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In fact, people don't learn anything. Absolutely nothing. It would seem that no matter how many centuries have passed since the time of David and Goliath, still, there are always people with an incredibly large ego, and in completely different life situations.

And, of course, in full accordance with the laws of karma, arrogance almost always gets what it deserves. A person claiming to be extremely erudite takes last place in the trivia quiz, a guy who thinks he's a great driver fails the driving test, Atlanta Falcons lose the Superbowl after having 28:3 in the third quarter...

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group There was an arm wrestling trend going on at my high school during my junior year, and there was an all star athlete on my basketball team we called Pat who was very cocky. He wasn’t the best on the team at basketball, but he started in every single sport and he was absolutely jacked for a 17 yr old. One day he challenges this semi mentally handicapped kid at our school to an arm wrestling match over who gets to use this particular tool in shop. This kid is pretty big, but he’s a bit slow so he got teased a lot. Anyways they get set up, everyone’s watching, and the match starts. 15 seconds go by and Pat couldn’t move this kid’s arm at all. He just sat there smiling at Pat and watched the smug and cocky attitude disappear. Then he easily pinned his arm and let Pat use the tool anyways. He walked away humming to himself like usual. What a boss.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Long ago? In college one semester for fun I took “Swine Management”. I’m a total city girl, about 5 ft nothing, and at the time I was like 105 lbs soaking wet. I did learn how to restrain a hog in that class, and I got to know all the barn men really well.

Next fall semester, I start my Veterinary College courses. In Large Animal Medicine, we had a block of, you guessed it, swine disease prevention. The professor was known to enjoy taking his students down a peg or two. Great, he covers basic swine restraint really fast, like no way you’d be able to do this…unless you already know how. He looks around…barn men are watching this show from the back. I didn’t want to disappoint them, so I make eye contact with the prof and of course he picks me “to demo”.

I calmly walk up to the sow, take the rope, loop around the belly, twist, half hitch into her mouth and tie her up. Barn men are like proud papas, prof is like wtf just happened. He asked me where I grew up, he’s clearly thinking Iowa or something, I answer the big city to the west.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Brilliant! No one likes a smug teacher.

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I made a smug teacher cry once :/

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When I was in high school, girls couldn't take auto shop class, but a night class in "auto maintenance" was offered so I took it. Mostly it was me, and about 15 older ladies there for fun, flirting with the teacher. He was the regular daytime auto shop teacher. One night he's teaching carburetor basics, and takes a Holley 650 apart to show it's workings. Break time comes and I start putting the carburetor back together for fun. Teacher comes along, asks what I'm up to. I tell him I'm reassembling the Holley 650. He laughed and said "good luck". 10 minutes later I've returned the reassembled carb to his desk. He starts looking at it, sees it's complete, kind of humphs and doesn't say anything..I felt pretty good.

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I like this... I didn't have a smug shop teacher in 7th grade, but he was a serious no nonsense guy. I was 1 of 4 girls in the class and we had to design our own CO2 race cars, complete with wind tunnel experiments and all kinds of stuff. I knew birds, and had a very good visualization for aerodynamics. I was on crutches a bunch at the time for a serious injury and picked on quite a bit, so it came as a surprise to me that he still told the story of "the quiet girl that kicked the asses of all the boys in the entire grade level", 6 years later to boost the confidence of any girl in the class. I was the 1st place racer from the entire grade (500 at least), which didn't really sink at the time, but everytime I blew wheels off crossing the finish line first, I could see a faint wry, smile on his face... I didn't comprehend until I was an adult what I had accomplished, and how proud he was. I found out about the story being repeated from younger family and friends attending. 👍teacher

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This has to be one of the best stories I’ve ever read.

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This is a great great story. Not so much because you took the prof down - but because of the solidarity you built the barn men.

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Well done, you certainly showed them! I do have a question (bear in mind I'm English and don't know anything about it), what is the point of doing that to the pig? Is it to transport them easily, or something like that?

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Being a confident 5 foot girl/woman with skills can sometimes really make people see you as Wonder Woman. Good on you for showing them!

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group The day I got my restraining Order against my then spouse...Everyone says the abusers rarely show up, and he had no reason to show up at ours...


He was drunk, belligerent, and volatile.


The judge let him ramble and make an absolute A*S out himself, for about ten minutes before she asked him when he had had his last alcoholic beverage, since she could smell him from the bench...He started in on her and she...just ripped him apart.


For the first time in his life, he was forced to silently listen to a woman call him out, tell him he is an abuser, a user, an addict, and a terrible person in general. In front of his teenage kids he brought along.


She counted down each previous RO and eviction from all his previous women, and (correctly) said he is the kind of man who chooses vulnerable women to live off of and she sees this as his "job" and that he wasn't going to be getting a "paycheck" from me anymore.


It's been years and he still hates me with a passion for that experience.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Son was born the day before, my wife was in bed recovering. I’m all cocky because I was able to put him to sleep and did a perfect swaddle. I was able to calm him down in seconds and I’m just getting more arrogant by the minute. I volunteer to change his pooped diaper because I’ve been a father for an entire day and clearly an expert at this point. So apparently my beautiful newborn wasn’t finished pooping and not only peed all over my face and chest but he pooped all over my hands. After that happened I was a little more humble.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Ex girlfriend was hostess at a swanky restaurant in Seattle. She was looking down at her book when some people approached the dais and a guy said “I need a table for 8.” She said without looking up “it’s probably going to be at least a 90 minute wait.” Voice says “But I’m David Copperfield.” Ex says “Then maybe you can make a table appear.” Finishes what she’s doing. Looks up. It’s actually David Copperfield. No table appeared.

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I hate it when people use their fame or association to get something. I work at a non-profit and I constantly get calls from "supporters" who ask me is there's anything I can do to get them tickets to a sold out show. They go on about how much they have donated blah blah blah. I don't give in. Instead, I sell the reserve tickets (at a discount) to a nice person who tells me "oh man!" I was hoping there would be tickets left by the time I got paid and had enough money to get the tickets." non-profits are all about helping people in the end right?? =D

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I worked IT support for my school while I was in college. One of my coworkers was the type who thinks they’re the smartest guy in the room. One day he came in and couldn’t get his monitors to work. After 10 minutes of watching him struggle I tried to interject and help but got a long winded rant about how he’s been working with computers his whole life and doesn’t need any help, if he can’t figure it out I certainly wouldn’t be able to.

I just responded with “that’s cool man, I just thought monitors had to be plugged in to work, my bad.” His entire face turned red and he looked like he wanted to die as he realized both monitors were unplugged.

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I wouldn't mention, the monitors were unplugged. Have-fun-jerk!

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I knew a guy that always felt the need to one up everything I said. I was on the phone with my girlfriend at the time and he happened to overhear us talking. He came up to me and started to brag about himself, loud enough for my girlfriend to hear, and how he could steal my girl just by talking to her on the phone for 10 minutes. I offered him my phone and my girlfriend reamed him out for 5 minutes straight before he handed me back the phone and walked off. I was so proud of her haha.

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She's a keeper. Their a keeper. Weird guy who can neither put up nor shut up, not so much.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group BIL always preening and bragging about how he's the best. At everything. At a family dinner with people he hadn't met before, someone asked him if his last name was Italian. He said yes. Another person said,"Ah, I've heard about those hot Italian lovers." Before he could get a word out , his wife looked at him and very clearly said, "Yeah, I've HEARD about them too."

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Oh SO many times. I live in the DC area. The number of times I have seen men patronize a little gray-haired woman and then learn she is a power player... it's glorious.

My favorite was a backyard barbecue with some friends who sail. You've got everyone from the guy who scrapes barnacles off the bottom of the boats to old Navy dudes to the people who own racing yachts. And you CANNOT tell by looking. These yacht racers dress like they went shopping at the Salvation Army in 1989.

So there we are, watching the kids spray each other with the hose and waiting for burgers, and my friend's new brother-in-law is a Lawyer. He wants everyone to know he is a Lawyer. He's swaggering around like, "Well, as an ATTORNEY...." oh god. He is SUPER patronizing to a nice older lady and a teen girl, then heads over for yet another beer. He's pulling his I'm A LaWYeR routine on a guy and the guy says, "Oh, hey, I have a great person for you to meet!" Drags the jackass back over to the older lady and the teen girl and introduces the jackass to the two. Jackass realizes he bragged about being a lawyer to the dean of a major law school and Justice Scalia's granddaughter.

I thought the jackass was going to s**t himself.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I used to work at a photography studio. I'm not a photographer but I know some basics.

Photographer guy, probably in his 50s, tells me the equipment he rented isn't working and he is ranting on about how he has wasted 25 minutes of his rental time because his camera wasn't syncing to the lighting equipment. All in front of his poor clients.

Best moment of my life -- as he was cursing me out I walked over and wordlessly plugged it in. Never seen a grown man turn so red.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group When I was a kid a new guy showed up at church. He was inordinately proud of the fact that he had a PHD in communications and insisted everyone call him "Doctor" (and he was old enough that it's not like he *just* got his doctorate). He basically treated everyone else like uneducated rubes because *he* was a Doctor.

Whelp, the neurosurgeon, the anesthesiologist, the radiologist (chief of radiology at the biggest regional hospital!), the 3 dentists, the 2 orthodontists, and a handful of other people that I have no idea what they did all started calling each other "Doctor" as well.

Weirdly, mr. communications stopped insisting everyone call him doctor.

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A few years ago on a group hike, one of the hikers tripped. No harm done, but someone joked, "Is there a doctor in the house?" Another hiked joked back, "Does a doctor of philosophy count?"

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group My army friend when he lost to his mom at the shooting range at the carnival

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I knew this girl who was a part of my friend group back in high school. She started really harshly bullying one of the girls in our group and wouldn’t own up to it or apologize in any way so we all cut ties with her. Shortly afterwards she moved away. Let me tell you I have never seen such sudden and strong entitlement come from a person.

She reached out to the girl she was bullying almost a year later and told her she was coming back and was going to “ruin her life.” Said she was going to re-join the youth group at our church and spread horrible rumors about her so that nobody would like her anymore and she’d be able to steal all of her friends back. Also said she was going to play the victim card and tell everyone that she was the one being harassed. We shared those messages with our minister and she was promptly banned from that group and never got to show her face there again. She also started posting things about all of us on tiktok, which we reported and ended up getting her temporarily banned from the platform. She wasn’t able to get a job in this town because everywhere she applied there was someone there who knew what she did and told their boss not to hire her. And now her grandma is kicking her out and sending her back home.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group In highschool a martial arts group performed for us during an assembly in the gym. The lead guy with a microphone was arrogant and full of himself. He was demonstrating how you could lock your arms behind your neck in a hold that can't be separated. He asked for someone from the audience to try and break his arms apart. Down from the bleachers came our top male gymnast. The student got behind the "expert" and in a matter of seconds the student not only broke the hold but dislocated the pro's shoulder in the process.




Best assembly ever.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Elementary school track meet, 1995.

My friend E introduced me to her friend S who went to another school. I was there as a sub but someone on our team didn't show so I was up. E mentions I'm in the same race as S and turns out we're both starting the relay. S immediately starts ribbing me - "I'm going to beat you", "I'm faster than you". I was a sweet looking innocent girl, people were generally nice to me unless they were the type of a*****e who spotted an easy target.

Race starts, I'm running and I don't see her anywhere. I'm thinking, damn, she is fast until I check over my shoulder. When I tell you this girl was not just behind me but SO FAR behind me. Our team placed 2nd and hers came in something like 5th or 6th. She didn't say a word after, I doubt she'd even remember it but to this day I think about it anytime someone goes into S mode with me. I never give it back to them, I always just do my own thing and hope that I prove them wrong and usually it works.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Me: who's the best Dad in the world?!?!

My daughter: Mommy!!!!

Me: little sh*t

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rule #1: Never ask a question to which you do not know the answer.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group There was this annoying woman in my department at work back in the early 80s. She was one of those who had already seen it/done it better during any topic of conversation. It bugged me because it seemed to me that the bulk of her claims were products of her imagination, but many of our co-workers thought that "Lynn" was sooo cool, she knows so many famous people and has visited all these exotic places!" Well, she crossed the line with me in 1980 when I was fortunate enough to get front row tickets to a Queen concert in Detroit via a scalper. I paid $45 each, but it was worth it - that was back in the day when the front row folks were squished against the stage so that we rested our forearms on it. Both Freddie and Brian shook my hand during the show. Of course, since I was willing to spend that kind of cash to see them it only makes sense that I was a huge fan and knew a LOT about the band and its history.

Come Monday morning I go to work and talk enthusiastically about seeing Queen so closely and Lynn interjects off-handedly, "Oh, I remember partying with them back in the day when they played small clubs. I remember seeing them at [some small downtown Detroit bar] and playing cards with them backstage later." I looked her in the eye and replied, "The first time Queen ever played in Detroit was at the Ford Auditorium in February 1975. They've never played club dates in Detroit." She just gave me a frozen smile, patted my arm and walked away. After that she never interacted with me unless absolutely necessary.

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I was the singer in a very moderately successful rock band in the early '90s. I was living in an apartment block and there was an incredibly hot girl that lived there and I'd always try and say hi and interact with her but she would have none of it. After my third or fourth attempt she just looked me square in the face and told me to f**k off and leave her alone. About a month later my band was playing a nightclub. The place was sold out. I was walking through the crowd before the show and saw her standing with some girl friends and walked over and asked her what she was doing here. She replied that she was dating the lead singer of the band. I said which band? She said the band playing here tonight, and I replied but I'm the lead singer of that band. To her credit, she said okay fine. You caught me in a lie. I f*****g laughed and walked away.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group There’s this guy who always shows up to the public dog park and let’s everyone know he is a professional dog trainer.
One day he targets this good looking woman with a big ol German Shepard. He goes up to her, gives her the usual schpeel “hey I train dogs professionally and just wanted to let you know that your dog is a killer. It’s a good thing you have him out here getting his energy out. I can tell he is young and I’m sure you’re coming home to tons of accidents and objects chewed up? I’ll happily give you a free lesson.”
The woman looks at him and says “my dog is 5 years old and has never had an accident in my house and never chewed up anything.”
Dog trainer guy just sort of laughed and walked away, onto the next person he can bother.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group When I was in middle school I was very short and generally just looked like a stereotypical 14 year old girl. One day in gym class we go to the weight room, so I'm doing weighted squats (don't remember the exact weight, but probably between 60 pounds and 80 pounds), and this kid starts getting all cocky and teasing me for "trying too hard" and basically challenges me to a bench pressing competition.

What he didn't know was that I spent 2 hours in the weight room every morning.

I kicked his butt, it was very satisfying.

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my landlord's two sons, who were bodybuilders, came in and started bragging about how much they could leg press. I asked them to show me and each struggled but did 600 lbs. I set the weights to 915 lbs, the weight I had done earlier in the week, and crushed their egos with a single lift.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I worked for a Mercedes Benz dealer. Lots of a-hole customers, but one in particular was just a d**k. He'd throw a tantrum if he couldn't get in for a service appointment with zero notice and pulled a lot of "do you KNOW who I AM" c**p to try to get his way. He came in one day and made a huge production of buying a $100,000 car - made sure everyone in the dealership knew he was buying it and exactly how much it cost, drove it into the service bay to smugly show it off to the techs, rolled the top down and blasted his lame 80's music as loud as he could on the way out...super cringy. About three hours after he left with his new car, he walked back into the service bay absolutely losing his $hit and demanding his money back because "the car was ruined". Sure enough, here comes the tow truck with his pretty little convertible in tow. Turns out genius had decided to show off his car to his work buddies and parked it on the street with the top down, then popped inside to "conduct some business". Welp, a downpour came out of nowhere and drenched the interior of the car. Totally ruined the electronics, soaked into the upholstery, and he couldn't even turn it on. The thing was essentially totaled and he'd had it for three hours. It was amazing.

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So this lady was called to do a job. Once she came, I welcomed her and she passes me like I'm insignificant. She kept making side comments and asking where the person she's to talk to is. It felt like she was trying to get on my nerves to be honest.

Anyways, the dude finally comes and she stands up greeting and smiling acting polite. He points to me and goes, "That's who you answer to, I have a lot to do". Her expression changes.

I smile and ask what questions she has. *Silence*

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group A guy in our union was running for some executive board position and he was telling everyone what an easy win it was gonna be for him because nobody like the other 2 people running for the job. Come election day he got a very humbled awakening. Out of 1300 people he got less than 10 votes. He didn’t speak to many people for awhile after that. Nobody likes a braggart.

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Exactly that happened at my workplace. She was 5 years already the Union leader, and thought, it will be an easy win a few months ago, when we had elections. She got 3 votes (her 2 friends) out of 19. She is not speaking to anyone now, except her 2 friends. Not much a difference, compared to how "communicative" she was before.

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My family has an old story that always gets retold. This was in the early 1980s. One of my grandfather's cousins was the kind of guy who'd always one-up in conversations- "Oh, I know a better place for dinner." "I know the best X". "I got a guy at X, I can get us in." He recently got a brand new Cadillac car and loved to say how it was top of the line.

One fine Sunday, the whole clan went into the city for dinner. The cousin arrives in a flourish, gets out of the Caddy, hands the man at the entrance the keys and $10 and tells him to take care of his car. After dinner, he gets out and tells the maitre'd to bring his car around.

"What car, sir?"

"The car I had valeted."

"We don't have a valet."

"Then who did I give my car to?"

"..."

Yep. He was pretty quiet the ride back.

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🤔 I remember this exact scene from a movie, but can't remember which movie it was 🙈 🤦‍♀️

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group With some friends at a pool hall/club opening night. Packed, local celebs. DFW area, so Cowboys, Mavericks, etc. Find a table where some guy is talking loads of sh*t how he's so good, so amazing, he'll take one anyone in 9 ball.

At the time, roomie and I knew all the staff at a place close to our apt. We'd play all night, no charge. They made up for it in food and alcohol, trust. We practiced breaks for 9 ball. Got there 8 times out of 10 I could sink the 9 on break, or sink at least one and run to the 9. Not saying I was world class but I was good.

I volunteer. Dudebro generously offered me break. Sink the 9. Laugh from the crowd. Guy claims it's just luck. Break again, sink the 9. Third break, sink it. Dudebro is pissed, tells me scram, points at roomie. Who sinks the 9 four times in a row. Crowd is now laughing AT Dudebro, who is massively pissed. Throws down his cur and leaves.

Turns out it was the owner, and a pro on the billiards circuit.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Some dude came into the pub I work at for the pub quiz. Kept going on about how he was smarter than all these bumpkins (I live in a university city) and that he was gonna get first prize. He was adamant and he sat at the bar across from me the whole time. I played on my phone and named myself Bumpkin. He didn't even place in the top 10 and was furious that he got beaten by a bumpkin and a "gang of old retired f**kups that have nothing better to do"

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group A girl in my English class said that she would score a 100 on our End of Course test. She made everyone feel bad about themselves and thought that she was the best in the class. In the end, she scored a 64.

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"Answer these questions experssing [sic] you [sic] own...." Really?

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group Me when I was a kid. Made fun of a girl in my neighborhood in front of people, then proceeded to try and do a bike trick and break my wrist as they all watched.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I got promoted (at a f*****g McDonald's... Wow...) over some other girl. I didn't even know I was being considered until a day or two before the managers voted. I was told to come in the next day in my new uniform and the other girl came in, saw my uniform, and quit on the spot. She accused me of stealing "her" promotion.

I found out from an assistant manager that they were openly considering her and tried to push her towards things she would need to know/do and she would never take the initiative to learn more, do more. I actively tried to learn more (mainly to get out of service and into the kitchen... Fuuuuck the public) and was well liked by most of the crew/management and someone randomly tossed my name in the conversation.

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Back when taking the Matura (huge high school graduation exam), there was this girl in my class who was extremely vocal about her great English skills (as a 2nd language). She had lived in the US before and everything.

When we got the results back, she was bragging about her 98% and how "noone ever gets a perfect score anyway". Well, umm... she was surprised to find out that I, a person that originally started in the beginner course, did get 100%.

And the majority of our class was actually in the 85%+ category.

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The Matura is from Switzerland if anyone wants to know

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group A dude in high school had lots of money growing up. He liked to splash it around and bragged about fancy clothes and cars and throwing parties where he would supply alcohol for everyone. I wasn't so much of a friend but we just ran in different circles. A few years later it was discovered that they were so rich because his dad who was a wealth manager embezzled money for years from his clients. This was a sort of small community so his clients were all friends and family. It was all over the press that his dad went to jail. This hit him hard. I ran into him a few years later and he had changed his name, his personality was different and he even walked with a different poster. I couldn't imagine how much this would have rocked his world. It definitely took his ego down a few notches. I sort of felt bad for him as he was just a product of his environment. He didn't know that it was at the cost of practically everyone around him.

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I was confused about walking with a different "poster". I am not ordinarily a grammar Nazi, but for the sake of clarity, I think you mean "posture".

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In school, when I was 14, there was this particular bully who was already 1.90m tall. Bullied all people, felt high and mighty up until we went to a class from 1st floor to the 3rd, he was walking behind me, and called my mom all sorts of slurs, and then I twirled around punched him in the face and broke his nose.

Never was bullied again by him. As we got to graduation, I learned that his parents were alcoholics and we talked a lot about his family and his insecurities. Turns out, he discontinued being an a*****e and got somewhat more likable.

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I love this ending. I never give up on people, I was an a*****e too in my day, and they didn’t give up on me.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group One of my co-workers, Tim, was featured in a large publication's article on the overscheduled American child. It followed him and his family about their day as they rushed their children from music lessons to sports teams to a whole bunch of other activities. The parents wouldn't even let the kids fool around in the car - they were told "Is that a good use of your time?"

The parents were proud. They said it would instill a necessary work ethic for their kids to get ahead in the USA.

That same week, we were on a team conference call, voice only. Snoring sounds started interrupting the meeting. It finally got so bad that the manager did a roll call.

"Tim?" No answer. Snoring continues. "Tim? Tim? TIMMMMM!!!"

Everyone starts laughing as Tim startles awake. He never lived it down.

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Being in an article about your overscheduled children isn't something a parent should be proud of. The key phrase is "over" scheduled. Kids need some time to just be kids.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group In my math classes. I am a math major and although I am good at math I am slow. I take my time with problems and have to visually see them to solve them the majority of the time.

There's sometimes that one student who is fast at solving the problem, great mental math skills. Yet when they have an ego they don't check their work. They raise their hand and are shocked when they are wrong. In high school there were times I would get a look when I raised my hand with the correct answer and it made me feel guilty. When I got into college I stopped caring.

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A few years ago my dad argued with guy delivering some tanks, the guy yelled at him and cussed my dad out, getting inches from his face.

What he did not know is that my dad ran the store and this guy’s father called my dad apologizing and thanking him for his patience then the son came back later and apologized to my dad in person with his head hanging.

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Tanks? Like the ones that should be delivered to Ukraine? Or like a fish tank? Idk

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An ex-friend of my always though of herself as better than me, mainly when we where in university and she had better grade. She was always a bit condescending and telling me I was wrong, explaining thing slowly and assuming that she knew better than me.

I let it go because I did not really care.

Then one day she was speaking about her salary and how she just got a promotion, we where all happy for her but then she started going around the table and asked how many the others where making.

Everybody was making more than her, when my turn come I see a bit of hope that at least I should be paid less than her.
But that was not the case, by far. I saw here deflate so fast, she became gray and sad. It made me sad for her because she made herself so unhappy and i could not really help her because the reason she was unhappy was that I was not under her.

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30 Satisfying Stories Of Overconfident People Getting Put In Their Place, As Shared In This Online Group I went to this sporting event with this guy from work. Called himself a player and said he could get any woman to go out with him. At the stadium he struts right up to this woman and she shoots him down point blank.

The dood was griping about it for the rest of the day! He couldn't believe a woman didn't want to get together with him and you could tell it was soul crushing for him.

I laughed.

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Maybe he needs to rephrase: "Madame, I couldn't help but notice you. Would you like to step outside and kick me in the anatomy?"

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Worked with a super confident Jack-the-lad type years ago (late 80’s-90’s). He’d recently split up with a long term gf (who he’d cheated on multiple times).

The lad had been feeling a bit unwell for a couple of weeks, generally run down sort of thing. He bumped in to the ex who when told of his health shrugged her shoulders with a “what do you want me to do about it” look.

This displeased him and when I saw him the following day he said that he’d concocted an unpleasant plan to tell her that he’d tested HIV+ and that she should be tested.

Now I don’t know about you but I thought that this was a bit disproportionate. So, myself and another lad got to his ex first! She wrote him a letter expressing her regret that she’d not been more sympathetic to his plight and that she’d since noticed that she too had been suffering similar symptoms. Because, as he knew, she had private health care through her employer, they had rushed some tests and had diagnosed her with….

Here we struggled to think of something then a friend of hers came up with “Sweet Itch”. None of us had every heard of it. “It’s something horses get, it makes their tails fall out” she said. Perfect!

The letter gets delivered the following day.

4 days later I see him in a bar. “Hi XXX, how’re you doing? Feeling any better?”
“I am a bit” he says “but tbh I’m sh1tting through the eye of a needle”
Ah yes, I should have said, his ex’s “private health company” had prescribed a cure of Cod Liver Oil and Epsom Salts - 3 times a day!!!

I’m struggling to hold it together now. “Blimey, that sounds rough” I said, “do you know what it is yet?”

“It’s called Sweet Itch” he says
I shrug my shoulders “Never heard of it”
“Nor had my f*cking doctor! He looked it up and said it’s something horses get. I called him an incompetent old c@nt and walked out”

I’m gone now, I’m on the floor, tears are streaming down my face. He’s looking at me very confused, still absolutely no idea.

“It’s a wind up mate” I manage “Me, X, Y and Z wrote the letter the other night.”

I saw a man crumble before my eyes, every ounce of bravado and confidence drain from his face and his body. He just couldn’t comprehend that he could be caught so thoroughly hook, line and sinker. He was broken. Within the next week he was dumped by two different women and smashed up his car (he was ok).

He did build his ego back up enough to find himself a lovely lady a couple of years later and is now a very happy house husband with two beautiful kids. 30+ years on he does see the funny side (just) and does admit that the HIV plan was abhorrent and would like to think he would never have gone through with it.

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When I was in high school this girl ran for the school council. She was a junior and was running unopposed for the vice president position. She talked big and automatically assumed she would win, I mean why wouldnt she? During her speech she flat out insulted the senior class and ran her mouth for 10 minutes. In the end everyone ABSTAINED FROM VOTING. So she literally lost against no one. Never ran for any council after that after realizing more than half the school decided having no one would be better than having her.

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Candidates always vote for themselves, so I call BS on this one!

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I beat out a guy for a promotion. He was super loud about everything and always talked about basically how awesome/smart he is. After I became his boss, he stopped taking lunch with the other guys, and sulked around the shop until he transferred to another shift in a very dramatic way. It was like when people post they are quitting Facebook but in real life. Found out later he got fired for being a giant turd to his coworkers.
I try not to be petty but I admit I got a chuckle out of it.

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When I startet my Job here and was still learning with 12 others we had to do a presentation in front of like upper management people of our company.

One guy was super confident and always talked b******t like he knew everything. But it was blatant he just talked s**t, even for us who just started.

When he finished his presentation one of them just said "you're an actor, you don't belong here."

He turned white and had to sit down and couldn't talk the rest of the day

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Terrible management to shame someone in public that way.

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My family owned the bar I was working in, one day a very entitled' famous Hockey player and the team owner came in. I was asked to get them to pay their tab, they "forgot" to pay last tome they were in. I went up to them and asked and their first response was, do you know who we are? the second response was that they owned the bar. My response was "yes I know who you are (although I wouldn't have if the name wasn't on the tab) and you do not own the bar, my family does and you need to pay your tab or you will not be served and your tab privilege's have been revoked." they were livid but didn't really have a choice as we were the only bar in town.

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Me. I got into an argument with some guy. Tried to talk tough. I thought it would be 2 guys taking s**t and it would be over. But he wasn’t bluffing. He wanted to fight. I backed down and apologized. Learned a humbling lesson that day. This is not high school. Don’t write checks you can’t cash.

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One of my former classmates didn’t like that I was stronger than him (I wasn’t), or probably just me in general. Never did anything to him, but he was always mad about something. My friends stuck up for me a lot when he tried anything. He decided to join the wrestling team.

The following year, he tried to steal food from my locker. I had only seen an arm reaching right next to me, so I just moved the arm a little faster. Same guy. He was slammed into the lockers. Then he tripped and fell when he tried to run away.

This guy’s ego looked destroyed. Didn’t succeed in stealing food, or anything, from me. Bonus: he went and brought a strict hall monitor over to me and complained. She just smiled, said hi to me, and didn’t believe I would intentionally hurt him (I wouldn’t). Never heard from him again.

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Wrestled from the time I could walk through college.

Lots of people get put in their place in that sport. There’s always someone tougher and better.

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Had a kid at work who thought he knew how to metalwork splash me and someone else with molten metal and start a small fire. I barely even had to yell at him about it, he tore the ego down all by himself.

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I decided I should roller skate at 46 years old. I broke my knee. Recovery is taking forever!

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Unless you thought you would be great I think that you were just trying something new for fun

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I decided I should roller skate at 46 years old. I broke my knee. Recovery is taking forever!

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School nerd introvert all through it. Could vanish into a wall or get beat up for blinking. 5 year high school reunion I show up rocking in a red dress feeling great with a wonderful (now ex) bf. I hit the ladies room and the head cheerleader in leaning against a stall. I say “oh you’re x, you did this and this an that” and she’s dumpy now and not as hot as she was 5 years earlier. She goes “who are you?” I say my name and she stumbles backwards into the door and winds up sitting on a girls lap using the potty. That was epic. Not to mention all the guys complimented how nice I was and friendly then and still was. Confidence is a game changer.

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No it happened. There were others there. Her name was Cheryl. Big bully. Even ruined my junior high yearbook and through high school a big c word of a girl. Just really great to tell someone how mean they were to their face and have them realize you turned out better.

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School nerd introvert all through it. Could vanish into a wall or get beat up for blinking. 5 year high school reunion I show up rocking in a red dress feeling great with a wonderful (now ex) bf. I hit the ladies room and the head cheerleader in leaning against a stall. I say “oh you’re x, you did this and this an that” and she’s dumpy now and not as hot as she was 5 years earlier. She goes “who are you?” I say my name and she stumbles backwards into the door and winds up sitting on a girls lap using the potty. That was epic. Not to mention all the guys complimented how nice I was and friendly then and still was. Confidence is a game changer.

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There's a bit of an echo in here... There's a bit of an echo in here...

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School nerd introvert all through it. Could vanish into a wall or get beat up for blinking. 5 year high school reunion I show up rocking in a red dress feeling great with a wonderful (now ex) bf. I hit the ladies room and the head cheerleader in leaning against a stall. I say “oh you’re x, you did this and this an that” and she’s dumpy now and not as hot as she was 5 years earlier. She goes “who are you?” I say my name and she stumbles backwards into the door and winds up sitting on a girls lap using the potty. That was epic. Not to mention all the guys complimented how nice I was and friendly then and still was. Confidence is a game changer.

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School nerd introvert all through it. Could vanish into a wall or get beat up for blinking. 5 year high school reunion I show up rocking in a red dress feeling great with a wonderful (now ex) bf. I hit the ladies room and the head cheerleader in leaning against a stall. I say “oh you’re x, you did this and this an that” and she’s dumpy now and not as hot as she was 5 years earlier. She goes “who are you?” I say my name and she stumbles backwards into the door and winds up sitting on a girls lap using the potty. That was epic. Not to mention all the guys complimented how nice I was and friendly then and still was. Confidence is a game changer.

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School nerd introvert all through it. Could vanish into a wall or get beat up for blinking. 5 year high school reunion I show up rocking in a red dress feeling great with a wonderful (now ex) bf. I hit the ladies room and the head cheerleader in leaning against a stall. I say “oh you’re x, you did this and this an that” and she’s dumpy now and not as hot as she was 5 years earlier. She goes “who are you?” I say my name and she stumbles backwards into the door and winds up sitting on a girls lap using the potty. That was epic. Not to mention all the guys complimented how nice I was and friendly then and still was. Confidence is a game changer.

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