10 an hour and they're saying I could be management by the 4th of July. That's big for someone like me. So anyway, I'm just going through it and no one understands. You're really a nice person. You're so easy to talk to with such kind eyes. You're probably tired of hearing me talk about this. "

I just stood there..dazed.

"Do you need help finding something?"

I grabbed a random bottle of nail polish, I didn't even want it but just wanted out of there so bad. I'm only buying nail polish online for awhile.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was curious about which states have a minimum wage of less than $10/hr so I went to the DOL website to see. The answer is, more or less, "the South".

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal You should get a thinner waist. And breast implants too, your breast are ugly. Also I’d like to sleep with other girls while you watch.
- my then boyfriend of 2yrs

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Many years ago I was a college student taking Psychology classes. I participated in a group discussion thing at a mental hospital, where they were attempting to prepare patients for interacting with the world when they got out. It was kind of unsettling because everyone wore normal clothes and you couldn't tell who were the patients and who were the counselors or visitors. One guy was very pleasant and authoritative and I assumed he was one of the staff. He was sitting right next to me the day we were discussing dealing with our parents, and he said, very calmly, "It was far more upsetting to me when I k****d my mother than when I k****d my father." I was so stunned I just froze.

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The OP also wanted to discuss the psychological concept of Fundamental Attribution Error. "An FAE is when someone is more likely to assume and judge one’s disposition versus their environment in any given event," he explained. "We all do this. Think of when you’re driving, and someone cuts you off. We feel anger first, and then reason why being angry in that moment is appropriate. We might see this as a personal attack, and reason why this person is a menagerie of expletives. But how do we know this person isn’t driving a loved one to the hospital to save their life?"

#17

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal That they have 6 kids, all with different dads & each dad is in prison.

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"Given this environmental context, we might be less inclined to assume their disposition in the pejorative, and more likely to express understanding for reckless actions," AlexanderKeef continued. "It’s easy to assume their stupidity because it inconveniences us, even though it’s very likely we are being hypocritical. Suddenly, their actions don’t seem weird, but reasonable, even if dangerous."

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"The sirens of an ambulance exist to give context to other drivers that the ambulance may be driving 'recklessly,' and it will be less dangerous if we as drivers move out of the way. The siren makes the reckless driving not weird," he explained. "As a note, people tend to commit FAEs against themselves when they reflect on the past (like the cringe accompanying my statement to my sister-in-law) because they see their past selves as a different person. But negative thinking about our past selves still affects how we feel about ourselves in the present, regardless of any temporal variable."

#18

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal My ex girlfriend, who I genuinely believe is a clinical sociopath, told me once about breaking the nose of a neighborhood girl who was developmentally disabled when she was 10 because she was bored and the girl was annoying her. She told the story like she understood it was wrong but I got the sense that she knew she was supposed to tell it that way, not that she agreed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you regret beeing on a stock photo used for this article... also wtf

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Someone was telling me I have nice eyes and they wished they could cut them out to keep them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gomez 'He has his father's eyes.' Morticia: 'Gomez, put those away.'

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal "It's easier to bang chicks who used to be fat because they're hotter now but still have low self esteem." Oh yeah, and I lost 130 lbs. So that went over smoothly with me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? I can lose ANOTHER (insert weight of dude here) in 20 seconds when I walk away from you.

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"I’d also like to say that I love artists who excel in exposing what’s 'weird' as completely normal," AlexanderKeef told Bored Panda. "For instance, SZA released a song not too long ago about killing her ex and his new girlfriend, emphasizing she’d do this of her own volition and didn’t need any encouragement from items such as drugs or alcohol to do so, making salient her metacognition in the event, or awareness that some may see her reasoning as irrational. But she still believes in her motivated reasoning despite reflection from others. She ends the song with 'I’d rather be in hell than be alone.' This sounds a lot like jumping out of the building versus running into the fire."

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#21

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal A guy once told me how he loved the feeling of wearing casts, so he'd put casts on himself- for days or weeks on end. Even if it meant he couldn't drive and would be stuck at home the entire time. He'd use vacation time just to wear full leg & arm casts.

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#22

"You seem sad"

My mother to my sister, at her husband's funeral.

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal "My son and I monitor each other's p**n habit."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was said by current Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson. His son is 17 years old.

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"Pierce the Veil has a song called 'I Don’t Care if You’re Contagious.' The lead singer wrote it about a fan who lost her boyfriend in a car accident," the OP added. "He writes it from the boyfriend’s perspective, and it’s of course supposed to be romantic, but turned up to 11 where love bleeds into obsession."

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"Some of my favorite lines are 'I don’t care if you’re contagious, I’d kiss you even if you were dead' and 'Would someone make me blind for the rest of my life? Cause I’d do anything to hold your hand.' I absolutely love PTV and SZA for songs like these because our first reaction is to reflect on how weird it is to want to murder someone out of jealousy, or kiss a corpse, but I think these feelings are some of the most human things we can experience," AlexanderKeef shared. "Maybe you can add this to one of the weirdest things you’ve heard/read."

#24

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal My co-worker wasn't feeling well and proceeded to tell in detail about her v*****l discharge. She seemed slightly miffed when I politely told her I was sorry she wasn't well, but that level of person detail was not appropriate. Why would you want your co-worker to have those images in their head? WHY?!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are people you can share that kind of detail with, and people you can't.

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal In high school I had a boyfriend (from a different school) who was a pathological liar. Some lies were more obvious than others. The best was when we were talking on the phone and he casually told me that the other day in shop class a car fell on his hand. The other students knew to put air in his hand (?) and when he got to the hospital they gave him a robotic arm. He went into detail about it too, like they put microchips in his brain and put a computer mouse in his hand and the microchips were too strong so he crushed the mouse so they had to adjust it. I was just kind of like...uh huh.

He then told me that the doctors offered to make his entire body robotic (mind you this was like 1999) since insurance covered it which meant he wouldn't age, but he declined because he wanted to grow old with me. We had been dating for about two weeks.

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Javelina Poppers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even pathological liars know where to draw the line, this guy must have skipped that class?

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Bragging about being a 36 year old grandmother with 4 grandkids. The daughter is 21 and pregnant with her 4th child.

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Corwin 02
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the woman who told me she was so proud she was going to be a grandmother at the age of 32 , some people are just sick.

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#27

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I know a guy, we don't talk often but due to business we cross paths on occasion. More or less every time we talk he asks if I'm ready for the total societal collapse coming next week, or *Tuesday*, or at the end of the month.. and so on.

I just tell him that it's not gonna happen; he usually then asks about my "crystal ball" so I remind him that I've been right every time.

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#28

A few weeks ago my sister and I met a guy, went out with him as friends. He knew we both are dating someone else. Third time we met him he said absolutely casual, that if we won't have sex with him, he does not see a reason to meet or talk to us ever again. Like.. no need to talk to women, if they won't have sex with him. I was too shocked to slap him. 😂

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#29

During the pandemic, I worked in one of those coffee shops some larger grocery stores have inside them. There was an older guy who worked in the meat department that would come by every day. A bit rugged and didn't usually talk much, but nice enough.

Then one day we were talking about Covid, and he casually told me, in complete seriousness, the disease was manufactured in a Chinese lab to drop the world's population below 500,000 to make it easier to institute the New World Order. And it's all written in the Georgia Guidestones.

I have never made a vanilla latte faster

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BewilderedBanana
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

8 billion people down to under 500k? that's a near-extinction level event. a virus with that kind of mortality rate would probably be impossible to contain or ensure the survival of anyone at all :)

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#30

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Once, an older woman came up to me on the street, took hold of my wrists and simply said “they ripped out my afterbirth”, and then carried on walking.

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#31

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal As a kid I used to casually tell people my stepdad liked to go in the garage and film himself getting high and then dressing up in women’s clothes and putting makeup on (poorly). My mom hated that.

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#32

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I was walking to work one day and a random older lady across the street waved me over, the gamer in me felt a side quest coming, no
She waved me over to tell me that her son had just died but, her words "he was a s**t head so it's not a total loss"


Honestly, it made my day but I still felt bad

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DotC
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man there’s a lotta folks out there needing to tell strangers their trauma.

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#33

I was leaving the grocery store when one of the employees came up to me and said, "You remind me so much of that guy in Colorado that k****d his wife and kids" Me: "Umm, well, that's pretty disturbing." Her: "Do you know who I'm talking about?" Me: "Not right off hand." Her: "You should google it. You look a lot like him. I'm always following true crime shows, and I finally got summoned for jury duty. It's very exciting!" Me: "Ok, yea, uhh, that's great. Have a nice day." Hasty exit followed.

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WindySwede
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heard somewhere online that some have a sexual atraction to criminals etc (wiki: Hybristophilia). Sounds sort of this here?? (Think I heard it on YT about Bonnie and Clyde).

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#34

A cashier at Target told me her bestie was uninvited to her wedding for calling CPS on her, for leaving a gun out where her toddler might get it. But it’s Okay because there weren’t bullets in it.

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#35

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal 'Oh, my parents fight every day and my father left in a rage this morning saying he was going to jump in front of a train. I hope he comes back before I get home; he did before.'

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Natalie Bohrteller
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I seriously wonder why or how parents have the right to raise their children themselves.

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#36

“I don’t know why people get big mortgages. Just save up for a few months and pay cash for a starter home!”

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Milady Blue
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fitting into a dollhouse if you are bigger than a doll is kind of tricky, though.

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal When I was in high school, I was sitting next to a friend on the school bus. Mid conversation, he spit his gum into a wrapper, and put a new piece of gum in his mouth. When I asked him why, he said that his tooth fell out in the gum but he didn't want to interrupt the conversation so he just nonchalantly switched out the pieces.

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#38

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal "You are an absolute smoke show. You look just like my youngest daughter"

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#39

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal I had a college professor on the first day of class say that she is obsessed with Q-tips and cleaning her ears and that her family has to limit her to 3 a day-

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SCamp
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, I’m down with that. Maybe not thrice daily but geez, that magical feeling of the q-tip in the ear when it does need an itch is just heaven

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40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Former friend of mine kept all of his used rubbers in a plastic bag for years

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#41

"Oh, he was born with webbed balls, he had surgery as a baby, you have to have noticed the scar!" said about my boyfriend, by his mother, while he was at work

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Delta Dawn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My MIL told me out of the blue about a terrible spider bite my husband had as a newborn right on his fresh circumcision. This was over breakfast. My husband walked in halfway through and when I asked if he knew about that he said he had no idea. I wonder if she’s ever told anyone else that story and why it came out then 💀

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#42

My grandmother told me that one of my uncle’s should have been a b***job. She also said that if birth control pills existed during the years that she was having babies she would’ve taken them by the handfuls because every time she walked past the bedroom door she ended up pregnant. She told me this after I got married 🤦‍♀️

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#43

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Was like 10 or 11 and riding public transit and had some dude in his thirties sit next to me putting me in the window seat and they're in the aisle seat so I'm trapped and starts talking about how he just got out of prison for hurting his brother and how you shouldn't do that just because someone makes you angry. Told in a way where they thought they were passing on really helpful life advice. Was so surreal I didn't even realize how disturbing it actually was until the first retelling of the story.

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Milady Blue
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing like having one of "those" faces, that makes everyone want to tell you their autobiography or pass on "wisdom." That is the main reason I will happily chip in for gas and bum a ride with a friend rather than take public transportation.

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#44

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Lo these many years ago, I was walking on a long, narrow, and mostly empty path on campus. As I crossed paths with a literal stranger, I mumbled a courteous greeting, as we do in the south. ME: how's it going? FEMALE STUDENT: I just recovered memories of being SA'd. Not that being SA'd is normal, but the way she told me was so casual it threw me for a loop!

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Sky Render
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trauma recovery can be like that just after the reclamation of suppressed memories. The realization can shut off one's social filters. Source: that's exactly what happened for me.

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#45

“Nice stream” as I was peeing.

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David Paterson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

PMSL. Reminds me of when a stranger came up to me at a party, said "how's your prostate?" And walked off.

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#46

During my c-section, the OB said, "You have a beautiful uterus!"

That's like one of the few things I remember from that procedure (plus meeting my little one).

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#47

Genuine conversation with someone I bumped into at a pub-based event that hadnt seen for like 15+ years since school, we weren't even friends, just classmates. I'm paraphrasing but i am not exaggeratinf about how fast he dropped this honker into the conversation

*"Liam right?, its Roy from school"*

"Oh yeah! You alright?"

*"Yeah not too bad thanks, how have you been?"*

"Oh pretty s**t, works been hard n i got put away for a bit"

*"Wait what?"*

"Yeah" -sad pained expression- "i got done done for domestic violence" -continues to look at me as if hes not completely to blame-

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Donna Peluda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people who have been in the joint blame other people. If it wasn't for the stupid undercover cop...... If my wife hadn't called the cops...... bastard had cameras installed.....

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#48

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Caught my former brother in law shooting up...told me he has diabetes and he has to administrate it in his vein. 🤔🤔🤔

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#49

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal Babysitting a 3yo, during playtime she quite matter-of-factly tells me that her stuffed dinosaur is very sick and has to live in the hospital because his parents are dead.

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Delta Dawn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s very much something a 3yo would say! They’re very morbid.

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#50

40 Bizarre And Out Of Touch Things People Have Casually Said As If They’re Normal While on a beach trip I was trying to play with my brother in the waves. He walked up to me and casually told me that he had decided he no longer loved me and that he wished we weren’t related. And that I shouldn’t try to be around him or play with him anymore. I was 8 at the time and this crushed me.

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Joshua David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kids are real a$$#oles a lot. I was one and I too had an older brother too.

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#51

i worked at a gas station convenience store for a yearish when i was in my early 20s. one day this guy comes in, couldn't have been older than maybe.... idk, 18? 19? and he comes in grinning and standing there. i welcome him and ask if he needs help, what pump he's on, etc.

he goes on to laugh and pull change out of his pocket. he starts talking about how "people are so funny with their money". that coins and dollars are meaningless and he has no use for it. we get weirdos often so i just kind of smile and nod and he goes on a disjointed spiel about "humans" and how "satan has no use for these worldly things" and how interesting people are and how meaningless the things we do are. he eventually left without buying anything. it gave me a laugh and i definitely didn't forget it. he smiled the entire time

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#52

I have a tattoo and a girl saw it and asked me "oh, who'd you get it with?" And I said "some guy, I don't remember his name. I know the address of the studio though, if you want to check it out" and she was confused by my reply and I was confused by her confusion and she said "you... forgot his name?" And I was just like "...yeah" and after some back and forth I figured she assumed it was a couple's tattoo and was asking the name of whatever guy I must have gotten it along with and I just... who jumps to assume it's a couples tattoo? I said "no one has ever asked me that, who would assume it's a couple's tattoo?" And she replied "who would ask for the name of the artist?"

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Isaac Nemo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've asked MANY people who their tattoo artist was, I think it's a nice way to complement them when wearing good ink

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#53

That he had "this much of his p***s shot off in the Vietnam war" while holding his thumb and forefinger roughly an inch apart.

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BewilderedBanana
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

censoring penïs now as well? i mean, it's the correct, non-vulgar term... should it be "this much of his male reproductive organ unintentionally and non-surgically removed in the Vietnam conflagration" just to be on the safe side?

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#54

Not told to me but my sisters friend has a neighbor that casually told her she just leaves her 4 month old baby at home when she needs to walk to the store. Wtf !!!!

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#55

When I met my ex-MIL for the first time she told me, over coffee, that her pills have to be locked up because she tried to end herself by taking a bunch of them one time.

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Jessica Reitzell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glad she survived it. And if it's you feeling that way today, please know it gets better, and there are people who love you. ❤️

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#56

I was on a date and a girl casually started telling me about her prison pen pal. "wouldnt it be funny if he m******d me when he gets out?"

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#57

"Haha, I drink rubbing alcohol sometimes"

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#58

"I've drunk about 13 monster energy drinks and 2 5-hours one time, was shaking like crazy and my heart rate dropped."
One of my younger coworkers shared to me about her addiction to monster. She vents to me sometimes when we are working on the same shift. We aren't very close but I feel inclined to listen because I think she has a rough upbringing and few emotional supports in her life. It's also kinda why I'm more attentive of her over my other coworkers.

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#59

Several years ago my grandma casually admitted in the middle of a meal at red lobster that she smoked the whole time she was pregnant with my mom lmao. It was embarrassing obviously but kind of funny too

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BewilderedBanana
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a time when cigarettes were promoted as being healthy. I remember ads for Camel (i think) saying that more doctors smoke Camels (the cigarettes, not the animals) than any other brand. It was perfectly normal to smoke while pregnant back then, so the grandma was doing nothing considered wrong or unusual (and definitely not embarrassing) at the time. Times change though :)

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#60

‘You’re way cooler than you used to be.’ Thanks Jillian, let’s just mull that one over for the next 10 years.

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